The Myth That Pushed Adam to His Breaking Point

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Everyone always gets so concerned with the relationship between Adam and Jamie, but can we just appreciate the fact that Jamie pulled Adam out of his office for the sole reason of sharing a new piece of knowledge/understanding? He knew and understood exactly what Adam would take from that failed attempt? That is the best kind of working relationship.

I learned after Mythbusters ended that Adam and Jamie didn't get along super well, but after watching several of these videos it's clear that they both had a great deal of respect for each other; what an amazing pair of people!

Adam: "Wow. I fundamentally understand steel in a way I didn't five minutes ago." Jamie: "I know. That's why I brought you down." I love that so much. Taking something that didn't go as planned and turning it into a learning experience.

I'm just going to put this here, I grew up in the group home system as a misbehaved kid. I used to force all the kids in our grouphome to let me put in Mythbusters whenever it was aired. It was one of the few things at that difficult time that really brought me happiness and helped shape the way I think and do things today. Thank you Adam and Jamie and the rest of the team, yall were like parents/teachers I never had at home.

what i love the most about mythbusters is that, even to this date, and from very young people, you'd hear "no, that is/isn't true, mythbusters have proven it" and everyone would just accept it like the absolute truth. man, thats a level of science you can't get everywhere. thank you so much for that.

6:26 Just here to say that I am the guy who told Adam about how we were hydroforming Handpans. I am thankful that I had the opportunity to let him know and to shake his hand and say thanks on behalf of our industry.

2:58 It is true that, if you held your face in exactly the same position for a year or two, your muscles would freeze like that. I'm a paraplegic and I haven't walked in over 10 years. My ankles froze into a neutral position about a year and a half in. I was also told by my physical therapy team not to sleep sitting up too much because I would end up locked in a sitting position. If you don't stretch your muscles, they do freeze.

I've been a teacher of physics for 30 years. I have no higher compliment I could give to the Mythbusters concept and Adam and Jamie and the others than to say that I have long wished to have the budget, space, and time to have the lab experiences in physics courses be more like Mythbusters. No greater learning experience could have been given to students than to present something to be tested, have them work out how they would test it, how would they measure it, and how they would analyze the results. It would have been wicked.

Back then mythbusters was discovery's golden goose. I can see the people in charge saying "anything they want to do, let them do it." Within the budget of course.

The instrument Adam is referring to is called Hang or Handpan.

I absolutely loved Mythbusters growing up.. it shaped my problem solving abilities that has helped me in life in the most mysterious ways.. by the way, the disappearing cement truck changed a few standards in the military for safe blast radius measures. Just saying.

7:38 this is why Adam is awesome. He doesn't stop at just answering the question, he goes full tilt gets visual aids, which being awesome he has lying around his workshop, and makes sure as many people as possible are going to understand the thing he is explaning.

One of the Most Iconic Adam Breaking point moments for me has to the Myth ping pong ball raising a boat. Adam needs a cookie is a line I will never forget after Jamie and Adam had a on screen disagreement over ways to do the myth

Watching you throughout the years has been a light in a dark place. You make complicated things easier for us dummies to understand and enjoy learning. Please never stop making these videos in a way that makes it fun for everyone to learn and enjoy your content! We all love your brain! Thank you for being a amazing human being!

"I'm gonna put my cockpit and fart catcher away." That alone is worth all the time I've spent watching this channel. Humungous hugs back to you and all the crew for everything you put into making the videos and sharing them with us. I love all y'alls.

What amazes me about Adam is his power of recollection in these. There is no way I would be able to give such concise information about a thing that I did that many years ago with such vivid detail. Thank you, Adam. You're a treasure to us all.

I’ve always enjoyed those “OOOHHHH, so if you do this, that happens.” Moments from the Mythbusters episodes. These EPIPHANY moments are what taught me how to problem solve. And yeah, I remember the Truck Squish episodes. I could tell how frustrated both Adam and Jamie were with how many times these experiments failed…..

The show worked so well because Jamie was the solid practicality contrasting Adam's exuberance nature.

Just thinking about steel drums similar in size to the “torpedo” Adam talks about, odds are the steel drum instrument Adam mentions are handpans. If I had to guess, hydroforming probably explains the shift from hand made instruments towards mass production in that industry over the last few years. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.