hey everybody adam savage here in my cave with a show and tell
that a few of you viewers have asked for you've noticed me wearing a certain bit of kit
and you've wondered what about that bit of kit and what you've been asking about is
this right here my hip pack or fanny pack okay i don't want any shenanigans from our
watchers in the uk we call it a fanny pack here and no one snorks or giggles or has church giggles
just get over it and i know like wonder woman 1984 is making fun of like even chris pine doesn't look
cool when he puts on a fanny pack i must admit i was a fanny pack wearer back in the 90s but
kovid has necessitated the use of this and it happens to have been designed
by my friend tom sacks you'll notice the telltale 10 bullets
put out by zpax um this is made of dyneema i've been beating the hell out of it and uh
it's phenomenal i really really dig it and here's one of the reasons i started wearing it
forever the weather in san francisco
has been remarkably consistent it's it hovers between 55 and like 68 degrees year-round
sometimes it spends a few more days at 55 and some days it's up to 70s you know we all deal
but the consistency is one of the things those of us who have moved here find that we
love about it it's jacket weather all the time you can always wear your favorite jacket and i have a
jacket problem i have many many many jackets and i like wearing them but for me a jacket is not just
a fashion thing even though that's very much what it is i also really utilize them i have
needs for all of the pockets and i have a very specific pocket layout phone goes here keys
flashlight go here i don't put anything in my back pockets except for a lens cleaner for my glasses
and i think in the right back pocket is usually a doggy poop bag because you never want to be
out without one um but i said that for years san francisco has been this consistent but not lately
not for the past probably three or three to five years uh we started getting warm nights which was
weird because i'm here to tell you in the 90s in early aughts warm nights happened like two days a
year and everyone freaked out and was like amazed and like just the energy here in the mission on
those nights was palpable now we're regularly getting like three four months of warm nights
in the mission district and it's a double-edged sword it feels amazing
and it's happening because the world's ending right we're totally screwing up the atmosphere
but that's not the point of this video the point of this video is to talk about why i'm wearing
fanny pack and the reason is is because of the inconsistent weather we've been having these
swings for instance right now it's about 50 just a little bit over 50 degrees outside it's
nippy it's a nippy 50. two weeks ago it was in the 80s and a month ago it was like over a hundred in
some parts of san francisco like it's crazy making and the practical result of this is it's really
hard to figure out what jacket to go out in and i have i have a kind of a roster of jackets i wear
but if i'm wearing like three or four jackets within the course of a day because in the morning
it's like in the 40s and i got to put on the fire coat to go get coffee because it's so cold
and then in the afternoons it's not so bad so i may be wearing a nasa coat or maybe a nice
down jacket that's lightweight but affords me the wind breakage you know these are decisions that
i make all the time because i want to go out with my stuff on me i gotta have a wallet
gotta have you know the things that i need and if i'm changing jackets multiple times
a day that is a recipe for me to not have what i need when i'm out in the world um
in fact as i get older it becomes more and more important for me as i get home to put everything
where it goes shoes go right here jacket goes here mass goes there you know everything comes
off in the same order and that's how i keep order that's how i keep myself like going okay if i put
something down in the wrong place i'm going to spend a day looking for it the next day
so a few weeks ago tom sent me this last year we send each other one of everything that we make
so he sent me this last year and said you should really try it out and talk to me
about some of his teachers and i did not see the need or the necessity for it until the weather
here got so weird that i just never knew what jacket i was gonna wear so i stopped worrying
about the jacket and i put all my critical got to leave the house carry stuff in this
and then it doesn't matter what jacket i wear and i don't ever wonder where my sunglasses or
my wallet is yeah so all that being said that's why i'm wearing the fanny pack it's really helping
me out uh and i'm gonna walk you through some of its features because it is a nice bit of kit um
again like i said it's uh made for tom sacks by zpax i have no idea of the availability of these
if it's like tom's other stuff they're not super available and i'm sorry about that
but you asked so i thought i'd show you um the main feature that tom loves the most about this
is this guy this big pocket which he calls the iphone pocket so this goes up against your
here we go so this goes up against your body and the iphone and i'm charging over here the iphone
just drops right in there really easy to get to now i love the way he's thinking
the fact is my iphone goes in the right front pocket that's where they always go
so i don't utilize that pocket for that i keep one of tom's notebooks in there
um but it is a great pocket yeah so uh other features of this bag so here's what
i've got in here a storm trooper card from a friend of mine some hearing aid batteries
uh the notebook yep um so that's the that's the iphone pocket it's got a nice um
a soft landing on your body here's a feature that tom put in so much on purpose was that the clips
see this there's no clip here the clips exist where they're not touching you so you don't
ever have a hard clip on your body and that never occurred to me as problematic when i
used to wear fanny packs but now that he's got it like this i i gotta say i really like it
uh i also like these long tabs i end up kind of adjusting it as i go um
per a classic toms bag got the little ceramic nodules around the zipper pulls
double zipper so yep keep my wallet in there um so i was when i was traveling around the
country yeah i kept my passport in there uh here let's dump this out let's see what we got here
what do we got all right we've got oh a broken spoon so i don't need that we've got a flashlight
i believe this is my apollo replica built by ryan nagata but
no this isn't this is uh luna replicas um we got a tom sacks four color pen nope
yeah space program logo on there yeah a couple of my pencils uh car holder for my phone
i can't tell you how important it is that this is always on me i swear i swear i have pulled this
out in random cars with friends etc not obviously since covet i'm not getting into a lot of random
cars but frankly just having one of these in my laptop bag all the time super mission critical
um let's see what else we got we've got um some spare change
i'll just put that in the jar and keep on hoarding it that's the other part of the spoon
another flashlight this one's got uh three modes blinky mode and it's got a magnet
um in this end so that it can stick to stuff which is awesome why two flashlights that's
just the kind of guy i am um an assortment of some business cards and hotel room keys
one more penny so inside inside there is a pen holder on the on the far left there um and it
houses is it a chopstick sharpie no i got one i'll have to put it in there uh so that's the
pen holder and this is the notebook holder over here i find it just a little bit too tight for the
notebook that's why while i was traveling around the country i put my passport in there um yep and
then uh yeah i always have some flashlights on me that's an excellent thing that oh oh oh this
uh a lamy fountain pen uh i was recently doing some pen research because i'm a little bit pen
obsessive and i came across this article that said uh this uh uh lammy lamy lamy lamy l-a-m-y i'll
include a link uh this lamy fountain pen is the best mountain pen and i thought oh i'd like the
best fountain pen uh and it's only like i don't know it's like 20 bucks it's not that expensive
yeah uh and i will say that its line is delightful i really i really like its line it's
it's a it's very very soft touch which is quite nice so i've been keeping that in there um
let's talk about improvements let's talk about a couple things that i would add um
i've been meaning to add a uh a so when i'm opening and closing it i want something to
pull against so i want to put a ring in here and here but when i put metal um
keychain rings they they dinged against this and i was like a cow with a bell like ding
ding ding ding ding ding constantly was driving me crazy um so i might put a plastic ring in
there i think that's my only improvement i think that's it this is dyneema which means you could
just toss it in the wash it'll come out bright as day brand new looking that's fabulous and yeah um
look mostly the reason that i'm wearing this i i gave the whole jacket explanation earlier
but frankly it's covered brain it's covered brain it is the fact that as i as i move through my day
i can easily become unmoored by not having what i need around me and because we're in the middle
of this sort of grind where it's just every day is the same and we're not going out at night and
we're not like differentiating our weeks and it's time dilation is really weird
uh it's really even more important to me that the systems i put in place to move through the world
efficiently are uh are serving me correctly and this this hip pack which also i like that it's
got this boxy look to it it's not trying to be something that's like physically conforming to me
and all i can think of is that shot from the wonder woman trailer in which
chris fine looks just so intensely ridiculous with those parachute pants and fanny pack and
yeah i recognize some of you may feel like this is just a fashion no-no
and i'm comfortable with that thank you guys for joining me for this long-ass show and tell um
the fanny pack you wanted to know about thanks and i will see you next time thank you so much
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