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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Podcasts:
The problem with time, anatomy of a comb, The Penn and Teller of the Cat World, Gymnasticians, A career in toothpaste design, A giant hole / Robert De Niro, underestimating your own intelligence and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
Placebo aviation, amateur surgery, the argument against fiction, podcasts as penance, mice in zoos, the dirty little secret behind inanimate objects, the battle for damp skin, home made beverages and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. There’s also a classic episode of “Athy Weekly World News with Shainne Greoige”
Why Top Gear won’t use my cats, how to ask for a helicopter, The link between space exploration and accountancy training, how to avoid offending a glove puppet operator, non-expiring Near Year greetings, remembering “Eat the Peach” and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
In-cat purchases, Meatloafs tin foil issues, energy drink placebos, cats in Bethlehem, working in a Christmas tree factory, making monkey nuts seasonal, Winter sports days, stand-up violence, things that don’t kill you, Elvis’ family tree, repeating everything you’ve ever done, and lots more. It’s the 2014 Christmas special, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
Cats in police stations, the downside to knowing how to fly, reinventing the telephone, Kurt Cobain naming rights, what’s behind your face, drinking on fast ferries, why motorists wear rubber soles and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
The grass in France, determining what day it is, how to play Rock Paper Synthesiser, teacup weather science, patronising an inanimate object, selling Baileys by the pint, divvying up the Moon, a classic instalment of Shainne Greoige’s newspaper review and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
How eyelids place athletes on an equal footing, Podcast Theology, Defunding Ebola, Reinventing sliced bread, Pottery in pop culture, waiting for a cold, reconstructing Annie the cat, John Malkovich’s fourth wall and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
Vacuum-packed data, Learning to spell, Rebooting a fly, Something profound about Ebola, stuff, things, other stuff and lots more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland
The argument against apples, teaching toddlers about death and nutrition, getting a fish on board, why I won’t vote for JFK, the argument against Halloween and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.”
A cat in a Barm Brack factory, shopping bag pension schemes, reasons to bring a ham to a Census office, ending stationery abuse, bags for death, losing the run of it on a treadmill and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.”
Amoebas versus Astral Physicists, life beyond the Cat Inter-Estate Highway Wall, why cats don’t understand the free market economy, orange on television, and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. 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 Ouentin Tarantino, Barber beheadings, trojan politics, overlooked fables, topical crap and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
How to be retrospectively greedy, confectionery ingredient bars, a false luxury and more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. 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 “
Turning orange by stealth, what to call your roommates, living next door to Bono, overhead property rights in space and lots more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. 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 “
Concluding this short season of Into Your Head podcast’s Temporarily Daily Summer Show. Back with “normal” half-hour episodes very soon. Thanks for listening. With your humble proprietor, Neal from Ireland.
