What Job Did Adam Savage Quit for MythBusters?

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[@nickcazares2851]

New Reality television show... It's gonna be a killer.

[@Dave-sw7sd]

Mythbusters but for futuristic ideas

[@EspenEngene]

Adam: "I took a leave of absence from the Matrix" Agent Smith: "Wait, he can do that?!"

[@Dragoon91786]

[Begins Slow Clap]

[@electralumen165]

"I reject your reality and substitute my own"

[@Josh-0o1]

Adam was my Model Making 1 teacher. Still know how to make space ships out of styrene sheets because of him!! He got some tv job or he could have been model 2 teach also 😊 Such a great teacher and inspiring…as we all know now because we watch his channel.

[@royadambrown3101]

I could never be so lucky.

[@williammaxwell1919]

One thing I like about Adam discussing "past work" is that he "name drops" those he worked /collaborated with, irrespective of where they stood /stand in the "hierarchy"

[@safaiaryu12]

Yeah! He really wants to highlight the hard-working people around him, and I so respect that.

[@jamesmocharski4803]

I 100% agree. I love the he just genuinely enjoys the process, warts and all, even when or perhaps especially when something didn’t go particularly right or perfectly to plan. Mainly, I’m simply floored at how well his name recall actually works for who what where and when when retelling these stories.

[@Zerbey]

I love that too, and he never has a bad word to say about anyone (I assume the people he dislikes he just doesn't mention!). I wonder how many people owe a successful career to Adam Savage, I'm sure it's a lot.

[@griffinoconnor1523]

What’s with the quotation marks

[@capn_boxfort]

Yep, not content to leave them as unsung heroes

[@RobAu2bitfx]

I went to ILM when I was looking at transitioning from becoming a dentist to become a VFX artist. I got an awesome tour of the facility including the stages and the model shop. It changed my life, I had found my purpose. Pan was in production at that time and I saw some of the ships. Such inspiring work. My dream was to work at ILM as a kid from the peninsula. Sadly, the opportunity never lined up, but I have loved every minute of my career. I love everything you are doing and thank you for creating so much magic that has inspired so many of us to pursue our dreams of spending our life in the arts.

[@jennymckenzie5304]

I love that Adam has been around so many Aussies that whenever he says "Sydney Australia" his accent turns into this weird hybrid of American and Australian. Accents are so fun.

[@gotja]

Sydney!

[@williammaxwell1919]

LOL.. Aussies in H'wood... punch above thier national weight

[@vintagetractorsaustralia]

@@williammaxwell1919we tend to punch above our weight in several fields. I believe we have one of the best medal rates compared to population in the olympics

[@williammaxwell1919]

@vintagetractorsaustralia Aussies are also notorious for "punching below the belt" for "the win"... just ask a K1W1

[@vintagetractorsaustralia]

@@williammaxwell1919 hahahaha

[@gruevtube]

My dad started working on pan at the same time . He also built the model for the interceptor that they blew up for pirates . I believe he helped with the rigging on the ship for pan . He was at your going away party ILM threw for you guys when you got the discovery deal . He considers it the best job he ever had :)

[@skie6282]

Pretty sure i got in the mythbusters train around season 2 or 3, so i was about 9, i am grateful i grew up watching you guys create and problem solve and think and have fun. Probably sculpted my mindset in some ways. You guys are kinda like heros haha

[@safaiaryu12]

Same!

[@andrearaimondi882]

I love how Adam is very down to earth, such as saying “I’m not nearly qualified to be an effects director”, showing his humility and honesty.

[@jordonfreeman166]

Whenever Adam says Grimace, I can’t help but think of the purple McDonald’s character.

[@tested]

100%

[@Shooter_FPV]

Or Peter Quill calling Thanos Grimace...

[@roncinephile]

I remember seeing Adam in the behind-the-scenes extras on the DVDs for the Matrix movies.

[@thebestduofr1210]

That’s so cool 😎

[@einstein0808]

That's really cool! Neat.

[@qeidren3215]

Adam, I love that whenever you're asked about "bad experiences" or anything in a similar vein, you find some way to pivot your response to something positive. Like your 'Bicentennial Man' story and many others I can't recall right now. It is an admirable quality and a thing worth emulating.

[@scramblerbricks7293]

"Grant immohara is photographed working on our particle accelerator" is probably the funniest out of context line I have ever heard

[@brianunger1]

I respect the decision to never get back into big special effects. But, but, if they ever make a movie off of one of Brandon Sanderson many wonderful books I hope you would take the job if offered. It would delight me in such a huge way to see your name in the credits with a author I love and writes books that seem right up your wheel house. Thanks for another great Q&A.

[@Yodah97]

Well he doesn't need to be an FX director to participate. He expressed his love for making hero props before. Imagine an One Day Build of a Shardblade to be used in the movie. He could make Oathbringer.

[@brianunger1]

@@Yodah97 YES! I hope he does that. That would be such a fun One Day Build.

[@stubbz9]

It's amazing watching the early Mythbusters episodes and seeing how the format of the show evolved over time.

[@nafeeskherani2667]

Adam talking about Mythbusters and filming the first season in 2002, I didn't even realize that Mythbusters was started before I was even born. Really loved mythbuster, the show is what got me to go to school for engineering

[@KennethStone]

Dude, don't make me feel old! I was in HS!

[@shadowmancer7040]

The answer to the last question highlights what a wonderful, wise, genuine, charming man Adam is.

[@SModelMafia]

I absolutely remember the first Mythbusters show..It came on in late Jan/ early February of 2003. I was in Orlando Florida with my Girlfriend of the time. I was watching the show from our hotel while she was working at the Harley Davidson University amual conference. I was absolutely hooked. I had always heard the Impala and the Myth came from the New Mexico/Arizona area, and an Air Force Airman. Absolutely loved the show

[@FrozenHare]

I love that you guys weren’t a “reality show”, but that you showed reality. If that makes sense?

[@TheGreatAtario]

A reality show vs. a "reality" show

[@terrylong8894]

And that was what I loved about Mythbusters.

[@capn_boxfort]

I reject your reality TV and substitute my own!

[@Tclans]

“Unlikely that me be” Well maybe a match with the guys from Corridor could be a perfect fit for such a project.

[@Budaniel]

When you said, "We delivered the particle accelerator, and Peter Reuben was the art director..." my mind heard that as Paul Reuben, and I had this visual of you delivering an IRL particle accelerator to Pee-Wee - which sounds like it could have been the set up for an amazing mad-cap comedy script.

[@Shooter_FPV]

And somehow my mind is listening to "Tequila".... LOL!

[@KennethStone]

It's interesting hearing that because I grew up and still live, on and off, in San Rafael, so I know almost exactly where he's talking about.

[@krasspenn]

Listening to your stories are oddly comforting

[@CarboniteDreamer]

WOOO!! Rocket car! I would love to see just once the ILM group do a Myth full on Mythbuster style. I think it would be so cool and so much fun.

[@_Chad_ThunderCock]

It's unfortunate Grant passed away tho :/

[@jonathanwright5550]

Awesome that they went straight to a rocket car

[@kennethh8133]

You should all check out the Corridor Crew episodes with Adam, you can see the models Adam made for Star Wars and Matrix as well as some back story for the movies. It’s pretty awesome to see

[@thanniss]

The dock scenes were amazing.

[@TomsBackyardWorkshop]

At the time MythBusters came out I wanted to do the king of work Adam was doing but I didnt know how to get into that field. MythBusters is the reason I am now an Engineer.

[@THAT1J0SHGUY]

It doesn't feel like it was just 2002!! 😮👀

[@davidszakacs6888]

MB was started out a such a unique show. I stopped watching a few years in when most of the myths were about guns.

[@dorklyasmr6017]

Can someone explain to me what Pan he was working on? There was a Pan that came out in 2015 with Hugh Jackman, and a 1995 European Pan... but there doesn't seem to be any movie that were made in the early 2000s...

[@captaindouwed]

There was a Peter Pan in 2003, directed by P.J. Hogan, probably that one

[@SophiaAphrodite]

To think Adam would likely be one of the heads of ILM by now. I think he would agree it was worth it.

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

He would have had to turn into a mindless cog with no creative powers at all, a mid level executive.

[@macgyver6699]

I’d love to know with only getting as personal as you’d like to be are you getting residual compensation or do you need after that awesome run to find work after mythbusers ?

[@zolartan4442]

Got my nerd kid into Mythbusters. Finally got him to sit and watch one with me.. its the one where you and Jamie built a tree cannon in season 2. He's hooked.

[@j.robertsergertson4513]

I remember Adsms screen debut in a toilet paper commercial, as Mr. Whipple's store clerk . Please don't squeeze the Charmin

[@johnmeskens5613]

My great grandmother lived next door to Mr. Whipple. I actually knew him as Mr. Wilson. He moved next door after WW2 to her in California. He was from Canada from what I remember. My grandmother sent flowers to his funeral after his daughter Melanie called to notify her. He and his wife Meg had sent flowers to my great gramothers funeral in1998.

[@tablasolo]

I’ve been watching your vids for the better part of a year now. With this video, I’ve been forced to contribute to your patreon (I’m cheap as hell btw). Thank you sir for your transparency and guidance.

[@Max_Marz]

On the slab up there in san rafael? What are you referring to?

[@RodCornholio]

I'm sure most of the experiment-driven channels on KZbin have MythBusters to thank. It changed the world/lives...probably more than Adam could have predicted.

[@sidrat2009]

This is a great question!

[@christiaanvorster1988]

Why did KZbin unsub me after all these years.

[@chilledoutpaul]

many tangents later!!! lol. you have to love Adam

[@cameronhermann9400]

I had no idea u worked on movie props. So cool 😊

[@nathkrupa3463]

Great work

[@TheBaconKing32]

Did the quill wheel on your mill come with the machine, or did you add that?

[@zackmarkham4240]

At 1/4 point of any creative process, you're starting to figure it out and figure out where it wants to go, while coming against the first issues with making it. I feel bad for Dave! He did an amazing job, though!

[@roquefortfiles]

Please Hollywood!! bring back practical models. It is not the same lighting a 3d computer model to a real practical model. You can tell the difference.

[@josho4228]

Heritage auctions had a Peter Pan “Jolly Roger ship filming miniature model” that looks like it might be the ship Adam is referencing. The back certainly has a frowny face and the size seems about right. I can’t link it here because the comment gets deleted.

[@professorwikipedia2115]

Just put a space somewhere where it doesn't get turned into a hyperlink

[@safaiaryu12]

Getting a desk would be so exciting... I was so looking forward to getting a desk at my job, when the pandemic happened! Now I'm permanently fully remote. 😂

[@Ti-mothy8248]

Just get yourself a nice cocobolo desk

[@safaiaryu12]

@@Ti-mothy8248 Lol! I can't afford anything like that! I work from home on a "desk" made of a door across two filing cabinets. It's not pretty, but I can move it completely by myself! Which is super handy being a five foot nothing woman living in an area where rent prices are increasing way faster than my salary...

[@Zefram0911]

man, i still cant believe Grant isn't with us anymore.

[@denim_ak]

Now I’m trying to Imagine what playing poker with Adam is like

[@Serenity_Dee]

My god, T3 is a hell of a film to go out on, because as a movie it's a profound disappointment of a Terminator film, but I can't say a single bad thing about the art direction, design, or effects work. It was wildly successful in everything Adam would have worked on and utterly failed as a continuation of the story. (As far as I'm concerned, Dark Fate is the T2 sequel of choice.)

[@bluegizmo1983]

Terminator 3 is my favorite Terminator movie

[@tokukeitaro]

No disrespect, but I'm not sure whether to be amazed by you or be appalled by you. I can understand preferring T1 to T2. But to prefer any of the non Cameron flicks? That's incredible. Were you born after T2 came out? Did you see T3 at a young age? I'm genuinely curious.

[@haydenhere]

I thought captain hooks ship was called “the sea devil” and then he stole the ship “the Jolly Roger”. Where did I miss “The Grimace” ????

[@robo5013]

Probably what the crew nicknamed the model.

[@jeffmann9009]

Adam should write a book about myth busters.

[@petermgruhn]

I'm sorry, was the question "would you do special effects" or "would you do fx director"?

[@ADarkandStormyNight]

That would actually be an amazing contest to have, Adam Savage builds a prop for your short film. Hell, there are a lot of short films being made by broke students, would even make for an amazing series of episodes and give exposure to some students just starting out.

[@pheynx7573]

Why would there be any guilt associated with the success Mythbusters? Such an odd question.

[@fishfoolishness4222]

Can't even imagine Adam trying to bluff in poker.

[@paulhansendk]

Adam, were you that kid who got saved by the lifeguard in that Billy Joel music video from '85? 🙂

[@tested]

Yes, he was.

[@KingKool2099]

PAN... or Peter Pan? Pan was 2015, but there was a live-action one in 2003, right?

[@marsilies]

Yeah, Peter Pan (2003 film) had effects done by ILM, so that was likely the film he worked on.

[@nathandorsey8157]

Hey Adam, what myth got you the most excited to test it. Was Jamie also excited to do it as well.

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

Jamie, excited? LOOOOLLLL

[@xpndblhero5170]

I'm sure his ILM family was very proud of him, especially when he got his lip sucked into an electric motor... 😂😂

[@mauricemichiels6889]

Do series and call it "Murphy's Law"....

[@Yotrek]

1:04 I wonder how much a special effects supervisor, on the Matrix, earns per year.

[@donevans1884]

interesting video Adam .

[@jasonmcbride]

Which Pan movie?

[@WMxSmith]

I smell a collab with Corridor.

[@StBurkeINC]

damn i never knew that, Pan, of all movies

[@petermgruhn]

"Have you ever given proper thank for how nicely your name kerns in all caps?"

[@JeffDM]

Did Josie Mayday really ask if you would ever be an effects director? I thought the question was more general than that. Or was some of the question not said out loud?

[@dh7109]

Mythbusters is one of my absolute favorite shows, and I love it. Thank you Adam, for everythingn you do. You are an inspiration to all of us tinkerers, modders, and makers.

[@willhouston588]

The Grimace is called The Grimace because it's purple and round and sponsored by McDonald's.

[@olebrumme6356]

I wonder if Adam will ever get some Mythbusting started again? I'm sure there's several people at Tested that would be interested.

[@c1ph3rpunk]

I suspect it would be extremely difficult, and painful, given the ownership changes in and around Discovery. Then there’s the fact that they’re still focused on legacy television distribution that none of us watch now. I also suspect taking the name anywhere else would be too costly to be worth it. In short: it sounds like a really heavy lift that I bet he has no desire to take on. I wouldn’t, that sounds like actual work.

[@olebrumme6356]

@@c1ph3rpunkIsn't it possible to have it on KZbin under a completely different name and have Adam as the main host?

[@UncleKennysPlace]

@@olebrumme6356It would also have to do something different enough to avoid being sued by a juggernaut. _Legend Breakers_ with Adam Savage?

[@olebrumme6356]

@@UncleKennysPlace Good title. So you're saying that concepts/themes are copyrighted? Wow... I just miss Mythbusters and always imagined Adam would continue with something very similar forever!

[@KittyKatKya]

@@olebrumme6356 Whether a concept is actually copyrighted or not, and whether or not a massive corporation will bury you under a pile of lawyers for daring to ask said question are two separate questions.

[@appletree5955]

You should do a random video (look a like) myth buster Here and there with hidden Easter eggs in it

[@HabitualButtonPusher]

Do your colleagues have the same impression of Jamie as you do? Colleagues not Friends?

[@madmane808killah]

Where ya homie?

[@CrowCommando]

"Hey, gang. I've gotta step out for a few weeks..." *Then proceeds to bust myths for 14 years* Lmao

[@keithkamps77]

I always wondered why you and Jamie seemed to always rub heads so to speak. You were always very up to anything and everything to test a Myth while Jamie always seemed hesitant. Why wa that and are you and Jamie in contact and what is he doing now? I wish you guys were still on it was very educational and entertaining.

[@dondevice8182]

Imfact The Grimace was so called because it was purple, friends with Trump, and rumored to have had 4 arms.

[@FurtiveSkeptical]

And after 4 hours in a hot car, still maintaining the texture of a semi frozen beverage. Grimace being the facial reaction. However, purple is purported to be the color of royalty, 🤔 and Barney. Yeah, nah... scratch the royalty descriptor.

[@dondevice8182]

@@FurtiveSkeptical Now, now- we can’t let the likes of Barney lake us grimace at royal. That’s the Royal’s job, after all! Huzzah!

[@arcticgumby3542]

HAS IT BEEN 20 YEARS ALREADY SINCE MYTHBUSTERS AIRED? 🤯

[@superbaas8822]

Almost 21 year now, we're 2 months removed.

[@chubbyblackboi]

Wait 2015's Pan?

[@KevinCoones]

Hi Adam Is it possible to replicate a large spinning blade to chase you. With super power magnet around your Neck?

[@ReddAngry]

Has Adam ever met the announcer guy?

[@tested]

Rob Lee? Yes.

[@ReddAngry]

@@tested thanks for the reply!

[@therinsig]

Why on earth would anyone feel guilt because of success? People ask such weird questions.

[@jamesstenhouse7710]

Dude, Bart Simpson version of the Raiders scene was reaching for the hat. The original had Ford reaching for his whip...

[@spinalobifida]

Did you call her mom Matthew in a round about way? Maybe you could do something similar thing with you two switches places because," Women and children first"

[@batma1792]

Fon Davis!!!!!! C-ya:-j

[@Stile4aly]

Had to do a double take on that title...

[@skypatrol716]

32TEN is gone.

[@jomess7879]

Doing a short film with corridor crew would be fun. Just saying

[@billbucktube]

👍😀

[@gregatron11]

Dyslexia can be fun sometimes.....

[@pyeitme508]

Ok 👌

[@Babarudra]

I think I would follow that last answer up with, well, so, your skill set doesn't put you in the effects directors chair, what about just building for the effects teams. I get that you are *A*dam *S*avage, but that doesn't mean you need your name in the big letters at the end of the movie.

[@AlienLeader-e2p]

AVP 👽 Ahhw sweet 🎂/ it's cool life ll blow 🌬️ you over there / /

[@VashStarwind]

Geez man. One annoying thing about adam is he just name drops over and over and over again. Very annoying when people do that. I guess thats not surprising considering the city he lives in

[@SueBobChicVid]

Why would someone ask if there was guilt for any success? Does not compute.

[@choochypoo]

ILM will be 90% AI in 10yrs or less

[@merickful]

Roger Roger!

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

Down-voted for poor grammar.

[@MyllerSWE]

Is the spelling in the thumbnail on purpose or did no one notice it? :D

[@orangepiratebear]

Final ilm job.