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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.

It's happening! For the first time ever the Montana Grizzlies and Montana State Bobcats will face off in the post season! To mark the occasion YOL's resident Bobcat, Derek and Griz, Sammy G break down the implications of this historic game and give some insight on what we might expect in Saturdays match. Send us a text!Support the show

Bizden öncekiler, hayatı öğreten bir şey olarak bakardı yollara. Yol boyu yaşanan tecrübeler paha biçilemez hayat dersleriydi. Yollar ve yol tecrübeleri üzerine sadece seyahatnameler yazılmadı; nice şiirler, hikayeler, romanlar yazıldı. Çünkü yola çıkanlar, kendi dar gerçekliğinden geniş alanlara çıkar, başka gerçeklikleri tecrübe ederek görüşlerini hem geliştirir hem zenginleştirirdi. Her insanda, her mekânda, her uğrakta, her menzilde tecrübe edilmemiş hayat parçaları, duyulmamış hikayeler vardı. İnsan sadece fizik varlığıyla yol almakla kalmaz, iç alemiyle de mesafeler katederdi.

Ekim ayında yürürlüğe giren Trump imzalı ateşkes, İsrail'in her gün yüzlerce Filistinliyi katlederek sürdürdüğü soykırımı yavaşlatmış olabilir. Fakat ateşkes, ne Filistin'in Siyonistlerce işgali ne bölgede emperyalizmin çıkarları doğrultusunda yürütülmeye çalışılan dönüşüm ne de bu ikisinin bir parçası olarak yaklaşmakta olan bölgesel savaş konularına köklü bir değişiklik getirdi. Trump, tahayyül ettiği Batı Asya'yı (Ortadoğu) Netanyahu ile el birliği içinde şekillendirmeye devam ediyor. Türkiye'deki istibdad rejiminin de desteğini alan bu girişim, Filistin devletinin kurulmasına dair hiçbir güvence içermiyor, Trump başkanlığında bir geçiş yönetimi ve bir askerî gücün Gazze'ye yerleşmesini öngörüyor. Direniş örgütlerinin sert tepki gösterdiği plan, adeta Filistin'de Siyonist işgalin sürmesinin teminatı gibi. Üstelik oluşturulacak yapıların görevleri arasında “insan hareketliliğinin düzenlenmesi” de var. Yani, etnik arındırmanın hızlanarak devam edeceği sır değil. Diğer yandan, Filistinlilerin silahlarını nasıl ve hangi aşamada bırakacakları konuşuladursun, İsrail Gazze'de canının istediği gibi, türlü bahaneler ileri sürerek yeni saldırılarla ve yardım girişlerini zorlaştırarak insan öldürmeye devam ediyor.ABD'nin planı ve önündeki engellerABD emperyalizminin Trump önderliğindeki planı, merkezinde İsrail'in olduğu, etrafında İbrahimî anlaşmalar ya da başka tür “hizalanmalarla” bir araya gelmiş geniş bir Batı Asya, Kuzey Afrika, Kafkaslar ve (son olarak da) Orta Asya koalisyonu. Bu güçlerin bir araya gelme sebebi Filistin meselesinin bir şekilde ayak bağı olmaktan çıkarılması, ardından bölgenin önce İran'dan ama hemen ardından da Rusya ve Çin'den temizlenmesi. Çin'in Kuşak ve Yol projesinin bölgedeki mevzilenmesinin engellenmesi, İran'da rejim değişikliği veya en azından İran'ın nükleer teknolojiden kesin bir şekilde mahrum bırakılmasını temin etmek. Bu arada hizaya giren herkese de bazı ödüller veriliyor. Fas'a Batı Sahra meselesinde elini rahatlatan bir BM kararı, Emirliklere istediği ileri teknoloji askerî malzeme vb.Ama bunların ilerledikleri yolda önemli engeller var. Öncelikle Filistin, yüzbinlere ulaşan kayıplarına karşın Siyonist düşmana teslim olmadı. İsrail'in ateşkes sonrasında yaptığı yüzlerce saldırı da Filistinli mahkumların gerektiğinde idam edilmesini içeren ya da idarî tutukluluk adı verilen uygulamayı 48 topraklarındaki Filistinlilere de yayan düzenlemeleri ilan etmesi de sonucu değiştirmedi. Hatta, Batı Şeria'ya yaptığı baskınların son günlerde dayanılmaz bir hal alması da Filistin halkının ve direniş örgütlerinin direncini kıramadı.Silahsızlandırılmaya çalışılan İran, henüz nükleer teknoloji sahibi olmaktan vazgeçmedi. Tüm düşmanları nükleer silahlara sahip olan İran'ın sivil nükleer teknolojiye sahip olması da nükleer silah sahibi olması da meşru elbette. Ama bu durum, ABD'nin de İsrail'in de yeniden İran'a saldırmasının zeminini hazırlıyor. Sadece İran değil. Lübnan, Yemen ve Irak'ta konuşlu direniş cephesi güçleri de emperyalizmin bunları silahsızlandırma konusundaki ısrarına karşın silahlarını muhafaza etmekte. İsrail ve ABD bölgesel savaş arayışlarını mutlaka sürdürecekler.Emperyalizm ve Siyonizm cephesinde toplananlarİsrail'in yanında ise çok sayıda güç artan bir hızla toplanıyor. 2020'de Trump'ın başlattığı İbrahimî Anlaşmalar furyası, Emirlikler, Bahreyn, Fas ve Sudan'ın İsrail ile yakın ilişkiler tesis etmesi ile sonuçlanmıştı. Suudi Arabistan bunlardan biraz daha dişli bir güç olarak kendisini pazarlamaya çalıştı ve henüz bu kervana katılmadı. Bazıları bunun Filistin'in tanınması şartını ileri sürmesinden kaynaklandığını düşünse de asıl neden Suudi Arabistan'ın ABD'den nükleer teknoloji istemesi. ABD değilse de İsrail şimdilik buna izin vermiyor. Ama bu durum, Muhammed Bin Selman (MBS) idaresindeki bu krallığın bir orta yola ikna edilemeyeceği anlamına gelmiyor. MBS yakın zamanda Beyaz Saray'ı ziyaret etti. Bunun ayrıntılı sonuçlarını yakında öğreneceğiz.

Giant Claw, Blackbraid, Mareado, BYSH, Membrane, Hikaru Yamada and The Librarians, Cerca, Oldowon, Corey Carris Duncan, YOL, Storyteller, and Fascinating Facts (wrong side)

"I put the original recording through a bit of distortion, listened to it for a while, and then went over it with some text from my phone notes that felt like it fitted the original sounds. My practice involves extended vocal techniques, I tried to treat the original recording as a collaborator in the same space as me to some extent." Lanzhou City soundscape reimagined by Yol. IMAGE: Sigismund von Dobschütz, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Bir defasında, dostlarla sohbet ederek İşkodra'dan Prizren'e doğru gidiyorduk. Yol boyunca derin vadilerle, nehirlerle ve ihtişamlı dağlarla örülü muhteşem bir manzarayı izliyorduk. Nihayet Arnavutluk-Kosova sınırına çok yakın Kökes'e ulaştığımızda, karşımıza ilginç bir sürpriz çıktı.

Andy and Josh trade compliments about the Rams and Niners after an excellent TNF match up that didn't end in a tie, Josh adds “Executive Drive” to the YOL vocab list, we start off spooky season with some bizarre NFL true crime and tease a discussion about a fantasy re-draft…oops. Send us a text!Support the show

"Şəhər adamı" rubrikasında qonaq olan “166 Yükdaşıma və Logistika” şirkətinin Multimodal departamentinin rəhbəri Məsmalı Qasımzadə ilə birlikdə quru yol daşımaları, konteyner daşımaları, multimodal və intermodal daşımaların fərqləri, müştərilərin bu xidmətlərdən istifadə edərkən diqqət etməli olduqları məqamlar barədə məlumat verildi.

54 yıldır kapalı olan "Heybeliada Ruhban Okulu" yeniden açılabilir. Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ABD Başkanı Donald Trump'la Beyaz Saray'daki görüşmesinde “bu konuda üzerimize ne düşerse yapmaya hazırız" dedi. Amerika dönüşünde, Fener Rum Patriği Bartholomeos ile görüşeceğini söyledi. Geçtiğimiz aylarda Milli Eğitim Bakanı Yusuf Tekin, “Yol haritamızı hazırlamak için okulu ziyaret ettik, teknik hazırlığımızı tamamladık ve raporladık. Bana açılsın talimatı verilirse açabiliriz” demişti. Süreçte en kritik konu, okulun nasıl bir statüyle açılacağı. Kayıttayız'da yakın zamanda açılması beklenen Ruhban Okulu konusu masaya yatırıldı.

"Qaydaları pozma" verilişində qonağımız olan AYNA-nın Yol hərəkətinin təşkili şöbəsinin müdiri Samir Məhərrəmov ilə yeni görülən işlərdən, yol hərəkətində edilən dəyişikliklərdən danışdıq. 

Carlo Pizzati"Il fuggitivo"Sulle tracce di un prigioniero di guerra fra l'India di ieri e di oggiNeri Pozzawww.neripozza.itTra Mumbai, Bangalore e Dharamsala, tra archivi segreti e ricostruzioni dei piani dell'intelligence britannica per “rieducare” i prigionieri italiani, un dialogo intimo con il passato che intreccia l'India di oggi, proiettata verso un futuro sempre più potente, con quella degli anni Quaranta, in bilico tra colonialismo e indipendenza.Nel dicembre 1940, un giovane ufficiale degli Alpini, Ottone Menato, viene catturato in Egitto durante la sanguinosa battaglia di Nibeiwa. La sua incredibile odissea inizia con una fuga attraverso il deserto del Sinai al fianco di beduini. Dopo l'arresto nello Yemen, viene trasferito nei campi di prigionia britannici in India. Ma Ottone non si rassegna: evade dai reticolati di Bangalore con tre commilitoni. Braccato nella giungla infestata da pantere, serpenti e altri animali feroci, è aiutato da pastori e contadini indiani. Riacciuffato, questa volta viene internato nel campo di Yol, alle pendici dell'Himalaya, dove pianifica subito l'ennesima evasione e dove scopre un microcosmo inaspettato: teatri con attori che recitano in abiti femminili, cinema sotto le stelle, dibattiti culturali e una comunità che, dopo l'8 settembre 1943, si spacca tra antifascisti, con più possibilità di movimento, e la cosiddetta Repubblica fascista dell'Himalaya, i non-collaboranti rinchiusi nel campo 25. Ottant'anni dopo, Carlo Pizzati, discendente di Ottone e scrittore che vive in India da quindici anni, si mette sulle tracce del prozio seguendo un romanzo dello stesso Ottone sulla sua ricerca di libertà. Carlo Pizzati è autore di saggi, romanzi e memoir in italiano e in inglese su temi transculturali, storici e contemporanei. Nella sua carriera giornalistica internazionale ha vissuto a New York, Città del Messico, Buenos Aires, Madrid e Roma, insegnando in università prestigiose. Dal 2010 abita in India e collabora con la Repubblica e La Stampa. Tra le opere più recenti, La tigre e il drone (Marsilio 2020), Una linea lampeggiante all'orizzonte (Baldini&Castoldi 2022) e A History of Objects (HarperCollins 2022). IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

"Qaydaları Pozma" verilişində qonaq olan nəqliyyat eksperti Elməddin Murdalı ilə birlikdə gündəlik həyatımızın ayrılmaz hissəsi olan yollar, nəqliyyat, sıxlıq, parklanma və sürücülük mədəniyyəti haqqında söhbət etdik.

"Qaydaları pozma" verilişində qonaq olan Nəqliyyatı İntellektual İdarəetmə Mərkəzinin mətbuat katibi Ömər Xıdırov ilə birlikdə yollarda çətinlik yaradan nəqliyyat vasitələrindən, sürücülərin etdikləri qayda pozuntularından danışdıq.

Growing up south of Sydney as one of six boys, midwifery wasn't the occupation Christian Wright expected for himself. At the age of nine, he experienced a vision that gave him a sense of his future in a life of service.As a qualified midwife, Christian spent time in the tiny town of Nhulunbuy, right on the tip of the Northern Territory.He worked with Yolŋu women of remote Arnhem Land to help them birth their babies.Further informationThis interview was first broadcast in March 2021.2025 update: Several years ago, Christian married his beloved, Caroline in Gove.On the first day of their honeymoon, as they were driving up the track, their troop carrier rolled.Christian's spine was broken, and he was airlifted to Royal Adelaide Hospital, where the doctors feared that he might not walk again.Christian went back to work within six months of the accident and has since worked in the NT and Papua New Guinea.He and Caroline now have a baby boy.Discover more about Christian's research on pregnancy and childbirth.Discover the Djakamirr program, training doulas to help Yolŋu women give birth on their own country.Christian also recommends the book Why Warriors Lie Down and Die by Richard Trudgen as a valuable resource on Indigenous Australia.You can hear Richard's full conversation with Nigel Newton on the ABC Listen App or wherever you get your podcasts.https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/conversations/publisher-nigel-newton-on-harnessing-the-harry-potter-effect/7788834You can read all about the Conversations origin story on the ABC News website.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-03/richard-fidler-reflects-on-20-years-of-conversations/105495784

Growing up south of Sydney as one of six boys, midwifery wasn't the occupation Christian Wright expected for himself. At the age of nine, he experienced a vision that gave him a sense of his future in a life of service.As a qualified midwife, Christian spent time in the tiny town of Nhulunbuy, right on the tip of the Northern Territory.He worked with Yolŋu women of remote Arnhem Land to help them birth their babies.Further informationThis interview was first broadcast in March 2021.2025 update: Several years ago, Christian married his beloved, Caroline in Gove.On the first day of their honeymoon, as they were driving up the track, their troop carrier rolled.Christian's spine was broken, and he was airlifted to Royal Adelaide Hospital, where the doctors feared that he might not walk again.Christian went back to work within six months of the accident and has since worked in the NT and Papua New Guinea.He and Caroline now have a baby boy.Discover more about Christian's research on pregnancy and childbirth.Discover the Djakamirr program, training doulas to help Yolŋu women give birth on their own country.Christian also recommends the book Why Warriors Lie Down and Die by Richard Trudgen as a valuable resource on Indigenous Australia.You can hear Richard's full conversation with Nigel Newton on the ABC Listen App or wherever you get your podcasts.https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/conversations/publisher-nigel-newton-on-harnessing-the-harry-potter-effect/7788834You can read all about the Conversations origin story on the ABC News website.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-03/richard-fidler-reflects-on-20-years-of-conversations/105495784

Growing up south of Sydney as one of six boys, midwifery wasn't the occupation Christian Wright expected for himself. At the age of nine, he experienced a vision that gave him a sense of his future in a life of service.As a qualified midwife, Christian spent time in the tiny town of Nhulunbuy, right on the tip of the Northern Territory.He worked with Yolŋu women of remote Arnhem Land to help them birth their babies.Further informationThis interview was first broadcast in March 2021.2025 update: Several years ago, Christian married his beloved, Caroline in Gove.On the first day of their honeymoon, as they were driving up the track, their troop carrier rolled.Christian's spine was broken, and he was airlifted to Royal Adelaide Hospital, where the doctors feared that he might not walk again.Christian went back to work within six months of the accident and has since worked in the NT and Papua New Guinea.He and Caroline now have a baby boy.Discover more about Christian's research on pregnancy and childbirth.Discover the Djakamirr program, training doulas to help Yolŋu women give birth on their own country.Christian also recommends the book Why Warriors Lie Down and Die by Richard Trudgen as a valuable resource on Indigenous Australia.You can hear Richard's full conversation with Nigel Newton on the ABC Listen App or wherever you get your podcasts.https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/conversations/publisher-nigel-newton-on-harnessing-the-harry-potter-effect/7788834You can read all about the Conversations origin story on the ABC News website.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-03/richard-fidler-reflects-on-20-years-of-conversations/105495784

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Male midwife, Christian Wright tells stories of emergency evacuations and surfing with crocodiles while working in remote Indigenous communities, helping Yolŋu women birth their babies.Growing up South of Sydney as one of six boys, midwifery wasn't the occupation Christian Wright expected for himself.At the age of nine he experienced a vision that gave him a sense of his future in a life of service.In the tiny town of Nhulunbuy, right on the tip of the Northern Territory, Christian worked with Yolŋu women of remote Arnhem Land to help them birth their babies.Further informationFirst broadcast March 2021.2025 update: Several years ago, Christian married his beloved, Caroline in Gove.On the first day of their honeymoon as they were driving up the track, their troop carrier rolled. Christian's spine was broken, and he was airlifted to Royal Adelaide Hospital, where the doctors feared that he may not walk again.Christian went back to work within six months of the accident and has since worked in the NT and Papua New Guinea.He and Caroline now have a baby boy. And yes, Christian did deliver the baby!Learn more about Christian's research into pregnancy and birth.Discover the Djakamirr program, training doulas to help Yolŋu women give birth on their own country.Christian also recommends the book Why Warriors Lie Down and Die by Richard Trudgen as a valuable resource on Indigenous Australia.Standout story – Nigel NewtonYou can hear Richard's full conversation with Nigel Newton on the ABC Listen app or wherever you get your podcasts.https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/conversations/publisher-nigel-newton-on-harnessing-the-harry-potter-effect/7788834You can read all about the Conversations origin story on the ABC News website.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-03/richard-fidler-reflects-on-20-years-of-conversations/105495784This episode of Conversations explores birth, midwifery, Yolŋu country, First Nations birthing, the fourth trimester, active labour and a male midwife.To binge even more great episodes of the Conversations podcast with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski go the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. There you'll find hundreds of the best thought-provoking interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, psychologists, musicians, and celebrities.

Male midwife, Christian Wright tells stories of emergency evacuations and surfing with crocodiles while working in remote Indigenous communities, helping Yolŋu women birth their babies.Growing up South of Sydney as one of six boys, midwifery wasn't the occupation Christian Wright expected for himself.At the age of nine he experienced a vision that gave him a sense of his future in a life of service.In the tiny town of Nhulunbuy, right on the tip of the Northern Territory, Christian worked with Yolŋu women of remote Arnhem Land to help them birth their babies.Further informationFirst broadcast March 2021.2025 update: Several years ago, Christian married his beloved, Caroline in Gove.On the first day of their honeymoon as they were driving up the track, their troop carrier rolled. Christian's spine was broken, and he was airlifted to Royal Adelaide Hospital, where the doctors feared that he may not walk again.Christian went back to work within six months of the accident and has since worked in the NT and Papua New Guinea.He and Caroline now have a baby boy.Learn more about Christian's research into pregnancy and birth.Discover the Djakamirr program, training doulas to help Yolŋu women give birth on their own country.Christian also recommends the book Why Warriors Lie Down and Die by Richard Trudgen as a valuable resource on Indigenous Australia.You can read all about the Conversations origin story on the ABC News website.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-03/richard-fidler-reflects-on-20-years-of-conversations/105495784This episode of Conversations explores birth, midwifery, Yolŋu country, First Nations birthing, the fourth trimester, active labour and a male midwife.

Gaypalani Wanambi, Yolŋu artist has won the 2025 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, with her striking steel panel work, Burwu, blossom.

"Arzu etdiyiniz hər şey Monteneqroda var""Qənaət etmək üçün "apartman tipli" hotellərdə qalmaq olar""Onlayn taksi xidməti olmayan ölkələrdə qiymətlə bağlı çətinliyim olub""Əgər dənizə getmək istəyirsinizsə, seçiminiz Budva olsun""Monteneqronun yolları çox qəlizdir"Qonağımız səyahətçi Hökümə Abbasova oldu.

What happens when a remote island community must build its own dialysis unit to keep families together? In Galiwin'ku, a Yolŋu community on Elcho Island in the Northern Territory, rates of chronic kidney disease are rising, forcing many to leave their homelands for life-saving dialysis treatment—often hundreds of kilometres away. In this episode, Dr Sarah Hanieh speaks with Charlie Yebarrarr Dhamarrandji, a community member undergoing dialysis, and Kat Baxter, a dedicated dialysis nurse from Purple House—an Indigenous-led healthcare service providing dialysis in remote communities. Together, they discuss the profound significance of the new local dialysis unit: what it means for culture, identity, and community.

How do you navigate a future shaped by both tradition and change? For young Yolŋu leaders, the path forward isn't always clear. Tradition is strong, but modern influences - like social media - are changing the way young people connect with culture, community, and Elders. With these shifts, tough questions arise: What traditions do you hold onto? What do you adapt? And how do you make space for both worlds? In this episode, Zelda Dhamarrandji, a young Yolŋu leader shares her experience of growing up in Galiwin'ku, where cultural knowledge and modern influences intersect. She reflects on the responsibility of carrying forward cultural knowledge, the pressures of the modern world, and what it means to move forward while staying connected to the past.

Western medicine treats the body, but for Yolŋu people, health is something much bigger. Wellbeing is tied to land, kinship, and the natural environment, passed down through generations. This traditional way of looking at health and wellbeing has sustained Yolŋu communities for centuries, but today, it exists alongside Western healthcare. In this episode, Dr. Sarah Hanieh speaks with Marcus Lacey to explore Yolŋu perspectives on health, the vital role of country in healing, and why these traditions remain essential in today's world.

Il direttore di Blackartprojects Andrea Candiani ci parla di due mostre da non perdere: "Yolŋu power, the art of Yirrkala" a Sydney, e "Five Acts of Love" a Melbourne.

Yolŋu Power: The Art of Yirrkala, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is not just an art exhibition, but a field of ancestral presence.It's a space of authority and deep listening that shows what art can be when it is inseparable from land, from water, from Law, and from the unbroken chain of Yolŋu knowledge.It's also the featured Winter exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, an important acknowledgement that Australian art is worthy of standing alongside the impressionist and modernist masterpieces at other state galleries.Yinimala Gumana, Gunybi Ganambarr, and Will Stubbs share their knowledge 

Andrew, Matthew and Josh get together for another sports packed edition of YOL. They kick things off by looking at the conclusion of the NBA finals and recent big NBA transactions. Later we have NFL headlines, including Justin tucker and George Pickens. And finally a big discussion about the greatest regular season QB of all time.Send us a text!Support the show

“Nedir?” diye sormuşlar bizim dervişe. Böyle ne idüğü belirsiz sorulara cevap vermeyi pek sevmez bizim derviş. Yürüdüğü yolu sırlı, esrarlı, -nasıl derler- sofistike zanneden akıl ve kalp kumkumalarından pek hazzetmez. Çünkü yolun sırlı, esrarlı olmadığını bilir. Yol düzdür zira. Yolu çatallı, çapraşık, karışık kılan insanın kibri ve cehlidir.

"Qaydaları Pozma" verilişində BDYPİ-nin rəsmisi polkovnik-leytenant Mübariz Ağayevlə birlikdə məktəblilərin yol hərəkəti təhlükəsizliyi sahəsində maarifləndirilməsi məqsədilə “Yol Polisimizlə bir gün” adlı silsilə tədbirlər haqqında danışdıq.

"Qaydaları Pozma" verilişində Azərbaycan Sığortaçılar Assosiasiyasının ekspert qrupunun üzvü Emin Allahverdiyevlə birlikdə qəza zamanı sığorta ödənişlərinin gecikməsi və ya imtina hallarından, bu halların səbəblərindən danışdıq.

"Qaydaları Pozma" verilişində "Bakı Sığorta" ASC-nin Ləğvetmə Komissiyasının sədri, Azərbaycan Vəkillər Kollegiyasının üzvü,vəkil Oqtay Şeydabəyovla birlikdə sığorta hadisəsi zamanı vətəndaşların hüquqlarının qorunmasından, sığorta müqaviləsində diqqət edilməli olan hüquqi məqamlardan danışdıq.

"Yol əhvalatı"nda qonağımız olan rəqs müəllimi İftixar Rəsulov ilə cütlük rəqslərindən və səyahət etdiyi müxtəlif ölkələrdən danışdıq.

In the latest episode of The Food Talk Show, host Ollie Lloyd talks to Philip Teverow, co-founder and CEO of Yolélé, a brand pioneering the development of fonio, a grain that you might not have heard of but has tremendous potential. Fonio is not just any grain; it's a “gluten-free ancient grain that cooks in five minutes and is drought tolerant," emphasises Philip. Women in West Africa traditionally cultivate the grain as a subsistence crop. However, Philip and his business partner, legendary NY chef, Pierre Thiam, envision fonio as a grain that can support livelihoods through sustainable agriculture. Their mission began when Pierre tried to create a cookbook using authentic ingredients and realised there was a broader opportunity to create something altogether new with Teverow. Teverow explains that fonio has challenges at its core: "It's very easy to grow, but hard to process due to its tiny grain size." The technical complexity of processing fonio involves removing an inedible hull from a minuscule grain. Despite these obstacles, the potential market for this grain appeals to major food companies, not just for its nutritional properties but also for its alignment with organisations' sustainable development goals. The journey from conception to commercialisation began when they found a willing retail partner. “Whole Foods became our testing ground,” Philip explains, where they started by promoting fonio in a single Harlem store as a raw ingredient. The grain and its incredible story immediately got media attention, bringing Yolélé into the spotlight. Pretty quickly, global food companies started showing interest in incorporating fonio into their products, but there is still a lot of work to be done regarding the process. The driving factor in fonio's potential lies in its versatility and its environmental promise. “Fonio can substitute for less sustainable grains, like rice or corn,” states Philip, highlighting its minimal water and carbon footprint. Its adaptability is evident in sectors beyond just whole grain consumption, finding its place in brewing, as well as in making crisps and flour and Yolélé already offer a number of these products direct to consumers.  Philip's approach resonates with a broader outlook: supporting smallholder farmers in West Africa while maintaining the identity of fonio as an indigenous crop. Despite the steep capital required to scale processing, the commitment to fully industrialise production persists, balancing their commercial scale with the sustainability ethos. Philip envisions a food system where fonio is just the beginning. He aims to incorporate multiple crops into this new regenerative agriculture model to support biodiversity and sustainable farming practices.

Before the sashes and strippers, there were sacred dances, hair offerings, and goddess worship. In this episode, Monika O'Hanlon traces the wild history of the hen's night — from Ancient Greece to modern-day karaoke chaos.We explore global pre-wedding rituals, feminist twists, and how queering the hen's night is reshaping tradition. It's heartfelt, hilarious, and occasionally penis-shaped.New episodes every Wednesday. Follow The StickyBeak and tell a mate!To read more about Yolŋu culture check out the resources below.https://yolnguknowledgeframework.com.au/home-eng/https://www.dhimurru.com.au/yolngu-culture.htmlhttps://yirrkala.com/https://www.commonground.org.au/article/yolngu-ways-of-learningThis episode was brought to you by Tüt, toilet lid stickers to zhuzh up your toot. Because every throne needs a crown.https://www.etsy.com/shop/tutdeco/Got an Idea for the Podcast?I'd love to hear from you! If there's a topic you'd like me to explore or someone you think would make a great guest, flick me a message.EMAIL: thestickybeakpodcast@outlook.comINSTAGRAM: @thestickybeakpodcastTIKTOK: @thestickybeakpodcastFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/listen.with.mon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Gulpilil, born in Arnhem Land in 1953, was more than just an actor—he was a cultural bridge, storyteller, and proud Yolŋu man who changed the face of Australian cinema. From his breakout role in Walkabout (1971) to his haunting final performance in My Name is Gulpilil (2021), his work brought Australian First Nations voices and perspectives to screens around the world.Off-screen, Gulpilil lived a life as complex as any of his characters—balancing fame with tradition, navigating hardship, and ultimately becoming a national icon whose legacy continues to shape the arts and Indigenous representation in Australia.Join Holly & Matthew as they explore the extraordinary life and enduring influence of David Gulpilil.***All voice clips used come from the My Name is Gulpilil biographical film.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-crap-in-australia--2968350/support.

Yeni bir macerada Prenses Selinay ve can dostu Albatros Ros cesur olmak isteyen Batu'ya yardım ederken kendilerine neyin cesaret verdiğini de düşünme şansı bulurlar. Yol'da olmak, kendini tanımak, kendi değerini bilmek gibi temaların da ele alındığı bu uyku hikayemiz uykuya dalmayı kolaylaştıran müziğiyle beraber 50 dakika sürüyor. Heyecan unsurları taşıyan hikayemiz ilk otuz dakikasında dinleyenlere tatlı bir macera yaşatıyor ve son 20 dakikasında dinleyenleri adım adım uykuya hazırlıyor.

In this episode of The Startup CPG Podcast, Grace Kennedy sits down with Philip Teverow, co-founder of Yolélé, an African food brand bringing Fonio, a gluten-free ancient grain, to the U.S. market. Philip shares the inspiring story of how he and his business partner, Chef Pierre Thiam, embarked on a mission to introduce African flavors to a wider audience while supporting West African farmers and sustainable agriculture.Philip discusses the challenges of building a supply chain from West Africa to the U.S., how Yolélé secured Whole Foods as its first major retailer, and why food service is their next big focus. He also dives into the unexpected rise of Fonio beer, how Yolélé is expanding into new product categories, and offers valuable advice for emerging CPG founders navigating distribution and growth.If you're curious about innovative food businesses, sustainable supply chains, or simply want to try Fonio chips for yourself, this episode is a must-listen!Listen in as they share about:The Origins of YoléléFonio – An Ancient African GrainExpanding Product Line & Retail PresenceSupply Chain Challenges & SolutionsSurprising Uses of FonioBusiness Growth & StrategyAdvice for CPG EntrepreneursEpisode Links:Website: https://yolele.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-teverow-9215962/ Don't forget to leave a five-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify if you enjoyed this episode. For potential sponsorship opportunities or to join the Startup CPG community, visit http://www.startupcpg.com.Show Links:Transcripts of each episode are available on the Transistor platform that hosts our podcast here (click on the episode and toggle to “Transcript” at the top)Join the Startup CPG Slack community (20K+ members and growing!)Follow @startupcpgVisit host Daniel's Linkedin Questions or comments about the episode? Email Daniel at podcast@startupcpg.comEpisode music by Super Fantastics

Food Tank, in partnership with Nespresso, recently hosted the “All Things Food and Environment” Summit, held during Sundance 2025. This episode of Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg features two conversations from the event highlighting the inspiring stories of food systems transformation that can be told through film. First, Chef Pierre Thiam, an author and the Founder of Yolélé, and Anne Marie Hagerty, the Host and Founder of The Envoy Show, sit down with Dani to discuss the forthcoming episode of a new docuseries focused on the power of fonio. They talk about the importance of scaling production of traditional crops for farmers and the planet, why this grain is a Trojan horse, and culinary diplomacy. Then, Lynn Waymer, a social impact producer with Kontent Films, talks to Dani about the new documentary “Farming While Black.” They dive into the trust that is foundational to telling an effective story, the Black farmers including Leah Penniman and Karen Washington behind the  movement for more regenerative and equitable agriculture systems, and how the documentary is being used as an educational tool. While you're listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.

Kurallar uyulmak için mi yoksa uyulmamak için mi var? Bu konu hakkında biraz dertli olan ekibimiz, kurallara uymamanın çıkardığı problemleri değerlendiriyor. Interactive Transcript and Vocab Helper Support Easy Turkish and get interactive transcripts and live vocabulary for all our episodes: easyturkish.fm/membership Transcript Intro Emin: [0:24] Herkese merhaba. Easy Turkish Podcast'in yeni bölümüne hepiniz hoş geldiniz. Ben Emin. Bugünkü bölümümüzde Berkin'le beraberiz. Nasılsın Berkin? Berkin: [0:34] Teşekkür ediyorum Emin. İyiyim. Sen de iyisindir umarım. Kurallar gerçekten uyulmamak için mi var? Emin: [0:37] Ben de iyiyim de biraz sinirliyim ya. Berkin: [0:39] Ne oldu? Emin: [0:40] İstanbul'da araba sürmek benim sinirlerimi zorlayan bir etkinlik hâline geldi iyice. Kimse kurallara uymuyor. Kimsetrafikte yapması gereken şeyleri yapmıyor. Bu da beni gerçekten sinirlendiriyor. Bugünkü bölümümüz de hatta bununla alakalı yani direkt. Direkt konuya giriş yapıyorum şu anda. Berkin: [1:00] Ben de dedim "Acaba konuyu görüp mü sinirlendi gene?" falan. Sinirleri hopladı. Emin: [1:04] Bu arada ben oturduğum yerden de insanların kurallara uymaması konusunda sinirlenebilirim. Yani öyle bir potansiyele sahibim. Berkin: [1:11] Değil mi? Yani etkisi sana uzanmasa da, seni etkilemese de. Emin: [1:15] Evet, evet. Benim en büyük hobilerimden birisi cumartesi, pazar oturup evimin gördüğü döner kavşağı izlemek. Gerçekten benim en büyük hobilerimden birisi. Abi on araba varken bile o kavşak tıkanıyor. On araba ya! Ya nasıl olabilir bu? İnsanlar kavşaktaki araca yol vermediği için. Berkin: [1:39] Evet. Evet... Bir de bizim tabelalarımız falan da hep olur yani kavşaklarda. "Kavşak içindekine yol ver" Emin: [1:45] Evet evet "Yol ver" tabelası. Ama bu ülkede kesinlikle yol ver tabelasını insanlar görmüyor. Görmüyor. Hiçbir geçerliliği yok o tabelanın. Support Easy Turkish and get interactive transcripts and live vocabulary for all our episodes: easyturkish.fm/membership

Rachel Herweynen discusses Gäwa Christian School, located on Elcho Island, in Warramiri land, in the Northern Territory of Australia: "As well as training students in God's law and teaching the Northern Territory school curriculum, we seek to preserve Warramiri knowledge and the gifts of the wider Yolŋu culture."

Send us a text!It's all about family on this episode of YOL. Amaya is back and we are talking about the thrill of live sports, the greatest rivalry in the west, and doing a thanksgiving edition of the Power Top 5.Support the show

Our guest today is the Aussie surf-rock band King Stingray! Hailing from Arnhem Land, this group has quickly built a devoted following with their powerful fusion of rock and Yolŋu cultural influences. After earning ARIA and AIR awards for their self-titled debut, King Stingray is back with For the Dreams, a breathtaking new album that explores themes of nostalgia, simple living, and a deep connection to their homeland. In today's episode, we sit down with guitarist and producer Roy Kellaway to chat about the creation of For the Dreams, recorded across various studios throughout Australia. We dive into the band's collaborative songwriting approach and the significance of blending First Nations and English languages in their music. Plus, Roy gives us a sneak peek into their upcoming U.S. tour with King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and what fans can look forward to on their Australian tour dates in March.Annie Hamilton: Instagram / Spotify Purchase For the Dreams and see King Stingray on tour here.Visit our official website here and follow us across our socials.

Bu bölümde, Amerika'nın en ünlü yollarından biri olan Route 66'yı ele alıyoruz. Konuğumuz Vadi Efe, Route 66 yolculuğunu tamamlamış biri olarak bize hem yolun tarihi dokusunu hem de deneyimlediği birbirinden farklı durakları anlatıyor. Yol boyunca karşılaşılan şehirler, manzaralar ve keşiflerle dolu bu yolculuğun ayrıntılarına iniyoruz. Keyifli dinlemeler! PATRONUMUZ OLMAK İÇİN TIKLA!⁠

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Pierre Thiam is an Author, Activist, and the Executive Chef at Teranga and NOK by Alara. His restaurants allow him to showcase West African cuisine with a focus on sustainability. He founded Yolélé to support smallholder farms in the Sahel region of Africa and advocate for the nutritious West African grain, Fonio. Pierre has also written four cookbooks so people can enjoy African cuisine at home. In this episode, Pierre shares how his passion for food took him from Dakar to New York City and how he uses his position to celebrate and preserve traditional food cultures. Pierre also shares how he promotes sustainable food systems, supports small farmers, and raises awareness about underutilised crops such as Fonio.   Resources and links: Teranga website NOK by Alara website Yolélé website  Pierre Thiam's website Pierre Thiam on Instagram Pierre Thiam on X Pierre Thiam on LinkedIn Pierre Thiam on YouTube   Connect: Future Fork podcast website Paul Newnham on Instagram Paul Newnham on X Paul Newnham on LinkedIn Disruptive Consulting Solutions website SDG2 Advocacy Hub website SDG2 Advocacy Hub on X SDG2 Advocacy Hub on Facebook SDG2 Advocacy Hub on LinkedIn This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

*Bir hadis-i şerifte, Rasûl-ü Ekrem Efendimiz'in (sallallâhu aleyhi ve sellem) hasır üzerinde istirahat buyurması ve hasırın da vücudunda iz bırakması sebebiyle Hazreti Ömer'in gözleri dolu dolu, “Yâ Rasûlallah! Sasaniler şöyle, Romalılar böyle…” diyerek O'nun da dünya nimetlerinden biraz istifade etmesi gerektiğini ima etmesi üzerine Efendimiz'in (sallallâhu aleyhi ve sellem) şöyle buyurduğu rivayet edilir: مَا لِي وَمَا لِلدُّنْيَا مَا أَنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا كَرَاكِبٍ اسْتَظَلَّ تَحْتَ شَجَرَةٍ ثُمَّ رَاحَ وَتَرَكَهَا “Benim dünya ile ne alâkam olabilir ki! Benim dünyadaki hâlim, bir ağacın altında gölgelenip azıcık dinlendikten sonra yoluna devam eden bir yolcunun hâline benzer.” (Tirmizî, Zühd 44) Hepimiz biliyoruz ki, O (sallallâhu aleyhi ve sellem) isteseydi, Ashab-ı Kiram evinde barkında ne varsa getirir ve O'nun altına sererlerdi. Fakat İnsanlığın İftihar Tablosu, kendisini, muvakkaten bir ağacın altında ârâm eden ve sonra da çekip giden bir yolcuya benzetip dünyayla olan münasebetinin bundan ibaret olduğunu ifade ediyor; ruhunun ufkuna yürüyeceği âna kadar da hep bu ölçüye göre yaşıyor ve ümmetine de istiğna ruhunu talim buyuruyordu. (22:55) *İnsanlığa hizmete kendini adamış olanlar, peygamber yolunda yürüdükleri zaman kalıcı eserler bırakırlar. Yoksa Harun olarak yola çıkıp sonra Kârunlaşan kimseler, bir gün hazineleriyle beraber yerin dibine batarlar da lanet ile yâd edilirler. Hiç olmazsa imana ve Kur'an'a hizmete kendini adamış bu daire-yi mübareke içinde bulunan insanlar, yaptıkları hizmetler içinde, konumları itibarıyla “Ben şunu kendi hesabıma bir avantaj olarak değerlendirebilirim. Hatırımı kullanarak ‘şöyle bir mukavelede/ihalede bana da şu kadar şey düşünün' diyebilirim” mülahazalarından uzak olmalıdırlar. Eğer dilimde tel'in etmeye, “Yerin dibine batsın!” demeye azıcık açıklık bulunsaydı, dilimin bir parçasında bedduaya yer olsaydı, ‘millete hizmet ediyoruz' dedikleri halde o iş içinde kendi çıkarlarını düşünenler, meseleleri çıkar çarkına bağlayanlar, ihalelerde kendilerine pay ayıranlar ve kendilerine pay verenleri mabeyn-i hümayun insanı haline getirenler hakkında “Allah sizi çoluk çocuğunuzla, beklentilerinizle, ümitlerinizle yerin dibine batırsın, mahvetsin!” derdim. Ama demedim; çünkü dilimde öyle bir şeye yer yok. İkbal'in dediği gibi, “Dua dua yalvardım; tel'ine, bedduaya ‘amin' demedim!” (23:47) *Yol, İnsanlığın İftihar Tablosu'nun, Hazreti Ebu Bekir'in, Hazreti Ömer'in yoludur. Onların yol ve yöntemlerinin dışında yürümeye “yolsuzluk” denir. İnsan farkına varmadan elli türlü yolsuzluğa kaymış olur.. ve yolsuzluk, bir yerde insanı güldürse bile, bir gün öyle bir ağlatır ki, orada “Ah keşke ölüp gitseydim, toprak olsaydım da bunları duymasaydım!” dedirtir insana.

Pierre Thiam is a renowned chef, restaurant owner, cookbook author, and co-founder of Yolélé – a company working to introduce the world to fonio, an ancient West African grain built for climate change.But it hasn't been all sunshine and good harvests for Pierre. In fact, he was robbed just days after he first arrived in New York City from Senegal.It was 1989, and he had just traveled to the U.S. to study chemistry and physics. This chance incident, however, set Pierre's life on an entirely different course.This week on How I Built This Lab, Pierre talks with Guy about his company's work circulating fonio, a nutrient-dense and drought-resistant food source. Pierre also shares how he overcame cultural norms to embrace his cooking career, and his take on the connection between colonization and the vulnerability of our global food systems.This episode was produced by Katherine Sypher and edited by John Isabella, with music by Ramtin Arablouei. Our audio engineer was Gilly Moon.You can follow HIBT on Twitter & Instagram, and email us at hibt@id.wondery.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Pierre Thiam was robbed within days of arriving in New York City. It was 1989, and he had just traveled to the U.S. from Senegal to study chemistry and physics. This chance incident, however, set Pierre's life on an entirely different course. Today, he's a renowned chef, restaurant owner, cookbook author, and co-founder of Yolélé – a company working to introduce the world to an ancient West African grain called fonio.This week on How I Built This Lab, Pierre talks with Guy about his company's work to circulate this nutrient-dense and drought-resistant food source. Pierre also shares how he overcame cultural norms to embrace his cooking career, and his take on the connection between colonization and the vulnerability of our global food systems. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.