E317. Thank God for Gen X - Drea de Matteo

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🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Bridget sits down with Drea de Matteo, star of The Sopranos, to discuss her personal and political evolution, their mutual gratitude for being part of Gen X, how Drea never intended to become a political activist, how COVID and the lockdowns influenced her thinking and led her to start questioning her preconceptions about the Left and the Right, why it took her until the very last moment to come out in support for Trump, and why she did it even while recognizing that it could damage her abili...

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0:00.0	I knew they were going to mandate it.
0:01.4	I was like, you shut down the whole world in Symphony.
0:04.1	I had friends who were like, you don't let the government take this much power, they'll never give it back.
0:08.3	And I was like, but surely they'll give it back.
0:11.1	And I was wrong.
0:12.7	Losing my home was probably the most unsettling thing because I just wasn't prepared for it.
0:19.0	We literally destroyed a third of small businesses.
0:23.3	The mandates happened and I realized I couldn't do shit.
0:25.8	I couldn't even leave my house.
0:27.1	I couldn't go to a restaurant.
0:28.6	I couldn't visit my mother in New York.
0:30.3	And my kids needed bar codes to go to school.
0:33.0	My kid's not a fucking number, man.
0:35.0	Past election, even Gen Z women moved right, which is shocking.
0:40.3	I think when that whole Joe Rogan thing happened with Neil Young,
0:44.3	all these pictures of Neil Young all over my fucking house because he was my idol.
0:48.3	And I thought, oh, I have to get rid of these pictures because I couldn't stand him after that bullshit.
1:00.0	I'm with Trey and DeMateo everybody. Welcome to Walkins. Welcome. A kindred spirit on the pod.
1:07.0	Hi. Hi. I think it's a yeah everybody, everybody's been like, you two need to talk.
1:14.7	You're going to be best friends because I think we have a similar, I don't know, trajectory,
1:22.5	I guess, similar transition.
1:26.0	We've been transition.
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