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Neal discusses demystifying Road Runners and Coyotes, a very bad use of a Maigret paperback, saving a Genesis keyboarist from jury duty, court stenographers versus keyboard players, flying baggage trucks and beyond, commuting on part of Ernest Shackleton’s Polar route, Indian Saints who don’t eat, pressures that come with switchng to cordials, driving in a cul-de-sac, looped video GIF labels on dashboards buttons, an unlamented childhood bicycle, red rock backdrops, wondering about tuna size, Heston Blumenthol’s peas, bussing in Boston, in defence of lifelong non-flyers, oldschool business letters, palacial banks and inward facing malls, dumping fuel on a swimmer, the case for dummy controls on every airline seat, why wheels are natural, pelican verse, life at a polar science base, walking in high winds or zero atmosphere, inadvertently anticipating a 199th birthday, transmitting messages to the future, Back to the Future Part III (1990), a prime example of the pefect segment, admiring the French word for usable, a year-long school screening of Mississippi Burning (1988), atlas bleedthrough, the proposed global highway, podcasters who think they’re Aerosmith, dealing with Alice Cooper, Bon Jovi, The Faces and their faces, whether Spinal Tap always looked like that and more.

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LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

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Neal adds some colour to the parable of the boy who cried wolf, wonders what it’s like to run a combine harvester, tears the so-called leaping Salmon down a peg, reinvents cut-out activities in children’s comics, highlights one job missing from every school careers day and considers cave based wardrobe design, mouth based cave design, unsatisfying tree houses, whether soup is eaten or drunk, flying fishing boats, roots and foundations, letting your AI assistant clean your brain, how tow paths helped scouts discover knots, the case for amphibious bicycles, how Star Trek ruined the traditional Two Cats Walk into a Bar story, loops on TikTok, how Roy Orbison cried wolf and more.

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Neal “remembers” a twenty minute nuclear catastrophe on Ireland’s east coast, compares your cat to an anthropomophic Mars rover, invents the virtual hotel room, probably fails to change your mind about backpacks on trams, recounts his unique challenges as a teenage Queen collector and discusses library sandwich inhalation memories, Owls on Napster, understanding dog whistles. a terrifying bucket, movie “The Walk” (2015), sheet music for whistlers, virtual whistling, earworms in the animal community, how dogs get earworms, life as a non whistler, sheet music for whistlers, skiffle orchesras, briefcase kids, how train windows predict the future, partialy defending earphone non-use, logistics of using Irish government issued iodine tablets, whether Dublin’s Anna Livia radio once did a War of the Worlds style nuclear drama, skiffle bands in space, vacuum cleaners in space, Mother Nature’s human diamond turducken, a very good reason to get back to the living room, maximising your podcast listening without risking electrocution, a plagiarism prevention safeguard, Nicholas Parsons and more.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:50 — 121.2MB)

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Neal discusses the logistiics of handling raw chicken on bathroom visits, an experiment for your next ATM visit, workplace pneumatic tube messaging etiquette, an AI veterinary assistant versus a talking dog, a carpet-based vacation concept, improving your child’s scream accuracy, getting bitten at a sleepover, vinyl records, vinyl floor-covering, a urinal advisory for Dublin’s Blackrock Shopping Centre, this podcast in the newspapers, what replaced the dodo, making messenger birds less messy, queues versus dotted lines, a dog mismeasuring speed, navigating a whale’s insides, healing a whale from within, ancient bile medicine, CD changers versus coal cellers versus car doors, a partial defence of dogs and bats, opposite Columbus mnemonics for US kids, the Nordic Noir crime dramaas craze, Bang Bang and other street characters of Dublin’s past, U2 versus Aslan, Scooby Doo reboots and more.

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Neal discusses beaches spontaneously turning to concrete, a parent’s head replacement disclosure dilemna, a busman’s holiday in jail, the case for going nowhere slowly, alien visitor respitory concerns, home expansion slot systems, garage modules, attic rooms, defining a shed, beech house owners, parental supervision from a beach-adjacent mountain, billionairre hot air balloon bouncing, dark times on children’s TV shows, Record Breakers (BBC), Roy Castle, Roy Castle, Norris and Ross McWhirter, owning headphones in prison , memorable childhood insect death, recognising a power washer, flood cleanup sock confidence, the gap between sea and space, airship interior mysteries, orvilles, space boats and the horizon, how sand insects outwit humans in fights, selling cigarettes to a cat for editorial balance, choosing cigarettes for visiting dignitaries in 2025, a cat reveals Pope Benedict Emeritus XI’s cigarette branding fandom and more.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:00:26 — 138.3MB)

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Neal EXPOSES how motorists are disappearing in a secret holding pattern, MAKES the case for appetisers for a better drip feed regime, EXPLAINS how things that skip generations are never lost, SHOWS how statues of rubber things can demolish boundaries, DEVELOPS a new folding building bricklaying technique in real time, RECALLS a decade watching a boat grow in a driveway and DISCUSSES listener dog segment consumption notes, emergency landings on Street Cleaning Night, life behind your unopend eyelids, mapping a closed fridge, shameful mathematician verbal habits, the condition Boy Scout Neck, the post knot era, wireless charging versus childrearing. an unexpected song from the musicals, rescuing harmonicas, tandem design, brick design, Muppet helmet design, cloning the historic Bray Town Hall McDonalds, selling your regenerated body double, how architects work, helmet design for animal Muppets and more.

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LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.

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Neal offers fresh advice to parents on handling the Boogeyman. explains our primitave plateware to far future listeners, wonders why nobody talks about obelixes, argues against walking to school and discussea the wrong way to arrive at your new school, liquid desserts for visiting dignitaries, growing wheat in city streets, a disappointing school shop, The Hardy Boys and their vehicles, travel logistics on Criminal Minds, iron lungs, Joe Rogan’s sensory deprivation tank, Nick Cave’s alternative Gladiator II, Naylor’s Cove (public baths ruins off Bray Head, County Wicklow), ancient aliens bearing chocolate gifts and more. Book mentioned: To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood by Alice Taylor.

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Neal reveals how ducks prevented him settling in the US, uncovers your treadmill cat’s OCD hell, closes in on the surprising identity of the oligarchs of knitting, offers practical advice on self facing voodoo doll feedback loops for your active retirement, remembers The Onion print edition and discusses the sick, sick world of wireless earphones, actuaries and the Mandela Effect, fresh thinking on bus basements, taking too long to choose a hobby, a career in head stitching, Irish folklore’s Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Salmon of Knowledge, the trouble with asking yourself a question, the book I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter, the childhood bear hoax, actuary snobbery, pre wired garments, a spontaneous dog, a bootlegging cat, air conditioning versus guns, navigating American multi layered doors, childhood paper rounds on sitcoms and more.

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LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll – Far future humans can find hundreds more shows on Archive dot org.