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Oct. 22, 2019 - Roosh V - Daryush Valizadeh
29:16
Babylon Road #18 - San Antonio, Weimar, Houston
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That's Bert.
That's Tom, the young daughter of a married couple who came to Austin, made him a watch.
And the button is the watch face.
Tom can tell the time now.
Then, my foster children, that is Sally.
She has a drug problem.
That's why her pupils are dilated.
She's addicted to opioids.
I'm helping her.
And this is Maggie, the Texan cow who is transitioning to a pig.
And I support her because I'm open-minded and not a bigot like all of you.
So, me and my brood, we go to Houston now.
What's up, Cholos?
I am in front of the Japanese tea garden in San Antonio.
If you want to make a Japanese tea garden, please don't do it next to a major highway.
It really diminishes the beauty.
I just had a picnic lunch here and I brushed my teeth in public.
People probably think I'm a homeless man with a YouTube channel, which isn't that far from the truth.
San Antonio is where the Tex meets the Mex.
You really feel the Mexican culture here, especially in the suburbs.
I guess you can say there, the Mex is taking over the Tex.
In the urban areas, this is where the white people live.
And San Antonio downtown is not that bad.
It's pretty pleasant and dare I say, livable.
It's clean, not a lot of homeless.
And the river walk really saves it.
I can see myself on Sundays with a couple of friends just having a seat somewhere and watching the people.
It had a very European vibe to it, something that you don't get anywhere else in the United States.
Though Fredericksburg, Texas had somewhat of that.
And this is due to the Spanish influence here.
And I must say that Europeans, they really know how to design a city.
There is their aftereffects of good urbanism here.
Probably because they've had over 1,500 years of experience doing it.
Americans, unfortunately, they don't know how to design a city.
They just don't have that skill.
They have a lot of skills, but designing a city is not one of them.
And I think it's because there were no constraints on the planners here when developing the land.
They had unlimited resources, unlimited space.
So they just plopped down in the middle of nowhere and started to build outwards with no idea of what the future would hold and how many people would eventually live here.
So the way that urbanism is now is basically putting a band-aid over major wounds.
Yeah, maybe these electric scooters are going to solve 200 years of bad planning.
But in terms of a big city, San Antonio has some of the big city problems, but from west of the Mississippi, it's one of the best.
In terms of if you're a young person and you want to live in the city, to have access to potential sexual partners, then this is it.
So people, they looked attractive enough.
I can't really complain.
And the mission I saw, these are things that the Spaniards, the Catholic Spaniards, created, one, as a way of soft power, but two, as a way to save souls.
And I think the Catholics here who came saved a lot of Native American souls.
So good for them.
That's all I have for San Antonio, and now I'm heading east.
Welcome to Weimar America.
Texas, to be exact.
I came to Weimar, Texas, to see if it was just like Weimar, Germany of the 1930s.
I wanted to see if there were prostitutes everywhere.
Pregnant prostitutes, midget prostitutes, prostitutes with tertiary syphilis.
I wanted to see if there were a lot of theater shows that were pornographic with stripteases.
All run by the same men in the small hats.
But this Weimar had nothing of the sort.
It's just a town of dirt and pickup trucks.
It's quiet.
Most of the stores deal with farm supplies and farm equipment that I have no idea what that equipment does.
This is a town that I would guess is not growing at all.
That once a young person becomes of age, they immediately try to leave it to go to a cooler town, a town where there is job opportunities, more entertainment options, more ways to display status, more organic micro breweries that have peach beer or whatever gay flavor they are drinking now.
And I think that it's wrong to move to those type of places.
Why?
Because in this current year, if a city is materially successful, then it's also spiritually dead.
When you're distracted by success and all these options, there's no time for God.
There's no time to really ask yourself, why are we really here?
But in a dusty town such as this, if you don't have God, how are you going to get by?
There is nothing to do except stare at the dust.
I think there was a donut shop.
Give me a dying town.
One that seems like we went back in time.
This is 1984.
It's a lot of pickup trucks.
And last thing I wanted to say is that as I go further east, the people are getting more nice.
Now people are complimenting me on my beard, on my car.
I was eating lunch.
A man complimented the lunch I was eating.
And these are friendly folk.
In the west part of Texas and Central, I didn't get that.
But now in the eastern part, as I head towards I get closer to Houston, I'm starting to feel this change in culture, this different vibe.
So I have to investigate it further.
So I give a thumbs up to Weimar America.
This is probably the best that Weimar can get, and I enjoyed it.
You can't even look at sleeping.
And they charge about everything.
And it's with materialism in our own bedrooms.
They're going to have their own bedroom and their own suite.
The first thing I do when I check into a hotel is I remove the comforter.
They don't wash them.
And I've seen some really dirty people stay in the same hotel as me.
Take this off.
Whatever that is.
Probably has license gabies.
And this, they don't wash it every time.
Now, unless they wrap it in a duvet, that's fine.
But this, I guarantee you, they don't wash.
For the people who don't shower and who have germs, nope, don't want it.
Hold that up.
Yeah, and I may have to sterilize myself now.
So that's a good tip that you should follow.
Every person
that's listening.
And Lord, I ask as well that you give us wisdom.
Help us to make great decisions this week.
I thank you, Lord, that you're opening the right doors and closing the wrong doors.
Motivated, valuable, free, determined, equipped, empowered, anointed, accepted, and approved.
Not every, not mediocre.
I am a child of the most high God.
I will become all I was created to be.
Top metropolitan television markets presented us with an amazing opportunity.
Broadcast the Joel Osteen television program immediately after their nightly local news.
God's given us this opportunity.
So, you know, we're doing great on Sunday mornings, reaching millions and millions of people, but we're always praying and believing for God to open up some new doors.
But I can tell you that Joel's not ready to slow down.
He's ready to ramp up to unlock hearts, to unlock hearts for Jesus Christ, hearts that didn't even know they were looking for him.
And through television, we can do amazing things.
It's about $10 million to really do this.
We've already done 20 of the stations.
When it came up about a year ago, I didn't want to miss that.
So we paid about $4 million already.
So I don't believe in pressuring people to give.
I do believe in pressuring you to stretch your faith.
Because like Lisa, you have not because you ask not.
I met a man the other day and he said, Yeah, Rush, I saw your last vlog.
And man, you look like crap.
So I hope I look a little bit better now.
I'm getting a bit of a second wind.
So last week I was in a, I was feeling kind of low.
I was tired and I wanted to quit, but got a little bit of a boost.
And I am in Houston now.
And Houston is a big city.
It's like millions of people who live here.
It's not like a backwater oil place.
It's a major metropolitan area.
The problem is it's very ugly.
This is one of the ugliest cities I've been to.
It's like Waco times 50.
And the reason is they don't have a zoning law here.
So if you buy some land, you can make whatever you want there.
And it shows.
It shows.
And Houston is like one gigantic strip mall.
That's how it feels, how the architecture feels.
But the people are seemingly humble.
They seem to be common sense people.
They are not as snobby as the Dallas folk.
And I know I'm in Texas because there is a lot of pickup trucks and jeeps.
There's more pickup trucks here than in Dallas.
So I must conclude that Houston is more Texan than Dallas.
And the city itself, at least the traffic isn't as bad.
It's just ugly.
It's an ugly place.
And that's all I can say about that.
But the good news about Houston is that there is free HIV testing.
So if you're gay, there is a clothing shop, a secondhand clothing shop where you can get tested for AIDS.
I don't know if I would want to buy clothes from a place that has free HIV tests, but I have never seen a retail shop, not a medical facility, offer free HIV tests.
And this is probably bad news if you are gay in Houston.
But don't worry, the pharmaceutical industry is devoting all their resources to curing your AIDS so you can continue your sodomite activity.
But the highlight of my time in Houston was going to Lakewood Church.
This is Joel Osteen's church.
So I got to see the man himself.
The church was large.
It's actually in a former stadium.
I think they used to play basketball games.
So when you go up to the church, there's all these parking attendants and the yellow vests.
It felt like I was attending a rock concert in the sense that the parking was tough.
I had to drive, blah, blah, blah.
I get to it, and it's in a stadium.
It's in a stadium, but the stadium has no crosses, no Jesus portraits, icons.
It was very sterile.
It was clean, but sterile.
And I mean, I travel with a couple of icons and a cross.
I don't know if you can see it.
It's on that thing.
But I think my motel room is more suitable for church than Lakewood.
I kind of hate to say it, but where is the, I mean, where, what, it felt like just a stadium, a stadium that is, that is clean.
The only thing missing from the rafters were the Hall of Famers, like jersey numbers and things like that.
So it started with the music.
And I must say the music was excellent.
The singers were great.
The drummer was really jamming out.
And the guitarist, I was thinking, man, I want to be a drummer.
I want to be a Christian drummer.
I'm going to ask Joel if I can do that.
And again, the singing, top notch, no auto-tune.
The singing, the songs were about God and Christ and people.
I think that was a highlight for a lot of people.
But it was very loud.
It felt like a concert.
It was so loud that if God was speaking to me during the singing, I could not hear him.
I wish I brought the earplugs I used to take when I would go to the nightclub to pick up chicks.
So then Joel came on.
He did a prayer and he has this like squinty look to him, like his eyes, they move quickly.
I think this is when the Holy Spirit downloads data to him so he can pray.
And he would put his hands up.
Like me as I guess I'm a public speaker in some way.
So I was breaking down how he was doing it.
He would move a lot.
The way he would put his hands up.
And he would kind of smile as he talked.
So that's a little bit different than how I speak.
But maybe I can try that.
So guys, and then after that, but Joel has a problem.
He needs some money.
He needs $10 million to go from being on 20 television markets to 40.
And he said that if you can help him achieve this goal to spread the word of God to save people through the TV, then you will receive blessings back here, in the here and now in this world.
So $10 million.
And the pitch was, to me, I was like, this is a sales pitch.
But the others, the stadium seats were excited about it.
They want more.
They want their church to be everywhere.
They want their church to be on all the channels.
So they were excited.
They were ready to give.
And after there was another song, and then Joel came to deliver his sermon.
And the sermon, he did include Bible quotes.
It was biblical in some way.
The concept of his sermon was to outlast, to just keep on going, to persist, which is a good message.
I can't argue.
But it was more, it felt more of a motivational thing.
Like I felt like, okay, yeah, Roosh, you're strong.
Just keep on, just keep on going.
But the overall theme in the entire thing was you can expect a blessing from God here.
You can, and the two major things were to fix your health problems and to fix your money problems.
So if you can help Joel spread the gospel, then God will bless you today.
And he promised that you would be cured of your health problems and things.
So he was given promises.
I mean, if an Orthodox priest said, Roosh, I promise you that you're going to be cured of this.
I was like, mm.
But people, they wanted to hear that, and he gave it to them.
But the way it was, the way the whole event was structured was it kept you on this like happy, happy high.
It was making you feel good.
Then it would bring it down.
There would be a sad moment where like a sad story, but not for too long.
And then they would bring you back up again.
So a little bit of a roller coaster, but they managed it.
So your downs, your dips weren't that low.
Like you weren't in a pit.
And Joel cried too.
Joel, he said that when he was a young pastor, he was insecure and he had some fears about becoming a pastor.
And then he started crying.
And then he turned his back on us and he cried.
And then the congregation was cheering him on.
And I don't know.
I don't know.
And then, but then I got, because of his good speaking skills, I got such in a trance that I opened my checkbook up because I want Joel to be on more TVs.
So I wrote him a check for $10,000.
And I hope he places me in consideration to be the drummer.
But look, you know, God's grace works in different ways.
And some of the stories I heard do suggest grace.
So I don't believe only, you know, the Orthodox are graced.
I don't believe, say, only the Catholics or this or that or the Westboro Baptists are only grace.
So God does grace all.
And there is grace there.
In terms of the faith, I don't know because it seemed to me more like a guru thing.
Like as long as Joel is there to give these incredible speeches, like you feel good, you feel like you can do it.
But if Joel is gone, if Joel dies, then who, then where is the faith?
So it feels more like a guru thing.
But I think I talked enough about that.
So then, so my event on Saturday went well.
And do I have it?
There was a lot of Catholics there.
So there was a lot of, I don't know if there's like a slang word for Catholic, Catholic bros.
So I got a chance to talk to them.
There was a man who was a Baptist and he came up to me and he said, Roosh, can I lay my hands on you and pray?
And I said, do I have to do anything?
And he said, no.
And then, so I said, sure.
And then he put his hands on my arms and he prayed and he said a nice prayer.
And yeah, this meeting here, a lot of men were pretty deep into the faith, more than Austin and Dallas.
So it felt like a true fellowship at the very end.
So it was a great event.
Now I go to Florida.
Florida's next.
I got events in Miami and Orlando.
And if you come to my events and you can allow me to spread the gospel of Roosh, you will be blessed.
Your bad back will go away.
So join Joel Roosh in Florida.
So, okay, and go to Roosh.live.
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