#135 Rick Rubin & Author Stephen Mitchell: Living More Fluid With Less Force & a Deep Look at The Dao
The Gabby Reece Show
Dear Media
4.8 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
My guests today are music producer Rick Rubin and poet, translator, scholar, and anthologist Stephen Mitchell. You may have heard Rick's name over the years as one of the founders of DEF jam records, nine-time Grammy winner, host and creator of the TV documentary show 'McCartney 3, 2, 1' and host of the podcast Broken Record. Rick has worked with artists such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Slayer, Johnny Cash, Kanye West, Jay Z and the Beastie Boys. As a friend, Rick had gifted me a book 'Tao Te Ching' by Lao Tzu, and he had given me the Stephen Mitchell version. Fortunately, Stephen Mitchell is a friend of mine. His works include the Bhagavad-Gita, Gilgamesh, The Gospel According to Jesus, and Loving What Is, which he co-authored with his wife Byron Katie. It was a real dream for me to have these two men sitting across from one another to have a conversation prompted by the Tao. Both of them are thoughtful, creative, precise, and unique in their approach to living. I hope you enjoy.
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Stephen Mitchell Info:
The Way of Forgiveness, Iron Hans, The Essence of Wisdom, Loving What Is, The Wishing Bone, On Work and Money, a Book of Psalms, Genesis, Jesus, The Enlightened Mind, Dropping Ashes on the Buddha, and The First Christmas
Stephen has many more books available.
Rick Rubin Info:
Twitter @rickrubin
Instagram: @rickrubin
Rick has a book coming out in 2022.
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| 0:29.2 | I'm Gabby Reese and welcome to the show. |
| 0:37.0 | When I hear something that doesn't do what I'm expecting it to do and forces me to lean forward and listen closer. |
| 0:45.2 | It's a very good experience. |
| 0:46.9 | The unexpected, I feel like the surprise and unexpected are a really integral part of what makes good art good. |
| 0:58.7 | It's is that it operates beyond the face value. It pulls you in to question something. |
| 1:10.3 | Meditation practice or the practice of doing the work leads to the kind of life where you don't have problems. What used to be a problem isn't a problem. It's just another opportunity for understanding. |
| 1:27.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to the show. |
| 1:32.0 | Today is a really special show for me. Every show is special and I'm so grateful to always have the guests, but this show I was a little uncomfortable to do. |
| 1:44.8 | I was stressed out to ask the people to do it. But I just really knew it needed to happen. |
| 1:50.3 | So my guests are author, Stephen Mitchell, and music producer Rick Rubin. |
| 1:56.2 | The way this came about was, I have a friend Elijah and he's like, oh you should interview |
| 2:00.7 | Rick Rubin. Rick is a friend of ours. |
| 2:02.7 | And I thought, yeah, right, like Rick |
| 2:04.2 | doesn't even barely want to talk in everyday life. |
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