Into Your Head

Neal reviews his list of helpful animal TV shows with surprising additions, illuminates the double life of the consultant surgeon, looks at the pros and cons of taking pets through Customs in stasis, explores pre-surgery bathing, considers how Australians feel about how we feel about their popular culture, reveals why he seldom speaks his own name on this show, explains why you must never cut your dog’s tail off even when flying, exposes a possible synergy between end times preppers and

Neal addreses the perennial Kermit problem, exposes the diplomatic minefield of haunted White House guest rooms, sets out the considerable differences between smokers and cat owners, looks at the practicalities of camping and installing igloos in industrial fridge freezers and discusses cold brew coffee and beer, Pigs in Space, dogs in space, understanding space rockets, moving Lincoln’s ghost, childhood fear of Dublin’s Powerscourt Townhouse Shopping Centre, situation rooms, fictional

Neal critiques Superman’s flying and rescue techniques, offers strategies for baby bird flying lessons, wonders how slaves got promoted to gladiators, looks at how Hollywood’s need for PG certs curtailed snack design, considers communion wafer strategies, uncovers what coin operated toy cars quietly taught us, shares his special use for double yellow lines as a vision impaired pedestrian, contemplates working with Robert de Niro while he’s a boxer and discusses watching things

Apologies for more muffled voice than usual, due to minor mouthal injury. Neal staunchly defends the business practices of J. Wellington Wimpy, eplains why your dog would prefer you didn’t drink from puddles, uncovers parallels between The Truman Show (1998) and Elvis Presley, looks at parking arrangements on car ferries, reveals his childhood cordory trouser hack and discusses full length front car seats, emperors getting new clothes, choose your own adventure books, the future of half man

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,

Please beware: These are early incarnations of a podcast that’s evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different now. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows (https://www.intoyourhead.ie/later-shows-500-to-present/) first.License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)  – It is mandatory to reproduce this attribution for each episode: “Neal O’Carroll

Fellow podcaster and friend of the show Brian Jude stands in for Neal, hosting and producing a fun alternative take on Into Your Head. Some of you know BRIAN from his works, including THE BRIAN JUDE SHOW at BRIANJUDESHOW.blogspot.com and the eponymous @BRIANJUDE Twitter feed BRIAN JUDE also acts, teaches,...

Original descriptions: Not the usual run-of-the-mill show. If you’re new here, start at no. 118 instead. This is a special episode of Into Your Head, in which we… it’s difficult to explain. Just listen. Thanks to Ruben: RubenerdShow.com