Angus Fletcher

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2,582 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 8 Jul

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

And the thing about story that I think people fundamentally don't understand is they think that story comes entirely from the storyteller.

But story actually comes from the interaction between the storyteller and the audience.

And that's actually what produces the story.

And you'll notice this when you work with a good storyteller is they're always looking for the audience response.

When they're new at it, they're often looking for it explicitly.

But the better they get, the more they can just feel that a story is interesting or not.

And when they feel that a story is interesting, they start to lean into the details that the audience likes.

And the story grows in the space between the two of them.

And so once you realize that story is actually a living thing and that it grows and becomes new as a result of this interaction, you then start to realize, well, of course there were never any eternal myths because the point was to come together and create something new.

The point was to engage in that primordial act of life, which is to kind of make something like the gods did.

And so when you're in school, you're taught the opposite.

When writing was invented, stories got fixed, and then they got put down, and then they became the authoritative version of the story.

And then all these scholars had nothing to do, so they said, let's analyze the story, and let's see what it means.

And then, of course, they come up with these idea of themes.

So there's no themes.

Themes are made up.

This is something that scholars came up with, and they argue about what does it mean.

There's no meaning either.

Stories don't have a meaning.

Stories are much more profound than meaning.

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