{"podcast":{"title":"WORD UP with Dani Katz","slug":"word-up-with-dani-katz-5207570","podcast_index_feed_id":5207570,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/danikatz/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/danikatz","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/danikatz/20220314_120324_c85f4f990d254d54ec70f42023a5cbfe.jpg","author":"dani katz","episode_count":306,"summary":"Hosted by author, journalist and 5D word nerd, Dani Katz, WORD UP explores how language is programming our minds, our culture and our world, and – most importantly – how to transform ourselves and society for the infinitely more wonderful with our every word. Empowerment tools abound, along with reframes, upgrades, solutions and propaganda breakdowns, plus a generous smattering of cultural criticism, sprinkled with deep-diving, edge-pushing, solutions-based conversations with original thinkers, visionary weirdos and rebel badasses making the world more wonderful.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-04T04:20:00.065179+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-up-with-dani-katz-5207570"},"episode":{"title":"Reparations and the Rubberneck Rub","slug":"reparations-and-the-rubberneck-rub","published_at":"2026-01-26T00:54:55+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-up-with-dani-katz-5207570/reparations-and-the-rubberneck-rub","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-up-with-dani-katz-5207570","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/danikatz/2474982","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/113741/2474982/danikatz/2026_01_21_13_36_02_6484be9c-273b-4b5e-a4ab-bfcaaca07f50.mp3","summary":"In this high-fashion sun spin celebration episode, Dani cuts through the emotional theatrics propping up the reparations/cultural appropriation sham to examine what’s actually happening beneath the rhetoric. We look at directionality, money flows, NGOs, philanthropy, and why backward-facing “solutions” only exacerbate the very problems they claim to solve. Clear-eyed, uncomfortable, and super very necessary. Watch on Odysee. Listen on Progressive Radio Network and podcast platforms everywhere. Part 2: danikatz.locals.com www.patreon.com/danikatz All things Dani, including books, courses, coaching + consulting, and her one-of-a-kind, critically acclaimed POP PROPAGANDA DIGITAL MEDIA LITERACY COURSE: www.danikatz.com Plus, schwag: danikatz.threadless.com Sacred Honor Educational Fellowship: https://bit.ly/42L4xwz Show notes: Watanabe’s Iconic Tweed Collection Pop propaganda Class- Providing Context & connecting dots PSA- Publicists & cold-callers Family- outgrowing old projections and need for validation Curiosity brings relationships into the present Passing out at the movie theatre Pity is hierarchical & arrogant The Irrationality of California’s Reparations Qui bono? Following the (In)Justice Philanthropy money Pop Propaganda Book Reading- Egregious Associations Liberation Ventures- funders list for reparations Psyop silos & fragmentation Missing Foreskin is Cultural Appropriation","meta_description":"In this high-fashion sun spin celebration episode, Dani cuts through the emotional theatrics propping up the reparations/cultural appropriation sham to ex…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3310,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-up-with-dani-katz-5207570/episodes/reparations-and-the-rubberneck-rub/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-up-with-dani-katz-5207570/reparations-and-the-rubberneck-rub.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}