Episode Details

India’s population bomb is fizzling out faster than most people realize. Over 5,000 government schools now sit completely empty (zero students!), with numbers surging 24% in just two years — mostly in states like Telangana and West Bengal. We’re diving deep into India’s collapsing fertility rates (many regions already sub-1.5 or lower), why certain ethnic/religious groups are disappearing faster than others, and what this means for India’s future demographics.

We compare this to Japan and South Korea’s school closures due to depopulation, bust the myth that “India will outbreed everyone,” and discuss why Indian immigrants in the US maintain stable fertility (~1.6, similar to whites) while resisting aspects of modern urban culture. Topics include:

* In-group hiring preferences & H-1B controversies

* Cultural isolation that protects against fertility collapse

* Nuanced pros/cons of Indian communities in America (safety, values, economic contribution vs. potential downsides)

* Nick Fuentes’ recent anti-Indian rhetoric — is it fair, or controlled opposition?

* Gender dynamics, arranged marriages, and why some Indian cultural traits help resist “urban monoculture”

This is a raw, unfiltered conversation on natalism, migration, ethnicity, and the future of populations. If you’re interested in demographics, pronatalism, or immigration realism — hit play.

Episode Transcript:

Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today we are gonna be talking about the disappearance of Indians, the, the Indian Ethnic Group of India. I will start with a interesting article here, over 5,000 government schools in India. Sit empty with zero students, 70% in the states of Al and West Bongo.

Is this another

Simone Collins: Somali fraud problem or what?

Malcolm Collins: This, this from the natal subreddit? No. So these are, these are in India. Their schools are sitting empty because of low birth rates, not fraud.

Simone Collins: Okay.

Malcolm Collins: No, no, not fraud. Just abandoned. Wow. Like that very sad documentary about Korean schools where they had one student left and they were keeping the school open and they were like, it was really creepy because they would like do tours of the school.

You know how Koreans are like very obsessed with, but there was

Simone Collins: this one kid sweeping up a classroom that only teacher, no, no.

Malcolm Collins: The teachers, the staff were like, they kept everything spotless for, for one kid, like all of the classrooms and everything. It’s [00:01:00] like when

Simone Collins: Albert King concert Albert died and Queen Victoria like insisted on having his.

Breakfast made each morning and all these things set out for him. Like his clothes laid out. ‘cause she, yeah, no, it’s, it’s really

Malcolm Collins: weird the way, but it’s a grieving

Simone Collins: thing. This is not a function thing, it’s a grieving thing.

Malcolm Collins: There’s the Japanese town that ended up replacing all the kids with, with straw dummies.

Simone Collins: No, just to make the, what, like one kid in the town feel less lonely. Totally not creeped out. No. Now there’s

Malcolm Collins: straw dummies playing on the swings and on

Simone Collins: the slide. What if it was just a great troll though? What if they actually really hated kids and they’re like, I, I will terrify idea for you. This

Malcolm Collins: kid with some Miyazaki stuff right here.

No, this kid’s gonna walk around and, and think their entire generation is turned into straw.

Simone Collins: Oh my gos