Jamie Hyneman
Pepper spray, a Taser, a suckling pig and a self-built motorized spit. It's a perfect Thanksgiving, 'MythBusters'-style.Collection: Thanksgiving
The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.Collection: Computers
Miles Flannery - he's a beast. Very talented, but a brute. He's one of three guys who help us keep the shop maintained, help us set up on location and assist in building something if time is short.
I think when you do stuff in a computer people tend to dismiss it. It also allows you to make a lot of stuff totally not connected with reality because you're not limited by any kind of reality.
I never dreamed we would be on television at all, much less for such a long time and with so much praise for keeping a thought provoking show on the air. And best of all, we were able to do what we do and still have all our fingers and toes.
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.
Neither of us were experienced hosts on television. But the show seemd to moved in the direction of our characters, the way we approached things. It evolved around us and the things we think are interesting.
It's fun to use your brain.
We couldn't be happier that the show has encouraged kids to have an interest in science and math, but we don't try to do that. We just have fun, which is its own bold statement.
Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.
We seriously irritate each other and don't want to spend any time together. And yet we have a profound respect for the partnership. We're like a couple of dogs with a rag.
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.
Personally I'm more into science and engineering types of things, not so much into testing 'Star Wars' myths.
You have to remember that I'm a guy who is happiest in a dark room just thinking.
I'm not a sociable person. I don't like to talk.
I wouldn't spend five minutes with Adam outside work if I didn't have to. But yet I feel somewhat displaced without him in the workplace... destroying my tools and leaving messes everywhere he goes.
The daily work on special effects is fairly mundane.
We're these guys that are very tech-savvy, so people tend to expect us to say our favorite gadgets are thing like the latest iPhone or the latest app or something like that. Adam is pretty much like that. As far as myself, I'm the kind of guy that tends to go for the absolute simplest things.
I'm not an early adopter of technology unless I consider it absolutely indispensable.
I pretty much just use my smartphone for phone calls.
On occasion, we at 'MythBusters' come across stories we want to test that require using a pig carcass to simulate human physiology.
When I watch a movie I don't really care too much about the plot - not that it isn't important, but what I remember is the visual imagery, something that happens in an individual scene.
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 love Tim Curry as the Devil in 'Legend;' the prosthetics that are on him are so over the top sensually evil, and Tim takes full advantage, is just oozing with the role. The makeup and prosthetics, and his character are seamless.
There are a couple of scenes in David Lynch's 'Dune' that I loved - again, small things but inspired and elegantly done.
A lot of mythology surrounds British inventor Geoffrey Pyke. He supposedly made people come to his bedside to see his designs because getting up and getting dressed took too long.
If you ever decide to build a boat out of wet newspaper, it's important to remember to lay down the sheets like shingles on a house: One issue at a time, starting at the bow and moving aft, so water flows over the layers, not under them.
We're not too out there to educate people about any specific thing necessarily so much as we are to encourage critical and scientific thinking.
I'm sort of reluctant to celebrity.
An indispensable tool is a pair of diagonal cutting Knipex pliers. There isn't any other hand tool of any other brand that stands up to it.
I was a problematic kid, to be sure.
I've run several of my own small businesses in my life.
I am pretty much who I seem, and it's not a television host.
When I was in school, shop class was where the kids that weren't good in anything to do with books went.
Over time, shop classes sort of disappeared or got marginalized in the states. I don't really know why. Now with tech like 3-D printers and CNCs, shops have acquired a new shine.
We are seeing robotics creep into all areas and become accessible, where it used to be something tedious that only the most persistent people could access.
I'm excited about all technology.
I think anybody who's curious about anything, including their own mind, is inherently a skeptic.
There are a lot of scientists or other people who can be very skeptical or rational within their field, but they may well not do that in other aspects of their lives, when it comes to things like religion, or what have you. People have this amazing gift for being selective with their curiosity and skepticism.
Adam and I don't consider ourselves friends. We don't spend any time together that we don't have to.
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.
We got a lot of gay fan mail when the show first started. Something to do with being in San Francisco and being a big, burly guy with a big moustache. But we're both happily married. To women.
In my case you can pretty well figure that you can put a beret and a mustache on just about anything you want and it looks like me.
After working as a charter boat captain and dive master in the Caribbean for a number of years, I decided it was time for a change.
Over the years, we've developed a respect for each other in the roles that we play and we rely on that difference to recreate clarity for the audience.
It's millions of times more efficient to collect hydroelectric power through a dam than raindrop by raindrop.
Running out of material for 'MythBusters' is like saying, 'We've done everything we could possibly do and we're not curious or interested in anything.' Let's hope that never happens.
I'm a builder, first and foremost.
Is there some situation where square wheels would be better than round wheels? Sure! A round wheel has a pressure point directly under the tire. A square wheel's corners are going to bite and propel you forward. The square wheel could be superior on snow or mud or sand.