So, you beautiful bastards.

Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news.

And we have so much news to talk about today that I'm just going to hit you with that monkey and jump into it.

This is a news show.

We are about to see mass cultural extinction, economic breakdown, and the collapse of human civilization.

That is, unless y'all just start

getting to baby making. We're talking baby making by the billions. Pump them out. All of that,

that's the essence of the movement known as pro-natalism. It's this idea that's especially

become very popular in wealthy Silicon Valley in venture capital circles, with probably its most

famous proponent being who else, but Elon Musk, father to 11 children

that we know of.

You know, they're terrified that declining birth rates and developed countries, namely the U.S.,

Europe and East Asian ones like Japan and South Korea, that they're threatening to destabilize

entire populations.

Which I will say, added space is a legitimate concern.

I mean, we've talked about the demographic problems in some of these places. There's been a big spotlight, especially on the Asian ones. But the pro-natalists solution, just mass

producing babies, it's a controversial one. Not least, because it tends to be associated with a lot

of right-wing politics, right? You see that, and then it gets looped in with restricting women's

rights, opposing immigration, even promoting eugenics. Also, many pro-natalists don't just advocate pro-family public policy,

with many of them wanting to repopulate the earth with their own children. Like, for example,

this mid-30s, Pennsylvania, coupled by the names of Malcolm and Simone Collins. They currently

have three kids, they plan for a minimum of seven, but...

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