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Nov. 26, 2019 - Roosh V - Daryush Valizadeh
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Babylon Road #23 - Great Smoky Mountains, Asheville, Charlotte
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I'm leaving Honky Tonkland, Nashville, Tennessee, and now headed towards my last big city, Charlotte, North Carolina.
So let's begin.
Hello from the Smoky Mountains near the border of Tennessee and North Carolina.
I'm in a spooky forest right now.
It's pretty quiet here.
I was walking on a trail when an older woman, she saw me and said, Now that's a mountain man.
And then she said, And then she said, he looks like he just came in from the woods.
And I thought, my mountain man LARP has been successful.
Yes, I faked it.
And all I had to do was let myself go.
And then people think I'm a tough person who lives in the mountains, a cabin, knows how to wield an axe when I'm really just an urbane cosmopolitan who's addicted to the internet.
So kids, you can let yourself go too, and then people are going to think how strong you are.
The status I have now.
Mountain Man status.
Now I'll be invited to all the logging competitions because I have the look.
So I faked it.
Now I have to make it.
Now I have to become a real mountain man.
And once this trip is over, I will attempt that.
I will pick up an axe for the first time.
Make sure there's three cameras on me to chronicle me, a mountain man, chopping wood.
Of course, I have to be a mountain boy first, so I have to keep the pride down.
Mountain boy number one vlog coming up.
Smoky Mountains is a little bit different than the Rocky Mountains.
The Rocky Mountains gives you more shock and awe, more dopamine because of the huge mountains and the alpine tundra and more of the wildlife.
The Smoky Mountains is more cozy.
It's more of a humble mountain.
It doesn't brag.
And it seems bigger.
It seems like there's a lot more trails and sections and stuff.
And even the people who come here are more humble too.
They're all in just basic jeans.
In the Rocky Mountains, I remember all the hip cool people in their REI gear, their $100 Pants where sweat magically evaporates and they're expensive boots.
But here you have more of the normal folk.
Here it's more of, I want to start a campfire and make some s'mores.
But in the Rocky Mountains, I wanted to buy some rope and climb a mountain, more extreme activity.
So I would say that's the difference, but they're both great.
I was walking on a trail here where a young man came up to me.
He said, What are you doing here in these parts?
I recognized that tone.
I said, What is your name?
And he said, It's C Bass.
What's yours?
And I said, Roosh Bass.
And we had a moment, we embraced.
Long story short, he is a teenager.
He got kicked out of his mom's house.
And he is on his own.
And I said, Well, I'm going home now.
And I can take care of you.
And my mom can take care of you.
Would you like me to adopt you?
And he said, Yes.
So I'd like you to meet the newest member of the brood, Seabass.
Yeah.
Seabass is a black bear.
He looks lovable and cuddly, but he is a serious killer.
Just like Arnold is.
I hope Seabass doesn't eat my brood in the back seat, but he's coming home now.
That's right.
Good old Seabass.
Turns out that I thought Seabass was my nemesis, my enemy.
But I was wrong.
All that anger and wrath for nothing.
He's actually my son.
And I will take care of him like he came out of my own loins.
So Smoky Mountains is my 11th national park.
And this one is actually free, which was cool.
You don't have to pay.
Even though I have one of those cards.
So I'm all parked out.
I mean, I wanted to, I forced myself to explore this park, but really I just want to sit down in a room for days.
But I did scope it out because it's pretty close to Washington, D.C.
So maybe next summer I can come alone, part of no tour events or anything, and just enjoy the park without having to be on a timeline.
So that's all from the Smoky Mountains.
go into North Carolina.
I'm in Asheville, North Carolina, which should be renamed Trashville because of the intense liberal presence.
Very intense here.
I went to the homeless shelter, also known as the Public Library.
Even the non-homeless, you can tell, they were really all posed up.
Green hair, even the older people.
The older people look like these aging hippies.
A lot of them were obviously gay.
I haven't really seen an aging gay before, but here in Trashville, there is a lot of them.
You go out on the main street, all the shops have these all are welcome here, refugees welcome.
Yeah, the Somalis are going to keep us in business.
We're going to shame you for your beliefs for a type of consumer that will not buy our cool candles and earthenware junk.
You know, this city kind of reminds me of Madison, Wisconsin, but without the good-looking girls.
Like Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but without the Amish.
Like Austin, Texas, but smaller and without the doo-doo on the streets.
So it's just this copy and paste.
Once things go wrong, it goes wrong in the same way.
You got the liberals and they push policies which welcome the worst of the worst in the name of tolerance.
So you have homeless everywhere.
They're sleeping on benches.
It sucks.
It sucks.
I mean, this place sucks.
That's all I can say.
Earlier in my trip, I could maybe endure it a bit better, but now I'm just tired of it.
I'm just tired of the same kind of evil brought upon by the same kind of people.
And even if you move away from a city like this, you go to a more conservative city, such as you leave North Carolina, go to South Carolina instead, it's just going to follow you because it's all controlled by the same spider up top.
So yeah, he hasn't corrupted your city, county, state yet, but he will.
So yeah, go run to Idaho, Montana, West Virginia, sweet home country roads.
But it's just going to follow you there.
Now I'm not saying you should move to a blue state, but you're not going to find heaven here.
Go anywhere you want on this earth.
You're going to find problems.
You're going to find evil.
Nope, heaven will not happen here.
You can't find it.
You can't save yourself.
You can't protect yourself from all of the harm.
Some of it you will have to face.
And I'm ready to face that, but I'm not going to face it here in Trashville.
That's for dang sure.
I'll go in the country somewhere and face the, what, opioid epidemic, poverty.
Neighbors high on meth or something.
So, no.
We are kind of doomed, but just choose carefully where you want to live.
At least pick somewhere that has problems you can deal with, that caters to your own strengths, to the gifts that God gives you.
Don't pick a place where you're just disgusted, like here.
Just no, this place isn't good.
So now I move to Charlotte next.
Inglace supermarket, Spanish-owned.
Take exit 1D.
It's Roosh Bass here.
I'm in Charlotte, North Carolina.
And North Carolina is the south.
Don't let that north part of it fool you.
This is a very southern place.
Some of the most southern accents I've heard have actually been from here.
It has a definite southern vibe.
I would say Charlotte, though, it seems like a suburb that accidentally became a city.
You have the downtown area, which here is called Uptown for some reason.
And usually the way a city is from the downtown, after some miles, the city gets less and less dense until the suburbs happen.
But here you have a few blocks of the downtown, and then the next block over is the suburb.
So it's kind of like a fake city almost, but there really isn't a city vibe.
It's just a huge suburb.
And I can say that the suburbs I drove through them, they are pretty nice.
And the reason I say that is because there are people walking in them.
They're just going for a stroll in their suburb.
You don't normally see that.
People stay encased in their home because, you know, maybe their suburb is ugly or there's a bad element in it.
But some people I've talked to said that there's a flood of people coming to Charlotte for the jobs.
A lot of these people are coming from the Northeast.
So they're bringing, guess what, their big city habits and the character of this city is changing.
It's not going to be the South for long, at least in Charlotte, because this state is about to turn blue.
Just like Virginia, one state up north, this state is about to turn blue.
Yes, it's going to be a Democratic state very soon because of all the people coming to Charlotte.
And that is a shame, but we've heard this story time and time again, so nothing is new there.
So what else happened?
Well, my last event is, and if you're wondering why I have to look so close at the piece of paper of my notes, it's because my contacts are not in.
So my last event is complete.
23 speaking events are finished.
And I feel pretty good.
I feel pretty good that it's done.
I don't want to pat myself on the back too much.
You know, this is not glory for me, but glory for God because he allowed me to do this.
And I'll have more to share about that in the next episode.
But one thing I can tell you is that during the talk, I went blank a few times.
Just physically, I was exhausted.
And I'm speaking in front of, there was about, I guess about 30 people.
I'm speaking and my mind just goes blank.
I don't know where I am, where I am in the talk.
I have to look at my notes and backtrack, where am I?
And this going blank happened before, but not so many times in one talk.
So that kind of told me that, hey, you hit your limit.
And after the talk was done, and I'm very thankful of the crowd, they were very great.
After that, I went to my car and I sat down and I got a little emotional because, you know, this was a tough trip.
And it was, I would say, the hardest trip that I have ever done.
And the funny thing is, afterwards, I could hardly walk.
Like, I needed, I felt like I needed a cane to walk.
And now I felt like God was removing his power, his help to see what my human power was.
And my innate human power is so feeble.
I'm so weak.
I'm just a creature.
So God wanted to show me how much, I think, how much help he was giving me.
And I know that he was giving me because I know my body.
I have a constitution that is fragile.
No way I could normally do this on my own power.
But on God power, I definitely could do it.
And so, yeah, God power is really great.
I like God power.
And when you're serving the will of God, he gives you that kind of power.
I went to an Armenian church today.
There is one here.
And it was pretty, it's almost the same size as the Armenian church in DC.
And usually I would try to talk to the priest.
And I did talk to him for a bit, but I actually got into a conversation with a deacon there.
And we talked for a couple hours.
So we closed the church down almost.
And, you know, I can't say how fortunate I am to have met so many spiritual people, so many holy people that have really given me all the information and guidance I need to start the next chapter of my life.
I'm extremely grateful.
Just a few days before I go back home here, God sends me a man that you know gives me and just an incredible talk, you know, confirming that I'm on the right path.
But I still have a long way to go and it's not going to be easy, but it's what I wanted to hear.
It was such a great way to end this, to end this tour.
So there's one more episode after this and I want to share with you some overall conclusions.
What have I learned now?
I've learned dozens and dozens of things, but there's a few big things that I've learned on this trip, so I definitely want to share that with you.
So hang tight.
The final episode of Babylon Road is coming and I know I'll thank you again in the next episode, but I really want to thank everyone who came to my tour, who supported me, who prayed for me your prayers were definitely answered and people who left nice comments, who made me laugh.
I read a lot of your comments.
And yeah, so let's do one more episode.
I can give some final conclusions and what I'm going to do after this.
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