The Inventor and The Thief - Snap Classic
Snap Judgment
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4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
When a brilliant inventor was robbed of his life’s work, his son did the only reasonable thing: he became a robber.
Snap Classic: Season 8 Episode 10
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Judgment Studios |
| 0:10.5 | Snapers, do you know at one point? |
| 0:14.3 | I got a call from the power set B saying Snap was canceled. |
| 0:19.2 | That was a very, very, no good, very bad day, but I realized |
| 0:25.6 | that the power set B didn't own this show. |
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| 1:54.5 | Price is jewelry, a bitter business rivalry, shady mob connections and of course call for it. |
| 2:02.4 | Snap Judgment. Joe Rosenberg explains. |
| 2:16.9 | This is a story about an inventor. You've probably never heard of him, but you've definitely heard |
| 2:21.9 | of the things he made. Comforts call folding, voice print recognition, the red phone that dialed |
| 2:29.5 | the Cremlin for Eisenhower. There was 39 total inventions. This is Walter Shaw Jr. He's not the |
| 2:36.9 | inventor. The inventor was his father, Walter Shaw Sr. And he says that his dad didn't start off as |
| 2:42.4 | a creator type. He was a dock worker. But a friend of his, he says, let's say I can get you on with |
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