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Rick Rubin

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

205 episodes

Frank Miller 30 Sept 2026 · 1 hr 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…

Neil Young 23 Sept 2026 · 1 hr 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 s…

JAŸ-Z in 8: Inside the Series 17 Sept 2026 · 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 do…

Episode 200: Max Richter 9 Sept 2026 · 1 hr 51 min 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…

Tom Freston 2 Sept 2026 · 1 hr 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…

Roger Avary 26 Aug 2026 · 2 hr 0 min 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 O…

Tyler Cowen: On the Sound of Patriotism - A Musical History 21 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 59 min 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…

Tyler Cowen 19 Aug 2026 · 2 hr 34 min 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…

Steven Pressfield 12 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 15 min 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 ont…

Jeff Bridges 5 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 46 min 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 car…

Albert Hammond Jr. 29 Jul 2026 · 2 hr 5 min 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 Th…

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 22 Jul 2026 · 55 min '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 S…

Anthony Metivier 15 Jul 2026 · 2 hr 6 min 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 technique…

Angus Fletcher 8 Jul 2026 · 2 hr 56 min 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 Ph…

Louis C.K. 1 Jul 2026 · 2 hr 7 min 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, a…

Peter McGrath 24 Jun 2026 · 2 hr 21 min 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 exte…

Dave Eggers 17 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 47 min 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…

Kenny Chesney 10 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 34 min 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,”…

Bryce Crawford 3 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 48 min 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 trav…

Vlad Tenev (Part 2) 29 May 2026 · 1 hr 25 min 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…

Vlad Tenev (Part 1) 27 May 2026 · 1 hr 43 min 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 commiss…

Bob Roth 20 May 2026 · 1 hr 38 min 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 c…

Garry Tan 13 May 2026 · 2 hr 9 min 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 te…

Clown of Slipknot 6 May 2026 · 2 hr 3 min 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.…

Chris Best 29 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 37 min 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-audienc…

Brian Hoyer 22 Apr 2026 · 2 hr 31 min Brian Hoyer is an environmental health consultant and founder of Shielded Healing, specializing in electromagnetic field (EMF) testing, shielding, and mitigation. As a certified g…

GT Dave 15 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 33 min 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, s…

Jeff Harmon 8 Apr 2026 · 2 hr 26 min 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…

Jonah Hill 1 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 58 min 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 Wal…

Anne Lamott & Neal Allen 25 Mar 2026 · 2 hr 26 min 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…