hey everybody adam savage here and i am surrounded by mythbuster props for an
excellent reason let me explain uh the props behind me have spent the last 10
years traveling around the united states as part of a groundbreaking traveling science exhibition
called mythbusters the explosive exhibition i'm exceedingly proud of what we built uh
and i hope you got a chance to see it because it is no longer happening but don't be sad
because now it is your chance to own a piece of mythbusters history all of these props have been
gathered here in southern california where they are about to be auctioned off through prop store
to benefit the grant yamahara steam foundation and i am highlighting some of the pieces and
i have here what looked just like a couple of bottles of liquor which they actually are i
believe this is some kind of beer and this is some kind of wine but on mythbusters we
were never actually allowed to show any brands which my crew will tell you drove me bananas
understand we're a reality show we have like the legal ability to show that there are brands in
the world it's just that there's also this thing called late stage capitalism which everything has
to be monetized so every time you showed a brand you want to extract money from the person who's
brand you're showing therefore we're constantly having to cover over brands now that doesn't
sound in and of itself like a problem until you have let's say chemical cabinets full of rubbing
alcohol and acetone and naphtha and somebody's taken black tape and put it over all the labels
and then you don't know what's in there you go to peel off the black tape and see i'm getting
freshly mad again it doesn't matter however the reason i'm explaining this is to say when we had
advanced notice that we would have products in the frame we would often use that opportunity
to make our own fake labels so we didn't have to worry um one story from the very beginning
of mythbusters because they used to get very upset whenever we would show a product and
then they'd have to blur it and they would literally send me an email explaining how
many dollars it costs to blur something frame by frame and so at one point we're on this location
and we're talking to this old dude and he says by the way i have the largest collection of oil cans
in history and he had this like abandoned gas station and this room full of hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds of oil cans from the history of oil cans like from the like 1890s and
so i walked in there and this room is just it's nothing but product labels everywhere and so i
said this man has the largest collection of blurs in history in fact this blur is over 100 years old
they did blurt out and they didn't complain to me about it so i guess they got the joke okay so we
would often make our own labels and mythbuster wine and mythbusters beer are two terrific
examples this is a label that is a great example of my graphic design because i love one font and
it's futura extra bold you can see that it's your turn extra bold um it says warning this behavior
may lead to excessive behavior dangerous stunts please drink responsibly yeah there's my joke
and then here is a circle with a line going through it of a guy lying in the gutter drunk
with the bottle spilling out um that's jamie and the reason that's jamie is because we were filming
a sobriety test episode wow i'm trying to remember what the actual myth was i just
remember specifically that we had to get oh it was blind driving that's it the myth is that if you
the myth is that a blind person could drive a car if someone in the back seat was giving them
directions right and the specific telling of the myth is that a guy went to a party
and got super drunk and he couldn't drive himself home so he got his best friend to drive him home
the wrinkle was his best friend was blind so we wanted to test that jamie and i spent some time
putting on blindfolds driving in a closed course giving each other directions we did okay at that
then we had an actual blind guy who was willing to get behind the wheel super awesome and we got
in the back and gave him instructions and found actually the blind guy was a better driver than
either jamie or i and here's why the blind guy grabbed onto the wheel and we would say okay
step on the accelerator start to move he's moving and then we say turn left and he just does this
taylor turn right he just does this with with me if you tell me to turn left i'm still thinking
about the road i saw when i closed my eyes i have all this bias about where we are and
what a straight line is and i'm trying to adjust a little bit the blind guy wasn't doing any of that
so he was a much better driver than us so we got out to a location we called zombietown which was
this abandoned military base down near monterey and we got the blind guy we got a car we're on
closed course and it's time to get jamie drunk per the original telling of the myth and jamie says
well can i have some maker's mark and we're like absolutely you can have some maker's mark and he's
like great and then he's like he's got his makers mark and he's like you guys mind if i drink get
drunk in the gutter i think that's kind of funny and we're like jamie if you want to lie down in
the gutter and get drunk we agree with you that is freaking hilarious and then jamie purr this
picture laid down in the gutter and drank himself enough makers mark to get drunk it's one of the
greatest things i have ever seen then he stood up and he's doing sobriety tests with the cops
such a fantastic day um so that's the story behind this label this was designed by our mythbusters
very own katie winchester uh a genius of graphics in mythbusters headquarters in sydney australia
she was not part of a regular crew in the united states but she was absolutely part of our regular
crew in the united states we relied so much on her amazing graphical talent and all of the graphical
artists at beyond um one of the great things about our last season is we had this small budget
surplus and if you'll notice the final season of mythbusters has better graphics than any of
the other seasons it's because katie got to spend an extra week for every episode just going in and
layering in the arrows and the measurements and the graphics and other little things to tell the
story much better and every now and then we asked her graphical talents to be used in the course of
making a label so she made some mythbusters beer here with me and jamie there's some wheat there's
some explosives um and let's see what does it say on the back i haven't read it a savage beer
brewed using traditional heinemann technology dating back to the american civil war its strong
subtle and strangely hair suit and garners further flavor from the surprisingly long aging process
used in its manufacturer i've never read that paragraph that's hilarious use responsibly i
ask the same thing of you should you bid upon and win these beautiful items you'll get a couple of
genuine pieces of mythbusters history uh the url is propstore.com mythbusters again all proceeds
from this auction go to benefit the grant yamahara steam foundation and i exhort you
to drink responsibly that was hilarious i had no idea all that was on the back