Descent into MS - MS Rebels.

About Descent into MS - MS Rebels.

https://www.msrebelspodcast.com 🎧 MS Rebels — Descent into MS. A darkly comic journey through progressive Multiple Sclerosis, mental health, autism, paranoia, neurological pain, fatigue, cognitive decline, addiction, memory and identity. Part memoir, part psychological fiction and part surreal storytelling, follow Guy Strange into the strange world of Motel Disco Mbob — where memories check in but secrets never leave. What happens when multiple sclerosis takes your job, your routine, and the future you thought you were heading toward? A deeply personal film noir, offbeat series.

Publisher

Guy Strange created Motel Disco Mbob, a noir-inspired audio drama about disease, memory and identity

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

26 Jan 2026

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

19 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026

   MS Rebels 6 - Memories of home through a thick brain fog. Guy uses mindfulness to negotiate his Descent into MS. Fond memories battle paranoia, cognitive decline, fatigue, sleeplessness & pain.

   Episode 6 – Memories of Home What do you do when the present becomes too difficult to escape? You go somewhere else. For Guy Strange, the mind motel has plenty of rooms. A rubber glove becomes a monstrous hand on a dark country road. A forgotten caravan beside the sea becomes a doorway to childhood. Basking sharks glide through the Clyde. Fighter jets roar overhead. Nuclear submarines disappear beneath the water. Then, years later, Soviet fishing ships arrive, bringing Russian sailors, strange trades and an encounter that might have been an adventure worth taking. But beneath the humour and memories lies something darker. Pain. Fatigue. Sleepless nights. Progressive deterioration. The frustration of a body that won't cooperate and a future that offers more questions than answers. When the present becomes unbearable, Guy returns to the places where he once felt safe — sitting outside a caravan in the summer sun, smelling seaweed on the beach and listening to aircraft overhead. Happy memories become a form of escape. But some memories refuse to stay in the past. And one mysterious woman in a bar continues to occupy a room in Guy Strange's mind. Episode 6 — Memories of Home. Float, float, float away… 🎧 Listen to Episode 6 now — and step inside the memories, mysteries and madness of Motel Disco Mbob.

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   MS Rebels 6 - Memories of home through thick brain fog. Guy seek solace to combat pain, fatigue & cognitive decline in his progressive disability descent into MS. Dark humoured mindfulness journey..

   Episode 6 – Memories of Home What do you do when the present becomes too difficult to escape? You go somewhere else. For Guy Strange, the mind motel has plenty of rooms. A rubber glove becomes a monstrous hand on a dark country road. A forgotten caravan beside the sea becomes a doorway to childhood. Basking sharks glide through the Clyde. Fighter jets roar overhead. Nuclear submarines disappear beneath the water. Then, years later, Soviet fishing ships arrive, bringing Russian sailors, strange trades and an encounter that might have been an adventure worth taking. But beneath the humour and memories lies something darker. Pain. Fatigue. Sleepless nights. Progressive deterioration. The frustration of a body that won't cooperate and a future that offers more questions than answers. When the present becomes unbearable, Guy returns to the places where he once felt safe — sitting outside a caravan in the summer sun, smelling seaweed on the beach and listening to aircraft overhead. Happy memories become a form of escape. But some memories refuse to stay in the past. And one mysterious woman in a bar continues to occupy a room in Guy Strange's mind. Episode 6 — Memories of Home. Float, float, float away… 🎧 Listen to Episode 6 now — and step inside the memories, mysteries and madness of Motel Disco Mbob.

3. 

   16 Sept 2026

   Le mac, l'eau et le vin.

   Episode 5 – My Pimp, the Water and the Wine What happens when the thing you use to escape your mind becomes the thing that owns it? In this raw, darkly comic and deeply unsettling episode, we enter the fractured inner world of a man living with a degenerative disease, navigating the consequences of MS, questions around autism, isolation, addiction, alcoholism and a mind that can no longer be relied upon to remain quiet. He wakes after another restless night. His mouth is dry, his body hurts, his head feels strange, and the memories of the previous evening slowly begin to return. Alongside the physical consequences of drinking comes something heavier: shame, self-hatred and disgust. The familiar realisation that once again, alcohol has won. For him, drinking isn't about taste. It's about effect. “One is too many and ten are not enough.” The episode explores addiction not as an abstract concept, but as an intimate relationship between a person and the substance that has gradually taken control. There is no easy recovery narrative here. He knows he needs help. He has considered alcohol support groups. Yet the idea of a life without alcohol is almost impossible for him to imagine. The drink has become intertwined with his identity, his memories, his emotions and even his sense of creativity. Against this background sits the reality of degenerative disease and MS — a body and brain that impose limitations on a life that once had purpose. Work has become impossible. Movement is difficult. Thoughts can become chaotic. The loss of independence creates an enormous amount of empty time, and in that emptiness the bottle becomes increasingly attractive. The episode also touches on autism and the difficulty of navigating a world built around conversation, social interaction and expectations that don't always make sense to him. Solitude feels safer. Drinking alone becomes a ritual in which nobody appears to judge him and emotion can be opened or closed like a door. But where does neurological difference end and mental breakdown begin? These are difficult questions, and the episode doesn't pretend to provide tidy answers. Instead, it moves between painful honesty and bizarre, observational humour. A stranger on a bus becomes the focus of an obsessive investigation. A woman sitting alone in a bar with a book and two small drinks becomes an enduring mystery. Memories of drinking in Stornoway, student nights, reckless experiments and lonely encounters reveal just how deeply alcohol has threaded itself through the narrator's life. And then comes mindfulness — or something remarkably close to it. During a memory of a birthday celebration beside the River Ouse in York, the narrator sits alone beneath a tree and begins experimenting with a bottle of wine, eight candles and eight crab apples. He lights the candles, places the apples into the flowing river and watches what happens. He expects them to follow one another. They don't. The river carries them along different paths. Some drift away. Some become trapped. One candle goes out. Others follow unexpected currents. And suddenly he sees something that changes the way he understands his alcoholism. The river is the alcohol. The candles are his thoughts. Without the drink, he believes, his thoughts follow familiar and predictable paths. Thoughts become spontaneous, random and unpredictable. They leave the expected route. For perhaps the first time, he understands why he drinks. It isn't a cure. It isn't recovery. It doesn't make the addiction disappear. But it is an insight. There is humour here, but it is uncomfortable humour. There is despair, but also curiosity. There is addiction, but also an attempt to understand it. And beneath everything is one persistent question: If alcohol changes the way you think, feel and experience the world, are you drinking to escape your reality — or to finally experience a version of it that makes sense to you?

4. 

   26 Aug 2026

   Episode 4 - Reeducation.

   Chapter 4 – Rééducation In Rééducation, the mask slips a little further. Guy Strange confronts the reality of living with a progressive disease and the physical and psychological changes that come with it. Walking becomes uncertain, running becomes something his body seems to have forgotten, and the future begins to look increasingly difficult to predict. Alongside the physical deterioration comes another battle — paranoia, low self-esteem, cognitive decline, autism and mental health struggles that are far less visible than a walking stick or a stumbling gait. Guy doesn't want sympathy. He wants to explain. But explaining what is happening means opening doors he would rather keep firmly closed. After being warned that his condition will progressively deteriorate, Guy decides to attempt his own rehabilitation. Twice a week, he boards a yellow bus to a gym with a group of patients who, like him, exist somewhere outside the comfortable boundaries of ordinary society. There, among old equipment, awkward falls, unexpected friendships and a battered treadmill, Guy begins to fight back. For eighteen months, he pushes himself further. Six-minute walks become jogs. The numbers improve. The impossible begins to look possible. But progressive MS doesn't negotiate. Eventually, Guy has to confront the brutal truth: rehabilitation may help him fight the decline, but it cannot necessarily stop it. Darkly comic, uncomfortable and painfully honest, Rééducation explores disability, progressive illness, autism, paranoia, mental health, friendship and the strange ways people learn to live with a future they never asked for. And somewhere between the laughter, the falling, the treadmill and the pain, Guy discovers something he wasn't expecting — people who understand what it means to be an outsider. Even if he still suspects they'll eventually get fed up with him. Motel Disco Mbob — where memories check in, but secrets never leave.

5. 

   13 Aug 2026

   3 - La Pen.

   Episode 3 — La Pen In Episode 3 of Motel De Cobul, the doors are locked, the fences are high, and our narrator finds himself looking back on life inside “the pen” — a place somewhere between secure accommodation, institutional routine and a world of its own. With dark humour, paranoia and a sharply unconventional perspective, this episode explores living with MS and a degenerative disease, autism, medication, obsessive routines and the aftermath of a mental breakdown. From the strange comfort of familiar rituals to the small victories that make institutional life bearable, nothing is quite as straightforward as it first appears. Enter Professor Rose, whose unconventional approach to therapy introduces mindfulness, creativity and “Mind Snaps” into a world dominated by rules and routine. An unlikely friendship develops, while Nurse Ratchet and the narrator continue their battle of wills. There are silk ties, medication, short-pronged forks, raw potatoes, aardvarks, wardens, old rivalries — and plenty of opportunities to score another small victory. La Pen is a darkly comic and sometimes unsettling journey through memory, mental health, neurodivergence and the strange coping mechanisms we develop when life doesn't quite go according to plan. Motel De Cobul — where memories check in, but secrets never leave.

6. 

   10 Aug 2026

   2 .Learning to Walk.

   Motel Disco Mbob. Where memories check in, but secrets never leave. Welcome to Motel Disco Mbob, a cinematic mystery podcast blending psychological suspense, supernatural intrigue, and dark storytelling. Each episode follows travellers, strangers, and lost souls whose paths lead them to an isolated motel in a remote town of northern Quebec. Some arrive by chance. Others are drawn there by forces they don't understand. Every room holds a secret, every guest carries a past, and every stay changes them forever. If you enjoy atmospheric storytelling, unsettling mysteries, and slow-burning suspense with unforgettable characters, Motel Disco Mbob is your next destination. Subscribe to receive every new episode as it's released, along with behind-the-scenes notes, writing updates, and exclusive content exploring the world of Motel Disco Mbob. Check in... if you dare.

7. 

   27 Jul 2026

   Motel Disco Mbob - Episode 1. The Library.

   Motel Disco Mbob – Where memories check in but secrets never leave. Welcome to Motel Disco Mbob, a place where every room holds a memory and every locked door hides a secret best left unopened. Told through the voice of the enigmatic Guy Strange, this original fiction podcast blends psychological drama, noir storytelling, dark humour, and unreliable memories into a haunting journey through a mind that's equal parts refuge and prison. Libraries, institutions, forgotten classrooms, lonely highways, and fading dreams become rooms in a rundown motel where the past is always waiting at reception. In Episode One – The Library, Guy finds warmth and anonymity among books and the kindness of strangers while secretly brushing up on his French and planning to slip across the border. His destination is a remote town in northern Québec—a place where he hopes the cold, the distance, and the vast wilderness might finally put enough miles between himself and his past. But every polished brass handle and frosted glass door threatens to pull him back into memories he'd rather keep locked away. Motel Disco Mbob is a story about identity, trauma, reinvention, and the lengths people will go to disappear. Darkly funny, deeply reflective, and steeped in noir influences, it invites listeners to wander the corridors of a mind where memories check in—but secrets never leave.

8. 

   27 Jun 2026

   The Library.

   What begins as an evening of heartfelt poetry and peaceful mindfulness meditation at a sleepy local library takes a spectacularly unexpected turn when serenity gives way to armed robbery, panic, and absolute absurdity. As Martin recites brooding verse and Elenor guides the audience into a state of perfect calm, a singing bowl rings, tempers snap, and suddenly nobody is allowed to move. Between flying insults, misplaced spirituality, bewildered librarians, stolen biscuits, and questionable getaway plans, the line between performance art and criminal enterprise disappears completely. Part surreal comedy, part satire, and part affectionate parody, The Library spirals from zen tranquillity into glorious chaos before revealing itself as a tongue-in-cheek homage to real-life mindfulness practitioners and authors Martin Stepek and Elenor Gibson. Expect outrageous characters, razor-sharp nonsense, and enough twists to leave your karma permanently confused. Because sometimes the quietest place in town is where the loudest madness begins.

9. 

   7 Jun 2026

   Did MS Take It All Remastered.

   \forced medical retirement due to SPMS.

10. 

    7 Jun 2026

    DJ Danny Doofus Best Bits

    DJ Danny's song introductions.

11. 

    12 May 2026

    The Invitation.

    A punked look at St Andrews Hospice Outpatients Departments practitioners before announcing an MS event.

12. 

    19 Mar 2026

    The Finale.

    Discover more about MS and what really happens when the pharmaceuticals catch up with E, Sandy and G.

13. 

    18 Mar 2026

    Make Do And Mend - meet the MS panelists.

    E, Sandy and G talk all things MS.

14. 

    18 Mar 2026

    Make Do & Mend.

    An unconventional look at Secondary Progressive MS and how although we are broken, we can take solace by still being able to provide use to others.

15. 

    16 Mar 2026

    Descent into MS - Making use of broken pieces & MS Thinking.

    Broken with MS but making ourselves useful.

16. 

    11 Mar 2026

    Descent into MS - An abstract view.

    Personal experience of being newly diagnosed with Secondary Progressive MS.

17. 

    9 Mar 2026

    Descent into MS meets Laura fromMS Society Lanarkshire.

    MS chat with Laura from the Lanarkshire support group, E and Sandy. We discuss all things MS, losing your employment, relationships, medication, pees and pooh.

18. 

    26 Feb 2026

    Descent into MS meets Mind Snaps.

    An irregular look at MS and MS related treatments that you may or may not have heard about. MS humour and an informative meeting with Steve Rose from Mind Snaps.

19. 

    26 Jan 2026

    Did MS Take It All?

    🎧 Did MS Take It All? | Descent into MS What happens when multiple sclerosis takes your job, your routine, and the future you thought you were heading toward? In this deeply personal episode of Descent into MS, I share the moment everything changed — from sleepless nights filled with MS pain, spasms, and cognitive fog, to the morning I realised I could no longer keep working. This is a raw account of medical retirement, chronic illness, disability, and identity loss, told with dark humour, cultural references, and honesty. I talk openly about nerve pain, fatigue, memory problems, intrusive thoughts, and the emotional shock of being forced to stop — not because you want to, but because your body no longer cooperates. This episode explores the blurred line between self-preservation and failure, and how creativity, storytelling, and podcasting became a way to survive the descent. This isn’t inspiration porn. It’s life with MS, unfiltered. If you’re living with multiple sclerosis, chronic illness, or navigating early medical retirement, this episode is for you.

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