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>> anthony: morocco has ras el hanout, india, garam masala. ethiopia has this. the brightly colored berbere. the color is amazing, and those guys who grind the stuff are covered with it, breathe it all day long. >> maya: feel this, it's so warm. >> anthony: still warm. wow. that's sort of magic, man. ♪ marcus left ethiopia at age two, so finding and reconnecting with his family has not been easy.
A buzz. >> marcus: yeah. >> anthony: so basically the people around here who've got a load on, they've been working on this for a long time. >> marcus: all day. this is a working class. this is where the workers go. >> anthony: it's a cheap buzz. >> marcus: it's a cheap buzz. cheers. and you just knock it back. >> anthony: all right. >> marcus: it's good, man. you feel the funk? >> anthony: oh yeah. >> marcus: in the end, right? >> anthony: yeah, it's working, man. >> marcus: i've never seen a woman in a bar like this. >> maya: it's forbidden. >> anthony: this is sort of a guy thing? >> maya: ...
>> maya: good idea. but, he has a better foot than you do. >> marcus: he does. he does. i wasn't ready for this. ♪ >> anthony: so, how does it feel to be back? >> marcus: it feels -- >> anthony: you seem, i gotta tell you. if i could be honest, you seem conflicted. >> marcus: yeah. there's 1,000 thoughts going through my head. i always feel a little guilty that i got out. >> anthony: if you'd stayed, what do you think you'd be doing right now? >> marcus: i would have been a farmer or dealt with some type of cattle. >> anthony: i'm pretty sure you would have been a shit farmer, though, marcus...
>> anthony: a lamb, of course, must be slaughtered. actually, in this case, two lambs because here, as in much of ethiopia, muslims and christians live side-by-side. one lamb gets the halal treatment, one for the christians. it's a peculiar history of peaceful coexistence here, of which ethiopians are quite proud. the christians came here during the time of the apostles, from the very beginnings of christianity as a religion. and the belief is that mohammad, after being persecuted and driven from mecca by the quraysh, fled to ethiopia where he found refuge.
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