Hey everybody, it's Edmond van der Bijl with another episode of Once Around the Block
I'm here with the one the only... -Kéthévane Gorjestani. -Hi Ket. -Hello -..I
went straight to Ket... -Yes... -Is that alright? -That is good...-I have so many nicknames...it's fine... -What, how many nicknames? -I don't
know "Ket. Kéthé, Kétou" depending on the language ... -And what are you good with all
of them? -Yeah! -Sometimes people ask me if I'm okay but I'm like I just
I'll give you my name in the beginning... -And you choose, yeah... -You do your thing...-Exactly. -Alright so who is Kéthévane?
-I don't like describing myself with my work but it is pretty pretty big deal so
I'm a journalist...and yeah I give you the news. -You give me the news. -I try...
-And are you in front of the camera behind the camera, on paper? -I am now in front of the camera
I do the sports news on France 24. -ok, I'm going to back to that but you were before we were
just talking about it before we got started before you're doing sports you
were doing... - International affairs... covering everything from protests,
wars, politics all of that and that was intense...
interesting but intense... -Yeah, emotionally draining? -Yes especially...well in France
of course there were the attacks in 2015 and I was there for both of the January and the
November and after that I kind of decided that it was a was as a
journalist great to be there for that but at the same time it gets very very
hard after a while...and then I moved to sports to like kind of get into
less intense mode...-So Paris, I mean like we all know Paris...you live there...-Yes. So
okay there's like a double question one is like how is Paris doing? And
I guess I'm kind of tagging on the last question being like how did it react to
those attacks and stuff is it is it healing is it still... -I think I can say
that it's healed...there were
especially after the November ones it was very weird for like two months
...and then I guess after the new year people were kind of like okay well it's
happened but we can't let this define who we are and you kind of saw people
going back to cafes like living their lives even though it was still on our
minds and I remember we we were out drinking with some friends and we all
got the alerts that one of the guys had been arrested yeah we finally found him
and everyone posted on social media like this one's for you you asshole and we're
all out ...it was you know you just learn to live with it yeah unfortunately
-It's crazy right the world the world we live in I guess...So let's like try
and lighten the mood little bit...like I
know New York I'm more than off in there
I haven't been in Paris in a very long time...how's it going? -Paris is sometimes
you you know when you compare it to other big cities like London and New
York you're a little bit like Paris is a little bit sleepy! -Really?!?! -A little bit, yeah you kind of sometimes you'd like it to be a
little bit more active and more exciting but at the same time it's good old Paris
it's always great... -Is it as romantic and... -Yeah it is it still is even if it's a little cliché to say it...it's Paris
-Yeah...I'm gonna jump back to being in front of the camera...do you enjoy that? - I
do actually I didn't think I would because I started out
wanting to be behind the camera I'm like filming and reporting but I guess in TV
at some point you're always gonna...often gonna end up in front of the camera
...and I like both I love being in front of the camera
I love being behind the camera and it's it's kind of cool to think that even
though you can't see anyone and you feel you're in the comfort of your little
studio you're talking to millions of people out there and for us especially
its millions of people around the world... -So what's us? -France 24 so we're like
international news channel...based in France and we air in now four languages
okay there's French English Arabic Spanish
...and so you get to kind of adapt your news to everyone you can't you're
not talking just to Americans right I'm talking just the French you're talking
to a wide range of people so I feel like we have a certain way of telling the
news that keeps that in mind that we're not all the same and not everyone
understands things the same way -It sounds pretty logical in this day
and age right boundaries are I mean as much as they're going up they're also
coming down...-Exactly. -And yeah crazy...so I was about to say it's kind of like this
series where it's like you know you just feel like we're talking but then you
said the millions of people thing we're not there yet. -Well, you'll get there! -I'll get there yeah...
just keep plugging away. -Exactly... -All right so uh what do you want
to talk about? -What can we talk about? -I just thought I'd throw that out there...we don't have we have like 30 50
meters and then we do the WOW moment that you already know about because
you've seen this series... -Well I just like let's talk about you know traveling...
-Yes. -Traveling is a big thing I mean you took
your series...abroad...so that's kind of cool and I just like I don't
know I think it's a it's a huge thing and I was thinking about it recently
when I came here for Thanksgiving and I remember that most people
in this country get like what 15 days of vacation a year...-Max!
...- and you get it and your like well if you have 15 days your can't
really go that many places that often and of course in France we have like
zillions of days of vacation so we get to you know move around and I think that's so important in this day and age...
-I agree...it's a tough thing because yeah a) a lot of people a can't afford it with the
vacation, can't afford it financially you know...Europe's an
other great thing in the sense that you can hop quickly... -Yeah, for two, three days...
you go somewhere else, speak another language, see other people...-Yeah I'm super down with
that because I'm so aware of how stepping out of your comfort zone I mean
this is so cliche right but it broadens your horizons you can come less sort of like
you know focused on yourself and how great or you know getting stuck in your
head which is sometimes a little detrimental. -You have to meet different people...that don't think the way you do
...don't see the world the way you do ...-Alright here we go...
it's the WOW moment, words of wisdom...-Words of wisdom...
well to what we just said be curious we try to find new things meet new people
go to new places read different things watch different channels don't watch one
channel all the time like I'm going to the news but no just broaden your
horizons. -Yes, awesome...do you want to say bye to the folks at home? -Bye guys!
-Thanks for watching everybody see you next time
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