Black Inventors Who Quietly Shaped Modern America

You ever look at a traffic light, a dry cleaned suit, a blood bank, or even your microphone and wonder who actually made modern life work? We do and the answers are a lot more surprising than most of us were taught. From Crawford Studios, we mix laughs with real history and spotlight Black inventors and African American inventors whose ideas became everyday infrastructure, medicine, and technology.

We run through names that deserve to be common knowledge: Louis Latimer’s improvements that helped make electric lighting practical, Thomas Jennings and the dry cleaning process, Granville T. Woods upgrading railway communication, and Garrett Morgan creating a three-position traffic light plus an early gas mask. We also talk about Sarah E. Goode’s folding cabinet bed and how small-space design is real engineering, not just “home stuff.”

Then we zoom out to the bigger system: who gets credit, how school materials leave people out, and how patents, copyright, and fair use can either protect inventors or slow innovation. That thread connects straight into medicine and tech, from Dr Charles Drew’s blood plasma storage for blood banks to Dr Patricia Bath’s laser tool for cataract surgery, plus Mark Dean’s work on personal computers and the path to having a computer in your pocket.

We wrap with more game changers like refrigerated trucks, CCTV security, and the electric microphone, then end on the most fun inventor shoutout of all: Lonnie Johnson’s Super Soaker. If you like smart conversation, real US history, and practical “how did we get here” curiosity, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review. What invention on this list hit you the hardest?

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Transcript

Cold Open And Tech Gremlins

SPEAKER_02 0:03

Live from Crawford Studios, it's C C NJ Guy. What up, fellas? What's going on, man? How'd you doing? Everybody good? Doing good. Yeah. Yeah, right, man. So now, because you know we do the funnies, our conspiracy thing, me and Lou, we tried to do this and this topic and we couldn't get it. Yeah. And we couldn't get this shit going. The board messed up, the computer messed up, reception in one way, shape, or form just kept fucking up and we couldn't get it.

Why Black Inventors Get Missed

SPEAKER_01 0:33

Right away. Right away. I was thinking it's a judge of a conspiracy theory immediately. Yeah, we'll be able to do that. Because today we are talking about black inventors. Yes. Or what's your point on Kenny when you said that? But I've what I got. I'm sorry. I just as a guess. Damn, Lewis. That's not nice. Damn.

SPEAKER_02 0:54

That's fucking great. Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

I'm in trouble already.

SPEAKER_02 1:01

No, so we tried to do it and we weren't able to get it. We tried, we tried. And so now we're going to see. Hopefully, that the little things that we've done in the past week and a half, two weeks, hopefully that's the shit that keeps it being able to that we're able to get the whole show on. So let's go. Lewis, get her started, or you want me started? Well, because I'm that guy.

SPEAKER_01 1:21

So we were saying in the last one. We have still have the audio and then the video of that. Right. So Tom's going to use that. Okay, some of that. Just edit it. Why not? Just put it in. Because when it really happened, all that stuff was happening.

SPEAKER_02 1:33

But I don't remember what the hell we where we left off. Because we we got so much.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

Right. How we learned a lot of things, but not way enough that we should have learned. There was way more that was being left out that we should have known about when it comes to history. Because all history, all American history is American history, period. And discussions. There isn't a well, this, that, no. Right. They were part of it. They were there. Everybody, whoever was, is part of it. Right. So I would have been nice to know this stuff back then. Even though I, you know, my like I said earlier, and my family was always big about history. My father, my mother, we always traveled. So it was a big thing in our house, you know. So and I enjoyed going on the trips and learning all that stuff. And I now that I know this, I'm glad I know this stuff now, because this stuff is good to know that we have this information. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:20

I mean, I said, so now, you know, for the listeners, everybody watching and listening, I said we try to get it done. So sorry it's a little bit late for you know from February and whatnot. Uh it doesn't matter, you can do it anytime. But like, so just kind of right not, you know, just black inventors, it's just inventors, you know, women inventors, you know, uh people from you know Jane and everything else. I'm not just saying, like, you know, so this is just uh I said we're trying to get the uh the Black History Month in. So yeah, but not even that.

Louis Latimer And The Light Bulb

SPEAKER_01 2:44

It doesn't even have to be because it's American history. Because we can talk about any part of American history that this happens to be part of it. Yeah. So definitely. But yes, Black History Must was last month. Right. So yeah, we marry Michael. But it's all good though. So let's go. Who's your first one, Louis? So like we were saying earlier, Louis Latimer. Yes. Why he matters, made electric light practical and affordable, improved the carbon filament for the light bulb. Worked with Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, wrote the first technical book on electric lighting. Yeah. That's so significant.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

So what did he do? So did he improve the to make the light more affordable, like the filament, or to let it last longer?

SPEAKER_02 3:24

Yeah, he did. It's the carbon light uh bulb filament. So he made the filament like, you know, that it would last a little bit longer than it was, you know, now they made it right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's what made it like that's what made the connection.

SPEAKER_01 3:34

Now that I got it to work, now I'm gonna try to make it last longer than what it's doing right now. So even back then they were on top of that.

SPEAKER_02 3:40

Yeah. They knew that kind of stuff, you know? Yeah. Then, you know, of course, later on, big business came in. Oh, yeah. They took away the powerful filament and made it, you know, who took um like most of the credit for it at that time because of the time that it happened.

Who Writes The History Books

SPEAKER_01 3:56

So we didn't know. I didn't know this. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Right. This wasn't we didn't know this in school. And my parents, I don't even know if my parents didn't. If they did, they probably would have shared it with me. Yeah, probably. Because that's how they were when it came to that stuff. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 4:11

Well, too, you probably they probably did say it and you know, we were kids. We didn't pay that much attention to a lot of stuff they're telling us. Like, yeah, yeah, whatever. I would have remembered it. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:18

Yeah, no. That works. Well, no, you know, I always find it interesting when it comes to like history. Like, why why do they say like, you know, obviously it'd be hard to like teach everything about you know history in one class. But like that's what makes them say we're gonna leave this in the textbook? Like I wonder, does that make that I get the conspiracy thing going on? Right.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

Well that and that's what that's what the issue is. Yeah, has always been. That you know, they is that that is those people that they leave out. But they did the same thing in what?

SPEAKER_01 4:49

What else did they do that in? In everything. Well, what's one of the biggest books that's been done in because they changed it to be the way they want it to be? Yeah. Well, yeah, okay. So it's like the same thing. It's it's that's history. Oh, yeah. And they're they're changing it to the history they'd rather it be than it was for what actually happened. Right. Which is incorrect. Yeah, right. Right. And yeah, and so it's good to know when you find out real stuff that happens and it finally comes out, because of course this stuff must have been recorded at that time. Right.

SPEAKER_00 5:15

They say on record. Well, it's interesting. They say closest to the original are the Ethiopian uh Christians. Yes. They actually have the they have uh they're they go by like they have the most because like the Bible is like a book cure as a book curate of many books into one. Right. They have like like way more books.

SPEAKER_01 5:37

Right more. They say that it started in the in the African continents. But that's not in so that's where it first started. Right.

SPEAKER_02 5:47

Not the other way around. Right. That's where uh what you call it is um Egypt. Egypt and all that stuff. It's right there in the middle of all that. So No, but it's not Egypt. Well, Ethiopia is Africa, Ethiopia.

SPEAKER_01 5:57

Yeah, yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_02 5:59

So the Middle East is like it's all still.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

But the whole book is is it's a crazy looking book. Because I saw I watched the same thing you did, Tom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was not it's totally separate from what the Roman Catholic religion was and what they already had.

SPEAKER_02 6:14

Yeah, right. Exactly. You know, that's what like you and I were talking about the Dead Sea Scrolls, right? You know, a few episodes back. You know, same thing with it, same idea.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

Right. People take credit for stuff or change it to what they want it to be because they have the power to do that.

SPEAKER_00 6:25

That we say that because it kind of segues in, because uh, that would be black history.

SPEAKER_02 6:29

Yeah, exactly. Uh yeah, everybody's gonna agree with that. That's you know, well, yeah, that's why we stay away from the religions.

SPEAKER_01 6:36

Well, we were only being in the point about the accuracy, right? Or how it has the history was being changed, right? And that was the similarity that we had with the DMU people used to saw that. Yes, exactly. Get over it.

Patents Dry Cleaning And Rail Safety

SPEAKER_02 6:47

Yeah, uh-huh. Uh-huh. Anyway. Yep. Um then we uh so another. Yeah, well what should we got on this, bro? We got uh Thomas Jennings, the first African-American to receive a patent for dry cleaning process.

SPEAKER_00 6:57

Now that there's certain fabrics you can't wash. Yeah, that's uh pretty smart.

SPEAKER_02 7:01

Oh yeah. Yeah. I thought it was uh George Jefferson, but moving on up. Yeah, that's messed up. I know, I know. I thought it was funny. It is funny. Fuck that shit. But yeah, so I mean, with that being said, again, that's something else that we never thought about. You know what I'm saying? You never thought about the dry cleaning process, who invented it, how to make it happen, you know, keep your fabrics nice and pretty. Yep. You know what I'm saying? And is this dude who came and got the patent for it, you know? I am surprised that they let him make get the patent. Well, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 7:33

We don't know what it was like back then to know why he did or how he did, but they gave it to him.

SPEAKER_02 7:37

Well, yeah, you had to go down to the to the uh patent office and you know you had to get the paperwork and you know, whether you called them up or you actually to get it mailed to you, or you had to go over there and do it.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

Back then, I wonder what you had to do for that. You probably had to mail it. There's probably like, but how do you get the information back? I wonder back then, like before, like, before like, I guess, like before I the internet, before everything. Like when you had to get a patent office, you have to like, I wonder how you like looked at the page. Or you wrapped up on the yellow pages, right? Like a walk to the office. Yeah. Yeah. They're local patent office. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:08

Yeah, exactly. And then you gotta go in there with the town or whatever it was. Right. Yeah, you have to go in there with the schematics and show them and you know, just so they say, okay, this is what you need, this is what it is, your name and all that other good stuff. And yeah, make it happen. Yeah. It's it's wild. It's so freaking cool. Just to I I I think it's just so boom. Invention is the mother of necessity. Right. Right. So that then you know that you needed this. Right. You know, and these are the things that they everybody wore suits back in the day.

unknown 8:34

Right.

SPEAKER_02 8:34

You know, they all had that kind of in the hats and whatnot. So they they had to have their stuff dry clean. You couldn't just throw your stuff in there and hit it on the on the washing board. And you're right. You know, your clothes would just mess up. Right. You know, they would they were special, you know. That was a special outfit. It was what you're you dressed up to go to work and stuff like that. Yeah, you know. Then they came in with the jeans because, you know, that was for the farmers, and you know what I mean? And not that it changed up too much. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:02

And then they just became like casual wear. Right.

SPEAKER_02 9:05

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 9:05

Yeah. And then athletic coes became casual wear.

SPEAKER_02 9:08

Yeah. Yeah. It's funny. Yes. Exactly. Yes. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. That's gonna be another episode. Uh what is it called? Athleisure. Athleisure. That's what that makes sense. I get it. That makes sense. Well, that's we're gonna well, that's gonna be another episode. Yeah. Well, I got another one here. Right.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

Granville T. Woods, known as the Black Edison, invented systems for electric railways, created the multipleplex telegraph. Trains could not now trains could communicate while moving. Major railroad safety and efficiency upgrades.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

Yeah. I guess before that is when people, when you you know, saw videos of head-on collisions, like that, they wasn't able to communicate. They had yeah, they probably had to run before they had that. They must have had to have like a schedule where like they had to go off schedule because she might yeah, yeah. So that's an important thing.

Traffic Lights Gas Masks And Space Saving Beds

SPEAKER_01 9:59

Probably saved a lot of lives just by communicate while moving. I guess the trains couldn't do communicate when moving, you know, so now he he was able to do that. That's awesome. Uh transportation and safety guard. Okay. So we got someone else here. Huh? Look at this. Garrett Morgan invented the three-position traffic light. Right. Created an early gas mask used to rescue workers in tunnel explosions. Yeah, I knew that. Your daily drive equals Morgan Elijah. Oh, okay. So wait, wait, so what is the gas mask he invented?

SPEAKER_02 10:28

Or the traffic light. And the traffic light. Oh, both. Yeah. Right, right. That's what I'm saying. A few of them have a lot of things.

SPEAKER_00 10:35

Oh, that's right, because I said he's considered the black Thomas Edison around. Well, no, this guy is Garrett Morgan.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

This is a different gentleman. Okay. Um this gentleman invented those two things.

SPEAKER_02 10:44

Yeah, so he did the traffic light and the safety hood, the gas mask. Right. Yeah. Think about that, man. Gas mask.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

That's a big how different those two things are. They have nothing in common with one another. And he went like two different two opposite sides of that, right? That's pretty good.

SPEAKER_02 11:01

Because the traffic light, think about it, you know, you know, the cars, brand new cars, you know, horse and buggies and whatnot. There must have been so many accidents and that's why. They did.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

Horses would were killed and people were killed. The gas masks, too. I wonder what they used for for the filters. Because I remember my grandfather telling me that like back in the day during like because my grandfather was in World War II. He I remember them saying that like they would uh they would ask people to save all their nutshells and peanut shells and pistachio shells for uh for the gas mask filters. So I guess they would really grind them up. And they would probably char them and it would turn into charcoal. Right. And that would be the filter. Maybe the charcoal. That makes sense.

SPEAKER_02 11:39

I thought you were gonna say like cotton or some kind of fabric, you know, that they put layers of the fabric inside of the filter.

SPEAKER_00 11:45

No, but they asked like to save your peanut shells or your nut shells, your walnut shells. I guess because that that probably when they charred it, it turned carbon. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:56

That's that would be that that makes sense too. That that's freaking pretty groovy. That's awesome. That is awesome. That is freaking awesome. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:03

So I wonder if he came up with the uh like charcoal filter on it or something.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

He must have if he created it.

SPEAKER_00 12:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:08

You know what I mean? That would probably make the most sense, you would think, anyway, right?

SPEAKER_02 12:12

Yeah, yeah, definitely. Uh female, Sarah E. Good, one of the first black women to receive a patent for a folding cabinet bed. It's like a like a like a Murphy bed. Wow. Yeah. Nice. It's like that. It's not that one, but like a what is it? A folding cabinet bed. Like a Murph, yeah, almost like a Murphy bed or like the or like a day bed, like that kind of thing. Right. Yeah. That's cool. That's that's cool. But you know, again, one of those things, you know, some place to sleep, we gotta clean up. Think about it. A lot of these things were probably uh a lot, I think some of these were inner city inventions. Probably smaller. Oh, for like apartments, for space.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

You got a studio apartment. Now you've got a living room and a bedroom.

SPEAKER_02 12:51

And a bedroom. Boom. Yep. Just pull out the bed and bang.

SPEAKER_00 12:53

You know what I mean? So it's funny about those Murphy beds. Uh I there used to be like a running gag. Because I used to watch when I was a kid, on it was the reruns would come on Nick at night or whatever of the monkeys. And they would always have the maybe that was in the in the entrance when one of them. Maybe what they were showing Mickey, he was coming out of the way.

SPEAKER_02 13:12

The bed would drop down and he came out with it. Yeah, we were gonna go. Yeah, I wanted to.

SPEAKER_01 13:15

We were gonna build the frame. There's a way you get this package and you can actually put it together, and then you can do that with the we were gonna do that, so we had the room in the bedroom, and then we wanted to go to sleep. We just pulled the bent out. Yeah, and that really is perfect for like a studio apartment.

SPEAKER_00 13:27

It's like you got a living room and a bedroom. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 13:30

Yeah, well, speaking then of that, so that then the upgrade to all that is that now they have it where it goes into the ceiling and it looks like a um oh, I just lost the name of the freaking ceiling, the bed. How it goes, the I've seen that. It'll just drop down. Yeah, and it comes down. So it's got the lights on the bottom of the bed, yeah, and then the bed comes down from the ceiling, and then this way it's out of the root out of the way, you know, like in guest rooms. That's a great idea too. Yeah, that one's like, that's amazing. I like that shit. Yeah, that is that's that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01 14:00

That's the great thing about invention because you had the one person who made the Murphy bed. Right. And then she made her own version of it. Right. Right. And now later on, we hear it we're here now, and now they're like, oh, well, we could put it in the ceiling now.

SPEAKER_02 14:11

Yeah.

Patents Copyright And Fair Use

SPEAKER_01 14:12

Because of that, you were able to do that. Because they've got the idea. That's what's so great about invention, because you could just keep improving on it. Either that same person will do it or someone else will come up with the idea. They can make it better.

SPEAKER_02 14:24

So Tesla, the car company, they don't patent, have patents on their stuff. Really? Because they always want somebody to make it better. So then they want people to be able to improve on it. If they have patents, then they gotta go through this whole blah blah blah. Yeah, and then no one else improves it.

SPEAKER_00 14:39

It's it's slow. Sometimes, you know, and I I I I can understand in the patent aspect, it's it does can slow down technology because all the patents.

SPEAKER_02 14:48

So everybody wants to hold on to it, and then you know you said you have to go through them. So if you invent something and I have a way to make it better, now I'm going to you, now you want to set up the contract because you don't want me to take it and get all the money from it because now yours isn't fairly.

SPEAKER_01 15:00

Well, I'm sure they still have some kind of contract, but it's so lax to the point where they want them to be able to do to improve it. But I'm sure there's got to be some kind of contract.

SPEAKER_02 15:08

Well, the way, like I said, I understood it in the the and what I saw is that there's just no patents. It's just you improve it and then just, you know, make your car better or make your your things better so that this way everything does become better.

SPEAKER_00 15:22

It makes you wonder if there were no patent laws or copyright laws or anything like that, like what would the world look like today? We'd be I feel like technology would be even more ahead.

SPEAKER_01 15:30

I think because everybody would be doing it. Right. Not like, oh, well, I'd be the freedom of not having to worry about it. Exactly. Yeah. Because it should still be regulated so people don't hurt them to kill themselves, you know, like it's an expected shit. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 15:42

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:42

Well, safety regs, that's different.

SPEAKER_02 15:44

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, see, because I mean, dude, think about it. Everybody, it's all about the money. Right. You know what I'm saying? So then if you do something with something that I invented, you make it a little bit different. Now my product becomes intervivial, like I said. So then it's like, well, wait a minute, you stole my idea and you did this with it.

SPEAKER_01 15:59

That's the reason for those.

SPEAKER_02 16:00

And that's what the patent whole thing for, and you know all that legal stuff.

SPEAKER_00 16:03

And patents only have a they have a lifespan anyway. Yeah. The patent runs out, and then anybody can't. Oh, really? I didn't know that. Yeah. Uh-huh. You gotta do it again.

SPEAKER_02 16:11

You gotta keep renewing.

SPEAKER_00 16:12

Oh, so it only lets you know. I think you can only require renewed so many times. Yeah, I'm not trying to ever.

SPEAKER_01 16:19

But that is a good idea, though, to let someone else do it and prove it. I liked I like that idea. But at the same time, there would have to be some kind of rules in effect where they couldn't overstep their boundaries when they came to certain things. In other words, they're allowed. Or they might need permission for certain things before they just, you know. It could be software, it could be Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:35

Well, the same thing like with copywriting. So right now, Disney doesn't hold the uh so Disney never held, or I don't think it's they hadn't held in a long time, the copyright to Winnie the Pooh. The family did. Jeez, I just lost his name, man who made Winnie the Pooh.

SPEAKER_00 16:49

Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:50

So they made it So when the patent when the copyright stuff was up that they would have sold one. Now that's why you're gonna be able to do that. So it's in the free market.

SPEAKER_00 16:56

And there was something else too that came out, another one they did that went into free market. Yeah, something else.

SPEAKER_02 17:00

Yeah, I can't remember what it was. But yeah, all that kind of stuff. So that then you said, so yeah, copyrights they do expire and such, and they gotta, you know.

SPEAKER_00 17:07

But the but the catch is though, I know like if there's so if there's a copyright, say, on like uh Mickey Mouse, right? AA I'm sorry, AA Milan and a copyright author. Oh, okay. And the copyright is I don't know what they say, like a hundred years. I don't know what it is, right? Whatever, say, say whatever many years it is, but it only applies to the one from a hundred years ago. Any future versions you can't copy because those were made post. Post. So it has to that time has to run out on those. Yes, right, exactly. So a company, a big company that's still using the same thing, it would be smart for them to keep changing it every that's I think that's what they do. That's why Mickey Mouses look different over the years. Right, from Steamboat Willie to be like, well, yeah, you're using the old one. Like, right, yeah, right.

SPEAKER_02 17:50

Nobody cares about that one. Yeah, it's whatever. It's not as cool, you know. Even the voice was different. Yeah, you know, we'll go from Steamboat Willie to Mickey Mouse. Right. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah. Yeah, another one.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

So hang out. You brought Winnie the Pooh. So Winnie the Pooh was created by an English author, A.A. Millan. Yes, Malign. 1926, inspired by his son Christopher Robin Mine and his Stuffed Animals. The stories were famously illustrated by E. H. Shepherd. The character was named after a real bear named Winnipeg at the London Zoo. Just figured I'd share that with everybody. There you go.

SPEAKER_02 18:19

And the copyright now is up and open, and that's why you get to see Winnie the Pooh everywhere now. Right. On different t-shirts. Disney can use it and a lot of their stuff. Because even if you went to Disney World, you wouldn't be able to see the Winnie the Pooh stuff, you know, like you can now. The different t-shirts and whatnot.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

They have stuff though, because my I got my tigers and stuff there when I was there. So Right.

SPEAKER_02 18:39

They're only allowed, that's what we were saying before. So you're only allowed to do certain things with it if there's a copyright or the patent, you know, that they would like you could get certain t-shirts, you can get, like you said, little like little stuff, animal stuff, but you couldn't get and they couldn't market it the way that they're not going to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_01 18:53

No, they only can sell it in Disney. They couldn't do it outside. Right.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

Yeah, little things, right. And the other thing too about copyrights is there's also what's called fair use. So like if you're critiquing something or we're talking about a movie or a TV show, I can show pictures, or you know, we can show pictures and even video clips within reason, as long as it's being critiqued and it's not replacing the like like you're not going to a podcast to watch the clip because we're talking over it. Right. Or there's a or there's an underover of us. That's why you'll see like on Instagram or whatever, or whatever, or that when someone's commentarying over it, their face is there. Because if it's just the video, then it's considered now you're now it's copyright. Yeah. Right, exactly. So if it's if you're critiquing it, it's fair use.

George Washington Carver And School Gaps

SPEAKER_02 19:40

Yeah. Right. So that can get a little tricky. Yeah, I know. That's what I'm saying. You gotta get it. You gotta pay attention to it. Uh so we got George Washington Carver. Everybody's heard this guy, develop hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, soybeans, and assist and to assist southern farmers. So right there, potato chips, that's the greatest one right there, bro. Like that's just a topper. I'm just saying. Yeah, yeah. Make the potato chips and I like what English people call them though, crisps. Right. That's that's they from the crisps. Right. Crisps. Yeah, yeah. That's making hilarious. So this would have been cool to know all this stuff growing up. Oh, yeah, definitely. You know, definitely. Hell yeah. I mean, the conversations would have been different. You know what I mean? Like as far as just because of the state of the world, I'm gonna say it like that. You know, because of the way that the world was, you know.

SPEAKER_01 20:24

Well, I think we would have been better then than we were now.

SPEAKER_02 20:27

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_01 20:28

I think then we would have been better able to deal with it then. But yeah, right, right. Than we do now.

SPEAKER_02 20:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:33

I believe that. So I think because you and I lived that time. Right. You know, and even with the stuff that we had going on, it wasn't you know It wasn't a detriment.

SPEAKER_02 20:41

People weren't so hard. Right. It wasn't a detriment to our psyche. Like, you know, it didn't mess us up. You mean it was what yeah, you know. But yeah, I mean I had a I had an uh uh social studies teacher who used to teach us all that stuff, you know, not a lot of it, but what he could when it came into whatever, right, you know. And uh yeah, well, he was excited when he used to taught us that stuff. Mr. Mind, never forget that guy. That's cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:04

You remember him, that he made him.

SPEAKER_02 21:05

He was, yeah, because he meant white, he looked like Liberacci, bro. Really? Yeah, shit, you not. He looked like Liberachi and it sounded like a shit. Uh not as extravagant because he was a you know New York City school teacher. He wasn't, you know, he didn't have what you're saying, you know, the bling.

SPEAKER_01 21:18

Right. No, I'm just saying, you know.

SPEAKER_02 21:20

Yeah, he had the same hairstyle and whatever. And I used to tell him, like, bro, are you related to uh Liberachi? Liberacci there, bro. He like, no, I'm not. And he would copy how you spoke and shit. He was great. Yeah, I'm the button. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would have been phenomenal, bro. But yeah, like, you know, I think I think things would have probably been different for a lot of people, you know, and as a whole, not just black people, you know, you know, black kids. I think just anybody saying, ooh, I can do that too then. You know what I mean? I can I can come up with things. Feel that more people can do it, you know. I mean, and I'm saying across the board, all races, creed, and religions, you know, it didn't matter so much what type of skin you had, it was more along the lines of uh your social status as far as I'm concerned. Right. And it was like, you know, you can't think of anything that's gonna benefit the rest of the world. Like you stay over there, you know. Only us super smart or our s rich kids can, you know, come up with these things and we're the only ones that can have those good ideas, you know. And then, oh okay, and the rest of us got, you know, became blue-cotta, you know what I mean?

Blood Banks Cortisone And Medicine

SPEAKER_01 22:17

I mean, so I like to know that 'cause I'll just look up some stuff random, like how the hell did this happen? I'm gonna look this up. You know, why did we say blah, blah, blah? You know, like I always want to find a reason why and who invented or if it came from somewhere or whatever it was. Right. Yeah. Interesting information when it comes to finding out about sort of things. Oh yeah. Were you gonna say Tom? No, I was just agreeing with it.

SPEAKER_02 22:37

Oh, yeah. Oh, sorry. So look, and then we got now Dr. Charles Drew, 1940s, revolutionized medicine by developing methods for processing and storing blood plasma for blood banks. You know what I'm saying? So that's right there.

SPEAKER_01 22:49

Wait, so blood plasma for blood banks.

SPEAKER_02 22:51

Yeah, yeah. Yes, yeah. Plasma storage, right?

SPEAKER_01 22:53

Plasma storage, millions of lives saved.

SPEAKER_02 22:55

Because think how many people bled out. Dude, don't forget, the barber shop was your dentist, you know, was your general practitioner. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, with all the accidents and shit, people getting hit, like I said before, you know, probably by horses or whatever. And they have to, you know, broke a leg and shit.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

He came up with a big refrigerator, is what he did.

SPEAKER_02 23:11

Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, so then now you think about people bleeding out. You know what I'm saying? To cut off the leg. You say you sit in the barber chair and they're sitting there with the big ass tree sold, and you're sitting there biting on a piece of wood far back. What do you mean? 1940s.

SPEAKER_00 23:26

1940s.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

1940s, what do you think they also arrow?

SPEAKER_00 23:30

So what did he have? So he invented the refrigeration part of it? Or Dr.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

Tells Drew, probably blood banking, large-scale blood plasma storage, millions of lives saved. Right. So he must have been able to figure out how to store how to save the blood.

SPEAKER_00 23:43

Yeah, I wonder if he he invented because if you ever you ever go to see where the how they store the blood in blood banks, no. They're in a rotating thing. It needs to keep rotating so that um so that uh it doesn't coagulate. Yeah. Right, right.

SPEAKER_02 23:54

So they're always spinning. Yeah. Right. Right, right, right. What I'm saying is that you know how many people before that, you know, will bleed out. And like I said, and I was using that the example of the barbershop was uh was your doctor's office, you know, and they're as shit. And people would bleed out. If they were able to stop the blood enough after the amputation or the tooth pulled or whatever it is that was wrong to just No, they had to autorize. Right. Dude, like there, yeah. You guys are talking about it. No, no, no, no. We're just saying in general, like this was revolutionary medicine. Yeah. So revolutionizing the medicine. So we're saying before this, before he invented this, all the horrors. I'm like, and that's what was going on. What are you saying? No, no, no, no. We're saying all the things that were happening beforehand that people didn't survive. Gotcha, you know what I mean? So then now him doing this was, you know, you know, yeah, when the things were a little bit cleaner and whatnot, you know, and different, like going to the hospitals, people were still bleeding out. You know, they would lose blood in the middle of operations because they didn't have all the suction and stuff, you know what I mean? It was just sponging the shit out of everything before this. You know what I'm saying? So that now, you know, yeah, just talking about the woof. Yeah, right, right. So you just bite on diet instead on your tongue or just, you know, until you pass the fuck out. Dr. Percy Julian, uh, in the 1900s, mid-1900s, pioneered the synthesis of medical drugs from plants, including cortisone. Right? Yeah. Yeah, that shit works. Gonna need an ocean, a calaman lotion. You don't know that song, Lou?

SPEAKER_00 25:29

Nope. I don't know that one. You know what, bro? That's before. I don't remember that one.

SPEAKER_02 25:32

Yeah, poison ivy is the name of the song.

SPEAKER_00 25:35

Oh, I don't know the I maybe I didn't just don't know that.

SPEAKER_01 25:37

Maybe I don't know the verse you were talking about. I don't think they played that in Brooklyn, man. I think you found that. Wow, you hear this? Is he calling you out? You're not from Brooklyn.

SPEAKER_00 25:44

What the hell? He's like, Kenny's actually from Staten Island.

SPEAKER_02 25:49

Yeah, what? Listen, bro, like Joe Tung. I saw him kicked that. You know what?

SPEAKER_00 25:52

For work, I've been working in Staten Island. I actually, it's not bad.

Personal Computers In Your Pocket

SPEAKER_02 25:55

Yeah, no, it's better than anybody. We used to make fun of Staten Island back in the day. Well, that was when the dump was still there. Now it looks like it was. Now it looks like rolling hills. Yes, I still stink. Summertime. Yeah, yeah. Styro City. Yeah. It sucks, man. Yep. But you had another one. I thought you had a lot of things.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

Yeah, uh, what you would call it? Whose was it? Mark Dean. Right. Co-create the personal computer architect, co-invented the ISA bus, let's device connect to computers. Nice. Nice. See that? Right. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 26:22

Upgrading the computers. So it went from again. A whole block that you needed for for uh to make a computer. Yeah, when computer was like, yeah, like this room was just one server. Yeah. You know, now it's, you know. We got one in our hand right now when we're reading. It was like, it was like, we have two bytes. Not even, bro. Terabytes. Yeah, I don't even know what the next one is today. Yeah. Yep, no doubt. Yeah, dude. Because I'm telling you, I mean, again, just the ideas, just the thought. Nobody, everybody, nobody thought that computers would be what they are now. Again. Except for those who Because they were right.

SPEAKER_00 26:56

They were thinking, you know, what's next? What can we do next?

SPEAKER_01 26:59

Those people were thinking.

SPEAKER_00 27:00

I remember I used to work at a pizzeria. We used to have this computer guy who would come in. He was like a big tech guy. In fact, he my boss well in the pizzeria actually had like satellite TV. And this guy's like, oh, he goes, you know, he goes, I'll I'll make a card for you and you'll get all the free channels. And he he was like a tech guy. He he took, you know, the card that directed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He gave him this card, poof, all the channels. No shit. Like, get the hell out of here. All the adult channels. Yeah. Everything. Everything. All the pay-per-views were on all the time. Wow. It was wild. But anyway, this guy said he goes, Yeah, and this is 99. He goes, in about 10 or 15 years, he goes, you'll be able to uh uh phones will be small. Um he didn't say phones, he said computers will be small enough, everybody's gonna have them in their pocket.

SPEAKER_02 27:42

Oh we're gonna put a computer in your pocket. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

Now here we are. That's true though, right? Yeah, and the iPhone what came out in uh 2000, it wasn't even 10 years, it was like 2008, 2007, 2008, the iPhone came out. So we're gonna iPhone because Blackberry Yeah, but JC Blackberries.

SPEAKER_01 28:01

Don't forget the flip phones. They were the first thing to set it all off.

SPEAKER_00 28:04

No, we're talking about computers like having a computer in your pocket. Blackberry had to be.

SPEAKER_01 28:08

It was a tiny computer and it didn't do a lot. But we're talking like compared to like a PC.

SPEAKER_02 28:12

So that was the Blackberry, as far as I'm concerned, because the Blackberry I was able to look online, I was able to do that.

SPEAKER_01 28:18

Sorry, say it again, Lou? I I still think because of the flip, that was able to go, like I was saying earlier, that inventing someone said, Oh, right, yes, this with that. Yes. And you did that, and that's how it's Yeah, definitely. That's all I was saying. Not that that was responsible for the computer, but more of the person thinking, oh shit, we can put a fucking computer in. A gazillion percent.

SPEAKER_02 28:37

Gazillion percent, you're right. Hell yeah, to put it all in there. Because I mean, but you know, at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_01 28:41

And it would still be your phone. Oh, you can take pictures with it. Oh, you can do a video.

SPEAKER_02 28:44

Well, you know, because we do know we had that geek moment. Have not for Star Trek, we wouldn't have the flip phone.

SPEAKER_01 28:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:51

The communicator.

SPEAKER_00 28:52

That's true. And you know what? It's funny, the old school Motorola ones looked like. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:55

I still had my father's. Yeah. But if he hit you can still get a flip phone. No, no, I'm saying you still have halfway. I think we should get this. I should turn this on and just start using this thing. Is this guy really using it on the phone? Yeah, bro.

SPEAKER_00 29:07

I love the flip phones.

SPEAKER_02 29:08

They were great. They were awesome. Oh, yeah. Did you have the one that hit that you had to flip it, or did you have the one that had the button? I could just open it up. I had one that had the button, it would automatically open.

SPEAKER_00 29:17

Yeah, I had one of those too. Yeah. I love that. Yeah, that one's good. I like that. You put the lock on it. But the Motorola one was the popular one. I remember in like early 2000s, that was a popular one. And you get different cases for them. Well, the Nokia's, those were the king of the case. Right.

SPEAKER_02 29:33

Sidekicks. Remember the sidekicks?

unknown 29:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:35

Sidekicks also. That was another one.

SPEAKER_00 29:38

Those were beasts. I remember that. Those were like many computers too. That was that was like right before iPhone. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:45

That was the shit right there. Yeah, see? So there it is.

SPEAKER_00 29:48

And I remember the first like iteration of using social media in your pocket was uh Oh yeah. I remember, remember before Facebook got popular, MySpace was like the thing. Right, yeah. Remember there was like a phone that was coming out and everybody was like making a big deal about it because it had MySpace on it.

SPEAKER_01 30:04

Wasn't it? Wasn't that the psychic? Holy shit, man.

SPEAKER_00 30:06

No, it was like some other things.

SPEAKER_01 30:07

See, that's what I'm talking about. Then what came from that? Facebook, Instagram, yeah, other social media. Yeah. So just one thing, boom. Yeah. VHS. What was before VHS? Betamax. Betamax. Yeah. Wait, VHS, then Betamax? No. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 30:22

And then after VHS.

SPEAKER_00 30:23

And then after VHS was technic, it wasn't the it wasn't DVD, it was laser discs. But then they were too expensive. Because they were too expensive. You had to have record size. Yeah, they were huge. Like a regular record. I know it was a few.

SPEAKER_02 30:36

Halfway through the movie, you had to flip it.

SPEAKER_00 30:37

Yeah. I had a friend that had it. Oh shit, though. And we watched Star Wars on it. Yep. But it was like two discs. Yeah. And you had to flip them. It was like four.

SPEAKER_02 30:46

So it was four discs.

SPEAKER_00 30:47

Crazy.

SPEAKER_02 30:48

Yeah. Yep. I know. That shit was fucking funny. I love that shit. That was fucking great. So now they can make the two. Please flip disc over.

SPEAKER_00 30:56

You have to hold it like this and not touch the edge. Right. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

CCTV Laser Cataract Surgery

SPEAKER_02 30:59

Because you don't get your fingerprints all over it because it messes it up and it ate the stuff on it. Yeah. Crazy. Re Van Brenton Brown. 1969. Invented the first closed circuit television security system. So the first CC TV. How do you like that maples? Yeah. Ain't that some shit skebub? Yeah. That was bananas to think that. Well, I mean, I'm sure probably, you know, people looking for uh um criminals or, you know, just keep an eye on the traffic that was coming into your job and stuff. Boom. Keep an eye on it. There you go. Oh, yeah. Making sure your staff is working. You know what I mean? That's bananas. I remember being a kid. Remember the old how big those cameras were back in the day? Big giants. Oh, wait, you mean the TV cameras? The C C T V. They were laying there with like big. Were they? I mean, they were like, I remember, I remember I remember me and a kid.

SPEAKER_00 31:47

I remember going to uh they were long. I used to go to the farmer's market. Then they got smaller when I was smaller. I used to go to the farmer's market Patterson a lot when I was a kid. I remember like them having this big. It was like a it was like that big, the freaking thing.

SPEAKER_01 32:00

Yeah. I never paid any attention. I never paid any attention. Yeah. But they got smaller after time. And now you can hide them now. You don't even know where they are.

SPEAKER_02 32:06

Yeah, yeah. No, no shit. They got them now where they fit into your uh license.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

Well, I'm not wearing my glasses right now, but uh the Oh yes, your glasses.

SPEAKER_02 32:13

Oh, that's right. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 32:15

I thought I saw something.

SPEAKER_02 32:16

Yeah, yeah, something different. No, I don't. That's great. Here you go. 1986. Dr. Patricia Bath invented the laser scope, the laser fat. I can't read that. What's her name? Uh Dr. Patricia Bath, the laser probe for cataratic surgery. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_00 32:35

Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:36

Yeah. The first black woman to receive a medal, uh, a medical patent. Oh, okay. Yeah. That's freaking cool. That's freaking cool. Again, there was a lot, there was more, I'm I'm saying it understand, like there was a month a lot more three, four that we've read doctors that got medical patents than I thought. Because I thought that a lot of those patents, in all honesty, was, you know, like um uh the medical industry, like not so much the doctors, you know, it was Oh, the doctors, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:03

Yeah, I didn't know it was doctors that did it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Back then it was totally different. I thought it was just like, you know, you know, they were thought of these things. I guess a lot of these doctors they were working and were like, oh we could do this if we did this.

SPEAKER_02 33:15

And I think that's a good thing. And that's what I'm saying. I thought it was going to be like, you know, I said some guy, you know, you know, that worked in some company, you know, some medical company. Johnson and Johnson. Yeah. Yeah, no, they actually worked hard to figure it out and get it done. I know I didn't even know there was this many doctors that made that came up with those inventions, in all honesty. I mean, you know, maybe one or two for certain things, you know what I mean? But like I said, the plasm, that would make sense, you know. But I would, you know, a lab tech or something like that maybe is where, you know, I kind of was going with, you know, um, like I said, you know, some medical producing company.

SPEAKER_00 33:49

Like uh like we I I passed a driving uh Becton Dickinson, uh BD or Becton Dickinson. Oh, yeah, yeah. Right on the highway all the time.

Refrigerated Trucks And Food Storage

SPEAKER_02 33:59

Yeah, see? Medline. Medline's another, you know, like I was thinking that because they're a distributor. So yeah, you're right, bro. Like I just never I thought it would be that, not the actual doctors. So that's pretty good. That's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 34:10

It is cool. You know, yeah. But what about uh Frederick McKinley, Jones, refrigerated trucks, reefer trucks? Refrigerated trucks.

SPEAKER_02 34:18

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Modern food supplies, supermarkets.

SPEAKER_00 34:21

Back then they would have to ship stuff on ice.

SPEAKER_02 34:24

Yeah, and they would what they were doing was that they would try to find like different ice buildings on the way they can go from like we know that this block of ice is gonna last for 12 hours. And then they would get it. So then they would be able to stop in 12 hours and you know, or 13 hours to be able to get another block of ice. It was just always that kind of hot. Yes. But the same thing with uh with the refrigerator.

SPEAKER_01 34:48

It was a good idea, right? Yeah, because the refrigerators had that. The refrigerators had boxes. That's or stuff in the stream.

SPEAKER_02 35:00

Don't forget, they would put stuff in the stream too to keep it cold. But then everything was fresh still back in the day. You know what I mean? So it was basically like, you know, well, go out there and get that chicken because we're having chicken for dinner. You know what I mean? And boom, that was it. No go in a freaking shop or anything like that. Yeah, no. The the meat market, you know, the general store, it was like they would like it was killed Monday and everybody was trying to, you know, get at it and have some of that by Friday. You know what I mean? Exactly. Yeah, sorry. You know, but that that's what it was. You know, or even too, like, you know, getting venison, everything was was um was jerk. Who's what? Not jerk, was it uh um slim gym? What's the slim gym? What's a slim gym? Step into a slim gym when you take the the the you salt the meat. Yeah, yeah, it's oh you kind of preserve it. Some kind of preserve it and stuff like that. So that's the thing that they did that they had to do to make sure that they can, you know, have the meat because you go to venison, you know, uh rabbit or whatever, not everybody's gonna be able to eat the larger animals. So they had to try to preserve it as best they could so they would salt them and whatnot.

SPEAKER_00 35:55

And you know, that's yeah, there's a lot of that has to do with like preserving stuff to last longer because salting it was the way to go.

SPEAKER_02 36:03

You know, drying it out and such. You know, yeah, they thought that by the way. Or they would cure it with like meat, especially that would salt the shit out of it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:11

So you know. But then refrigeration came and then you have to worry about all that.

SPEAKER_02 36:14

Like, oh, I'll season what I want later on and just throw it in the freezer and good to go.

SPEAKER_01 36:18

Season and then just throw it back in the refrigerator.

SPEAKER_02 36:20

Yeah, hell yeah. Right. That was that, yeah. So thank you for the thank you for uh inventing the uh refrigerator. But the reefer trucks, you know, again, that's the next level. Right. You know, so this way you can get the food from wherever. You know, fruit would not uh rot. Yeah. Spoil whatever on the way coming from, you know, what Florida with the oranges.

SPEAKER_00 36:39

Yeah, and you know and apples too. Think about apples. Apples they you know how long they keep apples in storage for? They last a long time. With they use high temp refrigeration, it's called. Right. So it's like, you know, keeps it like 40 degrees or whatever. So it doesn't because if it gets too cold, then it spoils fast. Right. So they got it at that perfect temperature and they keep it stored for months. So sometimes you buy an apple in the groceries. Say you buy an apple and some apples, if you get during winter, it might be they might be shipped. Right. But like a lot of the times they're they're just in storage. I didn't even know that. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:08

Didn't even know it was like that. It's nice sometimes when you go to a place where they're local.

SPEAKER_00 37:11

Like in the winter, they get a little mealy.

SPEAKER_01 37:13

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_02 37:13

Oh, yeah, that shrimp. I never even thought about that. That makes sense now.

SPEAKER_00 37:18

I thought it was the kind of apples. That's why when you get them in like that's why when you get them in like September and October, they're juicy and fucking dry towards the Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_02 37:26

Yeah, I never even thought about that shit, bro.

SPEAKER_00 37:29

Now they coat it in wax, actually. A lot of people don't know that. It's like an edible. Yeah, that I knew. And so that seals. It seals them in better. So they keep in the high temperature refrigeration, right? And they coat it with the wax. Yeah. Last longer. Yeah.

Microphones RadioShack And Media Nostalgia

SPEAKER_01 37:40

Yeah. Not know that. Yes, sir. That I did know. Yep. You got another one? Yeah, I do, actually. James E. West co-invented the electric microphone. Phones, hearing aids, podcast mics.

SPEAKER_00 37:52

Uh hey. Hey, thank you, sir. Talking to your mic and say thank you.

SPEAKER_01 37:56

What's his name?

SPEAKER_00 37:57

James E. West. James E. West, thank you very much. Yes, thank you, sir. As if he's the microphone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's reincarnated into microphones, all microphones now.

SPEAKER_02 38:05

That's great. That is great.

SPEAKER_01 38:08

Yeah, no, it's great to know the older stuff, man.

SPEAKER_02 38:10

And so look at that. He to make a microphone, now you have it in almost everything. Right. You know, phones. So the hearing aids, the phones. So I went from having a microphone, you know, almost like on a megaphone kind of shit, standing on stage that, you know, was that big thing. And then now it's little things. And the phone. It's tiny. It's in the phone. Microphone when you're talking.

SPEAKER_00 38:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:29

You know what I mean? Remember the old school tape recorders, the cassette ones? Oh my God. Yeah. You had to press play and record at the same time. Yeah, man. Yeah. And you had the the the uh microphone that was with it was connected.

SPEAKER_01 38:42

Or it was on the or it was on the tape recorder too, remember? Right. Yeah. You could have it either way, but yes, you can get the right. Yeah. It had a little stand, remember the little stand that had the mic would stand on it.

SPEAKER_02 38:52

The diet is funny. So now look at it. You felt famous. You felt famous doing that shit.

SPEAKER_01 38:55

You know, like oh look, I'm fancy now. Yeah, I got the buttons back then. It was a big deal. Then back then you had Radio Shack. Member Radio Shack. They sold all that.

SPEAKER_02 39:06

Radio Shack was the shit.

SPEAKER_01 39:08

It lasted a long time, right? Eventually it just Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:11

Well, listen.

SPEAKER_01 39:12

Yeah, again, it faded out. Yeah, but it was a cool thing. It's history. Right. Yeah. Again, you know, it's history. It's something to remember, you know? Again, the craziest stuff at Radio Shack. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They had almost everything you needed in that freaking place. Whatever you want, especially if you were really good at electronics and building stuff. Trying to hold out at the end.

SPEAKER_00 39:29

They were selling phones and stuff like that. Right. Yeah. They held out.

SPEAKER_01 39:33

They're trying to get that, keep them in business. I think they did it too late. I think they should have started when it happened, you know. Oh. Yeah, probably.

SPEAKER_00 39:39

I could be wrong about that, but that'd be cool if they'd made their own phones like out of Radio Shack. Right, yeah. If they would have done that, oh my God. It would have probably done something else for them. You can upgrade your own phone. You can up make a component. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:53

That would have been a few things. Maybe they didn't. They didn't want them to do it. Which maybe I'm wrong.

Super Soaker Summer And Toy Safety

SPEAKER_02 39:57

No, no, you're probably right. Yeah. See, so now, the coolest invention to me. Ready? The coolest. All right. Here we go. Why? We don't even know yet. Nervous. You can't go. Oh, here we go. Lonnie Johnson, an engineer who invented the super soaker water gun. Oh. It holds over 120 patents. The coolest.

SPEAKER_00 40:18

That is the coolest. Nice.

SPEAKER_02 40:20

Come on, man. Yeah. Yeah. That right there, coolest in the summertime. Is it a water? Yeah, man. That's.

SPEAKER_00 40:25

I had the super soaker. I got it. And it got crazy towards the end of like four tanks on it.

SPEAKER_02 40:31

Oh, yeah. But it used to go so much.

SPEAKER_00 40:32

I think they even had one where the nozzles could change a little bit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:35

A lot of it. Those things were crazy, man. Oh, yeah. The ones they have now were even crazier. Yeah. The ones they have now nuts.

SPEAKER_00 40:41

They're just bananas. When I saw a few of them on Twitter. I had one friend that got one that was it had a backpack.

SPEAKER_01 40:46

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yep. Yes. Yes. You know which ones I like? Yes. I like the Nerf ones because you can get like the machine gun thing with it. Oh, right. Yeah. There was it, the Gatling gun. The Gatling gun, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:56

That it was a Gatling gun. Yeah, man. Yep. The Nerf? Yep. The suit. Now, I don't know if you saw, I saw this one tank for the super soaker. No, I'm talking about the Nerf, though. Oh, I thought you meant that I could I saw a Gatling gun for the water gun. Right, but the Nerf one was cool. Yeah, that shit was cool. Yo, those things went far. But the water gun, the tank, the backpack tank, right. Was about maybe, I'm gonna say maybe three, four feet long, because it went down like almost to your thigh. That I had seen. Could have been somebody that just made this, you know, put it together kind of thing. But you pumped the tank itself so that this way you didn't have to keep and you just stayed with constant stream of water. Yeah, bro. That was fucking cool as hell, bro. You didn't have to, you just pump a little bit on the back on the tank itself, have your friends. Get enough pressure in there to push that wall. Yeah. And it was one that it would uh a super sucker that would fill up the um the water balloons. So it was like a yeah. There was so much cool shit with that, man. Hell yeah. Again, that was probably that's the coolest one so far, bro. So far, I agree. Well, as far as the fun, you know, that kind of shit is concerned.

SPEAKER_00 41:56

It was like probably one of the best like outdoor toys of the 90s.

SPEAKER_02 42:01

You think? Hell yeah, man. Definitely, yeah, yeah. Early 90s was was really groovy. Like there was a lot of cool stuff like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:08

Remember when they came out with the laser tick? Yeah. We got them for my kids, and we would like, I remember opening them up, playing with them in the building.

SPEAKER_00 42:15

I don't know what it was about. But everything was neon.

SPEAKER_02 42:19

Yeah. Yeah. But see, the super circuits. They were neon, too. They were neon. They were like neon green. Yeah, yeah. And you know why they made them that color? Because so they didn't get shot. They didn't want the kids to get shot. So they didn't make them the color of debt because we were paying the army games and stuff like that. You dumping up behind them.

SPEAKER_00 42:34

Well, I remember that's when they started making the even the toy guns like orange and shit. Right with the orange stick and stuff at the bottom, or the whole gun would be orange. Right, yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_02 42:43

So that was a good thing too. Thanks for different colors. I appreciate you. Yeah, that shit was fucking great, man.

SPEAKER_00 42:48

Because I had I had a I remember I had a couple toy guns that those things look like it looked like.

SPEAKER_02 42:54

Yeah, the cap guns and stuff like that. Hell yeah. That was the shit.

SPEAKER_00 42:57

And now even airsoft ones look like they look like I think they still have some. I think that's a good one.

Final Takeaways And Sign Off

SPEAKER_02 43:02

Yeah, I think yeah, yeah, you have to know and look, yeah, because they just have them all kind of crazy. But yeah, man. So those are those are some pretty groovy uh inventors. You know, came up with some really good shit. You know, they came up with some really good stuff. Things that now you sit back, you're like, oh snap, oh snap, oh snap. Hopefully we educated enough like that in between uh, you know, our laughing and joking stuff, but you know, that we were able to to to enlighten some of uh people, let them know this is some good right there, boy. Yeah, but yeah, so with that, thank you for listening, watching, like, follow, comment, all that other good stuff. Love, peace, and hair grease. Live long and prosper.

SPEAKER_00 43:41

And keep on learning about the history.

SPEAKER_02 43:44

Yes.