Adam Savage of MythBusters is interviewed in a podcast where he talks about how the show decides how to test myths.
“The first test we always look for is, ‘what would two guys in their garage on a lazy Sunday do?’
Then we start to try and bring more equipment to bear on figuring out what’s really going on. But we really always try and start from ‘what’s the dumbest way you could approach this? What’s the simplest possible thing?'”
It’s all about finding the core idea first. Subtract the obvious and add the meaningful.
Listen to the full podcast (23 minutes) to find out about some upcoming shows and how Savage used the community site MetaFilter to research when he needed more ideas.
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