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"Am I.....am I missing an eyebrow?" Have wondered since then how long it took you to regrow it and how did it affect your date you were about to go on at the time? lol
10:29 - 10:51 'Basically, me and warning labels have a special relationship.' Now I follow them as is for the most part, but back on Mythbusters we used the warning label and/or the warranty limits, as the starting point for how to go about things.
Gasoline - There are videos of *firefighters* misusing gasoline. As a pyrotechnician who has started bonfires (intentionally), you need to be VERY careful with Volatile Organic Compounds. If you want to start a bonfire use gel fire starter or fire starter blocks...even BBQ starter fluid is too volatile for a large fire.
Can yall make a sort of reunion video? Have you, jamie, kari, tori, and jennifer newman (grants fiance) all get the vaccine and then get an MRI to show everyone that there is no microchip? Do that and then get a random sample of people who were vaccinated to get an mri to show there are no microchips. I know that yall were a big part of so many peoples childhoods, and i think it could help boost the confidence in them.
I think my nomination for "Myth that turned out more dangerous than it seemed" would be the water heater episode where they built a shed, put the water heater inside, and cranked it up until it caused a steam explosion. I somehow remember Adam and Jamie were like "yeah whatever maybe it'll put a dent in one layer of plywood or something", but then when it finally burst it made a water heater shaped hole straight up through the entire structure and blew out all four walls of the shed.
There's a long history of steam boiler explosions causing mass casualties. Locomotives, paddlewheel steamboats, oceangoing ships, industrial boilers in basements, even espresso coffee machines in cafes.
Turning a waterheater into a giant bottle rocket was unexpected, but sort of expected if you think of it as a bottle rocket. The Lawnmower vs rocks test was also unexpected, not only were the flying rocks not contained by the guard, but an axle sheared off and the entire blade was ejected at high speed.
Sure, but they were very aware of the dangers and operated the process from 50 meters away behind a blast shield. And the Starship XXX water heater when straight up and down.
@@TheSchmuck01 yep, I believe there's another vid on this channel where Adam mentions how the one thing he refuses to work with is steam systems like that. He specifically mentioned espresso machines like they have in cafes (he got one as a gift iirc) and how he always just hires the repair guy to come fix his when it regularly breaks down.
As a teenager, I was walking to a park with a group of friends when one of my friends stepped off the sidewalk, fell backwards, and hit his head on the curb. He died instantly. It took a while for it to sink in because it just didn’t seem possible. We couldn’t feel his pulse and he wasn’t breathing, but we tried CPR anyway while waiting for an ambulance. We learned later on that his death was instantaneous. I’m definitely a paranoid pedestrian. I never look at my mobile while moving. I stop to look at it. It irritates so many companions. But looking at a phone while moving is a excellent way to have an accident. Walking while drunk too; best avoided by having others transport you. It’s a terrible memory for many reasons of course, but this video reminded me of it because walking to a park seems like such a safe activity. I like remembering Eric though. His smile. Even though he was a kid, he made terrible old man puns and then he’d laugh at his own joke.
Yes. Teacher in a school, her small daughter was "helping" babysitter do dishes, slipped off the stool, head hit the floor, she was dead instantly. School district worked in subs for everyone so school stayed open while everyone from that school went to the child's birthday for an hour. Remember thinking "They shouldn't make coffins that small."
Similar story a guy had just retired from working all his life and at his retirement party he jumped on a mini bike rode down the driveway , he was turning around barely moving slipped, tipped over hit his head on the gravel driveway and died instantly . Just Horrible .
@@veramae4098 my 3 year old daughter loves to help with dishes. I'm always trying to keep my left hand ready in case I need to grab her, just reading that story scares the hell out of me imagining it could happen to my little girl.
Head injuries are no joke, especially if you've had prior head injuries. You never know if you have a subdural hematoma and one little hit can rupture it and kill you. I get so paranoid about invisible injuried like that. Makes me want to wear helmets at all times.
One of the myths I remember most was one by Kari, Tori, and Grant testing the story of someone leaving explosive gasses in their van for a weekend which slowly leaked and when returning and using their remote unlock button the car exploded. They completely expected it to fail and had started developing contingencies for where to take the myth after it failed and other scenarios to test to at least make it plausible but then when they tested it, it immediately blew up. It was completely unexpected but a good wake up call to remind people just how dangerous gasses can be.
Now I'm reconsidering removing my propane torch from my truck, or at least from the passenger compartment. If it explodes in the bed, that's one thing. If it explodes in the cabin, that could be much worse. Ironically I thought it would be safer in the passenger cabin, which is usually cooler.
"When something doesn't seem dangerous is when you should be paying more attention." Best advice ever. I interact daily with guns, knives, and other "implements of destruction" but where I get hurt is using power tools, moving furniture, cooking ... mundane stuff like that. Practice cutting with sword? Well, it's a weapon, gotta be careful. Same when carrying or shooting a gun, working with a stick, blah, blah, blah. But hey, that stove isn't a weapon so ... ouch. Why, sure, I'll put this drill through a metal disk to make an attachment point for ... well there's seven stitches holding my fingertip on.
Once knew a person who went to hop over a tailgate of a pickup truck, it suddenly popped open, and instant broken femur. She had surgery, 6 month full leg cast, and she was lucky the broken bone didn't hit her femoral artery or she would have died.
One set of safety principles says that dangerous situations aren't caused by what you are working with, but with your mind: being tired, frustrated, rushing, or complacent. I'm not going to pick up a sword if I'm tired, and I'm definitely not going to rush with a loaded gun outside of emergencies. However, I do go up stairs when tired, distracted, and complacent.
@@Benjamin1986980 This, 100%. I've spine problems which leads to pain, sometimes pretty nasty. Just about every oil burn or cut in the kitchen was because I was sore, I wanted to be done and went too fast. Every. Single. One. Took me an embarrassingly long time to learn that lesson on my own, and it takes a bit of effort to keep from unlearning it over the years. x.x (In younger years, it's far too easy to see an injury as mere misfortune rather than a failure somewhere along the line.)
Can't tell you how much I like that saying, or how much I wish someone drilled it into my head as a kid. >.o Learning the hard way is more memorable, but it's wiser to heed good advice from the start.
"You're never going to be able to make something safe. You can increase the margin of safety. And as long as you're holding to that, and you don't suffer the illusion that you have made something safe, then you stay in that mental state that allows you to deal with contingencies cause they're going to happen." That is a GOOD quote, man. Good quote.
Adam spoke like a true safety professional. He hit it right on the head with that. We are always saying that in my profession. It's inherently not safe but you can mitigate the risk to an acceptable level. If you want to be truly safe, don't do the work at all. It's mission first, safety second. Not safety first, and by that I mean if it was safety first you just wouldn't leave your house
@@Spoons81 I think that's the biggest thing about life in general. So many things we do on a daily basis is incredibly dangerous, yet relatively few people get hurt because we act accordingly
@@LERobbo Please tell that to my entire chain of bosses and every safety person I've ever met -_- I've been unlucky enough to always run into people who think 100% safe and risk free is not only achievable, but must be chased at any cost, including making the situation 10x less safe in the process.
@@HDL_CinC_Dragon a friend of mine was in a production of The Who’s Tommy, and at the theater they performed at they had holes in the floor for the ensemble to be able to climb out of or jump into. They had put so much padding on the floor at the bottom of these holes to cushion their fall that one of the actors fell wrong and got her ankle stuck between pieces of padding and snapped her ankle.
@@aaronb3024 Exactly why it worked on the show. They may have both disliked each other but both respected the science of their experiments to keep things professional.
Honestly, I was thinking that soundbite of Adam talking about Jamie is the perfect response to people asking if they're friends. People who ask if they're friends imagine they go out and get beers or if they went to cons together, and obviously, not a fucking chance. So when they hear "we weren't friends" they then imagine that their relationship displayed on screen was completely fictitious, that they 'hated' or 'couldn't stand each other'. But then you watch this clip and you see that Jamie has become an irrevocable part of Adam's methodology, and perhaps the other way as well. People just get so hung up on the nuance I think they fail to see why that relationship was so special, and certainly why it worked for the entire running of the show.
100% this. I had a friend who was a pilot and she said that if she ever quit being just a little bit afraid of it she would quit, because it was that fear that kept her checking all the things all the time.
I cut down trees for a living and and you always think about the tree falling on you but it is usually the hole in the ground behind you that breaks your leg.
Adam posted a video a while back, about how he'd come very close to ripping his finger off. Got complacent cleaning a tool that he was very comfortable with, and yeah it suddenly grabbed his finger. On a related (but less severe) note, many years ago suddenly learned proper respect for the industrial drill presses that I was working with. Was using my sweater sleeve to knock loose aluminium swarf off the bit as it spun, and eventually I went slightly too close and it grabbed my sleeve. From my point of view, I instantly went from "totally fine" to "arm violently slammed against the drill". Scared the hell out of me.
@@patheddles4004 spinning stuff is so dangerous. I had a regular 18v cordless drill grab when I was drilling a hole, and it completely spun the workpiece (about 20 pounds) around. It damaged some nearby stuff but thankfully I was fine. Sometimes you get grabbed, sometimes the work is grabbed. Rotating stuff is always terrifying
IMO, Adam talking about missing the arguments with Jamie and essentially roleplaying Jamie to double-check his work is probably one of the highest compliments he could pay him. That is one of the most genuine expressions of professional respect I've seen in a long time.
The “I missed Jamie. I had an argument in my head with him to find ways to improve the project” bit was so very touching. And then my brain had to ruin it by picturing Adam going back and forth like Gollum and Sméagol, doing the mustache hands for Jamie’s part! 🤣
I know the 'Adam and Jamie weren't friends' story is highly overtold but Adam wanting Jamies advise or his inspection gives their relationship a wholesome angle :)
Well, I think about it like this: I have co-workers I get along with, but we don't get drinks after work or something. You don't have to be buddies to have a semi-positive or even a very positive working relationship with somebody.
@@sschmidtevalue Yeah that was the general gist. They worked well together but as people they had nothing in common. After so many seasons of shooting the two just grew tried of each other's presence.
A tiny part of me will always be disappointed that they weren't as close as the show made them look, but knowing they tremendously respected - and respect - each other as professionals, does help.
More often than not, I feel, that working relationships - were you aren't friends but respect each others work and get along fine - are the ones that lead to the best results. Mythbusters probably wouldn't have worked, had they been best friends. Cause the thing is, even friends get into each others hairs every now and then, and then shit gets bad. With co-workers you can always just tune out, cool off and then come back some other time to continue work.
Was nice to hear how Adam relied on Jamie’s criticisms to keep him safe and visa versa. They drove each-other batty but they also saved each-other’s lives
It's common knowledge now that they weren't friends, but one lesson I am glad to have learned in my life is that a good colleague doesn't have to be a friend.
@@fredwupkensoppel8949 some of my most productive working relationships have been with people I cannot fucking stand except for their technical abilities...pretending to like each other is a waste of time from an engineering perspective and honestly is kind of a yellow flag to me because incompetent people tend to do it to compensate.
@@fredwupkensoppel8949 I saw them at their live show back in the day and remember Jamie saying "we deeply respect and trust each other". He sounded so genuine that it stuck with me. They didn't need to be social friends to be amazing coworkers.
It’s fascinating to see Adam pause and have to physically collect himself at times to avoid getting carried away by his own enthusiasm. It’s a hard trick I’ve had to teach myself for the same tendency. Seeing the energy and passion that Adam puts into his work never ceases inspire.
I’m not one of those people that thinks social norms should be completely eradicated but the fact that you think this is a good thing is ridiculous. People should be allowed to get excited about things. If anything, we should stigmatise people who don’t get carried away because they’re boring.
@@emilyk5003 Idiot, its actually a good think because he can speak on a topic with clarity rather than go on for so long he goes faster and faster and gets put of breath and starts making less sense. What a horrid take, fucking insane you thought that was a good opinion.
"When something DOESN'T seem dangerous, that's when you should be paying MORE attention." This, so much. I feel like I've spent my entire life trying to explain that concept to friends, family, and coworkers, and nobody ever believes me until after they get hurt. Most of the time, they even criticize me, for being "too negative"!
I just imagine Adam sitting there looking at his plan, folding his arms, putting on a slight scowl, lowering his had a bit and saying in a deep voice: "Well, there is your problem"
Then the hands go in front of the face to make walrus whiskers while he tells himself off in a Jamie voice. It even includes a story from an obscure past career.
“Pay even more attention when things don’t seem dangerous “. Wise advice. I started wood carving and I was going through my mental checks and decided that carving isn’t that dangerous as I’ve carved sticks before. Little did I know how much sharper carving knifes are than a regular pocket knife. Long story short I ended up digging a deep gash into the pad of my thumb. The spoon knife I was using came with bandages. I should have heeded the warning. Seven stitches later and I was brand new.
@@amateurhedonist6978 My oldest (non-navel) scar is from the day I learned not to whittle with a non-locking Swiss Army knife. Yes, Adam's animated Victorinox is still triggering.
@@csn583 Victorinox knives are too fragile for any serious cutting. Ditto boxcutters. I wasn't allowed a sturdy knife at school as a teacher but instead had to use those stupid snap off blade knives; result lots of blades breaking and bits of blade in my hand.
For more dangerous than it seemed, my first thought was the bubblewrap fall myth. They wrapped you in bubble wrap, if I recall correctly, and it was apparent very quickly that you would suffocate from the weight on your chest preventing the movement of your diaphragm if they overdid it. Bubblewrap seems so harmless, but it turned out that even bubblewrap could kill you.
The episode that comes to mind for me was where they tested different seated passenger positions in a plane crash. I think they raised the model only a few feet off the ground and then dropped it with 3 of the cast members in it. All came out limping or obviously in discomfort. Gravity tends to provide painful lessons...
Maybe the question should have been worded "Which experiment was actually disproportionately dangerous compared to its deceptively mundane on-screen appearance?"
There probably isn't anything like that, because playing up the danger generally made things more dramatic. So if something was dangerous, the show probably told us that.
@@MethosOhio "Does vodka kill foot odour?" Totally mundane, but a risk of absorbing alcohol. But it it really all that dangerous, or could it have potentially serious effects? While this was an actual experiment (it worked), the example is hypothetical. I'm not looking for an answer.
I mean, if the wording were that, it would still probably be largely a discussion about flammable gasses because the invisible things capable of large-scale injury or destruction are both innocuous in appearance due to the whole invisible aspect, and very dangerous.
Shooting the grappling hook from the air cannon and not realizing the cannon itself was lighter than the hook and got launched right into where they were hiding seemed pretty terrifying to me.
I still remember when they realised that the "Bulletproof" acrylic wasn't bulletproof at the thickness they were using. That brings up a whole bucket of "What ifs"
most people don't even realize that its bullet resistant and there are levels. plus bullet resistant means it can still be hacked apart with an ax or shattered with a club.
just look up some vids. you will see bulletproof acrylic be torn to bits with an axe or shattered from a club from a robber shocking the hell out of the bank tellers
@@shawn576 That's EXACTLY how it works. The idea isn't to be able to stand there and stare at the asshole shooting at you, the idea is it offers just enough protection for you to GTFO and to a panic room. Or at least dive for cover.
My machining teacher would always say "The machine only starts to become dangerous when you stop being afraid of it" and I really think that encompasses what you said in the beginning. A huge part is just the awareness that you'r doing something that might present dangers
I was a fire fighter back in the late 70s when a few fire fighters in another city got seriously injured in which flammable gas they were unknowingly standing in ignited and the heat traveled up the legs of their bunker gear and melted their polyester uniform pants to their skin.
Could be the one when they blew up a cement truck and found part of it wrapped around a tree they were near, they thought that they were far enough away.
I remember Adam giving a talk once about how when the tree blew up during the Tree cannon myth it scared some of their camera crew to the point that the next thing they filmed they didn't want to get close enough despite upgrading their experts from Pyrotechnics experts to FBI bomb squad.
@@armchairgeneralissimo yep, that one had me thinking about stumps on the ends of legs.... rotating heavy bodies like that simply will not deflect at that blades mass and velocity, it also had enough kinetic energy to destroy all that stood in its way.
As a safety engineer that has worked in Oil and now in Pharma, I appreciate you talking through what we call “layers of protection” and increasing the margin of safety, but something not ever being “safe”.
@]Marr Baumgart.. I've just retired from a 40 year career in industrial construction. Every day starts with a "safety" meeting. What a joke. They were more like being browbeaten by the Ghestapo.., threatening us with torture if we did (or said) something stupid. Threats of termination were common. "If only..." the meetings were done as Adam did this... In my experience, "Safety" personnel were only (? mostly?) concerned with the company's responsibility. Unsafe conditions were routinely ignored, but "Unsafe People" ?? "Unsafe Acts" ?? Oh, yeah. It's always twisted and reported as such, in order to exonerate the company... because, you know.., Workers Comp Insurance is expensive! Every claim increases the premium rate.., based on the company's "safety" record. Every day included paperwork (signed by all) indicating that the dangers were outlined, and each person was aware of any (all) hazards. That insures that there are no accidents. Everything is avoidable, except when incompetent and oblivious people violated "The Rules!" The "Safety Department" was operated by and under lawyers. Rarely, some individuals were actually concerned about Workers Safety. I always made a point of thanking them, and always tried to make coworkers known that we had a friend in this person. But... they're rare.
Good safety tip, always run worse case scenario. Its harder than you think. Like industrial gridding mill (16 feet diameter) if inside for inspection or maintenance like 1/4 of a rotation will kill you. There are several levels of safety. 1 its scheduled so operators know in advance, 2 you need permit sing by the main operator, 3 start button in operating room is physically lock with a key, 4 electric power to motors (main and servis) are disconnected and locked, 5 all personnel working are listed in the permit and all are locked with personal pad locks on red box wit all the keys inside, 6 you have a squad leader / safety officer who are responsible for all crew and have the last word, can change work procedures or stop operation.
The one that scared me most was the buried alive in a coffin myth. That one just comes back to me now and then out of the blue, when the coffin got crushed. I'm so glad they did a dry run first.
They didn't seem to do any kind of tests on the coffin beforehand to try to ascertain how a few tonnes of earth might affect it, which is horrifying. I couldn't help thinking about magician Joe Burrus' tragic death in the early '90s during a buried coffin escapology attempt.
If you don’t already have one, go to your local hardware store and get yourself a combination glass breaker/seatbelt cutter tool for your car. You’ll be glad you did if you ever have an emergency. Also never keep it in the glove box, always somewhere near the driver’s seat.
“They can be dangerous, things that don’t look dangerous. Not looking dangerous is what makes them dangerous.” ~Lu-Tze (Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett)
Every electrician should read and internalise this. Powered wires look JUST the same as unpowered ones after all (contrary to what Hollywood and video games like to portray...)
The safety briefing for a conference at White Sands Missile Range showed a clip of MON-10 (Mixed oxides of Nitrogen, N2O4 with 10% NO added) being transferred into a container under fume hood. It was bright green, bubbled furiously, and emitted thick red fumes. That stuff does you the favor of looking dangerous from a hundred freaking feet away. Years later it was 90% hydrogen peroxide that gave me blisters. Looks like water, the lying b*tch.
Many years ago, my parents’ neighbor (I’ll call him Bob) and his dad decided to burn a large pile of brush and wooden junk on the top of Bob’s huge, steep hill. They used a lot of gasoline because it was a big pile and they liked when fires go “whoof”. Well, as Jaime mentioned, gasoline quickly turns to vapor, and gasoline vapor is heavier than air. When they went to light their gasoline fuse, the vapor ignited, causing a sheet of flame to roar all the way down the hill and into the fields below (thankfully when it was pretty wet out). Bob’s dad was wearing shorts and singed off all his leg hair. As for the fire proper, well, the mushroom cloud could be seen from two interstate highways, and when the fire department inevitably showed up, they were so annoyed that they put out the burn pile for practice. That was the last time Bob whoofed a fire on a hill and the last one that over soaked.
When I was health and safety rep on a mine site, we where asked for input on new safety posters, my idea was two photos one of a pissed of guy with no PPE and the second a grave, with the slogan "Better to piss off your mate of then bury them" I was told it was to dark, I guess only up beat safety is OK.
In Iceland they tend to put car wrecks from car crashes on full display where it happened, bill board style. How’s that for a reminder on your way to work.
Brilliant concept. You'd probably appreciate Australia: - TAC (Transport Accident Commission) routinely runs graphic ads showing crashes, with emotive messages - Public transport operator ran (is still running?) a catchy upbeat ad campaign called "Dumb Ways To Die". - Our cigarette packets all have graphic photos of tobacco-related medical problems.
Navy Vet here. Pretty sure you giving a talk on how yall prepared for some of the more memorable episodes of Mythbusters with explanations and footage would be FAR more effective than any Navy or shipyard safety video I have ever seen.
I've told this story before, but when I interned near a linear accelerator (my job was just sitting at a computer compiling all day, nothing fun) early in our first week there my division had a safety debriefing about an accident that would've gotten people killed if they hadn't done the safety procedures. I think that real-world example was more effective than the days of training we had to sit through to even be allowed on-site.
@@adamsbja I used to work at a logistics company that has a 3 letter name. We had safety training about conveyor belts, but the stories they told were much more effective too. A few years before I started working there, they had a maintenance guy remove safety guards, and then his gloved hand get sucked into the machine. Fortunately the crew was well trained, and they got the machine turned off quickly before it could tear his arm off. They said it was a miracle that he only suffered bruising on his hand instead of it being crushed and mangled.
@@Eyes0penNoFear Wow! Lucky indeed. I find that listening to stories of what happened because...are much more effective and really drive the point home.
@@toomanyaccounts 100% against the rules. The machine is supposed to be off, the power cut, and an actual padlock on the circuit breaker to ensure no one can accidentally turn it on while it's getting worked on.
I think part of that is that good collaboration demands constructive confrontation. Especially in an environment like Adam was describing. When skin and lives are on the line, you cant take it personally when someone shreds your plan. It may be a great plan. But everyone just needs to be confident that you have accounted for most of the likely dangers. I honestly don't think they are confrontational outside of work as much as just totally opposing personalities. They had worked together in the past (previous to the show) with no ill will, and parted the show the same. They were simply co-workers rather than good friends.
@@epremeaux cool story but I don’t think you can just comment on it like that and think it’s more of a topic for them to cover. I made comments that somebody could make from the outside of that relationship but you’re trying to answer like it’s you or someone you know. Their people you’ve watched on TV. You can’t really understand what the relationship was between the two of them neither can I. So save the explanation and leave it to the individuals in question.
@@brandonyoung-kemkes1128 Well no, he is just saying the exact things that are true. In a dangerous working environment, you don't want a friend who will go with you on anything, you want a colleague who is going to push and challenge every choice you make. Anyone who has ever worked in a dangerous or high pressure environment knows this, checking, rechecking yourself and other peoples work constantly, and having an open and emotion free dialogue is key to keeping everyone safe. You don't have to work on a show like Mythbusters to know this. Walk into any manual labour workplace and you will see these relationships. Thats what Jamie and Adam had, they weren't friends, but they had an impeccable working relationship that ensured that no one got hurt, and we aren't assuming that, because they have both said that over the years.
@@volrath__ I just didn’t appreciate the guy trying to explain to me all of that stuff when I made a simple comment he assumed that I thought collaboration and confrontation can’t go together. And also made an assumption that I assume they are good friends neither of which is true. People should stop making assumptions. In my view the rest of his explanation about how you need to work safe is completely irrelevant to my original comment. Not that safety is not important. It just has nothing to do with my statement. The gentleman made a assumption about my state of mind making the comment and then elaborated on it. Seems needless to me. And I am pertaining to the aspect of their relationship when I stated in my last comment that it’s a topic for them to cover. I was not talking about his comments on safety they’re pretty no brainer.
"You can never make something safe, you can increase the margin of safety and as long as you're holding to that and you don't suffer the illusion that you made something safe then you stay in that mental state that allows you to deal with the contingencies because they're going to happen" I feel like this quote applies to SO MUCH.
As someone who works at a gas station, it terrifies me. We go through regular training about this very issue and every time I see someone spill a few drops, I tense up because I know what can happen when this occurs hundreds of times a day
In February 2023 a gas pump kept running after the tank filled. I was very surprised to be splashed with gasoline (fortunately I was standing off to the side, so my clothes weren't soaked), but released the trigger in a few seconds (should be under 0.5 gallons spilled) and replaced the gas cap. It made a dark puddle on the ground about the size of my car, running behind my car and away from the pump (stopping at the edges of the concrete slab). It was a cold night, and strong wind blew the fumes back towards the customer behind me (very busy). I closed the gas tank, went inside, told the attendant what happened (they acknowledged it and did nothing), and waited several minutes before driving off. What should I have done in that situation?
@@reddragonflyxx657 Waiting seems like a good idea, let the fumes dissipate before sparking off the car. Legally, nothing because it's the workers job to fix spills.
@@dethmaul Yeah, the puddle was still there but it had been 10~15 minutes, cold weather kept it from evaporating quickly, the wind was quickly blowing fumes away from the engine, and the cars that drove over it didn't catch on fire. What do you mean by "Legally, nothing because it's the workers' job to fix spills"?
Mythbusters: "So, we want to build a lead balloon that floats..." Insurance company: "Oh, thank god... something safe." Mythbusters: "Well, safe-r than some things, but it IS lead, which is toxic, and..." I'm sure by the time Mythbusters wrapped, there were legions of insurance adjusters who had to retire from the stress.
It's probably easier to work with people who know what they're doing is dangerous because they can accurately evaluate the scenario and its safety measures.
Imagining Adam sitting infront of his whiteboard arguing with imaginary Jamie in his head to make sure it's all safe and well, is the most Adam and Jamie thing I could have imagined.
I have to say, Adam, for someone that says you are not "friends" with Jamie, you clearly have an enormous amount of respect for him. Every single video in which you speak of him, it is in absolute glowing respect for the man. I wish I had a non-"friend" like that.
I love how you can see the point at the end where he tries to wrap it up and is pleasantly surprised with himself for doing it so well. What a pure soul Adam has. Makes me smile :)
I've worked in the mining sector in Australia for many years - hearing you talk about safety is interesting. So many 'safety' precautions seemed geared at making people feel safe while providing very little actual improvement to safety.
Sublimation is when something goes directly from a solid to a gas (e.g. when your ice cubes in the freezer get smaller and smaller over time w/o melting). Evaporation is when a liquid goes to a gas as in the movie example.
there are also two types of evaporation. The regular surface type that happens below the liquids boiling point, and vaporization, the same process but above the liquids boiling point.
Never put distilled water in a borosilicate glass container in a microwave the water can super heat and go instantly from liquid to gas the entire volume of it, blew the front door off a microwave.
I'm getting the feeling that for legal reasons, Adam can never mention the cannon ball incident.... if it would have ever received a mention, it would have been in this video.
ever since the first time my Dad taught me about Carbon Monoxide as a kid, I have had a terrible fear of most gasses. Every time I hear the name of a gas that I've never heard of before I think "oh good and what new horrible ways can THAT kill me/make me incredibly ill?" so when hearing Adam describe the way gas pools towards the ground I shivered and felt sick. the stuff is TERRIFYING!
This was a fantastic video. I work as a chemist, and we come across a lot of the same safety concerns, and I absolutely love the way you described safety as a margin. I will definitely be paraphrasing that in the future. Excellent point about peer review as well. I know a lot of people (myself included) can sometimes feel strange challenging peers or superiors on methodology but it really is an instrumental part of the process. Sometimes that 2nd opinion is all you needed to save something
During the episode where Jamie built that "Lawnmower from Hell" and the component that held on the blade failed, the slowmo was terrifying. If it hit your ankle, your ankle would be rendered into bone and muscle jelly.
I also have a huge respect for flammable gasses. A long time ago I had a job as a "Shipyard Competent Person." Which aside from being the best job title I've ever held, meant my job was to craw through small enclosed spaces like fuel tanks and bilges in Navy ships to test the air quality. The goal was to ensure there were no flammable vapors, and enough oxygen for workers to enter the spaces safely. It sounds like an interesting job, but realistically it felt more like being a glorified canary that had to arrive at work like three hours earlier than everyone else... good times. However after that job and the training that came with it, I never again took for granted the power of flammable gasses. So I also find myself cringing when I see things like what you were describing with the guy just pouring out the gasoline and waiting to ignite it.
The comment about crosschecking each other reminded me of something in season 1, I think, where they needed a tank for either a pressure or vacuum chamber. Jamie was saying "this one will be fine, Adam's just being a big baby" and Adam was arguing hard like "there's too many bits that need to be cut off, welded, sealed up, too many things could go wrong with this". Which was the reverse of my normal mental concept of Jamie as the careful one and Adam as the loose cannon. But it's great that they had two people on equal footing to even have that argument, in private industry too often you can have a worker asking if something is safe and a boss saying "you don't need to worry about that, just do the work."
And the resolution to that was VERY good. Jamie trusting adam enough to let him find an alternative, and then when adam comes back, jamie agreed he got a much better tank for the job.
Sheet of newspaper, 2oz rock in the middle, roll the newspaper up into a "tail" for the rock, light tail, allow flame to spread untill all the tail is lit then throw into fire from 10m away. Works really well. How ive lit "questionable" bonfires in the past.
This seems clever but I can't move past the idea of someone doing this to try to take extra precaution only to really badly throw it into the underbrush or something hah
That is one of the sweetest, nicest revelations of a personal, insider thing I've heard in a long time. The feeling of something missing being Jamie and his "in-your-face" time. Very good, noble even, gesture on your part.
Thanks for your comments. I have kids, we farm, we have a shop. Before farming I was a heavy equipment mechanic in shops, in the field, and at mines. The constant awareness that most anything around you can kill you at anytime is important. Having a knowledgeable scale of what is most likely to kill you was important. If I didn't have that scale know yet, stay away. I teach my kids this. I let my kids play and work with me in order to learn that "scale". There is ALWAYS risks. Safety is understanding those risk and how close we get to the do not cross line. Then maybe learning how far we can push that line. What is needed to push that line. Then being aware of and communicating those dangers with others around you. Even if the communication is just eye contact so we don't run over each other.
Heavy shops are terrifying. I remember working at a factory, and a guy a couple stations up the line basically got scalped by a hydraulic line that blew off a spreader that was very not rated for what it was being used for.
It's really fascinating watching this, Adam Savage was a huge role model of mine growing up and learned to love working with my hands from him. Talking about safety and how the safer it seems the more dangerous it is one of the best lessons I've learned over the years. I like most of us have taken stupid risks and done really dangerous stuff but it's only when I'm unaware of the danger have I been really hurt. Thank you for a reminder in safety and being a role model for young people like myself. Not to be super flattering but I appreciate what you have done with your career and I hope to do the same with mine. Keep up the wise words my dear Sir.
Working in construction for over 15 years, it's been a constant lesson that when a job or task seems to have no danger to it, you aren't thinking about it enough. When you're working with heavy equipment, heavy items, power tools, even hand tools, there are countless ways that something can go wrong. A colleague of mine was doing a simple task of drilling a hole in a piece of wood using a low speed power drill. The bit suddenly snapped and the jagged edge still in the drill plunged deeply into the back of his unprotected hand. Ended up being minor, but could have easily caused severe nerve damage. There's always a way to get hurt if you stop paying attention.
Yes. . That's true. . . But could you ad-lib start speaking on a subject like this direct to camera, come up with an example of that subject matter, describe it in an informative an entertaining way and NOT make a little slip-up like Adam did here? I'm sure when Adam watches this back, he will be kicking himself, saying "Of *COURSE* I KNOW that liquids don't sublimate into gases!. . . Only SOLIDS sublimate - LIQUIDS evaporate. . I shouldn't have said that. . But I did . Oh well!"
@@richardrejmer8721 Maybe, maybe not. It was worth saying as a point of science. Not all comments are a criticism needing judegmental retaliatory defense.
I don't know what you guys are complaining about, whenever I uncork some solid gasoline it starts sublimating right away. Makes it awfully tricky to get it in the car.
@@richardrejmer8721 Yes, I could. You see, when you know stuff, you say the correct thing. Since he didn't know what the meaning of the word was, he used it incorrectly. I would never use a word I didn't know the meaning of so I'd never make that mistake.
"When something doesn't seem dangerous is when you should pay more attention." Been watching the show and I feel like the other crew didn't really learn that lesson as well. I can feel the thought behind safety when watching the montage of you and Jamie, then the way they put together Tory, Karrie and Grant's segments it just seems like they went straight at things and then think about the safety.
I love how Adam always acknowledges when he gets off the track of the question he was asked. Not sticking strictly to the question is fine even without that, but it's so much better with the respect he shows the people who ask by acknowledging he understands the difference.
I'm a cub scout leader l'd echo the sentiment - “Pay even more attention when things don’t seem dangerous “. Cubs with knives or axes, or up on climbing walls is never where the accidents occur. Cubs doing normal not dangerous stuff is where the accidents happen. Like sitting on a chair or running around a field.
What even is a cub in this context? I know the term as meaning "young animal" (ie bear cub), but I really can't picture them with knives or axes. Not realistically at least.
Worst scouting injuries to fellow scouts (some were older than me) had multiple troop members obsessed with getting their knives sharp enough to cut through flesh like a hot knife through butter. A few of them discovered their success while sharpening... Another (younger than me) burned his hand (at least a 2nd degree burn) on a shovel. We had a lot of people who liked to play with fire, so it wasn't uncommon for someone to spray some lighter fluid on a shovel, stick it into the fire, pull it out and watch it burn (we were young and stupid). Well, he grabs the head of such a shovel and starts screaming. He had his hands bandaged the rest of the campout. Worst camping injury overall, a kid at church camp broke his ankle walking across the concrete at the pool when his flip flip broke.
Beware of the kitchen, the kettle, the knives, forks, half open tin cans (inc spam key ones) So much of my cooking got extra blood in it. Also Jelly Babies, Peanuts, Marshmallows, Rocket Leaves.
Speaking of flammable gas being horrifying, one time my gas stove was accidentally left on overnight (without being lit) When I woke up the entire kitchen was filled with propane and I was 5 seconds away from turning on the stove before I smelled it.
I think one the "Myths that turned out more dangerous or scary than it seemed" may be the Chinese Water Torture. Kary thought it was going to be an endurance test but she quickly realized how scary it was.
I’d love to hear from Jaime what he ended up taking away from his partnership with Adam. I wonder if in his work since, if he’s had any “arguments with Adam” in his head, or something like that. I know they’re not exactly friends or want to ever work together again, but if Adam felt that way, then i gotta believe Jaime has something similar
"This room is full of things that could harm me. I am cognizant of that at every moment." Anybody not fully aware of that has no business using power tools.
Better yet, no one cognizant of the hazards has no business being in a shop, or even the hardware store. I see hardware stores as one accident away from being a high death toll, especially the wood working section.
I work with a lot of power tools and machinery. Every so often, I'll be working on something, and think to myself "Oh shit, I've gotten WAY too comfortable with this tool, let's take a step back and reset for a moment". I hate the fact that I ever have to do that, because it's a reminder that even with many years of experience, I get complacent sometimes and risk serious injury.
A very admirable attitude about wanting Jamie to cross check work. I worked for many years as a software engineer and it was basic procedure. Every bit of design, code etc was critiqued by someone else. It felt very uncomfortable, but it was absolutely vital.
As an ex copper, anything involving flammable substances were the scariest events I attended mainly because of their unpredictability. Nearly all fire fighters I knew were of the same opinion. I remember as a child hearing from up the road and then watching 20 kilogram manhole covers being shot 10 metres into the air along the street I lived in. That was methane gas that had Been ignited in the sewerage pipes. In 43 years I've seen explosions as a result of some fuel igniting. Scares the crap out of me. 👍🏻😁🇦🇺
Love your videos Adam. I'm 36 and just starting out as a maker. I'm terrible at most things, bit you inspire me to keep learning. Currently diving into 3D printing.
My old HS in SsfHs, I took Electronics class for almost all 4 years of my hs (which btw, would probably love you as guest lecturer). One of our class rules in regards to using our tools was "never use tolls that wasn't intended to be used as." This was in place during my first semester, mainly because there was en event which ended catastrophically due to someone being negligent about our tools. No one was hurt (thank god) but after that, the class always stress the importance to safety in regards to tool usage
A friend almost seriously harmed our camping group by prepping a camp fire using gasoline. Thankfully, I saw him dump the gas on the pile of wood and I stopped him from igniting it, but not before we had a long, very stupid argument that ended with me taking a stick, wrapping a rag onto the end of it, dampening it with the liquid fuel from my camp stove, lighting it, and then throwing it at the prepped camp fire. The fire ball was huge and anyone within five feet would have gotten scorched.
As someone who grew up watching MythBusters, I want to say Thank You for not only emphasizing the "Don't try this at home," but more importantly for explaining the why's and how's of the dangerous things you guys were doing. That phrase is clearly cliche, but cliches are easily ignored. Learning that many gases are heavier than air and will therefore creep along the basement floor to the pilot light of a gas water heater, resulting in a catastrophic explosion, is both super useful information AND impossible to ignore! The fact that liquid gasoline is actually "difficult" to ignite, whereas gasoline fumes are treacherously explosive because of the oxygen to fuel ratio and increased surface area, destroys a common but dangerously false assumption and replaces it with factual knowledge. The fact that powdered coffee creamer, or even just common "dust" from wood working or other manufacturing processes can reach a critical concentration where the fuel to air ratio makes it explosive, is mind blowing! (Pardon the pun!) And all those lessons, PLUS the realization that there are almost certainly danger which I haven't even considered for a given project, has instilled in me a lasting safety conscious mindset, for which I am grateful. I see this "younger generation" doing things like "the Tide Pod Challenge" or even "the Cinnamon Challenge," and my mind immediately starts breaking down the safety considerations like reflexively inhaling powdered cinnamon leading to a serious asphyxiation risk, and I realize that these kids don't even consider that there could be danger involved BECAUSE it is a "Challenge" and others have done it and survived. It is easy to be dismissive of the recklessness of these challenges and participants, but they have grown up in a very different context, and likely never had anyone explain to them how many different ways in which our modern world can be unexpectedly very very dangerous! So again, Thank You!
I love how it is one long cut, with one correctly constructed sentence after another. Some channels are so heavily edited, they can't even have a comma without an edit. It starts to bother me because I am unconsciously keeping track of their breathing. After a while, I start to get worried that they are going to suffocate, if they don't inhale sometime. I listen for a compressor to kick in, in the background, to explain how they can keep speaking indefinitely without inhaling.
You're more likely to be bit by a duck than you are by a shark. Although I was immediately thinking of Crystal/Pyramid power, and what exactly was on the insurance form for that one.
I just started watch the mythbusters again for the third time and you guys were so humble. The first episode was hilarious because you both were like our life is complete. I was laughing though because only if you guys knew what you would do after.
I grew up on a farm. After big storms, we would go and collect all of the sticks that had fallen from trees surrounding our house and piled them up in a field. That night we’d pour gasoline on it and light it with roman candles (from probably 20-30 yards away). Whoever’s shot lit the fire got the first s’more (after the gas had mostly burnt off).
As an industrial chemist who works with a wide variety of dangerous chemicals on a daily basis, the main theme of risk assessment from this video is 100% correct. I do risk assessments regularly for the chemicals I am handling and I often miss a risk or think a risk is not as bad as it really is. I have learned to always ask for input from my colleagues when doing a risk assessment for a job. Having someone at least do a sanity check is probably the most essential part of planning a task that involves even a moderate amount of inherent risk. For the uninitiated, we use something called the Hierachy or Risk Controls to mitigate our risks. Unfortunately, people all to often fall back to using PPE as the first way of controlling a risk, but I've recently started to look at a job through the lense of "if I'm likely to get hurt if I wasn't wearing PPE, then I shouldn't do this job even if I am using PPE just in case the PPE fails". This mindset has allowed me to prove to my more lax colleagues that we need to implement hard controls (integrated into the design) more than soft controls (made part of the operation). The moral of the story is, you can never make anything 100% safe, but you can always make it safer. Secondly, always think and question, even when the person you are questioning has more experience than you (it's likely they have never thought of the problem that seems so obvious to you).
I just want to say, Mythbusters was a primary influence that made me want to be an engineer. I work with explosives regularly, and since Lockdown I’ve started rewatching all those old episodes. My main thought, with the benefit of my new experiences, is how the hell you managed all the H&S risks involved with projects like the Thermite Hindenburg 😂
Heavy, moving objects are the thing that always make me worry. I've seen and been apart of too many accidents involving a rope or tie-down or lever that has seen better days.
i love the fact that this entire video, you can literally see the fear, and awe he has for the power of what he was talking about, just an absolutely great guy
This really well illustrates the difference between, "Do you feel safe?" and "Are you safe?" All too often, we settle for feeling safe, whether we are safe or not.
Yeah, that's one that real explosives experts seem to have a lot of respect for. And then someone realized, "Daisy Cutter", a Fuel Air Explosive bomb used to clear trees and foliage from an area to create a landing area for a helicopter. You might thing "oh whoosh", a nice peaceful flame front.
A house on the next street over had a gas leak and exploded. Turns out gas meters should be outside the garage, not inside where they can be hit by a car pulling out. When I heard the explosion, I thought a bookcase had fallen over. When that wasn’t the case, I thought the tree beside my house was hit by lightning. That’s when I saw the house that was leveled. It is amazing the damage that caused, and how fast the police were on the scene securing the area before the fire department arrived.
In lots of places (e.g. Australia), it's a legal requirement that all gas meters must be protected by bollards capable of withstanding impact from a vehicle. Now you know why!
@@davidwalker1652 Most places here in the US have that requirement for water heaters that are in the garage. Not sure why there wasnt one for the gas meter but I have never seen an indoor one here in the first place so might have been a weird construction.
i haven't watched mythbusters since i was a kid and i recently rewatched an older (season 3?) episode where the myth was about two semi trucks colliding head on and causing a sports car to be completely lost in the middle of them. at one point something on one of the semis being towed snapped and just unleashed a huge out of control truck in whichever direction it wanted to go. *that* stuck out as ridiculously dangerous to me, and you could see just a little bit of a break in character with the crew trying to decide which way would be out of the way
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"Am I.....am I missing an eyebrow?" Have wondered since then how long it took you to regrow it and how did it affect your date you were about to go on at the time? lol
10:29 - 10:51 'Basically, me and warning labels have a special relationship.' Now I follow them as is for the most part, but back on Mythbusters we used the warning label and/or the warranty limits, as the starting point for how to go about things.
Also anyone in the know understands "safety 3rd" stay safe all.
Gasoline - There are videos of *firefighters* misusing gasoline. As a pyrotechnician who has started bonfires (intentionally), you need to be VERY careful with Volatile Organic Compounds. If you want to start a bonfire use gel fire starter or fire starter blocks...even BBQ starter fluid is too volatile for a large fire.
Can yall make a sort of reunion video? Have you, jamie, kari, tori, and jennifer newman (grants fiance) all get the vaccine and then get an MRI to show everyone that there is no microchip? Do that and then get a random sample of people who were vaccinated to get an mri to show there are no microchips. I know that yall were a big part of so many peoples childhoods, and i think it could help boost the confidence in them.
I think my nomination for "Myth that turned out more dangerous than it seemed" would be the water heater episode where they built a shed, put the water heater inside, and cranked it up until it caused a steam explosion. I somehow remember Adam and Jamie were like "yeah whatever maybe it'll put a dent in one layer of plywood or something", but then when it finally burst it made a water heater shaped hole straight up through the entire structure and blew out all four walls of the shed.
There's a long history of steam boiler explosions causing mass casualties. Locomotives, paddlewheel steamboats, oceangoing ships, industrial boilers in basements, even espresso coffee machines in cafes.
@@TheSchmuck01 Definitely, steam is no joke!
Turning a waterheater into a giant bottle rocket was unexpected, but sort of expected if you think of it as a bottle rocket.
The Lawnmower vs rocks test was also unexpected, not only were the flying rocks not contained by the guard, but an axle sheared off and the entire blade was ejected at high speed.
Sure, but they were very aware of the dangers and operated the process from 50 meters away behind a blast shield. And the Starship XXX water heater when straight up and down.
@@TheSchmuck01 yep, I believe there's another vid on this channel where Adam mentions how the one thing he refuses to work with is steam systems like that. He specifically mentioned espresso machines like they have in cafes (he got one as a gift iirc) and how he always just hires the repair guy to come fix his when it regularly breaks down.
As a chemist: Yes, this. 100% correct. And obligatory: "Am I missing an eyebrow?" -- Adam Savage (2003)
I was gonna bring up the "Am I missing an eyebrow?" as well. Always a classic.
As soon as he mentioned flammable gasses, my mind went there.
My t-shirt exactly. I remember he was about to go on a date and after the fact, the date went well.
@@randreas69 gotta admit, its a great conversation starter🤔😄
Also as a chemist, sometimes the most dangerous things are the ones that seem fine at the time, sit in your lungs for 20 years, and *then* kill you.
As a teenager, I was walking to a park with a group of friends when one of my friends stepped off the sidewalk, fell backwards, and hit his head on the curb. He died instantly. It took a while for it to sink in because it just didn’t seem possible. We couldn’t feel his pulse and he wasn’t breathing, but we tried CPR anyway while waiting for an ambulance. We learned later on that his death was instantaneous.
I’m definitely a paranoid pedestrian. I never look at my mobile while moving. I stop to look at it. It irritates so many companions. But looking at a phone while moving is a excellent way to have an accident. Walking while drunk too; best avoided by having others transport you.
It’s a terrible memory for many reasons of course, but this video reminded me of it because walking to a park seems like such a safe activity. I like remembering Eric though. His smile. Even though he was a kid, he made terrible old man puns and then he’d laugh at his own joke.
Yes.
Teacher in a school, her small daughter was "helping" babysitter do dishes, slipped off the stool, head hit the floor, she was dead instantly.
School district worked in subs for everyone so school stayed open while everyone from that school went to the child's birthday for an hour.
Remember thinking "They shouldn't make coffins that small."
The human body is both incredibly durable and ridiculously fragile. Never ceases to amaze me
Similar story a guy had just retired from working all his life and at his retirement party he jumped on a mini bike rode down the driveway , he was turning around barely moving slipped, tipped over hit his head on the gravel driveway and died instantly . Just Horrible .
@@veramae4098 my 3 year old daughter loves to help with dishes. I'm always trying to keep my left hand ready in case I need to grab her, just reading that story scares the hell out of me imagining it could happen to my little girl.
Head injuries are no joke, especially if you've had prior head injuries. You never know if you have a subdural hematoma and one little hit can rupture it and kill you. I get so paranoid about invisible injuried like that. Makes me want to wear helmets at all times.
One of the myths I remember most was one by Kari, Tori, and Grant testing the story of someone leaving explosive gasses in their van for a weekend which slowly leaked and when returning and using their remote unlock button the car exploded. They completely expected it to fail and had started developing contingencies for where to take the myth after it failed and other scenarios to test to at least make it plausible but then when they tested it, it immediately blew up. It was completely unexpected but a good wake up call to remind people just how dangerous gasses can be.
Oh I remember that one, I haven't watchrd all the episodes but that was one of my top unexpected myths that were true
Do you have an episode number? Trying to find it
@@NickTheNewbie just searched it up, apparently it was a special in season 10 I think. I can't find any clips of it on youtube though.
@@Michaelonyoutub Was it the Explosions A to Z episode?
Now I'm reconsidering removing my propane torch from my truck, or at least from the passenger compartment. If it explodes in the bed, that's one thing. If it explodes in the cabin, that could be much worse. Ironically I thought it would be safer in the passenger cabin, which is usually cooler.
"When something doesn't seem dangerous is when you should be paying more attention." Best advice ever.
I interact daily with guns, knives, and other "implements of destruction" but where I get hurt is using power tools, moving furniture, cooking ... mundane stuff like that. Practice cutting with sword? Well, it's a weapon, gotta be careful. Same when carrying or shooting a gun, working with a stick, blah, blah, blah. But hey, that stove isn't a weapon so ... ouch. Why, sure, I'll put this drill through a metal disk to make an attachment point for ... well there's seven stitches holding my fingertip on.
Once knew a person who went to hop over a tailgate of a pickup truck, it suddenly popped open, and instant broken femur. She had surgery, 6 month full leg cast, and she was lucky the broken bone didn't hit her femoral artery or she would have died.
One set of safety principles says that dangerous situations aren't caused by what you are working with, but with your mind: being tired, frustrated, rushing, or complacent.
I'm not going to pick up a sword if I'm tired, and I'm definitely not going to rush with a loaded gun outside of emergencies. However, I do go up stairs when tired, distracted, and complacent.
This song is called Alice's restaurant. It's a song about Alice, and the restaurant. And that's why I call the song Alice's restaurant
@@Benjamin1986980 This, 100%. I've spine problems which leads to pain, sometimes pretty nasty. Just about every oil burn or cut in the kitchen was because I was sore, I wanted to be done and went too fast. Every. Single. One.
Took me an embarrassingly long time to learn that lesson on my own, and it takes a bit of effort to keep from unlearning it over the years. x.x (In younger years, it's far too easy to see an injury as mere misfortune rather than a failure somewhere along the line.)
Can't tell you how much I like that saying, or how much I wish someone drilled it into my head as a kid. >.o Learning the hard way is more memorable, but it's wiser to heed good advice from the start.
"You're never going to be able to make something safe. You can increase the margin of safety. And as long as you're holding to that, and you don't suffer the illusion that you have made something safe, then you stay in that mental state that allows you to deal with contingencies cause they're going to happen."
That is a GOOD quote, man. Good quote.
This is what industrial safety is based on. Mitigating risk to an acceptable level, because you'll never be able to eradicate danger altogether.
Adam spoke like a true safety professional. He hit it right on the head with that. We are always saying that in my profession. It's inherently not safe but you can mitigate the risk to an acceptable level. If you want to be truly safe, don't do the work at all. It's mission first, safety second. Not safety first, and by that I mean if it was safety first you just wouldn't leave your house
@@Spoons81 I think that's the biggest thing about life in general. So many things we do on a daily basis is incredibly dangerous, yet relatively few people get hurt because we act accordingly
@@LERobbo Please tell that to my entire chain of bosses and every safety person I've ever met -_-
I've been unlucky enough to always run into people who think 100% safe and risk free is not only achievable, but must be chased at any cost, including making the situation 10x less safe in the process.
@@HDL_CinC_Dragon a friend of mine was in a production of The Who’s Tommy, and at the theater they performed at they had holes in the floor for the ensemble to be able to climb out of or jump into. They had put so much padding on the floor at the bottom of these holes to cushion their fall that one of the actors fell wrong and got her ankle stuck between pieces of padding and snapped her ankle.
“I wanted Jamie to show up and challenge me on the methodology.” Not gonna lie that’s fantastic
They might not be actually friends, but it just shows that they do have a relationship.
@@ispellitjustg Lol they hated each other, Adam stated in episodes that they didn’t like eachother at all because they were so opposite
@@aaronb3024 and that’s why it worked! You can’t have two of the same minds doing experiments! Gotta have multiple perspectives
@@aaronb3024 Exactly why it worked on the show. They may have both disliked each other but both respected the science of their experiments to keep things professional.
Honestly, I was thinking that soundbite of Adam talking about Jamie is the perfect response to people asking if they're friends. People who ask if they're friends imagine they go out and get beers or if they went to cons together, and obviously, not a fucking chance. So when they hear "we weren't friends" they then imagine that their relationship displayed on screen was completely fictitious, that they 'hated' or 'couldn't stand each other'. But then you watch this clip and you see that Jamie has become an irrevocable part of Adam's methodology, and perhaps the other way as well. People just get so hung up on the nuance I think they fail to see why that relationship was so special, and certainly why it worked for the entire running of the show.
what I am getting from this is "The greatest danger is not the stuff you are working with but becoming complacent in your knowledge of those thing"
100% this. I had a friend who was a pilot and she said that if she ever quit being just a little bit afraid of it she would quit, because it was that fear that kept her checking all the things all the time.
I cut down trees for a living and and you always think about the tree falling on you but it is usually the hole in the ground behind you that breaks your leg.
@@Cthippo1 As my flight instructor put it, "There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots. But there are no old bold pilots."
Adam posted a video a while back, about how he'd come very close to ripping his finger off. Got complacent cleaning a tool that he was very comfortable with, and yeah it suddenly grabbed his finger.
On a related (but less severe) note, many years ago suddenly learned proper respect for the industrial drill presses that I was working with. Was using my sweater sleeve to knock loose aluminium swarf off the bit as it spun, and eventually I went slightly too close and it grabbed my sleeve. From my point of view, I instantly went from "totally fine" to "arm violently slammed against the drill". Scared the hell out of me.
@@patheddles4004 spinning stuff is so dangerous. I had a regular 18v cordless drill grab when I was drilling a hole, and it completely spun the workpiece (about 20 pounds) around. It damaged some nearby stuff but thankfully I was fine. Sometimes you get grabbed, sometimes the work is grabbed. Rotating stuff is always terrifying
IMO, Adam talking about missing the arguments with Jamie and essentially roleplaying Jamie to double-check his work is probably one of the highest compliments he could pay him. That is one of the most genuine expressions of professional respect I've seen in a long time.
The “I missed Jamie. I had an argument in my head with him to find ways to improve the project” bit was so very touching.
And then my brain had to ruin it by picturing Adam going back and forth like Gollum and Sméagol, doing the mustache hands for Jamie’s part! 🤣
thats not "ruining" the image at all-- in my opinion, youve Enhanced it for me xD
"This is gonna kill you."
_-Jamie Hyneman_
what about the raptor video though?
"When in doubt... C4!"
@@jmalmsten My favourite line.
"Jamie wants big boom."
Man, it really makes me sad to hear his story about missing Jamie's feedback. They really did have a great working relationship.
I know the 'Adam and Jamie weren't friends' story is highly overtold but Adam wanting Jamies advise or his inspection gives their relationship a wholesome angle :)
Well, I think about it like this: I have co-workers I get along with, but we don't get drinks after work or something. You don't have to be buddies to have a semi-positive or even a very positive working relationship with somebody.
@@ryano.5149 I agree wholeheartedly. I worked with many people in my 45 year career that I respected but didn't socialize with.
@@sschmidtevalue Yeah that was the general gist. They worked well together but as people they had nothing in common. After so many seasons of shooting the two just grew tried of each other's presence.
A tiny part of me will always be disappointed that they weren't as close as the show made them look, but knowing they tremendously respected - and respect - each other as professionals, does help.
More often than not, I feel, that working relationships - were you aren't friends but respect each others work and get along fine - are the ones that lead to the best results. Mythbusters probably wouldn't have worked, had they been best friends. Cause the thing is, even friends get into each others hairs every now and then, and then shit gets bad. With co-workers you can always just tune out, cool off and then come back some other time to continue work.
Was nice to hear how Adam relied on Jamie’s criticisms to keep him safe and visa versa. They drove each-other batty but they also saved each-other’s lives
Dude I think Adam misses Jamie and Jamie hates everything. It's a dog vs cat thing. I get it. Sad to see the puppy dog missing the cat though...
It's common knowledge now that they weren't friends, but one lesson I am glad to have learned in my life is that a good colleague doesn't have to be a friend.
@@fredwupkensoppel8949 some of my most productive working relationships have been with people I cannot fucking stand except for their technical abilities...pretending to like each other is a waste of time from an engineering perspective and honestly is kind of a yellow flag to me because incompetent people tend to do it to compensate.
@@TwoTreesStudio I agree 100%
@@fredwupkensoppel8949 I saw them at their live show back in the day and remember Jamie saying "we deeply respect and trust each other". He sounded so genuine that it stuck with me. They didn't need to be social friends to be amazing coworkers.
It’s fascinating to see Adam pause and have to physically collect himself at times to avoid getting carried away by his own enthusiasm. It’s a hard trick I’ve had to teach myself for the same tendency. Seeing the energy and passion that Adam puts into his work never ceases inspire.
Yeah when I'm passionate about something I'll talk until I'm out of breath.
That's called the "tism touch" as in, you just have a pinch of the tism, nothing too severe
I’m not one of those people that thinks social norms should be completely eradicated but the fact that you think this is a good thing is ridiculous. People should be allowed to get excited about things. If anything, we should stigmatise people who don’t get carried away because they’re boring.
@@emilyk5003 Idiot, its actually a good think because he can speak on a topic with clarity rather than go on for so long he goes faster and faster and gets put of breath and starts making less sense. What a horrid take, fucking insane you thought that was a good opinion.
@@bayardkyyako7427 lmao this seems like a good use of having collecting yourself instead of having a breakdown over my opinion
"When something DOESN'T seem dangerous, that's when you should be paying MORE attention." This, so much. I feel like I've spent my entire life trying to explain that concept to friends, family, and coworkers, and nobody ever believes me until after they get hurt. Most of the time, they even criticize me, for being "too negative"!
true so true that is the biggest danger cause that is the danger you do not see coming that gets you
I just imagine Adam sitting there looking at his plan, folding his arms, putting on a slight scowl, lowering his had a bit and saying in a deep voice: "Well, there is your problem"
Then the hands go in front of the face to make walrus whiskers while he tells himself off in a Jamie voice. It even includes a story from an obscure past career.
"putting on a slight scowl"
I mean, did it ever leave to begin with?
Off topic but Adam really has aged like a fine wine.
Facts
We'll pass that along!
Heck he's a regular Benjamin Button, he actually looks better than when he started Mythbusters!
True! But it still sucks seeing him and the rest of Mythbusters get old.
Yes he has and just as enthusiastic..
“Pay even more attention when things don’t seem dangerous “. Wise advice. I started wood carving and I was going through my mental checks and decided that carving isn’t that dangerous as I’ve carved sticks before. Little did I know how much sharper carving knifes are than a regular pocket knife. Long story short I ended up digging a deep gash into the pad of my thumb. The spoon knife I was using came with bandages. I should have heeded the warning. Seven stitches later and I was brand new.
@@amateurhedonist6978 My oldest (non-navel) scar is from the day I learned not to whittle with a non-locking Swiss Army knife. Yes, Adam's animated Victorinox is still triggering.
@@csn583 worse is a locking knife with a lock that is too easy to knock off. The CRKT KISS skeletonized knifes are quite bad for it.
@@csn583 Victorinox knives are too fragile for any serious cutting. Ditto boxcutters. I wasn't allowed a sturdy knife at school as a teacher but instead had to use those stupid snap off blade knives; result lots of blades breaking and bits of blade in my hand.
Never use a blade in the wilderness without thinking about where your arteries are.
Yeah opening silicon molds I have stabbed and cut my hands via exacto knife a number of times, typically only happens when I'm not wearing gloves too
For more dangerous than it seemed, my first thought was the bubblewrap fall myth. They wrapped you in bubble wrap, if I recall correctly, and it was apparent very quickly that you would suffocate from the weight on your chest preventing the movement of your diaphragm if they overdid it. Bubblewrap seems so harmless, but it turned out that even bubblewrap could kill you.
The episode that comes to mind for me was where they tested different seated passenger positions in a plane crash. I think they raised the model only a few feet off the ground and then dropped it with 3 of the cast members in it. All came out limping or obviously in discomfort. Gravity tends to provide painful lessons...
Yes it does but at the conclusion of that myth I believe they said that the rear of the plane is the safest place to be seated.
Maybe the question should have been worded
"Which experiment was actually disproportionately dangerous compared to its deceptively mundane on-screen appearance?"
Lmao be as precise as humanly possible
One of the patrons needs to send this version in
There probably isn't anything like that, because playing up the danger generally made things more dramatic. So if something was dangerous, the show probably told us that.
@@MethosOhio "Does vodka kill foot odour?"
Totally mundane, but a risk of absorbing alcohol. But it it really all that dangerous, or could it have potentially serious effects?
While this was an actual experiment (it worked), the example is hypothetical. I'm not looking for an answer.
I mean, if the wording were that, it would still probably be largely a discussion about flammable gasses because the invisible things capable of large-scale injury or destruction are both innocuous in appearance due to the whole invisible aspect, and very dangerous.
"No one ever came close to dying"
Me: flashes back to Grant almost disemboweling himself with his decapitation machine
What episode was that?
Tory Belleci trying to jump the red wagon, very funny but could have been lethal.
Shooting the grappling hook from the air cannon and not realizing the cannon itself was lighter than the hook and got launched right into where they were hiding seemed pretty terrifying to me.
@@kingarthurthe5th look up "flying guillotine Mythbusters aftershow" they include the clip of the near-miss during the discussion
@@JohnMeacham Classic example of forgetting Newtons 3rd law of motion.
I still remember when they realised that the "Bulletproof" acrylic wasn't bulletproof at the thickness they were using.
That brings up a whole bucket of "What ifs"
most people don't even realize that its bullet resistant and there are levels. plus bullet resistant means it can still be hacked apart with an ax or shattered with a club.
just look up some vids. you will see bulletproof acrylic be torn to bits with an axe or shattered from a club from a robber shocking the hell out of the bank tellers
@@toomanyaccounts I think the idea is that it protects the few couple shots. The shield is destroyed in the process, sort of a car with crumple zones
@@shawn576 That's EXACTLY how it works. The idea isn't to be able to stand there and stare at the asshole shooting at you, the idea is it offers just enough protection for you to GTFO and to a panic room. Or at least dive for cover.
Nothing is bulletproof, merely bullet resistant, and anything will resist a bullet if you make it thick enough.
My machining teacher would always say "The machine only starts to become dangerous when you stop being afraid of it" and I really think that encompasses what you said in the beginning. A huge part is just the awareness that you'r doing something that might present dangers
I was a fire fighter back in the late 70s when a few fire fighters in another city got seriously injured in which flammable gas they were unknowingly standing in ignited and the heat traveled up the legs of their bunker gear and melted their polyester uniform pants to their skin.
Holy F
Could be the one when they blew up a cement truck and found part of it wrapped around a tree they were near, they thought that they were far enough away.
I remember Adam giving a talk once about how when the tree blew up during the Tree cannon myth it scared some of their camera crew to the point that the next thing they filmed they didn't want to get close enough despite upgrading their experts from Pyrotechnics experts to FBI bomb squad.
Jamie's lawnmower looked like it could have been a real disaster if the blade broke off in a different direction.
i believe you're getting two different shots confused. the metal wrapped around the tree was from the 22,000 ft fall myth i think.
@@armchairgeneralissimo yep, that one had me thinking about stumps on the ends of legs.... rotating heavy bodies like that simply will not deflect at that blades mass and velocity, it also had enough kinetic energy to destroy all that stood in its way.
He could have just said “ the time I sprayed a girls face with molten candy “ I would have responded with that
As a safety engineer that has worked in Oil and now in Pharma, I appreciate you talking through what we call “layers of protection” and increasing the margin of safety, but something not ever being “safe”.
@]Marr Baumgart.. I've just retired from a 40 year career in industrial construction. Every day starts with a "safety" meeting. What a joke. They were more like being browbeaten by the Ghestapo.., threatening us with torture if we did (or said) something stupid. Threats of termination were common. "If only..." the meetings were done as Adam did this... In my experience, "Safety" personnel were only (? mostly?) concerned with the company's responsibility. Unsafe conditions were routinely ignored, but "Unsafe People" ?? "Unsafe Acts" ?? Oh, yeah. It's always twisted and reported as such, in order to exonerate the company... because, you know.., Workers Comp Insurance is expensive! Every claim increases the premium rate.., based on the company's "safety" record. Every day included paperwork (signed by all) indicating that the dangers were outlined, and each person was aware of any (all) hazards. That insures that there are no accidents. Everything is avoidable, except when incompetent and oblivious people violated "The Rules!" The "Safety Department" was operated by and under lawyers. Rarely, some individuals were actually concerned about Workers Safety. I always made a point of thanking them, and always tried to make coworkers known that we had a friend in this person. But... they're rare.
I honestly am _still_ cringing from watching Tory's shin scrape down that cement window sill. Never fully unclenched after that one aired.
They replayed that clip 100x times in that episode. I couldn't watch.
That makes my shins hurt just thinking about it. Can't look.
I did the same while hiking. Still had another two hours to head home with my shin just gone.
What episode was it?
@@PaulEstrada1 Soda Cup Killer season 8.
Good safety tip, always run worse case scenario. Its harder than you think. Like industrial gridding mill (16 feet diameter) if inside for inspection or maintenance like 1/4 of a rotation will kill you. There are several levels of safety. 1 its scheduled so operators know in advance, 2 you need permit sing by the main operator, 3 start button in operating room is physically lock with a key, 4 electric power to motors (main and servis) are disconnected and locked, 5 all personnel working are listed in the permit and all are locked with personal pad locks on red box wit all the keys inside, 6 you have a squad leader / safety officer who are responsible for all crew and have the last word, can change work procedures or stop operation.
The one that scared me most was the buried alive in a coffin myth. That one just comes back to me now and then out of the blue, when the coffin got crushed. I'm so glad they did a dry run first.
They didn't seem to do any kind of tests on the coffin beforehand to try to ascertain how a few tonnes of earth might affect it, which is horrifying. I couldn't help thinking about magician Joe Burrus' tragic death in the early '90s during a buried coffin escapology attempt.
One of my biggest fears is still getting trapped in a car underwater, but the myth busters episodes have made me feel so much better about it.
If you don’t already have one, go to your local hardware store and get yourself a combination glass breaker/seatbelt cutter tool for your car. You’ll be glad you did if you ever have an emergency. Also never keep it in the glove box, always somewhere near the driver’s seat.
Adam: "I'm always safety conscious"
Also Adam: Stands on wobbly wooden box to get into a heavy dinosaur costume
Also there is a giant moving Swiss Army knife hanging from the ceiling in his shop
@@nslouka90 I didn't know it hung from a ceiling. I assumed he had it bolted/placed somewhere carefully XD
@@nslouka90 "The Sword of Danka-clese"
“They can be dangerous, things that don’t look dangerous. Not looking dangerous is what makes them dangerous.” ~Lu-Tze
(Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett)
Every electrician should read and internalise this. Powered wires look JUST the same as unpowered ones after all (contrary to what Hollywood and video games like to portray...)
The safety briefing for a conference at White Sands Missile Range showed a clip of MON-10 (Mixed oxides of Nitrogen, N2O4 with 10% NO added) being transferred into a container under fume hood. It was bright green, bubbled furiously, and emitted thick red fumes. That stuff does you the favor of looking dangerous from a hundred freaking feet away.
Years later it was 90% hydrogen peroxide that gave me blisters. Looks like water, the lying b*tch.
Hence the existence of the Killer Rabbit from Monty Python.
Watching this makes me realize how much Jamie and Adam were apart of my childhood. My heart hurts to see Adam miss him as much as I miss Mythbusters.
Darn it, you went and made my screen all blurry...
Me too also
Same here.
Many years ago, my parents’ neighbor (I’ll call him Bob) and his dad decided to burn a large pile of brush and wooden junk on the top of Bob’s huge, steep hill. They used a lot of gasoline because it was a big pile and they liked when fires go “whoof”. Well, as Jaime mentioned, gasoline quickly turns to vapor, and gasoline vapor is heavier than air. When they went to light their gasoline fuse, the vapor ignited, causing a sheet of flame to roar all the way down the hill and into the fields below (thankfully when it was pretty wet out). Bob’s dad was wearing shorts and singed off all his leg hair. As for the fire proper, well, the mushroom cloud could be seen from two interstate highways, and when the fire department inevitably showed up, they were so annoyed that they put out the burn pile for practice. That was the last time Bob whoofed a fire on a hill and the last one that over soaked.
When I was health and safety rep on a mine site, we where asked for input on new safety posters, my idea was two photos one of a pissed of guy with no PPE and the second a grave, with the slogan "Better to piss off your mate of then bury them" I was told it was to dark, I guess only up beat safety is OK.
tbh thats a brilliant concept for safety posters.
Better truth than false hope
In Iceland they tend to put car wrecks from car crashes on full display where it happened, bill board style. How’s that for a reminder on your way to work.
Brilliant concept.
You'd probably appreciate Australia:
- TAC (Transport Accident Commission) routinely runs graphic ads showing crashes, with emotive messages
- Public transport operator ran (is still running?) a catchy upbeat ad campaign called "Dumb Ways To Die".
- Our cigarette packets all have graphic photos of tobacco-related medical problems.
@@patheddles4004 I am lol, living in WA at the moment, don't watch much TV these days though.
Navy Vet here. Pretty sure you giving a talk on how yall prepared for some of the more memorable episodes of Mythbusters with explanations and footage would be FAR more effective than any Navy or shipyard safety video I have ever seen.
I've told this story before, but when I interned near a linear accelerator (my job was just sitting at a computer compiling all day, nothing fun) early in our first week there my division had a safety debriefing about an accident that would've gotten people killed if they hadn't done the safety procedures. I think that real-world example was more effective than the days of training we had to sit through to even be allowed on-site.
@@adamsbja I used to work at a logistics company that has a 3 letter name.
We had safety training about conveyor belts, but the stories they told were much more effective too.
A few years before I started working there, they had a maintenance guy remove safety guards, and then his gloved hand get sucked into the machine. Fortunately the crew was well trained, and they got the machine turned off quickly before it could tear his arm off. They said it was a miracle that he only suffered bruising on his hand instead of it being crushed and mangled.
@@Eyes0penNoFear Wow! Lucky indeed. I find that listening to stories of what happened because...are much more effective and really drive the point home.
@@Eyes0penNoFear why was the maint guy working on a machine that was still on and removing the safety guards? isn't that against the rules?
@@toomanyaccounts 100% against the rules.
The machine is supposed to be off, the power cut, and an actual padlock on the circuit breaker to ensure no one can accidentally turn it on while it's getting worked on.
I love when Adam tries to explain his relationship with Jamie. As confrontational as it was it was definitely very collaborative. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, I thought that especially that part was wholesome a.f.
I think part of that is that good collaboration demands constructive confrontation. Especially in an environment like Adam was describing. When skin and lives are on the line, you cant take it personally when someone shreds your plan. It may be a great plan. But everyone just needs to be confident that you have accounted for most of the likely dangers. I honestly don't think they are confrontational outside of work as much as just totally opposing personalities. They had worked together in the past (previous to the show) with no ill will, and parted the show the same. They were simply co-workers rather than good friends.
@@epremeaux cool story but I don’t think you can just comment on it like that and think it’s more of a topic for them to cover. I made comments that somebody could make from the outside of that relationship but you’re trying to answer like it’s you or someone you know. Their people you’ve watched on TV. You can’t really understand what the relationship was between the two of them neither can I. So save the explanation and leave it to the individuals in question.
@@brandonyoung-kemkes1128 Well no, he is just saying the exact things that are true. In a dangerous working environment, you don't want a friend who will go with you on anything, you want a colleague who is going to push and challenge every choice you make. Anyone who has ever worked in a dangerous or high pressure environment knows this, checking, rechecking yourself and other peoples work constantly, and having an open and emotion free dialogue is key to keeping everyone safe. You don't have to work on a show like Mythbusters to know this. Walk into any manual labour workplace and you will see these relationships.
Thats what Jamie and Adam had, they weren't friends, but they had an impeccable working relationship that ensured that no one got hurt, and we aren't assuming that, because they have both said that over the years.
@@volrath__ I just didn’t appreciate the guy trying to explain to me all of that stuff when I made a simple comment he assumed that I thought collaboration and confrontation can’t go together. And also made an assumption that I assume they are good friends neither of which is true. People should stop making assumptions. In my view the rest of his explanation about how you need to work safe is completely irrelevant to my original comment. Not that safety is not important. It just has nothing to do with my statement. The gentleman made a assumption about my state of mind making the comment and then elaborated on it. Seems needless to me. And I am pertaining to the aspect of their relationship when I stated in my last comment that it’s a topic for them to cover. I was not talking about his comments on safety they’re pretty no brainer.
"You can never make something safe, you can increase the margin of safety and as long as you're holding to that and you don't suffer the illusion that you made something safe then you stay in that mental state that allows you to deal with the contingencies because they're going to happen"
I feel like this quote applies to SO MUCH.
As someone who works at a gas station, it terrifies me. We go through regular training about this very issue and every time I see someone spill a few drops, I tense up because I know what can happen when this occurs hundreds of times a day
In February 2023 a gas pump kept running after the tank filled. I was very surprised to be splashed with gasoline (fortunately I was standing off to the side, so my clothes weren't soaked), but released the trigger in a few seconds (should be under 0.5 gallons spilled) and replaced the gas cap.
It made a dark puddle on the ground about the size of my car, running behind my car and away from the pump (stopping at the edges of the concrete slab). It was a cold night, and strong wind blew the fumes back towards the customer behind me (very busy). I closed the gas tank, went inside, told the attendant what happened (they acknowledged it and did nothing), and waited several minutes before driving off.
What should I have done in that situation?
@@reddragonflyxx657
Waiting seems like a good idea, let the fumes dissipate before sparking off the car. Legally, nothing because it's the workers job to fix spills.
@@dethmaul Yeah, the puddle was still there but it had been 10~15 minutes, cold weather kept it from evaporating quickly, the wind was quickly blowing fumes away from the engine, and the cars that drove over it didn't catch on fire.
What do you mean by "Legally, nothing because it's the workers' job to fix spills"?
Mythbusters: "So, we want to build a lead balloon that floats..."
Insurance company: "Oh, thank god... something safe."
Mythbusters: "Well, safe-r than some things, but it IS lead, which is toxic, and..."
I'm sure by the time Mythbusters wrapped, there were legions of insurance adjusters who had to retire from the stress.
Yes but they could retire in style.
Im sure the insurance company charged good money for Mythbusters
It's probably easier to work with people who know what they're doing is dangerous because they can accurately evaluate the scenario and its safety measures.
There's an actuary somewhere who invented an entire new field of insurance just for this show.
Imagining Adam sitting infront of his whiteboard arguing with imaginary Jamie in his head to make sure it's all safe and well, is the most Adam and Jamie thing I could have imagined.
All I can think of is if Adam does the Jamie-mustache with his hands when taking Jamie's role..
I have to say, Adam, for someone that says you are not "friends" with Jamie, you clearly have an enormous amount of respect for him. Every single video in which you speak of him, it is in absolute glowing respect for the man. I wish I had a non-"friend" like that.
I love how you can see the point at the end where he tries to wrap it up and is pleasantly surprised with himself for doing it so well. What a pure soul Adam has. Makes me smile :)
He is a beautiful, beautiful human being!
I've worked in the mining sector in Australia for many years - hearing you talk about safety is interesting. So many 'safety' precautions seemed geared at making people feel safe while providing very little actual improvement to safety.
Sublimation is when something goes directly from a solid to a gas (e.g. when your ice cubes in the freezer get smaller and smaller over time w/o melting). Evaporation is when a liquid goes to a gas as in the movie example.
Thank you! I was looking for this comment!
@@santiagodsl Same
there are also two types of evaporation. The regular surface type that happens below the liquids boiling point, and vaporization, the same process but above the liquids boiling point.
@@dad378 can you be more specific?
Never put distilled water in a borosilicate glass container in a microwave the water can super heat and go instantly from liquid to gas the entire volume of it, blew the front door off a microwave.
Well, "Don't try this at home." was not just a catch phrase.
And don’t try this at somebody else’s place, either!
It's usually just an ass-covering phrase because let's face it, if somebody truly has the desire and means to actually, "try it at home" they will.
Always seemed to be a challenge to me.
Jaimie adding in "Ever!" during the warning bumpers will always stick with me
I'm getting the feeling that for legal reasons, Adam can never mention the cannon ball incident.... if it would have ever received a mention, it would have been in this video.
They had to have been sued for it. Probably some form of nondisclosure was signed I'd imagine.
Your probably correct
He talked about it in one of these videos.
ever since the first time my Dad taught me about Carbon Monoxide as a kid, I have had a terrible fear of most gasses. Every time I hear the name of a gas that I've never heard of before I think "oh good and what new horrible ways can THAT kill me/make me incredibly ill?" so when hearing Adam describe the way gas pools towards the ground I shivered and felt sick. the stuff is TERRIFYING!
This was a fantastic video. I work as a chemist, and we come across a lot of the same safety concerns, and I absolutely love the way you described safety as a margin. I will definitely be paraphrasing that in the future. Excellent point about peer review as well. I know a lot of people (myself included) can sometimes feel strange challenging peers or superiors on methodology but it really is an instrumental part of the process. Sometimes that 2nd opinion is all you needed to save something
During the episode where Jamie built that "Lawnmower from Hell" and the component that held on the blade failed, the slowmo was terrifying. If it hit your ankle, your ankle would be rendered into bone and muscle jelly.
I also have a huge respect for flammable gasses. A long time ago I had a job as a "Shipyard Competent Person." Which aside from being the best job title I've ever held, meant my job was to craw through small enclosed spaces like fuel tanks and bilges in Navy ships to test the air quality. The goal was to ensure there were no flammable vapors, and enough oxygen for workers to enter the spaces safely. It sounds like an interesting job, but realistically it felt more like being a glorified canary that had to arrive at work like three hours earlier than everyone else... good times.
However after that job and the training that came with it, I never again took for granted the power of flammable gasses. So I also find myself cringing when I see things like what you were describing with the guy just pouring out the gasoline and waiting to ignite it.
The comment about crosschecking each other reminded me of something in season 1, I think, where they needed a tank for either a pressure or vacuum chamber. Jamie was saying "this one will be fine, Adam's just being a big baby" and Adam was arguing hard like "there's too many bits that need to be cut off, welded, sealed up, too many things could go wrong with this". Which was the reverse of my normal mental concept of Jamie as the careful one and Adam as the loose cannon.
But it's great that they had two people on equal footing to even have that argument, in private industry too often you can have a worker asking if something is safe and a boss saying "you don't need to worry about that, just do the work."
And the resolution to that was VERY good. Jamie trusting adam enough to let him find an alternative, and then when adam comes back, jamie agreed he got a much better tank for the job.
Pretty sure that Tank was then used for the chicken cannon. Not entirely sure if that was the FIRST time they used it though.
@@Atlessa They used at least twice, I do recall the order though either.
Sheet of newspaper, 2oz rock in the middle, roll the newspaper up into a "tail" for the rock, light tail, allow flame to spread untill all the tail is lit then throw into fire from 10m away. Works really well.
How ive lit "questionable" bonfires in the past.
This seems clever but I can't move past the idea of someone doing this to try to take extra precaution only to really badly throw it into the underbrush or something hah
Yaaaa just use diesel. That's the solution to this problem.
The moment he said "this room is full of things that could harm me" I noticed the sentient knife on the left wall near the top.
That is one of the sweetest, nicest revelations of a personal, insider thing I've heard in a long time. The feeling of something missing being Jamie and his "in-your-face" time. Very good, noble even, gesture on your part.
Thanks for your comments. I have kids, we farm, we have a shop. Before farming I was a heavy equipment mechanic in shops, in the field, and at mines. The constant awareness that most anything around you can kill you at anytime is important. Having a knowledgeable scale of what is most likely to kill you was important. If I didn't have that scale know yet, stay away. I teach my kids this. I let my kids play and work with me in order to learn that "scale". There is ALWAYS risks. Safety is understanding those risk and how close we get to the do not cross line. Then maybe learning how far we can push that line. What is needed to push that line. Then being aware of and communicating those dangers with others around you. Even if the communication is just eye contact so we don't run over each other.
I hate seeing people walk under a raised loader bucket.
Heavy shops are terrifying. I remember working at a factory, and a guy a couple stations up the line basically got scalped by a hydraulic line that blew off a spreader that was very not rated for what it was being used for.
Haha, the captions took pyrotechnician and made it "pirate technician"; I love it
it isnt *that* wrong
HAHA! I will now steal your radio ARGH!!!!!!
It's really fascinating watching this, Adam Savage was a huge role model of mine growing up and learned to love working with my hands from him. Talking about safety and how the safer it seems the more dangerous it is one of the best lessons I've learned over the years. I like most of us have taken stupid risks and done really dangerous stuff but it's only when I'm unaware of the danger have I been really hurt. Thank you for a reminder in safety and being a role model for young people like myself. Not to be super flattering but I appreciate what you have done with your career and I hope to do the same with mine. Keep up the wise words my dear Sir.
Working in construction for over 15 years, it's been a constant lesson that when a job or task seems to have no danger to it, you aren't thinking about it enough. When you're working with heavy equipment, heavy items, power tools, even hand tools, there are countless ways that something can go wrong. A colleague of mine was doing a simple task of drilling a hole in a piece of wood using a low speed power drill. The bit suddenly snapped and the jagged edge still in the drill plunged deeply into the back of his unprotected hand. Ended up being minor, but could have easily caused severe nerve damage. There's always a way to get hurt if you stop paying attention.
I hate to be a stickler, but liquids do not sublimate to gas. They evaporate. Still love Adam Savage stuff!
I was thinking the same thing. And then he said it a second time - gah!
Yes. . That's true. . . But could you ad-lib start speaking on a subject like this direct to camera, come up with an example of that subject matter, describe it in an informative an entertaining way and NOT make a little slip-up like Adam did here?
I'm sure when Adam watches this back, he will be kicking himself, saying "Of *COURSE* I KNOW that liquids don't sublimate into gases!. . . Only SOLIDS sublimate - LIQUIDS evaporate. . I shouldn't have said that. . But I did . Oh well!"
@@richardrejmer8721 Maybe, maybe not. It was worth saying as a point of science. Not all comments are a criticism needing judegmental retaliatory defense.
I don't know what you guys are complaining about, whenever I uncork some solid gasoline it starts sublimating right away. Makes it awfully tricky to get it in the car.
@@richardrejmer8721 Yes, I could. You see, when you know stuff, you say the correct thing. Since he didn't know what the meaning of the word was, he used it incorrectly. I would never use a word I didn't know the meaning of so I'd never make that mistake.
"When something doesn't seem dangerous is when you should pay more attention."
Been watching the show and I feel like the other crew didn't really learn that lesson as well. I can feel the thought behind safety when watching the montage of you and Jamie, then the way they put together Tory, Karrie and Grant's segments it just seems like they went straight at things and then think about the safety.
Has Adam ever talked about Water Heater Explosion's? That was an episode that just left me stunned.
And the follow up's were even more terrifying.
One of my favorite things about Adam is his excitement! You can see the joy in his face just telling his storie.
That pause at 10:24 tugged my heart a little. True partnerships are a treasure, and always leave us better people.
I love how Adam always acknowledges when he gets off the track of the question he was asked. Not sticking strictly to the question is fine even without that, but it's so much better with the respect he shows the people who ask by acknowledging he understands the difference.
I'm a cub scout leader l'd echo the sentiment - “Pay even more attention when things don’t seem dangerous “. Cubs with knives or axes, or up on climbing walls is never where the accidents occur. Cubs doing normal not dangerous stuff is where the accidents happen. Like sitting on a chair or running around a field.
What even is a cub in this context? I know the term as meaning "young animal" (ie bear cub), but I really can't picture them with knives or axes. Not realistically at least.
@@Atlessa Cub Scouts is a younger form of Boy Scouts in America. Cub Scout ages are around 5-10 years old, while Boy Scouts are around 10-18.
Worst scouting injuries to fellow scouts (some were older than me) had multiple troop members obsessed with getting their knives sharp enough to cut through flesh like a hot knife through butter. A few of them discovered their success while sharpening...
Another (younger than me) burned his hand (at least a 2nd degree burn) on a shovel. We had a lot of people who liked to play with fire, so it wasn't uncommon for someone to spray some lighter fluid on a shovel, stick it into the fire, pull it out and watch it burn (we were young and stupid). Well, he grabs the head of such a shovel and starts screaming. He had his hands bandaged the rest of the campout.
Worst camping injury overall, a kid at church camp broke his ankle walking across the concrete at the pool when his flip flip broke.
Beware of the kitchen, the kettle, the knives, forks, half open tin cans (inc spam key ones) So much of my cooking got extra blood in it. Also Jelly Babies, Peanuts, Marshmallows, Rocket Leaves.
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It would be spectacular if you could give this "safety margin" talk to the company where I work. Thank you!
Remember, safety third!
Speaking of flammable gas being horrifying, one time my gas stove was accidentally left on overnight (without being lit) When I woke up the entire kitchen was filled with propane and I was 5 seconds away from turning on the stove before I smelled it.
I think one the "Myths that turned out more dangerous or scary than it seemed" may be the Chinese Water Torture. Kary thought it was going to be an endurance test but she quickly realized how scary it was.
"When something doesn't seem dangerous, its when you should be paying MORE attention." --Adam Savage
I’d love to hear from Jaime what he ended up taking away from his partnership with Adam. I wonder if in his work since, if he’s had any “arguments with Adam” in his head, or something like that. I know they’re not exactly friends or want to ever work together again, but if Adam felt that way, then i gotta believe Jaime has something similar
"This room is full of things that could harm me. I am cognizant of that at every moment."
Anybody not fully aware of that has no business using power tools.
"My shop is full of machines designed to maim or kill me."
Better yet, no one cognizant of the hazards has no business being in a shop, or even the hardware store. I see hardware stores as one accident away from being a high death toll, especially the wood working section.
They plot amongst themselves when you leave, planning your death.
I work with a lot of power tools and machinery. Every so often, I'll be working on something, and think to myself "Oh shit, I've gotten WAY too comfortable with this tool, let's take a step back and reset for a moment". I hate the fact that I ever have to do that, because it's a reminder that even with many years of experience, I get complacent sometimes and risk serious injury.
A very admirable attitude about wanting Jamie to cross check work. I worked for many years as a software engineer and it was basic procedure. Every bit of design, code etc was critiqued by someone else. It felt very uncomfortable, but it was absolutely vital.
As an ex copper, anything involving flammable substances were the scariest events I attended mainly because of their unpredictability. Nearly all fire fighters I knew were of the same opinion. I remember as a child hearing from up the road and then watching 20 kilogram manhole covers being shot 10 metres into the air along the street I lived in. That was methane gas that had Been ignited in the sewerage pipes. In 43 years I've seen explosions as a result of some fuel igniting. Scares the crap out of me. 👍🏻😁🇦🇺
Wow, I knew gas buildups were a thing in Victorian times but I had no idea it could still get that bad today!
The word is evaporating not sublimating. That is a solid-->gas
Wait... you don't put solid gasoline in your car?
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@@TimeLemur6 Yeah, that's only in Canada and Alaska. We got _liquid_ gas down here. (Gasoline, that is. Liquid gas gas isn't a thing.)
THANK YOU!! The first time he said it - Eh - we all misspeak. But the second...
Yep. In a sunny dry climate, snow sublimates. Rain evaporates.
The one that really freaked me out was the lawnmower stone myth! Probably because it's so relatable.
Love your videos Adam. I'm 36 and just starting out as a maker. I'm terrible at most things, bit you inspire me to keep learning. Currently diving into 3D printing.
I believe the line from Adventure Time was: "Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something." :-)
Enjoy the process .... learning new skills is fun!
My old HS in SsfHs, I took Electronics class for almost all 4 years of my hs (which btw, would probably love you as guest lecturer). One of our class rules in regards to using our tools was "never use tolls that wasn't intended to be used as." This was in place during my first semester, mainly because there was en event which ended catastrophically due to someone being negligent about our tools. No one was hurt (thank god) but after that, the class always stress the importance to safety in regards to tool usage
A friend almost seriously harmed our camping group by prepping a camp fire using gasoline.
Thankfully, I saw him dump the gas on the pile of wood and I stopped him from igniting it, but not before we had a long, very stupid argument that ended with me taking a stick, wrapping a rag onto the end of it, dampening it with the liquid fuel from my camp stove, lighting it, and then throwing it at the prepped camp fire. The fire ball was huge and anyone within five feet would have gotten scorched.
As someone who grew up watching MythBusters, I want to say Thank You for not only emphasizing the "Don't try this at home," but more importantly for explaining the why's and how's of the dangerous things you guys were doing. That phrase is clearly cliche, but cliches are easily ignored.
Learning that many gases are heavier than air and will therefore creep along the basement floor to the pilot light of a gas water heater, resulting in a catastrophic explosion, is both super useful information AND impossible to ignore! The fact that liquid gasoline is actually "difficult" to ignite, whereas gasoline fumes are treacherously explosive because of the oxygen to fuel ratio and increased surface area, destroys a common but dangerously false assumption and replaces it with factual knowledge. The fact that powdered coffee creamer, or even just common "dust" from wood working or other manufacturing processes can reach a critical concentration where the fuel to air ratio makes it explosive, is mind blowing! (Pardon the pun!)
And all those lessons, PLUS the realization that there are almost certainly danger which I haven't even considered for a given project, has instilled in me a lasting safety conscious mindset, for which I am grateful.
I see this "younger generation" doing things like "the Tide Pod Challenge" or even "the Cinnamon Challenge," and my mind immediately starts breaking down the safety considerations like reflexively inhaling powdered cinnamon leading to a serious asphyxiation risk, and I realize that these kids don't even consider that there could be danger involved BECAUSE it is a "Challenge" and others have done it and survived.
It is easy to be dismissive of the recklessness of these challenges and participants, but they have grown up in a very different context, and likely never had anyone explain to them how many different ways in which our modern world can be unexpectedly very very dangerous! So again, Thank You!
It's basically a perfect answer.
complacency is one of the biggest safety dangers.
I am reminded of Thermite vs Ice as being one that looks safe because they didn't expect it to actually work, them BOOM!
I love how it is one long cut, with one correctly constructed sentence after another. Some channels are so heavily edited, they can't even have a comma without an edit. It starts to bother me because I am unconsciously keeping track of their breathing. After a while, I start to get worried that they are going to suffocate, if they don't inhale sometime. I listen for a compressor to kick in, in the background, to explain how they can keep speaking indefinitely without inhaling.
"i wanted Jamie there" awe, man. They might not be friends but it's not hard to tell they had huge amounts of respect for each other.
"everything was full of hidden dangers"
*remembers duck episode*
You're more likely to be bit by a duck than you are by a shark. Although I was immediately thinking of Crystal/Pyramid power, and what exactly was on the insurance form for that one.
@@SeanBlader Risk of gaining superpowers
QUACK DAMN YOU
@@SeanBlader Death by embarrassment, given how often he apologises about that one.
polishing a turd is what I thought of
My first thought was the non-dairy creamer.
I just started watch the mythbusters again for the third time and you guys were so humble. The first episode was hilarious because you both were like our life is complete. I was laughing though because only if you guys knew what you would do after.
I grew up on a farm. After big storms, we would go and collect all of the sticks that had fallen from trees surrounding our house and piled them up in a field. That night we’d pour gasoline on it and light it with roman candles (from probably 20-30 yards away). Whoever’s shot lit the fire got the first s’more (after the gas had mostly burnt off).
As an industrial chemist who works with a wide variety of dangerous chemicals on a daily basis, the main theme of risk assessment from this video is 100% correct. I do risk assessments regularly for the chemicals I am handling and I often miss a risk or think a risk is not as bad as it really is. I have learned to always ask for input from my colleagues when doing a risk assessment for a job. Having someone at least do a sanity check is probably the most essential part of planning a task that involves even a moderate amount of inherent risk.
For the uninitiated, we use something called the Hierachy or Risk Controls to mitigate our risks. Unfortunately, people all to often fall back to using PPE as the first way of controlling a risk, but I've recently started to look at a job through the lense of "if I'm likely to get hurt if I wasn't wearing PPE, then I shouldn't do this job even if I am using PPE just in case the PPE fails". This mindset has allowed me to prove to my more lax colleagues that we need to implement hard controls (integrated into the design) more than soft controls (made part of the operation).
The moral of the story is, you can never make anything 100% safe, but you can always make it safer. Secondly, always think and question, even when the person you are questioning has more experience than you (it's likely they have never thought of the problem that seems so obvious to you).
I just want to say, Mythbusters was a primary influence that made me want to be an engineer. I work with explosives regularly, and since Lockdown I’ve started rewatching all those old episodes.
My main thought, with the benefit of my new experiences, is how the hell you managed all the H&S risks involved with projects like the Thermite Hindenburg 😂
Heavy, moving objects are the thing that always make me worry. I've seen and been apart of too many accidents involving a rope or tie-down or lever that has seen better days.
It seems you're not learning if you have been involved in a bunch of the same type of accidents.
I am 13 and i have watched mythbusters since i was a 4 year old and i love to see you still going strong 😎
i love the fact that this entire video, you can literally see the fear, and awe he has for the power of what he was talking about, just an absolutely great guy
This really well illustrates the difference between, "Do you feel safe?" and "Are you safe?" All too often, we settle for feeling safe, whether we are safe or not.
All I'm hearing is wrangling cats is the most dangerous myth ever tested
Cat scratches can easily get infected due to litter box bacteria, so that one that actually counts.
training old dogs must have been really dangerous lol
Eating poppy seeds won't make you fail a drug test, but what it can do is terrifying.
@@47Jaspers then how did Adam and Jamie fail drug tests after eating them?
Before Adam even started answering, I thought, "This is going to be BLEVE, or "Am I missing an eyebrow!?" related"
What was BLEVE?
@@coredumperror Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosions -- e.g. rocket water heater, exploding propane tank, etc.
Yeah, that's one that real explosives experts seem to have a lot of respect for. And then someone realized, "Daisy Cutter", a Fuel Air Explosive bomb used to clear trees and foliage from an area to create a landing area for a helicopter. You might thing "oh whoosh", a nice peaceful flame front.
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yeah. BLEVES are freaking terrifying
A house on the next street over had a gas leak and exploded. Turns out gas meters should be outside the garage, not inside where they can be hit by a car pulling out.
When I heard the explosion, I thought a bookcase had fallen over. When that wasn’t the case, I thought the tree beside my house was hit by lightning. That’s when I saw the house that was leveled.
It is amazing the damage that caused, and how fast the police were on the scene securing the area before the fire department arrived.
In lots of places (e.g. Australia), it's a legal requirement that all gas meters must be protected by bollards capable of withstanding impact from a vehicle. Now you know why!
@@davidwalker1652 Most places here in the US have that requirement for water heaters that are in the garage. Not sure why there wasnt one for the gas meter but I have never seen an indoor one here in the first place so might have been a weird construction.
@@alanhersch4617 it may have not been a legal install of the gas meter.
i haven't watched mythbusters since i was a kid and i recently rewatched an older (season 3?) episode where the myth was about two semi trucks colliding head on and causing a sports car to be completely lost in the middle of them. at one point something on one of the semis being towed snapped and just unleashed a huge out of control truck in whichever direction it wanted to go. *that* stuck out as ridiculously dangerous to me, and you could see just a little bit of a break in character with the crew trying to decide which way would be out of the way