3: Adam Savage Interview

March 5, 2007 11:04 PM

Episode 3 of the MetaFilter Podcast is up, featuring an interview with Adam Savage of Mythbusters.

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posted by mathowie to MeFi Podcast at 11:04 PM (50 comments total)

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Stuff mentioned in the third episode of the podcast:

Miss Me in the Morning by chococat

Adam Savage's profile

Adam's first comment here

Sasha Frere-Jones' site (which MeFi covered and SFJ talked about)

Fark

Mythbusters site at Discovery.com

Old West Myths requested at Ask MetaFilter

Adam mentions almost sawing off a finger

It was fun and fans of the show and this site will enjoy it. For the first time, I was nervous doing this and I didn't get to ask a few more questions I wanted to, but overall I really liked hearing the behind-the-scenes info about upcoming shows.

The next podcast will wait until jessamyn gets back (late next week) and we'll return to the normal "week in review + interview" format.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:04 PM on March 5, 2007

YAY! (excellent solution to Jessamyn being down under.)
posted by fluffy battle kitten at 11:06 PM on March 5, 2007

Also "window candy"?!

I meant "window dressing" or "eye candy".
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:13 PM on March 5, 2007

Sweet, I just got my very first iPod thingy and after obsessing over installing thousands of music tracks, now have a reason to check out this here "Podcast" whatsit.
posted by scheptech at 11:21 PM on March 5, 2007

No worries Matt! I'm pretty sure that every user of this site has mixed up their words/phrases at some point.

I knew what you meant and I'm sure other people do too and won't give it another thought.
posted by fluffy battle kitten at 11:35 PM on March 5, 2007

I knew what you meant and I'm sure other people do too and won't give it another thought.

I hadn't thought about it until you said that. Now it's all I can think about. Is window candy a treat for the "glass and pane" crowd, or is it a kind of candy made from windows, a la "Shards O'Glass"? For that matter, what would eye dressing be? Prescription spectacles, or something more along the lines of a raspberry vinaigrette but for human eyeballs instead of lettuce? It's almost two in the morning and instead of sleeping I'm trying cope with some seriously disturbing mental images.

(Seriously though, great podcast. I love the feeling of being only 20,401 Mefites removed from celebrity.)
posted by Pater Aletheias at 12:52 AM on March 6, 2007 [2 favorites]

Yay!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 12:54 AM on March 6, 2007

Where did the 'Metafilter's own' thing first start?
posted by Effigy2000 at 1:05 AM on March 6, 2007

I'm going to go with the Comedy Kottke Option. Just a guess.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:21 AM on March 6, 2007

Very cool. Also, great to find an excellent, excellent track from chococat that I would have missed. The podcast may end up a great little background support/promo for music.
posted by peacay at 1:25 AM on March 6, 2007

Effigy2000: "Where did the 'Metafilter's own' thing first start?"

This post in the blue from April 2002 is the oldest use I can find of the adjective phrase in the way that you mean.
posted by Plutor at 5:36 AM on March 6, 2007

Excellent. Somebody should take this interview and turn it into a more traditional 'interview-profile' magazine piece.
posted by empath at 5:38 AM on March 6, 2007

Also, that is a great song. One of the few really good songs I heard on mufi when I finally got around to browsing it last week.
posted by empath at 5:40 AM on March 6, 2007

I love me some hot window candy, actually.
posted by JanetLand at 5:53 AM on March 6, 2007

Hey, cool!
Thanks for including me in that, Matt, that was great.
Hearing the song used in this context made me laugh for minute, how you frame the interview with it at both ends...it's sort of this sad longing from afar, bordering on obsession, and you're calling Adam Savage on the phone.
Great interview with Adam. As you say, very interesting to hear how things work from his perspective.

As Matt would say, "awesome!"
posted by chococat at 6:33 AM on March 6, 2007 [1 favorite]

A word of warning: Adam Savage was the last guest ever on Penn Jillette's radio show. Savage guested on Thursday, CBS pulled the plug on Friday.

Just sayin'.
posted by Optamystic at 7:11 AM on March 6, 2007 [1 favorite]

Adam Savage! Hot damn!
posted by smackwich at 7:19 AM on March 6, 2007

A mefi shoutout/easter egg on TV. Spiffy.
posted by Rhomboid at 7:28 AM on March 6, 2007

Matt, did our own asavage call you "Mike" at the end there? I wouldn't feel too bad about your own malapropism. ;-)
posted by Xoder at 7:38 AM on March 6, 2007

I think it was "like" -- "If you wanna do this again, like, in a year or so..."
posted by danb at 7:51 AM on March 6, 2007

Adam Savage is among my favorite tv personalities because he has to be just a ton of fun to hang around with. You never know what's going to blow up or break next.

I'm looking forward to listnening to this one!
posted by fenriq at 8:53 AM on March 6, 2007

So Adam is in the "Mee Fie" camp too, huh.
posted by Sk4n at 8:59 AM on March 6, 2007

Once again, really cool.
posted by ColdChef at 9:24 AM on March 6, 2007

Fun interview, great song! Thanks!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 9:45 AM on March 6, 2007

Going in, while a fan of both Mefi and Adam Savage, I was worried, but it was fun. And the comments about eye candy should be a warning to all you horny mefites.

*wags finger*
posted by drezdn at 10:28 AM on March 6, 2007

Plutor: "Effigy2000: "Where did the 'Metafilter's own' thing first start?"

This post in the blue from April 2002 is the oldest use I can find of the adjective phrase in the way that you mean."

Actually, I meant in relation to asavage.
posted by Effigy2000 at 11:20 AM on March 6, 2007

Also, that is a great song.

Yeah, chocolat, I liked that a lot. And I'm pretty hard to please.
posted by timeistight at 11:21 AM on March 6, 2007

Matt is a better interviewer than Jon Stewart. I'm just saying.
posted by found missing at 11:33 AM on March 6, 2007

Awesome. That's Awesome.
posted by YoBananaBoy at 11:47 AM on March 6, 2007

This podcast and thread made me realize for the first time that I've been confusing asavage for Jamie Hyneman all this time. Sorry, Adam!
posted by milov at 1:35 PM on March 6, 2007

I actually first checked out Mythbusters because of all the hubbub on Metafilter. The show marathon over the holidays was the only thing everyone in the family could agree on watching. It was the show that saved Christmas!

I've really enjoyed all the podcasts so far...good stuff.
posted by Otis at 2:56 PM on March 6, 2007

Nice interview, Matt. Adam seems to be every bit the sort of stand-up guy you'd imagine he is.

When he said, "Talk to you soon," was he serious, or was that just a throw-away phone greeting? TELL US TRUE DO YOU HAVE THE MAN'S EAR? Note to self, totally steal Matt's phone at a meetup and proceed to stalk all sorts of celebrities. Also, stalk and kill any "blogebrities".
posted by Eideteker at 4:10 PM on March 6, 2007

Wow. Chococat sounded great!

Matt, that interview sounded as though it should have been difficult (phone audio?), but you pulled it off really well. That was fantastic.

Side note: the site was a little slow earlier, could that have been because it was hit about a billion times?

Good show Matt! Thanks.
posted by snsranch at 5:22 PM on March 6, 2007

Wow really looking forward to hearing this one .. after I get through listening to the 8 hours+ of podcasts already on my Mp3 player that is =(
posted by your mildly obsessive average geek at 7:51 PM on March 6, 2007

Adam Savage, why is your show not on Netflix??
posted by serazin at 9:00 PM on March 6, 2007

I'm about to go into MetaFilter-less exile and am relying on the podcast to carry me through. No pressure or anything, just make sure it keeps being this good.
posted by shelleycat at 11:36 PM on March 6, 2007

SEE ALSO: Thread wherein Adam mentions having nearly sawn his finger off.
posted by Danelope at 1:04 AM on March 7, 2007

"Mythbusters: Are people ever going to stop believing stupid shit?"

Ha! Great interview, kudos Matt.
posted by gwint at 6:00 AM on March 7, 2007

Great interview. I'm glad you had the willpower not to dub over with "eye candy."
posted by waxpancake at 6:38 AM on March 7, 2007

Fantastic interview. If the MeFi Podcast continues to improve by leaps and bounds as it has through the first three, I'll have something worthy to replace zefrank when he goes off the air this month.
posted by eyeballkid at 7:25 AM on March 7, 2007

Excellent, thanks Adam & Matt! I look forward to another one a year from now.
posted by riffola at 7:37 AM on March 7, 2007

Bucket science.

It's always gratifying when someone you see on TV who seems to be a decent funny guy actually comes across as a decent funny guy.
posted by Divine_Wino at 11:13 AM on March 7, 2007

I listened to this with Mythbusters playing in the background. I'm cool.

I dig that song, man!
posted by lampoil at 6:42 PM on March 7, 2007

Also "window candy"?!

I figured that was some weird Oregon slang.
posted by smackfu at 6:40 AM on March 8, 2007

This is good.
posted by phrontist at 11:54 AM on March 8, 2007

I'm probably way too late with this, but I had to share:

Adam and Jamie have been Simmed!
posted by deborah at 8:12 PM on March 8, 2007

MeFi's resident celebrity is much cooler than Fark's.
posted by Clamwacker at 10:50 PM on March 9, 2007

That was great! My husband will be so impressed. And chococat is the bee's knees.
posted by taz at 1:58 AM on March 10, 2007

A+

I like how neither of the MB hosts had formal training in "science" prior to doing the show.
posted by edgeways at 1:49 PM on March 10, 2007

ACK. You have dry mouth sound. Drink some water!
posted by cellphone at 4:35 PM on March 22, 2007