Coleman Hughes Answers Your End-of-Year Questions

Conversations With Coleman

The Free Press

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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My producer Poppy Damon and I are back for another Ask Me Anything. In this bonus episode, I answer your questions on President Donald Trump and the attention economy, declining birth rates, psychedelics and mental health, AI and the future of work, social media and kids, religion, meritocracy, and more. As 2025 wraps up, it felt like a good moment to step back, take stock, and talk through the questions many of you have been thinking about. Thanks for listening this year—and here’s to more Conversations like this one in the year ahead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Every once in a while, someone makes something that feels bigger.
0:04.2	Not another Hollywood reboot, but a story built on courage, faith, and meaning.
0:10.1	The DailyWire did just that with their new seven-part series, The Penn Dragon Cycle Rise of the Merlin.
0:16.9	Based on the book series by Stephen R. Lawhead, it's a retelling of the classic King Arthur
0:21.4	legend. The first official trailer just dropped and you should go check it out. In this world,
0:26.7	while pagan gods fall silent and empires collapse, one man's visions ignite a civilizational rebirth.
0:33.6	Merlin becomes the bridge between myth and history and shapes the destiny of kings.
0:38.4	The Penn Dragon cycle Rise of the Merlin premieres exclusively on Daily Wire Plus, January 22,
0:44.7	2022, 26. Go watch the full trailer now at Dailywire.com.
0:50.6	Coleman Hughes, welcome back to an Ask Me Anything.
0:53.9	Good to be back with you, Poppy.
0:56.0	It's almost Christmas, and so this is a real end of year roundup.
1:00.5	I was looking back at some of the top stories.
1:03.3	Ukraine, Russia talks, Iran attacks, Doge.
1:06.8	Is there one news story that you think defines 2025?
1:11.1	Wow. Well, I don't know if there's news story that you think defines 2025? Wow.
1:12.6	Well, I don't know if there's one story, but we are back in the Trump news cycle to some degree.
1:20.0	Donald Trump's ability to absolutely dominate people's attention is maybe more than anything what makes him different from most politicians.
1:31.4	He was able to do that in 2015 when he got so much free publicity from the mainstream
1:37.8	right-wing media because he knows how to say the exact thing that will get the headlines
1:42.8	that will drive the story. And so,
1:46.4	if anything defines the news this year, it's simply the Trump factor, simply the fact that
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