Adam Savage's Favorite Mythbusters Episode

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/30/MythBuster_Adam_Savages_Colossal_Failures

MythBusters co-host Adam Savage discusses his current favorite episode "Swimming in Syrup," in which the Mythbusters tested to see if a person can swim just as fast in syrup as in water.

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The 4th annual Maker Faire Bay Area hosts MythBusters co-host Adam Savage. Savage talks about failure - unmitigated, colossal failures he's experienced during his career.

Following on President Obama's call to "begin again the work of remaking America," Maker Faire 2009 was organized around the theme of Re-Make America. Held in the San Francisco Bay Area, Maker Faire celebrates what President Obama called "the risk takers, the doers, and the makers of things."

Adam Savage has spent his life gathering skills that allow him to take what's in his brain and make it real. He's built everything from ancient Buddhas to futuristic weapons, from spaceships to dancing vegetables, from fine art sculptures to animated chocolate and just about anything else you can think of.

Since 1993, Adam has concentrated on the special-effects industry, honing his skills through more than 100 television commercials and a dozen feature films, including Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace and Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Galaxy Quest, Terminator 3, A.I. and the Matrix sequels. He's also designed props and sets for Coca-Cola, Hershey's, Lexus and a host of New York and San Francisco theater companies. Not only has he worked and consulted in the research and development division for toy companies and made several short films, but Adam has also acted in several films and commercials -- including a Charmin ad, in which he played Mr. Whipple's stock boy, and a Billy Joel music video, "Second Wind," in which he drowns.

Today, in addition to co-hosting Discovery Channel's MythBusters, Adam teaches advanced model making, most recently in the industrial design department at the San Francisco Academy of Art. Somehow he also finds time to devote to his own art. His sculptures have been showcased in over 40 shows in San Francisco, New York and Charleston, W.Va.

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[nitschke22]

Best job in the world!

[bennylikestosing]

wooo i loooooove mythbusters! and i loooooooove adam and i looooooooooove swimming in syrup! haha! :D

[ItsEasyIfYouThink]

Lol "expanding Earth theory" Rofl.

[JustThatGuyOnline]

@xXTurdSandwitchXx A moon landing conspirist calling other people little? That's rich.

[xXTurdSandwitchXx]

Honestly I really dont care about these little people

[FraggingBard]

@xXTurdSandwitchXx

Besides, you all have a vested interest. One half needs the government to have succeeded so it can stay in power, the other half needs it to be a conspiracy so they don't need to support the government anymore, pay taxes, whatever.

So no matter what they come up with if they test a myth, someone, somewhere is going to think they've sold out.

And yea, Discovery funds them. If they were funded by you, you have a say. 'shrugs'

[FraggingBard]

@xXTurdSandwitchXx

No, it's actually really difficult to test some things. For instance, explosives on the supports would cause a building to collapse in on itself. Funnily enough, so would melting a steel core if that core ran through the entire building. Testing things like that would require much more money.

To test the moon landing they would need a shuttle, quite a few highly trained people and a couple billion dollars since they're doing this once. Besides, more than likely

[GhostInTheShell29]

@xXTurdSandwitchXx Well I disagree with you there, on all those points. Other then being mainstream... discovery does pay their bills, and they have cancelled myths before to avoid losing add revenue, which i find annoying, but they do work for discovery not own it... so I put the blame on discovery.

[xXTurdSandwitchXx]

@GhostInTheShell29 Ya, they would only lie and support the official story anyways, like they did on the moon landing show. I think the story they should cover is HAARP but they'd probably lie about that too, after all they are mainstream shills.

[GhostInTheShell29]

@xXTurdSandwitchXx I remember theres a clip somewhere where adam specifically was asked when they were going to investigate 9/11. He said they had already talked about it and it was a project they'd like to do, but given the tight filming schedules budgets, trying to make a scale model of 2 100 story buildings and have the results be accurate, It most likely will never be done, and given the fact that while their show in science based, its not perfect and they get things wrong I hope they don't

[xxmdogxx1ify1]

@xXTurdSandwitchXx lol

[xXTurdSandwitchXx]

I wish the mythbusters would take on some real issues like 911 or expanding Earth hypothesis.