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Category: Vintage IYH

Vintage era episodes of Into Your Head podcast. Please beware – Into Your Head has evolved over two decades and 850+ episodes. The vintage era is preserved for a handful of listeners who claim to have found it listenable, thus enabling me in this ludicrous endeavour for longer than most serial killers.

VINTAGE IYH – 449: Open Line Friday

Neal O'Carroll, August 12, 2011August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show449.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:16 — 46.9MB)

PLEASE NOTE – This is a vintage episode of a podcast that’s evolved a lot over 17+ years and 800+ episodes. If you’re new to the show, please try some current episodes first.

In an Into Your Head OPEN LINE FRIDAY episode from 12th August 2011, Neal deals with listener mail, most of which pertains to Professor Stephen Hawking and / or cats.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – It is mandatory to reproduce this attribution for each episode: “Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.”

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VINTAGE IYH – 418: Thursday’s Temporarily Daily Breakfast Show (circa July 2011)

Neal O'Carroll, July 1, 2011August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show418.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:35 — 19.8MB)

This is a previous era of a podcast that’s evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different now. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.current episodes first.

Neal channels the spirit of Ronald Reagan and discusses the legalities of threatening hot-dog vendors, Daffy Duck being in the same Universe as David Letterman, walls through history, medical qualifications of hot dog vendors, that movie with Robert DeNiro where the kids killed the street vendor with his trolley, determining whether something needed to be [rest of description lost]

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VINTAGE IYH – Over Your Head 9: Ted Danson and the Amphibious Vehicles

Neal O'Carroll, April 24, 2011September 29, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/OverYourHead9.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 15:30 — 14.2MB)

This is a previous era of a podcast that’s evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different now. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.

Neal from Ireland shares his vast knowledge of apostrophes, excessively leprechauny Hollywood movies, selling rain in a bottle, the concept of “a hundred thousand welcomes”, the sit-coms “Taxi”, “Cheers” and “Dear John”, Amphibious bus tours,  fictional beer in TV shows, Sending wet animation to Korea and Ted Danson, and introduces a lecture from the Into Your Head archives, read by oanne.

Over Your Head is a series of ten Into Your Head shows made specially for The Overnightscape Overground, a fantastic podcast feed and community of freeform mostly monologue talk contributors, created and maintained by Frank Edward Nora of The Overnightscape. Over Your Head is a mixture of new and old segments.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License. Attribution: by Neal from Ireland – more info at onsug.com and intoyourhead.com

Released April 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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VINTAGE IYH – Over Your Head 8: St Patrick’s Day Special

Neal O'Carroll, March 16, 2011September 29, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/OverYourHead8.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 12:34 — 11.5MB)

This is a previous era of a podcast that’s evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different now. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.

Over Your Head is a series of ten Into Your Head shows made specially for The Overnightscape Overground, a fantastic podcast feed and community of freeform mostly monologue talk contributors, created and maintained by Frank Edward Nora of The Overnightscape. Over Your Head is a mixture of new and old segments.

On this, the eve of St Patrick’s Day, Neal discusses a myriad of nonsensical issues in this all-new episode, recorded on a traditional Irish podcasting kit in South Kildare, Ireland.

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VINTAGE IYH – 360: An Appeal for Common Sense

Neal O'Carroll, January 8, 2011August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show360.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:14 — 10.3MB)

This is a previous era of a podcast that’s evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different now. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.

In which Neal discusses old school kettles, prolonging the half-life of an apple, puncturing camels, cats in the emergency services, excess regulation of dog-petting, how fire was discovered, how early archaeologists passed the time, crisp sandwiches and more, and climaxes with an impassioned plea for the return of common sense.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.

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VINTAGE IYH – 359: Harvie Krumpet’s English Cousin

Neal O'Carroll, December 31, 2010August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show359.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 16:59 — 15.6MB)

BEWARE – This is a vintage episode of a podcast evolved a lot over two decades years and close to a thousand episodes to eventually beomce somewhat listenable. If you are new to the show, please try some current episodes first. 

An extra long episode in which Neal ends the year discussing the regulatory ramifications of crapping into concrete, assumptions about aliens, potato famine versus the Wild West, understanding the phrase guns at dawn, Harvie Krumpet and his English cousin,  grabbing time by the neck, doubts about the horizon, blaming placebos and more. 

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VINTAGE IYH – 358: Looking Gift Hoarseness in the Mouth

Neal O'Carroll, December 21, 2010August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show358.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:29 — 10.5MB)

This is a previous era of a podcast that’s evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different now. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – It is mandatory to reproduce this attribution for each episode: “Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.”

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VINTAGE IYH – 357: Town Crier Fashion Stores

Neal O'Carroll, December 13, 2010August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show357.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:42 — 12.5MB)

This is a previous era of a podcast that’s evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different now. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.

Neal discusses finding trunks on maps, farces, town criers advertising fashion stores, security in huts, Mini Volkswagen vans, setting low fish preparation standards selling fire to cavemen grading failures in music exams, Tom Lehrer or somebody like him, and more.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – It is mandatory to reproduce this attribution for each episode: “Neal O’Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.”

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