Drea de Matteo ｜ 05-04-25
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Summary
Dre DiMatteo joins the show to talk about his favorite TV show, The Sopranos, and why he doesn't like the current state of sports betting in the United States. He also talks about why he thinks the current betting landscape is worse than it used to be.
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that annoying isn't it is just call me dre like dr dre nice and easy right that's what i i thought
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i do my research i make sure it's really andrea you're right so dre it would be dre or whatever
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it works it doesn't matter you could call me whatever you want don't call me collect you
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drey so good to have you uh on the show um i know you've you've you must have done so many
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interviews about the sopranos and whatnot but first of all no one no one knows more about it
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and is a bigger fan than me which should be really annoying but i'm also such a big fan that i know
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not to just bludgeon you with stupid soprano stuff you've been there and you can i'm used to
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it that's my job i'm the mickey mouse of the soprano i'm the mini mouse i should say the
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mini mouse no see here here's what i was saying earlier uh like i think back to to 1999 early
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2000s and i can't imagine well i can because i i have had some people do this where people are
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asking you about what you did then you know oh hey that was great or this and you go oh my god
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it was so long ago but you got to kind of smile and and nod or else you're you know a piece of
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crap i mean i i get to say oh well back in 99 i was on this small tv show called the sopranos you
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might have heard of it there's still billboards for it on sunset boulevard right now as we speak
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i was when i was i i am the worst when it comes to identifying something that's going to be a hit
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or not and in 1999 i was uh doing radio wnew in new york city and i'd walk around the streets of
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new york and the bus boards just started coming up for the sopranos and the the the it said the
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sopranos and had the gun in there and everything and then it said um it said uh if one family
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doesn't kill him the other one will and i was like what is this crap this show is not gonna last
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one season what garbage because i hated the the little tagline they did like oh look out
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the mob's gonna get him if his wife doesn't and it was presented kind of in a weird way i don't think
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they they sold it on at least on that bus board as uh as the show it became it happened so fast
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too oh my god i remember you on any w yes that was that's that's 102.7 right yeah we were uh opie
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and anthony we did the whip them out wednesday thing which ended up on one of the garbage trucks
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in an episode of the sopranos there was a big wow on the back when they blew up the garbage truck
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so yeah i grew up with that was me and i loved it so much back when things were just a little
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Well, speaking of rock and roll, Dre, I didn't even know who your husband was.
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You've gone out and actually been married, I guess, to a couple of musicians over the years.
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I swore this last time around I would never date another musician.
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but Robbie was he won me over in the pandemic that was the end of that was that when that happened
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yeah he got stuck here when they shut the world down with me and my children and I wake up and
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he's teaching my kids homeschooling them I was like okay that's something that yeah a mom looks
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at that just like falls instantly in love it's a rom-com scene for god's sake yeah waking up at 6
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am was not going to be for me and now we've switched we've switched places he wakes at 11
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and now i'm up at six with the kids you were uh well you you were involved for a time i i see with
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uh michael the bass player of white snake i love white snake but i don't want to oh yeah he's not
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in there anymore either i don't think i think that fell apart a lot of things fell apart in
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the pandemic well white snake has had as many members as spinal tap they really uh have had
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quite a few members in there but i still love david coverdale was he was he nice to you did
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you he was awesome i absolutely love him he's he's fun he was great he allowed me to get engaged
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for the second time on his stage oh wow that happened um but that yeah anytime i've gotten
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engaged on stage that that ended up not becoming a good engagement not working out yeah yeah the
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The guy kind of tutoring your kids sounds like a much better husband or boyfriend.
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The similarity between, you know, you with musicians and, of course, Adriana.
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I had two moments in the show that were the most nerve-wracking for me.
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It was a meow, and it was when I had to get on stage
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you know they thought i was a cat on the show and they went with it and i had to meow for them
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that song was so bad i know oh we were listening to this that's a defiler and i go
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just just terrible yours uh of course uh adriana when and i was saying it earlier one of the most
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uh i guess sympathetic characters you know no one in the show and i've watched it so many times over
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you realize like no one in the show is innocent there's just not really one person that is
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completely innocent in that show somebody's out for something they're using people for something
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but uh you you obviously came apart adriana came across as very sweet and uh it was it was kind of
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the worst scene ever to watch her uh demise there at the hands of sill um but i guess you know david
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played it out that way to make you more sympathetic than some of the other especially the wives you
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know carmella and the rest of them i think she was um she was a sacrificial lamb and even though
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she was brassy and she would fight back she never had an agenda like even the kids the kids even had
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hustle yes yes never did like she really and david said this to me too she was pure love like she
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really only operated from a place of love she would defend herself sometimes but she was never
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leading with that type of agenda the way everybody else was people sort of you know they gave into a
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lot of stuff because they wanted certain things she just wanted love and wanted to give love
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yeah yeah innocent in that way so when she dies it's tragic tragic because she changed the show
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in a way like you really got to see how that killing one of their own in that way without
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even a moment of questioning yeah yeah positive it was you really started to feel the animalistic
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nature of these men you know dre uh we're taking a quick break but we'll come right back i want to
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talk to you a little more if you can hang out a bit yeah appreciate it okay uh we'll be back with
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It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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yes the anthony cumia show we're back with dre dimatteo adriana of course from the sopranos you
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were also on uh sons of anarchy which another just graphically violent show now i like to call that
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one diet sopranos even though it was more violent it was still diet sopranos kind of emotionally in
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away right right it was more i think less real deep storytelling and more just cracking heads
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open and whatnot you know yeah they took that to the nth degree but they could they didn't really
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go there with this sort of tragedy it was tragic but a different kind of tragedy i don't i don't
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know how to explain it yeah yeah tv has gotten so different from um obviously the sopranos days and
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a lot of other shows it was must watch viewing when it happened you know sunday night everybody
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sat in front of that tv with their family or um and you watch the sopranos and you talked about
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it the next day and if you missed it you were screwed you know you you were gonna it was gonna
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get spoiled uh it took a little bit before you could see it again um how did that how do you
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think that affects how people watch stuff these days oh man i mean again innocence just gone
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you know like getting people getting together and sitting around i mean the sopranos was an event
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you know people would come sit around and order all kinds of italian food it was like you know
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sundays it was sunday dinner so it was a social it was such a social time and i feel like everything
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has just i feel like it was the beginning of of this beautiful era of television and it was also
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the end at the same time because once we opened that door um it opened the door to you know
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fantastic television and then all of a sudden television became king over films and then the
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streaming started you know it was like what we were going through with the music industry with
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aside from what we just went through in the last
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man and the indie film needs to come back yeah it's it is similar to music in that way because
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everybody wonders what happened to you know the indie bands and uh like we saw in the 90s obviously
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out of the hair metal days and into grunge like it's just some young people in a garage somewhere
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with their idea of what entertainment is in their field and i think yeah movies and tvs need that
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streaming has just kind of gotten where they'll give you maybe one good season and then just pump
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garbage out because you're hooked on the one season it's terrible like a lazy we're living
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during the most lazy and now we have the you know the gen z kids you know i'm always lecturing my
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own son i'm like man you can't take the easy way out i mean i know we've we've all figured out that
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schools and indoctrination situation but we also have to still try to like you know thrive under
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pressure challenges and and try to make cool stuff again like this is now everything's watered down
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everybody flips an auto-tune on um like i just don't tv shows are terrible everything looks
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like this ugly video it's not even like a cool vhs vibe we got this like high def
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ultra realistic yeah i like grain i like film grain what happened to that you watch things
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that they look like soap operas yeah everything looks like a soap opera now i gotta say um
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one of my favorite lines uh why don't you go horn a house i like that one um which one what is it
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Also, you want me to make you some scrambled eggs?
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And then Christopher, one of the worst scenes was,
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um yeah you always seem to like the second you got happy you just got screwed over somehow
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in the same episode back to back like that uh it was amazing where also i won't even ask you
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about the last episode aside from where were you when you watched it and did you go like
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because i talked to vincent curatola and he's like we didn't know that that was going to happen
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me neither yeah i didn't know i was watching it with a house full of people we had a big sunday
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event at my house i think you know if i was pregnant yet or something but i wasn't on the
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show for a year i think at that point so i wasn't really in touch with all my buddies
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and the minute my tv went out i called my one of my best friends who is the production assistant
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on the show and i'm like oh trey could you hang for one more break we gotta go
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take a break quick for the network can you okay we'll be right back anthony cumia
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you know how it is it's like old school the commercials and things you know breaks not like
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a podcast i've enjoyed podcasting over the past few years but uh you know back on broadcast radio
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as they say uh yeah yeah it's it's nostalgic uh you were talking about uh your reaction to the
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the screen going black when you had a room full of people i guess and you were all oh yeah i didn't
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So I just called the people from the production to give me the ending so I could tell everybody in the house how it ended.
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There was no, I didn't even think for a minute that it wasn't.
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I was like, because if they would have killed him, they would have been pissed.
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And if they would have let him live, the whole world would have been pissed because they were still haters back then.
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And they would have been flexing their hate either way.
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So this way it was some abstract ending and it was the best water cooler moment of all time because that show was known for sitting around the water cooler and talking about it.
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Yeah, it was, in hindsight, watching the entire series numerous times and picking it apart and going over it, it really is the only way that could have ended.
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And oddly enough, with satisfying everybody, like you just put it, you know, you'd think everyone was unsatisfied without a nice bow tied around it.
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I think David Chase, in his mind, that was his ending.
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But I don't really know if that's even true because I haven't seen those interviews.
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Yeah, I don't even go over it with people because it's, you know, it wasn't written that way.
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So people go, well, what would you think if they were real people?
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they have lives together they're very dear friends with each other they're their brother and sister
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like yeah really are brother and sister he's always there at her house he moves to where
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she's living a whole other state you know what i mean like yeah it's so they adore each other
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it's amazing yeah it really is like uh it's almost like the sequel you know like the brother and
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sister got out there and they're uh they're doing stuff uh and the way he is with her when she you
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know i was behind them at an autograph signing and he was he she was having a hard time walking
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and the way he just sort of props her up and just makes sure that she's okay it's really
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it's really beautiful it makes me cry yeah they love each other like brother and sister it's it's
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awesome it really is uh yeah you obviously uh have a a political take that isn't quite what
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hollywood uh uh likes or or goes by or hires people with have you do you feel you've lost
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work because of your political uh ideology well i mean i know that i i kind of just removed myself
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right at the head of the pandemic when I knew I wasn't going to get vaccinated.
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I knew that that was going to be either debanking, you know,
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But no, you know, the agency dropped me without a phone call.
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but um so yeah and it wasn't like I was working like crazy you know the particular people would
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find me and want me to do their show so that was the way I always sort of maneuvered it was never
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you know I I wasn't a real career actor I just did it when I had to like whenever I needed a
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paycheck is when I would go go for it and when all of a sudden knowing that that wasn't going
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to be the case like I couldn't just snap my fingers and say okay I'm ready to do a little
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something something to pay the bills and knowing that i could no longer do it that was a really
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rude awakening well you know obviously entertainment it's it's all ebbs and flows you know you're
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working then you're not you know if you'll ever work again and then but you know when you're being
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blackballed or blacklisted because of your your ideology or affiliation or guilt by association
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whatever it is uh you kind of know it i heard one one actor who's one of the prominent
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conservatives out there and i'm still a crazy liberal it's just that i just don't believe
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in bs i believe in the truth and the truth was just leaning to the right for a minute so they
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tagged me you know as whatever because everybody has to have the damn pronoun these days and my
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pronoun is just we the people and get off the back it's not you know it's not red or blue or
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or any of this you know bs but um i forgot what i was doing the vaccine thing was big that was a
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big like turning point with a lot of people i didn't take it i i lied about it i i i used a
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fake thing to get into places and me too yeah i just was not gonna do that my daughter you know
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when i when i realized i was gonna lose my house because that's really where it went
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when I realized things were getting that bad, I said, babe, I got to take a job. She's like,
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I don't want you to use that card, though, for the job. It's one thing for a restaurant. It's
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one thing to get us into a restaurant or a theater thing or something. But to go work and you with
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your big mouth, you're going to get in trouble. You're going to get caught. She's like, you don't
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know how to lie. And I was like, you're right. I don't. I don't know how to lie. And I wouldn't
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of felt good about it so I just didn't do it I so I basically just removed myself so I don't really
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know if I would have gotten a job or not I just sort of I mean I did have to say no to a lot of
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little things that came up that could have kept us afloat it really just pushed me into it was
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like being under so much pressure that I had to make moves that I never thought I would make and
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i made some wild moves man and in those wild moves i ended up becoming like the voice of
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you know one like the the zero percentile of hollywood that would actually speak out against
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it aside from comedians comedians are the trailblazers they always were they always will
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be they speak the truth i don't know some of some of them are some of them are jerk-offs too
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trust me yeah well it might all be jerk offs but at least but maybe they were the only ones that
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were you know yeah i get what you're saying i don't know if i'm a i'm trying so hard not to
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curse because i don't know if i'm on the radio right now i know it's crazy right i i was doing
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my 10 years and i i say f is the every other word out of my mouth in uh my normal life so it's radio
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is kind of a weird thing for me too but uh yeah no i i i get that the the whole time where they
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they were forcing people to get vaccinated to just live their lives and work i was so lucky
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because i was running my own business podcasting business at the time so i didn't have a boss or
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anyone to tell me i needed to to take that shot to to earn a living and for people like you to
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have to do that it was that was i think the most tyrannical i've ever seen this country
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same it was it is a game changer once you kind of see it at that level and really
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you know take it in you can't unsee that and i think that's what changed me completely and then
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all of a sudden i'm just out there talking about this stuff never having i never even felt like
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I never did that much press for any shows I was on.
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I was like the go-to for Fox to bash on celebrities talking about politics.
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And here I am now knowing everything about the history between Ukraine and Russia or, you know, I don't know, Mao Zedong.
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Like, all of a sudden, I am so immersed into the history.
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I'm now I'm on aliens at this point because I'm like, what else can I find out?
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Yeah, I've been I've been taking a few calls tonight on conspiracies and whatnot.
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And boy, I used to be so believing and trusting in the government and everything.
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I I would argue with people like, no, they wouldn't do that.
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And now I feel like an idiot because it's just been proven that, God, we're lied to constantly.
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yeah i trusted the liberal government i trusted the democrats i was like right the bush is out of
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here meanwhile you know once you have dick uh liz cheney and all of those all of them and i mean i
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was like jesus wow and no one is noticing what's going on here the level of total horse you know
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yes happening like i just couldn't believe it so now now this is my life i don't even have
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interest in acting anymore i don't even want to make believe anymore like i feel like things are
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so dire and crucial but not like in a scary way i feel like it's time for there to be a
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a grand awakening and i don't mean woke i mean like no no just open your eyes it's uh boy the
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matrix gets more realistic every time you uh i know man and it's a trip and it's interesting
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and people are afraid because they're afraid of what's happening and i'm like don't be afraid man
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like just open up to it and kind of ease into it and try to evolve through it a little bit because
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i think that's what the message is really yeah yeah you uh you're still doing only fans because
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that got a lot of heat well that's that's what pressurized me into areas where i was like holy
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cow i am i would never get naked on television right right i had a no nudity clause and now i'm
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on a site that is, you know, a pornographic site.
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I mean, at the end of the day, it's Adriana Leserva's fan page.
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I never put a picture of myself on Instagram in a bikini
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I've never seen more selfies and more self-adulation in my life.
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I was like, wait a minute, I can make money posting pictures
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like all of these sort of starlets and old timers like like j-lo and everybody i'm like but i can
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just do this and get paid for it because i'm adriana yeah well trey all all we had was
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screenshots from the tennis court or the leopard dress or when you picked up christopher when he
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was in the neck brace or yeah now that's now that's me every day yeah yeah only fans in my
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underwear some old lady granny porn oh please i love it uh jay thanks so much for uh for popping
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on and uh and talking with me man i i'm huge fan appreciate what you do and uh you know need more
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sort of stuff cool very very nice bring rock and roll back yep bring rock and roll back bring
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movies and tv back uh thanks so much trey i appreciate uh you're coming on with me man
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It means building new jails to keep criminals behind bars.
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And it means there's no need to worry when I play at the park.
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We're making every corner of Ontario safer to make all of Ontario safer.
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Now at Shell, Scene Plus members can fill up on points at the pump, on snacks, car wash, and more.
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Plus, Scotiabank and Tangerine cardholders can get up to 10 cents per liter in value with a linked card.
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New rewards partners, new ways to save and earn at Shell.
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At participating Shell locations, conditions and limits apply.