September 26, 2024 • 20 mins
Drea de Matteo, Emmy award-winning actress from The Sopranos discusses her support for Donald Trump and her experiences as an outcast in Hollywood. She shares her journey from being anti-government to supporting Trump and explains why she speaks up despite the potential risks to her career. Drea also talks about her brand which promotes freedom of speech and tackles cultural issues. She emphasizes the importance of following the truth, educating oneself, and teaching children to be free thinkers. The Karol Markowicz Show is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday & Thursday.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio.
We're in a very weird pro divorce moment. This American
ex Wife is a really popular book among a certain
set of women. Okay, they all live in Brooklyn, about
how freeing divorces. Even the New York Times made fun
of this concept of freedom, though of course they did
(00:25):
it from the left. They wrote. Lens, for example, spends
much of her book detailing her struggle to get free,
but never feels she needs to define freedom. It is
taken as a given that freedom still means the law
firm partner in heels, the self made woman with an
independent business, the best selling author on book tour, the
woman who has shed any residue of the domestic and
(00:46):
has finally come to shine with capitalist achievement. It is
not the freedom for a woman to stay home with
her child for a year or five, the freedom to
stop working after a lifetime toiling in low wage jobs,
the freedom for a Filipina nanny to watch her own
children instead of those of her liberated American boss. The
freedom to start a farm or a homestead, or engage
(01:08):
in the kind of unpaid work ignored by an economy
that still values above all else the white collar professional
labor long dominated by men, and in fact mostly fails
to recognize other labor as valuable at all. End quote
it's bad when the New York Times is making fun
of you, and The Atlantic noted divorce is in the
literary air lately, but also said Lens's impulse to generalize
(01:32):
is so strong that at times her work whiffs of
self help. This idea that a woman can only be
free as long as she's not in a loving, stable
relationship is a weird lie sold to girls, and I
think it's getting worse. Boys are constantly portrayed as a
problem that girls are best to avoid. The idea that
life is about getting a job is pushed constantly. I
(01:55):
remember Michelle Obama telling girls to put books before boys. Look.
I fully agree with that. Obviously, of course, get an education,
but that has largely turned into all books, no boys.
Marriage rates continue to decrease, and this glamorizing of divorce
is not good for anyone. My prediction is that all
(02:16):
of these stories that we read over the last decade
about how older mena lonely, have no friends and no
social outlets will be told about women fairly soon. Women
are more social in general and encouraged to have friends,
but the whole idea that discourages them from being in
relationships will end up hurting them. I often talk about
(02:39):
things you should discuss with your children. Talk to your
kids about the importance of finding the right spouse, of
getting married and having a family. Say the words as
I like to say on this show. But this is
something to also talk about with friends so they don't
get influenced by bad actors. Divorce isn't glamorous, it isn't
freeing saying staying bad marriages. But don't believe the lie
(03:04):
being very much pushed right now, that divorce is the
only road to happiness and that a woman can only
be free when she is alone. So many of you
have checked out my new podcast, co hosted with my
good friend Mary Catherine Ham. It's called Normally and it's
a political show. Unlike this podcast, new episodes are posted
(03:24):
Tuesdays and Thursdays, and just like this show, you can
hear it anywhere you get your podcasts. Please subscribe, Tell
your friends, tell everyone, tell your enemies. Why not. I
appreciate you all so much. Coming up next and interview
with Dre de Matteo. Join us after the break.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. My
guest today is Drey de Mateo. Drey is an Emmy
Award winning actress from the Sopranos and co founder of
the parrolne Ultra Free Hi. Dra, so nice to have
you on.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Hi, It's an honor to be here. I figure I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I'm a big fan of your work. I think I
cried when Adriana was killed on The Sopranos, and I
was like, don't get in the car, don't get in
the car. But I've always thought you were just fantastic.
And I've followed a lot of your recent interviews and
you've talked about being an outcast in Hollywood because of
your support for Donald Trump. Why do it?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I mean, well, first off, I you know, it was
more benign than that.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Before it was Kennedy.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I've been supporting Kennedy the whole time through the pistle pain.
Now that Kennedy's joined forces with Trump, I am not a.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
What do they call them? The Trump derangement syndrome, folks?
Was no TDS.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Well, okay, I had that when I voted for Biden,
and I had never voted in my life because I
was always anti government, always believed it was a selection.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I was anti Bush all of these things.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And until I realized that this administration just seems like
a continuation of that, the Bush administration.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
But I you know, I.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Remember my daughter saying, you know, pick the lesser of
two evils, mommy, And at that time, I wasn't really
I was asleep.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I wasn't paying much attention to what was going on.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I think that when there are Democrats in office, liberals
do tend to go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah, And I felt like, you know, when Trump was
in office, all I kept saying was I think this
is amazing.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Everyone's awake. But I yes, and now cast in Hollywood.
I was never part of Hollywood to be pushed out
of there. It never would have even I don't care.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I don't think I'd go back right now to act
or try to be a part of that society. I
think it's a I think everything is so rigged right now.
I'm not happy with the media period in general. I
feel like there's a war on the truth on from
every angle and creative I just, yeah, my ostracized from Hollywood,
(06:05):
my set aside because of Trump. I mean, am I
going to get behind Trump right now?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Fourth? Right?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I just you know, I just don't get like so
I'm a conservative. You know, before we got on, you said,
you know, like, okay, you're token liberal for the day,
which is funny because you are a liberal, right, I
mean self proclaimed liberal, and yet you're supporting Donald Trump.
You could have an easier time, you know, you could
not say anything you can I mean, you could obviously
(06:37):
join the Kamala train, but even if you don't want
to do that, you could easily just have the easier
time in your career and stay quiet. So I'm always
curious about the people who don't have to speak up
and actually speak up at like risk to themselves. Why
why what motivates you?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I had no choice. I fell into it. I wasn't
looking for a platform of any kind. I've been quiet
actor my whole life, totally anonymous. No one would know
anything from me. My Instagram was never fully active. So
when I lost everything through the vaccine mandates, that was
when things.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Started to get really heated. I was losing my home.
I was almost a foreclosure to talk why I was
in foreclosure.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
And I had to do things that I would never
a million years imagine I would do to survive, take
care of my kids and everything.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It was kind of just a spoof, like like a
joke sort of we we. I'm going to say we because.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
It was a family decision and only fans as a
fan page, not if it only fans is a lot
of different things, but for me, it was you know,
it's like an Adriana to serve a fan page if anything.
And I got a lot of I got a lot
of heat, I got a lot of love.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I am between two worlds. It's funny.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
It's like the conservatives don't want me because I did that,
but they were They had open arms for me for
that because I was People secretly knew I was moving
towards being more of a conservative by the way.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You know, a lot of.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Us and a lot of us ultraliberals will say that,
you know, conservative is.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
The new pop rock. Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
A lot of my I'm digressing and I always do,
and I'm so sorry because I.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Don't worry about it. This is this is a flowing conversation,
you know.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Yeah, it breaks my heart to see my liberal friends
who don't understand yet, and the minute you mentioned because
they I got them all behind Kennedy. Took a while,
and I got a lot of people behind Kennedy. And
now that he's moved over to Trump, I feel like,
holy shit, what am I going to do? How am
(08:51):
I going to convince people that.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
That he's that he's okay right when they're so hung
up on headlines and the fact that he's racist, that
he's sexist, that he's you know, that he has a
personality disorder.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I mean, it's so it feels like the biggest mountain
I would climb right now. And I'm not trying to
get people to vote for Trump or I was never
trying to get them to vote for Kennedy. All I
was doing once I was let out of the stable
and I had no choice anymore. Like once I the
only Fans thing came out and I explained why I
did that, I was catapulted into a world of insanity
(09:30):
and I stayed there. I didn't even feel like it
was me doing the talking Half the time. I'm like,
what is happening here? But I just want people just
to wake up more. The people that are on the
brink of waking up, just go all the way. I
know there are a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
That were going to lose through a lot of this, right, but.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
I think people need to get back to the middle,
to the center of reality, of just reality and recognize that.
You know, I know Trump's a republic and I know
that a lot of people that love him are conservatives.
But I really believe in my heart that he's not
playing politics right now.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I mean he has to, Yeah, he's his own thing.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, and he needs.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
That Republican vote, and I understand that humanity is the
bigger issue right now, and any way to get into
the corruption, to start whacking all those weeds down, you.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Know, with Kennedy in there, because he gives a voice.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Trump says straight in the swamp, and then Kenny comes
in there and explains what exactly that means. And I
feel like the pairing of the two of them. We
were all like hoping for this, you know, because you
need Trump's muscle.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Do you get support from the Italian American world because
they're pretty conservative? I mean, you know, I'm I was
born in Russia. I grew up in Brooklyn. Italians were
my people. They were very similar to US conservatives, and
you know, kind of normal.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
It's funny. I got all their support.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I mean, I know I'll have most of their support
now that I would be behind Trump. Kennedy was a
sort of a nebulous place. I think for some Italians.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I think there's so.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Much ego tied into the politics of of what team
you choose. People are just so like Mega or Blue Blue,
no matter who, there's all his ego in it, and
Italians have major egos. So in that respect, yes, But
then a lot of people who saw that I joined
OnlyFans think that I'm you know, thought now they don't
(11:32):
really know that it's just kind of for fun. But yeah,
so that was tough. I, like I said, I'm a
man without a country. There's no they don't have any
side to be on at this point. I don't really
believe in any of these sides.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I believe in the best person for the job.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I don't think that two men are going to be
able to stop this avalanche that.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
But it's not so much the Democrats.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
You know, they were doing it during the Bush administration,
and they pushed it through Clinton and Obama and all this,
and I just don't know if two men can stop
even with Tulsa. You know it takes all of us
to wake up.
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Speaker 2 (13:51):
What's your largest cultural concern? Like, what do you worry about?
What's our biggest cultural problem?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Without sounding like an asshole, I would say the idiot
you see that's out there right now.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
That's a terrible thing to say. I think where does
all cultures start? Right?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
It starts in the media, you know, they push it
through their channels. I think my hat's right here that
I'm always wearing.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
The fund the media.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
The hat says yes.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
So I feel like a lot of these cultural issues
and Kennedy says it great, while you have everybody infighting
over the social issues, you're not paying attention to what's
really going on. I was trying to explain this to
one of my gay friends yesterday. I just think all
of these rights that they're afraid of being taken away,
(14:37):
like gay marriage or abortion or.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
All of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I think, imagine if we had a society where two
parties decided we are not going to go we are
not running an abortion, gay marriage, We're not going to
run any social issues. We're only going to run on
the heart of the matter of what's really going on
in the world, the food, the war, on the true
with the wars, just the wars alone.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
You look at the two parties and the Liberals will war.
They vote for war, and that's a switch. That's a
huge switch.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
And I wonder with all this sort of identity politics,
which I don't think it's identity in terms of race
and sex. I look at identity politics more like I
have to vote blue no matter who. And it's my
version of it. It's not I know that's not the
way it is in the world. But I feel like
if they could just get away from the teams and
(15:34):
realize that it's all bullshit, it's really about this corruption
that's inside, and these two men are actually trying to
dismantle it. But he's got to use the Republican Party
to do it. And no offense to the Republicans either.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
But I think they know it. I think they're hip
to it.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
What's the idea behind your ultra free brand? Like the
freedom thing seems to be a thing for you, definitely right.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
When I almost lost my home and my kids had
to watch me figure everything out and watch the stress
I had to go through with no help from anyone,
the only person who would help me was a Russian woman.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
She offered to help me.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I just want to tell you that I'll never forget
it because she's she was my I wouldn't take anything
from her because she had nothing, but she said, let
me pay.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Your mortgage off, and I'll do it right now. And
I wouldn't take it.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
But but we were very aligned during the whole Ukraine
Russia thing because you know, we understood what was going on,
whereas you know, a lot of these kids.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
When my kids come to me and say, Mommy, what's.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Happening in Ukraine Russia, and I'm like, I don't really know,
and now I need to go in and educate myself
completely from you know, back in two thousands back to
twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
All this stuff, that's where Ultra Free was born.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
It was continue it was losing everything over freedom of speech.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Oh for being afraid. I was afraid.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I was afraid people were going to come to my
house and force vaccinate us. I mean, you hear this
stuff happening in other places, and what their agenda is
my kids going to go to school.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
We had to move. We were leaving.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
California over the mandates and the public school system.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
And there's more stuff coming that you know that we
know about.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I'm sure you know there's more stuff on the horizon
that is going to trample on our freedom. It's no
matter who gets in office, they're going to push this
agenda as far as it can. So Ultra Free was
born out of all of that. It was, you know,
don't tread on me. It's a very I guess sort
of libertarian, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
And where this is one of our shirts, what is
this in it? I can't as Council.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
For Nuclear Disarmament, the Saints and we you know, we
have a bunch of different ones like that.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
This hasn't come out yet, but our.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Dual Protection Collection and a lot of them are either
religious ambula or guns, and it's more symbolic of anything.
We're anti war, but you're not taking our guns while
you're corrupting our government.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
That's just never going to happen.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
So we support all of these things that most liberals
might not support these days.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah, that's ultra free for you.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
All these hats. You know we're going to be selling
these hats.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah, do you fund the media? Had yet one? So
you survived all of this, You made it to the
other side. You're doing what seems to be really well. Now,
do you feel like you've made it?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
I'll never make it in terms of what's important to me, you.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Know, I want an Emmy that's cool, like I made it.
I made it in that realm. I'm working on a
book right now.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I think that that will be a cool place for
me to make it in a small way again in
terms of what that all means in society.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
But I think that things are just changing so much.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I don't know if they'll ever be an a moment
where I sit there and say my more immature self
might have said that, Like when my name was the
Crossford Puzzles, I was like, yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I made it. Now if you put me in the
New York Times, I want to run for my life.
But no, no, and I don't care about making it.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I just care about I just care about taking care
of people, you know, more than anything.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
That's always been the thing that has filled.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Me the most to be able when I lost all
my money, that was what was the hardest thing for me,
was to know that I wouldn't be able to help
anybody out. So that, for me is the most important thing.
Is I know a lot of people are going to
need help moving forward and what's about to go down
in society, and I need to be prepared to be
(19:46):
able to lend a hand when it happens.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
That's really great. I really enjoyed that. Thank you so
much for coming on and here with your best tip
for my listeners on how they can improve their lives.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
All the truth, pick up every rock in your path,
don't look at headlines, and try to educate your friends
gently ask questions. Ask them to ask questions or follow
the truth. It's always follow the truth. And teach your
children to follow the truth and to be free thinkers.
All of a sudden, kids are damned if they if
they have if they have an opinion, there a future.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah, absolutely yeah. Good advice. She's Dre de Matteo. Check
out her new brand called Ultra Free. Thank you so
much for coming, Andre, Thank you for having.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Thanks so much for joining us on the Carol marco
Wich Show. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio.
We're in a very weird pro divorce moment. This American
ex Wife is a really popular book among a certain
set of women. Okay, they all live in Brooklyn, about
how freeing divorces. Even the New York Times made fun
of this concept of freedom, though of course they did
(00:25):
it from the left. They wrote. Lens, for example, spends
much of her book detailing her struggle to get free,
but never feels she needs to define freedom. It is
taken as a given that freedom still means the law
firm partner in heels, the self made woman with an
independent business, the best selling author on book tour, the
woman who has shed any residue of the domestic and
(00:46):
has finally come to shine with capitalist achievement. It is
not the freedom for a woman to stay home with
her child for a year or five, the freedom to
stop working after a lifetime toiling in low wage jobs,
the freedom for a Filipina nanny to watch her own
children instead of those of her liberated American boss. The
freedom to start a farm or a homestead, or engage
(01:08):
in the kind of unpaid work ignored by an economy
that still values above all else the white collar professional
labor long dominated by men, and in fact mostly fails
to recognize other labor as valuable at all. End quote
it's bad when the New York Times is making fun
of you, and The Atlantic noted divorce is in the
literary air lately, but also said Lens's impulse to generalize
(01:32):
is so strong that at times her work whiffs of
self help. This idea that a woman can only be
free as long as she's not in a loving, stable
relationship is a weird lie sold to girls, and I
think it's getting worse. Boys are constantly portrayed as a
problem that girls are best to avoid. The idea that
life is about getting a job is pushed constantly. I
(01:55):
remember Michelle Obama telling girls to put books before boys. Look.
I fully agree with that. Obviously, of course, get an education,
but that has largely turned into all books, no boys.
Marriage rates continue to decrease, and this glamorizing of divorce
is not good for anyone. My prediction is that all
(02:16):
of these stories that we read over the last decade
about how older mena lonely, have no friends and no
social outlets will be told about women fairly soon. Women
are more social in general and encouraged to have friends,
but the whole idea that discourages them from being in
relationships will end up hurting them. I often talk about
(02:39):
things you should discuss with your children. Talk to your
kids about the importance of finding the right spouse, of
getting married and having a family. Say the words as
I like to say on this show. But this is
something to also talk about with friends so they don't
get influenced by bad actors. Divorce isn't glamorous, it isn't
freeing saying staying bad marriages. But don't believe the lie
(03:04):
being very much pushed right now, that divorce is the
only road to happiness and that a woman can only
be free when she is alone. So many of you
have checked out my new podcast, co hosted with my
good friend Mary Catherine Ham. It's called Normally and it's
a political show. Unlike this podcast, new episodes are posted
(03:24):
Tuesdays and Thursdays, and just like this show, you can
hear it anywhere you get your podcasts. Please subscribe, Tell
your friends, tell everyone, tell your enemies. Why not. I
appreciate you all so much. Coming up next and interview
with Dre de Matteo. Join us after the break.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. My
guest today is Drey de Mateo. Drey is an Emmy
Award winning actress from the Sopranos and co founder of
the parrolne Ultra Free Hi. Dra, so nice to have
you on.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Hi, It's an honor to be here. I figure I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I'm a big fan of your work. I think I
cried when Adriana was killed on The Sopranos, and I
was like, don't get in the car, don't get in
the car. But I've always thought you were just fantastic.
And I've followed a lot of your recent interviews and
you've talked about being an outcast in Hollywood because of
your support for Donald Trump. Why do it?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I mean, well, first off, I you know, it was
more benign than that.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Before it was Kennedy.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I've been supporting Kennedy the whole time through the pistle pain.
Now that Kennedy's joined forces with Trump, I am not a.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
What do they call them? The Trump derangement syndrome, folks?
Was no TDS.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Well, okay, I had that when I voted for Biden,
and I had never voted in my life because I
was always anti government, always believed it was a selection.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I was anti Bush all of these things.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And until I realized that this administration just seems like
a continuation of that, the Bush administration.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
But I you know, I.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Remember my daughter saying, you know, pick the lesser of
two evils, mommy, And at that time, I wasn't really
I was asleep.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I wasn't paying much attention to what was going on.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I think that when there are Democrats in office, liberals
do tend to go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah, And I felt like, you know, when Trump was
in office, all I kept saying was I think this
is amazing.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Everyone's awake. But I yes, and now cast in Hollywood.
I was never part of Hollywood to be pushed out
of there. It never would have even I don't care.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I don't think I'd go back right now to act
or try to be a part of that society. I
think it's a I think everything is so rigged right now.
I'm not happy with the media period in general. I
feel like there's a war on the truth on from
every angle and creative I just, yeah, my ostracized from Hollywood,
(06:05):
my set aside because of Trump. I mean, am I
going to get behind Trump right now?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Fourth? Right?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I just you know, I just don't get like so
I'm a conservative. You know, before we got on, you said,
you know, like, okay, you're token liberal for the day,
which is funny because you are a liberal, right, I
mean self proclaimed liberal, and yet you're supporting Donald Trump.
You could have an easier time, you know, you could
not say anything you can I mean, you could obviously
(06:37):
join the Kamala train, but even if you don't want
to do that, you could easily just have the easier
time in your career and stay quiet. So I'm always
curious about the people who don't have to speak up
and actually speak up at like risk to themselves. Why
why what motivates you?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I had no choice. I fell into it. I wasn't
looking for a platform of any kind. I've been quiet
actor my whole life, totally anonymous. No one would know
anything from me. My Instagram was never fully active. So
when I lost everything through the vaccine mandates, that was
when things.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Started to get really heated. I was losing my home.
I was almost a foreclosure to talk why I was
in foreclosure.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
And I had to do things that I would never
a million years imagine I would do to survive, take
care of my kids and everything.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It was kind of just a spoof, like like a
joke sort of we we. I'm going to say we because.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
It was a family decision and only fans as a
fan page, not if it only fans is a lot
of different things, but for me, it was you know,
it's like an Adriana to serve a fan page if anything.
And I got a lot of I got a lot
of heat, I got a lot of love.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I am between two worlds. It's funny.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
It's like the conservatives don't want me because I did that,
but they were They had open arms for me for
that because I was People secretly knew I was moving
towards being more of a conservative by the way.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You know, a lot of.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Us and a lot of us ultraliberals will say that,
you know, conservative is.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
The new pop rock. Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
A lot of my I'm digressing and I always do,
and I'm so sorry because I.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Don't worry about it. This is this is a flowing conversation,
you know.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Yeah, it breaks my heart to see my liberal friends
who don't understand yet, and the minute you mentioned because
they I got them all behind Kennedy. Took a while,
and I got a lot of people behind Kennedy. And
now that he's moved over to Trump, I feel like,
holy shit, what am I going to do? How am
(08:51):
I going to convince people that.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
That he's that he's okay right when they're so hung
up on headlines and the fact that he's racist, that
he's sexist, that he's you know, that he has a
personality disorder.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I mean, it's so it feels like the biggest mountain
I would climb right now. And I'm not trying to
get people to vote for Trump or I was never
trying to get them to vote for Kennedy. All I
was doing once I was let out of the stable
and I had no choice anymore. Like once I the
only Fans thing came out and I explained why I
did that, I was catapulted into a world of insanity
(09:30):
and I stayed there. I didn't even feel like it
was me doing the talking Half the time. I'm like,
what is happening here? But I just want people just
to wake up more. The people that are on the
brink of waking up, just go all the way. I
know there are a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
That were going to lose through a lot of this, right, but.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
I think people need to get back to the middle,
to the center of reality, of just reality and recognize that.
You know, I know Trump's a republic and I know
that a lot of people that love him are conservatives.
But I really believe in my heart that he's not
playing politics right now.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I mean he has to, Yeah, he's his own thing.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, and he needs.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
That Republican vote, and I understand that humanity is the
bigger issue right now, and any way to get into
the corruption, to start whacking all those weeds down, you.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Know, with Kennedy in there, because he gives a voice.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Trump says straight in the swamp, and then Kenny comes
in there and explains what exactly that means. And I
feel like the pairing of the two of them. We
were all like hoping for this, you know, because you
need Trump's muscle.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Do you get support from the Italian American world because
they're pretty conservative? I mean, you know, I'm I was
born in Russia. I grew up in Brooklyn. Italians were
my people. They were very similar to US conservatives, and
you know, kind of normal.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
It's funny. I got all their support.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I mean, I know I'll have most of their support
now that I would be behind Trump. Kennedy was a
sort of a nebulous place. I think for some Italians.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I think there's so.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Much ego tied into the politics of of what team
you choose. People are just so like Mega or Blue Blue,
no matter who, there's all his ego in it, and
Italians have major egos. So in that respect, yes, But
then a lot of people who saw that I joined
OnlyFans think that I'm you know, thought now they don't
(11:32):
really know that it's just kind of for fun. But yeah,
so that was tough. I, like I said, I'm a
man without a country. There's no they don't have any
side to be on at this point. I don't really
believe in any of these sides.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I believe in the best person for the job.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I don't think that two men are going to be
able to stop this avalanche that.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
But it's not so much the Democrats.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
You know, they were doing it during the Bush administration,
and they pushed it through Clinton and Obama and all this,
and I just don't know if two men can stop
even with Tulsa. You know it takes all of us
to wake up.
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Speaker 2 (13:51):
What's your largest cultural concern? Like, what do you worry about?
What's our biggest cultural problem?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Without sounding like an asshole, I would say the idiot
you see that's out there right now.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
That's a terrible thing to say. I think where does
all cultures start? Right?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
It starts in the media, you know, they push it
through their channels. I think my hat's right here that
I'm always wearing.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
The fund the media.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
The hat says yes.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
So I feel like a lot of these cultural issues
and Kennedy says it great, while you have everybody infighting
over the social issues, you're not paying attention to what's
really going on. I was trying to explain this to
one of my gay friends yesterday. I just think all
of these rights that they're afraid of being taken away,
(14:37):
like gay marriage or abortion or.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
All of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I think, imagine if we had a society where two
parties decided we are not going to go we are
not running an abortion, gay marriage, We're not going to
run any social issues. We're only going to run on
the heart of the matter of what's really going on
in the world, the food, the war, on the true
with the wars, just the wars alone.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
You look at the two parties and the Liberals will war.
They vote for war, and that's a switch. That's a
huge switch.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
And I wonder with all this sort of identity politics,
which I don't think it's identity in terms of race
and sex. I look at identity politics more like I
have to vote blue no matter who. And it's my
version of it. It's not I know that's not the
way it is in the world. But I feel like
if they could just get away from the teams and
(15:34):
realize that it's all bullshit, it's really about this corruption
that's inside, and these two men are actually trying to
dismantle it. But he's got to use the Republican Party
to do it. And no offense to the Republicans either.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
But I think they know it. I think they're hip
to it.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
What's the idea behind your ultra free brand? Like the
freedom thing seems to be a thing for you, definitely right.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
When I almost lost my home and my kids had
to watch me figure everything out and watch the stress
I had to go through with no help from anyone,
the only person who would help me was a Russian woman.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
She offered to help me.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I just want to tell you that I'll never forget
it because she's she was my I wouldn't take anything
from her because she had nothing, but she said, let
me pay.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Your mortgage off, and I'll do it right now. And
I wouldn't take it.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
But but we were very aligned during the whole Ukraine
Russia thing because you know, we understood what was going on,
whereas you know, a lot of these kids.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
When my kids come to me and say, Mommy, what's.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Happening in Ukraine Russia, and I'm like, I don't really know,
and now I need to go in and educate myself
completely from you know, back in two thousands back to
twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
All this stuff, that's where Ultra Free was born.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
It was continue it was losing everything over freedom of speech.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Oh for being afraid. I was afraid.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I was afraid people were going to come to my
house and force vaccinate us. I mean, you hear this
stuff happening in other places, and what their agenda is
my kids going to go to school.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
We had to move. We were leaving.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
California over the mandates and the public school system.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
And there's more stuff coming that you know that we
know about.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I'm sure you know there's more stuff on the horizon
that is going to trample on our freedom. It's no
matter who gets in office, they're going to push this
agenda as far as it can. So Ultra Free was
born out of all of that. It was, you know,
don't tread on me. It's a very I guess sort
of libertarian, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
And where this is one of our shirts, what is
this in it? I can't as Council.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
For Nuclear Disarmament, the Saints and we you know, we
have a bunch of different ones like that.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
This hasn't come out yet, but our.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Dual Protection Collection and a lot of them are either
religious ambula or guns, and it's more symbolic of anything.
We're anti war, but you're not taking our guns while
you're corrupting our government.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
That's just never going to happen.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
So we support all of these things that most liberals
might not support these days.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah, that's ultra free for you.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
All these hats. You know we're going to be selling
these hats.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah, do you fund the media? Had yet one? So
you survived all of this, You made it to the
other side. You're doing what seems to be really well. Now,
do you feel like you've made it?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
I'll never make it in terms of what's important to me, you.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Know, I want an Emmy that's cool, like I made it.
I made it in that realm. I'm working on a
book right now.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I think that that will be a cool place for
me to make it in a small way again in
terms of what that all means in society.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
But I think that things are just changing so much.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I don't know if they'll ever be an a moment
where I sit there and say my more immature self
might have said that, Like when my name was the
Crossford Puzzles, I was like, yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I made it. Now if you put me in the
New York Times, I want to run for my life.
But no, no, and I don't care about making it.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I just care about I just care about taking care
of people, you know, more than anything.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
That's always been the thing that has filled.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Me the most to be able when I lost all
my money, that was what was the hardest thing for me,
was to know that I wouldn't be able to help
anybody out. So that, for me is the most important thing.
Is I know a lot of people are going to
need help moving forward and what's about to go down
in society, and I need to be prepared to be
(19:46):
able to lend a hand when it happens.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
That's really great. I really enjoyed that. Thank you so
much for coming on and here with your best tip
for my listeners on how they can improve their lives.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
All the truth, pick up every rock in your path,
don't look at headlines, and try to educate your friends
gently ask questions. Ask them to ask questions or follow
the truth. It's always follow the truth. And teach your
children to follow the truth and to be free thinkers.
All of a sudden, kids are damned if they if
they have if they have an opinion, there a future.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah, absolutely yeah. Good advice. She's Dre de Matteo. Check
out her new brand called Ultra Free. Thank you so
much for coming, Andre, Thank you for having.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
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