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ULTRAFREE

ULTRAFREE

By: Drea de Matteo
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ULTRAFREE is a podcast hosted by Emmy-winning actress Drea de Matteo. Drawing on the same intensity that defined her work in The Sopranos and Sons of Anarchy, Drea invites listeners into searching, unscripted conversations with artists, dissidents, whistleblowers, and independent thinkers. Each episode examines power, culture, and the narratives we inherit, questioning who benefits, who is silenced, and what is deliberately left unseen. This is a space for curiosity over conformity, unity over division, and inquiry over performance. The conversations are intimate, deliberate, and unafraid to move where others hesitate. If you are weary of being instructed rather than invited to think, welcome. CONNECT WITH DREA AND THE ULTRAFREE PODCAST Drea on Instagram:⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/dreadematteo ⁠ ULTRAFREE Podcast Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/ultrafreepodcast/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Drea on X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/dreadematteo ⁠ Drea on TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@dreadematteo.ultrafree ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ULTRAAFREE Brand on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ultraafree⁠ Watch the show on YouTube:⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@TheULTRAFREEPodcast ⁠ ULTRAFREE PODCAST TEAM Credits: Host, Drea de Matteo; Intro, Music & Graphics by Robbie Stabler; Filmed & Edited by Eric Sarich; Producer Emily Duff; Distribution, Growth & Sales by ⁠Rainbow Creative (⁠https://www.rainbowcreative.co/⁠) ⁠ by Executive Producer Matthew “MoJo” Jones and Jacob Richman. For Sponsorship Inquiries email podcasts@rainbowcreative.coDrea de Matteo Social Sciences
Episodes
  • THE RACE TO CREATE THE SUPER-INTELLIGENT BEAST THAT TAKES OVER MANKIND WITH NATE SOARES

    THE RACE TO CREATE THE SUPER-INTELLIGENT BEAST THAT TAKES OVER MANKIND WITH NATE SOARES
    May 19 2026
    Are human beings machines? Complicated machines with a soul? Complex, moral, ethical, spiritual machines capable of building language and teaching it to soulless bots that will eventually surpass and usurp us into oblivion? And what about intent? Oh that road to hell is surely paved with those “good intentions” alright. That “good” stuff that seems to put the most vulnerable in harm’s way. Have we ultimately written the code for our own extinction? “Humanity is the sort of species that started out naked….” In this mind bending “rise of the machines” ULTRAFREE episode, Drea speaks with Nate Soares, co-author of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All.” In a Doomsday Mommy Exploration of what this “AI Beast” will do to us and our children’s futures, Drea does what only she is able to do so effortlessly and naturally — Take an incredibly intricate, technologically scientific topic and break it down to its core with an expert who has witnessed the dangers and sounded the alarm. Nate Soares is the President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and plays a central role in setting MIRI’s vision and strategy. Soares has been working in the field for over a decade, and is the author of a large body of technical and semi-technical writing on AI alignment, including foundational work on value learning, decision theory, and power-seeking incentives in smarter-than-human AIs. Prior to MIRI, Soares worked as an engineer at Google and Microsoft, as a research associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and as a contractor for the US Department of Defense. A scary & spellbinding discussion that traverses multiple topics about our uncertain futures with technology as friend or foe, and how to navigate and engage with the glut of information that is coming at us a million miles an hour on the internet. Nate Soares highlights the benefits and pitfalls while Drea maintains the importance of protecting our future generations from becoming slaves to an “intelligence” that intends to make us less human and ultimately Ultra-Not-Free. “We could choose a better course than AI,” Nate tell Drea. AI (Artificial Intelligence), as usual, is a financially lucrative endeavor for less than 1% of the population, and a VERY Bad Idea for the rest of humanity. Organic Intelligence & Creativity are where ULTRAFREE places faith, deeds and energy. Buy Nates book here: https://a.co/d/7qRmhhF (https://a.co/d/7qRmhhF) Follow Nate on X: https://x.com/So8res?s=20 (https://x.com/So8res?s=20) About MIRI (Machine Intelligence Research Institute): https://intelligence.org/about/ (https://intelligence.org/about/) ======================================================== BUY ULTRAFREE MERCH HERE: https://ultrafree.co/ (https://ultrafree.co/) Ultrafree Podcast Credits: Host - Drea De Matteo Intro Music & Graphics - Robby Staebler Camera & Editor - Eric Sarich Writer & Producer - Emily Duff Publicity - Vanessa Santos, Renegade PR ( https://redrenegadepr.com/ (https://redrenegadepr.com/) Social Media - Samantha Kyprios, Renegade PR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • George Van Tassel & His Amazing Integratron

    George Van Tassel & His Amazing Integratron
    May 12 2026
    Aeronautical engineer, George VanTassel is Heidi’s cousin. George held UFO conferences and built the first Integratron. In this Unidentified, Flying, Ultrafree Episode, Drea’s homegirl, Heidi discusses her family’s invention — A healing machine that restores cell tissue integrity through sound frequencies that became known as a “Sound Bath.” The Integraton is a 38-foot-tall (12 m) cupola structure with a diameter of 55 feet (17 m) designed by ufologist and contactee George Van Tassel. Van Tassel claimed the Integratron was capable of rejuvenation, anti-gravity and time travel. He built the structure in Landers, California (near Joshua Tree), following instructions that Van Tassel vehemently claimed were provided directly to him by visitors from the planet Venus. The Integratron machine was started in 1957, the structure erected in 1959. It was financed predominantly by donations, including funds from Howard Hughes. After Van Tassel's death in 1978, the building had a series of owners (and was left in various states of disrepair) before sisters Joanne, Nancy, and Patty Karl bought it in the early 2000s. The sisters promote the Integratron as an "acoustically perfect structure", and offer "sound baths" they describe as "...meditation-like sessions accompanied by tones from 22 quartz crystal bowls, creating binaural beats for relaxation and rejuvenation".The building is now a part of the National Historic Register, and continues to be stewarded by the Karl sisters and their adult children. After Van Tassel died, there was a proposal to turn the Integratron into a disco, but that plan was never realized. The Integratron's new owners operate it as a tourist attraction and offer "sound baths" where groups of people are "exposed to harmonic sound frequencies" produced by quartz bowls, claimed to have a deep calming effect. According to one of the structure's docents, the Integratron is an "acoustically perfect sound chamber". The Integratron was added to the National Register of Historic Places in April 2018. The Integratron, located in Landers, California, is known for its perfect acoustics and has been used for recording by artists including the Arctic Monkeys ("Secret Door"), Robert Plant, Arcade Fire, Jason Mraz, Smashing Pumpkins, Vampire Weekend, Moby, and George Lynch. Links: Website: https://www.integratron.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/integratronofficial/ Books by George Van Tassel: https://www.amazon.com/stores/George-Van-Tassel/author/B0DGXP3KXW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1778087538&sr=8-1&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=23131afe-46f6-4ff4-b141-360d0b58e489 NY Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/20/style/tmagazine/welcome-to-the-integratron.html What’s it like to get a sound bath at The Integratron? Read an article here: https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2015/05/05/what-its-like-to-get-a-sound-bath-at-the-integratron ======================================================== BUY ULTRAFREE MERCH HERE: https://ultrafree.co/ Ultrafree Podcast Credits: Host - Drea De Matteo Intro Music & Graphics - Robby Staebler Camera & Editor - Eric Sarich Writer & Producer - Emily Duff Publicity - Vanessa Santos, Renegade PR (https://redrenegadepr.com/) Social Media - Samantha Kyprios, Renegade PR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    28 mins
  • DEFYING THE DIAGNOSIS: I KNEW HOW TO HEAL. Tana Roller – UltraFreedom to Control Her Health

    DEFYING THE DIAGNOSIS: I KNEW HOW TO HEAL. Tana Roller – UltraFreedom to Control Her Health
    May 7 2026
    Tana is objectively the coolest. Honestly, we all wanna be Tana - Kinda, sorta. At the end of the day, Drea’s guest, and good friend, Tana Roller, is a super Ultrafree Badass of Epic Proportions! Forged in the flames of adversity, pedal to the metal, and nipples to the wind, Tana tells Dre her origin story as a stage 4 cancer fighting super-hero who KNEW, KNEW, KNEW how to heal herself, and where to go to get it right for her…on her terms. Tana’s body. Tana’s choice. Hello Ultra-Medical-Freedom-Warrior-Queen-of-Life! Working as a successful Production Designer in film, Tana was diagnosed with Stage 4 melanoma in 2004 and rushed into surgery. She was given 5 years to live. But after surgery, Tana was considered in remission. Then in 2017, Tana was diagnosed with Stage 3 non-Hodgkins follicular lymphoma. Through her own bio-hacking efforts, Tana was able to keep it from progressing until recently, when it was discovered to have spread. That’s where the Sanoviv Medical Institute comes in and Tana takes responsibility for her health in the manner that “explains her shit,” as does the title of her own podcast - The Art of Human Maintenance. Travel with Dre & Tana through this labyrinthian journey of abnormal cell growth, motherhood, courage and motorcycles till we arrive in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico — at the Sanoviv Medical Institute where Tana — and You — can be ULTRAFREE to explore your body’s innate power to heal itself from any and all disease, Even stage 4 cancer. Inspiring, emotional, honest and completely fearless — The respect goes deep here. Get ready folks……this memorable conversation should be shared. Be the true boss of your own body. Rock on. Go Tana! Links: The Art of Human Maintenance Podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HumanMaintenance/videos Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1cG8CqagF45gH4AcY49rhN?si=d56467dcf10845ff Insta: https://www.instagram.com/theartofhumanmaintenance?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-art-of-human-maintenance/id1775523603 Sanoviv Institute: https://www.sanoviv.com/ BUY ULTRAFREE MERCH HERE: https://ultrafree.co/ Ultrafree Podcast Credits: Host - Drea De Matteo Intro Music & Graphics - Robby Staebler Camera & Editor - Eric Sarich Writer & Producer - Emily Duff Publicity - Vanessa Santos, Renegade PR (https://redrenegadepr.com/) Social Media - Samantha Kyprios, Renegade PR Growth & Sales by Rainbow Creative by Executive Producer Matthew “MoJo” Jones (https://www.rainbowcreative.co/) Chapters 0:00 Introduction & Alternative Healing 2:17 Tana's Podcast: The Art of Human Maintenance 13:08 Functional vs. Holistic Medicine 16:30 Dr. Mark Hyman, Jay Shetty & Function Health 22:04 Melanoma Diagnosis (2004) & Finding Juicing 48:07 Lymphoma Diagnosis (2017) & Going Holistic 1:38:10 The Sick Care System & Why We Need Wellness 1:45:14 Biohacking: What It Means & What Works 1:51:55 Infrared Saunas: Everyone Should Have One 2:52:50 Chris Beat Cancer & Final Resources Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    2 hrs and 58 mins
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