Listen Again: Adam Savage on Critical Thinking and Truth in a Post-Truth World

Alive with Steve Burns

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

5.0 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Adam Savage sits down with Steve to discuss the future of facts, the scientific method, busting myths, and he gives us a peek inside his legendary workshop. Adam Savage is a veteran special-effects artist and maker whose early film work led him to co-host MythBusters, where his blend of engineering chops and gleeful chaos became a cultural staple. Currently he hosts Tested, his workshop-driven platform for builds, problem-solving, and general mischief. He’s a relentless advocate for curiosity, craftsmanship, and learning by doing—even if “doing” occasionally involves fire. You can follow Steve Burns @steveburnsalive on Instagram. Watch full episodes of Alive on YouTube. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. If you haven’t yet, now is a great time to subscribe to Lemonada Premium. You’ll get ad-free episodes and bonus content from Steve. Just hit the 'subscribe' button on Apple Podcasts, or, for all other podcast apps head to lemonadapremium.com to subscribe. Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hey, there you are. Come on in.
0:14.0	Good to see you. Welcome to Alive.
0:18.0	Okay. Question for today. Have you ever believed a story Even though you didn't know if it was true Mm-hmm Mm-hmm Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
0:40.5	Huh?
0:41.7	Huh?
0:43.8	There's tea.
0:47.1	You want tea.
0:51.4	Okay.
0:52.5	Here's the thing.
1:00.9	I was once a story that everyone believed, even though it wasn't true.
1:01.9	Yeah.
1:10.8	See, I was an urban legend, a proto-meam of sorts, a myth, if you will, for a while there.
1:17.5	Everyone kind of believed for like 15 years that I died.
1:26.9	Of some terrible event, like a drug overdose or a car crash or suicide or some awful shit.
1:29.3	It went on forever. Here you go.
1:42.9	And no matter what I did, I couldn't get truth to cut through a sea of stories, you know?
1:50.4	Simply because it seemed that everyone preferred the story to the facts.
2:02.2	It was really surreal. But now, honestly, it feels like that's all of us all the time, right?
2:05.6	I mean, we're standing in front of a fire hose of misinformation.
2:09.5	You open up your phone, and it's like all conspiracy theories,
2:13.5	and it feels like the truth is now some kind of a vibe or something,
2:16.6	and you add AI into the mix, and, man man I'm just wondering where all of this is headed
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