POV： Matt Walsh Reacts To Women's Favorite IG Reels
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Summary
In this episode, we take a look at some marriage advice videos that deal with some of the idiosyncrasies and minutiae of married life. You ve probably heard of the phrase, "When in doubt, don t do it." Well, this is the exact opposite of that.
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Okay, today we're going to take a look at some marriage videos, and usually what we'll end up doing is we'll watch videos of people giving relationship advice, and I'll explain why the advice is terrible, but this is a little bit different.
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In this case, my producers have queued up some videos that deal with some of the idiosyncrasies and minutiae of married life.
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We'll watch it, and you know, we'll have a little chuckle.
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We'll have fun together, we'll have a little chuckle together, so come along on this journey, and let's watch the first video.
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You didn't dust your baseboard? There's actual trash in your trash can. Are you Neanderthals?
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One candle for this whole room. No wonder it smells like a barn.
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It's true. That's very true. I mean, here's the thing your wife will do. She'll invite, because we didn't get the prequel to that,
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which is that the wife invites the guest over to the house and then is frantically cleaning the house.
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In all of these very specific ways, because the guest is coming.
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And then, but then she'll start to get annoyed through the cleaning process that the guest is coming.
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And so then she'll start complaining that the guest is coming.
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And then, and then while she's cleaning, and then she's like, well, we have people coming over and the house is a mess.
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And then what you'll do is you'll say something really helpful. You'll say, well, you invited them.
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So, and then, but then she will inform you that that comment was not helpful.
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But it's an important point, because look, I get around this problem by not ever inviting anyone over to the house.
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Bingo. Red flag. I need to be cautious about this.
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So I don't, I just never do that. I don't have to worry about, the house doesn't have to be presentable.
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I am, it's never my fault that the house needs to look presentable.
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Because if it was up to me, no one would ever step foot in a house who is not a blood relation.
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And not just that, but like, but directly, like an immediate member of the nuclear family.
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No one else would ever come in because it's just not worth the hassle.
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And then, of course, the house has to look like, it has to look like a catalog.
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It has to, you know what the house has to look like?
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It has to look like the interior of a house in a prescription drug commercial.
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So imagine a middle-aged woman in her living room and in a prescription drug commercial.
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And there's the VO is talking about irritable bowel syndrome or something.
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It's very sanitized. Everything is white and all of that.
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Up to 20% of the population suffers from an irritable bowel.
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And I remember the last time we had guests over, we had family coming over.
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She was organizing the closet in the laundry room.
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And then she went, I got to clean, I got to organize the closet in the laundry room.
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Because they're not, why would they be in the closet in the laundry room?
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I mean, if we had that, if the whole closet was just full, it was like a cartoon.
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And it was, and if you opened it, all of the items would fall out on you.
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If it was that bad, it would still, and they opened it, it's their fault.
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But we have a lot of these videos, so let's just keep going.
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You keep saying you're looking and you keep looking away.
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Yeah, this one I can't relate to at all, personally.
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I mean, I don't doubt that women behave this way.
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And I also don't doubt that my wife would do this, but she's, you know, she's married
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And she's not going to try to enlist me in, maybe she did that once when we were first dating.
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So, she probably is freaking out in her head about cute dogs all the time, but she never
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even bothers trying to bring me on board, which is probably for the best.
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Now, what it's missing, at least in my case, is that oftentimes when the wife texts the
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meme or the video, that's one thing because you can just ignore it.
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But in my case, what will often happen is that it will be presented to me in person because
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And I'll say, I don't think I do have to see it.
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But I'll be made to sit and watch the meme or whatever.
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And then the great part is that she's showing me the video and then watching me watch it
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to see if I react that way, which I never do ever in the history of our marriage.
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Like she's going to find that one Instagram video that makes me crack up hysterically.
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And she's gone through, you know, we've probably watched four.
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I think we're at 46,000 of them now at this point.
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The other day she came in and it was a video of, it was an Instagram video of a guy like
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And I swear to you, this video was 95 minutes long.
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It just, it took up the whole night was just watching this one video and it was slightly
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The other thing too, is it doesn't matter what you're in the middle of doing.
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You know, it says I could be putting out a grease fire in the kitchen and I'll be in
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Uh, but what's missing is that, is that the wife will react to memes and videos basically
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She'll, she'll react as the first scenario is actually how women will react to like a
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I've seen my, my wife, she, someone sends her a video and I send her videos too that are
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And, uh, and if she likes it, she will, I have seen her actually get on the phone and
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call multiple people to tell them about this funny video.
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So in this case, I think it's women to their credit, uh, who are, it's not like they're
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asking something from us in this case that they don't do themselves.
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Now, you know what, but that, why are you with your wife while she's shopping for anything
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That's your first mistake because here's what's, here's what's also going to happen.
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If you're there, right, then she will discard your opinion, of course, but she'll still
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That is the, and I, I, we can never figure it out as men.
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You know, cause they will ask for our opinion on many different home decor related things.
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It's just that it never matters what the opinion actually is, but they will get it.
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Um, so if you, if you're, but if you're with your wife and you're at the store and you're
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buying some home decor related thing, you're shopping for, she wants a lamp or a bedside
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Uh, bedside tables in particular are big commitments I've discovered.
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Every time we move, we end up not having bedside tables for at least a year because my wife
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has to take, she takes a long time to figure out, she just needs to kind of like soak in
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the essence of the room before she commits to one particular style of bedside table.
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But the thing is, if you are at the store, she'll go, uh, do you like this one?
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And you'll say, oh, I didn't realize this was a pop quiz.
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I thought you were actually, actually asking for my opinion, but apparently my opinion
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I have to say, I'm so happy that I saw that video because I, I honestly didn't know that
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I didn't realize, I didn't even realize this was a man, woman thing.
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I thought that I thought I was the only one I thought I was alone in the universe dealing
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I really didn't, uh, that, that, that it's not just mine, but, but all wives think that
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And, um, what's the thing in star Wars, the, the giant pit that you throw people, uh,
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So they treat the, they treat the trash can like a, like a Sarlacc in, uh, in, I might
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It's like this bottomless pit that can consume anything and they'll just keep putting things
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Uh, no matter how much is already in the trash can, they'll keep on doing it indefinitely.
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Um, here's the one twist though, for, in my particular case, what, what my wife will
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I don't know if this is a universal thing or not.
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She will get to a point where she's like, okay, that's too much stuff in the garbage can.
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Um, so then she'll tie the bag, you know, it's like, okay, the bag's had enough.
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Let's tie the bag off, but she'll tie the bag off so that we can't put anything else in
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So now we have a tied bag in the can that's just sitting there.
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So the next time someone comes along and they want to put something in the garbage can, they
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And then, so then it's you because you know, women, they don't, it's, it's, it's, uh, they,
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they taking the trash out is, I guess it's just one of those things that say they are absolutely
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determined not to do it, which is, uh, which is fine.
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And I have to say that all of these videos were quite relatable, at least most of them.
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Um, and it was nice to do one of these where I'm not complaining about the videos the entire
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Uh, but, but not really, not really complaining because you know what, you know, this all boils
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down to is that men and women are different and it's a beautiful thing.
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I'm, I'm quite glad that women are different because otherwise they would just be men and