Ask Adam Savage: Were Adam's Friends/Family Terrified About His Safety?
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Would Mythbusters have a different audience today? Were Adam's friends and family ever concerned about his safety during filming? And were any MythBusters episodes edited to tell a different story? In this livestream excerpt, Adam answers questions from Tested members TulsaTyrant, LexLuthorJr and GandalfTheGreene, whom we thank for their support and questions! Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks like asking Adam questions:
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Love❤ from India🇮🇳.
G'day from Australia 🇦🇺
Just for the record: I would still be watching mythbusters now if you and Jamie were still making it.
@@sacredgeometry Same. That was the *ONE & ONLY* show during the week. That I made a point of being home on time to see.
I have a question: When you began with Tested it was you AND Jamie. When, how and why was it decided that it would be just you and not you and Jammie?
You need to understand how obsessed with safety MythBusters was. When I worked with the original crew, we would do things like leave the building if someone was testing something as benign as a spud gun. I was never worried. Other shows are VERY different. You can see shows on cable today that look far more dangerous.
I didn't realise that the Internet's budget Hemsworth brother worked on MythBusters! What a cool fact for me to learn! :)
oh hey Kyle
WAIT WHAT...you worked on mythbusters!? Talk about a random cross over from half life histories I wasn't expecting.
oh wow, were you part of the crew? Or did you help them with something?
I remember when Adam burned off most of his hair
7:17 The reason why Australia had such long program times for MythBusters. Is because it was shown on SBS which is kinda like PBS in the US. & they have a policy against excessive advertising. They *KNOW* people are there for the shows & *NOT* the advertising. So they give their customers *EXACTLY* what they want - more TV & less advertising.
Love to Everyone here & at Tested from Australia. ❤🇦🇺
The editing of Mythbusters is a meme at this point. Remember that "Mythbusters truck crash test wait for it" meme?
There's even a subreddit for Streamlined Mythbusters edits that has went back and reedited the entire show to focus on content than that constant low-attention span context-switching that the official Mythbusters show always does.
@@GeneCash Try & see if you can order the Australian version of the series on DVD. It has the complete version of episodes & nothing is cut out for time. The only thing is you have to get a multi zone player. Because Australian DVDs are region 4 & North America DVDs are region 1.
@@shazmosushi Try & see if you can order the Australian version of the series on DVD. It has the complete version of episodes & nothing is cut out for time. The only thing is you have to get a multi zone player. Because Australian DVDs are region 4 & North America DVDs are region 1.
@@shazmosushi Thanks for bringing Streamlined to my attention. It's the one thing that drives me nuts about that particular genre of "reality" show over the past couple of decades. I don't need constant reminders of what I just saw in order to follow the narrative.
@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 I have an Australian SBS-branded Region 4 DVD in front of me containing the Chicken Gun episode, and the length is 49 minutes and 42 seconds. I have little doubt this same version actually aired on SBS at the time.
My all time fav Adam quote is ‘Am I missing . . . an eyebrow?!?’ I don’t know why, maybe it’s the backstory of what he did later that night, maybe it’s the smoke alarm going off in the background, I dunno, but it still makes me chuckle all these years later
That clip was part of the opening credits for a good while, so that's also going to help it stick.
I always loved hearing that in the opening credits. And the full scene is just as funny, but in a different way, where someone replies "Yes", and all the humour leaves Adam's face as he goes "Oh, f***, really?"
Mythbusters gave people something real and authentic in a tv landscape that was devoid of just that.
Haha no.
Truth.
The narrator was as iconic as the cast.
I was so happy you gave him love on a vid you did a while back.
I'm terrified for Adam, when he cuts round objects on his bandsaw...
I see you too have watched the aluminum foil ball episode...
+2
That part!
bandsaws are objectively terrifying
@@lyreparadox table saws and band saws scare the shit out of me
As far as Mythbusters succeeding today (and I think I'm paraphrasing something Adam's given attention to in another one of these) it's not just the small crew that's moved to UA-cam but the idea behind Mythbusters of finding ways to test things out. Tod Cutler and some acquaintances made a longbow and armor as accurately as they could (making a point of what they didn't know and error bars) to test the Agincourt legends to see if they were even in the right ballpark. Steve Mould had an idea of how to make 2D liquid models and demonstrate how siphons and other unintuitive devices work, that just became his "thing" for a while because once you have the method and tools why not? Veritasium had Adam drop pennies on him out of a helicopter.
And that's just the first few that come to mind. Some people are experts in their craft, some are playing around with a 3D printer and as astounded as the viewers that it worked. Sometimes it's their whole focus, sometimes it's just to illustrate one concept. Either way, the "this is what the math says, but let's see if we can get something we can point to" idea of Mythbusters is going strong.
Adam many thanks for mythbusters it gave countless hours of entertainment and education. You delivered what the majority don’t.
The myth buster years were my favourite years. I miss it so much.
Mythbusters was extremely important to those of us that had "what if" questions and a general interest of obscure and scientific things .It brought families and friends together from the curiosity of science..and it was fun.🖖🏿😎
The most dangerous thing on Mythbusters ever was the cannon ball that flew over the barrier and hit a few cars and houses in an unsuspecting neighborhood. That was dangerous, really dangerous.
That's been addressed in another Q&A regarding worst thing to go wrong, not to Adam's personal safety though.
I grew up watching myth busters since I was a little child. This show was one of the most important shows for me to watch. I would watch two cool science guys talk about the coolest projects, theories, and with lots of action and hilarious moments that made me smile.
Despite being horribly bullied when I was young, your show reminded me that when I grow up I’ll be free of my classmates nasty and toxic comments/behaviour. Your show also remind me there’s going to be freedom when I grow up, and I too can focus on creating something I’m super passioned about.
Thank you so much for all amazing memories. Your show has left a tremendous amount of interest for me in sciences. Despite not finishing school because of the bullying trauma, I’m a better person today with an enormous passion and interest in science. 🙏♥️🌻🧙♀️
If only it wasn't the case to be bullied in the first place in school it still seems like its common place and i think we all deal with that as were older too, but we can choose to get out of it when were older, where as school you feel stuck and can't get out of it unless you change schools its hard, something maybe the future we can do school more online for people who deal with that as a solution maybe, options for that is always good i think.
Adam surely appreciates comments that make him feel as old as father time.
@@InjuredRobot. i font think Adam thinks like you. Don't forget these are your own projections. Such insecurities perhaps say more about you, and your way of thinking?
I'm imagining the mud room at the Savage house littered with shoes caked with not only mud, but asphalt, heavy metals, gelatin, and viscera
Do houses in the Bay Area have mud rooms?
Your mom freaking out about the tongue piercing is such a loving mom response. Bless.
Adam talking about whether or not Mythbusters would work today with the “Plausible” sign in front him. 😂
Mythbusters worked because it was the classic duo comedy act. You had the zany character and the straight man.
Given your estimation of when viewership dropped, I must apologize.
I graduated HS in 2008, so 2009-2011 was college, and I stopped watching basically all TV at that point. It was all VHS, DVD, and video games at that point.
No, kids, we couldn't stream yet. We pirated quite a bit though.
I graduated HS in 1981 and once I got my first DVR I stopped watching "live TV" altogether. Nothing like zipping right through all those commercials!
What is amazing is that your tests are referenced in many offhand conversations. "Oh yeah the Mythbusters tested that and found..."
There's actually a lot of stuff on UA-cam that's definitely inspired by, or at least adjacent to, Mythbusters.
Mark Rober, Smarter Every Day, The Slow Mo Guys, Colin Furze, and probably tons more that I don't know (but wouldn't mind hearing about).
The spirit of Mythbusters is alive and well, it's just not going by the same name.
First thing that came to mind with the safety-concerns from friends and family, was Richard Hammond's history of accidents.
His family gotta be feeling it, just from him setting off to film another special.
Oh man, that dude has an army of angels watching him... He must be a cat or something🤣
" His trunk was like the shot in the movie where the hero goes OHHHHHHHH, it was crazy ... " Laughed so hard, thinking if people heard this out of context ... Thinking about the boys without even seeing a whole episode of it ...
I'd like to see 'Junkyard Wars' make a comeback, and I think Adam would be an excellent host or 'Consultant'........
Of f*** I loved that show. It created the foundation of my want to create things from nothing. Then I started watching Mythbusters, and like everyone else in the comments, was such a great show that I looked forward to every week. I cried when it ended
Mythbusters would be a UA-cam channel if it existed today. Something like the Slow Mo Guys or Corridor Crew.
It’s true, but it wouldn’t have been the same without the budget and scale that came with the wide viewership on TV, where advertisers inexplicably overpay for ad time.
I love taking the time to come up with worse case scenarios even mid process in my shop. Contrary to my parents beliefs I learned this skill of theorycrafting by playing RPGs and coming up with a way to deal with the worst case scenario counters to my character or play style.
This format is sick! I really enjoyed the video man.
I watch myth busters over and over! Still love it. I would binge watch new episodes right now!
Not just Adam that moved online from Mythbusters. Mythbusters' success and the focus it drew helped to blow open a door that was just opening at that time. Adam was right, it rode a cultural moment and was lucky in that. But its success also built potential energy for something to follow it. It became (in a way) one of the early examples of a new 'genre' given fertile ground to grow by online resources. The online space now has TONNES of content creators who can take a renegade team and make things to test ideas, techniques, and tech. There are people making some outstanding replicas and stunningly beautiful original art. Sword makers, painters, glass blowers, designers, jewelers, mechanics, cosplayers. Makers and artists whose content and stories have become as much art as their products. People who can make the whole world their workspace, or show you an entire world on their workbench. We became the creators, and consume each others creations. That's fascinating. And I think Mythbusters was at least a seed in that.
The expression holds true, “ All good things must come to an end” No matter how good a show, person, animal or inanimate object it must come to an end.
I discovered Mythbusters in 2003, I've watched and enjoyed it ever since. Trying to get all of the seasons on DVD.
I'd love to get all the episodes on disc too. As far as I can tell, there is no box set available with all the episodes, right? Need to get the separate boxes for each season.
@@naavie I've seen a box set that consists of all of the episodes on ebay, but I've heard it's a bootleg.
I have seasons 1 to 7, I'd like to get the other seasons but any season other than 1 and 2 are really rare, at least as far as region 2 (I'm in the UK) is concerned anyway.
The perspective of the Samaritan in the corner is just something awesome. I've been thinking that an overhead shot of Adam's workbench with the Samaritan and the Blade runner pistol would be an awesome desktop background.
Mythbusters was literally my favorite show when I was younger I watched every single episode multiple times :)
would love to see the "this is a robbery" joke available online
I'm proud to say that I watched Mythbusters from start to finish, real time, and I loved every second of it. You guys are awesome and I would LOVE to work with you. Meticulousness is one of my fortes. Especially, when it comes to the scientific method.
As an Australian, I am so glad we had that joke, it was hilarious
which episode was it on? I've been looking and asking since the live stream and no one seems to know.
The popularity of Mythbusters probably declined as kids that grew up on Mythbusters moved out of their parent's house and didn't get cable (I am one of those kids). The decentralization of media distribution can greatly increases the viewership, but can hurt with raising funds for the actual production.
there are fan re-edits of mythbusters around wink wink that make rewatches much more pleasant. No commercial bumpers, no summarizing for people who might have missed half an episode etc, none of that medium specific crud that was normative in 2003 but makes no sense in a home video or on-demand situation.
I loved watching Mythbusters as a kid with my dad and I love watching Tested as a adult man
adam the success was because of you and jamie . you guys had the magic. the second crew was also really good with kari, tory , and grant
I am constantly terrified for Adam's safety! I am so glad he still has fingers. Adam- when I watched Shake Hands with Danger- I was thinking of you the whole time😂😂😂
When you started talking about finding that tiny gun amongst all the others my mind went to the scene in MIB when Will Smith finds the little Cricket gun. 🤣
The banana peels in the pool was the episode that still makes me chuckle! I must like slapstick
'Things are of a moment' - Perfect
I had trouble reading the title, I kept seeing "Adam's Family" and thought...did he work on that? 😆
If it helps, Gomez and Fester spelled it Addams.
I specifically remember the joke with the tiny gun. I watched it multiple times. It was hilarious!
“The solution is to stop telling them” lololol
It reminds me of soldiers at war, calling home. It never goes well when they start telling them about the horrors they’ve seen. Their loved ones at home just can’t relate to it, and it only increases their anxiety. Sometimes, it’s best to keep things to yourself or to a certain audience.
I used to have a hazardous career, I didn't tell my wife all the stuff that happened. Thank you for sharing your experiences and stories!
If mythbusters with you and Jamie would make a return you would basically break tv and internet. It would be soooooo hyped! ❤
We started watching with my son a few weeks ago. At first he was dubious, but within two episodes, he was hooked!
For a moment in this video, from 6:10-6:25 of dead time, "One more? One more..." I'm guessing that was for time reasons to keep the video short or within a certain time length. I found myself wondering, "Why didn't the editors take that time out to do just that?"
Next question, "MythBusters being a TV Show, there was a significant amount of editing..."
Oh, THAT's why... lol
The solution is to stop telling them hahaha, Brilliant!
Mythbusters was something that never happens - Smart, funny, entertainment, with a heart. You, Jamie, and the build team were doing what the audience would do if they had the resources and a bomb range. Asking what if? Miss it
5:44 I think the REAL question is, how many times did you guys think through all the worst case scenarios for a myth like that, only to realize afterwards you weren't even close and you way underestimated how bad it could've gone? 😂
The cannon-ball incident was the real world example of that, and changed the rigor they went through by a lot. I think there is a Tested video a few years back that dove into it, but can't find it right now.
My cousin, may he rest in piece, became an engineer _because_ of Mythbusters. Or at least it was what got him interested in "making". He passed away 12 years ago.
I LOVE your videos Mr. Savage. I'm currently enrolled in Technical College for Machine Tool Technology. I've never been more excited in my life as i am when learning to be a maker. I have a question for you. I have a project for my final, which gets sent to NIMS, and I'm really wanting to make a fractal vise (we get to keep our project ;-) ). Could you please direct me to a place where i can find detailed and actual blueprints for such things? Again, I LOVE your channel, and I've already learned invaluable lessons from you. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
Nice video thanks for sharing Adam sir
The making of tested! Would love to see a behind the scenes!
As someone who has had a significant amount of dealings with Discovery and their networks on the technical/broadcast side, I can tell you with 100% certainty that humor is not their strong suit.
I really enjoy your show it's really great to watch I enjoy learning on it and you were really great on missbusters
Was just reading an article "‘MythBusters’ Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence
John Galvan was arrested at 18 and spent 35 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit." - now that's a legacy that keeps on giving Adam, you lawyered the lawyers.
Idk if it's just me but Adam is my scientific version of Mr. Roger's. Iv been watching him since I was a kid and I love everything he does. He has a special way to explain and teach
Will Adam Savage ever know how much his work, that show, and this channel have inspired me…..?
5:44 Start with the table saw, you'll be finding scenarios that are simply gruesome, haha, but i know you do the same whenever you are about to use it.
What Discovery wants: "Turn to page: three hundred and ninety-four."
What the audience wants: "Am I missing (chuckle) an eyebrow?"
Thank you 😊
I love watching your videos and the realism in them.
Your Swiss Army Knife stopped moving!!
3:10 that actually is, funnily enough, a myth. The majority of your cells are human.
Once I graduate I really want to meet Adam Savage maybe even build something with him I've watched and enjoyed Mythbusters since I was a kid
Thanks!
I think the gun joke must have made it through to the UK cut, because I have a definite memory of hearing it before. At least some of your fans got it Adam!
Same here. I remember it. Hilarious
For quite a long time now, the most minutes of video shown on my TV are from UA-cam. So, it always amuses me when someone speaks about TV and UA-cam as if they are different things. (Especially since I’m usually older than the speaker.) And most of the shows I watch today are more like Mythbusters than most of the stuff I watched on old-school TV.
Not to get too into it, first, I LOVE Mythbusters. Best reality show ever, next to Scrapheap Challenge (not Junkyard Wars).
However, with the amount of people arguing about "Alternate Facts" about everything, not just politics. And "Science Denying" in favor of their own beliefs, I don't think Mythbusters would succeed on television well today.
Very sadly.
We NEED more good science shows on science and history networks. And fewer, much fewer, "reality shows" that are merely people arguing over whose personal garbage is better, and wrestling, and just everything other than science, art, and history.
Thank you, Adam, for still sharing, and Making with us?
Do you still build props and such for film studios? Or is this channel your full-time job?
I love what you do and look forward to more. Especially your 1 day builds. 💜
Be Excellent to each other and to yourself, and Party on. 🤘🎸😎🌈
*i watch programs such as mythbusters and storm chasers for specific reasons and it's because i'm interested in the topics and keen to learn new things...i always turn the volume off during commercial breaks as most are just incredibly stupid or annoying...a new mythbuster's would be tricky to pull off at the same level but doable...perhaps a shorter season allowing for much larger budgets per episode...maybe a crowd funding variant where those contributing select which myths they want to see tackled*
I’m pretty sure it was the types of viewers watching MythBusters started cutting cable around 2011. When my family cut cable we had no official way to watch MythBusters other than dvd sets my parents wouldn’t buy. MythBusters format would likely do well on modern streaming, especially with the long gap in which new myths have come into existence.
Been a fan since Mythbusters. I create. I'm in tarrytown every week.
Here in Sweden we saw the complete joke with the tiny gun. Exactly my kind of humour, so I remember it well.
It was on Discovery channel, but I’m not sure which one is aired here.
8:48 best part in this video
“Start thinking through every worst case scenario of a simple thing that you can”
That’s literally just me on a daily basis already
Dont start thinking about all the worst case scenarios you can encounter in a day. You may never leave your house again, assuming your house is safe... Is your house safe? Think about it...
I'm not sure how to explain how I can consider these things when doing something (like working with a tool) but then take reasonable precautions, and proceed without anxiety. It's possible to use it as a useful tool. (And know that in the rare cases you do still have worry, it's meaningful.) At any point while I'm typing this a meteor could land on my head, but...that and everything else like it is in a box of "no factor".
my childhood is mythbusters. everyday after school at 4 or 5 pm, i turn on discovery channel and watch it.
Anyone know the Mythbusters episode number where he pulled the tiny derringer out of the trunk and said 'this is a wrobbery'?
Was my favorite show at that time
I’m from Australia… what episode was the wrobbery joke I love to find it
You're quite the post structuralist, Adam! Machines and flows.
You missed the obvious joke with the tiny gun.. "Noisy Cricket" ...
I really want to see that joke Adam talked about that Discovery cut from the episode.
"The solution is to stop telling them"! Yep, discretion is always the better part of valour!
I love you man your so smart and really help me understand things 😁😁!
**you're**
Love from India Adam sir❤️
Is there somewhere online the Australian length episodes can be streamed?
It's funny how Adam made that shop apron, wore it for that promo, and we never see it again outside of that
When I was in school 2021-2022 I was in class Ms Pierce MythBusters on Tuesdays Adam……….🎉 it’s crazy ******ADAM & JAMIE*******
I think Mythbusters was just that magic collection of the right people, at the right time, with the right content that reached a lot of people. The cast vibed in a way that a reboot just won't make happen. Everybody is in different places than they were then and it probably wouldn't have the same impact. The mainstream audience has changed too so any attempt might just end up on the cutting room floor. I would love to see new episodes of Dirty Jobs and Mythbusters but at the same time I know I'm different too. How well would they speak to me outside a nostalgic setting?
Perfectly put.
MB was the last show I was watching in 2011 when I quit TV altogether.
I'm so, so sorry. I had no idea you were counting on me. 😫
please make a short out of the derringer part.
I go through that "worst case" process every time I try to think of "fun things" to do with my nieces and nephews. And, yeah, it's a crazy headspace. I mean, I'm no Mark Rober.
Mythbusters as a weekly show wouldn't be a hit right now ... Agreed.
But...
A mythbusters spectacular reunion special just might be a one time hit. :)
Needs to be Mythbusters UA-cam channel today
It's interesting to hear Adam mention the drop off in viewers after 8 years. For me, I probably stopped watching about that time too and it was down to one thing. For some reason Kari, Tori, Grant and Adam seemed to be super-pumped about everything. I got tired of the high-fives, whooping and hollering. As an extreme introvert, I felt like it was a party I was no longer invited to. Even Jamie seemed to be more in the background and I kind of liked his zen energy to balance out the others. If I had a subscription, I'd ask if the extra energy was genuine or whether it was pressure from Discovery or if they were trying to compensate for some of the myths being less about testing myths and more about spectacle.
It would 100% succeed today, it had great ideas, explosions, slow mo, social experiments, physics experiments, a great crew and memorable moments (maybe it would need a faster pace). There are channels that get millions of views that have just few of those components and with a fraction of the quality.
Is there somewhere I can watch the Aussie cut of the show? Other than in Australia, of course