Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape

and found me Rob Briden on my podcast. In this series of Briden and I talk to among

others Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.

And that's just a few. We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer.

It's terrific conversation, reminiscent where appropriate and exchange of anecdotes.

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So you're going to hear a great story this week, what it's like to be a rock star and what

it's like to become a rock star and to be on that rocket ride and how it's as exciting

as you might think and maybe not everything you might think and why one in the midst

of this kind of experience would turn to meditation.

Adam Levin is the drummer of a band called the X Ambassadors. I'll be honest. I don't

know how this podcast came about. The X Ambassadors are not a band. I have followed. But I found

myself across the table from Adam and he is as you're about to hear really smart, really

impressive. He has a great story to tell. And so again, I forget how this podcast came

about, but I'm very glad it did. And I think you will be too. Here's Adam.

From ABC, this is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. I always ask the same question

at the start. How did you get into meditation? What do you do? What kind of meditation?

So I do mindfulness meditation. I'm actually somewhat new to it. I say in the last eight

months. And my brother, Aaron, has been into meditation for years. And I think has done

some classes and retreats where it's like a three day intensive kind of meditation

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