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.
ADAM SAVAGETeach 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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In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward
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So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
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Am I missing an eyebrow?
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Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.
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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
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Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.
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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
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The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we’re finding fertile material.
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You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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Especially parts from ‘Star Wars’ – I can do this stuff all day long. It’s exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
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It’s a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it’s people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
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The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.
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I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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