For me, the stories on Nesbusters that still move me are the ones in which I learned a deep new way of telling stories.

... Welcome to the well. I'm Brandon Edgians.

Anson will be joining us in just a moment.

The internet has enabled us to learn how to do just about anything. It's a DIY culture now, and Adam Savage has been front and center of it, where art and science and DIY all intersect.

Known primarily for MythBusters and now several of his own shows where he

generously shares his considerable know-how with an eager public. He's made the act of creation an

almost spectator sport, and it all started with something I like to call, busy hand syndrome.

It's funny that you put it that way.

I mean, I was, so my father was a painter and my mom was a psychologist.

My mom is a psychiatrist, psychologist.

And I grew up in a household where that the practice of doing something that was important to you was exemplified every day.

So my dad painted all the time several hours a day every day of my childhood.

And he sculpted his life as a freelance animator and filmmaker and director

so that he could do the work that paid the mortgage for as little as possible.

Like three months, one job, that'll pay for our year.

Excellent, I'm going to paint for the other nine months.

And he didn't even show a lot when I was a kid.

So it was clear to me that the point of this wasn't commerce. The point of this was that he had

to do this. So I grew up with that example. And that I think is for all the complication of my

dad, which is massive and significant, that was a really positive example of an austere

approach to, I have to do this thing. I'm not even sure why. He didn't talk about it a lot,

but that was, that was real. And then, you know, I screwed around thinking that being clever was enough

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