Roosh V - Daryush Valizadeh - Babylon Road #15 - Yuma, St. Anthony's Monastery, Phoenix
Aired: 2019-10-01
Duration: 26:39

[00:00:01]  All right, I'm leaving San Diego and going east.
[00:00:06]  So Phoenix is the next stop and I have time.
[00:01:41]  I'm in Yuma, Arizona.
[00:01:45]  My beard told me to stop here.
[00:01:48]  So what the beard says, I follow.
[00:01:52]  Yuma kind of sounds like the name of a girlfriend I had in South America.
[00:02:00]  Hey, Yuma, it's Roosh.
[00:02:01]  Do you want to meet tonight for premarital sex that makes us feel good in the moment, but which impairs our long-term ability to pair bond with the opposite sex while making us cynical and jaded and even hateful of the opposite sex?
[00:02:22]  You do?
[00:02:22]  Great.
[00:02:23]  Okay, let's meet at 8 p.m. at our usual spot, El Cholo Gordo.
[00:02:30]  See you then.
[00:02:39]  My Yuma ex-girlfriend is more beautiful than this place.
[00:02:44]  It seems like they had no planning involved when they made it.
[00:02:47]  I couldn't even find a center to film.
[00:02:50]  It was just sprawl.
[00:02:54]  Very few buildings were bigger than two stories high.
[00:03:00]  It's mostly Hispanic people.
[00:03:03]  I don't know why the beard wanted to see this.
[00:03:08]  So usually during lunch, I have a picnic and I do a search for picnic tables to find a place where I can eat.
[00:03:19]  And I didn't know it, but I had a picnic next to a high school and I was eating and then the high school let out and a bunch of kids passed me by and some sat near me in the picnic table and the bad news is that American youth are doomed.
[00:03:42]  The good is that they don't have any tattoos and none of the males and females.
[00:03:50]  But everyone was listening to the black music.
[00:03:57]  You had the Hispanic youngsters saying, nigga, nigga, nigga.
[00:04:04]  The girls were on their phones listening to Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande.
[00:04:10]  So the momentum is being built in this high school for them to degrade themselves currently and when they get out.
[00:04:22]  Now, if you're a parent, you may not like what I'm about to say.
[00:04:27]  But if you send your kid to public schools, you could be insane because six hours a day you're sending them to a black box of corruption.
[00:04:42]  Six hours they are corrupting your kid.
[00:04:44]  You have no control over who your kid talks to, what music they listen to, what education they get, nothing.
[00:04:52]  You probably barely even know the teachers that are, quote, teaching your kid or indoctrinating your kid, giving your kid propaganda, teaching them to be gay.
[00:05:03]  Man, if you're a man who wants to be a parent, you have to account for homeschooling.
[00:05:10]  Don't even think about it.
[00:05:11]  Don't, I mean, unless you got good public school in a good area, which means not 80% vibrant, just public schools are gone.
[00:05:27]  This institution, like other institutions, have just collapsed.
[00:05:31]  I mean, it was so sad to see these young people, their lives haven't even gotten started yet, but it's already over.
[00:05:39]  Already their minds are full with tons of junk that the parents, I don't know, are the parents going to be able to remove that propaganda?
[00:05:49]  Do they care?
[00:05:51]  But you don't see the illness yet in these kids.
[00:05:54]  You only see, I mean, you see a bit of it, but not until after they graduate high school.
[00:05:58]  Will you really see it?
[00:05:59]  They come out as trans, they harm themselves more directly.
[00:06:06]  Yeah, so if you're counting on Generation Z to wake up, it's only going to be a small percentage of them.
[00:06:11]  The ones that are going to the average public schools, they are going to be in bad shape.
[00:06:17]  Also, they were very overweight too.
[00:06:19]  I mean, geez.
[00:06:22]  God have mercy on those kids.
[00:06:25]  They don't even know that they're succumbing to evil before they even know what evil is.
[00:06:32]  Well, you know, this is just another thing that I had to see.
[00:06:38]  So I continue going east.
[00:06:42]  I'm in
[00:08:03]  Florence, Arizona.
[00:08:05]  It's a dusty old town that seems to be dying.
[00:08:09]  A lot of shops are closed.
[00:08:13]  But this is the kind of town that I would want to move into.
[00:08:16]  I would want to move into a dying town.
[00:08:20]  And it's dying because people left it.
[00:08:23]  It's not comfortable enough.
[00:08:25]  It's not fun enough.
[00:08:27]  There's not enough money, enough sexual partners.
[00:08:31]  So they fleed to more worldly cities where they can have more worldly things.
[00:08:42]  But if you want to live in a place, you don't want all these worldly people who are just there to tempt you to put up their gay flags.
[00:08:50]  There were no gay flags here.
[00:08:52]  There is no one to virtue signal to.
[00:08:56]  There is no one to show status to, except the dirt.
[00:09:01]  That's going to be your only audience here if you want to act out.
[00:09:11]  If everybody wants to live in a place, I would go the opposite way.
[00:09:18]  If everyone is going through the wide gate, well, you're just following the crowd straight to hell.
[00:09:28]  Yeah, here you have some weirdos, some roughnecks, but you also have some salt of the earth people who are just here because they want to live a quiet life.
[00:09:41]  It's very quiet here.
[00:09:44]  You're walking on the streets and there's nobody.
[00:09:52]  It's a bit dry though, a bit dry.
[00:09:57]  But Florence is a town that most people would skip over.
[00:10:03]  There's nothing interesting to take photos of, no cool sights.
[00:10:07]  But when it comes to living somewhere, I would start with a place like this.
[00:11:10]  There's a lot of cacti here.
[00:11:12]  They look just like the ones in the Wiley Coyote cartoons.
[00:11:20]  I'm in St. Anthony's monastery and my visit didn't start so well.
[00:11:27]  I wanted to attend the Vespers.
[00:11:29]  This is an evening prayer.
[00:11:31]  It's about two hours long, I think.
[00:11:33]  So I came ready to worship God there.
[00:11:39]  And the monk said, oh, since you're the monk I talked to said, since you're Armenian Orthodox, you have to hang out in the narthex, not in the main hall of a church.
[00:11:48]  And the narthex is like the hallway.
[00:11:51]  And I tried, but through the glass and the door, I couldn't hear or see anything.
[00:11:58]  And then this was, it was useless.
[00:12:00]  So I left.
[00:12:02]  I walked out and I was starting to get upset.
[00:12:05]  And I was like, screw this.
[00:12:07]  Screw everybody here.
[00:12:09]  Screw the Greeks.
[00:12:10]  I am going home.
[00:12:13]  And by home, I mean the next hotel that I have to stay in.
[00:12:18]  But then I thought, well, while I'm here, let me at least get some footage for my vlog.
[00:12:25]  So I walked around a bit, but as I was walking around filming, I was getting heated.
[00:12:32]  How dare they exclude a Christian?
[00:12:36]  How can they tell me that I'm not allowed to worship God like them?
[00:12:41]  Just because I'm in a different church, just because my beard is more full.
[00:12:47]  I mean, this is totally exclusionary.
[00:12:50]  i'm a christian and my anger is rising and rising I'm starting to hate all Greeks.
[00:13:10]  And then I decide, okay, that's enough filming.
[00:13:12]  It's time to go.
[00:13:13]  I'm not going to tell anybody to come here.
[00:13:15]  And then I'm starting to walk out.
[00:13:16]  And who do I run into but the same monk who said that I can't go in?
[00:13:22]  And I'm like, I hope he says something to me.
[00:13:24]  And he did.
[00:13:26]  He said, how was the Vespers?
[00:13:29]  I said, well, it was hard to enjoy it through the wall and the glass.
[00:13:34]  So I left.
[00:13:38]  And I said, you know, I've been to a lot of monasteries.
[00:13:42]  I've been to now four.
[00:13:43]  This is the first time I was excluded.
[00:13:46]  That I was not allowed to worship God.
[00:13:50]  And he kind of said, well, you're allowed to worship God, just not there.
[00:13:54]  It didn't make things better.
[00:13:57]  And I was thinking, man, I was heated.
[00:14:00]  I started arguing with the monk in the monastery.
[00:14:03]  I was like telling him, no, I was excluded.
[00:14:05]  This is really hurtful stuff, man.
[00:14:07]  You didn't, I mean, whatever rules you have, I abide by them.
[00:14:11]  I obey your rules, but it was, it felt to me wrong.
[00:14:17]  And he was starting to get into the theological basis of why this is and the church histories.
[00:14:22]  I don't want to hear it.
[00:14:24]  And I'm just, in respect to him, I was just, you know, trying not to blow my top.
[00:14:35]  And then this really old man starts walking down the path.
[00:14:42]  He had to be helped by another monk.
[00:14:45]  And I turned to him.
[00:14:49]  And I look at the monk I was talking to, and he said, that is Elder Ephraim.
[00:14:55]  This is the man, the holy man, who established 18 monasteries in the United States.
[00:15:02]  Spiritual father to dozens and dozens, hundreds.
[00:15:07]  I mean, he is destined for sainthood.
[00:15:13]  And I went up to him, I touched the ground, and I put my hands out.
[00:15:18]  He put his right hand in my palm and I kissed his hand and I received his blessing.
[00:15:27]  And I looked at him and he had he was really old, but he had this, it was like a high contrast glow.
[00:15:37]  Like he stood out like his contrast, the contrast on his skin is different than anyone else's.
[00:15:44]  It was high.
[00:15:45]  It was like a little glow to it.
[00:15:50]  And he was this vibrating holiness.
[00:15:55]  He had a shake to him.
[00:15:58]  And when he gave his blessing to me, I started, like, I was extremely angry because I couldn't attend the vespers in the main church hall.
[00:16:08]  Once he gave his blessing to me, I was overcome by just happiness.
[00:16:14]  I started smiling.
[00:16:16]  And the monk I was talking to after the elder, after we separated from the elder, the monk I was talking to was still going into the theological basis of separating the Armenian Orthodox, blah blah blah.
[00:16:29]  I didn't care anymore.
[00:16:30]  I was just in a contentful stupor.
[00:16:36]  I was smiling.
[00:16:37]  And the monk said, oh, I'm sorry.
[00:16:39]  I can see you're having a moment.
[00:16:43]  what was i angry about i've never seen a man as holy as that You just get overcome because you know he dedicated his life to Christ totally.
[00:17:07]  Totally.
[00:17:10]  Wow.
[00:17:13]  And me and the monk, we started talking.
[00:17:18]  And I said I was going to go.
[00:17:19]  I guess the bookstore was closed.
[00:17:22]  And he said, well, I can open it up.
[00:17:24]  And so he walked me in.
[00:17:25]  And then we went on to have a very lovely half an hour chat.
[00:17:30]  I told him, or maybe longer than that.
[00:17:33]  He recommended a book.
[00:17:34]  I don't have the, oh, I forgot the name.
[00:17:37]  It's a book written by Elder Ephraim.
[00:17:41]  And I bought an icon.
[00:17:43]  I was looking for the ladder of divine ascent.
[00:17:47]  I've been looking for this icon and I found it.
[00:17:50]  It is here.
[00:17:52]  So me and the monk talked.
[00:17:56]  I told him some things, some spiritual battles that I was going through.
[00:18:01]  We talked about different forms of grace.
[00:18:05]  How I was giving grace in a big boost, a big shot in the arm, but he said for other people, it's a step-by-step.
[00:18:12]  So I need to understand that because I don't meet a lot of people who receive the kind of grace that I have.
[00:18:19]  So then all my anger subsided totally.
[00:18:24]  I bought some books.
[00:18:25]  I bought something for my mom.
[00:18:30]  And yeah, I can walk out of here happy that I was blessed by a very, very holy man.
[00:18:41]  And, you know, I caught him at this time.
[00:18:44]  There wasn't, there was only one other man there, so it was very quiet.
[00:18:48]  I could absorb his essence.
[00:18:52]  And God bless him.
[00:18:54]  And God bless all the men here who have dedicated their lives to Jesus Christ.
[00:19:02]  Don't just be forewarned.
[00:19:04]  If you're not Eastern Orthodox, you have to hang out in the Northex.
[00:19:09]  But hopefully, if God wills it, there will still be opportunities for you to experience the holiness that this place has.
[00:19:19]  I leave here and I go to Phoenix next.
[00:20:48]  I'm recording this in front of the matrimonial bed that only I use.
[00:20:56]  You know, I don't have many good things to say about Phoenix.
[00:21:00]  It's just not interesting.
[00:21:03]  I went to the downtown area.
[00:21:05]  I had over an hour to film.
[00:21:07]  There was nothing really to film except ugly parking garages.
[00:21:11]  The buildings were ugly.
[00:21:12]  The worst architecture I've seen in the United States.
[00:21:17]  The only thing saving this city are the cactuses, the cacti.
[00:21:24]  It's just bland all around.
[00:21:27]  Phoenix makes Columbus, Ohio full of culture.
[00:21:33]  Columbus, wow, they had a lot of stuff going compared to this.
[00:21:37]  So very, it's like the generic place.
[00:21:41]  Phoenix is the generic place west of the Mississippi.
[00:21:46]  I tried to like it.
[00:21:48]  I mean, I really did, but unfortunately, I could not.
[00:21:53]  Phoenix had nothing to offer me.
[00:21:57]  The goods and services were bland.
[00:22:00]  I got an herbal tea for $5 today and I looked at the tea and there was a cherry on top, a floating cherry in a tea.
[00:22:09]  They don't even know how to make tea here.
[00:22:14]  There were a lot of strip clubs here, non-stop.
[00:22:19]  And there were a lot of advertisements for personal injury lawyers.
[00:22:25]  Because when you slip and fall in the Walmart, you don't know who to call.
[00:22:28]  And oh, well, there's advertisements everywhere.
[00:22:31]  So you can, because they care about your personal injury.
[00:22:35]  They will get top dollar from whatever thing happened to you.
[00:22:43]  The women here, I can talk about that.
[00:22:46]  They are dressed very inappropriately.
[00:22:49]  They show a lot of skin here because it's too hot.
[00:22:53]  You know, let's not talk about the women of old who covered everything before air conditioning.
[00:23:00]  But Phoenix girls, they need to show everything.
[00:23:04]  Mid-riffs everywhere.
[00:23:06]  They also have that, I'm eternally going to the gym look.
[00:23:12]  You're right, you're not going to the gym.
[00:23:15]  You know, she's just going to, or she's just going to go to body build her butt, to butt build.
[00:23:20]  So the girl, she has to show you her big butt.
[00:23:24]  All right.
[00:23:28]  Things got a little bit more interesting in Scottsdale.
[00:23:31]  I went to Scottsdale and there they had this artsy fartsy old town.
[00:23:35]  Old town, if you bring a European here and say, this is Old Town, they would laugh in your face because everything is new.
[00:23:43]  There was nothing old about it except the women.
[00:23:47]  There were a lot of cougars there.
[00:23:48]  Cougars with the plastic surgery with the fake lips.
[00:23:55]  You know, trying to pretend that they are young.
[00:23:58]  So it's a little bit sad.
[00:24:01]  You know, I mean, as you see, I have a lot of white hair in my beard.
[00:24:05]  I'm getting older.
[00:24:07]  Every year I'm getting older, more white hair comes.
[00:24:10]  I don't deny that.
[00:24:11]  I don't deny human existence where I am going.
[00:24:15]  Six feet under soon.
[00:24:18]  But the women, they are making a deal with the plastic surgeon, with Satan, to look young.
[00:24:26]  There was an anti-aging clinic.
[00:24:29]  Anti-aging.
[00:24:30]  Yeah, you are going to reverse the hands of time.
[00:24:34]  The picture of Dorian Gray.
[00:24:37]  I was walking on the sidewalk and I caught a glimpse of a woman who was older.
[00:24:42]  She had the tight lip.
[00:24:46]  What is it called here?
[00:24:47]  This space, the nasolabial fold?
[00:24:49]  No, no, that is here.
[00:24:51]  So anyway, in her mustache area.
[00:24:53]  It was just very tight, like tighter than even a newborn baby has.
[00:24:58]  And she was walking with a man.
[00:25:00]  I hadn't seen the man yet.
[00:25:01]  And I thought to myself, I guarantee he's a young dude.
[00:25:05]  And I turned to him and sure enough, he's like 20 years younger than Granny.
[00:25:11]  And that's how it is.
[00:25:13]  These women, they deny themselves.
[00:25:15]  They deny who they are.
[00:25:17]  So they have to pretend.
[00:25:18]  Yeah, I'm young.
[00:25:20]  You know, a woman doesn't get all that plastic surgery to date a man her own age.
[00:25:24]  No, no, she has to be, she has to delude herself that she's not going to die and she's still beautiful like the 20-year-old girls.
[00:25:32]  There's quite a few of the 20-year-olds, I think, due to the universities here.
[00:25:39]  What else can I say about Phoenix?
[00:25:41]  That's it.
[00:25:41]  That's it.
[00:25:42]  I mean, there is nothing going on here except people escaping from California.
[00:25:49]  So you got people who left California and they're coming here.
[00:25:53]  They're going to Salt Lake City.
[00:25:56]  They are bringing, some of them are bringing their gay lifestyle, their globo homo type of lifestyle.
[00:26:05]  But the best thing Phoenix has going for is that there's not a lot of homeless.
[00:26:08]  I haven't seen a single tent here.
[00:26:10]  You know, if there's no tent cities, then it can't be that bad, right?
[00:26:15]  So, and lastly, my Phoenix event, it went well.
[00:26:21]  Met some interesting people and now I'm going east going to Texas.
[00:26:26]  So I'm pretty excited about that.
[00:26:27]  I have events in Dallas, Austin, and Houston.
[00:26:30]  If you want to join, go to Roosh.live and you can teach me about the Tex-Mex culture there.
[00:26:38]  So that's all I have.