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Neal wonders how dog rehab works, goes over what happens when you leave hospital without clothes, documents a decades old fake cinema facade with which you might identify, recalls the last time he learned something (2003), asks if opposable thumbs are worth the trouble, issues a stark warning about your waste disposal contraption, clarifies how Lighthouse entrance halls work, considers how emergen...

Neal maps the future of the traditional white haired action villain, explains why governments would love to mandate toe typewriters, tries to describe a mysterious part of Dublin’s city centre using Theoretical Physics, conjures a talking cat to explain the mechanics of speaking without vocal cords, defends Edwyn Collins’ incorrect inflexions in Addidas World, relates a defining childhood mo...

SLIGHTLY CRACKLY SOUND IN PLACES, DUE TO MISADVENTURE. Neal considers how to talk to your child about Devil Gate Drive, explains how the bow and arrow were the Dark Ages equivalent of a kid with glasses, reveals the best career to pursue for omnipresence, explores the logistics of being seen dead in an IKEA, celebrates his old dinosaur mirror’s scientific endorsement and looks at a 1980s mus...

Neal addreses the perennial Kermit problem, exposes the diplomatic minefield of haunted White House guest rooms, sets out the considerable differences between smokers and cat owners, looks at the practicalities of camping and installing igloos in industrial fridge freezers and discusses cold brew coffee and beer, Pigs in Space, dogs in space, understanding space rockets, moving Lincoln’s gho...

Are You Not Not Not Not Unentertained? 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 yel...

Neal comes to some realisations about Metallica and Chevy Chase, goes over a personal experiment involving TikTok, reveals the most depressing movie ending ever and looks at snuff film inception levels,manual sneezing, why cheese is wasted as a breakfast item,  Catch 22, Nazi style burning of audiobooks, life on an island on a lake on an island on a lake, mistaking Community for Fraggle Rock, boun...

Neal considers a particularly violent fruit, an appalling game called Punch Buggy, the George Formby grill and discography, salmon weirdness in the education system, Fionn McCumhaill and the mythological salmon of knowledge, raw milk enthusiasts, a week of leaks, breakages and cat death, the case for reinventing the wheel, why coffee cups don’t have windows, Fanta but from a dog, why we evol...

Apologies for more muffled voice than usual, due to minor mouthal injury. Neal staunchly defends the business practices of J. Wellington Wimpy, explains why your dog would prefer you didn’t drink from puddles, uncovers parallels between The Truman Show (1998) and Elvis Presley, looks at parking arrangements on car ferries, reveals his childhood cordory trouser hack and discusses full length...

In a movie length episode Neal assesses Warren Buffet’s breakfast habits, wonders if lickable screens could take some workload off his dying retinas, belatedly learns what RV stands for, considers the feasibility of working from home in a jungle, looks at regulating child operated lemonade stands, begrudges right handed touch typists, explains how TV procedural drama mavericks are kept in ch...

Despite some sub par sound quality in parts, Neal proposes an innovative Star Trek spin off, wonders if dogs are powered by four legs or two, disambiguates Whoopee! comic, whoopee cushions and Whoopi Goldberg, considers the natural resting state for a human hand, demystifies the traditional motor funeral cortege, makes the surprising case for transparent mains sewage pipes, uncovers the strange lo...

Neal examines the logistics of running away to join a circus, wonders how Einstein adapted to American breakfasts, considers the sociology of  onster communes, creates a case study in witness memory unreliability, compares your cat cam with the Mars Curiosity Rover, opens up about the next step in his twenty years of harmonica growth and discusses standing up to hydration shaming, things to consid...

Neal reluctantly calls for a boycott of mezzanine levels, reveals what microchip factories can teach us about mouths, vigorously defends those who call human children kids, recalls a disturbing scene from Family Guy, outlines how death row equipment could be better used in headphone design, previews your Meals on Wheels years and discusses an Inception theory of music radio, disposable one-a-day w...

In a movie length episode Neal considers decomissioning panic rooms, why hotwiring might be a myth, how Mother Nature downgrades caterpillars, spaceship exteriors, why modern ensuites are more secure, rethinking grout, The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Philip K Dick, life in a black hole, a new bottle tops regime, landfills and airspace, silage around the world, phasing out the M word, how to walk par...

Neal looks at life lessons from the egg and spoon race, making sense of ninjas, lunatics illicitely climbing cranes, true mouth to mouth broadcasting, fostering a culture of elevator hitchhiking, built-in guitars, dishwashing at mass, harmonica terminology, Now That’s What I Call Music 16, the trouble with cartoon eyes, why an accidental dog hero is not a hero, what you’re missing abou...

Neal reminisces on how a terrifying boiler house was once serene, traces the suprising number of life stages that come after old age, considers leaving your mind to science without donating your brain, makes the argument for cryogencially freezing kitchen waste and discusses hacking overnight toilet breaks for better caffeination, how Einstein’s maths addiction might have escalated, how one...

In a feature length episode Neal defends his pronunciation of typer writer, talks you through waking up on an operating table, shows how an only child leads an only dog astray, scrutinises the practicalities of turning the other cheek, explains how your miniaturised cat experiments are driving friends away, advises on cat dialogue for screenwriters, reinvents the Apple 1 and discusses making mista...

Neal ponders the practicalities of being Greek god of thunder, reveals why air crash survivor guilt is a good thing, worries about your supermarket trolley deposit, explains what palaleopnthologists and NASA could learn from Winston Churchill and discusses the true meaning of last meals on death row, screaming on roller coasters, hedge trimming beside live power lines from a helicoptor, tuning for...

Neal grudgingly gives a dog some credit, issues a stark warning about video game points, considers the reported last words of Mother Teresa, prescribes a mental workout involving your bathroom window, recalls a true childhood tale of lucky bags and death at the sweet shop and discusses predictable circus routes, a 1974 Twin Towers tightrope walk, winning the lottery at birth, poker faces on Star T...

Neal makes the case for government assigned signatures for new borns, considers how sitcom kids have become so sophisticated, explains his virtual toast rack invention and how it relates to Mary Poppins and discusses making a raw chicken asthetically pleasing, turning a parking space into a home, ordering fruit juices with an extra shot, a decade of avocado misinformation, compulsory u-turns and M...

Neal discusses Smurfs versus Avatar, explaining ball point pens to a cat, the argument against Meccano, early childhood memories: were those nurses or aliens, hand-me-down Lego management, raising children in a void, Lego Batman,  listening in July,  the man who made North Korea boring, watching with your ears, the future of home decor, the nation’s luckiest KFC, where gravy belong...

Neal discusses how to eat a spring roll, cuckoo clock apartments, how many cats an ark needs, how the Mona Lisa ended up like that, lubricated uphostery, Mr Crow from Wandarly Wagon, where America should house your national TV archive, an unfortunate first impression of Philadelphia, Mountain Dew versus stout, pelicans, puffins and penguins, saying no to Star Wars, Skellig Michael island in Star W...

Neal discusses whether dogs are cultural appropriators, why Dracula is science fiction, building a house inside a barn, theme park castles, pet spiders, TV dramas The Sullivans, House MD and The Good Doctor, foot deodorant, one simple lie that can bring out the best in your doctor. dog mergers, I Shouldn’t Be Alive – S04 E07: Alone in the Amazon, Inception (2010), injurious talcum powd...

Neal discusses having something in common with Dan Rather, sidewinder glass lengths, the Mandela Effect on Special K (cereal), a memorable brush with law enforcement, one person operated toilets, finding sponsors for death sports, recreational scratching, a special sponge, remembering an old urination segment, the trouble with wheelbarrows, Hamburger Helper, back seat configurations, a new kind of...

Neal discusses demystifying Road Runners and Coyotes, a very bad use of a Maigret paperback, saving a Genesis keyboarist from jury duty, court stenographers versus keyboard players, flying baggage trucks and beyond, commuting on part of Ernest Shackleton’s Polar route, Indian Saints who don’t eat, pressures that come with switchng to cordials, driving in a cul-de-sac, looped video GIF...