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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Mike White

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Arts, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Mike White is a writer, director, producer, and actor best known as the creator of HBO’s acclaimed series The White Lotus. He began his career writing and producing TV shows, including Dawson’s Creek and Freaks and Geeks, and later wrote and acted in films such as School of Rock and Nacho Libre. Premiering in 2021, The White Lotus has received widespread critical acclaim across its seasons with numerous Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for drama series, writing, directing, and acting categories. His career, spanning three decades, is defined by a consistent focus on character, tone, and social observation across film and television. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: AG1 https://DrinkAG1.com/tetra ------ Squarespace https://Squarespace.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ LMNT Electrolytes https://DrinkLMNT.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Athletic Nicotine https://www.AthleticNicotine.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Sign up to receive Tetragrammaton Transmissions https://www.tetragrammaton.com/join-newsletter

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0:00.0

Tetragrammaton.

0:03.0

Tetragrammaton.

0:07.0

I did have like my past lives, this whole past life thing, where they do your past life.

0:29.6

It's Shirley McLean was a friend of mine and she was like, she made me go to New Mexico

0:32.8

and I did this for like five days.

0:35.2

And like the past lives are all about like like so much of it is about how you died

0:41.0

like how each at least this is what this one thing was like and how much how you end it has to do with what

0:49.8

you're still dealing with and that like it like the end is important and like and in fact like

0:56.4

in this this i mean i'm not i'm not co-signing on this but i but this was just the philosophy was that

1:01.5

like you know they used light some kind of like color therapy or whatever so that like

1:06.8

you remember the death and then like you think of a color and then the color somehow heals

1:12.2

or like somehow it provides some kind of catharsis so that then that death is sort of lifted

1:18.9

off of you so you're not like still dealing with the fallout from the death or whatever so it's

1:24.4

just yeah i mean whether you believe that or, it's just like as a storyteller,

1:29.1

it makes sense that, like, you know, you're always trying to figure out what is the satisfying

1:34.2

ending for your story? Like, what is the conclusion? And you think about life as this journey to

1:43.1

death. I want for my friends and I want for my family and I want for myself a cushy,

1:48.9

like a, you know, like a soft landing.

1:50.6

I don't want to, you know, it's like as you get older and you experience more people

1:54.6

dying, there's very few deaths that aren't kind of grim or that, you know you go through the process of dying is also

2:04.0

it's a part you know it's it's it's about loss you lose things along the way i mean especially when

2:09.3

you're young and healthy you look at that and be like oh my god this is like so depressing do you

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