The Matt Walsh Show - March 22, 2025


Matt Walsh Reacts To Hilarious LGBT Fails

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We have a real crisis on the right, a serious problem that keeps me up at night. We talk about it all the time casually, but we don t take it as seriously as we should. We haven t thought about the implications of this crisis, and the crisis is this: The left has transcended satire. We cannot make a parody out of them anymore. They ve descended so far and so fast into madness that there is simply no way for the satirist to stay in front of them. Inevitably, any satire of the left will be satire for maybe 3 days before it becomes reality. But more often than not, it's not even satire at all, even the moment that it's created, because it's actually tamer than reality.

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00:00:00.000 We have a real crisis on the right. A serious problem that keeps me up at night. We talk about
00:00:12.640 it all the time casually, but I don't think we've really stopped to consider what it means. We don't
00:00:16.380 take it as seriously as we should. We haven't thought about the implications of this crisis,
00:00:20.760 and the crisis is this. The left has transcended satire. We cannot satirize these people anymore.
00:00:26.240 We cannot make a parody out of them. They've descended so far and so fast into madness that
00:00:32.340 there's simply no way for the satirist to stay in front of them. Inevitably, any satire of the left
00:00:36.540 will be satire for maybe like three days before it becomes reality, and that's in the best case
00:00:40.320 scenario. But more often, satire of the left isn't even satire at all, even at the moment that it's
00:00:44.080 created, because it's actually tamer than reality. The right satirized version of a leftist is very
00:00:50.540 often more normal, more sensible, more coherent than an actual leftist. This is a problem. It's
00:00:56.580 a problem we face, and there may be a way around it, but we're going to have to start getting very
00:01:00.400 innovative if we want to keep satire alive. The old methods just don't cut it anymore. We have to go
00:01:05.740 farther. We have to be more creative, more daring. That's what it will take because of things like
00:01:10.320 this. So here's a very real news report out of Los Angeles. This just happened last week. Again,
00:01:16.480 not a joke, not a skit. Real thing happened in real life. Watch.
00:01:27.840 LA City Council members Hugo Soto-Martinez and Nithya Rahman were on hand today to help remove
00:01:33.560 the signs. They say the no cruising and no U-turn signs were put up in the 1990s to prevent people
00:01:39.840 in the gay community from meeting up with other gay people.
00:01:43.060 I was also surprised that these, um, these U-turn signs were still, uh, up. And at first,
00:01:51.060 you know, they seem a little, um, oh, okay, it's just a no U-turn sign. But when you learn the history
00:01:55.640 of it and you realize that these were used to profile gay people, it's so important that we
00:02:01.120 have these removed.
00:02:03.160 The LA City Council members say the signs were put up after the gay community began to
00:02:07.420 grow and because there was a gay bar in that area. So there you have it. A crowd of people
00:02:12.940 came together to remove, um, uh, no U-turn signs because no U-turn signs are homophobic.
00:02:19.560 That's where we are now. No U-turn signs are bigoted against the gay community. And topping it 0.83
00:02:24.540 all off, the City Council member who led this rally goes by the name, again, not making it up,
00:02:29.140 goes by the name, maybe a girl. Council member, maybe a girl is leading the charge and finally
00:02:36.400 sparking the long needed conversation about the homophobic legacy of traffic enforcement.
00:02:41.960 But why are no U-turn signs homophobic? And if we're looking for anti-gay implications and
00:02:46.840 traffic signs, why start with U-turns? Some people have speculated there might be some homophobia in,
00:02:52.920 for instance, exit only signs. Now that's not a gay joke on my part, to be clear to the YouTube
00:02:59.060 censors. Uh, I would never engage in such things. I, and I, in fact, I find it frankly objectionable.
00:03:05.820 I read those comments saying exit only is a gay, and I said, that's objectionable. I object to it.
00:03:11.280 In fact, I said that out loud to myself. I really did. I'm only telling you what other people have
00:03:16.040 said, but you know, and maybe they have a point, like why wouldn't you start with that? But they
00:03:21.980 haven't started with those signs. Instead, it's the U-turn signs. Why? Well, council member,
00:03:26.240 maybe a girl, uh, explain in a very long video, which we will, uh, you know, try to cut around
00:03:32.380 and get to the point of, here's the history lesson. Here it is. No U-turn signs are homophobic
00:03:37.220 in Silver Lake. And here's why. So in 1997, let's fast forward a little bit, uh, almost 10 years later,
00:03:44.180 LA Times puts out another article detailing how neighbors on Griffith Park Boulevard are fed up 0.99
00:03:50.100 with gay men cruising in the area for gay sex. And so signs were installed, no cruising 0.99
00:03:57.480 signs and no U-turn signs between 12 AM and 6 AM. Okay. Nevermind. I actually don't care
00:04:04.140 that much. I, I, I, I had the same question everyone did. Like, what is this even coming
00:04:08.920 from? And then this person posted, it's like a five minute video. And I, I, you get two minutes
00:04:14.000 in. It's like, I, I don't care that much anymore. Nevermind. It doesn't matter. It really
00:04:17.580 doesn't. Uh, maybe a girl apparently went to school and majored in the study of homophobic
00:04:23.460 street signs. We're getting an explanation that stretches back like 900 years. I felt
00:04:27.660 like I was watching a Putin interview, except with a lot more cross-dressing, of course. 0.99
00:04:31.620 This is one of the many problems with the LGBT left on top of the fact that they're wrong 1.00
00:04:34.740 about everything, you know, everything and their fundamental worldview is hopelessly confused
00:04:38.600 and incoherent. On top of all that, they also spend their time learning the most useless 0.53
00:04:43.000 possible information. I guarantee that maybe a girl or any of the other people involved
00:04:48.840 in this decision could not pass a second grade level American history test. And yet they could
00:04:53.120 deliver a 10,000 word dissertation on the history of gay cruising in Los Angeles County. Like
00:04:58.840 they couldn't tell you who wrote the Declaration of Independence, but they can point to any random
00:05:02.160 inanimate object and explain why it's actually a monument to homophobia. And in spite of their
00:05:07.100 extensive knowledge of these utterly pointless subjects, they're still wrong even about those
00:05:12.820 subjects. According to the explanation we just heard, they didn't fall asleep in the middle of
00:05:16.340 it. What you take from that is that they put the signs up in order to stop gay cruising in the 90s.
00:05:22.020 Gay cruising, as we saw in the newspaper clip that was briefly flashed on the screen, means that gay 0.96
00:05:27.360 men were going out and looking for other men to have sex with in public. The news article mentioned 0.99
00:05:32.180 two men caught having sex in a stairwell. So if the no U-turn signs were connected to the effort to
00:05:38.680 stop this kind of public lewdness, it must be because it was somehow effective in 0.97
00:05:42.600 preventing gay men from cruising around on the street looking for sex. So if these signs had 0.98
00:05:48.360 anything to do with the gay community, quote unquote, and that's a big if, it's because they were 0.99
00:05:53.660 behaving inappropriately in public and the signs somehow helped to get that problem under control.
00:06:00.300 Again, I'm not exactly sure how the U-turn, like, I don't know, you had a gay man that would drive me 1.00
00:06:04.060 down the street and then he saw on the other side of the street another gay man who thought, 0.99
00:06:07.760 oh, maybe I could have sex with that guy. And then he just, then he just cuts a U-ey real quick 1.00
00:06:12.580 to go, is that what was happening? And that was why they had, I don't know. I'm not sure.
00:06:18.280 There's only so much I want to know here. I've already know a lot more than I want to.
00:06:22.040 But this is how self-absorbed and oblivious these activists are. If the no U-turn signs are connected
00:06:27.580 to them in any way, that should be a source of embarrassment. It's only because they kept having
00:06:33.200 sex in public and other people in the community didn't want to be forced to witness it, rather
00:06:38.100 reasonably, I would say. So the true history of these signs, if that is the true history,
00:06:43.480 should be something that these people don't want discussed. They should be ashamed of it. They
00:06:47.660 should be, they should just treat the signs like normal signs and go on with their lives.
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00:08:00.200 near the city of Seattle. Now, just to be clear, I use the word beautiful to describe specifically
00:08:05.260 the physical topography of the area. If you are standing on the bank of the lake and looking out
00:08:11.260 straight ahead, you might admire the clear water and the trees and the mountains in the distance.
00:08:15.620 Just don't look over to your side or over your shoulder because if you do, depending on where
00:08:21.700 you happen to be standing along the shore, you might find yourself staring at a collection
00:08:25.320 of very naked people engaged in all manner of activities that you do not want to see them do
00:08:31.180 in the nude or at all. The only thing standing between your eyeline and their fully exposed physique
00:08:36.860 will be the glare reflecting off of their many body piercings. Now, of course, you stand the risk of
00:08:43.680 getting an eyeful of naked flab if you travel anywhere in the Pacific Northwest. But on Lake
00:08:48.280 Washington, the risk is even greater because that is where it is the site of something called
00:08:53.660 Denny Blaine Park, which is, we are informed, a beloved nudist beach popular with the LGBT community
00:09:00.940 in the area. And in fact, this nudist beach is so popular and so beloved that the LGBT community
00:09:07.740 recently came together, no pun intended, to protest what they perceived as a mortal threat to this
00:09:13.660 hangout spot, no pun intended. And the threat came in the form of a playground. So backing up a little
00:09:20.140 bit, a few months ago, it was announced that Seattle Parks and Rec, with the assistance of a sizable
00:09:24.780 donation from a private donor, planned to build a playground nearby. And this is a problem for the
00:09:30.700 exhibitionist gays over at Denny Blaine because although it's legal for them to gallivant around 1.00
00:09:35.620 naked almost anywhere in the city or state, they still aren't allowed to get naked in front of 0.97
00:09:39.880 children. So they're only allowed to expose themselves to other adults, which is a limitation
00:09:45.300 that these people, as we know, find quite cumbersome. And this means that a playground, in view of the
00:09:51.420 nudist beach, might, one would certainly hope anyway, effectively shut down the nudist beach. They
00:09:57.860 wouldn't be allowed to be nude there anymore because they're kids, which would force gay nudists in the 1.00
00:10:02.000 state to get naked in any of the thousands of other places where the behavior is allowed.
00:10:06.940 Or better yet, in their own homes, where you can be naked all you want because I don't have to be
00:10:13.480 in your home or sit on your contaminated furniture. But that was not an acceptable compromise because
00:10:19.900 no compromise of any kind in any context is ever acceptable to these people. The Postmillennial
00:10:25.660 reports, quote, Colleen Kimsey Love told King 5 News that the beach, quote, has always been a place
00:10:31.600 for the weird and the wonderful, noting that what makes Seattle such a wonderful city is the
00:10:36.240 weirdos. In an open letter, advocates said that were Seattle Parks and Rec to go along with the
00:10:42.460 plan, it would be nothing short of gentrification, arguing that LGBTQ plus people do not have other
00:10:47.820 spaces to go to because, but there are other spaces for a children's play area to be built to meet the
00:10:54.040 stated need. According to the King 5 News, Denny Blaine Park was originally chosen due to the fact that
00:11:00.340 there are no playgrounds for residents within a 10 to 15 minute walk. The $550,000 children's
00:11:05.420 outdoor space was set to be entirely funded by a single donor who has remained anonymous throughout
00:11:09.700 the process. Okay, so what is more important? What's the priority? Should we make sure that
00:11:16.260 families have a place within walking distance to take their children to? Or is it more crucial that
00:11:21.500 we give gay adults yet another place to be naked in public? Well, LGBT activists had their answers. 0.69
00:11:28.400 So they protested the playground, they organized, they got a petition together, got nearly 10,000
00:11:34.260 signatures on the petition. They were absolutely incensed that the city considered prioritizing
00:11:39.600 the needs of children over the desires of self-described weirdos. Local news had more on
00:11:45.920 the controversy. Listen, I'm in Denny Blaine Park. Hundreds of people showed up at that meeting
00:11:50.860 tonight because they say this place is a safe space and putting a playground here would forever
00:11:55.620 change that. As expected, the proposal to put a playground at Denny Blaine Park brought out
00:12:06.280 a lot of people, all of them with their own story about the park and why they're against the proposal.
00:12:11.880 We can just be ourselves, where we can feel safe, where we can feel heard, where we can see one
00:12:17.740 another. This is a place where people come up and they ask, is it safe here? And we're accepting here
00:12:23.120 and every time I've smiled and said, yes. Denny Blaine is a noted LGBTQ plus safe space. It's been
00:12:29.740 that way for decades. Under Washington law, it's not illegal to be naked in public. However, it becomes
00:12:35.480 illegal if kids are nearby. That's what this playground would do. We want to preserve our spaces. The people who
00:12:41.340 showed up here believe the private anonymous donor who's willing to front $550,000 for a playground
00:12:47.200 wants to take that space away from them. They say that it's not an intention to displace queer
00:12:52.800 communities or any specific community. And that may be true on the park side, but I'd love to ask the
00:12:57.720 anonymous donor whether that's true.
00:13:02.020 There's also concern that someone with money to burn can make such a big change to a public park.
00:13:07.420 Instead, we're letting people with a fair amount of money do an anonymous notation,
00:13:12.220 clearly choosing how they want to see our parks used.
00:13:15.520 I asked Andy Schaeffer with Seattle Parks and Rec about that anonymous donor. His response?
00:13:20.320 Well, I can't really talk about it a whole lot because it's anonymous.
00:13:23.200 But he did talk about how moving the public comments were.
00:13:25.700 God, you heard those stories. You know, if more people could hear these stories,
00:13:31.000 it's much bigger than this part.
00:13:35.200 Yes, the stories, the incredible stories, the inspirational, heartwarming stories about gay 0.90
00:13:40.060 people exposing their genitals to strangers. And if only more people could hear how important it is
00:13:44.900 to gay people that they'd be allowed to expose their genitals to strangers. If only more people 1.00
00:13:49.080 could understand just how devastating it is for the LGBT community when they're prevented from taking
00:13:54.820 their pants off in public. Well, not prevented. I mean, they're just told to move a few blocks over
00:13:59.480 and take their pants off over there instead. Still, that's simply too great a burden to bear.
00:14:05.740 I mean, they want to take their pants off now, right here in this exact location. If they can't,
00:14:10.220 they will die. It will be a genocide, a holocaust, if they cannot take their pants off right now in 0.96
00:14:16.280 this place. Indeed, LGBT people who aren't able to take their pants off anywhere and everywhere they 1.00
00:14:22.420 want all the time without restriction are truly the most downtrodden among us. I mean,
00:14:28.960 these are the suffering and the needy. Forget starving people in Africa. Forget children dying
00:14:34.040 of cancer. Forget everyone. And focus instead on LGBT people always. Give them everything they want
00:14:40.980 always, all the time, no matter what it is. Because if you don't, then you are killing them. You are
00:14:46.180 literally killing them. 1.00