Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 276 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Adam Savage.

He's the former co-host of the Discovery Channel series Mythbusters,

and he currently helps run the technology website tested.com.

He's also worked on special effects for major films such as The Matrix Reloaded

and Star Wars episode 2, Attack of the Clones.

And we'll be speaking with him today about his new podcast Sci-Fi 25 origin stories, which features interviews with many of the biggest names in science fiction and entertainment,

including Neil Gaiman, Nettie Kaurifor, Ron Moore, and Jonathan Frakes.

And now here's our interview with Adam Savage.

All right, so we're here with Adam Savage.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you very much.

Thanks for having me. Okay, so your new podcast is called SciFi 25 origin stories.

So how did that come about?

SciFi is turning 25 years old this year and they wanted to they wanted to build a

podcast series that tried to be comprehensive as comprehensive as you could be

within reason looking at the history of

SciFi as a genre from the viewpoint of creators and from fans and they reached out to me.

I love this idea so much. Science fiction has meant so much to me over the years.

That the minute it got mentioned to me, I was like, yeah, I'm in. I totally know. I know what I want to do. I know how I want to do it. And

SciFi themselves were an amazing partner in both coming up with the overall thrust of the interviews and really

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