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The Slowdown

Candid, revealing long-form conversations with extraordinary people about their life and work through the lens of time. Host Spencer Bailey interviews each guest about how they think about time—and how pivotal moments have shaped who they are today.

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  • 23 episodes
  • fortnightly
  • Avg 1 hr 8 min
  • English

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  • S12 · E140
    Oct 29, 2025 · 1 hr 18 min

    Camille Henrot on Tapping Into a Boundless Imagination

    The Paris-born, New York–based artist Camille Henrot previews her upcoming first-ever performance-art piece, slated to premiere in 2026 and a collaboration with the nonprofit Performa; explores her fraught fascination with animals, childhood, and the climate crisis—the intersection of which she examines in-depth in her her soon-to-debut film “In the Veins”; and reflects on why, for her, a work is technically never finished.

  • S12 · E139
    Oct 22, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min

    Alison Roman on Recipes as Time Capsules

    Cook and food writer Alison Roman, author of the best-selling books “Dining In” and “Nothing Fancy,” talks about her forthcoming title, “Something From Nothing,” out Nov. 11, and reflects on the diaristic quality of her dishes, how time and money have shaped her cooking style and approach to recipe-writing, and the beauty of prioritizing tangible things in our ephemeral digital age.

  • S12 · E138
    Oct 8, 2025 · 1 hr

    Olivia Laing on the Pleasures and Possibilities of Gardens

    The British writer and cultural critic Olivia Laing, author of the “The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise” and the forthcoming novel “The Silver Book,” discusses the symbiotic relationship between gardening and writing; the act of rebelling against a reactive, adrenaline-fueled culture by prioritizing and embracing slowness, in-person conversation, and what they call the “temporal self”; and the importance of imagining, in vivid detail, the kinds of utopias we could one day ver

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