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Welcome to the podcast formerly known as the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, June 7th, the Feckless

C-word edition. We have a big announcement that we'll get to in a couple

moments. I'm Christina Kaudrucci, a staff writer at

Slate and joining me from Slate's New York studio is Verlin Williams, the

producer of this very podcast. Welcome, Barlin.

Hi Christina. And, Barlin.

Hi, Christina.

And with Barlin in New York is Cat 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.

Pat, 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 X Gav 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?

Wow, that's a while.

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