boots tool tips it would seem to be natural to talk about boots and yet i have not talked
about boots i don't i wear work boots every single day of my life i i have worn sneakers
you've seen me wear sneakers here in the cave if you if you notice me wearing sneakers the
reason is because it's really warm we had some hot days this summer and uh uh yeah
i wore sneakers for a few weeks because it was just really ridiculously hot in in san francisco
but in general work boots are my daily wear and i said i don't have much to say about work boots
i i don't have a lot of cross comparison way back when mythbusters started i bought a pair
of doc martens and they're beautiful they make gorgeous boots um but the steel-toed doc martens
that i bought were so heavy i noticed that i was unwilling to walk like across jamie's shop
to go get something and so all of a sudden i was the first order retrievability failure
right like i didn't want to go get something because my legs were tired and that's when i
was talking to one of the crew members and they said uh boy yeah you don't know about blondies
blunties blooneys bluntstone blooney's turned out to be bloonstone an australian shoe company
and they said oh bloody's the best night i know it's a terrible australian accent it's been a
while since i've been working on mine apologies to all my friends down in oz and other parts
but uh that very first season i think claire mandel ordered me a pair of blonde stone steel
toad boots from australia and to say i wore the crap out of them would be um
an understatement i went through i think eight pairs in 12 years i was hard on my boots
i was hard on my boots um unless you think that that might be a a a a mark that they're not
super durable boots just realize i was making myth busters so i was operating in temperatures
from 140 118 degrees fahrenheit and 40 degrees below zero i was uh uh walking on hot steel at
dirty places on a daily basis i was abusing these boots uh and at the time it came to repeat to
retire each pair of boots it was super clear why and in order to illustrate this i'm going to show
you my last pair of bloodstones from making mythbusters um actually yeah let me uh let
me set up my shot for the record for the record i am still wearing blunties on a daily basis i wear
the non-steel toed version uh i have two active pairs of these right now that i switch between um
they are super lightweight and just beautiful and i love the way they look with almost everything i
wear uh i believe i've worn bloodstones on the red carpet yeah i think that's happened um but
i wanted to show you what my last pair of blunties for mythbusters looked like there you go
here's what i love about bloodstones they are waterproof to the top of the wedding okay
webbing okay maybe not waterproof i'm not a company spokesman at all they haven't asked me to
say this i'm just singing their praises because i love their product in my experience they are
relatively waterproof up to the top of the webbing so i just walked through everything with impunity
um as i use these on mythbusters every single pair i wore over the years ended up with this
the steel toe peeking through and this is a marker of how much time i spent crawling
around doing the stuff that i was doing on the show these this was often the failure point this
is often where the waterproof aspect disappeared and as soon as the boots were no longer waterproof
i got rid of them sorry i didn't get rid of them i would just upgrade to a new pair
these also had a spectacular failure mode we were filming up in the eastern high desert of oregon
yes we were in oregon i'm trying to remember um we were shooting tanker car implosion and
it was like a hundred and fifteen hundred and ten degrees fahrenheit it was oh so so brutal and i'd
been spending all day walking on steel that was so hot it effectively destroyed the bottom of
these boots they're still i don't know maybe i was walking on some terrible chemicals too but
the whole soul of these imploded and collapsed um this is not a common failure mode for me you
oh wow it's still just losing material um like i said most common the most common reason i would
upgrade my boots every couple of years was because the toe would wear through and it would lose its
waterproof aspect but you the thing i love about these and these are not the um heavy duty sole
steel toed boots i have some of those but if i had one little complaint it's that those are a little
heavy and these with the flat soles which are weirdly a little bit hard to find are the lightest
steel-toed boots i've ever used i don't know if they're the lightest in the world but they're the
lightest ones i've ever used um i love how easy they are to put on put your hand through there um
slip it on slip it off it's just the best and look i i i don't want to i don't want to bend
over and do my laces anymore i just i don't like tying shoes this is it's i i i that's my yogas
um so again i really appreciate the slip-on slip-off chelsea aspect of these boots yeah yeah
i if you know some steel toed boots that you find are really lightweight and easy to use i'd love to
know about them for right now blonde stones out of tasmania australia are my favorite it says
since 1870 they have every reason to be proud of these boots they served me well in my tenure as
a buster of meths thank you guys for joining me for this tool tip and i will see you next time