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- Look into my eyes and
describe what you see.
Just a couple of scars, that's all.
- Yeah, yeah, that's all.
It's all good, though.
I dunno, to be honest, it's been a while
since we talked, you
know, the circumstance,
life in Lebanon can be pretty
all over the place, you know?
- That's so true.
Everyone's so busy.
- [Antoine] Yeah, and I'm
really sorry I couldn't get,
get to you earlier.
- Oh, no problem.
No man, it's, everyone, I understand.
Like, people have their families at risk,
your life's at risk,
everyone's at risk, so it's--
- Yeah man, I heard you
were in the hospital,
and I was really, I
wasn't, I didn't like that.
I didn't like to hear that, man.
- Yeah, me neither, me
neither, me neither.
- It was bad news, but I knew
that I couldn't really get to you
until you were okay,
so I just had to wait.
So I waited, you know?
- And I'm thankful you got to me, man.
I'm thankful.
It's just, this whole thing
happened just so quickly,
and all of a sudden, no one like,
it's out of the blue.
It's unexplained.
I don't even know how--
- I know.
- I was in my office,
and we were 800 meters
away from where it happened.
And my office, my office has two windows,
one that's right in front of
me, and one that's on my right.
And everything just
exploded and collapsed.
And the whole, the whole
building basically just shook.
And it was, it was terrible.
- Man, man, I'm lucky to
be talking to you because--
- Honestly, I'm just lucky
that I'm still alive.
Lucky is not even a word.
I don't even know what to say.
- How would the Beirut
explosion, you know,
how would that influence you as an artist?
- For me, there's so much
anger right now, man.
There's so much anger.
I'm so angry.
- You can get on the drums
and blast a beat, yeah?
- Hey, I can't play drums right now,
'cause I have my fingers all torn up,
and I have a nerve damage.
But, as soon as I can get
back into playing drums,
I'm gonna really just
really let all this anger,
and try to do something
out of it, you know?
Just to put it into something,
and I'm sure it's gonna
come up, you know--
- Show me your hand, show me your hand.
- Yeah, this is just--
- What the hell?
- My finger, yeah this finger, the index
was completely open on the
day of the explosion, so.
- They say Lebanese people are resilient.
I think that we are,
we have a natural communal
high for some reason,
because any other country
on earth, this happens,
we'd be eating each other alive.
I mean, imagine this happening in France.
If this was to happen in France,
you'd be saying Notre Dame,
there's no Notre Dame.
There's no Sainte-Chapelle,
there is no Eiffel Tower, you know?
Imagine if this happened
under the Arc de Triomphe,
there would be nothing left of Paris,
there'd be nothing left of Paris.
None of the houses, none of the streets,
none of the catacombs.
- In all honesty, I don't want to imagine
this happening anywhere else.
- Anywhere else.
- Anywhere else.
Because anywhere in the world,
no, no one really deserves,
no one really deserves this.
Not us, not anybody else in the world.
So I don't really want, I don't really
want to imagine this happening
anywhere else in the world.
- Yeah, do you know what's worse?
I don't think we are going to get
the pleasure of the truth coming out.
I don't think they're
going to tell us the truth
about what happened.
They're already covering it up.
They're already covering it up.
Can you show me something
around you that would make me
understand your current
state of mind better?
- Sure.
This is my drums.
This is my, this is where I usually
sit to play drums, over there.
And right now, this is all I can think of.
You know?
This is all I have in mind,
but I cannot do anything.
I cannot play.
- Is your house okay?
- My house is okay.
My car got ravaged by
the explosion as well.
So I don't have any car anymore as well.
- Oh man, oh man, oh man.
Ugh, do you have a job?
Is the, is your company gonna reopen?
Like what, any news on that front?
- This is a company with
a factory, and which is located in Bord.
And all the offices are relocating there,
so the company is good,
and we're not continuing.
- Oh man, that's a blessing to be honest.
- That is a blessing.
It is true, truly is a blessing,
truly is a blessing.
- I mean, just having
a job these days is--
- Yeah, completely true.
- Bachir, what do you think?
I mean, you've traveled, right?
So, what do foreigners think of,
when you say Lebanon,
what's the first thing
that comes into their mind?
- Most of the people I met,
once they know once they, you know,
Lebanon is mentioned,
automatically they think of this place
on the Mediterranean with good food.
- Oh yeah, yeah.
- You know, the food always
speaks for itself, man.
- What's your favorite Lebanese food?
- That will have to be, for sure,
hummus and you know, the usual,
but I would say, I would say my favorite,
my favorite Lebanese tradition
would be the Sundays.
You know, it's Sunday,
the family gathering.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.
Barbecuing every Sunday
with the extended family.
You know, with your 72
cousins and 53 grandmas.
(both laugh)
- Exactly.
- Yeah, we have big families.
We have big, big, families.
Would do you leave, would you immigrate?
- It's like, it's an in between, you know?
With all the, with all the stuff happening
around us here, somehow I'm still have,
I know it's crazy, but somehow in my mind,
maybe, just maybe, just
maybe things can get better.
What do you think is the
hardest thing for me right now?
- For you?
- Yeah.
- This is the hardest
thing for you right now.
I mean, do you want any harder?
Like the whole state you're in, man.
I'm just going to be honest.
Like, I mean I'm okay, I'm okay.
But I can't really wrap my head
around what happened to Beirut.
- Yeah, yeah, same here, same here.
For me, I was just getting back to,
I just want to get back
to, you know, be in shape.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Get back to normal, get back in shape,
and get back in good health.
Get back on the kit, play drums.
Just get back to my regular lifestyle,
and just try to--
- Exactly!
- Cope with all that, you know?
- We just want to be left alone.
I mean, we just don't, we don't want
a big explosion ruining everything.
We don't want protests, we don't want,
I mean we do want protests,
because we want thing to get better.
- Yeah, we want change,
exactly, that's true.
- Lebanon really teaches you
how to enjoy the moments, yeah?
Because any moment could
be your last moment.
- That's so true, man.
- Which is weird.
- We're learning that the hard way.
- Yeah, which is weird because
this isn't a war zone, yeah?
It's not like we're used to bombs,
but you never know with this country.
- Yeah, exactly.
- I don't know if I should
feel bad joking about it,
but honestly, no other
way to cope with this.
- I was going to say the same thing.
It's like, you know, it's like don't know
whether to laugh or cry about this.
- Yeah.
How, how are you going
to use this to change,
to get through your life around?
- This event, I mean honestly,
the more we talk about what happened,
and the more we talk to
people about what happened,
the more we let people
know about how negligent,
you know, and corrupt the
people in charge here are,
the more we can, we will
be able to make a change.
You know, because if we don't,
if we don't speak up and we don't say,
and we don't talk about these
people that are corrupt,
and that are controlling everything,
then how can we make a change, you know?
If you can give out anything
in the world, what would it be?
You know, anything?
- It would be two things
that I would give out.
I'd give out wisdom and peace,
because you need one
for the other, I think.
- Yeah, that's true.
- I believe most of,
I believe most of the world's problems
is from the fact that we
like to fight each other
a lot, Lebanon being the prime example.
- Yeah, that's so true.
- Yeah, just peace on earth, man.
Peace on earth and goodwill towards men.
Peace out, man, peace out, yeah.
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