Evan Ratliff

Yeah, and I did not realize this, but the laser gun, what was it called, the zapper?

But his brother Larry, he stayed behind and built an entirely different legacy.

Did you not know any of this?

How do you not know this stuff?

I was trying to kiss girls in the roller skating rink at this point.

It was not, it didn't shoot anything at your TV, because if you stop and think about it, your TV's not set up to accept that kind of thing, or your TV screen certainly isn't.

And you thought girls were gross still.

It's true.

It's true.

But it definitely helped shape me, and I am nostalgic for it in that sense, and I am appreciative.

So what happened instead is it was a light detector.

So when you pulled the trigger on the zapper, your screen, in just a nanosecond,

But, Chuck, I propose that sooner than later we do an episode on marketing to kids because this whole deregulation story is just fascinating.

Maybe a little slower than that, but still faster than you could register it.

The screen went black, and whatever ducks were on the screen turned into white squares.

Fascinating.

Yeah, I mean, I didn't really know anything about it because I was still a dumb kid when this was going on.

And if you had the zapper pointing at the duck when you took the shot, the zapper would register that white flash of light that was a duck, that square, and it would register it as a hit.

Well, let's do it, though, okay?

Agreed.