Mandatory Redistribution Party

Can a multinational corporation be socialist if the CEO really, really wants it to be? (No.) — Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.

Have you ever actually seen a cow? Have you touched its hot flank with your weak city hands? When you mind-conjure the countryside are you remembering a pastoral painting of a wide sheep, or do you imagine a hedgepunk dystopia of privatised slurry vats and forbidden slaughter fields? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.

The NHS is poorly. We place an ice-cold stethoscope against the chest of the health service and what do we hear? Exhausted staff fuelled by red bull and bitterness. Money tumbles through its body like a Blackpool coin pusher, landing in the gaping maw of a private equity-owned foot scrape clinic. A man with a pitchfork through his head being told to lose weight. Diagnosis: It’s wrecked.   --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music from Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. This episode contains interviews with Student Nurse Josie Stripe, Occupational Therapist Erin Cullen and a student nurse and senior sister who chose to remain anonymous.

At the heart of the UK, is a gaping psychosocial hole that is booze-brimmed to burst. How did alcohol become Britain’s one hobby?  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean, this episode contains an excerpt of John Blow’s Amphion Angelicus with additional music from Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. William Malmesbury was voiced by Jordan Leith.  

Was, listen, was feudalism a laugh? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music from Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans.

Consumers! Do you love to select? Or do you clink the bars of your multiple choice decision prison? Picture this: you need a cone of chips to feed your dog, eight nearby are a scam and one sells poison. The only person who can help you? The kind of person willing to review a chippy online. Is this any way to live? How would you rate it out of 5? Thank you for your answers. Your feedback is very important to us. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music from Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans.

Earth’s cities are a car accident. Where we live, eat, sleep and even dream is criss-crossed with tarmaced arteries for high speed air-conditioned impact oblongs. The 15 minute city, an attempt to design spaces safe for soft bodied pedestrians has been met with the revving of a big engine. We ask: what’s wrong with a little horse? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music from Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans.

Keir Starmer is the most boring man I hate. We burrow into the grotty history of Labour leader Sir Keir Rodney “Keith” Starmer KCB KB and the many purported uses of blu tack. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music from Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans.

Star Trek: The Next Generation is the worst thing we love. Telly’s chonkiest sci-fi depicts a utopian future of diverse philosopher kings discussing inalienable rights in the vacuum of space. So why then please does my space communist comfort zone attract fascists and cops?  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music including John Philip Sousa’s Dwellers Of The Western World recorded by the United States Marine Band in 2010. --- MRP at The Machynlleth Comedy Festival 2023 Mandatory Redistribution Party - Judgement Day http://tiny.cc/mandosmach23  Sean Morley - Has Been Banned From This Year's Festival http://tiny.cc/morlmach23  Jack Lewis Evans as Barry Shafto - Do You Know How to Kill a Ghost? I Do, and I Will Explain at This Event http://tiny.cc/jackmach23 

What you got there? Is it an idea? Hope you’ve got muscular solicitors, because all of Earth’s ideas now belong to five guys (not the burger chain). We dredge the ongoing class struggle over the means of artistic production: the human imagination. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean, this episode also features the tracks “Ragout” and “Demon Funder” by our guest Rrrrrose Azerty. Find out more about Rrrrrose and her music at https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com.

An audio wikihow for stealth solidarity and pro strats for boss battles. An episode on Unions, organising your workplace and overthrowing The Workplace Liege.  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans. 

Peter Kay’s ex-best mate became a millionaire from the worst stand-up tour in UK history.  We run a full diagnostic on divorcee and unwilling autism advocate Paddy McGuinness. --- David Callaghan, @DavidCallaghan on twitter, is bringing his multimedia comedy club Progranimate to the Glasgow International Comedy Festival on 22nd March. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party is created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.

To celebrate their 100th episode, Sean and Jack load up a game of Duke Nukem 3D and are instead sent 100 years into the past and future, respectively.    --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.

Three years of churning turmoil later, how does the 2019 general election stand-up? Is it fun? Or has it permanently damaged our capacity to hope?  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.

The Edinburgh Fringe is the largest arts festival in the entire global Earth, its size and scale boggle our soft minds. But its powerful pumping guts run on exploited labour, extortionate rents, and the unrealised aspirations of young artists. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.

Essential workers. Homelessness. The right honourable Jess Phillips raging at Pizza Hut.  The grassroots organising and solidarity of the UK’s first covid-19 lockdown gave us a cheeky peep of an unwrecked future.   --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.

Why do reactionaries only get angrier when they win? How does social media profit from outrage? Why can’t I skywrite death threats to my employer? Lock and load, it's time for the culture war. [starship troopers voice] I’m doing my part. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.

Who is this fucking guy? Earth’s richest guy is a stupid, vindictive nerd and allows us to see the poisonous nexus of state, capital and geek culture. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley. Special thanks to Erin Cullen as dismayed twitter user and Matt Tate as Northern Elon Musk

If an apocalypse happens slowly, how can we tell when it has arrived? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.

Is The Goblin Good? Or is goblinity just a way of being tired? Sean and Jack discuss burnout, “self care” and being a weird little cackling guy.   --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.    The song "Gemstone’s Gleam" was provided by M Tate. Check out their bandcamp:  https://mtate.bandcamp.com/

Should we worry about what people think of us? Or should we reject all embarrassment, chug down the cringepill and dethrone the shame king. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- **LIVE**  Mandos on tour! This Spring we’re taking an all new live comedy show Hostile Takeover to London, Manchester and Sheffield. Join knockabout radicals and gangly darlings of the northwave comedy scene Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans as they ask: can a comedy show be collective action? Dates & Tickets: 19th May, GRUB, Manchester - bit.ly/mrpmcr 20th May, Shakespeare’s, Sheffield - bit.ly/mrpsheff 28th May, The Bill Murray, London - bit.ly/mrpldn   --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley. This episode contains an excerpt from Antonin Dvorak Legends, Op.59 performed by Waterloo Cedar Falls Symphony.

Iron Man (2008) kicks off the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a film about a war profiteer who learns to become a human gun. Sean Morley was the last man on earth who hadn’t seen it. Until now. Because Jack made him watch it for the podcast.   --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty ---   **LIVE**  Mandos on tour! This Spring we’re taking an all new live comedy show Hostile Takeover to London, Manchester and Sheffield. Join knockabout radicals and gangly darlings of the northwave comedy scene Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans as they ask: can a comedy show be collective action? Dates & Tickets: 19th May, GRUB, Manchester - bit.ly/mrpmcr 20th May, Shakespeare’s, Sheffield - bit.ly/mrpsheff 28th May, The Bill Murray, London - bit.ly/mrpldn ---   Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean

Why make the case for socialism when you can just put LSD in the water supply? Local Narcs Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans discuss psychedelic utopianism, Nixon’s war on drugs and Hitler’s meth army.   --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty   --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.

What are the limits of technology for humanity under an economic model where everything is designed to break? Sean and Jack explore the possibilities and perils of cyberpunk body-modding, the limits of capitalism for preserving our history and also: pipes. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- **LIVE**  Mandos on tour! This Spring we’re taking an all new live comedy show Hostile Takeover to London, Manchester and Sheffield. Join knockabout radicals and gangly darlings of the northwave comedy scene Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans as they ask: can a comedy show be collective action? Dates & Tickets: 20th April, GRUB, Manchester - bit.ly/mrpmcr 21st April, Shakespeare’s, Sheffield - bit.ly/mrpsheff 28th May, The Bill Murray, London - bit.ly/mrpldn ---   Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.

Did you know vending machines have people inside who are paid to stay very quiet and drop the right crisps when you put money in? That’s not true, but that is how the internet works. This episode is about the invisible labour of Online. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty **LIVE**  Mandos on tour! This Spring we’re taking an all new live comedy show Hostile Takeover to London, Manchester and Sheffield. Join knockabout radicals and gangly darlings of the northwave comedy scene Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans as they ask: can a comedy show be collective action? Dates & Tickets: 20th April, GRUB, Manchester - bit.ly/mrpmcr 21st April, Shakespeare’s, Sheffield - bit.ly/mrpsheff 28th May, The Bill Murray, London - bit.ly/mrpldn --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.

I want to be free to pursue my happiness - what a shame I don’t know what happiness is, how it’s achieved, or whether it’s ultimately a desirable aim to build my life around. Boo hoo :)  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.

Jain Edwards joins Sean and Jack to talk about crime, simps and crime simps. What would you rather voyeuristically observe? A catgirl speedrunning tetris online or an unsolved series of crossbow murders? This episode is about our parasocial obsession with parasocial obsessions.  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.

It’s the first episode of 2022 and we’re so glad things are back to normal. Unless, normal is bad - in which case it’s back to the drawing board. Sean and Jack talk about the plasticity of political possibilities and the myth of progress.   --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.

In the last gasps of another record-breakingly bad year, the ever-warring Mandos executive board attempt to stabilise their fragile regime by allowing a cherry-picked selection of peasant petitioners through the portcullis.  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans.

What if you had a different kind of brain? Is yours neuro typical or diverged? Is that Bad? Are you ok??? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.

What is an NFT? What is the promise of an NFT? How are those promises unfulfilled? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Featuring Chris Cantrill as "NFT Direct Message Bozo". Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.  

What was World War One and, why??? Sean & Jack talk war, blimps and Clifford The Big Red Dog.   --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans.

If human beings are actually irrational animals, to what extent can they be blamed for their behaviour under capitalism? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Sean Morley.

Is escapism good? Or should we exclusively look at and think about human suffering? Should I feel bad when I go down the big drop on Nemesis? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Sean Morley.

What does it mean to earn something? Do you deserve your stuff? And would you deserve it was all given to you by a random person? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans.

Sean and Jack discuss transport, psycho-social geography and rail guns. Could trains be more left wing? Could we imagine a “nice” Snowpiercer (2013)?  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.

Sean and Jack discuss free choice in a deterministic universe, the fetishisation of the individual and whether Mr Bean is an alien.  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.

Sean and Jack discuss the existential nightmare of clones to shed light on falling birthrates globally. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music Capel Bond’s Trumpet Concerto in D Major.   Our estranged parents were voiced by Natly, Josie Hypatia Grounds and Becca Thomas. 

Sean and Jack discuss hustle culture, social surveillance and the construction of “adulthood”. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. Also featuring Victor Eijkhout’s ‘Gloop’.

Sean and Jack discuss Jonathan Creek, police and the philosophical arguments for repression. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.

How can we overcome despair, doomerism and The Fear to face the challenges of ecological disaster? Jack interviews Mathew Lawrence, founder and Director of Common Wealth think tank tand co-author of Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown. --- Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown is published by Verso. --- Support us on Patreon, only if you can(!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.

Sean and Jack talk about the politics of sleep and how the 9-to-5 model limits our health and learning. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.

How does the ideology of big tech insulate and sustain itself despite serious mounting criticisms? Sean interviews Wendy Liu, software developer, writer and author of Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism. --- Wendy's book Abolish Silicon Valley was published by Repeater Books in 2020. She can be found on twitter here: https://twitter.com/dellsystem --- Support us on Patreon, only if you can(!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.

Sean and Jack discuss KFC Weddings, the dangers of swans and the discursive value of The Dunk. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.

When Preston was abandoned by both government and big business, they community found ways to create and democratising wealth at a local level. Jack interviews author Rhian Jones about the Preston Model and community wealth building. --- Rhian’s book is “Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too” and is published by Repeater Books. Follow her here: https://twitter.com/rhianejones --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.

Sean and Jack talk about huge currency, economic myths, the cognitive dissonance surrounding political violence and the benefits of using a cherrypicker to hide from the EDL.  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. 

Sean and Jack talk about how mindfulness and meditation practices are used to control workforces, hypnotism’s role in crime and law enforcement and the New Age to Q-Anon pipeline.  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.

Sean and Jack talk democracy, takeaways, and the benefits of a randomly selected house of lords with a maximum term of six minutes. Sean does a deep dive on how democracy has been weakened over time. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. Additional music from Henry Purcell, Jack Evans and Sean Morley featuring trumpet from Josie Hypatia Grounds.

Sean and Jack explore how our relationship with food is shaped - some might say damaged - by market forces. How has Stressbrain Moneytown distorted our relationship with acquiring, eating and paying for our beloved heaps of slop? Special thanks to listeners who shared their food service tales: Karen Finch, @finchypoos Duncan, @FortunesForFun Ashley Booth, @gwhizz52 Tom King, @ItsTomKing Clementine, @clov_a Hannah Platt, @Hannahtheplatt --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. Additional music from Jack Evans and Sean Morley.

Sean and Jack consider whether they have nostalgia for The Old Internet because they are part of an aging generation of millenials hurtling toward irrelancy, or whether its because the internet is now controlled by a handful of corporate oligarchs. It might be both! Natalie Ashton joins us to explore the concept of epistemic friction online. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. Additional music from Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Follow Natalie Ashton here: https://twitter.com/Natalan