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haveblue posted:Her name was Jesse and she had been on the show much earlier in its run before Kari joined at all. Pretty sure you're thinking of Scottie. Jessie was only around while Kari was on maternity leave-IIRC, Kari was on like the second episode of Mythbusters.
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IRQ posted:I thought the VOs we get in the US were done by Canadians? That guy who narrates Mythbusters sure sounds like a Canadian and I'm pretty sure he's said dumb stuff like "zed" before. http://www.listenerguide.com/index2.php
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The table pull video looked horrible, but there are sooooooooooo many people that think these horrible videos on the web are real it isn't funny. I know this because I know many of these people.  Scottie was cool, but I will say that Jessie was a decent addition to the crew when Kari was on maternity leave. She, like Scottie, brought actual build experience to the team, but she didn't handle the horrible scripted segments so well. Kari isn't terrible, but a lot of times she doesn't bring much to the show. ToastyPotato fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Nov 3, 2010 |
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Nov 3, 2010 22:10
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haveblue posted:Her name was Jesse and she had been on the show much earlier in its run before Kari joined at all. Kari has been working on the show since it started.
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It doesn't really seem like 5 a minute is that fast for bow and arrow.
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Did they ever do a sober, well-rested control run for the driving course? Or did they just sort of skip that part? I mean I know the show is pretty unscientific at times but that's just lazy.
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Nov 4, 2010 02:43
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They usually do, but they don't show it, because they only have 44 minutes.
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I really wish Waylon Jennings was still alive to be the Stormchasers/Swamp Loggers balladeer.
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Totally taken by surprise that Matt Hughes passed away. I actually teared up a little at the end there. From what I have read online, he attempted to commit suicide at his home shortly after the tornado intercept. He died a week later at the hospital. http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/storm-chasers/tribute.html If you have a couple of extra bucks, consider sending it to his memorial. He left behind a wife and two young sons. Matthew John Hughes Memorial Fund c/o Intrust Bank 142 North Ash Valley Center, Kansas 67147
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Yay, the first Storm Chasers episode with a good friend from undergrad has aired - she's awesome  Bitter sweet that it's Matt's last though. 
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Hazo posted:Did they ever do a sober, well-rested control run for the driving course? Or did they just sort of skip that part? I mean I know the show is pretty unscientific at times but that's just lazy. Actually, since the myth was just that you drive worse tired than drunk, a control run with neither would be entirely unnecessary for a valid scientific analysis. Also they might have been worried it would end up not showing a difference with tipsy and send a message they wouldn't want.
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Horse Pepsi posted:Yay, the first Storm Chasers episode with a good friend from undergrad has aired - she's awesome She's really cute too. It was such a bummer to see that about Matt. I kinda wish it had been a reason other than suicide.
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C0lin posted:She's really cute too. Yeah, we were both atmospheric science majors in a class of a handful of people. Definitely cool. Smart, funny and from NYC.
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Timmer is such a turbo douche, with the girlfriend and the fat dude. I can't believe he got a windshield wiper endorsement.
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That was a hard Storm Chasers to watch. It was so bitter sweet, to see Matt finally being given the respect and trust to lead the TIV into a tornado and to see him accomplish that goal perfectly. Then to realize that it was his last chase, was really really sad. My heart goes out to his family and friends.
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Horse Pepsi posted:Yay, the first Storm Chasers episode with a good friend from undergrad has aired - she's awesome Are you the one that taught her how to drive?
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Are you the one that taught her how to drive? If she's from NYC then her driving skills (or lack of) make sense now.
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ToastyPotato posted:
Hazo posted:Did they ever do a sober, well-rested control run for the driving course? Or did they just sort of skip that part? I mean I know the show is pretty unscientific at times but that's just lazy. MadScientistWorking fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Nov 4, 2010 |
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Are you the one that taught her how to drive? I don't drive
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FogHelmut posted:Timmer is such a turbo douche, with the girlfriend and the fat dude. I can't believe he got a windshield wiper endorsement. He has done spots for Lexus and Turbo Tax too.
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MadScientistWorking posted:Wait a second Grant has just as much build experience as Scottie did. I was comparing Scottie to Kari and worded it poorly. Grant and Tori have a bunch of experience if I am not mistaken. Kari was just an intern when she was hired, right?
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ToastyPotato posted:Kari was just an intern when she was hired, right? Yes, she offered Jamie her rear end. as a mold for a project
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I really liked the latest episode of Mythbusters. They finally went back to one of the main reason I watch the show - the actual build. It's fascinating watching them work the project, fixing all the problems that inevitably crop up with any complex device. With all the stupid crap they do, it's easy to forget how incredibly skilled they both are. I know it must be hard when you're doing your ten millionth "let's make a full size remote control car" segment to make thing interesting, so you just gloss over the whole proceedure instead Hope they go back to spending more time on that in the future.
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ToastyPotato posted:Grant and Tori have a bunch of experience if I am not mistaken. Both of them spent a long time at Industrial Light & Magic; Tory used to work as a model maker, while Grant (in addition to working on models and animatronics for a poo poo-ton of movies) is one of something like four people authorized to operate R2-D2. Both of them had worked for Jamie in the early- to mid-'90s, which is how they got invited to be part of MythBusters. Timby fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Nov 5, 2010 |
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Timby posted:Both of them spent a long time at Industrial Light & Magic; Tory used to work as a model maker, while Grant (in addition to working on models and animatronics for a poo poo-ton of movies) is one of something like four people authorized to operate R2-D2. Grant will always be immortalized in my book for this thing here. 
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ToastyPotato posted:I was comparing Scottie to Kari and worded it poorly. Grant and Tori have a bunch of experience if I am not mistaken. Kari was just an intern when she was hired, right? quote:Grant (in addition to working on models and animatronics for a poo poo-ton of movies)
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As I understand it (I saw Grant and Tory speak at UW-Platteville a few years ago, and they were asked about it), Scottie's background was in metalworking and fabrication shops, and her entire mentality was "start a project, finish a project, move onto the next one." The way that TV shows are produced, with shooting everything from multiple angles, doing things out of sequence, and the start-stop-start style of work, really bothered her, and she ultimately sat down with Jamie and the producers and said that while she loved what the show was doing, she couldn't keep working on it, and they let her out of her contract.
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Finally a reason to get a 3D television. Natively 3D MythBusters! http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/live-feed/discovery-3d-mythbusters-43904 quote:The 3D TV network joint venture of Discovery Communications, Imax and Sony Corp. is looking at teaming with Discovery to shoot some episodes of hit show Mythbusters in native 3D.
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My dad thinks living off the grid is a cool idea, but he's never been super paranoid about it. For now. I'm going to have to limit his exposure to shows like "Track Me If You Can." It's interesting to learn about stuff like info chips embedded in tires, though.
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the-jam posted:Finally a reason to get a 3D television. Natively 3D MythBusters! Dirty Jobs 3D  Also, I was under the assumption that there was no standard for 3D yet? So would this be equally 3D for everyone who had various 3DTVs?
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ToastyPotato posted:Dirty Jobs 3D If the TVs speak HDMI 1.4 then there is a standard for 3D. I don't know if there's a standard for broadcasting 3D over cable but that's for the STB to figure out.
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Who know that you could swim underwater in a tuxedo and still have it look good.
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And that's two myths I really didn't expect to be confirmed. They did fall a little short on procedure for the tuxedo myth, though- they should have had the fashion guy try to determine which one of them went swimming, especially since they could already tell that Jamie still looked perfect before they met up with him.
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haveblue posted:And that's two myths I really didn't expect to be confirmed.
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haveblue posted:And that's two myths I really didn't expect to be confirmed. I really don't think they expected him to be that dry and perfect looking at all.
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They're building a candy-stealing robot arm and testing it out on live babies. This is retardedly awesome.
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