Mark McAfee

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Mark McAfee is the CEO and Founder of Raw Farm, the largest raw dairy operation in the world. On his family-owned farm, McAfee, a fifth generation farmer, works to offer nutrient dense dairy products that are unprocessed, living, and retain their beneficial bacteria. As the Chairman and President of the Board of the Raw Milk Institute, McAfee’s leadership is based on humane care of his cows and upholding high safety standards for raw dairy products. Off the farm, he lectures on the gut biome benefits of raw milk at Stanford, University of Southern California, and medical schools in the United States, Australia, and Canada. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra ------ Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra ------ Lucy https://lucy.co/tetra ------ House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra

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0:00.0	Tetrogrammaton
0:02.0	Tetragrammaton
0:06.0	I grew up on a dairy when I was a child for a few years.
0:26.7	And I milk cows when I was 12 and 13 years old.
0:30.0	But my dad was not a traditional dairyman.
0:32.9	His father was not a traditional dairyman.
0:34.9	My grandfather was actually a school teacher, the son of a
0:38.0	Presbyterian minister. So, garing was kind of in my blood a little bit as a child, but it wasn't
0:46.7	something that was traditionally a multi-generation thing at all. When did you first come to realize
0:51.9	the benefits of raw milk? Did you know that your whole life?
0:55.7	No, not at all, not at all.
0:57.5	You kind of have to get a perspective of my whole pathway of how I got to where we are today
1:02.7	to understand why raw milk is so near and dear to me and what's going on with raw milk.
1:07.7	I grew up on a farm, and then first thing out of high school, I worked in a mine up in the
1:12.6	mountains, and I saw this guy that was almost killed, the timber hit him in the head.
1:16.6	It's way up in the Sierra Nevada, it's Teledyne tungsten mine.
1:20.6	And the helicopter was called to pick him up and take him away.
1:23.6	This is like 1980.
1:25.6	And I just couldn't get over the rotor wash and the paramedic that jumped
1:30.5	out with his orange jumpsuit and the nurse with him saving his life. I thought, you know what?
1:35.7	I got to be that guy. I got to be that paramedic. And I went off and I got my premed done. I became a
1:40.9	certified paramedic and I graduated top of my class. I spent 17 years as a
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