hi hi everybody adam here in my cave uh and i am answering some questions today answering a
question uh about mythbusters uh these questions have been did i barely say that word mythbusters
i am answering questions about mythbusters about my time uh as a host and producer of
our beloved show and uh these questions have been submitted by tested patrons if you'd like
to know how to become a tested patron click in the comments below um this one comes from with
that that's the username w-h-t-h-a-t what's that okay with that wants to know
are there people you wish had been guest stars on mythbusters what myth would you want to
tackle with them so many myths so many people we wanted to test myths um we wanted jamie lee curtis
on the show early in the show's tenure jamie lee curtis went on oprah and said mythbusters was the
greatest show on television uh yeah we we uh jamie and chris became friends they're incredibly sweet
human beings um and they were yeah the family was obsessed with the show it was delightful
um and we we tried jamie wanted to come on the show we wanted to bring her on the show
unfortunately it just it never matched it never worked we were never able to find the right story
and the right timing and just it didn't work out um another one that i really would have loved is
well so uh somewhere around 2011 12 13 somewhere around there i'm walking through the san diego
comic-con hard rock cafe party the big party at the end of the con and somebody grabs my
elbow and it's elijah wood and i don't know elijah we have many mutual friends
uh both in new zealand and in hollywood and elijah buttonholes me and says dude i am such
a fan of the show and i know that it is not within the structure of your show to do this i know you
don't bring on stunt guests but man i would love to come on and be a stunt guest and i was like
oh we got to find a way to bring elijah on the show and we we never did um look the number of
secret makers in hollywood is delightful uh and you know they find me right uh
so it's like there was no end to people that i would meet that would tell me about like
you know i'd meet them at an industry party and they would tell me about the renovation
they were doing or the model making that they did or the pottery etc uh and i mean it would
have been amazing to to be able to bring a roster of incredible people through the show but again
you know the production cycle was the production cycle on mythbusters was fairly brutal you know as
i've said 42 weeks a year uh very few breaks um so it's really sort of like trying to grasp bringing
someone on the show was like leaning out of a moving train and grabbing someone by the hand and
yanked them on board sometimes it worked we had ricky j on the show my freaking hero ricky j came
on and like did a showdown with me with playing cards that was like my wildest dream come true
seriously um yeah seriously i saw ricky j perform at the international jugglers convention
in 1982 83 um yeah in sunni purchase new york and i watched him throw playing cards
into a watermelon and watch him cut cigarettes out of people's mouths
and then when we started mythbusters when we did killer playing card of death and we had ricky j's
seminal work on the subject cards as weapons i called him up uh i got his number through
some mutual friends and i called him up and i was like you want to come and do
cards weapons on the show and he was like i can't believe i'm agreeing to this but sure
it was a good day it was a good day um i don't have many others that we tried to get on and
couldn't i think that's a yeah this is a short one thank you guys and with that thank you for
the awesome question thank you guys for the mythbuster questions keep submitting them
and i'll keep answering them i feel like that one might be too short but all right see you next time