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Nov. 19, 2019 - Roosh V - Daryush Valizadeh
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Babylon Road #22 - Arab, Athens, Nashville
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Alright kids, it's time to go back to Alabama.
What's that?
Why Alabama?
Because daddy has some unresolved business with a man named Seabass.
And if daddy doesn't make it out, all right, avenge daddy.
Here I come for you, Seabass.
Bold here.
I didn't bring gear for this.
My car thermometer says 23 degrees.
So I looked at the map.
Where in northern Alabama am I going to find Seabass?
And I'm looking at the names.
I'm going for a small town.
And one name popped out at me.
It couldn't be.
And then I came here to the coffee shop and I asked a woman who worked there.
I said, what is the correct way to pronounce this town?
And do you know what she said?
Arab.
Yep, I'm in Arab, Alabama.
You can't make this up, people.
I am in Arab.
So my joke became something of a real thing.
So I knew I was going to find Seabass here, or I'm thinking this.
And I'm at the coffee shop right by the door waiting for Seabass to walk in.
And the men who walk in, they didn't even give me eye contact.
And then one young man came in in camouflage gear.
And I'm thinking this is Seabass.
And I looked and he had a gun.
So I was going to confront him, of course.
But he had a gun and you don't bring a laptop to a gunfight.
So I thought, I'll just wait till Seabass starts some beef with me.
But as T-Bass told me last week, Seabass didn't want to have anything to do with me.
He didn't even give me the time of day.
Maybe he wasn't a Seabass, but I'm pretty sure he was.
He seemed real angry.
Like One guy I managed to get a nod out of him because he was staring at me.
But we're not in Georgia anymore.
Georgia, people are so friendly, so nice.
And here up in northern Alabama, I got a couple looks.
I got a lot of looks from the women.
One mother and daughter team.
The mother, she looked at me and laughed and then said something to her mom.
The mom, she looked at me, and then they both started laughing.
Why were they laughing at me?
Oh boy.
But other than that, I didn't get the battle that I wanted.
Because did you really come to the south if you didn't get into an altercation with sea bass?
But I must say the odds that I found Arab.
Arab, Alabama, I can't get over this.
And it's not a bad town, actually.
Seems kind of poor, though.
I saw a lot of mobile home sales lots.
If I didn't know any better, I would say that mobile homes are flying off the shelves.
There is a lot of that here.
And I'm not going to give up on my hunt for sea bass.
Now I'm going more to the north, but a bigger town where I'll encounter more people.
And hopefully that sea bass experience that's coming for me will happen.
I'm in
Athens, Alabama.
A very nice town.
Spent some time in the center.
And a little bit of a mix of the southern charm with the old town Americana feel.
And yes, people here aren't as nice as in Georgia, but they're still pretty nice.
And as long as they have the southern accent, I think I can get along with them.
That said, no sign of C Bass.
I looked everywhere.
Up and down the main streets and the back streets.
Daring Seabass to come and challenge me.
But he's too much of a coward.
Northern Alabama is my town now.
These are my parts.
Seabass, he forfeit northern Alabama to me.
Look at me.
I'm Seabass now.
If you want to come up here in Alabama, you got to go through me.
And too bad anyway, because we're full.
We don't have any more space for y'all city slickers.
No, no.
I'm the last one.
Now that I'm Seabass.
But if you want, you can call me Roosh Bass.
That's also acceptable.
I knew that C Bass was just a big coward.
All that big talk about being a tough guy.
Who's that guy over there?
Oh.
Never mind.
I was playing.
There wasn't any tough guy there.
So my first order of business as Seabass is to take all of the women that are coming to me.
I announce my virility and masculinity to the thin Alabama girls up here in Athens.
The three or four of them that are left.
Roosh Bass is in town.
Don't form a line now.
Any second now they're gonna come to me because I'm more of an alpha than Seabass.
Well, C Bass, if you're hiding in your mommy's basement, I came to your town and took over.
I took over the whole northern part of your state.
Sweet home, Alabama, indeed.
And now I'm shutting it down.
No more people coming.
This is sweet home, Alabama, not everybody's home, Alabama.
Yeah, me and my faithful virgin Christian wife.
We're gonna lay down some roots here.
Well, I came, I conquered, and that's it for Roosh Bass.
Goosh bass out
He's having a picnic alone just like I do Can I sit with you, little guy?
Oh, I guess.
So I'm in Nashville, Tennessee, Music City.
Whatever the city was about, now it's about music.
Music everywhere.
That's the draw that's going to get you to come here, spend a lot of money to go on Broadway, which is a street that has a lot of bars, honky-tonk bars with the neon lights.
It kind of feels like Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
And what is honky-tonk?
I didn't know what honky-tonk was.
No one told me what honky-tonk is.
So I'm studying.
Every honky-tonk bar, I looked inside and I'm studying.
I'm like, ah, I figured it out.
Honky Tonk means whites only.
So that's what it definitely means.
I didn't see any black souls in the honky tonk bars.
But Nashville is what I thought Austin, Texas would be with this music-centered kind of vibe, the southern charm.
But no, Austin is not like that at all.
Austin is a pit.
I don't advise that.
But Nashville is what Austin used to be, I guess, from what I am told.
There's this focus on music.
But good news is there's no hip-hop on the music.
There's none of that, you know, programmed music.
Some dude is hitting the buttons to make the bass line.
So it's actually live music.
It's free.
I mean, you can donate to the band.
And the music is good.
The music is fine, but the baggage attached to it is the alcohol and the fornication.
Everyone's getting wasted.
So what it is, Nashville is where other tourists from the South come to just get trashed and to forget about all of their problems back in Arab, Alabama.
It's kind of, I guess, it was the way the people were.
I mean, it's not something that is pleasing.
It's just a drunk fest.
And you are supposed to appreciate the music, but you're drunk out of your mind.
So the one thing is that the tourism industry promotes you coming here to go to Broadway for the music.
But the music has this sinful baggage attached to it.
So guess what's going to happen?
Guess how Nashville is going to be in five years' time?
Because they're attracting the wrong type of people.
Yep, it's going to be just like Austin, Texas.
If you're attracting people who want to party, who want to intoxicate and fornicate, and these people move here, it doesn't take a city planner to take a guess what's going to happen.
And from me talking to people who live here, what's happening is the city dwellers from Chicago and New York are starting to move here.
So while the Californians move to Arizona, Texas, Idaho, Montana, Northeast, city slaves, it's too expensive.
They don't like it there anymore.
But without changing their ways, they come to Nashville, Tennessee.
Oh, Nashville is so great.
The scene is great.
The music is great.
But they bring their habits with them.
And we know what's going to happen here.
So enjoy Nashville while you can.
What else?
I got some bad news.
I was in a lot of these honky-tonk bars, and who do I see again and again?
Real sea bass.
There was a lot of tough southerners, southern men, who I can tell is more alpha than me.
I can tell if I step on their brown boots, they are going to kick my ass, just like sea bass does.
So unfortunately after this experience My pride came down a bit I can no longer claim to be an authentic sea bass I Thought I was the king of northern Alabama, but here in Nashville, I'm just a small bass but I still encourage you to call me Ruch Bass.
That is my name.
I went to the Nashville courthouse.
I changed my name.
It's now Roosh Bass.
So I'm Ruch B now and if you want to sound a little tougher than you are, just add Bass to your first name and you will be tough just like me.
What else in Nashville we have here?
It's very one thing I learned, I thought the South was just one monolithic culture, one type, but really it changes.
You know, the way the South is in Northern Florida compared to Louisiana, compared to Georgia, compared to Alabama.
These are technically the South, but they're different.
So there isn't one kind of South.
That's one thing that I learned.
And the Nashville South is pretty friendly.
It's pretty, I would say more friendly than the Alabama South.
But it's different.
And it would take, you have to go to each place and understand what their culture, their food is.
So white people in the South definitely have some kind of culture.
And that was good to see.
Black people in Nashville, they have a bigger chip on their shoulder than in Georgia.
I could sense it.
Now we're getting that aggro is coming back.
It's not as bad as in the Northeast, but I was on the sidewalk and this big black dude with an angry face was walking in the middle.
He owned the sidewalk and you had to get out of the way.
He bought that sidewalk.
So that's kind of the Washington, D.C. thing, where they control the streets.
So I started to get that vibe here.
When in Georgia, that man would have gotten out of the way, said he's said, asked me how I am doing.
But here, now here you're starting to get a little bit of that thug influence that I didn't see in other parts.
I went to a Greek Orthodox church.
So you're asking why did I go to a Greek Orthodox church when it seems like the Greeks don't like Armenian people.
I don't know.
I think they don't like me.
But I went there.
People were pretty nice.
And that's all I'll say.
But I didn't talk to the priest.
One thing I'll say, and it was a parish that was huge.
There was a lot of people.
I went to Holy Trinity.
And it was a lot of converts.
Why?
Because there's not many Orthodox churches in the South.
This is one thing I noticed.
Since I left Texas, I haven't met many Orthodox men come to my talks.
So it's not as big here.
And one thing, this church had a lot of women that were good looking.
That's something that I am not down with.
I can't deal with that.
When I'm in church, if there's a good-looking girl, then I'm in, now I have to use all my spiritual willpower to fight that.
So what I like about my Armenian church is that the average age of the women there is like 60.
So I go in, just old ladies.
It's great.
It's great.
I can focus on God totally.
So please don't invite me to churches with good-looking girls.
And, you know, the girls there in this church today, they dress very nice.
I mean, maybe too nice.
So one thing I like about the Russian Orthodox Church is that the women cover up.
They cover their heads for the entire time.
In the Armenian church, the women cover up only when they take communion.
In the Greek Orthodox Church, they don't cover up.
But I'm not complaining.
I know the Greeks are watching me because they made some comments.
They made some comments about my time in St. Anthony's.
And I'm glad they are watching.
I love the Greeks.
The Greeks are the one true church because they are very proud of their church.
And I'm glad.
Okay, so my event, my 22nd event went really well.
It was a pretty large crowd because Nashville is kind of in the center of the South.
So I got a lot of people from Mississippi, Alabama, got people from up north and Indiana, and they came and had the second mother-daughter duo.
So that went well.
There was a lot of Protestants in this one.
So where did all the Catholic bros go?
So there used to be a lot of Catholics, but now in the South, there is not a lot of them.
One thing I can tell you, something's going on.
Why?
Because the men coming to my events from 20 to 25, they have a topic they want to talk about, and that's Nick Fuentes and the Groipers.
I got a sense of it last week.
There was a couple of Zoomers.
This week, there was a lot of them.
There was maybe seven, eight of them, and we were talking about it.
And a movement is coming.
A movement is coming.
And I can feel it.
I can feel it.
Just the men who talk to me, something is going on.
2020 is going to be an interesting year in terms of conservative politics.
So I am Gen X. I'm not a spokesperson for this.
This is a Zoomers only.
I support them.
I support the Zoomers and the Groipers.
As Gen X, I took my birthright and used it to bang around the world.
So I can't really help them.
I'm not going to even get involved.
It's their thing.
Trust in the Zoomers.
I'll say one thing about them, though.
They are very sharp.
Where they are at 21 in terms of political ability is where I was at 35.
And I'm talking to these young kids and like, how does he know all this stuff?
So I like to take some credit.
Like maybe he learned it through me.
I don't know.
But these young kids, kids, I'm just, I don't mean to insult them, but they know what's going on and I trust in them.
So may the Zoomers save us.
And I have a lot of hope in them.
Okay, so that's all I have from Nashville.
I got one more event left.
So I want to get excited, but I'm not because the race isn't finished yet.
One more event in Charlotte.
If you want to join, you can come.
That's next Saturday.
And after that, so it's going to be two more episodes.
One more episode for Charlotte, then one more final episode after that.
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