PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #129 · Wonky Carrots, Working Wallets: Building a Parallel Market from the Ground Up
About this episode
The episode discusses the concept of building a parallel market and the importance of local food, featuring a guest farmer's perspective on the challenges faced by producers.
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…
People in this episode
Host: Paul English
Guest: the f in farmer
Topics covered
- banking
- local food
- media scepticism
- parallel market
- peer-to-peer cash
- agriculture
- consumerism
Keywords
- bankers' wars
- local food
- Bitcoin SV
- transaction costs
- parallel marketplace
- media narratives
- agriculture
- consumer consent
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Radio Soapbox, Bitcoin SV
Books & works: Infernal Machines
Places: UK
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