hey kids adam savage in my cave
i got a mirror behind me i've just been doing uh filming a costume test fit but right now i'm
answering some questions from tested patrons about my time on mythbusters and if you would like to
become a tested patron there is information on how to do that in the comments below one of the
bonuses is you get to ask me questions and i will answer them here jared hinder hinderer hinderer is
your last name what must have your neighbors what your ancestors neighbors may have come
up with that last name hinderer yeah let's call that guy hinderer he's always getting in my way
there's a great book called english called mother tongue english and how it got that
way by bill bryson it's totally worth reading one of my favorite parts about it is they talk about
last names surnames uh and that one was surnames were not super common until we started trying to
take censuses of how many people were in a given area and then once you started counting people
you really needed to be able to separate john over here from john over there from john over
here so this john the blacksmith would be john smith this john the farrier would be john the
horseshoe dude and this john would be john the thief because he lived far away from town and he
didn't get a say in what his surname was this is like definitely like there are some real insults
that that ended up becoming last names but jared hinderer i do not mean to denigrate your ancestors
you have asked an excellent question and here it is uh throughout the show
there are a lot of vehicle myths and you and all the other presenters seem to have a decent grasp
of stunt driving and car control did you ever take lessons in stunt driving in a formal setting or
did did it come down to on-the-job training from the professional drivers on set um i'm gonna say
both are true because what we did each time we had a vehicle myth
we would bring in an expert to help us understand how to execute that those
vehicle maneuvers whether it was uh uh uh uh conrad grindwald uh teaching me how to drift or
george sack teaching me how to uh how to turn the speed bus oh man yeah um
so uh our our main safety consultant through the entire run of mythbusters is nick pliche a
third-generation hollywood stunt man nick and his wife angie have a business in which they do risk
assessment for television shows and they are the freaking best um i've worked with them on almost
every show i have ever made and the the process of working with them goes like this we come up with
a myth we want to do we build what we think are a reasonable set of safety protocols to conduct the
methodologies that we've come up with as safely as possible and then we show that to nick and angie
they always had suggestions about ways in which we could make it better make it safer and then
they would do all the talking to the insurance company for us and over the years what's funny is
the normal procedure on a show like ours is when the show becomes a hit they
the hosts become so valuable they stop letting them do the really weird crap um with us it was
the opposite is that the more popular the show got the weirder and greater our expertise became
and the more we got to do outlandish things so at the very beginning there's a standard
thing in a host's contract about the maximum speed they're allowed to drive a vehicle and
i think in the beginning days our contract said we couldn't drive a vehicle past 70 miles an hour
on a closed track under controlled conditions by the end of the show we had managed to increase
that to 140 miles an hour on a closed track under controlled conditions um
the various stunt drivers that i trained with over the years were always unfailingly patient
uh very calm personalities stunt people in general
are very calm in affect in person yeah randy lamb zoe bell i mean i you know
it's funny because you think of a stunt person like they must be an adrenaline junkie but i
i don't think that's the case i don't think that the stunt person's uh raise on debt is to like
go for risk i think it's about living an adventure to be sure um so consequently
every lesson i've ever gotten from a stunt person whether it's jumping off a building or driving a
car or or whatever um has always been from the standpoint of like real centeredness and uh
calmness in the approach to this dangerous activity that's the total opposite of an
adrenaline junkie like there was you know no like just go for it man go for it like none of that um
it's funny of over all the stunt driving that we did and the stun the driving shows were always my
favorite from a producing standpoint you get the most bang for your buck you put cameras all over
the place you tell a big elaborate fun story that covers a wide distance from a personal standpoint
driving vehicles at speed under tactical conditions is an impossible amount of fun
uh fanging around with a miata with like you know tacks that i can release out of the back or
uh spinning a porsche out on a wet road bed dude if it looked like fun it was
whenever it was happening it was twice as much fun as it looked like um i have to say tactical
driving is one of the things that i miss most about the show on a purely physical fun level
yeah man the drifting episodes the drifting episodes are some of the most fun i have ever had
we've got we got to do some really outlandish crap um
yeah no i'm just thinking about cool stuff that happened in the past i think i have answered
your question thank you so much jared hinderer i apologize at the beginning if it seemed like i was
making fun of your name i was just fascinated by it um tested patrons keep submitting your
wonderful questions and i will continue to answer them stay safe you guys and i'll see you next time