Mind of Steele 113 introduces three of the internet’s most unusual financial thinkers and gives viewers a front-row seat to their ideas. There’s Simon Goldberg, better known as The Spaniard, who argues that cash isn’t really money at all. There’s Peter Stone, known as Sovereign Pete, who believes that money can’t actually buy anything. And there’s Richard Vobes, who seems stuck in a golden memory of when a single penny could buy the world.
The episode looks at how these three figures misunderstand basic ideas about money, ownership, and credit. It follows how simple concepts get twisted into complicated conspiracy theories, and how, by the time they finish explaining, it’s almost impossible to tell what they actually believe. Each speaker’s version of reality reveals a different kind of confusion about how the financial system works.
Rather than just explaining the mistakes, Mind of Steele uses humour and examples to show how these ideas collapse under their own weight. It points out the contradictions, the bizarre analogies, and the way small misunderstandings get magnified into full-scale theories about how the world is rigged. For viewers who enjoy seeing conspiracy logic unravel—and who like a bit of dry humour mixed in with sharp analysis—this episode offers a walk through some of the stranger financial theories the internet has to offer. It’s a chance to see what happens when magical thinking and personal finance collide.
