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, 2025•46 min•Ep. 853
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 potholin...
May 27, 2025•31 min•Ep. 852
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, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 851
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, 2025•51 min•Ep. 850
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, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 849
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, 2025•53 min•Ep. 848
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, 2025•56 min•Ep. 847
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, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 846
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, 2025•43 min•Ep. 845
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, 2025•57 min•Ep. 844
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, 2025•59 min•Ep. 843
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, 2025•56 min•Ep. 842
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 TV’s greatest sketch show: classic 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...
Jan 20, 2025•41 min•Ep. 841
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, 2025•38 min•Ep. 840
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, 2025•45 min•Ep. 839
In a Christmas Day episode not for younger ears, Neal discusses identifying insects by smell, tag teaming citrus fruits, declaring dead weight at Customs, why ripping out entrails is a non violent act, what you 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 agains...
Dec 25, 2024•39 min•Ep. 838
Neal proposes a thought exercise for listeners in traffic, identifies a new use for the top of your head, explains how to listen via medical stethescope, diagnoses his audience with a phobia of bodily noises including speach and discusses Nick Cave’s Harry Potter exposure, why fire brigades study age-related temperal anomolies, how to make a K Pop band, understanding binary traffic lights, McCauley Kulkin’s former self, the conscious self in a nutshell, a weird US TV bandleader, experimenting wi...
Dec 16, 2024•50 min•Ep. 837
Neal sets out his one big problem with both Radiohead and Gilbert O’Sullivan, makes the case for traceable dog food, maps out the next evolutionary step for handwriting and discusses experimental wasp fiction, life in a hundred year old choir, chairs on trains, an innovative way to use the word Christmas, how to tell if Roy Orbison is dead, Jive Bunny, dropping dead of a car crash, page-a-day books in museums, when to stop learning, the trouble with seeing your favourite orchestra on tour, a pro...
Dec 02, 2024•48 min•Ep. 836
Neal corrects the listener’s delusions about auto pilot, illustrates the differences betwen humanoid cats and Edward Scissorhands and discusses the anatomy of a commercial earworm, understanding you Americans and your Spring Break, how songwriters think, appreciating instant mashed potato, what a thousand cavemen can achieve without typewriters, the life expectancy of a harmonica, Stevie Wonder’s name change, token tamborine use, workplaces that can’t sustain a mad drummer, choosing your dog siz...
Nov 25, 2024•33 min•Ep. 835
Neal reveals what it would take for him to name a fourth cat after a UN Secretary General, recalls the one comic book in every Christian Brothers School library and discusses Neighbourhood Watch mythology, dog anomolies on Bray Head, learning Irish by projection, things legally banned in classrooms, next door’s over-reaching attic, the song Frere Jackques , a pharmacy Advent calendar, inaminate emotional support animals, how Full House paved the way for jobsharing at the UN, logistics of hot dog...
Nov 15, 2024•42 min•Ep. 834
Neal discusses encoutering your postman in another neighbourhood, playing Dr Suess, a terrifying futuristic garage, reinventing the painted ostrich egg, Ireland’s sheep filled desert, idenfiifying a mouth’s postal address, remembering what you buried in the sand, how deserts evolve into casinos, understanding speakeasy, Stephen King’s car burial tale, what you could legitimately be giving your kids pints of at breakfast, a portrait microwave, how a dog handles a mirage of a desert, landlord teet...
Nov 07, 2024•55 min•Ep. 833
Neal looks at the presumed defacto diplomatic relationship allowing the moon to slosh our seas around, reveals which of his arms is the least interesting and discusses sailing in boiling water, mouthwash retail licensing, substitute priests, how to say mass, mouthwash as a sleep hygiene product, Richard Simmons RIP, new ways to say no, a military childhood, the trouble with flight simulators, fast food service simulators, impressionists who do other people’s sitcom characters, Phantom of the Ope...
Oct 31, 2024•47 min•Ep. 832
Neal discusses apple core cowardice, treadmills for swimming, documentaries about little Timmy falling down a well, how and why to properly record your breakfast, corporate espionage podcast snobbery, cultivating a nasal helmet in medieval times, Sunday driving and your metabolism, navigation apps for rabbits, heirlooms versus genes, generational puppet acts, The Sooty Show, working breakfasts in McDonalds, how surgeons put your leg to sleep, the truth about people who work on aeroplanes, monacl...
Oct 24, 2024•43 min•Ep. 831
Neal exposes a surprising truth about smartphone fires, considers issues of scale at a doll’s house tea party, advises on conditioning one’s fingers not to gesticulate, imagines what it’s like to have a co-host, attempts a moritorium on feces talk and discusses a house’s undergarment, what age twenty-four is in frozen pea years, handling exotic food at the North Pole, reverse engineering a yak, the Madwaves MadPlayer of the harmonica world, testing car technology on animals, yaks in soap operas,...
Oct 08, 2024•52 min•Ep. 830
In a sub-standar episode not recommended for newbies, Neal considers how to poach eggs in their shells, the logistics of sieve use for gold hunters and drugs mules, use-by dates on precious metals, podcasts for dogs, other podcasts like this, finding a use for your dog, Dante’s magic gondola, a loophole for Marc Maron guests, faking your own death as an art installation, rooms without walls, misdefining a spare room and more.
Sep 30, 2024•41 min•Ep. 829
Neal discusses what wiki editors say about you in meetings, sizes and brands of dog, understanding British Bulldog, graceful vacuum handling in a laboratory setting, what tailors do with the pins, the woodchipper in Lidl, beverageware in Terminator 2, how Lidl works, misremembering traditional supermarkets, planning your first Mona Lisa, a non-editbable encyclopedia, what MTV was, what Buggles did, what Trevor Horn does, duties of a stock footage city shopper, the trouble with far writers, anato...
Sep 19, 2024•51 min•Ep. 828
Neal invadvertently creates a bespoke music radio jingle while trying to prove a point, takes a refreshingly positive look at the Dark Ages, proposes an innovative new scam vulnerability discount, tells his future self some home truths and discusses understanding The Beachcombers, belch symmetry, how radio forgot what hello means, Arthur Guinness’ Oprah Winfrey moment, when the vet was your family mechanic, Henry Ford versus Dr Kellogg’s brother versus Dr Kellogg, planning your family’s horse an...
Sep 09, 2024•41 min•Ep. 827
Neal uncovers a massive parallel between Bruce Willis’ The Sixth Sense character and 1960s Muppets precurser Sam and Friends , proposes an ingenius new type of mnemonics that will change your life and discusses the practicalities of shooting yourself in the foot, being obsessed with Sesame Street, inadequate media explanation of kneecapping, being unimpressed by The Snufflelopacus, how to test a documentary idea, how to use a single solitary bar stool in a crowd, the argument against bathroom wi...
Sep 02, 2024•59 min•Ep. 826
Neal discusses Roald Dahl’s shed boundaries, demolishing and redeveloping a mountain, how sculptors manage Phil Lynott and Luke Kelly’s hair, designing a bridge over troubled waters, Henson-Disney’s post merger pre death plans, the trouble with the new generation of kittens, the house of detention, when to use Bob Dylan, a feature request for the sun, life as a pocket torch owner, Fatima children, Children of Lir, what swans know, how I spent Freddie Mercury’s last year, Capetown’s so-called Tab...
Jul 24, 2024•39 min•Ep. 826
Neal delivers an overview of the second hand sock market, considers how a method actor tackles Superman, wonders whether scalding the roof of your mouth would soften your Cs and discusses the presumptiousness of Stan and Olli e (2018), songs from T he Producers (1967) , how Steve Jobs made phone screems seem real, the trouble with real crime docu-dramas, digital de-aging versus hair dye, how to watch sci-fi, staff literacy on Star Trek: The Next Generation, defending Chaplin from you Americans, ...
Jul 13, 2024•42 min•Ep. 824
