'Slow Burn' Podcast Host Leon Neyfakh Exits To Launch New Podcast 'Fiasco'

Neyfakh (Photo: Twitter @leoncrawl)

SLATE reporter and "SLOW BURN" podcast host LEON NEYFAKH announced via TWITTER this morning that he is leaving SLATE and the podcast to launch a new podcast.

In the TWITTER thread, NEYFAKH, with SLATE for four years, said that the new podcast, "FIASCO," will have a premise similar to "SLOW BURN," being "about the past -- why the history we half-remember played out the way it did, and what marks it left on the world we live in." ("SLOW BURN," launched in 2017, also looked back at political scandals, with its two seasons examining WATERGATE and the BILL CLINTON impeachment.) The first season of the new show, with distributor and platform yet to be announced, will be posted in the first half of 2019 and will look at the BUSH-GORE 2000 election controversy, with the second season being a look at the IRAN-Contra Scandal.

NEYFAKH, a former BOSTON GLOBE and NEW YORK OBSERVER reporter, added that "SLOW BURN" Executive Producer ANDREW PARSONS will serve in the same capacity for "FIASCO," and researcher MADELINE KAPLAN would likewise make the move to the new show as Assistant Producer. And NEYFAKH put out a call for anyone interested in working on the first two "FIASCO" seasons to contact him at leon.neyfakh@fiascopod.com.

Hello friends and Slow Burn fans! I have a bittersweet announcement to make: after four happy years at Slate, I am leaving to start something new.

— Leon Neyfakh (@leoncrawl) November 27, 2018

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