Also on http://eurofolkradio.com homenetwork.tv and freedom Nation

We rang in 2024 with an open, lively roundtable from the Radio Ranch—equal parts reflection, humor, and forward motion. Paul English dropped by to swap New Year stories, talk burnout versus buoyancy, and make the case for focusing our energy on building local connection and community instead of doom-scrolling. We dug into practical ways to increase our “reach” (not just our “preach”), from playful short clips and music breaks to smarter daily formats and audience engagement. We also touched on culture and music—Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Tom MacDonald, and even A Fish Called Wanda—plus why radio still works as a friendly companion medium in a fragmented landscape. In hour two we shifted to solutions: decentralizing our media presence, testing a peer‑to‑peer video platform, scheduling shared music libraries for on‑air song breaks, and inviting awake musicians to come on air. We covered platform realities (shadowbans, copyright strikes, monetization lock‑ins) and outlined listener‑supported alternatives that keep creators in control. We closed with an open invite to follow the show across our outlets and to keep the momentum going with hands-on action, real‑world meetups, and a freer new year ahead.

• 'Euro Folk Radio (EFR)': https://eurofolkradio.com/
• 'Global Voice Radio Network – Radio Ranch page': https://globalvoiceradio.net/matrix/
• 'Global Voice Radio Network – main site': https://globalvoiceradio.net/
• 'Paul English Live (show site)': https://paulenglishlive.com/
• 'HomeNetwork.tv': https://homenetwork.tv/
• 'Liberty Tree Radio': https://libertytreeradio.org/
• 'BBS Radio': https://bbsradio.com/
• '106.9 FM Chicago (WBOU/1069 Radio Chicago) – TuneIn listing': https://tunein.com/radio/1069FM-Chicago-s240337/
• 'Van Morrison – official site': https://www.vanmorrison.com/
• 'Eric Clapton – official site': https://www.ericclapton.com/
• 'Tom MacDonald – official YouTube channel': https://www.youtube.com/@TomMacDonaldOfficial
• 'A Fish Called Wanda (film)': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fish_Called_Wanda
• 'White Art Collective (artist community)': https://bio.link/whiteartcollective
• 'StreamLife (streaming tools)': https://streamlife.live/
• 'Odysee (video platform)': https://odysee.com/
• 'DLive (live streaming)': https://dlive.tv/
• 'ElevenLabs (AI voice tools)': https://elevenlabs.io/

Radio Ranch closes the year with a caller-driven discussion of affidavits, national-status language, tax terms and what new listeners should expect after filing paperwork.

The most coherent thread follows Jack and Thora: one asks why the world has not changed immediately, while the other explains that definitions, words and legal labels now sound different. Later callers move into income versus labor, revocation of election, John’s experience with tax returns for farm financing, property and trust questions, and the host’s insistence on using national rather than sovereign terminology.

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Friday Radio Ranch becomes a Roger Sayles and Brent Winters conversation. Roger opens with year-end platform business and Ecuador holiday customs before Brent joins and pulls the show toward biblical hermeneutics, translation choices, sonship, legal standing and the language of property.

The long middle of the episode moves between Scripture, western legal history, Tom Horn, national-status vocabulary and the claim that life, liberty and property cannot be separated except for analysis. In the final hour, callers and chat steer the discussion toward age, truth-telling, family obligation and the distinction Brent draws between personal generosity inside a family or community and large public systems.

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Visit paulenglishlive.com for the live show and links to the listener channels.

A Christmas-week ensemble edition with Paul English joined by Andrew Carrington-Hitchcock, Shelley Tasker, Maleficus Scott, Patrick Chanal, Gary Rees and other regular contributors. It opens loosely, with greetings, introductions and Andy's publishing history, then uses the holiday mood to move between Dickens, Christmas customs, song requests and heavier political talk.

The first hour includes Andrew's account of The Synagogue of Satan, Amazon removals, Tex Mars and early alternative-radio networks; Shelley and Paul talk about children, Santa and Christingle; and Paul reads Dickens's description of Christmas from A Christmas Carol.

Hour two becomes a roundtable about song requests, the show as a kind of informal church, Tom Brown's School Days, the coming year, Freemasonry, and architecture. Late in the show, Eric Von Essex's architecture comments lead to brutalism, Art Nouveau, planning politics, Cornish housing and a Monty Python architecture sketch, before the after-show closes with alternative-radio memories and the need to build independent communication channels.

Andrew Carrington-Hitchcock · Shelley Tasker · Maleficus Scott · Patrick Chanal · Gary Rees · Paul B · Eric Von Essex · Charles Dickens · Tex Mars · Van Morrison · Alastair Sim · Le Corbusier · Tom Wolfe · Monty Python

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A long Thursday Radio Ranch driven by Roger Sayles and callers around one main axis: Roger's argument that modern public life is built on commercial presumptions, paperwork and bank-created credit. The first half stays mostly with national-status language, signatures, legal personhood, promissory notes and the way callers should read records and contracts.

The second half broadens the same argument into history and resources. Roger links modern commercial paperwork to his reading of the Babylonian merchant code, then wanders through gold, silver, the Comstock mine and old western mining towns as examples of real value contrasted with paper claims.

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This long Radio Ranch call-in opens from a Mike Adams and Steve Quayle interview and quickly becomes a workshop on selective service, national status and administrative law.

The strongest middle section walks listeners through the host's model of public policy: statutes at large, United States Code, CFRs, the Federal Register and the Administrative Procedure Act. Callers then test those ideas against mask mandates, property taxes, feudal law and real-estate language before the after-show widens into food, Trump-era politics, date-line puzzles and money-system speculation.

Note: the episode includes legal, political and historical claims from callers.

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A day-after-Christmas live Radio Ranch centered almost entirely on Sayles's national-status theory and callers trying to apply it. Jill asks what to send with an affidavit and whether the process touches property taxes; Joe, Thora, Gary, Phil, Daryl and others discuss county articles of incorporation, Bruchaber, Treasury Decision 2313, 26 CFR 1.1-1, the disputed phrase 'state national,' passport cards, S-corp tax timing, state IDs for children and a passport denial. The after-show continues with traffic tickets, court notices, jurisdiction, abatement and right-to-travel material.

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A Christmas Day 2023 replay of an older Radio Ranch conversation, framed by Paul Beamer's holiday and platform announcements. The archive starts with Roger Sayles and Paul trading historical asides about gin, serfdom, India and travel videos, then turns into a long China discussion: Hong Kong, the Opium Wars, Australia, Huawei, the Ming treasure fleet, a woman pirate, Angus Deaton's rent-seeking explanation and a treasure-ship detour. The back half moves through UFO files, Lincoln-era history, the Federal Reserve, political manipulation, masks, Haifa and China, and Paul's closing reflection on how he wants to live.

Platform listings and holiday greetings are chaptered but not clipped as promotional excerpts.

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A Christmas-week Saturday Radio Ranch with guest Robert Rowen, built around Roger Sayles's recurring argument that political status, affidavits and official definitions determine how people are treated by government systems.

The first hour moves from Rowen's questions about recognition into non-citizen nationals, Civil Rights Act language, passport status and the host's claim that forms create an employee presumption. The second hour extends the theory through affidavits, warehouse-receipt metaphors, birth-certificate and bond claims, revenue-code definitions and a caller's late example from state statutes.

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