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10% Happier with Dan Harris

Weezer's Rivers Cuomo

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.612.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has been writing and singing hit songs for more than two decades. But this Grammy-winning rocker, whose lyrics about relationships, promiscuity and drug use helped Weezer become what some argue is the father of today's emo genre, credits his success and stability to his daily practice of meditation.

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0:00.0

Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape

0:09.8

and found me Rob Briden on my podcast. In this series of Briden and I talk to among

0:17.2

others Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.

0:23.9

And that's just a few. We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer.

0:29.8

It's terrific conversation, reminiscent where appropriate and exchange of anecdotes.

0:36.0

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0:39.7

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0:45.1

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0:56.5

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1:02.4

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1:08.7

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1:26.5

Hey, this is Dan Harris. I am a fidgety skeptical newsman who had a panic attack live on

1:40.1

Good Morning America. That led me to something I always thought was ridiculous. Meditation.

1:46.0

I wrote a book about it called 10% Happier, started an app and now I'm launching this podcast

1:51.2

to try to figure out whether there's anything beyond 10%.

1:54.7

Basically here's one I'm obsessed with. Can you be an ambitious person and still strive

1:59.9

for enlightenment? Whatever that means.

2:04.7

So I just want to say this which is that if you had told the 1994 version of me that

2:09.0

I'd ever be sitting and talking to Rivers Cuomo from Weezer I would have freaked out

2:14.6

because I'm a huge long time old school fan of you in your work. I have everything you've

2:21.2

ever made and I love all of it. So it's a huge thrill to be sitting and talking to you.

2:26.6

Oh, thanks a lot.

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