Firemen Have The Coolest Toys

It's A Treat To See The Sun Rise Over The Desert. What Am I Saying? It's A Treat To Fire Off A Rocket Car Over The Desert!

Walking The Floor At A Con Dressed As Chewbacca, You Might As Well Be Bono. I Mean It's Ridiculous. People Just Walk Up And Grab You And Hold You, Because They Love Chewbacca So Much.

Whether It's The Experiments On 'mythbusters' Or My Earlier Work In Special Effects For Movies, I've Regularly Had To Do Things That Were Never Done Before, From Designing Complex Motion-control Rigs To Figuring Out How To Animate Chocolate.

In Theory, Cars Are Fairly Simple. If They Don't Start, It's Either The Fuel System Or The Electrical System. Teach Yourself About The Path Of Each In Your Engine And Tracing It Is Fairly Straightforward. But At The Beginning, Mastering Each New System Seems Like An Unreachable Shore. The Car Is Effectively A Black Box.

I Think At This Point, There's A Certain Bizarre Chemistry Between Jamie [hyneman] And I That We Can't Ignore A Lot Of The Mechanics Of, That We're Quite Aware Of. Half Of It Is Absolutely Genuine, And Half Of It Is Us Playing Around With That Fact.