Lessons from traveling around the world in a car: Alex Portera of The Nowhere Men

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🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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On this episode, we talk to Alex Portera of The Nowhere Men. The Nowhere Men is a traveling group of filmmakers who have a really simple philosophy - they believe that everyone has a story to tell. They’ve traveled across 35 different countries over the past 4 years - mostly by car and they filmed all of it. They learned a lot about themselves and about travel and film the most importantly they learned about the kindness of strangers. Alex tells us some amazing stories in this episode, we talk to him about learning how to film and edit and about what you learn from traveling the world in a car. Enjoy our conversation with Alex and check out The Nowhere Men Follow Alex and The Nowheremen here: https://www.facebook.com/nowheremenadventures Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I sprint into the river and I'm like, Brian, reverse the car, reverse the car.
0:03.0	And he reverses it and I'm trying to push the water.
0:05.0	It's freezing cold because it's coming down from a glacier somewhere.
0:09.0	And he starts trying to reverse and he can't get out.
0:12.0	And the car is not budging and we are stuck in the middle of a river.
0:16.0	Welcome to the Colin and Samir podcast.
0:19.0	On this episode, we interview Alex Portera of the Nowhere Men.
0:23.2	The Nowhere Men is a traveling group of filmmakers who have a really simple philosophy.
0:27.9	They believe that everyone has a story to tell.
0:31.1	They've traveled across 35 different countries over the past four years, mostly by car,
0:36.1	and they filmed all of it.
0:38.3	They learned a lot about themselves, what it's like to live together in a car over months while driving.
0:44.3	They learned about film and storytelling, but most importantly, they learned about the kindness of strangers.
0:50.3	Today, four years after their first journey, they've taken to Facebook to produce videos
0:55.5	about everyday people in New York City.
0:58.9	This has to be one of our favorite conversations on the podcast so far.
1:03.0	Alex shares some incredible stories from his travels.
1:05.8	He talks about actually learning how to film and edit video and tells us about all the lessons
1:10.4	he learned on the road.
1:12.2	I think you guys will really enjoy this one. So here's our conversation with Alex Portera.
1:19.8	All right, we are here in Los Angeles in our studio with Alex Portera from the Nowhere Man. What's
1:24.9	up, Alex? Not much. It's great to be here. Awesome studio.
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