Jeff Harmon
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 141 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tetragrammaton. |
| 0:03.0 | The entire premise of Angel is that Hollywood is in a bubble, and they're out of touch, |
| 0:29.8 | and they don't understand what regular people want, and they're making what they want. |
| 0:35.7 | And the artist class is the vast, vast, vast, |
| 0:39.3 | vast majority of filmmakers are the children of very wealthy families. |
| 0:43.3 | And so they go into filmmaking, |
| 0:45.3 | and they're just a little out of touch with mainstream families. |
| 0:49.3 | And so they create stuff that mainstream America doesn't want, |
| 0:53.3 | and the mainstream worldwide doesn't want. And so the premise stuff that mainstream America doesn't want and a mainstream worldwide doesn't want. |
| 0:56.4 | And so the premise is that we use the audience to decide what type of films we're going to produce. |
| 1:07.1 | And as founders, we're trying to build a community where we have what's called the Angel Guild. |
| 1:15.4 | And the Angel Guild is made up of 2 million people, just regular everyday people that are voting on to decide which movies will come into Angel Studios. |
| 1:27.2 | And nothing can go into Angel Studios unless they vote first. |
| 1:31.7 | And this community is paying a monthly fee as a member |
| 1:35.6 | that funds the filmmakers. |
| 1:37.2 | So it's the largest filmmaking crowdfunding project |
| 1:40.7 | in the history of film. |
| 1:42.1 | Wow. |
| 1:42.9 | So you've got two million people, all paying between $12 and $20 a month, and their money is going |
| 1:50.0 | in to fund filmmakers and help them make money on their projects as long as they're making |
| 1:57.0 | the projects that our community wants. |
| 1:59.1 | That's amazing. |
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