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Hardest-to-Obtain Item in MythBusters History

Adam Savage’s Tested

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In this livestream excerpt, Adam answers MythBusters-related questions from Tested members Monkeycircus and Jman3302 about which items were the hardest to obtain for the show, and what filming at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was like. Thank you for your questions and support, Monkey and Jman! Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks, like asking Adam questions!: @tested

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20 Comments

@michaelramon2411 4 years ago

Adam: "Can we blow up a grenade?"
Insurance: "No. Too dangerous."
Adam: "Can we make our own grenade out of plastic explosives and blow it up?"
Insurance: "I don't see why not."

@GijsvanDam 4 years ago

To make it even thinner than requested is the most German thing ever, but also they probably used metric, so delivered 20 micron thick lead foil, which is 0.000787 inch.

@jackalopewright5343 3 years ago

I had a friend that bought an L-19 Birddog aircraft that was French military surplus. After purchase, he set off to do a careful inspection. In a small compartment near the wing root, (overhead in this case) he felt something rolling around in there and found what appeared to be a hand grenade. Thinking it could either be a training grenade or maybe a real one, he carefully put it in a shoebox padded with newspaper and drove to the local police department. He didn't bring it inside, but told the story. When he got to the "I found what looks like a hand grenade" part, a bunch of police flattened him to the floor. Once they determined he didn't bring it in, they let him finish the story. In the end he got to watch as the bomb squad blew it up. It was real.

@Concorde4711 2 years ago

For those who wonder: This extreme thin lead foil is used for industrial x-ray films. They have an amplifying effect and reduce exposure time. Greetings from Germany.

@MrCunningham4 3 years ago

I love the symbiotic relationship you guys had with the bomb squad, you get free C4, they get a training experience, and everyone wins

@fissionphoenix4995 4 years ago

I love that Adam is able to reminisce about Mythbusters in such a positive way without also bemoaning them as being the "good old days" in his life or anything like that. The way he tells his stories it was just a super positive experience and even though it's over and done with he has absolutely no issues with that fact.

Storytelling is a wonderful skill and one I really wish to develop because I find that even family members get bored when I try to tell a story haha.

@ameliatbh001 4 years ago

I was wondering why those bomb squad folks worked with y'all so readily over the years. It's so interesting (and entertaining) to me that they considered all those explosions to be training exercises.

@Real28 4 years ago

That story about the lead foil is fascinating. It's incredible that it took a year and half and your request broke 2 companies machines. So crazy.

@zachlewis9751 3 years ago

Adam: we couldn’t get a grenade!
Also Adam: we vaporized a cement truck!

@keystonecarpenter3546 2 weeks ago

I figured that the javelin missile would’ve been on the list.

@Slide100 4 years ago

Throwing your first live grenade is simultaneously exciting and terrifying. You’ve been hearing the booms all morning while you’ve been waiting your turn, and then you’re holding this small, surprisingly heavy globe of death in your hand.

@jaydentierney2194 4 years ago (edited)

I find it funny how they were allowed to build a granade with C4 but not allowed to source one, "can we have a granade please" "no just build one"

@mgsPWlover 3 years ago

One could argue they actually made their own very large grenade via the exploding cement truck

@PropagandalfderWeiße 1 year ago

2:47 My grandfather was a nuclear researcher in the 60s and 70s. For one experiment he also needed foil, if I remember it was Copper foil, but also at a rediculous thinness, and he also phoned Epstein Foils and when he picked it up (we live about 5km from their factory) he got it for free from the factory director, because he, quote "would do anything for spaceflight"

@zachlewis9751 8 months ago

The Mythbusters: evaporated a cement truck and met the US President, but can’t get a damn mk3a2 grenade

@plastix6041 4 years ago

i want to know "Given today's technology, can you think of any myths who's results wouldve changed if you had given tech "

@Shakes-Off-Fear 4 years ago

I think part of the issue with the insurance with the grenades, Adam, is that they saw you on television, trying to pull a pin (on an inert grenade) with your teeth 😂 and they said to themselves “Ohhhhh my god…”

@ImrePolik 4 years ago

Adam in the early days on the phone: "I'm trying to locate a pig's stomach... Hello? ..." Classic!

@PaddyOShenanigans 3 years ago

I never understood the phrase "Up on the wheel" Until I drove a 6oo HP Nascar stock car around Michigan International Speedway @ 140+ mph. The intense focus of going that fast literally tenses all of your body into that moment and when it's over you look back and realise you were pulling yourself forward gripping the wheel and straining against the 5 point harness in ernest. An experience I will never forget.

@ZtotheMills 3 years ago

I am now very curious how much time was spent between shots, of the bomb squad analyzing every single detail of the explosion, the footage, and aftermath to get their own data.
I just find this 'Training exercise' relationship to be very fascinating.