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KAYAK: Paul English

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Hey everyone, a quick thing before we start the show. How I built this is doing its annual survey to better understand our listeners and how you use podcasts. So please, please, please help us out by completing a short anonymous survey at npr.org slash built survey. That's all one word, npr.org slash built. Built survey. We'd really appreciate your feedback. We really do need it. So again, npr.org slash built survey. And thanks. We hired a top brand agency in New York City named Wolf Owens.

The branding project was led by a woman named Carol Costello. Ultimately her team came up with a list of about a hundred names. And Kayak was actually our second choice.

Alright, so you've butt kayak and Did anybody like get on there initially and say, Where are the kayaks? Like Where's your kayak gear? Like what are you doing? We literally got hate mail from kayakers. Yeah, from Kyakers, yeah.

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