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Into Your Head

Into Your Head

Neal O Carroll
Comedy, Society & Culture

When dry-witted Irish sage, acquired taste underachieving amateur humourist, socially awkward practically unheard-of legally blind cat obsessive and husband Neal O'Carroll ingests a litre of generic energy drinks, a transformation occurs. There emerges a taurine-tongued purveyor of madcap monologues, fantastical tales, comical tirades, nonsensical yet impressively argued opinions, ludicrious lectures, copious Two Cats walk into a Bar stories and lately, an enthusiastic cheerleader for a bespoke new pronunciation of the word dog. Every segment is begun with no idea how the first sentence will end, never mind what the subject, if any, will be. Partly inspired by classic radio comedy Just a Minute, Into Your Head is a one-of-a-kind stream of conciousness comedy podcast by Neal from Ireland, and a creative method honed over 18 years and 800 episodes. Writing in the third party for some reason, O'Carroll insists the first five hundred episodes are apalling drivel. It is only in later years that the drivel has matured into whatever you want to call this. Starting in the early 2000s, his ludicrous process was used to write hundreds of rambling nonsense humour columns under the brands Newsburp* and later Neal's Belch. These included the "Two cats walk into a bar" stories which would become a mainstay of the podcast. Next came a dialogue-heavy yet completely unplanned webcomic Matchstick Cats and, in 2006, the first cringeworthy attempts at a podcast. Then came eighteen years of podcasting, unless you don't count the seven year interlude between 2016 and 2023. Which I suppose is reasonable. Anyway, good morning. *No connection to fellow Irish comedy podcast Newsburp, which later acquired that domain.

842 - VINTAGE IYH – 418: Thursday’s Temporarily Daily Breakfast Show (circa July 2011)
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  • 842 - VINTAGE IYH – 418: Thursday’s Temporarily Daily Breakfast Show (circa July 2011)

    This is a previous era 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 first.current episodes first. Neal channels the spirit of Ronald Reagan and discusses the legalities of threatening hot-dog vendors, Daffy Duck being in the same Universe as David Letterman, walls through history, medical qualifications of hot dog vendors, that movie with Robert DeNiro where the kids killed the street vendor with his trolley, determining whether something needed to be [rest of description lost]

    Fri, 01 Jul 2011 - 21min
  • 841 - VINTAGE IYH – 360: An Appeal for Common Sense

    This is a previous era 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 first.

    In which Neal discusses old school kettles, prolonging the half-life of an apple, puncturing camels, cats in the emergency services, excess regulation of dog-petting, how fire was discovered, how early archaeologists passed the time, crisp sandwiches and more, and climaxes with an impassioned plea for the return of common sense.

    Sat, 08 Jan 2011 - 11min
  • 840 - VINTAGE IYH – 355: Celebrity Skull Padding

    This is a previous era 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 first.

    Sat, 04 Dec 2010 - 10min
  • 839 - VINTAGE IYH – 231: Second Hotel Trilogy – Parts VII through X

    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 first. 2nd Hotel Trilogy – Parts VIII through X Excuse the variable sound quality, but here are more recent recordings from the comfort of a hotel room somewhere in Ireland. More to come over in the next few days.

    and more.

    Sun, 22 Nov 2009 - 12min
  • 838 - VINTAGE IYH – 229: Second Hotel Trilogy – Parts I through IV

    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 first.episodes first. 2nd Hotel Trilogy – Parts I through IV Excuse the variable sound quality, but here are some recent recordings from the comfort of a hotel room somewhere in Ireland. More to come over in the next few days. And traditional shows will be back in a couple of weeks, with a brand new studio and schedule!

    and more.

    Fri, 20 Nov 2009 - 17min
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