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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.

Adam Savage

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
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Face Glass Glasses Scenario Shatter Thinking
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
They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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Good Idea Least Not Very
Let’s blow some stuff up.
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Blow Fierce Some Stuff Up
We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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Ethos Every Fault Methodology Necessarily Stand Time
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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Crazy Forum Information Make Movie People Prop Replica Trade Travel
If I haven’t had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I’ve already done on this show, this isn’t gonna hurt much more.
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Already Done Effect Hurt Long Psychological Show Side Term Thing
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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Away Blue Bruised Collar Dirty Experience Husband Proud Wife Work
Well, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop – and he said, “
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Back Call Called Clear Crap First Shop Tell
That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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Anything Cool Excellent Girl Looked Mean Really
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
We 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.
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Curiosity Educator Real Scientist Set
Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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Beautiful Connection Everything Internet Moving Photos Sluice Stuff Time
And we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.
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Appreciate Dirtiest Elegant Expensive Fastest Most Solution
How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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Blow Full Gasoline Hard Room
I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it.
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Despite Fast Knowing Pace Right Tool Work Worse

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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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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