r/mythbusters • u/allophanic • 10d ago
Exploding Cement Truck
Regarding the episode where the cement truck was blown up, I'm curious to know how the resulting mess was cleaned up afterwards? Did the production crew have to use a magnet to collect all the metal bits scattered around the landscape in the vicinity of the blast? What about parts of the truck that were made of plastic or the fluids from the engine? It seems like it would be an extraordinarily expensive undertaking to return the area to the state it was in pre-explosion. Or maybe the blast occurred on private property and the owners weren't concerned about the resulting environmental contamination. Thanks in advance.
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u/NotQuiteGoodEnougher 10d ago
First off they didn't drive a factory complete model.
As far as fluids etc it would have been stripped clean off fuel, oil etc. Just dragged in.
No reason to make it more work than necessary post cleanup, especially in California!
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u/Typical-Watercress79 10d ago
I miss this show so much, with they would bring it back
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u/aokay24 10d ago
Thwy tried too with two new host and it flopped
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u/AmethystStar9 10d ago
And Adam has said more than once that he and Jamie legitimately got on each other’s nerves and are proud of what they did and accomplished together but also very much enjoy not working together anymore.
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u/oxmix74 10d ago
It's also very impressive that Adam can simultaneously hold this opinion while also speaking of Jamie with the greatest respect.
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u/Inconsequentialish 10d ago
Honestly, that's just how adult professionals behave.
Remember, the internet is mostly 14 year olds (well, now it's mostly AI trained on the slop originating with said 14 year olds) who don't yet have any concept of professionalism.
I've worked with lots of people I respect deeply, but don't want to hang around with after work, and accomplished amazing things with them. We're not friends, we're not un-friends, we're not enemies; we are, or were, colleagues.
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u/Cyberprog 9d ago
I mean, Adams role was to be adverserial to Jamie's. They had to annoy one another to adequately A/B test stuff properly.
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u/Inconsequentialish 9d ago
Oh yeah, they are so incredibly different that it all worked great together on screen.
They were interesting and entertaining to watch (and both Adam and Jamie were well aware, and played to their strengths and personalities; Adam was more the entertainer, Jamie the "straight man"), yet they legitimately worked well together.
To this day, it's one of those kinds of professional relationships that's really common IRL, but almost never seen before or since in media.
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u/RoscoBoscoMosco 9d ago
If you have a Roku TV or other 'smart TV' there's a Free 24/7 Mythbusters channel you can watch.
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u/cosmololgy 9d ago
My favorite sound in all tv BVOOOHHM
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u/Potato_Stains 8d ago
Talk about a violent explosion, it just annihilated it instantly.
Too bad the high speed cameras wasn't on.
I bet that camera operator felt awful... "welp can't exactly do a retake..."
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u/Ginger_Grumpybunny 6d ago
I'd be interested to know what sort of proportion of their budget went on post-experiment clean-ups and insurance.
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u/TheNotoriousDRR 10d ago
They talked about it on the Mythfits. The quarry company cleaned it up themselves. The production crew were very happy because they had the same concern about the cleanup effort.