Origin of 'I Reject Your Reality ...'

Tested member Jared Hinderer asked Adam about his favorite quote from MythBusters, at the same time a video from @RedLetterMedia touched on the origin of "I reject your reality and substitute my own." Here's Adam's story about that saying, as well as some other MythBusters favorites. Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks, like asking Adam a question:

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[synsofthefather]

"The next distance we'll be firing from is 500 yards, the distance of your average restraining order." - Adam Savage.

[MistaC]

"Our death ray doesn't seem to be working. I'm standing right in it, and, I'm not dead yet"
-Jamie Hyneman

[adamjohnson]

My favorite is when jamie was supposed to climb up an airduct as quietly as possible with magnets and every time he stuck the magnet on the duct it sounded like a bomb was going off and Adam says "why.... Thor, the God of thunder, is trying to enter my building!" I couldnt breathe it was so funny the first time I saw it.

[ReelCinnemonProducts]

My favorite one is from Jamie, “Adam, the police officer says you need to drink more.”

[refsmithy]

I've always loved the simple "Jamie wants big boom". The Hyneman verbalising the wishes of the audience!

[tweetthang]

I think my favorite Mythbusters quote is "Failure is always an option!" Also really enjoy "The difference between science and screwing around is writing it down!" Two quotes I've attempted to apply to life more

[nicholaslindell]

"We were doing an episode about handguns..."

Do you have the *slightest* idea how little that narrows it down?

[SchismTP]

My favorite was Adam in the ep with the helium inflated life raft. He got tangled up and says, "This wins as the strangest position I've ever been in on this show. " and Kari looks at the camera and says, "Don't you love how he qualifies it with 'on this show'?"

[cleverusername]

I'm envious of this man's ability to recall the name of almost everyone he's ever worked with in any capacity.

[anor_naur]

Civilization VI took one of your quotes!
“Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics yet?”

[dimitreze]

Rich Evans and Adam Savage, the next dynamic duo

[DelcoRanz]

I'd have to say my favorite moment is when you're doing your "Wild Hyneman" routine while Jamie is in the background breaking sticks and he turns to the camera and outright asks "Is he doing his David Attenborough thing again?" After which you bust out laughing.

[SavageGreywolf]

"Hopefully, the 27th time's the charm" - Grant Imahara

[LeglessWonder]

“When in doubt, C4”

As a USMC Combat Engineer, I used that mindset a LOT

[vamposdecampos]

"I swear I left it right here!" after blowing the cement mixer truck to smithereens

[byang]

"The only difference between science and screwing around is writing it down" That quote stuck with me growing up and is the reason why I got into data science as a career. The genesis of my successful career has been that moment on Mythbusters.

[SpaceMarshalGyorni]

On the topic of Scientists screwing around: I once interviewed for a position as a Technician in a biomedical research lab in Germany that did a lot of work on Drosophila (a.k.a. Fruit Flies). When they showed me around the lab we got to one room with a self-built machine they called "The Inebriator". It was basically a long vertical tube with lots of funnels in it. The small ends of the funnels had optical barriers in them, and the atmosphere in the whole tube could be saturated with alcohol vapour.

The experimental setup was this: You put, say, 30 fruit flies in the top, so they sit in the first funnel. As they breathe the alcohol fumes, they get drunk. As they get more and more drunk over time, they will lose their footing and fall down into the next funnel. The more drunk they get, the more they tumble towards the bottom. At the very end of the tube, the last funnel leads into a collection jar where the flies are captured again.

You let the flies sober up, and them send them for another round. Repeat that a few times, and you get a value for the alcohol resistance they build up, signified by the mean time it takes the average fruit fly to get drunk enough to just fall over, lol.

Do this with genetically modified flies, and you can measure the impact of genes on the initial as well as acquired resistance to alcohol.

So yeah - There are scientists in this world who spend their working hours trying to get fruit flies shitfaced enough to keel over. I'm still a bit salty that I didn't get the job.

[geoshark]

Adam “its not my phrase”

Me” i reject your reality and substitute my own”

[rustievian]

I still laugh at Jamie saying”quack damn you” to the duck. That is my all time favorite myth and quote.