66 Adam Savage - The Joy of Being a Maker

Inquiring Minds

Science, Society & Culture, Neuroscience, Female Host, Interview, Social Sciences, Critical Thinking

4.4 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2014

⏱️ 34 minutes

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On the show this week we talk to Mythbusters host and friend of the show Adam Savage. We caught up with Savage shortly after our live show with him (episode 58) at his workshop in San Francisco. Indre talks to Savage about the future of Mythbusters, Hollywood, exploding turkeys, the joy of being a maker, #Gamergate, and what it's like to be a rock-star science communicator. You can also watch this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNHbJ1fBrpASupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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0:00.0	It's Friday, December 26th, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds.
0:05.5	I'm producer Adam Isaac.
0:07.1	Each week we bring you a new in-depth exploration of the space where science, politics, and society collide.
0:13.2	We endeavor to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why at all matters.
0:17.3	You can find us at motherjones.com slash inquiring minds on Twitter at Inquiring
0:22.1	show and on Facebook at slash Inquiring Minds podcast. You can subscribe to the show on iTunes
0:27.5	or any other podcasting at.
0:35.1	Today's episode is brought to you by Christmas.
0:38.4	Indre is off with her family, so here I am Forced, which I introduce this week's show for you.
0:44.6	In a minute, I'm going to run an interview with Adam Savage we did back in November.
0:48.6	An interview we haven't actually yet run on the show.
0:52.1	Adam Savage is the co-host of MythBusters on the Discovery Channel,
0:55.7	the new season of which premieres very soon on January 10th, and a self-described obsessive
1:01.1	maker of things. He's a special effects designer, fabricator, actor, educator, and all-around
1:06.0	top-notch guy. We recorded the conversation in his top secret workshop slash cave in San Francisco,
1:13.1	and I should mention that there's also video of it. So if you would like to see as well as hear
1:17.5	the interview, you can go to YouTube.com slash inquiring show. We did this interview just after
1:24.5	our live show with Adam, which we ran as episode number 58. It's a
1:29.3	wide-ranging conversation, and they expand on a lot of things they talked about on stage,
1:33.5	like the future of MythBusters, the joys of being a maker, problems with GamerGate,
1:39.1	and what exactly it's like to be a rock star science communicator. So with that, let's go to the interview.
1:45.9	Welcome to Inquiring Minds, Adam Savage. Thank you. Thanks for letting us into your cave.
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