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Due voci, una sola direzione: il divertimento!Michael Casanova e Danny Morandi tornano insieme su Radio 3i per accompagnarti in un viaggio fatto di risate, musica e tanta energia. Dal lunedì al giovedì dalle 16 alle 18 e il venerdì dalle 15 alle 18, sali anche tu sul nostro tandem radiofonico: una pedalata a due che diventa un giro infinito di emozioni grazie agli ascoltatori, veri compagni di avventura!

In questa puntata, Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore analizzano tre segnali fortissimi del cambiamento in atto: il modello di RentAHuman.ai, dove sono gli agenti di Intelligenza Artificiale a “ingaggiare” esseri umani per completare attività nel mondo reale; l'annuncio di Sam Altman sull'ingresso di Peter Steinberger, il programmatore che ha creato OpenClaw, in OpenAI per guidare la nuova generazione di personal agent; e la decisione del doppiatore Luca Ward di depositare il marchio sonoro della propria voce per difendersi da possibili utilizzi illeciti dell'AI.Una conversazione che intreccia lavoro, potere tecnologico e identità personale, mostrando come l'Intelligenza Artificiale stia riscrivendo non solo i modelli di business, ma anche il concetto stesso di autonomia e tutela individuale.Libro HUMAN RELOADED: https://amzn.to/4evkVWvIncontra tutti i protagonisti dell'AI alla AI WEEK 2026: Arsenalia, PwC, AlterMind, NTT Data, Reply e tanti altri. Scoprili tutti su https://www.aiweek.it Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ti guideranno alla scoperta di quello che sta accadendo grazie o a causa dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, spiegandola semplice.Puoi iscriverti anche alla newsletter su: https://www.iaspiegatasemplice.it

Ottieni €200 di bonus benvenuto se apri un account Revolut Business: https://links.madeitpodcast.it/Revolut200promo (#adv) Fiore Davoli aveva una carriera che molti sognano: Bocconi, quasi cinque anni in McKinsey, ruolo prestigioso, stipendio alto. Eppure, dietro il percorso perfetto, ci sono stati due burnout. In questa puntata di Making IT parliamo di cosa significa ignorare i segnali del corpo, lavorare fino a svuotarsi e trovare il coraggio di lasciare una strada sicura. E di come da quella crisi sia nato Club Joy, un progetto che aiuta le persone a riscoprire hobby, creatività e gioia, anche (e soprattutto) quando il lavoro sembra averla spenta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Daisy Fiore from the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey talks about the Center finally reopening from their construction project. Grand reopening weekend is scheduled for February 14th and 15th.

In this episode of Gangland Wire, host Gary Jenkins takes listeners deep into one of the most chilling and revealing moments in Chicago mob history—a secretive 1967 party for Mob stalwart, Fi Fi Buccieri. It was held at the legendary Edgewater Beach Hotel. What appeared to be a lavish celebration was, in reality, a tightly controlled gathering of roughly 300 mobsters, political figures, and underworld insiders. The occasion marked the 40th birthday of feared Chicago Outfit enforcer Fiore “Fifi” Buccieri, a man whose reputation for violence made him one of the most dangerous figures in the city. Despite not being invited, veteran journalist Bob Wiedrich managed to infiltrate the event, raising serious questions about security, secrecy, and the gathering’s true purpose. This was no ordinary party. Federal surveillance later revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had the room bugged, capturing disturbing conversations—including laughter and casual recollections of torture and murder by Buccieri and his associates. Central to this episode is Buccieri's alleged role in the brutal torture and murder of William “Action” Jackson, a crime that horrified even seasoned law-enforcement agents. These wiretap recordings provide rare insight into the mindset of mob enforcers and the normalization of extreme violence within the Chicago Outfit during the 1960s. The timing of the party was critical. Chicago boss Sam Giancana had recently been released from prison, and rumors swirled that major power moves were underway. Evidence suggests this birthday celebration doubled as a covert mob summit, where leadership issues, alliances, and strategic decisions were quietly discussed away from public view. This party was a who's who of the Chicago Outfit. Men like Mike Glitta, Teets Battalgia, Ceaser DiVarco, Ross Prio, Larry The Hood Bounaguidi, Irvin Weiner, Dominic DiBello, Wee Willie Messino, Joseph Cortino ( former chief of police in Forest Park and several others. You will learn how Anthony Accardo and his driver Jackie Cerone avoided the scene when the cops started taking pictures and writing down names. I also explore the role of the Santa Fe Saddle and Gun Club, an organization tied to questionable fundraising activities that blurred the lines between organized crime, business interests, and local politics. These raffles and social events weren't just about money—they were about influence, access, and control. Throughout the episode, I break down the cast of characters who attended this gathering: loan sharks, enforcers, racketeers, and political fixers. Their interconnected stories reveal a dense web of loyalty, fear, and ambition that defined the Chicago mob scene at its peak.   This episode uses the Edgewater Beach Hotel as more than a setting—it becomes a symbol of mob glamour masking ruthless criminal reality. It's a reminder of how deeply organized crime once penetrated American society, and why these stories continue to fascinate, disturb, and resonate today. 0:04 Chicago Mob Tales 1:39 Fifi Buccieri ‘s Infamy 3:19 Giancana’s Absence 4:22 The Santa Fe Saddle and Gun Club 5:36 Edgewater Beach Hotel 8:36 Police Intelligence Operation 12:22 The Notorious Players 16:02 Entertainment at the Banquet 18:54 Reflections on the Meeting Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” Subscribe to the website for weekly notifications about updates and other Mob information. To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent ‘Brothers against Brothers’ or ‘Gangland Wire,’ the documentaries click here.  To purchase one of my books, click here. Transcript [0:00] Well, hey, all you wiretappers out there in gangland, wireland, [0:03] especially you guys up in Chicago. Yeah, I’ve done several stories on Chicago. I’m on a Chicago trip right now, I guess. I’m going to do one more with our friend, Mr. Cooley, Bob Cooley. We just haven’t set up a time yet, but I’m going to do one more with him for sure. But I’m going to keep some of these Chicago stories up. I got such a great reaction. You know, you guys, you know, like and share these, as they say, on the apps and on YouTube. But anyhow, let’s go back to March of 1967. [0:36] There was a real well-known reporter named Bob Wendrick at the time. He really covered the mob in Chicago. I mean, he might as well have been a member of the mob in Chicago. He was so close to so many people up there. And he had some really good sources and some inside tracks. And he went to a party, but he wasn’t invited to that party. You know, they never really were going to invite Bob Weindrich to a party. It was $25 a plate. There was about 300 outfit mobsters and their associates attended this party. Some of their political associates even. They called a chief of police and I think a mayor of a suburban city. It was at the Edgewater Hotel. It was sponsored by the Santa Fe Saddle and Gun Club. It was to honor the birthday of outfit enforcer, killer, and loan shark Fiore Fifi Bussieri. Fifi was a vicious killer, man. I mean, he was bad. Straight out of the Capone days. [1:36] And he was kind of best known in more modern times. It happened not too long before this party, I believe, or around this time, maybe right after. [1:48] He took part in the multi-day, I believe, three-day torture and murder of a bookie, a great big fat bookie named William Action Jackson. There’s some images, some pictures, a picture of him in his trunk was showing a lot of the torture that they did to him out there. I’ve seen it on the Internet. They kind of cut back on those pictures and try to keep those from getting circulated around on Facebook and some of the social media apps. I assume it’s still out there. Um, but anyhow, the Bureau had a, had a hidden microphone in a guy’s house, Jackie, the lackey Saron, who was, uh, uh, a Cardo’s driver at the time had a, had a hidden microphone in there and Jackie Saron and a couple others. And one of them was Fifi Sierra, Bussieri. I don’t remember who else it was. We’re laughing about Lacks and Jackson’s reactions to the cattle prod and some of the other gruesome details. [2:45] They thought he was talking to the hated FBI agent Bill Romer at the time, but in fact, he was not. He wasn’t talking to anybody. I did find one blurb where he was thought to be a child molester. So, you know, I don’t know. And I’m thinking it was a child of one of his girlfriends or something like that. I’m not sure. But anyhow, they tortured the heck out of him for about three days. Fifi came out of the 42 gang. If you remember, it was Alibaba and the 40 Thieves, so that meant there was 41 in Alibaba’s gang, and they wanted to have one more [3:17] than Alibaba, so they named themselves the 42 Gang. This party happened just as Sam Giancana was getting out of jail. [3:25] He didn’t attend, and he left for Mexico about that time to avoid further grand jury appearances. He’d been in jail about a year, I think, because they give him the old give you immunity and you have to testify. If you don’t, then they find you in contempt of court and send you to penitentiary or a jail for a year or so for the length of grand jury. And so he left town right after that and went down to Mexico for several years. Some speculate this meeting was really to get everybody together in one place and have some private meetings off the side without law enforcement really knowing what was going on, where Ricardo and Paul the Waiter Rica would name Joey Doves Iupa as the new boss in place of Gen Cona and make some other personnel shifts. You know, a few years later, when Giancana comes back, there’ll be a whole string of murders around the time he’s murdered because of some of his people that were always loyal to Giancana. [4:22] This Santa Fe Saddling Gun Club, anybody ever heard of that? I had not heard of this before. It was a registered club. The president was Joseph Scaramuza, who owned a gun store at Halstead & Taylor, which is, I believe that’s right down there in the middle of Mobland. There was an informant in the jfk files as i was researching scaramusa there was an informant that claimed that scaramusa knew jack ruby well and as they checked into scaramusa over that they found found that this halstead gun store that he owned had sold three pistols that were recovered after some puerto rican terrorists shot up the house of representative a few years before now you know what all that means i don’t know but uh and i remember that when i was a little kid these puerto Puerto Ricans, uh, now, uh, they tried to, they were trying to assassinate Harry Truman, who was staying out of the white house and the Blair house, uh, which is, I think maybe that’s where the vice president stays. Sometimes I’m not sure. Anyhow, he was not in the white house and they, they had a plan to assassinate him. They also went into the house of representatives and shot it up. They wanted complete freedom from the United States at the time. Now there’s not been any Puerto Rican freedom movement since that I know of. Anyhow, um. [5:36] The Edgewater Beach was a faded but once grand dom of hotels along Lake Michigan. They had their own beach for a while. Then something moved in between them and the beach. And it was about to declare bankruptcy. It was located a few guys that live in Chicago. It was 5555 North Sheridan. [5:56] And now members of the Chicago Police Intelligence Unit had found out about that themselves. It was like Weindrich had. Maybe they hip Weindrich to it. That all works, all that little undercover stuff. You have an employee at the Edgewater who knows somebody who knows somebody, and the work starts leaking out. When you have something this big, you have 300 people there, and it was really to make some money too, charged $25 a plate, and they did another little fundraiser. They’ve been selling raffle tickets all over Chicago and all, like down in northwestern Indiana. And in Indiana, anywhere that the outfit had some kind of influence and businesses that they could hold up. It’s like policemen. We used to go out and sell circus tickets. They were like $2 a ticket, but it wasn’t really for a ticket. It was like a support the police circus, which then gave a piece of the money to some police or widows and orphans fund. I don’t remember exactly. This is when I was brand new. and you were given like a handful of circus tickets and you’re supposed to go out to your local businessmen and sell them. Of course, they always bought them. All you had to do was go in and say, you know, I got some police tickets or circus tickets and they’d buy them. And they weren’t exactly even a ticket. They were a coupon and then they helped go buy a ticket. But, you know, that’s what they were doing, and that’s where they were. [7:23] Intelligence unit was milling around the hotel. They were, you know, I think what they were trying to do was waiting to see if the operators of this banquet, as this thing got going, if somebody actually, you know, drew, made a drawing or really raffled off a new car, which is what supposedly the raffle tickets were for, which would give them an excuse then to raid this place, saying it was an illegal lottery and then start really identifying the participants you know all of them that were there make them air everybody give you id and all that and then they had they were really loaded for bear they had 65 cops waiting close by it’s something called the foster avenue beach so it was it was a hell of an operation now the outfit during this time learned that the cops were going to be there and someone called Tony Accardo and Paula Guadarica, who were, you know, supposed to be there. They were like the headliners. They were the big ducks at that show. And really, if it was about having some meetings to realign personnel and name, maybe they’re going to have a making ceremony, but I doubt that. [8:30] But maybe they were going to name Joy Iupa as the new boss because he was the next boss. Somebody warned him not to come. And, of course, Jackie Lackey’s Roan didn’t show up either because he was a Cardo’s driver. [8:47] Cops, I’m going to tell you about some of the people the cops did find there and identify. Ross Prio, his north side loan shark and enforcer who had been Gen Conn’s second command and was reportedly consulted on all outfit murders. Now, Ross Prio, he’d been around. I can’t remember. I think he was out of the 42 gang himself. He had been around since the Capone days and a well-respected guy, had a lot of guys under him. And he was a bad dude. He was a bad actor. He was dangerous as hell and could take part in torturing the whole nine yards. They saw Irving Weiner there. He was a mob-connected bail bondsman. He was a guy who ended up a few years later walking with Alan Dorfman when somebody came up behind Dorfman and shot and killed him. Dorfman was their big guy in the Teamsters. Dorfman had helped him get those loans out of the Teamsters pension fund and loaned to people that wanted to buy Las Vegas casinos. Then everybody would get a kickback from those casinos. So he was integral. He was being investigated as an official of the Twin Cities. [9:54] Food products company and he had my he had partners felix milwaukee phil aldoricio and sam teach battaglia and marshall caifano i mean this guy is erb wiener he was he was a money man for the mob well known as a money man and and he was he was involved with with lombardo joe lombardo and tony splatter and some others and they got a loan for a guy named from the teamsters fund but for a guy named danny seifert they thought danny seifert had started a company with a lot of this money, and he was going to testify about how he got this Teamsters loan is my understanding. And I believe Lombardo and probably Frank Suisse showed up and killed him one day. He never spent a night in jail. Weiner never spent a night in jail. Go figure that. He’s kind of like, almost like Tony Accardo, huh? I saw a guy named Mike Glitta. He was an outfit member who had B-Girl bars, had these kind of hustling bars, and was involved, heavily involved in the porn business now. Um. [10:54] There was a lot of porn shops in Chicago, and Gletta was really, he was the guy on the porn shops. Chicago Crime Commission published something that said he supervised all pornography operations in an area that went from the near north side clear to the Wisconsin state line. So everything from, say, Rush Street on north was his. I guess he wasn’t down in, I think, Old Town is where Redwood met and some porn shops down there. and Frank Suisse was extorting money from some of them. Mob watchers claimed that Glitter always reported directly to Vincent Solano, who was a labor union leader and a capo, and the guy that probably had Tokyo Joe, Joe Ido killed. He was a racket boss on the north side and all the way up to the north suburbs. Identified a guy called Larry the Hood, who I’d seen that name before. It’s a really hard name to pronounce. was a Bonaguiti. [11:54] He was a mob wannabe at the time. As I researched into him, he was really just a wannabe. Hung around the Rush Street bars and he was associated with Mike Glitta. And he’ll eventually get an opportunity when Ross Prio dies and Mike Glitta has a heart attack and he moves on up real quick because he’s always in there around and he knows the porn business and the B-Girl bars on that near north side. And he’s the one that goes around and collects after after Glitter has a heart attack. [12:23] Another Northside vice boss named Joe Caesar Joseph DeVarco, he was dropped off by an underling driver. He came out of the 42 gang himself and is a well-known gangster on the Rush Street area. Dominic DiBello was a Northside gambling operator. He was seen with a friend of his and a fellow gambling operator named Bill Gold, or called Bill Gold. He had a longer name than that, and I don’t know him. If you guys make comments down below, if you know who this Bill Gold was and what the story was with him, he probably just ran a sports book or something or helped with the off-track betting outlets. And they arrived just before a guy named Joseph Cortino, according to the newspaper report. He was a former Forest Park chief of police. He was suspected of protecting gambling operations and leaking law enforcement information to the mob. A guy you hear mentioned, I’ve not really seen much on in detail, Willie Massino, and they called him Wee Willie because he was little, but he was supposedly really, really a bad character. [13:26] Here’s a guy when I believe it was Mario Raginone was invited to go on some kind of a crime, and he saw Willie Massino and somebody else in the area. And he said, uh-oh, if those guys are anywhere in the area where I am and they’ve got me kind of isolated like this, you know, going to do a crime so I’m not telling anybody where I’m going and what I’m doing and who I’m with, you know, they’re going to hit me. And he went in after that. That’s how feared Wee Willie Messino was. He had been a loan shark collector and enforcer for Tony Cardo and a guy named Joseph Gagliano, who I don’t know must have faded off into the woodwork by the 70s. 1970 he went to prison for kidnapping and beating a couple of contractors who owed money to the mob, George and Jack Chiagoris. [14:19] Sounds like they’re maybe Greek, huh? After he got out of the penitentiary, he went to work as an advisor with Marco D’Amico, who was, you know, remember Marco D’Amico had a gambling operation, and that’s who Bob Cooley worked with a lot. And he also did some work for Jackie Cerrone. [14:37] So Turk Torello, James Turk Torello, he was confronted by the cops as he was unloading sound equipment out of his, wherever his car. He yelled at him as they walked up. He said, hey, he said, I got machine guns in these boxes. You want to come and see? He was kind of a wise-ass, you know. He was a capo of the 26th Street crew and directly under Fifi Busseri. One time, he had been sent by an angry mob boss named Sam Giancana, who we all know, Mobo. And he was going to partner up with Jackie Cerrone to kill an outfit member named Frankie Esposito down in Florida. But the Bureau had recorded Giancana’s conversation and warned Esposito. and he came right back around. He didn’t help the Bureau. You know, you go out and you warn a guy and then you try to bring him in and make him a snitch or make him a cooperating witness in the end because they’re trying to kill him. They don’t all come in. And he ended up coming back to Chicago and settled his dispute with Giancana and that hit was canceled. According to the tape recordings, Torello and his killers were going to murder Esposito and cut him up in small pieces and feed him to the sharks off the Florida coast. You know, they had houses down in Florida. That’s where they, that was Jackie Cerrone’s Florida house where they overheard him and Fifi talking about the murdering and torturing Action Jackson. [16:03] Now, I mentioned bringing in the sound equipment. They had entertainment. Vic Dimone was the entertainment that night. Now, Vic Dimone has long-held connections to the Chicago outfit and I believe the Genovese family. I didn’t really go way in deep into him. I’ve got a bunch of notes. I’ll probably do a story just about Vic Dimone. [16:26] Maybe he was the character in The Singer and The Godfather, that kind of a blend of Frank Sinatra and Vic Dimone. As a singer in the Godfather movie. Guys named a couple brothers, Joseph and Donald Grieco, were there. Well, they had been in business with Vic Damone in the Vic Damone Frozen Pizza Company. Paul Rica and Fifi Boussieri had brought the famous singer Vic Damone into the outfits world and got him to lend his name to this frozen pizza business. And what they did, the Grieco brothers, They use it as a cover for their loan shark activities, but, you know, they sold pizzas, too, although I’ve never heard of. I don’t ever remember seeing a Vic DeMone frozen pizza. Vic DeMone had even taken his show to Giancana’s joint, the Armory. And if you’ve ever been by the Armory, it’s just like a neighborhood bar. A neighborhood joint is not a place. But Vic DeMone was big. You know, he would be playing Madison Square Garden maybe at the time or the big clubs, the Copacabana in New York. And they got him to bring his show out to. [17:33] Gincana’s Joint the Armory kind of like at his Villa Venice he got Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis to bring their show there and it was not exactly it was not the Copacabana they tried to make it into the Copacabana of Chicago but it never really got there another guy they saw was an outfit bookmaker and a tough guy out of Cicero who will get killed here in a little bit Sam Sambos Cesario Yeah. [17:59] He was a longtime workhorse. He’s well-liked throughout the whole Chicago underworld, but he made a mistake. He ended up marrying a girlfriend slash mistress, the Gomar of Milwaukee Field Aldericio, while he was in the penitentiary. Two guys showed up with this woman. He marries her. They’re sitting out in front of their house. It was like a brownstone. It was a hot summer night. They’re sitting out in lawn chairs out in front of their house, and two guys pull up and run up and kill him. They say Harry Ailman was the guy that did that. They call that. I’ve had some kickback on this when I said this one time before a few years ago. I didn’t really investigate into it. But, you know, the popular story is that it’s a hit from beyond the grave because Aldericio had already died in prison [18:50] between the time he gave that order and this actual murder. So that is a story of the big meeting at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. [19:02] It wasn’t exactly like Appalachian or some of the other famous mob meetings, and it was just Chicago only. They didn’t identify that they named anybody from out of town at this thing. Seemed like it was a big moneymaker, maybe a meeting that you could hire some other little meetings in, get people in there that you didn’t really want to be seen with in public. This article, they talked about other politicians and businessmen that were there, but they didn’t really name them. I guess they didn’t want to get sued or whatever, but it was a, it was definitely, it was a fundraiser. He charged 25 bucks a plate and then have that, uh, that lottery for that car. And, and, you know, they never gave that car to anybody. And you know how much money you can raise with, with, you got, you know, a hundred guys or so going out, mob guys going out and raising money, selling lottery tickets at five bucks, 10 bucks each. You can raise a lot of money like that. So maybe it’s just one more big Chicago scam and honored Fifi Boussieri at the time. I don’t know. But anyhow, thanks a lot, guys. I thought it was an interesting story, and I thought you would find it interesting. And some of the people that they named that were there, I wish I’d have been there, but writing down license numbers and taking pictures and all that stuff. So keep coming back. Like and subscribe, as they say. And we’re just going to keep doing this and doing this. [20:24] I’ve gotten some you know I’ve got some things up that are like non-fiction books that are based on mob stuff, I don’t know if that’s okay or not, but I kind of like mixing that up. There’s only so many mob stories out there. You know, I don’t want a lot of these that have already been told. I don’t remember seeing any. I kind of looked around in the other podcast having this story. So I try to find them. You know, give me any tips, your comments that you can. I’ll try to look it up. And if I can find enough information, I’ll do the story on it. So thanks a lot. And adieu to you guys out in Chicago. I bet it’s colder up there than it is down here. Thanks, guys.

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Wine Barrels, Duomo Marble, and Florence: Paoletti Custom Guitars at NAMM 2026I've been away from Florence for 25 years. I didn't know there was a guitar company like this back home.At NAMM 2026, I found Filippo Martini from Paoletti Custom Guitars—a boutique manufacturer based in the heart of Tuscany, building instruments that are equal parts guitar and artwork.Paoletti does something no one else does: they build guitars from chestnut wood sourced from Italian wine barrels. The material offers a wide harmonic spectrum, but it's difficult to work with. You need to know how to handle it. Founder Fabrizio Paoletti figured it out, and now every guitar they produce shows the natural grain—no opaque finishes, no hiding the wood.The craftsmanship runs deep. Bridges, pickguards, pickups—all made in-house. Necks carved from Canadian maple, roasted on-site. 99% of the process happens in Tuscany. As Filippo put it, "Kilometer zero." Zero miles. Everything local except the screws.Their model is 100% custom. You don't buy a Paoletti off the rack. You tell them your style, your sound, the genre you play. They build around your vision while keeping the Italian essence intact—chestnut wood, Italian-made components, tailored to your idea.But what stopped me cold was the Duomo collection.Eight individual guitars, each hand-engraved by Fabrizio Paoletti himself. Three years of work. The subject: Florence's cathedral—the Duomo di Santa Maria del Fiore.This isn't just decoration. Paoletti secured an official partnership with the Opera del Duomo, the authority that oversees the cathedral. The back of each guitar reproduces the marble floor pattern from inside the Duomo. And when the collection is complete this October, every guitar will contain an actual piece of marble from the cathedral.I got shivers standing there.This is what happens when guitar making meets Italian heritage. It's not about specs or market positioning. It's about place, history, and craft passed down through generations.Filippo invited me to visit the workshop in Florence when I return in April. I'm going. I want to see where this happens—where wine barrel wood becomes an instrument, where cathedral marble gets embedded into a guitar body, where a team of artisans builds one-of-one pieces for players around the world.Florence is known for many things. Leather. Art. Architecture. The Renaissance itself. Now I know it's also home to some of the most distinctive guitars being made anywhere.Paoletti proves that boutique doesn't mean small ambitions. They're partnering with galleries in Dubai, working with the Duomo authorities, and bringing Florence to NAMM.Not bad for a company I didn't even know existed until I walked the show floor and heard an Italian accent.Sometimes you find home in unexpected places.Marco Ciappelli interviews Filippo Martini from Paoletti Custom Guitars at NAMM 2026 for ITSPmagazine.Part of ITSPmagazine's On Location Coverage at NAMM 2026.

In questa puntata Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore partono dal fenomeno OpenClaw (ClawdBot) per analizzare cosa sta davvero raccontando l'evoluzione dell'Intelligenza Artificiale. La conversazione si allarga poi a due notizie chiave: l'acquisizione di Q.ai da parte di Apple e la decisione di Hugging Face di rifiutare un'offerta enorme da Nvidia. Tre segnali diversi che aiutano a leggere il momento storico dell'AI, tra tecnologia, strategia industriale e visione di lungo periodo.Libro HUMAN RELOADED: https://amzn.to/4evkVWvIncontra tutti i protagonisti dell'AI alla AI WEEK 2026: Arsenalia, PwC, AlterMind, NTT Data, Reply e tanti altri. Scoprili tutti su https://www.aiweek.it Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ti guideranno alla scoperta di quello che sta accadendo grazie o a causa dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, spiegandola semplice.Puoi iscriverti anche alla newsletter su: https://www.iaspiegatasemplice.it

Buon Mercoledi, questo è "RESPIRO", appuntamento quotidiano del podcast “Il Mondo Invisibile”, dedicato ad artisti, creativi e non solo.Io sono Alessandro Mele e mi prendo con te qualche attimo di pausa, qualche minuto per fermarmi un attimo e ricollegarmi con il me più creativo. Oggi parliamo della condizione indispensabile per la pratica creativa.Buona giornataA presto!Alessandro#ilmondoinvisibilepodcast #respiropodcast #arte #creatività #ispirazione #podcastitaliani 

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In questa puntata Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore partono dal caso del braccialetto vietato a Jannik Sinner e Carlos Alcaraz per allargare lo sguardo su un paradosso dell'Intelligenza Artificiale: mentre nel tennis la tecnologia viene fermata per garantire equità, in sanità un collare intelligente sviluppato per pazienti colpiti da ictus apre nuove possibilità di comunicazione, restituendo la voce a chi l'ha persa. Una conversazione che mette a confronto sport e medicina per capire dove l'AI viene limitata e dove diventa decisiva.Libro HUMAN RELOADED: https://amzn.to/4evkVWvIncontra tutti i protagonisti dell'AI alla AI WEEK 2026: Arsenalia, PwC, AlterMind, NTT Data, Reply e tanti altri. Scoprili tutti su https://www.aiweek.it Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ti guideranno alla scoperta di quello che sta accadendo grazie o a causa dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, spiegandola semplice.Puoi iscriverti anche alla newsletter su: https://www.iaspiegatasemplice.it

Peppe Fiore"La futura classe dirigente"minimum faxwww.minimumfax.comFiglio unico napoletano trapiantato a Roma, megalomane, assediato da una selva di nevrosi erotiche, bipolare come tutte le persone di talento nell'Italia contemporanea, Michele Botta ha la sua prima vera occasione per entrare nel mondo degli adulti: viene assunto da una giovane e dinamica società di produzione televisiva. Sono gli anni Dieci del terzo millennio: gli anni del precariato culturale, della fine della tv generalista e dell'avvento delle piattaforme, gli anni della post-politica e dell'implosione del modello-Roma. Per Michele potrebbe essere il momento della svolta, e invece il suo equilibrio già traballante finisce per sgretolarsi. La ragazza lo molla, il rapporto con i genitori è un ginepraio di ostilità reciproche in cui ogni nodo è ormai arrivato al pettine, e l'emancipazione professionale è una fiction milionaria su un mitologico regista porno degli anni Ottanta, che forse non è mai esistito.Comico, caustico, eccessivo, irresistibile, La futura classe dirigente è l'attraversamento della linea d'ombra nell'era della demenzialità istituzionalizzata e della volgarità al potere. Ma anche l'analisi amara e impietosa di un paese attraverso la messa alla berlina della sua «santa trinità»: la famiglia, il sesso, la televisione.Peppe Fiore è nato a Napoli e vive a Roma. Scrittore e sceneggiatore, dopo l'esordio nel romanzo con La futura classe dirigente ha pubblicato Nessuno è indispensabile (2012), Dimenticare (2017) e Gli innamorati (2023), tutti editi da Einaudi. Ha scritto i film Ultras (Netflix, 2020) e Lovely Boy (Now/Netflix, 2021) con Francesco Lettieri, e numerose serie tv, tra cui Non uccidere (Rai/Netflix, 2015), Il nostro generale (Rai, 2023), Il re (SKY, 2022, Nastro d'Argento 2024). Ha creato la serie Piedone, uno sbirro a Napoli (SKY, 2024). Ha co-sceneggiato la serie-evento Portobello di Marco Bellocchio, (HBO-Max, 2026).Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

In questa puntata entriamo nel cuore delle sfide più complesse e strategiche dell'Intelligenza Artificiale: quelle che riguardano sicurezza, responsabilità e diritti fondamentali in un contesto ad alta criticità come quello della difesa e dell'aerospazio.Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ospitano Fabio Bartolomeo, Group Data Protection & Responsible AI Officer di Leonardo, per approfondire il passaggio dalla protezione dei dati alla governance dell'AI, il ruolo del Responsible AI Officer, l'integrazione tra compliance, etica e innovazione e le implicazioni concrete dell'AI Act in grandi gruppi industriali.Libro HUMAN RELOADED: https://amzn.to/4evkVWvIncontra tutti i protagonisti dell'AI alla AI WEEK 2026: Arsenalia, PwC, AlterMind, NTT Data, Reply e tanti altri. Scoprili tutti su https://www.aiweek.it Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ti guideranno alla scoperta di quello che sta accadendo grazie o a causa dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, spiegandola semplice.Puoi iscriverti anche alla newsletter su: https://www.iaspiegatasemplice.it

In questa puntata Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore partono dal World Economic Forum di Davos per leggere l'AI come uno stress test globale. Tra geopolitica, economia, lavoro e tecnologia, raccontano cosa li ha colpiti di più dell'edizione 2026 del WEF e perché l'Intelligenza Artificiale non è più solo innovazione, ma una vera questione di sistema.Libro HUMAN RELOADED: https://amzn.to/4evkVWvIncontra tutti i protagonisti dell'AI alla AI WEEK 2026: Arsenalia, PwC, AlterMind, NTT Data, Reply e tanti altri. Scoprili tutti su https://www.aiweek.it Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ti guideranno alla scoperta di quello che sta accadendo grazie o a causa dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, spiegandola semplice.Puoi iscriverti anche alla newsletter su: https://www.iaspiegatasemplice.it

SIAMO TORNATI!! Kimchi Taste torna con una puntata per me molto speciale quella dedicata al fiore nazionale coreano che da anche il nome alla mia pagina istagramPronti a scoprire cosa si cela dietro al grande amore che hanno i coreani per il Mugunghwa? Dopo la puntata voglio sapere cosa ne pensate lasciando un commento e votando l'episodio qui  e venendomi a trovare sulle pagine social di Mugunghwa Dream !

In questa puntata del nuovo spin-off AI Governance, esploriamo come le grandi organizzazioni stanno passando dalla semplice compliance a una governance strutturata dell'Intelligenza Artificiale. Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore, insieme al Prof. Oreste Pollicino, ospitano Andrea Cosentini, Head of Data Science & Responsible AI di Intesa Sanpaolo, per discutere di diritti fondamentali, ruolo dell'AI Officer, risk & compliance e delle nuove responsabilità nella governance dell'IA.Libro HUMAN RELOADED: https://amzn.to/4evkVWvIncontra tutti i protagonisti dell'AI alla AI WEEK 2026: Arsenalia, PwC, AlterMind, NTT Data, Reply e tanti altri. Scoprili tutti su https://www.aiweek.it Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ti guideranno alla scoperta di quello che sta accadendo grazie o a causa dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, spiegandola semplice.Puoi iscriverti anche alla newsletter su: https://www.iaspiegatasemplice.it

Il 2026 dell'AI parte dalla sanità, con le mosse a sorpresa di OpenAI e Anthropic. In questa puntata, Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore analizzano perché la salute è diventata una priorità strategica per le Big Tech. Spazio anche a tre notizie di attualità: la Spagna contro i deepfake, il Pentagono pronto a integrare Grok di Elon Musk e l'acquisizione di Torch da parte di OpenAI nel settore healthcare. Un episodio per capire dove sta andando davvero l'Intelligenza Artificiale, mentre l'attenzione era altrove.Libro HUMAN RELOADED: https://amzn.to/4evkVWvIncontra tutti i protagonisti dell'AI alla AI WEEK 2026: Arsenalia, PwC, AlterMind, NTT Data, Reply e tanti altri. Scoprili tutti su https://www.aiweek.it Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ti guideranno alla scoperta di quello che sta accadendo grazie o a causa dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, spiegandola semplice.Puoi iscriverti anche alla newsletter su: https://www.iaspiegatasemplice.it

Tune in to the DMZ America Podcast as hosts Ted Rall from the left and Scott Stantis check in with groundbreaking animated political cartoonist Mark Fiore.Mark Fiore, born 1970, is an acclaimed American political cartoonist specializing in Flash-animated editorials. Shaped by California upbringing and Idaho wilderness, he majored in political science at Colorado College, graduating in 1991 amid Dick Cheney's speech.Starting in print for The Washington Post and LA Times, Fiore joined San Jose Mercury News before pioneering online animation in the late 1990s. His cartoons appear on SFGate.com, NPR, Mother Jones, and KQED.Hailed as "the undisputed guru" by The Wall Street Journal, he won the 2010 Pulitzer—the first for non-print work—plus a 2016 Herblock Prize, 2004 RFK Award, and multiple Online Journalism honors. From San Francisco, Fiore satirizes politics via markfiore.com.Support the showThe DMZ America Podcast is recorded weekly by political cartoonists Ted Rall and Scott Stantis. Twitter/X: @scottstantis and @tedrallWeb: Rall.com

In questa puntata parliamo con Barbara Cominelli, alla guida di Spindox, di leadership e scelte strategiche in un momento in cui tecnologia e organizzazione devono muoversi insieme. Entriamo anche nel “cosa fa” Spindox: consulenza e sviluppo di soluzioni digitali, data & AI, cloud e modernizzazione applicativa, cybersecurity, customer experience e change management per trasformare idee e processi in risultati misurabili.Libro HUMAN RELOADED: https://amzn.to/4evkVWvIncontra tutti i protagonisti dell'AI alla AI WEEK 2026: Arsenalia, PwC, AlterMind, NTT Data, Reply e tanti altri. Scoprili tutti su https://www.aiweek.it Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ti guideranno alla scoperta di quello che sta accadendo grazie o a causa dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, spiegandola semplice.Puoi iscriverti anche alla newsletter su: https://www.iaspiegatasemplice.it

In this episode of Gangland Wire, Mafia Genealogist Justin Cascio joins Intelligence Unit detective Gary Jenkins to explore one of the most remarkable—and overlooked—figures of the Prohibition era: Pasqualina Albano Siniscalchi, the so-called Bootleg Queen of Springfield, Massachusetts. At the dawn of Prohibition in 1921, Pasqualina was a young widow living in Springfield's South End when she inherited her late husband's powerful bootlegging operation—one of the largest in western Massachusetts. Rather than step aside, she took control. Pasqualina ruled a crew of toughs and bootleggers, oversaw liquor distribution, and launched a relentless campaign of vengeance against rivals who challenged her authority. Newspapers dubbed her The Bootleg Queen, but her fight went far beyond rival gangs. She clashed with lawmakers, battled competing bootleggers, and even faced resistance from within her own family—all while operating in service of a secret society that would never fully accept her because she was a woman. Her story exposes the contradictions of organized crime: loyalty demanded without equality, power wielded without recognition. Cascio draws from years of meticulous research and family histories to bring Pasqualina's story to life, revealing her pivotal role in early Mafia expansion in New England and the hidden influence women could wield behind the scenes. His book, Pasqualina: The True Story of the Bootleg Queen of Springfield, challenges long-held assumptions about gender, power, and the Mafia during Prohibition. If you're interested in Prohibition-era crime, New England Mafia history, or the untold stories of women who shaped organized crime from the shadows, this episode is one you won't want to miss. Learn more about Justin and his work on Mafia Geneology by clicking this sentence. Get Justin’s book, Pasqualina: The Bootleg Queen of Springfield, Massachusetts Listen now on Gangland Wire — available on all major podcast platforms and YouTube. 0:02 Introduction to Mafia Genealogy 1:16 Pasqualina Albano’s Story 2:30 Family Reunion Revelations 4:56 The Impact of Prohibition 7:45 Prejudice and Organized Crime 10:50 Connecting the Genovese Family 12:34 Views from Sicily 13:50 Cultural Differences in Dress 16:37 Encounters with Modern Gangsters 18:36 Gina’s Documentary and Art 23:53 The Romance of the Gangster 27:24 The Nature of Risk 28:46 The Evolution of Organized Crime 33:16 Closing Thoughts and Future Plans Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” Subscribe to the website for weekly notifications about updates and other Mob information. To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent ‘Brothers against Brothers’ or ‘Gangland Wire,’ the documentaries click here.  To purchase one of my books, click here. Transcript [0:00] Hey, all you wiretappers. Good to be back here in the studio of Gangland Wire. I’ve got on tap here a repeat guest. He’s been on before. I had a little technical glitch this morning with the internet, and I had to scurry around and do something different. I totally forgot about what I was going to talk about with Justin, but I knew Justin’s been on there before. I knew he does mafia genealogy, and I knew he knows his stuff, and so he doesn’t really need a lot of help from me. So this is Justin Cascio from the website and some books, some mafia genealogies. Welcome, Justin. Thanks so much, Gary. Great to be here. Really. And you’re from the Springfield, Massachusetts area. And so that’s been some of your emphasis has been on that area. But you’ve done a lot of other mob genealogy, correct? Yes. On my website, on mafiagenealogy.com, I write about a whole lot of different places that the mafia has been in the United States. In fact, coming up, I’m going to be writing about Kansas City. But for the last 25 years or so, I’ve lived in New England. I live about 20 miles away from Springfield, Massachusetts, which if you’ve heard of Anthony Aralata or Bruno or the Shabelli brothers, then you know the Springfield crew of the Genovese crime family. [1:12] And I’ve been following them pretty closely since I’ve lived here. A few years ago, I got into the story of Pasqualina Albano, who was a bootlegger in Springfield during Prohibition. [1:25] That’s what my new book is about. Yeah. Oh, that’s a new book, right? I’m sorry. I didn’t pick up real quick there. And she’s done a documentary recently that hasn’t been seen by very many people. And they really, she was a woman. They do use the A at the end. Those of us that know about romance languages would know as probably a woman, but she’s a woman. And she was running a certain segment of bootlegging back during the 30s and late 20s, exactly when it was, which is really unusual. She must have been a powerful individual. I think that she was a very remarkable person, so I couldn’t find out enough about her. I really needed to understand how it was possible that somebody who the Mafia would never have accepted as a member allowed her to lead this crew for so long, even into the years when it was associated with Vito Genovese and that crime family. Yeah. Don’t you imagine it was, she must have been making money for them. [2:24] She was making money for her family, for sure. Got a few people probably pretty comfortable, yeah. [2:30] So that family, you went to a family reunion recently and learned quite a little bit. You want to tell your experiences about that? Yes. So, Pasqualea Albano, that bootlegger, has a nephew who is now 101 years old. His name is Mario Fiore. And when he turned 100, I was invited to his birthday party. And it was an enormous scene. It was tremendous. In fact, it’s a cliche, but the opening scene of The Godfather, if you imagine that wedding scene, it’s what it looks like. There’s a guy singing live on a PA system. There’s a pizza oven parked over here. There’s kids in the pool. There’s so many people, so much food, and this great big lawn and incredible view. Just an amazing scene to be at. And I met so many different people who were in Mario’s family. I met people who came over from Italy to come celebrate his birthday and talked with them as much as I could. I have no Italian, by the way. So we did the best we could. But I also talked to her American relative. She has all these grand nieces and nephews, and nieces and nephews who are still living, who were at this party and told me stories and drew little family trees for me. And what I was able to get a real good sense of is how the family feels about this legacy. Because not just Pasqualina, who was in organized crime, so many of her relatives were involved as well and continued to be up until the 80s, at least. [4:00] So the name, was it Albano? Was it got on in the modern times? The last name, was it still Albano? Was there another name? There are a few. Let’s see. I want some more modern names. There’s Mario Fiore. So he is one of her nephews. And then there’s Rex Cunningham Jr., who is one of her grandnephews. There’s the Sentinellos. So Jimmy Sentinello, who owns the Mardi Gras, or he did anyway. It’s a nude club, you know, a gentleman’s club, as they say. A gentleman’s club. We use that term loosely. Oh, boy, do we? Another old term that I picked up from the newspapers that I just love and like to bring back is sporting figure. Yeah, even sporting man. They don’t play sports. They’re not athletes. They’re sporting figures. I know. I heard that when I was a kid. Somebody was a sporting man. Yep. [4:57] This has been a family tradition. It’s something that has been passed down through the generations, and it’s something that I talk about in the book. But mostly what I’m focused on in the plot of the story is about Pasqualea’s time during Prohibition when this gang was turning into something bigger, turning into a part of this American mafia. Yeah. Interesting. And so tell us a little bit about how that developed. You had a Genovese family that moved in and she got hooked up with them. How did that develop? Yeah. More end of modern times. Early on, so 1920, beginning of Prohibition, Pasqualea Albana was newly married to this sporting figure, we’ll call him, Carlo Sinascocci. And I’m probably pronouncing that last name as wrong as well. He also came from a family of notable people who were involved in organized crime, getting into scrapes in Little Italy, New York City. There’s a whole separate side story about his cousins and all the things that they were getting into before Carlo even got on the scene. So by the time he arrived in New York City, he had a bit of a reputation preceding him because of these relatives of his. [6:06] And Pascalina was a young woman in Springfield. And the first question I even had writing about her is, how did she meet this guy? He was a Brooklyn saloon keeper. She was the daughter of a grocer in Springfield, three and a half hours away on the train. Like, why do they even know each other? And so trying to piece all that together, how that was reasonable for them to know one another and move in the same circles, and then for him to immediately, when he moved to Springfield, start picking up with vice because it was before Prohibition. So he was involved in gambling and police violence. And you could see some of the beginnings of the corruption already happening where he’s getting police protection before prohibition even begins. And then once it starts, he is the king of Water Street, which was the main drag of Little Italy. He was the guy you went to if you wanted to buy wholesale. [6:57] Justin, I have a question here. I was just discussing this with who’s half Italian, I guess, FBI agent that worked the mob here in Kansas City. We were talking about this, the prejudice that Italian people felt when they first got here, especially. And Bill’s about 90, and so he said his father told him. His father worked at a bank in New York, and he was told that with that last name, he had a different last name than Bill does. And with that last name, he said, you’re owning and go so high in the bank. And so talk a little bit about the prejudice that those early people felt. And that’s what drove people into the dark side, if you will, to make money. You had these bright guys that came over from Sicily looking for opportunity. And then us English and Irish Germans kept them out. [7:45] And so can you talk about that a little bit? Did they talk about any of that or have you looked into any of that? [7:52] I have. And it’s a theme that comes up again and again. Whenever I look at organized crime in any city, I’m seeing things like that ethnic succession of organized crime that you’re alluding to, how the Irish were controlling, say, the machine in Kansas City Hall or what have you. And they had that same kind of control over politics in other cities, too. And the way that they were getting a leg up and finally getting that first protection of their rackets was from outside of their ethnicity. It was Irish politicians protecting Italian criminals. And then eventually the Italians were getting naturalized where they were born here. And so then they move into politics themselves. [8:31] And that is one of the theories about how organized crime develops in American cities. It’s because you’re poor and ethnic and you’re closed out of other opportunities. And so the bright kids get channeled into organized crime where maybe in a better situation, they would have gone to college. Right. And then Prohibition came along, and there was such a huge amount of money that you can make in Prohibition. And it was illegal. That’s why you made money. But there was opportunity there for these young guys. Yes. And you really start to see a lot of new names in the papers after Prohibition begins. You have your established vice criminals who you’re already seeing in the newspapers through the 19-teens. Once Prohibition begins, now they have all these other guys getting into the game because there’s so much money there. And it’s such a big pie. Everybody feels like they can get a slice. [9:21] Yeah, interesting. Carry on. I’ve distracted you, Azai, but you were talking about Pasqualina and her husband. Of course, I’m not even going to try that. When you talk about discrimination against Italians, one of the things that makes my job really hard is trying to find news about a guy with a name like Carlos Siniscalchi. First of all, I’m probably saying it wrong. I think the Italian pronunciation is… So I’m getting all of the consonant clusters wrong, but I do it with my own name too. We’ve Americanized Cassio. That’s not the right name. How do you pronounce it? It’s Cassio. But we’re Cassio. That’s my grandfather said it. So how do I find Carlos Nescalci in the newspaper when every reporter mangles that name? And spells it differently. Yeah. Everybody spells it differently. How am I going to guess how all these different English speaking reporters were going to mess up Carlos’ name? And so I find it every which way. And sometimes I’ve just had to plain stumble over news about him and his relatives. It just happens by chance. I’m looking for general crime, and then I find him specifically. So yeah, it’s a little hard to find the Italians sometimes because their names are unfamiliar and they get written wrong in censuses and in the news. So we lose a little bit of their history that way. And that’s what you might call, I don’t know, a microaggression because they can’t get that name. Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, yeah. You don’t care enough to spell it. I just, I know the thought process, I have to admit. I’ll just spell it anyway. I understand that thought process. [10:51] So you were asking earlier, I don’t know if you want me to continue this, but how the Genovese family were able to get involved in this thing going on in Springfield. Yeah, connected. Because of her second husband. Okay. Pascalina lost her first husband in 1921. He was killed by a fellow bootlegger. He takes over the gang. She conducts a war of vengeance against the guy who kills her husband and his whole family because they’re gangsters. And that takes years. She’s also pursuing her through the courts. And when that all finally gets settled a few years later, she has a quiet little second marriage to a guy that nobody had ever heard of called Antonio Miranda. [11:28] Now, Antonio Miranda is a small time gangster from Little Italy, New York City, and his brother is Mike Miranda, who is very close to Vito Genovese, and he became this conciliator eventually. So that old connections, going back to the days before the Castello-Moraisi War, when it was Lucky Luciano bootlegging with some of his pals, that’s the time frame in which she formed this alliance by marrying Tony Miranda. And that’s when it starts. That’s the relationship’s beginning between Genovese crime family having, before it was even the Genovese crime family, when it was the Luciano family. And so they’ve had that relationship with the Springfield crew ever since. A little bit like old world feudalism in a way, where one member of a royal family marries a member of another royal family. And I know in Kansas City, we’ve got our underboss, his sister, is married to our boss’s nephew. So, bring those two families together, the Lunas and the Savellas together, yes, very well, like noble families. Exactly. Interesting. Absolutely. [12:31] So that’s how they got together. I remembered that, but I’d forgotten it. So, you went to this reunion with people from Sicily there. So, tell us a little bit about that. How? [12:43] How do people in Sicily view the people in the United States? And they didn’t talk about the mafia. I’m sure there’s no doubt that they’re not going to really talk about that unless you got to find somebody that’s really lucky. But kind of care about the sociological impact and the old world and the new world, and the new world people that, you know, established here. Okay, so Pasqualea and his family are from outside of Naples, and they maintain really close ties to their family back in Italy. Like I am the third generation born in America. I don’t speak Italian. Neither does my father. Neither of us has ever been to Italy. We don’t have, we’re not Italians. We’re Americans. Okay. And the Italians will remind you of that if you forget. We’re not Italian. And like spaghetti and meatballs, not Italian. Chicken Parmesan, not Italian. These are things that we invented here out of a sense of, out of homesickness and a sudden influx of middle-class wealth. We were like, let’s have the spaghetti and the meatballs. I had separate courses anymore where the meatballs are, where they’re both a special treat and I’m going to take two treats with chicken and waffles. [13:50] So being around them, they’re formal. You know, I was meeting like Pasquena’s relatives from Mercado San Sivarino, where they’re from in Italy, they own a funeral home. They own the biggest funeral home business in the town, and they also own some other sort of associated businesses, like a florist and things like that. So I would expect a certain sort of decorum and conservatism of tone from somebody who works in the funeral business and from Italy. But they were also among the only people there in suits, because it was a summer day, we’re outside. Most of us were dressed a little less formally. Yeah. Old school, 1950s stuff. He does those old 1950s photographs, and everybody, every man’s wearing a suit. And there were women’s hat on. Also, that ongoing thing where people in Europe just dress better. Yeah, they dress more formal. I see a little bit in New York City. I noticed it when I moved up from the South. In the South, you go to a funeral and flip-flops, okay? It’s very casual because the weather absolutely demands it. I moved that back up North, and I’m like, wow, everybody’s just wearing the same black coat, aren’t we? And you go into New York. People are dressed a little better, even. You go to Europe, and it’s just another level is what I hear. People, they dress better. They’re not like us where we would roll out of bed and put on pajama pants and some crocs and go to the grocery store. They would never do something. Yes. [15:10] I was in a restaurant several years ago, and there’s a guy sitting at a table, and another young guy comes in. And the guy at the table says, dude, you wore your pajama bottoms in the restaurant. [15:22] People need to be sold. And I’ll have to admit, at the time, I hadn’t seen that before. And since then, I see it all the time now. I live in a college town. I see it a lot. Yeah. So i’ll carry on a little more about that reunion there uh okay so how to describe this so much of it was very surreal to me just being in this place like very fancy house the longest driveway i’ve ever seen like more than a mile i finally like when i parked my car because the track you know you can the parked cars are starting i parked and i get out of the car. And I’ve got this big present with me that I’m going to give to Mario. It’s unwieldy. And I’m like, oh man, this is going to be quite a schlep. And I’m wearing my good shoes and everything. And these two young fellas come up on a golf cart and bring me a ride. So I get in the golf cart and we get up to the house and my friend Gina was trying to point people out to me. Oh, he’s somebody that was in my documentary and you got to talk to this guy. And there was a lot of that. you’ve got to talk to this guy and you’ve got to talk to this woman and dragging me around to meet people. And one of the groups of people that I was, that I found myself standing in, [16:35] I’m talking to gangsters this time. Okay. This is not cousins who won a funeral home. These are gangsters. And I’m standing with them and they’re having the absolute filthiest conversation that I’ve heard since high school. [16:48] And, but the difference is boys in high school are just talking. These guys have done all the things they’re talking about. Wow. What a life is. The lives you would have led. Bye. I’m just trying to keep it. Are these American gangsters or are these? Americans. Okay, yeah. Current gangsters, they’re in the Springfield area with Anthony Arilada there. They’ve all hated him, probably. I’m sorry? I said Anthony Arilada when he’s there, and they all hated him. You probably didn’t bring his name up. Yeah, really. There are different factions in Springfield, it feels like to me, still. bill. And I haven’t got them all sorted. There are people who are still very loyal to the old regime and they have their figure, their person that they follow. And sometimes they can live with the rest of them and sometimes the rest of them are a bunch of lowlives and they want everybody to know about it. Yeah. [17:45] I’ve heard that conversation before. Interesting. Now, whose house was this? Somebody made it well in America. Yes. And I think it was one of his nephews. I don’t know exactly whose house it was. I was invited by Gina’s brother. He texted me and invited me to the party. And people just accepted me right in. The close family members who have seen Gina’s documentary, who have heard her talk about Pastelina and the research and meeting me, they think of me as the family a genealogist. And so I have a title in the family and belong there. Oh yeah, it’s here to document us. As you do, because we’re an important family. And so they didn’t really question my presence there at all. And you were able to ask questions from that standpoint too. That’s what was nice. Yeah. [18:37] And a lot of times it was just standing still and listening because there was so much going on, That was enough. Interesting. Now, her documentary, you’ve seen it, so tell us a little bit about it. Folks, it’s not out there streaming yet. She’s trying to get something going, I would assume. [18:58] Explain her just a little bit, too, in her book. Talk about her and her book and her documentary. Yeah. Okay. Gina’s a part of this big family that has got some wealth still and goes back to bootleggers in Prohibition and has gangsters in it, including her brother, Rex Cunningham Jr. So Cunningham is the name you don’t expect to hear in the mafia. Yeah, yeah. Done by Marietta Beckerwood. I don’t know if he was a member or associate, but at any rate, he was a known figure around here. Sportsbook and that kind of thing. Sportsbook, yeah. Yeah. She grew up with a little bit of wealth and privilege, but also feeling a little bit outsider because her family was half Irish. So among the Italians, it was a, you go to the wrong church, you go to the wrong school kind of vibe. And she grew up into more of a countercultural person. Her family is very conservative politically, religiously. I don’t know if you would expect that of a gangster family, but that’s what I’ve noticed is pretty common, actually. No, it’s pretty, that’s the way it is here. Yeah, real conservative, yeah. Yeah. You have to be socially for the whole thing to work. I can get into that, but And they keep going to the same church and school and everything, and you maintain these close ties with the neighborhood and local businesses and so forth. But she really was like, I’m going my own way. And so she became this free spirit as a young woman. And Gina’s, I don’t know how old she is. I want to say in her late 60s, around 70, about there. [20:23] That’s Gina Albano Cunningham. Cunningham. Oh, Gina. Okay, Gina Cunningham. See, I’m getting mixed up with the names. And Cunningham was… Ask Elena Albanos. Her sister married and became a Fiore. Okay. All right. That’s a little bit confusing. People have to go to your website to get this straightened out. Or maybe you have this, a picture, an image of this family tree on your website. In the book, you can find multiple family trees because I’m working with all these different branches. I’ll take a look if I can’t put an image in here for everybody to get this straight. But the modern woman that did the book and the movie, she’s in her 70s now. [21:04] Yeah. Yeah, and she’s a grandniece of Pasqualina, and her brother and her cousins were in organized crime in this room. Okay, all right, all right. Go ahead, go ahead. She’s absolutely immersed in this life, but she did not want any part of it, and so she left. And there are other people in her family that you can point to that did the same thing, like some of Pasqualina’s children just did not want to have anything to do with the family. Well, they left. They went and moved to another state. They stayed in another place. They didn’t come back. And she did the same thing, but she’s not cut ties. She keeps coming back and she has good relationships with her family members, even though she’s not aligned with them politically and so forth. [21:42] And she’s an artist. I’ve seen her work on a couple of different mediums. I don’t want to really try and explain what her art is, but she’s a feminist artist. And she’s also really been pointing the camera at her family quite a bit. And it seems like film might be a newer medium for her. She’s used to do more painting and sculpture and stuff kind of thing. How’d the family take that? A lot of these people, I’ve talked to some relatives here, and one of them come on to talk to me, but I said, your Uncle Vince, he said, yeah, I know. But then he never would get back to me all of a sudden. So a lot of pressure to not say anything about it. Oh, yeah. Sometimes I will get started talking to somebody and then it’ll reach a certain point where they’re like oh no we can’t don’t be recording this don’t put my yeah anything so yeah news to that but gina was like no this is going to be part of my, political art. I’m going to point the camera at my family. I’m going to expose, some of the hypocrisy that I see there, the things I disagree with. [22:41] It’s a short documentary, and I find it very powerful because it’s a family video. One of the first people she’s aiming the camera at is, I think, one of her nieces. Talking to this young woman who is leaning on her car, maybe in her late teens, early 20s, and this young woman is saying, oh, yeah, I would marry a gangster if I had the chance. And I’m just like, do you not know your family? Do you not know the heart? And later on in the video, you get to hear some of the really just like gut wrenching stories of what pain people in her family have brought upon themselves through their involvement in organized crime and all the things that it entails. And this young woman is, I don’t know, she’s acting because she doesn’t even know this other uncle or this other cousin that she’s got that can tell her these stories. Or is it, I don’t know, it doesn’t matter or something. And that to me was shocking. That’s the kind of thing that needs, that’s somebody who needs their mind changed. And I was like, I hope she watches this video she’s in and changes her mind about how she feels about that life and wanting to be a part of it. But that’s what mafia culture creates more of, is people who want to be a part of that. [23:53] There’s a certain romance to it that started out with Robin Hood, if you will. You get a romance of the gangster, the criminal that maybe is good to some people, good to support people, good to their family. And it continues on to this day to John Gotti. He’s the most recent iteration of Robin Hood and Jesse James here in the Midwest. People love Jesse James. When I grew up, everybody, every family had a story about how a couple of guys came by their house back in the 1800s and they gave them a place to stay and a meal. And they left them like a $20 gold piece, which was like $500 or something. And they said, it was Jesse James. I know it was. It’s the romance of the gangster continues. Yes. We all would love to imagine that we’re on the gangster side and that the gangster agrees. Yeah. As long as we don’t have to go to jail or pay that price. Because to me, I’ve got a friend today that he spent about 12 years and he would give all that gangster life back to get that 12 years back for these kids growing up. He’s turned over a new life today. I had lunch with him and his son not too long ago. And it’s just his son has told him, he said, every time I had to walk away from you in the penitentiary and come back home after our visit, he said, I was just crushed. It’s a huge price to pay for that. But there’s still that romance continues. [25:13] That terrible price, I think, is part of what feeds the romance. If there was no risk, there wouldn’t be that allure. Yeah, that’s true. You met that risk and overcame it and went on, came out on top. It’s what they always like to claim that came out on top of it. So I understand that thought process. I take a lot of risk in my life just from the other side. I said, live to fight another day. Yeah, there really are different kinds of risks that you can take. I was writing about a contract killer in Texas, and one of his targets was a guy who was a grain dealer. And I was like, that’s a really weird target for murder, right? Like, why would you kill a grain dealer from rural Texas? And it was because his old partner had an insurance policy out on him and decided to cash in on it. That was Charles Harrison, wasn’t it? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Sad story. Charles Harrison. Yeah. It was like, these were two guys that took very different kinds of risks, right? You got Charles Harrelson, who kills people for money. That’s a certain kind of risk you’re definitely taking. And then there’s the guy who buys grain and then sells it. So he’s taking these risks for his community of farmers. [26:27] And I was like, that’s really wholesome. And that’s, I don’t know, I feel like it’s a really positive example of masculinity. That’s the kind of risk we’re supposed to take for the safety and well-being of our neighbors? Yeah. Even the farmers, they risk everything every year. Smaller farmer, I grew up in those families and a smaller farmer practically risk everything every year, being in on the weather. That’s why I didn’t stay on the farm. And the markets, you don’t know what the markets are going to do. It’s a gamble every year. That Charles Harrelson, that’s Woody Harrelson’s dad who killed the Judds, famous murder down in El Paso. And he had a business. He carried a card that said he was a hitman. It was his story. [27:10] Bold. He was a crazy bold dude. I did a whole three-part series on that whole Jimmy Chagra marijuana business [27:20] down there on the border. and his connection to it and the killing of Judge Wood. So it’s just a business in these guys. Hey, it’s not personal. It’s just business. Yikes. It’s crazy. But Justin, you got anything else you want to tell us about? Anything you’re working on? And remind guys your website and what you can find there. He has some really interesting stuff about the old early days in Chicago. I know that. I referred to some of that several years ago when I was doing something on Chicago. So give guys a little walk through on your website. It’s really interesting. Okay, so John Gotti is one name I don’t think you’re ever going to find on my website. Yeah, good. [27:59] I’m really addicted to origin stories. I like to find out how the Mafia was already present before that point when we say it started. Yeah, in the 20s. But gangsters don’t come out of nowhere. Gangs don’t come out of nowhere. They evolve. They grow. There are forces to create them. And so that’s what I’m interested in. I like to go around. And I spent a lot of my early career writing about one place and its effect on the United States, Corleone, where my family’s from in Sicily. And that was my first book, In Our Blood. And some of my first posts on mafia genealogy are in that thread. They’re about my family and the Corleonesi. But then I started to get into other [28:42] places and wanting to know about their stories and getting into other parts of Italy as well. So if you go to my website, you’re going to find stories like Charles Harrelson and the two guys that he killed before the judge, or in Chicago about the different little Italys that existed before Capone consolidated everything, or Kansas City I’m writing about, Nick Fatsuno and the Passantino brothers. I don’t even know if you know those guys, but I thought their further stories were amazing. [29:09] Passantino had a funeral home today, but the other names I don’t really know back then. I don’t know much about that or those early days. Did they seem to come from the same little town, the same general area? They didn’t, actually. A lot of them were Sicilian, and they come from Palermo province, but not all from the same town. Not from okay. Yeah. Yeah, I wasn’t able to put—there’s not a strong current there in Kansas City like I’ve found in other places where everybody is from one town. Yeah. [29:37] But not so much in Kansas City. A little more varied. Interesting. So that’s what you’ll find on my website. And then Pasqualina is my second book, and you can buy both of my books at Amazon. Got them behind me here, Airblood, Pasqualina. And Pasqualina is about that prohibition era, and if you like to understand where big-nosed Sam Koufari got his start, it’s in there. And the Shabelli brothers show up. It’s about those origins. I was talking to a friend of mine about this name, Skeeball or Skeebelly. Yes. Who had some relationship back in Springfield, and he just really knew Skeeball when he was young. [30:17] Yep, because it was the spelling of his name. I’m not even sure how they pronounced it. I think it’s Skeebelly. Skeebelly. That probably was. Yeah, Skeebelly. I know somebody named Skeebelly, so probably was. That’s like the name of the body shop here in Kansas City, and it’s P-A-C-E. But really it’s Pache. We’ve got to do it right. And that’s probably short for Pache. I don’t know. I wonder if the family pronounces it Pache or Pace. I think business-wise, but then the person who was talking was close to the family and they said, oh no, it’s Pache. So I thought, okay. [30:53] Interesting. The immigrant experience in this country is really always interesting. There’s always conflict and the interest is in the conflict. And as people try to make their way, and stopping with, oh God, it was an author, T.J. did the Westies. You guys know T.J. that did the Westies. And he said, yeah, he said, and he really was articulate about, as we’ve discussed this, that people come here want an opportunity, because they didn’t have any opportunity in the old country, whether it be Naples or southern Italy or Sicily. They came here, they really just wanted opportunity. And then the opportunity, you have to start fighting for opportunity. That’s the nature of the beast in this country. In any kind, any society, you’ve got to fight for opportunity when you’re an outsider and you come in. And so that was the early development. These people just wanting a little slice of this American pie that they’d heard so much about. The streets are paved with gold over here, but found out you’ve got to dig that old man. [31:52] Some people probably came over here thinking they were going to make an honest living and found themselves, by one step and another, involved in organized crime. And then there were other men who came here from Italy for whom the opportunity was to be a criminal here. Richer pickings. Yeah. And they started restaurants and had your typical immigrant, all the immigrant restaurants, all these Chinese, whatever kind of ethnic food is, they start out with an immigrant who then puts his kids and his cousins and his nephews and sisters and grandmas in the back room kitchen, start those restaurants. And people, us people that are already here like that food and they run them, they do a really good job at it. And so that’s a way to get started in grocery stores for their other fellow paisans. And those were the ways that they made it here, at least now, probably the same way in every city where there’s a large Italian population. Got to feed the other Italians. And so an Italian restaurant is natural. Yeah. And also owning your own business is just really smart for a lot of people. If you’re an organized crime, it’s a great way to hide what you’re doing. [32:59] And if you’re trying to get a naturalization status, especially now, being a business owner is really advantageous. Yeah, I bet. I was talking about that on getting a naturalization process that showed that you’re an entrepreneur and you believe in the system and you’re doing well. Yeah, interesting. [33:17] All right, Justin Cascio, and the website is Mafia Genealogy. He’s got a couple books on there in this documentary. I don’t know. Keep us up on that. Maybe if it comes out, I’ll make sure to get it out on something where people know that they can go out and see it. It sounds really interesting. Thanks, YOL. All right. Thanks, Justin. I’ll do that no more. Thank you, Justin. It’s really a pleasure to talk to you again. Always a pleasure being on your show. Thank you. Great. [33:44] Justin, see, I was going to ask you about something. What? Are you going through a publisher? You got a publisher? No, I’m self-published. You’re self-published? Okay. Yeah. See, I self-published several books, and I’m doing probably my last ones, a story of my life, kind of more of a memoir, my struggles and my moral dilemmas and all that during when I worked intelligence. And then I’ll explain all about the big civil mob war we had here during those years. And I don’t know. I started poking around. I thought, well, maybe I’ll try to get a regular publisher. But boy, it’s hard. You’ve got to get an agent. You can’t get attention of an agent because there’s hundreds and thousands of people out there writing books wanting to do all this. So thank God for Amazon. Yeah. I think if you already have your audience. Yeah. And you know who they are and you’re already talking to them. You don’t need to pay somebody else to do that for you. Yeah. Yeah. I’m paying an editor to go over to… That’s different. That’s no other strengths. But to get it sold out there. Out here making videos every day. The good thing about getting a publisher is you can get, and then you got a chance of getting it into Barnes & Noble and into libraries. [34:59] See, libraries. You might into libraries anyway. How’d you do that? How’d you figure that out? The local library has an interest in the book, so they bought it. Yeah, they did. But I’m talking about other libraries. Yeah, they can all buy the book the same way. Yeah, but how do they find the library buy books? [35:18] I think buy them from the publishers normally. And if your book is self-published and they want to carry that book, because, for instance, about local history, then they’ll buy it. Yeah. I’m thinking about how do they get it out in other New York or Chicago or some other city that will be looking for nonfiction books. Publishers. You have to do every step yourself instead of being massive. Yeah. And then like Barnes & Noble and places like that to get it in, that’s hard too. You can do that locally. Those places carry my books on the website. Who does? They’re buying it from Amazon. Oh, okay. Interesting. Oh, really? Yeah. Because that’s the only place you can get it. I think I sell a couple of my, I’ve seen some people from, I think it’s through at Brafta Digital, I think’s the name of it. That’s another thing that this thing went up on that Barnes & Noble did sell a few copies of it. As a matter of fact, now that you mention it. [36:21] But it’s interesting. It’s fun. How are you ever going to get a screenplay sold if you don’t get their attention? [36:30] That’s why most people I talk to, they’re trying to figure out how to get a movie made from their book. Gangsters ask me that question. They’re like, you figure I know the answer to how to get a movie made from YouTube? and I do not have that answer. Nobody knows that. It’s hard work. Yeah, I tell them nobody knows that, the answer. It’s God. A divine being that strikes you, whether it be the Apollo or the God of Abraham, or Jesus or some higher power reaches out and touches you and says, okay, I bless you, and now you’re going to have a movie made and Robert De Niro is going to play your part. Although anymore, they don’t want De Niro to play him because they hate him now, and they want somebody else. Oh, my God. It’s always a pleasure to talk to you, Justin. Likewise, Gary. Thanks so much. If I can do anything for you here in Kansas City, and as you’re going through your thing, if you’ve got any question or anything, I’ve got that one friend, that FBI agent, that he could maybe help you with if you’re looking for a connection or something. He knows quite a little bit. And somebody else was just talking about that, looking into that, those early days. But if you do have any questions or anything that you’re stumbled about here in Kansas City, be sure and give me a call, and I’ll see if I can’t steer you to somebody. I don’t know myself. I don’t really ever look at it. Okay. Okay. Stay safe. Thank you. You too.

In questa puntata, Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore, analizzano tre segnali forti del momento che sta vivendo l'AI: le indagini internazionali su Grok, il chatbot di xAI integrato in X, accusato di aver generato deepfake sessuali e contenuti illegali; la riflessione di Adam Mosseri su come l'AI stia mettendo in crisi l'idea stessa di autenticità su Instagram; e infine l'ingresso di Manus in Meta, un'operazione che apre nuovi scenari sul futuro degli agenti AI, tra scala, responsabilità e potere delle piattaforme.Libro HUMAN RELOADED: https://amzn.to/4evkVWvIncontra tutti i protagonisti dell'AI alla AI WEEK 2026: Arsenalia, PwC, AlterMind, NTT Data, Reply e tanti altri. Scoprili tutti su https://www.aiweek.it Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ti guideranno alla scoperta di quello che sta accadendo grazie o a causa dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, spiegandola semplice.Puoi iscriverti anche alla newsletter su: https://www.iaspiegatasemplice.it

Fluent Fiction - Italian: Finding Firenze: A Writer's Journey from Block to Brilliance Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/it/episode/2026-01-11-08-38-20-it Story Transcript:It: A Firenze, in una fredda mattina d'inverno, Luca entrò nel Freelancer's Home Café.En: In Firenze, on a cold winter morning, Luca entered the Freelancer's Home Café.It: Era un luogo speciale.En: It was a special place.It: Le luci calde illuminavano l'ambiente, contrastando con l'aria gelida dell'esterno.En: The warm lights illuminated the space, contrasting with the freezing air outside.It: L'odore del caffè appena fatto riempiva l'aria, creando un'atmosfera accogliente.En: The smell of freshly made coffee filled the air, creating a welcoming atmosphere.It: Luca si sedette a un tavolo vicino alla finestra.En: Luca sat at a table near the window.It: Guardava le strade fiorentine, cariche di storia e bellezza.En: He gazed at the fiorentine streets, filled with history and beauty.It: Doveva scrivere un articolo su Firenze per un importante rivista.En: He had to write an article about Firenze for an important magazine.It: Ma c'era un problema: non sapeva da dove iniziare.En: But there was a problem: he didn't know where to begin.It: La paura di deludere se stesso e gli altri lo paralizzava.En: The fear of disappointing himself and others paralyzed him.It: Aveva bisogno di ispirazione, e presto.En: He needed inspiration, and soon.It: Giulia, una sua amica e collega, entrò nel caffè e si avvicinò.En: Giulia, a friend and colleague, entered the café and approached.It: "Ciao, Luca," disse con un sorriso incoraggiante.En: "Hi, Luca," she said with an encouraging smile.It: "Come va l'articolo?"En: "How's the article going?"It: Luca sospirò.En: Luca sighed.It: "Ho un blocco.En: "I have a block.It: Non so da dove partire."En: I don't know where to start."It: Marco, un vecchio amico, era già lì con il suo portatile.En: Marco, an old friend, was already there with his laptop.It: Stava lavorando a un progetto di design.En: He was working on a design project.It: Sentendo la conversazione, si unì: "Parla del cuore di Firenze.En: Hearing the conversation, he joined in: "Talk about the heart of Firenze.It: Aneddoti personali.En: Personal anecdotes.It: Pensa ai momenti che ti legano a questa città."En: Think of the moments that connect you to this city."It: Luca rifletteva, mentre osservava le persone fuori dalla finestra.En: Luca reflected, while observing the people outside the window.It: Ricordava le passeggiate lungo l'Arno, le notti estive in Piazza della Signoria, il profumo delle librerie antiche.En: He recalled the walks along the Arno, the summer nights in Piazza della Signoria, the scent of old bookstores.It: Poi gli venne un'idea.En: Then an idea came to him.It: Scrivere di come Firenze influenzasse ogni visitatore con la sua bellezza senza tempo.En: Write about how Firenze influences every visitor with its timeless beauty.It: Improvvisamente, le parole fluirono.En: Suddenly, the words flowed.It: Scriveva del fascino dei vicoli stretti, del suono delle campane di Santa Maria del Fiore.En: He wrote about the charm of the narrow alleys, the sound of the bells of Santa Maria del Fiore.It: Metteva in risalto storie di incontri straordinari, momenti catturati in un battito di ciglia.En: He highlighted stories of extraordinary encounters, moments captured in the blink of an eye.It: Il caffè si riempiva e svuotava, il tempo volava.En: The café filled and emptied, time flew by.It: Giulia e Marco lo incoraggiavano, l'ambiente viveva di creatività e risate.En: Giulia and Marco encouraged him, the environment buzzed with creativity and laughter.It: Luca sentiva l'energia del luogo, sentiva finalmente fiducia nelle sue capacità.En: Luca felt the energy of the place, finally feeling confident in his abilities.It: Quando il sole si abbassò e le luci del caffè presero un tono intimo, Luca terminò il suo articolo.En: When the sun lowered and the café lights took on an intimate tone, Luca finished his article.It: Lo rilesse, sorrise, lo inviò.En: He reread it, smiled, and sent it.It: Giusto in tempo.En: Just in time.It: Chiudeva il laptop, il cuore colmo di soddisfazione.En: He closed the laptop, his heart filled with satisfaction.It: Uscendo, ringraziò silenziosamente il caffè, le sue amichevoli mura, le conversazioni che l'avevano liberato.En: As he left, he silently thanked the café, its friendly walls, the conversations that had freed him.It: Aveva superato il suo dubbio.En: He had overcome his doubt.It: Sapeva che poteva farcela, che doveva solo fidarsi del suo istinto.En: He knew he could do it, that he just needed to trust his instincts.It: Firenze brillava nella notte, e Luca si ritrovava a camminare con un nuovo senso di pace.En: Firenze shone in the night, and Luca found himself walking with a new sense of peace.It: Aveva superato il blocco, riscoperto l'essenza di un luogo amato, ricordando che il vero viaggio non è solo visibile agli occhi ma anche al cuore.En: He had overcome the block, rediscovered the essence of a beloved place, remembering that the true journey is not only visible to the eyes but also to the heart. Vocabulary Words:the freelancer: il freelancerthe morning: la mattinathe atmosphere: l'atmosferato illuminate: illuminarefreezing: gelidathe smell: l'odorewelcoming: accoglientethe window: la finestrato gaze: guardarethe history: la storiathe beauty: la bellezzato disappoint: deludereto paralyze: paralizzarethe inspiration: l'ispirazioneencouraging: incoraggianteto sigh: sospirarethe block: il bloccothe design: il designthe project: il progettoto reflect: riflettereto influence: influenzarethe charm: il fascinothe alley: il vicolothe bell: la campanato highlight: mettere in risaltoextraordinary: straordinariothe encounter: l'incontroto capture: catturareto encourage: incoraggiarethe creativity: la creatività

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to: https://swordschool.shop/blogs/podcast/episode-210-from-homeschool-to-author-with-amos-wilson  To support the show, come join the Patrons at  https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Amos Christian Wilson is an independent Christian author, poet and musician. He is also a home school graduate and third born of 12 who loves reading, the outdoors, theology and history. He went from high school to a wide range of trade jobs, from carpentry to piano tuning to horse shoeing. He seeks to write books which centre around religious characters and immersive world building. In our conversation we talk about growing up as one of 12 and being homeschooled, and how a picture book about arms and armour sparked Amos's love of swords, followed by a Fiore manual from a homeschool organisation's catalogue of “toys for growing men”. We talk about some of the different jobs Amos has done over the years to support his true career as a writer. He describes his four-book Gwambi series as Treasure Island meets Chronicles of Narnia, with maybe a little bit of Charles Dickens thrown in there. You can find Amos on Substack and download a free ebook there. Or find out more on his website, https://www.acwilson.net.  As Amos isn't a historical martial artist, he has a different idea of what he would do with $1 million, and it's one that Guy is fascinated by.

Nostalgie, nostalgie! We gaan terug naar de jaren tachtig! Fiore (20) en Merel (21) schuiven aan voor deze speciale aflevering van de Saarpodcast. Samen met Gijsje en Barbara nemen ze door hoe het was om op te groeien in de jaren tachtig. Van naar school lopen dwars door de krakersrellen, naar Skunk van Doe Maar, naar schoudervullingen, wespentailles, bellen naar de Geinlijn, de Sony Walkman en de Soul Show opnemen op je ghettoblaster (mag je niet meer zeggen, want niet woke). Verder stellen we vast: er wordt niet meer geflirt in cafés, dat ligt niet aan je leeftijd, het is de tijdgeest. Iedereen denkt tegenwoordig: flirten doe ik thuis wel, maar dan online.PS Fiore en Merel zijn studenten van de HVA opleiding Creative Business en hebben daarvoor een magazine gemaakt: Ohja Magazine, dan vanaf 15 januari te verkrijgen is: een luxe bookazine van bijna 200 pagina's vol onvergetelijke 80's en 90's-momenten. Lees onder andere interviews met Patty Zomer (Dolly Dots), René van Collem (Doe Maar) en Erik de Zwart (radio-dj). Van de winst wordt 25% gedoneerd aan het Alzheimercentrum Amsterdam, speciaal voor iedereen die hun herinneringen dreigt te verliezen. Ontdek meer en bestel via ohjamagazine.nl!Adverteren?Wil je adverteren in deze podcast? Stuur dan een mailtje naar adverteren@bienmedia.nl.

Farida Studio proudly celebrated the grand opening of its beautiful new location at 120 Bloomingdale Road in White Plains on Thursday, December 18th, 2025, welcoming the community to an elegant, thoughtfully designed space dedicated to self-care and confidence. The celebration introduced guests to Farida's fantastic new studio and the personalized services it offers, from advanced skin care and rejuvenating body treatments to expertly delivered beauty treatments. Westchester Talk Radio was on hand for the event, capturing the excitement and highlighting the studio's mission and vision. At Farida Studio, the philosophy is simple and powerful: it's not about us — it's about you. With therapists recognized among the best in the industry, every service is centered on helping clients achieve, maintain, and truly enjoy their healthiest, most radiant skin.Joan Franzino of Westchester Talk Radio spoke with Anthony Fiore of Capri Cosmetology Learning Center, who highlighted the importance of education, training, and professional development in the beauty industry, and expressed enthusiasm for Farida Studio's commitment to excellence and elevated standards of care.

Pasquale e Giacinto raccontano in modo semplice e concreto quali saranno i principali trend dell'Intelligenza Artificiale nel 2026, partendo da una recente analisi della Stanford University e spiegando cosa cambierà davvero per persone, aziende e professionisti.Libro HUMAN RELOADED: https://amzn.to/4evkVWvIncontra tutti i protagonisti dell'AI alla AI WEEK 2026: Arsenalia, PwC, AlterMind, NTT Data, Reply e tanti altri. Scoprili tutti su https://www.aiweek.it Pasquale Viscanti e Giacinto Fiore ti guideranno alla scoperta di quello che sta accadendo grazie o a causa dell'Intelligenza Artificiale, spiegandola semplice.Puoi iscriverti anche alla newsletter su: https://www.iaspiegatasemplice.it

KVC-Arts first welcomed Joe Di Fiore about 3 1/2 years ago when he released "Out of the Woods," a wonderful combination of jazz and orchestral works. David Fleming speaks with Joe now about an original Christmas tune, "Cuter Than Christmas," with Anna Crumley providing beautiful vocals - very fitting for this tune. Anna will also be the vocalist for a holiday concert coming up in the very near future in Newport Beach. Annnnnnd - another original Christmas tune… A favorite of David's and it's another original! One by CW Thayer!

Tune in to the DMZ America Podcast as hosts Ted Rall from the left and Scott Stantis check in with groundbreaking animated political cartoonist Mark Fiore.Mark Fiore, born 1970, is an acclaimed American political cartoonist specializing in Flash-animated editorials. Shaped by California upbringing and Idaho wilderness, he majored in political science at Colorado College, graduating in 1991 amid Dick Cheney's speech.Starting in print for The Washington Post and LA Times, Fiore joined San Jose Mercury News before pioneering online animation in the late 1990s. His cartoons appear on SFGate.com, NPR, Mother Jones, and KQED.Hailed as "the undisputed guru" by The Wall Street Journal, he won the 2010 Pulitzer—the first for non-print work—plus a 2016 Herblock Prize, 2004 RFK Award, and multiple Online Journalism honors. From San Francisco, Fiore satirizes politics via markfiore.com.Support the showThe DMZ America Podcast is recorded weekly by political cartoonists Ted Rall and Scott Stantis. Twitter/X: @scottstantis and @tedrallWeb: Rall.com

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.We're thrilled to introduce you to our new Executive Director, Linda Fiore. Listen to today's conversation about her journey to Creating a Family and where we're heading in this next chapter under her leadership.In this episode, we discuss:What first brought you into the world of adoption, foster care, and kinship care?When you started out, what was your “why”?What values or goals drove your work in those earliest years?What was your first introduction to Creating a Family?When presented with the opportunity to pursue the position of Executive Director, what was it about our mission or the organization's evolution that drew your interest?How did you know this was the right next step for you?What are the pivotal lessons or challenges that shaped your leadership approach?When you look at where Creating a Family stands today, what are our greatest strengths?Kinship care has become a growing focus area for us. Why do you think kinship support is so critical right now?What are some of the plans Creating a Family has to deepen our impact in this space?Our online education programs reach families and professionals across the country. From your experiences in the field, why is education so crucial in these spaces?As we continue to raise awareness of who we are and how we serve this community, what message do you want people to associate with Creating a Family?What stories or values do you hope will come through most clearly?Where do you think Creating a Family is heading in the next few years?Your “why” has probably evolved — what keeps you going now?What's one thing you've learned that you hope every family advocate carries with them from today's conversation?Finally, for those listening or reading who are inspired — individuals, professionals, or organizations — what can they do to join the mission of Creating a Family? Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content: Weekly podcasts Weekly articles/blog posts Resource pages on all aspects of family building

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Fluent Fiction - Italian: Finding Faith: Luca's Heartwarming Christmas Revelation Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/it/episode/2025-12-02-08-38-20-it Story Transcript:It: Il cielo sopra Firenze era un mare di stelle scintillanti, mentre la cattedrale si alzava maestosa con le sue guglie toccate dalla luce della luna.En: The sky above Firenze was a sea of sparkling stars, while the cathedral rose majestically with its spires touched by the moonlight.It: Un freddo pungente indicava l'arrivo delle festività, e le strade erano immerse nel profumo di caldarroste e spezie natalizie.En: A biting cold signaled the arrival of the holidays, and the streets were filled with the scent of roasted chestnuts and Christmas spices.It: Luca camminava al fianco di Giulia, la sua giovane sorella, mentre si dirigevano verso la Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore.En: Luca walked beside Giulia, his young sister, as they made their way to the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore.It: Ogni Vigilia di Natale, la loro famiglia aveva la tradizione di assistere alla messa notturna, ma quest'anno Luca sentiva una strana inquietudine nel cuore.En: Every Christmas Eve, their family had the tradition of attending the midnight mass, but this year Luca felt a strange unease in his heart.It: La fede che un tempo lo aveva lasciato in pace sembrava lontana, come una vecchia amica che si era trasferita in una città distante.En: The faith that once gave him peace seemed distant, like an old friend who had moved to a faraway city.It: Giulia, con i suoi occhi sfavillanti e il sorriso a mille denti, chiacchierava allegra del presepio e delle decorazioni di Natale.En: Giulia, with her sparkling eyes and beaming smile, chatted cheerfully about the nativity scene and Christmas decorations.It: Amava questa tradizione più di ogni altra cosa, e si impegnava a tenere unita la famiglia, anche quando l'entusiasmo di Luca era vacillante.En: She loved this tradition more than anything else and was determined to keep the family united, even when Luca's enthusiasm was waning.It: "Luca, guarda che belle stelle!En: "Luca, look at those beautiful stars!"It: ", esclamò indicando il cielo.En: she exclaimed, pointing at the sky.It: Luca sorrise debolmente, ma dentro di lui il tumulto cresceva.En: Luca smiled weakly, but inside him, the turmoil was growing.It: Voleva tanto condividere i suoi pensieri con Giulia, ma temeva di deluderla.En: He wanted so much to share his thoughts with Giulia, but he feared letting her down.It: Arrivati di fronte alla grande porta della cattedrale, un coro di canti natalizi riempì l'aria, e il calore delle candele si percepiva attraverso le pareti spesse di marmo.En: Arriving in front of the great door of the cathedral, a choir of Christmas carols filled the air, and the warmth of the candles could be felt through the thick marble walls.It: Durante la messa, Luca ascoltava le parole del sacerdote, ma i suoi pensieri vagavano altrove.En: During the mass, Luca listened to the priest's words, but his thoughts wandered elsewhere.It: Osservava le espressioni serene delle persone intorno a lui e si chiedeva come potessero avere quella pace interiore.En: He observed the serene expressions of the people around him and wondered how they could have such inner peace.It: Giulia, seduta accanto a lui, avvertì la sua esitazione.En: Giulia, sitting next to him, sensed his hesitation.It: Dopo la messa, durante un momento di raccoglimento davanti al presepio, Giulia si girò verso di lui e sussurrò, "Sai, Luca, per me il Natale non è solo fede.En: After the mass, during a moment of reflection in front of the nativity scene, Giulia turned to him and whispered, "You know, Luca, for me, Christmas isn't just about faith.It: È stare insieme, sentire che siamo una famiglia.En: It's about being together, feeling that we are a family.It: Alla fine, quello che conta è volerci bene."En: In the end, what matters is that we care for each other."It: Quelle parole toccarono Luca profondamente.En: Those words touched Luca deeply.It: Realizzò che forse non era necessario abbracciare ogni aspetto della tradizione per trovare serenità.En: He realized that perhaps it wasn't necessary to embrace every aspect of the tradition to find serenity.It: La vera importanza era il legame che teneva uniti lui, Giulia e il resto della famiglia.En: The true importance was the bond that kept him, Giulia, and the rest of the family together.It: Mentre uscivano dalla cattedrale, con il cuore più leggero e un nuovo senso di pace, Luca strinse la mano di Giulia.En: As they exited the cathedral, with his heart lighter and a new sense of peace, Luca held Giulia's hand.It: Capì che il valore della tradizione non stava nel credo, ma nell'amore condiviso.En: He understood that the value of the tradition wasn't in the belief, but in the shared love.It: In quel momento di rivelazione, una nuova luce s'era accesa nel suo cuore e sembrava che persino le stelle brillassero di più.En: In that moment of revelation, a new light had been kindled in his heart, and it seemed as if even the stars shone more brightly.It: Forse, pensò, non era tanto lontano da quella vecchia amica, dopotutto.En: Perhaps, he thought, he wasn't so far from that old friend after all. Vocabulary Words:the cathedral: la cattedralethe spires: le gugliemajestically: maestosamoonlight: luce della lunabiting cold: freddo pungenteunease: inquietudinefaith: la fededistant: lontanaturmoil: tumultothe choir: il corocandles: candeleserene: serenepeace: pacehesitation: esitazionemoment of reflection: momento di raccoglimentobond: legameto care for: voler beneserenity: serenitàrevelation: rivelazionesparkling: scintillantithe streets: le stradetradition: la tradizionenativity scene: presepiodecorations: decorazionito whisper: sussurrarefestivities: festivitàold friend: vecchia amicaspices: spezieyoung sister: giovane sorellainner: interiore

For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to: https://swordschool.shop/blogs/podcast/episode-207-the-perfectly-rational-fencer-with-martin-hoppner  To support the show, come join the Patrons at  https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Dr Martin Höppner has been involved in historical martial arts since joining a local reenactment club, “Berliner Rittergilde” in 2008 before getting into historical fencing in 2015 studying classical sabre and rapier at the University of Berlin club. He then moved into sword and buckler, inspired by Roland Warzecha's work (you can hear from Roland here) and Fiore's Art of Arms, before being seduced by Manciolino and Marozzo. In 2017 he co-founded Schildwache Potsdam as a collaboration between the Berliner Rittergilde and the University of Potsdam's Academic Sports Centre. In 2020 and 2021 he was on the DDHF national longsword first squad. And since 2022 he was on the Rapier national squad, where he is now head coach. He runs the Schildwache Potsdam YouTube channel, and is one of the organizers of one of my favourite events, Swords of the Renaissance. He is a research associate at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg and has a PhD in economics and social sciences. Economics is very relevant to this episode, because Martin and I discuss how Game Theory relates to fencing. What is it rational to do when sparring and what do people actually do? What is the most rational way to react to an opponent who hits you increasingly hard or fast? Should you match them, or walk away? We also talk about rule sets in tournaments, and Martin's thoughts on how to devise them to stop people gaming the rules, and make the fencing cleaner and scoring fairer.   Links of interest: Schildwache Potsdam (Martin's club) and info on Swords of the Renaissance event: https://schildwache-potsdam.de/ The Schildwache Potsdam Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SchildwachePotsdam Schildwache Potsdam YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/schildwache-potsdam  

Send us a textIt's all about indie horror on this episode as we welcome actors Brett Wagner (The Crazies) and John Fiore (Sopranos) along with producer Jeff Descoteaux to discuss the indie horror project Shiver: Slaying All Night which also stars Martin Klebba, Warrington Gillette, and Vincente DiSanti. This Christmas/winter themed horror is one that promises to bring some fun, 80's homage horror set in modern times.To get in on the action, check out the Kickstarter with tons of perks at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiver/shiver-slaying-all-night?ref=discovery&term=shiver&total_hits=105&category_id=297Follow us on Social Media: @pvdhorror Instagram, X, TikTok, FacebookWatch us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@pvdhorrorSpecial thanks to John Brennan for the intro and outro music. Be sure to find his music on social media at @badtechno or the following:https://johnbrennan.bandcamp.com

(0:06:32): ESPN Bet gets divorce from Penn Gaming, ESPN makes new partnership with DraftKings.... (0:55:24): Ossi "Monarch" Ketola was banned from X and claims a rival casino company bribed them to do it.... (1:29:05): Report: Caesars will be phasing out the "Grand Bazaar Shops" behind Horseshoe, often used by WSOP players for quick meals on breaks.... (2:00:56): Wizard of Oz has saved the Las Vegas Sphere -- sort of.... (2:32:58): Do you live in an apartment/condo/townhome in Vegas? Then you might have been overcharged by NV Energy since 2002.... (2:47:15): Salt & Fin -- in the former Fiore location -- has closed at Harrah's Resort Southern California, and Druff talks about a battle he once had with that property which resulted in a major policy change.

Antonella Lattanzi"Chiara"Einaudi Editorewww.einaudi.itL'infanzia non è un tempo fuori dal pericolo, Marianna e Chiara lo sanno bene. Ci sono le feste di compleanno in salotto, mano nella mano, i panini con la frittata divisi a metà e nascosti in tasca fino all'intervallo. Ma c'è anche l'ombra lunga di due famiglie in apparenza diversissime, eppure uguali nella violenza con cui trafiggono. Per anni hanno creduto di essere sole, le uniche a vivere nell'oscurità, a dover affrontare i mostri. E invece scoprono che la salvezza può esistere in un patto in cui l'una per l'altra diventano il rifugio che il mondo non sa offrire. Ma cosa succede quando quel patto si rompe sotto i colpi della realtà, o forse solo della vita adulta? Dopo Cose che non si raccontano, Antonella Lattanzi torna a emozionarci e scuoterci con una storia potente, profondamente vera, che racconta di ogni volta che, nel mezzo del buio, qualcuno ha trovato il modo di tenerci viviAntonella Lattanzi è nata a Bari nel 1979 e vive a Roma. Scrittrice e sceneggiatrice, ha pubblicato i romanzi Devozione (Einaudi 2010 e 2023), Prima che tu mi tradisca (Einaudi 2013), Una storia nera (Mondadori 2017), Questo giorno che incombe (HarperCollins Italia 2021), Cose che non si raccontano (Einaudi 2023 e 2025), e Chiara (Einaudi 2025). Per il cinema ha scritto, tra le altre, le sceneggiature di Fiore di Claudio Giovannesi, Il campione e Una storia nera (tratto dal suo romanzo omonimo) di Leonardo D'Agostini. Collabora con il «Corriere della Sera». È tradotta in diverse lingue.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

La Renaissance, ce renouveau artistique, intellectuel et scientifique qui transforma l'Europe à partir du XVe siècle, ne naquit pas par hasard à Florence. Cette cité toscane réunissait alors des conditions politiques, économiques et culturelles uniques qui en firent le berceau d'un mouvement sans équivalent dans l'histoire occidentale.D'abord, Florence était une république riche et indépendante. Sa prospérité reposait sur le commerce et surtout sur la banque. La puissante famille Médicis, à la tête d'un empire financier, finançait non seulement les États d'Europe, mais aussi les artistes, les architectes et les penseurs. Cosme de Médicis puis Laurent le Magnifique comprirent que la gloire artistique pouvait servir la gloire politique. En soutenant des figures comme Botticelli, Léonard de Vinci ou Michel-Ange, ils firent de Florence une vitrine éclatante de leur influence et un centre culturel de premier plan.La structure politique de la cité joua aussi un rôle majeur. Florence n'était pas une monarchie mais une république oligarchique, où la liberté de pensée et le débat intellectuel avaient plus de place qu'ailleurs. Les humanistes florentins, inspirés par la redécouverte des textes grecs et latins, replacèrent l'homme au centre de la réflexion — une rupture avec la vision médiévale dominée par la religion. Des penseurs comme Marsile Ficin ou Pic de la Mirandole défendirent l'idée d'un être humain libre, doué de raison et capable de s'élever par le savoir.Florence bénéficiait aussi d'un héritage artistique exceptionnel. La proximité avec les ruines romaines, la maîtrise artisanale des ateliers et la tradition gothique italienne fournirent une base solide à l'innovation. Les artistes florentins expérimentèrent de nouvelles techniques : la perspective, la peinture à l'huile, l'étude du corps humain. Brunelleschi révolutionna l'architecture avec la coupole de Santa Maria del Fiore, symbole éclatant du génie florentin.Enfin, la concurrence entre les cités italiennes – Venise, Milan, Rome – stimula l'émulation. Chaque ville voulait attirer les meilleurs artistes pour affirmer sa puissance. Mais Florence garda une avance intellectuelle : elle ne se contenta pas de produire des œuvres, elle inventa une nouvelle manière de penser l'art et le savoir.Ainsi, la Renaissance florentine fut bien plus qu'une explosion de beauté : elle fut le fruit d'une société ouverte, prospère et avide de connaissance, où l'art devint le miroir d'une nouvelle idée de l'homme et du monde. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

In this episode, I speak with Adam Fiore from the Montreal Institute of Classical Homeopathy about the deeper connection between trauma and healing. Adam shares how a serious illness at sixteen led him to homeopathy and shaped his understanding of what true recovery means. We explore how trauma shows up in a person's life and why a trauma-informed approach is essential in homeopathic practice. Adam also talks about the importance of creating a safe space for clients to share their stories and how bird remedies reflect themes of freedom, growth, and emotional release. Episode Highlights: 04:37 - How Adam became interested in trauma work 07:23 - Trauma-informed approach in homeopathy 12:55 - Adjunct therapies for trauma 16:08 - Approaching trauma cases in the clinic 21:45 - Using different homeopathic modalities 24:43 - Defining trauma-informed practice 30:12 - Benefits of homeopathy for trauma 34:57 - Discussion of bird remedies 39:04 - Case example using bird remedy 41:20 - Understanding Human Striving 44:37 - Linking Cygnus remedies with elements like sulfur 47:57 - Value of patient commitment 53:24 - Honoring teachers and lineage in homeopathy About my Guests: Adam Fiore has been teaching homeopathy and mindfulness practices for over ten years.  As a professional Homeopath, registered with the College of Homeopaths of Ontario (Canada), Adam has vast hands on experience both in private practice and as a facilitator and teacher.  He has taught and facilitated thousands of people and currently teaches at the Montreal Institute of Classical Homeopathy (MICH).   With a focus on facilitating awareness and inner transformation, through hearing what is really behind the presenting challenge, Adam is committed to dialogue and collaborations that invite learning and heart centered action. He is known for his dedication, insight, patience and compassion. Find out more about Adam Website: https://www.adamfiorehomeopathy.com/ To learn more about the Montreal Institute of Classical Homeopathy (MICH) https://www.michmontreal.com/ If you would like to support the Homeopathy Hangout Podcast, please consider making a donation by visiting www.EugenieKruger.com and click the DONATE button at the top of the site. Every donation about $10 will receive a shout-out on a future episode. Join my Homeopathy Hangout Podcast Facebook community here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HelloHomies Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/eugeniekrugerhomeopathy/ Here is the link to my free 30-minute Homeopathy@Home online course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqBUpxO4pZQ&t=438s Upon completion of the course - and if you live in Australia - you can join my Facebook group for free acute advice (you'll need to answer a couple of questions about the course upon request to join): www.facebook.com/groups/eughom                              

Confira os destaques do Jornal da Manhã desta quinta-feira (16): O presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) criticou duramente o Congresso Nacional, afirmando que o Legislativo “nunca teve a qualidade de baixo nível que tem agora”. A declaração, direcionada à extrema-direita eleita em 2022, gerou forte reação da oposição e aumentou o desgaste na relação entre os Poderes. Enquanto aliados tentam conter a crise, o presidente da Câmara preferiu evitar polêmicas, mas saiu em defesa dos parlamentares. Reportagem: Paulo Édson Fiore. O Tribunal de Contas da União aceitou o recurso da Advocacia-Geral da União e suspendeu a exigência de que o governo federal busque o déficit zero em 2025. A decisão monocrática do ministro Benjamin Zymler representa alívio para o Executivo, evitando, ao menos temporariamente, o risco de bloqueio adicional de até R$ 31 bilhões no Orçamento deste ano. Reportagem: Igor Damasceno. O deputado federal Eduardo Bolsonaro criticou a senadora Tereza Cristina em suas redes sociais, afirmando que ela atua em prol dos “interesses dos grandes capitais”. As declarações foram feitas em resposta a comentários da congressista sobre a disputa presidencial de 2026. Reportagem: Beatriz Manfredini. O presidente venezuelano Nicolás Maduro acusou os Estados Unidos de promoverem “golpes de Estado da CIA” após Donald Trump confirmar que autorizou operações secretas da agência na Venezuela. Segundo o New York Times, as missões incluíam ações letais contra o governo venezuelano. Trump confirmou que havia dado autorizações para missões na Venezuela, mas se recusou a responder a uma pergunta sobre se os agentes de inteligência receberam permissão para eliminar Maduro. Reportagem: Pedro Tritto. O secretário do Tesouro dos Estados Unidos, Scott Bessent, sugeriu uma pausa mais longa nas altas tarifas sobre produtos chineses, em troca de Pequim adiar seu plano recentemente anunciado de impor limites mais rígidos às terras-raras. Reportagem: Eliseu Caetano. Essas e outras notícias você acompanha no Jornal da Manhã. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fluent Fiction - Italian: An Autumn Night in Firenze: The Awakening of an Artist Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/it/episode/2025-10-12-22-34-02-it Story Transcript:It: Il sole autunnale splendeva sulla Piazza del Duomo.En: The autumn sun shone over the Piazza del Duomo.It: L'aria era frizzante e i colori delle foglie cadevano dolcemente lungo le strade di Firenze.En: The air was crisp, and the colors of the leaves gently fell along the streets of Firenze.It: Tra la folla di turisti e artisti di strada, Luca si fermava, osservando la maestosa Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore.En: Among the crowd of tourists and street artists, Luca paused, observing the majestic Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore.It: Quel giorno era speciale.En: That day was special.It: Era il giorno precedente alla sua prima esposizione artistica.En: It was the day before his first art exhibition.It: Accanto a lui c'era Alessandra, con lo sguardo attento.En: Beside him was Alessandra, with an attentive gaze.It: "Luca, sei sicuro di voler includere quel nuovo quadro?"En: "Luca, are you sure you want to include that new painting?"It: chiese, cercando di non mostrarsi troppo preoccupata.En: she asked, trying not to seem too worried.It: "Sì, Ale," rispose Luca, incrociando le braccia sul petto.En: "Yes, Ale," replied Luca, crossing his arms over his chest.It: "Questo quadro rappresenta la mia visione.En: "This painting represents my vision.It: Voglio che Marco lo veda."En: I want Marco to see it."It: Alessandra sospirò.En: Alessandra sighed.It: Lei amava Luca e sosteneva il suo sogno, ma era anche pragmatica.En: She loved Luca and supported his dream, but she was also pragmatic.It: A volte, lottava per vedere un futuro stabile nella carriera artistica di Luca.En: At times, she struggled to envision a stable future in Luca's artistic career.It: Nel frattempo, Marco, il proprietario della galleria, li stava aspettando vicino all'entrata.En: Meanwhile, Marco, the gallery owner, was waiting for them near the entrance.It: Era un uomo appassionato di arte, sempre alla ricerca di nuovi talenti.En: He was a man passionate about art, always on the lookout for new talents.It: "Luca, sei pronto per domani?"En: "Luca, are you ready for tomorrow?"It: chiese con un sorriso incoraggiante.En: he asked with an encouraging smile.It: "Sì, Marco.En: "Yes, Marco.It: Non vedo l'ora," rispose Luca con un entusiasmo un po' nervoso.En: I can't wait," replied Luca with slightly nervous enthusiasm.It: La sera arrivò presto, portando con sé l'atmosfera mistica delle luci delle case e il profumo delle castagne arrostite.En: Evening came early, bringing with it the mystical atmosphere of the house lights and the scent of roasted chestnuts.It: Luca trascorse la notte a mettere a punto gli ultimi dettagli.En: Luca spent the night fine-tuning the final details.It: Alla galleria, l'arte prendeva vita.En: At the gallery, the art came to life.It: Il giorno dell'esposizione, la sala si riempì di curiosi, artisti e critici.En: On the day of the exhibition, the hall filled with curious onlookers, artists, and critics.It: Ogni quadro di Luca rifletteva una parte di lui, ma era il nuovo pezzo a catturare l'attenzione di tutti.En: Every painting of Luca's reflected a part of him, but it was the new piece that captured everyone's attention.It: Alcuni mormoravano, incerti; altri erano affascinati.En: Some murmured, uncertain; others were fascinated.It: "Questo è diverso da tutto," disse una signora che osservava attentamente.En: "This is different from everything," said a woman observing carefully.It: Luca, osservando la scena da lontano, sentì il nodo allo stomaco allentarsi leggermente.En: Luca, watching the scene from afar, felt the knot in his stomach ease slightly.It: "È unica," disse Marco, avvicinandosi.En: "It's unique," said Marco, approaching.It: "Voglio offrirti uno spazio per una mostra personale.En: "I want to offer you a space for a personal exhibition.It: Vedo qualcosa di speciale nel tuo lavoro."En: I see something special in your work."It: Gli occhi di Luca si illuminarono.En: Luca's eyes lit up.It: Marco era colpito!En: Marco was impressed!It: Alessandra si avvicinò a Luca e gli strinse la mano.En: Alessandra approached Luca and squeezed his hand.It: "Vedi?En: "See?It: Hai fatto colpo.En: You made an impression.It: Sono fiera di te," sussurrò dolcemente.En: I'm proud of you," she whispered softly.It: "Io devo ringraziarti, Ale.En: "I have to thank you, Ale.It: Per tutto il supporto," disse Luca con voce trepidante.En: For all the support," said Luca with a trembling voice.It: Quella sera, tornando a casa, Luca camminava più leggero, il cuore pieno di speranza e fiducia.En: That evening, returning home, Luca walked more lightly, his heart filled with hope and confidence.It: Aveva finalmente trovato la sua strada, sostenuto da chi amava.En: He had finally found his path, supported by those he loved.It: A Firenze, sotto il cielo stellato di autunno, Luca aveva compreso che il vero valore dell'arte sta nel rischiare e nel credere in sé stessi.En: In Firenze, under the starry autumn sky, Luca understood that the true value of art lies in taking risks and believing in oneself.It: E con quella nuova consapevolezza, iniziava un nuovo capitolo della sua vita artistica.En: And with that new awareness, he began a new chapter of his artistic life. Vocabulary Words:the autumn: l'autunnothe cathedral: la cattedralemajestic: maestosathe exhibition: l'esposizioneattentive: attentoto include: includereto cross: incrociareto represent: rappresentareto support: sostenerepragmatic: pragmaticato struggle: lottarethe gallery: la galleriapassionate: appassionatothe talent: il talentothe evening: la seramystical: misticaroasted: arrostiteto fine-tune: mettere a puntothe detail: il dettaglioto reflect: riflettereto murmur: mormorareuncertain: incertito be fascinated: essere affascinatiunique: unicato light up: illuminarsito impress: colpireto squeeze: stringeretrembling: trepidantehope: la speranzato understand: comprendere

Welcome back to Construct your life! In this week's special Business Live show, Brad and I sat down with Clint Fiore, founder of Dealonomy, to unpack one of the most innovative shifts happening in the business brokerage world right now.After a decade of helping entrepreneurs buy and sell companies, Clint decided to flip the model on its head. Instead of catering to sellers like every traditional brokerage, Dealonomy is designed to be the most buyer-friendly platform on the planet. Think of it as a curated, high-quality marketplace — no more messy listings, ghost brokers, or bait-and-switch deals.Clint breaks down how he raised $3 million, built a tech-driven team, and created a system that makes buying and selling businesses faster, smoother, and more transparent — all while keeping relationships at the center of the process. We talk about what buyers get wrong, how to stand out as a great buyer, and why empathy, patience, and listening skills are still the ultimate deal-closing tools.This one's for entrepreneurs, dealmakers, and searchers who are tired of the old-school M&A grind and ready to see how technology and heart can actually work together to change the game.Key Highlights:- How Clint flipped the traditional brokerage model — from sell-side to buy-side focused.- The $3M raise that built Dealonomy, and how he assembled an all-star investor and advisory team.- Why most business marketplaces fail — and how Dealonomy vets only “good deals for good people.”- The platform's AI-powered financial analysis that streamlines valuations and offers real-time insights.- The “freemium” membership model that aligns incentives with serious buyers.- How buyers can stand out by leading with empathy, clarity, and strong communication.- Why relationship skills are becoming more important than ever in a high-tech world.- The long-term vision: becoming the trusted, quality-first platform people think of before BizBuySell.If you're serious about buying or selling a business, or just curious where the future of small business acquisitions is headed, check out Dealonomy.com and connect with Clint on X and LinkedIn.And if you enjoyed this live breakdown, share it with someone who's in the deal game — it might just change how they look at buying and selling forever.

What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out. Chris Fiore was one of my very first guests on the podcast and he returns to chat about his new documentary, “Broadway & Swan,” which was part of the 10th Anniversary edition of FI-LA and earned him the Grand Jury Award for Best Director, Featurette. I just love talking to Chris and was very eager to see what was brewing in his 4 Questions all these years later. You can check out Chris's work at chrisfiore.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Discover Indie Film Links DIF Podcast Website - DIF Instagram - DIF BlueSky Discover Indie Film Foundation (nonprofit for the arts) Website Sherman Oaks Film Festival Film Invasion Los Angeles

Chris Fiore is back! This podcast holds a special place in my heart.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The journey that I have been on for a decade, running two film festivals per year and inviting those filmmakers onto this podcast, began with Film Invasion Los Angeles in 2016 when Chris Fiore submitted his documentary “Goodwoman” to this first-year festival and took home the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary! Imagine my delight when Chris submitted a new documentary, “Broadway & Swan,” to the 10th Anniversary edition of FI-LA!                                                                                                                                    Not only that, but Chris took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Director, Featurette this time. I had no idea until this podcast that this particular award for Directing meant the world to Chris, a professional editor. Call me crazy, but I could not have asked for a better Tenth Anniversary FI-LA story! You can check out Chris's work at chrisfiore.com and I hope you enjoy our conversation! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Discover Indie Film Podcast Links DIF Podcast Website - DIF Instagram - DIF BlueSky Discover Indie Film Foundation (nonprofit for the arts) Links DIF Foundation - Sherman Oaks Film Festival - Film Invasion Los Angeles

For anyone who lived through the classic Volkswagen scene of the 1980s, the Raspberry Volkswagen Type 3 Fastback with the Targa Top is impossible to forget. This one-of-a-kind custom VW build captured the spirit of the era and became one of the most talked-about Type 3s of its time. In this episode of Let's Talk Dubs, I sit down with Eddie, the man behind this legendary Fastback, to hear the full story. From the moment a teenage enthusiast first stumbled onto the car, to the late nights in the neighborhood garage, this build represents the passion that fueled the VW hobby in the 80s. We cover how the custom Type 3 Fastback dominated the awards at Type 3 Day, went on to appear in Volkswagen magazines across the globe, and cemented its place in VW history. Whether you're into Type 3 restoration, 80s Volkswagen culture, or iconic show cars that changed the scene, this is an episode you won't want to miss.     www.letstalkdubs.com www.vwtrendsmagazine.com www.rosswulf.com  

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PHILIPPE LEÃO e MATHEUS FIORE são críticos de cinema. Eles vão bater um papo sobre filmes, séries e o atual momento do cinema brasileiro. O Vilela ainda lembra quando os filmes não falavam.

Welcome back! In this episode, I sit down with Clint Fiore, a business broker who's changing the game for buyers and sellers alike. Clint shares his journey from startup founder to building a brokerage he wished existed when he was trying to buy his first business. We talk about the rise of ETA, why authenticity beats credentials, and how his new platform, Dealonomy, is making business buying and selling faster, fairer, and way more transparent. If you've ever thought about buying or selling a business, this conversation will give you the insider's playbook.Key Highlights:- From Startup to Brokerage: Clint's background as an entrepreneur led him to build the kind of buyer-friendly brokerage he couldn't find when he started.- Industry Shift: The biggest change isn't in how deals are done—it's in the massive surge of buyers flooding the market.- Authenticity Wins: Forget acronyms and polished suits—buyers and sellers want real people they can trust.- How to Stand Out as a Buyer: To brokers, show you're a reliable closer. To sellers, show you care about their people, culture, and legacy.- The Surrogate Kid Effect: Sellers often want to hand their business to someone who feels like a younger version of themselves.- Dealonomy's Edge: A buyer-focused platform built on quality control, zero commissions for sellers, and a $10K guarantee—reimagining the deal process from the ground up.- The Future of Brokerage: Less mystery, more transparency, and a process that serves both sides without wasting time.Final Thoughts:Buying or selling a business doesn't have to feel like chasing a needle in a haystack. Clint's approach—and Dealonomy's model—proves that when you align incentives and focus on quality, everyone wins.If you found value in this episode, share it with a friend and leave us a quick review. Catch you on the next one!

Mystical Anarchism, Rosicrucianism, Josephin Peladan, Symbolism/Symbolist movement, subliminal Symbolist techniques, theurgy, Maurice Maeterlinck, The Blue Bird/Project Bluebird, Symbolism is Russia, Georgy Chulkov, Viacheslav Ivanov, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Zinaida Gippius, Boris Savinkov, Merezhkovsky's Trinitarianism, Joachim of Fiore, the Joachim revival in France, the Status of Spirit/Third Testament/Eternal Gospel, Huysmans & La-Bas, Nikolai Fedorov, Cosmism, transhumanism, noosphere and how it relates to Joachim, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Iona Brikhnichev, Alexander Gorsky, the transformation of the God-seekers to God-builders, "The Tower," the Rites of Dionysus, Anna Mintslova, Andrei Bely. Rudolf Steiner, realia & realiora, a society based around the sobornost (cultic-theater), the cultic-theater as a replacement for government, acting as theurgy, acting as an act of possession, Japanese Noh theater and other traditions of possession in theater, audience participation, Mystical Anarchism's influence, role-laying games (RPGs), Dungeons and Dragons (D & D), the shift from passively observing narratives to co-creating them, MAGA as cultic-theaterMusic by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sometimes, there are films that stay with us, and A LITTLE FELLOW: The Legacy of A.P. Giannini, directed by Davide Fiore, is one of those films, and I'm pleased to present Davide today on our #LittleItalyPodcast.  Back in the day, banks were primarily for the wealthy, and the poor and working class immigrants often stashed their savings under a mattress. But at the turn of the 20th century, A.P. Giannini revolutionized the industry with his small bank in San Francisco. A first-generation Italian-American, his goal was to serve “the little fellow” and breed prosperity within his immigrant community. By building trust and giving loans on a simple handshake, he created one of the largest banks in the country – Bank of America. A LITTLE FELLOW tells his story, and it's remarkable. In addition, A.P. Giannini was also one of the first investors in Hollywood, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Hewlett-Packard. His forward-thinking helped the country through two World Wars and the Great Depression.  Davide is a native of Torino, Italy, and has made a name for himself directing and editing in the Italian fashion and advertising industry. He eventually started filming music videos, working along side major Italian labels, singers, and DJ's, when he embarked on his first documentary, titled JUST US, about two Italian DJ's. That documentary gained worldwide distribution, and Davide went on to work in Germany, and London. His subsequent photo exhibition, I'VE ALREADY SEEN IT SOMEWHERE, showcased New York movie locations, and has been hosted in Torino, Rome, and Miami, and published by Vogue Italia.  His latest film, A LITTLE FELLOW, is blowing up for its incredible vision and artistic expression. I simply loved it, and had no idea about the story of A.P. Giannini. Please join me in welcoming Davide Fiore on all video and audio podcast platforms of #DeborahKobyltLIVE, #LittleItalyPodcast, & #LittleItalyOfLAPodcast. I'm your host, #DeborahZaraKobylt, and it's my pleasure to welcome you here.

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