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Rick Rubin

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In-depth interviews that may blow your mind. With Rick Rubin

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  1. Dr. Paul Conti, MD

    · 1 h 29 min

    Dr. Paul Conti is a psychiatrist, author, and founder of Pacific Premier Group, a medical practice providing mental health care, consulting, and coaching. A graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine, he…

  2. Mark Booth

    · 1 h 28 min

    Mark Booth is an author, editor, and publisher who also writes under the pen name Jonathan Black. He studied philosophy and theology at Oxford and built a publishing career working with authors including Rupert…

  3. Pastor Greg Laurie

    · 1 h 41 min

    Greg Laurie is an evangelist, author, and senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Southern California. He founded the church in Riverside in 1973 after becoming a Christian during the Jesus Movement in 1970.…

  4. Frank Miller

    · 1 h 35 min

    Frank Miller is a comic book writer, artist, and filmmaker. He rose to prominence drawing Marvel’s Daredevil in 1979 and became its writer in 1981, introducing Elektra and turning the series into a major success. He…

  5. Neil Young

    · 1 h 34 min

    Neil Young is a legendary singer-songwriter whose career has spanned more than six decades. From Buffalo Springfield and Crazy Horse to a celebrated catalog that includes albums such as Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere…

  6. JAŸ-Z in 8: Inside the Series

    · 26 min

    In this special episode taken from a live event in London, Rick Rubin and Daniel Kaluuya join Ayishat Akanbi for a conversation about the making of JAŸ-Z in 8, a new eight-part documentary series exploring JAY-Z’s…

  7. Episode 200: Max Richter

    · 1 h 51 min · Episode 200

    Max Richter is a composer, pianist, and producer. His albums include Memoryhouse, The Blue Notebooks, and Sleep. His instrumental composition “On the Nature of Daylight” has been featured in films including Shutter…

  8. Tom Freston

    · 1 h 45 min

    Tom Freston is a media executive, investor, and the cofounder of MTV Networks. His route to television began after an early entrepreneurial venture sourcing and exporting apparel in South Asia, before he joined the…

  9. Roger Avary

    · 2 h 00 min · Episode 194

    Roger Avary is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, and producer. Best known for co-writing Pulp Fiction with Quentin Tarantino, he shared the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Avary made his…

  10. Tyler Cowen: On the Sound of Patriotism - A Musical History

    · 1 h 59 min · Episode 193

    To honor the 250th anniversary of America, Tyler Cowen plays Rick patriotic music from the United States and around the world in this special listening episode. In addition to his work as an economist, professor, and…

  11. Tyler Cowen

    · 2 h 34 min · Episode 192

    Tyler Cowen is an economist, author, and professor who holds the Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and serves as chairman and faculty director of the Mercatus Center. He co-authors the…

  12. Steven Pressfield

    · 1 h 15 min · Episode 191

    Steven Pressfield is a bestselling novelist, nonfiction author, and screenwriter. He published his first novel, The Legend of Bagger Vance, in his early fifties, launching him onto the literary map and leading to a…

  13. Jeff Bridges

    · 1 h 46 min · Episode 190

    Jeff Bridges is an Academy Award-winning actor, musician, and photographer. Born into a family of performers, he began acting as a child and has built one of the most enduring careers in American film. His work…

  14. Albert Hammond Jr.

    · 2 h 05 min · Episode 189

    Albert Hammond Jr. is a songwriter, solo artist, and guitarist for The Strokes. Since 1999, he helped define the band's signature rock sound across landmark albums including Is This It, Room on Fire, and First…

  15. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

    · 55 min · Episode 188

    'Gurudev' Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a spiritual leader, humanitarian, and peace ambassador. In 1981, he founded the Art of Living Foundation, introducing meditation, yoga, and the Sudarshan Kriya breathing technique…

  16. Anthony Metivier

    · 2 h 06 min · Episode 187

    Anthony Metivier is an author, memory expert, and the founder of the Magnetic Memory Method, a training system focused on memorizing complex information through mnemonic techniques and memory palaces. He is the author…

  17. Angus Fletcher

    · 2 h 56 min · Episode 186

    Angus Fletcher is an author and professor of story science at The Ohio State University’s Project Narrative. With a degree in neuroscience from the University of Michigan and a PhD in literature from Yale University,…

  18. Louis C.K.

    · 2 h 07 min · Episode 185

    Louis C.K. is a stand-up comedian, writer, director, and actor. A six-time Emmy and three-time Grammy winner, he is known for specials including Shameless, Chewed Up, Hilarious, and Sincerely, Louis C.K., as well as…

  19. Peter McGrath

    · 2 h 21 min · Episode 184

    Peter McGrath is a recording engineer, photographer, and longtime advocate for high-fidelity sound reproduction whose career has spanned more than five decades. He has worked extensively with organizations including…

  20. Dave Eggers

    · 1 h 47 min · Episode 183

    David Eggers is an author, publisher, and founder of nonprofit publishing company McSweeney’s. He first became widely known for A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and went on to write acclaimed books including…

  21. Kenny Chesney

    · 1 h 34 min · Episode 182

    Kenny Chesney is a country music singer and songwriter. His career has been defined by over 30 chart-topping country hits, including “She’s Got It All,” “When the Sun Goes Down,” “There Goes My Life,” “Don’t Blink,”…

  22. Bryce Crawford

    · 1 h 48 min · Episode 181

    Bryce Crawford is a 22-year-old street preacher, an evangelist, and the founder of Jesus in the Street. Known for bringing his Christian faith directly into public spaces, he travels across the U.S. sharing the gospel…

  23. Vlad Tenev (Part 2)

    · 1 h 25 min · Episode 180

    Returning to continue his conversation in Part Two, Vlad Tenev is the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood. He launched the trading platform alongside Baiju Bhatt in 2013 with the goal of making investing more accessible…

  24. Vlad Tenev (Part 1)

    · 1 h 43 min · Episode 179

    Vlad Tenev is the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood. He launched the trading platform alongside Baiju Bhatt in 2013 with the goal of making investing more accessible through commission-free stock trading for everyday…

  25. Bob Roth

    · 1 h 38 min · Episode 178

    Bob Roth is a teacher of Transcendental Meditation and the CEO of the David Lynch Foundation. He began practicing Transcendental Meditation in 1969 and went on to build a career centered on teaching it to executives,…

  26. Garry Tan

    · 2 h 09 min · Episode 177

    Garry Tan is the president and CEO of Y Combinator, the startup accelerator behind companies like Airbnb, Reddit, Coinbase, and DoorDash. He previously co-founded the financial technology company Posterous, which was…

  27. Clown of Slipknot

    · 2 h 03 min · Episode 176

    Michael Shawn Crahan, better known as Clown, is the co-founder and percussionist of Slipknot. Formed in 1995, the metal band rose to popularity with albums like Slipknot and Iowa. As one of the most recognizable names…

  28. Chris Best

    · 1 h 37 min · Episode 175

    Chris Best is a technology entrepreneur and CEO of Substack. In 2017, he co-founded Substack, the publishing platform that helped popularize paid newsletters and direct-to-audience media businesses for writers,…

  29. Brian Hoyer

    · 2 h 31 min · Episode 174

    Brian Hoyer is an environmental health consultant and founder of Shielded Healing, specializing in electromagnetic field (EMF) testing, shielding, and mitigation. As a certified geobiologist with a background in…

  30. GT Dave

    · 1 h 33 min · Episode 172

    GT Dave is the founder of GT’s Living Foods and a key figure in the commercialization of kombucha in the United States. He began producing and selling kombucha in the mid-1990s, starting with small batches distributed…

  31. Jeff Harmon

    · 2 h 26 min · Episode 172

    Jeff Harmon is the Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer of Angel Studios, the media company behind Sound of Freedom, His Only Son, After Death, and Dry Bar Comedy. He has played a key role in shaping Angel’s…

  32. Jonah Hill

    · 1 h 58 min · Episode 171

    Jonah Hill is a film actor, writer, and filmmaker. He broke out in comedy with Superbad in 2007, before earning critical acclaim in dramatic roles in Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street. He transitioned into…

  33. Anne Lamott & Neal Allen

    · 2 h 26 min · Episode 170

    Anne Lamott is a bestselling novelist and nonfiction writer. She is best known for her books Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, enduring touchstones for readers and writers seeking honest insight into life and…

  34. Adam Neumann

    · 3 h 03 min · Episode 169

    Adam Neumann is an entrepreneur, investor, and the co-founder of WeWork. Launching the shared office-space company in 2010, he grew WeWork into a global coworking brand that, at its peak, was valued at roughly $47…

  35. Kelly Wearstler

    · 1 h 26 min · Episode 168

    Kelly Wearstler is a designer, creative director, and founder of the Los Angeles-based design firm Kelly Wearstler. Her work includes projects such as the San Francisco Proper Hotel, the Avalon Hotel Beverly Hills, the…

  36. Eric Roth

    · 1 h 46 min · Episode 167

    Eric Roth is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter best known for adapting Forrest Gump, for which he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. He has received additional Academy Award nominations for The Curious Case…

  37. Greg Brockman (Part 2)

    · 1 h 47 min · Episode 166

    Returning to continue his conversation in Part Two, Greg Brockman is a cofounder and president of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: AG1…

  38. Greg Brockman (Part 1)

    · 1 h 30 min · Episode 165

    Greg Brockman is a cofounder and president of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: AG1 https://DrinkAG1.com/tetra ------ Athletic Nicotine…

  39. Chris Pavlovski

    · 1 h 36 min · Episode 164

    Chris Pavlovski is the founder and CEO of Rumble, an online video and cloud services platform launched in 2013 as an alternative to YouTube for independent creators. As CEO, he has positioned Rumble as a next…

  40. David Whyte - ON LOVE

    · 41 min · Episode 163

    Falling in love is a courageous, destabilizing, and deeply human act. In this Valentine’s Day special, Irish poet and philosopher David Whyte returns with poems of romance. He reflects on love’s power to transform a…

  41. BIll Gurley

    · 1 h 49 min · Episode 162

    Bill Gurley is a venture capitalist and longtime general partner at Benchmark, where he has backed companies such as Uber, Zillow, and Grubhub. He began his career as a Wall Street research analyst before transitioning…

  42. George Saunders

    · 1 h 50 min · Episode 161

    George Saunders is an author known for his inventive short stories and the Booker Prize–winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo. His works include the collections Tenth of December and Liberation Day and the craft book A…

  43. Dr. Mary Talley Bowden

    · 1 h 40 min · Episode 160

    Dr. Mary Talley Bowden is an ear, nose, and throat physician and founder of BreatheMD, a direct-care ENT clinic that emphasizes transparent pricing and outpatient airway care. She completed her residency at Stanford…

  44. Barry Diller

    · 1 h 05 min · Episode 159

    Barry Diller is a media executive and entrepreneur whose career has shaped modern television, film, and digital media. He helped redefine entertainment by innovating network programming at ABC, leading Paramount…

  45. Joseph Nguyen

    · 1 h 08 min · Episode 158

    Joseph Nguyen is the author of the #1 international bestselling book Don't Believe Everything You Think, translated into more than forty languages worldwide. His other titles include Beyond Thoughts: an exploration of…

  46. Mike White

    · 1 h 26 min · Episode 157

    Mike White is a writer, director, producer, and actor best known as the creator of HBO’s acclaimed series The White Lotus. He began his career writing and producing TV shows, including Dawson’s Creek and Freaks and…

  47. Daron Malakian - ON METAL (Part 2)

    · 2 h 08 min · Episode 156

    Daron Malakian returns to continue his conversation in Part Two. Composer, guitarist, vocalist, and record producer Daron Malakian, a founding member of System of a Down, reflects on his lifelong relationship with…

  48. Daron Malakian - ON METAL (Part 1)

    · 1 h 45 min · Episode 155

    Composer, guitarist, vocalist, and record producer Daron Malakian, a founding member of System of a Down, returns to Tetragrammaton to reflect on his lifelong relationship with heavy metal. Using music as a guide to…

  49. Brian Armstrong

    · 2 h 16 min · Episode 154

    Brian Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States by trading volume and users. He launched Coinbase in 2012 after working as a software engineer at Airbnb,…

  50. Mike Cessario

    · 1 h 19 min · Episode 153

    Mike Cessario is the founder and CEO of Liquid Death, one of the fastest-growing non-alcoholic brands and healthy beverage platform built on comedy. An advertising veteran-turned-entrepreneur, he has grown Liquid Death…

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