Into Your Head - Low Bitrate Edition
May 26, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 11 segments
Neal compares your child to the Mona Lisa, throws a spanner in the works of the stopped clock twice a day cliche, reveals why a TV free family would pivot to compulsory viewing targets, wonders if…
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No, you probably don't tell your children what they should have for their dinner, do you? No, you just make it.
You get up in the morning, you get out your porridge oats that you grew from scratch and which you left soaking overnight or however you do the porridge oats.
It comes as a powder, and you add milk, and you put it in the microwave for exactly the right amount of time stated on the label, and then 60% of the time it comes out incorrect, and you have to start again.
So I can't imagine what hellish experience it is to make actual porridge from scratch or even from whatever comes in that big bag of stuff you get.
These porridge people, they buy this big bag of stuff, and they're very proud of it.
They'll say, "I can feed my family from this big bag of stuff that I got in Lidl for twenty-nine cents a day.
I make sure to stand at the cooker for three hours while it's cooking, and I just make sure I do all the correct stuff, and it comes out great." And then I put it in front of my children, and they say, "What in the name of Christ is this? No, thank you very much.
No, thank you very much." They always say, "No, thank you very much," 'cause I've raised them to be polite.
Still, I would tell them then they're being impolite 'cause although they're saying polite words, "No, thank you very much" is a polite word, it's impolite for them to reject my cooking.
Anyway, it's not my place to tell you how to raise your children any more than it's my place to tell you how to raise that flour that you use in your home baking.
No, you probably don't tell your children what they should have for their dinner, do you? No, you just make it.
You get up in the morning, you get out your porridge oats that you grew from scratch and which you left soaking overnight or however you do the porridge oats.
It comes as a powder, and you add milk, and you put it in the microwave for exactly the right amount of time stated on the label, and then 60% of the time it comes out incorrect, and you have to start again.
So I can't imagine what hellish experience it is to make actual porridge from scratch or even from whatever comes in that big bag of stuff you get.
These porridge people, they buy this big bag of stuff, and they're very proud of it.
They'll say, "I can feed my family from this big bag of stuff that I got in Lidl for twenty-nine cents a day.
I make sure to stand at the cooker for three hours while it's cooking, and I just make sure I do all the correct stuff, and it comes out great." And then I put it in front of my children, and they say, "What in the name of Christ is this? No, thank you very much.
No, thank you very much." They always say, "No, thank you very much," 'cause I've raised them to be polite.
Still, I would tell them then they're being impolite 'cause although they're saying polite words, "No, thank you very much" is a polite word, it's impolite for them to reject my cooking.
Anyway, it's not my place to tell you how to raise your children any more than it's my place to tell you how to raise that flour that you use in your home baking.
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