Kari Byron is her name and I fully agree with your opinions. Lovely back story is that she literally came in through the backdoor to the show. She audaciously kept showing up at Jamie Hyneman’s M5 Industries studio until she got hired as an unpaid intern, a female in a male dominated SFX industry. Then, in the 2nd season [2004] of Mythbusters, it became obvious that a ‘second unit’ was needed to offset the workload for a weekly hour-long program.
Thus was born, through skill and persistence, Keri’s career, along with her colleagues of Tory Belleci and the now late Grant Imahara. FYI: They have all, since their participation in ‘Mythbusters’ ended in 2012, worked together on the Netflix series “White Rabbit.Project”.
FYI: This is NOT the 1st death in the ‘Mythbusters’ on-screen hosts. While Keri was on maternity leave in her final months before her daughter’s birth in 2010, her substitute host was Jessi Combs for 7 episodes. Ms Combs died doing what she knew was a very dangerous effort to set a new female land speed record! August 27th, 2019 at age 36.
Kari Byron is an outspoken atheist. We should keep her in our prayers.