WEBVTT 00:00:00.020 --> 00:00:05.120 Can you do your Steve Blue's Clues and just ask, Hey Mythfits, how you doing? 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:11.920 Hey, Mythfits, it's you. Oh, it's awesome. 00:00:12.840 --> 00:00:16.840 It's great to see you. How are you? How you doing? Dude, I just got chills. 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:20.580 Nailed it. Welcome, Mythfits. 00:00:39.610 --> 00:00:42.650 Oh, Carrie. Hi, how are you? 00:00:44.270 --> 00:00:49.570 You want to start like that? Yeah, what's up, Carrie? Welcome back, MythFits. 00:00:49.830 --> 00:00:52.870 Hey there, MythFits. It's Carrie Byron and Tori Willace. 00:00:54.050 --> 00:00:57.210 We were MythBusters, and we're best friends. There's your show. 00:00:58.390 --> 00:01:02.770 Speaking of MythBusters and speaking of myths, do you remember when we were 00:01:02.770 --> 00:01:06.970 working on the show, somebody came in and they were like, did you hear Chuck Norris died? 00:01:06.970 --> 00:01:09.990 Oh we were like i don't know i 00:01:09.990 --> 00:01:12.710 didn't hear that with chuck norris because it was like the it was 00:01:12.710 --> 00:01:16.050 like the punchline of every joke yeah it was like he doesn't do push-ups he 00:01:16.050 --> 00:01:21.050 pushes the earth down yeah um and so we went online and we're searching searching 00:01:21.050 --> 00:01:26.890 searching and we could not find where chuck norris was dead but everybody was 00:01:26.890 --> 00:01:31.070 saying oh yeah chuck norris is it and it turned out it was an urban legend he 00:01:31.070 --> 00:01:32.650 hadn't died he's still alive actually, 00:01:33.390 --> 00:01:38.010 Yeah, actually, so there's another urban legend just like that that kind of 00:01:38.010 --> 00:01:40.570 leads into our guest today. 00:01:41.830 --> 00:01:46.610 Let's roll this clip. Hi. You got a second? 00:01:48.470 --> 00:01:54.250 Okay. You remember how when we were younger, we used to run around and hang 00:01:54.250 --> 00:01:57.290 out with Blue and find clues and talk to Mr. 00:01:57.330 --> 00:02:00.550 Salt and freak out about the mail and do all the fun stuff. And then one day 00:02:00.550 --> 00:02:04.030 I was like, oh, hey, guess what? Big news. I'm leaving. 00:02:04.890 --> 00:02:08.510 This is my brother Joe. He's your new best friend. And then I got on a bus and 00:02:08.510 --> 00:02:12.430 I left. And we didn't see each other for like a really long time. 00:02:13.390 --> 00:02:15.090 Can we just talk about that? 00:02:17.790 --> 00:02:23.270 Great. Uh, dude, that's... Yeah, okay. It's Steve from Blue's Clues. 00:02:23.790 --> 00:02:26.930 Steve from Blue's Clues. at some point 00:02:26.930 --> 00:02:30.170 uh when we first started launching this podcast 00:02:30.170 --> 00:02:34.330 you know i was looking at the people because you know i was seeing new followers 00:02:34.330 --> 00:02:42.470 and i saw steve burns and i was like wait is that steve from blues clothes he 00:02:42.470 --> 00:02:48.430 follows us is steve from blues who's a myth buster fan and i just started DMing him. 00:02:49.290 --> 00:02:53.390 I was like, started stalking him. 00:02:53.570 --> 00:02:57.310 Like it's it's an urban legend how he left that show. 00:02:57.490 --> 00:03:01.310 And I just I figured he could come and talk to us. 00:03:01.430 --> 00:03:04.890 You know, Carrie, there are a lot of myths about Steve Burns, 00:03:05.050 --> 00:03:06.810 including one that he's dead. 00:03:07.550 --> 00:03:11.870 Well, I guess we can bust that one right away. Let's go ask him if he's dead. Steve! 00:03:13.850 --> 00:03:18.110 Steve Burns from Blue's Clues. Are you alive? 00:03:19.740 --> 00:03:24.000 No. I am still alive. 00:03:24.300 --> 00:03:30.180 And I'm so psyched to be here. Oh, we are so excited you're here. It is so nice to me. 00:03:30.620 --> 00:03:35.900 Like, seriously, you're like the next generation Pee-wee Herman. 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:43.220 Or Mr. Rogers. You're such an iconic character for so many generations. 00:03:43.220 --> 00:03:45.780 Oh, well, I don't know about all that. 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:49.980 If that is true, it doesn't feel that way. 00:03:50.260 --> 00:03:58.220 Um, but especially with the Fred Rogers thing, um, I absolutely accept that 00:03:58.220 --> 00:04:00.100 for the praise that it is. 00:04:00.220 --> 00:04:05.680 It's difficult to, um, conceive of higher praise than that in, 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:10.620 in many ways, but holy crap, it ain't true. I am nothing like Mr. Rogers. 00:04:11.040 --> 00:04:16.580 I mean, that guy was like a bodhisattva who should probably be on our money. 00:04:17.520 --> 00:04:21.980 And I was just a neurotic, bald guy who fell backwards into a weird job. 00:04:22.940 --> 00:04:28.080 Nah, quite honestly, we just listened to this one clip that you put out recently 00:04:28.080 --> 00:04:31.960 where you were talking to the camera like you used to talk to on Blue's Clues, 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:34.100 where you were like, how are you guys doing? 00:04:34.540 --> 00:04:37.400 And I was checking the internet. 00:04:37.400 --> 00:04:40.860 Millennials lost their minds 00:04:40.860 --> 00:04:43.660 like your calming voice was such a part 00:04:43.660 --> 00:04:46.780 of their childhood like you were coming into their living rooms you 00:04:46.780 --> 00:04:52.660 were you were dealing with their feelings on such a base level that that coming 00:04:52.660 --> 00:04:58.580 into their lives now you're sort of resurfacing into their lives had had millennials 00:04:58.580 --> 00:05:04.380 crying yeah weird right i think there is a thing um um. 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:11.220 Where there's special access granted when you're like crisscross applesauce, 00:05:11.280 --> 00:05:13.480 like when your grandma's carpet, you know, 00:05:14.400 --> 00:05:19.040 having a juice box, watching TV, whatever that thing is, is able to speak to 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:22.600 you as an adult from a place of joy from your childhood in a way. 00:05:22.860 --> 00:05:30.360 And I think if Grover would send a message and I felt, and I took it personally, I'd weep for sure. 00:05:31.460 --> 00:05:35.320 You know, because I have those things from my childhood too. 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:42.060 But, um, the, the idea that I might be that thing for someone else's childhood 00:05:42.060 --> 00:05:45.680 is really, frankly, not something I've ever been able to get my arms around 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:49.080 in a meaningful way, but, but it's cool. Think about it. 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:52.280 Most kids TV talks to the camera, you know? 00:05:52.460 --> 00:05:55.360 I mean, that's, that's a trope of children's television, right? 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:58.020 I think what we did that was different is that we 00:05:58.020 --> 00:06:01.780 listened to it yeah you know and uh 00:06:01.780 --> 00:06:04.580 it was always kind of a magic trick to do 00:06:04.580 --> 00:06:07.940 that and uh and no 00:06:07.940 --> 00:06:10.980 one and you know when i was that was always like 00:06:10.980 --> 00:06:13.920 something i did on my own in in secret 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:16.800 in a way because i was mostly 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:19.640 working with child development specialists like there really 00:06:19.640 --> 00:06:23.080 weren't like acty people around i 00:06:23.080 --> 00:06:25.840 was kind of the only person who spoke that language at all and i 00:06:25.840 --> 00:06:28.600 was i don't know 21 22 years old so i didn't 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:32.180 know what i was doing you know and um but 00:06:32.180 --> 00:06:35.200 i took that part incredibly serious like that to 00:06:35.200 --> 00:06:37.940 me when i remember blues blues that was the 00:06:37.940 --> 00:06:40.680 whole job was was you and 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.420 i yeah you know like that was that was 00:06:43.420 --> 00:06:46.800 it because nothing else was there you guys understand this better than almost 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:52.320 anybody else you're vfx people or uh sfx boy and like you understand what it 00:06:52.320 --> 00:06:57.320 is to be on a blue screen and uh there was nothing there i was in like i was 00:06:57.320 --> 00:07:01.180 in a void and the only the only thing i had. 00:07:02.020 --> 00:07:08.100 Was the camera yeah and so blues clues felt like incredibly small and incredibly 00:07:08.100 --> 00:07:13.100 personal to me it was it was this thing i did with the camera who was you. 00:07:14.100 --> 00:07:20.580 You know, so I think that that translated. Your voice is freaking hypnotic. 00:07:20.760 --> 00:07:26.120 I have noticed since we've gotten on this podcast, Tori and I are big, fast, loud talkers. 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:32.100 Even introducing you, just knowing you were here, I feel like I went a little zen. 00:07:32.380 --> 00:07:36.040 Like I feel calmer talking to you. I am talking slower. 00:07:36.420 --> 00:07:39.240 I definitely noticed a shift in Mythbusters. And I appreciate that. 00:07:41.940 --> 00:07:44.920 I definitely noticed a shift in mythbusters when we first started 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:48.180 the show we talked off screen to 00:07:48.180 --> 00:07:51.400 a producer who was over to the side of camera oh yeah 00:07:51.400 --> 00:07:54.300 the minute that we looked into the camera 00:07:54.300 --> 00:07:57.300 and we started presenting to the audience 00:07:57.300 --> 00:08:01.280 the show's popularity escalate a 00:08:01.280 --> 00:08:04.520 connection happened between us and the audience where they 00:08:04.520 --> 00:08:07.520 felt like we were talking to them we were in their living 00:08:07.520 --> 00:08:10.220 room every week like our celebrity all of a 00:08:10.220 --> 00:08:13.160 sudden just started to rise because we stopped 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:16.340 being you know just just background but actually 00:08:16.340 --> 00:08:20.400 being interactive and i think maybe that that's the power that you have had 00:08:20.400 --> 00:08:24.780 with making that connection with kids when they were really young well listen 00:08:24.780 --> 00:08:34.460 you know speaking to a camera um with joy and authentic curiosity about a curriculum is hard as shit. 00:08:35.800 --> 00:08:41.180 And you guys were great at it. That was the first thing I noticed about Mythbusters. 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:42.980 I was like, these guys are hard. 00:08:44.900 --> 00:08:50.100 And these guys are really good at this. Like you were all extraordinarily good 00:08:50.100 --> 00:08:56.360 hosts of what was essentially eventually like a science curriculum on a certain level. 00:08:56.620 --> 00:09:01.800 And you guys were all great at it. And that was one of the things I loved about the show. 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:06.320 Spoiler. I loved that show. Oh, my God. 00:09:07.540 --> 00:09:10.840 Thank you. Oh, my God. Stephen Blue's close like Mythbusters. 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:16.540 I was obsessed with Mythbusters. But you know, it's funny because like how, 00:09:16.680 --> 00:09:19.680 when you were doing your show, how did they direct you? 00:09:19.780 --> 00:09:24.040 Because with us, when we first started, we were so nervous because none of us 00:09:24.040 --> 00:09:30.700 wanted to be, at least I didn't want to be on camera, that it was like really nerve wracking. 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:34.180 And so they would be like, just relax, come out of your, you know, 00:09:34.300 --> 00:09:36.940 you're, you're have this wall up, you look scared. 00:09:37.560 --> 00:09:40.740 And then as we got more comfortable, then they were, they would ratchet it up 00:09:40.740 --> 00:09:43.780 and be like, all right, I do that again, but pretend like you're on crack. 00:09:43.940 --> 00:09:46.120 Like just over the top, like just. 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:52.500 And so your show and the way you performed, it was so subtle and so kind of 00:09:52.500 --> 00:09:54.560 gentle. Like what was the direction? 00:09:54.880 --> 00:10:00.420 The first season of the show, we didn't have directors so much. Um. 00:10:02.210 --> 00:10:08.770 There was a sense on Blue's Clues that this was an animated show with this guy sometimes. Yeah. 00:10:09.390 --> 00:10:13.910 Right? You're that guy. And so they would have animation directors come in and 00:10:13.910 --> 00:10:20.870 say things like, hey, man, can you do that again and move your Y axis 15 degrees 00:10:20.870 --> 00:10:23.970 this way? I'd be like, you cannot be serious. 00:10:24.290 --> 00:10:27.450 The thing you just said can't be real. And they were like, yeah, 00:10:27.730 --> 00:10:31.010 that's what we need you to do. I'm like, I'm carbon-based. 00:10:32.550 --> 00:10:40.010 Like that's not i'm not i cannot do that you know and it was all technical it was all technical so, 00:10:40.570 --> 00:10:46.170 i would run around and talk to the soap and talk to the condiments and i would 00:10:46.170 --> 00:10:51.190 have to get here and if i was here it was wrong right and we'd have to do it 00:10:51.190 --> 00:10:55.930 again and this was there was no point of orientation i was on a void it was 00:10:55.930 --> 00:11:00.370 in a void right so we were mostly just concerned with that. 00:11:01.270 --> 00:11:06.590 And, um, the only real kind of direction I would get was happier. 00:11:07.250 --> 00:11:12.350 You know, they would always say happier and I would be, and I would always make 00:11:12.350 --> 00:11:16.810 the point like, no, no, we must be more Bert than Ernie. 00:11:17.110 --> 00:11:19.950 You know, like there's, that's great. 00:11:20.310 --> 00:11:26.810 This guy must have a human ballast. He doesn't know which of these snacks is a graham cracker. 00:11:27.530 --> 00:11:33.010 We must make that part of his character. He's not the brightest bulb. 00:11:34.110 --> 00:11:37.190 In the world, you know, and they would just be like, what? No, happy. 00:11:39.370 --> 00:11:46.210 And so I would kind of sneak in all of these, all this human stuff while everyone 00:11:46.210 --> 00:11:47.370 was checking their email. 00:11:48.130 --> 00:11:52.950 So you were self-directing. Yeah. But eventually we all sort of got on the same page. 00:11:53.130 --> 00:11:57.870 At first, you know, we were all kids, you know, I think our executive producer was 25. 00:11:58.730 --> 00:12:04.730 You know, we were just kids, and they were overwhelmed with the technical aspect of everything. 00:12:04.950 --> 00:12:09.590 We were all drowning in why are we trying to make this animated kid show on 00:12:09.590 --> 00:12:12.930 desktop Macintosh for absolutely no money. 00:12:13.130 --> 00:12:18.370 So Steve kind of evolved in private in a void. 00:12:20.050 --> 00:12:25.070 And I mean that about myself, too. I mean, both of you, I guess, on some level. 00:12:26.090 --> 00:12:28.170 This message is sponsored by Raycon. 00:12:28.920 --> 00:12:33.560 First of all, Tori, what's with the shades? I thought it'd make me look cooler. 00:12:33.700 --> 00:12:36.380 What do you think? Is it working? I had an accident. 00:12:36.900 --> 00:12:39.800 What did you do? What happened to you? 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I just talked about Mythbusters the whole time. 00:15:05.350 --> 00:15:11.890 And I know this wasn't a segment you guys did, but I thought Lead Balloon was 00:15:11.890 --> 00:15:15.330 one of the most beautiful moments of television. 00:15:15.590 --> 00:15:23.230 Not only was it just a beautiful endeavor, but the object that they made should 00:15:23.230 --> 00:15:24.050 have been in the Whitney. 00:15:24.050 --> 00:15:27.550 Like that thing was gorgeous and 00:15:27.550 --> 00:15:31.070 it was just sort of a distillation of the show like um 00:15:31.070 --> 00:15:34.890 here's an adage that we we assume truth 00:15:34.890 --> 00:15:38.150 about right but but with with 00:15:38.150 --> 00:15:42.150 joy and curiosity and scrutiny 00:15:42.150 --> 00:15:45.690 we're going to see if it's real you 00:15:45.690 --> 00:15:48.430 know just pure process the process of 00:15:48.430 --> 00:15:52.030 trying to figure that out and the whole journey of 00:15:52.030 --> 00:15:55.170 creating this with just the scientific method 00:15:55.170 --> 00:15:58.470 and just everything that they could pull to make it happen 00:15:58.470 --> 00:16:03.430 was a it was a really good example and the crazy thing is is it worked like 00:16:03.430 --> 00:16:07.030 that was you're just looking at this thing going wait a minute this does not 00:16:07.030 --> 00:16:11.910 this is defying all logic this should not be floating i think i stood up from 00:16:11.910 --> 00:16:15.510 my couch and applauded when it happened i was like, 00:16:16.530 --> 00:16:17.010 Gentlemen. 00:16:19.590 --> 00:16:23.410 Beautiful. I was very team carry in one respect. 00:16:23.730 --> 00:16:30.470 I was very anti dead pig episodes. I was like, bro, I mean, I'm not a vegetarian 00:16:30.470 --> 00:16:31.650 or anything, but this is a lot. 00:16:31.950 --> 00:16:38.150 Pretty gnarly. Yeah. Like, I don't need, like, come on. I'm happy with the ballistics gel. 00:16:38.450 --> 00:16:42.470 I don't need my analog to be this specific. 00:16:43.070 --> 00:16:47.950 Science. We need the science. Oh, man. We were pretty anti because you have 00:16:47.950 --> 00:16:49.930 to get rid of that pig at the end, right? 00:16:50.210 --> 00:16:52.930 So there were several ways that we had to dispose of the pig. 00:16:53.590 --> 00:16:58.930 One way is if it wasn't too riddled with, like, you know, lead because we shot it. 00:17:00.170 --> 00:17:08.650 Jamie, if he was able, would butcher it and consume the meat and hand the meat to everybody. 00:17:08.930 --> 00:17:12.850 Yeah, we'd make pulled pork. We'd take it home and make pulled pork and then 00:17:12.850 --> 00:17:17.590 bring it back in. Someone gave me... Everybody like I was at my my husband ate meat at the time. 00:17:17.790 --> 00:17:21.770 So he they gave me a big package to bring home. But to prank me, 00:17:21.830 --> 00:17:26.370 they put like, like an eye and an ear on the top of it. 00:17:26.470 --> 00:17:30.110 So when I opened it up, I was just ruined. 00:17:31.570 --> 00:17:35.590 That's horrifying. Yeah, it was pretty bad. Behind the scenes madness. 00:17:35.910 --> 00:17:41.670 We also had to sometimes take it to the rendering plant, which was near the shop. 00:17:42.010 --> 00:17:46.770 And Tori and I remember one time where we drove this pig carcass to the rendering plant. 00:17:47.110 --> 00:17:54.890 And the smell, it permeates every pore. And it's like an oil in the air. 00:17:54.910 --> 00:17:57.470 So it gets in your nose and it gets in your hair. 00:17:57.590 --> 00:18:00.830 Like my clothes, I wanted to burn. because we walked away in for the rest of 00:18:00.830 --> 00:18:03.770 the day. I'm like, I still smell it. I still smell that. 00:18:04.030 --> 00:18:10.590 So Steve, I feel like one of the biggest myths about you is why you left the show. 00:18:10.810 --> 00:18:15.910 Can you expound on what is the real reason? 00:18:16.270 --> 00:18:20.570 Actually, let's go through these myths and you can tell us if they are busted 00:18:20.570 --> 00:18:23.050 or confirmed. Okay, first myth. 00:18:23.670 --> 00:18:26.390 Are you dead? Plausible. 00:18:28.390 --> 00:18:35.690 From the beyond did you overdose busted well i guess it's not busted it's not 00:18:35.690 --> 00:18:41.550 even plausible busted did you die in a car wreck uh busted did you leave to pursue education, 00:18:43.190 --> 00:18:48.370 Plausible. Did you leave because you weren't getting any residuals from reruns? 00:18:49.590 --> 00:18:54.450 Plausible. That might be plausible to confirm. 00:18:55.150 --> 00:19:00.550 Did you leave because you were losing your hair? Confirmed. That was a huge part of it. 00:19:01.110 --> 00:19:09.330 I mean, you only have to look at the pants that they decided I should wear to 00:19:09.330 --> 00:19:12.930 know how bad the wig would have been. 00:19:14.770 --> 00:19:17.510 You know blues blues 00:19:17.510 --> 00:19:21.630 was great in a in in i cherish it's 00:19:21.630 --> 00:19:24.310 the best thing that ever happened obviously there was not a 00:19:24.310 --> 00:19:31.650 lot of public dignity involved and um and you got to keep in mind you know like 00:19:31.650 --> 00:19:37.190 it was going real fast and then there was the this thing yeah and there was 00:19:37.190 --> 00:19:42.370 a day when And I was just kind of standing there in my dressing room with the shirt on. 00:19:42.790 --> 00:19:45.370 And the makeup artist was like. 00:19:48.650 --> 00:19:55.510 This spray painting the back of my head. And I was like, we're done. 00:19:55.850 --> 00:20:01.170 We're done. This is a good time. So you didn't leave because the green polo 00:20:01.170 --> 00:20:04.090 shirt was uncomfortable. It was very uncomfortable. 00:20:04.530 --> 00:20:07.590 It was, again, I'm talking to people who understand TV stuff. 00:20:07.590 --> 00:20:12.830 So it wasn't just like an off the rack cop shirt because of the amount of light 00:20:12.830 --> 00:20:18.550 we had to use because we were doing chroma key as cheap as possible the way 00:20:18.550 --> 00:20:21.510 to do that is to over light everything and. 00:20:22.910 --> 00:20:25.590 Every color looked terrible so we 00:20:25.590 --> 00:20:28.330 had to have these hyper dyed each one of those shirts 00:20:28.330 --> 00:20:32.150 was handmade and they were wool 00:20:32.150 --> 00:20:34.830 and they it was like a 00:20:34.830 --> 00:20:39.890 hair shirt those shirts were extremely comfortable they were just like oh god 00:20:39.890 --> 00:20:47.490 come on so but that's not why i left you know the um the real real is that uh 00:20:47.490 --> 00:20:52.730 the entire time i was on blues clues i was also dealing with 00:20:52.910 --> 00:20:56.670 undiagnosed severe clinical depression which made 00:20:56.670 --> 00:21:01.070 my job wicked hard um and 00:21:01.070 --> 00:21:03.950 i didn't have any idea what was 00:21:03.950 --> 00:21:07.150 going on with me because i was a kid you know 00:21:07.150 --> 00:21:10.070 how old were you at this time i was like by 00:21:10.070 --> 00:21:20.210 the time i left the show i guess i was 28 29 years old okay and uh i didn't 00:21:20.210 --> 00:21:24.690 know what was up i just knew that it was hard to be happy that which is what 00:21:24.690 --> 00:21:27.830 they kept telling me to be you know um, 00:21:28.610 --> 00:21:33.870 and i got there most days and i was able to find that sense of wonder being 00:21:33.870 --> 00:21:38.310 so young i didn't really have any replenishment strategy for the well i kept 00:21:38.310 --> 00:21:45.450 going to you know by the time i left that show i was noticing it in my performance and uh, 00:21:46.660 --> 00:21:51.480 And I was just struggling to do my job. That hits me. 00:21:52.840 --> 00:21:56.600 I'm feeling like tears for you right now. 00:21:56.740 --> 00:22:02.640 Because to be honest, during Mythbusters, I was having the same problem. 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:04.680 I had some really bad depression. 00:22:05.220 --> 00:22:11.240 And I remember, especially after I had my baby, I had really bad postpartum 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:16.380 for a while. and the dissidence of showing up on screen and being like, 00:22:16.600 --> 00:22:19.440 oh my gosh, everything's great. I'm so excited to be here. 00:22:19.600 --> 00:22:23.580 But on the inside, just feeling black. 00:22:23.980 --> 00:22:28.260 You know, like I would, I remember the camera would go off. Sometimes I would 00:22:28.260 --> 00:22:32.300 just stop my car and sit in a field and cry because I couldn't figure out like 00:22:32.300 --> 00:22:37.300 how to deal with what seemed like the best days of my life. 00:22:37.400 --> 00:22:40.920 Like if I'm not happy when I'm on a hit TV show, like 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:44.180 there's something wrong and it was almost like Mythbusters showed 00:22:44.180 --> 00:22:47.140 me that I had depression because if things were going so well 00:22:47.140 --> 00:22:50.300 and I still felt this random sadness there was nothing to blame 00:22:50.300 --> 00:22:55.260 it on and that distance is what actually got me to go figure out how to get 00:22:55.260 --> 00:22:59.540 some help for that amen sister I mean I relate to everything you just said word 00:22:59.540 --> 00:23:04.680 for word and that there is a dissonance that creates enough relief between creates 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:09.460 enough contrast that it at least it was also in my life very instructive. 00:23:10.540 --> 00:23:13.520 I thought, wow, something must be going on. Yeah. 00:23:13.640 --> 00:23:16.880 Because, yeah, my job is hard, but I've got a good thing going, 00:23:17.120 --> 00:23:20.460 you know, and a lot of responsibility. 00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:26.120 And my reaction to that, I don't know what you did, but my reaction to that was just to fight. 00:23:27.260 --> 00:23:31.700 You know, I thought, you know, I'm just going to fight this, fight through this. 00:23:32.860 --> 00:23:36.800 But I always say you don't fight depression, you collect it. Yeah. Right. 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:42.680 And it just got so incredibly heavy. But very few people understand what you 00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:47.160 just outlined, which is, you know, I think a lot of people understand depression. 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:53.480 And I think most people do, honestly. And I think a lot of people understand 00:23:53.480 --> 00:24:00.700 the ask to be not depressed professionally while you're still feeling that way 00:24:00.700 --> 00:24:04.200 or at home with your family or with your friends. 00:24:04.380 --> 00:24:11.820 I think very few people understand the job of being the happiest people in North 00:24:11.820 --> 00:24:16.180 America on days when you don't even have your own approval. 00:24:16.760 --> 00:24:19.460 You know i mean it's everybody's a lot 00:24:19.460 --> 00:24:22.520 of people's jobs are hard that was the way in which our job was particularly 00:24:22.520 --> 00:24:26.700 tough you know and um i wasn't 00:24:26.700 --> 00:24:29.940 dealing with it in any meaningful way and it 00:24:29.940 --> 00:24:32.640 just became a little heavier than 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:35.720 i could lift you know i couldn't do both at the same time by 00:24:35.720 --> 00:24:38.560 the end of that show and that's that was the reason that you 00:24:38.560 --> 00:24:41.740 was that the reason that you decided to leave 00:24:41.740 --> 00:24:44.920 was the mental health ultimately yeah i 00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:47.760 was like you know what this is this is diminishing returns at 00:24:47.760 --> 00:24:50.880 this point and uh you know 00:24:50.880 --> 00:24:54.180 i didn't i didn't have the language then to 00:24:54.180 --> 00:24:56.840 know what was going on and i 00:24:56.840 --> 00:25:00.900 didn't leave and say i'm doing this for my mental health i 00:25:00.900 --> 00:25:05.400 just knew that what i was doing was unsustainable and there was something else 00:25:05.400 --> 00:25:15.500 going on the whole time i was an urban legend i was a myth during that time 00:25:15.500 --> 00:25:20.340 as you guys mentioned um everyone thought i'd die. 00:25:21.830 --> 00:25:27.730 And there was a persistent sort of indelible internet rumor that I was dead. 00:25:28.630 --> 00:25:34.110 And we couldn't bust that myth. That's, you know, I would, I would go on TV. 00:25:34.370 --> 00:25:39.430 I was making new television all the time. And yet everyone thought I was dead. 00:25:39.750 --> 00:25:42.970 After enough years of that, it feels like a preference in a way, 00:25:42.970 --> 00:25:46.250 you know, it's like, wow, this sucks. 00:25:46.250 --> 00:25:49.290 And it's not great when you're 00:25:49.290 --> 00:25:52.230 you know severely depressed and in the world tells you 00:25:52.230 --> 00:25:55.030 that you're dead yeah you know what i mean and that's one 00:25:55.030 --> 00:25:58.250 of the reasons i loved your show was because 00:25:58.250 --> 00:26:02.110 you guys felt like a rescue team to me i 00:26:02.110 --> 00:26:05.390 was like what if what if like what if 00:26:05.390 --> 00:26:09.630 tory grant and and carrie showed up with like an ekg like 00:26:09.630 --> 00:26:12.530 we could bust this it's 00:26:12.530 --> 00:26:16.110 right here and now guys we could bring you back in the dead we 00:26:16.110 --> 00:26:19.430 could do it like oh no his vitals are fine carrie 00:26:19.430 --> 00:26:22.590 look what i'm sporting what are you sporting my sweater 00:26:22.590 --> 00:26:27.790 from rag and boom yeah you're looking stylish i got a pair of jeans too and 00:26:27.790 --> 00:26:32.390 this outfit has become my favorite outfit i'm like wearing it too much stand 00:26:32.390 --> 00:26:36.370 up do a little twirl let's see i don't have them on right now i have sweat i 00:26:36.370 --> 00:26:39.610 knew you were wearing pants i knew it but you could put them on later when you 00:26:39.610 --> 00:26:40.310 go on a date with your wife. 00:26:41.360 --> 00:26:44.200 I always do the podcast with no pants. Me too. 00:26:44.700 --> 00:26:49.280 But look at this one. Look at this. This is my rag and bone sweater. And it is so comfy. 00:26:49.540 --> 00:26:52.460 And especially now that it's starting to cool down. 00:26:52.660 --> 00:26:56.840 Well, except for today. Right now it's like 75 degrees here in California. 00:26:56.860 --> 00:26:59.880 But it will start cooling down soon. 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:03.980 I think you look great. You know, I actually, I also got some rag and bone for 00:27:03.980 --> 00:27:05.800 the guy I'm dating. Oh, yeah. 00:27:06.380 --> 00:27:09.420 Oh, it upped his wardrobe game, I have to say. 00:27:09.760 --> 00:27:13.580 Wow. He's a little adventure-y. 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Yeah, you're going to look good. 00:28:33.930 --> 00:28:37.290 What's what's the craziest child interaction like 00:28:37.290 --> 00:28:40.170 fan interaction you've ever had oh it's gonna tug your 00:28:40.170 --> 00:28:42.950 heartstrings oh i love it bring it 00:28:42.950 --> 00:28:45.990 um i'll see if i can get through one one 00:28:45.990 --> 00:28:48.850 thing i'm not enjoying about being present on 00:28:48.850 --> 00:28:52.350 the internet and podcasting is i cry a lot which 00:28:52.350 --> 00:28:55.230 is insane because that's not me but it feels 00:28:55.230 --> 00:28:57.990 like on every other podcast i weep so i'm gonna try to get through this one 00:28:57.990 --> 00:29:02.690 without crying i was doing a fan convention in pittsburgh and 00:29:02.690 --> 00:29:05.350 uh this dude came up he's in his 30s or 00:29:05.350 --> 00:29:08.290 whatever he's like hey man i was like hey and 00:29:08.290 --> 00:29:12.170 i'm signing a picture he's like do you remember me i'm like i don't i'm 00:29:12.170 --> 00:29:15.050 sorry and uh he showed 00:29:15.050 --> 00:29:18.150 me a picture i'm like wait a minute he was 00:29:18.150 --> 00:29:21.790 a make-a-wish kid oh i did 00:29:21.790 --> 00:29:25.690 remember now you're gonna make me cry and i 00:29:25.690 --> 00:29:28.510 just gave him hug and he 00:29:28.510 --> 00:29:31.750 said hey man we made it oh my 00:29:31.750 --> 00:29:35.190 god and uh 00:29:35.190 --> 00:29:38.450 that's my favorite 00:29:38.450 --> 00:29:45.150 interaction i've ever had maybe with anyone oh that's awesome man that is if 00:29:45.150 --> 00:29:54.010 i could hug you right now he was sick oh my god that's amazing that's the best 00:29:54.010 --> 00:29:58.030 one i got tori look at that He's not easy to make cry. 00:29:58.290 --> 00:30:05.190 He used to have, you know, part of the Make-A-Wish, they would bring a group 00:30:05.190 --> 00:30:11.850 of kids who were terminally ill through the shop, and it was just like... 00:30:13.820 --> 00:30:17.260 This might be the last time we see these kids. Like, I don't know if they're 00:30:17.260 --> 00:30:20.060 going to make it. And just to hear that story is awesome. 00:30:20.500 --> 00:30:24.580 You know who was really, really good in these situations? Grant. 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:28.540 Grant, when any kid would walk into 00:30:28.540 --> 00:30:32.380 the shop, instantly tapped into their curiosity and their fascination. 00:30:33.100 --> 00:30:41.300 And he would guide them through just a moment of excitement through everything 00:30:41.300 --> 00:30:44.580 that he was excited about, showing him robots and tools and whatever. 00:30:44.800 --> 00:30:48.920 And like anytime a kid came to the shop, he just lit up. 00:30:49.180 --> 00:30:55.480 And then after Mythbusters, he made a little robotic Baby Yoda and would take 00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:56.500 it to the children's hospitals. 00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:03.120 Grant was so good with kids. I always wanted him to end up having a kid someday. I could see that. 00:31:03.340 --> 00:31:12.460 I can see that being real. He had such a sweet soul that came through for sure. 00:31:12.460 --> 00:31:15.100 Did you get a picture with that kid that made it? Yeah. 00:31:16.100 --> 00:31:20.940 Oh, yeah. That's so odd. That is such, like, what a great re-meeting. I just, I love that. 00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:24.840 Insane, right? And I have another question. Yeah. 00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:32.180 What's it like you guys graduated from some weird university by the end of that series? 00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:34.480 You guys were so jealous. 00:31:35.280 --> 00:31:40.200 They're like weapons experts. They're stunt drivers now. 00:31:40.660 --> 00:31:47.080 They can fabricate literally anything. You guys left that show with actual superpowers. 00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:55.820 Do you use all that stuff now in your lives? Occasionally, but only for people 00:31:55.820 --> 00:31:58.880 employ us to be like ex-mythbusters. 00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:05.460 So recently, I worked with a flamethrower that was not stock that had to be 00:32:05.460 --> 00:32:10.700 rigged up to, I think it started at 200 PSI so that I could shoot flames through 00:32:10.700 --> 00:32:13.260 a wall and try to destroy that wall. 00:32:13.260 --> 00:32:19.120 So like I did get to walk on set and be like, oh, yeah, OK, so what kind of 00:32:19.120 --> 00:32:20.240 kickback does that have? 00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:24.220 OK, so is that would that be like a 50 cow kind of pushing on you or is this 00:32:24.220 --> 00:32:25.500 more going to be like a fire hose? 00:32:25.660 --> 00:32:28.880 Like like there was these skills that I came with. 00:32:29.700 --> 00:32:34.760 The guys on set were like, wow, OK, most people aren't prepared for this kind of conversation. 00:32:35.060 --> 00:32:42.100 So we we have them, but like we can't put them on a resume because we are qualified for no actual job. 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:52.520 Right okay that that makes sense um and i have a four-year-old daughter so all 00:32:52.520 --> 00:33:00.620 the skills i have are completely useless i cannot it's like sometimes trying to reach her it's like, 00:33:01.380 --> 00:33:06.100 i've done all these things and i have no skills for this no you know what you 00:33:06.100 --> 00:33:10.540 have skills for is you know what that kid is going to be up to because you done 00:33:10.540 --> 00:33:12.120 it all that's true that's true. 00:33:13.360 --> 00:33:19.000 Um, I mean, I'm, I've always been curious, like, what are, what are the ones you guys loved? 00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:22.640 You know, what are the, what are the myths you had the most fun? 00:33:22.740 --> 00:33:24.900 You know what I didn't like? You know what I got sick of? 00:33:25.860 --> 00:33:29.320 Blowing stuff up i was like sure that is fun and 00:33:29.320 --> 00:33:32.260 i always like that but that's not the most interesting thing 00:33:32.260 --> 00:33:35.160 these guys do right you know that is not the 00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:37.900 most interesting it was a fallback it was like uh we don't 00:33:37.900 --> 00:33:40.600 know what to do then we're gonna do this it's gonna be a 00:33:40.600 --> 00:33:43.320 crowd pleaser it's a way to end with a 00:33:43.320 --> 00:33:46.200 bang as they say for sure yeah yeah yeah you're right 00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:49.400 it's it was the ones that were unexpected like uh a 00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:52.320 bull in a china shop similar to the lead balloon 00:33:52.320 --> 00:33:55.120 it was like okay bull in china shop it's somebody who's 00:33:55.120 --> 00:33:58.060 super clumsy and is breaking everything we set that up 00:33:58.060 --> 00:34:02.420 and those bulls were the most graceful creatures we'd ever seen and they were 00:34:02.420 --> 00:34:05.660 so self aware and they knew exactly where their body was and they were just 00:34:05.660 --> 00:34:10.680 weaving right through the shelves of china that we set up it was like whoa this 00:34:10.680 --> 00:34:15.240 is unexpected that was such a crazy result right you set up all these things 00:34:15.240 --> 00:34:17.900 with like the most fragile objects in the world and the bulls are like. 00:34:20.290 --> 00:34:27.150 Pardon me. Excuse me. Pardon me. Exactly. Oh, sorry. So sorry. Coming through. 00:34:28.330 --> 00:34:32.310 Yeah, that was wild, that one. The ones where we did really big builds that 00:34:32.310 --> 00:34:37.570 actually worked, where the three of us, because for me, my favorite ones were 00:34:37.570 --> 00:34:38.690 when the three of us were like, 00:34:39.070 --> 00:34:43.350 yeah, and like we were all hugging and like we had gone through this whole journey 00:34:43.350 --> 00:34:45.810 and we trauma bonded over making something work. 00:34:45.970 --> 00:34:50.190 And then it actually comes off or, you know, it does what it's supposed to do 00:34:50.190 --> 00:34:54.670 or it does completely what it's not supposed to do where we're just laughing our butts off. 00:34:54.670 --> 00:34:58.630 Because for me, it was like the family aspect of us, like all kind of working 00:34:58.630 --> 00:35:04.050 on it together because it was it was the cameramen and the sound recorders and 00:35:04.050 --> 00:35:07.110 anybody who was on the shoot. Like, it's not a union show. 00:35:07.310 --> 00:35:10.990 So everybody would kind of join in. Like, maybe somebody helped us build. 00:35:11.150 --> 00:35:13.530 Maybe, you know, like we would all just kind of celebrate together. 00:35:13.730 --> 00:35:17.050 So I don't even know if those moments even made it on screen, 00:35:17.050 --> 00:35:20.690 but it was those giggly family moments that were the best for me. 00:35:20.690 --> 00:35:25.330 Like I was we talked about this recently, but we did one where a car was being 00:35:25.330 --> 00:35:30.390 dropped from a helicopter and one was remote control racing across the desert. 00:35:30.410 --> 00:35:33.810 And it was, you know, to see if they would hit the X at the same time. 00:35:33.890 --> 00:35:38.110 But it was the coordination of remote controlling a car and dropping it just 00:35:38.110 --> 00:35:42.410 the right time and all the math that had to go right and being out in the elements. 00:35:42.410 --> 00:35:45.490 And when it finally went off, the three of us. 00:35:46.070 --> 00:35:49.470 You know, two, I mean, we got all of our helicopters, we all ran towards each 00:35:49.470 --> 00:35:53.030 other in the crash cars and we were jumping in a circle, 00:35:53.250 --> 00:36:00.550 hugging and laughing and just like the joy of accomplishing something so weird, 00:36:00.550 --> 00:36:03.750 but like it actually working was just like, 00:36:03.890 --> 00:36:09.250 I will take that moment where we were, it was, we were tapping into that joy that you have as a kid. 00:36:09.250 --> 00:36:13.390 When it's just like, yes, this is awesome. 00:36:13.870 --> 00:36:16.270 And that came through too, Gary, you know, like, 00:36:17.430 --> 00:36:24.630 There was a lot of joy in that show, and it was this great mix of joy and rigorous effort. 00:36:25.970 --> 00:36:30.970 It just seemed like a good prescription for how to deal with anything. 00:36:31.690 --> 00:36:37.990 Here's a question I've always had. Do you guys really believe that duct tape 00:36:37.990 --> 00:36:43.770 is some sort of sacred material, or did you kind of hate duct tape by the end 00:36:43.770 --> 00:36:46.670 of it? Because I always sensed, like, these people are sick of duct tape. 00:36:46.830 --> 00:36:53.610 They are very tired of ripping duct tape and holding duct tape and duct taping things. 00:36:54.170 --> 00:36:59.670 It wrecks your hands and stuff. And the stickiness, there's residue that's really, 00:36:59.770 --> 00:37:01.690 really annoying. But... 00:37:02.900 --> 00:37:10.500 I have a roll in the trunk of my car, and I swear to God, it has saved so many, 00:37:10.980 --> 00:37:14.900 like, it's definitely saved a couple hoopties that we've had where we had to, 00:37:14.900 --> 00:37:17.540 like, tape a bumper back on that fell off. 00:37:17.540 --> 00:37:20.060 I've helped strangers with this sort of thing. 00:37:20.260 --> 00:37:27.200 But the best was we had to get down a mountain and they were requiring chains 00:37:27.200 --> 00:37:33.360 and our chains broke and because they were old and crappy and rusted and wouldn't 00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:35.240 work, but they wouldn't let us drive without them. 00:37:35.700 --> 00:37:41.080 So temporarily duct tape doesn't usually work very good in water, but just to get through, 00:37:41.300 --> 00:37:47.960 we fixed our snow chains with a just a shit ton of duct tape holding part of 00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:53.440 it and made it through the section that they were making us use them just far 00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:54.860 enough that we could get those chains off. 00:37:54.980 --> 00:37:58.300 And it was because my mom had duct tape in her purse. 00:37:58.660 --> 00:38:01.680 And I was like, what the heck do you have duct tape? 00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:05.740 I mean, she has the miracle Mary Poppins mom purse that has everything from 00:38:05.740 --> 00:38:09.840 like Tupperware to a wet cloth and a baggie because it was before wet wipes. 00:38:09.940 --> 00:38:13.820 But she's like, well, because on Mythbusters, you always have duct tape so i 00:38:13.820 --> 00:38:15.300 just figured it's something i should have. 00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:23.240 You know uh it really was impressive by the end of that series was like they 00:38:23.240 --> 00:38:25.480 they made all they did all of 00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:29.320 that that happened that is an impressive material it's boats it's planes, 00:38:29.860 --> 00:38:36.480 it's uh i mean they really did do all that stuff um how long did it take, 00:38:37.600 --> 00:38:41.540 for example, to make a robot that throws a thing. 00:38:42.100 --> 00:38:45.780 Like, was that like, because sometimes Grant would make a robot and it was like, 00:38:46.540 --> 00:38:55.200 either that existed in Adam's, in Jamie's studio mostly, or that took four months to make that. 00:38:55.480 --> 00:38:59.880 You know, like, was it really as simple as like this servo motor plus this thing, 00:39:00.040 --> 00:39:02.940 plus I know how to do all of this. You know, it's interesting. 00:39:03.320 --> 00:39:07.440 It would depend on the machine. Like if their, Grant was very protective. 00:39:07.600 --> 00:39:09.620 Like he didn't like he didn't like our help. 00:39:09.900 --> 00:39:13.020 But when it was getting to a point where it was like, we got to get this thing 00:39:13.020 --> 00:39:18.700 done by tomorrow to start testing, then we would all jump on and just all hands 00:39:18.700 --> 00:39:20.100 on deck to get things done. 00:39:20.260 --> 00:39:23.860 But yes, we would cannibalize old machines that we'd made for other myths because, 00:39:24.040 --> 00:39:26.040 you know, the gears would already be together. 00:39:26.040 --> 00:39:30.880 Or we figured out that a face slapping robot could also be a sword swinging 00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:35.680 robot, which could also be a baseball throwing robot. So it definitely cannibalized 00:39:35.680 --> 00:39:37.980 from each. We recycled. Nothing ever got thrown away. 00:39:39.200 --> 00:39:42.060 Jamie's and Adam's shop was the same way. Except for the pigs. We threw the pigs away. 00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:46.860 Robots never got thrown away. And Grant was also, on his own time, 00:39:47.080 --> 00:39:54.860 making a lot of robots for fun that did weird stuff. So he had a lot of the 00:39:54.860 --> 00:39:57.880 stuff just kind of sitting half built in boxes. 00:39:58.260 --> 00:40:00.700 So it went a lot faster than you think it would. 00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:04.420 Like, we were very autonomous. So Jamie and Adam had their stuff, 00:40:04.560 --> 00:40:06.520 but they had some weird stuff. We had our stuff. 00:40:06.720 --> 00:40:09.620 We had some weird stuff, so we would go back and forth and we couldn't find things. 00:40:09.780 --> 00:40:18.420 But honestly, a lot of these were just simple, but also resourced from just 00:40:18.420 --> 00:40:21.480 being complete hoarders over the years. 00:40:21.680 --> 00:40:25.700 That sword-swinging robot was one that scared me. Oh, it scared all of us. 00:40:26.920 --> 00:40:30.760 I was like, that's not, they just shouldn't do that. No. This is ill-advised. 00:40:31.940 --> 00:40:36.580 They should not be doing this. And sometimes you guys would fill some canister, 00:40:36.940 --> 00:40:42.280 some PVC pipe, some something with way too many PSIs. 00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:46.940 And I was like, this is, I love this show, but is this going to end in tragedy someday? 00:40:47.860 --> 00:40:53.020 Like what are they lucky? Nobody died. Right. Yeah. Like something had to like 00:40:53.020 --> 00:40:55.380 that sword swinging robot was like. 00:40:56.540 --> 00:40:58.180 Terrifying. Still is. Yeah. 00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:02.720 Legitimately terrifying. Yeah. And it was one of those situations where it's 00:41:02.720 --> 00:41:09.080 like, if that quick release accidentally pops and we're standing up, like, we're all dead. 00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:12.100 Like, there goes the build team. Why was it neck height? 00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:18.280 Good question. Yeah. I guess my real question is, what was the paperwork like? 00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:24.380 What sort of waiver did you guys sign to do that? 00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:29.540 Well, sir, we had the same insurers as Jackass. We were the safe bet. 00:41:32.120 --> 00:41:36.760 That makes sense. Well, we're all super still fascinated in you. 00:41:36.940 --> 00:41:43.540 And, um, for all of our myth fit fans, can you tell them where we can find you in every possible way? 00:41:43.860 --> 00:41:50.860 Uh, well, digitally, um, you can find me, uh, on YouTube with, 00:41:51.200 --> 00:41:53.120 uh, alive with Steve Burns. 00:41:53.380 --> 00:41:55.340 Uh, that's the podcast man. 00:41:55.680 --> 00:41:57.840 And you can find that, um, 00:41:58.910 --> 00:42:04.170 Uh, anywhere you can find the podcast literally anywhere that you listen to those things. 00:42:04.970 --> 00:42:08.170 Um, and we're very excited about that podcast. 00:42:08.290 --> 00:42:12.450 You know, it used to be shapes and colors and letters and numbers, 00:42:12.470 --> 00:42:15.330 and this is very much death, sex and taxes. 00:42:15.710 --> 00:42:18.090 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Where we are now. 00:42:18.530 --> 00:42:23.130 The little, a little more grown up. It is, it is, but there's enough, 00:42:23.350 --> 00:42:26.610 there's enough of the comfort of the joy of childhood in it. 00:42:26.750 --> 00:42:31.510 I hope that, um, It allows people to open up to these bigger subjects. 00:42:32.910 --> 00:42:36.850 And then, I mean, I've got social media stuff. I think on TikTok, 00:42:37.190 --> 00:42:39.030 I'm high out there. It's me, Steve. 00:42:39.330 --> 00:42:41.810 And then on Instagram, I'm Steve Burns Alive. 00:42:43.030 --> 00:42:46.290 I love it. We've busted that myth so hard today. 00:42:46.810 --> 00:42:52.570 So good. It has been a pleasure meeting you and talking with you. 00:42:52.770 --> 00:42:56.430 And it's like, I feel calmer just listening to your voice. 00:42:56.790 --> 00:43:00.510 I'm the opposite. I'm like stoked. But I got to hang out with the Mythbusters. 00:43:00.730 --> 00:43:03.030 Like, this is so fun for me. You have no idea. 00:43:03.410 --> 00:43:07.230 That show was very important to me for like 10 years. 00:43:07.490 --> 00:43:12.830 That's awesome. Like, I think I've seen every episode at least once. And that is true. 00:43:13.290 --> 00:43:17.270 You've seen them more than I have been because I don't think I've seen every single episode. 00:43:18.290 --> 00:43:22.630 Yeah, I'm the same way. I don't watch myself do anything. Can I ask you to do 00:43:22.630 --> 00:43:25.630 one fan thing for me? Yes, of course. 00:43:26.130 --> 00:43:32.270 Can you do your Steve Blue's Clues and just ask, hey Mythfits, how you doing? 00:43:35.670 --> 00:43:40.850 Hey Mythfits, it's you. Oh, it's awesome. 00:43:41.770 --> 00:43:44.490 It's great to see you. How are you? How you doing? How you doing? 00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:51.400 Like that? Dude, I just got chills. Nailed it. Woo! 00:43:52.040 --> 00:43:57.280 That was awesome. That was awesome. Oh, my God. Thank you so much. You've been so awesome. 00:43:57.620 --> 00:44:01.680 I'm absolutely a misfit. Or at least I hope I am. You are a misfit. 00:44:01.820 --> 00:44:04.420 You are a misfit. Oh, my God. You are. Yeah. 00:44:04.580 --> 00:44:07.760 I mean, if misfits are your fans, I am a misfit. 00:44:08.020 --> 00:44:12.080 We're all misfits. This is a community. It's not me and Tori. It's all of us. 00:44:12.100 --> 00:44:16.320 It's all of the people who were a part of the Mythbuster process, community. 00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:20.660 We've always been really really engaged with our fans we answer questions from 00:44:20.660 --> 00:44:24.460 them constantly and we've always been on message boards having actual long conversations 00:44:24.460 --> 00:44:29.400 with them so like you're a misfit you i gotta get on those message boards because 00:44:29.400 --> 00:44:34.560 i am certainly a proud misfit well yeah you can always just talk you can hit us up too. 00:44:35.700 --> 00:44:40.180 Dude this has been so much fun thank you like seriously this it's like. 00:44:40.790 --> 00:44:44.210 I feel like my daughter would freak out if she came in here and saw you. 00:44:44.490 --> 00:44:45.710 It's just, this is awesome. 00:44:46.070 --> 00:44:50.110 Well, tell her I said hi and tell her Josh said hi. All right. 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Not representative of all clients and not a guarantee. 00:45:58.270 --> 00:46:02.170 Investment advisory services offered by Stash Investments, LLC, 00:46:02.530 --> 00:46:05.930 and SEC registered investment advisor. 00:46:06.090 --> 00:46:09.650 Investing involves risk. Offer is subject to TNCs. 00:46:14.930 --> 00:46:21.570 That was such a special podcast just to be able to hear his journey and get 00:46:21.570 --> 00:46:26.150 his perspective on his career and then how our show impacted him, 00:46:27.560 --> 00:46:31.880 I'm glad you stalked him. I appreciate you. Usually I don't, 00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:34.320 but this time I appreciate it. 00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:40.900 Did you, do you get something like there's something special about Steve where it's, 00:46:41.680 --> 00:46:48.360 he engages you with his voice and the way he looks into the camera in a way 00:46:48.360 --> 00:46:51.920 that he instantly, I do feel like he's my friend. 00:46:52.240 --> 00:46:55.500 It just felt like we've known him forever. And I don't know. 00:46:55.500 --> 00:46:57.900 He's got something special. 00:46:58.080 --> 00:47:05.040 There's an it factor there where it's just like, wow, I adore you. 00:47:05.660 --> 00:47:09.880 Yeah. And you said it best when he first started talking. You're like, 00:47:10.080 --> 00:47:11.180 normally we're like this. 00:47:12.040 --> 00:47:16.960 And both of us kind of were like, yeah, let's take a step back. 00:47:17.440 --> 00:47:21.920 Let's quiet our voices. I mean, he is. He has a very calming voice. 00:47:23.470 --> 00:47:26.390 Personality and it's it's it's wonderful i'm sorry 00:47:26.390 --> 00:47:29.570 but if the calm app or one of those like meditation apps 00:47:29.570 --> 00:47:32.510 hasn't called him to do something i i 00:47:32.510 --> 00:47:36.070 feel like that right there that could be his money maker because if he just 00:47:36.070 --> 00:47:41.590 talked at night before i had to go to sleep i'd be like go to sleep by steve 00:47:41.590 --> 00:47:45.450 burns well i was like can i get your number so like if i'm ever stressed out 00:47:45.450 --> 00:47:49.770 i just give you a call and you just talk me down maybe just read harry potter 00:47:49.770 --> 00:47:52.370 to me i don't know Just read a book in your Steve way. 00:47:53.710 --> 00:47:59.990 Oh, my God. My nieces are going to freak out because they grew up on that Blue's Clues. 00:48:00.110 --> 00:48:02.750 The first, you know, the first few seasons. 00:48:04.070 --> 00:48:08.950 And it's just, I told my sister, or I told my mom, and my mom told my sister, 00:48:09.030 --> 00:48:11.850 she called, oh, my God, you're going to talk to Steve Burr's? 00:48:12.030 --> 00:48:15.290 No way. Like, she was geeking out so hard. And I'm like, whoa, 00:48:15.650 --> 00:48:22.190 he's had such a huge impact on so many people. Just such a cool guy. Yeah. 00:48:23.390 --> 00:48:30.010 All right. Is it time to read a fan question? It is. It is that time. 00:48:30.490 --> 00:48:34.150 All right, Tori, we got a question here from Curtis the Supreme. 00:48:34.910 --> 00:48:38.110 With two E's. Curtis the Supreme. That's it. 00:48:39.230 --> 00:48:42.910 Okay, here's the question. What would young Carrie and young Tori think of your 00:48:42.910 --> 00:48:46.770 role on Mythbusters, your life now, and what y'all have been up to? 00:48:47.130 --> 00:48:50.110 What would a young Tori think of you? like what. 00:48:50.970 --> 00:48:57.330 God, I don't think young Tori would definitely be like, no way I would. 00:48:57.530 --> 00:49:00.570 I can't do that. There's no way I can do all that stuff. 00:49:00.910 --> 00:49:07.810 I like I'll let him do that. I can't like as a kid looking at people who were on TV. 00:49:08.450 --> 00:49:11.950 It was just like, how do they do that? I remember asking a friend. 00:49:11.970 --> 00:49:16.250 I'm like, how are these people able to like get out there and put themselves 00:49:16.250 --> 00:49:19.370 on national television? I just I can't. 00:49:19.510 --> 00:49:22.110 It would be too much exposure. I'd be too nervous. And they were like, 00:49:22.370 --> 00:49:23.550 they get paid a lot of money. 00:49:23.950 --> 00:49:26.950 And then it's just funny how that became our careers. 00:49:27.330 --> 00:49:32.090 I mean, I as well would not have believed it because I was so painfully shy. 00:49:32.410 --> 00:49:37.410 Yeah. And also just not a performer. I just, I am not somebody who likes getting 00:49:37.410 --> 00:49:41.510 on stage. And I tried out for the high school musical. 00:49:41.690 --> 00:49:46.050 It was Bye Bye Birdie. And I only did it because all of my friends were going to do it. 00:49:46.130 --> 00:49:49.590 And my, my best friend, Brittany's like an amazing dancer and Holly. 00:49:49.590 --> 00:49:52.130 And like they were they were singers they were dancers and they did these great 00:49:52.130 --> 00:49:56.590 tryouts and i like under prepped because i just didn't know what i was doing 00:49:56.590 --> 00:50:04.570 and i i got up there and choked and started to cry oh no i was i it was i it 00:50:04.570 --> 00:50:07.450 was like me and one other kid were the only ones that, 00:50:08.170 --> 00:50:13.450 didn't make it like it was like an automatic you make the chorus or something and they're like nah. 00:50:14.850 --> 00:50:20.890 It's like it's like getting picked last to play sports you were like but now 00:50:20.890 --> 00:50:25.130 being in front of the camera what that's crazy and all the stuff that we've 00:50:25.130 --> 00:50:27.010 done over the years that have been, 00:50:28.100 --> 00:50:32.160 I mean, they've been brave, but they've been brave because they've been terrifying 00:50:32.160 --> 00:50:34.000 and we would do it anyway. 00:50:34.260 --> 00:50:39.320 You know, like you've jumped off of buildings and you freaking hate heights. 00:50:39.520 --> 00:50:46.460 Like we've faced so many fears and have, you know, learned along the way. 00:50:46.660 --> 00:50:52.020 Like the fact that, you know, I walked into Jamie's shop and lied about ever 00:50:52.020 --> 00:50:55.900 being able to use a table saw and just figured it out. 00:50:56.560 --> 00:51:03.460 Like, as a kid, I would never believe that I could be the woman that could do that. Yeah, yeah. 00:51:03.900 --> 00:51:09.580 What advice would you give now as an adult? What advice would you give to the 00:51:09.580 --> 00:51:11.800 young Carrie? It gets better. 00:51:13.220 --> 00:51:17.840 Yeah. And you're going to be okay. Yeah. Like, I was so insecure as a kid, 00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:22.960 and I just really wish that somebody would be like, it's going to be all right. 00:51:23.020 --> 00:51:27.780 It gets better. Yeah, and I feel like a lot of kids, especially... 00:51:28.810 --> 00:51:34.870 Who grew up during the pandemic where it was just, everything was just out of 00:51:34.870 --> 00:51:37.470 control. And it was like fear inducing. 00:51:37.730 --> 00:51:42.350 I just, I wish you could just go and tell every kid, just wait, it gets better. 00:51:42.450 --> 00:51:45.850 It's going to be okay. Like there was times when I was a kid that I was like, 00:51:46.210 --> 00:51:49.150 ah, childhood, this sucks. Like, I don't want to grow up. 00:51:49.330 --> 00:51:52.630 And now looking back, it's like, God, everything turned out fine. 00:51:52.630 --> 00:51:56.610 Like all those fears that you had that you're the worst thing could possibly 00:51:56.610 --> 00:51:58.810 happen usually doesn't happen. 00:51:59.230 --> 00:52:02.730 And it's just like a message that you want to get to these kids. 00:52:02.930 --> 00:52:07.250 It's like, just hang in there. It's going to be OK. I love that. Yeah. 00:52:07.910 --> 00:52:10.770 All right. Well, Carrie, great to see you. 00:52:10.890 --> 00:52:17.530 I'm glad you you got a hold of Steve. That was an amazing interview. So good to talk to him. 00:52:18.010 --> 00:52:21.370 What a cool guy. And I just, I hope everybody goes and listens to his podcast 00:52:21.370 --> 00:52:25.590 and goes and finds him because myth confirmed, he is alive. 00:52:25.830 --> 00:52:29.190 He is alive and well. Steve from Blue's Clues is alive. 00:52:29.570 --> 00:52:32.790 And he's now a Mythfitz. And now he's a Mythfitz. 00:52:33.390 --> 00:52:36.930 Oh, my God. I love that so much. I'm going to put that up on social media somewhere. 00:52:37.130 --> 00:52:39.230 I was like, Mythfitz, what are you doing? 00:52:39.470 --> 00:52:42.370 Like, oh, cool. Let's do it right now. 00:52:43.070 --> 00:52:45.110 All right, Mythfitz. Thanks for tuning in. How are you? 00:52:46.650 --> 00:52:50.510 All right. That's our episode today. Thank you guys for joining us. 00:52:50.650 --> 00:52:53.450 Yep. Stay weird. Stay weird, Mythbiz.