Why aren't people having kids anymore? (ft. Derek Thompson)
NO SUCH THING
iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
4.6 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Manny asks whether Noah and Devan want kids, as a part of a conversation about the declining birth rate around the world. They hear from Anna Louie Sussman, author of the upcoming book "Inconceivable: The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty," about what's actually causing the birth rate to decline, and then Manny has a heartfelt conversation with writer (and fellow dad) Derek Thompson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, Manny here, and before we get to today's episode, I have a quick call out. |
| 0:05.7 | We are looking for diet soda drinkers. |
| 0:09.2 | If you are a diet soda aficionado, call the number in the show notes and tell us three things. |
| 0:15.9 | Number one, what your diet soda of choice is. |
| 0:19.5 | Are you a Diet Coke drinker, diet Pepsi, Coke zero? |
| 0:23.5 | Number two, why do you drink diet soda? Is it for health reasons or do you just prefer the taste? |
| 0:29.9 | And number three, how often are you drinking a diet soda? How many do you have per day or per week? |
| 0:36.7 | Again, call the number in the show notes and your thoughts might make that diet soda. How many do you have per day or per week? Again, call the number in the show notes and your |
| 0:39.6 | thoughts might make that diet soda themed episode. That's all for now. Hope you enjoy today's |
| 0:45.5 | episode, but first, we have to pay some bills. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Annie. I'm Noah. This is Devon. And this is no such thing, the show where we settle our dumb arguments and yours by actually |
| 1:13.0 | doing the research. |
| 1:14.7 | On today's episode, why aren't people having kids anymore? |
| 1:18.6 | I'll ask Noah and Devin about whether they want kids before hearing from a birthrate |
| 1:24.2 | analyst. |
| 1:25.3 | Then stick around to hear my dad's rule conversation with writer Derek Thompson. |
| 1:32.1 | There's no such thing. |
| 1:34.0 | No such thing. |
| 1:37.0 | No such thing. |
| 1:40.0 | No such thing. |
| 1:40.9 | No such thing. |
| 1:42.9 | No such thing. All right, fellas. |
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