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Neal discusses encoutering your postman in another neighbourhood, playing Dr Suess, a terrifying futuristic garage, reinventing the painted ostrich egg, Ireland’s sheep filled desert, idenfiifying a mouth’s postal address, remembering what you buried in the sand, how deserts evolve into casinos, understanding speakeasy, Stephen King’s car burial tale, what you could legitimately be giving your kids pints of at breakfast, a portrait microwave, how a dog handles a mirage of a desert, landlord teethmark inspection protocol, how ostriches fool predators, electrical tape misadventures, how to get a letter in The Irish Times, plugging a boat with a newspaper letters page, a surprise for non-podcast listeners, an opposite newspaper clippings exchange, a better use for LInkedIn, rejecting dopamine shamers and more. 

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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: 46:41 — 107.1MB)

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Neal looks at the presumed defacto diplomatic relationship allowing the moon to slosh our seas around, reveals which of his arms is the least interesting and discusses sailing in boiling water, mouthwash retail licensing, substitute priests, how to say mass, mouthwash as a sleep hygiene product, Richard Simmons RIP, new ways to say no, a military childhood, the trouble with flight simulators, fast food service simulators, impressionists who do other people’s sitcom characters, Phantom of the Opera, Freddie Mercury versus Sid Vicious versus opera snobs, handling pre decimilisation currency, sensible non-mockable names, the argument for flying in reverse, Titanic pride, defining crashing a ship, bidirectional sweat glands, the argument against making your cat purr and more.

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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: 43:24 — 99.6MB)

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Neal discusses apple core cowardice, treadmills for swimming, documentaries about little Timmy falling down a well, how and why to properly record your breakfast, corporate espionage podcast snobbery, cultivating a nasal helmet in medieval times, Sunday driving and your metabolism, navigation apps for rabbits, heirlooms versus genes, generational puppet acts, The Sooty Show, working breakfasts in McDonalds, how surgeons put your leg to sleep, the truth about people who work on aeroplanes, monacle heirlooms, ventriloguist dummies versus proper puppets, Bill Nigh the Science Guy, Pee Wee Herman versus Ernest, how townfolk recognise helpful travelling dogs and more.

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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: 52:29 — 120.8MB)

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Neal exposes a surprising truth about smartphone fires, considers issues of scale at a doll’s house tea party, advises on conditioning one’s fingers not to gesticulate, imagines what it’s like to have a co-host, attempts a moritorium on feces talk and discusses a house’s undergarment, what age twenty-four is in frozen pea years, handling exotic food at the North Pole, reverse engineering a yak, the Madwaves MadPlayer of the harmonica world, testing car technology on animals, yaks in soap operas, drawing a yak under tremendous stress, possible new futures in yak trunk evolution,  plausibile deniability stationery, what a cat would do with your homework, the 3M logo versus New Scotland Yard, understanding America’s New England, Supermacs putting down stakes in Times Square, naming cities twice, naming nuclear power stations twice, iinking chalkboard scraping syndromme to energy drinks, American atitudes to Conneticut, the cola rodent, Ireland’s Barak Obama Plaza and more. 

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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: 41:04 — 94.6MB)

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In a sub-standar episode not recommended for newbies, Neal considers how to poach eggs in their shells, the logistics of sieve use for gold hunters and drugs mules, use-by dates on precious metals, podcasts for dogs, other podcasts like this, finding a use for your dog, Dante’s magic gondola, a loophole for Marc Maron guests, faking your own death as an art installation, rooms without walls, misdefining a spare room and more.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:42 — 116.7MB)

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Neal discusses what wiki editors say about you in meetings, sizes and brands of dog, understanding British Bulldog, graceful vacuum handling in a laboratory setting, what tailors do with the pins, the woodchipper in Lidl, beverageware in Terminator 2, how Lidl works, misremembering traditional supermarkets, planning your first Mona Lisa, a non-editbable encyclopedia, what MTV was, what Buggles did, what Trevor Horn does, duties of a stock footage city shopper, the trouble with far writers, anatomy of a sawn-off vacuum nozzle, over ambitious toe socks, regaling a wannabe recluse, protecting your shoes from lightning, reinventing the anti glove-loss cord system with chemicals, an ominous calling card, why vomiting is a matter of height and more.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:04 — 94.6MB)

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Neal invadvertently creates a bespoke music radio jingle while trying to prove a point, takes a refreshingly positive look at the Dark Ages, proposes an innovative new scam vulnerability  discount, tells his future self some home truths and discusses understanding The Beachcombers, belch symmetry, how radio forgot what hello means, Arthur Guinness’ Oprah Winfrey moment, when the vet was your family mechanic, Henry Ford versus Dr Kellogg’s brother versus Dr Kellogg, planning your family’s horse and cart needs, how law enforcement interacts with your cat, the wheel rotation scam, appreciating Shakespeare plays as much as dog stories, people who drink Cidona, Breaking Bad for children, 3-2-1 Contact,  The Bloodhound Gang, when a bathroom door takes you out of the fantasy, The Famous Five, the listener who can’t forget, what Lucozade is for, swinging from a crane, bloodwork as an occupation. this podcast’s quality control regime, a one pant primer and more.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:54 — 135.5MB)

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Neal uncovers a massive parallel between Bruce Willis’ The Sixth Sense character and 1960s Muppets precurser Sam and Friends, proposes an ingenius new type of mnemonics that will change your life and discusses the practicalities of shooting yourself in the foot, being obsessed with Sesame Street,  inadequate media explanation of kneecapping, being unimpressed by The Snufflelopacus, how to test a documentary idea, how to use a single solitary bar stool in a crowd, the argument against bathroom windows, appreciating TV masts, narrator inception, The Willy Wonka Show, A realistic sitcom reboot, oral chemistry exams, dogs versus cats in bars, how to defuse a spoiler, wartime gender-based duplication, when cats bum everybody out and more.