Angus Fletcher

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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin · Angus Fletcher · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

Fear of other people dying.

So I don't have any fear of my own death.

And one of the things that like, if you look over my career, it's really weird.

So I'm a very uncoordinated person.

I have like very limited physical ability, but I'm always like jumping off waterfalls or jumping out of helicopters.

And it's always because I'm hanging out with people who are jumping off of waterfalls and helicopters.

So I just follow them off.

So I have no fear of my own death.

But I'm always terrified of harm happening to other people, and it made it very hard for me to become a parent, and still is very hard for me to be a parent.

A naturalist is the original biologist.

It used to be that the way people who studied life studied life is they would just sit for a long time and watch for things.

Observe nature.

They would observe nature.

And they would see things that surprised them.

And then they would say, well, where is that going?

And then we start to learn the story of these individual life forms.

And the most famous naturalist really is Charles Darwin.

I mean, Charles Darwin goes around the world, sees all these interesting birds on the Galapagos, various finches, and sees other things, and comes up with these new ideas about how the world could work.

What happens in the 20th century is that naturalism gets wiped out by basically industrial science.

What's industrial science?

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