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I'm a builder, first and foremost.
I'm sort of reluctant to celebrity.
I was a problematic kid, to be sure.
Children are just little scientists.
Algae are such basic, simple organisms.
I always enjoy seeing Adam [Savage] in pain.
I'm a little suspicious of using microwaves.
I'm not a sociable person. I don't like to talk.
I'm like a race horse attached to a freight wagon.
Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.
The daily work on special effects is fairly mundane.
I pretty much just use my smartphone for phone calls.
I've run several of my own small businesses in my life.
Both Adam and I come from a practical effects background.
If we knew what we were doing we wouldn't be entertaining.
Adam's impulsive and energetic, and I'm calm and methodical.
I am pretty much who I seem, and it's not a television host.
Arachnophobia' was one of the first films I did major effects for.
Just by going fast enough, you can ride on water with a motorcycle.
At its core, what we do in 'MythBusters' is turn science into an adventure.
The idea that you can contribute is really important, especially for a kid.
I work out regularly because I don't see the mind and body as that separate.
Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.
You have to remember that I'm a guy who is happiest in a dark room just thinking.
We really do prefer to build things rather than destroy things, believe it or not.
I'm not an early adopter of technology unless I consider it absolutely indispensable.
I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.
Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.
Now that I'm not a puppet for some director, the Hyneman is free to explore the world at large.
I think anybody who's curious about anything, including their own mind, is inherently a skeptic.
Adam and I don't consider ourselves friends. We don't spend any time together that we don't have to.
A good urban legend is something that actually did happen but it got twisted in the telling over time.
If you build a robot, you're welding, machining sculpting, casting, dealing with electronics and hydraulics.
It's millions of times more efficient to collect hydroelectric power through a dam than raindrop by raindrop.
Personally I'm more into science and engineering types of things, not so much into testing 'Star Wars' myths.
Some of the most important discoveries that scientists have made were not what they were seeking at the time.
Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.
There are a lot of things that I'd do differently. But I can't imagine being more fortunate than I have been.
If I had one word to describe how I feel at never having to work with co-host Adam Savage again it'd be relief.
My hair was falling out so I got in the habit of wearing a hat. And I didn't like baseball caps so I got a beret.
One of the main reasons for success on the show is that we're not a demonstration show. We're an experimentation show.
There are a couple of scenes in David Lynch's 'Dune' that I loved - again, small things but inspired and elegantly done.
Pepper spray, a Taser, a suckling pig and a self-built motorized spit. It's a perfect Thanksgiving, 'MythBusters'-style.
We've gotten quite creative with our use of explosives... It's almost like an art form, rather than just blowing crap up.
We've got a great deal of respect for each other on camera as well as off, no matter what it might occasionally look like.
There are times when we're testing an actual explosion, and then there are times when we blow stuff up just because we can.
Terry Gilliam has directed some of the best examples of what I like to see in a film - one of them being 'Baron Munchausen.'
I mean, we're - if I may say so - we're experts at using materials and processes in ways for which they were never intended.
For four years, I worked as one of the general shop crew on movies like 'Naked Lunch' and 'Arachnophobia.' I made lots of bugs.