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David Caruso's First Movie is Rambo:First Blood(1982) which was released as simply First Blood until it was release on VHS by which time the Sequel had been green lit. Jade was in 1995 during hyatis from NYPD Blue shooting schedule and he returned for season three. He quietly retired from acting early in 2017 and has not done anything in film, TV or entertainment as an actor. Though he has two secessful production companies, an art studio and is Co owner of a secessful restaurant.
Have you seen the recent video of the fact electrician and another YT channel confirming the scope shot "myth" about the famous Carlos Hathcock shot and actually doing it right and getting the results.
I really love how Adam continues to respect his kids’ privacy by referring to them as “Thing 1 & Thing 2.” I’m sure if they wanted publicity, they would seek it out. I know nothing more about them than that they exist and there are at least 2 of them. Protecting the privacy of others is an act of love.
@arvetis they also have cameo in tested. One of the things is the one wheeling adam around on trolley when he's in iron man suit, even steals his hat😅
someone will get this like an inside joke and find it amusing. I went to the same San Francisco hippie school as one of his kids. The building used to be a mortuary. The art room was where they did the autopsies and it still has the original sinks. There were lots of ghost stories and urban legend mythology when I was there including a poltergeist named "Otis" or "Otz" who haunts the elevator and traps kids who ride it without permission. that was a good one because the elevator often got stuck between floors. I wonder if the current students still have those urban legends.
I know Jamie and Adam do not consider each other friends, but they always talk about each other with a huge amount of respect and clearly knew each other pretty well. I always love that.
Less "We're not friends" and more "We've been boss-peon for so long, it's hard to shake that habit." Would you go out on the town with your boss when the shop is closed?
@@Skorpeonismyrealname No, Jamie was not the boss on MB. They had previously worked together but after MB said they would never work together again. Obviously it was a lot of stress on whatever relationship they had.
@@SkorpeonismyrealnameDepends entirely on the boss. Some I've been and remain friends with; some I am fine not. It's not weird to highly respect coworkers and not have a friend relationship with -- I'd say it's more the norm for me. Mythbusters only feels weird to us because we put assumptions on them via the screen.
This unlocked a memory for me. I remember spotting that in the background as a kid and being like "What...?" but then thinking "oh yeah, it's a movie prop"
for some reason your comment reminded me of xkcd 397, which talks about how important & far reaching the impact of mythbusters was in terms of getting people into science.
The show was massive in my personal life, and there was, and never will be, anything like it again. The unique chemistry and personalities behind it, the HONESTY and character that Adam and Jamie had going into it, it was just too important. It will never be replicated. I've seen the newer, more recent attempts to do the same thing, and the newer guys just don't have that spark at all. You could tell with Adam and Jamie that they were really invested in the concepts and ideas. They were genuine scientists in their approach. In contrast, you can tell when someone is phoning it in. I think it is an age/experience thing. Even though I wouldn't call either of them "Old" when the show started, I think they were old enough/mature enough, experienced enough and held the right mindset and natural inclination toward the scientific, that when given these challenges, they were genuinely excited to figure them out and it really, really showed. The newer guys were even younger, had no real chemistry, and didn't seem an eighth as passionate. Adam/Jamie Mythbusters was truly lightning in a bottle.
"I finally found a separation between that character and me, and there is very little separation..." - it's that kind of honesty that draws the audience into Mythbusters, and to Tested!
I imagine its very similar to most streamers or youtubers, what you see is (usually) their real personality, but its cranked to 11 and in this "always on" state (which is why many say that they feel exhausted after the camera turns off) so them in real life is much the same, but mellower and with less pressure to always be cracking a joke or making sure there isn't any dead air.
So that's why Jamie seemed to have no humor on the show. It's because the humor he _did_ have had to be censored for being too mortifying! That's my new headcanon.
I can just envision the SWAT team closing in on the flatbed and Jamie turning to Carol and asking in a deadpan tone, "Do you still think it doesn't look realistic enough?"
Thats most likely exactly the case. I have a very similar sense of humor and I have to censor it around nearly everyone except some very close friends, it just doesnt sit well with some people
You got hints of it, though. A lot of his best one liners are extremely dark jokes, and whenever there was a morbid topic on the show he was always the one manically grinning about it.
lol That movie GAVE ME arachnophobia 😞 Dunno how old I was when it came out (born 83), but I remember being at my friend's house and his dad was watching it... The spiders coming out of the sink drain, and I think the shower drain, are what did it for me. 😭 I have no idea if I went home midway, or asked if we could go do something else, or if I stayed and watched the rest... I just still remember that part terrifying me! heh
It is in the nature of kids of famous parents to not be particularly impressed by them as far as I can tell, but Adam also just seems like a good and present dad.
There’s a picture from the Grammys several years ago (maybe like 2010) of Tom Araya from Slayer with his wife and children on the red carpet. He’s hitting a pose, and his 13 or 14 year old daughter’s face is priceless - she was so embarrassed. You can be in Slayer, and your kids will think you’re a dork.
That's because the rest of us see their public persona, at distance and occasionally. Their wives and children see them every day, no makeup, no wardrobe, and unscripted. It tends to quickly erode the awe with which the rest of us regard that person and emphasize their underlying normalcy. A similar phenomenon exists in corporations and, especially, the uniformed services. One tends to regard high-ranking individuals with an awe that often gets in the way of clear thought. The advice of "Remember, he puts his pants on every morning, just like the rest of us." (or less printable versions) is very common - and good - advice when meeting a chairman, Chief, or general.
It helps that Adam is an engineer first, so apart from being kind of eccentric and high-energy he seems like he would be just a normal dad. Some people, when they get famous, that fame gets to their head and they get drunk on being the center of attention, but I really don't think Adam is that guy. I think he's just a dude who has a lot of big toys to play with and he likes sharing the fun with others, and that's a great father figure for kids to have, especially boys.
My favorite line from Jamie is in a sing-song way. "It's gonna go in the water." For whatever reason that line lives rent-free in my head and on occasion still makes me giggle depending on what is going on.
That thing reminded me of when the fire alarm rang in the middle of the night at Effets Spéciaux Twins F X (they were in the neighboring city). It was a false alarm but when the firemen broke-in, they immediately called the police to investigate the gruesome scene they had discovered... the guys specialized in horror movie props. Lets just say it scared the s*** out of some people and the local paper had a blast with this. 😂
The 'scary man's trip is similar to a flight to Canada I experienced. I was going on a backpack/climbing trip. I packed my helmet at one end of a haul sack, then backpack,then boots at the other end. Along side the pack a pair of trekking poles. It was stopped at the X-ray check because it looked, on X-ray, like a body.
Reminds me of when I was also stopped at airport security because I had one of those metal torches and a pair of hair straighteners which appeared to be a gun on the x-ray due to the arrangement in my bag
A housekeeper at my hotel wanted to call the cops once because she went into a room and thought there was a dead body between the beds. Turns out the workers who were staying in the room had just dropped their boots on the floor and the happened to land just right to look like a body lying on the floor. But, in fairness, it is a hotel and we have had people pass away while staying before so her alarm wasn't completely unjustified.
Watching yourself on camera sounds like working retail cash as someone who has social anxiety growing up. When I first started as a cashier I couldn't look at people, I mumbled a lot. After 3 months I could talk to people, after another 3 I could look them in the eye. After a couple years most of my anxiety disappeared. You just get used to it. It doesn't go away, but it becomes a lot more bearable.
That's so interesting! My problem with social anxiety is that for me, I can speak to people perfectly fine and perfectly clear. I'm a great conversationalist, and I'm quick and witty and I always know what to say. Like a social beast. But I'm anxious because I literally do not want to be social lol. I hate talking to people, I hate having to open my mouth and form words and communicate. I hate talking so much. Knowing I have to talk to people constantly in order to keep friends is so anxiety inducing. It's why I talk to nobody during the summer 😂 It's like "finally, my break is here!" and I don't talk to a soul for months, but they get the drill by now. Point is, I love how different social anxiety is for everybody. We all feel anxious sometimes when we speak around other people, but HOW we feel anxious is so different. Isn't that fascinating? I am so glad it got easier for you to handle, it can be really hard to work through that type of anxiety. Just know that strangers who didn't like you aren't gonna be thinking about you, and the people who like your company will think of you fondly. You really do get used to dealing with people!
having edited videos with my own voice in it before you hate hearing your own voice over time you just get tired of it but that more cause editing is boring
Maybe we recover from our parents, but in a lot of ways we also discover (often to our dismay) that we have become them. I realized I had become my father a few years ago, when I saw a print ad for one of those outdoor hot tubs. In the ad, it's set up on the deck behind a house on a snowy winter night, and a couple are enjoying some champagne surrounded by steam and soft lighting. Younger me would have seen that as _intensely_ aspirational, but middle-aged me who has become his father _instantly_ thought, "Oh God, their electric bill." :)
As a 30-something guy who doesn't have (nor want) kids, if I see an ad like that, my first thought would be "oh God, having to go mostly naked to the outside on a snowy night, even if it is to go to a hot tub, sounds like a nightmare" 😂(asyou might imagine, I don't like cold)
Ha! I am so sorry I missed those viewing parties, but I was recovering from a heart attack when Mythbusters debuted. I lived on a street in the neighborhood of your shop for many years, and waved to you while walking my dog. Good memories. Saw you once with the wife and kids at the Container Store, but kept my distance because everybody deserves their own space. My sense of life and humor is just about halfway between yours and Jaimie's, so the show almost always worked for me. The body cracked me up.
3:33 My dad was a pastor, in very small-town Iowa, so I got a taste of micro-celebrity, and this nails it. It is _really nice_ to be able to walk down the street and not get recognized by people you don't know!
Adam is so modest. Being the child of a Mythbuster, especially, one of the two main ones, is definitely not insignificant, no matter how you want to look at it.
Thank you, Adam. At 2:35, you take a moment, apologize, and reframe the perspective of your statement. This is something I have been practicing in order to be more in the present. Frustrating, but it is very encouraging to see someone such as yourself also dealing with the concern.
It may take a while because its mixed in with any number of his Q&A vids, but he's covered that before and the tl;dr is they generally just knew intuitively who should tackle what based on their personal interests and individual skills.
I know Adam and Jamie aren't best of friends (nor have ever been) but the fact he respects Jamie to this day and even called him an empathetic human being makes me smile, and the fact Jamie wanted that prop in the background to get something subversive into a mainstream TV show makes me giggle. Respect all around!
Mark Hamill, in an interview, said his son reacted to a school friend who said, "Must be great to have Luke Skywalker as a dad". His son replied, " Except whe tells you to do your homework".
It is generally a good idea to cover anything you are hauling a sizeable distance if you want to ensure it doesn't get damaged, and that would go double for something that might cause concern when seen out of context by the general public. I bet at least a few people called to report her driving around with a disfigured dead body in the back of that truck.
When I was a preteen in the early 1960's my brother was given a reel to reel tape recorder for his birthday. Hearing my own voice was weird. He wanted to grow up and become a professional baseball game broadcaster like the ones he heard on the radio of the Pittsburgh Pirates games.
I love how someone can bring up a random background prop from a very specific episode of Mythbusters & Adam can perfectly remember what it is, its history & even a funny anecdote about it
I didn't realize how much that creepy guy had stuck in my child brain till this video popped up in my feed. But _yeah_ , incredibly memorable visual for a science loving 7yo. I don't think i was particularly scared of it, but it was certainly fascinating, and looking back i definitely was unconsciously looking for him in the background going forward. I believe he's made more cameos than just season 2?
I remember Caruso on NYPD Blue because I rewatched it last year. I thought his character was only OK+ there, because he always had this smug know-it-all demure, with that Caruso-patented head-tilt at every suspect interview. But him leaving meant Jimmy Smits got his shot, and he really made that show A+ for me.
It’s his stool. He needs to get a new one 😂 happens in almost all his videos now. You shoulda heard one of his other videos! It sounded like a demon muttering or something. Scared the crap out of me.
I'm so glad you addressed the less than optimal experience of seeing/hearing yourself on a recording. I find it especially cringe worthy to see myself. I'll take it on hope and face value that I may overcome it. 👍
My son asked me the other day while I was watching reruns. "Do you think people need the mythbusters? Like, people seem to be getting dumber and maybe if the show was still running it could literally save lives." I asked what do you mean, he goes on about tide pods and trends etc. he convinced me. Then the next episode was hand dryers vs paper towels. 😔 Out loud I thought "seems like it".
I wanted to do prosthetic makeup effects, and I learned real quick, your sense of humor changes. Things that other people think are horrific become entirely too amusing... partially because you made it. You use a dismembered head as a paperweight. You toss a fake eye into the air repeatedly as you think. Then someone walks in and sees these things and screams. At first you're apologetic, but later you laugh over it. When I saw the show, I knew these guys were special effects artists. Anything weird in the background just became part of their workshop, either something left over or something they purposefully held onto because they found it amusing.
I want to commission both a Heinemann and a Savage orginal because I like both their creative sensitivities, and sense of humor. Best I've managed with prop fun was a poseable skeleton I used to leave in odd places. I had him sitting on the edge of my roof with a fishing rod once and was fun watching peoples reactions when they noticed him, but sadly he was stolen.
@@brolohalflemming7042 haha, me and my friends once found an old manekin which had been thrown out round the back of some stores ... we had about 6 months of fun putting it in stupid places, and it was always in the back of one of our cars, just in case.
I couldn't agree more about hearing your own voice, as someone who did all the audio editing for a podcast some friends and I were doing just for fun, it really is funny how you can separate your own (heard by yourself) voice from the voice you hear in your head as basically a different person. Hearing my own voice on any kind of recording just doesn't bother, after many hours of editing. It's just another audio file.
I'm glad to know on what movie that prop came from. I've always find it cool that there's a dead tortured guy behind when you and Jamie discuss things for a myth
Jade, along with Kiss of Death, was David Caruso's first post-NYPD Blue film (he was actually nominated for Razzies for both movies in 1995)...but he'd previously appeared in a number of films, including An Officer and a Gentleman, First Blood, Twins, and King of New York.
Oh yea, I always wondered about that guy too! It seemed so bizarrely out of place for the tone of Mythbusters and there was never an explanation - initially I assumed it was a "trophy" from a previous myth that either I missed on TV or was never aired (as most of the things in that room were) but the true origin is so much better! I do feel bad for the kids that were scared of him, though... If I'd seen that when I was a kid it would have scared the crap out of me too.
Funfact about at 0:48 one of the people who did these editing in the early seasons , streams on Twitch and plays Escape From Tarkov, hes an older gentleman that goes by the name ToastrackTV
I always wondered what that prop was about when I was a Teenager. I knew you guys worked in movie props and special effects but I never thought you'd leave a gruesome prop in the background.
@tested Adam, I love the stories you tell about Jamie in part because they're good... but also in part because of the joy you display when telling them. As someone who's got "no skin in the game", as nothing but a long time viewer, it honestly bothers me when people say/claim that you two didn't like each other. To me even from the days watching Mythbusters the fact that you two could argue as much as you did, neither wanting to give ground on what you thought was right, but seemingly acknowledged the others process as valid (even if you still disagreed which was BEST, and both wanted to PROVE it to the other) made it extremely clear to me that the mutual respect in your working relationship more than made up for any lack of buddy-buddy friendship.
There were 3 different versions of the show screened in Australia too. Was a highlights-type version as part of another show, the Discovery Channel one on Foxtel and SBS TV free to air that has the almost uncensored pig chain ammo shot. Also a lot more swearing (the Daily Show had this too)
I don't think I like the audio processing being applied to these videos. It creates weird artifacts like 2:483:274:566:18, and really the vocal sound is not that great. It might sound a bit richer and cleaner than the raw audio, but it also sounds wrong for the space in which Adam's sitting, and it also somehow makes the high end sound sort of tinny in a way.
Many years ago I released an album with a band I played with. Though it is absolutely the album i'm most proud of contributing to I do not own a physical copy of the thing and I never listen to it on Spotify. I don't know. It's just odd listening to my own performance however good I may feel about it.
The sound at 6:19 is so funny to me. I know it's the noise filter messing with the sound of a chair squeak or something, but it's so funny to me. Sounds like an old compressed video game sound effect. lol
Just for your own edification (and apologies if anyone else has pointed this out to you already!): the Japanese on your t-shirt is ever-so-slightly incorrect. I mean, it says "Tested" in the proper alphabet for a borrow-word from English, but it's not rendered in a standardized fashion, so it would be spoken a bit... curtly, I guess you'd say? if read as-is. Basically, what you have on the shirt now is テステド, which literally reads "tesutedo." But there should be a slight pause before the "do" at the end, which would be represented by the character ッ, in order to ensure the word is read the way any other past tense verb ending in "ed" would be. This would look like テステッド, and would be transliterated in English lettering as "tesuteddo" -- note the doubling of the "d" there. It's a very small omission, but when read as written, it really does make a difference in how natural the word sounds to a native speaker's ear, which is why virtually all past-tense verbs are rendered this way. You can sort of hear this difference if you type both into Google Translate and hit the speaker button, though the AI voice doesn't exactly do it justice. Anyway! Being the man of science you are, I figured you wouldn't mind this little bit of correction -- I hate being the "but ackshually" guy, but you're one of the few content creators I know of who I think would find getting "but ackshually"'d somewhat valuable, and might even take the feedback to heart. Always love your content, man!
John DeLancie would have watch parties at his house whenever one of his ST:TNG episodes aired. One of the frequent attendees was his good friend Kate Mulgrew and he would always tease her that maybe she would be on Star Trek one day. Little did she know… 😂
I was in charge of some clubs in high-school and had to give speeches a few times. Its so weird to watch yourself talk. I don't think I could ever get over that
3:28 and 6:18, the editors didn't use Adobe Ai voice enhance filter, did they?? As the filter adds artificial noises (its a glitch in the Ai software)😅
Talking about Jamie's sense of humor reminded me of the "Cannonball Chemistry" episode of Mythbusters. In one scene Jamie is standing over the SynDaver (if you don't know what it is, Google it) eating a sandwich.
Movie Pitch: Think campy slasher movie mixed with Saw. The old studio is getting cleared out and all the left over props are in the garbage, there's a huge storm. Buster gets struck by lightning and comes to life and seeks revenge on the Mythbusters for all the tests they did on him. He starts killing off the cast and crew with traps made by using famous memorable rigs from the show (sword rig, chicken canon, rocket car etc) until Jamie and Adam have a final showdown in the old studio
That's funny, I just did a search for Chicken Cannon, which was of course also a series 2 episode - somebody had just learned about the actual chicken gun used by NASA so I thought they'd get a kick out of the MB ep about it 😁
As a kid it totally scared me and I figured it was from a movie, now years later to find out I don’t really care about the movie but it scratched an itch in my brain
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David Caruso's First Movie is Rambo:First Blood(1982) which was released as simply First Blood until it was release on VHS by which time the Sequel had been green lit.
Jade was in 1995 during hyatis from NYPD Blue shooting schedule and he returned for season three.
He quietly retired from acting early in 2017 and has not done anything in film, TV or entertainment as an actor.
Though he has two secessful production companies, an art studio and is Co owner of a secessful restaurant.
I see Adam must have been to the Doctor
@@lasarith2
Why?
Have you seen the recent video of the fact electrician and another YT channel confirming the scope shot "myth" about the famous Carlos Hathcock shot and actually doing it right and getting the results.
I really love how Adam continues to respect his kids’ privacy by referring to them as “Thing 1 & Thing 2.” I’m sure if they wanted publicity, they would seek it out. I know nothing more about them than that they exist and there are at least 2 of them. Protecting the privacy of others is an act of love.
They did have cameos in some Stephen King books.
@@arvetis Also in John Carpenter's movie.
@arvetis they also have cameo in tested. One of the things is the one wheeling adam around on trolley when he's in iron man suit, even steals his hat😅
someone will get this like an inside joke and find it amusing. I went to the same San Francisco hippie school as one of his kids. The building used to be a mortuary. The art room was where they did the autopsies and it still has the original sinks. There were lots of ghost stories and urban legend mythology when I was there including a poltergeist named "Otis" or "Otz" who haunts the elevator and traps kids who ride it without permission. that was a good one because the elevator often got stuck between floors. I wonder if the current students still have those urban legends.
I love the concept of his children being dr. Seuss characters
I know Jamie and Adam do not consider each other friends, but they always talk about each other with a huge amount of respect and clearly knew each other pretty well. I always love that.
Less "We're not friends" and more "We've been boss-peon for so long, it's hard to shake that habit."
Would you go out on the town with your boss when the shop is closed?
@@Skorpeonismyrealname No, Jamie was not the boss on MB. They had previously worked together but after MB said they would never work together again. Obviously it was a lot of stress on whatever relationship they had.
@@ssl3546 not on mythbusters, no, but Adam used to work for Jamie
Reminds me of Siskel and Ebert
@@SkorpeonismyrealnameDepends entirely on the boss. Some I've been and remain friends with; some I am fine not.
It's not weird to highly respect coworkers and not have a friend relationship with -- I'd say it's more the norm for me. Mythbusters only feels weird to us because we put assumptions on them via the screen.
This unlocked a memory for me. I remember spotting that in the background as a kid and being like "What...?" but then thinking "oh yeah, it's a movie prop"
The show deserved its growing popularity over time. Probably the best show ever to communicate science and make it fun.
for some reason your comment reminded me of xkcd 397, which talks about how important & far reaching the impact of mythbusters was in terms of getting people into science.
The show was massive in my personal life, and there was, and never will be, anything like it again. The unique chemistry and personalities behind it, the HONESTY and character that Adam and Jamie had going into it, it was just too important. It will never be replicated.
I've seen the newer, more recent attempts to do the same thing, and the newer guys just don't have that spark at all. You could tell with Adam and Jamie that they were really invested in the concepts and ideas. They were genuine scientists in their approach. In contrast, you can tell when someone is phoning it in. I think it is an age/experience thing. Even though I wouldn't call either of them "Old" when the show started, I think they were old enough/mature enough, experienced enough and held the right mindset and natural inclination toward the scientific, that when given these challenges, they were genuinely excited to figure them out and it really, really showed.
The newer guys were even younger, had no real chemistry, and didn't seem an eighth as passionate.
Adam/Jamie Mythbusters was truly lightning in a bottle.
"I finally found a separation between that character and me, and there is very little separation..." - it's that kind of honesty that draws the audience into Mythbusters, and to Tested!
I imagine its very similar to most streamers or youtubers, what you see is (usually) their real personality, but its cranked to 11 and in this "always on" state (which is why many say that they feel exhausted after the camera turns off) so them in real life is much the same, but mellower and with less pressure to always be cracking a joke or making sure there isn't any dead air.
@@LordZaayl it's funny. for me that sounds like the difference between being alone and not alone.
@@tsm688 Normal socialization having that effect I believe just means you're introverted, lol.
@@LordZaayl well obviously.
The short answer on the second question. "Jaime thought it was funny." LMAO
So that's why Jamie seemed to have no humor on the show. It's because the humor he _did_ have had to be censored for being too mortifying! That's my new headcanon.
I can just envision the SWAT team closing in on the flatbed and Jamie turning to Carol and asking in a deadpan tone, "Do you still think it doesn't look realistic enough?"
Thats most likely exactly the case. I have a very similar sense of humor and I have to censor it around nearly everyone except some very close friends, it just doesnt sit well with some people
You got hints of it, though. A lot of his best one liners are extremely dark jokes, and whenever there was a morbid topic on the show he was always the one manically grinning about it.
@@KozuFox I never noticed. examples?
Jamie did the prop work for Arachnophobia? Confirmed....he is an evil genius. I still get spooked by that movie!
That does explain a few things about both the movie's quality and Jamie as a person.
lol That movie GAVE ME arachnophobia 😞
Dunno how old I was when it came out (born 83), but I remember being at my friend's house and his dad was watching it... The spiders coming out of the sink drain, and I think the shower drain, are what did it for me. 😭
I have no idea if I went home midway, or asked if we could go do something else, or if I stayed and watched the rest... I just still remember that part terrifying me! heh
It is in the nature of kids of famous parents to not be particularly impressed by them as far as I can tell, but Adam also just seems like a good and present dad.
Well, I mean... they're just going to be "dad" and they were dad long long before they were "chief mythbuster"
Tbf prop makers tend to be more humble and Adam started as one. Constantly messing up builds, getting injuries from razor pens, etc
There’s a picture from the Grammys several years ago (maybe like 2010) of Tom Araya from Slayer with his wife and children on the red carpet. He’s hitting a pose, and his 13 or 14 year old daughter’s face is priceless - she was so embarrassed. You can be in Slayer, and your kids will think you’re a dork.
That's because the rest of us see their public persona, at distance and occasionally. Their wives and children see them every day, no makeup, no wardrobe, and unscripted. It tends to quickly erode the awe with which the rest of us regard that person and emphasize their underlying normalcy.
A similar phenomenon exists in corporations and, especially, the uniformed services. One tends to regard high-ranking individuals with an awe that often gets in the way of clear thought. The advice of "Remember, he puts his pants on every morning, just like the rest of us." (or less printable versions) is very common - and good - advice when meeting a chairman, Chief, or general.
It helps that Adam is an engineer first, so apart from being kind of eccentric and high-energy he seems like he would be just a normal dad. Some people, when they get famous, that fame gets to their head and they get drunk on being the center of attention, but I really don't think Adam is that guy. I think he's just a dude who has a lot of big toys to play with and he likes sharing the fun with others, and that's a great father figure for kids to have, especially boys.
My favorite line from Jamie is in a sing-song way. "It's gonna go in the water." For whatever reason that line lives rent-free in my head and on occasion still makes me giggle depending on what is going on.
Do you remember which episode that one was from? I kinda want to watch it now.
That thing reminded me of when the fire alarm rang in the middle of the night at Effets Spéciaux Twins F X (they were in the neighboring city). It was a false alarm but when the firemen broke-in, they immediately called the police to investigate the gruesome scene they had discovered... the guys specialized in horror movie props. Lets just say it scared the s*** out of some people and the local paper had a blast with this. 😂
The 'scary man's trip is similar to a flight to Canada I experienced. I was going on a backpack/climbing trip. I packed my helmet at one end of a haul sack, then backpack,then boots at the other end. Along side the pack a pair of trekking poles. It was stopped at the X-ray check because it looked, on X-ray, like a body.
Reminds me of when I was also stopped at airport security because I had one of those metal torches and a pair of hair straighteners which appeared to be a gun on the x-ray due to the arrangement in my bag
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Spare batteries, wired earphones, and a bag of potato wedges packed together in a carry-on bag looks like improvised bomb on airport scanners.
Oh no! Lol
A housekeeper at my hotel wanted to call the cops once because she went into a room and thought there was a dead body between the beds. Turns out the workers who were staying in the room had just dropped their boots on the floor and the happened to land just right to look like a body lying on the floor.
But, in fairness, it is a hotel and we have had people pass away while staying before so her alarm wasn't completely unjustified.
"I'm just another dad" literally just like Rick Moranis. Just another dad, doing dad things in between being cool.
The dad things are what’s actually cool. The “cool” stuff in between is just stuff
@@bob8776 That's pure Wisdom right there. Well said!
Watching yourself on camera sounds like working retail cash as someone who has social anxiety growing up. When I first started as a cashier I couldn't look at people, I mumbled a lot. After 3 months I could talk to people, after another 3 I could look them in the eye. After a couple years most of my anxiety disappeared. You just get used to it. It doesn't go away, but it becomes a lot more bearable.
That's so interesting! My problem with social anxiety is that for me, I can speak to people perfectly fine and perfectly clear. I'm a great conversationalist, and I'm quick and witty and I always know what to say. Like a social beast. But I'm anxious because I literally do not want to be social lol. I hate talking to people, I hate having to open my mouth and form words and communicate. I hate talking so much. Knowing I have to talk to people constantly in order to keep friends is so anxiety inducing. It's why I talk to nobody during the summer 😂 It's like "finally, my break is here!" and I don't talk to a soul for months, but they get the drill by now.
Point is, I love how different social anxiety is for everybody. We all feel anxious sometimes when we speak around other people, but HOW we feel anxious is so different. Isn't that fascinating? I am so glad it got easier for you to handle, it can be really hard to work through that type of anxiety. Just know that strangers who didn't like you aren't gonna be thinking about you, and the people who like your company will think of you fondly. You really do get used to dealing with people!
@@nomoretwitterhandles There’s nothing like being good at something you hate doing! I’m good at public speaking and I never want to do it again!
having edited videos with my own voice in it before
you hate hearing your own voice
over time you just get tired of it but that more cause editing is boring
Maybe we recover from our parents, but in a lot of ways we also discover (often to our dismay) that we have become them. I realized I had become my father a few years ago, when I saw a print ad for one of those outdoor hot tubs. In the ad, it's set up on the deck behind a house on a snowy winter night, and a couple are enjoying some champagne surrounded by steam and soft lighting. Younger me would have seen that as _intensely_ aspirational, but middle-aged me who has become his father _instantly_ thought, "Oh God, their electric bill." :)
As a 30-something guy who doesn't have (nor want) kids, if I see an ad like that, my first thought would be "oh God, having to go mostly naked to the outside on a snowy night, even if it is to go to a hot tub, sounds like a nightmare" 😂(asyou might imagine, I don't like cold)
@@Alfonso162008 Hey, it's nice on the tub.. just not so nice when you want to get out.
Ha! I am so sorry I missed those viewing parties, but I was recovering from a heart attack when Mythbusters debuted. I lived on a street in the neighborhood of your shop for many years, and waved to you while walking my dog. Good memories. Saw you once with the wife and kids at the Container Store, but kept my distance because everybody deserves their own space. My sense of life and humor is just about halfway between yours and Jaimie's, so the show almost always worked for me. The body cracked me up.
3:33 My dad was a pastor, in very small-town Iowa, so I got a taste of micro-celebrity, and this nails it. It is _really nice_ to be able to walk down the street and not get recognized by people you don't know!
Adam is so modest. Being the child of a Mythbuster, especially, one of the two main ones, is definitely not insignificant, no matter how you want to look at it.
Thank you, Adam. At 2:35, you take a moment, apologize, and reframe the perspective of your statement. This is something I have been practicing in order to be more in the present. Frustrating, but it is very encouraging to see someone such as yourself also dealing with the concern.
Title question is at 4:43
Thank you!
Legend
Apparently, 8 minutes is too long and the rest of the questions are uninteresting.
@@Hawkenwhacker I clicked on the thumbnail and title and expected to see that, sue me
@@Hawkenwhackerwith all due respect to adam, they weren't interesting questions.
I have wondered about that guy in the background since I was 14 years old, thank you so much Adam for finally putting those questions to rest.
Good questions and great answers in the first half. If there is any famous person I'd love to sit down with and talk to for a while, it's Adam.
What was it that determined whether You and Jamie tackled a myth, or Kari, Grant, and Tori?
It may take a while because its mixed in with any number of his Q&A vids, but he's covered that before and the tl;dr is they generally just knew intuitively who should tackle what based on their personal interests and individual skills.
Much of the robotic stuff would go to Grant, as an example.
I know Adam and Jamie aren't best of friends (nor have ever been) but the fact he respects Jamie to this day and even called him an empathetic human being makes me smile, and the fact Jamie wanted that prop in the background to get something subversive into a mainstream TV show makes me giggle. Respect all around!
Mark Hamill, in an interview, said his son reacted to a school friend who said, "Must be great to have Luke Skywalker as a dad". His son replied, " Except whe tells you to do your homework".
The more Adam talks about Jamie, the more I believe that Jamie might very well be my animal spirit guide. Hahaha.
It is generally a good idea to cover anything you are hauling a sizeable distance if you want to ensure it doesn't get damaged, and that would go double for something that might cause concern when seen out of context by the general public. I bet at least a few people called to report her driving around with a disfigured dead body in the back of that truck.
I love your content! Thanks for the share! Im getting a tattoo today, super nervous!
Thanks for the confidence boost! 🎉🎉😊😊
When I was a preteen in the early 1960's my brother was given a reel to reel tape recorder for his birthday. Hearing my own voice was weird. He wanted to grow up and become a professional baseball game broadcaster like the ones he heard on the radio of the Pittsburgh Pirates games.
It makes me kinda sad to know that Adam's kids didn't watch Mythbusters but at the same time it makes a lot of sense.
It makes sense, but they miss out on a great show.
I love how someone can bring up a random background prop from a very specific episode of Mythbusters & Adam can perfectly remember what it is, its history & even a funny anecdote about it
I didn't realize how much that creepy guy had stuck in my child brain till this video popped up in my feed. But _yeah_ , incredibly memorable visual for a science loving 7yo. I don't think i was particularly scared of it, but it was certainly fascinating, and looking back i definitely was unconsciously looking for him in the background going forward. I believe he's made more cameos than just season 2?
I remember Caruso on NYPD Blue because I rewatched it last year. I thought his character was only OK+ there, because he always had this smug know-it-all demure, with that Caruso-patented head-tilt at every suspect interview. But him leaving meant Jimmy Smits got his shot, and he really made that show A+ for me.
Your show was so insanely loved in Germany, everyone talked about it ☺☺☺ btw love your shirt, it says tested, no?
Great questions thank you for caring to respond by far the most down to earth tv persona
I love how you can remember the details of things, like who made the tortured man prop.
At 6:20, it looked like Adam leaned to the side a bit and some toot noise happened at the same time lol. Anyone else notice?
I am convinced it is a Savage fart. Somehow, I respect him even more!😂
It’s his stool. He needs to get a new one 😂 happens in almost all his videos now. You shoulda heard one of his other videos! It sounded like a demon muttering or something. Scared the crap out of me.
As an Australian I'm glad to hear we helped make Mythbusters
helped, hell, it wouldn't have been what it was without you
I'm so glad you addressed the less than optimal experience of seeing/hearing yourself on a recording. I find it especially cringe worthy to see myself. I'll take it on hope and face value that I may overcome it. 👍
My son asked me the other day while I was watching reruns. "Do you think people need the mythbusters? Like, people seem to be getting dumber and maybe if the show was still running it could literally save lives." I asked what do you mean, he goes on about tide pods and trends etc. he convinced me. Then the next episode was hand dryers vs paper towels. 😔 Out loud I thought "seems like it".
At 03:28 I thought he lifted one cheek and let one rip! 🤣
And 06:20
😂
Yeah that REALLY sounded like a fart. 😂
Listening to Adam talk is so captivating and endearing! ❤🙏🏻
I wanted to do prosthetic makeup effects, and I learned real quick, your sense of humor changes. Things that other people think are horrific become entirely too amusing... partially because you made it. You use a dismembered head as a paperweight. You toss a fake eye into the air repeatedly as you think. Then someone walks in and sees these things and screams. At first you're apologetic, but later you laugh over it. When I saw the show, I knew these guys were special effects artists. Anything weird in the background just became part of their workshop, either something left over or something they purposefully held onto because they found it amusing.
As a kid I was disturbed by Emil in Robocop, now it’s Hilarious 😂
🤣😂 Just picturing that prop on a flatbed and the helicopters circling. Can you imagine what was going through the cops minds?
I'm suddenly terrified of seemingly sweet Heinemann
I want to commission both a Heinemann and a Savage orginal because I like both their creative sensitivities, and sense of humor. Best I've managed with prop fun was a poseable skeleton I used to leave in odd places. I had him sitting on the edge of my roof with a fishing rod once and was fun watching peoples reactions when they noticed him, but sadly he was stolen.
@@brolohalflemming7042 Oh that is sad... This is why we can't have nice things, awful people keep ruining our fun...
@@brolohalflemming7042 haha, me and my friends once found an old manekin which had been thrown out round the back of some stores ... we had about 6 months of fun putting it in stupid places, and it was always in the back of one of our cars, just in case.
I couldn't agree more about hearing your own voice, as someone who did all the audio editing for a podcast some friends and I were doing just for fun, it really is funny how you can separate your own (heard by yourself) voice from the voice you hear in your head as basically a different person. Hearing my own voice on any kind of recording just doesn't bother, after many hours of editing. It's just another audio file.
It’d be so awesome to have Adam as a dad at Halloween time! Imagine the homemade costumes!!
Honestly the thumbnail made me think it was someone talking about Adam being in the show in season 2.
The hit and run scene from Jade has lived in my head since I saw for the first time way way back when I was in high school
I'm glad to know on what movie that prop came from. I've always find it cool that there's a dead tortured guy behind when you and Jamie discuss things for a myth
This is easily one of the best channels on TH-cam:)
Thanks Adam. Your videos are such a honest view on life and the human condition
Jade, along with Kiss of Death, was David Caruso's first post-NYPD Blue film (he was actually nominated for Razzies for both movies in 1995)...but he'd previously appeared in a number of films, including An Officer and a Gentleman, First Blood, Twins, and King of New York.
I believe one of the first movie roles David Caruso had was as a police officer "Mitch" in the original First Blood.
that guy sure did like playing law enforcement type roles, didn't he? nypd blue, first blood, csi: miami. if not more i'm not aware of.
tbh adam looked insane for the first half of the show too so i can imagine how hard it must've been for him to rewatch it
Oh yea, I always wondered about that guy too! It seemed so bizarrely out of place for the tone of Mythbusters and there was never an explanation - initially I assumed it was a "trophy" from a previous myth that either I missed on TV or was never aired (as most of the things in that room were) but the true origin is so much better!
I do feel bad for the kids that were scared of him, though... If I'd seen that when I was a kid it would have scared the crap out of me too.
I love the story of that guy. I get the subversive thing, it’s a lot of fun and to have it be seen by such a wide audience is amazing
What a thumbnail, I thought it would be a video about Adam getting "The" exam!
Funfact about at 0:48 one of the people who did these editing in the early seasons , streams on Twitch and plays Escape From Tarkov, hes an older gentleman that goes by the name ToastrackTV
I always wondered what that prop was about when I was a Teenager. I knew you guys worked in movie props and special effects but I never thought you'd leave a gruesome prop in the background.
Adam is just a dad who happens to be famous. He seems to handle it well and like an all round decent guy.
I'm a daily vlogger here on YT. I've been doing it for 15+ years. Doing it so long that the voice I hear on camera is now the voice in my head.
Arachnophobia absolutely freaked me out. I'm 50 and terrified of house spiders. My wife picks them up releases them.
@tested Adam, I love the stories you tell about Jamie in part because they're good... but also in part because of the joy you display when telling them.
As someone who's got "no skin in the game", as nothing but a long time viewer, it honestly bothers me when people say/claim that you two didn't like each other. To me even from the days watching Mythbusters the fact that you two could argue as much as you did, neither wanting to give ground on what you thought was right, but seemingly acknowledged the others process as valid (even if you still disagreed which was BEST, and both wanted to PROVE it to the other) made it extremely clear to me that the mutual respect in your working relationship more than made up for any lack of buddy-buddy friendship.
They were friends, but in a different kind of way.
There were 3 different versions of the show screened in Australia too. Was a highlights-type version as part of another show, the Discovery Channel one on Foxtel and SBS TV free to air that has the almost uncensored pig chain ammo shot. Also a lot more swearing (the Daily Show had this too)
I loved this episode so much!
I don't think I like the audio processing being applied to these videos. It creates weird artifacts like 2:48 3:27 4:56 6:18, and really the vocal sound is not that great. It might sound a bit richer and cleaner than the raw audio, but it also sounds wrong for the space in which Adam's sitting, and it also somehow makes the high end sound sort of tinny in a way.
Its crazy, i remember when Mythbusters cam on and im still watching it. 😂👍
Many years ago I released an album with a band I played with. Though it is absolutely the album i'm most proud of contributing to I do not own a physical copy of the thing and I never listen to it on Spotify. I don't know. It's just odd listening to my own performance however good I may feel about it.
The sound at 6:19 is so funny to me. I know it's the noise filter messing with the sound of a chair squeak or something, but it's so funny to me. Sounds like an old compressed video game sound effect. lol
Was there a… naked gun sound effect in there towards the end? Lol hilarious
When you see that figure in the background as having his eyes or head internals hanging out and distended it really is quite a horror shock.
Just for your own edification (and apologies if anyone else has pointed this out to you already!): the Japanese on your t-shirt is ever-so-slightly incorrect. I mean, it says "Tested" in the proper alphabet for a borrow-word from English, but it's not rendered in a standardized fashion, so it would be spoken a bit... curtly, I guess you'd say? if read as-is.
Basically, what you have on the shirt now is テステド, which literally reads "tesutedo." But there should be a slight pause before the "do" at the end, which would be represented by the character ッ, in order to ensure the word is read the way any other past tense verb ending in "ed" would be. This would look like テステッド, and would be transliterated in English lettering as "tesuteddo" -- note the doubling of the "d" there.
It's a very small omission, but when read as written, it really does make a difference in how natural the word sounds to a native speaker's ear, which is why virtually all past-tense verbs are rendered this way. You can sort of hear this difference if you type both into Google Translate and hit the speaker button, though the AI voice doesn't exactly do it justice.
Anyway! Being the man of science you are, I figured you wouldn't mind this little bit of correction -- I hate being the "but ackshually" guy, but you're one of the few content creators I know of who I think would find getting "but ackshually"'d somewhat valuable, and might even take the feedback to heart.
Always love your content, man!
Mythbusters really should be required viewing, I see so many questions on reddit that have been already answered on Mythbusters
John DeLancie would have watch parties at his house whenever one of his ST:TNG episodes aired. One of the frequent attendees was his good friend Kate Mulgrew and he would always tease her that maybe she would be on Star Trek one day. Little did she know… 😂
I was in charge of some clubs in high-school and had to give speeches a few times. Its so weird to watch yourself talk. I don't think I could ever get over that
I deeply miss quality programming. I miss the era when Mythbusters was king and shared the discovery Channel with other great shows.
His name is Adam, if you didn't know him, ad it was also a co-host of the show 👍
He's actualy a kinda nice guy too
What was that creepy noise at 4:28?
“Epchhhhh” I heard it too
I think the noise came from Adam it almost sounded robotic. Super sketch!
That's one of the funniest Jamie things I've ever heard
That was the best possible answer to the question.
FINALLY!!!! I have been wondering that since 2004 when I watched them.
3:28 and 6:18, the editors didn't use Adobe Ai voice enhance filter, did they??
As the filter adds artificial noises (its a glitch in the Ai software)😅
I have had that question for YEARS... Wow xD
That last story about the prop human in the background. Haha the background to it. Adam would have days upon days of whacky stories.
Talking about Jamie's sense of humor reminded me of the "Cannonball Chemistry" episode of Mythbusters. In one scene Jamie is standing over the SynDaver (if you don't know what it is, Google it) eating a sandwich.
I did everything opposite of my dad in the way he raised me when I raised my daughter, and she has told me it was all good.
"Jade" was the movie that taught David Caruso that he belonged in TV.
Philip Larkin had the best views on parenthood. "This be the verse"
lol the flatbed
Thank you, it was interesting to know about that green guy. 😂
I haven't thought about the movie "Jade" since the last time I was in a Blockbuster.
I'm almost surprised that a prop from Jade ended up being re-used at least one time more than David Caruso or Linda Fiorentino post-Jade.
how did you send footage data to australia and back? via the internet? disc storage through air freight or the post?
Movie Pitch: Think campy slasher movie mixed with Saw.
The old studio is getting cleared out and all the left over props are in the garbage, there's a huge storm. Buster gets struck by lightning and comes to life and seeks revenge on the Mythbusters for all the tests they did on him. He starts killing off the cast and crew with traps made by using famous memorable rigs from the show (sword rig, chicken canon, rocket car etc) until Jamie and Adam have a final showdown in the old studio
There's a channel in my Samsung tv that shows all episodes back to back. I've probably seen 90 to 95 % haven't watched the reboot cast episodes at all
That's funny, I just did a search for Chicken Cannon, which was of course also a series 2 episode - somebody had just learned about the actual chicken gun used by NASA so I thought they'd get a kick out of the MB ep about it 😁
As a kid it totally scared me and I figured it was from a movie, now years later to find out I don’t really care about the movie but it scratched an itch in my brain
Great video sir 😊❤