The Matt Walsh Show - Who's The Biggest A-Hole？ Episode 4

00:00:00.000 I was in a higher-end apartment store today, rhymes with looming tales, and happened to end up next

00:00:22.080 to two teenage girls while shopping. One of the girls had picked out a pair of very expensive 0.96

00:00:26.580 boots. They were both fawning over them. The second girl must have looked at the price tag and asked 0.72

00:00:31.740 the girl if she was really going to spend that much of the boots. The girl with the boots said 0.98

00:00:34.920 something along the lines of, it's fine, I have my dad's credit card, I'm not paying, which instantly

00:00:38.800 caught my attention because that's not her card. I've told my son multiple times he's never allowed

00:00:42.740 to use my card, so I'm interested to see how this girl thinks she's going to get away with fraud, 1.00

00:00:47.280 but I'd split up from the girls at this point because they had found something else. We end up

00:00:51.580 at the same register, me behind, and I see her total hit well over four digits. The girl's about to 1.00

00:00:56.220 swipe her card when I decide that I can't let her get away with something like that and someone 0.99

00:01:00.580 has to parent this child if no one else will. I tell the cashier that it isn't her card but her

00:01:04.440 father's, and I'm not sure if she has permission. The girl and the friend turn in glare and give me

00:01:08.000 the dirtiest look I've ever seen. I swear this girl was going to throw a temper tantrum right there. 1.00

00:01:13.540 The girl tells the cashier her father gave her the card to shop with, but the cashier says you can't

00:01:17.900 use it, and then they storm away and they're very, very mad, and then she tells her husband what

00:01:22.160 happened and the husband takes the side of the girls and says that she was in the wrong. Okay,

00:01:26.220 I could see where your husband is coming from. This is like something my wife might do, 0.54

00:01:31.660 and I would probably be in your, especially if I was with her and she was planning on the,

00:01:37.300 I would be in your husband's shoes saying, no, just stay out of it. You know, that's her dad's 0.85

00:01:40.860 problem. It's not our problem. We got enough problems. Okay, we don't need to add more to

00:01:44.200 the plate. Just whatever. It's not our problem. So I would be with your husband, except that

00:01:50.560 what would propel me to not want to get involved is really indifference. It's not actually any sort

00:01:56.320 of ethical position. So ultimately, while you're moderately an asshole for this, it's a justified 0.99

00:02:02.440 asshole situation. Like to narc on the kid that way. Yeah, you're kind of an a-hole, but it's also 1.00

00:02:08.040 justified. And I really admire it. So that's one of the problems I have, I guess, with sorting 0.62

00:02:13.260 through some of these is that I sort of admire people who are sometimes, depending on the situation,

00:02:17.140 who are willing to be a-holes in public. So there's a third category of justified a-holishness

00:02:24.440 that I think is, that's a nuance that's missing from the A, am I the a-hole dilemma? So I guess

00:02:30.240 the final message is, that we should take from this is, it's okay to be an a-hole, but only

00:02:35.940 in the right situation. Here in Canada, it's Thanksgiving weekend and my family

00:02:47.120 is having our dinner tomorrow. My aunt, who has a toddler and is in the middle of moving, 0.99

00:02:51.240 insisted on hosting dinner this year, despite all of us warning her it'd be a lot to do,

00:02:55.360 especially with her moving. She insisted that she'd be able to handle it, and the plan was to

00:02:58.820 have dinner at her place. I'm a baking and pastry art student, so I offered to make pies for dessert.

00:03:04.220 My offer was taken up when I started planning and designing the pies for my family.

00:03:08.000 This would be the first time any of them had seen or tried any of my baking, since I've become

00:03:12.840 more than a home baker. I'm classically trained in French pastries, among other things, and I

00:03:17.080 graduate this winter, so needless to say, I take great pride in what I create and consider each

00:03:20.860 baked good a piece of art and a piece of meat. Tomorrow is the dinner, and I was just informed

00:03:24.420 that there would be no home-cooked meal, but instead my aunt is going to order Thai takeout for 0.90

00:03:28.140 everybody. I got upset and said that not only will I not be making the pies, but I won't be

00:03:33.420 attending the dinner at all. My parents are mad at me for not following through, but I feel

00:03:36.340 massively disrespected and disregarded. Am I the a-hole? I mean, a little bit. Yeah, I think you are.

00:03:40.880 This is kind of a half-and-half a-hole deal. So you're the a-hole for all the stuff about how

00:03:45.160 your baking is your art, and it's a piece of you, and trying to impress everyone with the fact

00:03:49.160 that you're in college. I went to college! That makes you an a-hole, and no one wants to be around

00:03:53.640 that. On the other hand, your aunt is ordering takeout on Thanksgiving? That is, that's a crime. 1.00

00:03:59.360 I mean, that should actually be a crime. This isn't hard, okay? Thanksgiving is a time for a specific

00:04:04.320 sort of meal. You should not legally be allowed to eat anything but the traditional meal. So we're

00:04:11.200 talking turkey, stuffing, green beans, gravy, sweet potatoes, etc., right? Like, there are a few other

00:04:15.980 staples. You can add in some variation. You can add some things in addition to the staples, your own

00:04:22.160 twist on things if you want, but the staples need to be there. And again, if, you know, when I'm

00:04:26.160 the theocratic fascist dictator of the world, this will be a matter of the law. All restaurants that

00:04:31.880 serve takeout will be forcibly closed on Thanksgiving. Any restaurant owner that tries to open on

00:04:37.040 Thanksgiving will be immediately shot. That's it. All right? It might seem a little harsh,

00:04:41.960 but you got to break some eggs to make some omelets.

00:04:52.100 Am I the a-hole for kicking my husband out of the delivery room? I, 23 female, my husband, 24 male,

00:04:58.140 just had our first baby. My husband was so excited and was super supportive and caring throughout the

00:05:03.320 pregnancy. The only thing is that he became slightly obsessed with watching YouTube and

00:05:08.140 TikTok videos of husbands pulling pranks on their wives while in labor. I just got an idea for a

00:05:14.300 different series of YouTube videos we have to do now. I didn't mind at first, but then he started

00:05:18.020 casually joking about doing things he saw in the videos, saying it would be funny. I clearly stated

00:05:22.820 my distaste for them and asked him not to do anything like what he saw. He agreed and continued to joke

00:05:27.960 about it from time to time, but I brushed it off since I trusted him and thought nothing would

00:05:31.820 come of it. The day of the delivery came and I had been in labor for eight hours. I had just

00:05:36.660 finished another round of contractions when my husband let out the loudest fart, turned to me and

00:05:41.960 said, what the hell have you been eating? It smells disgusting. I immediately recognized that as one of 0.95

00:05:47.640 the pranks in the videos. Outraged at him, not honoring what I asked him not to do, I demanded that

00:05:52.460 he leave the room. He started to argue, saying that it was just a joke, but I insisted and luckily

00:05:58.780 the nurse helped him get out. The nurse helped him, helped him leave. I went through the last four

00:06:04.000 hours of labor by myself since my family lives out of state and I'm not close to my mother-in-law.

00:06:08.120 After the delivery, I told the nurse he could come back into the room and he was fuming.

00:06:11.920 He started demanding that I tell him why I kicked him out. I calmly told him the reason, but he was

00:06:15.680 pissed. He hasn't talked to me in a week. His mom is taking his side, saying that I was a complete

00:06:20.320 bitch for kicking him out. Normally he will defend me from her, but this time he completely agreed. 1.00

00:06:25.040 I might be the a**hole because I know how much he was looking forward to being there for the birth

00:06:28.340 for our first kid, and especially when he got to cut the cord, but I still kicked him out and I 0.63

00:06:33.540 refused to let him back in. The nurse asked a few times if I wanted him back in, but each time I said

00:06:38.360 no. So am I the a**hole for kicking my husband out after a stupid prank that he agreed not to do? 1.00

00:06:42.900 First of all, your husband is the a-hole purely because he spent weeks researching delivery room pranks, 1.00

00:06:48.800 and that's the one he settles on? No offense, but you are a stupid a**hole. After weeks of watching 1.00

00:06:56.320 all these videos, which do sound really hilarious, and I want to check some of that myself, but that's

00:07:01.820 what you end up doing? Just the best you could do after all that time and all that preparation? You

00:07:07.220 had weeks, man, and the best you could do was fart and blame it on your wife? Leaving that aside,

00:07:13.680 yeah, he's the a**hole. Because look, fellas, you antagonize your wife while she's giving birth 0.99

00:07:22.580 and you get what you get. I feel sorry for, you know, you about as much as I feel sorry for

00:07:31.220 somebody who gets eaten while wrestling a crocodile. It's like these are choices you make in life and

00:07:39.620 you live with the consequences. You knew what you were getting into. You knew the risks and you

00:07:45.400 decided to do it anyway. And besides, third thing, he's also kind of the a-hole for being upset about

00:07:52.420 being kicked out of the delivery room. I've been through this four times. I would have loved to

00:07:57.640 get kicked out. Who wants to be in the delivery room anyway? I know I'm one of the only guys who

00:08:02.660 will say this out loud, but I tell you right now, I'm not the only guy who feels this way.

00:08:06.220 But I don't really, like, it's kind of gross. And I don't feel a great need to be there.

00:08:11.060 I shouldn't have gotten there. I wish we could go back to the days where men hung out. This is

00:08:15.200 what they used to do back in the old days, okay? They had a smoking room in the hospital

00:08:19.360 and you would sit there while the woman does all the delivery stuff. And you would just sit there,

00:08:25.080 you'd read a newspaper and you'd smoke a cigar. That's right. It's a baby. And then when the baby's

00:08:30.320 born, you'd go into the room, you'd say hello to the baby and you'd leave and you'd check back in

00:08:35.080 about the time they, you know, graduate middle school. That's the way it should be, okay?

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 10, 2022

Who's The Biggest A-Hole？ Episode 4

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