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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Jamie Byng

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6908 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Jamie Byng is the CEO and publisher of the independent publishing firm Canongate Books. When Canongate was on the verge of bankruptcy in 1994, Byng, then in his mid-20s, bought it with a business partner. His first move in overhauling the company's image was to establish the ultra-hip Payback and Rebel Inc. imprints, dedicated to championing cult authors. Over a series of years, the publisher became a radical underdog success story not only publishing wonderful books by Miranda July and The Mighty Boosh but also two books by an, at the time, little-known Senator in Barack Obama—Dreams From My Father and The Audacity of Hope. Jamie continues to be a maverick and taste-maker in the industry, taking chances on bold titles and authors and navigating an industry with an ever-consolidating base of power. ------- Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Manna Vitality https://mannavitality.com/ ------- Squarespace  https://squarespace.com/tetra ------- LMNT Electrolytes  https://drinklmnt.com/tetra  ------- House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra

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0:00.0

Tetrogrammaton

0:02.0

Tetracketka

0:07.0

I was very active a little kid like I was very active in a little kid, like I was running around.

0:25.6

I was always kind of, I loved games, so it wasn't like I was a turtle bookworm and I was the youngest of four children.

0:32.6

So it was a kind of, it was a busy house in terms of like just energy.

0:36.6

Difference in the ages between you and your

0:39.1

siblings my eldest brother he's older brother he's five years older than me and then i got

0:45.0

sister who's four years and then a sister who's two years old and so there's four of us within five

0:48.8

years yeah and then a younger brother with my mom and her second husband, my stepfather, arrived 13 years

0:57.5

after I was born.

0:58.6

So I was the youngest for a good chunk of time.

1:01.3

So, and all that that goes with being the youngest in the family.

1:03.6

Do you think your tastes were shaped by your siblings?

1:09.3

It's hard to tell, isn't it?

1:10.6

I think definitely my musical taste was shaped by my elder brother.

1:13.6

It was like going up to his room, there was a lot of vinyl,

1:16.0

and he was really into heavy metal.

1:17.4

He got me into, like, Led Zef, and he got me into Black Sabbath and Rush and Genesis,

1:21.7

and he was kind of into that sort of music.

1:24.5

But my parents went like big, there were more books than music in the house,

1:28.2

put it that way. There was a record player and we did listen to music, but it was, I suppose

1:32.5

I kind of, we like listen to the charts together and stuff like that, me and my siblings

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