The Little Boy's Imagination

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A little boy wanted to design street ware, so he counted models marching down catwalks decked out in his designs. He climbed the top of a tree and shouted towards the village: Wolf, wolf. His mother got all the other men and women of the village together, and armed with assault rifles, chain saws and double fired nun chucks, they rushed up the mountain to save their herd. Everyone was extremely angry when they discovered it was a false alarm,. For her this was even worse than the time she caught her son modifying her undergarments with fringe.

Our New ToE series on the battle between the real and the fake begins with a text alert sent out to everyone in Hawaii on a balmy Saturday morning. We also hear from the man who has written the text alert that will go out to all New Yorkers in the event of a real emergency. Photographer Stan Douglas shows us how to reconstruct a future that makes sense, and your host turns to fellow podcaster Jody Avirgan for advice on how to own the “real-ish” podcast genre. Plus the little boy who cried wolf meets the Emperor with no clothes!