Mike Rowe and MythBusters' Educational Impact 

Would LOVE to hear Adam on Mike Rowe's podcast!!

Mike Rowe is a fraud w/ a fake scholarship program and supports the worst people in Govt.

You should have a talk with Stephen Fry about Empiricism!

You need to do your math Adam... if they were 16 year olds and the show was off the air 7 years ago, the kids were 9 years old not 11 years old. Whats 16 minus 7? LOL! By the way, get Mike Rowe to be a guest on Adam Savage’s Tested. That would be cool!

Loved hearing Adam talk about the people who have been inspired to higher education or jobs in engineering or science as a result of MythBusters that he had met and talked to at conventions. Reminds me of stories told by members of Star Trek TOS, when they met fans of the show who went on to careers at NASA or became scientists and engineers after being inspired by the show.

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YOO ITS KYLE HILL

Thor isn't a result of mythbusters silly goose.

I would say the Outrageous Acts of Science & How It's Made can fill that void. OAOS uses internet clips and explains the science in it, How it's made is a good background show to show exactly what is being made. But other then that, I completely agree

@@danielland3767 Good insight, thank you.

I disagree Tested continues the Mythbusters legacy.

regular TV has ways to fill its coffers that do not have the costs of a show like Mythbusters and which attracts a larger viewership. Yes I just said that cheaper shows for dummies generate more revenue.

@@Mike19737 this is true

Best wishes for your future. 👍🤗🖖

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Best wishes, just be shure you get experience along the way. I've seen countless people get a PhD without it and then find after they graduate that there's no work for them because they don't have the experience.

Awesome!

Absolutely love this, best of luck with your PhD and what I’m sure will be a very fulfilling career.

That's cool, I was 26. I already back from OIF3 and this show encourage me so much to build with my kids now. The whole of the Discovery channel is great

same as a kid I would watch them over and over. I had them recorded on the tv. I ended up being a Heavy equipment mechanic.

@@danielkerkotchian okay that's cool...

Exact same for me, also in mechanical engineering!

Second that, I’m a Mechanical Engineer in part thanks to Mythbusters 🙌🏽

One of Adam's many mottos on MythBusters was a direct refutation of a Line spoken by Ed Harris in "Apollo 13." The real Gene Kranz never said it, but the line that Harris, as Kranz, spoke was "Failure is not an option!" Adam's motto was "Failure is ALWAYS an option!" 😁

There have been so many times in my life when failure has taught me more than immediate success might have. If, when learning how to do something, I screw it up and fail, I will usually have at least the first ideas of why or how I've failed. Trying something once and succeeding is no guarantee that I know why or how I've succeeded! That can lead to me mistakenly believing that I know how to do a thing, but I've actually just gotten lucky and have no real gauge for the ease or difficulty of the task. :)

And sometimes, even the failures can give you conclusions. One example was when they tested a myth of a solider who survived falling out a plane because the shockwave of an explosion dampened their fall. They ended up miscounting the drop of the dummy so it never came close to the explosion. Yet they saw that the debris and the glass shards from that explosion was also airborne. Therefore the myth was busted because even if the shockwave dampened them, the glass and debris would've killed them anyways

@@willmfrank I'm pretty sure that was/became the Apollo 13 mission motto. And I still say that it's a fine one, in so far as not letting failure stop you/ be the end of the road. KEEP TRYING.

@@willmfrank "Failure" of the overall mission to land on the moon was always a option for the men of mission control. However failure to bring the crew home alive was not a option for them. Something NASA learned the hard way when politics got into the shuttle program and now NASA is being very very through in its testing for Artemis and SLS.

if you look carefully, you can uncover entire watchlists of How it's made episodes, going back years and years. most are the American voiceovers. (my favorites are the English ones).

Dirty jobs and Mythbusters. You've brought up my childhood

Dirty Jobs has new episodes. I watched them last night. They haven't gone anywhere. Same for How Its Made which was on Discovery in Canada(its a Canadian show) and the Science channel in the US. It too is still going.

Intelligent content goes agains the best interests of the TV "programmers"

@@gyratgoldenwing1637 Yeah, I die a little inside and just start looking for audio books these days.

Jacque Cousteau too (for earlier generations). For me as a kid I remember watching in wonder at the “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” show. Dated and problematic but a wonder to me as a young child.

@@DBCuzitis Two shows I grew up with as well! :)

perfect comment

@@DBCuzitis Upvote. What wrong with dated and 'problematic'?

@@greentriumph1643 nothing, as long as you have proper context. They were different times

Careful about idolizing childhood heroes. I fully regret ever looking up to Mike Rowe and I recommend you look into his real character. Such a vile, greedy, person in reality. He believe in abolishing labor safety practice and procedure because it "costs your employer money." "Safety third" I believe was his words on it, among other disgusting opinions. Not to mention that super pretentious program he was or maybe still is running with scholarships.

​@@Nyx_2142maybe try watching his presentation for yourself

@@Nyx_2142 Yeah, Mike Rowe was a huge letdown. Even when he brought back Dirty Jobs for that new season recently, he peppered it with so much of that moronic "nobody wants to work anymore", "the newer generation doesn't understand hard work", etc. narrative that it started to suck all the joy out of it.

​@@Nyx_2142 I couldn't agree more!! I kept trying to overlook the absurd things I'd see him say publicly or online, until finally I saw him on Fox "news" spewing propaganda about "nobody wanting to work anymore." Sadly that wasn't the only illogical stuff he was saying. He went into all the usual grievance/victim mentality political propaganda the right lives for & pushes constantly. Highly disappointing that he just repeats whatever he hears as factual without caring if it's true. His detest for workers & workers rights was the last straw for me, I know an adversary & a shill when I see one... he's not an ally for workers, period

May he NOT rest in peace. I'm from a culture that believes we live on in the hearts we touch in our "lives." There are eternal beings. As Jamie says, "exult" in Grant. I believe the amount of energy he was born with had to permeate so many and that for people like Grant, there is no stillness or rest. Rock on Grant, we miss you at this moment in our lives but know your energy and being are unquantifiable!🙂👏💕

Congratulations! 🎉🥳👍🤗🖖

@@rainydaylady6596 thank you!

Don't know if you'd ever need to do it again, but striking the edge of the glass is another good way. It's why phone cases are so effective, they protect the weakest part of the glass, the outer edge.

just lightly graze the edge of it...

I have a Microtech knife called a Combat Troodon. It’s one of them they showed in John Wick 😅😊! Anyways it has a glass breaker on the butt. I basically tap a window and it shatters!

As countless PC builders can attest, the lightest tap to the edge can sometimes shattered a pane of tempered glass.

Adam Savage, Mike Rowe, and Craig Ferguson all mentioned in one video!?!!

Sincere and most importantly 'effective' teaching would NEVER be tolerated in the public school system. Hed have to run a private institution but even then the government would go after him for teaching REAL science and not "mEn CaN gEt PrEgNaNt HuR dUr"

@@Carnage7209 If Adam stays away from biology he should be fine.

@@Carnage7209 what a weird fucking pivot

@@Carnage7209 You're insane.

"Junkyard Wars" was another.

conflict isn't always negative

@@jonathanbethards3689 That is true because there are people/friends that converse like that. The main thought behind my post was that, we don't get to see what is in their heads when they converse.

Long live Barsky

I would like to add old school history channel as well. Now the real history is on a premium channel and the basic one is 90% nonsense

Add How It's Made to that list, and that's probably 90% of what I watched when all 4 of those shows were airing.

Late 90s and early 00s Modern Marvels are amazing watches even to this day.

Engineering An Empire was great, as well.

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t occasionally screw up simple arithmetic and then hunt for the problem for days.

Indeed, I scrolled through *countless* fanboy comments to finally find someone say this... Adam's use of this anecdote is a bit meaningless if he doesn't touch on the lesson learned from it! Intuitively, for me, black would be better, because it would cause the background to appear dimmer, so the photons reflecting back would be fewer, but of higher contrast. Whereas white would gather light from every angle, so it would take that much more light to provide visible contrast. Imagine shining a flashlight on a window-screen. It's not only (or maybe *even*) that Jaime was shutting down his intuition, but that he made the suggestion that maybe Adam wasn't thinking about it right, but also that he was so certain he was right that he couldn't step back for a moment to consider he might not be. Jaime, well, he just didn't have the patience. Which was, frankly, a bit frustrating in the show, because, frankly, what's not to love about Adam's energy? BUT: as a role-model, combined with Jaime's lack of patience and "figure it out yourself" mentality, makes for a lot of youngins who, frankly, won't even listen to reason from those with experience. And with Jaime as a role-model, makes for a lot of wise folk who don't even bother to try to share their wisdom. And thus, why history repeats...

Modern marvels and all the old school animal planet shows as well

My 22 year old daughter literally says the same thing. 😁

Yeah it's important we are nice to fascists.

He's absolutely correct, though. A job that you can learn in a matter of hours is simply not meant to be a lifelong endeavor. Everyone should always be working to develop skills to progress in their personal and professional lives. Just because you don't like hearing that doesn't make it any less true. Mike is the "worker's" biggest champion. But being such a champion requires that he acknowledge the reality of that which he is championing. Unskilled labor can only be compensated for what it's worth, which is not much when it can easily be replaced.

@@watcherofwatchers that doesn’t reflect the reality of a service-based postindustrial economy and is a view of labor that hasn’t been meaningfully accurate for 50 years. If you are working full time you should be able to afford a modest living, full stop.

I worked in fast food for 4 years. If you work hard they promote you to manager, or in my case ordering and receiving, ect. The entry job is mostly part time, high school and college students for the most part

@@watcherofwatchers...you don't know people's stories or why they choose not to move up. there might not be open positions or they'd have to agree to be transfered or anything else that presents complications in their life. it's nice to say always be learning new skills but there are always obstacles in the way that prevent people from getting training from having children, being a single parent, not having money, or other issues. and don't say there are resources because of you've never been tried to get access to those resources before you have no idea how hard it is to get them. it's easy to judge what something is meant to be when you have privilege it's another thing to try to live a life where you don't make a living wage because someone talks about how easy it is to move up or get other skills

@@DanielleBaum I'm going to ignore your privilege nonsense and remind you that we all exist where we are as a result of the sum of our choices. If you remain in a dead-end job for 30 years, then that's your fault; no one else's. You ALWAYS have the choice to leave, to seek other employment. In fact, you SHOULD do that, especially if you're in a job that will never allow you to flourish economically or in other ways that leave you fulfilled. It's necessary for people to learn this lesson. It's been forgotten, apparently. You are the only person who will reliably look out for you. You need to seize control of your life, take ownership for its direction. If you want to earn more than $20k/yr or whatever, then you need to make the choices to ensure that happens. It requires work and effort beyond what you put in at your unskilled job. This is true for anyone but for an unfortunate few who have serious disorders (of whatever type) that prevent them from tackling these higher endeavors.

Given his politics, it's not hard to see why he's anti-regulation. Very "don't tell me what to do" when it comes to authority only to turn around with a "now do what I say" when they're the boss.

He's also a huge fan of the American fascist right, which makes it hard-to-impossible to support him at all.

@@yyzhed Yes, anyone the slightest bit to the right is "facist" just like how anyone the slightest bit to the left is a Maoist. That's totally how it works, right guys?

I spent years advocating for apprenticeship programs as an option for high school students as opposed to standard college track studies. Mike’s Dirty Jobs program did some great PR for vocational education, unfortunately his politics kinda turned me off to him. I still say that a trade union apprenticeship is a great way to achieve a very comfortable career. I know it worked well for me.

clearly you haven't read the safety 3rd theory... It's a condemnation of the robotic and often ineffective safety policies that are commonplace in industry right now.

That is slightly off from what Mike was advacating. He said we shouldnt look down on people that go the trade school route. The US over encourages Unvisersity which is loaded with people who regret that and have a lot of student debt. As for the comment on "knowledge is actually taught" trust me that is so short sighted. If your AC unit breaks down who do you call to fix it? What happens when your car breaks down? Youre calling people in trade school. And in those schools they are getting the real knowledge on how things work in the classroom and working on real HVAC, cars, trucks etc to get their cert to enter the work force. Take it from someone who went to a top Grad School in STEM. Trade schools are way more what Adam is talking about real knowledge, most courses are checklist and exams in many Universities. Not the case at your local tech school.

Yeah, he's a master at coming off as apolitical and only being concerned with working people, but between his associations and the dogwhistles he uses, it's obvious where his beliefs lie. Which is a pity, because encouraging more people to become involved in trades is an admirable goal, especially in a society where our education system seems like it's only built to funnel students towards going to a 4 year college and get a "normal" degree, even if it's not for them. Sadly, a lot of the things he pushes on social media these days are actually harmful to the livelihoods of blue collar people, and it tarnishes what would otherwise be a good message.