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Conversations with Coleman

Coleman Hughes Answers Your End-of-Year Questions

Conversations with Coleman

The Free Press

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.5614 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

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

My name is Sherlock Holmes.

0:02.0

It's an unusual name.

0:03.0

Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series.

0:07.0

What game are we playing today?

0:09.0

Discover the origins.

0:10.0

It's cleaving. Those days are surely behind me.

0:12.0

Of crime's most iconic mind.

0:14.0

There has been a break-in.

0:17.0

Astoned. You should be a detective.

0:19.0

Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth.

0:22.5

If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you.

0:25.9

Young Sherlock, new original series, watch now only on Prime Video.

0:30.7

Coleman Hughes. Welcome back to and Ask Me Anything.

0:34.1

Good to be back with you, Poppy.

0:36.1

It's almost Christmas, and so this is a real end of year

0:39.1

roundup. I was looking back at some of the top stories. Ukraine, Russia talks, Iran attacks,

0:46.1

Doge. Is there one news story that you think defines 2025? Wow. Well, I don't know if there's one story, but we are back in the Trump news cycle to some degree.

1:00.1

Donald Trump's ability to absolutely dominate people's attention is maybe more than anything what makes him different from most politicians. He was able to do that in

1:13.4

2015 when he got so much free publicity from the mainstream right-wing media because he knows how

1:20.4

to say the exact thing that will get the headlines that will drive the story. And so

1:25.7

if anything defines the news this year, it's simply the Trump

1:32.4

factor, simply the fact that everyone I know and their mother is sort of constantly thinking

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