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TRIGGERnometry

Trans Activists Tried to Ruin My Restaurant

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Restauranteur James Chavaliani joins us in the studio to discuss how a fundraising dinner for Ukrainian orphans with JK Rowling lead to his family-run business being attacked by trans activists.  Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/​​​ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/​​​ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media:  https://twitter.com/triggerpod​​​ https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod​​​ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod​​​ About TRIGGERnometry:  Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm determined, that's why I was desperate. When you sent me that message going,

0:19.2

so it was me right for sticking my head, I was like, no, no, this is not how this is going to go.

0:24.3

Appreciate it. This is not how this is, this is not how this should ever go.

0:33.3

Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantin Kissen.

0:38.7

And this is a show for you, if you want, on his conversations with fascinating people.

0:44.4

Our brilliant guest is a friend of the show in a restaurant called James Cavareini,

0:47.7

welcome to Trigonometry. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me both.

0:50.4

Listen, man, it's great to have you on. I wish the circumstances were different. We'll talk about

0:53.9

that in a second. But before we get into that, tell everybody, who are you?

0:58.0

How are you, where you are? What has been your journey through life that leads you to be sitting here talking to us?

1:02.0

Right. So both my parents came over from Italy to open restaurants in the UK.

1:08.6

My father was part of the sort of first wave of Italian restaurants that opened up.

1:13.2

Remember that we've only really had restaurants in this country for like 55, 60 years.

1:17.7

My dad settled on a little place in Ketitanoia, Chicago,

1:20.5

Portugal, which I've been in 1967, I believe. And then started working his absolute butt off

1:28.4

as hard as he could. And then got married to my mum. I'm joined the business again.

1:32.9

And you know, fast forward 55, 56 years. And here we are still going strong.

1:37.5

And it's a, you know, it's a restaurant where we go to celebrate birthdays and occasions and

1:42.3

all of that. You're great. The food's great. Everything's great. But there've been some events

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