Eliot Calhoun, the Guy Who Wrote the Text Alert

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Eliot calhoun is the guy who wrote the text alert that'll go out to all new yorkers in the event of an emergency like a nuclear attack. Eliot has spent years rewriting this message. Every time he pulls it up on his computer, he says he tweaks it a little bit. We're worried about. Ouknow, i guess tas yore what we'd call up ut, maybe warning fatigue.

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!