in 45 minutes on d w, we just got some hot tips for your package. the manage the code is parts affinities. check on some great cultural memorials to boot travel regarding the dodgy a past due by the judge. i'm not at the today is the festival of the ugly. we both discussed 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 is crucial out when we say it's typically on the outside. beautiful inside need up and see. i'm a time to go. yes. in front of us. yes. we're 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 a chelsea mo, oh anyone's talking about is the festival on our side on that, how's it going?

i'm on my way to the club. the festival is this sunday. we are stuck with, i'll give you in a domenico to day. any of you have to come back, we're going to just follow behind the parade or maybe come by earlier so you can vote for me or a minimum. i need vote. do you hear me hope you're doing evil with your if it's on the tool tool so you don't have a strong challenge or this year. so you on sunday, child hotel, what i got christmas time campaigning for votes this year could be close to one of us down. 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 family. so jeanina luigi has been president for 11 years now. like most people in po because 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 to lee is what and you'll be just be right. as always, the guy who manages the whole thing. okay. okay. cool, let me let me see christie a lot. so the cost piece is what i think this is a ugly clubs founding charter from $1879.00 as incredible with it. and it started as a match making service on the out it. 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 getting close to die to laura, you speak to me so they created the position of president of the ugly, able to show me the form of the call being pulled up in order to help to match up ugly women with the unattractive man. i know you've talked in queer, still full, even though later the club started advocating for ugly folksy. we tried to de,

dramatize ugliness, and a lighthearted way on that goal. yeah, the good, you gotta see mental sheets too. i've got these that i'm looking to set it up with these when deployed and i've always thought of, i'm all, we used to receive a lot of letters from people looking to the ugly clap for comfort and solidarity. mostly with the device. i'm really distressed when i close my eyes. i wish i were dead. i'm only took a pc come by. he didn't even look at the end. he writes, i left the end of the spirit. ok. i hope that at least you can understand amendable yet. then the last that i hope to see you soon, stephan, of course on i looked on thought that was in 19 mediators. and it's one that there are a lot of letters like that policy that we need to catalog about it to it for god. yeah. 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 of the the limit when i look at myself in the mirror around. so in a little bit, i am truly ugly organizing paul. my noise is weird, though they can pull my is there a little square plus what happens on my teeth? best not to talk about them to keep my eyes, let's say, a normal little projecting 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 the jimmy and i pretend, i don't mind read the yet. they are my,

i'm used to it by now to out or is still cause he lives alone to see people. he goes out for breakfast. the good morning. hi paul. the highlander has sold $150.00 copies this year. he started having the made in 2019 after he was crowned italy's ugliest man pulled 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 year and marks 30 years since the accidental. i remember everything that happened that day right up until the moment i drove on the highway. i thought,

you know, the next thing i know i'm waking up up to 45 days in a coma. we song or something. yeah, i don't want the cheaper jewelry, diekama the pin number. as soon as i open my eyes, i saw that i was connected to a bunch of machines. i called for help and i asked where i was, kim on the card, but lucio and the nurse said you were in an accident because it wouldn't you down stairs is also really cool. i lifted the bed sheets and i wasn't drunk, but most of them, but my left leg was there. but my right one was the one check. i checked again. sure. definitely. then i turned away and broke down in tears. jump on to my side options that are to pull up their stuff about or do you think that i had 10 operations on my fast gosh, 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 that i didn't see 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 than that, 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 the 3 days from now. he wants to defend his title of italy's ugliest man. for janina 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, fine. i'll go inside and get some membership cards for you in the past that were given a bunch of them. you know, obviously you're going to have 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 read your ugliness that you can. how many, how ugly, as are john franco? the enough to jump? franklin a 12. what's the scale? the find inadequate? average good grades and extraordinary, extraordinary means ugliest to say that right? but it's ugliness coupled with like ability level of faith. this is the model of ugly, seems but the got people. you'll see it all. i'm reading, you is good to know because you have a friendly face as expensive. so you might be using flat because a, if you're a good jump done front or you're no member for life, you take pride in the thank you. nice gentlemen to one membership comes with duty, maybe 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 that is it. i will change that right away. and to that level is to has them to be ugly. lose the my the last membership number was 31447. so the next one will be 31448, what i'm so 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 the sort of battle without resources, a better society is 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, what exactly, and what is it, what we need. 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 the goal? 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 the pointing to the, to the accident force me into retirement commission. and i live off a disability pension here. so i often come here to pass the time you open in the evening to want 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 the posada. and i said, i think she and the polio was 28 when he had the accident. he's now 57. he's headed back home. america

said, i don't know. i've heard that some of the ugly people want to challenge me on sunday, etc. but i really hope i can defend my title of utilities ugly as man to question with my greatest joy, but is the sash, but me, it's an honor to wear it. our ship here it is. it's a window of pleasure from that at all. i remember i showed off at an event once wearing the sash or something, and dr. horton and everyone applauded and congratulated me on a pro data run officer search. i've been wearing it with pride since 2019 a are. does the district that you're ugly? you're ugly. for public one, in order to get down to it and see the beauty doesn't matter,

believes perhaps being ugly. it gets to even more attention. i'm listening for say, say brought 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 what's out there. so he could still my title, the worst 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 cool? i'm a pretty good except the able to see 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 in charge of bachelor for like they will find that course to be the kaiser. i quit back then. girls who weren't at least engaged by 20 and guys weren't engaged by $25.00, were considered outside or no other than the annual fee than sap. you know, because she that have to trouble 40 the book 40 that actually you may have to leave

and all i can buy was one of them. and i felt oddly 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. so she for the been event, these, this, these are the, the, the mat bush, she'd be like a little cheaper. so i will say i'm, but if in the late 197 days we were on a really popular tv show with the ugly club, the phone that took place. so you know, she had, she had evolved with that the rest of the lab. we were a huge hit push them and that's the only thing we got one box of letters from thousands of people on the apple go, including some from abroad to suggested or yeah, mostly. so it's, i mean, yeah, my future wife wrote in as well. it's got to do, i need you to find out more about the clock. could i get a list though? she sent a photo of herself. is that it put it to you have given me on beforehand because i was helping out at the club. i happened to see the letter as clear at the time i

was working for the phone company am on zillow, so i could make calls free of charge at the u. s. and then i began bombarding her with the phone call on it, kind of, i mean, we got married just in 6 months after we 1st met and loved the telephone, add the p. c means you're going to shoot those present. let's go, sir. i'm not on the come out here on a sweetie. come out for a sec. come out and say curse the day when i sent the letter. she is look up beautiful. she is at the top that gave me a guess of non did a stop talking nonsense is i met him. he always goes up and fell in love. a asked me to know that recently. no more. not that i fell in love with them. yes. can i wrote to the club and he replied, somebody's poster. louise could be so and i went into the ministry to the employee and body. and every saturday he be standing there outside city all cool morning.

and 600 kilometers with 3 through the vin number. the 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 a no kid duffy das see. he was submitting the com, 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, she was lucky to marry one of the ugly ones able to where would beautiful people be without ugly people in their phone? you don't have to shores without talking to us or nothing and no fat will 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 people who 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

the festival is now just one day away. but suddenly there's a change in the weather with thunderstorms in the 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 p o 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 results 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 cloud 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. i am 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 as a it's not the way i don't know. so do i, history may have continue on but i got the, let's get started, books, time to open the po. i feel, i guess the 1st boat. okay. ill give

a little gentlemen. okay. alright. the secret validate. so for anyone in po, because 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 fancy, but they put people can tell when you're tired is that when someone else is more enthusiastic and as you as more the president's 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 hug. i'm happy you made it and i see

a representative from the club in belgium. i important. you're the only chapter outside italy. anytime 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 me, one the field because and 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 says, yeah, right. do you think 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 mir cobra, 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. first get to drink or 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, god will think it will say anything is possible. who's the policy that that will be so good. we're both bug like rio, he's a strong candidate. let's hear what he's been through because of his ugliness level . also for out of the book and like all the ugly people i've experienced

discrimination is maybe not the man that are going to one to and i applied for a job at a fancy hotel a and was rejected for not being good looking at that. but if i have to get on there to bundle, i think to be a waiter and a gift baskets. all that matters is your a good way to remedy your stuff. he was discriminated against because of his ways helping himself, telling me to call voting continues into the night. the next morning, the incumbent president gets ready for the parade. the deal, france. so perhaps with 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 model on which is why people appreciate and you'd be on my looks flush the,

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 you the standards. let's see if our life philosophy is all about not attaching importance to the word ugly. so always saying something is ugly or beautiful. means we're taking these categories too seriously because you the scene. so it is important that it's important that we remove the need to distinguish between ugly and beautiful. we want a bet better look better. what is beauty anyway? i won't get any my am i so you can see the slogan on our t shirts. the beauty is in me, i have never holder for intelligence to go into man. some people can only see with her 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. no. all the formal announcement and latin is also borrowed verbatim from the proclamation of a new pope. dog. man. 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 go. i'm 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 up the tube and is the nickname of pull those challenger to vote for the cuban? please class the the know applaud.

if you vote pulled the older you've been chosen, it's italy's ugliest man. the stuff that really didn't get re elected, but i'm still happy mood pen, very tired and fucking the weather held up. and the festival was fantastic in my prayers to them and don't let the rug that'd be so we're also important another she helped me to me i, i used and so the ugly clubs, life philosophy will be passed on for generations to come. the

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