WEBVTT - HOLIDAY BONUS EPISODE! Stories That Will Figgy Your Pudding 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.200 Oh, hello fable babies, and welcome to a very special 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:30.000 holiday episode of Hashtag Storytime. I'm your host, will Figgy 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:33.280 Pudding mc fadden. Now, I don't know if you've noticed, 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:37.960 but everyone has gone AI crazy. I mean, my entire 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.000 Instagram feed has been nothing but computer generated headshots for 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:43.600 the past two weeks, and I thought maybe we could 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.800 get in on the action, so I let chat GPT 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.400 write the intro for this episode. Now, chat g BT 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.320 is a It's a text based artificial intelligence tool was 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.320 released by open Ai, and I asked it to write 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.680 me a quirky, sassy intro for the holiday episode of 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:03.200 a podcast. 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Not bad Robot, although 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:48.920 I think it could have been sass here and now 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:53.680 enjoy some quality holiday Reddit stories with me, Jason and Daniela. 0:01:55.680 --> 0:02:01.200 Happy holidays, Fable babies, and welcome to a special holiday 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.960 edition of hashtag Storytime. I'm back with the Fable family. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.840 We've got Jason and Dan Yella, and we're going to 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:11.919 share some some some hot We're gonna dive deep into 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:16.360 some holiday trauma. Are you guys ready to unpack that? Yes? 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:21.320 Let's go all right first, before we dive into the 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.240 reddit stories. Uh, I just I just want to know 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:32.880 a little bit about your guys holiday traditions. Jason, you're Jewish? Guilty? 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:43.000 What is uh? Okay, let's restart. Jason, You're Jewish? Jewish? 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.920 Just so everyone knows Jason's Jewish. So I'm gonna have 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:50.320 to Yeah, I guess I'm talking about Christmas so much. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.280 I love it. Okay, I got good Christmas? Well, Jason, 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.800 didn't you? I mean you you might have to do 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:03.799 a whole separate Storytime episode but did your dad own Christmas, uh, 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:09.960 like decoration stores or Christmas? He did. Yeah, so Christmas 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.600 as a as a Jewish boy, in a Jewish man, 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:17.320 Christmas has had a large presence in my life, and 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:22.359 so I've always really wanted to celebrate Christmas, but it 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:26.000 was the family business. So all of my Christmas memories 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:32.600 are really at stores in the Midwest setting up Christmas decorations. 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.720 I set up like not only the Nativity scene, but 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:41.600 the whole city of Bethlehem and all these figurines. So 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.840 it was a unique experience where not only did I 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:49.120 not get to celebrate, I had to plan the party 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.560 for everyone else basically, and then you didn't get to 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.880 reap the benefits. Yeah, because Honikah Hankah is great, but 0:03:55.960 --> 0:04:01.160 Hanikah is just like the celebration of like a military operation. 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.520 It's it's kind of like a lesser Fourth of July, 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:11.160 where you know, a group of of militants took a 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.200 took a stand. So it's cool, but it's not really 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.839 like a gift giving type of thing. It's just it's 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.640 just that it lines up at the same time as Christmas. 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:25.599 So it's been kind of commercialized in in a similar 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:30.720 way exactly. So Christmas has a big place in my heart. 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:38.440 I hope to one day celebrate it non religiously but culturally. Danielle, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:43.520 do you have any weird Christmas traditions, weird family, honest 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.760 traditions around the holidays. I like, when I used to 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:51.480 be in Catholic school, we would go to church. Um, 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.679 me go to Mass and my dad is a Buddhist. Yeah, weird, 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.920 this is my corkiest one. My dad's a Buddhist. So 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.080 we would go and then he would be in the 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.800 back and like not take the Eucharist and like we 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.120 were so ashamed when we were young. I'm like, Dan, 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:09.599 you're making me look weird. Dad to eat the body 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.200 of Christ. Dad with the far Yeah, I was like 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.200 drink the blood that he turned from wine to water. 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.920 And he was he was just there for the music, 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:21.320 he would say, and he would just be like, everyone's 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:25.200 a great singer. I'm like, that is the radio but 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.479 yeah it uh, I don't know he used to go 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:31.640 to church. I guess now we just like travel to 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:37.080 see family. So there were no Mad's of the Nativity set. 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.080 I guess I should also probably do a spoiler alert 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:44.160 if there are any children listening to this, parents, you 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.799 probably should take them away or to put them to 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.920 put them to bed, because there might be Santa spoilers 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:55.200 in here. Um so like his real identity yes, Tim 0:05:55.240 --> 0:06:00.640 Allen and his location no, I will now that the 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.479 children aren't listening. I was going to ask, when when 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:10.560 did you find out that Santa was not real? About 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:17.120 thirty seconds ago? That hurt you made it twenty three 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:22.800 years believing. I think there's a new Netflix holiday rom 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.760 com that's about this woman who's dating a full grown 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.400 man who still believes in Santa genius. They'll make anything, 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:35.680 they will, and I will watch anything. Okay, I don't 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.880 really remember what age. I just remember that the same 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.920 wrapping that Santa had under the tree was in my bathroom, 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.479 Like my mom was getting sloppy about it. Yes, she 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.880 was getting a little messy. Um and that was rude 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:51.919 because you need to keep it in order. But it 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:59.680 definitely was elementary school. So maybe like second third, that's 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.599 all world, that's it's It's that I have nephews that 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:04.719 I write around that age, and I'm like, I gotta 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:09.920 be careful. Yeah, Jason, when did you what did you 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.760 think of Santa? And you know, did you believe? Yea, 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:18.080 what was your When I was in first grade, I 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:24.480 do remember coming back from school around you know, December, 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.280 before the holidays, and and just talking to my mom 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:31.440 about Santa and what all the kids believed because we 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.200 had already, you know, had the Christmas stores I've been 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.560 going to those. Santa was a huge figure. Um. I 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:41.680 don't remember ever wondering if he was real or not, 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:43.840 but I do remember in first grade coming back and 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.120 being like, all my friends believe in Santa, Like what 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.000 do I do? And I think my mom was like, 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.679 this is going to be our little secret, and don't 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.160 spoil it for everyone else, you know, something that they 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:01.080 don't know. And so I think for a kind of 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:04.600 the duration of my friends believing in Santa Claus, I 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.880 was always kind of like, yes, yeah, totally, that guy 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.560 did give you gifts, just kind of smirking to myself, 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.520 knowing that I had a little yeah, I had a 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:21.400 little secret with mommy about the non existence of Santa. 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.119 I love the idea of just like third grader Jason 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:29.960 being like, sure, oh yeah, I'm sure that fat man 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:35.319 peased down your chimney and brought you brought you presents 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.000 it may have created a whole personality. Yeah, it may 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:42.480 have created a whole personality. Um, I think I think 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:44.800 for me, I was I don't know how old I was. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.959 I was in elementary school, but I remember parents got sloppy. 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.920 I remember getting a present and on the tag it 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.439 said from Santa, but the tag was a Toys r 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.719 Us tag and I like looked at it and was like, 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:02.480 Santa opposite toys r Us. And I think my older 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:07.240 brother James was like, Santa isn't real. Will figure it out. 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.920 The workshop ran out of toy trot to stop at Yeah, 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:16.760 he could have played it off. You could have been like, yeah, 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.120 he's just you know, sometimes he needs to pick up 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.880 some things and you know. But yeah, James just came 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:29.360 in with the cold heart truth. Was like brutal. You 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.960 needed Jason as an older brother like him. That's what 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:37.880 he does. Wank wank. We all have. We all have 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:43.800 very strong youngest sibling personalities. So that's true energy. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:48.240 we bring that that baby energy, that baby in the family. 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.800 Literally like at twenty far making my mom carry me 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:59.319 still if she could, she probably would. Um. Now, now 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.040 I want to ask the question of if you could 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:06.839 have anything, anything for for Christmas, for Hannukah this year? 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:08.640 What's the what's the one thing on the top of 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.360 the list for you? Danielle, what's what do you want 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:21.760 for Christmas? Um? A free nose job? Okay? Any surgeons 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.599 listening that want to do a sponsored deal? Danielle was 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:31.640 looking for hashtag story time for off about it, TikTok, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:36.440 I will I will post and tag you um to 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:40.440 maybe get some hate comments. But no, Yeah, what would 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.600 I want? I don't know now, It's like not toys 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.680 and stuff. Maybe like a camera, a newer camera, or 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.960 a cat. What am I saying? I would like a kid? Okay, 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.800 kitty cat? There we go, kitty cat knows job kid? 0:10:55.520 --> 0:11:01.360 Jeff Bezos. Yeah yeah, yeah, that's a good list. That's 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.199 a good list. All right. Jason, what about you? What 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:07.080 do you what do you want for the holidays? Truthfully? 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:11.920 I want to trip to Cabo Huh. That would be nice, 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:19.160 just four days all inclusive on the beach, drinking mescal. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:24.360 I want that. And I also want like an oh 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.480 Led television that would be right, one of one of 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:34.400 the curved oh Led and that's a good one. Lastly, 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:40.680 I think I would like a belt, like a really 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:46.080 nice belt. Sometimes it's the simple things, you know, like nice. Yeah, 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.080 people hate on socks, but like if you gave me 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:53.600 some Bombas, some Bomba socks, it's amazing, Like love the 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.080 Bombas quality socks, you know, or like people are like, 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.440 don't get me underwear, but like a nice little pair 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:03.120 of thieves, I'm down. Thank you, m M. And anyone 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:07.640 else that will sponsor us para thieves or or or 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.800 what is the moisture wicking one me undy's the formal 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:20.319 version my underwear. My yes, um yeah, we'll take any sponsorship. Um, okay, 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.080 what let's see. What do I want? What I want 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:25.640 for Christmas? The thing you want is for the women 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:29.440 of Iran to have freedom. M that's a joke to 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:34.320 you that yeah, just kidding, just kidding. I want I 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.800 want a Bissell. Uh you know, I want a Bistle 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:43.880 carpet and upholstery vacuum cleaner. So Bissell. If you're listening, 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:53.880 that one's more doable Bissle and you're listening, suck. Um, 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:58.319 I'm gonna put a fat on us. Is that one thing? Still? Yeah? 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:04.760 People still to us? I mean sadly he did get 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.600 stabbed this year. Oh Yeah, that's right, that's right here 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.800 he's got the fot twel Um, this is a really 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:19.680 fun Christmas I don't know how we ended up on fotus. Okay, great, 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.480 let's jump into some Reddit stories I've got. I'm going 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:27.040 to kick it off with a classic am I the Asshole? 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.240 So I'm gonna read the story and then we shall vote. 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.680 We shall share our thoughts of whether or not the 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.200 original poster of this is an asshole or not. We 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:53.360 are kind of judge jury and asshole kuener. Alright, so 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.000 this is uh, this was posted. This is from this month, 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:02.000 so it's it's it's recent, supposed to by user four 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.640 and uh. The title of it is, am I the asshole? 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.640 For calling my wife unreasonable for backing out of spending 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:17.079 Christmas with my family after my mother rejected her cookie sample. Um, 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.480 everybody's probably wondering what's a cookie sample? And why was 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:24.440 it rejected by her mother? Let me tell you why. Okay, 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.000 So the poster I'm assuming the poster is is a 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:31.760 is a male, but we shall see so for context. 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.560 For every holiday, my mother would ask the women in 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.480 the family my sister's sister in law, my wife, my 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:42.720 female cousins to send samples of the desserts they plan 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:46.080 to bring to the celebration for testing and to see 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.840 if these desserts could make it to the food menu. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.000 My wife has been complaining about my mother deliberately rejecting 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.160 every dessert sample she sent so many times. My mother 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.920 has told her that she's being honest and keeping the 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.040 guests best int at heart. Yet my wife still thought 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.280 that my mother is deliberately excluding her since two of 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:11.960 her dessert samples were rejected before. Okay, for this year's Christmas, 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.280 my mother is doing the same thing, but this time 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.360 she told every woman who's participating to make a cookie 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.040 sample and send it to her for testing. My wife 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.080 took it as a challenge, and to be honest, she 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.280 worked really hard to make a good sample and send 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.200 it to my mother days ago, and the results just 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.240 came in yesterday. I came home from work and found 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.320 my wife upset. I asked what's wrong, and she told 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.160 me that my mother rejected the sample she sent and 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:38.280 decided to exclude her baking from the Foodless menu for 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.680 Christmas this year. I didn't know what to say, but 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.440 she told me that she was backing out of the 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.960 invitation to attend Christmas with the family. I was stunned 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.080 when I heard her make this statement. I tried to 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.960 talk her out, but she said it was done. I 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.880 called her unreasonable to decide to bail on the whole 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:56.080 family over some cookie sample. That's just freaking crazy and 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.600 quite unreasonable. We had a full on argument about it. Later. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.360 I heard her cry despite telling her that her baking 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.200 is amazing and people have preferences, that's all. Am I 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:11.800 the asshole for insisting that her decision was unreasonable? Wow? Yeah, 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:16.880 so a lot to unpack their um thoughts is first thoughts, 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:21.120 is uh the mom Mary Barry from The Great British 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:26.680 Bake Off? I was gonna say, is his mom Gordon Ramsey? 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.560 What the fun? Yeah? Yeah? What is high stakes? Is it? 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:36.000 Cake episode? Um? That's not I could see this being 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:40.440 a fun thing if it was treated lightheartedly and not 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:48.240 so cutthroat. But it sounds uh like mom's psychical. But 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.560 also you could just say, you know, they're good, to 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.960 keep them on the side. Maybe don't make a couple 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:56.960 of dozen, you know, I don't think you can tell 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:01.920 someone to stop their passionate aking, you know, for the holidays, 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.280 like the holidays, they're they're all about It's all about 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:12.040 like inclusivity and like being together, and like this is 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:17.200 the exhaust opposite of that. Yeah, to make it into 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:21.879 some fucking cutthroat ship and of like and and I 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:27.399 am the judge jury of the cookie samples, like and 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.679 also why is it only the women? Why don't the 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:33.200 men make any I love making cookies. Yeah, what the fuck? 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.960 What happened to her? Do you think as a kid, 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.919 because this is a childhood trauma that is playing out 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:47.520 in holiday drenched him. I think at some point she 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:51.199 must have hosted a party and everybody brought stuff and 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.560 then somebody was like this is bad. This is all 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:57.840 this stuff is bad. And then she was like mortified 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:03.480 and be like I'll never have an unsampled party before 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.200 ever again. Geez, she's acting like this is like a wedding, 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.000 you know, when you have like cake testing before, Like 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.240 this is just mom paw around the fireplace, Like I 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.960 don't think anyone would be that offended if the snicker 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:20.600 doodle was bad. Like, also, can you really mess up 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:25.000 a cookie? Yeah? I mean yeah, if you use salt 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:29.480 instead of sugar, you can. Okay, Well, but I'm sure 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:31.760 like she spent a lot of time working on this recipe. 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.240 I'm sure she got it down and it tasted good. Yeah. 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:40.080 Well then part two, do you think that's unreasonable? Like 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:42.440 I think I would be like, all right, you don't 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.520 like the cookie, haha, make a joke about it, but 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.440 I'll see you at Christmas dinner. For her to just 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:52.080 pull out completely. Do you think that's unreasonable? I might say, yes, 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:58.160 that's a bit drastic. I you know, I have two suggestions. 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:04.399 One is the mom is an asshole, and that she 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:08.800 should instead of taste like testing everybody, everybody should bring 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.639 whatever cookies they want, and then she can have a 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.320 gold star or a blue ribbon for the best one 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:16.359 if she still wants to have this kind of like 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.879 weird competition part of it, but be like everyone brings 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.000 and then yeah, and we can vote. We can also 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.359 like people have different you know, preferences. Some people like 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:30.439 a soft, gooey some people like a crispy cookie. You know, like, 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:33.760 don't decide my cookie preference for me. Let go on 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:38.359 my cookie journey. Maybe the more the merrier. Yeah, you 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:43.000 never know who likes the weird ones or I don't know. 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:49.280 There's no need to completely remove a cookie that sounds 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:51.960 like a crime. And then my second suggestion for the 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:55.040 mom was, well, this is more for the sorry for 0:19:55.080 --> 0:20:00.320 the wife is is still go, but bring some ross 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:05.600 asked cookies, some disaster cookies in a secret compartment and 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:09.200 replace the cookies that are out there that the mom made, 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:16.199 replace them with some just crusty, gross, salty ass. I 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:23.400 don't know what honestly tastes like pure putting telling tellers, 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:28.960 I would then to make a mockery of it. Um, 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.920 I would like show up every year to this cookie 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:42.120 contest competition with the worst sour dough, ol'tmeal, strawberry cookie, 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:46.960 upside down loafer cake, you know, to really scare them all. Yeah, 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:51.560 that sounds good to me. Also, though I do before 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:56.000 we vote, I just wanted to say that the wife 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:59.160 probably needs to have a little bit of thicker skin. 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:04.840 I'm so sorry mom was mean to you, But to 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:12.439 just like not go because you're scared, Yeah, you just 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:16.600 got to grow up a little bit. Yeah. Also, she's 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:20.080 taking it to a new level, like now there's now 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:24.000 there's war with with mother in law. Also, just don't 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:28.000 just don't play the game, like, don't play mom's game. Yes, 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:33.639 good one. Don't. She's she's you know, she is participating, right, 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:38.719 she is. She's willingly participating in this hunger games. Uh 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:43.880 you know that the mother is is m Is Flavious 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:56.400 Corbin Neu Tella Johnson of Districts five ive. But just 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:59.200 be just. I would just not participate, and then I 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:01.399 would show up and I would just I would shoot 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:03.280 on all of her cookies and I'd be like, these 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:08.119 are this, Yeah, these are too soft, too dry, be 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:11.040 a little Goldilocks with all the cookies. You're you're right, 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:13.760 But I wouldn't play her game. No, I'm like, if 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:16.760 she wants to be dramatic like that, then do it 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:20.840 the opposite way. Go to Christmas, get a marsk capone cookie. 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:24.439 Bite it. It's so dry you faint and cough and 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:27.879 you need time like remover, you know, like really commit 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:30.280 to the bit that you know she's just pulling out 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:34.560 too fast and it's a bit, it's a bit dramatic. 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:38.240 I will have an allergic reaction and an EpiPen episode 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:46.040 and the EpiPen exactly that'll show her. Just commit. Okay, 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:47.800 So there's an update at the bottom here and says 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:51.240 the guy. Original poster says, great. So I just got 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:52.760 off the phone with my brother and he told me 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:54.879 that his wife is doing the same thing as my 0:22:54.960 --> 0:22:56.840 wife and that she has decided to back out of 0:22:56.840 --> 0:22:59.040 the invitation to spend Christmas with the family as well. 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:00.920 Turns out, my wife I must have told her about 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:03.399 her decision and she decided to follow the lead. My 0:23:03.480 --> 0:23:06.080 brother's pissed, saying, my wife is encouraging his wife to 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:09.440 do this. I see that the problem has gotten bigger now. 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:13.080 Who knows my younger sister might not join and has 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:15.720 decided to not go as well. I don't know how 0:23:15.760 --> 0:23:17.880 this got out of control so quickly. I guess we'll 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:20.320 have try to have a discussion with my mother about 0:23:20.359 --> 0:23:23.720 this soon and see how it goes. So there was 0:23:23.760 --> 0:23:25.760 a There was a follow up question to where somebody 0:23:25.840 --> 0:23:31.200 asked which other cookies were denied, and the guy said, 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:34.119 my wife wasn't the only sample who has rejected. We 0:23:34.240 --> 0:23:37.120 have sister in law, brother's wife and younger sister were 0:23:37.160 --> 0:23:45.120 also rejected. From her own daughter. She rejected her own 0:23:45.880 --> 0:23:49.880 This is now yeah, this is now just good enough, 0:23:49.960 --> 0:23:54.160 Jessica turning into a sketch where Will Forte and Will 0:23:54.280 --> 0:23:58.400 Arnett walk in with turtlenecks and say, mother, you've offended 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:01.680 my wife. You've offended my wife, and my wife won't 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:04.879 come and sister won't come either, and you need to 0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:09.520 do something about this. Mother. Yes, mother, I would like 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:13.240 to suckle from the nipple though first before these boys 0:24:13.560 --> 0:24:17.040 need this whole thing. Reeks of the mom being like, 0:24:17.280 --> 0:24:24.439 no one's good enough for my beliefs. Yeah, mommy, that's insane. Also, 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:31.200 who passed the test then, mommy? Clearly without the whole family. 0:24:33.000 --> 0:24:34.800 I think she picked her own and then maybe some 0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:38.080 a cousin or two. Oh will I actually just got 0:24:38.160 --> 0:24:43.200 an update on this story. Uh, the rehditor is Mike Pence. 0:24:44.280 --> 0:24:50.960 Mike Pence was the redditor. Ah that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, wow, 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:54.320 it's all clear. Okay, let's vote original poster. Is the 0:24:54.359 --> 0:24:58.119 original poster an asshole in this situation? Um, Danielle, what 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:03.959 do you think like the wife or you're saying him 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:07.200 not the wife, the husband, the man is the husband 0:25:08.000 --> 0:25:12.639 saying that she's honestly, now that we've discussed it, yeah, 0:25:12.920 --> 0:25:17.080 I think that he is being the asshole because his 0:25:17.200 --> 0:25:21.160 mother and he's on understanding. It's just a weird setup 0:25:21.400 --> 0:25:24.640 and I don't like it. There's just there's no need 0:25:24.760 --> 0:25:28.840 for this. I will say he is he's being an asshole. 0:25:30.720 --> 0:25:32.760 He is being an asshole. Jason, what do you think? Yeah, 0:25:32.800 --> 0:25:35.760 I think he's being an asshole. I think his wife 0:25:36.200 --> 0:25:40.359 should go. But I also think he should just speak 0:25:40.400 --> 0:25:44.400 with his mother, let her know how unreasonable she's being. 0:25:45.040 --> 0:25:47.720 And then I think his wife should get a little 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:50.760 thicker skin and just go and be the bigger person, 0:25:51.040 --> 0:25:57.520 and he should not be so afraid of mother. To 0:25:58.119 --> 0:26:01.399 two votes for asshole, I'm going to I'm gonna make 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:05.439 it unanimous that this guy is an asshole, although I 0:26:05.480 --> 0:26:09.120 will say mom is the supreme asshole in this story. 0:26:09.440 --> 0:26:12.800 But original poster yes, also an asshole for calling his 0:26:12.840 --> 0:26:16.600 wife unreasonable and also just like making her participate in 0:26:16.600 --> 0:26:21.280 this weird family hunger games uh and not finding a 0:26:21.320 --> 0:26:26.640 way to to talk to his mom and and smooth 0:26:26.720 --> 0:26:31.120 things out between the whole or just not just tell 0:26:31.160 --> 0:26:37.600 her to stop this ceaseless criticizing and high you know, 0:26:37.720 --> 0:26:41.360 steaks for everyone's desserts and just we just all get 0:26:41.400 --> 0:26:46.679 together and eat some freaking cookies. Wow, I can't imagine 0:26:47.280 --> 0:26:50.080 the process that goes into it. For like the main 0:26:50.480 --> 0:26:55.440 entree apparently she only does it for the desserts though, 0:26:55.520 --> 0:27:02.080 but so like, you can bring whatever you know Christy wants, 0:27:03.080 --> 0:27:06.800 not the scones. Yeah, Jesus, that's so she draws the line. 0:27:06.880 --> 0:27:09.560 I mean, as a sweet tooth lover, I might be 0:27:09.640 --> 0:27:14.360 siding with the mother. Suddenly, Um, I got a story 0:27:14.440 --> 0:27:17.880 actually that is. It's not an am I the asshole, 0:27:17.880 --> 0:27:20.920 but it definitely involves an asshole that I would love 0:27:20.960 --> 0:27:25.239 to share that. Let's take a quick break, and when 0:27:25.280 --> 0:27:27.440 we come back, Jason is going to share a story 0:27:27.560 --> 0:27:44.199 about a real holiday asshole. All right, we're back, all right, Jason, 0:27:44.800 --> 0:27:49.040 I'm all yours. So this is also a holiday asshole? Uh? 0:27:49.520 --> 0:27:54.080 The redditor is split Ender. This was twelve years ago. Also, 0:27:54.320 --> 0:27:57.199 so different times. I really want an update. Yeah, at 0:27:57.200 --> 0:28:00.880 different time. I mean Avatar had just come out. Avatar 0:28:00.960 --> 0:28:05.320 too was just a twinkle in Jim Cameron's eyes. But 0:28:06.320 --> 0:28:09.720 so split Ender says, how about one of my earliest 0:28:09.840 --> 0:28:14.840