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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 – 010: Circa Sept 2006

Neal O'Carroll, September 5, 2006August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show10.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:39 — 13.0MB)

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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VINTAGE IYH – 008: Cannibalism Special / Belfast CIRCA AUG 2006

Neal O'Carroll, August 30, 2006August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show8.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:14 — 8.7MB)

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.

ncludes a segment recorded in Belfast last weekend, and the first in our series of lectures tailoured to suit the needs of our listeners – An Introduction to Cannibalism. Eye Doctorers, Your car funds the health system, Soft drinks nosiness, Unneccessary nutrition, AA mug of air, Disgusting inventions, Unfeasible transportation systems 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 – 006

Neal O'Carroll, August 12, 2006August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show6.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:
Cat toiletrees, You’ll be dead soon anyway, Michael Jackson and my mom, This beer might be a placebo, Billy Joel’s tale of downtrodden actresses, Kill your pets you selfish bamtard, Beer again, The Kildare Rockies, Geographical aids, Columbus’ round trip, Australian men, Cats again, Turnips, Inventing the Compact Disc, Turnips and uncreative gardening, Let’s not waste the moon, You’re not ready yet, Masking tape, Checking my toes, Nail organistation, Why computer programmes are full of bugs, Cheese premiere, Scallions (a.k.a. Spring Onions to you foreigners), September 11th 1999, Send us your words, Don’t just soak 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 – 005

Neal O'Carroll, July 30, 2006August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show5.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:
Non-viable circus police and impersonation thereof, This coffee jar will help, Differences between you and a cat, Thai sweat shops and toilet paper, The new “grandpa” in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Saint Patrick couldn’t drive for shit, Labor Day is funny, Arranging surgery for my neighbour, Happy Meals and alcohol, Is your child good anough for a cult?, Pope John Paul II’s ugly cross, Worshipping false and incorrectly-named gods, St. Paul the lizard, Jesus’ surprise comeback, What’s television?, I could bring telephony to Athy, Driving on public transport, My mopedity, Carrying pets on your bike, Trapeze perverts, euthenasi-cat, advice for pet owners 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 – 004

Neal O'Carroll, July 24, 2006August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show4.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:22 — 5.0MB)

WARNING – 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:
Time has no bearing, Where do words come out?, Breaking records is impolite, An elderly bear, Amoeba twins versus cellphones – and explanation, Seperating the sciences, Nixers, How Van Gogh lost his ear, Immortals get things done, Jesus’ sushi, How bird flu started, Time still has no bearing, How not to miss your stop when commuting, How Satan got wet, Toilet break warning, Read stuff and change the world, Women appreciate this crap, Sleeping lightly on the earth, Electric payments, Self burying pets, Children as mice-repellents, Teaching the teachers, Prof. Stephen Hawkin’s backwards astrology thing, Ambidextrous typewriters, Non-ambidextrous doors, Hidden messages in this show, Apalling disgraceful video games which I own, a cough, 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 – 003

Neal O'Carroll, July 15, 2006August 16, 2026

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:
An Apology, my new bicycle, Tearing cats and dogs, People in heaven are bigots, I hope I die before I get confused, Queen Elizabeth for tea, Prime Minister Who?, Like father; like George Bush, Did you excuse me yet? Time travel might help, Some gratuitious insulting of the listener, Living near sea level, Disgusting trees, Faulty guitar, My life as a childhood mathematical biographer, Improvisation, Things on my table, Sue me, It’s not junk mail unless it smells, Mandatory current events coverage, Low fat beer, Birthdays are neccessary. Public Service announcements by Joanne Farrell: “Learn Irish, it’s great”, “Clean floors”, “Road Safety”.

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 – 002

Neal O'Carroll, July 12, 2006August 16, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show2.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:08 — 6.0MB)

Please beware: These are very early vintage shows from a podcast that has 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:
Frowning pencils and the youth of today, People are weird about fish, How french fries are made, Shakespeare the third rate comedian, Interfering with old bookcases, Art on wheelie-bins, Disposing of dead puppies, How plastic is made, Adam and Eve’s trick on the dinosaurs, Cats in space, Today’s beverage, Hurricanes’ first names, Uneducateable children, Snow White and children’s footwear, Solar cooking, My secret band, Sun holidays to the North Pole, Unknowingly learning a percussion instrument, Getting stoned to death, my shakespearean Sonnet 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 – 001: Partially Recovered Debut

Neal O'Carroll, July 5, 2006October 4, 2026
https://IntoYourHead.ie/show1.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:28 — 3.9MB)

Please beware: These are very early vintage episodes of a podcast that evolved over 20+ years and 900+ instalments and sounds very different today. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.

Also, if you’re still here after reading that, please note this is an incomplete copy of Show 001. And if you’re still here after reading that, I shot a man in Reno.

Thanks are due to Dustin who kindly pointed out, after hearing that I was having difficulty uploading this very first podcast back in 2006, that WAV files are very big and you’re supposed to convert them to MP3.

This is a partially recovered copy of the fist ever episode of Into Your Head, in which the topics included: Getting cable, Being photogenic, Stealing picnic baskets, Deodorant, Lying about deodorant in podcasts, Uni-things, Guitar improvisation, Addicted to pipes, Willy Wonka, being a multi-millionaire, Jesus and The Cat in the Hat, Lying about being a multi-millionaire in podcasts, Being a dead musical genius, Trampoline holidays, Reviving dead puppies, Loose coffee leaves, I hope this podcast doesn’t attract weirdos, Early Irish cartoons, Farting clauses in mortgages, Special features: Judge Judy needs you, Smellbow.

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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