The Matt Walsh Show - August 20, 2022


Am I The A＊＊hole？ Matt Walsh Decides Part 6

Topics
fake meat prank
Hosted by
Matt Walsh
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6 minutes

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1,475

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138

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5

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7

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This week on Am I the A-hole, we re-visit Reddit's "Am I a Hole?" forum, and this time we re doing it in a more comfortable chair. We re covering a story about a woman who thought her family was eating soy meat, and her family couldn t tell the difference between it and real meat.

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00:00:00.000 All right. Am I the a-hole? I don't think I need to introduce this segment. We've done it before.
00:00:05.400 I think you basically understand how this works. And this is going to be like many of the other
00:00:09.480 videos we've done where we go to the am I the a-hole forum on Reddit, except we're switching
00:00:14.260 things up. It's very exciting this time because we're going to do that, except this time I'm in
00:00:18.440 a more comfortable chair. So we like to keep things fresh here on the Matt Wall Show. We'll
00:00:23.720 start with this. My two daughters are vegetarian, but my husband and son are not. I'm probably what
00:00:29.580 they would call a flexitarian. Oh, you're definitely the a-hole. I already know that you're the 0.98
00:00:34.060 a-hole based on that alone. A flexitarian? So what does that mean? You're flexible, you'll 0.74
00:00:38.360 eat meat or vegetables? Is that what you mean by flexitarian? So you're just a person? You're
00:00:42.680 a normal person like the rest of us? You don't need to come up with new labels for everything.
00:00:46.720 You didn't invent something new. I'm a fooditarian because my thing is that I eat food. If it's
00:00:54.480 not food, I don't eat it. I'm a walk on the grounditarian. Generally, I only walk on the
00:00:59.560 things that are to the ground. Anyway, where were we? My son and husband always turn out
00:01:07.120 their noses at tofu or any other meat alternatives. They say it's just weird that it's made to
00:01:11.940 resemble real meat. So it's really the concept and not the taste. There are no allergies. My
00:01:17.340 family and I often make two versions of dinner, one meat, one real, and twice the amount of pots
00:01:22.520 and pans. There is an equal distribution of cleaning and cooking in this house, thankfully.
00:01:26.960 My daughters had a fun prank idea of making two pots of spaghetti sauce under the pretense 1.00
00:01:32.180 that one was meat, but they were both the soy ground beef. The goal here was to see if their
00:01:37.360 brother and father actually hated the meat, that is the fake meat, and to see if we could maybe save
00:01:42.700 some dishes and time in the future. Everyone loved dinner. Both husband and son finished their
00:01:47.820 plates. This was when my youngest couldn't hold it in anymore and told them. They both got very upset
00:01:53.160 about being fed something other than what they were told. Reddit. Am I the a**hole?
00:01:58.720 So they made soy meat, which is not, that's like, that doesn't actually exist. Just like when they,
00:02:05.260 when you hear about coconut milk or almond milk, that's not actually milk. Milk by definition is a
00:02:10.280 dairy product. That's a coconut secretion is what it should say on the carton. There's no such thing as
00:02:15.260 soy meat. That's just, it's fake. So they made a soy thing in two pots and they said that one was meat.
00:02:21.660 And they said that they were feeding that to the husband and son, but it was really the soy and they
00:02:26.000 couldn't tell the difference. Now, Reddit has declared that this woman is the a**hole. Yes, you are 1.00
00:02:32.060 the a**hole. You are the a**hole. Goodbye. You shouldn't ever lie to somebody about what you're feeding 1.00
00:02:37.960 them. So that makes you an a**hole. But I actually think you're an a**hole for a different reason. You expect me 1.00
00:02:43.660 to believe that you made a meat sauce with soy beef. And then your son and husband who are big,
00:02:51.640 long-time meat eaters, they couldn't tell that it wasn't real meat. That's bulls**t. Sorry. I just, 0.98
00:02:56.680 I don't believe it. That's gorgon s**t. Total gorgon s**t. I've had meat substitutes before,
00:03:02.280 just purely out of morbid curiosity. And they, they always taste like a fertilizer and sadness.
00:03:09.600 What does it taste like? Despair. Okay. They, they taste fraudulent always. And by the way,
00:03:14.940 if you have an ethical problem with meat, then why are you eating food made to taste like it?
00:03:20.160 That's the other thing I don't understand. I have a problem with this. I don't want to eat meat.
00:03:23.780 I think it's immoral, but I want my food to taste like the thing that's immoral. It just doesn't
00:03:27.980 make a lot of sense to me. Well, let me ask you something. What if there was someone out there
00:03:31.500 who kept a log of every single thing you did every minute of the day? I think that'd be pretty creepy.
00:03:36.520 Well, what if I told you that's exactly what happens every time you go online? Your internet
00:03:40.500 provider like AT&T or Comcast is allowed to store logs of every website you've ever visited,
00:03:45.400 and they can legally sell this data to anyone they want. That's why I always use ExpressVPN.
00:03:50.940 ExpressVPN reroutes your internet connection through their secure server. So your internet
00:03:54.660 provider can't see or log what you're doing online. Now, many of you, if you're more perceptive,
00:03:59.300 you might be wondering, well, if I'm routing all my data through a VPN, then doesn't the VPN
00:04:02.840 get to log and see all my data? And you're right to think that way.
00:04:06.240 Many VPNs claim to have a no-logs policy, but have been caught logging customer activity
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00:04:25.220 Okay. Next one. I live alone in a one-bedroom apartment. Recently, a coworker, let's call them
00:04:32.140 Ali, has been coming to my supervisor to talk and visit almost every shift.
00:04:36.960 They've been talking about how Ali has had a downturn in job performance and might be laid
00:04:41.480 off soon if things don't improve. Ali is nice and outgoing, but not reliable when it comes
00:04:46.160 to office work. The past couple of days, my supervisor has been very interested in my
00:04:50.240 living situation. Always asking how the area is, how I decorate my space, how my relationship
00:04:56.020 is with the property manager. They've even started making comments about how lucky I am to
00:05:00.020 live alone and how important community is. Yesterday, after hours, you don't have it.
00:05:04.340 Can we just get to the point here? You don't need to go back five years in the story. Just
00:05:09.280 get to the freaking point. Okay. For over a half an hour, they went on and on about how 0.90
00:05:14.460 I could let her live with me and how good it would be to carpool split expenses and have 0.99
00:05:19.060 company at home. I tried to keep the shock. Okay. So basically, your supervisor is pressuring
00:05:23.860 you to have a coworker move in with you as a roommate. You could have just said that.
00:05:27.420 The whole rest of the story is not necessary. We don't need to know what you had for breakfast
00:05:30.520 that morning. Am I the a-hole? Well, no. I mean, you're the a-hole for telling this long,
00:05:34.820 boring story, but not in this particular situation.
00:05:38.000 I hear these stories from people's jobs sometimes. And we're just like, what?
00:05:41.820 First of all, why would you tolerate this to begin with? Your supervisor at your job is trying
00:05:46.800 to force you to allow another person at your job to live with you? I don't know if this is
00:05:52.780 appropriate. I'd better go ask Reddit. It's wildly inappropriate and it's definitely illegal in like
00:05:57.500 50,000 different ways. So first thing I would do is go and get that supervisor fired. And then
00:06:03.600 absolutely, you do not let this person move in with you. Though this is coming from someone who
00:06:06.660 I would never let anyone move in with me as a roommate. I think the whole concept of roommates
00:06:10.260 to me just doesn't make any sense. If you're getting married and you're starting a family,
00:06:13.760 right, with someone, that's one thing. That's not really a roommate. You get none of the benefit
00:06:17.620 of starting a family, yet you get all of the annoyances of having to live with other people
00:06:22.340 in your house. Part of the problem, and no offense to men by this, but it seems to be mostly women who 1.00
00:06:28.320 use the MIDA whole forum on Reddit. And this is something women do. And look, ladies, you have to 1.00
00:06:33.280 realize that you do this. If you have information that you want to pass on to someone, you always
00:06:37.700 start way further back in the timeline than you need to. That's the scourge of existence for women. 1.00
00:06:43.860 They're always complaining, oh, the men, they don't remember, they don't listen. It's because you're
00:06:47.260 giving us way too much information, okay? And that's not how our minds work. We can't retain all
00:06:51.180 that. We're looking for the point, and that's where we home in. And that's going to do it. Okay,
00:06:57.740 let's stop now.