The Greatest Squirt Gun Ever Built

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Reddit, Technology

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🗓️ 1 November 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

One of the bestselling toys of all-time, the Super Soaker, was invented by a rocket scientist nicknamed "The Professor." This is the story of the man, the legend: Lonnie Johnson.

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0:00.0	Produced by the iLap at WBUR Boston.
0:09.0	Peter Piper Picked-a-Pep.
0:11.0	This is inventor Lonnie Johnson.
0:13.0	Peter Piper Picked-a-Pep, Pickled Peppers.
0:16.0	That works for me.
0:17.0	If you...
0:18.0	Lonnie Johnson is a super chill dude.
0:20.0	So chill.
0:21.0	Wake up Lonnie the episode is starting.
0:24.0	Lonnie's chill, but he's also responsible for a lot of mayhem.
0:29.0	That really started when he was a kid.
0:31.0	Obsessed with rocket fuel.
0:33.0	True or false, you almost burned down your house trying to make rocket fuel.
0:37.0	Yeah, that's true.
0:39.0	How old were you?
0:40.0	Oh, jeez.
0:41.0	I'll say must've been around 12 years old.
0:43.0	Wow.
0:44.0	See, something similar happened to me, but I was in college and I was deep-prime parogies.
0:51.0	So...
0:52.0	Same, I was trying to make a mozzarella stick.
0:56.0	So clearly there's a difference in aptitude here.
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