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Mythbuster’s Adam Savage and Trip Hunter talk SiliCon--San Jose's premier Comic Con

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Adam Savage Silicon's Creative Director (left) with Trip Hunter, Executive Director (center) talk with correspondent Tom Wilmer about Silicon Valley's premier comic con event.
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Adam Savage Silicon's Creative Director (left) with Trip Hunter, Executive Director (center) talk with correspondent Tom Wilmer about Silicon Valley's premier comic con event.

Join correspondent Tom Wilmer at Adam Savage’s Cave in San Francisco for a conversation about the upcoming SiliCon—Silicon Valley’s premier Comic Con.

SiliCon’s Creative Director Adam Savage (former co-host of Discovery Channel’s MythBusters television series) and Silicon’s Executive director Trip Hunter share fascinating insights.

Inside glimpse of Adam Savage's San Francisco "Cave" workshop--a metaphor for what it looks like inside Savage's brain.
Randi Hair
Inside glimpse of Adam Savage's San Francisco "Cave" workshop--a metaphor for what it looks like inside Savage's brain.

Highlights of the event include: the best in pop culture, tech, science, makers, artists, cosplay, gaming, comic creators, actors (including George Takei and Christopher Lloyd), authors, NASA scientist presenters and a diverse array of workshops.

The two-day SiliCon event is scheduled for August 27-28, 2022 at the San Jose McEnry Convention Center. Click here to purchase tickets.

This show is a condensed version of a previous 54 minute podcast show featuring some of Silicon’s featured artists in addition to Savage and Hunter.

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Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.