Category: Podcasts

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:03 — 69.9MB)

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Neal dismantles an offensive myth surrounding Conan O’Brien’s head, thinks a little too much about reservoirs, ponders how to choose a kitchen sieve for your bathroom, recalls a memory of a horse’s head on a stick, offers wardrobe advice for news readers, asks why you’re still paying someone to touch your head and touches upon how to talk to your reflection, faces on cave paintings and Mr Men characters, the show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, why you’re ironing t-shirts you idiot, the spare head donation chain, seeing yourself through a taxi driver’s eyes, getting your sweaty palms read, catering for Toy Story’s maturing audience, Harry Potter’s on screen death and more.  

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:07 — 86.5MB)

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Neal offers tips on scrubbing in for raw poultry prep, critiques the photography choices of the Andes cannibal plane crash survivors, imagines how a horse would fare in a school gymnasium, questions Switzerland’s branded pocket weaponry monopoly, goes over the perennial flying car branding problem, ditto the unsolved problem of dipped headlights in the air,, demands a correction to car seat terminology, recalls a time when writing involved drilling holes in furniture, asks which pocket you use for lit tobacco pipe storage, considers why baby Hitler hasn’t been killed yet, or has he, wonders if people de-tooth their dogs, explains why throwing a dog at you is never warranted, ponders greyhound track rabbit design and discusses muzzles in film, wearable wings for pilots, fast food wings, running in the corridor outdoors, putting office workers on a pedestal, Hannibal Lecter, baby Hitler versus a kitten and more.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:53 — 95.3MB)

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Neal questions the viability of musically gifted twins, wonders about pet bear taxidermy, shows how to guard against identify theft with your mind, warns about weaponised weather smalltalk, decides where a proposed World Highway should start, designs a more palatable alternative to Shrodinger’s experiment, compares France’s Eiffel Tower and Arc De Triomph with their Dublin counterparts, reveals the one situation when you might consider seasoning your cat food, advises on how to get the best out of your pharmacist, wonders if a reasonably intelligent dog can understand our postal system, provides a harmonica taster of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, sets out the pros and cons of Bob Geldof and deals with fly on the wall murder documentaries, how to make your exercise equipment last forever, what to ask your alleged murderer, criminal calling cards, where the continent of Europe ends, The Weather Channel movie of the week, reusing house numbers, locating the sun, Radiohead’s Creep, Hansel and Gretel, The Brothers Grim, The Coen Brothers, The (arrogant) Righteous Brothers, how to insult a harmonising vocalist, The Proclaimers, bringing things back from America, The Boomtown Rats and more.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:51 — 97.0MB)

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Neal makes the case for casting music to your unoccupied car, shows how to convince your plastic surgeon there’s something worth saving, asks if the bakers’s dozen is nonsense, wonders if there was any place for dogs in the Stone Age, casts an eye over your child’s igloo and sandcastle design, deconstructs the four minute mile, exposes the double life of cartoon dogs, goes over the history of travelling on wheels and looks at The Chuckle Brothers, The Chuckle Hounds, why the baker’s dozen is nonsense, what the meek have for breakfast, why you should carry a photo of your bank in case of emergency and more.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:05:32 — 120.2MB)

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Neal marks the twentieth anniversary (with an asterisk) of Into Your Head podcast, recalls the aardvark plumbing wars, warns against leaving a fan on for burglars, looks at whether a dog can walk itself on a leash, remembers with disgust trying rabbit lasagne, wonders what a boudoir of commerce is, takes the Moon down a peg or two, advises on what to do if you drop cash on the pavement, goes over the practicalities of multi course breakfasts, reviews the first Seasonal Affective Disorder case on Mars, tries to grasp neighbourhood tree boundary etiquette, ditto downstairs toilet bidet norms, changes his mind about mezzanine levels, speculates about whether Stephen King is forced to write double-space and looks at a dog’s rights in the civil courts, dog licensing versus TV licensing, the pitfalls of marking your banknotes, using an attic for parking, NASA’s mobile quarantine unit, the Angelus on TV, reinventing the take-out coffee, disease outbreaks in procedural dramas, the show Doc, swapping a astronaut out for one who looks the same, why cat burglars are called that, toy cat breeds, incorrect opinions about Dublin’s Georgian architecture, shorthand notepad sizes, refill pads,  wasted space under a model railway table, underground trains versus rabbits, natural dog food with recognisable body parts, paw versus foot and more. 

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:06 — 103.0MB)

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Neal shares everything he knows about counting sheep, evaluates the modern hermit, wonders why office sitcoms exist, re-evaluates everything we know about dragons, finally understands why youngsters need emoticons, goes over a key difference between paper aeroplanes and paper ships, guesses at what archeologists do when they tire of digging, addresses people listening in dungeons, plots the next steps for a typing trillionaire, issues a start warning about wearing shoes, recalls an afternoon spent with security at a Toronto airport, reveals the one topic that makes his face itchy, makes the case for dog-faced commercial aircraft, asks if your weekend is proprietary information and looks at creating music on an office keyboard, Paul McCartney’s misery at having written Yesterday, a song that goes Inch by inch Row by row, a unique nativity play experience, an outbreak of fidgeting, about infinity pools and eternity pools, what happens after school bullies take your tablet, how to prevent handmedown clothes shame and more.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:13:50 — 135.5MB)

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Neal addresses the perennial question of whether sugar is a vegetable, asks if dogs can get spoken word ear worms from podcasts, flags a potential Kermit situation in the world of stop motion animation, recalls a hellish era when Irish adolescents couldn’t access music, advocates giving soup eaters a handicap, ponders life in a prison misdemeanours gang, looks at how to apply your crossword solving skills to real world problems, goes over the classic trolley problem with a local overlay, changes his own mind in real time about spaghetti hoops, explores what happens when a cat orders soy milk in a bar, compares the words Lidl and Aldi for usability, wonders how much of bathroom smartphone use is waiting to vomit, advises on what to say when asked if you’re living at home, recommends off-road shopping carts for Lidl Arklow, assesses where Shithead falls on the derogatory names scale, makes the argument against reusing first and second names, recalls unknowingly performing double entry bookkeeping at the same venue as Peter Gabriel era Genesis, recounts the first time hearing an American say herb, tries to count the guitar players in The Beatles, offers some advice for true crime fans, asks whether angst laden teens were better served by Dublin’s bench hogging poet or Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, exposes the dangers of getting a prolapsed rectum from public benches, assesses the ongoing reinvention of the bicycle and why the next step must be the wheel, uncovers a unappetising connection between trouser presses and french style baguettes and more.

MENTIONED – Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
by Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding 

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:05:05 — 119.5MB)

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Neal explains the flight simulator windscreen wiper dilemma, bemoans the poor design of the human lower skull, wonders if it’s lawful for dogs to eat themselves, compares Schubert’s The Trout to Masterchef Junior, recalls early childhood experiences of cutlery and daisies, considers why you’d play pitch and putt on a full size golf simulator, frets about his motives for raising a hand in an RDS exam hall three decades ago, wonders why you’d start a city near a swamp, remembers Tiger Woods’ name surprisingly swiftly, links his childhood self image to Dublin’s old gasometer tanks, remembers Ian Dury and the Blockheads, pinpoints where cats fall on Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and looks at how motorists bank their hill climbing progress, understanding the American prom experience through situation comedies, the AA, the other AA, the AAA, advice for procedural drama producers and quite a bit more. 

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LICENSE – Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 with attribution: by Neal O’Carroll.