get any longer, so that'll be it'll be interesting to see if the numbers dwindle outside on the ticket one shows and some of them. yeah, there is beauty and dizzy news radio. thank you very much. thank you. that says from me and then those team for now rank off will keep you updated on well the fast at the top on the, on god office in berlin for me and the whole new. see, man, thanks for watching the i sorry, so one on 6 times to increase the current, see more people than ever on the move worldwide in such an one. great timing is very hard to say very difficult, john to find out about some story info. my grands

dodgy a diversity by the judge. i'm not at the today is the festival of the ugly. we both, this is the day when ugly people take center stage along with everyone who feels less of and due to the way they look funny to see, you know, i gotta pull it up. we want them to feel important. we recognize their value and boost their self esteem. that's crucial out when we say specifically on the outside . beautiful inside. need up and see. i'm a good time to go. yes. in front of us. yes. a dumb way coming the

this is feel because one week before the festival of the ugly begins home to just about 2000 residents. this village is the center of the rebellion against italy's pervasive obsession with beauty. this is where the ugly club has its headquarters, and this is its president for now at least talk to you more all anyone's talking about is the festival. of course i go on that. how's it going? i'm on my way to the ugly club. the festival is this sunday. we are stuck with of you in a domenico to day. any of you have to come back, we're going to just follow behind the parade for a minute or maybe come by earlier. so you can vote for me. i need vote. do you hear me? i'm told these are people with bigger percentage all join us. we don't have a strong challenge or this year the on the way. so you on sunday child. so what i got christmas time campaigning for votes this year could be close. it would have

was done, but a man. yeah, the ugliest in p. o be co. uh the president and his team are having a planning meeting at club headquarters dealing with the so jeanine luigi has been president for 11 years now. like most people in pos eco, he's been involved in the club since he was a child. every year during the festival, they elect their next president bought good boy the share to that i will the while during the parade you'll play, my bodyguard really is well and you'll be just be right. as always the guy who manages the whole thing. okay. okay, cool. let me, let me see, of course the lot. so the cost is what i think this is a ugly clubs found in china from $1879.00 intended with it and it started as a match making service on the audit. there were too many older women who were

unmarried at all and then the local tax, then it was common for women to have 3 children by the age of $21.00 of the new hands for farming and whatnot with them to die to laura, you speak to me so they created the position of president of the ugly, able to show me the golf game. you helped to match up, ugly women with the unattractive man. i know you talked in queer, still full even though later the club started advocating for ugly folksy. we try to de dramatize ugliness and a light hearted way on that goal. yeah, the good. you gotta do mental sheets to you got these that i'm looking to set it up with the dates when deployed and i've always thought a lot more. we used to receive a lot of letters from people looking to the ugly clap for comforts and solidarity. and we'll see what the, the vice i am with the, with the, for the see, ty equity. yeah. the vinyl. instead of going to some letters like this one came with the photo in a personal description of the vehicle into kind of, let's see if i can read it. city as college or something like that. so the vents,

you know, the, i'm a 29 year old man. they lose or that i'm dissolution with life because of my looks, normal navy, i don't have any real friends and i've never had a girlfriend. so my godsa, super political and that i got sent on all those a month. i'm no good with girls. i'm awkward around them, the golf swing by and i'm still a virgin minimum and normally my staff to level as the shuttle profitable data. i'm a complete failure guy with me that i said that i'm not even one meter 70 tall and his daughter i took in it, but i'm not muscular him, but he enters my of shaggy hair. wake up, my eyes are bright and bulging and asked the bull. i have a long, bumpy nose in my mouth is just saying, but when i woke up, i'm really distressed. when i closed my eyes, i wish i were dead a movie. it took a piece you come by today and at the end he writes, i left the end of the se, spirit ok. i hope that at least you can understand the thing. the last that i hope to see you soon. stephan. of course on i looked on thought that was in 19 mediators

and this one that there are a lot of letters like that policy that we need to catalog about it to it for god. yeah. hi. what's that mean? there's good news from the us. someone from the new york times is on their way to po because the festival is just 5 days away. the . this is where the ugliest man in italy lives. the government, the net. when i look at myself in the mirror, so in a little bit,

i am truly ugly organizing paul to my noises with. nobody can pull my is there a little square plus what would happen on my teeth? best not to talk about them. i'll keep my eyes, let's say, a normal project. take me the issue. i often get told that i'm ugly or you know, but everyone has something ugly about all. when someone calls me ugly. i just ignored. it's done like jimmy and i pretend i don't mind read the yet. they are my i'm used to it by now a lot or is still cause he lives alone to see people. he goes out for breakfast. the good morning. hi paula. his calendar has sold $150.00 copies this year. he started having the made in 2019, after he was crowned. it least ugliest man told though is famous around town. the

50 validate booty is a well known tradition in the region. and it's featured in the local newspaper. i used to be a truck driver, me, which i loved it. june, july, 13th of next g mocks, 30 years since the accidental. i remember everything that happened that day. right up until the moment i drove on the highway to the next thing. i know i'm waking up up to 45 days in a coma me song or something. yeah, don't. don't. why don't the cheaper jordan and the coma the pin them as soon as i opened my eyes, i saw that i was connected to a bunch of machines. i called for help in aust, where i was good. but lucia and the nurse said you were in an accident because it wouldn't you downstairs also louis or i lifted the bed sheets and i wasn't drunk. the somebody my left leg was there. but my right one was the

one check. i checked again. sure. go don't say then i turned away and broke down in t is jump on to my side of some get out of their stuff a 5 dollar discount that i had 10 operations on my side because it was destroyed at the door. so i don't, i looked like a month stuff. i was a monster. you and my auto body was messed up to infinity to them in the 30 years since the accident because i've spent 20 going in and out of the hospital. no joy can get it over and done it with fidelity and other home and it is what it is, right? they saved my life. so i let go of what was before and started my life over from the beginning of the part of them. 3 days from now, he wants to defend his title of italy's ugliest man. for janine

luigi, it's back to work at the bar. he runs and po because customers here know the ugly club president is always prepared to admit new members. yes sir. i'll go inside and get some membership cards for you in the past that were given a bunch of them. you know, obviously the time you joined who came and besides, he seems a friendly institution, but well, spotted the me, your name and your video on a lot of them for i need to rate your ugliness that you can. how many about the, how ugly, as are john franco? noble enough to jump franklin, a 12. what's the scale? the find inadequate? average good grades and extraordinary, extraordinary means ugliest to save it, right. but it's ugly and is coupled with like ability level, and this is the model of ugly seeing. but the got people, you'll see it all. i'm reading you is good to know because you have

a friendly face as you're supposed to tell you might be using flat because a, if you're a good jump done franco, you're now remember for life and you take pride in any kind of going on or thank you nice a gentlemen to want the membership comes with duties to exhibit, such as preaching. nice to me about ugliness saving money and i have to preach you might hear us and where is your card? you don't have one yet to, but i use it. i will change that right away. angel. that level is 2. has to be ugly . lose the my, the last membership number was 31447. so the next one will be $31448.00. what i'm so of course we have members everywhere, mainly in italy, in europe, but worldwide to offer my best. people are obsessed with beauty. but luckily there's ugliness to it gives ugly people behind by some sort of battle . what that means, what else is a better society based on beauty,

you may have to make money. you need to be beautiful, bad, bad. so to help with beauty, let's do something for ugly people to, after all their money. what exactly, and what does it weigh the amount, but basically, subjective would've been better. this would just be, we need to give this a positive spin. we must so that it loses it stigma. so what sort of kids? uh, where is that cost? and that's precisely what the ugly club aims to achieve. those who share that mentality are welcome to join, regardless of how they look the definitely to the, to the accident force me into retirement commission. and i live off of disability pension here certainly are a lot of our southern i often come here to pass the time you open in the evening to

the one to try to push it. but it brings me a bit of happiness that i see it spending evenings with other people. this is really important to me for them to push out it. and i said, i think she in polio was 28 when he had the accident. he's now 57. he's headed back home. america, daughter, but i've heard that some of the ugly people want to challenge me on sunday. i that's gonna make the total. but i really hope i can defend my title over my utilities ugly as man to question with my greatest joy, but is the sash for me? it's an honor to wear it. here it is a winter pleasure from the battle. i remember i showed off at an event once wearing

the sash, shall bring and dr. horton and everyone applauded and congratulated me on a pro data run off your search. i've been wearing it with pride since 2019. hello. fresh a are. does the district, if you're ugly, you're ugly republican in order to get done. don't say the beauty doesn't matter. so blessed perhaps, being ugly. it gets to even more attention. i'm listening for say, say brought all the people when i see someone ugly than me. i think of it than a person on know. he's even ugly up to give me better watch out west. so he could still my title, the worst that at the end of him writing me, taking a bar on the outskirts of p, o. b code. janine luigi is visiting the man who holds club membership, number 8. as a boy, the future ugly club president learned a lot from him about dealing with ugliness cha, model. are you call them a pretty good acceptability?

my that's a real cause unity. it was the ugly club that gave me the chance to meet my wife. so everyone thought i was a jump the bachelor for like they will find that course to be filled at kaiser. i quit back then. girls who weren't at least engaged by 20 and guys who weren't engaged by 25 were considered outside or no, i wouldn't be in a few than sap, you know, because she that have to trouble 40 that you go to both 40 that you you may have to leave and all i can buy was one of them and i felt ugly for better. these many people consider themselves ugly because they're cast to the site, able to that, but then they feel sorry for themselves and say, yeah, why am i so ugly to load back then? i always thought that c c for the event these, this basically the, the mac. but she'd be like a son of a cheapest, i will say and put it in the late $197.00 days. we were on a really popular tv show with the ugly club, the phone that took place though. so she had, she had evolved with that the rest of the lab. we were a huge hit push them,

and that's one of them. we got one boxes of letters from thousands of people on the books, including some from abroad to suggested or is she on the screen all the time? yeah, my future wife wrote in as well as got through. i need you to find out more about the cloud. i could get a list though, she sent a photo of herself. is that it but to you have given him food and because i was helping out at the club government, i happened to see the letter. said that the time i was working for the phone company am on zillow, so i could make calls free of charge at the v. as in the next, i began bombarding her with a phone call on the kind of, i mean, we got married just in 6 months after we 1st met and this is not letting me telephone. i have the pc means you're going to shoot eligible is that you have. let's go see here and come out here. i love you on a sweetie. come out for a sec. come out and say curse the day when i sent that letter. she is look up beautiful, she is dom that knew me, i guess nothing. did

a stop talking nonsense. i met him, your going to up and fell in love. a asked me to know that recently, number one out that i fell in love with them. yours could, i wrote to the club and he replied, somebody's poster. louise could be so and i were going to minister to the employee and body. and every saturday he be standing there outside city all morning. at 600 kilometers with 3 really. but even though he'd leave on friday evening and come by train, but i, you know, i was impressed and thought, here's a guy i can rely on. said no kid dusty das see. he was smitten, the mayor, my boss watched what was going on for a while and asked me why not finally say yes. so you guys have it tough. i called on monday. yes. that she was lucky to marry one of the ugly ones able to where would beautiful people be without a ugly bank over the phone?

it wouldn't, you don't have to shores without talk lies or nothing. and no fat one, it'll be like him to move without the slim guys like me. okay. my girlfriend. okay . when the 2 of us are out together, she'll always look good for him, but the beneficiary writes, but she's even more beautiful with me next door. exactly. it's great. so i'm only beautiful because of handling uh come on. yeah, the festival is now just one day away. but suddenly there's a change in the weather with thunderstorms into forecast helping the open air concerts in the village square go on as planned, with the parade have to be cancelled. and what about the 5 or 6000 festival goers expected to attend? when things are all doom and gloom, there's a place people in po, be co turn to the

janine luigi has been coming here to them. i don't, i don't be so since he was a boy the details of each month on monday about that'd be so i come here to ask for your help and trust myself to you and i and trust the card to you for the cause of the ugly is very important to your son. jesus are always there for the more vulnerable. what kind of stuff. so make sure we have a good festival of the ugly, says please help us problems for you. the will the best, the validate through the start is scheduled so far. everything's going forward as

planned at the clubs headquarters. the polling station is just about ready for action. and so yeah, i don't know if i'm doing history may continue on, but i got the, let's get started, books, time to open the polls. i feel like that's the 1st boat. okay. deal the so gentlemen. okay. alright. the secret ballot itself for anyone in po b, code this weekend can become the clubs president, regardless of whether or not they're ugly. the incumbent president has voted. okay . but will we keep his position northeast northeast. who knows what the check was? there is somebody who could replace me by. did they get enough votes? degree of me. serious? yeah, very cool and fast. but they point people can tell when you're tired is that when someone else is more enthusiastic enthusiasm,

all the presidents bar is full of people who have come from far and wide to rebel against conventional beauty standards. some have traveled 100 kilometers, others, 500. we're here for the festival and some 1300 kilometers. this is a heartfelt tongue. i'm happy you made it and i see a representative from the club in belgium. i important you're the only chapter outside of the lease, notified you that sort of piece in there, even people who cross the atlantic, like the journalist from the new york times and his friends stairs to the i'm the ones a few up because then from around the world the club is financed through donations and this sale of souvenirs, sporting club deep rooty slogans. almost 400 new members will sign up this weekend . the

as tradition dictates the sitting president goes around canvassing for both the president of the ugly club number one guy who after 11 years in office, everyone knows who he is. so the law. thank you. thank you. learned the president's job. oh, well, let's see. my anthem for you know, the

just around the corner from the polling station next to the main stage on the village square, other candidates are also campaigning. miracle martin natalie, known as miracle beta is running for president. did you vote for me? hello, ugly one. he studied hotel management and also runs a bar in the village vote for me 1st get the drink. not yeah. we don't by boat, we keep things fair. i can do that. i've run before,

but now i'm trying again. we'll see if anything is possible. who's the policy that that will be so little bit. we're both bug like leo, he's a strong candidate. let's hear what he's been through because of his ugliness level . also like all the ugly people i've experienced discrimination is maybe not the man that are going to once and i applied for a job at a fancy hotel and was rejected for not being good. looking about 5 to get a little bundle, i think to be a waiter, gift baskets. all that matters is you're a good way to remedy your subsidy. was discriminated against because of his ways helping himself tell me to call voting continues into the night. the next morning,

the incumbent president gets ready for the parade. the deal, france so proper. the being ugly, has made my make the most of my strength not to being kind and but thoughtful respect and having a healthy self esteem. the motto on which is why people appreciate me beyond my looks, for the festival of the ugly, has been taking place in p o. b code for nearly 150 years. what started out as a marriage market has become an act of rebellion, a parody of over the top beauty standards. let's see if our life philosophy is all about not attaching importance to the word, ugly. always saying something is ugly or beautiful. means we're taking these categories too seriously, to see the scene so important. it's important that we remove the need to distinguish between ugly and beautiful, better for you,

better than what is beauty. anyway, i won't get any my you unless you can see the slogan on our t shirts. the beauty is in me. i have never holder for intelligence are going to marry some people can only see what their eyes not, but their soul line, you know, but out of beauty doesn't mean much better. the ugliest thing out there is an ugly soul. no doubt about that. it's a philosophy that children appeal because they are taught from a young age the when there is about to be announced with the ritual that inspiration from the election of the pope except that the smoke here is read, the white flowers were sold out. as long as you guys need me to lease or no, do you mind you all the formal announcement in latin is also borrowed verbatim from the proclamation of

a new pope to match this time he's done it the the ugly club will do a lot of social work no more discrimination. the beautiful and the ugly are equal. what counts as a person's character? if someone says they're beautiful on the inside, that means everything about them is beautiful. we want the ugly club to be a lifeline against any form of discrimination. but there's one more election left to guessing photo is italy's ugly as man and proud of it.

but do we have someone who wants to challenge and the cuban come on the tube? and it's the nickname of pull those challenger votes for the cuban. please class a no applied if you vote pulled up hold on. you've been chosen. it's italy's ugliest man. the really i didn't get re elected, but i'm still happy mood. 10, very tired can fucking the weather held up. and the festival was fantastic in my prayers to them. i don't want to be about, that'd be. so we're also important another she helped me give you,

i use that. and so the ugly clubs, life philosophy will be passed on for generations to come. the change can be viewed as the natural conclusion of the life. i'm a change the age of in life. it's 300 year old ideas be responsible for today's problem. and could they help us solve them? i believe our futures in our past. how significance of the beginning of the done as

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