This story, constructed as a series of tweets, explores the concept of limited information.
Ha ha, so pretentious. Maybe that's the opener to write if this podcast were somehow on a museum wall. But yet, but yet.... Our narrator has been near an uncertain event (a terrorist bombing in San Francisco: but the location, nuclear contents, and casualties of the bomb are unknown). He hears only rumors - can communicate only by tweets - and sporadically at that, with a dying phone battery and failed telecommunications. At the same time, he hopes to put the brightest spin he can on a flight from town by foot. Every one of those factors, as you can see, involves some limitation or distortion of the information available to the listener.
Anyway, I guess this particular story is not a comedy.
NOTES:
(1) The strange, mechanical timestamp voice was obtained from onlinetonegenerator.com.
(2) I've had some version of this story floating in my head for a long time, say ten years. An early inspiration was when I read this chilling case study of the short-term effects of a nuclear weapon being detonated in San Francisco Bay.
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