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.

New episodes of Briden and are available early and ad free on Amazon Music or by subscribing

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Well panic is a new comedy podcast from Wondery that leans into our most absurd anxieties

and defuses them with humor and actual advice. Listen to Don't Panic on the Wondery app

or wherever you get your podcasts.

All right, Malika Chopra is coming up and we'll get your voice mail in a second.

First, an item of business and for the item of business I want to bring in a special

guest. Her name is Lauren Efron. Lauren, can you please come in to the studio? Come in

here, please. She's walking from the next room over. Lauren Efron is a name you will have

heard if you've listened to this podcast for a while because she's the producer. Lauren,

can you sit here, please? She didn't know I was going to do this. She's mad at me. Lauren,

this is your last podcast. This is why we do this is why producer stay in there in the

other room and not in this room. Okay, I'll do most of the talking.

I'm shaking. This whole podcast started because I randomly ran into you in an elevator

and I said to you two years ago, do we do any podcasts and you said, I don't know, but

I'll find out. And two days later you had all these executives and people who good do

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