Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

30 Sep 2026

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

23 Sep 2026

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

17 Sep 2026

In this special episode, 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 life, music, and

9 Sep 2026

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

2 Sep 2026

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,

26 Aug 2026

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.

21 Aug 2026

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

19 Aug 2026

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

12 Aug 2026

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

5 Aug 2026

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

29 Jul 2026

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,

22 Jul 2026

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

15 Jul 2026

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8 Jul 2026

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

1 Jul 2026

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

24 Jun 2026

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

17 Jun 2026

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

10 Jun 2026

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

3 Jun 2026

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.

29 May 2026

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

27 May 2026

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

20 May 2026

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

13 May 2026

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

6 May 2026

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

29 Apr 2026

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

22 Apr 2026

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

15 Apr 2026

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

8 Apr 2026

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

1 Apr 2026

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

25 Mar 2026

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

18 Mar 2026

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

11 Mar 2026

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

4 Mar 2026

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

28 Feb 2026

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

25 Feb 2026

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 ------

18 Feb 2026

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

13 Feb 2026

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

11 Feb 2026

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

4 Feb 2026

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

28 Jan 2026

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

21 Jan 2026

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,

14 Jan 2026

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:

7 Jan 2026

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

2 Jan 2026

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

31 Dec 2025

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

24 Dec 2025

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

17 Dec 2025

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

10 Dec 2025

Dan Brown is the bestselling author of the Robert Langdon thriller series, including The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and Origin. His novels have sold 250 million copies

3 Dec 2025

Nick Broomfield is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Over a career spanning more than five decades, he has made acclaimed films on subjects ranging from serial killer Aileen Wuornos and the

26 Nov 2025

Legendary music producer Jimmy Iovine returns to Tetragrammaton to reflect on the pivotal moments that shaped his path from young engineer to industry visionary. He recounts early lessons learned