Into Your Head - Low Bitrate Edition
Jul 14, 2026 · 53 min · 10 segments
Neal makes the case for casting music to your unoccupied car, shows how to convince your plastic surgeon there’s something worth saving, asks if the bakers’s dozen is nonsense, wonders if there was…
Neal O'CarrollHost
If you ever have an opportunity to undergo plastic surgery, perhaps you've been in a massive road accident and thankfully you've survived.
You have some outstanding items, injuries from your car crash, keeping you needing to go back to the doctor for more and more treatments.
You go to some plastic surgeon and you say, hello, I'm not made out of plastic.
I'm hoping you'll do some work on me, on my non-plastic corporeal physical being.
so that the rest of me that's inside here can continue to survive inside this shell.
My brain is working, as you can see, or as you can hear, because I'm able to form sentences.
You have to convince this plastic surgeon that there's something in there worth saving.
Because they're looking at your face and they're thinking, oh Christ, no, he's finished, he's done.
He might as well do what some tribal communities, the elderly will just walk out into the desert or the jungle when they're ready to die and just not come back and decide not to be a burden.
So you have to prove to your plastic surgeon, that there's a person still in there, being behind that non-face, underneath that scalp that's turned to mush.
You have to prove that the stuff that's inside your brain is not turned to mush, which is quite difficult because for one thing, a normal brain is composed of mush.
If you ever have an opportunity to undergo plastic surgery, perhaps you've been in a massive road accident and thankfully you've survived.
You have some outstanding items, injuries from your car crash, keeping you needing to go back to the doctor for more and more treatments.
You go to some plastic surgeon and you say, hello, I'm not made out of plastic.
I'm hoping you'll do some work on me, on my non-plastic corporeal physical being.
so that the rest of me that's inside here can continue to survive inside this shell.
My brain is working, as you can see, or as you can hear, because I'm able to form sentences.
You have to convince this plastic surgeon that there's something in there worth saving.
Because they're looking at your face and they're thinking, oh Christ, no, he's finished, he's done.
He might as well do what some tribal communities, the elderly will just walk out into the desert or the jungle when they're ready to die and just not come back and decide not to be a burden.
So you have to prove to your plastic surgeon, that there's a person still in there, being behind that non-face, underneath that scalp that's turned to mush.
You have to prove that the stuff that's inside your brain is not turned to mush, which is quite difficult because for one thing, a normal brain is composed of mush.
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