In this impromptu first episode of the Important, Not Important podcast, host Quinn Emmett is joined by childhood friend David Schmidt for a conversation about the longest thirty-eight minutes of David’s life — what he said, did, and feared the morning the Hawaii emergency alert system went very, very wrong.

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David Schmidt at Ken Burns Media
Hawaii Panics After Alert About Incoming Missile Is Sent in Error - NYTimes
Quinn Emmett on Twitter
Brian Colbert Kennedy on Twitter
Intro/outro by Tim Blane
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#1: Sixteen Minutes to Live