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Neal addresses the perennial question of whether sugar is a vegetable, asks if dogs can get spoken word ear worms from podcasts, flags a potential Kermit situation in the world of stop motion animation, recalls a hellish era when Irish adolescents couldn’t access music, advocates giving soup eaters a handicap, ponders life in a prison misdemeanours gang, looks at how to apply your crossword solving skills to real world problems, goes over the classic trolley problem with a local overlay, changes his own mind in real time about spaghetti hoops, explores what happens when a cat orders soy milk in a bar, compares the words Lidl and Aldi for usability, wonders how much of bathroom smartphone use is waiting to vomit, advises on what to say when asked if you’re living at home, recommends off-road shopping carts for Lidl Arklow, assesses where Shithead falls on the derogatory names scale, makes the argument against reusing first and second names, recalls unknowingly performing double entry bookkeeping at the same venue as Peter Gabriel era Genesis, recounts the first time hearing an American say herb, tries to count the guitar players in The Beatles, offers some advice for true crime fans, asks whether angst laden teens were better served by Dublin’s bench hogging poet or Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, exposes the dangers of getting a prolapsed rectum from public benches, assesses the ongoing reinvention of the bicycle and why the next step must be the wheel, uncovers a unappetising connection between trouser presses and french style baguettes and more.

MENTIONED – Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
by Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding 

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