chris bruin asks aside from the aztec death whistles you made for ghostbusters afterlife
it seems as though you've essentially retired from production prop model building is there a
director or project that you could see yourself coming out of retirement to work on that's a
question i'm thinking about presently um i have taken a job for hire here in the cave
i'm making a thing for a client and i'll be able to talk about it eventually um but it is
to be perfectly fair the first work for hire that i have done is since
the early aughts since 2004. i think um i don't think of myself as retired i'm just addicted to
this channel making these videos working here in the shop and if i was going to look i mean jason
reitman and i talked about bigger swings for me in building props for afterlife but the issue is
is that um if i was going to build a bigger prop like a ghost trap let's say or even a proton pack
which was the first thing that i thought of because i'm i'm nuts um you don't just build a
prop for a movie for every prop that's in a movie you need a hero version and a background version
and a stunt version and one for each character uh they have electronics those electronics need
to be serviced they will break uh i i you know i hear bill murray likes to take his props off
as he's walking around the set someone needs to chase him around and put them all back together
that's not the kind of service i was going to be able to offer jason at all i was going to build a
prop and be able to deliver it to the set and that for that the aztec death whistle worked perfectly
but would i come out of retirement to to to work on props for a film yeah totally totally um
i do that for jason i do that for peter jackson i do that for guillermo i mean you know i i i'm not
to me it's just another opportunity to play with somebody that i admire uh and to
stretch my creative muscles um so yeah uh send me in coach i'm totally down with that i don't
mind the idea of working for hire uh and also you know covering it here on the channel and telling
more stories about it but the idea of taking on work for hire had not occurred to me in almost 20
years until this client reached out and said hey uh would you build one of these things for me and
i named the prize and they said yeah and we're moving forward with it yeah it's very strange
um i about a week into this project i was like what is this strange feeling oh it's work stress
right from having a client that i want to make happy right that is that's a there is a that's
a bit of stress which is just a natural part of the working world but it's one that i hadn't
experienced in a long time i've experienced plenty of other stressors in having television
shows and doing stage shows and youtube channels and all that stuff there's plenty of things to
get stressed out about but like there's a unique stress to having to make something for a client
that's museum quality that they're going to approve that you want to make them happy
yeah it's a nice mindset to go back to i mean you know i've been a freelancer for my whole
adult life um we got time for one more all right uh let's see here clinton anderson
it's not a question but a comment and yet i have an answer clinton anderson says if international
travel was a thing again adam would make an excellent contestant on the uk comedy game show
task master please don't mistake it with the american one he says which was awful
he'd also make a fantastic guest on qi while he was over there okay so let me talk to you
for just a second about taskmaster and qi first of all don't you think that john hodgman and i should
host qi here in the united states don't you think we should boot it here in the united states with
john hodgman and i as hosts right right i don't care who is the stephen fry who's the other guy
i don't doesn't matter to me how we break it down i just think that would be a really fun show for
us to do together so and i love q i love love that show great show taskmaster yes yes again send me
in coach i would do that show in heartbeat i would love to it's a great show yeah um
thank you clinton i agree with you i think not only that i might make an excellent contestant
but i think i'd have a lot of fun and that sounds really good uh okay let's see here i think that
was a quick one so i want to get someone's asking me about june versions that have been out so far
look i've only seen the lynch version of the villanova version i did not
watch the television show but i think it's clear how i feel about that um
so emily christensen says my excalibur moment oh sweet um emily is referring to me like going
to see excalibur when i was 14 and how much it started kick-started my my love of armor and
lusty nighttails um she says my excalibur moment was the first iron man film in 08. 10 year old me
immediately ran home and made a suit of armor out of corrugated cardboard and paper paren's
ouch yeah armor bites are a real thing it had a huge impact on my educational prospects as well
pursuing mathematics computer science data science and the imagery of a cool nerd still inspires me
now as a master's student that is freaking awesome emily um she wants to know are there any movies
or tv shows that you think had a major impact on fledgling scientists engineers makers that perhaps
don't get the credit they are due beekman's world absolutely but i do i think we're i think
i think we're all talking about many of the main ones i think that there are places
in which people find inspiration like i know that the first short circuit movie
had a huge effect on a whole bunch of like i've talked to so many engineers for which
that was like a really important early movie um i've also talked to some uh indian
engineers who were like amazed to see an indian character in a film and only realized
learned later in life that that was fisher stevens not an actual indian actor um i was
now i'm trying to like i'm not sure i have an answer to this obviously
you know i do autograph lines at the cons and people come up and
they talk about mythbusters but we're talking about mythbusters right um
this is i think this is a deeper question that i really want to think about emily because it is
a good one um and specifically covering tell you what for me one of the earliest things that got my
juices flowing as a maker as a designer as a thinker uh was wild wild west with
robert conrad um the not the film with will smith the tv show that was on in the
60s and the 70s there's an aspect of that show that broke the that made fun of itself
and broke the fourth wall in a way that i got even as a kid like i understood that they were
doing that um there was also a way in which that show incorporated technology in a way
that was really nifty and inspiring to me like it's like the central narrative
of wild wild west is that clever people will eventually win right that's a great narrative
it's not necessarily true but it's a great narrative and it's it's thrilling um get smart
yeah the opening sequence of get smart with all the doors opening and closing dude every
single one of my lego constructions throughout my entire childhood had multiple doors and they were
all inspired by get smart mission impossible the original mission impossibles i'm naming all these
things from the 60s and the 70s because that's when i grew up when it come i'll tell you what
uh we're going to cut these questions apart and put them up on youtube if you're watching this
on youtube i'd love to hear in the comments what inspired you into engineering or science or just
into something you didn't expect um because like i'm of a time when back to the future is actually
a little young for me i was a little old for that movie when it first came out um and you know we're
all part of the cultural wave we're part of it some things get past us so my knowledge of things
after the mid 80s is pretty limited and i'd love to hear uh your guys take on it i think
that's a great place to wrap it up tested patrons your questions remain thrilling to answer thank
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thanksgiving happy indigenous peoples day happy holidays i hope that the time with your family is
healing and generative i sent you big hugs from here in my cave and i'll see you guys next time