The Matt Walsh Show - November 18, 2022


Who's The Biggest A-Hole？ Episode 3


Episode Stats


Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

194.99141

Word count

1,931

Sentence count

152

Harmful content

Misogyny

7

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Hate speech

6

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A husband who allows his wife to bring a Tupperware container with her own meal to his parents' Thanksgiving dinner while his son just sits there and watches? What kind of husband does that? And why does his wife allow her daughter-in-law to eat her own food at the table?

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00:00:00.000 I'll preface this by saying that my son, Tim, recently got married to his now-wife, Sarah.
00:00:20.580 We get along just fine as a family, though she tends to act passive-aggressively sometimes.
00:00:25.180 She loves food and is always open to trying my cooking.
00:00:27.900 She said my cooking was amazing, though she made a few negative comments about certain meals and advised me to use XYZ ingredients next time.
00:00:36.520 Who are these people?
00:00:38.460 So she sat down to have your meal and said, oh, this is great, but next time you should try that ingredient.
00:00:42.380 Who does that?
00:00:43.760 I invited them over for Thanksgiving yesterday.
00:00:45.640 The whole family was there.
00:00:46.600 The bell rang, and I opened the door to see Tim and Sarah.
00:00:49.320 Sarah was carrying what seemed to be a container.
00:00:51.660 I didn't ask about it nor paid much attention to it.
00:00:53.600 Everybody sat down to eat after I set up the table and put dinner on it.
00:00:57.820 My main dish was the traditional Thanksgiving dish every family in our community knows.
00:01:01.660 I had appetizers and side dishes and, of course, salad and dessert.
00:01:05.720 Sarah then put the container on the table and started unloading food onto her empty plate. 0.65
00:01:10.100 Everybody was watching as my eyes widened up.
00:01:12.840 I asked what she was doing, and she said that she brought her own food to eat since she doesn't want to eat what I cooked.
00:01:19.520 I was stunned, and I politely asked if there was a reason for that, and she shook her head.
00:01:25.360 I asked if she was vegan.
00:01:26.640 She said no.
00:01:27.760 I asked if she was allergic to anything at the table.
00:01:29.560 She said no.
00:01:30.520 I asked if she was having an upset stomach or anything.
00:01:33.200 She said no.
00:01:34.500 She just sat with a smug smile, which set me off.
00:01:38.160 And then, anyway, okay, then it goes on and on and on.
00:01:40.660 And this ungrateful daughter-in-law eats her own meal at the table while the son just sits there. 1.00
00:01:46.180 Okay.
00:01:47.500 So, yeah, Sarah's an a**hole. 1.00
00:01:49.580 But I put the blame on your son, Tim, really.
00:01:51.560 I think he's the bigger a**hole here.
00:01:52.740 Because what kind of husband allows his wife to bring a Tupperware container with her own meal to his parents' Thanksgiving dinner? 0.51
00:02:00.040 What a little a**hole.
00:02:01.320 I mean, there are times when you put your foot down as a man, and this is definitely one of them.
00:02:06.440 Although, if you got to this point, it probably means that you've never put your foot down one time, and that's very obvious from this.
00:02:11.940 You're leaving for Thanksgiving dinner, and you see your wife holding a container of food.
00:02:17.040 And I could see asking, like, oh, is that your contribution to the meal?
00:02:20.300 No, that's just for me.
00:02:22.740 Oh, you're joking, right?
00:02:24.100 This is one of your crazy practical jokes, right?
00:02:26.820 That's very funny.
00:02:27.680 No, no, no, I'm serious.
00:02:29.260 Okay, well, then you're a lunatic, and I'm calling an insane asylum.
00:02:32.640 Here's what we're going to do.
00:02:33.680 You put that damn container down, or I swear to God, I will have you admitted to an asylum.
00:02:38.040 Put that coffee down.
00:02:40.300 That's conflict resolution in a marriage, okay?
00:02:42.420 That's what you do.
00:02:44.300 You a**hole.
00:02:52.740 Uh, first one says,
00:02:54.100 My husband, and then in parentheses it says Asian.
00:02:57.900 My husband, Asian, and I, American, welcomed our firstborn four weeks ago.
00:03:02.480 The baby is healthy, thank God, but I'm exhausted.
00:03:05.020 My husband's family had been pressuring us to visit to meet the baby.
00:03:08.240 Yesterday, I was surprised to find them standing on the porch.
00:03:10.880 I was embarrassed and felt like I wasn't ready for visitors, because the house was a N-E-S-S, y'all. 1.00
00:03:16.980 A mess.
00:03:17.640 Later, I asked my husband if we should order takeout for dinner.
00:03:20.380 He said no, because his parents would find this rude and unwelcoming.
00:03:23.700 He suggested that I go inside the kitchen and prepare something.
00:03:26.560 I said fine, then went and made some mac and cheese.
00:03:29.640 Once I served the family, my husband's mom asked if I really found it appropriate to serve her and the family mac and cheese.
00:03:36.660 I hate macaroni and cheese.
00:03:38.680 We had an argument, and they decided to go home.
00:03:40.280 My husband said that deciding to serve his family mac and cheese was more offensive than serving them nothing at all.
00:03:44.640 Am I the a-hole? What's wrong with mac and cheese?
00:03:46.260 Wow, okay.
00:03:48.340 So this husband, I...
00:03:49.980 Here's the note, guys.
00:03:53.800 He's gonna help?
00:03:54.460 I got a notepad!
00:03:55.600 You want to give your wife, like, at least a week's notice.
00:03:59.360 If you're giving her a day, it's gonna be a problem. 1.00
00:04:01.440 But they're here right now.
00:04:03.340 The house is a mess.
00:04:04.220 You can't do that.
00:04:05.380 You cannot do that.
00:04:06.140 If you want to have a happy marriage, you just cannot do things like that.
00:04:10.460 Then again, you know, it's easy for me to say, because I'm never really tempted to invite guests over for dinner in the first place.
00:04:17.020 So that's not something I ever really...
00:04:18.800 I never want to do that anyway, so I've never been tempted in that direction.
00:04:21.740 But if I were going to do it, and on the rare occasion when I do, you know, you can never give too much notice.
00:04:27.360 If you can give a year's notice for that, that's probably best.
00:04:29.680 But I kind of like these kinds of questions, because this is one where I get to say you're all a-holes, actually.
00:04:35.740 You are all a-holes.
00:04:37.920 Now, obviously, your mother-in-law and husband are a-holes, imposing yourself on somebody, especially a mother with a baby, expecting a feast.
00:04:45.780 One of my absolute unwavering non-negotiable principles is that you never complain about food that has been served to you.
00:04:53.580 This is why we don't have picky eaters in my house, okay?
00:04:55.800 Picky eaters are a social construct. 0.83
00:04:59.080 They are made, not born. 0.92
00:05:00.920 My kids will eat anything, anything we serve them, because that's the only option we've ever given them.
00:05:06.240 You are going to finish your dessert, and you are going to like it!
00:05:11.000 But I also have to, unfortunately, give you a demerit for serving mac and cheese.
00:05:15.440 Yes, they should have eaten it without complaint, but I can complain because I'm not there.
00:05:19.900 So I'm not beholden to that rule.
00:05:21.920 And as an outside observer, I can say that mac and cheese is for children.
00:05:25.100 More mac and cheese?
00:05:26.240 Yeah, just keep it going.
00:05:27.100 Keep it going.
00:05:27.480 Don't be afraid of the burned edges.
00:05:28.800 Just give me the tray.
00:05:29.520 There should be no room on an adult's plate for mac and cheese.
00:05:32.120 There's so many better, more sophisticated side options.
00:05:34.860 So you're all going to be a-holes for that one.
00:05:43.920 My two daughters are vegetarian, but my husband and son are not.
00:05:48.180 I'm probably what they would call a flexitarian.
00:05:51.440 Well, you're definitely the a-hole.
00:05:52.640 I already know that you're the a-hole based on that alone. 1.00
00:05:54.540 A flexitarian?
00:05:55.820 So what does that mean?
00:05:56.620 You're flexible, you'll eat meat or vegetables?
00:05:59.060 Is that what you mean by flexitarian?
00:06:00.380 So you're just a person?
00:06:02.000 You're a normal person like the rest of us?
00:06:04.020 You don't need to call with new labels for everything.
00:06:06.180 You didn't invent something new.
00:06:08.280 I'm a fooditarian, you know, because my thing is that I eat food.
00:06:13.140 You know, if it's not food, I don't eat it.
00:06:14.860 I'm a walk-on-the-grounditarian.
00:06:17.000 Yeah, because I generally only walk on things that are to the ground.
00:06:22.460 Anyway, where were we?
00:06:25.120 My son and husband always turn out their noses at tofu or any other meat alternatives.
00:06:29.600 They say it's just weird that it's made to resemble real meat, so it's really the concept and not the taste.
00:06:35.280 There are no allergies.
00:06:36.260 My family and I often make two versions of dinner, one meat, one real, and twice the amount of pots and pans.
00:06:42.620 There is an equal distribution of cleaning and cooking in this house, thankfully.
00:06:46.740 My daughters had a fun prank idea of making two pots of spaghetti sauce under the pretense that one was meat, but they were both the soy ground beef. 1.00
00:06:54.880 The goal here was to see if their brother and father actually hated the meat, that is, the fake meat, and to see if we could maybe save some dishes and time in the future.
00:07:04.880 Everyone loved dinner.
00:07:05.940 Both husband and son finished their plates.
00:07:07.800 This was when my youngest couldn't hold it in anymore and told them.
00:07:11.380 They both got very upset about being fed something other than what they were told.
00:07:15.800 Reddit.
00:07:16.540 Am I the a**hole?
00:07:17.820 So, they made soy meat, which is not, that's like, that doesn't actually exist.
00:07:23.900 Just like when they, when you hear about coconut milk or almond milk, that's not actually milk.
00:07:28.760 Milk, by definition, is a dairy product.
00:07:30.620 That's a coconut secretion, is what it should say, on the carton.
00:07:34.000 There's no such thing as soy meat.
00:07:35.580 That's just, it's fake.
00:07:36.820 So, they made a soy thing in two pots, and they said that one was meat, and they said that they were feeding that to the husband and son, but it was really the soy, and they couldn't tell the difference.
00:07:45.920 Now, Reddit has declared that this woman is the a**hole. 1.00
00:07:50.840 Yes, you are the a**hole.
00:07:52.340 You are the a**hole.
00:07:54.700 Goodbye.
00:07:55.320 You shouldn't ever lie to somebody about what you're feeding them, so that makes you an a**hole. 0.92
00:07:58.820 But, I actually think you're an a**hole for a different reason. 1.00
00:08:02.440 You expect me to believe that you made a meat sauce with soy beef, and then your son and husband, who are big, long-time meat eaters, they couldn't tell that it wasn't real meat?
00:08:14.620 That's bulls**t.
00:08:15.540 Sorry, I just, I don't believe it.
00:08:16.900 That's gorgon s**t.
00:08:18.400 Total gorgon s**t.
00:08:19.840 I've had meat substitutes before, just purely out of morbid curiosity, and they always taste like a fertilizer and sadness.
00:08:29.260 What does it taste like?
00:08:30.540 Despair?
00:08:31.080 Okay, they taste fraudulent.
00:08:33.160 Always.
00:08:33.880 And by the way, if you have an ethical problem with meat, then why are you eating food made to taste like it?
00:08:39.620 That's the other thing I don't understand.
00:08:40.900 I have a problem with this, I don't want to eat meat, I think it's immoral, but I want my food to taste like the thing that's immoral?
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