PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #125 · Stupidity, Sovereignty and Satoshis: Building Outside the Racket

Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com

Tonight’s show starts in classic fashion: a grumble about a very British Thursday and a royal wave from King Eric von Essex, before we settle into two big themes—how institutions lose the plot, and how we can build outside them. I tee up Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s “theory of stupidity” as a lens on today’s public discourse, then we range through history’s money games—from Bretton Woods to Executive Order 6102—asking why courts, regulators and media so often protect the racket. In hour two, Gary Glendale joins us to dig into money-as-commodity, Bitcoin SV (BSV), and why digital signatures and on‑chain records matter if we want private trade, verifiable contracts and real discovery—plus how farmers, makers and local buyers could actually use this right now. We also swap notes on MrBeast‑scale distribution, NIST’s WTC work, and practical steps: start small, buy local, and make the tools useful enough that people choose them.

Along the way we wrangle a Soapbox hiccup, shout out Food for Thought Radio’s growing schedule, and point you to places where the rubber meets the road—from FoodFindersHub and “Six Inches of Soil” to BSV resources you can explore yourself. If you’re new to any of this, begin with the links below, keep your question‑mark handy, and let’s turn curiosity into capability together.

• 'Paul English Live (official site)': https://paulenglishlive.com
• 'Food For Thought Radio (FFT Radio)': https://fftradio.com/
• 'Radio Soapbox (live stream links)': https://radiosoapbox.com
• 'Food Finders Hub (local food directory)': https://foodfindershub.org/
• 'Six Inches of Soil (film site)': https://www.sixinchesofsoil.org/
• 'MrBeast (YouTube channel)': https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast
• 'SpaceX (official)': https://www.spacex.com
• 'Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Letters and Papers from Prison (publisher page)': https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Letters-and-Papers-from-Prison/Dietrich-Bonhoeffer/9781451650532
• 'NIST: World Trade Center Investigation (overview hub)': https://www.nist.gov/world-trade-center-investigation
• 'Flight 93 National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)': https://www.nps.gov/flni/index.htm
• 'Executive Order 6102 (background)': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
• 'Smedley D. Butler – War Is a Racket (full text, Project Gutenberg Canada)': https://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/butlersd-warisaracket/butlersd-warisaracket-00-h.html
• 'The Peter McCormack Show (site)': https://www.petermccormack.com/
• 'Peter McCormack x Rupert Lowe episode page': https://www.petermccormack.com/episodes/091-rupert-lowe-reforms-failure-restores-moment-westminsters-rot
• 'BSV Association (learn/build)': https://bsvassociation.org/
• 'WhatsOnChain (BSV blockchain explorer)': https://whatsonchain.com/
• 'Bitcoin SV (project overview)': https://bitcoinsv.com/
• 'Opera Browser (desktop & mobile)': https://www.opera.com/