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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Jonesy and Demanda podcast.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about the doomsday clock. I'm surprised Apple hasn't

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Speaker 2: pulled one out. The doomsday clock is a symbolic time

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Speaker 2: set by Are you ready the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

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Speaker 2: I know you wanted to join that club, Brendan. It

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Speaker 2: represents how close humanity is to theoretical annihilation. And this

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Speaker 2: is why it's in the news this week because the

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Speaker 2: scientists on Tuesday set the clock, the twenty twenty six

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Speaker 2: doomsday clock, to eighty five seconds to midnight, the closest

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Speaker 2: we have ever been to theoretical annihilation. And this is

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Speaker 2: because well, this is actually he's the CEO.

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Speaker 3: Her name is Alexandra Bell.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us today. My name is Alexandra Bell,

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Speaker 1: and I am the President and CEO of the Bulletin

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Speaker 1: of the Atomic Scientists. It is the determination of the

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Speaker 1: Bulletin's Science and Security Board that humanity has not made

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Speaker 1: sufficient progress on the existential than endangerous all. We thus

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Speaker 1: moved the clock forward. It is now eighty five seconds

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Speaker 1: to midnight. This is the closest the world has ever

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Speaker 1: been to midnight.

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Speaker 3: And the reason is well Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The reason is, well, it's climate change, it's chaos in

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Speaker 2: the world, and a lot of it is the rise

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Speaker 2: in AI technology, which is spreading disinformation, which will lead

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Speaker 2: to further chaos, and that takes us closer to the brink.

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Speaker 4: I've been doing it bit a research with the Internet.

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Speaker 4: So nineteen forty seven, the clock starts running, and we're.

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Speaker 3: At seven n my biological cross.

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Speaker 5: Seven minutes to midnight.

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Speaker 3: Seven minutes we started.

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Speaker 4: Nineteen forty nine, three minutes to midnight. The arms race

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Speaker 4: is on Cold War fifty three.

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Speaker 5: Two minutes to midnight. The horror of hydrogen.

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Speaker 4: You know, I've got to muck around with this stuff.

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Speaker 4: Nineteen sixty seven minutes to midnight. So we've come back.

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Speaker 3: We pulled back from the abyss.

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Speaker 4: So that's good. Sixty three, twelve minutes to midnight. The hippies, hippies,

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Speaker 4: Petullia oil, it's a thing. Sixty eight, it's gone back

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Speaker 4: to ten minutes a boo. Seventy two, twelve minutes to midnight.

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Speaker 4: It flips around all the time, it does. Seventy four,

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Speaker 4: it goes back nine minutes to midnight. Why is that

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Speaker 4: India joins our India got a bomb? Good on your

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Speaker 4: Indian So.

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Speaker 3: This is how it goes.

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Speaker 2: They assess all of the world events and how dangerous is.

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Speaker 4: Going forward to Reagan Times nineteen eighty one, reheating the

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Speaker 4: Cold War eighty four.

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Speaker 5: Three minutes to midnight. I thought when I was a

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Speaker 5: kid at Noine No. Eight thought, I thought we were

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Speaker 5: going to all blow up.

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Speaker 2: But we did all get together to close over the

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Speaker 2: hole in the ozone layer that your hair spray lied.

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Speaker 4: Eighty eight six minutes to midnight. Oh look at this

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Speaker 4: nineteen ninety one. Have a guess how many minutes to midnight?

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Speaker 3: Nineteen ninety one.

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Speaker 5: Nineteen ninety one, eighteen.

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Speaker 3: Minutes to midnight? Why do you do this is the answer?

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Speaker 4: Seventeen minutes to min Why would you say eighteen you've

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Speaker 4: ruined it?

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Speaker 3: Why would be so far away from midnight?

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Speaker 4: It's me Milli Vanilli has to be. We're going to

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Speaker 4: bring back the nineties artists. We've going to get We're

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Speaker 4: going to get CC Pedistan, we got to get mc hammer.

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Speaker 2: We are now eighty five seconds to midnight. When I

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Speaker 2: was working at the Dentity stop doing stuff. I was

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Speaker 2: working at Dent TV show years ago. I ordered from

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Speaker 2: America a lifespan countdown clock otherwise known as a death clock.

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Speaker 2: And what you do is you put in your sex

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Speaker 2: with your male or female that were their only options

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Speaker 2: in those days. You put in your age, you put

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Speaker 2: in a bit of health information, and it starts to

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Speaker 2: count down, generally how long you have to live.

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Speaker 3: It's terrifying.

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Speaker 4: I'm just googling it now. Amanda Keller's death clock would look.

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Speaker 2: Still going, still going.

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Speaker 3: I thought I unplugged it.

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Speaker 5: It's still going while you're going.

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Speaker 3: What's that?

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Speaker 5: Never mind? Did you get it from TMU?

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Speaker 3: I don't feel well