Lonnie Johnson invented your childhood, but big business tried to steal all his money. Lonnie Johnson is an American inventor and engineer, and in the early 90s he invented and patented some of the most important aspects of any 90s kids' childhood. We would have had a lot of boring summer days without his contributions. However, after selling his inventions to big toy companies, he started noticing over the years that they were doing everything in their power to not pay Johnson his cut of the profits. So what did he do? Engage in a decades-long legal battle to get the money that was rightfully his. On this episode of Deep Cuts, we explore the life, inventions, and struggles of Lonnie Johnson - every kid's favorite inventor that they've never heard of. 01001001 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100001 01100011 01100011 01100101 01110011 01110011 00100000 00110101 01000111 00100000 01100110 01110010 01100101 01110001 01110101 01100101 01101110 01100011 01101001 01100101 01110011 00100000 01100110 01110010 01101111 01101101 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00101110 00100000 01000100 01100101 01100110 01101001 01101110 01101001 01110100 01100101 01101100 01111001 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01110011 01101001 01100011 01101011 00101110  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices