Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir talks to Rick Rubin about why the legendary band was never focused on their studio recordings, and how they were always more interested in seeing where their live shows would take them. Bob also plays a new song from an opera he's writing and tells Rick about a recent dream where he and Jerry Garcia performed a new song that materialized into a room-sized sheep dog.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Michael Specter, a staff writer at the New Yorker. |
| 0:04.3 | And in 2020, I wrote and read Fauci, the first audio biography of Dr. Anthony Fauci. |
| 0:12.6 | My latest project for Pushkin Industries is called Higher Animals, Vaccines, Synthetic Biology |
| 0:19.3 | in the Future of Life. |
| 0:21.7 | It touches on a subject you spent the last three years hearing a lot about. |
| 0:26.4 | mRNA vaccines and mRNA technology. |
| 0:31.0 | But it may come as a relief to hear that this book is not about the COVID pandemic. |
| 0:36.8 | It's about how biotechnology has transformed the scientific landscape and sparked a revolution |
| 0:43.2 | with profound implications for medicine, agriculture, conservation, and beyond. |
| 0:50.4 | And nothing on this planet will ever be the same. |
| 0:54.8 | Higher animals is available at pushkin.fm, audible, and wherever audiobooks are sold. |
| 1:11.3 | Pushkin |
| 1:12.3 | Hey y'all, it's Justin Richmond here. |
| 1:16.2 | Just want to let everyone know that this episode of Broken Record was recorded and produced |
| 1:19.7 | long before the coronavirus outbreak, it's with Bob Weir from the Grateful Dead. |
| 1:23.9 | And since we recorded this episode, his wolf bro's tour has been postponed. |
| 1:28.0 | Hopefully it doesn't also wind up affecting the summer's dead and company dates, so |
| 1:31.0 | I have to wait and see. |
| 1:32.5 | But we do plan to keep putting out episodes of the podcast that will hopefully be a bit |
| 1:35.9 | of a reprieve for everyone who's either continuing to work or practicing social distancing. |
| 1:40.8 | We hope everyone out there stays safe and stays healthy, and we hope you enjoy a Rick's |
| 1:44.6 | conversation with the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir. |
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