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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Neal discusses Justin Bieber versus Alanis Morissette versus people called Ron, the arguments against transparency, headless football, stereophonic chemicals, how Economists misuse arrows when discussing bananas, how to become a worldwide local chain 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 “
Neal discusses donating tap water to US Presidential candidates, life as an undereducated anteater versus life as a doornail, how Adam and Eve went about procreating, life as a fictional character in a story about the prohibition era 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 “
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Neal discusses marketing pistachio nut paste at children, American attitudes to biscuits and repairing a horse’s hind legs. He also attempts some harmonica-based Eminem-style rapping and considers the ramifications of advising a stabbing victim, speaking without saying anything, what if this episode was a sentient being, protecting a wireless mouse from burglars 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 “
Neal proposes a new nature documentary format based on the Olympics and discusses the role of monkey nuts in alien evolution, the argument in favour of psychiatrists taking stool samples, recreating dragons, why lyricists have it easy, schizophrenia’s part in his imaginary friend’s downfall and more. Deceased fictional junior announcer Glen Acton also pops his decomposing head in. 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 “
Neal predicts his own toaster-urine-related death and discusses deodorant testers, sweet ‘n’ sour cream diarrhoea, modern fish scales, rose tinted contact lenses, cats in circuses, an influx of foreign breakfasts, clowns in banks, life on a curved playing field 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 “
Neal investigates the abuse of drugs by several listeners and discusses the use of stingers by post offices, the original pre-cartoon 3D era, competing with Karen Carpenter at the checkout, modernising castles, installing pencil sharpeners and other accessories in antique clocks, the availability of cat milk 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
Neal revisits last week’s pre-death Neil Armstrong space urination question debacle and discusses Robert De Niro’s prison training, chemically reconstituting monkey nuts, cow flesh moccasins, checking whether the world still exists, the need for chicken bones, how toy manufacturers are intentionally accelerating the evolution process 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
Neal sets out the argument against punching taxi drivers in the face and discusses the limitations of fictional time travel, the undead versus the non-dead, fish based ball games and something about silent farting, an unhelpful description of blood oranges, having a hangover 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
Neal discusses, among many other things, getting NASA union rights for every human being on Earth, and why that might be a bad thing.. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/] Attribution: “Created by Neal from Ireland. More at IntoYourHead.com”.
Neal discusses the dangers of becoming too light, the subconscious topic bucket, a gaping flaw in the Olympic equestrian games, holding your breath on Mars, cats’ attitudes to bones, defining a glove puppet and more.Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Show 608: Henson’s List
Neal discusses, among other things, the role that bars, faeces and even the movement of the planets play in the something something of our planet. There’s also another “Two cats walk into a bar” story, the imminent removal of builders’ magnolia and lots more. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Neal unveils his new mini rock concept album and discusses Angela Lansbury’s cat, how the song that goes “children are our future” relates to Professor Stephen Hawking and more.Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
