We’re always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.
ADAM SAVAGELet’s blow some stuff up.
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This is the point in the show where we say, ‘Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?’
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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
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Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on ‘MythBusters,’
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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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Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.
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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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There is no dignity in television.
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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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You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
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The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
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Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
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