Into Your Head

Neal 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 aeroplanes,pressing buttons on a piano, revisiting Schubert's trout era, Frère Jacques, combining music theory with French linguistics, growing up in the previous century, how to buy fish, delivering post in alphabetical order, ...

Neal 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 incident, movie physics, the trouble with vigilantes in bat costumes, the case for deep fried bat wings, what's a normal disease for a dog, skull acoustics, rabies, scabies, Mad Cow Disease, Data's cat, the trouble with doorbell app...

Neal 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 wrestling, rethinks a childhood pastime of squashing people like bugs, explains why learning to count never ends, wonders about single camera sitcoms and boxing matches, uncovers a hare and tortoise battery conundrum, considers po...

Neal 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, imagines how a King Charles Dog could wreck stamp collecting, explains why a spare bedroom can never be a spare surgery, advises on scrubbing your mouth, considers the impracticalities of a global tribe of cat owners, proposes a re...

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...

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 character...

Neal 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 gymnasium, questions Switzerland's branded pocket weaponry monopoly, goes over the perennial flying car branding problem, ditto the unsolved problem of dipped headlights in the air,, demands a correction to car seat terminology...

Neal 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 smalltalk, decides where a proposed World Highway should start, designs a more palatable alternative to Shrodinger's experiment, compares France's Eiffel Tower and Arc De Triomph with their Dublin counterparts, reveals the one...

Neal 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, wonders if there was any place for dogs in the Stone Age, casts an eye over your child's igloo and sandcastle design, deconstructs the four minute mile, exposes the double life of cartoon dogs, goes over the history of travellin...