Show 870: Are You Not Not Not Not Unentertained?
From Into Your Head by Neal O'Carroll
February 3, 2026 · 58 min · Episode 870
About this episode
Neal O'Carroll critiques various cultural topics including Superman, Hollywood, and punk culture while sharing humorous insights and personal anecdotes.
Neal critiques Superman’s flying and rescue techniques, offers strategies for baby bird flying lessons, wonders how slaves got promoted to gladiators, looks at how Hollywood’s need for PG certs curtailed snack design, considers communion wafer strategies, uncovers what coin operated toy cars quietly taught us, shares his special use for double yellow lines as a vision impaired pedestrian, contemplates working with Robert de Niro while he’s a boxer and discusses watching things ironically, the trouble with Gladiator 2 (2024), making the best of your reformed drug dealer cyclist community service, harmless American punk, planning a life as a monk in your reincarnation schedule, Nick Cave’s Gladiator 2 treatment, making the alphabet infinite, how sponges can transform your life, what happened during the show’s seven year interlude, the recreational diarrhoea medicine abuse craze, Wonka (2023), The Colosseum, songs of The Sex Pistols, punk hairstyle digital comeback and more. VISIT IntoYourHead.ie for everything and more. IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick…
People in this episode
Host: Neal O'Carroll
Topics covered
- Superman critique
- Hollywood snack design
- Gladiator 2 discussion
- Punk culture
- Reincarnation planning
- Life transformation
Keywords
- Superman
- Gladiator 2
- Nick Cave
- Wonka
- punk
- reincarnation
- cultural critique
- improv comedy
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Gladiator 2, Wonka, The Sex Pistols
Places: The Colosseum
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