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Shorts 117: Gladiator Changes School

Neal O'Carroll, March 7, 2025June 11, 2026

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Show 845: Boogeyman’s Grand Day Out

Neal O'Carroll, March 6, 2025October 21, 2026
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Neal offers fresh advice to parents on handling the Boogeyman. explains our primitave plateware to far future listeners, wonders why nobody talks about obelixes, argues against walking to school and discussea the wrong way to arrive at your new school, liquid desserts for visiting dignitaries, growing wheat in city streets, a disappointing school shop, The Hardy Boys and their vehicles, travel logistics on Criminal Minds, iron lungs, Joe Rogan’s sensory deprivation tank, Nick Cave’s alternative Gladiator II, Naylor’s Cove (public baths ruins off Bray Head, County Wicklow), ancient aliens bearing chocolate gifts and more. Book mentioned: To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood by Alice Taylor.

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Shorts 116: Dark Side of Cat Treadmill Videos

Neal O'Carroll, March 1, 2025June 11, 2026

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Shorts 115: Oligarchs of Primary School Art and Crafts

Neal O'Carroll, February 28, 2025June 11, 2026

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Matchstick Cats 672: Waiting for Gomphotheriidae

Neal O'Carroll, February 28, 2025February 28, 2025
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Shorts 114: Scratching your Back with a Voodoo Doll is COMPLICATED

Neal O'Carroll, February 25, 2025June 11, 2026

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Shorts 113: A Dog

Neal O'Carroll, February 25, 2025June 11, 2026

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Show 844: Navigating Self Facing Voodoo Doll Feedback Loops

Neal O'Carroll, February 25, 2025October 21, 2026
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Neal reveals how ducks prevented him settling in the US, uncovers your treadmill cat’s OCD hell, closes in on the surprising identity of the oligarchs of knitting, offers practical advice on self facing voodoo doll feedback loops for your active retirement, remembers The Onion print edition and discusses the sick, sick world of wireless earphones, actuaries and the Mandela Effect, fresh thinking on bus basements, taking too long to choose a hobby, a career in head stitching, Irish folklore’s Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Salmon of Knowledge, the trouble with asking yourself a question, the book I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter, the childhood bear hoax, actuary snobbery, pre wired garments, a spontaneous dog, a bootlegging cat, air conditioning versus guns, navigating American multi layered doors, childhood paper rounds on sitcoms and more.

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