As his television show has shown, Jamie Hyneman is pretty much game for anything. However, bungy jumping will not be high on the list of his priorities during his first visit to New Zealand next month.
He and Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage will be making a whistlestop tour here to perform their Mythbusters – Behind the Myths stage show twice at Auckland’s Vector Arena.
Speaking by phone from San Francisco, where the Mythbusters team was doing a story about drones, Hyneman puts his reluctance to take the plunge down to a recent experiment for the show, which airs here on both Discovery and Prime.
”We did a story based on a commercial we saw where someone was bungy jumping for apples. In order to test whether it was possible I had to fall like a log and dive in where I could bite into an apple.
”I had to fall the same way every time and ignore what my body was doing so I could focus on biting something which was going to appear in like an instant and then disappear.
”I did it eight times and finally gave up. Adam managed only two –
