Ep. 566 - The Ultimate Dad Guide to Summer Water Fights!! #podcast #dadlife

**Matt Lavelle** (0:00)
Well, howdy there, partner! Hello and welcome to episode 566 of the Working Perspectives Podcast, presenting Four Dads, Bye Dads. Tonight, we got a great one. Summer time and the living is easy, so we're talking one of the things that makes summer the best. And we're talking water battles. We're talking water guns, we're talking water balloons, we're talking everything water battle, water gun, water...
Whatever. Water parks? Water... Nah, we're not talking that. But we're talking all that fun stuff you can do at the house with the water guns and everything. It's going to be the best. Get ready to super soak your pants. I'm Matt Lavelle. These Bern pod, you see in that handsome bastard is Liam Reese. This is the Working Perspectives Podcast, Episode 566
Let's get it started. Let's go.
All right, fellas, tonight is going to make history. Tonight's the night we make history. Tonight is that night. Love it. Love it. Want more of it. Got a lot of fun playing. I want to talk.
I just want to talk. I want to talk, first of all, because, you know, you guys, you're the best. But second, I want to talk about water guns. So let's go. Let's get nostalgia. Okay. We grew up in the era of the Super Soaker. Super Soaker is doing big things in our era. I remember for Tom's, I think it might have been his ninth birthday, he got a Super Soaker 200, daddy. Super Soaker 200, 200, it was red and it fucking smacked a lot of dicks.

**Bern Pocsesee** (1:53)
Is that the one that had the double boy on it? That had the double?

**Matt Lavelle** (1:56)
It had the two barrels.

**Bern Pocsesee** (1:57)
Yeah.

**Matt Lavelle** (1:58)
Double barrel, double barrel action, babe.

**Bern Pocsesee** (2:01)
Yeah, that's serious.

**Matt Lavelle** (2:01)
It was ahead of its time.
It was a good, it was, hey, it was hell of a weapon. Hell of a Soaker, hell of a Soaker. Lushmigs, I'm going to you. Talk to me, Super Soakers. Talk to me, your love. Go.

**Bern Pocsesee** (2:14)
Super Soakers were, yeah, pretty serious. I'm going all the way back for me to the Rockaway days. That's when I lived in New York. And Super Soakers, because we had our block, like both sides, the end of the block was a boardwalk. So it was, you know, you didn't get crazy traffic because there was no through way there. So it was kind of like being on a cul-de-sac, except at the end of the cul-de-sac is a beach.
So when we would set up for like waterfark, waterfights and everything, you had the whole strip, you know, you had the whole street and then you could kind of hide underneath the boardwalk and stuff, hide at the steps, maybe hide on the other end where the sand is and whatnot. It was perfect like guerrilla warfare, Super Soakers and everything. And everybody had them, dude. Everybody on the street had Super Soakers. I can't remember what number it was, but I had the dark blue one. It wasn't as cool as Tom's with the double barrel, but I definitely, it did have some good, you know, like the clip held some rounds.

**Liam Reese** (3:20)
It was a long one.

**Bern Pocsesee** (3:22)
And I remember pumping that bad boy up and going to town, dude.

**Matt Lavelle** (3:26)
Oh, incredible. Ben Didi, Podolini, cream your pants a little bit with Super Soaker Talk. Soak me, daddy. Soak me.

**Liam Reese** (3:34)
Let me stoke your little history right here. In 1985, Air Force and NASA engineer, Lonnie Johnson, conceived the idea of a pressurized water gun after shooting a powerful stream of water in his bathroom while performing experiments for a new type of refrigeration system. Several months later, he built the prototype out of some washers, some PVC.
He and Mattel went into business together and the Super Soap was born. So, you know, Air Force and NASA engineer, OK, the Super Soap was created by big brains, guys. Big brains is a lot. Looks like a simple machine.
And it is a simple machine. It's a pressurized tank. They mostly have pump systems is found a way to take a traditional squirt, squirt, squirt. So you're out water gun and make it like a weapon of combat. Right.

**Matt Lavelle** (4:24)
Yeah.

**Liam Reese** (4:25)
So I was trying to look through and see some of them by picture.
I believe the Super Soaker 50 was the first mid size one. The yellow and green one.

**Matt Lavelle** (4:36)
I think great colors to neon green, neon green and yellow.

**Liam Reese** (4:42)
One tank and then Maddie, as you're saying. I mean, we run through this. You said Tommy got the 200