{"id":6904,"date":"2025-09-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=6904"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:11:20","slug":"interview-with-adam-savage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2025\/09\/26\/interview-with-adam-savage\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Adam Savage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2k4A_MLXUSA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We were thrilled to welcome back the incomparable <strong>Adam Savage<\/strong><sup>1<\/sup>! It&#8217;s been two decades since his first interview with us, and the capital &#8216;M&#8217; Maker is busier than ever. He shares how his work evolved after <em>MythBusters<\/em> and <em>MythBusters Junior<\/em>, moving to the creation of roughly 400 videos a year on his incredibly successful YouTube channel, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@tested\">Tested<\/a><\/strong>. Adam discusses the incredible access his reputation has granted him in film and aerospace industries, his thoughts on the current state of maker technology\u2014from having 3D printers in his shop to his reluctance to jump on AI for creative output\u2014and his philosophy of being a &#8220;permission machine&#8221; that inspires others to pursue their deepest passions. Tune in to hear the full interview, including Adam&#8217;s favorite movie, sound effect, and, of course, a deep dive into his complex relationship with duct tape!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to revisit the first time we interviewed him 20 years ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2005\/10\/28\/interview-adam-savage\/\">click here<\/a> and listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6899\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6904-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep783_250924.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep783_250924.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep783_250924.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep783_250924.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Tech_Ep783_250924.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were thrilled to welcome back the incomparable Adam Savage1! It&#8217;s been two decades since his first interview with us, and the capital &#8216;M&#8217; Maker is busier than ever. He shares how his work evolved after MythBusters and MythBusters Junior, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2025\/09\/26\/interview-with-adam-savage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6901\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6904-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep783_250924.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep783_250924.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep783_250924.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep783_250924.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Tech_Ep783_250924.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-1Nm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6918,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904\/revisions\/6918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}