Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Episodes
Jonah Hill
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Anne Lamott & Neal Allen
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Lamott is a bestselling novelist and nonfiction writer. She is best known for her books Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, enduring touchst...
Adam Neumann
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 glob...
Kelly Wearstler
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Kelly Wearstler is a designer, creative director, and founder of the Los Angeles-based design firm Kelly Wearstler. Her work includes projects such as...
Eric Roth
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ha...
Greg Brockman (Part 2)
28 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Returning to continue his conversation in Part Two, Greg Brockman is a cofounder and president of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. ------ Tha...
Greg Brockman (Part 1)
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Brockman is a cofounder and president of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our...
Chris Pavlosvki
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 indepe...
David Whyte - ON LOVE
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Falling in love is a courageous, destabilizing, and deeply human act. In this Valentine’s Day special, Irish poet and philosopher David Whyte return...
BIll Gurley
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Gurley is a venture capitalist and longtime general partner at Benchmark, where he has backed companies such as Uber, Zillow, and Grubhub. He beg...
George Saunders
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 co...
Dr. Mary Bowden
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Mary Talley Bowden is an ear, nose, and throat physician and founder of BreatheMD, a direct-care ENT clinic that emphasizes transparent pricing an...
Barry Diller
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Barry Diller is a media executive and entrepreneur whose career has shaped modern television, film, and digital media. He helped redefine entertainmen...
Joseph Nguyen
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Nguyen is the author of the #1 international bestselling book Don't Believe Everything You Think, translated into more than forty languages wor...
Mike White
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 writi...
Daron Malakian - ON METAL (Part 2)
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Daron Malakian returns to continue his conversation in Part Two. Composer, guitarist, vocalist, and record producer Daron Malakian, a founding member ...
Daron Malakian - ON METAL (Part 1)
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Composer, guitarist, vocalist, and record producer Daron Malakian, a founding member of System of a Down, returns to Tetragrammaton to reflect on hi...
Brian Armstrong
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States by trading volume and users. He launch...
Mike Cessario
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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. A...
Dan Brown
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Brown is the bestselling author of the Robert Langdon thriller series, including The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and...
Nick Broomfield
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Broomfield is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Over a career spanning more than five decades, he has made acclaimed films on subjects rang...
Jimmy Iovine
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Legendary music producer Jimmy Iovine returns to Tetragrammaton to reflect on the pivotal moments that shaped his path from young engineer to industry...
Rupi Kaur
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rupi Kaur is a globally acclaimed poet, performer, and artist. Rising to prominence with her debut collection Milk and Honey in 2014, which she self-p...
Gavin De Becker, Security Expert
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gavin de Becker is a security specialist and author whose work focuses on predicting and preventing violence. He founded Gavin de Becker & Associates ...
Mike Gordon
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Gordon is the bassist and a founding member of Phish. Since the band’s formation at the University of Vermont in 1983, he has been responsible ...
Woody Allen
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Woody Allen is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, writer, and comedian. Beginning in stand-up and television before turning to film, Allen became a d...
Mollie Engelhart
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mollie Engelhart is a chef, restaurateur, and regenerative farmer whose career spans the culinary and agricultural worlds. She co-founded Sage Regener...
Tyler Cowen: On Choral Music - Deep Cuts and Listening
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Cowen returns to continue his conversation in Part Two. Tyler Cowen is a leading economist, author, and professor, currently holding the Holbert...
Tyler Cowen
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Cowen is a leading economist, author, and professor, currently holding the Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University, wher...
M.I.A.
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
M.I.A. is a music artist, producer, and creative force, known for blending electronic, hip-hop, and world music. Hailing from London with Sri Lankan r...
David Whyte (Part 2)
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Whyte returns to continue his conversation in Part Two. David Whyte is a celebrated Irish poet, philosopher, and speaker whose career spans near...
David Whyte (Part 1)
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Whyte is a celebrated Irish poet, philosopher, and speaker whose career spans nearly forty years. Known for ten volumes of poetry and multiple b...
Tony Hawk
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Hawk is a professional skateboarder widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the sport’s history. Rising to prominence in the ...
Andrew Huberman, Ph.D. (Part 2)
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Andrew Huberman returns to continue his conversation in Part Two. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist and tenured professor of neurobiology, p...
Andrew Huberman, Ph.D. (Part 1)
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist and tenured professor of neurobiology, psychiatry, and behavior sciences at Stanford School of Medicine. His r...
Mark Ronson
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Ronson is a record producer, DJ, and songwriter. Beginning his career in the mid-1990s as a DJ, he gained wide recognition in 2006 for his work w...
Rick Rubin interviewed by Ian Rogers (Bonus episode)
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode, Ian Rogers turns the tables and interviews Rick Rubin, recently named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in A...
Ian Rogers
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Rogers is a technology and business executive whose career spans music tech, luxury retail, and crypto. He began by building early music websites ...
Randall Wallace
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Randall Wallace is a screenwriter, director, and producer. He is best known for writing the screenplay of "Braveheart", later making his directorial d...
Bernard MacMahon
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bernard MacMahon is a filmmaker, most recently directing Becoming Led Zeppelin, a music documentary that holds the record for the highest-grossing ope...
Ed Ruscha
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ed Ruscha is an artist whose six-decade career spans painting, photography, printmaking, film, and book art. His first artist’s book, Twentysix Gaso...
Dr. Joe Dispenza
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Joe Dispenza is an author, researcher, and lecturer whose work bridges neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics to explore the science of pe...
Bob Pittman
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Pittman is the former CEO of MTV Networks and co-founder of MTV. Beginning his career in media at age 15 as an on-air radio announcer, he went on ...
Ian Astbury
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Astbury is the longtime frontman and founding member of The Cult. He began his music career in 1980, initially gaining recognition with the post-p...
Alex Spiro
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Spiro is a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and one of the most prominent trial lawyers in the United States. A Harvard Law School gr...
Chris Carter, X Files
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Carter is a television writer, producer, and director best known as the creator of science fiction series The X-Files. He began his screenwritin...
Urs Fischer
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Urs Fischer is a contemporary artist renowned for his experimental and highly unpredictable practice of sculpture, installation, painting, and photogr...
Tobias Lütke
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tobias Lütke is the founder and CEO of Shopify, an e-commerce platform that enables businesses to sell products online and in person. Channeling his ...
Dan Reynolds
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Reynolds is the lead vocalist and founding member of Imagine Dragons. Alongside guitarist Wayne Sermon, he founded the pop rock band in 2008, rele...
Gwyneth Paltrow
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gwyneth Paltrow is an Academy Award-winning actress and wellness entrepreneur. Spanning a career over three decades, she is celebrated for her perform...
Jack Clark
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Clark is the co-founder of Anthropic, an AI research company focused on building reliable and interpretable artificial intelligence systems. Befo...
Benedikt Taschen
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Benedikt Taschen is a publisher, contemporary art collector, and founder of TASCHEN, one of the world’s most successful international publishing hou...
David Avocado Wolfe
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David “Avocado” Wolfe is a prominent figure in the alternative health and wellness movement, best known for his advocacy of raw food diets, superf...
André 3000
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
André Benjamin, popularly known as André 3000, is a rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor best known as one half of the Southern hip hop d...
David Mamet
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He first gained acclaim in the 1970s with plays like Sexual P...
Adam D’Angelo
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adam D’Angelo is the co-founder and CEO of Quora, the online question-and-answer platform. Before founding Quora in 2009, he was Facebook’s first ...
M. Night Shyamalan
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
M. Night Shyamalan is a director, screenwriter, and producer. He first gained international acclaim in 1999 for his psychological thriller, The Sixth ...
Palmer Luckey
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Palmer Luckey is an inventor, innovator, and the founder of Oculus VR and Anduril Industries. At 16 years old, he built Oculus’ first offering, the ...
Gene Simmons
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gene Simmons is the co-founder, bassist, and co-lead singer of KISS. Best known for his on-stage persona as “The Demon,” he became synonymous with...
Aravind Srinivas
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aravind Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, the world’s first generally available conversation answer engine. Founded in August 202...
Mel Ziegler
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mel Ziegler is the co-founder of Banana Republic and The Republic of Tea. In 1978, with $1,500 in savings and no prior business experience, he and his...
Malcolm Gladwell
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Malcolm Gladwell is a journalist, author, and speaker, best known for digging into the quirks of human behavior and the hidden forces behind everyday ...
Dr. Paul Saladino
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Paul Saladino is a double board-certified Physician Nutrition Specialist and a leading authority on the carnivore diet. After studying integrative...
UNEXPECTED CONVERSATION: Marlon Brando
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Rick connects with Marlon Brando, known as one of the greatest actors in history. From Broadway to film, his performances are recogni...
Francis Ford Coppola
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Francis Ford Coppola is a critically acclaimed filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer, best known for directing The Godfather trilogy. A key figure in ...
Rick Beato
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rick Beato is a musician, producer, and audio engineer whose deep passion for music has made him one of the most respected educators in the industry. ...
Richard Prince
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Prince is one of the most influential, important, and controversial fine artists on the planet. Renowned for pioneering appropriation art, his...
Adrien Brody
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adrien Brody is an Academy Award-winning actor. Known for his nuanced performances across a wide range of films, such as The Grand Budapest Hotel, Det...
Daron Malakian
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daron Malakian is a composer, guitarist, vocalist, and record producer, best known as a founding member of System of a Down. Introduced to heavy met...
Ky Dickens
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ky Dickens is an award-winning director, filmmaker, and host of the podcast, The Telepathy Tapes. Venturing into audio storytelling, she explores cons...
Al Pacino
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Al Pacino is a screen and stage actor. Emerging from New York’s underground theater scene in the 1960s, he refined his craft under mentors including...
UNEXPECTED CONVERSATION: Orson Welles
18 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Rick connects with writer, director, and actor Orson Welles. His work spanning the worlds of radio, television, film, and theatre, ...
RZA
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
RZA is a rapper, producer, composer, actor, director, and the creative mastermind behind the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan. Since the group’s classic 1...
David Eagleman
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University and a bestselling author. His neuroscience research spans the areas of brain plasticity, sen...
Bruce Johnston
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bruce Johnston is a musician, singer, and songwriter, widely recognized for his influential role in the Beach Boys. Johnston began his musical career ...
Mike Love
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Love is a singer, songwriter, and co-founder of the Beach Boys. In 1961, Love, alongside his cousins Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, and their fr...
Víkingur Ólafsson
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Víkingur Ólafsson is a world-renowned Icelandic pianist. Celebrated for his profound artistry and visionary programming, he has performed with premi...
Peter Thiel
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and former CEO of PayPal, started in 1998, redefining the world of secure and fast e...
Ben Greenfield
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Greenfield is a leading figure in health and wellness, renowned health consultant, New York Times bestselling author, and host of influential podc...
Pharrell Williams
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pharrell Williams is a Grammy-winning songwriter, producer, and performer. Getting his start in music alongside Chad Hugo as the production duo known ...
UNEXPECTED CONVERSATION: Richard Feynman
30 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Rick connects with the physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman. Known for his groundbreaking contributions to quantum mechan...
Brianna Wiest
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brianna Wiest is a bestselling author, speaker, and advocate for self-reflection and personal growth. Known for transformative works including 101 Ess...
Bjarke Ingels (Part 2)
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bjarke Ingels returns to continue his conversation in Part Two. Bjarke Ingels is one of the world’s leading architects as the founder and creativ...
Bjarke Ingels (Part 1)
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bjarke Ingels is one of the world’s leading architects as the founder and creative director of renowned architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)....
Matthew McConaughey
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew McConaughey is an Academy Award-winning actor, producer, author, and professor of film, known for his captivating leading roles and versatilit...
David Whyte (Part 2)
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Whyte returns to continue his conversation in Part Two. David Whyte is a prolific Irish poet, philosopher, and speaker whose work that spans ...
David Whyte (Part 1)
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Whyte is a prolific Irish poet, philosopher, and speaker whose work that spans nearly four decades has resonated with audiences around the world...
Killer Mike
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Killer Mike is an Atlanta-born rapper and actor. His music career began in 2003, with his solo debut, with the album Monster, reaching the Billboard T...
UNEXPECTED CONVERSATION: Alfred Hitchcock
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Rick connects with Alfred Hitchcock, the legendary filmmaker known as the "Master of Suspense." Renowned for his innovative storytell...
Joaquin Phoenix
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joaquin Phoenix is widely regarded as one of the best actors of his generation, known for his intense and eccentric on-screen portrayals in period dra...
CLASSICAL: Tyler Cowen
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Cowen has long nurtured an obsession with music. It’s one of the few addictions Tyler believes is actually conducive to a fulfilling intellect...
Tyler Cowen
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Cowen is a world-renowned economist, professor, columnist, and co-author of the influential economics blog Marginal Revolution. Graduating from ...
Jason Louv
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Louv is a bestselling author, journalist, and teacher of magick, meditation, and the occult. His career in journalism has been centered around s...
Shane Smith
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shane Smith is a journalist, and he is the founder and Executive Chairman of international media company VICE Media. Since 1994, Smith has transformed...
Wes Lang
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wes Lang is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles. His work is best recognized through symbols including skulls, horses, and the indigenous Ameri...
Jack Mallers
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Mallers is an entrepreneur, software developer, and founder of Strike, an application that focuses on making Bitcoin payments fast and easy. Intr...
Joe Sabia
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Sabia is a filmmaker, digital creator, and celebrity interviewer. He began his career in media working across various platforms including televisi...
UNEXPECTED CONVERSATION: Jim Morrison
07 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Rick connects with Jim Morrison, the Lead singer of The Doors. The poet, writer, and filmmaker is cited as "one of the most influenti...
Esther Perel
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Esther Perel is a psychotherapist and a leading voice on modern relationships. Growing up in Antwerp and practicing in the United States, she began he...
Michael Cohl
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Cohl is an internationally acclaimed Emmy and Tony Award-winning live entertainment producer and concert promoter. In his 55-year career, Cohl...