US Birth Rate Hits ALL TIME LOW, Society Is COLLAPSING

We have a story from CBS News. US birth rate hits all-time low, according to the CDC. This is a cascade effect that is going to compound. And so, uh, in the previous segment, we're talking about how double-income households is a trap. Shout out to Elizabeth Warren, of all people, who had been talking about this, uh, 20 years ago. But it basically drives wages down, increased costs. There's a compounding effect to a declining birth rate that makes birth rates get lower and lower. And that is, here's, here's a simple explanation. Why are there no more McDonald's play places? Because people don't have kids. So McDonald's says the amount of money it costs to make a play place is greater than what we will return. Stop doing it. Now, for the people who have kids, they're going, "Well, we can no longer go there because we used to go there and the kids would be entertained while we ordered food." I mean, kind of good to a certain extent. But more importantly, the, the bigger example is, yes, it's becoming more and more expensive for baby items, for baby clothes, for, uh, uh, high chairs, for rubber baby buggy bumpers, because the less people who have kids got to do it in an Arnold voice. Rubble, I can't do it. Um, so what happens is, the less people that are buying it, the less volume is sold. And so the manufacturers increase cost to make up for a loss in a loss in volume. Meaning that it's becoming more, it's, it's becoming exponentially more expensive to buy the items your child needs, which is a prohibitive factor. So young people say, "I can't afford what a child needs, so I can't have kids." If I don't have kids, there's no demand for the products. So it gets more and more expensive. The only way to cheat code that is to keep the stuff and have more kids, and they all use it, which is my tactic. I've got.

But, but even in that, even that regard, what's happening now is people, young, so, uh, uh, I was talking about, um, we've been talking about how Gen Z aren't having kids. We've been talking about how there's no 18-year-olds right now. So universities are collapsing. There's a university in Utah that was like 218 years old, went out of business because there's no 18-year-olds to enroll. I love that. And the reporting was that when the, when the economic crisis happened, nobody was having children. So they said, they said in 2008, 18 years from now, there will be a shortage of young people entering the workforce. Interesting. I never heard that, but I was one of those young people that was supposed to be starting my family. So now that I'm reading this news, being like, "Wow, isn't it funny that there are no 18-year-olds?" Like, oh, it's 'cause I didn't have one. Why didn't I have one? I was homeless. I was 22, 23, and I was sleeping on couches or park benches, and there were no jobs. And I tried, and I started playing guitar in the subway to make whatever money I could. There's no way I was having a family.

Was this 2008? Yeah. Yeah. It's when I, I graduated law school in 2007 and got out right as the market crashed and was just screwed. So, I remember going to a diner. I saw a job ad on Craigslist for a dishwasher and I walked in, and the guy in front of me was wearing a suit with a briefcase. And I heard him hand, uh, he, as I was waiting to talk to the person at the counter, he hands a resume and he goes, "I'm here about the dishwasher position." And then I turned around and walked out and I was like, "Holy crap." Although I was told later that was stupid because they probably would rather hire me than a guy in a suit. Yeah.

So, here's the thing. My buddy Steve Friend is in this position right now. He got kicked out of the bureau. He's looking around for a job. He goes, and it's like, he's a former cop. He's a Notre Dame graduate. He worked as an FBI agent for almost 10 years. Had a top-secret clearance. He goes, and you hand that into like a security position. They're not going to hire you for that. Like, they're not going to hire you to do security. They're not going to hire you to manage some, like, a grocery store or something. They're going to be like, "Dude, you were a freaking FBI agent for a decade. Like, you're going to leave this." So, they won't hire you. They won't hire the guy with the briefcase to do dishwashing.

I wouldn't. You know what the problem is with, you know why the birth rate's declining? Women. Yeah. Well, feminism. Feminism. But, uh, women can decide at any moment to tell men, "You ain't getting none." We're have, like, I want marriage and I want a family. But I'm being somewhat, I know we could go upstream of that and say that dads need to be teaching that too. So I'm being, I'm being intentionally inflammatory. But it is, but it is feminism. This idea that women can be promiscuous. There's this, uh, there was this article in the New York Times called "The Trouble with Wanting Men." And it's, it starts with a writer for the New York Times being like, "I went on a date with a guy." And then she goes on to describe the date. Then they went back to his place, had sex, and then a week later, he says, "I'm not interested." And she's like, "Men are awful." And I'm like, "Or he's thinking, 'Look, I want to find a wife, and you ain't it. You a, you a hoe.'" You know what I mean?

There's this, uh, this viral video that went out this week. You probably saw it. It's a pretty white lady. She's talking about being 32 years old. She's been married for a decade. She's got nothing wrong with her life, but she doesn't know who she is, and she hasn't been able to find herself, and so she wants to leave her husband. And so, yeah, I mapped it out. You want to play it? Yeah. Here we go. It's so unsettling. I told my husband I wanted a divorce. I walked myself through the logistics of where would I live, how would we split the time with the kids, who gets the dog. I feel like I have been searching for something in my relationship that we don't have for the whole time we've been married, which has been 10 years. There is not a single thing about my husband in and of himself that I do not love. He is the most self-disciplined, loyal, hardworking, good person that you could meet on this planet. Our relationship and what my expectations are for my marriage and what they always happen are not met. I can't be myself with my husband. And it's really confusing because I'm 32 years old. I am a mom of three, and I still don't know who I am. I told my husband I wanted a divorce. I walked.

Is the worst thing in all of that? She says, "I can't be myself around my husband." And I actually don't know who that person is. Not one thing I hear was, "I have three children. I have an obligation to provide them a stable home." And that those people are the most important thing. That my entire biological purpose is geared towards rearing them and making them successful humans. How about she never said it? How about this bait? Tell me why. Every day I go out looking adorable, tits bouncing, skin glistening. And yet nobody ever hits on me or approaches me ever. Feminism. Just the red hair. I was going to say, please. It's feminism. She looks crazy. Construction worker catcall at this point. You know what's funny? Remember 10 years ago when a woman couldn't walk down the street in New York without getting catcalled? Well, they turned that off. They said, "Guys, stop." I tweeted about this today. Women will ask for something and then they will be miserable when they get it. It's like you're dealing with children. Honestly, it really is. So that's why they said women and children first. That's right. Because, because if you tried to, if the men got out of there, the women and children would all die, obviously, you know, but it's true. I mean, if you had a generation. We're all getting canceled for this. I, I, I've been canceled so many times. It, I. You had a generation of women that were just complaining about men all the time, saying men are so terrible. And they, and you still hear them complain about it. And so men have said, "Well, okay, then I don't want to talk to you. Then I don't, I'm not going to go hang out with you. I don't want to, you know, it's like you've got tattoos. You're probably a progressive woman. I don't want to talk to you. You, you, you do you. You hang out in these areas. You're probably this kind of woman. I don't want to talk about. Like, look at the things that she thinks that made her desirable." Yeah. Which is right. She's like, "Oh, look, like you, you see me as a, as a sexual object. Here I am, a sexual object." And none of it was like, "I'm a really nice person. I'm super fun to hang out with. Like, I'm really loyal." He's probably not.

This, I want to, I want to stress this point. I do believe, I do believe there's a factor in younger guys that are moving to the right, and they look at a woman like this and they think, she's liberal. I can't have a family with her. She's probably a feminist, and she looks like she's promiscuous. I want a woman who's going to be loyal, faithful, and not just sexually liberated. Quitter attitude though, to be fair, that's a quitter attitude. There was a long time where I was, you know, I was single. I didn't date anyone, and, and I was probably single for like, two or three years because I didn't meet a woman that was the type of woman that I wanted to date, right? And it's like, some dudes are just like, "Well, I'll go ahead and and date whoever." But those dudes are becoming fewer and fewer, you know? And I, I met my girlfriend last year, and we're super happy, and she's great, but she wants to be a stay-at-home mom, and she doesn't consider herself a feminist, and she's not a progressive. And, and so she checked all the boxes that I was looking for. There's more and more liability too, probably for guys going out there if you're just going to be jumping from relationship to relationship or, you know, fling to fling, um, in, in an internet world, in a, in a world of, you're immediately assumed to be the aggressor, and all kinds of the sort of default positions against you. That, that sound like, I, I absolutely have so much pity for young men right now that are in this thing, and, and young women too, because they're gonna have terrible outcomes. Look, I've got three daughters and one son. So, I can see both of them growing up. And I look around at what's out there when we go to our community pool, when we walk through the grocery store, and I'm like, "God bless it." Go to church. You want to go see some wholesome looking people? Go to a freaking traditional Latin mass. We went and started doing that down at the cathedral in downtown Austin, and you're going to see a totally different caliber of human being. They may not always be the most attractive. But the other thing is this, and, and you tell me this because this is going to be in your world pretty soon. How many of you guys actually remember being taught what the purpose of dating was, or did you figure it out as an adult? But what do you mean, the purpose of dating? What is the checklist that you were, what are you, what are you trying to accomplish? Like, what are you looking for, and how do you assess whether that thing is a, is a win or not? Not a T-app, but how do you know, like, what am I looking for? Compatibility? Am I looking for attractiveness? There's an important point in this, in that dating, when you, when you know, when I was growing up, and I would watch these movies, going steady. Mhm. Uh, dating meant you could be dating 10 guys. Correct. They would come to your house, you'd go see a movie, and then you'd watch the movie, share popcorn, and he'd be a gentleman and walk you back to your door. The next day, you'd go on a date with a different guy. Yeah. Then once you figured out that you really liked one of those guys, the woman would go steady, and that would be the, there'd be like a letterman jacket involved in that maybe, and they'd be like, "Wow, you're going steady." Meaning you're no longer dating. Yeah. You're now in a, you're going steady, and that's moving towards proposal, then engagement, and then marriage by 20 years old. The, the, like, that was one of the conversations that I had with, with Sarah. I was like, "Look, you know, I'm, I'm, if I'm going to date someone, I'm dating with intent. The intent is to have a family, to get married, and those kind of things. If that's not something you're into, I'm not the guy for you." Yeah. That was, and that was a, that was a conversation like before we were even like, really dating, like we were talking. But you figured that out as an adult. Yeah. And, and, and my point to you is that I don't think that we're teaching young men. I don't think we're teaching young women as a society that there is actually a reason.

Who is teaching young men? Right. Well, and what is the? They're saying what they want. Single women, single mothers, and female teachers are teaching young men. If there's, and this is a, this is a meme now, but if there's a problem with young men, it is because of women. And wait, there's more. Most journalists are female. True. And most female journalists are single, unmarried, and living in New York. 100%. Yeah. Like, I'm, I'm 24 and I started like seriously dating recently. I have no idea what I'm doing. Go to church. But listen, I go to church every week, but what if that's a very salient question? Well, the church is all dudes. Yeah, it's bad, dude. So, here one woman walks in, and they all tackle her, basically. Yeah. But you also have to. Yeah. So, it's go to church is a place to meet people, right? It used to be friend groups. That's how you meet people. That's how I met my wife was through friends. But having a rubric to actually evaluate. So, okay, you say I want a family. But what does that look like? It's like we have to share values. We have to share, um, a view of the future, and we have to be willing to like, make that other person's view of the future our own. If you're not into that, if you don't have those things going, if you can't assess those things, then you don't even know what you're asking. You're going out there and like I said, like, I'll remember, I was a kid in the '80s. Your girlfriend was like the prettiest girl that would willingly spend time with you. That's what a girlfriend was about. Am I wrong? No. It was like, who's pretty? Is someone prettier than that person? Like, that's not a good criteria when it comes to matching and having a financial future and having a family and raising children in a view. And the problem right now is it used to be throughout all of human history that, uh, a young boy and young girl grew up in the same place or similar place. They had very similar jobs. A guy meets a woman. What do you do? I work with my mom and take care of the farm animals. I, I churn the butter. Oh, my mom did that. My sister does that. That's what I'm looking for. What do you do? I chop lumber. I chop wood and start fires and go hunting. It's like, that's what my dad did and my brothers do. I'm looking for that. Now, a dude from New York who is an accountant and went, went to school hoping to be a lawyer but never finished and just fizzled out feels very specific, meets a woman who is from California who used to surf all the time, and they're like, "Maybe this will work." And it's like, dude, you guys could not be more different. But if you had, so yeah, you know, the backstory is part of it. But again, if they shared the same values, if they shared the same sort of view of the future, then that maybe works. But if they don't have that, if she comes from a different type of family that doesn't actually see that as a value, or maybe he doesn't know that's what he wants, or any, we're not training our children. And I think I'm, but I'm describing urban society because if you live in a rural area, you are still more likely to have a similar life to the average human. Yeah. You're, you live in a rural area, probably got backyard chickens, probably still taking care of animals, probably still chop chopping wood, probably still going to church. You live in these cities, and you could live one block away from someone, and you're a metalhead who works at an accounting firm, and you meet a chick who is a, you know, she's a teacher who studied feminist dance, and you're like, "I went on a date. I met a chick on Tinder. She was, she was pretty, but holy crap, did we not get along."

Right now, if you live in, in, in, you know, West Virginia, you're going to have a lot of similarities in the places you go, the things you see, and your traditional, in the traditional values. This is one of the biggest barriers I think to young people right now getting married is how different everyone's become based on because of the internet, largely. I think that living in cities is probably one of the, like, everyone tends to go do that when they're younger. They think that's where the action is, so they go. But I've got a, a sister who's just a couple years younger than me. She's single. She lives in New York City. She makes really good money. She thinks that's really important. And I was trying to at one point, I tried to give her this like advice, which, you know, good big brother advice goes. But I was like, "Dude, go down to the bar where the firefighters hang out. Ask one of them, 'Are one of your friends single and can I take him on a date?'" Like, go meet a man who's masculine because what you described too is a testosterone differential, too, because testosterone is necessary for certain things, and it certainly goes away in a lot of the urban core. Uh, doesn't mean there's not dudes that are that are not masculine, but at the end of the day, it's such a, it's, I can't go into a city anymore like and look around and go like, "Oh, yeah, this is good." I look around and I see threats to my babies. I mean, that's what I see. I'm like, "I might have to kill that crackhead. I may have to go and fight this dude." Like, I don't know what's happening here. I don't understand, like, all the dynamics of it. There's people driving recklessly. There's people that are drinking in the middle of the day. Explain it to Ian. Oh my god. I take them all out. A health bar and a level number, and sometimes a skull next to everyone's heads. But I have a bunch of them that I'm responsible for. Yep. And those are green, and the bad guys are red, potentially. He's green bars are outlined, you know, like supposed to go there. Safe zones are outlined. Like threat zones. Do you see threat zones? Yeah. And here's the thing. How do I get there? I drive a, a big old truck right now, which I'm pretty thrilled about. And my wife and I were talking about our minivan, and I was like, "Do you want like an A-Team van with a huge push bar in front of it because like that's what I think is safe?" Yeah. I want to throw. Have you seen? Have you seen there's that meme where it's like, what a man is thinking walking through a mall with his girlfriend, and he's like, "I got an exit to, you know, behind me. I got two exits in front of me. There's stairs to my left. That man in front of me looks like he might be reaching for something." And then it shows the winch goes. There's another one where they played Gwen Stefani. "I'm just a girl in the world." Same sort of attitude though. You don't want to have to think about it. They want to rely on you. Listen, that's fine because that's what, if you sign up for that, and that's what you want. This is what my dad would do because he was a Marine and a firefighter. He, we whenever we'd go somewhere, he'd be like, "Where are your exits?" And then I'd look around and he'd be like, "Always know where your exits are." He's just teaching you situational awareness, which is what young men need to do. And then here's the other thing, which is something I've been teaching my kiddos. It's like when I say we're moving, we're leaving. If I tell my wife that, you cannot freeze. You got to go. You don't have to know what happens next. You have to be able to go with me if I tell you there's danger. We're leaving. I was in Athens with my wife and daughter, and we were living in Athens for a little bit, and we're walking through like the square, right? Athens, Greece. They protest non-stop. And so all of a sudden, we see these incoming rounds of like tear gas hitting and exploding, and everything's going on. And I pick my daughter up and start carrying her away. What does my wife do? She gets out her cell phone, starts recording right here, and just like is filming. I've got the video, dude. I'll have to share it with you. And I'm like, "What are you doing? Like, that's terrifying. Let's go. Let's go."

How many people have just completely lost survival instincts, though? And that's where they go. They go straight to the phone. They walk around. I watched somebody get run over by a freaking earth mover the other day. Did you see this in like New York City? Like she got thumped by the, uh, by the bucket, and then she got run over because she was looking at a text message. Like, it can't be that important when you're walking. While she was doing it. Yeah, dude. Stand still while you're looking at your phone in the city. Find a thing and put your back to it. Back against the wall. Stand still. It's, it's such an unnatural and illogical thing for human beings to do in a high threat environment where there's like other people, there's moving objects, there's all this other, like, all these things could happen. There's holes. There's manholes that are not well secured. And you're just going to walk around and put your face into this thing. My, my, my nightmare is when I don't know where I'm going in an urban area and I have to look at my phone for like, uh, directions. It's GPSing me, and I'm like, "Oh God, I hate breaking focus and looking down at that thing because I like bad things." Literally, I'll entrench against the building to do it. And like down and up, like I'm driving. The threats come, potential threats coming at me.

We just bought a bunch of those, uh, uh, uh, anti-choke devices for babies. Explain what that is. I don't know. It's a mask you put over the b you squeeze it and put over, and then like, you, when you squeeze it, it pulls, it sucks. So if the baby's choking or something, it's a suction device. Yeah. Because, uh, baby is at the point where she's just jamming anything she can find in her mouth. The best. Yeah. I still remember how a lot of felt when I strange both hands. Yeah. Um, especially when you like look over and you're like, you're like, "Oh, okay, it's good." And then you look over and it's like, uh, your, your child is ingesting like a quarter for some reason. Yes. And you're thinking, like, what would make you do that? I've literally told my kids, you know, I've watched a couple of them go through that phase, and it's like, "Hey, take that out of your mouth." And they're like, "Got it. You mean permanently? Because I'm about to go eat it right now again as soon as you walk away." Permanently. You should have taken that from me. You knew better. Yes. That's your fault, Dad. That's funny. But yeah, I mean, that babies just shove stuff in their mouth. That's what they do. That's what babies did. Like, baby proofing is serious business. I had a, I had a sibling, and I can't remember which one it was, that would. This is, this is an '80s thing. We used to put out snail pellets in California. What? Snail pellets are these like compressed things. They look like the food that you'd give to like goats, right? So, they're like a little pill-shaped thing. And for some reason, they kill snails. I don't exactly know how they work. It's magic. Yeah. They just throw them out there, and then the snails would not eat like your roses or whatever. And I remember coming out, and my parents lost their minds because one of my, my little siblings, one of my little brothers was like walking through, and he was just eating the snail pellets, just pulling them right out of the, the rose planter. And you're looking over, and they're just eating, you know, maybe it was just salt. Maybe it wasn't, uh, toxic, or maybe it was really toxic, and that's why they're like that. He's a lawyer now. So it is, uh, metal happened to me. Metalahhide. Is that what it is? You're looking it up. Highly toxic. Iron phosphate. Yeah. Uh, it couldn't have tasted good either. If it's iron phosphate, it's, uh, safer for pets and the environment. Okay. They were red, so probably iron phosphate sounds. That makes, that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Still not great. Probably not the thing you should be eating. It's like the same thing as looking down and seeing kids like eating, uh, we had a, we had a, a little, a brother maybe of one of my buddies that was eating, um, rabbit pellets, you know, like turds. Gross. And he thought they were chocolates. He just like saw on the ground. They look a lot like chocolates. He couldn't tell by the taste. He was like a 2-year-old. He was in that phase where he just eat stuff.

Do you do you know that that rabbits actually have two different types of things that come out of their butts? I did not know this. One is actually food for the rabbit, and one is waste because, uh, rabbits eat grass, and grass is hard to digest. Sure. They, so I know this because we had a couple pet rabbits. They eat the grass, and then it goes to their, their system. They crap it out, and it is still grass. They turn around and eat it. Got it. It's like a second pass through the metabolism. Yep. Uh, Phil told me he gets to tend the rabbits. Is that true? You get, you get to tend the rabbits? I told you no such thing. You said you get to tend the rabbits. Never said that. He's like our lady. Nothing like that at all. I don't know why you're trying to throw me under the bus. I'm just giving you a Men reference. I thought you were the one who was Men. It's called secotrope. Soft nutrient-rich droppings they produce from their cecum. You get to tend the rabbits. They're small shiny clusters like grapes. Yeah, they are shiny, and they eat it directly out of their anus. The shiny ones are the go right for it. Yeah, the shiny ones you can eat. It says rabbits eat secotropes directly from their anus, usually at night or early morning. I often wonder people put it in the comments if they've eaten them. Called coprophage, cap, coprophagy. That's the act of eating it out of the anus. They redigest the nutrients and B vitamins and aminos that weren't absorbed the first time. That's the act of eating poop. Oh, what's it called? Copra. The act of eating poop. Now I got to memorize this. I'm really upset with you for capagra. It comes from the word. Kada. Corada. What's that? Poop. Oh. Oh, okay. Is it? Yeah, it really is. I believe you because you're a convincing liar, too. No. A prophecy is the act of eating feces and is normal in many mammals. Oh, rabbits, rodents, dogs. Democrats. Yeah. They did it in the when the settlers were settling the United States. Uh, they had a bad winter or a series of bad winters, and they were calling it the second harvest, where they would reuse the feces for the seeds. They'd get some more nutrition out of the seeds. Starvation. There was that one guy who was always drinking his own piss. Who? Bear Grylls. Bear Grylls. Yeah. Is that true? Was he always doing that? No, he was actually staying at a Hilton that night. Oh, that was definitely my. I didn't know if they made that up, but I think he's a legit badass. So, lest it be thought of otherwise, I think Bear Grylls was a legit badass. And whether he stayed in the, the place and was like, "I'm really thirsty right now, so I'm going to be drinking my own urine." You're like, "No, I don't think you're actually doing that. I think that's Gatorade." Yes, Bear Grylls has drunk his own urine on camera during his shows. Nobody believes that. Uh, in one episode, purportedly set in the Australian Outback, he drank from a bottle of his urine when no safer hydration source was available. I got to go to the bathroom while this talking. Don't forget your bottle. No one trusts Ian is doing something. Think about Grylls. Pretty excited, man. Hey, let me tell you something about this chick that's on the on the screen right now. She's complaining that no one's talking to her, but as soon as someone starts like aggressively talking to her, catcalling, whatever, she's going to start complaining. Everybody knows the meme. Yeah. Where the, uh, the suave looking guy in the suit says, "Hey, darn. Looking good." And she goes, "Oh, thank you." Then the fat guy with a glass goes, "Looking good." And she goes, "Help, HR." Yeah. Mhm. That's right. There was actually a. It could be the same guy in real life. There was a funny meme about, uh, two attractive people were were kissing in a park, and the woman had her leg up, and everyone's going, "Aww." And then it was two old morbidly obese people doing it. Everyone's yelling like, "Get out of here. Take, get a room." I feel that way about both of them, but that's just because I'm. It's less offensive for the first group. It is less offensive if they're attractive. Yeah, you do get a pass if you. People pay to see it. They'll go to the movies and watch. They will sexy celebrities. Did you guys? Mostly women will pay for that and drag men along with. I want to pull this up. I want to pull this up. Pretty privilege is real. It is real. Absolutely. Yeah. If you're an attractive person, you can get away with a lot more than. There's been studies too that have actually shown that people, uh, attribute more intelligence the more attractive people are. So, we get like some of these, uh, you know, news types that are out there, and they have an relatively attractive face, and they get credit for being smarter. When we listen to them, we know that they're not. Thanks for checking out this clip from Timcast IRL. Make sure to watch the show live Monday through Friday at 8:00 p.m. Subscribe to this channel, and we will see you all there.