Transitioning From Jamie's Employee to Equal

nicole vanderpool says greetings from alameda county um i've applied the pirate patch myth uh so that i'm no longer blinded in bright light one well-timed blink what do you use daily from mythbusters oh okay so the pirate eye patch myth is one of my all-time favorite experimental conclusions and the myth is that a pirate wears an eye patch not because they lost an eye they wear it for boarding enemy ships and they do that because pirates are in a boat they're outdoors all day long in the cloudless sun blinding them all the time right and if you have to board another ship you've got to go down into the hold of that ship and into the into the inside of that ship but it's pitch black in there especially if you've been out in the sun so the myth is that the eye patch keeps one eye ready for darkness while the other eye is fine for daylight and when you went down and you boarded you shifted the eye patch to the other eye and you had full sight and we tried it out on the show and low it's 100 a fantastic method for keeping one eye ready for exploring the darkness it was insane um how well that worked i recommend trying it is there is there something i use daily from mythbusters well yeah yeah uh we did an episode about the common cold about the spreading of the common cold that has shaped every aspect of my coveted response over the past few past couple of years in our episode we were replicating a very famous experiment that had been done about uh the transmission of snot and so what we did was we took a pair of my glasses and we carefully glued in this tiny rubber pipet this like infinitesimal little rubber tube uh that dispensed a clear liquid down the side of my nose that would require me to constantly deal with it like you would if you had a runny nose and uh my goal was to deal with it exactly like it was a runny nose and frankly you know so we had a little pump that went back here to a pump and we could adjust how much was coming out and we adjusted it until it felt like a natural rate and then uh jamie and i and carrie and i think troy and grant were there as well i think it was all of us yeah um we had dinner around a table uh and we ate and passed stuff to each other and uh oh the fluid that was dripping on me was a fluid we went through dozens and dozens of different paints to find a fluid that was both non-toxic to skin and glowed really really brightly under black light we finally determined the one that worked for us and then with my nose having a pre uh post nasal drip drip uh we had a dinner over about an hour and then we stepped back and we turned on a black light and the table was an absolute murder scene of snot it was disgusting it was absolutely yeah at the very beginning of coven uh we wrote to discover and said you guys should release this episode for free and they did that was absolutely the right thing to do because the information there is incredible my favorite part about that story is that carrie byron who is a germaphobe of the first class had nothing around her like at the beginning of covet i was like i don't know how this is going to go but i know kerry byron's going to be fine that was like the one thing i knew when lockdown started kerry byrne's going to be fine like i don't have to worry about her at all yeah yeah that episode was a real eye-opener totally amazing jim horton [Laughter] was it a hard transition for jamie going from being your boss to being an equal on the show hang on he has a second part to this um it seemed like sometimes he still tried to act as the boss when making decisions yes yes jamie's a natural supervisor an absolutely natural supervisor like that grown um and he was an excellent boss he gave me raises when i asked for them he gave me fantastic feedback he let me learn a lot of stuff as a boss but eventually after you know six five years of working on commercials together i couldn't i didn't like i didn't like working for jamie anymore uh and i wanted to do other things so i went off and i didn't work for jamie again after i left his shop in 98 97. um so from the time i left his shop and us filming the pilots is five years give or take um so there was no there was no um what do you call it hierarchy and we didn't fall into a natural hierarchy although jamie's 10 years older than me so i tend to defer i tended to defer especially back then when i was in my 30s and he's in his 40s um i i i definitely was more uh i demured more back then than i did later on um jamie's i will say one thing about him that makes him a natural supervisor is he's sure he's always right um and the thing is he usually is to be fair he's usually right um but if he's not it it's almost inconceivable for him to see that but uh like i said a natural supervisor naturally falls like you put him in a group of people he is definitely going to be a leader a real natural one um no it was look i mean the parts that were difficult weren't difficult because he used to be my boss they're more difficult because we're just very different personality types and we have different ways of executing solutions ali 5050 asks in the duct tape canyon episode this is when we escaped from the grand canyon using only duct tape um did you ever have any doubt that the duct tape wouldn't work and that you were in real danger well yes and no look i mean an episode like that just like duct tape island um it's not like jamie and i are stranded and spending every night out in the cold and we were being very open and upfront about that when we were filming those episodes however the finale of duct tape canyon was that we build uh rafts out of duct tape and bubble wrap and escape on some rapids and the finale was shot actually not in the grand canyon we didn't shoot any of the episode in the grand canyon because grand canyon is such a protected wildlife sanctuary that um it's it's exceedingly difficult exceedingly expensive and yeah you know you don't want to go sully this national landmark um when you want to shoot grand canyon type stuff you go to moab utah which is where they shot the lone ranger and a million other things it is also one of the most beautiful places on the planet i fell so in love with moab utah um yeah an incredible place um but the finale of the episode was us actually riding our river rafts out of duct tape and bubble wrap on class five rapids like the real dangerous upsettingly spooky rapids uh and we had tons of support uh the the the the experts that we had hired to be our safety officers on the episode found us some class five that were like just accessible for me and jamie and they but but here is the here is the layout of how it went down which is jamie didn't even ride his boat on the rapids he carried it across this rock fall and jumped in at the bottom of the rapids which is a classic jamie brilliant thinking outside the box solution i wanted to do this snaky curve through them and what they told me was okay here's the thing when you're going on the rapids if you bail out of the boat the most important thing is that you get your feet up and above the water you want to be like whoa whoa sorry that was real but i'm fine um you want to get your i'm going to do it again you want to get your feet up above the water and you want to be like this and this is because when you're in rapids there's all this rock stuff underneath and you don't want to be like this with your body vertical and get your feet caught because if your foot gets caught in something under the rapids the rapids push you over and nothing's going to get you out apparently that's a pretty scary thing to be told got to keep your feet up or the ground will suck you under and then they said however if you ditch here you don't want to do that because there's this kind of formation and you'll want to do the so it's really critical they pointed out the experts to me specifically if you bail here you got to do your legs with this and if you bail there you got to do the opposite and doing the wrong thing in both cases will be really dangerous now i'm like check this sounds really scary um and obviously i survived i did bail out of the boat the boat failed on me and i ditched and i ditched in exactly the place i had to do the opposite of sticking my feet out of the water and you know one of the things i noticed regularly on mythbusters over the whole course of production was that when i imbue my body with a mission-critical set of instructions my body remembers those instructions yeah i i mean i i paused here because that's an emotional thing to point out because there's a bunch of times like in those rapids where i'm starting out i'm thinking there's all these experts you know we're going to be fine at the same time there's still a chance that something could go wrong and that's spooky so excuse me any chance at all that things could go wrong i want to make sure that i if i have control to make them go right i do and when i looked up at the end of that episode when i looked up at the end of that shoot day and i saw that i had remembered precisely their careful advice and followed it to the t in the positions that i was in i was like thanks body thanks physical form i'm traveling around this mortal coil in uh i really appreciate that good teamwork everybody um it's also quite humbling and that's real right like i'm very grateful to my body for how it's performed for me over the years and mythbusters those key moments on mythbusters were really really really specific so the answer is i didn't have any doubts that the duct tape would work for the purposes of the episode but yeah there was a little real danger as there always was in in in in our episodes you know and we really tried to make it work so that anybody could do the stunts we were doing but at the same time there were some key ways in which jamie's and all five of us hosts our ability to stay calm under certain kinds of duress under specific conditions really saved our 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Length: 12min 36sec (756 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 20 2022