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.

When I wrote my book, I kind of thought of it as an argument dressed up as a memoir and

the argument was you should meditate and I assume that the big point I'd have to make

is that meditation isn't as weird as you think. It's a little weird. But not as weird as

you think. And what I've come to realize in the last couple of years since the book came

out is that in some ways I'm fighting the last war that in fact there are a lot of people

especially younger people who don't think meditation is that weird. I'll give you a story.

I was recently at Colby College, where I went to college and I went up to give a talk

about meditation and I showed up and the room was packed. It was a big room. It was like

overflow. People had to go in other rooms and watch it on TV. I couldn't even get a

date when I was at Colby and this room was completely packed. I did learn as an aside

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