Rick Rubin
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Our introductory episode is a conversation between Rick Rubin and Malcolm Gladwell, covering everything from Rick’s role in the very beginning of hip-hop to his role in introducing Johnny Cash to a new generation of writers, performers and music lovers. Rick and Malcolm delve deep into Rick’s back catalogue – which is really a history of contemporary music – to reveal more about the artists that defined a new era, and why they are still vital listening today.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:10.0 | Hey there, it's Steve Levit. I'm economist at the University of Chicago, |
| 0:13.6 | a co-author of the book Freakonomics, and also the host of the podcast, |
| 0:17.3 | People I Mostly Admire from the Freakonomics Radio Network. |
| 0:21.1 | I interview guests that range from Nobel laureates to magicians, |
| 0:24.4 | from bestselling authors to NBA referees. |
| 0:27.1 | People who are smart, reflective, and sometimes a little bit weird. |
| 0:31.3 | My guests include bestselling author John Green, |
| 0:34.1 | conservationist Jane Goodall, psychologist Danny Coniman, |
| 0:37.6 | and Jennifer Daoudna, the scientist behind the gene editing technology |
| 0:40.5 | CRISPR. I even interviewed my own daughters. |
| 0:43.5 | Listen and follow people I mostly admire wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:48.0 | I first met Rick Rubin years ago at someone's house in Los Angeles. |
| 1:00.0 | He's impossible to miss. Long-wike beard, low soft voice, |
| 1:04.4 | one of the great music producers of our time. He was there at the birth of hip hop. |
| 1:08.9 | He produced Jay-Z's 99 Problems. He did five chili peppers albums, |
| 1:13.8 | produced a Del's 21 Tom Petty's Wild Flowers. He resurrected Johnny Cash. |
| 1:19.0 | I could go on. Then I met him again about a year ago because I've been talking about |
| 1:23.3 | doing a music podcast with my old friend Bruce Hadlam. |
| 1:26.1 | And I heard that Rick had been talking about doing a music show too, |
| 1:29.2 | which is a bit like saying that Bruce and I have been thinking about starting a pickup |
| 1:32.2 | basketball game. And then we heard that LeBron James have been thinking the exact same thing. |
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