AMSTERDAM: Dodging Bad Cyclists & Chasing the Dutch Dream

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Good morning po Dexter it’s your favorite host Charlie V in the Charlie V show now you’re wondering what what what bloody apartment block is this are we in Sheffield no we’re in the Netherlands we’re in am we’re in Amsterdam can you tell by the bikes it’s not Cambridge it’s Amsterdam and why are

We in Amsterdam I’m here to chase the the Dutch dream I want to see if the Dutch dream is real and I want to see if the uh environment has changed the demographic and the cultural environment now that Gert velders is uh the Prime Minister now

Before we cut away I’ve just seen some uh Pro lgtv 4K plus propaganda up ahead we’re going to get a little bit closer and then I’ll pan up and show you all what I’m talking about so if I pause just on the tip here slowly raise the

Camera there’s a little rain rbow flag and it says we’re here and we’re queer I’ll read the Dutch one on Canon so you’re not a real Dutch person until you’ve ridden the number 21 bus in Amsterdam it’s happening and uh we’re going through it slightly more Sol Strat not for us we’re going

Through a slightly more modern area I think uh oh no the no we’re not going to go there we’re not going to talk World War II um don’t do it from burning and pl we’re still kind of in the suburbs just the suburbs around immediate Central Amsterdam but I think very soon

The architecture is going to get a bit more classically Dutch welcome to Amsterdam Central I was going to say you’re not a tram but you you actually are there’s a Vibe of uh early spring here in Amsterdam it’s about 11° feels a bit warmer in the sunshine obviously and it’s a very gentle

Breeze feels good the main drag Dam rack leads to Dam Square God damn it we’re in Coco Smart Shop head shop and this looks like a heinous her Heron ominous Bosch painting of hell but the um the detail is astonishing spend a few more seconds on

It guys and then we’ll go back out into the real world or maybe this is the real world and oh look at this that one’s controversial and look at the Twin Towers it’s all good apart from the flag when you see that all you can say is Push Me Down hello strange building with red shutters hello well that’s us told and quite bloody right the guys on the street will sell you fakes yo yo okay we’re down by the side of the

Bulldog the first coffee shop the very first one there’s like three Bulldogs in a row there’s another one down by Lees plain but we’re about to go to the trumpeter Ste which is like this famous really tight little Alleyway let me change some lighting here and get you guys a better shot and

Uh down we go down we go let’s have a look I think uh let me change the settings a bit one sec all right we’re in Laura says it smells like piss it does actually smells like the first frothy piss in the morning when you’ve been on

The Lash the night before and drinking my God OD M what the [ __ ] the size of it we’re uh a bit traumatized by the two twoot chocolate snake that someone has laid on the floor there so we’re out of trumpet This shot ladies and gentlemen is just for you to enjoy a bit of the Amsterdam Ambiance on the corner of dam Strat Centrum and UD vural I’ll get scooter Rasta in he’s wearing a Palestinian scarf but he’s still scooter Rasta Coffee Company you’ll hear a lot of Accents in

Amsterdam and not so often the Dutch but I’m a big fan of the Dutch accent language way it’s spoken it sounds like gentler softer German it’s just more civilized even got little bench outside this front door B it’s the sound of the got distracted there the two police

Were smiling happily like they were enjoying their life and it it put me off not used to that we walk along first of all there’s outdoor urinals it’s called a Pisa look at that he’s having a piss and we go further along there’s a there’s a man of the street detained

By a Dutch policeman and there’s another guy crazy guy with a backpack across the canal shouting at him and there’s two police coming to sort out someone else on the other side oh he got the fist bump here I think he’s free to go yeah super chill super chill I want a

Fist bump you’re a fist bump yeah a so we’re coming out to Ed Bal and the two Dutch police are looking Chihuahua by the [ __ ] spring like oh but it’ll be one of those harness ones it’ll be a harness Chihuahua I hope so yeah it’s a lady Laura just seen a lady

Pick up a Chihuahua by the throat or was it on the string anyway oh God just bumped my shoulder it’s cops Dutch Edition and uh you’ll notice all police in most countries are armed they have the sidearm the pistol all of them are armed and unlike the

UK where your Patrol cross an Astra here it’s a Mercedes this uh brass sculpture has made me feel a right Tit viewers deserve a Amsterdam bike little walk by to have a look um kids here are riding bikes before they can even walk and uh it’s not rare to see very young babies strapped to a bicycle as the tall mom or dad and they are very

Tall the Dutch are the tallest people in the world as they cycle them around and they’re very stoic and philosophical about high speeds and pedestrians and crashes they just go for it and uh if a crash happens a crash happens ah it’s the big white fallace of Dam

Square so here’s a big Alpha white pigeon doing his best to show off to the little gray greasy one come on come on uh Pig what am I even doing there’s town halls in life and then there’s town in hun looks good why P be a poor fool when you can

Be a rich duck or something so just chatting to a a Dutch fellow and’s saying there’s a new Tik Tok craze here strip waffle is like a little caramel biscuit it’s very small very Dutch and Tik Tok is making tourists come here and pay €1 1350 for one St

Waffle which is uh tourists are effing idiots guys they need to stop getting their wallet out look into your iris what does it look like Lauren uh I can see some um iigu let see what color the camera has black a top oh does it say leonidis

What about oh the the the chocolate Leonidas now castig asio I think is punishment in Latin it’s where we get the word to castigate from castigo about castrate and castrate to really punish you we’re going towards a shop called Brandy Melville have any of my viewers heard of such a

Thing one of the wider canals here at prin SC L plan here I am taking Laura to bingy mingy Brandy Melville and uh I wake up turn on the news and uh it’s with great sadness that I announced that uh Iran backed Irregulars in uh Lebanon no Jordan apologies Jordan have killed three American soldiers and an attack on an air base

And they’ve uh wounded 25 other American soldiers three dead so I’m just here to warn you that for those of us who’ have been around the block a few times and seen how these things escalate Iran is going to be regime Changed by the end of 2024 mark my words and I’ll

Eat an American flag if I’m wrong welcome to l plane we’re looking at the international Theater Amsterdam built in 1894 and as you can see we’re in the lowlands of uh northern Europe Northern Mainland Europe it’s all marshy bogs and Clay so not so much sandstone and Limestone for their construction

Mostly brick but I think my viewers will agree with me let the let the drama build I’m sure my viewers will agree with me that the Dutch do better work with red brick than the English do speaking of brick I’m not bricking it we’re going to do the double

Police van reveal first of all all right the second one’s a council bin one but anyway speaking of brick and the Dutch doing amazing things with brick Let’s uh let’s do the Lazy Man’s Walk and zoom into this yellow strange thing we pass the art deco Yellow Brick City

Theater a real 1930s Vibe going on there but it might be a harking back to that Vibe but I wanted to show you well it’s uh it’s it’s okay I guess here at this apartment block they really really really really really don’t want you to climb up that pipe

Because you might sneak into one of those ladies houses this building in the classical style says ano 1885 gymnasium what’s that a late 1800s gym I don’t know I’m looking in through the windows I can see people doing people things I think it’s a museum now now this

Row this row of houses here is so pretty and so nice I think I dribbled a bit of lubricant out of my urethra when we’re busy Building Council Estates look what the Dutch are doing with their brick they’re doing a good job sometimes you walk around Holland

And uh sometimes you see something so based so amazing so civilized so Rule Britannia that FEI the Twitter user fell over and uh dropped his balls out of his back or something I’m trying to reverse here but you can’t just reverse into a bike lane like I’m doing now but look

Guys in the city of canals we are the bridge to your child’s future and what is it damn right guys it’s the British School of Amsterdam and uh quite yeah Ro brania it is of course the world famous reiches museum with the sun coming up behind it silhouetting my shot

Wonderfully we may check it out um I’ve heard there’s a guy called rembrand that the Dutch are really into he’s uh apparently quite a good painter what is that that’s not normal that is not normal he’s he’s he’s on the tram line with like small train tracks that is very simplistic and

Awesome design designers look at it that’s how you do it something something bicycle bicycle walkable City something something European Capital there is simply so much Beauty in this city everywhere you look it’s uh very organized but just shabby enough to not seem oppressive Amsterdam pulls off the fine line between conservativism

And permissiveness if if such a thing is possible they’ve pulled it off mhm rocket vehicle Sinclair C5 rain Edition and another one of these little two seaters though Americans when they come here they’re like just get a goddamn golf cart oh how nice it’s a tribute to uh CL Schwab uh

King Charles and uh Queen Elizabeth impressive reminds me of the channel 4 Jam sketch by Jim Morris I’m afraid your television’s got lizards lizards okay it’s worth reiterating And discussing how the Dutch had a general election in the last couple of months and you may have heard of him ger

Velders the uh very strongly anti-islam he’s against the ideology etc etc and he’s been very vocal about it for over 20 years he is now the prime minister of Holland and uh as we were talking earlier about Iran and regime change I think big changes are happening around

The world we’ve got a 1930s Vibe all the tyrannical States all the scummy people thinking ah if I can cause enough damage maybe I can change the world in my favor but the Dutch have said drum roll the Dutch have said not allowed so uh I’ve been looking for the Dutch dream all

Afternoon and best I can come up with his uh Batman and Joker rubber duckies Laura who’s just off shot have you found the Dutch dream yet um I not say anything but last night was interesting yeah first time ever in the red light district peep shows uh live shows my little brain was

Absolutely blown ladies in cabinets tapping on the window and blowing kisses yes perfectly normal sometimes it’s hard to accept and believe that when you’re not looking entire civilizations and cities and urban settlements with millions of people just keep on going and surely not like that seems inefficient you wouldn’t bother

Rendering places that you’re not looking at now let’s have a look at uh stealth orange boat if you remember the James Bond movies or other action movies from about 20 years ago they had the stealth boat now I want you to take a deep breath just imagine you’re here with us here in

Amsterdam there’s Dutch people everywhere doing Dutch things they’re really into the color orange football team is orange William of Orange stealth boat can you guess it orange and they’re really into um permissive attitudes towards lovers it says lovers on the boat don’t drop your camera Charlie

Don’t drop it can you see those people look at these people look that guy W and here we are at Silverstone 2024 Lewis Hamilton puts on his fire retardant Hood before getting his helmet on having failed to find any dreams down by lest plane we’re heading back towards Dam Square and Amsterdam

Central Feast your eyes people here on Ren Ren Centrum roken the Dutch will know roken I ain’t joking about roken let oh it’s a bit close behind me but um their sentiments are loud and clear I don’t understand the anarchist time traveler but oh well Laura said to me

She goes Charlie we got to go underground and ride the famous Amsterdam Subway the metro and I said you must be roken I didn’t say that see these buildings there’s a bit of a lean to them they’re about as straight as Owen Jones or if you prefer about as straight

As Douglas Murray now there’s a good gay there’s a gay I could get behind but not like that ladies and gentlemen it’s with great sadness I present to you the ugliest piece of corporate roundabout art I’ve ever seen bro oh my God look at that the things I do for

YouTube you got to love how on top of the church I think it’s a church the symbol of Amsterdam is the trip X Tri XX in the black bar on a red flag I don’t think they mean the tri XX industry from Hollywood or that sort of thing it’s

Just by chance that Amsterdam’s that way inclined and their national symbol sorry their City symbol is a tri X even primani are in on the tri XX action part of the dream definitely involved bright green mosaic ceilings in arcades and uh yeah that dream came true there’s a lad up ahead English lad

With a good skin fade he’s uh the first man to recognize me in Amsterdam he wins the vling award of uh please subscribe to my YouTube and stop checking out the Tik toks it’s the inescapable love crafty and horror of shop after shop of rubber duckies you won’t believe this but the

McDonald’s in Amsterdam are dark mood lighting like an expensive restaurant sensory friendly sensory Friendly grasshopper in the background there LOL um sorry mate do you mind like um you freaky guyy jeans B party boat is looking rocking big clog in the bar like giant clog in the bar still driving uh-huh and I did only one time for the horn beep and she turned back and what the [ __ ] you want and blah blah blah I say oh I

I’m right and you you going to talk to like that to me yeah and I was stepping out my car and say hey what are you what is your problem I said only just say yeah what is your problem and she she was she came to me yeah what is your

Problem did what you think that you I was little I was a little bit black black out really I take it from the from the head put the head on the ground yeah I say if you say one word I yeah I was shocking also because I never do that by

A girl but she was so aggressive and yeah I think come on I’m right yeah do they think the rules don’t apply you must say sorry to me even you say no sorry you can say okay I didn’t see it okay I’m I’m easy the very easy person

Yeah but I was only one time I and I what are you doing you know yeah and she was what the [ __ ] too many Cy and then after that I take I go out my car say hey what is your problem yeah and she came to me

Really to my head and really right in your face you want to say what you want to do you want to hit me do it do it my God these Dutch cyclist man like yeah really wow it was even big or something like that and I’m WR I’m almost 2 m and

Uh oh yeah me too I’m 195 join the club yeah and after that I said okay I put the head and I put it on the ground I I say one word I my goodness yeah and you know I was even shocking to me because I

Never did but the people around me I was always a little bit shocking about that oh damn people see it and yeah you’re worried that you get in trouble people going to kick off and there was two wom one of them was old and one of them was

Normal and she said to me good job really really good job they stood up for you yeah cuz she was so aggressive crazy and you’re right we saw it you know and I say even that I don’t like I never hit or take a girl like that you

Know yeah no no no some some people earn it and uh and I say to girl go please go because I before I do something for you you know yeah and after that she was hopeful she was easy and because I think she was also shook yeah of course yeah

Yeah yeah but I said why I mean but I see it many time uh they drive uh the red through the red light red light and and even they look it to you or they say something oh sorry I you know I say why not every everybody but most of the

Cycling because the government says uh even if I drive from the green lights and the biker from the red lights mhm and they hit me uhhuh even then the biker have right no way yeah why do they love the biker so much I don’t know because I think the Pres that is also

Biking uh is a biking and because it’s good for the environment Eco Eco Green yeah I don’t okay I like it but sometimes I it’s too much yeah I mean I love cycling as well like but it’s too much how do people thinking about oh the

Outo gas oh oh the green okay of course it’s important but come on for me it’s the when they go fast Through The Pedestrian crossing that’s what is the worst one for all the tourists that think that they’ve got right of way and I’ve been hit before by bikes here in

Amsterdam especially when we’re from somewhere that isn’t like this not as alert and every tourist is the same problem they say they they talk about I I always say to the tourist when inside please don’t don’t take care about the cars the bus even the flight yeah don’t

Care about the boot yeah care about the bicycles that’s the most and he said yes I know because they never stop for you we’ve almost been hit a few times today yeah oh today’s been quite a few one I even getting a shot on the video like guy ran into

Really sometimes I uh drive at night yeah and I bring a passenger something like place and I watch the mirror and I see nothing yeah believe me how and where they did you come I want to drive I said why no lights on yeah that is

Phantom bikes that is the reason why I say watch three time or four time even you see no bicycles watch again it came from nowhere I can say crossing the road in Amsterdam you have to be clever and like alert have good sight and then have oh brilliant there really too much

Bicycles too much and yeah if you if you