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...and then he [Jamie Hyneman] had a little contest among his employees to name the company, and I was thinking you should name it after the British Secret Service. But because the internet barely existed at this point...we weren't googling everything...so I thought that the British Secret Service was called 'M5', not 'MI6', and so I suggested calling the company 'M5' and Jamie did.