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Ask Adam Savage: First Job Ever Plus That Charmin Commercial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2021
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Hey Mr. Adam i
Im not sure if you will ever see this comment.
Theres this youtube channel called T.K.O.R. (The king of Random)
Its Host Grant thompson sortve retired then shorty after had a para motoring accident in which he didnt
Survive
The channel was a science channel
That made science fun and interesting when Mr grant ran it the people who host it now are really gimmicky and well they just dont have the ability to run a science based channel is theyre any possible way that you or cari tori or jamie could help this channel out maybe contact these guys and give them some pointers before they ruin such
A great channel
Kudos for acknowledging that family support is a privilege that many people do not receive and that it can make a real difference to the outcomes of your plans and goals
I think it is a sad commentary on our society when we consider family support a "privilege" rather than emphasizing that the lack of family support is a handicap. Family support should be the norm, not the exception.
Spot on. So bizzarre and horrifying to call having a family, and having that family be supportive, be a privilege. It should be absolutely the universal norm. Every person has to have parents to come into this world. Irrespective of belief, the Bible emphasizes over and over the importance of taking care of a fatherless, family-less, looking out for them, teaching them, pleading their cause, etc. It has always been recognized that to not have a family was a severe disadvantage in life that was not normal, and that should be relatively rare.
@@terryburks6386 yes, but when most of our families have been making the same wages for 30 years, they may not be able to support their kids etc like they used to. I think it's also important to point out that a lot of "self made" people that ignore the wage stagnation like to point out that anybody can make it on their own, they're self made etc, when almost all of them got financial support from families that allowed them to bounce between jobs, explore, find what their best at. It's not something that should be overlooked. Our society is falling apart.
@@terryburks6386 Your mom call offer all the moral support you want, but Adam's dad directed commercials, he had family friends making miniatures and they knew current working actors. Being cute and having a personality were his own gifts but nowhere near enough to succeed.
In most cases... "it's not what you know; it's who you know."
and being in the right place at the right time.
@@TwistedShrapnel Being let in through the back door always trumps timing and ability.
Unless that person is the owner/boss you might get the job from knowing someone but keeping is on you. I don't know to many companies willing to keep dead weight around simply because you are the shop floor supervisors brother.
What If?... Adam's dad had been friends with Joe Regalbuto?
Bit part on Street Hawk. Oh yeah.
So true about careers involving luck! I am almost ready to retire, and I could tell you stories about how I just happened to be in the right place at the right time, and each time it turned out to be life-changing!
you still need to grab that luicky oppertunity and then make the most of it. A lot of people wont see a lucky break for what it is, or will squander it.
@@elevown Uh-huh. And then you have people who try to make the most of a shit sandwich and still get fucked
@@elevown Absolutely!
@@custos3249
There are no guarantees. But you are guaranteed to fail if you don’t prepare yourself to be able to take hold of a lucky opportunity when it *eventually* presents itself.
@@briandeschene8424 Good point. So just keep on suffering, people. Because maybe, one day, if you just keep on keepin' on, you too could luck out and life won't be shit anymore, because external factors and malicious people don't exist, since that would be inconvenient for such a simplistic narrative.
You should be a motivational speaker.
Or a comedian. Ever heard the one about missing 100% of the shots ya take? How about how winner don't make excuses? That one gets me every time.
I VERY MUCH appreciate the intro points made here. It's always important to remember these kind of things when talking about careers/life paths.
Who was he showing that little beer stein to? It wasn't us. : )
another camera. we should have seen a close-up.
The producer failed to switch to the other camera (I guess)
Technician failure. Having worked in live TV for many years I was half expecting to hear a director yelling over headsets to "TAKE 2, dammit, TAKE 2!"
This might be the most important video Adam has ever made. It's easy to feel like it's personal failings that have led to people not making it in their dream careers; it's often simply luck and support. My entire existence is down to luck, chance and the eye-rolling support of the folk around me. This doesn't give us an excuse; grit and determination will get you further along on road, but don't abandon your dreams because the cards are not in your favour.
As always; make stuff for you. For your friends, for the sheer damn hell of it. The money or career sn't the goal; making cool stuff is the whole damn point.
Mr. Whipple = Dick Wilson. He appeared on several episodes of "Bewitched" as well, among other shows.
The actor who played Mr. Whipple was Dick Wilson. He has since passed on at the age of 91.
I thank you for highlighting this from the lifestream very important subject.
I very much appreciate your caveat about luck/privilege. As an educator working with students who often have little of both, I see their frustrations when they compare themselves to others. There are different measures of success and we shouldn't compare ourselves to anyone else. Sometimes our paths take a more circuitous route or lead us to a completely different outcome than we intended, but still one that can be rewarding!
Life is definitely full of ups and downs , i went from being a kid from ghetto to joining the Marine Corps, to being homeless, living with my friend who got me a well paying job and now being one of the most successful people in my family, I don’t know what will happen next but im feel less afraid now than when my journey started
Luck can be fortunate or unfortunate. That you can’t control. Putting yourself in a position to take advantage of the positive and having the fortitude to get through the negative you do control. Congratulations on how well you’ve navigated the journey of life thus far. Kudos to you!
On your points about luck and timing I am a believer that everything happens for a reason. You worked with the dollhouse stuff, and then decided to go into acting, and all that eventually led to you influencing so many people's lives on Mythbusters.
That's just delusion trying to convince yourself to feel better when looking back on the past. I'm sure all those thousands of kids dying every day sure happen for a reason huh? Really cause a lot of benefits in the world huh?
@@cenciende9401 Get a grip, edgelord.
Excellent disclaimer at the beginning. Thank you for saying that up front.
Such excellent guidance regarding the true nature of the careers of “successful” people. Would you mind time-traveling back to when I was a kid (pack a lunch, it’ll be a long ride) and let me know that? ❤️
Tangent: Lol, for some reason my late mother - a normally easy-going-about-such-things woman - absolutely *detested* the Charmin commercials & it’s tagline, “Don’t squeeze the Charmin” so much so that she refused to ever buy it … even when it was cheaper. (For my mom, that was the ultimate rejection, as we were a family of 7 where money was never in abundance.). Thanks for bringing back that memory!
Sounds so simple to say but hearing life isn’t linear was much needed, thanks Adam.
Love it! Put it on a T-shirt: "Life stories are non-linier". Also agree with the huge value of family support, but not with the 'luck'. You worked, and earned everything,,,
*Linear, but yeah, totally agree
@@jakobvanklinken Same.
'but not with luck'
Then you are incredibly dumb, certainly too dumb to grasp anything Adam has to say, so I guess you should just stop watching his videos. Chance is the core of everything.
@@cenciende9401 Well, you can live your life that way - depending on dumb luck (you moron). But I worked for everything I have, and I have had great success in doing so. Just as Adam has. Try it...
to his point, "fortune favors the prepared mind".
Rewatching mythbusters made me confident enough to go back and get a degree in computer science but I also love working with machines and with my hands.
I, too, was a library page.
"Don't Squeeze The Charmin"
Is there a way to watch the old commercials Adam has done? It'd be neat if we could go from hearing him talk about them to then see what he was talking about.
Lol, as soon as I watched this video, the Charmin commercial appeared at the top of my feed: th-cam.com/video/p14xIE_0F7M/w-d-xo.html
@@andybaldman I've tried looking before but the charmin one is the first I've seen.
I really enjoy your videos, and what you do. And your support to the queer community, in homeless and trans, and am getting moved, and losing all my real friends, and your one of many people that helps me with feeling better, and you've inspired me to even try and get into prop making, and costume design. I do hope you have an amazing day and can feel amazing as things go on for us all.
One thing that Adam always talks about that I bet a lot of people dismiss is that you have to pay your dues. Don't expect to walk in day one and think your going to get the best work, highest pay or be the boss just because you've got a degree or some other certificate that qualifies you for that position. Guess what everyone else at that place you just started at has that thing you have plus a bunch of experience you don't. Take your time, careers aren't built in a day it takes years.
Ironic: As Adam start to speak about the charming ads, I got a BMO ad.
Scrooge McDuck! That was beautiful! I laughed right out loud!
I have been thinking about my career path lately and am considering getting back to it. I have been "semi-retired" for the last few years (I'm 62) and taking care of my elderly parents. Cheaper to live with them/them with me than putting them in assisted living or hiring someone to stay with them. Pop passed in August of 2015 and Mom in April of this year. I've been dusting off my Resume' and discovered I really need to go to a CV instead because I can't fit it all in two pages! Reflecting on the changes in direction along the way and the impetus behind them. I have found that luck (both good and bad) have played a part, as has hard work and determination. I worked full time from the time I graduated High School and paid my own way through College for my Engineering Degrees. My Parents couldn't afford to put me or my Brother through College (his is an Accounting Degree). Granted it took us longer than 4 years. But nobody can say we didn't earn our Degrees in every sense of the term! I guess what I'm getting at is that every decision I made or was made FOR me was a crossroads in my career and in my life as well. Each one led to a different path and it was most definitely NOT linear! I guess that's true for us all! Philosophy mode off... ;)
The caveat in the beginning is the *most* important piece of information! I'm an industrial/toy designer, about Adam's age. "My" designs made it into a few million homes and hopefully had a positive influence on an equally large number of kids / people in terms of creativity and making stuff. However, I would never, ever recommend anybody to follow my career path, simply because hard work is not a guarantee for success any more. I'd rather support Mike Howe's (Dirty Jobs) advice to NOT follow your passion but instead to learn to love what you are successful at doing. (edit: corrected Mike Howe's name)
As a heating engineer who started out wanting to be a primary school teacher. I wholeheartedly agree with this.
@@andybaldman Corrected. Thanks! In fact, it does. A lot. For the past 10 years or so, I mostly work in the field of human factors and environmental medicine, applying "design thinking" to problems of "unspecific" symptom clusters as a result of exposure to sub-threshold noise and vibration stimuli... not something I wanted to do but something that got me a lot of positive feedback, so I kept doing it...
I've been very busy for the last few months and haven't had a chance to watch any TH-cam videos. After scrolling through your videos from that time period, I'm happy to say that I've missed nothing.
We enjoyed it Adam! And the picture YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942) is great! Of course it is, Jim Cagney is in it. And how about that scene when he taps down the stairs? That's the Golden Age of Hollywood. 👍 (APPLAUSE)
WOOT.. Got my question answered! Thanks Adam!!!!
My first job was a test tube and bottle washer at a lab that hadn't had one for about six months. I seem to recall a counter five feet wide and two miles long piled about three feet high with unwashed glassware :-).
Two thumbs up for paying the respect to the one and only god, Chris Hadfield! Cheers from Canada!
Here is another bit of early Adam Savage
th-cam.com/video/YhxjNYvJbgM/w-d-xo.html if it isn't obvious, he plays the drowning kid
The glasses kind of give it away; I wonder if this video is when they became part of his trademark look.
Mr Whipple was also the drunk on Bewitched.
He mentioned Dobbs Ferry! DF born and raised, still live here too!
I work in a psychiatric hospital. Specifically in Forensic Psychiatry. We did a study on “success” based on the Western perception of success. Im so delighted about the enlightenment you’ve expressed. Exposure to opportunity, family support, ethnicity, location, socioeconomic background play a central role but without an absolutely pure unadulterated level of Luck afforded by opportunity high success is very difficult.
Talent, hard work, and intelligence are also in your tool kit.
What a coincidence! I was looking at dollhouse furniture right when you mentioned it!
The 1st job my brother & I had was for our dad. We were “independent contractors”. We were 15 (1 year too young to work) he took out no taxes etc. so pure profit. The next job I had was in radio that I got because of an ex-girlfriend. The next jobs we got was mostly indirectly because of our dad.
I design electronics and software at work and spend my weekends cutting and joining metal, fairy door hinges today , silver soldering the right bits of the hinge to the side lugs. tiny bits of solder pre-cut in borax flux, just a tiny bit of flux. its such a pleasure,
Thank you so much for talking about the effects that luck and privilege can play. Especially the latter. It infuriates me to see someone, oblivious to their own privilege, tell someone else, who's hanging on by the seat of their pants, "If you don't like your job, just quit."
Tell us about the Charmin commercial.. advert for SHUDDER tv comes on. Lol
I Greek I have watched this a few months ago
Speaking of theatre kids, a Couple of years ago I was having lunch with some WAAPA (theatre school that Hugh Jackman went to) students at University and I mentioned that I'd just had dinner with Brent Spiner at a convention. Obviously they weren't science fiction fans because they had no idea what I was talking about until I mentioned that he'd been in the original cast of Sunday in the park. Then it was like I'd set off a bomb under the table they were that excited.
I remember your Charmin commercials!
Luck AND connections. They help a lot.
Chance is how you get those connections in the first place, chance is the core of all things.
Adam
How did you feel when the Tesla quake machine started working
8:12 Charles Kimbrough played Jim Dial on Murphy Brown. Jim Dine is a wonderful American artist.
Please come back with Mithybusters!
I love u dude for always keeping it 100
This was recorded on August 6th? I always suspected Adam could time travel!
*snickers in American*
Adam Savage
You made enough money on that commercial to buy a used Camero in those days.
Great, video. On a side note/worth mentioning... "help" and "privilege" are not synonymous (for all the right reasons) and I would argue/wager huge, that "help" is actually much more common and available in modern times (from a lot of personal & public sources/resources)... far more so than "privilege" is available. I would also argue/wager huge, that "chance" plays a much larger role in life than "privilege" does.
Then you clearly have no clue what the world privilege means. Particularly in the current world of unprecedented wealth inequality. Thankfully he does know what it means.
@@cenciende9401 Very interesting thoughts to say the least... but maybe I'm simply misunderstanding your comment(?) If (if) what you are saying is... we should be thankful for such things as "fate" "chance" and "luck" and/or thankful for being born to parents/families, who got things "mostly right" in their adult lives and their young child's life, then I fully digress & agree with you 100%, as does logic and common sense. However, if you're ultimately saying certain people should be apologetic for "where" in the world they were born and/or should apologize for being born to certain parents or apologize for being born into a particular situation or "social class" (?) then I might suggest re-evaluating the social justice doctrine or social justice organization you are currently aligned with... because it seems to be clouding (if not poisoning) some of your sound thought processes and better judgement.
Okay I gotta ask. Did Jamie ever find all those ping pong balls you seeded his shop with?
Mr. Whipple is Dick Wilson.
So now having a family that gives a damn about you is a privilege?
Everything these days is considered privilege.
So I guess its about "Who you know"
I'm an overnight shift supervisor at a Home Depot. How? Bad life choices and luck.
OK, what was working with Mr. Whipple really like? (something I've always wanted to ask Adam. ) How did it compare with working with Jamie?
I Googled him --- the actor was Dick Wilson.
Ada,. Bernadette Peters is a very good friend of our family especially with our late Uncle Hank Virgona, she is in a Documentary about my Uncle called Nothing Changes: Art for Hank's Sake, it is on Amazon Prime. if you like Art watch it. thanks, BTW I always love all your videos too.
I agree, Col. Hadfield is much more than mortal!
Well, geez, Adam. from that Charmin commercial on through to now, If there is one thing you have remained, it is a cute kid.
6:16 "Can I show that?" Sure, but we're not seeing it.
Why aren't captions available in this vid?
I’m in a job this year myself I’m considering leaving definitely not in a position to just quit
But you would get to redecorate 17 floors! Extra concrete on the bottom..
What Adam was trying to say in the first few moments....he still lives in his Mom's basement :) Those so called deliveries....Mom bringing him his lunch.
Mr. Whipple's name was Dick Wilson.
I've had a few field jobs - one went badly when I was given too much responsibility, another got really deep (TOO deep with leadership using non-standard, experimental programming packages), and my current one is going pretty well, despite distractions from working at home. All throughout that, though, I wanted to get into video game coding, which I practiced on my own time but never really got into. Still could happen though. I probably would be in it if I had connections.
just keep going. dont matter if its an hour or 10 minutes a day just keep going
Hey Adam, love these videos and a look back in your life. (Seriously, you had red hair?). But I am missing your one day builds. I guess you’re working on a bearded character, but still missing your true one day (plus a bit) builds. When’s the next one coming?
"I have here 2 pages of questions. I want to get to every single one" *answers 2 questions*
this was a live stream in June, it'll be broken up into multiple segments on youtube
When I was a kid I was told I could accomplish anything if I set my mind to it, I wonder how much further ahead I would be without that crap in my head.
Less. A defeatist attitude just means you would never try in the first place.
If you never tried anything in your life you'd be a homeless bum. Sure, life sucks. Sure, life is full of situations that favour the lucky. But if you never tried to do anything you'd never get anything done. Ultimatly, there is one guy in control of your own life and that's you. While a guy sits on his couch all day playing video games his life won't fix itself.
What is the arm band Adam is wearing?
Last time I was this early, Adam still had his old mill.
Lol
Some people misunderstand when someone successful says luck plays a tremendous role. Understand that preparation does little more than position you to take advantage of whatever chance throws your way.
But if you ain't prepared at all, no luck in the world will do you any good.
Comment for the algorithm
I can say as a 24 year old out of college, 850 bucks for 14 hours of work i still great money in my eyes lol
I would like to know what that is in the top left corner of the shop that is moving up and down?
It's a motorized oversize replica of a Swiss Army knife, probably a reclaimed store display item. The object moving up and down is one of several knife blades that demonstrate the versatility of the Swiss Army knife. In Adam's time-lapse videos, when the action is speeded up, the knife looks as if it's dancing!
Here are a couple of his videos when he is repairing/refurbishing it...
th-cam.com/video/gygyNt2AnKA/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/FEHYccr5bC8/w-d-xo.html
No, its 1.7 in paint, and, the Bombay doors. Your problem
Same as in Medicine: See one, do one, teach one.
Please don't squeeze the Charmin, bro.
Yeah. He kind of forgot that was Charmin's thing!
Adam you. saved my life today I was going to kill myself today. Thanks for being awesome
He didn't say whether he still uses Charmin.
FINALLY!!! A successful, famous person doesn't handout a trite comment about their success's being comprised of only THEIR time, and THEIR hard work, and only losers say different. That is the mark of an aware human being to acknowledge their wild fortune and personal pillage. Now, now Adam Savage is worthy of the title, "Hero."
Part of the commercial was shown on Mythbusters: th-cam.com/video/p14xIE_0F7M/w-d-xo.html
Well coming from a life of no privilege, no family support and lucky breaks and endless bad jobs I soldiered on in until too old to be interesting to most employers I have to say it's been linear. All downhill. But, I still love people, love learning and take life one day at a time. And I love anyone that will allow me too.
is this a reupload?
I appreciate this intro because many celebrities pretend they had humble beginnings and made something out of themselves through struggles, which is all bs because most actors for example come from elitist families or just discovered very Youngs so didn't really grow up with struggles at all.
We still haven't hit Steven Spielberg or George Lucas fortune and acclaim. But we will never quit.
I think it's good she let you know your work wasn't great, you were hired to do a job and I've never been a fan of telling kids everything is perfect when it's not (and no I'm not saying be rude to kids but be honest so they can learn).
Dobb's Ferry! i hadnt heard that name in decades Dobb's Ferry's claim to fame, in the '70's was it was the place you went to get an abortion.
Remember, Roe V. Wade was decided early in that decade. Teenage pregnancy, at least where I lived in the mid Hudson Valley, was almost non existent and shameful. A friend's older sister got pregnant when she was 16 and when she started to show, she disappeared. I never saw her again (family was catholic...)
Dobb's Ferry was one of those deliciously naughty, off limits topics that teenagers thrive on.
Woo! Hey Adam, can you make a Patreon also? I can’t be a member on TH-cam because they don’t take Apple Pay but Patreon does.
I'm pretty sure he/they have a patreon page. I mean, after all, the questions he is answering are from Tested patrons! Usually a link at the end of the videos.
The Tested website has a premium membership that's pretty cool and has lots of bonuses that are worth checking out.
They used to have a Patreon. I was on it.
They closed that down a year or two ago, and went to a premium membership directly through TH-cam itself.
👍 (APPLAUSE)
$850/day is still amazing even for today's time. Holy Moley, if I'd made that much per day, I'd be $221,000 richer anually (before taxes).
Sesame Street voice over, or Charmin commercials were unpaid gigs ? Ooopsl, typed too soon....
I wonder if this ad is somewhere on TH-cam
Search for Adam Savage Charmin and you'll find part of the commercial from an episode of MythBusters.
There's an excerpt from a Mythbusters episode but I can't find the whole ad: th-cam.com/video/p14xIE_0F7M/w-d-xo.html
Hi Adam, hi everyone " very cool story
did not know you were in a commercial", :)
A lot of people will know that Charmin ad from a reference in Dare to Be Stupid, 'You gotta squeeze all the charmin you can when mr. wipple's not around!' (stick your head in a microwave and get yourself a tan!)