Rick Rubin (record producer)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Summary

Rick Rubin (The Creative Act: A Way of Being, American Recordings) is an 8x Grammy Award-winning music producer, record executive, and author. Rick joins the Armchair Expert to discusshis creative process for producing music, why he is interested in many different genres of music, and how important it is to be true to yourself. Rick and Dax talk about their relationships with spirituality, what happens when artists have that magic moment in the recording studio, and how important it is to pay attention to your signals. Rick explains how discipline can bring you more freedom, how the beginner's mind allows for innovation through ignorance, and the importance of embracing creativity in a creative world. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan rather I'm joined by
0:05.2	Monaster Mouse. Hi. Hello how are you doing? I'm doing good it's sunny and you were
0:12.4	Sun worshiping down in Hawaii so you have a
0:14.9	savage base I do you do what's that mean savage base town oh cool yeah
0:21.2	yeah you work on your savage base oh wow summer's coming. I don't know about that because I'm brown.
0:26.0	You never needed to get a base. Real white people like me, you've got to get that base before you can go raw dog out in the sun.
0:32.0	If you just step out there, don't build to it,
0:34.6	you're going to get burnt to a crisp.
0:36.6	But even as a honky, a cockazoid,
0:39.2	I can get a nice enough face that I'm, look, obviously I wear a sunblock now, an adult in the times have changed.
0:44.8	But in Michigan in the 80s and 90s, there are no fucking sunblock.
0:48.3	We never wore sunblock.
0:50.0	So all you could do is get that savage base and then let it rip.
0:54.0	Oh my God.
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:56.0	My dad was infamous for the savage base because he was a bald man who golfed a lot.
1:01.0	And he had to build up that dome base so he wouldn't get burnt.
1:05.8	So what would he do?
1:06.8	Like go outside for six minutes every day?
1:08.3	I can't imagine it was very methodical.
1:10.1	I think he just got really burnt the first golf day and then it's it settled into a
1:13.7	savage base yeah turned into a savage base okay today's guest is a Rick Rubin
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