Word Up With Dani Katz

Word Up with Dani Katz: Episode 89: How to Opt-Out of the Surveillance State with Hakeem Anwar

Your iPhone, your Android, your smarty-smart-smart phone isn’t just a phone or a map or a camera — it’s a pre-hacked surveillance device. And Palantir, the CIA’s favorite data-mining beast, is quietly weaving together a new AI-powered control grid to track, predict, and police us all.
In this explosive conversation, I sit down with Hakeem Anwar, CEO of Above Phone, to expose how Big Tech and federal agencies are merging into a unified surveillance state — and more importantly, how we can opt out.
We dig into:• Palantir’s secretive rise from CIA seed money to global surveillance empire• Why mainstream phones are designed as digital prisons• The hidden traps baked into everyday apps (yes, even your PDF reader)• How to reclaim your privacy with open-source tools and Above Phone• The spiritual + practical path to tech sovereignty in an age of AI panopticons
If you’ve ever wondered how deep the surveillance rabbit hole goes — and how to escape it — this one’s a must-listen.

Word Up with Dani Katz: Episode 88: Denormalizing Cheeks, Gossip and Other Clown World Culture Vices

In her latest solo pod romp, Dani riffs on gossip, relationship drama, and why we’ve got to quit normalizing the demoralization sitch. From messy relationships to kvetchy communities, she breaks down how gossip wrecks trust, warps perception, and poisons the social contract/construct — and why conscious partnership means keeping your dirty laundry where it belongs (with the people actually in the relationship).
Then, Dani delves into the four stages of ideological subversion, how NOT to normalize the demoralization, cheeks at the hot springs (yep, literal cheeks), and creative ways to de-normalize the clown-world nonsense.

Word Up with Dani Katz: Episode 87: Shattering Consensus Reality + Why ‘I Don’t Know’ is the Smartest Answer with Mark Gober

What happens when a buttoned-up Silicon Valley exec ditches the hamster wheel and starts writing books that dismantle everything we’ve been spoon-fed about consciousness, cosmology, government, and science itself? Enter: Mark Gober.
In this fiery, brain-tingling convo, Mark and Dani rip into the upside-down narratives we’ve been sold, the scandal of suppressed science, why “consensus reality” is basically a gaslighting op, and what it actually takes to survive a dark night of the soul without losing your mind.

Word Up with Dani Katz: Episode 86: Operation Bleed

A solo pod romp, wherein Dani offers some candid reflections on Pluto in Aquarius, a recent Paul Levy interview, and how she is reorienting to friendship and community. Moving onto the meat of the matter, Dani reads from “Operation Bleed,” a raw, real, darkly funny, and unflinching essay from her yet-to-be-published essay collection, Love in the Time of Chemtrails. The essay unpacks a disastrous rebound, an unintended pregnancy, DIY womb evacuations, bodily consequences, and the stark gap between what love promises and what it actually brings.

Word Up with Dani Katz: Episode 85: Vows vs. Promises: Matrimony in the Age of Broken Rituals with Stephen Jenkinson

Forget the cake and confetti — Stephen Jenkinson and I are dismantling the wedding industrial complex and dragging matrimony back into the realm of the sacred, the drastic, and the culturally necessary. This is about vows that cost you something, ceremonies with teeth, and love that serves more than just the couple.

Word Up with Dani Katz: Episode 84: Vows vs. Promises: Matrimony in the Age of Broken Rituals with Stephen Jenkinson

Forget the cake and confetti — Stephen Jenkinson and I are dismantling the wedding industrial complex and dragging matrimony back into the realm of the sacred, the drastic, and the culturally necessary. This is about vows that cost you something, ceremonies with teeth, and love that serves more than just the couple.

Word Up with Dani Katz: Episode 84: ChatGPT Is Lying to You, and So Is the Wedding Industrial Complex

In this solo episode, Dani unpacks how ChatGPT subtly rewrites history and perpetuates ideological spin — using the Santa Fe Obelisk protest as a case study in AI-driven propaganda. She calls out the not-so-neutral role language models play in reshaping public perception, especially around contentious cultural moments.
 
Then, for a tonal pivot with teeth, Dani reads Happily Never After, the biting, hilarious opening essay from her (as yet unpublished) book Love in the Time of Chemtrails. Think mushroom-fueled bridal boutique satire meets brutal truths about modern relationships, mommy issues, and post-second wave feminist disillusionment.
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Word Up with Dani Katz: Episode 83: Toltec Tools for a Hijacked Reality with Joel Schafe

Joel Schafer joined me for a deep and rollicking conversation wherein we unpack the psyops, perceptual traps, and narrative spells that have been keeping us, as in our human family, fragmented, divided and confused. We track the weaponization of language, the commodification of “healing,” and the deeper Toltec technologies that help us remember who we are — and how to reclaim our attention, our sovereignty and our culture from the f*ckery.

Word Up with Dani Katz: Episode 82: Reactive by Design: A Case for Messy Healing

Glass shards, shadow projections, rogue electronics and sovereign reclamations abound in today’s solo pod romp, as Dani unpacks some recent paranormal weirdness, reframes diagnoses, and dismantles some popular-but-problematic distortions around consent, victimhood, and reactive shadow expressions.
We’re talking spiritual double standards, energetic hygiene, parasitic manipulations, and the power portals hiding behind our conditioned compliance.

Word Up with Dani Katz: Episode 81: Wetter, Better Hydration with Gina Bria

Most of our high-vibe tribe already knows that water is intelligent. Responsive. Multidimensional. But are we actually hydrating in ways that honor water’s quantum consciousness?
In this episode, Dani drops into the deep end with anthropologist, author, and Hydration Foundation founder Gina Bria, who’s revolutionizing the way we understand water, nourishment, vitality and – most importantly – HYDRATION.