(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Bek Lover is a New York City nightlife legend, podcaster, and proud Albanian. Both his mother and father immigrated to America from the oppressive regimes in Albania and Kosovo, respectively. Unfortunately, other members of Bek’s family were not so lucky. In the Kosovo War of 1999, many of his relatives were victims of the Serbian Army’s Genocide against Albanian Kosovars.

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0:00 - Intro; The current state of New York City; Bek tells stories about the corporate world; Why Bek is a New York City nightlife legend

24:02 - Beck’s Albanian background and ties to the 1999 Kosovo War; Albanians aren’t Slavic; The Ancient Illyrians & their ties to Albanians; Why Albanians are spread out among countries; Albania’s political system and language

38:26 - Americans have a different relationship with the land inside our borders; Bek talks about racism; Bek tells a story about a Muslim woman and a Jewish woman in a park; Bek’s encounter with a Serbian

1:03:08 - Background of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s; Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic; Comparing Slavic and Albanian origins and languages; Kosovo’s first leader, Ibrahim Rugova; Albanian desire to unite in one country; The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA); The Serbian Police state rule of Kosovo in the 1990s; The current Russia Ukraine crisis

1:27:27 - America and Venezuela?; We don’t make anything in America; The related problems of political extremes; The family unit in America; Many people somehow deny climate change

1:44:11 - The story behind Bek’s parent’s decision to leave Kosovo; Bek recalls summers in Kosovo growing up; Why Bek values America

1:59:17 - Bek lays out the genocide of his family members in the 1999 Kosovo War; KLA Leader Adem Jashari and the massacre that laid the foundation of War with Serbia; The Serbian and Albanian arguments over Kosovo’s history; The religion vs language conflict in the Serbian / Albanian argument; Bek recalls having the register at the police station in Kosovo as a kid and paying of police; What Bek’s parents think of the US today

2:17:57 - Bek was present at the twin towers in Sept. ‘01; The “Death Cloud” of smoke; Afghanistan’s recent fall to the Taliban

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