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Players and gifters must be 18 or over.

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Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground,

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Not a care in the world as you simply lean back.

And before you know it, you're there.

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Hello and welcome to my time capsule.

I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me the five things from their life they wish they had in a time capture, which you probably already know as you're listening to this podcast. But let me tell you

that they pick four things that they cherish and one thing they'd like to bury and forget.

That's how we do it. And my guest in this episode is Eric Rushton. Now, since his comedy debut

in 2014, Eric Rushden has been mixing

with the best newcomers on the comedy scene and impressing audiences with his intelligent,

playful material and likable self-deprecating stage persona. Well, that's what it says in his

publicity. In January 2020, he won the prestigious Lester Mercury comedian of the year award,

an award that was previously won by the likes of Ramesh Ranganathan,

a recent guest of ours, Jason Manford, and Johnny Vegas,

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