We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.

After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.

New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.

Remember kids, I have life insurance.

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'

That's our job - to strap rockets onto everything.