Neal O’Carroll spins hilarious stream of consciousness humour monologues fueled by untethered imagination, unchecked absurdity, generic energy drinks and a unique twist on Irish wit and dry humour in this bespoke sit down comedy programme. Established 2006.

Into Your Head
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Podcast Overview
Neal O’Carroll spins hilarious stream of consciousness humour monologues fueled by untethered imagination, unchecked absurdity, generic energy drinks and a unique twist on Irish wit and dry humour in this bespoke sit down comedy programme. Established 2006.
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1/26/2024
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Recent Episodes

July 8, 2026
Show 886: Twenty Years of Tripe (With an Asterix)
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Neal marks the twentieth anniversary (with an asterix) of Into Your Head podcast, recalls the aardvark plumbing wars, warns against leaving a fan on for burglars, looks at whether a dog can walk itself on a leash, remembers with disgust trying rabbit lasagne, wonders what a boudoir of commerce is, takes the Moon down a peg or two, advises on what to do if you drop cash on the pavement, goes over the practicalities of multi course breakfasts, reviews the first Seasonal Affective Disorder case on Mars, tries to grasp neighbourhood tree boundary etiquette, ditto downstairs toilet bidet norms, changes his mind about mezzanine levels, speculates about whether Stephen King is forced to write double-space and looks at a dog’s rights in the civil courts, dog licensing versus TV licensing, the pitfalls of marking your banknotes, using an attic for parking, NASA’s mobile quarantine unit, the Angelus on TV, reinventing the take-out coffee, disease outbreaks in procedural dramas, the show Doc, swapping a astronaut out for one who looks the same, why cat burglars are called that, toy cat breeds, incorrect opinions about Dublin’s Georgian architecture, shorthand notepad sizes, refill pads, wasted space under a model railway table, underground trains versus rabbits, natural dog food with recognisable body parts, paw versus foot and more. </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">VISIT <a href="https://IntoYourHead.ie">IntoYourHead.ie</a> for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.</p>

June 17, 2026
Show 885: How to Synthesise a Blank Look
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Neal shares everything he knows about counting sheep, explains infinity pools and eternity pools, evaluates the modern hermit, wonders why office sitcoms exist, re-evaluates everything we know about dragons, finally understands why youngsters need emoticons, goes over a key difference between paper aeroplanes and paper ships, guesses at what archeologist do when they tire of digging, addresses people listening in dungeons, plots the next steps for a typing trillionaire, issues a start warning about wearing shoes, recalls an afternoon spent with security at a Toronto airport, reveals the one topic that makes his face itchy, makes the case for dog-faced commercial aircraft, asks if your weekend is proprietary information and looks at creating music on an office keyboard, Paul McCartney’s misery at having written Yesterday, a song that goes Inch by inch Row by row, a unique nativity play experience, an outbreak of fidgeting, what happens after school bullies take your tablet, how to prevent handmedown clothes shame and more.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">VISIT <a href="https://IntoYourHead.ie">IntoYourHead.ie</a> for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.</p>

June 8, 2026
Show 884: Misdemeanour Gang Tattoos And The Trolley Problem
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Neal addresses the perennial question of whether sugar is a vegetable, asks if dogs can get spoken word ear worms from podcasts, flags a potential Kermit situation in the world of stop motion animation, recalls a hellish era when Irish adolescents couldn’t access music, advocates giving soup eaters a handicap, ponders life in a prison misdemeanours gang, looks at how to apply your crossword solving skills to real world problems, goes over the classic trolley problem with a local overlay, changes his own mind in real time about spaghetti hoops, explores what happens when a cat orders soy milk in a bar, compares the words Lidl and Aldi for usability, wonders how much of bathroom smartphone use is waiting to vomit, advises on what to say when asked if you’re living living at home, recommends off-road shopping carts for Lidl Arklow, assesses where Shithead falls on the derogatory names scale, makes the argument against reusing first and second names, recalls unknowingly performing double entry bookkeeping at the same venue as Peter Gabriel era Genesis, recounts the first time hearing an American say herb, tries to count the guitar players in The Beatles, offers some advice for true crime fans, asks whether angst laden teens were better served by Dublin’s bench hogging poet or Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, exposes the dangers of getting a prolapsed rectum from public benches, assesses the ongoing reinvention of the bicycle and why the next step must be the wheel, uncovers a unappetising connection between trouser presses and french style baguettes and more.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">MENTIONED – Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake<br />by Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">VISIT <a href="https://IntoYourHead.ie">IntoYourHead.ie</a> for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.</p>
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