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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.

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VINTAGE IYH – 061: Magnetic Murders

Neal O'Carroll, April 15, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show61.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:14 — 17.1MB)

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:
Calculating the average listener, Exceling in music and hair, Acapello humming from my past, Fake folk music, The man who ate apples while moving, Cats and mice as a story-embellishment, Why virtual pets must be mortal, Charlie the lucky idiot, Cloud cuckoo land, Imaginary people, Avoiding axe murderers by text, Threatening a paperclip, Puddles of pee,Delusions about magnetic murder and Terminators, {Vintage material: Let’s blow into something, Our local crocadile hunter, Digestive biscuits, Inter-species nutrition, Inter-species marriage, Related by cat marriage, New rules for bank officials, Living with a fourth dimension, A makeshift holodeck, The new voiceover guy, Naming things after Karl Marx, The Definite Article}, Interupting my vintage self, Conlcusion of the paperclip incident, My President Bush lifestyle.
Music: “Twinkle Twinkle My Guitar” by Dilbrent. Use restricted under the following Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Generic which can be viewed at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ All other music composed in-house. Additional voiceovery stuff thanks Lockjaw and Dustin (TipYourHat.com).

Overall episode – 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 – 060: Songetic LIcense

Neal O'Carroll, April 13, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show60.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:29:59 — 36.3MB)

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.current episodes first.

Tonight’s topics include:
Where “here” is, Measuring a country, Verifying listener credentials, Counterfeit podcasts, Submitting to scientific journals, Fun with dry ice and acid, Pointless fire-prevention research, Marking my words, Novelising this show, Tuning in to this show, Identifying with Bruce Springsteen, Investing in cat songs, Rock star cat deceptions, Peeing into a guitar, People hate urine, Exporting sewage to Australia, My new idea to save the planet with frozen urine, Faking a mouse click, Listener input system song, Songetic license, Ending gently.


Also: Some listener e-mail, A song about Bruce Springsteen’s cat, and Sháinne Greoige with a special investigative editorial about beastalks and your children.
Additional voicey stuff thanks: Lockjaw and Dustin.

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 – 037: Quantity over Quality III

Neal O'Carroll, January 7, 2008August 16, 2026
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:00:02 — 48.1MB)

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.

A super-length special to celebrate the creation of our longest show ever.Tonight’s topics include: Act 1: Legitimately introducing oneself, Ways to analyse a fridge, Fulfilling your noise requirements, Unappreciated containers, A margarine feast, Preventing your dinner from freezing, Parmesan cheese as an egg substitute, Apple juice for your PC, Some egg sizing issues, A mayonaisse lottery, Buying listener merchandise, Surplus Stirring, Torturing yourself, Understanding real time and that’s just Act 1.

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

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VINTAGE IYH – 036: Alphabetic Bladder Therapy

Neal O'Carroll, January 4, 2008August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show36.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:30 — 23.1MB)

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.current episodes first.

Definitely not dandruff, Speaking less legibly, Decoffination, Interference if we’re lucky, Too late to avoid learning, Unintentionally saying “cat”, An entertaining microwave, TV events in the 1800s, Pretending to talk about psychiatry, Alphabetic bladder therapy, Personal issues with “X” and “Q”, A single entry phone book, Getting away from counting, Gravity not enough, Countdown to an ordinary midnight – an experiment, Making milk exciting, Ironing my thoughts, Bill Clinton’s handwriting, Functioning eyelids, Calculating the sun’s age, Illogical sizing of clock faces, Reconstructing the last word and more.

Also: In a new feature, Joanne tackles some listener mail., starting with a question about something, and delivers another lecture from the Into Your Head Adult Learning Programme.

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 – 023: Chinese Ice Cream

Neal O'Carroll, March 24, 2007August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show23.mp3

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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: Say something worth saying, Sorry about the crucification thing, Vegan dairy products, Free range humans, Finding my weight in gold, Jesus mows the lawn, Fishmongers are nice, The scales on the fish on the scales, Optional extras for horse purchasers, The inappropriate scales of injustice, Misunderstood Satanism in schools, Helpless in the face of house theft, The big roofing fraud, Man’s best friend (supposedly), A bittersweet trip to the toilet, Unfulfilled ice cream dreams, Dead cats in China, My futurecrime.Sháinne Greoige is on holiday but we have the latest update on the cat litter controversy from Athy Weekly World News, and Neal gives a unique guest-lecture for the Into Your Head Adult Learning Programme. All theme music / bumpers composed on our Madplayer (an ancient and defunct device that creates bespoke music on the fly).

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 – 015: Madonna and Child

Neal O'Carroll, October 20, 2006August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show15.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:48 — 15.2MB)

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:Cardboard coincidences, My part in the Christmas industry, Economists drawing cats, Selling microscopic pets, Governing from a leather recepticle, Building a better future with the colour beige, Other people’s nuclear bombs, Scrambled eggs before Haloween, Ex-beings, Feet don’t grow overnight, The Madonna and foster-child, Mother Teresa’s skimpy attire, Martin Scorcesse’s blue crayons, Feed me feedback, A sense of the ridiculousALSO TONIGHT The first ever Tomo’ at Large, with our new Crime Correspondent, Athy Weekly World News with Sháinne Greoige , and another lecture from the Into Your Head Adult Learning Programme: Intermediate Psychology for Beginners, Joanne’s Weekly Cat Song 2. All music made on our “Madplayer”, a defunct and wonderful device that generates music on the fly.

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 – 014: Polar Energy

Neal O'Carroll, October 15, 2006August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show14.mp3

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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 song for Pippy, This disconnected world, Taunted by the machine, Friday the 13th, Haphazard lunar movements, Tied down by the atmosphere, Redundant directional vocabulary, The wrong North Pole, Stop discovering empty spaces, Polar energy and Communism, My Regular Pony, Adolescence in other species, Self conscious turtles, Pippy caught a mouse, Self sufficiency, A talking turkey, Verifying the television news with dental records, Let’s see what’s on my cellphone, Limbo gets a reprieve, Don’t be a “people person”. Also tonight: ATHY WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, WITH SHÁINNE GREOIGE, and part three of our lecture from the Into Your Head Adult Learning Programme: “A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO IRONY” THANKS ALSO TO: Dustin Meehan, Lockjaw of ThePodcastJunkie.com for extra voiceovery stuff.

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 – 011: Truth about Dinasaurs / Pope Benedict’s Error – Circa Sept 2006

Neal O'Carroll, September 5, 2006August 16, 2026
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 34:22 — 15.0MB)

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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