Category: Podcasts

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NOTE: The words accidentally drowned out by the opening music are: “or Billy Joel fans are very law abiding citzens.”

Neal wonders what role screaming plays in  training pilots and bus drivers, advises on managing your collection of scratching combs, questions the wisdom of apps that ignite things, considers a palatable way to inventory vacuum cleaner contents, asks if you’d know if your pet fish had brain trauma, tears the hairless cat down a peg or two, highlights the inherent assumptions in the standard aviation brace position, offers compelling evidence Billy Joel fans are upright citizens, speculates about a cat the listener offended in a past life, defends those who mistakenly believe islands float on water, imagines explaining to cabin crew you’re about to crash and need chocolate, and deals with tracheotomy cap management, raw milk versus raw sewage, transporting a pet fish overseas, why children scream, how to tactfully retire a flight engineer, red flag wavers at the dawn of the automobile and more.

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LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 with attribution: by Neal O’Carroll.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:33 — 92.8MB)

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Neal explains why burial at sea is nonsense, fantasises about ambidextrous drug deals, judges people who get a barber shop shave, goes over some tattoo myths, considers a stereotypical stakeout situation and discusses television’s Call My Bluff and Busman’s Holiday, seeing how the other sixty-nine seventieths live, smoking in the wild west, the unconscious foot, the first monkey to use tools, neural pathways, garden pathways, correct clothes lines, so-called resting bitch face, street statue performers, an episode of TV’s Dave Gorman’s Modern LIfe is Goodish, whether an AI do this show, why freshwater harbours smell better, your first visit to a coast, sheet metal for you sandwiches, browsing by smell, the one thing you don’t wash in the shower and more.   

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LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 with attribution: by Neal O’Carroll.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:22 — 105.2MB)

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Neal considers intrusion into famous artists’ privacy, your pet’s attitude to nighttime, what constitutes a street, I Seen (sic) the Lights go Down on Broadway, the first paper aeroplanes,pressing buttons on a piano, revisiting Schubert’s trout era, Frère Jacques, combining music theory with French linguistics, growing up in the previous century, how to buy fish, delivering post in alphabetical order, rethinking house numbers, Rocketman (2019), Air Crash Investigation, archery injuries, the jobs for life era, burger cardboard versus fingernails on a blackboard, the modern zoo, the Botanical Gardens, allotments and more. 

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LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 with attribution: by Neal O’Carroll.

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Neal looks at how to count half siblings, unobtrusively clearing your throat, why huskies think they’re Superman, Michael Keaton, Birdman (2014), a sundae-related childhood incident, movie physics, the trouble with vigilantes in bat costumes, the case for deep fried bat wings, what’s a normal disease for a dog, skull acoustics, rabies, scabies, Mad Cow Disease, Data’s cat, the trouble with doorbell apps, 2026 wasp season, so-called frozen yoghurt, texts on tv, what insects make, an unspoken truth about cleaning drains, robotic bin collection, butter in a cash drawer, a hygiene themed barber shop, 1980s radio soap Harbour Hotel, why generational snake knowledge is dying, why huskies think they’re magic, which animals get to wear shoes, irrationality surrounding scientific calculators, finding your spare wheel, what’s under the floor of a hearse, breaking glass in an emergency, why trains defy logic and more.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:04 — 93.7MB)

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Neal recounts his latest tongue injury and what it means for this episode, questions the wisdom of waking Maggie up with a song, imagines what it’s like to lose at boxing and wrestling, rethinks a childhood pastime of squashing  people like bugs, explains why learning to count never ends, wonders about single camera sitcoms and boxing matches, uncovers a hare and tortoise battery conundrum, considers  portable tunnels for explorers and discusses the slow boiled frog metaphor, the bottle deposits we leave behind, measuring liquids in ounces, new car clean freaks, using a car conveyer belt in treadmill mode, Marc Maron’s presidential visit, portable tunnels for explorers, Cat Stevens, songs about accountancy, The Jacksons, 1980s Ariston commericals, Earth versus dirt, making concrete, why Mother Nature is gross, plant based cannibalism, True Blood and more.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:11 — 106.7MB)

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Neal wonders how Dougie Howser’s career would have gone with a face tattoo, advises on recognising a fake glasses and moustache, sets out the argument for rectangular coins, imagines how a King Charles Dog could wreck stamp collecting, explains why a spare bedroom can never be a spare surgery, advises on scrubbing your mouth, considers the impracticalities of a global tribe of cat owners, proposes a revolutionary ten year compulsory briefcases mandate for school children, recalls a delicious looking dog’s ear and more.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:53 — 106.2MB)

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Neal explores the delicate diplomacy of carrying a motorbike side car passenger, spends some time addressing the bee keepers in the audience, illustrates how a cat handles a passive aggressive bar man, advises on minimising your total lifetime camera exposure, wonders if dog whistles and cricket noises work the same way, makes the case for calling trouser legs sleeves, wonders if crickets sweat and why it doesn’t kill them, recalls a surprising wildlife experience triggered by Beavis and Butthead, carefully notes the spare room’s emergency coughing options, discovers an old bedside lamp worthy of Freddie Mercury, applies some common sense to baggy trouser design, bemoans the new expanded definition of literal, imagines how supermarkets police the lard aisle, makes the case for police audio mug shots and looks at why life is scary with a QR code on your vehicle, Last of the Summer Wine, vehicles that get mistaken for roadworks, tyres versus helmets, Little House on the Prairie, the trouble with dry herb labels, slow cookers, cling film on the barbeque and more.

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:03 — 69.9MB)

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Neal dismantles an offensive myth surrounding Conan O’Brien’s head, thinks a little too much about reservoirs, ponders how to choose a kitchen sieve for your bathroom, recalls a memory of a horse’s head on a stick, offers wardrobe advice for news readers, asks why you’re still paying someone to touch your head and touches upon how to talk to your reflection, faces on cave paintings and Mr Men characters, the show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, why you’re ironing t-shirts you idiot, the spare head donation chain, seeing yourself through a taxi driver’s eyes, getting your sweaty palms read, catering for Toy Story’s maturing audience, Harry Potter’s on screen death and more.  

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LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 with attribution: by Neal O’Carroll.