The Gamer Godfather You've Never Heard Of

The Nod

Gimlet

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Video game consoles were super boring in the early days: you could only switch between a few basic, built-in games — no Super Mario Bros, Sonic the Hedgehog or Legend of Zelda. But that all changed thanks to the contributions of a man named Jerry Lawson. Brittany tells Eric the story of the man who helped make video gaming way more fun, paving the way for the video game industry as we know it today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Gimlet Media, this is The Not, a show about black culture from Blackness's biggest
0:07.1	fan.
0:08.1	I'm Britney's.
0:09.1	And I'm Eric Getting.
0:10.1	Eric, do you know what time it is?
0:16.8	What time is it?
0:17.8	Don't do that again.
0:19.8	Don't do that again.
0:21.1	I ask you a question, you ask me a bad.
0:25.3	And you know the answer already.
0:27.3	Where is that?
0:28.3	It's time for peanut butter history.
0:34.2	George Washington Carver was the wizard of the soil.
0:37.4	George Washington Carver was most well known African American of his day.
0:41.7	During his lifetime, Carver extracted more than 300 products from the peanut.
0:48.0	There is one product that many mistakenly attribute to him.
0:52.0	Peanut butter.
0:53.0	Peanut butter.
0:54.0	Peanut butter.
0:55.0	Peanut butter.
0:56.0	Peanut butter.
0:57.0	Peanut butter.
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