The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
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.
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There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
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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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Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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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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You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
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My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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The ‘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.
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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We’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I’m more optimistic than pessimistic.
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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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