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The Assignment with Audie Cornish

Why Elon Musk Wants You to Have More Kids

The Assignment with Audie Cornish

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6844 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A growing number of tech leaders, conservatives, and social influencers believe falling birthrates pose an existential threat to civilization, and this “pro-natalist” movement wants Americans to start having more babies. Audie talks to Brad Wilcox, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia. His book is called, “Get Married: Why Americans Should Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families and Save Civilization.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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One of the most indelible images of Trump's second term was when Elon Musk joined a press briefing

1:06.8

at the Oval Office because Musk wasn't traveling alone. He was joined by his four-year-old son, who was doing, you know, honestly what preschoolers do,

1:16.6

picking his nose and whispering while his dad was talking.

1:20.6

This is X, and he's a great guy, high IQ. He's a high IQ individual. The little X, yes, that is his name, he's

1:31.0

part of the kind of growing progeny of Elon Musk. It's part of a broader worldview that

1:37.4

Musk has embraced, that falling birth rates are an existential threat to civilization.

1:43.5

For most countries, they should view the birth rate as the single-big problem they need to solve.

1:50.0

If you don't make new humans, there's no humanity.

1:54.0

And all the policies in the world don't matter.

1:57.0

I know you've been doing your part to maintain the birth rate in the U.S.?

2:02.1

Yes, I am.

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