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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Woody Allen

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Arts, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Woody Allen is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, writer, and comedian. Beginning in stand-up and television before turning to film, Allen became a defining voice of 1970s cinema with Annie Hall, the romantic comedy that earned him four Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director. Over his six decade career, he has written and directed more than 50 films exploring themes of love, irony, and existential doubt, from Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters to Midnight in Paris. ------ 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

Tetragrammaton

0:02.0

The big question is this was my theory about belief in God.

0:26.1

Proof of God would lie in jokes, not quality of jokes or anything, but we all know there are one-liners.

0:36.9

We're for the nightclub acts, and we know what's written for the television shows and the sitcoms and the dialogue and on that.

0:45.2

But then there are those jokes that are long jokes, and some of them are quite funny and quite brilliant.

0:53.4

But they take, you know, a long story.

0:55.7

A guy walks in here, and then he comes back two weeks later,

0:58.5

and now the guru is doing this, and he goes out,

1:01.8

and then finally the punchline is very funny.

1:06.2

And you think, who writes those jokes?

1:10.8

They seem to appear on earth, but there's no percentage in writing them.

1:18.0

They can't be used for anything.

1:20.5

They can't use them in films, on television, on radio, and nightclubs.

1:25.8

They're jokes, and they're good jokes.

1:29.1

But there's no reason for any human being to create them.

1:34.0

I know of no comedy writer.

1:35.8

I know so many comedic that ever wrote a joke like that

1:40.6

or took time to write an actual story joke. It wasn't, you know, a crack, a remark,

1:48.0

a one-liner, or banter. And yet brilliant, funny jokes appear all the time on the earth.

1:58.3

So where do they come from? Now, I'm an atheist, so I don't really believe,

2:05.8

but one could make a case that it's God's way of telling us that he's up there, and he's

2:13.6

spending a lot of time doing these jokes and sending them down

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