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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DRUNKEN EPISODE! Neal discusses the politics of the Titanic, sirens through the ages, living in a dead end, how to identify the end of time, having more cats than Freddie Mercury, dates on cows, how to spell “compliance”, Fionn McCumhaill’s salmon of knowledge for the MTV generation and more. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Neal discusses a range of issues that he finds quite difficult to describe in textual form, but which are nonetheless fascinating and entertaining as always when listened to aurally from the enclosed MP3 file. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Neal explains licensed gutter-water cat breeding, proposes a contingency plan for rescuing Professor Stephen Hawking in the event of a flood, and discusses Cantilever Giraffes, the de-shelling of Goober nuts and more. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Neal discusses the good old days,when kids would run away to join a pirate ship – the Ireland of the 1970s, the complications involved in diagnosing monkey nut poisoning, the truth about cavemen hunting practices and lots more.Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
This episode ends abruptly. Don't panic, you don't miss anything important. Today, Neal explains why you might need a shit-eating-grin, and discusses the problem with measuring things against crow flight, how the parable of The Loaves and the Fishes is dealt with in catering colleges, Carnivorous birds on Boston Common, how to tar an Earth-shaped monkey nut with one brush and lots more including an unintended but unharmful abrupt ending. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License .
Neal discusses the different types of bottomless buckets, pimps on MTV, bars in Russia, Mary Magdalene's cat, monkey nuts from the point of view of a cat, what happens to the worst laid plans of mice and men and more, and deceased fictional former junior announcer Glen Acton makes an appearance to mark our 600th show. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Neal explains why boxers are hypocrites, why walls don’t need ears, why you would want an exact replica of the Universe and lots more.Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Today Neal discusses America’s imminent exposure to the world of Eskimos, the definition of “”, the Phlatus experiment, cats being passed off as badgers on children’s television, a proposal to become intentionally mentally ill in conjunction with the listeners and more. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Neal explains how something as simple as a cat urinating on some monkey nuts may have prevented us from ever understanding the true nature of human existence. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Neal explains how Adam and Eve produced a mixed race, how meat becomes salted, why cats don’t like skimmed milk, how to name an air disaster movie, how physics probably works and lots more. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Neal discusses, among other things, the true nature of the standard so-called “rabbit sanctuary” and what it’s going to take for the automobile industry to start producing blood sausages. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Neal discusses bucket list management, Mother Teresa’s footwear, selling viruses online, the show “COPS”, Yuri Geller’s anti spoon tirade, how cats’ imaginations work and lots more. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
