and today help us solve the enlightenment says, progresses in our hands, and that means so is rigorous. it's up to us how significant of the beginning of the done and see the series of the great philosophers to our present and future our series project. an item in some starts october 5th on dw, the dodgy a variety of other fields or another. 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. i don't even see, you know, i gotta pull it up. we want them to feel important. we recognize that value and

boost their self esteem. that's crucial out of we say ugly on the outside. beautiful inside. loaded up and see i'm a good time to go. yes. 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 where you're stuck with. i can be 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 i need vote. do you hear me hope you're doing the will 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 what 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 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, you know, pretty fair to that i will the while during the parade. you'll play my body guard

to lee as 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 christy laugh so because this is what i think this is a ugly clubs founding charter from 1879 is incredible with it and it started as a match making service on the out. it never too many older women who were unmarried and forget but all that. and then we look us back then it was common for women to have 3 children by the age of 21 of the new hands for farming and whatnot with them getting close to i see a lot of these people so they created the position of president of the ugly, able to show me the money to call being pulled. 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 try to de dramatize

ugliness and a light hearted way on that goal. yeah, the one is you gotta do mental sheets to have these, but i'm looking to set it up with the dates when deployed. and i've always thought of, i'm all, we're 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 for the see, ty, equity vinyl. instead of going to some letters like this one came with a photo in a personal description of vehicle into kind of, let's see if i can read it. city is college of it. so i don't what i got. 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 so i don't know who to much know. good with girls. i'm awkward around the golf swing, but i'm still a virgin minimum and normally my satta level as the so profitable data, i'm a complete failure. okay. i will make sure that i'm not even one meter 70 tall and

is thought i'd check in anybody, not muscular him, but then 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 it was really distressed. when i closed my eyes, i wish i were dead. i'm only took a piece you come by today and at the end here, right? so that's the end of the se. spit ok, i hope that at least you can understand the middle. yeah. 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 post we the, 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. where the government, the net. when i look at myself in the mirror so little, i am truly ugly golden as on paul to my noise is wid nobody can pull my is there a little square, but what about my teeth? best not to talk about them. i'll keep my eyes, let's say, a normal, that opportunity to 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 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. julia, the july, 13th of next to march 30 years since the accident or 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 them as soon as i opened my eyes, i saw that i was connected to a bunch of machines. i called for help in august where i was a month ago. but lucia and the nurse said you were in an accident because it wouldn't you downstairs also really that's all i lifted the bed sheets and i wasn't drunk. know somebody my left leg was there, but my right one was the one check. i checked again. sure. go, that's the one. so then i turned away and broke down into the side options that are up there. so the back door d, as instead of i had 10 operations on my side because it was destroyed at the door. so i looked like a monster world monster. you and my auto body was messed up to turn it into them.

but 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 janina 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. but i'll go inside and get some membership cards for you to put in the rough desk that were given a bunch of them. you know, obviously you're gonna have the time you joined who came by, he seems a friendly institution, but well spotted them your name and

your video already. a lot of them for i need to read 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 the 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 seeing, but the gotta be to use it all. i'm reading you is good on it because you have a friendly face. suspension of bella. so you might be using black people a i think you're a good jump gun, franco. you're now remember for life and he took pride in the 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. h of that level is 2,

has 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, this ugliness to it gives ugly people a high sort of battle without any sort of a better society based on beauty, you may have to make money. you need to be do differential bad, bad. so to help with beauty, let's do something for 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 you tell me what sort of 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 here. so we are a lot of our southern, i often come here to pass the time you open in the evening to i 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 and for the price of 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, set a daughter, but i've heard that some of the ugly people want to challenge me on sunday,

etc. tardy to meet people. but i really hope i can defend my title over my utilities ugly as man to flush and 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, shall bring in about the court and everyone applauded and congratulated me on a pro data run or just the 1st. i've been wearing it with pride since 2019. hello fresh a are. does the district that you're ugly, you're ugly. i popped up on an order ticket on door to say, the beauty doesn't matter. a list, perhaps being ugly. it gets to even more attention. i'm listening for say,

say brought the people when i see someone ugly than me, i think of it than a person on know. he's even ugly. do 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 on 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 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 doug legal battles are these many people consider

themselves ugly because they're cast into the site, able to separate them. they feel sorry for themselves and say, yeah, why am i so ugly to load back then? i always thought that she for the been didn't these, this, this, that easy to mac. but she'd be like a, so the cheapest, i will say and put it in the late 19 seventy's. 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 then we got one boxes of letters from thousands of people on the apple go, including some from abroad to suggested or yeah, mostly all the time. yeah. my future wife wrote in as well as got through. i need you to find out more about the clock. i don't get a list though. i don't know. she sent a photo of herself. is that it but teeth hacking them for it and because i was helping out at the club, i happened to see the letter. see the 5th at the time. i was working for the phone company am on zillow, so i could make calls free of charge at the s. and then they,

i began bumbling harding, her with the phone call on the kennel. i mean, we got married just in 6 months after we 1st met and the lady, telephone add the p. c means you're going to shoot the suppose that 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 dumb that gimme a guess. nothing did a stop talking nonsense. i met him. your going throughout then fell in love and asked me to know that recently no more. not that i fell in love with them. yours could i wrote to the club, then he replied, somebody's poster. louise could be so 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 for you know, i was impressed and thought, here's a guy i can rely on a no kid duffy das see. he was smitten deck on the mayor. my boss watched what was going on for a while and asked me why not finally say yes to the c. c. i agree 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 talk lies or nothing. and no fat will be like him to move without a slim guys like me. okay, my girlfriend. okay. when the 2 of us are out together, she'll always look good for him, but a beneficial rights, but she's even more beautiful with me next door. exactly. it's great. so i'm only beautiful because of hands on the come. uh yeah, the the festival is now just one day away.

but suddenly there's a change in the weather with thunderstorms, into forecast health and 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 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 car to you for the cause of the ugly is very important to your son jesus we're always there for the more vulnerable. what kind of stuff. so make sure we have a good festival of the ugly event. please help us. i implore use the will the best, the validate route to start is scheduled so far. everything's going forward as planned at the club 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 see, let's get started. books, time to open the polls. i feel, i guess the 1st boat. okay. deal the so gentlemen. okay. alright. the secret

validate. so 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, mostly shop. 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 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 hug. i'm happy you made it and i see a representative from the club in belgium. i important the only chapter outside

italy's i'll tell you that sort of pieces. and there even people who cross the atlantic, like the journalist from the new york times and his friends tears to the me, one the field because and from around the world for more the club is financed through donations and the sale of souvenirs, sporting club, deep, rude, t 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 and 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. the vote for me 1st get the drink or not. yeah, we don't by boat, we keep things fair. 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 little bit. we're both bug lake 3. 0, he's a strong candidate. let's hear what he's been through because of his ugliness level . also, like all lovely people, i've experienced discrimination, maybe not the one to and 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 under to bundle, i think to be a waiter and a gift baskets. all that matters is you're a good way to remedy your subsidy. was discriminated against because of his ways. helping yourself, telling me to call voting continues into the night the next morning, the incumbent president gets ready for the parade to france. so perhaps with us being ugly, has made my make the most of my strength, you're not to being kind and but thoughtful respect and having a healthy self esteem the model on which is why people appreciate me beyond my looks at 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 active rebellion, a parody of over the top beauty standards. let's see of 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 for someone to share the scene. so it is important that it's important that we remove the need to distinguish between ugly and beautiful. we want to evaluate what is beauty anyway, i won't get any my you unless you can see the slogan on our t shirts. the beauty isn't me. i love a holder for intelligence are going to marry. some people can only see with her eyes, not with 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 the 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 of the formal announcement in 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. and 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 and the cuban come on the tube? and it's the nickname of pull those challenger votes for the cuban. please class the the know

applaud. if you vote pulls 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 10, very tired and fucking the weather held up. and the festival was fantastic. in my cruise to the month only be about that'd be so we're also important another she helped me give you i use and so the ugly clubs, life philosophy will be passed on for generations to come, the

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