Show 878: Freshers Week at the Finishing School

Show 878: Freshers Week at the Finishing School

From Into Your Head by Neal O'Carroll

April 21, 2026 · 51 min · Episode 878

About this episode

Neal O'Carroll humorously explores various topics including food, media consumption, and personal health in this episode.

Neal 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 not seeing the shark really makes it scarier, wonders how long you’re going to live, sheds light on the higher power of convenience foods, assesses the outcome of last week’s dog segment ban and discusses sugar stick assembly, how Cat and Barman meet in dreams, life before and after abandoning saucers, post-credits cinema meditation, waiting outside Downton Abbey for a visitor, horse edibility, pills versus peanuts, the trouble with exercise bicycling and tread-milling, spitting in private, applying butter in a vacuum, the International Space Station, Outposts on the Frontier by Jay Chladek, meat versus anatomy, Saddam Hussein’s video messages, what happens if you discover oil while out walking, an accidental tile vandalism memory, hiding commuters underground, how bar segregation becomes infinitely compounded, vaping versus vaxing, what became of Kill Bill’s killed Bill, transparent memo tubes in offices, Duel (1971) and more. VISIT IntoYourHead.ie for everything and…

People in this episode

Host: Neal O'Carroll

Topics covered

  • comedy
  • food
  • media
  • health
  • dreams
  • exercise
  • space

Keywords

  • grilled cheese
  • toothpaste
  • news
  • shark
  • convenience foods
  • exercise
  • vaping
  • Saddam Hussein

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Outposts on the Frontier, Duel

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