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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.

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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: 47:42 — 109.4MB)

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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.

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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: 33:26 — 76.8MB)

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Neal corrects the listener’s delusions about auto pilot, illustrates the differences betwen humanoid cats and Edward Scissorhands and discusses the anatomy of a commercial earworm, understanding you Americans and your Spring Break, how songwriters think, appreciating instant mashed potato, what a thousand cavemen can achieve without typewriters, the life expectancy of a harmonica, Stevie Wonder’s name change, token tamborine use, workplaces that can’t sustain a mad drummer, choosing your dog size, securing the food chain against dogs, Madonna’s cartoon versus Bucks Fizz’s Land of Make Believe, an unintended Guiness Odlums Flour crossover 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: 41:37 — 95.4MB)

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Neal reveals what it would take for him to name a fourth cat after a UN Secretary General, recalls the one comic book in every Christian Brothers School library and discusses Neighbourhood Watch mythology, dog anomolies on Bray Head, learning Irish by projection, things legally banned in classrooms, next door’s over-reaching attic, the song Frere Jackques, a pharmacy Advent calendar, inaminate emotional support animals, how Full House paved the way for jobsharing at the UN, logistics of hot dog trolleys in staired stadiums, tea trolleys in comic strip based radio sitcom Bristow, an inaudible new mouth sound, checking this podcast for secret codes, how an anethesist would produce this episode 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: 54:55 — 125.9MB)

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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.