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In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward

Adam Savage

The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century
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Collection Complete Country Cutting Dodo Feet Museum Specimen
After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
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Blow Button Detonation Explode Nice Push Remote Something Year
The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
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Board Crew Discovery Idea Monitor Mythbuster Track
sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul
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Bone Break Shatter Soul Stick Stone Word
That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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Everything Jobs Mythbuster Rocket Strap
Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians.
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Children Country Growing Up Realizing
I think at this point, there’s a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can’t ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we’re quite aware of.
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Bizarre Certain Chemistry Fact Half Point Thinking
You know, it’s the best job I’ve ever had, on its worst day it’s better than anything else, but it’s a huge amount of responsibility
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Anything Better Day Huge Job Responsibility Wanted Worst
Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore.
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Beginning Engine Mastering Shore Straightforward System Teach Tracing Unreachable
Whether it’s in a phrase like “going over like a lead balloon” or “a needle in a haystack,” or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond
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Ballon Genre Going Haystack Lead Legend Myth Needle Over People Phrase Tracking
These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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Across Detail Inch Movie Needed Object Screen Sometimes
When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.
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Board Read Respond Responsive Someone Tell Try Wrong
I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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Brilliant Fix Idea Some
Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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Because Listening Past Prayer Someone Work
Am I missing an eyebrow?
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Eyebrow Missing Mythbuster
Well, that was kind of fun, wasn’t it? I mean, I don’t see where this could go, because we pretty much did everything. But it was fun.”
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Everything Fun Mean Much Pretty

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