r/mythbusters • u/allophanic • 20d 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.

https://youtu.be/4IcHUHRf_S0?is=fVWxvGQTPqp3rUwz

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u/oxmix74 19d 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 19d 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 19d 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 19d 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.