NO GPS After Sunset

By Soker

Soker presents NO GPS After Sunset. A scripted audio musical podcast.

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July 24, 2023 Part 3 - The Soul Rebel Generation | Ep14
In today's episode Mez & Aharon get into the last part of Daniel McNeil's magistral book 'Thinking While Black'. McNeil's book does away with the binary Black progressive vs. Black conservative conceptual framework while discussing both Armond White and Paul Gilroy's work as cultural critics. What we get is an expansive overview of Black thought that is elucidating and instructive.
Join us as both Mez & Aharon nerd out on a vast array of ideas that make the Black Atlantic, well, the Black Atlantic.
Podcast produced by Matt J.
Cover art by Matt J.
Music provided by TrethWest.
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1h 25min
June 01, 2023 Underdogs on Top - NBA Playoffs Recap | Ep13
Today's NO GPS episode with Mez & Aharon has the guys discuss the NBA playoffs, the Draft Lottery, the head coaches playing musical chairs with each other and the NBA Finals. Enjoy this one! The guys were in rare form.
Podcast episode produced by Matt Joseph.
Music provided by TrethWest.
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58min
April 21, 2023 Part 2 - The Soul Rebel Generation | Ep12
In part 2 of The Soul Rebel Generation Mez & Aharon talk about the intellectually provocative cultural critic Armond White in great detail.

Time stamps: (1:05) Detroit & the genius and formative years of Armond White
(8:15) Armond the rebel outsider
(13:48) Armond's & Pauline Kael's uncommon common American Americans and their humanism
(18:54) Armond's grand philosophy: Art isn't about seeing yourself, it's about seeing other people and how they are like you!
(23:14) suspicious liberal foxes lurk on every ghetto corner - again, Armond won't be bought!
(27:12) Armond the outcast black intellectual that never gets invited to the cookout
(30:04) Gilroy & Armond both call out the black careerist who use the gains of the civil rights movement for their own profit gain. Armond calls them race hustlers (the Chris Rock's, Cornel West's and Spike Lee's of the scene).
(35:39) The bad but good American movies that Armond loves and thinks that you should love too
(40:17) The issue with Marvel movies for Armond is they have no finite endings and therefore cannot give people a moral worldview to embrace.
(41:32) Mez pushes back against this idea and reveals why Marvel in fact brings people together in the way Armond suggests good films should do.
Corrections: Aharon refers to Armond White's The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World as The Resistant Years. He pleads mea culpa and tells us he was in the throws of battling the flu when recording this podcast episode. Aharon, do better! Hahaha
Podcast produced by Matt J.
Music provided by TrethWest.
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49min
April 12, 2023 The Soul Rebel Generation | Ep11
In this episode of NO GPS Mez & Aharon talk about Daniel McNeil's fascinating new book 'Thinking While Black'. The book is a unique interdisciplinary study of Black cultural critics Armond White and Paul Gilroy that spans continents and decades of rebellion and revolution.
Join us as we take a journey through the Black Atlantic!
Disclaimer: Aharon's microphone blew in the middle of this recording. Due to that the audio for this episode is not up to the usual standard we ascribe to. But we thought the content was just too good to scrap. Enjoy and apologies from the NO GPS crew, namely Aharon!
Podcast produced by Matt J.
Music provided by TrethWest
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1h 16min
February 10, 2023 The West is a Mess, or the Best? | Ep10
Mez & Aharon, with the help of producer man Matt, talk about who won and lost in the most eventful NBA tradeline ever on this latest episode of the NO GPS podcast. They discuss the Hollywood antics of the now better equipped Los Angeles Lakers (2:01), the now disbanded Basquait painting Brooklyn Nets squad (11:23) and Aharon’s beloved & underperforming Toronto Raptors (14:54).

Everything from how restless and perpetually unsatisfied elite NBA players (free agent - 33:47) persistently seeking out greener pastures is analogous to the digital nomadic lifestyles of privileged Millennials & Gen Z’ers who roam the world searching for idyllic landscapes and the most plaint of populaces to satiate their fantasies & libidinal desires is discussed (consider this a knock on the passport bro movement). You’ll love this episode of NO GPS because the guys are bringing you novel takes, comedic segues and seering cultural analysis.

0:00 Intro
2:01 Lakers
9:35 Basketball Styles/Preference
11:23 Nets
14:54 Raptors
22:13 Phoenix & Dallas
29:38 Denver, Playoffs and the West
33:47 Free Agent Nomads
44:58 Popular Justice
56:57 Golden State
1:00:00 Closing

Art by Matt
Music by TrethWest
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1h 3min
February 02, 2023 Most Important Show Ever? | Ep9
The revolution has been televised?!
In this episode Mez & Aharon, with the help of producer man Matt, talk about the last 3 episodes of Andor. The guys discuss the nitty gritty and less glamorous aspects of a revolution (17:55). Everything from the epic prison break in Narkina 5 (2:27) and Andor's critique of mass incarceration to the skulduggery of Luthen and the necessity of his morally questionable tactics for the success of the rebellion (52:05).

Although Andor's 2nd season is still in the works we are considering putting Andor in the same vein as shows like The Wire - namely, as one of the greatest shows of all-time. Email us at [email protected] to let us know what you think of that hot take.

Seriously, the guys for this episode stay true to having NO GPS - they go as far as using the conversation between Mon Mothma and Davo(s?) to go into the nature of financial capitalism (11:54) and use Maarva Andor's eulogy to get into the depths of a proto-revolutionary's mindset (37:10).
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1h 10min
December 06, 2022 NO GPS Ep. 8: The Wakandans learn how to Swim, Again
The Indigenous and Afrocentric dream of reviving ancient civilizations untouched by modernity and colonization come to life in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Mez & Aharon (with the genius guidance of producer man Matt) talk about what happens after this dream is shattered and the world happens upon it.
How is insurmountable grief dealt with? For the first time the Wakandans deal with the unrelenting wave of disaster and pain visited upon the black-African diaspora. The way they surf that wave of grief is instructive for all of us. Mez & Aharon discuss how Princess Shuri, the new Black Panther, learns how to swim through the pain and grief, not as a means of escape but as a means towards self realization.
They talk about how the film treats righteous anger with the due respect it deserves. Emotions of this caliber are usually discarded in productions of this quality and size. But in Wakanda Forever, Princess Shuri, the Black Panther, becomes a synthesis of both her nobel brother King T'challa and her militant cousin King Killmonger. But one has many rivers to cross before this level of black consciousness is reached. Mez & Aharon act as ferrymen in this podcast episode. Enjoy!
Correction: the Year of the Elephant is the year 570 not 1626.
Artwork by Sham & Matt.
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1h 1min
November 27, 2022 NO GPS Episode 7: Andor & the Globalized Managerial Industrial Complex
You are going to have to use your little grey cells to understand the grey side of the force for this episode of NO GPS. Mez & Aharon talk about feeling like tourist's in the world - not belonging to a specific place, and the mania that feeling produces. Further, what happens when people don't have a relationship to the past or to their indigeneity? They become rebels and fight to become newly rooted in what was before seen as alien worlds.

Also discussed are the managerial strategies of the carceral and democratic-capitalist states. The similarities between both managerial styles are highlighted. And the critical question must be asked: will the manager take up for the worker against the forces of oppression? Lastly, the societal outcasts that fill up the ranks of revolutionary forces and fund & catalyze them are the very ones forgotten after final rebel victories. Mez & Aharon center their contributions and give analysis to them.

You can find all of the featured music in this podcast at:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1xub7I9nszNj8hdB9Ezihm?si=sI5nwoG0SL6wjuQEPq46ow
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1h 3min
November 16, 2022 NO GPS Episode 6: Wakandan & Mayan Futures
In this short episode Mez & Aharon give their initial takeaways from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. They talk indigenous mythology, the guiding ghost of Chadwick Boseman and the romanticism of the precolonial past.
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9min
November 13, 2022 NO GPS Episode 5: Escaping the Hellish Repetitions of the Sampled Drum Loop?
In this weeks episode Mez & Aharon (with the help of producer-man Matt) talk about music. Everything from the deep meanings laden in the fast raps of the Heavy D's & Bone Thugs n Hamrony's, to Luther Vandross' extraordinary rendition of Burt Bacharach's 'A House Is Not a Home', and to the transcendental Blues of Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure. Peep this treasure of obscure facts and philosophical insights into the true cultural functions of black music in the New World.
*Correcting Mistakes:
Aharon mistakenly refers to Tevin Campbell as Tevin Brown.
He also mistakenly refers to Robert Johnson as Randy Johnson.
For more information on some of the topics discussed on the podcast you can check out the Soker substack page for part 1, 2 and 3 of the article 'Why do I RAP so fast':
https://open.substack.com/pub/soker/p/why-do-i-rap-so-fast?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://open.substack.com/pub/soker/p/why-do-i-rap-so-fast-cce?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://open.substack.com/pub/soker/p/why-do-i-rap-so-fast-5c3?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

To hear more of Aharon's music featured on the intro and outro, go to:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1xub7I9nszNj8hdB9Ezihm?si=pMhf6FjZQmabxcsMfVdH4A

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FAQs about NO GPS After Sunset:

How many episodes does NO GPS After Sunset have?

The podcast currently has 34 episodes available.