Best “I Told You So” Moments with Jamie
Did Adam Savage have any “I told you-so’s” moments with Jamie on MythBusters? As an educator, how does Adam encourage …
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March 5, 2026
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Did Adam Savage have any “I told you-so’s” moments with Jamie on MythBusters? As an educator, how does Adam encourage …
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I have a hard time believing anyone could tell Jamie "I told you so"
As someone who religiously watched the LotR BTS, Adam's Richard Taylor impression is hilarious.
I always open jars with a grippy glove on, it's mainly grip not strength that is lacking.
"You see them" is so insightful. It really is. It's always remarkable to hear so much truth in so few words, and I treasure it each time I encounter it. I expect I'll be thinking about this one for a while.
Also, on the more pragmatic side of aging—or rather one's body declining. I'm still in my twenties, I just got screwed by genetics 😂—I have found two things transformational in coping with it. The hard one is to admit that you can't do things like you used to, but that doesn't make you worth any less. Looking for strategies to work around your limits is absolutely the right mindset. Tools, tricks, and new angles are your best friends.
The easy one is specific to declining eyesight: give yourself more light. It's so simple but it makes such a difference. Carry a flashlight in your pocket for direct light, add new lights to your work space, move things around to take advantage of windows, buy some mirrors to reflect natural light. If like me you struggle with light strain think about the color and diffusion of light. I have a new lamp that cuts way down on the blue light and I can move it to reflect the light off my wall, absolute game changer.
Your bit about seeing people – all of it, from the making people believe in themselves, to it being the most important thing you can do, to the early trauma – spoke so deeply to me, and where I'm at right now. I just want to be seen. I want it so badly. And it's so difficult sometimes. And I feel like I've gone so long without really being seen that even when I get little tastes of it, I can't fully enjoy it because I'm already bracing for its absence. Thank you so much for helping me gain that insight about my current condition. My heart feels full.
I suspect that one strong balancer for getting old and not being able to do things physically the way you did them before is that you should hopefully be a lot more cunning and able to leverage a tool or trick of physics learned through experience to get the same goal accomplished.
Got a lid you can't force off? I bet you know how to warm up that lid very quickly. I bet you know a trick on how to get more leverage and/or more grip. I bet you know how to gently pry the edge off the lid away from the body just a little to reduce the friction coefficient along the edge… Or just tap that lid edge as you rotate the jar to shock the seal so that it isn't quite a stuck as it was before.
One way or another, you can leverage any number of things to get the job done if you slow down and think about the problem a bit. Sometimes we all get so wrapped up in doing things the same way all the time or get lost in thought lamenting what we can't do any more a that we forget that there are probably a dozen different ways to get to the goal line.
With age comes wisdom, but it takes exercising that creative thinking to take advantage of it.
Is this guy STILL milking mythbusters?
If you could live two or three hundred years in modest health, you could learn so much… you could be a wizard. Knowing so much more than those pesky gyrating 60 year olds. I think you should study magic tricks as a science.
WOrking with a new client, a designer who is not used to working with custom builds. I never got the whole problem, the complete measurement for a corner wall and I made the cabinets way too big. I was doing the math and giving drawings and getting approval and it just didn't click with my partner and designer and now I have to build all four cabinets over again. But first I will offer a design drawing and get approval of it. It's a loss for everyone not to have good and complete communication. Lazy effort produced the wrong product. We need to have everything in writing, with numbers and accurate measurements before completing a project.
2:30 "You see them" is so true on so many levels. I can't describe how boosting it can be when the instructor is able to understand and directly address where a misunderstanding lies; while on the flip side it can be extremely disheartening when it feels like your questions go unanswered because it isn't an issue people typically have. Everyone starts at a different point and journeys through a different path towards mastery.
I really appreciate these stories. Thank for posting!!
Adam, I love you. Your humanity is a reflection of Jesus' love for you. I hope you take the redemption, the great mystery found in Christ.
“Old age is a shipwreck.”
-Charles de Gaulle
So far, that’s one of my favorites on aging
2:18 – May I suggest that it was not a matter of feeling no responsibility for it, but a matter of "Well, let's do this other thing to get this show on the road?"
What's this, Adam dropping some sage wisdom at the end of the video again? I never…
its so interesting hearing you in particular speak on growing old and recognizing your contributions to humanity as you became another mystery in the ethos as you are a human that shepherded me through so many great learning experiences and im forever grateful to you for being consistently thoughtful, thank you for all youve done and continue to do adam 🫂
Long live Team Jamie!
"it is time to take your place amongst the mysteries and to regard yourself as one of them".
Wow. that is such an insanely beautiful quote. I actually had to pause the video and think about it for a moment. I've never read those books and I'm thinking maybe I ought to. just thinking about all the other people in my life that quote applies to and just unraveling the thoughts it brought up for me actually made me shed a tear. Wonderful. Thank you for being you Adam. I know this comments a bit late for this video but if you happen upon this. Thank you for my childhood with mythbusters. and all the words and teachings you have passed along over the years.
If I could have any super power it would be "Get around like I am in my 20's man!"
I'm so jealous of people who can just live in the moment.
A jar? Today I struggled with, and battled mightily against plastic wrapping around a pack of low carb tortillas… and lost. In my own defense, it was an epic battle that Homer might have appreciated. Fate smiled upon me. In the nick of time, I found myself rescued by a pair of kitchen scissors. Getting old sucks, indeed.
11:09
Holy crap. He just summed up the most worthwhile, productive, moral, efficient goals in every major religion… facilitated best in a scant few words. “You see them… everyone wants to be seen.”
Zen Master Hyneman.
i'm autistic. and been autistic is mostly not been seen… 😢
It's totally fine to tell someone the framework is wrong…if it's wrong. It's fine to feel shame. That's the problem not gatekeeping..but acting like you are owed a life without shame.
Thank you, Adam, I learn something knew from each of these segments.
I can see where Adam is patronizing
I love that living in the moment, it’s nice that there are redeemable characteristic’s
https://youtu.be/WefPAy2lqrA?t=310 – Yes, exactly! (And I am guilty of that, "WRONG!", often myself.)