Category: 8XX

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:39 — 134.3MB)

| Follow Podcast in Any App

Podcast (lowbandwidth): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:39 — 16.7MB)

| Follow Low Bitrate Edition or Archives Feed

In a packed hour, Neal discusses work life balance in the American Wild West, making Spielberg’s Duel (1971) on an even lower budget, unexplained generational gaps in the wasp community, a simple device that could inadvertently cause you to speak in tongues, why we celebrate cistern noises, vomiting for the privileged, a one size fits all argument for reviving dead languages and people, how to outrun a car, Moses baskets, an international standard system for asking strangers how they are, breakfast and tourism in the American wild west, educational podcasts and brown bread, understanding porridge people, recycling body fat, a branding experiment for wrestling producers, the case fpr audio only concert tickets, the first word ever created, arbitrary dictionary sizes, how to choose a page randomly, trouble with learning a word a day, understanding strangers’ accents in the Wild West, whiskey in the pre rocks era, saying dog without a tonsillectomy, a childhood doctor doppleganger of veteran newscaster Charles Mitchell, remembering town centres, a Saint Bernard dog, Bob Newhart and 1990s in-flight entertainment, childhood memories purchasing Butcher’s tongue, privacy issues in a language laboratory, why kids are shunning earphones on public transport, early 1980s Thomastown in County Kilkenny, lighting the inside of a mouth and more.

CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact.

LOW BITRATE EDITION: There’s now a lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low.

INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site – Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:39 — 127.4MB)

| Follow Podcast in Any App

Podcast (lowbandwidth): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:39 — 15.0MB)

| Follow Low Bitrate Edition or Archives Feed

Neal recreates some special moments from the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. advises on talking to adults about your dead arm, wonders if you should add blood to your hydration regime, provides an overview of the human-dog-dinosaur societal overlay structure and discusses wardrobe culture, smalltalk in the information age, standout past wardrobes, a surprising life lesson from Breaking Bad, slow readers, slow watchers, Bill Hicks versus Denis Leary, boxing style weigh-ins for firefighters, George Michael, Robbie Williams, not Robin Williams, rules for calling yourself Robert, why dinosaur burial sites are not sacred, who stands to gain from reclassifying Pluto and Brontosauri, seeing Red Bull for the first time, men on TV swallowing pills, bonsai aliens, branding problems for Pluto, dumb dogs of Disney, cartoons in Andromeda, why the modern dog is a sell out, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, how nineties kids navigated their first rave and more.

CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact.

LOW BITRATE EDITION: A new lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low.

INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site – Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts.

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:55 — 93.8MB)

| Follow Podcast in Any App

Podcast (lowbandwidth): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:55 — 11.3MB)

| Follow Low Bitrate Edition or Archives Feed

Neal considers insect consumption norms, identifies a new actor level below extras, exposes a town with a landmark brown stain, confuses the movies Stand by Me and Sleepers, remembers TV’s greatest sketch show: classic Sesame Street, invents a self policing public toilet cleanliness system and discusses introducing city kids to rivers and creeks, mixed messaging from a Schwartzenegger branded fly, walking school buses, why you incorrectly think you were home schooled, underground toilet memories, anti salt waiters in popular culture, igniting your gas hob with piped fire, geographic limits on warehouse sizes, listener concerns about warehouse toilets, getting to the creek, Mr Men book and TV franchise, logistics of recordibg a talking torso, shit creek without a paddle, one person operated motorbikes versus push and pull trains and more.

CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact.

LOW BITRATE EDITION: A new lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low.

INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site – Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts.

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:15 — 87.7MB)

| Follow Podcast in Any App

Podcast (lowbandwidth): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:15 — 10.4MB)

| Follow Low Bitrate Edition or Archives Feed

Neal reinvents the ensuite and consequently food ingredients labelling, evaluates modern prodding techniques, changes your mind about ghost trains and Microsoft Windows Paint, evaluates a possible alternative history of Mars, composes a special experiment for tourist excursion helicoptor pilots, tries to recall the name Andy Kauffman and the song I’ve Been to Paradise but I’ve Never Been to Me and disucusses seating arrangements in US classroom dramas, the justfication for third party forewords, passive international election observer dogs, tracking your child’s astronomy career, the show TAXI, your mouth’s overflow system, impulse buys for people who like shopping lists, disposable thoughts, sight tests for dogs, a vending machine for soundwaves, monitors in TV emergency wards, latin in medicine and gardening, continuity issues, a virtual armchair and more.

CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact.

LOW BITRATE EDITION: A new lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low.

INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site – Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts.

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 44:33 — 102.1MB)

| Follow Podcast in Any App

Podcast (lowbandwidth): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 44:34 — 11.9MB)

| Follow Low Bitrate Edition or Archives Feed

Neal reveals what every flightless bird knows, considers the surprising pros and cons of chopsticks and cutlery, administers a very special listener test, assesses the opportunities for carving pork as a McDonald’s customer and discusses demanding more from our fingernails, a trio of Tom Hanks characters, how offices outgrow the alphabet, a land mass with windows, Hitler-related time travel ethics, 2010 as a baseline, advice for HR staff handling the conseqeunces of the opening segment, renting a VCR, renting a television, how stone beaches stabilise property markets, typing on a microwave, two wrong ways to ingest liquid nitrogen, life before standard wheelie bins and more.

CONTACT THS SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact

LOW BITRATE EDITION:A lightweight alternative feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low.

INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS – on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site: Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts.

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:32 — 88.5MB)

| Follow Podcast in Any App

Podcast (lowbandwidth): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:32 — 10.6MB)

| Follow Low Bitrate Edition or Archives Feed

In a Christmas Day episode not for younger ears, Neal discusses identifying insects by smell, tag teaming citrus fruits, declaring dead weight at Customs, why ripping out entrails is a non violent act, what you Australians demand of Santa, watching Star Trek: The Next Generation in black and white, margarine related TV repair memories, the trouble with police drama finales, why TV won’t let you just enjoy a plane crash, December in other hemispheres, sleigh driver regulation, the argument against relief pilots on long haul, how crosswords could make air travel safer, cats in cockpits, WWF tag team The Natural Disasters, walking the earth on other planets and more.

CONTACT THE SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact.

LOW BITRATE EDITION: A new lightweight alt feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/low.

INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS: On YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site – See IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts.

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:24 — 115.6MB)

| Follow Podcast in Any App

Neal proposes a thought exercise for listeners in traffic, identifies a new use for the top of your head, explains how to listen via medical stethescope, diagnoses his audience with a phobia of bodily noises including speach and discusses Nick Cave’s Harry Potter exposure, why fire brigades study age-related temperal anomolies, how to make a K Pop band, understanding binary traffic lights, McCauley Kulkin’s former self, the conscious self in a nutshell, a weird US TV bandleader, experimenting with speed, proving to your toddler that you’re not a giant, plumbers in binary pairs, rotating your internal crops, vomit fridge etiquette, seeking and receiving approval from Dropbox and more.

CONTACT THS SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact.

LOW BITRATE EDITION: A lightweight alternative feed of Into Your Head for the bandwidth impaired – See IntoYourHead.ie/Low.

INTO YOUR HEAD SHORTS – on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or on site: Go to IntoYourHead.ie/Shorts.

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:42 — 109.4MB)

| Follow Podcast in Any App

Neal sets out his one big problem with both Radiohead and Gilbert O’Sullivan, makes the case for traceable dog food, maps out the next evolutionary step for handwriting and discusses experimental wasp fiction, life in a hundred year old choir, chairs on trains, an innovative way to use the word Christmas, how to tell if Roy Orbison is dead, Jive Bunny, dropping dead of a car crash, page-a-day books in museums, when to stop learning, the trouble with seeing your favourite orchestra on tour, a promise to any listener who starts a choir podcast, different signatures for work and home, burglar dogs, dog prison uniforms, cow-related office work, deadstock, washing raw chicken in other jurisdictions and more.

CONTACT THS SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact

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