Thank you, Grant Imahara

Tremaine Eto
4 min readJul 14, 2020
Free use, Pixabay

I can’t believe I’m writing this.

Grant Imahara has suddenly and tragically passed away at 49.

I never knew Grant personally. But also, like so many others, I knew him.

Pretty much every day after school when I was younger, I would see him on my TV screen. With my brother, I’d religiously watch him — along with his fellow build team members Kari Byron and Tory Belleci and main hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman — on the hit show MythBusters, which in the 2000’s was quite simply a big deal.

We used to record every single airing of the episodes on our DVR until we had hundreds of new episodes and re-runs and just watch them over and over again. We even begged our dad to buy us each a MythBusters t-shirt, which he did a great job in choosing:

Straight from my closet, the one shirt I could never donate

In a nutshell, the show brought science to the mainstream in a presentable TV format not seen since Bill Nye the Science Guy and The Magic School Bus. The hosts were unapologetic in their curiosity of the myths they busted (and confirmed), their yearning of discovery, their giddiness in the process that made them — and their viewers — feel like kids again.

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Tremaine Eto

Senior Software Engineer @ Iterable | Previously worked at DIRECTV, AT&T, and Tinder | UCLA Computer Science alumni | Follow me for software engineering tips!