Ask Adam Savage: "Did MythBusters Influence Your Current Creative Problem-Solving?"
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Does Adam still have the dorodango from the Polishing a Turd episode? Did filming MythBusters impact Adam's ability to problem-solve during builds today? Tested channel members WolfsbaneFilms and Lee Marsh asked these questions during our Nov. 9 live stream, and we thank them for their support and great questions! Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks, such as asking Adam a question:
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Your excitement reminds me of Neil Degrassse Tyson. If you could ever do a one day build with him what would you like to collaborate on?
@@richardvoss77 NGT is a shill, they only put him in the spotlight because he'll say what they want him to say. There are FAR more interesting and intelligent astrophysics out there, but they might say something we're not allowed to know.
Fix your watch strap Adam, you're a grown man with a dangling oversized watch.
I will be second to say it, WTF is up the the moving engine model? Real ghosts? Or were excited about the balls too?
I love how even though its clear he and Jamie aren't bosom buddies, how much admiration and respect he has for both Jamie and his work.
just becuase you dont like someone, doesnt mean you dot respect them, i hate terrorists like al Qaeda and ISIS but you have to respect their combat ability, they are scary smart, most of the time
Not the comparison I would have chosen to make.
@@jamesstewart5706 damn he made a really great comparison though
@@charlescourtwright2229 That’s a really over the top metaphor to use to describe two dudes having mutual respect for eachother...
They really showed the world some true professionalism imo. Regardless of their differences they were always able to work together and even seem to have a fun of fun together regardless. The way they both frame it like "Yeah we're not really friends but I can totally work with the guy and he's a fucking genius in his own right" is something I think we need more of in the world these days.
I use to have a boss whose favorite saying "you cannot polish a turd". He simply refused to put energy developing someone who wasn't already a standout. He was a jerk. I showed him the segment of your episode that yes you can in fact polish a turd.
I thought the idiom was, "You can polish a turd, but it's still a turd"?
@@DetectiveDorian I always heard it as "It's like polishing a S#!^" meaning it's something possible but extremely pointless.
You can't polish a turd. You can however, roll one in glitter!
Detective Dorian i think there are many versions
Im not sure what the idiom really is. But he used to say specifically what I quoted frequently. Im sure there's other variations he said too. It's just what i quoted is what I remember most.
Asking Adam if he has anything from Mythbusters is like asking the Pope if he's Catholic.
“Do you still have the-“
“Does the Pope shit in the woods?”
Adam - “Giraffes just don’t look like they should work.”
Me - *thinks about it* “I mean, he’s not wrong...”
Lol! How lucky am I that they wander through my garden every now and then! Together with some Eland and Kudu and warthogs. Oh and some Haartebeest and Impala.
Giraffes walk like supermodels
That’s what’s amazing about them though!
In giraffes (and humans) the laryngeal nerve goes from their brain all the way down their neck, beneath the heart's aorta, and then all the way back up to the larynx just under their jaw!
@@chillipaste2183 what is a haartebeast? Is that what we (america) call wildebeast (sp?)?
Adam is so on point when he describes successful people in the industry as "people who enjoy solving problems under constant shifting parameters". As a TV news camera person, I went into work every day not knowing what my job was going to be. Some days I would get paired with a reporter, others I would be on my own. I might cover the weather, or a candlelight vigil, or a basketball game, or 10 completely different stories spread out between 5 or 6 counties. Some days I would just be a live truck operator which had its own completely different set of problems. Every day was different and the only constants were my tools and my abilities to think quickly on my feet to meet the demands of the day.
Same here, I was a newspaper photographer. I've walked into a $200-a-plate black-tie charity dinner in muddy boots and a polo shirt because I covered the hot-air balloon festival at dawn, and my planned breaks between the other assignments that day got taken up by fires and car wrecks. 16 hours without a lunch break, and I loved every minute of it.
Also feel free to work in construction. People are either upset its always changing or they thrive on it
Okay I can risk out kf the list being a cameraman I guess.
You deserve so much more respect.
@@DeliveryMcGee you should write about that fateful day!
@@ianmoore5502 That was pretty much it, the unplanned stuff was routine, none of the victims were seriously injured, it was just that that one day the stuff I always prayed for to happen to have something to do on a slow day KEPT HAPPENING. I may have also covered a sports game that dy. And I think that was the year I almost got hit by one of the balloons. But otherwise, business as usual, just a bit busier than normal.
The more anecdotes Adam shares about Jamie, the more I realize that Jamie's the kind of maker I have always aspired to be
you must make the greatest foil ball ever, the universe depends on it...
Get aluminum. Smelt to ball
@assassinlexx put a wax ball inside it as a form. Cold hammer foil into ball shape. Heat and melt the wax which drops out a tiny hole.
I'm no "creator" though so if that seems like a hack thats why.
I made a few of these a while ago, 3.5" diameter was a good size, but never finished the 6" lol With that said, a 12" shiny foil ball would be awesome!
@@NoThankUBeQuiet nope. Forge a piece of plate.
Pee wee eat your heart out.
I work in IT. Your description of Jamie handling that problem sounds so familiar. I have a number of coworkers that will come to be with catastrophic problems and when I don't panic, will ask how I can stay calm? My response is generally, "I'm not going to find a solution by panicking, so what is the point? I'd rather get to work, and get you back to work as quickly as possible."
Dawww... It really makes me smile to see the wistful expression on Adam's face talking about that 'we were so dumb and unprepared' convo in the car between him and Jamie... That's what memories are SUPPOSED to be for, imo. Telling the story, laughing at your past self, and knowing you had a bond with someone that can never break, because you did something /together/, no matter what happens afterwards or if you never speak again. :)
I keep hearing Timon signing, "When I was a young warthog!"
Warthogs are stressed out because they are tasty.
And are collectively still afraid of obelix
isn't Timon the meerkat
@@mityakiselev I think you are correct. Is his name Pumba?
@@andy-in-indy yup
I used to work a job (Crisis Support Counselor / dual diagnosis specialist) where when you walked in on a Monday morning and you had to deal with only 3 suicide attempts, that was a good start to the week. If it was three or less you could get in contact with the client's family, doctor, insurance, the care facility they were housed, and anyone else before lunch. Then in the afternoon, you headed out to the different, usually hospitals they were being discharged from to counsel and take them home. Them before you called it a day you made sure there was another worker that could follow up, and scheduled the appropriate aftercare plan and meetings for the rest of the week. In those moments you have to learn to compartmentalize your emotional response, freaking out, crying, thinking that you failed them to some degree, none of that is helpful. At that moment my client had been driven to such an emotional state that they attempted their own life, you need to keep it together for them. Your wasting time cycling through your emotional process instead of taking care of them. You can sob uncontrollably into your 40 piece nugget crate while your driving to the next hospital. I did this for 3 years. As a sponge, I absorbed a tremendous amount of other people's pain. But there are other professions that have had to endure even more. So next time you see someone in scrubs or dressed like a guidance counselor with multiple hospital badges on them, pay for their chicken nuggets and/or coffee, they are most likely having a very rough day.
Growing up watching every single episode of mythbusters, these videos really sooth the soul
Great comment.
I keep thinking about this in the context of university. When I got in, I was so naive, coming out of what I would later learn was a traumatic and abusive situation...and then I was STILL naive when I decided I wanted to be an artist. It's only been this term that I've not only learned what the degree is really preparing me for, and getting really serious about meeting that goal. One of the best things I have done this term has been to buy a small black book that will hold my artistic notes and narratives outside of class. So now I have a way to record the journey and create a resource for later in my life.
There are times that I question even attending university, and then there are terms like this that remind me why I'm doing it. That's so invaluable.
I love the quote "Giraffes just don't look like they should work". I laughed by myself at this.
I remember when the first season came out and you were looking for dead pigs to test something out on them and the lady on t he phone kept getting turned down.
Than after a few seasons all you had to do was say "it's for Myth Busters". Seeing that sort of transformation was amazing to watch in real time.
I remember that too. It was cool.
I spent my first five years of my career working in television and film. Sometimes it was a lot of fun others not. I quit because I had more to say. I’ve been a full time artist (painter) for 35 years. I’m proud of what I’ve achieved. I was happy when I was working with good people in film. Lots aren’t that good.
Jamie's approach by staying calm and framing the scenario to the customer is very intelligent. because it doesn't add to stress, it offers paths to solutions, and it keeps things direct.
I love what you said about problem solving on sets. In my personal work I can get so bogged down by perfectionism that when something goes wrong its devastating. But on set its totally different. its a "Oh. the thing I worked on for the past week just was horribly damaged/wont work/would work but would be too unreliable for daily use...... alright, lets see what our options are"
Hearing you describe the realities of working on-set, and the camaraderie that binds the industry is something that I had never really considered, yet as a career cook, am immediately intimately familiar with. Excessive hours in tough circumstances, under-prepared, with frightening potential hazards, and constantly-shifting problem solving circumstances in an environment where failure is not an option bonds people in a way that's difficult to make relatable to anyone who's never experienced it for themselves.
When asked what it's like to work in a "real" kitchen full-time (read: not flush with cash, space, or staff), I find the only relatable way to describe it is to direct people to the ending of "The Hurt Locker" where Jeremy Renner's character is back in the US, shopping with his infant son in a grocery aisle, trying to decide between breakfast cereals, and the film hard cuts to him stepping out of a helicopter, back to do another tour as an EOD Tech.
There are certain vocations that I would never wish on anyone; and yet, for those of us who work them, nothing else will do, as nothing can relationships and friendships quite like working in the trenches of life, be they literal or metaphorical.
Did anyone else notice the motor on the table move 16 seconds in
Totally.. WTF was that?
Haunted?
Adam has a ghost in his workshop, probably got it on etsy...
I wonder if he reads the comments and watched the video to see this happen. Very creppy
@UCeSnFaWHcncOMuwtqOJN1RA If you mean CIA, then yeah maybe
This was the perfect video for me today. I work as a software developer. We refer to constantly shifting parameters as ambiguity. Today was particularly bad and shit has hit the fan. This video was a good reminder to stay calm and present the options
I love it when Adam gets up excitedly and comes back with something cool to look or hear about from who knows where
I worked/helped on one film set. It started with me being the go between for my employer and the location manager. We got to be friends and then I got introduced to some of the crew. I ended up being more involved than I ever was suppose to be. Even so far as to get to meet to some of the stars. There were so many things that went wrong and have to be fixed on the fly and I was apart of some of those solutions. Problem solving on the fly is SOOOOO rewarding. I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT. Craft services too, LOL. If I ate like that all the time I'd be Jabba. I'd take the risk though. LOL
The reason warthogs are so stressed out is because practicaly every predator want's to eat them as well is being far tastier than normal pork.
Mythbusters is the reason that i’m the engineer that i am today
We will pass that on to Adam!
Me too but not yet (I’m in college for robotics engineering)
@@theodorebelmont2181 Well, i start college for engineering in January, but i’ve already been employed as an intern in the RF Engineering field.
Same here, I knew since 1998 that I wanted to be an engineer. But Mythbusters kept that dream alive and gave me hope/motivation to complete my degree. BSME class of 2012.
It's not just Mythbusters for me, but it is a huge part of the reason I love engineering, and people like Adam, eventually gave me the courage at 33 years old to go and get a degree in Engineering
Things I did not expect when I clicked this video: Adam mimicking a warthog aggressively pooping.
Growing up, I watched a lot of Mythbusters. It is so great that Adam is here and talking with us all about it. Thank you! :)
0:18 That's the second official recording of a Poltergeist in Adam's Cave!
What was the first?
That's a little remote controlled bot thing, he may have nudged the controller
He went around th back you guys are gullible
@@mickeydangerez : How is life on Vulcan?
@@Meerkat040 ANSWER MEERKATPRODUCTIONS!
I totally get that rush of problem solving. Nothing makes me feel more alive than being in a time sensitive, stressful situation, having exactly the skills you need to solve it, and doing your bit with the complete unwavering trust that your coworkers have already figured out what they should be doing and you're all just burning through the problem together.
You're right that Shamwari Reserve in SA is amazing. Spent time there both as a guest and in conservation, and had some exceptional experiences. 100% agree on the Warthogs!
I really like how in Mythbusters they had to stop and explain to audience of what they were doing and the way they explained was clear and without making it long so you would lose focus. They are really great teachers.
MythBusters was a heavy influence on me growing up encouraging me to explore science and engineering with practical applications. I am currently studying engineering right now because of it
Kinda Ironic that the ECTO 1 engine moved all by itself. “Time To Call Ghost Busters”
I’m so happy your on RUclips now, I grew up on myth busters and my childhood wouldn’t have been the same without it, I don’t think i would be interested in the stuff that I am without it.
5:17 "people who enjoy solving problems under constant shifting parameters".
Yep, this is exactly how it is in video games as well. Every day a new problem, with new technical constraints. Creative problem solving and wanton macgyvery abound.
First day on the job you look around at the chaos and you're amazed that anything ever gets finished at all. Somehow it all comes together.
Adam Savage’s Tested is the only channel that I can "Like" before viewing the an entire episode.
OK. I just realized that this in the Ecto motor. LOL. Nice one Adam. Love you. You got me for a second there.
I worked in television for 25 years. I agree whole heartily about problem-solving. Had to do it all the time, Either with what was being shot or talent.
An 11 minute video, only 2 questions answered.
That's one of the (many) reasons why I love Adam so much. You give him a question and instead of getting back just a quick one-word or one-sentence answer, you get a whole story (and he'll even run off to grab appropriate props to show off when needed too lol).
I get a genuine sense that, to Adam, every question is valuable to him and worth exploring and elaborating on further. No question is considered too dumb or too insignificant, they are all treated with respect and he always allows himself as much time as *he needs* in order to give the best answer he can possibly put into words. He never tries to rush it or hurry things along.
I could listen to him talk about 'stuff' for hours.
Adam, Your videos have motivated me to be a better person. I need videos of you creating a shop droid. Begins simple, light, maybe vacuum.
"What is it that draws people to film work?"
"Insanity."
Interesting note about giraffes. Many scholars believe the "questing beast" in arthurian legend was a western centric view of a giraffe.
Neck of a serpent, hooves of a hart, body of a leopard
I work in the Fim industry and your comment about the people who work in it is spot on!
OMG, the dirt ball. I thought that was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I still think it is. My son, who was only in single digits at the time, tried in vain to recreate one. I didn't keep his results. I'm glad you kept yours.
Adam Savage’s Tested is the only channel that I can "Like" before viewing the entire episode.
0:18 ehm why/how did the engine on the table move? 🤔😮
ADAM! Make a hellboy corpse locator. The one that used to be available on the rpf is gone now and your videos always help me learn to build things!
Jamie's practicality is awesome. On a tested podcast episode not too long ago someone was saying how they watched something that they didn't like and they didn't have an angry emotional response. They had compared not having an emotion reaction to having a mental illness. I personally thought that not letting thier emotions guide thier way of thinking was very practical, it was interesting. I think a lot more people would rather let thier thought and reactions be guided by thier emotions then having a practical approach. It kind of scares me. Emotions are great but they hinder a lot of people. I guess balance is the key
I remember the episode with the shining animal dung. I remember that Jamie was using polish and Adam didn't agree with Jamie using the polish as that's adding something to the surface of the dung in order to give it a shine. I think this brings about a new question: Is there anything that you can't polish using polish?
The durodongu is also in the books by Christopher Paoli, the Eragon Series.
I still have that quiet scene vividly in my mind. Erôthknurl made by Orik.
I think it's time that I reread the inheritance cycle
Mithbusters definitely influenced me in becoming an engineer! Thanks Adam!
It is cool when Adam gives some insight into working in film and media. Because i think a lot of people and specifically young people. Thinking it is a easy job with low stress and good paycheck.
0:05 I love how you can see the genuine exitement on his face as he’s realizing that he still has it.
I assumed you had kept them and I was not disappointed 😁 For whatever reason, that remains one of my favorite episodes to this day. I’ve been meaning to try my hand at dorodango for years but never gotten around to it.
I loved folowing your journey learning everything in Mythbusters. You can see you and the other hosts getting more and more experienced. Me as a folower of the show, learned alot and got more motivated on problem solving. I love your slogan, "failure is always an option". Problems will always come our way. Its how you solve them that show what you are made of. Great story of how Jamie approached his failed rig!
Running electric cable and lights, rigging and problem solving, doing things people couldn't, wouldn't or were afraid of, we did with routine ambivalence (it should work)
I remember, one day, we had a complete lighting rig on the celling.. nothing was on the floor, no cables, no stands, no flags... nothing. The director added a shot, i was asked how long a relight was going to take, i said three hours.
They said, no it won't, you just don't want to do it (i was already on the walks, calling for electrics).
I said i get paid by the hour, The OT is fine with me.. 2 hours 40 min, i told the AD we were ready.
When I spent 3 weeks in Botswana working on a seismic experiment in the Okavango Delta, I too was amazed out how elephants just seemed to appear out of no where, especially on the highways. If you stopped they just seemed to appear out of nowhere and be really angry you stopped your vehicle in their territory.
I wish I could be as calm and collected in dire situations as Jamie is.
I love listening to Adam talk about just about anything. With most videos on YT if it's over 30 minutes I have to decide if I really want to invest that time watching. But with Adam I'd click on one of his vids even if it were 2 hours long without hesitation!
I haven't watched the episode but I recognized those dungballs in the thumbnail instantly lol
I love your stories so much Adam, I wish there was a way to fully articulate how much appreciate the freedom with which you share them. :o)
Adam, I just let you know that foil being used to make into solid balls is not a new pursuit. Kids in my public school, low those 45 years ago, used the foil from cigarette packages to make shiny solid balls. They may not have known about "Dorodongo", but they were doing it. Love your content, and thanks for your contribution to my sanity in these uncertain times.
0:14 Spengler's Ghost is moving the ECTO-1 engine!!
I love Adam's Jamie impression. It's spot on.
I have a long-winded question. I'm currently a realist painter making portraits of Cosplayers, but I didn't start painting until about tens years ago, but I did draw anime and Sci-Fi stuff when I was young. Between then and now I've been a physiotherapist, a house and landscape designer and an illustrator. When I started painting I pursued all these different avenues of what I thought would be considered serious art (because I wanted to build a career out of it.) However I've come to realise the most honest expression of what I do is steeped in the things that brought joy as a young person and so I've come full circle. I wonder if there are things, pursuits or even ways of thinking where you've found you've come full circle, but perhaps richer for the experience?
I literally can’t get over that thing moving by itself 20 seconds into the video. That blows my mind lol
We used to do the foil ball thing with the wrappers from certain high school lunch items over one lunch period and just the lunch table back before social media.
It would seem to me Construction and the film industry are similar. Every plan something goes wrong. The perimeters and goalposts change constantly. Your going to fix 60 problems a day, fix them and move on. Managing a large construction site is no joke. Your best ones are calm and calculating. I was once told im only to explain how bad a problem is by how much time it takes to redo or cost. Literally nothing is a problem if you can throw some money at it to make it go away. I'm sure the film guys understand this.
I submitted that episode idea! I got trashed in the forum by everyone and an admin even called me stupid for suggesting that they devote an episode to poop! Ah memories!
The last 20 seconds! I want to hear the stories of how you learned on the job. That could be a video series or a book or a podcast!
I also work in special effects but on the digital side. I have a similar experience of seeing a colleague tackling a stressful moment with such calmnes as Jamie did. The first time you experience it it's like the first time seeing a falling star. You will remember it.
Adam excitedly rushing off set in real time to go grab something is my favorite thing
Ha Adam your motor moved while you were gone on your workbench
love to listen to you talk, tell your stories and watch you think through problems.
That little engine is awesome. 👍
So that model engine on the table. What caused it to move?
working on my R2D2 right now. I spent the entire day trying to fit the motor assembly I built out of Lego parts in the foot. I finally concluded that Im going to have to model and 3d print custom motor mounts to make it fit. Had I started with that I could have saved myself a day.
This actually answered a nagging question I’ve had about myself. I’m a decent model builder and my friend Andy Myers is an incredibly skilled artist and makes his own model kits specialopsmodels.com for y’all interested. His background was TV and film doing stuff for speed and Budweiser commercials.
I’ve always wondered if I should have gone to school to learn how to do that stuff like you and him do.
That’s a hearty no now. I can do anything if you tell me what you need but that ability to say “well I just spent a week designing and making this and now you want me to change it, sure” I do not have. I need a clear idea to work off of so thank you for providing that clarity.
I always enjoy seeing people be self aware.
Yes, it proved one must ask the right questions to get answers. It's not always one answer.
I've been working on set for four years and oh boy is it stressful and it's a lot of problem-solving, but I find myself keep coming back to it.
OK so 20 seconds in the engine from ecto 1 moves slightly to the left as Adam walks out frame, was there somebody filming that? Did somebody move the motor from Ecto 1? Is there a poltergeist in the cave?
It's not just time passing/age equalling wisdom for that Mythbusters "knowing" expansion. I experienced something similar when I was the campus editor for the school paper. There's something about the act of doing a thing that shows you opportunities to push beyond the "edge of the map" in your knowledge. And the stories you end up with from the failures/learning opportunities are the best part.
That reminds me of when I was a kid I learned that if you wad up a piece of paper and unfold, and re-wad, over and over, and over, the paper gets softer and much smaller.
This really made me take a look at what I do for a living and step back and think about where I fit into it. Thanks
On my last deployment I made a ball from aluminum foil. I would always get my food from the Dfac to go, so the trays are covered with sheets of aluminum foil (to keep my food warm and protected as I walked back to where I worked. After I finished eating, I'd take the tin foil and wad it up into a ball and compress it as tight as possible with my hands. Every time I grabbed a "to-go" plate, I'd keep adding the sheets of tin foil to it. Eventually, it became too hard to compress it with my hands so I'd roll it around on my table, which also smoothed it out and made the ball more even. After a few weeks, I got it to about softball sized and it probably weighed about as much too.
Maybe I'll go buy a roll of foil just to turn it into a giant ball......
You can tell he feels really nostalgic at the very end.
Adam's cave is infinite, yet contained. Like a bag of holding, but a building
The last 30 seconds of the video is what everyone should know about life and experience. You might think you know it all but there will be a day when you realize you never knew anything.
I live about an hour away from Shamwari - you should come visit again! :)
I believe MythBusters started my interest in science and chemistry at a young age thankyou for giving everyone the chance to see that not all problem solving needs to be an issue rather a step in the right direction
That small engine model moved by itself!
The prop which moves at around 00:18 is the guy behind the camera moving it. Adam confirmed it on twitter.
Adam, you do have a Poltergeist problem! When you ran out, the ECTO-1 engine moved all by itself!!!
I love how fast he was able to get them
0:18 GHOST
I think Grant paid you a visit at the beginning 0_0
Would you consider doing a shop tour of all the MB props, nick nack etc. You kept?
So, the Ghostbusters model moved on its own eh? Ok. Totally ok...
Adam, you and Jamie repurposed everyday objects to perform or become something that were NEVER meant or made to ever do.
HOW you guys did this on almost every episode of Mythbusters was always the very thing I'm fond of most about the show and I miss that sooo much.