838: An Insom Maniacal Christmas
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In a Christmas Day episode not for younger ears, Neal discusses identifying insects by smell, tag teaming citrus fruits, declaring dead weight at Customs, why ripping out entrails is a non violent act, what you Australians demand of Santa, watching Star Trek: The Next Generation in black and white, margarine related TV repair memories, the trouble with police drama finales, why TV won’t let you just enjoy a plane crash, December in other hemispheres, sleigh driver regulation, the argument against relief pilots on long haul, how crosswords could make air travel safer, cats in cockpits, WWF...
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837: Experimenting with Speed
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Neal proposes a thought exercise for listeners in traffic, identifies a new use for the top of your head, explains how to listen via medical stethescope, diagnoses his audience with a phobia of bodily noises including speach and discusses Nick Cave's Harry Potter exposure, why fire brigades study age related temperal anomolies, how to assemble a pop band, understanding binary traffic lights, McCauley Kulkin's former self, the conscious self in a nutshell, a weird US TV bandleader, experimenting with speed, proving to your toddler that you're not a giant, plumbers in binary pairs, rotating your...
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836: Wasp Fiction
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Neal sets out his one big problem with both Radiohead and Gilbert O'Sullivan, makes the case for traceable dog food, maps out the next evolutionary step for handwriting and discusses experimental wasp fictions life in a hundred year old choir, chairs on trains, an innovative way to use the word Christmas, how to tell if Roy Orbison is dead, Jive Bunny, dropping dead of a car crash, page-a-day books in museums, when to stop learning, the trouble with seeing your favourite orchestra on tour, a promise to any listener who starts a choir podcast, different signatures for work and home, burglar...
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835: Bippily Blippily Bop
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Neal corrects the listener's delusions about auto pilot, illustrates the differences betwen humanoid cats and Edward Scissorhands and discusses the anatomy of a commercial earworm, understanding you Americans and your Spring Break, how songwriters think, appreciating instant mashed potato, what a thousand cavemen can achieve without typewriters, the life expectancy of a harmonica, Stevie Wonder's name change, token tamborine use, workplaces that can't sustain a mad drummer, choosing your dog size, securing the food chain against dogs, Madonna's cartoon versus Bucks Fizz's Land of Make Believe,...
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834: Your Pharmacy Advent Calendar is Leaking
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Neal reveals what it would take for him to name a fourth cat after a UN Secretary General, recalls the one comic book in every Christian Brothers School library and discusses Neighbourhood Watch mythology, dog anomolies on Bray Head, learning Irish by projection, things legally banned in classrooms, next door's overreaching attic, the song Frere Jackques, a pharmacy Advent calendar, inaminate emotional support animals, how Full House paved the way for jobsharing at the UN, logistics of hot dog trolleys in staired stadiums, tea trolleys in comic strip based radio sitcom Bristow, an...
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833: The Desert is a Mirage
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Neal discusses encoutering your postman in another neighbourhood, playing Dr Suess, a terrifying futuristic garage, reinventing the painted ostrich egg, Ireland’s sheep filled desert, idenfiifying a mouth's postal address, remembering what you buried in the sand, how deserts evolve into casinos, understanding speakeasy, Stephen King’s car burial tale, what you could legitimately be giving your kids pints of at breakfast, a portrait microwave, how a dog handles a mirage of a desert, landlord teethmark inspection protocol, how ostriches fool predators, electrical tape misadventures, how to...
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832: All Toothpaste All the Time
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831: Cultivating a Non Herdetiary Nasal Helmet
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830: What’s in a Yak?
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829: Dante’s Magic Gondola
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Neal discusses sit-com bunk bed envy, takey-offey parachutes versus landy parachutes, a dignified way to kill off libraries, eternal peanuts, where cabaret fits in the grand scheme of things, a curtailed feed remnant advisory for returning listeners, fooling yourself with documentaries, Everest without a Walkman, measuring hell-broken-loose levels, steamboats and whitewashing, long distance stewing, casting then uncasting the dead parents on Diff’rent Strokes, the right elephant for the job, rebooting Air Crash Investigation, legalities of shooting messengers who happen to be elephants, elephants versus character actors, actor David Kelly RIP, a revised history of storytelling and firelighting, falling by design, penny drop moment for a trainee air crash investigator, statistical probabilities of different species entering a bar, bunk kitchens, failing to remember the word bittorrent, inauthentic endings on travel shows and podcasts, drawing a stairs on volume two of Colliers Junior Classics and more, before assigning the listener an important comprehension exercise as homework.
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