Benedikt Taschen

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Benedikt Taschen is a publisher, contemporary art collector, and founder of TASCHEN, one of the world’s most successful international publishing houses. Starting from a comic book store in Cologne, Germany at age 18, he built a global brand by making visually striking, high-quality books accessible to a wider audience. Under Taschen’s leadership, the illustrated publications celebrate a wide range of themes, spanning art, architecture, design, film, photography, pop culture, and lifestyle. Benedikt Taschen has published works ranging from affordable art books to ambitious collector’s editions, including Helmut Newton’s SUMO and the monumental Muhammad Ali tribute GOAT – Greatest of All Time. Today, TASCHEN has twelve stores worldwide, including Beverly Hills, New York, Brussels, and Paris. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Athletic Nicotine https://www.athleticnicotine.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Sign up to receive Tetragrammaton Transmissions https://www.tetragrammaton.com/join-newsletter

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0:00.0	Atheneum is a new podcast on the Tetragrammatine Network.
0:10.0	Do you know about the connection between Charlie Manson and M.K. Ultra?
0:14.5	The U.S. government's mind control operation?
0:18.7	What if everything you thought you knew about the Manson murders was wrong?
0:23.6	Join Ayesha Akambi for a once-in-a-lifetime in-depth conversation with Tom O'Neill,
0:29.9	author of The Runaway Bestseller Chaos, Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the 60s.
0:51.3	In this limited deep dive series, Tom O'Neill unpacks his 20-year investigation into the CIA's mind control program, linking it to Charles Manson and the disturbing secrets buried in America's history. From missing FBI files to Hollywood cover-ups,
0:54.8	government surveillance, LSD,
0:56.8	and the dark collapse of the 60s hippie dream.
1:00.6	This is the story behind the story.
1:04.0	It's not true crime.
1:05.4	It's true.
1:06.3	Chaos.
1:08.2	Hear it on Athenium,
1:09.9	the new podcast on the Tetragrammaton podcast network, available wherever you get your podcasts.
1:16.2	Truth isn't just stranger than fiction. It's far more dangerous.
1:23.6	Coming soon on the Atheneum podcast.
1:32.8	Okay. Coming soon on the Athenian podcast. Tetragrammaton.
1:39.0	Tetragrammaton.
1:40.2	Tetragrammaton.
1:40.3	Tetragramaton. When I was starting to collect comic books, I went two or three times a day to thrift stores in Cologne, looking for new
2:02.5	arrivals of old books. But I thought I would be the only boy in Germany doing this. Later,
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