From paulenglishlive.com This is part two of the program, please start with the first episode today.
In this episode, we delve into the fascinating world of architecture, discussing the natural and artistic elements of a building in Barcelona that seems to grow organically from the ground. The conversation touches on the challenges faced by the architect with the city's planning department, highlighting the struggle between artistic vision and bureaucratic approval.
As the year comes to a close, we reflect on 2024 and the challenges that lie ahead in 2025. We discuss the potential for consumer pressure groups to support farmers and the importance of historical context in understanding current events. The conversation takes a light-hearted turn as we consider the possibility of venturing into the fountain pen business and other whimsical ideas.
The episode also features a discussion about the song "Fairytale of New York" by Shane McGowan and Kirsty McCall. We address the controversy surrounding the "woke" version of the song and play the original version, appreciating its melody and personal significance.
Looking forward, we explore the idea of hosting a New Year's Eve Radiothon, a collaborative effort involving various hosts and guests to ring in the New Year across different time zones. The potential for a live, rotating show with contributions from both UK and US participants is discussed, promising a night of fun, music, and insightful predictions for the coming year.
We end the episode with gratitude for our listeners and a hopeful outlook for growing our community in the coming year. Join us as we sign off with the classic "Fairytale of New York" and extend our wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
It looks as if you planted a seed in the ground. The building grew out the ground. It looks natural. It it it's art sort of art nouveau, but an unusual art nouveau. I'm gonna look it up. He was always battling with the planning department of his of the city of Barcelona.
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Yeah. It it's really I like that. I like that. I do. Yeah. You're not begging for approval.
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Yeah. I'm I'm gonna end by playing out a song that I also played last week, which seems a bit weird. Now Murr has asked for a a song to be played, which I'll I'll listen to after the show. It's 9 minutes long, and I haven't got enough time to actually clip it down. And I'm trying to keep the show to 3 hours, which I'm about to fail to do. But the other week, last week, I played fairy tale of New York, by, Shane McGowan of the Pogues with Kirsty McCall. And the reason I'm gonna play it again is someone rightfully pointed out that the version I picked, unknowingly out of Spotify was the completely, woke version because it removed the word from, there's a lyric in it which, faggot. The word faggot appears in the original one, and it'd been taken out because obviously some overly sensitive soul thought you're not allowed to say that. We'll say what we bloody well like. So we've got the we've got the, right version here, and I'm gonna play out with it because it's I've since I played it last week, I've listened to it 3 or 4 times more. It's such a fantastic melody.
And, my son plays it on the piano. How about that? He just listens to things, and he was playing it today, and I thought, oh, yeah. So it's reminded me. So we're gonna wind out with that. This is the last show, of course, of 2025. It's been a 1 sorry. 2024. Look at me getting wrong. It's 2026 soon according to my poor brain. Now of 2024, been a bit of a year. We are being told that, next year is gonna be more than a bit of a year. It's gonna be very challenging for us. That may well be. But we will, bang on here as best we can and hopefully come with more constructive things to do, like consumer pressure groups helping the farmers and start to report on more activity. That's what I'd like to see anyway. We'll still discuss history and its relevance to today, because we need to, and there's nothing wrong with a reminder and all of that kind of stuff.
And, we'll see what else we're gonna do. We might get into the fountain pen business. Who knows what's gonna happen? It's all wonderful and wacky. So, Eric and and Patrick, thank you very much for your company this afternoon, this evening. And, any final words, gents? Anything you'd like to say in signing off?
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Everybody have a fantastic New Year.
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Sorry. I didn't mean to show COVID. Well well, we might still do that show, Paul, won't we?
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Would you think We might do. If I'm up to it, so it there's a possibility that we might look at doing a New Year's Eve show. I'll stick it on my channel here. It won't be the sort of Thursday slot. It'll be completely rumbly and probably on Radio Soapbox if we do it. If we can get the people lined up, it's it's ifs, buts, and maybes because, it's just a matter of time and energy in getting people lined up. But the thought was that we could start a show round about, say, 8 or 9 o'clock UK time and take us through to New Year here in the UK. And then we can hang around for a bit till half past midnight or whatever. I know you've all got to get your cocoa and get into bed and start writing your letters with your new fountain pens and things like this, and we'll all be doing that. But Patrick could then take over even if we can get through to George Hobbs. I don't know what you're all doing.
Then they could take it through till 6 AM UK time, which of course is New Year US central time and things like that. So if we can do that, if there's enough people that say, yeah, I'll come and I'll host for an hour, then technically, we can do it, because I'm not in right through the night, I I'm pathetically in need of sleep at that time, but I think it might be a thing. So look out for it. If it happens, I should know this weekend. We'll announce it in the Telegram group. I'll put it up here on the Rumble channel in advance, and we might have a New Year's doodah, and I expect you to call in.
Oh, dear. Oh, yeah. You could all call in and tell us what your New Year's revolutions are and, how embarrassing it's all gonna be. No. It's always good fun to play that game. So Wouldn't that be wonderful? Gents, thanks very much for this evening. Oh, Paul. Hi. Oh, do you wanna do that?
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Wouldn't that be wonderful? A New Year's revolution. Cross content. Yes. Yes. That would be really cool.
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Do you do you like the idea, though, of a radio thon? So we started here about 8 or 9 o'clock in the UK. Recapped. And, Paul, you could be one of the hosts at a point and and spell Patrick for a bit. Well, I could probably take it through till 1 in the morning here, something like that. Eric, you could, you know, I could leg it out of the thing. It could be a real rotating thing. I just got I've gotta go and do something for half an hour. You could just take over, do stuff, and and we could just, you know, have the door open and people just pile through and see what we get. It could be a lot of fun. And, so, Paul, if you're on for that and you can pitch in, it's all about people. If enough people step forward and do it, I'll do it. If it falls on just a few shareholders, it won't work. It'll just people get tired out. But if we can get enough, it'll be great. It'll lift. Yeah? Cool. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'll be here and see what we can do. Through midnight, at least.
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Yeah. I'm done. Cool. So, yeah, if we can get some Americans involved too, we might be able to get it to midnight. I've got some music we could play. So
[00:05:20] Unknown:
Yeah. You can do all sorts of stuff. You've also got other programs that you're on other hosts. I mean, we could have, Andrew Carrington Hitchcock show up for a little bit. We can have, oh my god, Tasker,
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the the show that you're on. People we brought in. I wanna do it live. Andy, forget it. Andy will be in bed. Right? So it's just there's no way. You'll never get him live. But anybody that's gonna be live, it must be live. And, the idea of making a big long one would be good. It would it would be just fun. It might be a complete disaster, but it'd be worth giving it a go. I don't think it would be a disaster. I think it could be great. And, of course, there'd be a vast recording afterwards, and all the Brits that have to go to sleep at 1 o'clock in the morning could wake up and listen to 5 or 6 hours of amazing, blistering, incisive, witty, fun American stuff that has been recorded overnight. So you just have to decide if you can, you know, if Paul, if you're on eastern time, it means you take it through the midnight and Patrick takes it through to midnight CST, and let me find someone on the West Coast right through to 8 o'clock in the morning UK time. At which point, I'll be back up. We can do a breakfast show, Erica, 8 o'clock in the morning. Oh, my god. Nonstop black maniacs all asleep at the microphone going bloody hell. I wish we hadn't done that. Could be fun, though. Could be fun. Right?
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Oh, mate.
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Yes. Like one of those Hollywood films. Let's put this show on right here. So that's what we need to do.
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Yeah. Yeah. Right. My apology, Patrick, with you
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earlier. Very sorry. I spoke over you. I didn't realize it. So please accept my apology. But your No more apologizing, Eric. We don't need any more apologizing. It's fine. Don't worry about it. It's you sometimes you gotta just pipe up to get a word. I I go on a bit, and we all do a bit, which is great. That's why we're all here. We don't want people who are shrinking violets at all. It's no good. So so I like to be polite, though. Do we? No. But I'd like to be polite. And, the other thing is that No. You don't.
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No. You're you're you're all invited on the Sunday show. We're gonna try and predict next year, the future by whatever means, you know, not necessarily, but from past from our experience in life, we're gonna try and predict. And I was saying to Paul today, I still I still believe that Kia Starmart will be, in office this time next year. And he'll go through his full term. He's he's he's got a Billy. Right. He he That sounds unfortunate. I don't think he'd be put there. Oh, I think it's unfortunate. But, w e f, they've got, he just he's very good at reading the scripts. They put the scripts in front of me, and he reads it out. So there we are. He does the job for him. Got no conscience whatsoever. Couldn't give him.
That's it.
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Yeah. Well, maybe if if I I've got a bit of time over the weekend. If we can find people that can say, I can host for an hour or an hour and a half, and they come in and so and just move out again, and that's fine. It'll be in this studio. Everybody can just come in as long as they got a mixer. You can play your own stuff in. I'm not getting up in the middle. I'll just allow you. You're just gonna have to behave well. I'm sure everybody will, and it could run right through the night. It'd be hilarious. It could be a lot of fun. So
[00:08:22] Unknown:
let's see what we can do. Well, I don't know if it would be a lot of fun if I was part of it. I think it'd be boring.
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Alright. Okay. Well, you could do the boring section then. Hey. 2 AM to 3 AM UK time, Paul. Very, very dull. That'd be great. Maybe people want some dullness.
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I'll be the I'll be the boring part just in time for people to be nodding off to go to sleep. I mean, I wouldn't need to be that exciting. I mean, they're going to bed anyway.
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And Eric, I did have a comment. There's some US guys that we've had, don't we? We've not had many guests on Paul here from the US recently, but there's Eli, there's Roger. All these people, they could just rock up for half an hour. I don't you don't have to it's like, what do you think? I mean, the gist is, what do you think is coming up for next year? I know it's corny, but it's interesting because we're all gonna have slightly different views. Actually, we're probably all gonna have the same view, which is terrible. Excuse me. But, then we can anyway, look. I've gotta stop coughing.
Yeah. We we can have we can have doctor Yeah. Yeah. Medical advice from doctor Eric von Essex. Yes. Yeah. That'd be good. Yes. You know, now now
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in in all fairness in all fairness Yeah. All he has to say is, hello. I'm Eric von Essex. I'm not a doctor, but I played one on Fuck'em Hall TV. You know? Yes. They used to do on the the commercials when Marcus Welby was telling everybody to take aspirin.
[00:09:47] Unknown:
You know? Yeah. But, again, I'm Marcus Welby is not a doctor. He just used to play a doctor on TV. Yeah. That sort of stuff. Not to run. This is not to be construed as medical advice. In fact, it's not to be construed as advice or intelligent or anything much. You can also have a top of the gag hour. The Eric's top of the hour gag. Record 4 or 5 of them and we could play. Oh, it's time for a gag. Anyway, the ideas are plentiful. Gentlemen, thank you very much for this evening. Thank you. I'm I'm gonna go off and start some coughing, but I'm gonna play us out with the proper, non Ponzi version of fairy tale of New York.
Wonderful song. It's always worth hearing again. Thanks very much everybody for being here on the show with us in Rumble tonight and elsewhere, soapbox and and all over the place and, for the year. And, hopefully, we can keep growing this little space and get it oh, I don't know. I have another 10 or 20 listeners by the end of next year. Well, 10 or 20,000 might help if we can find some magic little thing to to to make it go. Selling the fountain pens might be it. I don't know. Whatever. We'll we'll hit on things. We'll keep having a a go at stuff. So wonderful. Okay. Merry Christmas, everyone. See you in possibly the very tail end of this year for a New Year's Eve Radiothon. So let's see what happens. I'll keep you posted.
Here's the song. See what Happy New Year, Paul English. Bye for now. Happy New Year. Happy New Year, whoever said that.
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That was Jimmy from Michigan. Who have said? I've I've been in that Fisher building. That is just gorgeous. The architecture in the Fisher building I've only seen the pictures. A lot of them in it. It's absolutely beautiful. Fantastic.
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Yep. Yes. Well, I'm slightly jealous. Anyway If I ever get to Detroit, if it's still there New Year and I'd definitely go and have a look. Oh,
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Fort Pontchartrain du detois.
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You too. Yeah. You have a good evening. Thank you. Wonderful. Okay, everyone. We're signing out with this song. Thank you. We'll see you all next week. Bye for now.
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There was I should've been someone.
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Bye bye, boys. Have fun storming the castle.