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May 15, 202643 sec

866: The Impenetrable 3D Chess of Punching Down Through a Sunroof (17 December 2025)

In a movie length episode Neal assesses Warren Buffet’s breakfast habits, wonders if lickable screens could take some workload off his dying retinas, belatedly learns what RV stands for, considers the feasibility of working from home in a jungle, looks at regulating child operated lemonade stands, begrudges right handed touch typists, explains how TV procedural drama mavericks are kept in check and discusses apprehending a criminal via their car sunroof, why the clock face directions system is n...

Mar 31, 20261 hr 38 minEp. 866

865: Just Fill Up On Nonsense (3 December 2025)

Despite some sub par sound quality in parts, Neal proposes an innovative Star Trek spin off, wonders if dogs are powered by four legs or two, disambiguates Whoopee! comic, whoopee cushions and Whoopi Goldberg, considers the natural resting state for a human hand, demystifies the traditional motor funeral cortege, makes the surprising case for transparent mains sewage pipes, uncovers the strange logistics of Ash Wednesday following Pancake Tuesday in 1980s Ireland, ponders the feasibility of allo...

Mar 31, 20261 hr 14 minEp. 865

864: The Label Literal Monster Created in Frankenstein’s Lab Carries Baggage (24 NOV 2025)

Neal examines the logistics of running away to join a circus, wonders how Einstein adapted to American breakfasts, considers the sociology of onster communes, creates a case study in witness memory unreliability, compares your cat cam with the Mars Curiosity Rover, opens up about the next step in his twenty years of harmonica growth and discusses standing up to hydration shaming, things to consider if you’re offered a trip in a lifeboat, how cats reset after a house move, what this podcast can’t...

Mar 31, 20261 hr 24 minEp. 864

863: The Pelican Brie is Not a Typo (11 NOV 2025)

Neal reluctantly calls for a boycott of mezzanine levels, reveals what microchip factories can teach us about mouths, vigorously defends those who call human children kids, recalls a disturbing scene from Family Guy, outlines how death row equipment could be better used in headphone design, previews your Meals on Wheels years and discusses an Inception theory of music radio, disposable one-a-day wireless earphones, Toyota’s cat litter warning light, standing desks and the people who use them, th...

Mar 31, 20261 hr 14 minEp. 863

862: Very Little of This is Your Cat’s Fault (26 OCT 2025)

In a movie length episode Neal considers decomissioning panic rooms, why hotwiring might be a myth, how Mother Nature downgrades caterpillars, spaceship exteriors, why modern ensuites are more secure, rethinking grout, The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Philip K Dick, life in a black hole, a new bottle tops regime, landfills and airspace, silage around the world, phasing out the M word, how to walk partially around a block, personal height news, a crane’s eye view of your feet, communal beer pitchers...

Dec 26, 20251 hr 25 minEp. 862

861: Are Cartoon Eyeballs the Next Pandemic? (29 SEP 2025)

Neal looks at life lessons from the egg and spoon race, making sense of ninjas, lunatics illicitely climbing cranes, true mouth to mouth broadcasting, fostering a culture of elevator hitchhiking, built-in guitars, dishwashing at mass, harmonica terminology, Now That’s What I Call Music 16, the trouble with cartoon eyes, why an accidental dog hero is not a hero, what you’re missing about pockets, podcasts that talk literal shit, Trading Places (1983), Russia’s Space Ark, reinventing Sunday school...

Dec 26, 20251 hr 18 minEp. 861

860: How to be Happy for People Who Enjoy This (13 SEP 2025)

Neal reminisces on how a terrifying boiler house was once serene, traces the suprising number of life stages that come after old age, considers leaving your mind to science without donating your brain, makes the argument for cryogencially freezing kitchen waste and discusses hacking overnight toilet breaks for better caffeination, how Einstein’s maths addiction might have escalated, how one simple chair could transform your home life, how one sophisticated chair could transform Kill Bill Volume ...

Dec 26, 20251 hr 8 minEp. 860

859: Is Your Only Child Corrupting Your Only Dog? (25 AUG 2025)

In a feature length episode Neal defends his pronunciation of typer writer, talks you through waking up on an operating table, shows how an only child leads an only dog astray, scrutinises the practicalities of turning the other cheek, explains how your miniaturised cat experiments are driving friends away, advises on cat dialogue for screenwriters, reinvents the Apple 1 and discusses making mistakes on typewriters, living in a giant replica of your own home, Downsized (2017), Britpop songs abou...

Dec 26, 20251 hr 23 minEp. 859

858: Elite Special Forces Bin Collection (05 AUG 2025)

Neal ponders the practicalities of being Greek god of thunder, reveals why air crash survivor guilt is a good thing, worries about your supermarket trolley deposit, explains what palaleopnthologists and NASA could learn from Winston Churchill and discusses the true meaning of last meals on death row, screaming on roller coasters, hedge trimming beside live power lines from a helicoptor, tuning forks, harmonica progress, Dame Vera Lynne, oldtime anarchic BBC radio comedy, dog evolution, a childho...

Dec 26, 20251 hr 1 minEp. 858

857: Lucky Bags and Death at the Bodega (26 JUL 2025)

Neal grudgingly gives a dog some credit, issues a stark warning about video game points, considers the reported last words of Mother Teresa, prescribes a mental workout involving your bathroom window, recalls a true childhood tale of lucky bags and death at the sweet shop and discusses predictable circus routes, a 1974 Twin Towers tightrope walk, winning the lottery at birth, poker faces on Star Trek, unwarranted pokers in the home, Peter Gabriel’s Don’t Give Up with Kate Bush, Metallica’s post ...

Sep 24, 20251 hr 1 minEp. 857

856: Why Signatures Should be Assigned at Birth (17 JULY 2025)

Neal makes the case for government assigned signatures for new borns, considers how sitcom kids have become so sophisticated, explains his virtual toast rack invention and how it relates to Mary Poppins and discusses making a raw chicken asthetically pleasing, turning a parking space into a home, ordering fruit juices with an extra shot, a decade of avocado misinformation, compulsory u-turns and Margaret Thatcher, The Nine O’Clock News, Not the Nine O’Clock News, reaching Nirvana, The world of T...

Sep 24, 202557 minEp. 856

855: Your Cat’s Bar Tab and the Law (9 JULY 2025)

Neal discusses Smurfs versus Avatar, explaining ball point pens to a cat, the argument against Meccano, early childhood memories: were those nurses or aliens, hand-me-down Lego management, raising children in a void, Lego Batman, listening in July, the man who made North Korea boring, watching with your ears, the future of home decor, the nation’s luckiest KFC, where gravy belongs, true crime fans, a crematorium crime documentary, handling a sick puppy, a criminal’s vomit proxy, vomit as a calli...

Sep 24, 202559 minEp. 855

854: The Miming Submariner’s Post Apocalypse Raincheck (23 JUN 2025)

Neal discusses how to eat a spring roll, cuckoo clock apartments, how many cats an ark needs, how the Mona Lisa ended up like that, lubricated uphostery, Mr Crow from Wandarly Wagon, where America should house your national TV archive, an unfortunate first impression of Philadelphia, Mountain Dew versus stout, pelicans, puffins and penguins, saying no to Star Wars, Skellig Michael island in Star Wars, a Lego airport, why Star Trek is acceptable, miming in a prison yard, life on a submarine ark, ...

Sep 24, 202550 minEp. 854

853: One Simple Lie to Bring Out the Best in Your Doctor (01 JUN 2025)

Neal discusses whether dogs are cultural appropriators, why Dracula is science fiction, building a house inside a barn, theme park castles, pet spiders, TV dramas The Sullivans, House MD and The Good Doctor, foot deodorant, one simple lie that can bring out the best in your doctor. dog mergers, I Shouldn’t Be Alive – S04 E07: Alone in the Amazon, Inception (2010), injurious talcum powder, Little Plum (comic strip, The Beano), why The Godfather Part III (1990) is fine, understanding burglers and ...

Jun 01, 202546 min

852: Clockwork Orange Treatment for Potholers? (27 JUN 2025)

Neal discusses having something in common with Dan Rather, sidewinder glass lengths, the Mandela Effect on Special K (cereal), a memorable brush with law enforcement, one person operated toilets, finding sponsors for death sports, recreational scratching, a special sponge, remembering an old urination segment, the trouble with wheelbarrows, Hamburger Helper, back seat configurations, a new kind of tooth gap, why flying car owners are going to hate us all, why you may have to choose betwen pothol...

May 27, 202531 minEp. 852

851: The Keyboardist, the Judge and the Stenographer

Neal discusses demystifying Road Runners and Coyotes, a very bad use of a Maigret paperback, saving a Genesis keyboarist from jury duty, court stenographers versus keyboard players, flying baggage trucks and beyond, commuting on part of Ernest Shackleton’s Polar route, Indian Saints who don’t eat, pressures that come with switchng to cordials, driving in a cul-de-sac, looped video GIF labels on dashboards buttons, an unlamented childhood bicycle, red rock backdrops, wondering about tuna size, He...

May 18, 20251 hr 14 minEp. 851

850: You’re Going to Love How You Look When You’re Drinking This

Neal adds some colour to the parable of the boy who cried wolf, wonders what it’s like to run a combine harvester, tears the so-called leaping Salmon down a peg, reinvents cut-out activities in children’s comics, highlights one job missing from every school careers day and considers cave based wardrobe design, mouth based cave design, unsatisfying tree houses, whether soup is eaten or drunk, flying fishing boats, roots and foundations, letting your AI assistant clean your brain, how tow paths he...

May 12, 202551 minEp. 850

849: Back to the Living Room Before It’s Too Late

Neal “remembers” a twenty minute nuclear catastrophe on Ireland’s east coast, compares your cat to an anthropomophic Mars rover, invents the virtual hotel room, probably fails to change your mind about backpacks on trams, recounts his unique challenges as a teenage Queen collector and discusses library sandwich inhalation memories, Owls on Napster, understanding dog whistles. a terrifying bucket, movie “The Walk” (2015), sheet music for whistlers, virtual whistling, earworms in the animal commun...

May 03, 20251 hr 7 minEp. 849

848: Nobody is Impressed by your Dog Befriending Skills

Neal discusses the logistiics of handling raw chicken on bathroom visits, an experiment for your next ATM visit, workplace pneumatic tube messaging etiquette, an AI veterinary assistant versus a talking dog, a carpet-based vacation concept, improving your child’s scream accuracy, getting bitten at a sleepover, vinyl records, vinyl floor-covering, a urinal advisory for Dublin’s Blackrock Shopping Centre, this podcast in the newspapers, what replaced the dodo, making messenger birds less messy, qu...

Apr 19, 202553 minEp. 848

847: Going Nowhere Slowly

Neal discusses beaches spontaneously turning to concrete, a parent’s head replacement disclosure dilemna, a busman’s holiday in jail, the case for going nowhere slowly, alien visitor respitory concerns, home expansion slot systems, garage modules, attic rooms, defining a shed, beech house owners, parental supervision from a beach-adjacent mountain, billionairre hot air balloon bouncing, dark times on children’s TV shows, Record Breakers (BBC), Roy Castle, Roy Castle, Norris and Ross McWhirter, o...

Apr 06, 202556 minEp. 847

846: Not Too Many Ems On The Outside

Neal EXPOSES how motorists are disappearing in a secret holding pattern, MAKES the case for appetisers for a better drip feed regime, EXPLAINS how things that skip generations are never lost, SHOWS how statues of rubber things can demolish boundaries, DEVELOPS a new folding building bricklaying technique in real time, RECALLS a decade watching a boat grow in a driveway and DISCUSSES listener dog segment consumption notes, emergency landings on Street Cleaning Night, life behind your unopend eyel...

Mar 19, 20251 hrEp. 846

845: Boogeyman’s Grand Day Out

Neal offers fresh advice to parents on handling the Boogeyman. explains our primitave plateware to far future listeners, wonders why nobody talks about obelixes, argues against walking to school and discussea the wrong way to arrive at your new school, liquid desserts for visiting dignitaries, growing wheat in city streets, a disappointing school shop, The Hardy Boys and their vehicles, travel logistics on Criminal Minds, iron lungs, Joe Rogan’s sensory deprivation tank, Nick Cave’s alternative ...

Mar 06, 202543 minEp. 845

844: Navigating Self Facing Voodoo Doll Feedback Loops

Neal reveals how ducks prevented him settling in the US, uncovers your treadmill cat’s OCD hell, closes in on the surprising identity of the oligarchs of knitting, offers practical advice on self facing voodoo doll feedback loops for your active retirement, remembers The Onion print edition and discusses the sick, sick world of wireless earphones, actuaries and the Mandela Effect, fresh thinking on bus basements, taking too long to choose a hobby, a career in head stitching, Irish folklore’s Fio...

Feb 25, 202557 minEp. 844

843: Your Own Personal Ice Age

In a packed hour, Neal discusses work life balance in the American Wild West, making Spielberg’s Duel (1971) on an even lower budget, unexplained generational gaps in the wasp community, a simple device that could inadvertently cause you to speak in tongues, why we celebrate cistern noises, vomiting for the privileged, a one size fits all argument for reviving dead languages and people, how to outrun a car, Moses baskets, an international standard system for asking strangers how they are, breakf...

Feb 12, 202559 minEp. 843

842: We Need to Talk About Your Dead Arm

Neal recreates some special moments from the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. advises on talking to adults about your dead arm, wonders if you should add blood to your hydration regime, provides an overview of the human-dog-dinosaur societal overlay structure and discusses wardrobe culture, smalltalk in the information age, standout past wardrobes, a surprising life lesson from Breaking Bad, slow readers, slow watchers, Bill Hicks versus Denis Leary, boxing style weigh-ins for firefighters, Geor...

Jan 27, 202556 minEp. 842

841: Getting to the Creek

Neal considers insect consumption norms, identifies a new actor level below extras, exposes a town with a landmark brown stain, confuses the movies Stand by Me and Sleepers, remembers clsssic sketch show Sesame Street, invents a self policing public toilet cleanliness system and discusses introducing city kids to rivers and creeks, mixed messaging from a Schwartzenegger branded fly, walking school buses, why you incorrectly think you were home schooled, underground toilet memories, anti salt wai...

Jan 20, 202541 minEp. 841

840: Omnidirectional Optic Nerves and Your Dog

Neal reinvents the ensuite and consequently food ingredients labelling, evaluates modern prodding techniques, changes your mind about ghost trains and Microsoft Windows Paint, evaluates a possible alternative history of Mars, composes a special experiment for tourist excursion helicoptor pilots, tries to recall the name Andy Kauffman and the song I’ve Been to Paradise but I’ve Never Been to Me and disucusses seating arrangements in US classroom dramas, the justfication for third party forewords,...

Jan 14, 202538 minEp. 840

839: The January Test

Neal reveals what every flightless bird knows, considers the surprising pros and cons of chopsticks and cutlery, administers a very special listener test, assesses the opportunities for carving pork as a McDonald’s customer and discusses demanding more from our fingernails, a trio of Tom Hanks characters, how offices outgrow the alphabet, a land mass with windows, Hitler-related time travel ethics, 2010 as a baseline, advice for HR staff handling the conseqeunces of the opening segment, renting ...

Jan 06, 202545 minEp. 839

838: An Insom Maniacal Christmas

In a Christmas Day episode not for younger ears, Neal discusses identifying insects by smell, tage teaming citrus fruites, declaring dead weight at Customs, why ripping out entrails is a non violent act, what Australians demand of Santa, watching Star Trek: The Next Generation in black and white, margarine related TV repair memories, the trouble with police drama finales, why TV won’t let you just enjoy a plane crash, December in other hemispheres, sleigh driver regulation, the argument against ...

Dec 25, 202439 minEp. 838
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