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I’ve always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there’s a little bit of truth to it.

Adam Savage

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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Fun Mean Mythbuster Pilot Shooting Six Spent Summer Week
I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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Building Deadline Decades Learned Potent Problem Solving Tool
Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on ‘MythBusters,’
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Always Background Goes Hidden Process Technology Trying
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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Living Long Make Star Stuff Wars Year
This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
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Being Everyone Happen Human
That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.
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Anand Thakur
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
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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Arranging Name Ofcourse Order Organisation Point Tool
it was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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Actually All Bonfire Burrn Cut Feet Mummified Off Saving Skin Zeal
There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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Crap Graduation Hard Inspirational Over Thing Working You
Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences.
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Crowds Laughing Teacher
That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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Everything Jobs Mythbuster Rocket Strap
Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
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Believe Better Less Long Paid People Run You
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
Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.
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Anand Thakur
I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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Cola Fierce Fluid Gasoline Mixture Standing

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