The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: Doomsday

Episode Date: January 30, 2024

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You're listening to Giraffe Kings Network. Greg, what are your thoughts on Doomsday? Wow. It should be terrifying. Pardon me. $5. I know, that's $15,000, I owe. It should be terrifying because the Doomsday Clock supposedly shows us as close as we've ever been to the complete

final annihilation of the human race. How do they calculate that? Is it like pro football focus or is it environmental and political? The only thing I know is that it's based on a clock and when the clock... Where can you find the clock? You know, it's somewhere because it's... Google. That's a great question. But wouldn't it every day be the closest it's ever been?

Yeah. No. No. No. They've moved it back previously. Oh yeah. Right. If all of a sudden there's peace on earth and there's no war you can look around the entire globe and there's no wars I

Suspect it goes a little bit in the direction of humanity I'd like doomsday to keep an appointment. You know what I mean like if this is the day This is the day like I worked my schedule around doomsday. Let's stick to a day in a time Do we know the day in the time? Yeah the premise of the doomsday Clock is, it says it's a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making.

So right now, we're 90 seconds to midnight. Yeah, they just announced this, and the people in charge of the Doomsday Clock is a bunch of atomic scientists, and I see here a photo ceremonially. They have a Clock that's 90 seconds to midnight and standing beside it is Bill Nye the science guy He can save us So Bill Nye is part of a collective that is moving us closer to do

We should definitely get serious and so when I when I mentioned that I should be taken more seriously than if it were Beekman No, I take Beekman seriously 90 seconds of midnight sounds like a banjir. Yeah, what yeah? Yeah, I would love them 30 seconds to Mars 90 seconds midnight, you know same thing But this is a children's television scientist Weighing in on the he's still a scientist. No, I understand that, but... It tells that off Roker, you know what I mean? To take the doomsday clock seriously, as many do, and I'm not taking apart his credentials.

I know he's a very credentialed scientist, but also this feels very political, because he's standing next to the clock. Like Bill Nye is... I mean, I know it's a collective, but he's there, he's among six people He's standing next to the clock, like Bill Nye is, I mean, I know it's a collective, but he's there. He's among six people that represent the best and brightest of this atomic scientists collective.

Who are they, name them? Yeah, for real. No Oppenheimers there. Well, the modern day Oppenheimers. I don't know about that. Okay, well I can't, I wasn't really prepared to pick apart the collective of atomic scientists, but I guess I was asking for it when I mentioned that Bill Nye, the science guy, was next to the clock.

What are his atomic credentials? It was founded in 1945 by Einstein and Oppenheimer. Oh, wow. How about that? 45, geez. Right, but we should be more worried about this as my point. Right, and I gotta tell you, it does feel, at least to me, it feels like it checks out. Do you feel like those scientists are rooting for it to happen so they could be right? No. No, no, no one's rooting for the, well, I mean, I'm sure there are some, but... Rooting for the end of the world. I think so they could die right.

Yeah. No, they're right. Whether the world ends up ending now or not. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, hold on a second. The world has to end for them to be. What are we supposed to do with this warning? They come out with this supposed to stop the war. Put on shutters. I mean, what are you going to do? Right. Climate emissions. Does anyone inters, I mean, what are you gonna do? Right, like climate emissions.

Does anyone in China, the US, Russia, India, the Middle East decide, hey, you know, maybe we walk this back. Bill Nye said we're- No one's ever listened to- Too aggressive. That's a thing. I don't think Putin's listening to Bill Nye,

the science guy. I've been like, you know what, he's got a point. Yeah. I don't think the clock is very helpful. I think we need a pie chart. Well, three quarters of it is missing. It's essentially missing. It's so confusing.

It's also, it starts at nine o'clock. It's also 90 seconds to midnight, which is, all right, seems like I have some leeway here. Wake me up in a minute. So it's 11.5830? Is that what we're talking about? Wake me in a minute. I feel like if I only have 90 seconds to live, I'm going to enjoy it.

What am I going to do? Exactly. You know? So with 30 seconds left, that's when we really panic. Like 10. I'd say like when the countdown starts from 10, I think that's when we got to figure out 10 seconds. When the New Year comes, no one starts counting at 90.

30! Exactly. How fluid is this? Daily, can they adjust it? If there's a missile strike in the Middle East, is Bill Nye the science guy gonna move it forward, ten cents? Here's when they adjust it.

Here's when they adjust it, when they're bored and they want attention. That's when they adjust it. Exactly. Where's Jared Leto? He'll save the day. Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz