Ask Adam Savage: When Good Lightsaber Battles Go Bad 

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Adam, I’ve been watching you since the first Mythbusters, and now all your tested and RU-vid content. You’ve never lost your wonder and joy with everything. It brings me endless joy to watch. Love the comic con walks in costume in particular.

Adam Savage : "The Star Wars Universe is just a source of an endless amount of happiness and fun adventure for me." These words speak to my heart.

Let's take a moment to appreciate how good Adam is at answering questions. He's a great answerer

This gentleman’s joy is so intoxicating, keep sharing your passion, we love it!

“Something colorful” HAHAHA

I think my favorite parts of these videos are the personal anecdotes. It's just so charming.

Employee: “Well I guess you should have got the power scrubber” :)

44 years ago today , Star Wars opened in only 32 theatres across the nation . Think about how crazy that is ! Almost everyday on tv or elsewhere you will hear a Star Wars reference ! Also Return of the Jedi turns 38 today ! Thanks for all of your awesome videos Adam !

I purchased a 2007 40” Sony Bravia. I had it mailed to me In Ketchikan, Alaska. When I told the local cable company that I had a nice flat screen he asked if I could test the cable company’s channel clarity. When the brand new ATT fiber optic company came in they asked me to do the same. I received both services at a very reduced cost. That was a cool experience.👍

Enjoy the mic elements, Adam! Looking forward to seeing them installed some day.

I think my favorite parts of these stories is that they have stories with stories for the stories.

The parenting lesson about not letting your kids watch television in the morning is SO important! Thanks Adam.

(In Bill Murry Voice) "So I was going down to Toshi station to get a power converter and this guy starts trying to sell me a power scrubber, and I'm like buzz off Alderan and then they were trying to do the same thing to this other guy who clearly needed a grade 7 light saber protection grid for his new ento-info-plas screen cause it's obvious he's got some light sabre wielding younglings around his dwelling but noooooooooooo before they can even get to the grid pitch he's all, "do you know who I am?" dark lord of sith like and the weak minded fools backed off, well wouldn't you know it, the very next day he comes back with light sabre busted screen, maybe them weak minded fools were onto something".

As a kid I used to wake up at around 4:30-5:00 AM on Saturdays to catch The Nature World of Captain Bob and draw along with what he was doing, then I would go back to sleep until breakfast. My parents never minded as long as I kept the volume low, and didn't wake up my brother (who was ADHD well before the diagnosis had evolved to what we know today).

I got into a saber fight with my friend once. I took a big swing and i was aiming for his chest, but uh... needless to say, his nose doesn't look quite the same anymore...

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a power scrubber? I tried looking it up and all I found were electric brushes and vacuum cleaners.

The summer the TV broke is the same summer I became a life-long lover of books! (I still love TV though)

What happened?? “something colorful” 🤓❤️😂

i spent 3 grand on a beautiful flat screen around 2006. My wife thought i was crazy but we STILL have and use it because its a fabulous TV. Totally worth it.

Your story about the commercial reminded me of the time that my father as a cub scout leader filled a pinata full of superballs. He didn't tell anyone what he put in the pinata so it was a surprise to everyone. Imagine a school gymnasium full of cub scouts and a couple of gallons worth of superballs. More dangerous than Chernobyl!

I still have a Sony Bravia flat screen TV. It survived several moves and still works great. Plan to keep it until it dies. Not in any hurry to get 4K.

"And young Mr. Savage, what did you see in that black monolith on the wall?" "Something colorful!"

the best lightsaber and wii stories always start 3 years earlier when you bought the tv.

I have a very similar story with my bravia tv back in 2009. I had just bought a brand new one from best buy (they talked me into buying insurance that supposedly covered "anything") I get home and set it up and a buddy and I started playing rock band. He was on the drums and I was on guitar. we were going along and he gets mad at me for whatever reason and ends up throwing a drum stick at me completely missing and hitting my $2000+ tv.... of course, insurance didnt cover rock band incidents

I would have told them "Be glad that lightsabers aren't real."

Storytelling is a gift, and, Mr. Savage, you've got it.

"I'm the man who's gonna BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! - WITH THE LEMONS!"

EVERY TIME YOU THINK YOU LOVE ADAM SAVAGE AND THEN HE TELLS YOU A STORY THAT MAKES YOU LOVE HIM MOAR!!!!!

I bought a BRAVIA CRT many, many years ago and an LCD years later, and both had a beautiful picture (the LCD, still to this day even in comparison with newer TVs I have).

6:47 Wait, what? That bouncing ball TV advertisement was REAL? Wow. For however many years, I always thought that was CGI!

"You see, something's going to happen. You must leave. " -- What? What's going to happen? " Something wonderful."

"my 40th birthday so it was 2007" and now i feel old...

I would have saved the tv and given it to one of the them for a graduation present.

Pretty good kid's voice.

Lol my favorite story is from back in like 2003 2004 when I was at best buy. Pioneer had just released the first flat screen plasma tv. We weren't even allowed to sell them without an install because it was a 13 grand tv. Guy swears up and down he can install it himself. So we get the manager and he approves the sale. 3 days later he brings the tv back saying it was broken out of the box. after slot of back and forth he finally admits that he broke it when his wall collapsed because of the weight.

Adam, I'd imagine you're on Facebook, possibility in disguise, so if so, I'd recommend the Star Wars Found Parts group if you're not already a member.

"You need a power scrubber" *That*, sir, sounds like a testable proposition!

Loved that commercial with all the colorful bouncing balls in the San Fran street. I always assumed it was CG trickery, because Shirley they wouldn't seriously release so many balls in the middle of a street.... fun backstory, great ad.

Love hearing stories like this. Never had to replace a tv due to a lightsaber, ceiling light and a new iphone were destroyed from my sons lightsaber play though. Have had to replace four tv's over the years though, the first was an unfortunate incident involving a very hot bowl of ramen noodles and the second Indy's whip. The other two tv's screens were destroyed by playstation controllers one by my son the other by one of his friends. I actually replaced the tv damaged by the ramen noodles with a Sony Bravia, while not the primary tv anymore, still works great to this day. I purchased mine in '08/'09 and the price had come down to two grand.

Adam may be the only living human on the planet to actually receive an Anovos new order storm trooper helmet and armor. Lol.

I was so depressed when Mythbusters ended thinking i wouldnt get to see you do what you do best anymore. Thank you for doing this channel. You always bring so much positivity and fun to everything you do. Love you Adam. Ive learned so much from you over the years. How to build things easier and better and a thousand little useless info tidbits. You , and Jamie, make this world and this life more fun and better. I would absolutely kill to get to spend a day with u in your cave just watching you do what you do and build a couple things

So happy he answered my question! Thanks tested.

Even with a fake blaster Adam still practices trigger discipline. Bravo.

Not only is the location, placement and the timing perfect but, the tone of the "You do know who I am, right?" that makes it perfect. Any other way just makes the speaker sound arrogant and entitled.

I love how you refer to your kids as Thing 1 and Thing 2, and the Thing voice, lol. Poor TV tho...

So today I learned that Adam's about 5 years older than me, and that we both bought our first big flat screen TV's in 2007. That said, he spent not quite 3 times what I did, but since he was making probably 10 times what I was at the time it balances out.

Apparently the Sony commercial was Google'd a lot recently. It was the first recommendation when I typed bravia

This happened to me in around 2012 when my little sister and my brother’s friend drove my lightsaber through our new TV

I have that tv watched many episodes of mythbusters on it. Only this week upgraded to a 75".

I would've been "you little brat! You're NOT going to college"!!

I brought my first lightsaber last year. When it arrived in the mail, I start trying it out, twirling it around, giggling at the light and sound effects. The blade was longer than I anticipated and I end up smacking the ceiling lamp in my room, shattering the glass cover.

these are the best stories. thank you for sharing

6:26 I was hoping this was about to be some behind the scenes phantom menace gossip

"Too Matt." lol just take it son its perfect.

He said "May be a Mando first" and I heard "May be a Lando first" and I was thinking that would be cool as he is not a common cosplay subject . . .

I've learned that same lesson about kids watching TV in the mornings.

It will be fun to do show and tell with all your Star Wars cosplay items

"Something colourful" 😂😂😂

Thank you for the awesome reply Adam :)

Where I grew up television didn't even start until midday and what was on after lunch was all for adults anyway; the TV for kids didn't begin until after school hours, 3pm to 5.30pm. We didn't even have Saturday morning TV until I was 10. I think I agree in that a lot of the stimulation kids have today that we didn't experience ourselves as kids is part of what makes their behaviour different and unpredictable to us. i.e. it's not just evolving pop culture, it's the increasing power of targeted entertainment.

I had that same Bravia TV! Yea, it was expensive!

Hey Adam have an idea for a video you can do one of the things i like most about your channel is all building costumes and stuff like that and there is a tv show called the masked singer that the whole thing comes there are crazy costumes i think it would be really cool if you try to build one

What a great story. Somehow I found it very relatable.

Last week I broke my ceiling light with one of my lightsabers. I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who’s not quite yet savvy with the force

Fantastic and beautiful parenting story. Anyone have a favorite movie or TV show they got to share with their kids?

Damn kids lol... usually always the best stories lol

Ha! You Ron Swansoned that guy.

I would imagine on a cold day in San Francisco you could go out to get your coffee dressed as Chewie and no one would bat an eyelid?

The hell is a power scrubber? Like is that some scam they run to say your electriciry is dirty when it goes through your walls and you gotta buy this adaptor to scrub that muck out of your lines like it's dirty water? 😂

“As someone who had enjoyed a little bit of fame” - the world famous Adam Savage

Hi Adam. I would so like to see you make the Battletank from the 1983 kids puppet program Terrahawks.

José González - heartbeats

Wait... you have twin sons you call "Thing 1 and Thing 2, who have oft-ill-advised lightsabre duels? Wait, are you me? Tangent story: My boys and I used to have frequent duels, with the regular store-bought toy sabres, and I'd generally win, because they were old enough that they actually wanted a challenge, rather than me just letting them win. One day, Liam shyly asked me "Dad? Can I try my Jedi moves?" I said "Sure!" figurungbhe'd probably try ill-timed spins and dramatic flourishes, and I'd have to hold back a bit, to let him try his moves out. We squared off, andvinitiated the battle by touching blade tips together. Remember the scene in Ep 3, when Yoda fights Palpatine, and Yoda is fighting like a psycho hummingbird, just completely striking at Palpatine from every direction? Well, imagine 10-year-old Liam is Yoda, and I'm... Pee-wee Herman. I could block NOTHING!!! Forget attacking, all I could do was hold my Maul sabre upright, to try to not actually be killed! I asked "WHAT was THAT?!?!?" "My Jedi moves!" Liam has ALWAYS loved the Jedi, to the point that, when they were 5, he refused to have his picture taken with Darth Vader!

I thought that the no television punishment was given after Adam found his kid hiding a second phone after bed time.

I see that ep 1 Obi-Wan lightsaber hilt in the corner, I wanna see the full thing.

Adam, build an operating Stillsuit from Dune. (Yes I know he only responds to "contributors", but you never know...)

the add you refer to was published in 2005 ;)

That is a really nice first Order helm!!

Hey I know it says support the channel to ask questions but this also goes to anyone else in the comments, I’ve been working on a mandalorian costume and I want to make a sword that looks like Damascus steel, I’m thinking about hydro dipping a prop sword but I also want to know if their are any other recommended was of doing prop Damascus steel.

I wonder what the ratio of how many unfinished VS "finished" costumes Adam has :)

Wait you couldn’t return the TV? Idk what the return policy was at Best Buy in 2007 but if you just got the TV why couldn’t you just swap it out?

Adam, I love all the cool Star Wars items you have in your cave. I am a big fan of the ILM art for the original trilogy and wonder if you have any replica's of one of those paintings and if not what painting would you like to have?

Ay Adam joining hacksmith with the bounty hunters

Now I know to be on the look out for a Chewbacca at Fan X ;)

I love the First Order stormtrooper armour despite my opinion on the sequels

Television star promoting the restriction of television for young kids - love it :D

I’m more interested in that wrist watch you wear. I love to see people wearing timepieces and always interested in what they wear.What is your daily go to watch?

When I was 5 or 6, I was playing with my fathers model truck from Smokey And The Bandit, and accidentally broke it.. Would much rather he had dealt out some punishment then, instead of him still passive aggressively bringing it up 20 years later

I got kicked out of Best Buy, I worked for Apple as an independent contractor and was there helping customers with the new original iMac. Oddly a employee of Best Buy came over and asked me what the difference was between gold plated and non-gold plated cables for a computer. I said $29.99. Employee was confused and I explained if the end to end connection is not gold plated there is no benefit, you’re only paying more for the believe it helps. No more than 10 minutes later the manager is kicking me out of the store, mind you this was Thanksgiving weekend and I was selling iMacs like crazy, he said they needed the parking, I said I was dropped off, he got so frustrated he just said leave. So I did, reported to Apple and shortly after Apple pulled their products from Best Buy, not saying I was the reason, but Best Buy upswell is so ridiculously fraud and telling people lies. I don’t buy anything from Best Buy over that interaction.

imagine if whoever designed that volvo hated that dashboard... and then they look up and it's on han solo.

Anyone else want a video of Parenting Tips/Lessons? I can imagine it being a difficult subject, but if the issue is a perceived lack of interest- I would like to express my interest.

I still have my master replica's Anakin lightsaber, I've replaced the blade and still need to replace the speaker and it still gets used.

I don't know how these questions get asked but I am wondering if Adam has any engineeie ways to store food

I took a lightsaber to the eye once. Left a small cut and a bump.

Do the repainted, black clad Boba Fett from The Mandalorian and future Book of Boba Fett,

Does adam know about warhammer ? Would be cool seeing power armor, couldnt be that far from the iron man suit :D

Adam , are you a 501st member?

Could you show off your Darth Vader Suit?

Why do you buy them if you can make them? Costumes and stuff