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Aug. 26, 2019 - Roosh V - Daryush Valizadeh
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Babylon Road #10 - Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Seattle
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I'm leaving Salt Lake City now and I'm going to cut north for my next event in Seattle.
So I need to get in Seattle, which is very far away, in approximately four days.
So let's see if I can do it.
I come back to the best state in the country, Wyoming.
This is the first thing I see.
I'm in Grand Teton National Park, Phelps Lake.
There's no other human beings here.
No human voices.
I don't even want to talk loud to disturb the serenity.
My voice is pollution here.
Wyoming should be known as the alone state.
Totally alone.
I can yell at the top of my lungs.
No one will hear me.
If you live in an urban area, you're not used to this.
There's nothing I can say that can add to this.
There's a bird.
Tomorrow I'm going to Yellowstone.
I think the experience will be completely different.
It's going to be crowded.
Everyone wants to see the geysers, but if I just would come to this lake every day, be the only human here, I'd be satisfied.
Why go anywhere else if you can have this?
That's enough talking.
It's a bit late.
around eight o'clock at night and I should head back before the bears come out and eat me.
Yeah.
Day one of Yellowstone is complete.
I checked out a couple hot springs, a waterfall with about 10,000 other people.
Turns out this is an international hotspot.
There's a lot of tourists, a lot of Chinese tourists.
And they're pretty loud and weird.
Many of the sites are right next to the parking lot.
So everyone's just driving and they take their photos and their videos and then they go to the next one.
And it's not what I really had in mind because I'm just like them.
I'm just a tourist.
And unfortunately, in Yellowstone, a lot of the hikes are very long, like six miles, eight miles.
And I can't find one of those sweet spot one to three mile hikes.
So I'm not sure what to do to really get away from the people.
The good news is by Yellowstone Lake, there's a lot of pull-offs, but I kind of want to hike to go on and get lost in the woods a bit.
I think Grant Teton may have been better, and so is the Rocky Mountains.
We got one more day in Yellowstone, but I have some really great news.
And turns out that during this tour, I was pregnant all along.
Today I gave birth to my third child.
And here he is.
It's an elk.
I gave birth to a baby elk.
And his name is Bert.
Bert the elk.
And Bert is only a few hours old, but you can see how strong and big he is, just like his old dad.
So Bert joins Arnold the Pug and Tuna the Bumblebee, who is being watched over by Grandma.
But me and Burke, we're going to bond now.
It's not that I'm so alone that I bought a stuffed animal to keep me company.
This is really my own baby.
So me and Bert, we're going to bond.
Oh, Bert.
Come back, boy.
Bert is strong.
Okay, so tomorrow, got one more day here in Yellowstone Park.
And let's see if I can find something away from all the Chinese people.
We're making America great again.
I was
worried that I wouldn't see any animals.
And then I pulled up into a picnic area and I glanced through my rear view mirror.
And what was staring right at me but a gigantic furry bison.
And I thought I was seeing things at first.
I got out of my car and there he was just standing there.
I was the first person to see this particular bison.
And then I had about half a minute until other people in the picnic area started to notice.
And then they came with their camera phones.
And then people driving by saw it too.
So I really had maybe a minute total with alone time with the bison until the selfie army.
People were taking selfies and things like that.
But at least I can say I saw one bison.
If you take away the geothermal features and The fact that I only saw one animal, I can't say that Yellowstone is better than the Rocky Mountain park.
To me, the Rocky Mountains had more day hikes, taller mountains.
The roads were even more fun to drive on.
If you just come to Yellowstone just to hit all the cool things, you're going to be with a lot of other people.
It's just an adult Disneyland.
If you really want to experience what Yellowstone has to offer, you have to do some backcountry hiking.
Or else you're going to be stuck with all the cars, the RVs, the boomer cycles, the Chinese, the big people.
Because the way the park is set up, you just park your car and you walk to this great site, and then you get back in your car and you go to the next one.
So if you want to get away from that, and right now I took a side trail, and there's no one here for a long way.
But to really explore these kind of trails, you need more than 36 hours.
And now this is my fourth national park in nine days, so I knew I was approaching my limit, and I have approached it.
I'm all parked out.
I can't really see any more mountains.
And so, oh, look at that.
Bug got me through my shirt.
He's dead now.
How do you do that?
Anyway.
So it's a nice park, but you have to do the backcountry or else it's just going to be a Disneyland.
But I'm glad I came.
I saw it.
I got a taste.
I got a taste of this in the other parks.
But yeah, that's it for parks for a long time.
It didn't help that I knew I had a five-hour drive to Montana.
So I'm going to go start that drive now.
Any squirrels here?
All right, so that wraps up the two weeks of going to parks.
will go back to civilization I guess if that's what you want to call it.
I made my way through Missoula, Montana.
I didn't have much time to spend there, but it looked like a clone of Wyoming.
Looked very similar in the sense of the scenery, the isolation.
Still, Wyoming, it hit me first, so I like Wyoming more than Montana.
I also hear a lot of Californians are going to Montana to LARP as a rancher.
But I have a joke.
What did the Wyoming man say when you told him that he has to use his car blinkers?
It's none of your business where I'm going.
So that's the joke.
It really captures the Wyoming vibe to leave me alone.
I like that.
But Montana seems to have that too.
So right now I'm in Spokane, Washington state.
And the city itself is clean.
The buildings seem new.
There's a lot of development, a lot of construction, but the people are broken.
In the middle of the afternoon, people are walking around in a drugged-out haze.
Homeless are everywhere.
The public library in Spokane is the worst that I have been to.
It is essentially a homeless shelter.
People bring their bring, is that a word?
People brought their blankets, their sleeping bags, their foam rollers that they sleep on, their luggage.
There was an odor.
People had productive coughs that could have been tuberculosis, pneumonia.
This is a health issue now.
And the bathroom was just a wreck.
There were signs everywhere.
There were hair shavings on the toilet.
Someone left their dirty jeans.
They had a UV light on.
I don't know specifically what that was for, but I'm guessing it's to reduce the drug use.
please tell me that seattle is going to be better than this because this is bad you can throw 10 billion dollars in this town but it's not going to solve anything This is not a material problem.
More homeless shelters, more food for the homeless, more addiction programs, all those things are not going to help at all.
You can construct more brand new libraries that are really homeless shelters.
That's not going to help anything.
This is a spiritual problem.
This is a spiritual problem at its core, and that's why throwing more money at it, throwing more material solutions at it will just make it worse.
And if this keeps up, where am I going to work during the day?
If I can't work in the libraries, if Starbucks, which is basically the same, can't work in Starbucks, then I guess you're going to have, I'm going to have to stay indoors, stay in my hotel room and work.
And that's a metaphor.
I mean, when things get so bad outside that you're forced to stay inside.
So I'm going to Seattle now.
take a look.
My Seattle event is complete.
Surprisingly, there were no problems, no protesters.
And a female guest made a scarf for Arnold.
And on behalf of that gift, Bert will accept the scarf.
And you can see it's green.
It's keeping him warm.
So, also, we had a famous celebrity attend my Seattle event, Owen Benjamin, came and he is a very tall man.
He invited me to his homestead for goat's milk.
So, I said, Yes, I would love some.
So, hopefully, that will happen soon.
As for Seattle, it is the liberal hellhole that you imagine it to be.
There's homeless people everywhere.
And you know, one game you can play in Seattle is homeless or hiking.
Is that person are they homeless or are they about to go on a hike, but not really go on a hike?
Here there's this outdoorsy style where you wear the hiking gear and you pack up in your Subaru, but you're not really going on a hike.
So that's kind of weird.
A lot of the women here have dangerously colored hair.
Stay away from me.
I am bad.
And in exchange for living in a liberal metropolitan area that is unpleasant, you get Teslas.
You get a lot of Teslas.
An Indian guy in a Tesla, he almost hit me.
And you also get these fake town squares, these corporate town squares that are safe only because of the security guards and the cameras that you have there.
So during the week, you slave away at the soulless jobs.
You're in your car for four hours.
And then on the weekend, you go on a hike or you go in a town square to pretend you're part of some kind of community.
So that's the vibe I get out of Seattle.
And what is weird about it is that with all the wealth here in terms of the tech companies, Amazon and Microsoft, you'd think that there would be gold falling from the sky.
You know, just this really rich area.
And yeah, people's homes are if you go in the suburbs, but the city itself, I must say, was not impressive.
The best thing about Seattle was the weather.
The weather is perfect here.
And during the summer, it's not too hot, not too cool.
The breeze is perfect, enough sun.
It really reminds me of Eastern European summer.
So that's the best part.
But I heard that outside the summer it can be very gloomy and overcast and a lot of rain.
And the last thing I wanted to talk about is that there are going to be a lot of half Asian people coming online.
I've seen the most half Asian people, the most white man, Asian female couplings than anywhere else.
Now I understand why this is a meme on the internet.
Because in the East Coast, you don't see it as much.
On the East Coast, you see mostly white women and black men.
I haven't seen that here.
I've just seen white men and Asian girls.
And I think I know why, because the white women in Seattle, they're a little bit busy.
They're a little bit busy coloring their hair blue and being empowered and so strong.
As sadly, they rack up abortions at the Planned Barren Hood Clinic.
So if I was a white man pursuing my self-interest, I wouldn't get with that type of girl.
I would get with an Asian girl.
And the Asian girls here, even though they were born in the West, still possess some traditional values because of how close-knit they are with their families.
We just have to be careful with the sons that are born from that.
They could have identity problems.
You know, I speak from experience.
I have identity problems too.
Half Iranian, half Armenian born in the United States.
What a mess.
So my advice to you is start a business catering to the half Asians, to the HAPA pride.
I'm going to start a HAPA clothing company.
So I understand your identity and I'm going to create consumer products for you to buy to feel more comfortable with the half Asian, half white identity that you have.
So the HAPA HAPA power is coming.
They're going to rule the world with their intelligence and baby smooth skin, good looks.
So that wraps up the Seattle event and was great.
There was no protesters.
You know, everyone said Seattle's going to be violent.
People are going to come.
No one came.
But yet people came in Denver.
So this, you know, if everyone thinks it's going to happen, it does not happen.
So I'm a little bit more confident going into Portland.
This is now 10 events in a row that have gone well.
So I hope it continues.
So Portland is next week.
If you're a brave soul and want to join, go to Roosh.live and then San Francisco after that.
So I hope you can join on the tour.
Almost halfway done, and I continue onwards.
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