I open tonight’s Paul English Live with a confession: I’ve had the “technical trouser week from hell.” A dead SSD, lost clips, last‑minute OBS install, and a scramble to get Rumble and YouTube feeds lit made for a kerfuffled start. With Eric Von Essex and Paul Anorak riding shotgun, we compared battle scars (blue screens, vanishing music folders, cold tea) and still managed to swap stories about trams, train stations, and why public transport should be beautiful and reliable again. In between music breaks (Bill Hicks’ classic bit and a blast of Green Onions), we detoured through Jesuit history, Tupper Saussy’s Rulers of Evil, and Carroll Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope—books that spark big questions about who runs what and why.

Hour two, Gary Glendale joined to make the positive case for using Bitcoin SV as a public‑proof ledger: permanent records, auditable government spend, private-by-default messaging, court transparency, and citizen custody of data—no central backdoors, no quiet deletions. We explored how fixed‑supply money and on‑chain accountability could starve corruption, support farmers and small shops, and rebuild trust from the ground up. From digital ID worries to jury power, from pubs to pub‑quiz cryptography, this was a wide‑ranging, good‑humored ride that somehow turned a week of tech mayhem into momentum for taking back our systems—peacefully, locally, and transparently.

'OBS Studio (Open Broadcaster Software)': https://obsproject.com/
'Rulers of Evil: Useful Knowledge About Governing Bodies — F. Tupper Saussy (Apple Books audiobook)': https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/rulers-of-evil-useful-knowledge-about-governing/id1890265237
'Rulers of Evil — Open Library entry': https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7293315M/Rulers_of_Evil
'The Miracle on Main Street — Google Books listing (F. Tupper Saussy)': https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Miracle_on_Main_Street.html?id=08ERMQAACAAJ
'Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time — Google Books listing (Carroll Quigley)': https://books.google.com/books/about/Tragedy_and_Hope.html?id=rLKGjwEACAAJ
'Bitcoin SV (BSV) — official site': https://bitcoinsv.com/
'Bitcoin (BTC) — project site': https://bitcoin.org/
'Ethereum (ETH) — official site': https://ethereum.org/
'XRP (Ripple) — overview': https://ripple.com/xrp/
'BSV Blockchain Academy — The Metanet (technical summary)': https://academy.bsvblockchain.org/storage/photos/4318/The-Metanet-Technical-Summary-v1.0.pdf
'Telegram — private messenger': https://telegram.org/
'Signal — private messenger': https://signal.org/
'Session — privacy messenger': https://getsession.org/
'Rumble — video platform': https://rumble.com/
'YouTube — video platform': https://www.youtube.com/
'Bill Hicks — official site': https://www.billhicks.com/
'Edwyn Collins — official site ("The Magic Piper (Of Love)")': https://www.edwyncollins.com/
'"Green Onions" — Booker T. & the M.G.’s (Stax Records overview)': https://staxrecords.com/number-ones/green-onions-booker-t-mgs/