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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Randall Wallace

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Arts, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Randall Wallace is a screenwriter, director, and producer. He is best known for writing the screenplay of "Braveheart", later making his directorial debut with "The Man in the Iron Mask", and going on to direct "We Were Soldiers", "Secretariat", and "Heaven Is for Real". Braveheart became a critically and commercially successful film, winning multiple Academy Awards and earning Wallace a nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He is the author of Living the Braveheart Life, part-autobiography and part-masterclass, in which he shares the personal journey behind writing Braveheart and explores the life lessons and archetypes within the story that continue to inspire audiences.  ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: 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

Tetrogramminton My wife, her mother was from a deeply Mormon family, and her father was Irish Catholic and war hero.

0:35.3

And when they decided to get married,

0:41.4

both sides of the family refused to go to the wedding unless the other person would convert.

0:43.5

So neither one of them ever went, you know, back to church again.

0:47.2

It was like, okay, then we're done with y'all.

0:48.8

If that's how y'all are going to be, we're done.

0:51.8

But she, because of her Mormon ancestors, knew her heritage. And I didn't know any of mine.

0:58.7

I had heard that the name Wallace came from Scotland, but that was it. And a cousin of mine had been in the

1:08.4

army and had visited Scotland, and he had come back with it.

1:11.4

He said there were Wallace's in Scotland.

1:14.2

So my wife was a dancer, amazing dancer, and she didn't really want to have children,

1:23.0

which we hadn't had that discussion, but I really wanted to have children, so we're trying to work that out.

1:29.8

And she loved to travel, and she said in her very sort of Irish way, okay, if you get me pregnant, you got to take me to Europe.

1:38.6

If you'll agree to do that, and we were like really poor.

1:43.2

I mean, we didn't have any money.

1:44.5

So I go, done, we'll figure out of way.

1:48.3

Get pregnant.

1:49.3

She's four months pregnant.

1:50.3

We go to London and we're just planning to go around Europe.

1:56.1

And I said, well, you know, while we're here, Scotland's not that far away.

1:59.6

Maybe we could run up to Scotland and I

2:00.9

could see because I had in the back of my mind I'd like to know so we go up to Edinburgh

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