War on a Moped

ThomasGreen
After a week and a half of filming in Lebanon, the BlakkBox team decided it was time to send their footage back home before anything could happen to it or them. Sending the footage home would not be easy though as they quickly found out. To send the tapes home as fast as possible, Josh and Charlie grabbed some mopeds and headed out on a journey to the DHL in Damascus. This pod documents their 14-hour journey to Damascus.
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  • gilli103
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      gilli103  
    • A great perspective about just what its really like over there...it doesn''t matter if they aren''t asking hard-hitting questions, they are simply telling the story and allowing us to see something more real than the messages created by mainstream media.

    • 4 years ago
  • beef
  • xadi27
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      xadi27  
    • I completely agree that lots of news is boring and I appreciate that this threesome is trying to do something engaging and slick. The problem is, most of their segments are about nothing but their haircuts and their alleged moxie. I don''t care how "daring" they are, I just want to see a story that isn''t about them, please?

    • 4 years ago
  • xadi27
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      xadi27  
    • Boys, please give me a break! What''s the point of this ''"adventure?" You''re creating drama with your moped mission. Meanwhile, there are no actual Lebanese people in your story, or Syrians, or Israelis. What''s the point of your mission, please tell me? We are supposed to get caught up in the drama of you delivering your footage to Damascus while REAL peoples'' lives are thrown into chaos by this war? Please. War is ugly. Any journalist who has covered real carnage will tell you that. It''s no fun. You''re trying to make it cute and you''re making me sick. -- Jessie

    • 4 years ago
  • ocsurfer
  • Hemet4
  • herman2
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      herman2  
    • Hey,
      I read some of the arguments on the other pods but got pretty bored. The arguments seem pretty petty. Whatever. I don''t pay much attention to the news usually but I couldn''t believe this. Watching these guys ride mopeds across a war zone was an inspiration. straight up if Current takes these pods off the air then we''ll all be missing out on some of the most original stuff ever.
      Peace.

    • 4 years ago
  • CodeBlue40
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      CodeBlue40  
    • This was the first one that I viewed, but I''m going to look at the rest. Riding mopeds across a war zone... You guys are madmen.

    • 4 years ago
  • blackcat
  • joshuaheller
  • lfm
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      lfm  
    • BlakkBox (with some reservoir dogs and/or caiga quien caiga reminiscence) has some of the most interesting, real, vivid, compelling stories/pods on current. keep it up.

    • 4 years ago
  • ThomasGreen
  • jyeh
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