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g. a velocity by the fields. i'm not at the today is the festival of the ugly. we both is just 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 ugly 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 mall. oh, anyone's talking about is the festival commerce. i go on that. how's it going? i'm on my way to the army club. the festival is this sunday. we are stuck with all of you in a domenico to day any. and if 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 or i need vote to hear me hope you're doing evil with your wrist on the tool tool. so you don't have a strong challenge or this year. so you on sunday child. so tell me what i got christmas time campaigning for votes this year could be closer to whatever's done. but i'm a yeah, the ugliest and p o. because 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 believe 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 a christy laptop because this is what i think this is a ugly, comes founding charter from 1879 accepted 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 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 and all that you helped to match up. ugly women with the unattractive man. i know you've talked in queer, still full even later the club started advocating for ugly folksy, we tried to de, dramatize ugliness, and a lighthearted way on that goal. yeah, the 20, the, that's the mentor sheet to i've got these that i'm looking to set it up with tips when deployed and i've always thought of, i'm a, we used to receive a lot of letters from people looking to the ugly, clamp for comfort and solidarity and we'll see what the vice i am with the, with the sort of equity 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 they've been

seen over. yeah, 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, so the color that i got sent on over to my no good with girls. i'm awkward around them, a golf swing by and i'm still a virgin, very minimal and only my satta left the mobile as the so profitable data. i'm a complete failure guy with me that i said that i'm not even one meter 70 tall and as to what i took in it, but not muscular him, but he enters my of shaggy hair or he kept my eyes are bright and bulging and asked the bull, i have a long, bumpy nose, and my mouth is just saying, but it was really distressed when i closed my eyes, i wish i were dead. a movie took a piece you come by today, and at the end he writes, i left the end of the se, spears. ok. i hope that at least you can understand amendable. you have been the last that i hope to see you soon. steph. and 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 god

just all right, 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 weather, bug government, the when i, when i look at myself in the mirror a little bit, i am truly ugly golden as on paul to my noises with you know, they can pull my is there

a little square full square that up on my teeth. best not to talk about them to keep my eyes, let's say, a normal, that opportunity to engage who 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 ignoring, i don't really do me into the i pretend i don't mind read the yet. they're my, i'm used to it by now. 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 told, though, is famous around town. the 50 validate route, to use

a well known tradition in the region. and it's featured in the local newspaper. you're going to use, i used to be a truck driver. me, which i loved it, but i did julia. the july, 13th of next g. marks 30 years since the accidental with them today. and 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, i don't, don't. why don't the cheaper jordan, a diploma? the pin. i'm 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 kim, i think on lucia and the nurse said you were in an accident because it wouldn't you there and they are also really cool. i lifted the bed sheets and i wasn't drunk. most of them but my left leg was there, but my right one was the there for the legit. i checked again. sure

go definitely. then i turned away and broke down in t is the side of things that are up there. so a lot of outdoor dish instead of i had 10 operations on my sites. 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 infinity to them. that in the 30 years since the accident because i've spent 20 going in and out of the hospital, no joy can be able to be done into fidelity. and other than that, it is what it is my. 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 janine luigi, it's back to work at the bar. he runs in p o because customers here know the ugly

club president is always prepared to admit new members. yeah, sure. i'll go inside and get some membership cards for you in the rough asset were given a bunch of them. you know, obviously you're going to have the time you joined who came by he seems a friendly institution, but well, spotted the me, your name and you already have a lot of them for i need to read your ugliness that you can. how many about the, how ugly is, are john franco know suitable enough to all jump franklin, a 12. what's the scale die and they find inadequate average good grades. and extraordinary, extraordinary means ugliest to say that right? but it's ugliness coupled with like ability level states. this is the model of ugly . i've seen the vehicle. you'll see it all. i'm reading you is good to know because you have a friendly phase as expensive. so you might be using plastic a if you're

a good jump drunk or you're now remember for life and you take pride in the water. thank you. nice a gentlemen to one 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 that is 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, this ugliness to it gives ugly people behind a sort of battle without any sort of a bad societies based on beauty, you may have to make money, you need to be do differential value. so to help with beauty,

let's do something ugly people to after all, what exactly, and what is it? what did i remember? 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 much for the kids. uh, where's the horse? 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, carefully load off for 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 and spending evenings with other people. this is really important to me for them to push out it. when i said, i think she had 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, etc. tardy meet people. but i really hope i can defend my title over my utilities ugly as man ought to question with my greatest joy, but is the sash, but me. it's an honor to wear it harsh. here it is a winter pleasure from the battle. i remember i showed off at an event once wearing the sash imprisoned. 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 the only the district that you're ugly, you're ugly. i popped up on an order ticket on the door to say, beauty doesn't matter. a bless, 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 watch out square. so he could still my title deal will stand at the end of him writing me back and forth. 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 a chunk of bachelor for life and they will find that course to read the kaiser. i quit back then. girls who weren't at least engaged by 20 and guys weren't engaged by 25, were considered outside or don't know. and then we'll see you then sap, you know, because she that have to trouble 40 the both 40 that actually you may have to leave and all i can, i was one of them and i felt dudley 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 well yeah, why am i so ugly to load back then? i always thought that she for the think didn't these, this, these are the read them back, but she'd be like a one of the cheapest. i will say i'm. but if in the late 19 seventy's we were on a really popular tv show with the ugly club, the phone that took place. so. so she have, 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 box of letters from thousands of people on the apple go, including some from abroad to suggested or is she on the screen all the time?

yeah, my future wife wrote in as well too. it's got through. 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 that have given him food? and because i was helping out at the club government, i happen to see the letter. see the best, the time i was working for the phone company am on zillow. so i could make calls free of charge with the v as in then they, i began bombarding her with the phone calls on the kennel. i mean, we got married just in 6 months after we 1st met and loved you telephone, add the pc means you're going to shoot the suppose that you have. let's go, sir, and come out here 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 for me i guess. nothing did a stop talking nonsense. i met him, your going throughout then fell in love

a asking me to know that recently number one out that i fell in love with them. yours could, i wrote to the club, then he replied, somebody's poster, louise could be so we're going to minister to the employee and body. and every saturday he be standing there outside city, all coolness and 600 kilometers with 3 really. but 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 you to the c. c. i agree guys have it tough. i called on monday if that 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 talk lies mostly 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 man for him. but a bunch of people who writes, but she's even more beautiful with me next door. exactly. it's great. so i'm only beautiful because of hand and 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 lives 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 trust the cloud to you for the cause of the ugly. it's 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 route to 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. so do i, history may have continue on. so i got see, let's get started bucks time to open the po, summerville's way. i feel like that's the 1st boat. okay. made it nice. yeah. representatives 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 fuel pick off. 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. no, no. thank you. thank you. long with the president's job. oh, well, let's see. our anthem for you know, the,

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. the vote for me 1st 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, maybe not the man the one time i applied for a job and a fancy hotel and was rejected for not being good looking at that. but if i have to get a little bundle, i think to be a waiter and a gift basket. all that matters is you're 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 us being ugly, has made my make the most of my strength. you're not to being kind and thoughtful respect and having a healthy self esteem the model on which is why people are please, it may be on my look at this. let's press the, the festival of the ugly, has been taking place in p. o, be co 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 for someone to share the scene. so it is important that it's important that we remove the need to distinguish between the ugly and beautiful. you want a bet better look better. what is beauty anyway?

i won't get any my, unless you can see the slogan on our t shirts. beauty isn't we, i have never holder for intelligence or 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. the law is exactly the opposite. the formal announcement in latin is also borrowed verbatim from the proclamation of a new pope dongle, 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 i'm guessing photo is italy's ugly as man and proud of it. but do we have someone who wants to challenge in the cuban?

come on up the tube and it's the nickname of pull those challenger votes for the cuban. please class, you know, applaud. if you vote pull the 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 pen, very tired and fucking the weather held up. and the festival was fantastic in my prayers to them. i don't want to be, well, that'd be so we're also important another she helped me to me i, i used and so the ugly clubs,

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