Into Your Head

In an hour culminating in an elightening explanation, using the story of his recently departed mother’s 1950s or early 1960s Atlantic crossing, of how silence works, Neal discusses why animals need to become gardeners, your chances of getting a pharmacist to sell you tea or paracetemol or cocaine, the movie “Downsizing”, quicksand on a playing field, the pros and cons of having Anthony Hopkins as your family doctor, how cats buy rounds, the folly of wine tasting, Robin Williams, Robbie Williams, an over-empowered sweet shop proprietor, the philosophy of characters who exist only in a podcaster’s imagination, an old zoological gardens song, how The Beatles’ new song Now and Then has advanced this podcast, and more.

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Neal discusseses the imaginary listener’s secret existential crisis, approximating the taste of grass for the discerning diner, a new way to measure your height, whether crosswords count as relaxation, changing atitudes to chimneys, what’s under your face, the first humans ever to see a bridge, canal tow-path horse height issues, harmonica design mysteries, Lovely Daaaaaaaaaay versus a barking barman, canal tow path issues, demons in undergound systems, a horse’s head versus a railway bridge, impressing a giraffe with our bar licensing system, how giraffes pat you on the head, Lovely Daaaaaaaaaay versus a barking barman, what happens when two “Two cats walk into a bar” stories walk into a bar and more.

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Neal discusses what happens to your child if they listen to this, what your cat does to feel alive, how to organise a legalised crime purchase regime, reporting future cold cases, Demolition Man (1993), prepping your child for an era of burning and drowning, how to row your dog, Dinasaur versus Alien, an horrific nursery rhyme. forty years of non-violent teaching, a tonne of bricks versus a tonne of blessings, understanding shoe leather, a brief overview of flies in popular culture, the movie that wasn’t about the fly (1997) (NOT The Fly (1996)), a pact with the listener regarding the papacy, sourcing snake oil, is it okay to laugh at a dog and more.

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Please beware: These are very early vintage shows from a podcast that evolved gradually over 18+ years and 800+ episodes and sounds very different today. If you’re new to Into Your Head, please try my later shows first.

Tonight’s topics include: Calculating the average listener, Exceling in music and hair, Acapello humming from my past, Fake folk music, The man who ate apples while moving, Cats and mice as a story-embellishment, Why virtual pets must be mortal, Charlie the lucky idiot, Cloud cuckoo land, Imaginary people, Avoiding axe murderers by text, Threatening a paperclip, Puddles of pee,Delusions about magnetic murder and Terminators, {Vintage material: Let’s blow into something, Our local crocadile hunter, Digestive biscuits, Inter-species nutrition, Inter-species marriage, Related by cat marriage, New rules for bank officials, Living with a fourth dimension, A makeshift holodeck, The new voiceover guy, Naming things after Karl Marx, The Definite Article}, Interupting my vintage self, Conlcusion of the paperclip incident, My President Bush lifestyle. Music: “Twinkle Twinkle My Guitar” by Dilbrent. Use restricted under the following Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Generic which can be viewed at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ All other music composed in-house. Additional voiceovery stuff thanks Lockjaw and Dustin (TipYourHat.com).

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