Pirating Turkmenistan TV

[@peterfairlie2296]

I'm going to be interviewed on CNN tonight at 7 PM on the Erin Burnett OutFront newscast about intercepting North Korean TV.

[@Arachnid-Man]

Cool.

[@Cowboy_pilot]

You were mentioned on ufd tech too!

[@m3sh_xd]

major stuff!! hopefully kim doesn’t watch cnn😳

[@hunterdixonrickthewalkingd6567]

@@m3sh_xd 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tomfoolery7777]

Amazing job man!

[@edgelord447]

this whole state looks like one of those boring carpet commercials you find at 3am on some shady channel

[@douglasw.7864]

Lol!

[@NMAforever]

These countries are super weird. They are not european nor entirely asian. Some weird shytthe.

[@KimJongBeIllinDaily]

I once worked with a man from there. He said one of the worst things was the almost mind numbing boredom. There is almost quite literally nothing to do, either you’re a laborer, a farmer, a soldier, or a diplomat. He was a low level bureaucrat, signed papers for an hour or so, maybe attended a meeting a couple times a week. Other than that you just sat there in your office doing nothing for hours on end. Then you’d go home, and do nothing.

[@MrReaperofDead]

That _literally_ sounds just like what America is tbh. Nothing to do, no friends, nobody talks, and you can't find work. You're either a farmer, laborer, soldier, or diplomat! XD

[@jarjars3261]

@@MrReaperofDead Ah, venting your own personal problems and disguising it as a national problem, a classic.

[@LowlyTheHun]

no. many turkmens are still nomads and farmers so you always have something to do, goverment pays you to do nothing!

[@WiseFidelista]

​@@jarjars3261which one cops shooting unarmed women or mass shootings and i feel the same way so its not a personal problem artard, but keep pretending USA is something to be proud of doofus.. oh no are we getting in the way of NED?

[@KimJongBeIllinDaily]

I’m referring to Ashgabat in particular. The population outside the couple of major cities is very sparse. Those who are settled in urban areas are the bored ones.

[@LEMONedOblaat]

I love all the synth rock. If you are going to be oppressed you might as well have a good soundtrack.

[@dx-ek4vr]

All Turkmenistan needs to do is develop some crazy superweapons and it'll be a dictatorship out of the Just Cause games

[@Thiagosensei1981]

Their dictator likes electronic Music and touch Just a few.

[@IstoletwotrilliondollarsCIA]

"oppressed "

[@bradh6185]

Who smuggled the tech from the West, though?

[@ManOfCulture1992]

The song name of the fuzzy hat guy is : Yar gerekdir

[@frozenrobert5735]

"Sand in My Pants" has now reached #1 on the Dictator Top 40, replacing the DPRK's irresistible and catchy single "Pyongyang Style (Tractor Factory no. 42 Quota Fulfillment Song)!"

[@peterfairlie2296]

LOL !!!

[@exstazius]

The song is my new favorite

[@johnwicked2488]

Reminds me of through the fire and flames

[@jabbyjabster]

S-A-N-D sand in my pants!

[@piccalillipit9211]

GENUINELY funny

[@paulcorrigan8530]

Ah, Turkmenistan. Possibly the only country in the world that was freer as part of the USSR than it is today.

[@mark9099]

Acting as if the USSR was such a bad place to live in 🤡

[@shelbyisa]

It was lol, ur just a larper​@@mark9099

[@Johnysoutherner]

​@mark9099 congratulations on achieving the status of a dumbass

[@Granochereal]

​@@shelbyisatankie*

[@ilovewilson3650]

​@@mark9099 Typical 12 year old brainwashed by Communism.

[@cbrauts707]

I am sorry to say this to Kim, but Turkmen TV is 5x better than North Korean TV.

[@Nooticus]

the truth!

[@justacat2]

turkmenistan is even richer

[@unknownninja4430]

i know at least they don't act mental

[@Nooticus]

@@unknownninja4430 ? they definitely act as 'mental' as north korea

[@Motionbuck]

​@@unknownninja4430 The laws are set at the weirdest whims of the leader, like how news anchors were banned from wearing makeup because the leader couldn't tell the difference between when they were wearing it and not. And banning cars in any colour other than pure white. They are -INSANE-

[@Mahakhala]

I live in Kazakhstan, in my childhood we had a cheap satellite system, and there was a Turkmen channel that 24 hours a day showed the beauty of Turkmenistan. I had no idea about the things happening in the neighboring country and thought that Turkmenistan was a rich paradise, much richer than Kazakhstan.

[@TheCentennial4]

At least Kazakhstan is a free country

[@Carlito_Brigante93]

@@TheCentennial4How are things in your ‘free’ country?

[@nuzayerov]

@@Carlito_Brigante93 Kazakhstan is amazing bud, very developed and well-off, what you talking about

[@GabrielSGI]

No need to say much before richer, just richer.

[@claraa7947]

Man, i would never, not in a million years, expect watch progressive metal on the Turkmenistan tv. This is so weirdly epic!

[@user-cs2mw9rw6c]

Eritrean TV next

[@iVenge]

just go to an eritrean restaurant

[@mikulitsi1819]

This please!

[@joeblow229]

@@iVenge Hahahah, gross...

[@laurynas222]

@@joeblow229 why gross?

[@waltersimmons9512]

​@@laurynas222he didn't know eritrean hummus

[@swiftjustice2676]

Can’t wait to see who has better totalitarian production values!!

[@parasatc8183]

I'd say North Korean TV has better production value than Turkmen TV. The former makes a lot of their own intros whereas the latter relies on what seems to be plenty of stock graphics. The intro for "Ertekiler Dünýäsi" (1:02:25) can fit pretty well on KCTV though, but North Korea can actually make decent cartoons (did you know that American animation companies actually indirectly outsource their work to North Korea through China without those companies knowing?) while what we have here from Turkmenistan is pretty low effort in comparison.

[@mjbasl]

Turkmenistan TV at least looks like it's 2024. North Korean TV looks like a mix of the 1970s, 80s, and the 2000s.

[@parasatc8183]

@mjbasl Not that it's bad for TV in the present day to feel like 70s or 80s TV. For me, broadcasting in those days was like a ceremony and where everyone involved played their parts with reverence. TV these days feels much more flashy and in-your-face in comparison.

[@MagnitudePerson]

America wins

[@SaviourSword995]

Turkmenistan is rich. People don't know about this

[@TheAngryCaptain]

This is wild. Some of this music is like Dream Theater with an even weirder singer.

[@wolfie2582]

the entire country is liminal space

[@MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr]

it sounds like it's trying to take a page from north korea

[@Nooticus]

@@MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr most doesnt sound anything like north korean music though...? a lot of this music is heavily electronic and inspired by metal/edm/musical theatre. NK music is nothing like that whatsoever, its mainly soviet style orchestral marches and ballads, which granted there are a few of in this video, but not the majority.

[@vedangarekar1390]

You think there's a weirdness about these songs. I say that's just how the language is there after having heard songs from other countries in the region. So y'all just not as exposed.

[@hippityhoppityw]

@@Nooticus also a lot of 80s guitar lol

[@NickAndriadze]

*59:39* I don't know why, but this totally random freeze frame of the photo of the building was absolutely hilarious to me. As if it's the ''Live building reaction'' of the screeching song.

[@lydiapurple]

Probably my favorite part

[@Mahakhala]

this is just a chosen angle for a photo in a room, what's wrong?

[@NickAndriadze]

@@Mahakhala Exactly, nothing's wrong, I just personally found it funny.

[@ReclaimTheMainland]

i burst out laughing lol my humor is dried as hell

[@zentran2690]

That guitar solo at 3:55 was amazing

[@RyanCakici]

I speak Turkish and it's funny how I can almost understand what they are saying but at the same time also understand nothing.

[@PParsa]

My mom knows Turkish and she actually understood a good amount of it

[@User.k3431]

How is that possible

[@Stunkos]

@@User.k3431 Because Turkish and Turkmen derive from the same language/ethnic group. Turkish people didn't live all over Anatolia before the Ottomans. They used to all live in the steppe.

[@Mongooolmaagtal]

Fr fr I speak kazakh

[@Sonilotos]

It's the lisp that makes it hard to understand

[@aegandotcom]

im a turk who speaks turkish and i think that makes this video considerably weirder because at times i have a eureka moment where i can understand what they're saying but i almost instantly go back to confusion

[@ivangorby8150]

Это как восточно-славянские языки😂 Вроде бы понятно,но через 5 секунд...что???

[@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blush]

What is this language mixed with?

[@songulize]

Not mixed with anything but belonging to the large Turcic language group. Turkish and Turkmen even belong to the same branch within this language tree but Turkmen has much less foreign language loan words than Turkish, hence not easy to understand.

[@burakoz50]

@@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blushdifferent phonetics make it hard to understand sometimes but I mostly understand Turkmen, as a native Turkish speaker

[@nonamegonzalez5711]

WHAT THEY IS SAYIN

[@slashersbasketball8278]

Time Table 0:00 Pirate TV opening 0:23 Mission Objective 0:45 Turkmenistan National Anthem 2:49 Happy Turk Sing-along 5:40 Glory Turkmenistan Sing-along 10:02 Turkmenistan Supreme Sing-along 13:17 Sand in my Pants Sing-along 16:29 Fuzzy Hat Horse Guy Sing-along 20:05 NEWS Update! 36:50 MTV Music Special 58:57 Screeching Lady Presents 1:01:04 Kids Class Time! 1:02:29 Kids Fox Cartoons 1:11:33 More Fuzzy Hat Horse Guy! 1:14:52 Old Boys Hangout 1:17:46 National Anthem - Signing off 1:19:52 The Dreamy Fish Tank

[@davecarter34]

Fuzzy hat horse guy gets my vote

[@saulgoodmanKAZAKH]

"Screeching lady present" it's almost as if now you're making fun of the nation and not the dictatorship

[@saulgoodmanKAZAKH]

"Fuzzy hat" oh please

[@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blush]

I love u

[@lovfro]

Gotta diversify to fill the full niche of mad dictator TV. I like it!

[@ericwillis7127]

The Nordic countries may have high Human Development Indices but they lack the combination of despotism and unlimited natural gas money necessary to build a surreal dreamscape like Ashgabat. Empty high-rises clad in white marble is the pinnacle of human civilization.

[@Ostralucia]

ashgabat looks so insane. like, it should be considered expensive, and the sign of a wealthy country but it somehow looks cheap at the same time

[@jess_lol4579]

building pointless things that won't benefit anyone and is just for show is literally quite opposite of a civilised country

[@ericwillis7127]

@@jess_lol4579 Finally somebody got the joke!

[@Monkechnology]

​@@jess_lol4579You won a one way trip to the Karakorum desert, citizen

[@thebusdrrivertohell]

Awaza has all them dope resort hotels, too. It's fun to look at on Google Earth. They're so spacious and open, ready for all the tourists* that flock there every year. *If they can even get in, that is. It's [Really] exclusive.

[@joman66]

Electric guitar? Fucking 4-to-the-floor EDM bangers?! FUCK yeah Turkmenistan!

[@lyricusthelame9395]

BRO why TF did it go so hard?!

[@Wichita0]

dawg they legit have bass house 😭

[@lyricusthelame9395]

Like, legit, I wanna know what that song is that guitar solo was absolute fire

[@michaell8002]

You're high af

[@Kermit181]

I am turkmen.I font know what your watching but when i visit home, theres a bunch of tv to watch. Theirs football, indian shows, cartoon, news too. And if you buy like fake netflix you get so many shows and movies on demand, and sometimes they have them in english too

[@PParsa]

Damn, thats basically the same in Iran We have fake netflix for like 50 cents a month that has literally every show and movie

[@undeadhero9141]

can you translate sirmayy darak and what it means anyway?

[@lavendardust]

WOW. That's great. Thanks for letting us know.

[@podcastfan2544]

It seems like a very nice country

[@chumblesthecheese8580]

What is the name of the song at 40:00, and what are they singing about?

[@Nooticus]

The songs in the ‘MTV Music Special’ timestamp of this video are absolutely phenomenally well written and performed. Really great chord progressions, instruments, powerful choir and soloists, especially the old guy. Actually impressive. 46:51 is definitely one of the best and most powerful songs here, its really remiscent of Tuvan/Mongolian type music such as the Tuvan national anthem.

[@TheCentennial4]

The song started 40:06 is probably the best one

[@aviationdesigner0016]

Bro absolutely no complaints about their city's architecture. So beautiful, straight out of creative mode

[@dandankovsky7968]

You can do a lot of things as a dictator when there are giant natural gas deposits to finance vanity projects in the capital. The rest of the country is so poor that there were reports of famine during COVID and there is a law prohibiting people to leave the country unless they turn 40 years old, and even then there are many other barriers to leaving the country.

[@JAMamation]

@@dandankovsky7968Absolutely nuts; turning 40 must hit different in Turkmenistan!

[@Radi0he4d1]

It's the biggest amasment of marble on planet Earth if I recall correctly. Insane

[@oscodains]

The dude is so crazy he even restricted the colors of cars to force everyone to eventually have only white cars in the capital city, to match the all-white buildings.

[@justacat2]

@@oscodainsgood law ngl

[@Unregistered.Hypercam.2.]

1:21:00 i bursted out crying , the emotional intonation of the melodramatic music and the absurdity of the fish's life in the tank was just too much for me to bear

[@dronespace]

❤

[@zekibebe3138]

I wish it was a longer song, it just sounds so beautiful~

[@mlg_dog420]

@@zekibebe3138 found a longer version of the fish tank + song by searching 'yaslyk tv closedown'

[@LeifES]

Catharsis.

[@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blush]

So pretty

[@HolyPelvisPresley]

Ngl they make pretty good music

[@leozbuckshank]

Guitar solo was crazy

[@danielm6319]

Like Bosnian music...

[@muhammetnepesow8650]

If u want,u can find them on youtube

[@speedysandisk78]

Definitely better soundtrack than DPRK sumida

[@JAMamation]

God dammit I can’t find these bangers on Shazam

[@zangl2955]

Just listen to arabic popular radio. The music in this video reminded me of flipping through channels in jordan

[@RooiGevaar19]

North Korean music led by Our Leader Kim Jong Un is always #1! Turkmenistan on the other hand is #0 sumida.

[@bibekdas7449]

But majority of the DPRK songs are hard to beat.

[@MillywiggZ]

Damn, they’re into their music. It was like a radio channel with video added as an afterthought.

[@PParsa]

These types of channels exist in a lot of countries actually

[@Nooticus]

This channel ‘Turkmen Owazy’ is the 5th channel in the country and is the dedicated music/culture channel.

[@klawlor3659]

Seen these mad Turkmen channels when i used to use Kodi! Jeez the constant songs in praise of their beloved President, the news (just one constant stream of stuff about the president and his activities inc horse riding, feeding horses, cycling etc etc)....definately the North Korea of central Asia! EDIT: WOW 104 LIKES!!!! Cheers :)

[@double0028]

How did you watch turkmen tv with kodi? I don't know much about pirating tv.

[@klawlor3659]

@@double0028 from memory I downloaded "The Crew" repo. The live t.v. section had Turkmenistan tv (which i thought was pretty mad!).

[@theTF2sniper]

If you still got an xbox with Kodi you can play online with it again nowadays lol

[@rethi13]

​@@double0028You can just search watch Turkmenistan tv online free and you'll just find a list of 8 channels availible online for free

[@klawlor3659]

Well I did post a reply but it was censored ffs!

[@Quli3n]

turkmenistan dragonforce was C R A Z Y

[@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blush]

Yoooo😂

[@lucasterable]

16:29 wow that's power metal! 49:48 power metal again! Also interesting how audio and video do not match at all 52:17 POOOWWEEEERRR MEEETAAAAAALLL the power metal song is Arkadagly Serdarym by Ahmet Orazgulyyew (found it with Shazam O_O)

[@morison2566]

When the flute kicks in it gets crazy

[@losarpettystrakos7687]

@@morison2566 And they focus on a trumpet and a saxophone. And the violin guy making random movements. ;-)

[@minniemoe4797]

As far as I can understand Turkic languages Arkadgym Serdarym means "the beacon of nation, you are my warrior"

[@badlydrawncars6460]

@@minniemoe4797nationalist power ballads are my favorite genre now I guess

[@MathRaven1910]

Thanks boys now i can't stop to listen this haha,this is a fucking banger

[@cube6485]

I'm not going to lie, I'm surprised Turkmenistan makes such good music. Better than North Korea's music.

[@Strix2031]

Turkemenistan stopped in the 90's NK stopped in the 50's

[@Nooticus]

@@Strix2031 this might be true, but it isnt really the reason why. the reason why its so satisfying and great is because of the combination between the persian/iranic love of heavy synth keyboards and great basslines mixed with the often emotional soviet-inspired chord progressions

[@pukeclaw1147]

their main export is prog rock and synth rock tunes

[@Nooticus]

@@pukeclaw1147 real !!

[@MiMi_MoMo]

I’m curious if all their music praises their regime. As a Korean speaker, I can tell you North Korean music spends the whole time singing about how great Kim Jong Un and Juche are. I wonder if the lyrics for Turkmen music is the same.

[@ohwowdoggo6979]

the song with the fuzzy hat horse guy goes incredibly hard

[@GiosueMannino]

if you can't grow a beard, wear one on your head in protest!

[@TheVicar]

Screeching Lady wins hands down She's mental

[@CoolFireNerd]

@@GiosueManninoas long as i know it is not allowed to have a beard in Turkmenistan.

[@canadagoof]

Ikr😄 i half-expected to hear a blast beat somewhere in the chorus

[@Mureirsa]

Timestamp?

[@georgeII420]

that intro song made studying and being clean cool.

[@Ararechan74]

And they say MTV doesn't play music anymore

[@stofopdenaald132]

Pretty upbeat compared to North Korea, I actually unironacly dig some of these cheesy tunes 😂

[@ulcbroadcasting]

LOL, the Dictators car in the news segment is just so average, he walks out of his private airplane, a group of unenthusiastic people wave at him and he waves back... Just so akward.

[@MrCaptainSisko]

Love the fuzzy hat guy and his death metal rock music.

[@peterfairlie2296]

I should have really called him the Eddie Van Halen horseman

[@Chicky_Lumps]

Unironically good song but "death metal rock music..." bro.

[@ManOfCulture1992]

The song name of the fuzzy hat guy is : Yar gerekdir

[@multiplayerlove]

more like power metal

[@ultrapro8937]

​@@Chicky_Lumps More progressive metal than death metal.

[@bigsky1970]

NGL the drummer during the "Fuzzy Hat Horse Guy Sing-along" segment was just absolute perfection. The music though, bangers all around. I guess if you can't wear a beard, wear a fuzzy hat.

[@johnl8996]

The Screeching Lady Presents was the icing on the cake for me. That was everything I hoped it would be :)

[@RR-bc6wy]

Turkmenistan's #1 DJ

[@dontbotherme-asnc]

I'm absolutely in love with the news set and long shots of a tiny woman, in green, with lovely plaits sitting in a mint green news studio Really Kubrick-esque stuff!

[@reckoner111]

The song at 54:20 is so good. 7/8 time and very interesting chord changes.

[@ClaudiuNeferu2]

Wow! we are watching the whole planet now! Thank you for this content.

The solo at 52:00 goes harder than any DragonForce songs

[@Reece-3601]

Totally

[@osasunaitor]

What a banger!! It's weird how the images don't match at all though lol

[@nicoracien1924]

@@osasunaitor The Sax/Trumpet solo is awesome! The guys are sweatin it

[@zakiykhan9718]

​@@osasunaitor the audio is a bit out of sync

[@aonc1034]

Hi, I am from Turkiye and this channel is also available on our Turksat satellite. I have seen this channel a few times before. I think I understand 50% of the Turkmen language. If I spent a few months in Turkmenistan, I would understand the whole language very easily.

[@nnana84]

1:02:55 especially this part is so understandable

[@sakonbutthead9829]

​@@nnana84what they are saying

[@aonc1034]

@Channel-s2n She tells a tale about a fox.

[@aonc1034]

@Channel-s2n From what I understand from this video, Turkmenistan and North Korea are two countries with the same mentality.

[@CarolineSaysStuff]

That’s interesting! Thanks for your insight! I was wondering how similar the Turkmen language was from Turkish. By the way, I am French Canadian. As a native French speaker, I can understand like 85% of written Spanish with only a very basic knowledge of the language. Spoken Spanish is a bit more difficult for me to understand; they speak so fast!! 😅 I can also understand 60% to 70% of written Italian and Portuguese.

[@TheLoneWanderersBunker]

the chapter titles are chefs kiss.

[@Ucfahmad]

Honestly fascinating and rich display of culture. Unlike NK TV, with just military propaganda.

[@Heckinwhatonearth]

I fell asleep and woke up to this on autoplay hahaha, amazing.

[@UKbrownSkinBoy]

52:18 I'm sure this was one of the fabled "Lost Songs" from StreetFighter II

[@burgelkutt]

I love your channel!! Keep the airwaves going!!

[@peterfairlie2296]

Thanks! Will do!

[@tristanclark4124]

Thannnkkk youuuu i have been extremely interested in the dictator ship and i was like man i wish you pirate them! Dude they baned all car colors and even dogs. Also im pretty sure they have a litteral hole to hell. Its going ro be so cool to see this! Thanks

[@ZombieCSSTutorials]

Wait, why did they have a puppy running in the intro if dogs are not allowed? Idk too much about this country, but already the lore sounds interesting, lmao.

[@SonicTheHedgehog121]

​@@ZombieCSSTutorialsdogs are allowed now, when turkmenbashi passed away they repealed a lot of his wacko policies, but not all of them.

[@siriveon3549]

I don't know whether Turkmenistan follows dictatorship or not, but their lifestyle is better than any dictator run countries tho. You'll find various travel blogs of Turkmenistan on KZbin by some tourists and you'll learn pretty well about them. Just because some countries don't allow that much tourists doesn't mean that the people are living worse there.

[@chef7658]

​@@dainagrn7030yes, but they did ban dogs IN THE CAPITAL because the leader didnt like the odor of dogs. BUT he does like dogs. i know, weird.

[@20ZZ20]

@@siriveon3549 well there are also people in the comments here who know people from turkmenistan who thought is was horrible to live in, maybe don't follow what a few youtubers videos show you which is likely carefully controlled as to what they are shown themselves

[@Muhammedmazin-rj4jo]

Better production value than our boy kim next Eritrea please

[@thejoeyjason]

i'm curious about Eritrea as well

[@PersonManManManMan]

Yooo this is sick beat with the Horse

[@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blush]

NAH it slaps

[@jerryberry5480]

I just realised that this broadcast was on a late evening. Must be a Friday or Saturday sing along session

[@MakeKasprzak]

Geez, some of these are bangers

[@AckzaTV]

5:14 gets so incredible with that vaporwave go go late 80s eartly 90s car commercial mossy nissan electric guitar solo.

[@davebellard]

1:01:36 top notch audio production here.

[@sarkarbroadband]

Studio Quality 😅

[@iVenge]

Excellent work. Very informative. We would not know anything about this place without your work.

[@homr8785]

You could know so much if you visit

[@alexnuznik]

I have a friend whose family managed to escape from Turkmenistan when she was 8 years old, she doesn't even know how lucky she was then

[@frensunited3748]

bot

[@alexnuznik]

@@frensunited3748 ofc

[@dandankovsky7968]

My family’s friend left Turkmenistan as well. She told that the wiretapping was so open that if you told a joke in a conversation over a phone, security officers (usually women) would make themselves known by laughing at the joke.

[@alexnuznik]

@@dandankovsky7968 There are a lot of migrants from Uzbekistan in my country, I can't believe it's true lol, actually crazy

[@dandankovsky7968]

@@alexnuzniksorry, it autocorrected to Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan is pretty light compared to Turkmenistan only if not counting mass shootings in Nukus in 2022 and in Andijan in 2005. Maybe similar things are happening in Turkmenistan, but we won’t know because that’s a closed country.

[@caseclosed9342]

With all that awesome music you’d never guess they are the most authoritarian country in the former USSR…

[@Jvk1166z]

good god 19:53 is the single best news intro song i've ever heard, that shit is fucking wild

[@RachellElizabeth]

The Sand in my Pants song is super catchy! If that was on Spotify I'd add it to my playlist.

[@Yabbagabbagool]

Fuzzy Hat Horse Guy is my favourite prog band

[@seananon4893]

1:15:07 "I wandered and ate your salt for three years" - Google Translator on my phone.

[@AllieBorse]

I'm in love with how some of the songs, the lipsyncing just does not even give a shit about lining up

[@thereal757_ap]

This got me missing the days when MTV actually played music videos.

[@YouTubeEncouragesViolence]

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[@YouTubeEncouragesViolence]

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[@dawicked2k8]

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[@AlizterAlmocera]

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[@gokaiginger]

Ahh quality Saturday evening craziness

[@gokaiginger]

God the singing started off oK but just turned into a shitshow of missed cues 😅

[@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS]

Man this channel just keeps on giving and giving. Love what you are doing dude and thank you for all your efforts.

[@peterfairlie2296]

My pleasure!

[@theoriginaltroll388]

Lmao this a legendary channel 😂

[@filikasnicadori1827]

Now show this to a sentinel islander and tell him this is what the outside world is like

[@MorimotoYTP]

52:15 omg the synths and the singer just standing there

[@klawlor3659]

Pure banger!

[@Nooticus]

yup!! it's not just in dictatorships like turkmenistan, so much of the 'middle-east' and central asian music uses a shit ton of amazing heavy synth keyboards. especially caucasus nations like armenia, azerbaijan and also iran. though the chord progressions in these turkmen songs are way better tbh, really unusual for the region, clearly influenced by soviet marches and stuff.

[@josefarias8746]

Whats the name of this song?

[@FFFFFFF-FFFFFFFUUUUCCCC]

@@josefarias8746 Power Bottom IV

[@Fabsworld2024]

@@josefarias8746 arkadagly serdarym ahmet orazgulyyew

[@spectator352]

I wish I had such intense dedication, this is awesome.

[@mellisb]

Playing keyboards in the desert is a really bad idea.

[@TheVicar]

It took a moment for me to realise what you just did there

[@marcviej.5635]

?

[@mellisb]

@@marcviej.5635 guess you missed the bangin’ intro 🤣

[@pacershark452]

Actually, it's a TUNDRA. Sorry to nitpick.

[@k.t.1641]

What’s the joke?? Come on I’m old and lost these days 😂

[@avapingbaby]

Jesus what an absolutely fascinating broadcast. The final montage, with the city footage and electric fish tank billboard with melancholic violins, was one of the coolest accidentally-aesthetic things I've seen in a minute. The whole thing is so surreal it's comical.

[@Naman0309]

This is giving a mix of "shit that plays on tv at 3 am" and uncanny vibes.

[@user-jeffkenn]

it was nice to watche some diferent tv...

[@SafetyProMalta]

Screeching lady singer is a doppelganger of my Mother-in-law

[@Tranquillow2]

This feels like you've stumbled upon random local TV channels when browsing through channels in boredom in Turkey

[@darenok]

The music from last one is actually very touching🥺

[@ericdunn8718]

Love how the whole country has a pretty good soundtrack to it, like a friend that loves that one anime you just can't understand but it has an awesome soundtrack that they listen to ALL the time. North Korea was similar but too stuck in the 1980s, which gets old fast. Seems like Turkmenistan may have had some more western exposure, at least when it comes to music (when you're the dictator of a country you're forcibly keeping the young citizens of within your borders, you need to keep them loyal 😂😅). Also, why the fish at the end??

[@Alexadron2]

Советский союз очень сильно европеизировал центральную азию

[@TheBenzoBaby]

​@@Alexadron2К черту Советский Союз!

[@Alexadron2]

@@TheBenzoBaby Я его тоже ненпвижу

[@hunterdixonrickthewalkingd6567]

Looks like we're going to another level 😁

[@loflobro]

I got to say it again Mr Fairlie - the chapter titles are hilarious. Watching your content from Australia 🇦🇺

[@beheadedkamikaze1416]

fuzzy hat on a horse guy had NO BUSINESS goin that hard

[@coconeaux]

Thank you for uploading the these!! I get so excited when new video drops.

[@peterfairlie2296]

More to come!

[@TrentAdam]

This is genuinely one of the funniest things ive seen. Especially that music

[@KristalBlut]

More music than MTV... And one banger after song after another.

[@parasatc8183]

It's great to see that in the age of digital TV something akin to TV DX-ing is still alive and well :)

[@MrJohndoakes]

Even when Turkmenistan was part of the USSR, their Communist Party (each Soviet Republic had one) went its own way. Central Asia never de-Stalinized, and it has effected how the successor states present themselves.

[@Pricklesthebedbug]

Im glad you found Turkmenistan!!! looks like they are just as crazy. full of sing a long songs

[@jess_lol4579]

fuzzy hat horse guy was sick don't hate

[@Pricklesthebedbug]

@@jess_lol4579 Im mad I dont have his cool hat!

[@RRC6490]

That place looks so clean and organized its actually painful

[@Carlito_Brigante93]

Yes, certainly a lot better than new york streets

[@jgedutis]

Turkmenistan is like if Turkey and North Korea had a baby

[@heinrichberger3908]

Thanks a lot for showing our culture to the word! Greetings, your General Admiral Machmut

[@seananon4893]

53:59 This man is magic, his mouth moves at a different rate than his voice. The Western World shudders at this majestic performance!

[@Nooticus]

Amazing work once again! The music is just so so good in all the countries in this area of the world, it isn’t just Turkmenistan!

[@bromisovalum8417]

Funny thing is those big fancy appartement buildings are all empty, nobody lives there. The whole capital is a Potemkin city.

[@Theodosius667]

I have traveled all over the world but I have never seen such a method of meditation and hypnosis. I want to watch it constantly.

[@theCinemaHaus]

And remember, the male members of my family can't grow beards so you can't either!!!!

[@TrentAdam]

I don't understand how he doesn't understand how insecure that makes him look and nobody would ever even think anything of it otherwise haha

[@quangcaodo8864]

​@@TrentAdam He ban beard bc he want to seen as a secular dictator and beards are considered 'Islamic'

[@muzamilraza49]

​@@quangcaodo8864 This reminds me of a certain Russian emperor who was outshined by his wife.

[@LuisHumanoide]

the music at 13:18 is an insane banger, I put the volume at max

[@nutoutpizzadthehut]

Bro the fuzzy hat guy got boss battle tunes fr

[@cameron012]

Lmao

[@florin-titusniculescu5871]

drapeless windows in a brand new ghost city ... making other dictators drooling with envy