So there's this term in podcasting, always on. It means that in a 52-week year, we're going to deliver you, dear listener, 50 shows.

Producing at that level requires a quick pace, and it means that too often we don't have the time to reflect on what we've learned or how the stories relate

to each other.

So today we've gathered three of our busiest quote unquote always on podcasters to talk

about the stories that crossed into all of our feeds in 2025.

I'm Audie Cornish and on the assignment I cover culture and politics and the side stories that

eventually make their way to the front page.

I'm Claire Duffy, and on terms of service, I cover new technologies, including facial recognition,

generative AI, and how we can navigate the rapid changes they're making to society.

And I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon and CNN's chief medical correspondent.

On my podcast, chasing life, I cover the worlds of health and medicine, no surprise,

but also hopefully teaching people how to lead healthier and happier lives.

And I'll tell you right off the bat, one way to do that is by spending time with your

friends and colleagues getting that connection, sharing what you know. So pull up a chair,

join us. This is the CNN podcast 2025 roundtable. Stay with us.

All right, super friends unite.

Superfriends unite.

All right, so we're trying to think of like, how do we talk about what's going on at the end of this very kind of strange year?

Strange for a couple of reasons that I realized had a lot to do with like your gigs, like your column, because we have the ascendance of

Maha culture, right? Make America healthy again. And RFK and the dialogue that happens with that.

And then also every other story I have done this week usually ends with some version of,

so then AI and like talking about AI in this really intense way where it's both exerting

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