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| Give me playback of TS-19. | |
| Playback of TS-19. | |
| What is that? | |
| It invades the brain like meningitis. | |
| The brain goes into shutdown, then the major organs. | |
| But they're not alive. | |
| You tell me. | |
| Most of that brain is dark. | |
| Dark, lifeless. | |
| Okay, so this is interesting. | |
| Today, we have a little bit of a hybrid combination. | |
| You know, we have our M.I.A. | |
| The A-Hole day, and we have the TikTok reaction day. | |
| But today, I guess we have M.I.A. | |
| The A-Hole TikToks. | |
| Two worlds collide. | |
| So let's go. | |
| Let's just start at the top. | |
| Once again, I have hot money gossip, and I need to know what you guys would do in this situation and who you think is the a**hole. | |
| So the 17-year-old guy lost his father two years ago, and his dad left him an inheritance. | |
| Not never-work-again money, but a meaningful amount. | |
| Alright, can we stop it? | |
| I don't care about this. | |
| Solve your own problems. | |
| Am I the a-hole for kicking my brother-in-law out after he referred to himself as the father of my child? | |
| I'm a 30-year-old female, and my wife is a 29-year-old female. | |
| We welcomed our son into the world a year ago, and both of our families are very accepting of us, but my wife's family has this weird obsession with passing on the family secrets. | |
| Okay, can we pause for a second? | |
| Wait for it! | |
| Woo! | |
| I just need you to explain why we do this makeup thing every single time. | |
| Why do we need to see you putting on your damn makeup? | |
| I don't get it. | |
| You want to tell us your story, just look in the camera and tell the story. | |
| My father... | |
| So this made adopting out of the question very early on. | |
| My wife and I always wanted to start a family, but things got difficult when my wife found out that she was infertile. | |
| Okay, pause it for a second. | |
| You and your wife wanted to start a family. | |
| Well, you can't. | |
| He is the one. | |
| You and your wife actually cannot start a family. | |
| It's not physically possible to do. | |
| I don't think you have the facilities for that, big man. | |
| There's no such thing as a family that comes from two women. | |
| Maybe that should tell us something. | |
| And don't get me, though. | |
| Well, they're infertile couples of men and women. | |
| The fact that, in principle, two women can never, ever start a family, it's impossible for two women to create babies, that might be some kind of hint. | |
| Some kind of hint. | |
| Hey, can't you take a hint? | |
| In fact, every child has a mother and a father. | |
| That's the way that nature has set it up. | |
| And so maybe that's the way it should simply be. | |
| So we have technology these days, and we could try our best to get around this, but we can't actually get around it. | |
| Because when it comes down to it, still, whatever we find out about what arrangement they came up with, still, their child is not really going to be their child. | |
| It's going to be the child of one of them and some other man. | |
| There is another. | |
| Because every child has a mother and father, and is meant to. | |
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| My biological mom died in childbirth, which has led me to believe that I wouldn't hold a pregnancy very well. | |
| After a few months of brainstorming, my mother-in-law suggested that we do IVF. | |
| Using my eggs, my brother-in-law's sperm, and let my wife carry the baby. | |
| Even though I was skeptical, I gave in because the plant hit all the marks. | |
| Her family got to pass on the genes, and my wife and I got to start a family. | |
| Could we pause it? | |
| So, we're just gonna pass over that. | |
| Maybe this is why they do the makeup thing? | |
| To make everything seem casual? | |
| As we're gonna pass over the incest part of this? | |
| Okay, so your brother, you're having a baby with your brother-in-law, and his sister is carrying his baby. | |
| Right? | |
| Did I have that right? | |
| Yep, you got it. | |
| And we're just moving right past, we're moving right past the incest. | |
| Oh, you know, we're in this incestuous thing with, you know, but anyway. | |
| And the only thing that she's concerned about, well, I can already tell you, she's upset that the brother-in-law says that he's the father. | |
| Well, he is. | |
| You are the father! | |
| Okay, continue. | |
| We went through extensive counseling and therapy to make sure everyone was on the same page and could handle it, and everything went great. | |
| My wife loved being pregnant. | |
| Okay, pause it for a second. | |
| Extensive counseling for all of you people? | |
| Well, what about the counseling that your child's going to? | |
| I'm not worried about counseling for you. | |
| You guys are hopeless, okay? | |
| I don't think there's not enough counseling in the world that can fix all this. | |
| What I'm concerned about is the child. | |
| So this child, his uncle will be his dad, right? | |
| His uncle is his dad. | |
| He's the one, the child's gonna need the therapy, not you people. | |
| I mean, you people do need therapy, but number one, it's too late for you probably, and there probably aren't any therapists in the country right now who would be willing to tell you the kinds of things that you need to be told. | |
| We were overjoyed to welcome our new baby boy in the winter. | |
| But a problem arose when we were preparing for my son's first birthday when my brother-in-law made a comment about how he should get a say in the planning as the child's father. | |
| I was shocked, I cringed, and I told him he wasn't. | |
| And told him that he was just providing a piece of him and he looked me in the eye and said, yeah, so he's our child. | |
| My wife's jaw dropped and my mother-in-law wasn't making eye contact. | |
| I kicked him out of the house and told him that he couldn't come back until he apologized. | |
| But he got angry, which made my wife start to cry. | |
| She has always struggled with self-esteem, and this infertility really took a toll on her. | |
| For months, I've had to reassure her and tell her what an amazing mom she is. | |
| My sister-in-law later that day called me the B-word, and I argued that my brother-in-law had no right saying any of that. | |
| But she kept yelling so my wife and I— I can't. | |
| We can't even do it anymore. | |
| I think that's enough, Emma, they hold for today. | |
| This is what, so this is the thing that shocked everyone. | |
| This is what shocked and scandalized everyone. | |
| When the brother-in-law, and like brother-in-law, I use it, we should put air quotes around that. | |
| He makes an observation that is actually correct, that he is the father, and that's what's jaw-dropping and scandalous to them. | |
| Not this bizarre, incestuous arrangement that they've come up with. | |
| And that they've come up with, Not because it's in the best interest of the child. | |
| That's the point. | |
| This is not about the child. | |
| Dave, if you were worried about the child, you would not be doing any of this. | |
| Is it in the best interest of a child for his uncle to be his dad? | |
| This? | |
| It's unacceptable. | |
| When we start cutting nature out of the, as much as we can, and we can't really, but we try to start getting around nature when it comes to childbirth. | |
| And then we're doing surrogacy and everything else. | |
| It's not about the child anymore. | |
| The child is now an accessory. | |
| The child is like a means to an end. | |
| It's what you want. | |
| It's gonna make you feel good. | |
| Maybe for these two, it makes the whole, quote-unquote, marriage feel more real or something. | |
| And so they want to have a baby, even though they can't. | |
| And it's all about them. | |
| It's not about the child. | |
| So, oh, who's the a-hole in that? | |
| Well, like, everybody remotely close to this situation. | |
| All of them. | |
| A-hole is the best thing I could say about them. | |
| And really the only thing I can say about them. | |
| Yeah, we're not gonna do it. | |
| See you tomorrow. |