Ep. 249 - Rick Edwards
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Rick Edwards is a presenter, journalist, DJ and author. He presents the BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast show which he has co-hosted with Rachel Burden since 2011. He presents The Courtship on NBC in America, a reality television dating game show. Rick’s early career includes being a presenter on Channel 4’s T4 alongside Jameela Jamil and Nick Grimshaw. During the 2012 Paralympics he was part of Channel 4’s commentary team. He writes regular columns for the Observer, The Evening Standard and the Huff Post. He co-hosts the popular science podcast Eureka with scientist Dr Michael Brooks. Rick Edwards is guest number 248 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
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| 0:00.0 | Look at you with your fancy pants job, sitting at your laptop all day, on your video meetings, |
| 0:06.9 | saying things like, let's circle back on this, or can you drill down on that, or deep dive. |
| 0:15.2 | You know what you are, don't you? You're entitled, that's what? |
| 0:19.9 | That's right. Most people who use a screen at work are entitled to claim free eye care. Ask your boss about getting one of our vouchers. Should have reached out to Specsavers. This episode is sponsored by Shopify. You know where that sound is, don't you, John? Yes, it's the sound of another sale on Shopify. |
| 0:39.8 | That's what I was going to say. |
| 0:40.9 | Shopify is the commerce platform revolutionising millions of businesses worldwide. |
| 0:45.4 | Are you actually listening to anything? |
| 0:46.6 | Whether you're selling tea or t-shirts, makeovers or makeup, paint or paintings, Shopify |
| 0:52.0 | simplifies selling online and in person so you can successfully grow |
| 0:55.9 | your business. Have you started a business, Dad? And what's lovely about Shopify is, no matter how |
| 1:00.7 | big you want to grow, Shopify will be there to empower you with the confidence and control to take |
| 1:05.5 | your business to the next level. They have free website designs to launch your store quickly and |
| 1:09.9 | easily, and Shopify takes care of everything from marketing and payments to secure transactions and shipping. |
| 1:15.8 | Excellent, but do you think you'll be any good at business? |
| 1:18.1 | John, millions of users trust Shopify to manage their online stores. |
| 1:21.9 | Yes, but what about you, Dad? How much is it? |
| 1:24.4 | Well, me and listeners to my time gap, you can sign up for a £1 per month trial period |
| 1:28.9 | at Shopify.com.com. |
| 1:32.2 | Or lowercase. |
| 1:33.1 | Shopify.com.com. |
| 1:35.6 | Got it. |
| 1:36.4 | But do you have the skills necessary to... |
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