I'm Aisha Roscoe, and this is the Sunday Story from Up First.
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Now, if you're like me,
your podcast queue is always overflowing with options and it seems like there are new podcasts launching every day.
But deciphering what's actually worth listening to?
That can be a challenge.
And that's where NPR's pod club newsletter comes in.
It just launched this summer.
So I sat down with one of the writers, Lauren Gonzalez,
to get to know more about this new offering that's dedicated to bringing you handpicked podcast recommendations.
Lauren Gonzalez, welcome to the podcast.
Hi, thank you for having me.
Yeah, so can you explain like what's the origin of pod club?
How and why did it get started?
So PodClub actually started within NPR first.