hey guys it's norm and captain Adam ish Adam we need time zone train what's what's going on here
we have not traveled back in time I'm wearing my latest acquisition on my latest costume okay this
is something that I've been thinking about for a long time I love the movie Master and Commander
far side of the world far side of the world I loved what Peter Weir's film is amazing I saw
it when it came out I think I saw it twice when it came out there's a funny early Mythbusters story
about it which was one of the first stories we did back in 2003 was called the brown note and it was
is there a frequency of a sound that can cause you to lose control of your bowels now we tested this
with a great company of an East Bay Meyer sound they built some of the best speaker stacks in the
entire world and John Mayer and his technician Roger Schwenke who's a doctor of acoustics has
been a an honorary mythbuster for years he's been on a bunch of our shows on that show we actually
brought out 30,000 watts of subwoofers that's how that's how low you get as a play lady played the
the the tone I think it's 19 Hertz at that at the highest volume we can gather which is very intense
like you feel like you're something vibrating and everything but John Mayer was really intrigued he
had never heard that many of the his subwoofers in one place at one time so he apparently rejiggered
the the sound system of their demo theater at Meyer Sound to accommodate a bunch more sub woofer
okay and so the next time we did a story with them we showed up and he said hey I want to play
you something we've got this new theater which is acoustically isolated from the building the whole
thing's like wood and on rubber bumpers and they put all these subwoofers in and he was talking to
us about different media formats and how the s-vhs was the format with the highest quality audio so
they had bought a copy of Master and Commander at this high quality Auto and they played it for
us in the New Year just the first 10 minutes the Cannonball awesome yeah and I swear you could feel
you felt like cannonballs were hitting your it was completely intense anyway I loved the movie and I
again I never know where inspiration is going to strike but I decided I really want Russell
Crowe's costume Jack Aubrey yes and there's - yeah lucky Jack there's two costumes he worse
there's a formal military uniform and then there's his wearing around everyday uniform I wanted his
wear around everyday captain's uniform so that went through several stages I found that the one
of the original costumes had been auctioned so I had some really great pictures from the auction
site of all of the garments and laid out and flattened which is like the best reference you
could get is that what you find typically that options when props are auctioned the library
so tow grafts are up there it's one of the first places I look and oftentimes the photographs that
they print aren't the highest resolution so I'll buy catalogs and estimates and put them into my
database and then I found this this seamstress costumer who works from the movies her name is
Hannah Cattell and we correspondent and I gave her the Commission to make me this costume so
what she did was she made me the breeches and the vest and the coat the shirt is actually one of my
old Jack Sparrow shirts the boots I bought on a website she actually weathered them I should have
white socks but I didn't have like knee socks and she just did a magnificent magnificent job I even
asked for it to be as if it was to be delivered for the film so she went so far as to age and
whether the buttons and the braiding and looks like someone spilled coffee on it yeah rubbing
around and someone's been sweating in this for years you know that's the way it looks she just
did a truly stunning job so then there became the sword belt there are plenty of this kind of
sword belt on eBay purchases on eBay and then there was the sword yeah now there's a lot of
information on the sword in the film that they went with this anchor motif it's very specific
to the film something Peter Weir liked but I was lucky enough to actually find that there's a civil
war-era military adviser who does work for films who had vies the production on the weaponry that
they used in the film and I found this great description of the handled of the sword that
he had made with a bone handle he had them made in India and I managed to find his email and I wrote
to him and I asked him about details on the sword and it turned out that he had one he produced ten
for the movie and I believe that those were all given to production he produced another run of ten
or I'm not even sure if it was Tennant he produced another run again these were all ordered from the
same place in India so this is for all intense purposes exactly the sword from the movie and he
sold it to me and it was it was a lovely it was a lovely deal and I could not I've almost never come
across that level of veracity in searching out a piece of a costume to find the guy and to find
that he still had a piece from the film well it's very difficult it's custom-made for the movies
yeah other than if you want to actually make it yourself right there's no way I would never
have got so it really finishes off the costume I think I see Russell wearing a watch chain in
the film I have a pocket watch coming from ebay now to finish this off but why why do I know what
that we're gonna do a see fragment on the show and then you'll have no II do I will be wearing this
for the entire run of that story I will I will be perfectly outfitted I have the chapeau bra the
captain's hat you'd look at it and think it's a Napoleonic hat Napoleon wore it sideways actually
the British captains were wearing them forward and that's the way mine's fitted and I also sent
that to Hannah and she has aged and weathered that for me as well right now it happens to be in Las
Vegas it's a long story awesome Adam and it looks great and will sit on TV sometime soon absolutely
so someday I guess I realized when I when I finally got this and I realized I had all these
pieces and it worked so well it fits so well that I will someday have to do a museum show of all my
costumes I think I've got like 25 now I've got to do something where I set them all up and you
can see for every occasion Reve literally covering your every occasion perfect thank you so much well
that's another edition from man cave and with more on test com see you guys next time bye guys you