KCAA: Get Balanced with Dr. Marissa (Thu, 16 Oct, 2025)

KCAA: Get Balanced with Dr. Marissa on Thu, 16 Oct, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Stuff off that exhausting amster wheel and into balance.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Living with Doctor.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Marissa from missu Ju.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Mis. Doctor Marisa, also known as the Asian Oprah. Her
mission to be a beneficial presence on the planet, her
purpose to be your personal advocate, to live, lap love,
learn her life motto, don't die wondering, Take back your
life with Doctor Maurica Pey.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
And no welcome your to take my advice. I'm not
using a gift. Balance with Doctor Marissa. Good Morning show
here ONKZYAA That's CNBC News, NBC News and NBC Sports
Radio station KCAA, home to the Asian Oprah, AM ten
fifty FM, one oh six point five and I the Podchaser, Geosantiki,

(00:59):
Live Rom and more. I am Doctor Marissa, and I
am delighted to be the first maybe to wish you
Happy Valentine's Day Today also known as SAD Day, single
Awareness Day, whichever one it is for you, I wish
you the best day ever and to celebrate Valentine's with

(01:20):
me today. I can't wait to bring you the Waltons.
So some of you are not ageless enough as I
am to remember the Waltons, but even the youngins know
that expression good night, john boy, and that is from
the amazing classic TV for the Waltons, and that is

(01:46):
coming up. And you know this is a show about
hope and happiness. So there's no gossip, no scandal, no kwords,
no Kardashian talk at all.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Instead, I want.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
You to focus on your own reality show and I am.
So let's see, We're gonna start with breakfast, so I
see eyeballs in the studio.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Thanks for joining me.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Eight specific gratitudes is how I like to start every
show that I can with so that you can top
your day with gratitude. And then the bottom of the
butt is appreciation. So what are the things that you
like about yourself? Once we finish that, we will get

(02:28):
into the show. So what are you grateful for? Doctor
Wayne Dyer says five things in the morning, belove a
teacher who's on the other side. Now, I say eight. Eight.
It's a lucky number. It's a homophone for good fortune.
So that's why we do eight. If you just saw

(02:48):
me on Game Show Network last week, the title of
episode four, it's a new show called Switch and they
titled it eight is my lucky number. So guess who
won one thousand dollars on that show, and if you've
been on my Instagram doc Balance, you can see some

(03:08):
of the clips there, as well as on Facebook and
all that wonderful social media family that I have.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
So I'll do that.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
That's my first gratitude that I won one thousand dollars
on that show. To that Today's Valentine's and I have
made peace with Valentine's even when I'm single. It's a
great day.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Three.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
I'm grateful that I have finished one entire year. Last
year on Valentines, I started Love my Body project and
said I don't feel attractive in the body that I'm
in because of weight gain and non non healthy whatever,

(03:56):
and so I decided to put my discipline to work
and as of today, I got on the scale and
I have lost thirty five pounds. So three five is eight.
So that's three grateful that that has happened. I really am.
I have to give myself an ataboy because that was

(04:17):
not easy, but I did it anyways, and now I
feel much more likely to go on a date. Obviously
not in time for Valentinee, but you still send flowers.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
Four.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
I am grateful that I get to live on the
ocean of abundance, and you can hear the waves when
I sleep at night, which is just amazing. Five. I'm
grateful that I have a pool and gym downstairs that
helped me with my love my briv project loss. Six.

(04:52):
I'm grateful that I get to drive out to Cheto
for a client this morning doing organizational psychology. Seven I'm
grateful that Sam's in the studio. You're not going to
see him though. He's my sound engineer, and that him
and all the rest of the guys at KCAA, Fred
my station owner, Mark my station manager, Polly, my other

(05:13):
sound engineer. Let's see if I can get them all.
Rick in the morning in the back, Joe in the back, Who.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Am I missing?

Speaker 4 (05:23):
Sam, Miguel, and you can fill in the rest guys
at CACAA.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
I could not do that without you.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
So this without you, this is my Oh I forgot
to put the banner on. Let's see, it is eight
hundred This is show op this is show eight hundred
and seventy eight and five hundred and sixty four consecutive

(05:54):
weeks on the air. So I am delighted to be
able to prove everybody wrong. Who's said you cannot have
positive shows. It's not gonna last. Well, darlins, it's almost
ten years, so super grateful for that. Now we're gonna
go to the bottom of the butt. What do you
like about your self? Folks?

Speaker 3 (06:16):
What is the.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Appreciation factor?

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Why do I do this?

Speaker 4 (06:22):
Because if you can't forking approve of yourself, how do
you expect other people to? So self care begins with
self love. And this is an epidemic of people being
angry right now or anxious or unhappy, and that stems,
I believe, from the inability to like yourself. I think

(06:44):
that hurt people hurt people. So if you haven't healed
your hurt, this is your chance. Just you know, little
steps before you go to bed. What are things that
you like about yourself? So we're going to help you
practice right.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Now with that.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
And that is what do you like about yourself? I
like the fact that I am disciplined and that I
can do things that I am you know, I use
the Gospel according to Nike, and you know I just
do it anyways, and that is, uh, you know, something

(07:23):
that you develop. So that's why what do you appreciate
about yourself? I still don't see anybody joining me in
the comments. You know the drill, Come on, what do
you like about yourself? Especially on Valentine's Day. Two I
know that I don't need anyone to complete me. Jerry Maguire,
love you. But I think that that has hurt us,

(07:46):
that we think we need someone not saying you don't
have to that relationships aren't fabulous. But first and foremost,
I know that I am. I am a complete whole
and one of a kind, wonderful by myself.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Three.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
I appreciate that I know how to turn myself around
when I'm not feeling good. For I know how to
keep my mouth shut eighty eight percent of the time
because I hate apologizing. Five I appreciate that I have
a sense of style. And six I appreciate that I

(08:22):
know how to take compliments now eighty eight percent of
the time. I don't wave them away or have that
critical voice say I don't really know you.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
I receive.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Seven. I appreciate that I love to smile and I ate. Finally,
I appreciate that I love to laugh and that laughter
is my favorite sound. So let's see if we can't
laugh today. That's it for Breakfast with Doctor Marissa taking
a bite of my gratitude sandwich.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Thank you for doing that with me.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Today on this Valentine's Day. And now I am going
to go ahead and bring you the Waltons. We had
to pre record and John Boy is off doing his
another film project, but I do have Michael Learned, who is.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Just delightful USh I.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
Introduced her during this particular interview that I did with
three other Waltons, her son Ben from the Waltons, daughter
Mary Ellen, and the baby of the family, Elizabeth. So
that's one, two, three, four of them and myself and

(09:47):
I'm just going to bring them. Before I bring them
to you, I'm going to play a little clip that
Harlan sent me, and thank you Harlan for just continuing
to give me amazing a classic TV guests.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
So if you've.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
Missed any of them, they are in my Celebrity Show
playlist on YouTube, which is a free subscribe, so you
can get everyone from Marion Ross from Happy Days, Gosh,
I just love her, love her, Loretta Swift from mash

(10:26):
I'm going to leave someone out if I keep going,
So I'm just gonna go and play this and you'll
go to the to the playlist to see them, but
this was their fiftieth anniversary for the Waltons.

Speaker 6 (10:42):
We're sitting here with the Waltons. Was there ever any doubt,
any question of what you were.

Speaker 7 (10:50):
Going to do with your life? Well, when you have
no other skills, but I do, I will say I
got an email from Actress Equity just recently congratulating me
online membership of the union. My Equity card will be
sixty five years old next year.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (11:15):
Go from a mother of this wonderful feeling rude to
the mother Jeffrey Dahmer.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
I sat him everything.

Speaker 6 (11:26):
You know what what some people in the acting trade would.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
Call a leave.

Speaker 6 (11:33):
Well, she wasn't a killer.

Speaker 8 (11:35):
She just happened to love her grandson who was a
killer and chopping up people in her basement.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
How could you not know somebody chopping up.

Speaker 7 (11:45):
But you?

Speaker 6 (11:45):
And you got to work for Ryan Murphy Man with
the Midas Touch.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
I feel very lucky.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
The how going to give you the actual interview that
I did with the Waltons. And as I mentioned before,
John Boy is off doing a film project and I
wanted to play you that just to give you a
little of him before I gave you the rest of
the Walton reunion on Doctor Marissa's show. Here we go

(12:15):
to take my advice. I'm not using a gift balance
with Doctor Marissa. No morning show here on NBC News
Radio CNBC News and NBC Sports Radio station KCAA home
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(12:37):
Tune in Audible, Amazon Music, plot Chister, Gios, Sante Live
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Speaker 3 (12:43):
Why so many places.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
Because I want to maximize my splatter zone for more
hope and happiness.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
So on the show, there's no gossip, no.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Scandal, no kwords, no Kardashian talk at all. Instead, I
want you to focus on your own reality show and
how you can be happy eighty eight percent of the time.
And that's why I have topics and guests to that.
And it is a special day. It is Valentine's Day, and.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
I thought, who could I bring on.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
To celebrate because it's actually sad day for me, Single
awareness Day.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
So I thought, you know what, I'm going to invite
someone special. And for those of you who know that I'm.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Ageless, I still do remember some of my absolute favorite
TV shows growing up and one of them is definitely
the Walton. So if you recognize people on the screen
with me now, they are from the Waltons. And I'm
so delighted to have an assortment like a Forrest Gump's

(13:50):
box of chocolate of the Waltons here with me. I'm
going to just do a little introduction with them and
then have them come and delight us all with some
stories and what they're doing now.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
So I'll start with Judy.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
Judy, if you could just wait right now, since we
don't have the lower third option, and.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
That's a long story we're not going to go into.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
But Judy Norton is a decade long actress, or actually more,
she spent a decade as Mary Ellen.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
On The War on the Waltons.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
She's an award winning director, producer, actress and writer with
recently released suspense filling called Inclusion Criteria, and as a
singer not just on the Walton Christmas CD, but one
of her own called Reflections. And if we were on
my regular studio, there would be big a blause right

(14:51):
now for you. And then we will go to Cammy
Pulled Cutler. Cammy is a college teacher and what's interesting
is she was actually assigned to a schoolhouse in the
area where The Waltons was set the show was set,
and then left the Waltons setting and returned to la

(15:15):
to become a principal of a charter school.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
And she just stepped down from that role.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
Eric Scott, oh, plus Ford Gammy that maybe I'll try
to figure.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Out how to edit back in.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
And then we have Eric Scott, who left the industry
to be a successful entrepreneur with a messenger service for
the industry. And Harlan, our wonderful publicist, tells me that
you started out as a delivery board and ended up
buying the company which is entrepreneur on steroids.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
So welcome to you, Eric, Yes.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
And then last but not least, one of TV's most
respected Moms four time Emmy winner, Michael Learned and I'm
delighted to have her. I you know, wasn't I usually
read the bios right before the show so they're fresh.
And when Harlan called this morning he said billion views

(16:20):
was I was like, wow, billion views, you've reached as
the grandmother of a not so nice guy, Jeffrey Dahmer.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
But I did watch that series.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
It was fascinating Dahmer Monster, the Jerry Dahmer story on
Netflix that has hit a billion views.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
You've done more than.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
That, but certainly that is the latest on your resume.
Congratulations and Locome Michael Learned.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
Thank you so much for coming to my studio.

Speaker 4 (16:56):
I know you all have been celebrating with the fifty
year anniversary of the Waltons. So I will, as you're talking,
go and see if I can retrieve from my Streamers
studios some of the video that Harlan sent over.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
As well as some of the pictures.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
But let's start like this on the cap of three
point to the Walton that you would like to have start.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
And talk about how you got on.

Speaker 4 (17:32):
That show in the first place. I think that's something
that everybody always loves to know, you know.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Was it an accident? Were you trying? Was there anything
funny around that? I've been so fortunate.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
I had Don Wells four or five times on my
show from Billigan's Island. I've had Jerry Mathers from Leave
It to Feaver. I've had half of the cast of
Happy Days. So I've so in eight hundred and seventy
two shows and five hundred and sixty consecutive weeks on

(18:05):
the air. I've been blessed to have a lot of
amazing I want to call them classic and memorable, timeless,
ageless actors.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
So thank you for coming to the studio. But on
the cat of.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Three points to the person in the Brady bunch box
that you would like to have start one to three point.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Okay, everybody's pointing down.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
At you, Eric, so you got the most fingers even
though you lost pointed down.

Speaker 6 (18:40):
I was going down to Michael. So okay, Michael. Michael's
probably her introduction to the show was different than the
three of us, So why don't we start with Michael
and then you can go to the three of us
because we have very similar stories and any one of
us can talk about that. But Michael, how did you
get the show? I don't know. Oh, I know how.

Speaker 8 (19:03):
Fred Silverman didn't apparently did not want me. An ethel Wyneman,
this wonderful woman who used to come up and see
plays at the American Conservatory Theater. She apparently, I was told,
wrestled him to the ground over me. So I'm grateful
to her. But I had short blonde hair and I
was thirty two, and they were looking for someone in

(19:24):
her forties with long red hair. So you hadn't wrestled
Fred Silverman to the ground, I would never have gotten
to meet all you people that I loved so much.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Oh, and you were an actress at a top at
the time. You had done some things. Did you always
know you wanted to be an actress?

Speaker 7 (19:43):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (19:43):
Yeah, I went to drama schoolan an art school when
I was twelve, So yeah, that was in the cards
for me.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
Fantastic.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
And what was your first reaction when you saw Eric
on the set?

Speaker 3 (19:59):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (19:59):
God, Eric.

Speaker 8 (20:02):
You know, Eric has a heart of gold, and he
you know, I would get I had three kids at home,
and there were times when the days just dragged on
and mashed potatoes and the food scenes were all congealed,
and and I would be just beside myself and Eric would.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Come in and make me laugh.

Speaker 8 (20:21):
And once he made me laugh so hard I ended
up sobbing with my head on the table. Eric kept
sometimes kept me going, truly.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
That's beautiful. And Eric, who else would you like?

Speaker 6 (20:38):
Eric?

Speaker 3 (20:38):
Why didn't you talk about your acting entree?

Speaker 6 (20:41):
Yeah? So I acted for about four or five years
before the show started, with modeling and commercials.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
Sorry, I'm trying to get your Walton's video ready, Okay,
go ahead.

Speaker 6 (20:56):
So I started with those uh commercials, and I went
into episodic and did a couple of movies for Disney
and that kind of thing. And then my agent tried
to get me an interview for The Homecoming, which was
a movie they were going to be doing filming in
October of nineteen seventy one, and it ended up being
the pilot for the show. But before that they did

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not really want to see me either, Michael. They it
took her about three months for them to see me,
and she called me one day and said that they
will they will see me. And I went in for
the interview and I didn't think they even gave me
a moment's notice. And I walked away and thinking I

(21:39):
just wasted that interview. I could usually tell after an
interview whether I whether I got I got the I
got the job or not. And I did not feel
good about it. And they called about two three days
later and said you've got a callback, and I came
in and that was when I met Judy and Cammy
and David and Mary and John and we all read

(22:02):
together with Fielder Cook, our director, and the producers and
Earl Hamler was there and we got to meet him
at the time and we did one of the scenes.
It was the It was in the barn for the Homecoming,
and they talked about our filming it four weeks in
Studio City and one week in Wyoming, and we walked

(22:26):
out and said, we've got it. So it was a
very different type of experience for me.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
Great, and you'd been acting. How old were you then? I?

Speaker 6 (22:36):
I was. I was twelve when I got the movie,
and so I worked for about five years before that
starting Yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
And who do you want to spotlight next?

Speaker 7 (22:49):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (22:49):
I think Cammy should come in all right?

Speaker 9 (22:55):
The Homecoming, which Eric was just describing, was the first
thing I'd ever done. My fa They lived about an
hour and a half an hour out of Hollywood. My
mom was working in a job she loved. My dad
was running the family store. Everybody was busy, and I,
according to my mom, I pestered her because I wanted
to be on television until she gave in and send
a photograph to an agent that a photographer had suggested.

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And one of the first auditions I went on was
for the Homecoming. I was just six years old, and
I don't really remember. I'd always love hearing everybody else's
stories because I don't remember those kinds of details. But
I was very little and I was a confident reader.
My mom says that they would say, now, will help
you read your script, and I'd say, why don't I
just read it myself? So I was not shy. I

(23:42):
talked to any stranger. I was absolutely confident and for
no good reason and had a wonderful time and luckily
fell in with these people.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
So how old were you?

Speaker 9 (23:55):
I was six?

Speaker 3 (23:56):
You were six?

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Yes, this is the baby Walton in case some of
you don't recognize the name. But that's great. Six years old.
You can read yourself. And became a teacher. And I
was teasing her because she was the first one to
the studio, and I said, well, that's it makes sense

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because she's the teacher.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Wonderful and last but not least.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
Judy multi multi talented in the sense that you have
a variety of ways in what you express your artistry
and creativity.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
Well, thank you. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (24:37):
I started off when I was about six or seven,
dance dance classes at first, and then my dad got
me an agent, and so I had done work before that.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
I'd done the theater.

Speaker 10 (24:50):
I did children's theater and then worked with a theater
repertory company from the time I was about ten and
did guest spots on TV show or whatever. And when
I was thirteen, I auditioned for The Homecoming. As Eric
and Cammie spoke about, now they were looking for a
family of redheads. Fortunately they were willing to see me. Evidently,

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I didn't hear anything about any long, big push that.
So I was thirteen and it just was a role
that felt very comfortable to me right from the beginning. Unfortunately,
the scene that we auditioned with in the barn cracking
walnuts was really a bit of a show piece for

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the character of Mary Ellen. She was on a rant,
and I was good at doing a rant, so I
was a tomboy, I loved sports, and so it was
just it was a very comfortable role for me to
slip into, and I did feel very good about the audition.
And it was three auditions, you know, one callback, and

(25:56):
then the second callback was as Eric described, where we
were all there and they basically said you are the
group we would like to have do it. So that
was pretty unusual and very exciting, awesome awesome.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Now did Were you surprised.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
At how it really the whole show itself, the characters,
it's a classic, you know. I just I was in
a meeting the other day and I said, you know,
at close, you know, good night, John Boy. I mean,
that has completely carried with it. Were you surprised at

(26:34):
that at all?

Speaker 8 (26:36):
Michael, Well, yeah, I was surprised that the show was
such a hit because I thought it was kind of corny.
I saw the home Coming with Patricia Neil, who originated
my character, and I was entranced by it. I just
thought it was charming and lovely, and I thought she

(26:56):
was wonderful. And they told me that she had turned
the part down, Patricia Neil, and she and I became
friends years later, and not years later, but we became
friends during the period of the Waltons. And I said,
you know, I'm so grateful to you for turning that
part down, because other you know, put my kids through school.

Speaker 6 (27:19):
And she said, open, Darling.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
I didn't turn it down.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
They didn't want to me.

Speaker 6 (27:25):
And that hurt me.

Speaker 8 (27:27):
For her, she really would have loved to do the part,
but she had had a stroke and I think they
were afraid that her health might not hold up doing
It's a lot of work doing on our show. But
that didn't make her feel any better, I don't think.

Speaker 6 (27:41):
But she was so gracious to me.

Speaker 8 (27:43):
I don't know if I could have been that gracious
to someone who was playing a part I would have
liked to play.

Speaker 6 (27:49):
You know, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
You strike me as a very gracious person.

Speaker 8 (27:55):
Well I would cry, But you know, she was amazing.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
That's great, now, Melissa.

Speaker 6 (28:02):
Merissa, when you when you were asking about the fact
that it became so popular and so iconic, you have
to go back historically. When we started, we were very
last placed. The first the first week that the show premiered,
the series were fast forwarding from the homecomings and now
the series. That first week we were in last place

(28:23):
of all the Nielsen ratings, and we you know, we
were up against Flip Wilson and Mod Squad, which were
very popular shows. When when When for the time, But
every week we would we would look at the ratings
and it would slowly go up every week and every week,
and we would watch it, and then it finally broke
the top twenty after the first of the year, and

(28:44):
I remember we did the Easter Story which was the
very last episode they showed of the year, and that
same week that they showed that we were number one
in the Nielsen ratings, and we also ended up with
I think it was twelve or thirteen Emmy nominations. So
all it all happened over a period of one year
that we went from the very last place to first place,

(29:05):
and it got all the Emmy nominations of course, and
Michael and Richard winning it that first year. So for us,
that was our bond during that time. But up until
then we didn't think the popularity was there. They thought
we were just gonna be a throwaway and good luck
if we make it to the second year. So it

(29:26):
was for us it was a big discovery. And I
don't think any of us had any inkling of what
we were doing on the back lots of Warner Brothers
back in seventy two we would be talking about fifty
years later.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yeah. Yeah, so overnight success.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
Is definitely not the description for this show. And Judy,
what do you.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
Think that that happened? Like what you know?

Speaker 4 (29:51):
Michael just said thought it was kind of corny. Definitely
was last place and built up What would be your
explanation do you think that it holds so well.

Speaker 10 (30:03):
I think that a lot of work was done over
that first year in melding the family and really all
of us finding that rhythm, as as the cast as
the family. I mean, we got along great right from
the beginning, but creating those relationships that the audience could

(30:24):
relate to. And from what Michael has said, you know,
she and Ralph and Richard, they really fought for, you know,
the truth and honesty of the scripts and the characters
to always make the show better. And I think that
there was someone for everyone to relate to because we
had it was the three generations in the same family,

(30:45):
and it was just basic, core human stories that anybody
could relate to.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
And from what I've heard.

Speaker 10 (30:52):
Over the years from fans is either it was the
family they wanted to be a part of because theirs
was not good, so they got comfort from the show
in the representation of what.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
A good family was, or it.

Speaker 10 (31:09):
Was like their family, or like how their parents grew
up or something, and so they related to seeing in
some way a representation of themselves and their family. So
I think it just spoke to universal timeless themes, which
I think is why it is still so popular and
reruns now fifty years later.

Speaker 4 (31:29):
That totally makes sense, and people know that I tried
to talk about good news and talk about happiness and
healing because seven out of ten of us are from
homes with childhood trauma, and many times we think that
will never find that.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Happiness, and I don't believe that's true.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
So your explanation of maybe not being in your reality
that was a glue or a fascination or attraction to
the show, That makes a lot of sense. Yeah, Canny
being the baby, you watched yourself?

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Do you watch yourself now and kind of what are
your thoughts?

Speaker 4 (32:14):
I don't like watching myself very much as a repeat
of things.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
But how many years? So you were six by the
last year. How old are you?

Speaker 9 (32:26):
Sixteen?

Speaker 4 (32:27):
Six?

Speaker 3 (32:27):
Ten years? Okay, so you went through puberty on the show.

Speaker 9 (32:34):
But I come to avoid watching that part as a
rule if I am going through puberty, I skipped that episode.
But it's anything pre puberty is it can be fun
to watch because.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
I'm just wondering.

Speaker 9 (32:53):
What in the world I'm thinking, because I I don't
always behave in ways that they Yeah, I'm very un
self conscious. When I was little and I'll just do
random things sometimes, Like there's a there's one scene I
was watching where I think all the Walton kids are
assembled and maybe the sheriff's cars pulled up and we're
listening to them talk, and I suddenly just start to

(33:15):
turn upside.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
Down for no reason at all.

Speaker 9 (33:18):
I'm just dangling upside down, and I'm thinking what am
I doing? And I think it was it speaks to
what a supportive space it was that I felt that comfortable.
But I think it also speaks to the fact that
the directors were like, awesome, just let her do random
seven year old girl things and we'll just leave it in.
It doesn't have to look, you know, picture perfect. It

(33:39):
can be you know, a little rough and tumbled even,
like in our clothing, like my hair is sticking up
all over the place, my dress is a little tear
in it. You know, they let us run around and
get dirty because they wanted it to look real, right.

Speaker 4 (33:54):
Best memories, Michael, of that whole ten years.

Speaker 8 (34:00):
Well, the love that we all felt for each other,
and the fun we had in the makeup room. We'd
all get together, and you know, I just felt for me.
I was the newcomer, really they'd all worked together in
the pilot with Patricia, so I was the newcomer. It
was an adjustment for them. I'm sure it was for

(34:20):
you guys, But I never felt.

Speaker 6 (34:24):
That I wasn't welcomed or loved. And this is my
second family.

Speaker 8 (34:30):
I feel so blessed to love these people and be
loved by them. It doesn't happen that often in this business.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
You know, I was going to ask you about that
because I know that I've you know, interviewed casts where
after it's done, nobody talks to anyone or there's a
break or there's conflict or something like that. And I
watched your reunion at the Hollywood Museum, which I'll be

(35:00):
playing after I speak to you. Is I want to
maximize the time that I have with you. I know
we've said that we were going to finish pretty soon,
so I want to honor that time. But i'll play
that afterwards. And thanks to the Hollywood Museum and Harlan
for lending me that footage.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
You all look like you you know, there's.

Speaker 4 (35:23):
There wasn't a break right for your fifty year anniversary,
and you are fortunate in that in that that isn't
normally what happens maybe in a show.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Why do you think that? Was it something that happened
on set? Was it?

Speaker 4 (35:43):
Was?

Speaker 3 (35:43):
It? Do you do you have any like I did?

Speaker 6 (35:50):
Again, I did five years before, and I never had
been on a set that the people got along as
well as they.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
Did as we did.

Speaker 6 (35:59):
In fact, there was a lot of disharmony going on
when I'd go on a set and I'd watch the
actors were not getting along. And the ironic thing was
here Laura mar was also producing later on Dallas, and
we'd hear about the problems that the actors were having
working together, that they would have to have them come
on at different times. And we just never had any

(36:19):
of that kind of drama. We never had that kind
of discord, never had any problems at all. We all
got along. We do now, and I don't know what
it was other than lightning hit us, and we are
just very fortunate that we all got along. And we
saw very similar We respected each other's feelings, but we

(36:43):
saw things very similar also.

Speaker 8 (36:47):
I would like to can I just say that Ralp
and I had a little spat once. I can't remember,
you know, and I had nothing to do with the show,
but I remember I had to go a knock on
his dressing room because we were about to do a scene,
and I was crying and.

Speaker 5 (37:03):
I said, I can't, I can't do the scene if
we don't make up.

Speaker 6 (37:07):
And he just opened his arms and it gave me
a hug. And that was as bad as it ever got,
I think.

Speaker 10 (37:13):
I think also I remember there being times where I
was annoyed with one of my other siblings.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
As Eric laughed, you know, we would tease each other.
We were really that way. We were like.

Speaker 10 (37:28):
But the thing was we were like real siblings, and
there was always this sense that we were so close
and so bonded that there was the feeling that you
could do that you could argue with somebody, you could
not speak with them, but you always still knew you
were family. So it was never like I felt it
was a permanent break of any kind. It was like, well,

(37:49):
I'm mad at him today, but two days from now,
we'll be off doing something together.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
So I liked that. It wasn't We weren't so careful
with each.

Speaker 10 (37:58):
Other that we felt we had to be walk on
eggshells or anything like that. We could be ourselves and
we accepted each other for who we were, and it
didn't mean that we always got along, but we always
loved each other. So that was the underlying core that
I felt and experienced.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
I remember that I specifically on how there was conflict,
and I think that for me was important because the
conflict got resolved in our home. It never got resolved,
you know, So watching that was a real it was
an eye opener for me for sure.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
Now do you have siblings, Judy, I do.

Speaker 10 (38:40):
I have one brother one sister.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
Would you say that there was a parallel or just
you know, compared.

Speaker 10 (38:50):
And I'm very close with both of them. I'm in
the middle, so I would say that I'm closer with
each of them than they might be with each other.
Just no particular reason. But I certainly I grew up
in the city. It wasn't a big family. It wasn't
anything like the Waltons in that sense, so but I

(39:11):
love them great.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Now.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
I did look up that there was a rumor and
now that Michael, your husband's in the room, I didn't
know it.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
I swear to God.

Speaker 10 (39:24):
Oh yeah, but.

Speaker 4 (39:27):
Welcome to the show, and thank you for lending us
your beloved here a little time.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
And I know that we're almost out of time for you.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
But I heard a rumor that mom and dad on
the Waltons were actually romantically involved outside of the show.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
Is that true? False? False?

Speaker 8 (39:51):
I mean, we loved each other very much, but we
I think we knew that if we ever took it
further than just basically it kind of spiritual love, if
we slept together or had a real romance, that it
would turns It could turn sour and absolutely ruin the
whole chemistry that we all had on the set. So

(40:12):
in some level, Ralph and I were more childlike than
the kids. But on that and on that issue, we
were very smart.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
Hammy, did you.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Notice any of that? You were the littlest.

Speaker 9 (40:25):
I've never noticed anything.

Speaker 6 (40:27):
Ever.

Speaker 8 (40:27):
I couldn't say.

Speaker 9 (40:30):
My main feature as a child was missing most of
what was going on. But I also think as a baby,
people protected and sheltered me, like if any if there
was ever anything that was you know, conflict or people
kept it from Cammy because I was the baby.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Right that makes sense?

Speaker 4 (40:49):
Yeah, yeah, we are going to be out of time.
And so the last question that I always ask my
guests is very quickly, what is the one thing that
you are most grateful for?

Speaker 3 (41:02):
To who or what are you most grateful for? So
we'll start with Eric what.

Speaker 6 (41:10):
I'm most grateful for. I'm most grateful for my family.

Speaker 5 (41:18):
That I have.

Speaker 6 (41:19):
I'm a father of three kids and I love but
I'm also just thankful to have these in my life,
these wonderful people that I've had for over fifty years,
and we celebrate together all of our all of our accomplishments,
but also our happy times together. Everyone will be joining
me next week for my daughter's weddings, so I'm looking

(41:40):
forward to having them there and La thank you. So
we're going to all get together and celebrate a special
day in her life. So that I'm thankful for.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
This wonderful Judy very similar.

Speaker 10 (41:54):
I mean, of course my own family, and but I
I feel like I have been blessed with a very
wonderful life, and a lot of that started, you know,
with this show and this family and having all of
these wonderful people in my life. So I am incredibly

(42:15):
grateful for the fifty fifty years and counting of having
this wonderful second family and everything that the show allowed
me to experience in my life. It, you know, truly
did change my life for the better.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
Great canny very quickly.

Speaker 6 (42:38):
She's frozen. Oh she's observing, Yes, Elizabeth.

Speaker 4 (42:45):
She's just turned out everyone else. Yeah, her internet is okay, lagging,
that's why. Okay, before then shuts off on me.

Speaker 6 (42:56):
Ah, she's back the show.

Speaker 8 (42:59):
I turned my life an uh, put my kids through school.
I'm incredibly grateful for my sons and my grandchildren and
this wonderful husband of mine.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
So you know I have a lot of foul. Well,
thank you so much if you would do this with me.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
Peace in peace, out world, peace through inner piece. This
is doctor Marisa reporting live with the wonderful Walton's here.
I hope you've enjoyed getting a little intimate look into
their lives. I wish you very much in well for
everything that you're about to do.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
And thank you again for coming to my studio. This
is doctor Marissa. Thanks for having us the best day ever.
Thank you, Thank you so much.

Speaker 11 (43:43):
Good night, Marissa, good night, Eric John Boy.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did. Again,
I absolutely love and am so grateful for this forum
that I get to meet some fabulous people whose work,
their body of work continues to delight. I have spoken

(44:22):
to several of the younger generation, and we're really lucky
that we have channels that broadcast older shows and classic
shows like the Waltons. I hope you enjoyed that little
interview with them, and that if you just came in

(44:43):
and missed it, you can go to my YouTube channel
that has you know, that houses all of this interview
as well as the others that I mentioned classic TV.
If you miss the show with Fran Dresher talking about

(45:04):
how to prevent cancer. You know the thing that I
love the most and the people that I have on
if you haven't noticed, it's not just because you're an
actor or a musician, but people who have taken their
limelight and turned it on areas of you know, darkness

(45:29):
or temporary darkness as I call it, so that more
healing can happen. And you know that connection that was made.
You know, why was The Waltons so popular?

Speaker 3 (45:43):
Why was it?

Speaker 4 (45:44):
And for me, definitely it was a time where I could,
you know, dream a little comforted by a depiction of
a family that went through you know, every day family
love and some family conflict. And it was truly one

(46:07):
of those shows that helped me navigate some of the
less than or some of the more painful points when
I was growing up. At the same time, those of
you don't know, you know that I raised that seven
out of ten of us who've had childhood trauma. Is
the fact that there's no blame here. And my Valentine's

(46:31):
message for the end of the show is that if
you are suffering right now from any kind of feelings
that you're not good enough, or that you're not worthy
of a relationship, or that you are you know your
family is so not the Waltons and so not happy days,

(46:55):
and that there's a lot of hurt going on. I
want you to look at I mean, I'm going to
look straight into the camera and.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
Tell you that really you are more than.

Speaker 4 (47:07):
What is happening to you right now. Circumstances and people,
places and things do not impact who you really are
at the core of who you are. And especially on
a daylight Valentine's when all the focuses on who loves me,
who likes me, who's bringing me flowers, you don't bring

(47:29):
you fly anymore. You know, all of that unmet expectations
or feelings that I'm not good enough to have that
in my life, that's allbs. It's a belief system that
keeps you feeling like you're not worthy, that you're not

(47:49):
good enough. And every single one of the seven point
whatever billion it is right now on the planet, every
single person is loving, loved and lovable. Every single person
has unique talents, gifts and abilities to live, home, develop, sharpen, present, execute,

(48:14):
innovate onto this thing called life, onto this platform that
is limited. You know, we're here from a certain time
when we're bored, and we are all going back sometime
into that beautiful energy, that pure love energy, that pure source.

(48:37):
We are all going to go there. Some of us
go sooner rather than later, but no one, no one
human does a different road. We all go back into
that quantum soup.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
Or however you want to call it.

Speaker 4 (48:52):
So if that's true, then we only have this thing
called life, this dash between birth and transition, to enjoy
our lives. This is my public service announcement on Valentine's
twenty twenty three. I want every single one of you,

(49:14):
within the sound of my voice or within the span
of your eyes, to really starting today. Maybe you made
this as a goal or a resolution on the January first,
but today's the day to reaffirm or to begin anew
to love yourself. Please start there, start where you are

(49:43):
right now, take a deep breath in through your nose.
We're going to do the three breath technology. Let's see
if we have time, a little bit of time and
releasing soft shoulders, soft elbows off means that is act
evading your body, your physicalness. Isn't it wonderful that we

(50:04):
can hold hands if you have hands? Isn't it wonderful
that you can touch your face? Isn't wonderful that you
can hug yourself something hashtag COVID silver lining. Right, we've
learned how to hug ourselves when we were in isolation.
Our bodies are amazing things. We have legs where we
can walk and run and take us different places. We

(50:28):
have arms to hold and hug and encourage and pat
someone on the back. We have this amazing digestive system
that we don't have to control that allows us to
process food into energy.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
I think that's amazing.

Speaker 12 (50:46):
We have livers and kidneys and all of those things
that happen without us, you know, being in control of
That's a great example of how intelligent our lives are.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
And then I love this part the sense of taste
where we can enjoy amazing food, touch our fingertips so
that physical part of us enjoy it.

Speaker 12 (51:14):
Enjoy it.

Speaker 4 (51:15):
If you do have a partner, enjoy the physical nature
that you can enjoy from each other. Pleasure is a
beautiful gift of life. Orgasms are a beautiful gift of life.
So all of that is our body that we just
activated with our breath. Appreciate that today. Love your body

(51:37):
today on Valentine's Then take another deep breath in and
release the stories and the drama that's activating the mind.
Don't We have an amazing brain, a mind, and the
most powerful tool we have as human beings is choice.

(51:57):
We have the choice and what we want I want
to focus on all day and every day.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
We don't have to.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
If you don't like what you're looking at, quit looking
at it, go and find something that There's so much
around you. You have a fridge, you have a closet,
all the things that are inside.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
You have a car.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
Those of us who live, you know, in the top
eight percent, a lot of us in America. You know
the fact that you have a car that you can
drive around it.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
I love driving.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
All the things that you want to do and I'm
out of time. I am so grateful that I got
to spend on Valentine's with you. I hope you enjoyed
the Waltons. It's all about balance, folks, piece and piece
out world piece through inner piece. This is doctor Marissa
wishing you the best Valentines ever.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
Now go love yourself.

Speaker 5 (52:56):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
Who was that?

Speaker 5 (53:03):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (53:04):
I let's go to the gratitude. Well, actually I already
started with gratitudes at the top of the show for
this throwback Thursday. But I hope you enjoyed the Waltons.
I hope you enjoyed me at the end there. I
am so grateful that I am consistent that was show

(53:24):
number eight hundred and something that was almost well, that's
let's see Valentine's twenty twenty three, so almost three years ago,
and I am still the same saying the same stuff.
It's no longer seven point nine billion in the world,

(53:44):
it's eight billion, and we are to show one four
hundred and ninety two instead of eight hundred and something.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
So I am.

Speaker 4 (53:55):
So continuously grateful that I have this platform, so glad
that you're here. Thank you for the hearts we've had
wonderful I don't know if April's still here. But she
loves the Waltons and and I love this series because
you know, I'm the recovering over achiever. How many shows?

(54:16):
How many consecutive week seven hundred and one And to
go back and see some of the interviews that I've
been so blessed to have had with the cast of
The Waltons here and so many other great iconic TV
series movies. So grateful. Thanks Harlan that makes it happen.

(54:41):
My favorite publicist who supplies these great people. I think
I'm gonna ask him. I don't know if I've asked
him for Michael learned what a blast she is and
her husband, So remind my to ask Carlin to see
if we can't get those two on. But yeah, that

(55:05):
was Valentine's Day, also known as SAD Day Single Awareness
Day from before. If you tuned in and you thought
that that was today and you're wondering if you just
missed all the holidays, don't worry. It was throwback Thursday.
So you are approaching Halloween twenty twenty. What year are

(55:28):
we in? Twenty We're twenty twenty five, right, that's embarrassing, Yes,
twenty twenty five. Time is definitely flying. I'm having a
blast and life continues to be amazing.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
Blood clot, no blood clot.

Speaker 4 (55:49):
Cancel World tour, not cancel world tour. Very very grateful
that I've turned that corner and I resemble that woman
that was on here just not long ago. But I
hope you enjoyed that throwback Thursday. Make sure you come
back tomorrow. It is straight talk again and tomorrow is

(56:11):
what week is it? It will be James Hawthorn, So
keep it here. Remember it's all about balance piece in
peace out world, peace through inner piece.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
Now go and have the best day ever.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
I'll see you tomorrow.

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