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.

So do join me Rob Briden wherever you get your podcasts.

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

I'm writing a book about kindness right now, which I'm going to do in my way with a lot

of expletives and embarrassing personal stories. And our guest this week fits perfectly into

that because he's written a book about kindness, not a lot of swearing in his, but he knows

a lot more than I do. His name is Ziggur control Rinpoche. I don't know if I'm pronouncing

that correctly. He'll pronounce it correctly for us. Rinpoche just means he's a respected

and high level teacher in the Tibetan tradition. He's also a reincarnate. He's designated a

as a third reincarnation of a of a previous Rinpoche, a great llama from generations past.

And we get into an interesting conversation about my skepticism about the whole reincarnation

thing. But primarily we talk about why and this is what I would talk about in my book,

why it is in your interest to not be a jerk. And what kind of meditation we can do to boost

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