ow porn scripts get made, Cosmetic testing on vegetables, perspiration technology, how to approach a traffic cop, the late Glen Acton explains why moss-gathering is under-rated, how to make a drama out of a brutal axe murder, teaching kids how to handle monkey nuts, milk in chocolate bars in bars and more. With your host and humble proprietor Neal from Ireland.
Oct 07, 2012•42 min•Ep. 625
Neal discusses being a number in a bar, stoicism on TV news, exploring beyond the North Pole, the principles of caffeine management, how music and books work and more, attempts a mashup of Stevie Wonder song I Wish with some Eminem thing or other, and a bit of the Will Smith Wild Wild West soundtrack, then concludes by leaving the listener with some empowering thoughts to survive the weekend.
Sep 27, 2012•32 min•Ep. 624
Neal performs a song about delegation in the postal service and discusses souls versus mugs, how cloud computing may cause murders, using zebras to teach road safety to children, the Irish Jim Henson – Eugene Lambert, biblical beards, the average monkey stroke human and more. There’s also an open letter to Sir Anthony Hopkins about cannibalism.
Sep 25, 2012•27 min•Ep. 623
Neal discusses the problem with binary coffee, Professor Stephen Hawkins’s fast food franchise, Walt Disney’s suspended animation, whether Hitler had cats, serving alcohol in zoological gardens and more, and performs a thought control experiment on the listener.
Sep 23, 2012•29 min•Ep. 622
Neal completely reinvents the crossword again, explains how to pluck a pheasant and discusses prying guns from dead hands, menu evidence bags, smell punching, potato profiteering, why buckets should be seen and not heard, how to inject new words into society and more.
Sep 18, 2012•27 min•Ep. 621
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.
Sep 16, 2012•29 min•Ep. 620
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.
Sep 13, 2012•30 min•Ep. 619
Another episode of Into Your Head podcast.
Sep 11, 2012•34 min•Ep. 618
Another episode of Into Your Head podcast.
Sep 09, 2012•31 min•Ep. 617
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.
Sep 06, 2012•32 min•Ep. 616
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.
Sep 04, 2012•36 min•Ep. 615
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.
Sep 02, 2012•36 min•Ep. 614
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.
Aug 30, 2012•28 min•Ep. 613
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.
Aug 28, 2012•29 min•Ep. 612
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.
Aug 26, 2012•29 min•Ep. 611
Neal discusses, among many other things, getting NASA union rights for every human being on Earth, and why that might be a bad thing.
Aug 23, 2012•31 min•Ep. 610
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 and their attitudes to bones, defining a glove puppet and more.
Aug 21, 2012•29 min•Ep. 609
Another episode of Into Your Head podcast.
Jul 24, 2012•33 min•Ep. 608
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. what happes when two further cats walk into a bar, the imminent removal of new house magnolia and more.
Jul 22, 2012•32 min•Ep. 607
Another episode of Into Your Head podcast.
Jul 19, 2012•41 min•Ep. 606
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.
Jul 17, 2012•29 min•Ep. 605
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.
Jul 15, 2012•27 min•Ep. 604
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.
Jul 12, 2012•30 min•Ep. 603
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 more.
Jul 10, 2012•28 min•Ep. 601
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.
Jul 08, 2012•29 min•Ep. 601
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.
Jul 05, 2012•30 min•Ep. 600
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.
Jul 03, 2012•32 min•Ep. 599
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.
Jul 01, 2012•25 min•Ep. 599
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.
Jun 28, 2012•30 min•Ep. 597
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.
Jun 26, 2012•31 min