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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
  • 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
  • KEEP FIGHTING: IF I CAN, WE ALL CAN. Del Bigtree - A liberal heart opens up and lets down his HAIR.

    KEEP FIGHTING: IF I CAN, WE ALL CAN. Del Bigtree - A liberal heart opens up and lets down his HAIR.
    Apr 28 2026
    Have we given up on Eden? Have our ideas and fantasies of “Utopia” been littered with authoritarian laws about everything including litter? Is there such a thing as a benevolent dictator? In this powerfully honest, positive and community-minded conversation, Drea speaks with The Highwire’s, Del Bigtree about musical theater, medical freedom, environmentalism, politics, and more. At the core of everything we are living through right now is Civil Rights and Free Speech. In other words…FREEDOM. Exactly the reason why Drea started the ULTRAFREE PODCAST — and exactly what we are watching slip through our fingers. Meet Del Bigtree: Del Bigtree is one of the preeminent voices of the MAHA Movement. He was the Director of Communications for Robert Kennedy Jr’s 2024 presidential campaign, the founder and CEO of the non-profit, Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), and host of the internet talk show TheHighWire.com, boasting over 400 million views world-wide. A former Emmy winning producer of the CBS talk show The Doctors, and most recently Executive Producer of the film, An Inconvenient Study. Del’s multi-pronged approach incorporates media, legislative, and legal actions to expose the fraud, lies, and conflicts of interest that have allowed US regulatory agencies to collude with industry power brokers to evade standardized safety testing on products including vaccines, drugs, food, drinking water, and 5G. On behalf of American citizens, Del’s non-profit, ICAN, has submitted over one thousand Freedom Of Information Requests (FOIA) and has won multiple lawsuits against government agencies including HHS, NIH, FDA and the CDC. Most notable are the FDA case that forced the release of Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine trial data which the FDA had attempted to hide for 75 years, the CDC case that forced the release of the CDC’s V-Safe Covid Vaccine Injury data, and the State of Mississippi Case which reinstated the Religious Exemption from Vaccination which had been denied for over 30 years. The message of this heart-to-heart? Find your center and remember where you came from. A “left-leaning-liberal” doesn’t suddenly become a “conservative white nationalist” for NOT wanting to take a Covid injection. This is a ridiculous conflation of medical freedom and politics. These two issues have no place in the same discussion. Please stop demonizing people who think and live differently than you might. Our humble suggestion? ”Humans Unite! There are a profusion of very sad, angry & controversial things going on in our world these days - but there’s also an abundance of sweet, sacred, righteous and right-on “happenings” cropping up like bitter-sweet dandelions on your cranky neighbor’s front lawn. There’s REAL healing in the weeds, my friends. How you do anything is how you do EVERYTHING. And Everything is NOW. Recognize and acknowledge the beauty. The warriors. The positive change agents — Embrace the good while asking important questions. Expose lies and DO NOT CONSENT OR COMPLY to the destruction of your bodily autonomy. America is on the brink of destroying it’s core tennent of our constitutional remedy for what ails us — The unfettered & inalienable pursuit of Life, Liberty & Happiness. Thanks Del, keep fighting the Good Fight! For those of us about to ROCK, we salute you! Del Bigtree Links: Visit & Watch the Highwire anytime - or LIVE Every Thursday at 2pm EST: https://thehighwire.com/ Donate to ICAN: https://icandecide.org/support-ican/ Watch “Vaxxed” HERE: https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/videos/vaxxed-from-cover-up-to-catastrophe-movie/ Watch “An Inconvenient Study” HERE: https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/special-presentation-an-inconvenient-study/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 PRGrowth & Sales by Rainbow Creative by Executive Producer Matthew “MoJo” Jones (https://www.rainbowcreative.co/). For sponsorship inquires email podcasts@rainbowcreative.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    2 hrs and 3 mins
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