Jamie Hyneman

Jamie Hyneman Trivia and Quotes

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Trivia

  • Jamie obtained a patent for the Nike shoe. []
  • Jamie was born in Marshall, Michigan but was raised in Indiana. []
  • Jamie's company, M5, was originally intended to be named Department X, which provided James Bond his gadgets in the films. []
  • Jamie, along with Adam, hosted the Mega Movie Myths 2 hour Special on the Discovery Channel []
  • When Jamie was about 14 he ran away from home for six months after his parents threatened to send him to reform school because of "unruly behavior."
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  • Jamie along with Adam, hosted the 2005 edition of Discovery Channel annual Shark Week. []
  • Jamie hates competitions []
  • Jamie once had to make a shoe that could roll on its own to represent its speed for a Nike commercial. []
  • Jamie has diversed his company, M5 Industries, into toy prototyping. []
  • Jamie created M5 Industries 8 years ago after he left Colossal Pictures. []
  • Jamie is the winner of numerous industry awards. []
  • Jamie has worked with Eon Productions, Industrial Light and Magic, among others. []
  • Jamie once worked in the Colossal Pictures' model shop, where he managed the production of models and special effects for hundreds of commercials and films. []
  • Once Jamie became a visual effects artist he began working for several production companies. []
  • Jamie has a fear of heights. []
  • Jamie once trained a goldfish to ring a bell. []
  • Jamie was once a concrete inspector for a few months. []
  • Jamie constantly wears red hi-top sneakers. []
  • Jamie is a long-standing Screen Actors Guild member. []
  • Jamie onced lived on a houseboat. []
  • Jamie used to run a pet store. []
  • Jamie grew up on a farm. []
  • Jamie is happily married, and is very proud of his wife. []
  • Jamie ran a dive/charter business for several years. []
  • Jamie is the CEO of M5 Industries. []
  • Jamie builds items for commercials including the 7-UP can-chucking machine and the Nike Roller-shoe []
  • Jamie Hyneman has received several industry awards for his works in special effects on various forms of media. []
  • During an episode of MythBusters, Jamie Hyneman was cut when he volunteered to be the target of a machine that threw playing cards at a high speed. []
  • Jamie Hyneman’s moustache is sometimes the subject of jokes from his colleagues, though he is still quite fond of the way it looks. []
  • Jamie Hyneman has worked on the mechanical spiders used in the movie Arachnophobia. []
  • Jamie Hyneman is usually more serious than his co-workers on MythBusters, though he has pulled some pranks on the set before. []
  • Jamie Hyneman and his colleagues at M5 Industries have also worked on developing prototypes for various toys. []
  • Jamie Hyneman is good friends with Adam Savage, his co-host on MythBusters, and he has worked with him on several occasions in the past. []
  • Jamie Hyneman holds several patents for various things he has invented. []
  • Jamie Hyneman has an unusual obsession with cleanliness and he typically never gets dirty; he even has a sign in his workshop that says “Clean Up or Die”. []
  • Jamie Hyneman was responsible for getting Adam Savage on MythBusters, Jamie didn’t believe he was dynamic enough to host the series alone and since he had worked with Adam in the past, he decided Adam would be the best co-host possible. []
  • Jamie Hyneman usually wears his white shirt and black beret while filming MythBusters episodes. []
  • Many of Jamie Hyneman's machines have appeared in commercials for several companies, such as Nike. []
  • Jamie Hyneman has worked on several movies, including both sequels for The Matrix and Episodes I and II of Star Wars. []
  • Before getting into special effects, Jamie Hyneman ran a sailing/diving charter business in the Caribbean. []
  • Jamie Hyneman once was the manager of the Colossal Pictures’ model shop. []
  • Jamie Hyneman and his colleagues at M5 Industries have worked on over eight hundred different commercials. []
  • Jamie Hyneman has had several careers throughout his lifetime, such as being a boat captain, a scuba diver, a pet shop owner, an animal wrangler, a wilderness survival expert, a machinist and a chef. []
  • Jamie Hyneman has a degree in Russian languages and literature. []
  • Jamie Hyneman is the founder of M5 Industries, which supplies many of the materials used in MythBusters. []
  • Jamie Hyneman was on the series BattleBots, where he was a member of Team Blendo, which had a heavyweight robot named Blendo. []

Quotes

  • Jamie: Adam, Grant and Tory have worked at ILM for some years. I worked there on one job with Grant and we became friends. Adam and Tory had worked with me or for me before then and, in fact, Adam got his first work in the field when I hired him over a decade ago. I found ILM a great place to work and that there were a lot of very talented people there. Many of the people there have worked with me over the years []
  • Jamie: When Domino's Pizza approached M5 Industries and asked us to design and build the Steak Fanatic Pizza Couch, I knew it was something we wanted to be part of. The Steak Fanatic Pizza Couch is like a guy's dream come true -- only the coolest gadgets and Domino's Pizza all within arm's reach []
  • Jamie: The fact that we are so different is our strength []
  • Jamie: He brings a little bit more science to the show. Adam and I have a sense of how things work. Grant actually has an education in how things work []
  • Jamie: I wouldn't want to be next to this when it's running in the water. Because, we built it, and it's just, you know, as likely to fly apart and send a propeller through my head or something []
  • Jamie: Don't mess with me, duck. When I say "quack", you're gonna quack, right? I'm the boss here. Don't give me any beak []
  • Jamie: Adam would use any excuse to run around in his undies I think. []
  • Jamie: One way or another we're going to blow up that damn toilet []
  • Jamie: I always had a fascination with crossbows. I've had one since I was a teenager. That's why there where no cats in the neighborhood."
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  • Jamie: I'm a little worried because it worked too well, so now we'll go full scale, and it'll blow up. []
  • Jamie: I understanding these things have about a million—or actually, it's 1.3 million—pounds of explosive force. I'm not sure what that means, but it sounds like a lot.
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  • Jamie: This better work...my shirt's all dirty.
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  • Jamie: It may look like salami, it may smell like salami, it may even taste like salami but its rocket fuel.
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  • Jamie: There's meat everywhere []
  • Jamie: Can we at least aspire to not be idiots? []
  • Jamie: Adam's crossbow, you could use as a club and you could still shoot it!
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  • Jamie: Unfortunately, humans are big heavy things.
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  • Jamie: This is going to kill you!
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  • Jamie: Well, it looks like we're not gonna be shooting any more guns off in the shop. []
  • Jamie: It's smaller than my head…it's all right []
  • Jamie:The worst case scenario today is someone dies from a bullet wound []
  • Jamie: We're either gonna die, or we're gonna fly []
  • Jamie: Genetic legacy? IT'S SPERM! Any kid in grade school knows that! Helps make babies []
  • Jamie: It looks kinda like…poo []
  • Jamie: Talk about removing concrete, there is no concrete, there is no truck, there's no nothing. []
  • Jamie: This has got nothing to do with the myth; it's just a big boom []
  • Jamie: Think, then act. Don't act, then think. []
  • Jamie: I'm not sure what it's gonna do, but it looks cool []
  • Jamie: Putting all of these greenhouses up on the roof, I think I'm gonna get checked out by the police for growing pot or something up here, y'know. It's like "What are you doing?" It looks kinda suspicious []
  • Jamie: Yet again we're blowing things up in front of my shop. And not only that but there are noxious chemicals involved which will probably leave a residue over the whole block and, um…I guess it's okay. I'm getting used to it. So are the neighbors. []
  • Jamie: Drown, you bastard! []
  • Jamie: Our death ray doesn't seem to be working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet. []
  • Jamie: I kinda like it in here. It's private []
  • Jamie: It seems like you have to take the car tire off in order to change the battery. What is the point? Probably because someone built the damn thing in a computer and doesn't have any sense. Piece of crap. []
  • Jamie: Adam doesn't know it yet, but he's digging his own grave []
  • Jamie: There's poo everywhere []
  • Jamie: When will the fun ever stop? []
  • Jamie: Quack, damn you!
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  • Jamie: Don't let their looks deceive you, these are actually quite deadly []
  • Jamie: Adam, the police officer said you need to drink more []
  • Jamie: I'm making a cannonball out of granite…or a mess.
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  • Jamie: Whoops! We should get outta here, that's mercury vapour.
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  • Jamie: I always enjoy seeing Adam in pain []
  • Jamie: Adam needs a cookie []
  • Jamie: Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day []
  • Jamie: Jamie wants big boom []
  • Jamie: Great, what just happend? []

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