Adam Savage's FAVORITE Myth?
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- Опубліковано 4 лис 2023
- Is Alcatraz Escape still Adam Savage's favorite myth? At what point in the show's run did Adam begin to understand MythBusters' cultural impact, and did that affect production? In this live stream excerpt Adam answers these questions from Tested members iDontGiveaFett and clanreignfire, whom we thank for their support! Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks like asking Adam questions: / @tested
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I love these positive stories. Thankyou for sharing Adam 💙
As an adult that went into manufacturing.
Stories like "Steel Toe boot dismeberment" were and still are incredibly valuble saftey demonstrations.
Infact the Mythbusters is partly why I became such a saftey consious adult.
Some segements of that show I think can not be played enough to demontrate the importance of PPE and shop saftey.
Adam, even though I’m not a kid anymore, I appreciate what you are doing, it’s cool to see you so passionate
As one of those kids who was brought up on mythbusters i just wanna say thank you. I'm pursuing my degree in chemical engineering now and i can't help but to think that's partially because of the show. I remember when Grant died and how I cried and felt empty even though I never got to meet him. Outside of the show I think the way you present yourself and talk about morals and all of that has helped to mold me into the young man I have become. I am forever grateful to everyone from Mythbusters and now tested .
First, congratulatios and good luck on your degree!
Grant's life paralleled my own in many ways (age, education, fandoms, and I'm Asian Canadian). His death felt very personal to me. The Mythbusters crew always reminded me of the movie "Dead Poets Society" because both showed how to engage and entertain an audience while teaching them. Not all of us are born with a love of STEAM, some of us had that special teacher that ignited a passion, and the rest of us could watch an episode of Mythbusters and get a lesson in problem solving with a spoon full of fun. My favorite episodes were the "thought problem" ones when they examined a ridiculous premise (like the pilot episode Jet Car/Pop rocks and soda or the various episodes on duct tape) but approached it logically and systematically. That was the lesson I took.
Also, like Jamie, I like big boom.
I came up on Mythbusters too, and I cite them ALL THE TIME. I took a different career path as a veterinary technician because I was inspired to work with animals by the great and powerful Steve Irwin, but I understand pursuing a field because you were inspired by television presenters.
Adam's banging on the raft so loud back at the myth busters base and pausing while saying "is that a guard" then continuing banging always gets me🤣🤣
While my kids didn't go into STEM, watching almost every show with them as they grew up helped them understand the importance of critical thinking, and step by step experimentation. As parents, picking appropriate educational television was really important to us - regardless of whether you thought of kids when doing the show, you helped us create reasonable and thinking human beings. Thanks for that!
One of my favorite parts about the Alcatraz episode was the visit to the San Francisco Bay Model. We went there as an elementary school field trip, and I was in awe of the sheer scale of the place, and the measures they took to ensure the simulation was accurate despite it being a scale model. I had the joy of going back decades later, just before it got closed down.
Thank you for not talking down to your audience. Mythbusters was an influence on working engineers, too. A group of us at work that used to work in the same group, but got reorganized to different parts of the company, used to get together for lunch once a week to keep in touch. The conversation almost always turned to the latest episode of Mythbusters.
This! They showed us what they were doing in a way that included us, warts and all. That is extremely empowering and probably what they gave to the maker evolution - that if you make an effort you can do interesting things.
I mean this respectfully: you're Myth Grandpa, literally inspiring generations. I'm so glad that you kept doing inspirational things even after the show ended!
Adam Savage; The Papa smurf of Makers. :)
I totally get and appreciate the responsibility to safety you had on Mythbusters. One thing that i got, kinda subliminally, from the show was that yes you guys were generally being careful but you often showed when things were unexpectedly dangerous. THOSE are the really dangerous aspects of trying anything experimental. Its not the dangers your aware of. Its the un-anticipated things that can really cause harm. Or when a hypothesis and its intended safety measure are off by like an order of magnitude or something. It gave me a respectful mindset of the unknown when trying something that could be dangerous.
I was raised on mythbusters. Now I’m only 20 and I actually haven’t gotten into math or science in a professional manner. However I can honestly say the show added to my want to make, specifically you did. Then I found your channel and the desire to make, and get into cosplay just became more intense, I think mythbusters at least for me, made not only science and chemistry and all that more interesting and accessible. But also took making, building, creating from something only professionals with all the tools can do, to something anyone can do and get into
When we went to California a few years ago we knew we were going to visit Alcatraz so we rewatched the show. However, the best thing for us on the show was that as we were staying in Sausalito we could visit the bay model, about which we wouldn’t have known without watching. It’s still one of best memories we have, we were in there for about two hours by the time we’d read all the information about the bay. The man on the desk said he didn’t remember anybody else staying in there as long as we did..
Another current engineer who was inspired by Mythbusters as a kid chiming in! I remember in elementary school I'd go straight home to watch, and it was the only TV I was allowed to watch before doing my homework instead of after. I even wrote one of my college essays about Mythbusters. Now I'm a full adult with an engineering job and everything, and a lot of it is thanks to you!
Love this, thanks for sharing.
My favorite myth will forever be when they shot the bowling ball out the back of a moving pickup. The maths work, but this is the only instance that I am aware of that actually demonstrates it. That final shot was a thing of beauty.
It was a truly beautiful shot
I always enjoy the insight of the behind the scenes thinking of Mythbusters. RIP Grant👊
A factor I noticed on Mythbusters was frequent mention of dangers and safety considerations ---
not that it was continually pounded into viewers' heads, which would have destroyed the ratings. .
I grew up as a FIRST robotics kid, and that largely made me who I am today.
It was MythBusters that inspired me to try it in the first place.
D*mn, that's a really good point. No incidents where someone got hurt because "they saw it on Mythbusters." Safety is always a good thing to teach early on, and keeping it in practice and as a good example. Not just those "don't do this as home" screens full of text that no one really reads.
When he said that, I immediately remembered every episode starting with Adam and Jamie saying:
“Don’t do what you are about to see”
“We are what you call ‘experts’”
(or something like that.)
I´m an architect but without a doubt you are a core part of my teen years learning about the world of science and engineering, mythbusters have transcended language and countries I’m sure, greetings from Arequipa - Perú.
If my siblings and I anything to go by, Mythbusters-related injuries to the general public weren't reported because stuff like "severely strained intercostals while laughing uncontrollably" and "hit repeatedly with pool noodle for chronic overuse of 'Well, *there's* your problem'" just don't get taken seriously by the authorities.
Y'all were so impactful on folks that I know people who have named their pets after you. Not in a goofy popculture way, but in a, you made a difference in my life kinda way. I got into math because I found the math behind the science to be really cool. I learned to communicate better with a loved one by watching y'all interact together. Y'all taught more than science... you also taught interpersonal relationships & how you can work alongside & respect someone that you don't always get along with. That's probably what my biggest takeaway was. Your show wasn't two actors who hate each other acting... but two folks doing what they do in front of the camera & having to navigate differences in communication & expectation in a respectful way. It's a wonderful thing really.
i became a computer engineer thanks to mythbusters :) I mentioned the show in my scholarship letter that I was also awarded. Always grateful.
Yes! Alcatraz is my all-time favorite! I loved how thorough you were with checking out everything including the tides.
A couple of years later Smithsonian channel had some divers investigate the escape and they said it couldn’t be done. I sent them the season and episode number and told them to do better!
Adam didn't say if they had taken into account the tides at the time the prisoners escaped. My understand is that they launched into a strong out going tide, so the question as to if they survived or not is still open.
@@user-nu4zm3dc3o Have you watched the episode of Mythbusters? They went to the government facility that models the tides. The assumption was that they went north but with the tides as they were at the time of escape, it’s more likely they planned to go south which is what Adam & Jamie did successfully.
I just watched the episode, and two things: the escaped convicts didn't have access to the SF bay model and Adam and Jamie didn't launch from the same place on the island, so more likely than not the convicts were swept out to sea.@@TheodoraWimsey
@@user-nu4zm3dc3o the convicts may not have had the model but they had brains and eyes and time. With simple observation they could have learned the timing of the tides. And with the power of those tides it’s unlikely where they launched on that very small island would make a difference.
They likely made it the way Adam and Jamie did.
No! If they had to paddle up and around the island they were much farther North than Adam and Jamie coming around the island. Jamie and Adam built their boat in ideal conditions. The convict boat would have been much more flimsy, and one of them would have to spent all his time blowing keeping it inflated so they would've had one less man on the paddles. The convict were obviously not as smart as they thought they were or they wouldn't launched into a ebb tide. Jamie had lived on a boat for years and knew his way around an inflatable boat the convict not so much. He and Adam made it look easy, but I'm not so sure you realize how difficult that voyage they made was.@@TheodoraWimsey
My husband and I both grew up watching the show, now we're showing it to our kids (7 and 10) they love it too.
I can't remember the number of times someone ask or mentions something that reminds me of a Mythbuster show and I can't help but mention what happened in the show. like my son was asking if a really secured seatbelt would make you safer, which reminded me a show based on Duct Tape seatbelts and the fact that if you are too well secured you would be as likely to be injured as if you weren't wearing one in the first place
One of the escapees was Casey a time variant for the TVA.
Great channel you have, thank you for what you're doing
👍💪😊
Thanks again for another fun watch. Always enjoy your energy.
While the "watch them build something" aspect of MythBusters was indisputably inspirational, I think there's an entire generation that also learned that you can't simply:
- Take all old knowledge (rules of thumb, old wives' tales, etc) at face value, OR...
- Discount all old knowledge as outdated or incorrect
It showed us something we're (hopefully) taught - be open-minded, but skeptical - in a practical way that really drives home the point.
Regarding no fans of the show having died or gotten hurt replicating the show's antics, I personally found the fact that you guys started every episode and (as I recall) every halfway-point-return-from-commercial-break with the same 2-part monologue, "Remember, never try anything you're about to see us do at home", "we're what you call, 'experts'", to be especially influential in my own life with regards to my own level of caution and situational awareness; I've always been one to shy away from danger, but that constant reminder that Mythbusters' stunts were performed by experts helped me to be more aware of danger in my environment, something that I'm not naturally cued in on due to my Autism (I forget which number that I am on the Spectrum, but it's the one formerly known as Asperger's Syndrome), and I can only imagine that other people who might normally try stupid things might have been dissuaded from trying them because of you and Jamie's ever-present reminder that we are not experts and so should leave the stunts to people who are ❤
I have too many favorites, but one is painting with explosives especially in the store when Jamie realized he did not bring his truck
I was an adult when Mythbusters started, but it got me looking further into commonly held ideas
I think nothing hammered home the fundamental ethics of the production more than that time a cannonball test landed in a residential area downrange from the Alameda Sheriff's explosive disposal range. They got the authorities involved from the get-go, they compensated the homeowners for damages, they did a whole bit to screen detailing what went down, and they took the experiment to a much more remote location.
The reason why so many companies stop with just the damages settlement and stop talking about it, is because that's the least costly way to go about it. MythBusters could have written the book on business ethics if anyone out there was listening.
While I was a fan from the beginning, I think they hit the general cultural zeitgeist around the time they made their cameo on CSI which was 2008
I think Adam went off on a tangent from the question but the "You can't chase cultural relevance" is a great way to see your work.
👏👏👏😃 MB is a colossal effort by the entire team and attention to many details. Especially for safety
My dad is like an angrier version of Jaimie😅, so this show was a dream for me. I used to fantasize about my dad being funny while working on the shop. I did learn A LOT with my dad (I have built many things without guidance or assistance), but I never had as much fun as I had watching Mythbusters. With my dad was more like being graded at a final at college.
And this show made me feel normal😅, it took me years to notice that this workshopping and tool handling wasn't normal at all in most homes. Least of all for dads and young girls.
Now, thanks to UA-cam, I can feel normal again, knowing so many people is workshopping at home too ❤
Ps: you forgot to mention Popular Mechanics. I love that magazine.
Just started watching episodes with my kids and they love it.
Thank you so much to Adam for answering this question too! 😃💛 The Alcatraz escape has always been one of my favorite myths and has always fascinated me. I'd absolutely LOVE to visit Alcatraz someday! It's on my bucket list 😄
Ensure to do the NIGHT tour!!! For some reason, the tour only opens the nurses' bay at night!, but call to ask about it if they've changed the scheduling.
I'm a kid who was raised on mythbusters, and now I'm a microbiology PhD student. Thanks, Adam!
I hrew up on this show. And i remember basically every myth i ever seen abd it was wonderful.
First episode i watched was steam machine gun and its still possibly one of my top three favorite myths in the show.
I think youtube esp combined with decent cell phone video (low cost of entry) helped the maker scene explode. I love books and i love century old how-to encyclopedias and shop and repair guides, but learning how to do stuff, esp with substitute or modern toolery, is so muche asies with a video
Grew up on watching Mythbusters with my dad, and I even used a myth as inspiration for a science project. I think it was the 8th grade and we had to make a volcano. While everyone did the usual vinegar and baking soda, I convinced my dad to help me build a volcano that was inspired by the Coffee Creamer Cannon. We had the air tank with a quick release and everything. Now I’m about to graduate with my Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. Thank you for showing the world that science can be fun!
8:15 _you weren't talking down to anybody [us]._ I don't exactly know when i first found y'all, sometime after youtube kicked of (we didn't have cable) but I was in my early teens at that point, and it was such a relief to have an interesting show with interesting people doing interesting things, who didn't treat the viewers like idiots regardless of potential age.
The safety aspect of MythBusters was always apparent it me. I remember really early that was either the toilet blowing up or the bug spray bomb that one line that has really stuck with me was "We call the police first." Referring to having the people that would be wrestling you to the ground after doing something illegal actually BE a part of the process, and having emergency personnel on standby ready to help.
I think it was that early plane car flip where you had gotten everything set up and were literally just about to start, when insurance called and pulled the plug. And while it was understandably disappointing you guys listened and stopped the experiment.
This coupled with the fact that essentially every episode started with "Do NOT try this at home" made it very apparent that this stuff is stupidly dangerous and to not mess around.
The kind of contingency planning on the show has really shaped how I think about things everyday. And while that mindset can slow things down, man the breath of relief I'll have when things work out because of a little bit of thought beforehand makes it all worth it.
Your comments about emphasizing safety on the show made me realize that, perhaps more than anything else, that's the biggest influence the show had on me. I've done a lot of art and science with the show's safety protocols in mind, even unconsciously.
That chair squeak at 5:09 had me pause and listening for a dying smoke detector battery in another room for a solid two minutes. After a moment I thought "Was that the video?" Rewind. "Yes."
I think Adam would never have made it to shore were it not for Jamies outstanding rowing skills...🥺😂
Jamie is quite good on the water.
@@testedhe is part walrus, so it makes sense
Adam, that Scaled Composites sticker is boss af. On the show, Jamie was Sinatra and you were James Dean. Now you're Sinatra.
The Alcatraz myth really captures my imagination as a young teen, one of the episodes that made me really fall in love with the show
I still remember how psyched i was to see ya'll in the rally to restore reason in DC.
The Alcatraz escape is my favorite too. Not only was the story so crazy, it all worked
Great video sir 😊
My favorite episode is the hot water tank exploding. I'm sure no one ever looked at their water tank the same way they did before they saw that episode!
I've heard it's haunted over at alcatraz. I went there on a tour long ago... creepy as hell😢
Ayyyy, 26 year old mechatronics student here, yet another child who mythbusters inspired to be better and learn
I know there's a ton more but there are like four that I think about all the time - Rocket car, compact-compact car (rocket sled), the water heater episodes and the terminal velocity experiments.
MythBusters went all-out to prove or disprove in spectacular fashion and every time I watched I was always soooooo jealous - Not that I didn't enjoy turning wrenches and fixing problems for a living but I could have been having so much more fun while I did it. 🤣😂
Adam after watching you say "anyone can be a maker" & The shive method of omelets I decided to use today.
As a really good breakfast "maker" in that area, my omelet came out the best I've ever did and thanks to you I'm a better breakfast maker in the kitchen. Thanks for that
love the video Adam .
Honestly, I love his message at the end. Don't chase trends, don't copy other people, because you're never going to catch it, you're never going to get the same amount of success that they did. Yeah, you might get some success, but it will never be on the same level. You're better off doing something you love and enjoying it, with a small hope that it catches on. I just wish videogame companies could understand this message.
I grew up before youtube was such a library of info. I had very limited access to information, apart from dry textbooks and encyclopedias. Mythbusters was one of a few shows that really blew my mind and showed me things that my parents didnt know anything about, when it comes to being a maker/engineer/scienctist
I would love to see that bucket of Alcatraz artifacts looked at with the Lumafield CT scanner to get a better idea of what it was.
It's such an pleasure and honor to live in the times of Adam. 🖖
One of my all-time favorite scenes is from that episode.
*_BANG BANG POUND POUND BANG BANG_*
Adam: "Wait... Is that a guard?"
_long pause, Jamie chuckles_
Adam: "Nope!"
*_BANG BANG POUND POUND BANG BANG_*
Watching from Jamaica 🇯🇲. From Mythbusters, showed fun way to learn that if you don't believe something, research and prove it. If its too dangerous or out of reach, watch the experts
Filament 3D printers were around in the late 70's. A guy named Craig Johnson in my electronics class was building one and trying to explain to me how it worked. This at a time when we were still being taught vacuum tube theory! I could wrap my head around the basic theory, I didn't understand how the model/control part of it worked. It's been so long, I don't remember much about it other than the basic idea of squirting melted plastic like toothpaste to make complex shapes. I also don't remember where the plans came from, it wasn't his idea. He wasn't a HAM radio guy which was very fertile ground back in the 70's for electronics/computer projects. It may have been something in Popular Electronics or Mechanics, either an article or mail order plans. I don't think it was any kind of kit. Too many years have passed without a memory refresh. He was the first time I heard about a perfect vacuum being impossible to achieve anywhere because particles will spontaneously appear and disappear out of thin air. He also built a clock from scratch using a Clausing lathe and a Bridgeport his dad had in the basement. Fly cut some of the gears, hand filed the rest. Unsurprisingly, he became a repair technician for a watch repair company after he graduated high school. One of the most amazing people I've ever met in life, wish I'd stayed in touch with him.
The show was great. I remember a time I had a niece in high school and she was doing a project, I don't remember the exact details but she made an Inuit spear, and tested it in the barn by swinging a ham on a rope from a rafter. I don't remember what happened, but I remember a dejected kid at dinner (the ham was delicious) because the experiment didn't go as she hypothesized. I told her to think of Mythbusters; she got a result, it was a good experiment. She got all excited again.. She is a scientist now.
I saw on expedition unknown that they prooved the three survived and went to (I think Mexico or brazil, I don’t remember right now) and lived up in the mountains for quite a long time. Their relatives were even sent photos from them some time later
afaik fillament printers had been around long before 2009, but the desktop version of those printers that was commercially available wasn't available until then... you had to go to a large manufacturing firm to get access to those.
We had FDM printers in my public high school as early as the mid-90s. 2009 is the expiration of the 1988 Stratasys patent, and start of the consumer 3D printing wave, largely through the support of already-extant initiatives like RepRap and open source hardware platforms like Arduino that gave DIY printing a head-start once legal development options opened up.
Will we ever get a closer look at the setup of Adam's cleaning station for resin printing? I know he's gone over it a bit as part or a different video, but I've never been able to find it again and would love a reference for my upcoming resin-station overhaul
"Stop, l think l heard something. It was nothing." BANG BANG BANG
Best laugh l ever had from watching tv.
The Alcatraz episode was perfection. The narrative up to that point was they probably all drowned.
That Myth was then later used in the second season of Loki
It all comes full circle.
im not an engineer by any means, my brain is not setup for that, but i think its safe to say, growing up watching mythbusters, it had an impact on how i think about things, how i think about, or approach problem solving.
I cannot find that quote anywhere!!! What is the full quote and who made it? It’s a very…it makes me happy to think I might not know what my best qualities are and that other people in my life get to enjoy those while I’m oblivious
Adam thanks for this.
Alcatraz Island is BY FAR the coolest "tourist attraction" I've toured. Absolutely captivating.
Who would've guessed it was all part of the sacred timeline. >>> Loki
Yeah Adam, I think Alcatraz was my favorite myth also! I remember sitting in my livingroom slacked jawed when you and Jamie mad landfall! I had totally thought that Morris and the Anglin brothers had drowned in the bay.
I just saw a Reddit repost of a MB video with a WILD text-to-speech voiceover. It renamed your show as ‘Rumour Terminators’!!
Thanks
I think the surest sign of the show's impact were the number of experts and celebrity guest stars (like James Cameron and Vince Gilligan). Niche shows exist but when you have people that enthusiastically take their own time and effort to participate in a show for the simple joy of taking part in it (with little or no compensation), that is the sign of cultural impact. Also, when your animated versions appear on The Simpsons, you have fans in their writers' room and they knew the audience would "get the joke".
Mythbusters did experiments I wanted to do as a kid, but did not have the resources or expertise. I was an adult when the first Mythbusters aired.
One of the best TV shows of all time, and needs to come back. Maybe on UA-cam?
You cannot chase cultural relevance, only tell your stories well enough that your "corner of the world/internet" appreciates it and learns from it
One of my fave myths is using salsa to break out of the Mexican gaol
Adam - That bucket of rotted leftover Alcatraz escape gear might be a good candidate for 3D X-Ray imaging.
Adam, I'm guessing your date for 3d filament printing is when it was more 'available to the general public', rather than when it first started.
I first saw 3d printing in 1998 at the IMTS trade show in Chicago, and it wasn't even new then, just new to me, lol.
Alcatraz was on Loki. very cool.
if your CV says "Once blew up a cement truck with C4" you got the job.
I have always wondered, if they did survive the boat ride to the shore, where did they go and end up afterwards?
The newest episode of Loki has the escape from Alcatraz!
I can't help but believe that Mythbuster helped me in my university education.
I always thought the Alcatraz Escape episode should have been a bigger deal than it was. You proved definitively that the escape was possible (if not likely!) and in the Wiki entry about the escape, there's just one sentence referencing it...
MythBusters saved me from trauma a few years back.and being stupid I heard of a video where a guy unalived himself with a shotgun by shooting himself from below in the head like I said stupid me went in search and I found it instead of going OMG!!! when his head went eh, explody i said wow! this looks exactly like the ballistic gell heads going explody in Mythbusters!!! you guys saved my ass that day because instead of being shocked I saw science at a point in time where I should have been traumatised for life so thank you!
I love your channel Adam, I have a question about the myth about getting past the guard dog, it looked like that the smell of a female dog worked the best, but it made wonder what if the guard dog was female?
As Adam was talking about how they didn't "think of the children," it reminded me of Chuck Jones' biography, "Chuck Amuck." He wrote that when the Schlesinger cartoons started to get some attention, they tried to analyze why the audience thought they were funny. According to Jones, the result was a bunch of un-funny cartoons, so they went back to just doing what they thought was funny. The lesson in both of these cases is to learn from your mistakes and trust your instincts.
I am an Engineer because of Mythbusters. When the show started I was delivering pizza and studying art. I didn't decide to become an engineer because of the show. I happened in a round about way. But short story is I found I had a talent for electronics in school and after I couldn't find a job in my chosen field I went to back to school to study engineering. I wouldnt even have considered it if it wasnt for the show.
Where can one catch the whole Mythbuster series?
Adam,
Is there any skill you learned for an episode Mythbusters that you use every day or at least very often?
The fact that these guys were able to do what they did still amazes me today, not just in the execution and the social engineering I guess, but also in how they were able to acquire so many supplies (all the rain jackets) over the period of time they did without anyone really saying anything (again this may go back to the "social" engineering part). But these guys were prepping for quite some time until they escaped.
In more recent years, there have been some resurfacing of letters and people who claim to be those three, and I wonder what happened with those? Some (of those claims) sounded pretty credible although I don't know if they were authenticated or not -- like the people who were claiming to be one or two of the three the escaped. The next question would then be if they'd be arrested again or given an award for escaping one of the most secure (or perhaps the most secure) prison in the US.
I'd suggest that none of the people claiming to be them are telling the truth. These guys were smart enough to put together the entire escape, and assuming some disaster didn't befall them during the crossing, then disappeared without trace. If they survived they are far too smart to be calling attention to themselves now. They would be well aware that they absolutely would be thrown back in jail if they were caught today.
There are so many good things you guy's did on Myth busters it bogles the mind. But one thing that stands out to me is when Adam ripped a phone book in half proving that a nerd using his brain could do the same that years of weightlifting and steroid abuse was using as a gimmick to show off his mussels. One of the best myths ever busted and did not require tones of money.
Did Hank Green come visit recently?? Please, you and Hank would be the loveliest unhinged conversation.