Slate Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Political Gabfest (It Thinks)

From podcast to podcast empire.

SlateThings get confusing from those early days of podcasting, that old-school/new-school cross-hit wonder. This is why, writes Slate podcast EP/Panoply co-founder and chief content officer Andy Bowers, “It’s a little tough to host a true celebration without addressing one nagging question: When did the Slate Political Gabfest in its current form actually begin?”

It’s a highly contested question in the Slate universe, but one thing is definite. It was 2005:

The simple and irrefutable answer is, the Gabfest started in 2005.

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