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Live every Thursday at 3pm US eastern, 8pm in the UK. Listen on WBN324, Radio Soapbox and Rumble - all links at: https://paulenglishlive.com

  1. PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #136 · From Blue Screens to Blockchains: A Chaotic Week and a Clear Path

    4D AGO

    PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #136 · From Blue Screens to Blockchains: A Chaotic Week and a Clear Path

    Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com A very human start this week: I battled the blue screen of death, a failed SSD and a last‑minute OBS install to get us on air. We swapped war stories about tech resilience, backups, lost jingles and the fine art of making tea, then veered joyfully into rail nostalgia (Liverpool Street, Fenchurch Street and the DLR), small EVs, and why public transport should be beautiful, punctual and built around people. We also nattered books and big ideas: Jesuits, history as told (and untold), and two dense tomes that prod you to question everything. Hour two, Gary Glendale joined to make the case for Bitcoin SV as a public, time‑stamped ledger for more than money: auditable records, private-by-choice messaging, and a route to provably honest administration. We explored affidavits, courts de jure, and why open ledgers could starve corruption, help farmers and small businesses transact, and put the public back in the driving seat. We wrapped with practical next steps: wallets, simple onboarding, and a future how‑to session so newcomers can try a small, low‑risk first purchase.'OBS Studio (Open Broadcaster Software)': https://obsproject.com'Signal Private Messenger': https://signal.org'Telegram Messenger': https://telegram.org'Bitcoin SV (Bitcoin Association)': https://bitcoinsv.com'Transport for London – Docklands Light Railway (DLR)': https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/dlr/'Bank of England': https://www.bankofengland.co.uk'Georgetown University': https://www.georgetown.edu'Amazon Web Services (AWS)': https://aws.amazon.com'Microsoft Azure': https://azure.microsoft.com'Bill Hicks (official site)': https://billhicks.com'Rumble': https://rumble.com'YouTube': https://www.youtube.com https://metanetapps.com'Metanapps': https://metanetapps.com

    3h 1m
  2. PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #135 · With Matt Landman

    APR 16

    PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #135 · With Matt Landman

    Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com Three hours that flew. We opened with some unapologetically British scene‑setting (time‑zones, signal checks and a studio full of good humour) before I shared a small, human story about helping an elderly neighbour after a tumble – a reminder that ordinary kindness still matters. From there we roamed: the creep of platform censorship and why we simulcast on Rumble/YouTube while building Food For Thought Radio; the state of motorsport and cars (from Koenigsegg’s mad hybrids to axial‑flux motors at YASA and JCB’s hydrogen engines), and how ‘smart’, network‑tethered tech too often means control. Hour two brought our guest, filmmaker and campaigner Matt Landman (FrankenSkies), for a brisk primer on geoengineering/chemtrails, EMF exposure, and the politics and language that surround them (SCoPEx, NASA’s CARE, cloud‑seeding history, Lynmouth 1952). We talked farms, soil life and bees, peer pressure vs speaking up, and Matt’s Stop Geoengineering London rally at Marble Arch on Saturday, 20 June, 2pm. In hour three we stitched the cultural threads together – media narratives, technocracy, and why local action, community radio and simply turning up (at markets, meetings and rallies) is how we push back with good grace and good information.   Food For Thought Radio' (FFT Radio): https://fftradio.com/'FrankenSkies' (Matt Landman’s documentary, official site): https://frankenskies.com/'Stop Geoengineering London' (rally info): https://stopgeoengineeringlondon.co.uk/'SCoPEx – Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment' (Harvard project overview): https://www.keutschgroup.com/scopex'CARE – Charged Aerosol Release Experiment' (background): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charged_Aerosol_Release_Experiment'Lynmouth Flood (1952)' (overview): https://www.rmets.org/metmatters/day-lynmouth-flood-1952'YASA' (axial‑flux electric motors): https://yasa.com/'Koenigsegg' (official site): https://www.koenigsegg.com/'JCB – Hydrogen Engines' (official sustainability page): https://www.jcb.com/en-US/explore/sustainability/hydrogen/'Johnson Matthey' (catalysis/PGM technologies referenced): https://matthey.com/'Wilhelm Reich' (biography overview): https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Reich'Club of Rome' (context referenced): https://www.clubofrome.org/'United Nations – 2030 Agenda / SDGs' (official hub): https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda'World Economic Forum' (referenced): https://www.weforum.org/'Spero Protection Clothing' (Matt Landman’s EMF‑shielding apparel): https://speroapparel.com/'Sonya Poulton' (journalist; link hub incl. YouTube/Rumble): https://linktr.ee/soniapoulton'EuroFolk Radio' (mentioned relay platform): https://eurofolkradio.com/

    2h 59m
  3. PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #134· Home Births, Hard Truths: Whistleblowing, Status and Sovereignty

    APR 9

    PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #134· Home Births, Hard Truths: Whistleblowing, Status and Sovereignty

    Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com Live on Thursday, 9 April 2026, Eric (heroically croaky) and I opened with a wide‑ranging hour that ran from crop‑circle “plans” and free‑energy folklore to the practical question of how you’d actually release a breakthrough safely—open source, decentralised, and everywhere at once—rather than letting it be buried. That flowed into a bigger theme: taking back agency in everyday life, from transport and tools to status, law, and the creeping bureaucracy that gags common sense. We also played a short Lord Monckton clip to kick the energy-policy hornet’s nest and revisited cultural touchpoints (Chris Rea, the Doobie Brothers, and that chilling monologue from My Dinner with André) as mirrors for the moment. Hour two featured former NHS midwife and whistleblower Victoria Rixon, who set out—plainly and bravely—what she witnessed on the wards: chronic understaffing, policy over care, and the trauma that followed. She made the case for restoring true midwifery and normalising home birth, and we discussed how families can rebuild confidence outside rigid pathways. In hour three, Etta Vogt joined from Chicago to talk data centres, digital IDs, prepping, architecture, and why local, human‑scale solutions beat managed dependency. A spirited, sometimes sobering, always human conversation about power—who holds it, and how we take it back.'Paul English Live': https://paulenglishlive.com'Food for Thought Radio': https://fftradio.com'The Slingshot Channel (Jörg Sprave)': https://www.youtube.com/@JoergSprave'Chris Rea (official)': https://www.chrisrea.com'The Doobie Brothers (official)': https://thedoobiebrothers.com'My Dinner with André' (film page): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082783/'Findhorn Foundation': https://www.findhorn.org

    2h 59m
  4. PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #133 · Brazil, Werewolves, Clockism

    APR 2

    PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #133 · Brazil, Werewolves, Clockism

    Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com In tonight’s wide‑ranging live show we eased in with blue‑skies-and-shorts weather chat before diving into flying lore and “the right stuff” — from test pilots and Chuck Yeager to Tom Wolfe’s classic and its 1983 film. We pulled on the daylight saving thread (Hannah Fry’s case against clock changes, Franklin’s satire, and William Willett’s campaign), weighed up preparedness and simple food stores, and swapped practical foraging tips (nettles, dandelions, cleavers) and old‑school sundials. In hour two, my friend Helen joined us from southern Brazil to describe building Terra Nova — a small, self‑reliant hamlet of orchards, beans, fish ponds and flocks — and her therapeutic work tackling trauma and (as she frames it) demonic attachments. We closed with Graham Linehan’s “werewolf” game analogy for informed minorities, a nudge toward peaceful non‑compliance and community action, and a pair of musical palate cleansers: Slim Gaillard’s Selling Out from Absolute Beginners and a fresh cut from Manchester’s David Rybka. As ever, we skipped the sponsor guff and kept it practical: skills, food, gardens, and the right people around you. If you’ve views on binning the clock change or want to share your best five long‑life pantry staples, drop them in for next week.'The Right Stuff' (book) by Tom Wolfe — Penguin UK: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/331187/the-right-stuff-by-tom-wolfe/9781784873714'The Right Stuff' (1983 film) — Warner Bros official page: https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/right-stuffChuck Yeager — official U.S. Air Force biography (Air University AFEHRI): https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/AFEHRI/documents/WallofAchievers/Yeager.pdfUK military low‑flying (incl. Mach Loop area context) — GOV.UK guidance: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/military-low-flyingWilliam Willett’s pamphlet ‘The Waste of Daylight’ (full text): https://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/willett.htmlBenjamin Franklin’s ‘An Economical Project’ (1784) — full text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Works_of_the_late_Doctor_Benjamin_Franklin/An_economical_ProjectFood for Free (50th anniversary edition) — overview via Penguin (Richard Mabey reading guide): https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/articles/richard-mabey-reading-guide-books-orderThe Victorian Kitchen Garden (BBC Two, 1987) — series information: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482150/Absolute Beginners (1986 film) — overview (Britannica): https://www.britannica.com/topic/Absolute-BeginnersAbsolute Beginners — soundtrack personnel incl. Slim Gaillard ‘Selling Out’ (Library of Congress jazz filmography excerpt): https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/music/jots/200028017/0001.pdfTRIGGERnometry — official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@triggerpodMafia/Werewolf (party game) — background on the informed‑minority vs uninformed‑majority mechanic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)David Rybka — official Bandcamp page: https://davidrybkamusic.bandcamp.com/

    2h 59m
  5. PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #132 · Broken Toasters, Fixed Communities: Repairing Food, Speech,and Sense

    MAR 26

    PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #132 · Broken Toasters, Fixed Communities: Repairing Food, Speech,and Sense

    Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com In this lively three-hour edition I open with the clocks-about-to-change chaos and a bit of studio mayhem, before settling in with Eric for a wide-ranging, cheeky catch‑up that swerves from timekeeping and sneezes to surveillance-laden insurance apps, older vs newer cars, and the slow hollowing‑out of our high streets. We also touch on online creators and free speech workarounds (Cockney rhyming slang, anyone?), and the perennial question of how to speak plainly without getting throttled by censors. Hour two welcomes Thomas Anderson from Germany. We dig into his Repair Café work, practical skills across generations, and the structural squeeze on farmers—subsidies to leave land idle, supermarket leverage, and how communities might rebuild local food systems (from allotments to direct farmer–household contracts). We explore grow‑at‑home ideas like chufa and sunchokes, and the case for indoor growing. In hour three, Monica Schaefer joins to wrestle with self‑censorship, how to reach different audiences, “learned helplessness,” and why clear, courageous speech plus real‑world action matter if we’re to repair not just toasters—but our food, towns, and culture.   'Rumble (show simulcast platform)': https://rumble.com'YouTube (show simulcast platform)': https://www.youtube.com'Repair Café Foundation (community repair movement Thomas mentioned)': https://www.repaircafe.org/en/'Girlguiding UK (policy discussions referenced)': https://www.girlguiding.org.uk'Club of Rome (context for environmental policy debates)': https://www.clubofrome.org'Bayer (parent company of the former Monsanto)': https://www.bayer.com'Starlink (rural connectivity noted in the episode)': https://www.starlink.com'Leo Kottke (artist briefly featured/mentioned)': https://www.leokottke.com'The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (context in music discussion)': https://www.thebeatles.com'Chufa / Tiger Nut (crop referenced)': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyperus_esculentus'Sunchoke / Jerusalem Artichoke (crop referenced)': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helianthus_tuberosus'Aquaponics (method referenced)': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaponics'Cooper Alan (song referenced)': https://www.cooperalanmusic.com

    2h 59m
  6. PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #131 · Do No Harm, Take No Nonsense: Natural Law, Militarism and Modern Politics

    MAR 19

    PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #131 · Do No Harm, Take No Nonsense: Natural Law, Militarism and Modern Politics

    Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com It’s Thursday, 19 March, and we’re back live with an hour of weather chit‑chat, bike‑ride oddities and a spirited detour into politics, history and first principles. Eric Von Essex drops in with tales from Cheshunt to the Lee Valley (including National Nutter Day contenders), DIY fixes for foggy headlamps, and his very serious Fockem Poll—where Lassie and Skippy are neck‑and‑neck for “prime monster”. From there we pivot to the bigger stuff: what leadership should look like, a withering read‑aloud on Keir Starmer’s temperament, and why so many of us sense something missing in modern public life. In hour two, Steve James (Occult Academy) joins us for a deep, clear tour of natural law, moral relativism, and militarism—drawing on his own service experience to argue why authority without morality devours freedom. We range from Hastings and the Domesday Book to Smedley Butler’s “War is a Racket,” Adam Curtis on public relations and desire, and how to reclaim agency without sliding into nihilism. It’s lively, occasionally daft, and firmly pointed at the same North Star: do no harm, take no nonsense, and build something better—locally, practically, together.'Rumble (platform)': https://rumble.com'YouTube (platform)': https://www.youtube.com'WD‑40 (product)': https://www.wd40.com'Viz (magazine)': https://viz.co.uk'The Sooty Show (official site)': https://www.thesootyshow.co.uk'English Heritage: 1066 and the Battle of Hastings': https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/battle-abbey-and-battlefield/history-and-stories/1066-battle-of-hastings/'UK National Archives: Domesday Book': https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/domesday-book/'Smedley D. Butler – “War Is a Racket” (Internet Archive)': https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket'U.S. Marine Corps History Division – MajGen Smedley D. Butler (biography)': https://www.usmcu.edu/Research/Marine-Corps-History-Division/Information-for-Researchers/Biography-Directory/Major-General-Smedley-Darlington-Butler/'BBC – Adam Curtis: The Century of the Self (programme page)': https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ghgvd'It’s a Gift (1934) – W.C. Fields film with the grocery/kumquat scene (IMDb)': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025456/

    2h 58m
  7. PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #130 · Bikes, Beato and the Birth Certificate: Decentralise Everything

    MAR 12

    PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #130 · Bikes, Beato and the Birth Certificate: Decentralise Everything

    Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com A lively, free‑wheeling late‑start show that meanders from UFOs and British TV nostalgia to oil myths, bikes, and the soul of sport, before landing on AI’s future and how decentralisation could put real power back in local hands. I share why Rick Beato’s video on open‑source, on‑device AI lit a fire under me, how home‑run models might mirror the way music left big studios, and why community tools, local trade, and even analogue crafts could thrive again. Along the way we riff on nicotine lozenges vs. brain fog, the strange comfort of cycling pain, the danger and glory of the Isle of Man TT, and the need to rebuild family, food, and finance from the ground up — including thorny topics like inheritance and birth certificates, and the launch plans for Food For Thought Radio. It’s a mate‑in‑the‑pub kind of episode: laughs, tangents, a couple of tunes, and a serious undercurrent — how to live better, more locally and independently, while the official world grows ever more daft. If you want to pitch in with FFT Radio or keep the conversation going, you know where to find me.'Rick Beato (YouTube channel)': https://www.youtube.com/@RickBeato'Napster (official site)': https://www.napster.com'Pink Floyd (official site)': https://www.pinkfloyd.com'David Gilmour (official site)': https://www.davidgilmour.com'Microsoft Windows (official)': https://www.microsoft.com/windows'Linux kernel (official)': https://www.kernel.org'Isle of Man TT (official information hub)': https://www.iomttraces.com/tt-information/'Indianapolis 500 (official site)': https://www.indy500.com'South Downs Way (National Trail official)': https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/trails/south-downs-way/'Sturmey‑Archer (official site)': https://www.sturmey-archer.com'Brooks England Saddles (official site)': https://www.brooksengland.com'Chuck Brodsky (official site)': https://www.chuckbrodsky.com'JD McPherson (official site)': https://www.jdmcpherson.com'Deuteronomy 21:15–17 (Bible Gateway)': https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2021%3A15-17&version=KJV'YouTube (platform)': https://www.youtube.com'Rumble (platform)': https://rumble.com'Paul English Live (site mentioned)': https://paulenglishlive.com'Food For Thought Radio (site mentioned)': https://fftradio.com

    2h 52m
  8. PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #129 · Wonky Carrots, Working Wallets: Building a Parallel Market from the Ground Up

    MAR 5

    PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #129 · Wonky Carrots, Working Wallets: Building a Parallel Market from the Ground Up

    Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com Episode 129 took the usual meandering pub‑style route before locking onto a theme: All wars are bankers’ wars. We opened with light relief—gardening chat, fuchsias, chickens finally laying in the sunshine, the great organic vs supermarket egg debate, frying tips, and Saturday‑morning pancakes—before the tone sharpened into media scepticism and how manufactured narratives shape public consent. From there we welcomed our guest “the f in farmer,” who gave a grounded view from the fields: why local food matters, how farmers are squeezed, and how peer‑to‑peer digital cash (Bitcoin SV) could let producers sell eggs, beef and veg directly to listeners without middlemen or punitive fees. We dug into practicalities (wallets, on/off‑ramps, transaction costs) and the case for building a parallel marketplace that actually buys real goods (yes, wonky carrots) rather than just speculating. Along the way we touched Michael Rivero’s All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars, Godfrey Bloom’s central‑bank critique, a Thomas Massie clip on perpetual war budgets, and spun a Divine Comedy track—Infernal Machines—as a wry nod to how tech may upend “work” next. The takeaway: stop waiting for institutions to fix themselves; start transacting with one another, locally and directly, and starve the system of the consent—and the fees—it feeds on.Paul English Live (show hub): https://paulenglishlive.com/Bitcoin SV (BSV) – official blockchain site: https://www.bitcoinsv.com/HandCash (BSV wallet): https://handcash.io/ElectrumSV (desktop BSV wallet): https://electrumsv.io/Orange Gateway (fiat on/off‑ramp for BSV): https://www.orangegateway.com/Michael Rivero – All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars (video): https://rumble.com/v5hkl6p-all-wars-are-bankers-wars.htmlGodfrey Bloom – European Parliament speeches and banking critique: https://godfreybloom.uk/videos/Rep. Thomas Massie (official site): https://massie.house.gov/Signal (private messenger referenced for group chats): https://signal.org/Rumble (alternative video platform): https://rumble.com/BitChute (alternative video platform): https://www.bitchute.com/The Divine Comedy (band) – official site (track played: “Infernal Machines”): https://thedivinecomedy.com/The 5th Kind (channel mentioned): https://the5thkind.com/Richplanet (Richard D. Hall) – official site: https://www.richplanet.net/

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Live every Thursday at 3pm US eastern, 8pm in the UK. Listen on WBN324, Radio Soapbox and Rumble - all links at: https://paulenglishlive.com

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  • Creator
    Paul English
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    137
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2023-2026 Paul English
  • Show Website
    Paul English Live

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