Into Your Head

57:53

Show 891: Why Crickets Don’t Sweat (If Crickets Don’t...

Into Your Head ·

2026/08/19

Neal explores the delicate diplomacy of carrying a motorbike side car passenger, spends some time addressing the bee keepers in the audience, illustrates how a cat handles a passive aggressive bar man, advises on minimising your total lifetime camera exposure, wonders if dog whistles and cricket noises work the same way, makes the case for calling trouser legs sleeves, wonders if crickets sweat and why it doesn’t kill them, recalls a surprising wildlife experience triggered by Beavis and

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38:03

Show 890: Soliciting Your Reflection’s Approval

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2026/08/10

Neal dismantles an offensive myth surrounding Conan O’Brien’s head, thinks a little too much about reservoirs, ponders how to choose a kitchen sieve for your bathroom, recalls a memory of a horse’s head on a stick, offers wardrobe advice for news readers, asks why you’re still paying someone to touch your head and touches upon how to talk to your reflection, faces on cave paintings and Mr Men characters, the show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, why you’re ironing

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1:05:05

Show 883: The Argument Against Toothache

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2026/06/01

Neal explains the flight simulator windscreen wiper dilemma, bemoans the poor design of the human lower skull, wonders if it’s lawful for dogs to eat themselves, compares Schubert’s The Trout to Masterchef Junior, recalls early childhood experiences of cutlery and daisies, considers why you’d play pitch and putt on a full size golf simulator, frets about his motives for raising a hand in an RDS exam hall three decades ago, wonders why you’d start a city near a swamp,

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1:01:31

Show 882: Your Homing Pigeons Have Stockholm Syndrome

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2026/05/26

Neal compares your child to the Mona Lisa, throws a spanner in the works of the stopped clock twice a day cliche, reveals why a TV free family would pivot to compulsory viewing targets, wonders if homing pigeons suffer from Stockholm Syndrome, tries to understand porridge people, recalls the post-war heyday of sugary cereals, tells how to distinguish tea from coffee, proposes cutting out the middle man for manure-based plant nutrients (but it’s not what you think), changes your mind about your

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45:46

Show 877: Flushable Doc Leaves are NOT the Answer

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2026/04/12

Neal imposes a temporary self ban on dog anatomy talk, tracks TV’s most misleading puppet housing depiction, considers the downside of commercial breaks on baby monitors, asks if the uncultured can enjoy the movie Whiplash (2014), changes your mind about prison exercise yards, warns of the mortal risks of foot washing, gives you an new appreciation of empty stairwells, recalls the snobbery surrounding Edward Scissorhands (1990), explains why grown-ups should not watch movies, wonders about a

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1:23:22

Show 859: Is Your Only Child Corrupting Your Only Dog?

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2025/08/25

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 about

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1:01:24

Show 858: Elite Special Forces Bin Collection

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2025/08/05

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 palaeonthologists 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 childhood

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1:01:17

Show 857: Lucky Bags and Death at the Bodega

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2025/07/28

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

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58:40

843: Your Own Personal Ice Age

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2025/02/12

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, breakfast

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43:24

831: Cultivating a Non Hereditary Nasal Helmet

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2024/10/24

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, monacle

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52:30

830: What's in a Yak?

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2024/10/08

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,

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42:19

824: Method Actor's Superman

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2024/07/13

eal gives 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 Ollie (2018), songs from The 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, why smells

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49:21

820: Talking Cat Cuss Therapy

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2024/06/16

Neal examines what we know about farm animal cravngs, contemplates career progression in a firm of guitarists, reimagines Sinéad O'Connor's pope photo protest (tasteful), exposes the restaurant toothpick scam, and discusses humanely expelling a wasp, why movie trailors shouldn’t be free, recreational self injury (non-psychotic), rib geneology, taking the weight off your hands, comparable dog segments on other podcasts, guitar anatomy and calcium, how stage magicians find a balance, standing desks

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47:23

818: Punch in the Face or More Genesis?

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2024/06/01

Neal discusses black boxes in popular culture, a role for camels in health spas, TV casket reunions, ambidextrous banking, a foot-related tip for smokers, a cat's analyses of the songs of Genesis, wishful thinking about superjet lounges, recording off TV in 2024, songs about administrative work, a cat's new light on Peter Gabriel's career phases, telling other people what their point is, an alarming decline in brand-name toilet paper, why losing pens is a sign of intelligence, cold sore watch,

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51:45

817: Warning - Hermit Crabs from the Outset

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2024/05/26

Pardon the slightly odd sound in places, due to misadventrue. Neal exposes the abhorrent life of the cranberry sauce obsessive, remebers a disturbing mass produced heart surgery portrait and discusses whiskey in sit-comes, two very different ways to appreciate crabs, why dogs’ mouths are impractical, Stephen King’s so called stand, a bus tour of nondescript houses, the cost of hand washing, skipping rope philosphy via Black Mirror, the problem with fudge, how children stole cycling, decanting

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54:43

Show 812: The IRA and Everest

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2024/03/07

Neal takes an objective look at Hansel and Gretel and discusses the trouble with heroin, basement-attic philosophy, the IRA on Everest, the argument against thought experiments, broken leg mysteries, the rainy day myth, advice for News Junkies, Einstein's dog equation, dog narratives versus dog stories, how a trained actor drinks piss, declaring garden weed to the authorities, pisswaffles, the stroopwaffel era of this podcast (circa 2007), reforming how we name our children, pre-registering your

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1:10:03

Show 811: How to Win BIG in the Confession Box

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2024/02/25

Neal discusses Bivouacs, shoes in radio dramas, traversing North Korea, how to talk to your child about podcasting, the phrase teaching your grandmother how to suck eggs, urinal troughs on trains, inventing the commuter picnic, cartoons about puppets, attitudes to scarecrows, curing the listener's pencil sickness, major life lesson from Man Versus Food, how a bishop moves in Chess, Worzel Gummage (ITV), alternate universe binary code, winning in the confessional, Muppet Babies format confusion, a

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1:05:47

Show 810: The Littlest Hobo and the Leprosy Bell

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2024/02/17

Neal discusses things to consider when falling to Earth, the impenetrable mechanics of swatting a fly, victim-blaming a fly, nondescriptness, a dog's attempts to line it's stomach, why the Littlest Hobo should learn better posture, why dinosaurs could have been pets, assessing the moon's flammability, a fly relates to Billy Joel's No Man's Land, how air crash investigators measure customer satisfaction, the difference between a lighthouse and the sun, the role of rear view mirrors in space travel

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1:09:48

Show 809: And the Elevator Seal Maintenance Dog you...

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2024/02/03

Neal discusses explaining Pink Floyd to a cat, understanding the Middle East, how parrots work, cars that are very wide and very short, how to dress a performing seal, Chevies, levees, levies, Daewoo, the building layout in Cheers, imagining what it's like to have undiagnosed haemorrhoids, advice for U.S. homeowners, Led Zeppelin's creative process, using local language on the podcast, a non-unionised dog, a unionised dog, proof my brain exists, a fraudulent dog, determining what the listener wants

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1:00:44

Show 808: My Trunk, My Choice

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2024/01/26

Neal presents a new original Quentin Tarantino dialogue about a bank heist of a bulding that once housed Robin Island jail (tasteful), and discusses assisting an elephant with self exploration, a bland thing that you're sucking on all day, mapping your face, addressing the far-future listener as ancestor, a non-corporeal Maître D’ versus a cat, Logan’s Run (1976) for fish, podcasts versus comic books, a French dining experience, how I imagine you drive a car, a concienctious elephant's data

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