On July 15, 2005, Bowers launched the first Slate podcast, which consisted of Bowers reading a Slate article aloud from the closet of his Los Angeles home. In late 2005, Bowers created the Slate Political Gabfest, which became the magazine’s flagship talk show and led to the formation of a network of similar programs include the Culture Gabfest, Hang Up and Listen, the Double X Gabfest, and the parenting show Mom and Dad Are Fighting Also in 2005, Bowers launched a personal podcast with his five-year-old daughter called Molly and the Sugar Monster, a dramatized podcasts for children.