Into Your Head
by Neal O'Carroll
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Thinking Too Much About Heavy Lead Pencils
Thinking Too Much About Heavy Lead Pencils
About this podcast
Neal O'Carroll spins stream of consciousness humour monologues, peppered with nonsensical opinions, deadpan lectures, tangent after absurd tangent and a unique twist on Irish wit, in this completely improvised indie Irish comedy podcast now in it's third decade. No fixed schedule, despite what your app may claim.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 482 episodes
- Thinking Too Much About Heavy Lead Pencils · 49 min · Episode 899Neal worries about self incrimination as a burglar, exposes the sinister world of ivy enthusiasts, makes the case for shunning Darwin Award obsessives, deconstructs your child's…
- You'll Believe Owls Can Fly · 54 min · Episode 898Neal addresses listeners in juvenile delinquent facilities, considers the plight of long time Sesame Street viewers, assesses societal attitudes to bathroom breaks, highlights…
- Ten Inches Above Right Knee is the Global Standard · 1 h 3 min · Episode 897NOTE: The words accidentally drowned out by the opening music are: "or Billy Joel fans are very law abiding citzens." Neal wonders what role screaming plays in training pilots…
- See How the Other Sixty-Nine Seventieths Live · 51 min · Episode 896Neal explains why burial at sea is nonsense, fantasises about ambidextrous drug deals, judges people who get a barber shop shave, goes over some tattoo myths, considers a…
- Show 895: Alphabetical Postal Rounds Make ZERO Sense · 57 min · Episode 895Neal considers intrusion into famous artists' privacy, your pet's attitude to nighttime, what constitutes a street, I Seen (sic) the Lights go Down on Broadway, the first paper…
- Show 894: Sundae Incident Boston October 1989 You Know Who You Are · 1 h 12 min · Episode 894Neal looks at how to count half siblings, unobtrusively clearing your throat, why huskies think they're Superman, Michael Keaton, Birdman (2014), a sundae-related childhood…
- Show 893: Something Innocuous in the Sitcom Credits · 51 min · Episode 893Neal recounts his latest tongue injury and what it means for this episode, questions the wisdom of waking Maggie up with a song, imagines what it's like to lose at boxing and…
- Show 892: Let's Normalise Briefcase Schoolbags For a Decade · 58 min · Episode 892Neal wonders how Dougie Howser's career would have gone with a face tattoo, advises on recognising a fake glasses and moustache, sets out the argument for rectangular coins…
- Show 891: Why Crickets Don't Sweat (If Crickets Don't Sweat) · 58 min · Episode 891Neal 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…
- Show 890: Soliciting Your Reflection's Approval · 38 min · Episode 890Neal 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…
- Show 889: Shallow as the Spoon on Your Swiss Army Knife · 47 min · Episode 889Neal offers tips on scrubbing in for raw poultry prep, critiques the photography choices of the Andes cannibal plane crash survivors, imagines how a horse would fare in a school…
- Show 888: When Should You Season Your Cat Food? · 52 min · Episode 888Neal questions the viability of musically gifted twins, wonders about pet bear taxidermy, shows how to guard against identify theft with your mind, warns about weaponised weather…
- Show 887: Walk the Four Minute Mile, Don't Run It · 53 min · Episode 887Neal makes the case for casting music to your unoccupied car, shows how to convince your plastic surgeon there's something worth saving, asks if the bakers's dozen is nonsense…
- Show 886: Twenty Years of Tripe (With an Asterisk) · 1 h 5 min · Episode 886- Into Your Head #podcast #podcasts #comedy #absurdist #improvised #comedypodcasts
- Show 885: How to Synthesise a Blank Look · 56 min · Episode 885Neal shares everything he knows about counting sheep, evaluates the modern hermit, wonders why office sitcoms exist, re-evaluates everything we know about dragons, finally…
- Show 884: Misdemeanour Gang Tattoos And The Trolley Problem · 1 h 13 min · Episode 884- Into Your Head #podcast #absurdist #humour #Irish #comedy #podcasters #streamofconsciousness
- Show 883: The Argument Against Toothache · 1 h 5 min · Episode 883- Into Your Head #podcast #absurdist #humour #Irish #comedy #podcasts #improv
- Show 882: Your Homing Pigeons Have Stockholm Syndrome · 1 h 1 min · Episode 882#absurdist #humour #podcasts #Irish #comedypodcasts
- Show 881: Why Pet Snake Owners Are Like That · 58 min · Episode 881#absurdist #humour #podcasts #Irish #comedypodcasts
- Show 880: While Eggheads Sweat Over a Replica Paper Cup · 54 min · Episode 880#absurdist #humour #podcasts #Irish #comedypodcasts
- Show 879: Edible Cigarette Addiction and Other First World Problems · 1 h 10 min · Episode 879#absurdist #humour #podcasts #Irish #comedypodcasts
- Show 878: Freshers Week at the Finishing School · 51 min · Episode 878Neal takes the so-called grilled cheese sandwich down a peg or two, recommends a new way to use toothpaste, explains why it's someone else's turn to watch the news now, asks if…
- Show 876: Edible Cow Helmets FTW · 1 h 2 min · Episode 876Neal explains how it's possible to be of sound mind yet not think about buffet breakfasts much despite your name being Buffet, and looks at the armpits of the leg world, the…
- Show 875: Travelling With Your Pet in Stasis · 1 h 7 min · Episode 875Neal 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…
- Show 874: You're Nobody Without Opposable Thumbs, Supposedly · 1 h 15 min · Episode 874Neal wonders how dog rehab works, goes over what happens when you leave hospital without clothes, documents a decades old fake cinema facade with which you might identify…
- Show 872: How to Achieve Omnipresence by Sixty Five · 51 min · Episode 872SLIGHTLY CRACKLY SOUND IN PLACES. Neal considers how to talk to your child about Devil Gate Drive, explains how the bow and arrow were the Dark Ages equivalent of a kid with…
- Show 871: Bivouac in Industrial Fridge or Night in Lincoln Bedroom? · 1 h 10 min · Episode 871Neal addreses the perennial Kermit problem, exposes the diplomatic minefield of haunted White House guest rooms, sets out the considerable differences between smokers and cat…
- Show 870: Are You Not Not Not Not Unentertained? · 58 min · Episode 870Neal 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…
- Show 869: Commuting to an Island on a Lake on an Island on a Lake · 1 h 0 min · Episode 869Neal comes to some realisations about Metallica and Chevy Chase, goes over a personal experiment involving TikTok, reveals the most depressing movie ending ever and looks at…
- Show 868: Like Fanta But From a Dog · 52 min · Episode 868Neal considers a particularly violent fruit, raw milk enthusiasts, Mercury retrograde versus holy water, an appalling game called Punch Buggy, Steve Martin's several careers…
- Show 867: Beyond Here Be Dragons, Signed The Colonel · 57 min · Episode 867Apologies for more muffled voice than usual, due to minor mouthal injury. Neal staunchly defends the business practices of J. Wellington Wimpy, explains why your dog would prefer…
- Show 866: The Impenetrable 3D Chess of Punching Down Through a Sunroof · 1 h 38 min · Episode 866In a movie length episode Neal assesses Warren Buffet's breakfast habits, wonders if lickable screens could take some workload off his dying retinas, belatedly learns what RV…
- Show 865: Just Fill Up On Nonsense · 1 h 13 min · Episode 865Despite some sub par sound quality in parts, Neal proposes an innovative Star Trek spin off, wonders if dogs are powered by four legs or two, disambiguates Whoopee! comic…
- Show 864: The Label Literal Monster Created in Frankenstein's Lab Carries Baggage · 1 h 23 min · Episode 864Neal examines the logistics of running away to join a circus, wonders how Einstein adapted to American breakfasts, considers the sociology of onster communes, creates a case…
- Show 863: The Pelican Brie is Not a Typo · 1 h 13 min · Episode 863Neal reluctantly calls for a boycott of mezzanine levels, reveals what microchip factories can teach us about mouths, vigorously defends those who call human children kids…
- Show 862: Very Little of This is Your Cat's Fault · 1 h 24 min · Episode 862In a movie length episode Neal considers decomissioning panic rooms, why hotwiring might be a myth, how Mother Nature downgrades caterpillars, spaceship exteriors, why modern…
- Show 861: Are Cartoon Eyeballs Incubating the Next Pandemic? · 1 h 18 min · Episode 861Neal 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…
- Show 860: How to be Happy for People Who Enjoy This · 1 h 7 min · Episode 860Neal reminisces on how a terrifying boiler house was once serene, traces the suprising number of life stages that come after old age, considers leaving your mind to science…
- Show 859: Is Your Only Child Corrupting Your Only Dog? · 1 h 23 min · Episode 859In 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…
- Show 858: Elite Special Forces Bin Collection · 1 h 1 min · Episode 858Neal 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…
- Show 857: Lucky Bags and Death at the Bodega · 1 h 1 min · Episode 857Neal 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…
- Show 856: Why Signatures Should be Assigned at Birth · 57 min · Episode 856Neal makes the case for government assigned signatures for new borns, considers how sitcom kids have become so sophisticated, explains his virtual toast rack invention and how it…
- Show 855: Your Cat's Bar Tab and the Law · 59 min · Episode 855Neal discusses Smurfs versus Avatar, explaining ball point pens to a cat, the argument against Meccano, early childhood memories: were those nurses or aliens, hand-me-down Lego…
- Show 854: The Miming Submariner's Post Apocalypse Raincheck · 50 min · Episode 854Neal discusses how to eat a spring roll, cuckoo clock apartments, how many cats an ark needs, how the Mona Lisa ended up like that, lubricated uphostery, Mr Crow from Wandarly…
- Show 853: One Simple Lie to Bring Out the Best in Your Doctor · 46 min · Episode 853Neal 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…
- Show 852: Clockwork Orange Treatment for Potholers? · 31 min · Episode 852Neal 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…
- Show 851: The Keyboardist, the Judge and the Stenographer · 1 h 13 min · Episode 851Neal 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…
- Show 850: You're Going to Love How You Look When You're Drinking This · 51 min · Episode 850Neal 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…
- Show 849: Back to the Living Room Before It's Too Late · 1 h 7 min · Episode 849Neal "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…
- Show 848: Nobody is Impressed by your Dog Befriending Skills · 53 min · Episode 848Neal 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…
