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Editing Turkey Part 3

The third and final part of the Turkey series is now being edited. Hope to finish it within the first 2 weeks of September.

I can't wait to finally move on to Mexico after that.

Taking a day off for something important.

 I'm going to a protest rally in front of the Belarusian embassy today, and if you can you should also join. 

Patreon Live Streams

I tested twitch, I think I found a good set up, I believe we are ready to do the streams i promised starting next week.

Self censoring

Yes! A Second poll! LOL

So what is this about? Well, when my last Turkey video was copyright claimed I filed a counter report. And i received notification that my video indeed did not violate copyright and was transformative. However. My video was also demonetized. The reason is that I talked about terrorism during a short part of the video, and said "fuck" to often.

The question ov...

Vote on Payout preference

Hey there! So I have received a number of complaints recently about aspects of my payout system. First off. Some of you would like to have me switch to a monthly payout system. Let me explain why I won't do this, for now, it's because I can't guarantee a video each month. I think it would be very wrong of me to take money for months in which i have not made a video. Should I over the time perio...

The New "To - Do" List.

 I decided to update how I gather and list and present video Ideas. From now on there will be a google doc that each one of you can constantly access through this link to read what video projects I have in mind for the future. https://docs.google.com/document...

Music that should be free!

I got so tired of constantly getting copyright claims for music tracks that I opened a second channel On this channel I will upload every single music track i can find that should be royalty free, and will thereby test if the copyright bot claims it. Should the pot claim it I will leave a pinned comment under that video stating that the bot claimed it. Feel free to use some of the music I find ...

The potential of Documentary

Let's take a step back. 

If you have a moment I would like to share some personal thoughts with you. Some of you may have wondered why I chose to make this long up to 4 hours long series about Turkey. And if I might consider doing this kind of video series on other nations or historic events in the near future. And the answer is yes, I do. 

I would love to make ...

The Turkish Century | The Journey of the Republic

 Sorry for Taking so long. This is part 2 of a 3 part series about the history of Turkey. This part is about the often untold story of the republic after Atatürk, from 1939 to 2000. Of how a nation struggled with capitalism, communism, military dictatorship, nationalism, religion and the question over where it's place in the world is. 

Congratulations to Charles Sandmann

As promissed I did the Patreon lottery, where I add all the patreons who donate 50$ or more into a lottery bin and a name is selected.  Charles Sandmann  won! Congratulations!

I will buy you a book I used for the current video project.

Your choices are:

Understanding Turkey, by Gerhard Schweizer. Unfortunately you can only take it if you speak german as th...

My friends

The video will be published today at 8pm central European time.

My Pledges to you are due

I have pledged to do several things besides making videos to you, and have so far failed to make the live stream channel, but it is high time I catch up on everything. First, if you are on discord and a 20$ patron, please send me a friends request, idealy with a message that you are one so I can add you. Second, I promissed a monthly lottery to 50$ subscribers in which i give away a book I used...

Content discussion

I would like to remind you to join my discord server, you can join it by entering into your browser: derserver.xyz

After the Turkey video we will again be having conversations about future content. And if you remember, I promised that after Turkey we would do monthly patreon live streams. I will be conducting them through discord.

The Woes of Royalty free music

I just checked my emails and saw this.... I am furious. I got this track from a site that claims to share royalty free music. This is the third time this happened. Apparently this is a thing now. Sites share music that supposedly is free, and then it turns out not to be. Or some fucking dumbass troll uploads a copyrighted track to these sites to fuck with people like me. I don't know which one ...

Final Text for Turkey recorded

Just letting you know, I just recorded the final lines for the Turkey video part 2. There will be no more re-recordings. No more script changes, but also no more corrections. From here on all i am doing is drawing and editing, which usually doesn't take as long as reading books, researching and writing.

After Mexico

I got so bogged down with the work on the Turkey video that I completely forgot about what content was to come after. 

I know we agreed that I would make a video on Mexico and it's complex releationship with the United States. 

It is possible that I might make a short video in-between on Raid Shadow legends and why it is the worst sponsorship and why people shouldn't play ...

Is one of you an economist?

I need to summarize and explain the Turkish debt and inflation crisis of 1994. As far as I understand what I am reading what happened is that: 

1: The central bank refused to further bail out the government as the 90s started.

2: Public debt increased - but the countries economy continued having a good rating by rating agencies due to the economic successes of the 1980s.

...

My Appologies for the Break

Hey so if you are in my discord server, you probably noticed that I had somewhat of an nervous angry breakdown two days ago. I had that after realizing that I wouldn't finish part two this month. I'm sorry if I offended anyone. I am taking a 3 day break, and a general longer break from social media to compose myself, get in the right head space, and get right back to work.

Sorr...

I might not finish part 2 this May

I am stuck with the development of Turkish Islamism from 1980 to 1990. And the political chaos of the 1990s. Everytime I write it, record it, and listen to it, I think it comes across as too biased and one sided. So I keep rewriting and rerecording. This segment basically has me stuck. I am sorry, but I am going to keep being stuck in that segment until I get it right and am satisfied with the ...

Unfortunately Sick

Hey, I have fell severely ill throughout the last 2 days. I am pretty sure it is not Covid 19, I think I instead have a really bad case of food poisoning. I spent the last 2 days in bed with my stomache feeling like a burning pit. And if my friends are right, I will be in bed for at least another week. Please keep this in mind because it will without a doubt have an impact on my workflow.

A Warning about the second Channel

Just letting you know that if you are subscribed to my second channel, I am no longer going to upload my previews there. I am mainly going to use it to make memes, and troll around a little, and to make fun of stuff. 

Just so you know, it's going to be a little place to entertain my friends and myself with some silly skullduggery and jokes. 

PS: Part ...

A Fake Ad

As I am working on the second part of the Turkey video, I had a call with a friend on discord, and over the course of a long conversation, we both started rambling about how shitty Raid Shadow Legends is and how shity the sponsorships for it by various YouTubers are.

In case you know nothing about it, Raid Shadow Legends is an online "game" made of crappy 3D renders, lackluster and featur...

Chapter 9

Would you like me to post chapter 9 when I finished it?

It would be the first chapter of part 2 of the turkey video.

Thank you for this break :)

Thank you so much for allowing me to take a week off to play video games, watch movies and over all just relax a little.

I promiss that by sunday I will be back at working for the next and final part of the Turkey videos. 

Yours, in gratitude, Joe.

A weird question

So this might be a little embaressing... do any of you know how i can get a list of all my patreons?

I need to make a list of you guys for the end credits in future videos.

Can I take a break?

After that last video, are you guys ok with me taking a week off to play video games and procrastinate a little?

The Turkish Century | From Hittites to Atatürk

 From the first to work with bronze in the Anatolian plains to nomadic horsemen fighting with Chinese kingdoms, to the conquerors of Iran, to the heirs of Rome, to the mightiest power in the hemisphere, through a century of turmoil, to a revolution with radical vision and the republic it birthed.  This is the first part of one of the greatest stories in our history books. The story of...

A poll on publication.

I just finished editing the first hour and 45 minutes of the video. Which covers the history of Turkey from the bronze age to the death of Atatürk.

When I sat down to watch it, I realized that I myself could never manage to sit down and watch a full 3 hour video like this myself without losing my mind. 

So. I am doing two polls now. The first: Should I split the video up into ...

Corona Quarentine and Payout Announcement

As most of you know, I deliberately set up my patreon in a way that allows you to not pay if you didn't like a video. 

With the recent Corona outbreak, i have received DMs by donors telling me that they wont be able to pay, or find it hard to pay, due to their income situation.

I'd like to tell you that that is fine :)

If you are having a hard time making your ends meet d...

A preview of "The Turkish Century"

You have been waiting long enough to see a preview of what I am going to deliver. This is the first hour of what will probably be my longest video to date. " more hours of video still have to be made, and because of that this will not be monetized. I hope you enjoy what you see, I will try to finish the full video as soon as possible.

PS: If you dont want the whole video spoile...