Episodes

  • Show 891: Why Crickets Don’t Sweat (If Crickets Don’t Sweat)

    Show 891: Why Crickets Don’t Sweat (If Crickets Don’t Sweat)
    Aug 19 2026

    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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    58 mins
  • Show 881: Why Pet Snake Owners Are Like That

    Show 881: Why Pet Snake Owners Are Like That
    May 18 2026
    #absurdist #humour #podcasts #Irish #comedypodcasts
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    58 mins
  • Show 830: What’s in a Yak?

    Show 830: What’s in a Yak?
    Oct 8 2024
    Neal exposes a surprising truth about smartphone fires, considers issues of scale at a doll's house tea party, advises on conditioning one's fingers not to gesticulate, imagines what it's like to have a co-host, attempts a moritorium on feces talk and discusses a house's undergarment, what age twenty-four is in frozen pea years, handling exotic food at the North Pole, reverse engineering a yak, the Madwaves MadPlayer of the harmonica world, testing car technology on animals, yaks in soap operas, drawing a yak under tremendous stress, possible new futures in yak trunk evolution, plausibile deniability stationery, what a cat would do with your homework, the 3M logo versus New Scotland Yard, understanding America's New England, Supermacs putting down stakes in Times Square, naming cities twice, naming nuclear power stations twice, iinking chalkboard scraping syndromme to energy drinks, American atitudes to Conneticut, the cola rodent, Ireland's Barak Obama Plaza and more. CONTACT THS SHOW: Visit IntoYourHead.ie/Contact. LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 - Attribution: Neal O’Carroll - Far future humans can find hundreds of fossilised episodes on Archive dot org.
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    52 mins
  • Show 829: Dante’s Magic Gondola

    Show 829: Dante’s Magic Gondola
    Sep 30 2024
    In a sub-standar episode not recommended for newbies, Neal considers how to poach eggs in their shells, the logistics of sieve use for gold hunters and drugs mules, use-by dates on precious metals, podcasts for dogs, other podcasts like this, finding a use for your dog, Dante's magic gondola, a loophole for Marc Maron guests, faking your own death as an art installation, rooms without walls, misdefining a spare room and more.
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    41 mins
  • Show 828: How Lidl Works

    Show 828: How Lidl Works
    Sep 19 2024
    Neal discusses what wiki editors say about you in meetings, sizes and brands of dog, understanding British Bulldog, graceful vacuum handling in a laboratory setting, what tailors do with the pins, the woodchipper in Lidl, beverageware in Terminator 2, how Lidl works, misremembering traditional supermarkets, planning your first Mona Lisa, a non-editbable encyclopedia, what MTV was, what Buggles did, what Trevor Horn does, duties of a stock footage city shopper, the trouble with far writers, anatomy of a sawn-off vacuum nozzle, over ambitious toe socks, regaling a wannabe recluse, protecting your shoes from lightning, reinventing the anti glove-loss cord system with chemicals, an ominous calling card, why vomiting is a matter of height and more.
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    51 mins
  • Show 827: Bloodworking from Home

    Show 827: Bloodworking from Home
    Sep 9 2024
    Neal invadvertently creates a bespoke music radio jingle while trying to prove a point, takes a refreshingly positive look at the Dark Ages, proposes an innovative new scam vulnerability discount, tells his future self some home truths and discusses understanding The Beachcombers, belch symmetry, how radio forgot what hello means, Arthur Guinness' Oprah Winfrey moment, when the vet was your family mechanic, Henry Ford versus Dr Kellogg's brother versus Dr Kellogg, planning your family's horse and cart needs, how law enforcement interacts with your cat, the wheel rotation scam, appreciating Shakespeare plays as much as dog stories, people who drink Cidona, Breaking Bad for children, 3-2-1 Contact, The Bloodhound Gang, when a bathroom door takes you out of the fantasy, The Famous Five, the listener who can't forget, what Lucozade is for, swinging from a crane, bloodwork as an occupation. this podcast's quality control regime, a one pant primer and more.
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    41 mins
  • Show 826: Musical Stools

    Show 826: Musical Stools
    Sep 2 2024
    Neal uncovers a massive parallel between Bruce Willis' The Sixth Sense character and 1960s Muppets precurser Sam and Friends, proposes an ingenius new type of mnemonics that will change your life and discusses the practicalities of shooting yourself in the foot, being obsessed with Sesame Street, inadequate media explanation of kneecapping, being unimpressed by The Snufflelopacus, how to test a documentary idea, how to use a single solitary bar stool in a crowd, the argument against bathroom windows, appreciating TV masts, narrator inception, The Willy Wonka Show, A realistic sitcom reboot, oral chemistry exams, dogs versus cats in bars, how to defuse a spoiler, wartime gender-based duplication, when cats bum everybody out and more.
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    59 mins
  • Show 825: Something Beginning with A

    Show 825: Something Beginning with A
    Jul 24 2024
    Neal discusses Roald Dahl’s shed boundaries, demolishing and redeveloping a mountain, how sculptors manage Phil Lynott and Luke Kelly's hair, designing a bridge over troubled waters, Henson-Disney’s post merger pre death plans, the trouble with the new generation of kittens, the house of detention, when to use Bob Dylan, a feature request for the sun, life as a pocket torch owner, Fatima children, Children of Lir, what swans know, how I spent Freddie Mercury’s last year, Capetown’s so-called Table Mountain, blood transfusion death preferences, accountants on the small screen, Tales of the Unexpected, spying something beginnning with A, kitten feces revenge, a podcast playlist hostage sitation, the truth about concrete and more.
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    39 mins