#51 - Niko Karolidis: THE HORRIFYING RISE OF NAZI GERMANY; THE SUPER LEAGUE; THE "EUREKA" STORY; THE PANDEMIC IN GREECE; COCKTAILS & TRENDS DEBATE

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Julian Dorey

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4.6 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 173 minutes

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Niko Karolidis is a restaurateur, businessman, and dual citizen of the United States and Greece. ****TIMESTAMPS*** 6:16 - The Pandemic in Greece; Shortages & Unemployment Problems post-Pandemic; The pipeline hack and meat company hack; Sandworm (book by Andy Greenberg) discussion; Selling Fear 44:27 - The failed “Super League” in Europe; Discussion on relegation in European soccer; Soccer fans are crazy 1:12:12 - Why sports are great; The need for die hard fans 1:16:18 - Niko discusses cocktails and how he built his bar (The Cage) around mixologists he imported from Greece; What makes a cocktail great and why we don’t appreciate good cocktails in America 1:28:11 - Niko & Julian debate the strength of global trends that start in America 1:34:44 - The Greek Culture; Niko explains Halkidiki; What the Greek people value in life and their view on what constitutes “success” 1:48:52 - Why people around the world still long to come to America; Julian talks about thee fine line between “improving what’s bad” and “tearing down what’s good”; Niko talks about the need to travel 1:57:24 - Living through war changes how you value life and freedom; Niko tells a story about his Grandma hiding Jews from the Nazis during World War II; Julian discusses his recent research on the horrifying rise of Nazi Germany and what enabled it; Niko explains the concept of the word “Eureka” and how it has Greek origins via the law of buoyancy; Julian draws modern day parallels to tactics Hitler used to gain power 2:25:20 - The struggles and core needs of our ancestors are ingrained within us; Niko explains some of his ancestors’ origins in the Pontus region of Turkey where Pontic Greeks settled after being enslaved by the Turks; Abundance and the need to share that’s built into Niko; Discussion on dialects 2:38:51 - Julian talks about Sicily and tells a story describing the mafia’s continued hold over it; The modern day power of the Italian-American Mafia; Niko discusses Brunch done right ~ YouTube EPISODES & CLIPS: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0A-v_DL-h76F75xik8h03Q ~ Get $100 Off The Eight Sleep Pod Pro Mattress / Mattress Cover: https://eight-sleep.ioym.net/trendifier Julian's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey ~ Beat provided by: https://freebeats.io Music Produced by White Hot Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.6	My grandma was hiding Jews in the basement behind haystacks, hiding a family family of three and the Nazis came to the house
0:40.9	and said are you hiding jews and my grandma said no how old was she i i i would be wrong if i
0:49.4	i answered you i not five no no no no she was like 15, 20, something like that. She was old enough to
0:56.0	talk to the officers. And they did a whole tour of the house and they didn't find them. And my
1:02.7	grandma tells me that story that like she saved, she literally saved the family, bro. Literally.
1:10.3	Like, we never feel that, like, that's war.
1:14.0	That's things they felt on the reg.
1:15.8	Because the war was on their turf.
1:26.3	What's cooking, everybody?
1:39.3	This conversation I just had is with a superstar of the hospitality industry, a genuinely great guy, and my lifelong best friend since we were four or five years old. I am joined in the bunker today by my buddy Nico Carolinas.
1:48.9	I knew the hardest part of getting him in here would be actually convincing him to do this.
1:51.9	But once I did, I knew he'd be a natural he was.
1:54.5	Once we started talking about soccer, I mean, it was off to the races.
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