{"id":1066,"date":"2007-10-28T19:37:54","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T03:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/10\/28\/me-and-the-mythbusters\/"},"modified":"2007-10-28T19:37:54","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T03:37:54","slug":"me-and-the-mythbusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/10\/28\/me-and-the-mythbusters","title":{"rendered":"Me And The Mythbusters"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recent\u00adly sub\u00admit\u00adted a ques\u00adtion<\/a> to the Freako\u00adnom\u00adics guys for an inter\u00adview with the Myth\u00adBusters.<\/p>\n

They picked my ques\u00adtion<\/a> as the first one! <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my ques\u00adtion and their answer:<\/p>\n

\nMe: Could you describe the brain\u00adstorm\u00ading process that goes into an episode? How far in advance do you begin plan\u00adning? Who sits in dur\u00ading those meet\u00adings?<\/b><\/p>\n

ADAM: The usu\u00adal crowd at a brain\u00adstorm\u00ading ses\u00adsion is me, Jamie, Alice Dal\u00adlow (our pro\u00adduc\u00ader), and whichev\u00ader researcher is doing the seg\u00adment we\u2019re work\u00ading on \u2014 either Den\u00adnis Kwon or Eric Haven. We also have an on-the-ground exec\u00adu\u00adtive pro\u00adduc\u00ader dur\u00ading an offi\u00adcial \u201csto\u00adry meet\u00ading.\u201d We usu\u00adal\u00adly have one or maybe two of them before shoot\u00ading a myth, but dis\u00adcus\u00adsions about sto\u00adries can hap\u00adpen all over the place, and at any time.<\/p>\n

Often, we\u2019ll ask for cer\u00adtain para\u00adme\u00adters as far as loca\u00adtions or mate\u00adri\u00adals, and as we dis\u00adcov\u00ader what\u2019s pos\u00adsi\u00adble or not pos\u00adsi\u00adble, we\u2019ll hone it down to what we\u2019re actu\u00adal\u00adly going to do. The show\u2019s researchers are fan\u00adtas\u00adtic about find\u00ading the weird\u00adest of things and experts, and Alice is bril\u00adliant at keep\u00ading us on track. The dis\u00adcus\u00adsions can be like herd\u00ading cats \u2014 there\u2019s a rib\u00adald, fun\u00adny atmos\u00adphere, and we\u2019ll range very far from the top\u00adic at hand.<\/p>\n

Plan\u00adning can take any\u00adwhere from a month to a day or two, depend\u00ading on the sched\u00adule. We\u2019ve had crit\u00adi\u00adcal loca\u00adtions fall through at the last minute, and need\u00aded to turn 180 degrees on a few hours\u2019 notice. We\u2019ll also flag dif\u00adfi\u00adcult sto\u00adries as far in advance as we think nec\u00ades\u00adsary. Some things, like get\u00adting per\u00admis\u00adsion to film at Giants Sta\u00addi\u00adum for the Jim\u00admy Hof\u00adfa sto\u00adry, have tak\u00aden the bet\u00adter part of a year to work out.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the dis\u00adcus\u00adsions that Jamie and I have. We\u2019ll often take a dif\u00adfi\u00adcult prob\u00adlem home, think about it overnight, and maybe dis\u00adcuss the prob\u00adlems we see in it while dri\u00adving to a loca\u00adtion. We also play devil\u2019s advo\u00adcate with each oth\u00ader \u2014 if one of us has a good idea, the oth\u00ader will poke as many holes in it as pos\u00adsi\u00adble, and in this way we try our best to shake out any prob\u00adlems before we hit them.<\/p>\n

JAMIE: This is, believe it or not, the most fun we have on the show. There is no under\u00ades\u00adti\u00admat\u00ading the thrill of a big cat\u00ada\u00adstro\u00adphe or explo\u00adsion; but if you real\u00adly want to know what gets us going, it\u2019s the brain\u00adstorm\u00ading. Once a top\u00adic has passed muster, some basic research has been done by our research team, and we are down to nut\u00adting it out, Adam and I swing into action \u2014 sort of. Usu\u00adal\u00adly we go home first and think about it overnight, and then come in burst\u00ading with ideas. We set up in front of a dry erase board, and lay out any solu\u00adtions we came up with by our\u00adselves.<\/p>\n

Amaz\u00ading\u00adly, as much as we are of dif\u00adfer\u00adent tem\u00adpera\u00adments, we quick\u00adly spot the best solu\u00adtions and chip in to flesh the approach out. It becomes like play\u00ading Ping-Pong with ideas. Some\u00adtimes it gets so intense that there is no time to com\u00adplete sen\u00adtences; it becomes a bunch of ges\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions, some pieces of words or phras\u00ades, and then, when we come out on the oth\u00ader end, the approach is fleshed out. We call it the \u201cMyth\u00adBusters Mind\u00admeld.\u201d To any\u00adone lis\u00adten\u00ading, it is gib\u00adber\u00adish, but it allows us to plow through a huge amount of design\u00ading in no time (which is what we have a lot of on the show).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest of the inter\u00adview.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recent\u00adly sub\u00admit\u00adted a ques\u00adtion to the Freako\u00adnom\u00adics guys for an inter\u00adview with the Myth\u00adBusters. They picked my ques\u00adtion as the first one! Here\u2019s my ques\u00adtion and their answer: Me: Could you describe the brain\u00adstorm\u00ading process that goes into an episode? How far in advance do you begin plan\u00adning? Who sits in dur\u00ading those meet\u00adings? \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cMe And The Myth\u00adbusters\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-hc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}