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

Coming at you with a bonus podcast this week, I'm especially excited about this one for

a variety of reasons. Robert Wright is a really, really smart dude. He is a journalist

and a scholar. He's written a bunch of best-selling science ebooks, including the evolution of

God, non-zero, the moral animal. He has studied religion. He's studied evolutionary psychology.

And he is, he has provided a really important and interesting entry into what I think is

one of the most interesting trends in modern global culture, which is, and this is just

my opinion, by the way. But one of the most interesting trends that I see is that we're

seeing this counterintuitive yet robust embrace among some Western intellectuals of ancient

Eastern mysticism. And Bob Wright has just, as I said, provided us with what I think

is a really important entry into this nascent phenomenon. He's written a book called

Why Buddhism Is True, which is part, polemic, part memoir, part explainer, where this,

he does what I love seeing. We have this incredible mind, who came up through the Western system

at Princeton and other fancy pants institutions, who got turned on to Buddhism and he really

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