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This three-hour Paul English Live mirror stream begins as a loose roundtable with Patrick, Eric Von Essex and a recurring US caller, Paul B. After the opening sponsor messages, English frames the night around Hurricane Helene, Britain's closed steel and coal capacity, and what the panel jokingly calls the DCBP, the “Delightfully Cheeky British People” supposedly responding to chicken-registration rules by overloading the system.
The first hour moves from Lee Valley ghost stories and the Battle of Hastings into current-event and technology arguments: alleged spare parts sent to Ukraine, ULEZ charges, electroculture, compressed-air cars, Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower, fuel-saving devices, leaded paint and fuel, Jorian Jenks, cathedrals as healing spaces, bells, water bills and a long warning from Paul B about lithium batteries in flooded electric cars.
Hour two opens with Led Zeppelin and turns to North Carolina quartz and lithium deposits, port strikes, automation, and the closure of Ratcliffe-on-Soar, which English reads through a Guardian article before playing Public Service Broadcasting's “People Will Always Need Coal.” The discussion then becomes constructive: local power authorities, energy independence, food and health, outdoor chimneys, rocket stoves, Patrick's home-built blast furnace, Kelly Kettles, micro-FM radio, pirate radio and the idea of a network of local DCBP stations.
The final hour continues after the WBN324 slot on Rumble and Radio Soapbox. It ranges across the UK budget, the US election, John Kerry's comments on online dissent, local “immune systems,” money addiction, humour as civil disobedience, Charles Lindbergh's electoral proposals, a listener demo by Maleficus, guitar gear, Casablanca, Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Psycho, Mads Palsvig and David Irving's Goebbels biography, before closing on a swollen iPad battery and Bing Crosby.
MyMitoBoost.com: network sponsor mentioned in the opening advertisement.FatFix.com / PHATPHIX.com: sponsor product mentioned in the opening advertisement.iTeraCare Classic Terahertz Frequency Wand: sponsor product promoted in the opening advertisement.paulenglishlive.com and paulenglishlive.com/call: show site and call-in link.WBN324 Talk Radio and WBN324.zil: station and alternate access address mentioned in the breaks.Rumble: live chat and stream platform for the show.Radio Soapbox: after-show outlet mentioned after the WBN324 slot.Opera Browser: named in the WBN324 access announcement.Led Zeppelin: “Going to California”.Joni Mitchell: cited as an influence on “Going to California”.MDI compressed-air car: example English says he saw about 20 years earlier.Nikola Tesla: Wardenclyffe Tower.Richard Vobes's show: source of the remembered fuel-line device story.Jorian Jenks: farming book recommended by a chat participant.Mining.com: article on Hurricane Helene halting quartz mines used for chip making.The Guardian: article on the closure of Britain's last coal-fired power station.Public Service Broadcasting: “People Will Always Need Coal”.Kinetic 7: hydrogen cooker/heater device discussed as a local-energy example.Kelly Kettle: water-jacketed kettle recommended during the survivalist turn.Radio Caroline: pirate-radio example in the discussion of British broadcasting.Radio London: pirate-radio example and jingle reference.YouTube film on London FM pirate stations: documentary English says he watched.Mystery Science Theater: public-access-style comedy format described by Paul B.Maleficus: “Ashes,” rough demo from Trone Studio.Jet Slide: guitar slide device used by Maleficus.Casablanca: film behind the episode image discussion.Rear Window: Hitchcock film discussed for Grace Kelly's entrance.North by Northwest: Hitchcock film discussed for the crop-duster scene.The Birds: Hitchcock film mentioned during the film discussion.Frenzy: Hitchcock film identified during the Covent Garden discussion.Family Plot: Hitchcock film named while checking his 1970s filmography.Gaslight: Ingrid Bergman film cited for the term “gaslighting”.Touch of Evil: Orson Welles film discussed for its opening tracking shot.Absolute Beginners: film compared with Touch of Evil on long tracking shots.Psycho: Hitchcock film discussed for the shower scene.Mads Palsvig on X/Twitter: account English says he is following.David Irving: Goebbels biography based on Joseph Goebbels's diaries.Bing Crosby: “Aren't You Glad You're You?”.