I’m always going to be making costumes. It’s one of the ways I relax my brain.
ADAM SAVAGEI mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
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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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We are always works in progress.
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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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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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I’ve always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there’s a little bit of truth to it.
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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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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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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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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.
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I’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.
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The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it’s really fun, and you know we’re always going to give you a satisfying ending.
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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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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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Failure is always an option.
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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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There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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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 am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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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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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.
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I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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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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I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought.
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