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The Chris Evans Show with The National Lottery

Ben Elton, Josh Widdicombe, Ant Middleton, Sara Pascoe

The Chris Evans Show with The National Lottery

Virgin Radio UK

Comedy

4.4681 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week on the show we welcomed friends from the world of comedy, sport, stage and screen

Ant Middleton discusses 'The Fear Bubble' and living with your own emotions

Ben Elton joins us ahead of his huge upcoming stand-up tour

Sara Pascoe chats her new book 'Sex Power Money'

And Josh Widdicombe tells us about his new tour, baby and pending nuptials

Plus Laura Carmicheal, Sir Alastair Cook, Alain de Botton & John Simm

You can catch Chris and the team live weekdays 6:30am-10am on Virgin Radio UK and on Sundays from 10 am

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0:00.0

Chris Evans here. A big thank you for downloading our Virgin Radio podcast coming up on this week's edition of The Best at the Breakfast Show with Sky.

0:07.7

Ants Middleton discusses fear and living with your own emotions. Sarah Pasco chats her new book, Sex, Power, Money.

0:14.1

Ben Elton tells us why for the first time in 15 years. He's going back to stand-up.

0:18.8

And Josh Whitacom shares the preparations for his new UK stand-up

0:22.1

tour Bit Much and his forthcoming wedding. Plus loads more great guests. Enjoy. My friends, enjoy.

0:28.5

Talking to Aunt Middleton and his brand new book, The Fear Bubble, is going to be released this

0:33.8

Thursday, available to pre-order now, harness fear and live without limits. So within this,

0:38.8

he talks via an overarching narrative of climbing Mount Everest in 2018. That's Mount Everest,

0:45.3

everyone. He talks about the fear of suffering, the fear of failure, the fear of conflict,

0:50.4

the big three, and refers to them as. So first of all, let's talk about the fear bubble.

0:56.1

Tell us about the fear bubble and why that's you. First of all, what is it and why is it useful?

0:59.9

The fear bubble was a technique that I adopted in Afghanistan. I found that when I went on tour,

1:05.5

you know, for six months, I'd be in this fear bubble and it absolutely drained me because,

1:09.9

you know, for six months constantly,

1:11.4

I was just worried, panicked.

1:13.0

On Red Alert.

1:13.7

Yeah, on Red Alert basically, in Code Red.

1:16.1

Then, because I loved my job, I had to break it down and being exposed to fear on a daily

1:20.2

basis, I had to break it down into bite-sized chunks.

1:23.0

I broke it down literally into seconds and minutes. And I'd visualize, even, you know, walking onto Target, I'd be like that, well, I don't

1:29.2

need to be in the fear bubble.

1:30.1

I've got the boys behind me.

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