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.
Grab your Above Phone, plus discount, plus free privacy guide at: AbovePhone.com/dani
https://danikatz.com/blog/b/how-to-opt-out-of-the-surveillance-state-with-hakeem-anwar
Today's episode is a little different...and kind of a big deal.
I'm announcing some major shifts, including why this will be my last podcast— for now.
But before we get there, we're diving headfirst into: Tesla virtue signaling, disposable relationships, why we're building secret cases against the people we claim to love, the bizarre tribalism infecting both the Left and the Right, women in business, integrity (or the shocking lack thereof), and why I'm far more interested in honest writing than feeding the endless content machine.
This one's spicy. Stick around until the end for the announcement that changes what's next.
What if the biggest battle of our time isn't political?
What if it's psychological?
In this wide-ranging conversation with journalist, author, researcher, Courtenay Turner, we connect the dots between technocracy, psychology, AI governance, education, propaganda, and the institutions shaping modern culture. From Tavistock and the evolution of psychology to AI voting, social engineering, transhumanism, and the regulatory infrastructure emerging around digital governance, we explore how systems of influence shape the way we think long before they shape the way we vote.
We also dive into eugenics, the philosophical roots of modern psychology, education as behavioral conditioning, the promise—and peril—of artificial intelligence, and why discernment has become one of the most important survival skills of the 21st century.
Watch on Odysee. Listen on podcast platforms everywhere.
Part 2 is available for my paid supporters:
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The Cult of Me + Why/When Your Truth is Irrelevant” Part 1
What do a rock concert, a customer service fail, AI, propaganda, the Santa Fe obelisk, and our collective obsession with "speaking our truth" have in common?
More than you think.
In this solo episode, I unpack the increasingly narcissistic programming that's convinced us self-expression is the highest virtue—even when it comes at the expense of service, discernment, accountability, or each other.
Along the way, I expose how media sneaks editorializing into reporting, why technological "progress" without wisdom/balance is a recipe for disaster, how language reveals the consciousness beneath our culture, and why I'm officially taking my investigative journalism to Substack.
If you've been wondering why everything feels increasingly self-centered, emotionally manipulative, and intellectually bankrupt...this one's for you.
Part 2 will drop for YOU, my beloved supporter, next week.
Show Notes
• Why collective coherence is being ...
Words #126 just dropped! Words is available for me $10+ supporters here and on Patreon. If that's you, comment here, or DM me, and I will send you the link!
Emily and I just dropped our 125th episode of Words. Hurray!! In it, we delve deeper into the Peter Thiel long game, Tucker's 10-point plan, and a very special MK Ultra/Twilight Program easter egg Emily found.
Words is available for my $10+ supporters. If that's you, comment here, and I'll send over the link!
