Today's episode is brought to you by Harrys. Look, the bottom line is this. If you insist on continuing to buy over-priced shaving products on loose-site cabinet locked down at the local pharmacy, then there's something wrong with you.

Why? Because Harrys is just a much better product than a much fairer price shipped directly to you. The shave is better, the handles are better designed, there's absolutely no reason to perpetuate the lunacy.

Plus, Harrys keep improving their blades, but they're keeping the prices exactly the same.

Since when does that happen? Well, since Harrys owns the dang factory in Germany where they make the blades, that way they can produce high-quality razors themselves and sell them online for half the price.

Harrys is so confident in the quality of their blades, they'll send you their popular free trial set, which comes with a razor, five-blade cartridge, and shaving gel, and it's totally free. All of that's totally free when you sign up for a shaved plan. All you have to do is pay for the shipping.

Plus, there's a special offer for fans of the show. Get a bottle of Harry's post-shave balm added to your order for free when you visit Harrys.com-forwardslashroll.

So go to Harrys.com-forwardslashroll right now to claim your free trial set and post-shave balm. That's Harrys.com-forwardslashroll. Now on to the show.

I've got a number of interesting projects that are out there, and I realise that what you need to do is call it the equation of curiosity, where it's like dreams of breeding grounds for adventures of breeding grounds for stories and stories and spa more dreams.

And that entire equation is pushed through by asking questions. And so, to me, the first stage of any adventure is dreaming about it, and then the second stage of the adventure is talking about it. And as soon as you talk about it, materialises people grab onto it, it becomes real.

That's Adventurer and Environmentalist David D'Arath Child, who joins filmmaker Sasha Jervasi this week on the Retro podcast.

The Retro podcast.

Hey everybody, how are you guys doing? What's going on? My name is Rich Roll. I'm your host. Welcome or welcome back to the podcast. The show where I have the great fortune of going deep and long form with some of the most interesting, some of the most compelling, some of the most provocative, positive change makers all across the globe.

And today is no exception. This episode is incredibly interesting. It's very different, totally unique, more like some kind of West LA freeform Algonquin roundtable with two extremely perceptive and extraordinarily charismatic minds.

Sasha Jervasi is somebody that I have been very good friends with in Los Angeles for most of my tenure here. I think we've been buddies for like 16 or 17 years. Sasha is a filmmaker, he's a writer, director. Perhaps best known for a documentary called Anvil, the story of Anvil, which is sort of a rockumentary about an also-ran Canadian heavy metal band. You can kind of think of it like a real-life spinal tap.

But beneath that, it's really this beautiful expression, this beautiful work of art about what it means to have and hold on to a dream. It's really quite something. The movie premiered at Sundance at 2008. It was incredibly well received and critically acclaimed. It's got like a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. The Times UK called it possibly the greatest film yet made about rock and roll. So if you have not seen this documentary yet, I mentioned it in one of my roll calls a couple of weeks ago.

You definitely have to check it out. In fact, you should just hit pause on this podcast right now. Go watch it and come back and listen to this later for context. Beyond Anvil in 2004, Sasha wrote a script called The Terminal. It caught the eye of a little-known filmmaker named Steven Spielberg who went on to direct it, starring Tom Hanks.

And then in 2012, Sasha directed a movie himself called Hitchcock starring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and Scarlett Johansson. So that should give you some context of the level of talent and gravitas that is Sasha Jervasi.

He's also attached to some pretty interesting projects. We get into that in the context of the conversation. But who is this David DeRothchall guy? Well, in addition to being Sasha's brother-in-law and the youngest heir to quite the family banking fortune.

David is a super interesting and interested. He's one of those people that is not only engaging, he's engaged. Right? If you catch my drift, David is a world adventurer. He's an environmentalist. He's an ecologist. He's a storyteller. He's a provocateur. He's one of those people that's active in more causes and expeditions and ventures and nonprofits than you can possibly count.

But perhaps he's best now in his 2010 Pacific crossing in a 60-foot catamaran made entirely out of reclaimed plastic bottles, like 12,500 plastic bottles and recycled materials.

And we get into this interesting project in the course of the conversation, but it was dubbed plastiki. And it's just one of many expeditions David has created and accomplished in the interest of raising awareness around issues of global environmental concern.

In 2006, he spent over 100 days crossing the Arctic from Russia to Canada. He's one of only 14 people to ever traverse the continent of Antarctica. He's part of the team that broke the world record for the fastest ever crossing of the Greenland ice cap. He's written a few books. He's won all kinds of awards, like the Emerging Explorer Award by National Geographic.

...