Blythe Terrell

Yeah, not that they're misfits, but, I mean, you have these sort of pronatalists, and you have, like, some, like, very techie people.

You've got your Elon Musks and other tech bros.

You have, like, that group of it.

You've sort of got—you have, like—

You're sort of right-wing Christians on the same boat sometimes.

Like, hey, we really got to, like, populate, populate the earth, you know?

And it's just this interesting group together.

And I just wanted to know, like...

Okay, so are they right?

Like, is there something going on here?

Yeah, I'd like to know that too.

All right, so to start off here, just like right out of the gate, one thing that the pronatalists are right about is that in lots of places, birth rates are going down.

Like, yes, people are having fewer kids on average, and that is true in basically every country in the world.

Really?

Yeah.

Wow.

I've shocked you already.

No, the trend, the downward trend for birth rates, for what's called, for something called specifically total fertility rate, is happening almost everywhere.

Wow.

And it has been for decades.