Into Your Head

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">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&#8217;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&#8217;re living 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&#8217;s bench hogging poet or Radiohead&#8217;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.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">MENTIONED &#8211; Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake<br />by Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">VISIT <a href="https://IntoYourHead.ie">IntoYourHead.ie</a> for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 &#8211; Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Neal explains the flight simulator windscreen wiper dilemma, bemoans the poor design of the human lower skull, wonders if it&#8217;s lawful for dogs to eat themselves, compares Schubert&#8217;s The Trout to Masterchef Junior, recalls early childhood experiences of cutlery and daisies, considers why you&#8217;d play pitch and putt on a full size golf simulator,&#160;frets about his motives for raising a hand in an RDS exam hall three decades ago, wonders why you&#8217;d start a city near a swamp, remembers Tiger Woods&#8217; name surprisingly swiftly, links his childhood self image to Dublin&#8217;s old gasometer tanks, remembers Ian Dury and the Blockheads, pinpoints where cats fall on Abraham Maslow&#8217;s Hierarchy of Needs and looks at how motorists bank their hill climbing progress, understanding the American prom experience through situation comedies, the AA, the other AA, the AAA, advice for procedural drama producers and quite a bit more.&#160;</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">VISIT <a href="https://IntoYourHead.ie">IntoYourHead.ie</a> for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 &#8211; Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Neal compares your child to the Mona Lisa, throws a spanner in the works of the stopped clock twice a day cliche, reveals why a TV free family would pivot to compulsory viewing targets, wonders if homing pigeons suffer from Stockholm Syndrome, tries to understand porridge people, recalls the post-war heyday of sugary cereals, tells how to distinguish tea from coffee, proposes cutting out the middle man for manure-based plant nutrients (but it&#8217;s not what you think), changes your mind about your apartment that you think is a basement, heralds the return of TV channel nighttime closedown, remembers the era of answering machines in sitcoms and The Twilight Zone, exposes the Orwellian torture of telephony and discusses black packaging on energy drinks and corn snacks, why David Bowie&#8217;s death is even more final than hoped, Bowie&#8217;s drum and base album and flag wearing, the Breaking Bad bath melting scene and quite a lot more.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">MENTIONED: Twelve Angry Men (1957), Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">VISIT <a href="https://IntoYourHead.ie">IntoYourHead.ie</a> for everything and more.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 &#8211; Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Neal recalls a justifiable childhood fear of igloos, explains why whistlers should be seen and not heard, celebrates half a century of not learning to swim, invents a way to trick drone enthusiasts while keeping everyone happy,  illuminates the bottom of a well for a short retreat, questions the habits of the owl community, asks why pet snake owners are like that, considers how to fatten yourself up for emergency partial self cannibalism, explains Weetabix and Shredded Wheat cereals and discusses a fear of looking like Roald Dahl, how the Channel Tunnel  miraculously met up in the middle, why wool is unhygienic, walking on the sea bed, prescription snorkels, inability to whistle or snap fingers, unanswered questions about what pigs roll around in, the trouble with Massachusetts&#8217;s wooden houses and more. </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">MENTIONED: The Dark Wizard (HBO documentary) and 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">VISIT <a href="https://IntoYourHead.ie">IntoYourHead.ie</a> for everything and more.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 &#8211; Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Neal imagines how Houston eggheads work the problem in a crisis, worries about what happens the first time you see an ocean, recommends escalator maintenance as the perfect career choice, publicly admonishes his brain for creating the same thought twice, warns about shoes and spectacles losing adhesion during a stroke, reveals the most unappreciated miraculous substance in your home, marvels at how pilots manage their laundry, outlines why actors need to show us both corners of their mouth, remembers half a lifetime spent offline and looks at the hypocrisy of uncensored airline safety announcements, weird and disturbing seaside lakes, Stephen King&#8217;s Florida Quays, why nobody knows how to clean a blackboard, Apollo 13 (1999), n Neil Armstrong&#8217;s crash, Bic four colour ballpoint pens in space, the hypocrisy of self help groups, .long distance tractor travel, human aging issues in Toy Story 5 (2026),  logistics of ploughing championships and aircraft aisles, should in flight entertainment screens show oil levels, how Lightyear (2022) successfully annoyed parents, why astronauts should wear business suits, headless ghosts, Rentaghost (BBC TV), how flight crews manage laundry, time-shift masses and the international date line, the Mandela Effect phenomenon, taking up space on the Internet and more.   </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">VISIT <a href="https://IntoYourHead.ie">IntoYourHead.ie</a> for everything and more.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 &#8211; Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.</p>