It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
ADAM SAVAGEIt’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
ADAM SAVAGEThat’s a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
ADAM SAVAGEI mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
ADAM SAVAGELet’s blow some stuff up.
ADAM SAVAGEI felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters.
ADAM SAVAGEit 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.
ADAM SAVAGEIf I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
ADAM SAVAGEAnd also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
ADAM SAVAGEForever, the way we’ve done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
ADAM SAVAGEWe didn’t set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don’t purport that what we do is real science but we’re demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
ADAM SAVAGESo 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.
ADAM SAVAGEThe 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.
ADAM SAVAGEIn the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward
ADAM SAVAGEThe idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one.
ADAM SAVAGEI’m actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
ADAM SAVAGEThey’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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