The Matt Walsh Show - Am I The A**hole? Matt Walsh Decides - Deleted Scenes
Aired: 2022-02-04
Duration: 07:04


=== Why I Kicked Him Out (03:46) ===

[00:00:00]  So today we're going to try something a little different.
[00:00:02]  Again, I always like doing this because as your theocratic fascist dictator, one of my duties is to listen to the people and hear their problems and then judge them ruthlessly.
[00:00:13]  Thankfully, Reddit's Am I the a**hole forum provides us plenty of fuel for this a**hole fire.
[00:00:20]  Take a listen.
[00:00:22]  Am I the a**hole for kicking my husband out of the delivery room?
[00:00:25]  I, 23 female, my husband, 24 male, just had our first baby.
[00:00:29]  My husband was so excited and was super supportive and caring throughout the pregnancy.
[00:00:33]  The only thing is that he became slightly obsessed with watching YouTube and TikTok videos of husbands pulling pranks on their wives while in labor.
[00:00:43]  I just got an idea for a different series of YouTube videos we have to do now.
[00:00:45]  I didn't mind at first, but then he started casually joking about doing things he saw in the videos, saying it would be funny.
[00:00:51]  I clearly stated my distaste for them and asked him not to do anything like what he saw.
[00:00:56]  He agreed and continued to joke about it from time to time, but I brushed it off since I trusted him and thought nothing would come of it.
[00:01:02]  The day of the delivery came and I had been in labor for eight hours.
[00:01:05]  I had just finished another round of contractions when my husband let out the loudest fart, turned to me and said, what the hell have you been eating?
[00:01:13]  It smells disgusting.
[00:01:15]  I immediately recognized that as one of the pranks in the videos.
[00:01:18]  Outraged at him not honoring what I asked him not to do, I demanded that he leave the room.
[00:01:24]  He started to argue, saying that it was just a joke, but I insisted, and luckily, the nurse helped him get out.
[00:01:32]  I went through the last four hours of labor by myself, since my family lives out of state, and I'm not close to my mother-in-law.
[00:01:37]  After the delivery, I told the nurse he could come back into the room, and he was fuming.
[00:01:41]  He started demanding that I tell him why I kicked him out.
[00:01:43]  I calmly told him the reason, but he was pissed.
[00:01:46]  He hasn't talked to me in a week.
[00:01:47]  His mom is taking his side, saying that I was a complete b**** for kicking him out.
[00:01:51]  Normally he will defend me from her, but this time he completely agreed.
[00:01:54]  I might be the a**hole because I know how much he was looking forward to being there for the birth of our first kid, and especially when he got to cut the cord, but I still kicked him out and I refused to let him back in.
[00:02:04]  The nurse asked a few times if I wanted him back in, but each time I said no.
[00:02:08]  So am I the a**hole for kicking my husband out after a stupid prank that he agreed not to do?
[00:02:12]  First of all, your husband is the a**hole purely because he spent weeks researching delivery room pranks, and that's the one he settles on?
[00:02:20]  No offense, but you are a stupid a**hole.
[00:02:24]  After weeks of watching all these videos, which do sound really hilarious, and I want to check some of that myself, but that's what you end up doing?
[00:02:33]  Just the best you could do after all that time and all that preparation?
[00:02:36]  You had weeks, man!
[00:02:38]  And the best you could do was fart and blame it on your wife?
[00:02:42]  Leaving that aside, yeah, he's the a-hole.
[00:02:45]  Because look, fellas, you antagonize your wife while she's giving birth, and you get what you get.
[00:02:54]  Daddy, how you feel?
[00:02:57]  I feel sorry for, you know, you about as much as I feel sorry for somebody who gets eaten while wrestling a crocodile.
[00:03:06]  It's like these are choices you make in life and you live with the consequences.
[00:03:12]  You knew what you were getting into.
[00:03:13]  You knew the risks and you decided to do it anyway.
[00:03:16]  And besides, third thing, he's also kind of the a-hole for being upset about being kicked out of the delivery room.
[00:03:24]  I've been through this four times.
[00:03:26]  I would have loved to get kicked out.
[00:03:28]  Who wants to be in the delivery room anyway?
[00:03:30]  I know I'm one of the only guys who will say this out loud, but I tell you right now, I'm not the only guy who feels this way.

=== Boyfriend or Not? (03:33) ===

[00:03:36]  It's kind of gross, and I don't feel a great need to be there.
[00:03:40]  I should have gone there.
[00:03:42]  I wish we could go back to the days where men hung out.
[00:03:44]  This is what they used to do back in the old days, okay?
[00:03:47]  They had a smoking room in the hospital.
[00:03:49]  That's right.
[00:03:49]  And you would sit there while the woman does all the delivery stuff, and you would just
[00:03:54]  sit there, you'd read a newspaper, and you'd smoke a cigar.
[00:03:56]  That's right.
[00:03:57]  It's a baby.
[00:03:58]  And then when the baby's born, you'd go into the room, you'd say hello to the baby, and
[00:04:03]  you'd leave, and you'd check back in about the time that they, you know, graduate middle
[00:04:06]  school.
[00:04:07]  That's the way it should be.
[00:04:09]  Okay?
[00:04:10]  All right.
[00:04:11]  Am I the a**hole for wanting my son to get along with my boyfriend?
[00:04:15]  Sean is my 13 year old child and I am a single mother.
[00:04:18]  Connor, my current boyfriend, of course his name is Connor.
[00:04:21]  And I have been together for two years.
[00:04:23]  Sean has disliked Conor for as long as he can remember.
[00:04:26]  He would go upstairs and ignore Conor whenever he came to my place, even though I let Conor drop Sean off at school.
[00:04:31]  Sean has never once expressed appreciation or bonded with Conor.
[00:04:34]  Conor pretended to be unconcerned by his actions, but I could tell he was hurt by all of it.
[00:04:38]  I asked him why he despised Conor so much.
[00:04:41]  He gave a list of various reasons, some of which I seriously doubt.
[00:04:44]  To begin with, he claims that when Conor dropped him off at school a couple of times, He made derogatory remarks about his Asian friends, calling him a little Kung Pao chicken, etc.
[00:04:54]  It's not funny.
[00:04:56]  Sean mentioned the time Connor didn't give his guinea pig water.
[00:05:00]  And when he and I were at the beach a year ago, he was house-sitting for three days.
[00:05:04]  Sean also mentioned how Connor advised him to man up in a number of circumstances.
[00:05:09]  I basically told him straight up that I don't believe anything he's saying.
[00:05:11]  I confronted Connor after that and he denied all of it.
[00:05:14]  So because Sean lied, I took away his gaming consoles as punishment.
[00:05:17]  I also lectured him about abusing Connor, who might be his new stepdad one day.
[00:05:21]  Sean told his father, my ex, what had happened.
[00:05:25]  Now my ex is cursing at me for being unfair towards my son.
[00:05:28]  Am I the a-hole?
[00:05:29]  Okay.
[00:05:29]  Yeah, you're the a-hole.
[00:05:31]  Look, I don't know your situation.
[00:05:32]  I don't know why you aren't married to Sean's dad.
[00:05:37]  But what I do know is that what Sean wants, what all kids want, is for their parents to live together in the same house and have a real intact family.
[00:05:46]  Like, they're real parents, both of them.
[00:05:48]  Like, that's what Sean wants.
[00:05:49]  That's what your kid wants.
[00:05:50]  And like, if you can't handle that, grow the hell up.
[00:05:52]  And if they can't have that for whatever reason, you can't blame them for being upset.
[00:05:57]  Or for not being especially fond of the runner-up prize.
[00:06:01]  Hey Sean, your dad and I, you know, you can't have a real dad, but here's Connor.
[00:06:05]  Why don't you settle on that instead?
[00:06:08]  And besides, he's just your boyfriend.
[00:06:12]  So Sean doesn't know if this guy will be actually a permanent fixture in your life.
[00:06:17]  Have you thought about that?
[00:06:19]  How many, let me ask you, how many boyfriends have you had since the father of your child?
[00:06:26]  I'm guessing more than one.
[00:06:28]  So how many times has Sean been expected to develop a father-son relationship with the new guy in your life who just ends up getting, you know, ends up out of the picture in a year or two anyway?
[00:06:39]  You might have your hands full once I pick up the controller.
[00:06:41]  Have you ever thought about the fact that there's this continual effect of abandonment that your son is going through?
[00:06:47]  And so now he's putting up defenses against that because he's tired of being abandoned by one man after another?
[00:06:57]  Whether it's the man's fault or yours or a combination, probably a combination.
[00:07:01]  Have you thought about that?
[00:07:02]  Well, that's it.
[00:07:02]  Those judgments are absolutely final.