Roosh V - Daryush Valizadeh - Help Me Decide On A New Career
Aired: 2020-01-21
Duration: 21:14

[00:00:00]  So I made a big move.
[00:00:02]  No, I didn't move out of my mom's house.
[00:00:04]  I stopped selling game and the rest of my pickup books.
[00:00:09]  I deleted a lot of game articles.
[00:00:12]  I deleted the game and travel sub forums on Roosh VForum.
[00:00:19]  I deleted some videos and some podcasts too.
[00:00:22]  I deleted all the game stuff that taught men how to pick up girls and to fornicate.
[00:00:29]  I also deleted some especially vulgar articles I wrote that were old and just flat out disgusting.
[00:00:40]  So even though I just completed game in late 2017, it hasn't been on sale for that long.
[00:00:47]  It was supposed to be my bread and butter, supposed to provide for me for half a decade at least.
[00:00:53]  No, I pulled that.
[00:00:54]  It's not going to provide for me anymore.
[00:00:57]  So why did I do this?
[00:01:00]  Once I received God's grace in March of 2018, what happened was that I began to feel a new sense of right and wrong.
[00:01:12]  That was confirmed by reading the Bible, talking to priests and monks.
[00:01:18]  The feeling I got was a new person inside me.
[00:01:22]  And a lot of the things that I did in the past, such as to sleep around, I couldn't do anymore.
[00:01:29]  It just felt like it was the wrong thing.
[00:01:31]  Again, I'm not telling you how to live.
[00:01:33]  I'm not telling you what to do.
[00:01:34]  A lot of people think that, oh, because I'm not doing it, I'm condemning you.
[00:01:38]  I'm not.
[00:01:39]  God, this puff of hair makes me look like a chipmunk.
[00:01:42]  I think I have to end that.
[00:01:45]  But that was the case.
[00:01:47]  So last year in May, I unpublished Bang, a lot of my older Bang travel guides.
[00:01:53]  And I thought that would be enough.
[00:01:57]  That, you know, my conscience was clear, but it was not enough.
[00:02:02]  I looked at game lately and every page was dripping with how to score, how to achieve casual sex.
[00:02:10]  And while a lot of men did use game in the context of relationships, of marriages, for every one man that used my pickup work to find a wife, maybe a hundred used it to experience carnal pleasure.
[00:02:28]  So I didn't want to be attached to that anymore.
[00:02:32]  And I unpublished it because in the Christian life, you cannot cause another Christian to stumble, to sin.
[00:02:41]  And my work, perhaps better than any other game guru out there, gave you step-by-step details on specifically how to fornicate.
[00:02:49]  And I was pretty good at it.
[00:02:51]  And I allowed other men to be good at it as well.
[00:02:54]  But I no longer can be that guy.
[00:03:00]  I don't expect non-Christians or those who are not walking with Christ to understand why I'm doing this.
[00:03:06]  It's just a pickup book.
[00:03:08]  What?
[00:03:08]  So what?
[00:03:09]  You need to earn a living.
[00:03:11]  You need to make some money, Roosh Bass, to buy your fur hats.
[00:03:18]  But it's much more than that.
[00:03:20]  For what is the quote in Matthew?
[00:03:25]  For what is a man who gains the world but loses his soul?
[00:03:29]  And so if you haven't experienced God's grace, and I pray that you do one day, this will seem like insanity.
[00:03:36]  And a lot of men say, Roosh, you've gone mad.
[00:03:38]  You've gone crazy.
[00:03:40]  Well, if we are living in an inverted world and you're doing what the culture tells you, are you sure that what you're not doing is the crazy thing?
[00:03:52]  I'm not saying that you are indeed crazy, but I can tell you that I was.
[00:03:57]  The way I live, I just had to briefly peruse through my previous work.
[00:04:01]  It was insanity to think that I could save myself through sex, through fame, and status.
[00:04:09]  But it's okay to be angry at me for doing this.
[00:04:13]  It's okay to not understand it.
[00:04:15]  You don't have to understand it.
[00:04:17]  I'm just expressing myself in a way so you know what's going on.
[00:04:21]  But if you are a Christian, I think you do understand why I'm doing this.
[00:04:27]  So, what does this mean?
[00:04:28]  Well, game was my biggest source of income, selling the e-book, paperback, and audiobook, various combinations, and bundled products.
[00:04:39]  And I don't have that income now.
[00:04:42]  The shack you see behind me is the kind of living standard I will be looking for after this.
[00:04:50]  No McMansion in the Washington, D.C. suburbs for me.
[00:04:54]  This is, you know, I can even maybe make a shack like this if you have land to donate to me in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
[00:05:02]  That's where I want to live.
[00:05:04]  I already got a nice truck with over 200,000 miles.
[00:05:08]  Good thing I bought an old used car, right?
[00:05:10]  Can you imagine if I had a car payment and then two weeks later, God helped me understand that I have to stop making my income from sexual filth?
[00:05:18]  I'd feel like I was in a bad spot.
[00:05:22]  But I'm not too concerned about where I'm going to get the income because I'll be honest with you, I hate business.
[00:05:30]  I hate being a merchant of rubbing my hands.
[00:05:34]  Where am I going to make my money?
[00:05:37]  I don't like it.
[00:05:38]  I don't want to worry about the money.
[00:05:41]  So I'm going to put a little bit more trust into God to take care of me.
[00:05:44]  And I have some money saved up.
[00:05:46]  I'm not totally broke.
[00:05:48]  So I'm going to live off the savings and see if I can make a living that's honest.
[00:05:54]  See if I can make an income without peddling sex, without being a sex merchant.
[00:06:02]  And I've been a sex merchant since I wrote Bang in 2007.
[00:06:07]  So for over 12 years, I've been dependent on that easy sex income.
[00:06:13]  And look, there's a reason why the phrase sex sells exists because if you're selling sex, you're going to have a lot of buyers.
[00:06:20]  But if you're selling God, I don't mean I'm going to sell God, but if you are, if your work is about pushing God, and I can't charge you for what?
[00:06:31]  God consulting.
[00:06:32]  A priest gives that to you for absolutely free.
[00:06:36]  So I don't see the income coming back in the way that it was.
[00:06:40]  And if it does come back, something's wrong.
[00:06:42]  That means I took the Joel Osteen path to heaven on earth.
[00:06:46]  Hopefully Kanye can teach him what being Christian is about, but I'm not holding my breath.
[00:06:52]  That said, I'm going to have to change how I live.
[00:06:56]  I can't be a consumer anymore.
[00:06:57]  I can't look at these as things as disposable.
[00:07:01]  I have to be a better steward of the things that I own, how I approach the world.
[00:07:07]  If something breaks, I can't just run to a repair shop or throw it away like a smartphone.
[00:07:12]  I have to see, can I fix it?
[00:07:14]  Can I understand basics of mechanics, electricity, and how to solder things?
[00:07:24]  So in that regard, I mean, I will continue to write books, but I may need to find a new career.
[00:07:30]  So this is where I'm going to suggest some possible careers that me as a 40-year-old man can undertake.
[00:07:37]  And let's see what you think.
[00:07:40]  When you suggest a career to me, please, nothing pie in the sky unreasonable.
[00:07:45]  I'm a 40-year-old man.
[00:07:46]  There's only so much I can learn at this age.
[00:07:49]  So let's keep it realistic.
[00:07:51]  That said, the first career I think I should try out is deep sea underwater welding.
[00:07:59]  I think that is a masculine job.
[00:08:02]  It pays well.
[00:08:03]  You only have to learn how to scuba dive and weld while underwater.
[00:08:09]  It takes maybe not that much training to get good at.
[00:08:13]  Like I said, I have soldered things before.
[00:08:16]  So doing it underwater with a blowtorch, how hard can that be?
[00:08:21]  I hear that they can make well over $100,000.
[00:08:25]  So you can work, you can travel, work on oil rigs.
[00:08:30]  So yeah, that would be my first choice on a new career.
[00:08:34]  My second career choice is French pastry chef because I love chocolate croissants.
[00:08:43]  So why not turn your passion into a career and make chocolate croissants every day and you can sample them for free.
[00:08:51]  So for this job, you just have to go to a pastry school and learn the art of pastry construction and then you work in a restaurant and get paid a somewhat good salary.
[00:09:06]  And what's great about this is that I live near Washington, D.C., where there's a lot of silly people who think spending a lot of money on food makes them feel extra cultured.
[00:09:18]  So I can trick a lot of people by making extra tiny croissants and charging exorbitant amounts of money and just profit greatly.
[00:09:29]  And I hear that mostly women are pastry chefs.
[00:09:34]  That doesn't take away from the masculinity of it.
[00:09:38]  But I could maybe meet my future wife in this way.
[00:09:43]  My third career choice would be lumberjerk.
[00:09:46]  I mean lumberjack.
[00:09:49]  I would be in the woods all day just chopping down trees like the man that I am.
[00:09:54]  I already have all the clothing for being a lumberjack.
[00:09:58]  I have tons of red plaid shirts.
[00:09:59]  So I really wouldn't need to have any startup costs.
[00:10:03]  I have one axe that I haven't used ever.
[00:10:06]  So it's sharp.
[00:10:07]  And I think it's called a ratchet or a like it's a smaller axe.
[00:10:12]  I haven't used that either.
[00:10:15]  How hard can chopping trees down be?
[00:10:17]  I mean, I can climb a tree with a chainsaw and trees falling down safely.
[00:10:23]  I would never get hurt.
[00:10:25]  So only thing is my body has declined over the years.
[00:10:31]  I'm not as spry as I used to be.
[00:10:33]  So being a lumberjack seems like could be a little challenging.
[00:10:37]  And I don't know if my body can hold up, but boy, I would be outdoors all day where I belong.
[00:10:46]  The fourth career I could try is being a computer programmer.
[00:10:50]  Now that's not very glamorous, but that learn to code meme, it speaks to me now because I don't have many other options left.
[00:10:58]  So I could learn to code immediately.
[00:11:00]  And I'm sure a lot of you watching me are coders as well.
[00:11:04]  You can teach me how to code.
[00:11:07]  And I'm sure I can, once I compete on the global labor market with 1 billion Indians who are learning how to code as we speak, my pay may not be as high as it could be.
[00:11:18]  But hey, as long as you live in the United States where there will always be a demand, and maybe I can infiltrate some of these Silicon Valley companies and then implement my extreme right-wing ideology into their code base.
[00:11:33]  What an opportunity that is.
[00:11:35]  Man, these geese really didn't clean up after their own doo-doo.
[00:11:38]  They're a mess.
[00:11:40]  Clean up after your crap, geese.
[00:11:45]  So the last career that I could possibly consider is being a monk or a priest.
[00:11:51]  Now, this isn't really a career.
[00:11:53]  It's more of a calling.
[00:11:54]  But one thing I've learned is that if you want to become a monk or priest and you recently converted to Christ, they're going to say, whoa, boy, walk with Christ a bit more and be sure.
[00:12:05]  So even if I were to go to the monastery today and say, I'm ready to serve the Lord in this capacity, they find out that I came to Christ a little less than a year ago.
[00:12:14]  They'd be like, come back to us in a year or two when you are sure.
[00:12:19]  An extra difficulty for me is that I am in the Armenian Orthodox Church.
[00:12:24]  And guess what?
[00:12:25]  They conduct the liturgy known in the Armenian language as the Badarak in Armenian.
[00:12:33]  So I don't know this language yet.
[00:12:36]  I'm about to start to learn.
[00:12:39]  It's not that easy.
[00:12:40]  And so for me to become a priest, I would want to stay in the Armenian church.
[00:12:45]  So I would have to conduct the Badarak in Armenian.
[00:12:50]  Well, it may take about 10 years for me to learn that language.
[00:12:55]  So I think priest may not be my calling yet.
[00:12:59]  Unless, God, if you're listening, you enlighten me by downloading the Armenian language into my brain right now.
[00:13:06]  Okay, he didn't do it.
[00:13:08]  But that doesn't mean that I can't use my own human power to overcome any obstacle and learn it, which I will.
[00:13:17]  Oh, you're still here?
[00:13:18]  Well, how about I answer some questions from viewers just like you?
[00:13:24]  Dr. Galaskiewicz, that's Polish, he asked me, Are you back in the U.S. for good?
[00:13:31]  No more traveling?
[00:13:32]  That's right, doctor.
[00:13:33]  I'm not traveling anymore.
[00:13:35]  All that traveling was just a big waste of time because, as they say, there is no place like home.
[00:13:40]  And the United States is my home.
[00:13:44]  You couldn't pay me to get on an airplane right now, to have to go through TSA and get groped again because I want to opt out of those x-ray scanners.
[00:13:52]  To have to get on taxi rides, go in a hotel, check in, check out, of meeting strangers and pretending that it's great in foreign foods that really aren't that tasty anyway.
[00:14:04]  So no, I'm not going to travel anymore.
[00:14:06]  And for those of you who are about to get married in the next year, I'm sorry, I can't travel.
[00:14:12]  You have to get married sometime in 2022 because I'm going to stay put, no more travel.
[00:14:21]  I have to go against the grain, go against what I've been doing for so long.
[00:14:25]  And that means no more travel.
[00:14:28]  XGPOSTs asks, why do you get uglier as you age?
[00:14:35]  It's true.
[00:14:36]  Unlike everyone else, I'm getting uglier as I get older.
[00:14:40]  I'm going to get uglier and uglier from this point hence.
[00:14:45]  My hair is going to turn white.
[00:14:46]  My face is going to be all foldy and wrinkly and gross.
[00:14:51]  And my body is going to look like a shell of its former pristine self.
[00:14:56]  You know, there is one place I found that people go to to look better as they age.
[00:15:02]  It's a temple.
[00:15:03]  And this temple, mostly women go to.
[00:15:06]  It's called Dermatology.
[00:15:09]  They go to Dermatology Temple.
[00:15:12]  And it's this beautiful glass temple.
[00:15:15]  Most of the cities have numerous dermatology temples.
[00:15:19]  And the women go in.
[00:15:20]  And when they come out, their face is completely new.
[00:15:24]  And it's so stretchy and like clean.
[00:15:28]  And they're beautiful.
[00:15:31]  I don't know what goes on there, but also their lips triple in size.
[00:15:37]  They're just beautiful.
[00:15:41]  Unlike me, I'm ugly because I don't know how to get access to these dermatology temples.
[00:15:47]  The weird thing is all the women who are older, they're starting to look exactly the same.
[00:15:53]  This weird, puffed up, stretched out beauty.
[00:16:00]  They even have invented something new.
[00:16:03]  It's called the vampire facial.
[00:16:05]  I don't know if you have heard of this.
[00:16:07]  This is when the woman takes her own blood and sacrifices it to the dermatology who then puts it on her face to rejuvenate.
[00:16:21]  So through this blood sacrifice, the woman can look amazing.
[00:16:27]  And I'm just too cowardly or too unlucky in order to do something like that.
[00:16:33]  Strange enough, some people, some of the women who have gotten this blood sacrifice treatment have contracted HIV.
[00:16:40]  So it looks like blood sacrifices have some downsides.
[00:16:45]  Who would have thought?
[00:16:47]  Canned Meat Salad asks, Rush is an embarrassing Persian.
[00:16:52]  Where is the BMW?
[00:16:54]  It's true.
[00:16:55]  The Persians in the United States like to flash their cash with BMWs.
[00:17:00]  Why?
[00:17:01]  Well, they tend to have left Iran, their ancestors, after the Ayatollah came to power, the hyper-Muslims, very, what's it called, it's a theocracy.
[00:17:13]  And so the Persians who come reject the Ayatollah and they reject God too because they associate God with the mulahs, the Ayatollah.
[00:17:23]  So they throw the baby out with the bathwater and come to the United States and worship the new God of consumerism.
[00:17:30]  So Persians are the most hyper-materialistic people you will find in the United States.
[00:17:35]  That's why they're so financially successful because their God is money.
[00:17:39]  And what better represents money than an over-engineered, plasticky car like a BMW?
[00:17:46]  So no, I am not Persian in spirit, only in 50% genetic material, but I will not be.
[00:17:53]  And if you offend my 220,000 mile Toyota for runner canned meat salad, I'm coming after you.
[00:18:01]  Forrest Grump and Chris Kemp both asked the same question, and that is, what happened to the Dodge truck from the road trip?
[00:18:08]  That truck was never mine.
[00:18:09]  That was misinformation to throw off antifa.
[00:18:13]  They thought I was driving a truck when I was really driving a sports car.
[00:18:18]  And, you know, that was when I wanted to LARP.
[00:18:21]  I wanted to pretend I was a bigger man than I really was.
[00:18:24]  So I posed for a picture of my friends who was actually an oil man.
[00:18:29]  I posed in an oil man's truck to make myself look more masculine than I really was.
[00:18:35]  And that's something that I wouldn't do today as a mountain man, as a genuine one, who currently lives with his mom, but that's going to end soon.
[00:18:43]  And because I got the axes, I got the beard, I got the hat.
[00:18:48]  I'm basically there.
[00:18:49]  So if you don't think I'm a mountain man, well, you're just wrong.
[00:18:54]  Cole S asks, how has this channel come to this?
[00:18:59]  How did this happen?
[00:19:01]  Through God's loving grace.
[00:19:03]  I hope that God graces you in the same way that he has graced me.
[00:19:09]  You know, online in the secular sense, transformation usually involves losing some weight or quitting coffee or not beating off for a month.
[00:19:18]  But with God, transformation is more complete.
[00:19:22]  It's not just in a few behaviors.
[00:19:24]  It's everything.
[00:19:27]  And I wouldn't have believed it if it didn't happen to me.
[00:19:31]  But it did.
[00:19:32]  And I hope it happens to you so you can understand it.
[00:19:35]  But if grace has come to you, then I think you know what I'm talking about.
[00:19:41]  Baby Turtle says, right arrow, buying a car is a lot like dating.
[00:19:45]  Right arrow.
[00:19:46]  Buys an old car with very high mileage for cheap.
[00:19:49]  Hee hee.
[00:19:51]  This is true, baby turtle.
[00:19:54]  I see myself as a very high mileage car.
[00:19:58]  I was all broken down and busted up.
[00:20:00]  And then I went to an auto mechanic by the name of JC.
[00:20:05]  And JC says, Roosh, your car is in bad shape.
[00:20:09]  You know what I'm going to do?
[00:20:10]  I'm going to swap out the transmission engine, just about everything, and leave the shell intact.
[00:20:17]  And you know what?
[00:20:18]  I'm not going to charge you at all because I made this car.
[00:20:22]  It's actually mine.
[00:20:23]  And if I fix this for free, just drive it a little bit better, huh?
[00:20:28]  Don't go crazy, street racing, burnouts, and change the oil more frequently than once every 20,000 miles.
[00:20:37]  And I said, JC, you have a deal.
[00:20:40]  So to all the women who are watching me, yeah, I have a lot of miles on this shell, but the innards have been taken out.
[00:20:50]  So I like to think that just like how I buy a high mileage car, I may have to take a risk on a woman with a high mileage body.
[00:21:04]  All right, that's enough.
[00:21:06]  So that said, that's all I have for today.
[00:21:11]  And thank you for watching.