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The Bay Blend manatee needs a name! What should it be?

Text on a green background says Celebrate the Bay Blend's First Birthday with a manatee drawing at the bottom right. It's wearing a birthday cap, headphones, white paper coffee mug and blank nametag

As the Bay Blend podcast turns 1, we realized we never gave our beloved mascot a name. You can help us do just that.

This month, WUSF is celebrating the first birthday of the Bay Blend podcast! That's a year of news, culture, and events, along with some of Sky's worst jokes, all packaged for you each weekday morning.

But we realized that the mascot on our logo - that cute little manatee holding a coffee cup - has no name!

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Help us change that! Submit a name you think fits it best this little critter at WUSF dot org. Maybe it looks like a Geraldine, or a River, or a Tatum Parker Emerson the Third. That one's kind of stiff but it doesn't matter, because we're taking all suggestions.

You only have a week to submit a name you like.

So do it now and help us shape the Bay Blend for years to come!

I’m a host for WUSF, primarily for our daily, five-minute podcast The Bay Blend. It’s a fun time, giving you the news, culture and events going on the in the Tampa Bay area while telling a couple jokes on the way (the jokes land like 50% of the time). I’m also the back-up host for Morning Edition and All Things Considered. I’m pretty much the Kyle Trask of WUSF, except I’ve actually been used in the last few years.
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