Show 884: Misdemeanour Gang Tattoos And The Trolley Problem

About this episode

Neal O'Carroll humorously explores various topics including the trolley problem, social behaviors, and pop culture references.

Neal addresses the perennial question of whether sugar is a vegetable, asks if dogs can get spoken word ear worms from podcasts, flags a potential Kermit situation in the world of stop motion animation, recalls a hellish era when Irish adolescents couldn’t access music, advocates giving soup eaters a handicap, ponders life in a prison misdemeanours gang, looks at how to apply your crossword solving skills to real world problems, goes over the classic trolley problem with a local overlay, changes his own mind in real time about spaghetti hoops, explores what happens when a cat orders soy milk in a bar, compares the words Lidl and Aldi for usability, wonders how much of bathroom smartphone use is waiting to vomit, advises on what to say when asked if you’re living at home, recommends off-road shopping carts for Lidl Arklow, assesses where Shithead falls on the derogatory names scale, makes the argument against reusing first and second names, recalls unknowingly performing double entry bookkeeping at the same venue as Peter Gabriel era Genesis, recounts the first time hearing an American say herb, tries to count the guitar players in The Beatles, offers some advice for…

People in this episode

Host: Neal O'Carroll

Topics covered

• philosophy
• humor
• social commentary
• pop culture
• life experiences
• crossword puzzles
• animal behavior

Keywords

• sugar vegetable
• trolley problem
• crossword solving
• Irish music
• public benches
• true crime
• animal behavior
• spaghetti hoops
• Lidl
• Aldi

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lidl, Aldi

Places: Dublin, Lidl Arklow

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