Hi. Hi. Hi.
It's nice to meet you.
So my name is Evan Hadfield. You may know me if you've followed us before as the guy who's behind the camera. And for the
first time ever I'm in front of the camera, and it's very uncomfortable. I've never been so uncomfortable. But luckily
I'm here with my father. He's been in front of the camera once or twice. He's currently filming a BBC series.
He's filming a National Geographic series. Just finished a Curiosity stream series. Just finished Curiosity stream.
So he's got all sorts of stuff on the go.
And you know as a family member, that feels a bit like you're one-upping us.
So... um,
given the situation, I feel like it's appropriate that we come up with another show that
maybe other family members might be invested in, and and we're calling that Rare Earth.
I think it makes sense to try and take advantage of what we've learned together to try and do something together.
Sort of like we did Generator Arctic.
But in this case, looking at parts of the world
that most people don't get to see. That maybe I don't have time to see yet.
I want to help sort of put it together, enable it, executive produce it, put the two of you,
this is Evan, that is...Francesco. Francesco.
Frencesco. Hi, Francesco.
(Francesco waves)
Sort of like the type of stuff I did from the space station. Hey, look at that.
That's amazing.
Everybody should see that, start thinking about it, try and notice the world around us.
And we're gonna have a lot of drone footage. Drone footage. Maybe.
We'll see if it works. See what the local authorities [will].
So we've taken some drone footage here at the cottage. You, you were flying around the drone earlier today. Yeah, flew a drone today.
It's one of the smallest things I've ever flown, but it handles pretty well. That's good.
It's a bit lower altitude. But nice and slow. Nice and controllable. Yeah, pretty pretty impressive.
The topic: What are you going to see if you watch this channel? Well,
we've gone over it in a little bit of basics,
but what I think you're going to see if you watch this channel is a
different view of the world. This isn't a vlog I know right now it may
look a little bit like a vlog. We are vlogging to the camera.
But this is more of a series meant to follow the idea that
(inhales to gather thoughts)
everywhere on Earth is unique and interesting if you look at it through a perspective that shows what that place offers.
and I think that a lot of people. Um.
A lot of people feel that their home location, wherever they're from is both simultaneously
not worth being noticed and also not noticed enough. Yeah, the first country are going to go to is? Is?
... Its Japan. Japan! We were doing a little build-up there.
But uh, yeah, we're going to Japan. Francesco and I are leaving in about four days
and we're going to fly to Tokyo and from there, we have about 20 something videos we'd really like to get done in Japan.
We're going to meet up with you in Australia in August. You're doing a speaking tour, I believe. I am. through Australia.
So we're going to be meeting up with him in Australia in August. We're probably going to do a couple videos together. And then Francesco
and I are going to keep heading around Southeast Asia and across the world. So what do you have coming up?
I'm a little start a tour across Canada celebrating 150th birthday that's going to take a bunch of time
And then I'm going to finish filming the series with National Geographic called One Strange Rock
Darren Aronofsky's is looking at the are taking care of the overall feel of the photography, and
I think it's going to be quite an interesting... I've seen his films and I got to say Darren Aronofsky
Do you survive the documentary? I hope so, so far I have but they've already filmed in 30 countries
I think it's going to be really really interesting... 30 countries?? 30 countries.
Wow, yeah, we're barely going to film in 30 countries, and we're doing a world tour
This is quite impressive. Yeah, lots of projects going a lots of travel lots of speaking and
Keeps me busy
Sounds like you're slightly too busy to run a world travel YouTube series
What would you call that world travel series? I would call it Rare Earth, personally. I would also host it
I would probably bring this photographer here
Francesco
Yeah, that's what personally that's what I would do with the series. I don't know about you. So that makes this
episode zero. episode zero. but welcome to episode zero Rare-earth good name