the slowdown
the slowdown is a personal podcast by Chris DeLine.
- the slowdown: Amusing Myself to Death ()
I’ll start this by piggybacking off the last episode in this series which began to sink teeth into the separate realities created by media bubbles… It’s December of 2020 as I type and record this, and I began this small project about six months ago. In the past several months I’ve tried to learn more […]
- the slowdown: Separate Realities ()
I didn’t really mean for this to be a serialized thing, this podcast, but it’s turned into a running document of trying to make sense of “these trying times.” The first episode in this series was released in mid-June and already it’s incredible how much life seems different, but the same. The bulk of that […]
- the slowdown: To the Benefit of Whom? ()
About two months ago I had the thought to explore what a podcast might look like if I made one. The idea, as best I could nail it down, for it was to concentrate on a singular focus amid quarantine days that were flying by with too many issues and too many messages to absorb, […]
- the slowdown: The “Good” White People ()
Notes: This episode features the song “Self Driving” by Smo, used under a Creative Commons license from the Free Music Archive. The clip featuring Jeff Foxworthy comes from the track “Southern Accent” from his 1995 album, Games Rednecks Play. The clip of Trae Crowder is taken from his 2016 video, “In Defense of Dixie.” The […]
- the slowdown: Is This Water? ()
Last month I received a text letting me know a friend of mine had died. He was young, only in his 50s, but had lived life hard. His name was Bill. Bill was a coworker of mine, and four years ago when I moved into a new apartment I invited some people over to break […]