podcast // thirty-eight minutes in limbo | 2018

On January 13th, 2018, citizens of the U.S. State of Hawaii received this message on their phones via the mobile alert system, which caused disruption and panic throughout the state.

But not for Jim.


I became fascinated with the false nuclear alarm in Hawaii. I was especially captivated by one reddit user’s recollection of the day, and decided to turn it into a short audio story.