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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Our guest this week has been in the news a lot of late because you may have heard that

there's been a lot of talk of restive Democrats, meditating to get a new leader to replace

Nancy Pelosi, who some Democrats believe is hurting their chances of retaking the House

of Representatives.

Any one of the key players in this push is a guy named Representative Tim Ryan who's

a Democrat from Ohio.

And I happen to talk to Tim for this podcast back in January shortly after the inauguration

of Donald J. Trump and Tim is a long time meditator.

In fact wrote a whole book about it called A Mindful Nation and we talked to Tim as part

of our 10% happier meditation tour where we went across the country and talked to all

sorts of people about meditation while writing in a ridiculous orange bus.

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