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All In Podcast Episode 254 Recap and Notes December 12 2025

December 12 2025

  • Tucker Carlson returns to the show
  • White House Holiday Party recap - Sacks, Chamath got shoutouts, Pod got shoutout
  • Paramount vs Netflix bidding war for Warner Bros
    • Netflix offer accepted
    • Paramount back with bigger counter offer
    • Business deal vs Cultural deal
    • Question over whether Trump should involve himself in anyway
    • Question about media consolidation
    • Concerns about censorship
  • Rise of Nick Fuentes

    • Might have got on the radar as backlash to Ben Shapiro’s efforts to censure him

    • He is another iteration of identity politics

    • Seems like a talented broadcaster

    • America First vs MAGA vs America Only

      • Should a democratically elected government lookout first for its citizens or an alternative?

    • Is there a coordinated campaign to amplify polarizing content?

      • Seems the bots/accounts that are amplifying this are originating from many foreign countries
      • One could conclude that there is a deep inorganic effort to put him on the front page of the news

    • Left (the likes of NYT, etc) will try to mainstream him to paint the opposite side as racist crazies

    • Chamath speech on embracing America as an immigrant

    • Tribalism is a deep threat to any civilized society

  • Anti-AI sentiment
    • Industry posturing wasn’t good - they scared people with AGI and haven’t delivered any positive benefits
    • AGI isn’t here yet so all their prognostications weren’t true
    • Governments will not be able to hold themselves back as the AI becomes more powerful - we have to marry it with privacy enhancing technology
    • There ARE benefits we need to let people know about
      • Data center build out is leading to higher wages for construction workers
      • So we need to get the message out with data and facts that the benefits outweigh the risks
    • We need to start ending federal underwriting for student loans
    • Yale study showing AI hasn’t cratered jobs
  • Venezuela issue
    • Not clear why we are risking war here
  • Tucker selling gold

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