hey how's it going adam savage and i am here in my cave that was a little bright fan
oh that's better uh here in my cave answering mythbuster
questions submitted by tested patrons and this one comes from a familiar
sounding name keely cat's mom hello again wants to know was shooting the herding cat smith
as absolutely as absolutely ridiculous as it seemed jamie versus the floof made me cry laughing
yeah totally the herding cat story
was hilarious to film it was one weird bizarro thing after another
it begins with just learning how to herd animals so we got lessons in how to herd
animals and what's really fun is when you wanna herd animals you start with ducks because they
exhibit herding behavior and they're much easier to deal with than large sheep or pigs or cows
so you learn the philosophy you learn the mental gymnastics of herding on ducks
what could be more fun that was an amazing day jamie and i each getting lessons and herding
it was great uh and then we were filming out at the where were we at the alameda fairgrounds
at the alameda county fairgrounds i think that was the place we were filming this is the same
location we shot i think event solis my producer found this location uh and we used it for several
stories we also used it for the grocery store episode ooh i may have said this before but do you
know who from the general public showed up to be a volunteer on the day of our grocery store episode
and was one of our extras that day simone hatch yeah she told me after we uh we'd known each
other like a year before she revealed that fact to me that she has a picture with me and jamie
from that day i didn't know that a couple years later she'd become one of my closest friends
you never know life is weird but back to herding cats yeah man herding cats is not possible cats
are evolutionarily resistant to herding in fact their response to stimuli is almost the opposite
of what a herding animal's response to stimuli would be like a herding animal is like let me
stay away from this thing that i don't understand and cats are like you know they they they make
their shoulders big they stick their ass up and they make that sound that they only make
that that emergency sound that cats have it's like astounding it's like they're the hong kong
foo event they're about to change into something totally different yeah i know it's a deep cut um
did we cover in the episode that one of the cats got stuck in the walls i think we did i think we
did um the cat wranglers who spent the night with it because we shot over two days the cat wranglers
actually spent the night in the space with the cats to keep them happy and comfortable which was
amazing the cat volunteers were fantastic they were terrific unfortunately the next day when
we woke up when we all showed up on set it turned out that one of the cats had crawled into the wall
and gotten stuck in the wall and we literally had to tear out the wall to get this cat back
but we got to try herding cats i mean of all the most i don't know this that one
stands out for me as one of the more ridiculous things we ever did and i'm super glad we did
it like there is a place in the world to test that phrase and it was it was on us and we achieved it
i'm really really pleased with that um no one wants to herd cats no one needs to herd cats
just in the same way that no one needs to make a lead balloon but but we tried it
and i think we showed definitively that it is way against plausibility
way against plausibility there you go that's my new version of busted
uh keely kat's mom thank you for that awesome question
tested patrons keep submitting your questions and i will keep answering them
it's been really lovely all these mythbuster questions over the past few weeks
um it's been lovely revisiting this um and in particular frankly i must admit it's delightful
to talk about some of the inside baseball which i wouldn't have shared before uh you know close
to the production time i mean there's just things you hold back sometimes that you can reveal years
later i'm not going to tell you which things no you got to figure it out yourself but i do feel
like a little bit more freedom these days to talk about it and not like i'm going to talk crap about
anybody i'm you know just going to talk about some of the difficulties we had that we might not
have highlighted before that's all alright stay safe wear your masks i'll see you guys next time