That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
ADAM SAVAGEThat was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
ADAM SAVAGEI think at this point, there’s a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can’t ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we’re quite aware of.
ADAM SAVAGEBack when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
ADAM SAVAGEBreaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task.
ADAM SAVAGEIt’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
ADAM SAVAGEThe ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
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 SAVAGEThe best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
ADAM SAVAGEWe are always works in progress.
ADAM SAVAGEDon’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.
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 SAVAGEThese are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see what we’re doing, and they consistently thank us.
ADAM SAVAGEPut me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.
ADAM SAVAGEWhen 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.
ADAM SAVAGEAgain, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,
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 SAVAGE