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Welcome to the podcast formerly known as the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, June 7th, the feckless C-ward Edition. We have a big announcement that we'll get to

in a couple moments. I'm Christina Cotarucci, a staff writer at Slate. And joining me from Slate's

New York studio is Varyland Williams, the producer of this very podcast. Welcome Varylin. Hi, Christina.

And with Varyl in New York is Kat Chow,

who are so excited to welcome for her first time on the show. She is a reporter and a podcaster

at NPR's Code Switch. Kat, we're so happy to have you. I'm so glad to be here. Thank you.

So, first off, we are really excited to announce that we have finally come up with a new name.

Our listeners have suggested so many great names.

It's been, I almost wanted to extend this deliberation period a little longer because everyone's been sending us so much great stuff.

But the name of this

podcast formerly known as the Double XGAV Fest is the waves. We've been thinking about the waves

of feminism. We're thinking about sound waves. We're thinking about making waves. And we're especially excited to put to rest a

name that has served the podcast very well for the past, what is it, a decade? How long has this podcast?

Yeah, it's a while. I remember listening to this podcast when I was in college. So, yeah, it's been a while.

Wow. But yeah, there's, we've spoken in previous episodes about the reasons why we think it's time for a switch. And since we're going weekly now and we're adding a lot of new voices, it seemed like a good time for a rebranding. So we're so happy to have finally landed on something. And we'll be debuting some new art to go along with the name. So be on the lookout for that

in your podcast feed. Yay. So, Kat, what do you think of the waves? Oh, man. Well, when I think about

the waves, immediately I think about, you know, like the waves of feminism, like you said, Christina.

And so I think it's an apt name. I'm curious to see how your diehard listeners feel about it, though. Yeah, so am I.

I'm sure there will be some mixed feelings. I'm excited to see how other people will interpret

the name, which we purposely wanted it to be open to multiple interpretations. Yeah, that's good.

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