TikTokers Matt And Abby Howard They reflected on the response they received after making the announcement Boycott Father's Day last year
During the couple's 100th episode "The Unscheduled Podcast"Released on Wednesday, January 8, the couple discussed a viral clip from an infamous May 2024 episode of the podcast in which Matt, 26, claimed he wouldn't celebrate Father's Day until December of that year because their June 2023 celebration was "a bummer". (The married couple has two sons, Griffin, 2, and August, 1.)
Abby, 25, launched into the couple's reunion in the clip, which has garnered more than 9.4 million views and an avalanche of criticism. “Matt's Father's Day Birthday Story. This was a memorable moment from (The) Unplanned Podcast 2024. How would you rate that moment … one out of 10? You have to include emotional trauma,” Abby asked Matt in the new episode.
Matt responded, "Oh my God, I can laugh about it now (but) when I was scared. I think it's funny now, I'm like, it's so stupid. The things I said... were so stupid too, I obviously didn't like it."
High school sweethearts turned social media influencers Matt and Abby Howard are once again causing a stir among their followers. The “Unplanned Podcast” host and parents of two sons under the age of two — Griffin, 23 months, and August, 10 months — recently revealed that they are “boycotting” Father’s Day this year since it falls around Matt’s (...)
She continued, "I just looked so selfish. I looked so full of myself."
Despite Matt's obvious remorse, Abby said she believed it was "kind of funny in hindsight", before adding that she hadn't actually seen the controversial clip and, as a result, didn't know how Matt came to be at the time.
"In general, I don't think there's anything wrong with the ... controversy, but I haven't seen the clip and maybe the clip makes it look really bad," Abby admitted. “In that case, it's on us. I guess we're the one coming."
At the time, Abby, who was pregnant with the couple's second child, revealed how she had combined her husband's birthday with Father's Day in 2023 as the two events fell on the same day. The pair had just returned from a babymoon and Matt admitted the family had been very busy at the time.
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Abby and Matt both agreed that they would "boycott Father's Day in June", as a result of the previous year's voters, deciding to celebrate the event in September as "nothing happens in September".
High school sweethearts have become somewhat familiar with controversy over the years, Attract criticism Again in September 2024 when they revealed that they went out to dinner with friends while their children slept in the family bedroom. "So we took them for five nights and it became clear they weren't enjoying it and neither were we," Abby wrote in an Instagram Story at the time. “So, then we changed our dinner time to their bedtime and we faced the monitor while we ate. And it worked out so well for everyone!"
The post was met with widespread disapproval, despite what a source said our weekly Families on the cruise "had rooms next to each other and took turns," adding that the children, "were never alone and the use of baby monitors was an extra precaution."
Abby and Matt married in July 2019 before welcoming their son. Since becoming parents, the podcast hosts have shared the highs and lows of their relationships and parenting through their podcasts as well as social media.
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