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3: Adam Savage Interview

mathowie — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:04:41 -0800

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

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:04:56 -0800

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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.

By: fluffy battle kitten

fluffy battle kitten — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:06:46 -0800

YAY! (excellent solution to Jessamyn being down under.)

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:13:13 -0800

Also "window candy"?!

I meant "window dressing" or "eye candy".

By: scheptech

scheptech — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:21:46 -0800

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.

By: fluffy battle kitten

fluffy battle kitten — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:35:54 -0800

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.

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:52:09 -0800

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.)

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:54:11 -0800

Yay!

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:05:09 -0800

Where did the 'Metafilter's own' thing first start?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:21:27 -0800

I'm going to go with the Comedy Kottke Option. Just a guess.

By: peacay

peacay — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:25:29 -0800

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.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:36:16 -0800

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.

By: empath

empath — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:38:17 -0800

Excellent. Somebody should take this interview and turn it into a more traditional 'interview-profile' magazine piece.

By: empath

empath — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:40:40 -0800

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.

By: JanetLand

JanetLand — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:53:33 -0800

I love me some hot window candy, actually.

By: chococat

chococat — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:33:54 -0800

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!"

By: Optamystic

Optamystic — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:11:21 -0800

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'.

By: smackwich

smackwich — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:19:04 -0800

Adam Savage! Hot damn!

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:28:40 -0800

A mefi shoutout/easter egg on TV. Spiffy.

By: Xoder

Xoder — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:38:10 -0800

Matt, did our own asavage call you "Mike" at the end there? I wouldn't feel too bad about your own malapropism. ;-)

By: danb

danb — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:51:08 -0800

I think it was "like" -- "If you wanna do this again, like, in a year or so..."

By: fenriq

fenriq — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:53:11 -0800

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!

By: Sk4n

Sk4n — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:59:51 -0800

So Adam is in the "Mee Fie" camp too, huh.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:24:47 -0800

Once again, really cool.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:45:12 -0800

Fun interview, great song! Thanks!

By: drezdn

drezdn — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:28:03 -0800

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*

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:20:34 -0800

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.

By: timeistight

timeistight — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:21:28 -0800

Also, that is a great song.

Yeah, chocolat, I liked that a lot. And I'm pretty hard to please.

By: found missing

found missing — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:33:14 -0800

Matt is a better interviewer than Jon Stewart. I'm just saying.

By: YoBananaBoy

YoBananaBoy — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:47:44 -0800

Awesome. That's Awesome.

By: milov

milov — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:35:21 -0800

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!

By: Otis

Otis — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:56:30 -0800

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.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:10:07 -0800

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".

By: snsranch

snsranch — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:22:59 -0800

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.

By: your mildly obsessive average geek

your mildly obsessive average geek — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:51:53 -0800

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 =(

By: serazin

serazin — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:00:47 -0800

Adam Savage, why is your show not on Netflix??

By: shelleycat

shelleycat — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:36:37 -0800

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.

By: Danelope

Danelope — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:04:02 -0800

By: gwint

gwint — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:00:37 -0800

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

Ha! Great interview, kudos Matt.

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:38:43 -0800

Great interview. I'm glad you had the willpower not to dub over with "eye candy."

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:25:41 -0800

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.

By: riffola

riffola — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:37:16 -0800

Excellent, thanks Adam & Matt! I look forward to another one a year from now.

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:13:46 -0800

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.

By: lampoil

lampoil — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:42:55 -0800

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

I dig that song, man!

By: smackfu

smackfu — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:40:34 -0800

Also "window candy"?!

I figured that was some weird Oregon slang.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:54:16 -0800

This is good.

By: deborah

deborah — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:12:38 -0800

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

Adam and Jamie have been Simmed!

By: Clamwacker

Clamwacker — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:50:34 -0800

MeFi's resident celebrity is much cooler than Fark's.

By: taz

taz — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:58:18 -0800

That was great! My husband will be so impressed. And chococat is the bee's knees.

By: edgeways

edgeways — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:49:52 -0800

A+

I like how neither of the MB hosts had formal training in "science" prior to doing the show.

By: cellphone

cellphone — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:35:20 -0800

ACK. You have dry mouth sound. Drink some water!