After a long break, NO GPS is back! Aharon and Mez return with their characteristic mix of unconventional takes, plebeian cosmopolitanism, and incisive long-form conversations. This episode, we catch up on our trip to San Francisco (Bay Area)—where we saw each other in person for the first time in 23 years—and dive straight into the ideas and tangents you’ve come to expect from us.

Produced by M. Joseph

Since 1986, when Zapp & Roger wired romance into Computer Love, and 1995, when the first online dating site flickered to life, we've been spiraling deeper into a Love Apocalypse. The heart’s been hacked, the game’s been gamified, and love? Well, love's been left buffering.

In this Valentine’s Day special, Aharon charts the digital contagion—how swiping right became a reflex, ghosting turned ritual, and trolling one’s crush became an advanced flirting strategy. How did we go from checking for tender-roonis to tinder-roonis? From waiting nervously at a café for a blind date to being catfished for a calendar year (apologies to Manti Te’O)? People can’t even tell if it's Valentine’s Day or Halloween anymore—ghosting got them shook.

But don’t worry, love warriors. We’ve got strategies to debug the heart and reclaim romance from the algorithmic abyss. With live performances from Aharon & the Love Savers, poetry from our own A. Love, and deep insights from Professor Jemer, the Love Anthropologist, this episode is a survival guide for those still searching for a signal in the static.

Love may be absent, but that doesn’t mean it’s forgotten.

Produced by Soker.

Music provided by TrethWest.

In this episode of NO GPS, Aharon and Mez throw the Uberized world into gridlock, pulling apart the topological thinking of Anna Kornbluh’s Circulation, the opening chapter of her book entitled 'Immediacy: The Style of Too Late Capitalism'. Kornbluh warns us about the flattening effects of disintermediation—the way late capitalism compresses space and time, eroding the critical structures that once made meaning possible. We no longer experience culture so much as we are immersed in it, drowning in immediacy, stripped of the distance necessary for reflection.

Aharon and Mez situate us in the murky waters of the post-to-the-postmodern moment—a time with no clear shape, no distinct historical texture. A horizon-less now, where everything—people, ideas, services, products—is reduced to raw exchange value. We don’t live in a society with an economy; we live in an economy that barely tolerates the presence of a society within it—an insight drawn from decolonial thinker Walter Mignolo.

But if the world has become one seamless, frictionless circuit, the guys propose a way out: the jam (a show stopping jam a la Michael Jackson & Michael Jordan). Whether physical or informational, they argue that disruption—traffic jams, logjams, algorithmic slowdowns—is the last available tool to fend off the anxiety, stress, and manic hyper-acceleration of contemporary life. The jam, they suggest, might be the only way back to something like a meaningful social life—a move away from Fred Moten’s blur and toward a space where mediation and thought can flourish again.

From psychoanalysis to political economy, geopolitics to future options trading, dream analysis to the gig economy, Juba, Sudan to hip hop’s origins in money-making Manhattan, and even Tenet’s time-twisting metaphysics—Aharon and Mez map out the contours of a world that is always moving and is always stuck in the now.

Produced by Soker

Music by TrethWest

Cover art (as always) by Matt J.

In this NO GPS After Sunset episode, we reimagine Weston-Mount Dennis not as a neglected periphery, but as "The City of Our Dreaming"—a title borrowed from the radical insights of Christina Sharpe's 2024 Alchemy Lecture Series. This is no ordinary retelling; it is a sonic and spatial Black history, reassembled and resurrected to defy the dictates of Empire.

We dismantle the colonial narratives that reduce this territory to urban blight, flipping the script to unveil an emancipatory geography rooted in care, community, and the audacious brilliance of radical imagination. Each act of the episode layers scholarship, music, and storytelling to craft an interconnected vision of the future—one where education, architecture, and economies of reciprocity form the bedrock of liberation.

Guided by Saidiya Hartman's critical fabulations and the transformative power of utopian dreaming, this episode doesn’t just tell history; it remakes it. Absence becomes presence, melancholia transforms into resilience, and Black life transcends the constraints of Euro-modernity to flourish as it was always meant to—unbound, unapologetic, and alive with possibility.

This is NO GPS After Sunset at its most daring: an offering of liberation and renewal for a territory that refuses to be forgotten. Tune in, and let us build a world where dreaming itself becomes a radical act of creation.

What if Home Alone is more than just a holiday staple, more than the merry slapstick marathon we’ve come to cherish each Christmas season? What if Kevin McCallister’s battle for survival—armed only with his wits, an arsenal of improvised 1930s innovations, and a rebellious spirit—mirrors the existential loneliness of our age of hyperconnectivity?

In this updated version of my Christmas scripted audio musical podcast, I revisit Home Alone as an unlikely metaphor for self-tutelage and self-mastery in the face of abandonment—by parents, by the state, by society. From the haunted yet hopeful nostalgia of my childhood in Apartment 710 on the Southside of Jane Street to the barren streets of a Mike Harris-era Toronto, I connect Kevin’s lonely yet inventive struggle to our shared navigation of a neoliberal world where we’ve been left to fend for ourselves.

This is not a tale of mere survival. It’s a story of transformation. Of Hip-Hop’s birth in the ashes of abandonment. Of finding harmony in cultural difference. Of using metaphor as the royal road to the collective unconscious. It’s a story of the mind’s ability to grasp itself, and the promise of a future where our minds can grasp each other’s.

Join us as we uncover the hidden genius of Home Alone—a Christmas classic that resonates far beyond the snow-globe fantasy of the McCallister mansion. And remember: the connection is already made. My mind to your mind. Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals.

Produced by: Matt & Aharon

Written by: Aharon

Music provided by: TrethWest

Recorded during the heat of summer, Mez, Matt, & Aharon bring you a special NO GPS episode that’s been waiting for just the right moment to hit your ears. With the NBA Finals and the U.S. elections on everyone’s mind, we thought—why not bring the worlds of sports and politics together? From game-deciding shots to culture-shaping trends, this episode is a snapshot of our collective anticipation and excitement. Now, as election day nears, our playoff analysis and predictions resonate with a new meaning, showing just how much the game on the court mirrors the game off it. Tune in and see where the Celtics’ victory and our “election forecast” collide in a blend of basketball insight and political intrigue.

In this first episode of a three-part series, we take a unique and innovative look at how city life, professional sports, and popular culture intertwine to shape narratives about citizenship, individuality, and community. Through the lens of the Toronto Raptors’ rise, this podcast explores what it means to belong—both as a fan and as a member of a city that’s finding its voice. In preparation for Vince Carter’s jersey retirement at Scotiabank Arena, we reflect briefly on his legacy, but the real focus is on reimagining these themes in fresh, novel ways. Stay tuned for the next two episodes, as we continue to unravel these stories in ways you’ve never heard before.

Produced by Matt J.

Written by Aharon

Music by TrethWest

Art by Matt J.