look at my shot behind me it looks great hey everybody adam savage here in my cave uh taking
questions from tested patrons specifically on the subject of mythbusters and answering them in this
forum here in my shop uh today's question comes from ktsn ironman gaming ironman gaming wants
to know if you could say anything to the people who watched mythbusters as kids what would it be
i i apologize if you burn down anything that you or your family really cared about
hopefully that never happened to anyone but if it did we're sorry
what's funny when i talk to mythbuster fans is there seems to be this split about
80 percent of fans realize that we worked really hard to do things in the safest way
possible while still like having some fun and you know raising the stakes about 20 of the people
thought that we were total daredevil adrenaline junkies and that is completely not the truth i
know you could make a list of things that i did over 13 years of my tenure on the show and they
would look like the list of somebody who was an adrenaline junkie but man i'll tell you
there's nothing more adrenaline inducing than falling or jumping but falling through the air
that that that'll like the one time i skydived skydove skydive the one time i tried skydiving
um was the only time i have ever had all of my adrenaline just dumped into my system like
like a halon like the terminator tulip everywhere all of the adrenaline all at once
and i know that that is an intoxicating experience for a lot of people i watch the wingsuit videos
those russian kids that run along the tops of buildings i i get that some people
chase that high but not me man i i get physically ill from it and the the the the story we did about
falling jumping into a dumpster that it always seems like a safe thing to do in the movies uh
we got trained by stuntman randy lamb and jumping off a 20-foot rooftop into a a bag an airbag
and it gets it's worse every single time you stand there at the edge looking at your feet
and you know that all you've got to do is do that and you'll fall 20 feet and it's like feet
go do it and it's the most amazing feeling where your body's like yeah no you literally you have
this physical sensation of resistance uh if you've ever bungee jumped twice in a day you know
exactly what i mean because bungee jumping gets worse every single time wow oh my god
that bobbing for apples bobbing bungee jumping for apples man um we did that from 100 foot 100 foot
above a pool above the uh was it that public pool in oakland we did that at it might have been um
100 feet above a pool and a gondola and i lasted two jumps and i literally couldn't do another one
and i remembered on the second jump i got out i i did the first jump went fine got out did
piece of camera uh got rigged up again went back up in the gondola got up to the second and were
like okay uh adam's okay walkie-talkie squeaks adam go do the jump so i get to the edge and
the guy we the bungee jumping expert i think it was one of the dudes that invented bungee jumping
was there and his job was to hold on to the back of my uh harness and hang me out over the abyss
and then let me go and this was so that i imparted no bias to my fall and the falls were
all consistent but i get out there i put my feet over the edge of the gondola and i turn to him and
i go whoa this feels way worse than last time and he went yep every time it's worse than the last
and i was like seriously and he's like yeah and i'm like i'm gonna need a minute he goes every
second you take will make it worse and i was like what okay let's do this and we did it and i like
that was it i couldn't do another one jamie to his great credit lasted for six jumps
was it eight it was either six jumps or it was eight jumps but at the end of those
jumps he said something that i had never heard jamie say before which was can we be done now
uh yeah so that's another thing i would like to tell people who grew up watching mythbusters
we are not action hero adrenaline junkies
none of us carry tory grant jamie i scottie jesse everybody nobody none of us were were
none of us courted danger in any kind of reckless way
that's really the specific thing i want to say um but if you did inspired by us and
your parents had to deal with the aftermath will you tell your parents that i apologize
thank you guys i love these questions uh tested patrons keep submitting them
and i'll keep answering them in this forum and i'll see you guys next time