Hello and welcome to episode number two of the Twilight Zone Club.

I am Sharon Hawkinson, and let's get started.

In the world of Gregory West, the subject of tonight's Twilight Zone, he doesn't just create the sort of world he wants to live in.

He actually lives in the world he's created.

And welcome to the Twilight Pone, the Internet's third most popular Twilight Zone podcast.

My name is John. I'm joined by my co-host Fred. Hello. How are you doing this week, Fred?

I'm good. You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead. Your next stop, the Twilight Zone. The In his book, Remember, Remember, Charles Beaumont wrote,

The world of radio was real to us.

There are squirt and small fright a day who will soon be as old as the us of then.

And I know some who haven't turned the radio on in their entire lives.

I try to tell them what it was like, but they don't understand.

They can't believe I'm talking about the little plastic box in the kitchen

that plays rock and roll and gives us news and I'm 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, transport, terrify or enchant. It only entertains.

These days it seems odd to us now the idea of family sitting around a radio listening to plays and music.

But when this episode that we'll be discussing tonight was released in

1961 that progression of radio being the primary source of entertainment in

people's homes moving on to television was still very fresh in people's minds

short enough time ago that people still remembered it but long enough ago

that people could still legitimately feel nostalgic about radio and that's exactly what

our main character Ed Lindsay feels in tonight's episode of the Twilight Zone static.

Hey Mr. Lindsay, what's that?

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