![]() “I remember coming into work one morning and flies were coming out of the truck. Since no human was stupid enough to test that, Belleci improvised by building a plastic skeleton and attaching pork loins to it to create a “meat man,” which they kept fresh in a refrigerated truck. Legend has it that one of those old-timey copper diver helmets would collapse in, crushing the person inside. Once during a segment on gunslingers, the crew were firing Colt 45 revolvers with blanks and got an unwelcome visit from the police after someone called in a complaint.Īnother time, Belleci was testing a theory about what happens to deep sea divers who lose air pressure if detached from the boat. Courtesy of BuchwaldĬurrently Belleci spends most of his time in Monterey, but still has an apartment in San Francisco from his days hosting the long-running scientific debunking show “Mythbusters,” which was filmed out of a super-secret warehouse in Potrero (to the dismay of their neighbors). Tory Belleci and Richard Hammond star in "The Great Escapists" on Amazon Prime Video. “We got back to the real world and it was like, ‘ahhhh, I want to go back to our fantasy life!’” Plus, despite how rough the conditions on the show look, the cast and crew actually lived in a relatively comfortable island inn. But based on how much fun they look like they’re having on the show as they build tricked-out soap box racers and a two-story shelter, that might not have been too bad. So if we’d been filming any longer, we would’ve got stuck on the island for real,” says Belleci. “We literally got off the island a week before the shutdown. The faux-reality show, which premiered January 29, pits Belleci’s affable inventor ingenuity against Hammond’s need for speed personality as the pair bicker over the best way to get themselves rescued in a premise that’s essentially “Gilligan’s Island” meets “MacGyver.” Filming took place in Panama over the course of six weeks in early 2020, just before shelter-in-place was announced. ![]()
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