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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 – 097: Medicating Octopuses

Neal O'Carroll, July 17, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show97.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:09 — 15.4MB)

Please beware: These are very early vintage shows from a podcast that evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different today. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.

Tonight’s Topics Include:
Hospital-style sound recording, Feeling restricted, Avoiding excess pride, Helping the human octopus community, Policing surplus limbs, Policing slang, Editorial issues regarding the cat song, Rebranding cat-strangers, [Vintage material: Ancestoral ice cream manufacturers, Snow is wet too, An automated invention machine, Ex-army cat stranglers, Dictators’ facial hair, Jesus’ ill-advised Hitler moustache, Tasting dog food]
Also: Three brand new acapello cat songs.

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 – 098: Human Area Codes

Neal O'Carroll, July 15, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show98.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:07 — 7.9MB)

BEWARE! This is a very early 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.

Tonight’s Topics Include:
Over here not over there, Two conscious selves, Area codes for humans in a George Orwell world, Mobile people, An obligatory introductory paragraph, An unrecorded interval, Caviar or popcorn, Being awake in an anaglogue cinematorium, The letter “O” versus the number zero, Racism in astronomy, Fake multi-tasking, Exaggerating a Prime Minister’s CV, Vested interests in the black hole industry.
Also: Some sort of song or something, and real evidence of my unused phone number.

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 – 096: Virtuous Vagueness

Neal O'Carroll, July 10, 2008September 29, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show96.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:01 — 9.3MB)

Please beware: These are very early vintage shows from a podcast that evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different today. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.

Tonight’s Topics Include:
Advantages of vagueness, Disposable words, Partially pre-recorded conversations, Ninety something again, Literature-based mathematics, An example of an example, Live phone-in, An unreliable time check, Supplying buckets for the coffee shop industry, A universe in my microwave, Facts about fiction, Blocking Charles Dickens’ IP address and more.
Also: We experiment with our first ever entirely instrumental cat song.

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 – 095: Sleeping in the Furniture Shop

Neal O'Carroll, July 7, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show95.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:59 — 9.6MB)

Please beware: These are very early vintage shows from a podcast that evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different today. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.
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 – 094: Global Tissues

Neal O'Carroll, July 2, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show94.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:01 — 18.5MB)

Please beware: These are very early vintage shows from a podcast that evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different today. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.

Tonight’s Topics Include:
Musical differences in the en-suite, A grave in the kitchen, Inadvertently making sense, Adam and Eve’s parenting skills, Cult-creating genes, How to gain hero status, Avoiding a Satan-style downfall, Protecting your cat’s street cred, What you’re thinking, I’m probably eating, Language difficulties, Learning three-digit numbers, Obeying motoring laws for kicks, Therapeutic Tetris, Catchphrase protection, Making artificial granite, Taxing artificial granite, Not missing you yet, Conserving water while surfing, Global warming myths, Three-ply issues, A useful Tetris-related cake analogy, Commissioning a Tetris gambling cheater programme, Audio freeware distribution, Estimated indoor wind speeds, Valuing a castle. A misnamed surgery and more.Also: Some sort of a cat song that involves two bathrooms, for some reason.

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 – 093: Debriefing the Future Me

Neal O'Carroll, June 25, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show93.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:00 — 10.9MB)

Please beware: These are very early vintage shows from a podcast that evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different today. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.

Tonight’s Topics Include:
The “make of it what you will” clause, The book of this episode, Spring-based entertainment, A day as a percentage of a week, Getting geared up for arithmetic, Appropriately numbered multpile choice answers, Contrasts in my voice, Avoiding another moon conspiracy, Debriefing my future self, Travelling at the speed of time, Fielding phone calls from E.T., A world prejudiced against against repetition, Advertising televisions on television, A world prejudiced against long silences, Getting sued by Beethoven, Differenciating cat noises and more.

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 – 092: Forgotten Props

Neal O'Carroll, June 17, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show92.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:00 — 10.1MB)

Please beware: These are very early vintage shows from a podcast that evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different today. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.

Tonight’s Topics Include:
A natural speech deficiency, Concerns about my benign monarchy, Defining the non-average listener, Representing 587 countries with only 243 people, Cheating the Euro currency, A very old catchphrase, How God invented the printing press while retaining his modesty, Balanced reporting in the New Testament, Jesus’ superfluous coffin, Trying to think of the word “props”, Being named after God, A piece with non-simultaneous commentary, Owning the listener, A pimple on a speck of sand and more. .
Also: Joanne returns with our first ever catfish song.

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 – 091: Space Squatters

Neal O'Carroll, June 15, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show91.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:59 — 8.9MB)

Please beware: These are very early vintage shows from a podcast that evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different today. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.e current episodes first.

Tonight’s Topics Include:
Legalities of squatting in space and time, A cheap alternative postal system, A Chinese proverb about sadism, A thing with yokes on it, Allocating space for fishes, How goldfish stay dry, Rebelling against the food chain, Viewing the fridge inside-out, A note about noteworthiness, My four level basement in your head, Inaudible bears in forests, A cure for tiredness, The Sweeny Todd cover-up and more. and more.

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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