All right, pop quiz question time.

Order the Red Hot Chili Peppers Kanye West, Johnny Cash, the Black Crows, Slayer, Jay-Z,

James Blake, the Dixie Chicks, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Black Sabbath, Neil Diamond,

Metallica, ACDC, Aerosmith, Weezer, Cheryl Crow, ZZ Top, Lady Gaga, Shakira, Rage Against

the Machine, System of a Down, Mick Jagger, Eminem and just about every other world-famous

band or musician you've ever heard of, Heaven Common.

Well, they were all produced by today's podcast guest.

His name is Rick Rubin.

He's an American record producer and he's the former co-president of Columbia Records.

In 2007, MTV called him the most important producer of the last 20 years and he's been

on times 100 most influential people in the world list.

Dr. Dre, a rapper for those of you not on the hip-hop scene, has stated that Rubin is

hands down the dopest producer ever that anyone would ever want to be ever.

Apparently Dr. Dre likes to use the word ever.

But Rick has a personal passion outside of music that many people don't know about and

that would be health, nutrition, fitness and even a bit of biohacking.

Rick and I have gotten to know each other pretty well over the past couple of years, sharing

little nerdy health tips with each other.

And in the episode that you're about to hear, Rick and I sit on his back porch and we

watch a relaxing sunset after a hard morning layered Hamilton pool workout and we had a pretty

intense discussion about veganism and paleo and Rick's weight loss journey and some

of the cool habits that he's used to shed a lot of weight but also hack his way into

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