A week! Look at this land!Its flat! Its gray! Its undeveloped! But within ten years with the coming of water and people, it will be a veritable oasis of loveliness! Get in on it now, folks! Before the land value skyrockets!Most of all, Static is a loving remembrance of something dear that is gone. In his book of nostalgic essays, Remember? Remember? (Macmillan, 1963), Beaumont wrote, The world of radio was real to us. There are squirts and small fry today who will soon be as old as the Us of Then, and I know some who havent turned a radio on in their entire lives. I try to tell them what it was like, but they dont understand. They cant believe Im talking about the little plastic box in the kitchen that plays rock-n-roll and gives us the news, and Im not sure I believe it, either. Television is the substitute for what we had, and I deem it a bad one. It inspires neither loyalty nor awe. It does not thrill, transport, terrify or enchant. It only entertains … The point is made even more succinctly by a line that Lindsay says in the episode: Radio is a world that has to be believed to be seen.
