Into Your Head
Summary: For 20 years Irish amateur humourist, sage, semi-hermetic racanteur, fantastist, socially awkward cat obsessive, energy drinks misuser and husband Neal O'Carroll has honed the art of starting comedic ramblings with no idea how the first sentence will end, never mind what he will say. 800 shows in, he claims he's finally making some progress. Irish comedy podcast Into Your Head's roots include O'Carroll's long enjoyment of classic BBC Radio panel game Just a Minute. From an early age (27) he was starting sentences with “Two Cats walk into a Bar" more frequently than the average man of his demographic, initially in early 2000s humour blog Neal's Belch, which spawned his unscripted yet dialogue-laden Matchstick Cats webomics. By 2006, soon to be former moped operator O’Carroll had noticed saying stuff is easier than writing, and the rest is history. Particularly the first 400 shows which he insists are dreadful. Luckily the series evolved over seventeen years and another 400 episodes to become the free-flowing stream-of-unconciousness humour show it is today. The 2023 reversal of the show's retirement followed a reinvigorating reboot of his Matchstick webcomics at https://MatchstickCats.com - making them more vision-impaired accessible for his ongoing sight loss, even abandoning long trusted MS Paint for MS Paint 3D, although he admits it's relevance for the audio podcast is yet to be understood. And now so can you.
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Underground passport control, Shakespeare’s vanity search, bottle deposit economics, Microsoft’s holographic keyboard, how to survive show 666, posthumously fueling flowers, cat hexakosioihexekontahexaphobics in bars and more. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/] Attribution: “Neal from Ireland via IntoYourHead.ie “
Horse-meat snobbery, escaping a bear, unattended yoyos, George Orwell’s fake forks, fear of the light, owning encyclopedias, Pope Benedict’s new past-time, wine for cats and more. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/] Attribution: “Neal from Ireland via IntoYourHead.ie “
Life before spatial awareness, how Stephen King started writing, facial organs in 2D, irresponsible weather management by ancient civilisations, convenience stores versus dinosaurs, that song about the hole in the bucket, washing cheese, chaos as a lifestyle, the argument in favour of cheese and omelettes, contextual cat selection, the Sun at night, repurchasing The Whizzkid’s Handbook by Peter Eldin, that song Lanigan’s Ball and more. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/] Attribution: “Neal from Ireland via IntoYourHead.ie “
Maintaining a clean dental record, feminine hygiene in the Garden of Eden, earthing an aircraft to the ground, how to interpret rudeness positively, how the brain works, Russian doll stationery, random crap falling from space and more. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/] Attribution: “Neal from Ireland via IntoYourHead.ie “
A slightly hoarse Neal discusses verifying so-called fiction, round boxing rings, why Mother Nature should specialise more, how to instantly live in the future, a new way to breed free-range chickens, hygiene in a world without poverty, OCD-friendly podcasting, why we don’t have hemp newspapers, how supreme beings create infinite time and waste it, How dogs decide where to pee and more. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/] Attribution: “Neal from Ireland via IntoYourHead.ie “
Sewing a cotton ear bud, chain link fence art, minority kitchen utensils, cow names for humans, taking pride in exhaling Carbon Dioxide, a little pizza history, originality on the bongos, fictional relativity in a Bonsai country, putting cows in your head, Nazi grooming equipment on a pawn shop reality show and more. Thanks to listener Gammagoblin for the monkey nut cat artwork. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/] Attribution: “Neal from Ireland via IntoYourHead.ie “
The problem with coin-operated time machines, why centipedes have to be vigilant against BS, tin foil underhats, pronouncing animal noises, quantum physics, drawing a line in a bar, digesting limbs, life before time travel, the chances of a time travelling dog winning the lotto and more. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.
Magic versus miracles, salt culture, silencing negativity with maths, Adam and Eve’s cow versus the Mona Lisa, the theme to “The Fall Guy”, Glasses in World of Warcraft, how this show helps the third world , hedgehog geometry, misunderstandings about fresh fish and lots more. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/] Attribution: “Neal from Ireland via IntoYourHead.ie “
Adapting lost keys, why it’s rude to say “restroom”, the fallen tree approach to medicine, catwalks versus runways, getting the most out of a post-it, how to know that there’s more to life than knowing everything, The Two Ronnies versus Schrödinger’s cat, people who change their names, reinventing the virtual window, how an orange drink could wipe out the oceans, transparency versus invisibility and more. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/] Attribution: “Neal from Ireland via IntoYourHead.ie “
Continuing the third and last week of Into Your Head podcast\’s Temporarily Daily Christmas Show. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/] Attribution: “Neal from Ireland via IntoYourHead.ie “
Why giraffes look smaller than they are, post-JFK libraries, life as a bacterial organism, how to make a mockery, how to quantify a pee, words that never get used, removing elbow grease, a kumquat psychiatrist and lots more. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/] Attribution: “Neal from Ireland via IntoYourHead.ie “
When food addicts start injecting, when beverages wear clothes, when nail scissors bend, when brains get tattooed, when “piss” gets mispronounced, when rocket scientists discover their limitations, when people enquire about the history of popsicle sticks, when Brain Surgeons go mad and lots more. (Pardon the sound quality – I am awaiting a replacement for a broken part) License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/] Attribution: “Neal from Ireland via IntoYourHead.ie “
Saying no to gullet cleansers, how deaf dogs get by, controlling your dreams, Latin in the nineteen eighties, expanding my musical arsenal, clamping calendars to things and more. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/] Attribution: “Neal from Ireland via IntoYourHead.ie “
Life as a dog prostitute, bone bread, analyzing your own brain, an artificial hernia, using the outside of your throat, elephants versus optimism, friendly sports, how to store cow’s tongue, doing business with Neanderthal man, identical different things and more. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/] Attribution: “Neal from Ireland via IntoYourHead.ie “
OCD TV chefs, reinventing the clock, renting time versus selling it, why dogs steal, medicinal pies, the problem with NIke, eating without dining, gravity versus levity, learning from Adam Carolla’s dad, defining “inanimate”, making animals\’ tails interesting and more. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/] Attribution: “Neal from Ireland via IntoYourHead.ie “
