What do street art, symbolism, secret societies, futurism, spirituality, and memetic warfare have in common?

Apparently…a lot.

In this episode, I sit down with artist, author, philosopher and friend, James Mathers for a free-wheeling conversation that moves from art to power pyramids, cultural decay, occult symbolism, belief systems, non-duality, propaganda, and what it feels like to live inside an exponentially accelerating world that feels like it’s lost the plot.

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Show notes:

• James Mathers on his background as an artist and his current focus on street art and architectural ornament

• Why working in physical, three-dimensional space matters more than digital platforms

• Street art as “memetic warfare” and public space as a site of communication

• Conversations around secret societies, symbolism, and esoteric traditions

• Acceleration, time, and the sense that cultural inflection points are speeding up

• Questioning imposed metrics of success, wealth, and value

• Art, culture, and the effects of money, marketing, and self-promotion

• The collapse and capture of music, journalism, film, and fine art

• Skepticism toward certainty, belief systems, and moral authority

• Non-duality, consciousness, and rejecting karmic accounting

• Spirituality, occultism, and ritual culture in Los Angeles

• Vulnerability, sensitivity, and the psychic cost of being an artist

• Host manipulation, power pyramids, and speculative models of control

• Cultural exhaustion, decadence, and the possibility of renewal after collapse

• Defining success as presence, simplicity, and fully arriving in the moment

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.

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Part 2:

danikatz.locals.com

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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

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danikatz.threadless.com

Sacred Honor Educational Fellowship:

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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

What if everything we’ve been taught about mindset, performance, healing, and “working on ourselves” is thoroughly ass-backwards?

In this expansive and provocative conversation, former elite athlete, coach, and author Garret Kramer joins me to dismantle our modern obsession with tools, techniques, trauma narratives, and mindset hacks — and to point toward something far more radical: self-discovery.

Garret shares the moment he walked out on one of the world’s top sports psychologists, why trying to “control your attitude” is a logical fallacy, and how peak performance actually arises when the doer disappears. We explore why therapy often reinforces suffering, why feelings don’t need fixing, and how recognizing your infinite nature dissolves fear — on the field and in life.

This episode is not about improving yourself.

It’s about remembering who you are.

If you’re tired of being told what to think, how to feel, or what tool you need next — this conversation will land.

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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

Find Garret:

garretkramer.com