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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Shut off that exhausting amster wheel and into balanced living
with Doctor Marissa.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
From this hu joy.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Doctor Marissa, 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, laugh, love, learn,
her life motto don't die wondering. Take back your life
with Doctor Maurissa pay.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
And welcome. You are tuned into my weekly talk radio
show called take My Advice, I'm not using it. Get
Balance with Doctor Marissa every Tuesday at Naturally High News
out of the Sunset Gower Studios here in Hollywood, California
with UBN Radio Universal Broadcasting Network, and then every Thursday
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at seven and Saturday at one pm on my syndicated
side my NBC News channel ACAAM ten fifteen two point three,
FM one O six point five and now everywhere on iHeartRadio.
And this is a show about hope and happiness. So
there's no gossip, no scandal, and no k words, no
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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 starting with
my piece out shout outs to all the beautiful people
I met this week, first at another fabulous City Summit event,
peace Out two Sophia and Marlena, who recognized me, and
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to all of the amazing nonprofit organizations doing amazing things.
I'll be having some of them on the air next
year with founder Ryan Long from Helping at Risk Youth
to Rescuing children from sex slavery, and a piece in
peace Out to Thaddeus Marguerite and Mom Kim Brooks and
all of the wonderful people who cared. At the Here's
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to Life benefit concert, I was super grateful to be
part of the fundraiser, singing with the amazing Agape International
Choir at the Fonda Theater for the American Foundation for
Suicide Prevention because every life is important and suicide is
a permanent solution to a temporary problem. And recognizing excellent
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customer service because I want to balance out all the
angry ranting about bad experiences. Glenn from Cheap Air, Raina
from Working Wardrobes, Jason at Michael Core's, and Sally at
mac Now. This week my monthly what if Colin comes
out in the Sun, answering a reader's question on what
to do when I hate my job but I'm afraid
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to quit. If you'd like a copy, please do go
to Doctor Mursa, Dot TV and Great News. This week,
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California minute with Doctor Mersa called give Yourself a Break
with dot Orsa. So if you're in anywhere in the
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oh two point three, f M one O six point
five and you'll get me every single day giving me
giving yourself a break And yes this I'm doing all
this because I'm so shy. Sarcasm is another service I offer.
But it's time for the guests that you've all been
waiting for. The amazing hot Lips tou Lahan from mash
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Miss Loretta Swit. Two time Emmy Award winning actress Sarah
Siddons Award for her work on stage, and she has
her own star on Hollywood Boulevard. Most importantly, she has
used her limelight to advocate for animal rights. She recently
received the Betty White Award from actors and others for
animals and is celebrating the forty fifth anniversary of the
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hit series Mash with the release of her book Sweethearts,
the watercolor artistry and animal active activism of Loretta's Bye
and with Miles Horror this January. Please welcome to my studio,
Loretta Switt.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Hi, Loretta, Well Hello, that's some warm welcome good that
is wild and wonderful.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Good good, Yes you are. You are very beloved. I
have to tell you, I've been as soon as the
harlan confirmed that you were coming on. I've been talking
about you coming on. And you have so many fans
all over the world saying you're their favorite. You made
their week, you made their you know, growing up, you
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made their and and actually Tony sweet who owns this station,
the UBN station, says he still watches you and loves you.
So that's a special special bit of love from Tony
Sweet Is.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I'll tell you it's a blessed way to live. All
that love coming at you all the time from people
you may never meet in your life, you probably never
will meet in your life, and all those vibes are
going strong towards you, and it's so all I can say.
It's a blessing.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
That's beautiful. I'm glad you receive it that way, because
that's definitely how it's coming at you. So everything I'm
going to start before we talk about your very important work.
I did have some questions from listeners about being on
MASH and one of the questions is what was the
best part of doing that show and what was the
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most difficult part of doing that show.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I would say, there's no one thing that made it
the best. Doing the show was the best thing that
could happen to an actor. You had these extraordinary writers,
literate scripts every week, like a little wonderful play to
work on every week. You were working with the top talented,
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incredible people in the industry, all of whom bonded and
loved each other, were still a close family. So I mean,
there was nothing but best. Everything was the best about
being there and doing it. I can't think of a worst.
It's hard work, you know, but it was such a
pleasure and so much fun and so so comfortable and wonderful,
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you know. The worst thing, well, the worst thing was
that to add to end, right, of course it hasn't,
because it's gone on. It's never been off the air
for forty five years, which is extraordinary in itself. That
is that I can't really think of the worst, to
tell you the truth, I don't think there was a worst.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well, you were actually on my series my last week
of the month is I do Sexual Healing with Doctor
Marissa because I want I'm determined to make pleasure a
g rated topic. So I thought the fact that they
wonder we're good. I thought the fact that you were,
you know, one of the earliest sex symbols on TV.
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I thought that would might be an interesting How did
that feel to you? How did you take to that?
Did you was it something that you had aspired for
or did you ask for it? Or did they come
to you and say you're going to be the sex
symbol with a name like hot Lips, Huli hand. What
What was your reaction?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Okay, there's so many questions in there. I'm going to
try to try to minimize it with my answers. I
never thought of myself as that. I still do think
of myself as a working actor. That's what I do,
That's who I am. I do many other things, but
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my main thing in life is acting. Okay, So having
said that, everything else that happens, the kind of roles
you do, it's it's like a sidebars A. It's a
reaction and a byproduct of what you're doing. All I'm
doing is the role. All I'm doing is my job,
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which is act. And so I hope that kind of
encompasses the answer to a few of your questions. I
I think that her character was more than her her
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sexual prowess or issues, or in other words, she was
more than one part of her anatomy. I think that
people fans I get letters from women who became nurses
because of Margaret Hulahan, not because of quote hot lips unquote,
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and that means a great deal to me. That means
I was doing the job. And I'm flattered tremendously by
being that kind of idle, by being that kind of
model that they would aspire to live a compassionate life,
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helping people, learning how to help people, and giving solace
and care to people. I mean, what a wonderful way
to devote your life. Okay, so there's that. I also
outranked most of the guys in the show. So you had,
for the first the first thing I would say, rather
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than one of the first sex symbols of that era,
I would say, she's one of the leading feminists before
had a word before, before feminism as a word was
even coined. There she was in the fifties in the army,
being a tough leader, right and being a major. I
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didn't think, you know, so I think I think those
things over road everything else. It just whether she was
sexy or not was not so important as the other
things that she was accomplishing for women, you know, and
for men. See, I think you're free a woman, you
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free a man. But that's me, That's that's the worst.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Thing, all right, That's an interesting concept to speak more
about that. I'm just curious for a woman.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Well, well, well if if a woman is free to
be a strong, independent human being who has uh power
and potential and so forth, well you you free a
man to not have to take care of her or
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or you know, I get it, I get it. You
know the roles that young boys, little boys are supposed
to be learning not to cry, for example, Uh, Suddenly
a man in his own right can can feel pain,
can cry, can can care, can be compassion but compassionate
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without being sort of as soft or woozy or I mean,
I I think it frees everybody to be who they are.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
That's brilliant and that's really brilliant that I love that.
I'm gonna I'm going to use that. I'll give you credit, okay.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Have to. I think it's uh, it's something something I
think basically, I think a lot of people notice instinctively.
We just don't always give voice to it. We don't
always express it. But I think it's valid and I
think and so I so I love that aspect of
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it more than anything.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, I love it because my show's all about balance,
and I think that. Yeah, so we went from you know,
the the male dominated, patriarchal extreme, and then with feminism,
we went to the way other extreme like don't open
my door and gout of myself. And what you're talking
about is a beautiful balanced balance around where the best
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gets brought out in both. That's brilliant. We need to
write a no, no, really, I think that's that's beautiful.
Let's let's do it. Let's do it. I just love
that you really, you really absolutely are deserved of the
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accolades that I've been hearing about you. I also I
peaked at Wipedia and you're like the energizer Bunny because
you're not you're ageless, You're you're still doing stage production.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Lots of energy. Wow, you know, the secret to having
energy is loving what you do. I love everything that
I'm involved with. I love helping animals, helping people. I
love painting. I certainly love my work. I mean, I said,
just the other day, we're closing a show. The light,
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a little bit of a light goes out on me
when I close the show, before I open another, before
I do another. You know, a creative piece of work,
just a little light sort of goes off for a while.
You know. I love being out there and sharing, which
is what live theater is really all about. I talk
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about that in masterclasses. It's a love affair. If you're
alone on stage and nobody's out there in the audience,
you're an actor. If an audience is out there with
nobody on stage, they're just a crowd of people. But
together we make magic. We need each other, we love
each other, we want each other. And when they the
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history of applause, you know, clapping your hands together came
out of the fact that somebody was reaching out to
give you a pat on the back but couldn't reach,
and so instead they clapped their hands. On the other hand,
they touched their hands to illustrate that they were patting
you on the back. Well, this is a gesture of love, affection, friendship, approval, acceptance.
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This is you know, when refugees were coming across on
ships and their their relatives were waiting at the dock
and they would reach out and they would clap their
hands together. They were they were hugging them, they were
you see what I'm saying. The gesture is one of embrace.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So beautiful. That's the second thing I'm going to steal
from you.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
That is just let's talk let's talk about now, let's
talk about your thieving career.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yes, yes, let's do that. Let's do that. Well, well, actually,
because we're doing we are talking about sexual healing. And
you are, you know, my role model, one of my
role models. What do you say to women who aren't
feeling good about their bodies, who aren't feeling good about
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how they are, uh, you know, their attractiveness? You know,
I started this series because I had heard the statistic
that up to eighty five percent of women actually fake
because of a myriad of reasons. But what's your message there?
Like two women who are you know, whatever? It is
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the emphasis on on thin or they're just not feeling
attractive right.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Unhappily, we've had some role models that have steered us
off of a balanced use your word, off of a
balanced course. I mean, you are not your body unless
we're talking about health, which we're not doing that right now.
If you're not happy with your body, you think that's
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the only thing that is attracting somebody. And I'm not
saying it isn't important or or not an issue. I'm
saying you you, your persona is more than that, is
more than that body, and that's important not to lose
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sight of now physically and mentally and health wise. If
you look in the mirror and you're not happy with
what you see, so you're you should not And I'm
not saying to be a slave to this. I'm saying,
there are things you can do to help yourself. And
you know that's the only person God's going to help you.
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Got to get out there and help yourself. I walk
from four to six miles every day every day. I
exercise in addition every day with weights every other day,
so that's like part of my regime. I'm a I'm
a vegan. I don't eat animal fats or animal product
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is going to be very healthy choice.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah. Yeah, she's gonna be so thrilled that you are.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
So so. Those are examples of when I look in
the mirror. I like the results of what I'm doing
with my regime. I have, I read a lot, my
brain is stimulated, and I'd like to think what I
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put out is the real thing. This is who I am.
Obviously I'm not as open with everybody a stranger, but
I'd like to think, like in my classes, I give
them the v MS I give them, they're they're real me.
This is who I am, this is how I feel,
this is how I think, and that package is real
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And if it attracts people, in this case a man
or men, at least they're attracted to the real thing.
It's not some silicon in plant or whatever. However, by
the same token, I'm not putting that down saying do
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what you can to make you feel good, because if
you feel good, you will attract people who are attracted
to a healthy human being who feels good about herself.
But what do you base it on. If you're basing
it on the sides of your cup, I think that's
unrealistic because someday they're going to droop and you're going
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to feel less than well, you shouldn't. You shouldn't. If
what you're taking care of is the real you. You're
just going to get better. You're just going to get
better and better, smarter, wiser, prettier. I think because I
think women age beautifully and so you know, my mother
passed at one hundred and six years old. She was
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as sharp as attack. She played five bingo cards at
one time, which kept her alert and thinking, and I
thought that was wonderful. She was a tremendous role model
for me to take care of myself if I have
her DNA, which obviously I do. I need to plan
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on a healthy life if I'm going to live that long.
I want to have all my marbles flying around, and
I want to be interested in interesting and you know,
I'm never going to retire. Why would I do that.
I love what I do, so I think, I hope
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in a roundabout way, I've answered that question about what
you put forward. If all you think that is attractive
about you is this is artifice, well then that's not
a good basis for attraction because already artifice means artificial
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and not real. But I'm saying, focus on what's real.
Certainly make it as as beautiful as enticing as you can,
but for yourself to feel better about yourself, right, and
then that still puts forward the real you.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yes, yes, absolutely, can I ask how young you are you?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I'm eight. I'll be eighty years old in November.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Wow, happy birthday, fan.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You are definitely the youngest almost eighty year old woman
I have met on the air. You have fadus and
you're teaching masterclasses, you're still acting. Your next show.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Is I'm doing a film next month. It's called Play
the Flute, and then after that I'm preparing to tour.
The show that I just closed is called six Dance
Lessons in six weeks. The reason I absolutely adore this
play is because she is a woman of a certain age.
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She can be any age, she can be seventy eighty ninety, Well,
it doesn't matter. She is older. She's an older woman
who hires a young dance instructor to teach her dancing.
This woman is going to go kicking and screaming into
the grave. She is not going to give up her
youth or her energy. And she so illustrates how I
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feel about age being a number. You know, I just
so I love doing her. I love doing her energy
and her drive, even her pain. She's masking a great
hurt that she feels she caused her daughter. But in
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the play, she has a wonderful Catharsis, you know, getting
it out and realizing that all she did was the
best she could and that's all we can do. But
it does alleviate some of the pain. And you know,
but it's it's a wonderful story about friendship, about not
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to presuppose somebody is one thing when they can be another.
Don't prejudge. It's about aging, it's about She talks about
how people disappear as they get older, and she fights that.
She says, the clerks look over your head or they
look through you, and they don't pay attention to you
because you're getting older. And she talks about not having
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a husband because having a husband at a certain age
gives the women and this is a quote, the mantle
of protection that having a husband affords a woman of
a certain age. That's so true. It's not it's gone.
I'm not talking about like just having a date. She's
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talking about holding someone's hand in a store where they'll
pay attention to you.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Now, are you married?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
And it's it's it's I was, I'm divorced, okay for
many years, I'm divorced.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And and do you have your own dance instructor now too?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
You know, it's very funny. I was rehearsing the play
and I ran into an old friend and he's teaching,
and I said, you know, I want to get back
into taking some classes. I miss it. And he said, great, Oh,
we'll have some fun. So when I get through with
the tour, because the tour is going to be huge,
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I'll look him up and go back to us. It's
around the corner, around the block. It's going to be
really easy. I just roll out of bed into a
legging and I take a class. You know, I love dancing.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
You started that age. I understand you actually started students.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I could walk. My mother had metautiful.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
That's beautiful. Maybe maybe work. Yeah, well, maybe there will
be a little romance soon in your life. I do
know that. Well, I'm happily divorced. I actually heard this
fabulous new thing, and maybe you can steal this from
me because I hate it. I hate the expression cougar
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there's nothing about that that is complimentary to me. So
a friend of mine, Barbara, told me Vogue put out
this new term called whip, and whip stands for women
who are hot, intelligent, and in their prime, and I
added pe for powerful too. So I have now adopted
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I'm a whip and I can live with that, and
obviously you're a whip. So we two whips will go
out on the town and see what we come up with.
How's that?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
This is great? This is exactly Oh, this is wonderful.
I'm sorry the word carries the connotation of beating, you know.
Oh yeah, but I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Right, isn't it beautiful? I love it. I'm proud.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I mean you can crack a whip to get results
without inflicting pain. I mean you just crack that whip,
make that noise like a squeaky wheel. Right, I like
whip better than squeaky.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yes, absolutely, We're now we're two beautiful whips. And I'm
getting this signal right now that we are going to
take a station break and when we come back, I
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She will know her as her fabulous role on the
hit TV series mash Her nickname was Hot Lips Hulahan,
but as we are seeing, she is a whole lot
more than the sex symbol that was on the show.
Just a wonderful role model for women, bringing balance to
both power beauty, and her words of wisdom so far
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have been fabulous. But I did want to highlight something
that she's doing. She's my favorite kind of star because
she's taken her limelight and now directed that light in
areas that need a little illumination, and that area is
animal cruelty. She's been an advocate an activist in protecting animals,
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and she's come out with a fabulous book that is
going to be released. Is it in January, Loretta?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
That's January this past year, this past Yeah, actually I
think it was February, and then by the time all
of the thousands of books survived, it's probably close in
the mark. But it's just it's new this year, has
just come out. You can say it's just come out
because here it is.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
There it is, and it is called Sweetheart, which is
a play on Sweetheart. Very very clever.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah, and I wish I could take credit for that.
It is brilliant. Do you remember that very famous boutique
in Beverly Hills called Georgios. Yes, they've They even had
a perfume, Georgio Perfume, which was big seller. Anyway. The
man who owned that, he and his wife, was Fred Hayman.
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And when I'd walk into the store, he would say, oh,
and there's my heart. I thought, Oh my god, that's
so brilliant. I made a little note of it. And
when we became as electronic as we are, I made
it my own. It's my passwords and my websites and
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my you know everything. And when Sweetheart, and when when
my publisher found me and saw my paintings and heard
that name, he said, that's the book, Sweetheart. Totally. I'm
working on book two.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Wonderful. That doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
This energizer bunny routine that everybody seems to think I run.
I have to do them proud. Yeah, we've got good.
I think I've got about twenty paintings already. We're ready
to go for the second book.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Wow, that's great. So tell me about the first book
so that people can go out and buy it, and
so all the proceeds go towards helping.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
It's called Sweetheart, Animal Lions Foundation. It goes into what
I call a fund that disperses the funds out again
to all the needy, little mom and pop shelters, everybody
who needs help. They'll phone and say, you know, would
you help us with a fundraiser, would you give us
something to auction? Will you do a painting? Lately they've
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come up with this brilliant idea. At the fundraisers, the
people will at they auction me off as an artist
to paint somebody's pet. So they they they'll they'll say,
I'll pay a thousand dollars for a painting of my pet,
and somebody will say, well, i'll pay twelve hundred. I'll
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pay and so. But then we take all of them.
We say, whatever, whatever you know, we'll give a price
to it. Let's say it's there's been the best has
been about three thousand. But they're there, their originals, their mine,
and they're your pet. But anyway, people are always very
giving in a spirit of a fundraiser, you know. So,
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So I just recently did a painting. I was at
a fundraiser where we raised are you ready, yeah, quarter
of a million dollars for the shelter. Wow. Quarter of
a million dollars for the shelter. And it's the it's
the Harbor Island Shelter off the coast of Seattle. Maybe
you know it, but anyway, so I did the first.
It was the first for me. I did two pets
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in one painting, two rescues. And I just recently sent
her an email showing her the showing her the results,
you know, the painting, and she just loved it. It
just really made my day. She just just loved it.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Well, bless you.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
That is So that's what I do. That's a lot
of what I do.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
You definitely deserve. I am awarding you. I mean, you've
had so many awards, but I am going to award
you doctor Morris's Beneficial Presence on the planet award.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Wow, and not.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
All of my guests, not all of my guests. Again,
that's a word. I still have people go Hi, I
didn't get a word. Well, you didn't deserve it, but
you definitely you deserve more than one award with what
you are doing, what you have done, as what you
continue to do. I think it is. I mean, you're
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just like you remind me of that saying you don't
grow old. You don't stop laughing, because you grow old.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
You grow old if you stop laughing.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Laughing that's totally. I mean, you've laughed so much just
in the short.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Time we've been together, and you're just.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
A delight, absolutely you and you still are friends with
Alan Alda. I saw that written out.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
No, that's family. No, that's beyond friendship. That family My boy, Mike,
Jamie Farmimil uh and Gary Bergolf and well we lost
Bill Christopher of course, we lost Dwayne Rogers Harry, We've
suffered as a family. David Ogden of course, is still
(34:12):
with us. It's it's it's simply a family. I don't
know how else to describe us. We're only closer than most,
I think, because family is what you're born with. I mean,
you got them there there, and you grow to love
them or you put up the step. But we we
(34:35):
choose to love each other. We know each other really
well and uh, and we still love each other dearly.
So I see them often, talk to them. Uh. In
the case of Alan and I, we live in the
same city, we see each other. And Arlene, who's a
dear friend his wife is separate from their team. I
(35:00):
I call her my dear friend and communicate with her
on a one on one occasionally. You know, we have
our own relationship, so to speak. You know, the same
thing with Joey Farr, same thing with Shelley Faberat married
to Mike Farrell, whom I had as a friend before
I met Mike. But anyway, it's a family. It's a family.
(35:21):
Holidays when we can.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
That's great, and I'm sure they're just delighted to have
you in their life, as anyone would be.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
So we feel that way about each other.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Now don Wells from Gilligan's Island. She's been on the
show and she's also become a friend of mine too.
I get invited to play poker with her. But she
mentions the same thing about how you know Gilligan's son
is actually a good friend of hers and I got
to meet him.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Oh yeah, so it.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Is definitely a family affair. So that's beautiful. That's beautiful.
How do people get a hold of you? Take classes from? You?
Buy the book? All of that date you have a
date with you will Well?
Speaker 3 (36:13):
I lived in New York, even though I pretty by
coastal from time to time. The classes generally are arranged
through schools and you know, or a theater. If I'm
working at a theater, they will build that into the program.
When we wrap one evening, would you stay or after
(36:36):
the matinee, would you stay and do a Q and
A or give a masterclass, et cetera, and so forth.
So that's how those things work. The book, it is
very important. Yes, while you can buy it on Amazon,
you wouldn't be doing as much good for the animals
(36:56):
if you do that, they keep fifty five percent of
the proceed But if you buy it online from my website,
the animals get one hundred percent of the proceeds. That
those go into the Sweetheart Animal Lions Foundation and they
the money goes to wherever Farm Sanctuary when they need us,
which is always, I mean, the one thing about being
(37:20):
in the environment for animals we needy. We are needy
all the time. Got to feed them, gotta socialize them,
got to get them placed, gott to rescue them, clean them,
get them shot, do the blood work, find out what's
going on, and so far and so on. And in
the case of farm Sanctuary, it's endless because it envelops
(37:41):
other species that need different care or wildlife sanctuaries where
we have exotics and so forth. But the need is endless, endless,
and the fight against cruelty, torture and cruelty is endless. Uh,
(38:02):
we're fighting now a bill that's out there to kill
wild horses. Well, hello, y, they're part of American history
and culture. Anyway. It's a never ending battle and you
just have to look at where we were. We've come
a long way and look to the future to keep
(38:22):
making it better, that's all. But you can't dwell on
on the bad, right, you have to just try to
fix it, you know, you just get out there.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
And totally totally agree staying in the solution.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
So so the website is www dot with heart one
word capitals kepital h s wit capital at art dot com.
And that's where you can buy the book and that's
where you know, every penny goes into the foundation, which
goes into Bye do we by? Do we our oldest shelter.
(38:55):
I'm in fact I'm going to see them tomorrow taking
them two hundred dollars. Check why why? Because I brought
them two kittens, a rescued and they did all the
work spain neuter bloodwork, socializing and placement, the two which
we didn't want to separate. They were siblings. Placement into
(39:17):
a forever home within I think it was seven days.
Within seven days, those two babies are going to live
a life of love and comfort and respect and so
so I'm giving them a check from the Foundation for
the work they do. So that's kind of an example
(39:39):
of what I'm trying to do. The operative word in
the Foundation is alliance. All of these incredible. If you
buy the book, you will see the last few pages
we have a listing of all the phenomenal work out
there being done by different organizations, and they're the ones
that were holding hands with and trying to have help
(40:00):
each other. Allion.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
That's beautiful. Chris has put up your website, So Sweetheart
s w I t heeart dot com. You know, if
you are shaking your head at all the CNN constantly
negative news lately and you think that nothing good is happening,
I am here on this show always highlighting and here's
(40:23):
today is no exception. Go to Sweetheart dot com. Any
amount will do. You will be helping yourself be a
beneficial presence on the planet. You'll be helping Loretta, You'll
be helping animals.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
And auld be helping yourself. It's a great thing to
do to lift your spirits and help absolutely the world.
If you're helping the earth, you're helping the environment, but
you're really you know, you're lifting your spirits. I'm not
saying to feel better is the motivation, but damn, you
(40:58):
can't knock how good you've no.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
I absolutely I got that lesson. The other week, I
was helping a blind woman in the bathroom, and what
I realized when I walked out is she gave me
the gift. I didn't help her.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
She gave you.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
You got it, and so so yeah, help yourself and
do something that makes you feel absolutely phenomenal. The last
question I always ask my guests is who would you
like to express some gratitude towards that has helped you
be who you are?
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Who has helped me be who I am? God, I'd
have to say, I'd have to say my mom and dad,
my family, my big brother. I'd have to say, I
am with some parts all made up of things that
(42:04):
that they Yeah, I'm a part of them, you know.
I'm made up of parts of them, all the good parts.
Although I have my mom's bad feet, I have her
great memory. She was phenomenal. She had an incredible memory.
My brother is his his phenomenal purity. He was such
(42:31):
a an innocent, guileless human being, just such a role model.
And my dad his pacifism, his easy going and he
would walk on. He'd walk on, you know, strikes or
protest marches with me, you know, killing head he was.
(42:53):
She was into it. Put on his little hat and
come out with me and march against whatever cruelty left
whole trap or I mean you know he was there
feeling the same way. Yeah, I'd have to say, those roots,
those grassroots, and even see, I believe you grow because
(43:18):
of disadvantages, of which I had a lot.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Really, we didn't even get into that. I can't imagine.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
No, my mom and dad did not want me to
be an actor, and no, they didn't want me in
the arts, which is surprising since she put me in
dance class and I was singing in a choir. I
was a major red I was a cheerleader. I was
always in your face. I was always out there performing.
(43:48):
And yet I think part of her was terrified that
I was taking it too seriously and I wasn't going
to get married, have babies and live a block away,
which was her dream. And it took a lot long
while for me to convince her that I had to
live my own dream, that I would die for her,
but I couldn't live for her. But when she came around,
(44:10):
it was the greatest gift you could get as a daughter,
this pride and glowing acceptance. And from my brother too,
first time he saw me on stage, he wrote a
little note saying, you know you have found your niche
(44:33):
and I can understand now your passion and your gift.
And it was a lovely note. I obviously still haven't
and you know, stuff like that. And we used to
go to church and wrote. So when I was home
waiting for my turn, my dad was too, so Bob
(44:54):
was gone. He was an older boy, and my mother
was gone to church. So Dad would say, just get
out toe shoes and dance for me, would you. So
those are gifts that they gave me. And even as
I say, the protests only helped me underscore my passion
(45:17):
to become an actor, my passion to do with what
I thought God gave me so to speak, you know,
And so that's good. I mean, I'm glad everybody didn't
just give me everything I wanted. When you work for
something and you get it, the pleasure I think has
(45:39):
got to be tripled because you feel deservant and you're
never really complacent about where you are because you know
it takes work to do what you want to do.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Absolutely absolutely, And we are out of time, so you
are going to have to come back.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
Oh please please, yay, And you have my permission about
your theft. I understand it, it's not really I have
a philosophy about that. If you tell somebody you're going
to steal it, it's not really theft.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
Yeah, okay, so we have this deal. You and I yay.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Thank you so much, And I would love to have
you invite Alan. I think it would be a great
sexual healing episode if the two of you came on
and talked and we can talk about anything but uh,
that would be fun. But whatever you'd like. You're invited
to my studio anytime. I love you. I'm so grateful
(46:43):
that I got to meet you. I love my job.
I am so lucky to do what I do.
Speaker 3 (46:50):
Why you're lucky because you know what you have a
lot of people are lucky, and they're they're not aware
of how lucky they are. So they missed that part.
They miss it until the end and they oh, they
look back and say, I was so lucky to look
at look around you now, everybody and and see what
(47:13):
you've got. Feel lucky now and enjoy your luck. Yes,
you know, and that's what you're doing. So you're very,
very very lucky.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
Thank you, Thank you that much. Gored us you too,
God bless you. And we'll definitely be talking to Harlan
to get you back.
Speaker 3 (47:34):
Okay, alrighty.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
I did not want that one to end, not that
I want any of my shows and we never have
enough time. But welcome to the balance bar, my little
magic one.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
Wow wow, wow wow wow. Make sure I am on here? Yes, good,
you have you have me in person. I was backstage
chatting with you, and man, I am just blessed beyond
(48:27):
measure to have saved and you know, forever in my
YouTube TV channel Treasure Chest of shows. This incredible. I
love this, you know. I love when I am inspired
(48:49):
to have these incredible creative throwback Thursday that came out
of me actually being exhausted a little because I went
(49:09):
from a once a week show to an every day,
freaking show, and I said yes, before I kind of
realized the amount of work that I was only doing
once a week, two every single weekday morning. This was
right when COVID started, when Fred called in said would
you like the morning show? And I'm like yeah, and
(49:29):
then you know it. It's a lot to do five
shows a week, especially when you have eight jobs or
seven jobs outside of the show. Well, two of the
jobs is produced and hosts, so I have six other jobs.
So I think a guest had postponed and I had
(49:50):
a slot and it was like twenty minutes before, and
I thought, well, let me just put up a past
show from my treasure chest. And that became the Throwback
Thursday series. And I am so glad that I thought
(50:12):
of that, or it was inspired to me by my
ups man, my universal power source who delivers every morning
when I meditate, that's what happens. And because of this
special series Throwback Thursday, I get to pop it up.
Loretta Sweat died Friday and my mom passed Thursday early morning,
(50:36):
so to be able to have her interview and share
it with you again and re listen. I have a
great memory, but recall suck sometimes, and so just to
hear her voice right now that she's on the other side.
(50:56):
She's not gone, she hasn't been lost. You know, her
love is all over the place, and her legacy is
all over the place, and you know, those of us
who love and will miss her, that love is forever
grounded in our hearts and will never be forgotten. But
(51:17):
to be able to listen to her words again, particularly
about the you know, the emphasis that she wanted to
move from the hot lips, you know, sex thing to
feminism and how she's way more appreciative of having nurses.
(51:44):
Thank her for the role model she played as the
major in you know, this is a that was like
a pioneering role for her to you know, strong, powerful, smart,
accomplish woman in a male dominated I mean, come on
in the army and and have that influence, you know,
(52:10):
in the medical field and being responsible for the nurses,
and you know, Alan All does tribute to her. I
just read was exactly that. Let's see, I had it up,
see if I can quickly get it. But yes, Loretta
(52:31):
was supreme, was a supremely talented actor. She deserved all
her ten Emmy nominations. I didn't actually know that, and
we didn't talk about that on the show. She didn't
bring it up, but and she had two wins.
Speaker 3 (52:45):
But more than.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
Acting her part, she created it. She worked hard in
showing the writing staff how they could turn the character
from a one joke, sexist stereo type into a real
person with real feelings and ambitions. We celebrated the day
the script came out listing her character not as hot Lips,
(53:12):
but as Margaret Loretta made the most of her time here.
Speaker 5 (53:18):
Wow, what a beautiful tribute, and boy did how fortunate
am I to have had her talk about this important
distinction from her what was alan Alda says, her one
joke sexist stereotype, you know, into a real person in
(53:39):
her role in being an inspiration as a strong woman
in the entertainment industry and with her character.
Speaker 2 (53:53):
But you could tell, like I mean, it's not just
her character. It definitely is exactly who she is. And
I am going to pop up her website because as
far as I know, you know, this was her legacy,
life's passion, helping her help it was to animals. There's
(54:15):
still I'm sure ways in which there's a lot of
solution on here. And I want you to go and
you know, support, I'm sure instead of you know, just saying, oh,
(54:36):
I'm so sad she's gone, you can actually do something
to support. She's you know, watching us and loving us
from afar. But just like that dream I told you
about my dad, I know where all of my loved
ones who have passed are and they're still you know,
(54:56):
watching us on the big screen and cheering mom when
something it happened. So you want to let the reditude
to cheer for you on the other side, please go
and support that which she was so passionate about. So yeah,
sweetheart dot com And let's see, did I put that up?
(55:20):
And I think I already put that up? Okay, So
I gonna end. I'm going to end this episode with
some gratitude sandwich. We didn't do it at the top
of the show. On throwback Thursdays, we don't start, but
we end with breakfast taking a bite of my gratitude
sandwich because I want to make sure that I get
(55:41):
all of the Throwback Thursday spotlight interview in its entirety
before I get back on here to to do the
gratitude taking a bite of my gratitude sandwich with you.
So top of the butt, things that were grateful for
outside of ourselves bottom of the butt, and things that
we're grateful for inside of ourselves, also known as appreciation.
(56:05):
Taking that from Abraham Hicks law of attraction work that
I do. So what am I grateful for?
Speaker 3 (56:13):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (56:14):
Somebody just gave me a hug? Thank you one of
my subscribers. Feel free to chat. Please do free subscribe.
Thanks for the reminder. I'm so blessed and grateful. I
just found out that this YouTube TV channel has a
three million, eight hundred and eighty nine thousand impressions, which
(56:38):
is more than I can even wrap my head around.
But it was part of the reason I'm grateful that
I'm going back on world tour. Eight Ways to Happiness
got cut short by COVID going around and I've been
sort of, you know, doing one off travels to do
(57:01):
workshops or speaking or teaching around the world. Last year,
you know, I was in Australia, New Zealand, China, and Canada. Well,
I'm going back out and the decision has been made
Canada for July, Africa for August, Hawaiian Puerto Rico for
(57:24):
September October. I'll be back here because of the Newport
Beach Film Festival that I've been a sponsor for eight
plus years now, and the Catalina Jazz Festival where my
twin sister, Keko Matsui is performing in October, and a
veterans event on November eighth with Heaven and Earth Oasis.
(57:45):
So I'll be back here and then back out teaching,
speaking and writing, finishing my screenplay Life by a Thousand Cuts,
which deals with mother daughter relationships and speaking to that
as well, going back to Shanghai for a month and
then to Taiwan's for a month. So I will be back,
(58:09):
you know, between big trips, but won't be the home base,
will be abroad, and then I'm not going to be abroad.
But yes, I'm going to be abroad, but I'm not
going to be abroad. Sorry, I couldn't resist. And then
we'll see, you know what my EPs man delivers, whether
it's a one year contract somewhere abroad or whether I
(58:33):
come back in the new year of twenty twenty six.
But I am grateful for all of the opportunities. If
you know anyone that are in those cities or countries
that you know I'm finally going to take to heart
those invitations that have been collecting since the book came out,
(58:56):
and I'm going to fulfill those. So even though I
may have already been there and I used to have
a rule like I only do things once, I'm breaking
that rule, but so grateful for all out of that,
and I appreciate that I am just like Loretta Suit
an energizer bunny. Because life is way too short to
(59:20):
sit around and eat bomb bonds and watch a series.
I'm going to juice my life as usual. Thanks for
joining me today and remember it's all about balance in
peace out world, peace through Inner Piece Tomorrow Straight Talk
with James Hawthorne. Now go and have the best day ever.
(59:42):
I'll see you tomorrow.
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I met this week, first at another fabulous City Summit event,
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I'll be having some of them on the air next
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But it's time for the guests that you've all been
waiting for. The amazing hot Lips tou Lahan from mash
(03:26):
Miss Loretta Swit. Two time Emmy Award winning actress Sarah
Siddons Award for her work on stage, and she has
her own star on Hollywood Boulevard. Most importantly, she has
used her limelight to advocate for animal rights. She recently
received the Betty White Award from actors and others for
animals and is celebrating the forty fifth anniversary of the
(03:49):
hit series Mash with the release of her book Sweethearts,
the watercolor artistry and animal active activism of Loretta's Bye
and with Miles Horror this January. Please welcome to my studio,
Loretta Switt.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Hi, Loretta, Well Hello, that's some warm welcome good that
is wild and wonderful.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Good good, Yes you are. You are very beloved. I
have to tell you, I've been as soon as the
harlan confirmed that you were coming on. I've been talking
about you coming on. And you have so many fans
all over the world saying you're their favorite. You made
their week, you made their you know, growing up, you
(04:45):
made their and and actually Tony sweet who owns this station,
the UBN station, says he still watches you and loves you.
So that's a special special bit of love from Tony
Sweet Is.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I'll tell you it's a blessed way to live. All
that love coming at you all the time from people
you may never meet in your life, you probably never
will meet in your life, and all those vibes are
going strong towards you, and it's so all I can say.
It's a blessing.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
That's beautiful. I'm glad you receive it that way, because
that's definitely how it's coming at you. So everything I'm
going to start before we talk about your very important work.
I did have some questions from listeners about being on
MASH and one of the questions is what was the
best part of doing that show and what was the
(05:42):
most difficult part of doing that show.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I would say, there's no one thing that made it
the best. Doing the show was the best thing that
could happen to an actor. You had these extraordinary writers,
literate scripts every week, like a little wonderful play to
work on every week. You were working with the top talented,
(06:11):
incredible people in the industry, all of whom bonded and
loved each other, were still a close family. So I mean,
there was nothing but best. Everything was the best about
being there and doing it. I can't think of a worst.
It's hard work, you know, but it was such a
pleasure and so much fun and so so comfortable and wonderful,
(06:36):
you know. The worst thing, well, the worst thing was
that to add to end, right, of course it hasn't,
because it's gone on. It's never been off the air
for forty five years, which is extraordinary in itself. That
is that I can't really think of the worst, to
tell you the truth, I don't think there was a worst.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well, you were actually on my series my last week
of the month is I do Sexual Healing with Doctor
Marissa because I want I'm determined to make pleasure a
g rated topic. So I thought the fact that they
wonder we're good. I thought the fact that you were,
you know, one of the earliest sex symbols on TV.
(07:21):
I thought that would might be an interesting How did
that feel to you? How did you take to that?
Did you was it something that you had aspired for
or did you ask for it? Or did they come
to you and say you're going to be the sex
symbol with a name like hot Lips, Huli hand. What
What was your reaction?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Okay, there's so many questions in there. I'm going to
try to try to minimize it with my answers. I
never thought of myself as that. I still do think
of myself as a working actor. That's what I do,
That's who I am. I do many other things, but
(08:06):
my main thing in life is acting. Okay, So having
said that, everything else that happens, the kind of roles
you do, it's it's like a sidebars A. It's a
reaction and a byproduct of what you're doing. All I'm
doing is the role. All I'm doing is my job,
(08:28):
which is act. And so I hope that kind of
encompasses the answer to a few of your questions. I
I think that her character was more than her her
(08:49):
sexual prowess or issues, or in other words, she was
more than one part of her anatomy. I think that
people fans I get letters from women who became nurses
because of Margaret Hulahan, not because of quote hot lips unquote,
(09:11):
and that means a great deal to me. That means
I was doing the job. And I'm flattered tremendously by
being that kind of idle, by being that kind of
model that they would aspire to live a compassionate life,
(09:32):
helping people, learning how to help people, and giving solace
and care to people. I mean, what a wonderful way
to devote your life. Okay, so there's that. I also
outranked most of the guys in the show. So you had,
for the first the first thing I would say, rather
(09:52):
than one of the first sex symbols of that era,
I would say, she's one of the leading feminists before
had a word before, before feminism as a word was
even coined. There she was in the fifties in the army,
being a tough leader, right and being a major. I
(10:16):
didn't think, you know, so I think I think those
things over road everything else. It just whether she was
sexy or not was not so important as the other
things that she was accomplishing for women, you know, and
for men. See, I think you're free a woman, you
(10:37):
free a man. But that's me, That's that's the worst.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Thing, all right, That's an interesting concept to speak more
about that. I'm just curious for a woman.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Well, well, well if if a woman is free to
be a strong, independent human being who has uh power
and potential and so forth, well you you free a
man to not have to take care of her or
(11:10):
or you know, I get it, I get it. You
know the roles that young boys, little boys are supposed
to be learning not to cry, for example, Uh, Suddenly
a man in his own right can can feel pain,
can cry, can can care, can be compassion but compassionate
(11:35):
without being sort of as soft or woozy or I mean,
I I think it frees everybody to be who they are.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
That's brilliant and that's really brilliant that I love that.
I'm gonna I'm going to use that. I'll give you credit, okay.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Have to. I think it's uh, it's something something I
think basically, I think a lot of people notice instinctively.
We just don't always give voice to it. We don't
always express it. But I think it's valid and I
think and so I so I love that aspect of
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it more than anything.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, I love it because my show's all about balance,
and I think that. Yeah, so we went from you know,
the the male dominated, patriarchal extreme, and then with feminism,
we went to the way other extreme like don't open
my door and gout of myself. And what you're talking
about is a beautiful balanced balance around where the best
(12:43):
gets brought out in both. That's brilliant. We need to
write a no, no, really, I think that's that's beautiful.
Let's let's do it. Let's do it. I just love
that you really, you really absolutely are deserved of the
(13:05):
accolades that I've been hearing about you. I also I
peaked at Wipedia and you're like the energizer Bunny because
you're not you're ageless, You're you're still doing stage production.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Lots of energy. Wow, you know, the secret to having
energy is loving what you do. I love everything that
I'm involved with. I love helping animals, helping people. I
love painting. I certainly love my work. I mean, I said,
just the other day, we're closing a show. The light,
(13:43):
a little bit of a light goes out on me
when I close the show, before I open another, before
I do another. You know, a creative piece of work,
just a little light sort of goes off for a while.
You know. I love being out there and sharing, which
is what live theater is really all about. I talk
(14:06):
about that in masterclasses. It's a love affair. If you're
alone on stage and nobody's out there in the audience,
you're an actor. If an audience is out there with
nobody on stage, they're just a crowd of people. But
together we make magic. We need each other, we love
each other, we want each other. And when they the
(14:28):
history of applause, you know, clapping your hands together came
out of the fact that somebody was reaching out to
give you a pat on the back but couldn't reach,
and so instead they clapped their hands. On the other hand,
they touched their hands to illustrate that they were patting
you on the back. Well, this is a gesture of love, affection, friendship, approval, acceptance.
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This is you know, when refugees were coming across on
ships and their their relatives were waiting at the dock
and they would reach out and they would clap their
hands together. They were they were hugging them, they were
you see what I'm saying. The gesture is one of embrace.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So beautiful. That's the second thing I'm going to steal
from you.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
That is just let's talk let's talk about now, let's
talk about your thieving career.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yes, yes, let's do that. Let's do that. Well, well, actually,
because we're doing we are talking about sexual healing. And
you are, you know, my role model, one of my
role models. What do you say to women who aren't
feeling good about their bodies, who aren't feeling good about
(15:51):
how they are, uh, you know, their attractiveness? You know,
I started this series because I had heard the statistic
that up to eighty five percent of women actually fake
because of a myriad of reasons. But what's your message there?
Like two women who are you know, whatever? It is
(16:12):
the emphasis on on thin or they're just not feeling
attractive right.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Unhappily, we've had some role models that have steered us
off of a balanced use your word, off of a
balanced course. I mean, you are not your body unless
we're talking about health, which we're not doing that right now.
If you're not happy with your body, you think that's
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the only thing that is attracting somebody. And I'm not
saying it isn't important or or not an issue. I'm
saying you you, your persona is more than that, is
more than that body, and that's important not to lose
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sight of now physically and mentally and health wise. If
you look in the mirror and you're not happy with
what you see, so you're you should not And I'm
not saying to be a slave to this. I'm saying,
there are things you can do to help yourself. And
you know that's the only person God's going to help you.
(17:24):
Got to get out there and help yourself. I walk
from four to six miles every day every day. I
exercise in addition every day with weights every other day,
so that's like part of my regime. I'm a I'm
a vegan. I don't eat animal fats or animal product
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is going to be very healthy choice.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah. Yeah, she's gonna be so thrilled that you are.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
So so. Those are examples of when I look in
the mirror. I like the results of what I'm doing
with my regime. I have, I read a lot, my
brain is stimulated, and I'd like to think what I
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put out is the real thing. This is who I am.
Obviously I'm not as open with everybody a stranger, but
I'd like to think, like in my classes, I give
them the v MS I give them, they're they're real me.
This is who I am, this is how I feel,
this is how I think, and that package is real
(18:40):
And if it attracts people, in this case a man
or men, at least they're attracted to the real thing.
It's not some silicon in plant or whatever. However, by
the same token, I'm not putting that down saying do
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what you can to make you feel good, because if
you feel good, you will attract people who are attracted
to a healthy human being who feels good about herself.
But what do you base it on. If you're basing
it on the sides of your cup, I think that's
unrealistic because someday they're going to droop and you're going
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to feel less than well, you shouldn't. You shouldn't. If
what you're taking care of is the real you. You're
just going to get better. You're just going to get
better and better, smarter, wiser, prettier. I think because I
think women age beautifully and so you know, my mother
passed at one hundred and six years old. She was
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as sharp as attack. She played five bingo cards at
one time, which kept her alert and thinking, and I
thought that was wonderful. She was a tremendous role model
for me to take care of myself if I have
her DNA, which obviously I do. I need to plan
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on a healthy life if I'm going to live that long.
I want to have all my marbles flying around, and
I want to be interested in interesting and you know,
I'm never going to retire. Why would I do that.
I love what I do, so I think, I hope
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in a roundabout way, I've answered that question about what
you put forward. If all you think that is attractive
about you is this is artifice, well then that's not
a good basis for attraction because already artifice means artificial
(20:55):
and not real. But I'm saying, focus on what's real.
Certainly make it as as beautiful as enticing as you can,
but for yourself to feel better about yourself, right, and
then that still puts forward the real you.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yes, yes, absolutely, can I ask how young you are you?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I'm eight. I'll be eighty years old in November.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Wow, happy birthday, fan.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You are definitely the youngest almost eighty year old woman
I have met on the air. You have fadus and
you're teaching masterclasses, you're still acting. Your next show.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Is I'm doing a film next month. It's called Play
the Flute, and then after that I'm preparing to tour.
The show that I just closed is called six Dance
Lessons in six weeks. The reason I absolutely adore this
play is because she is a woman of a certain age.
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She can be any age, she can be seventy eighty ninety, Well,
it doesn't matter. She is older. She's an older woman
who hires a young dance instructor to teach her dancing.
This woman is going to go kicking and screaming into
the grave. She is not going to give up her
youth or her energy. And she so illustrates how I
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feel about age being a number. You know, I just
so I love doing her. I love doing her energy
and her drive, even her pain. She's masking a great
hurt that she feels she caused her daughter. But in
(22:47):
the play, she has a wonderful Catharsis, you know, getting
it out and realizing that all she did was the
best she could and that's all we can do. But
it does alleviate some of the pain. And you know,
but it's it's a wonderful story about friendship, about not
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to presuppose somebody is one thing when they can be another.
Don't prejudge. It's about aging, it's about She talks about
how people disappear as they get older, and she fights that.
She says, the clerks look over your head or they
look through you, and they don't pay attention to you
because you're getting older. And she talks about not having
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a husband because having a husband at a certain age
gives the women and this is a quote, the mantle
of protection that having a husband affords a woman of
a certain age. That's so true. It's not it's gone.
I'm not talking about like just having a date. She's
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talking about holding someone's hand in a store where they'll
pay attention to you.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Now, are you married?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
And it's it's it's I was, I'm divorced, okay for
many years, I'm divorced.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And and do you have your own dance instructor now too?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
You know, it's very funny. I was rehearsing the play
and I ran into an old friend and he's teaching,
and I said, you know, I want to get back
into taking some classes. I miss it. And he said, great, Oh,
we'll have some fun. So when I get through with
the tour, because the tour is going to be huge,
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I'll look him up and go back to us. It's
around the corner, around the block. It's going to be
really easy. I just roll out of bed into a
legging and I take a class. You know, I love dancing.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
You started that age. I understand you actually started students.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I could walk. My mother had metautiful.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
That's beautiful. Maybe maybe work. Yeah, well, maybe there will
be a little romance soon in your life. I do
know that. Well, I'm happily divorced. I actually heard this
fabulous new thing, and maybe you can steal this from
me because I hate it. I hate the expression cougar
(25:15):
there's nothing about that that is complimentary to me. So
a friend of mine, Barbara, told me Vogue put out
this new term called whip, and whip stands for women
who are hot, intelligent, and in their prime, and I
added pe for powerful too. So I have now adopted
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I'm a whip and I can live with that, and
obviously you're a whip. So we two whips will go
out on the town and see what we come up with.
How's that?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
This is great? This is exactly Oh, this is wonderful.
I'm sorry the word carries the connotation of beating, you know.
Oh yeah, but I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Right, isn't it beautiful? I love it. I'm proud.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I mean you can crack a whip to get results
without inflicting pain. I mean you just crack that whip,
make that noise like a squeaky wheel. Right, I like
whip better than squeaky.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yes, absolutely, We're now we're two beautiful whips. And I'm
getting this signal right now that we are going to
take a station break and when we come back, I
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She will know her as her fabulous role on the
hit TV series mash Her nickname was Hot Lips Hulahan,
but as we are seeing, she is a whole lot
more than the sex symbol that was on the show.
Just a wonderful role model for women, bringing balance to
both power beauty, and her words of wisdom so far
(28:35):
have been fabulous. But I did want to highlight something
that she's doing. She's my favorite kind of star because
she's taken her limelight and now directed that light in
areas that need a little illumination, and that area is
animal cruelty. She's been an advocate an activist in protecting animals,
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and she's come out with a fabulous book that is
going to be released. Is it in January, Loretta?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
That's January this past year, this past Yeah, actually I
think it was February, and then by the time all
of the thousands of books survived, it's probably close in
the mark. But it's just it's new this year, has
just come out. You can say it's just come out
because here it is.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
There it is, and it is called Sweetheart, which is
a play on Sweetheart. Very very clever.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah, and I wish I could take credit for that.
It is brilliant. Do you remember that very famous boutique
in Beverly Hills called Georgios. Yes, they've They even had
a perfume, Georgio Perfume, which was big seller. Anyway. The
man who owned that, he and his wife, was Fred Hayman.
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And when I'd walk into the store, he would say, oh,
and there's my heart. I thought, Oh my god, that's
so brilliant. I made a little note of it. And
when we became as electronic as we are, I made
it my own. It's my passwords and my websites and
(30:15):
my you know everything. And when Sweetheart, and when when
my publisher found me and saw my paintings and heard
that name, he said, that's the book, Sweetheart. Totally. I'm
working on book two.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Wonderful. That doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
This energizer bunny routine that everybody seems to think I run.
I have to do them proud. Yeah, we've got good.
I think I've got about twenty paintings already. We're ready
to go for the second book.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Wow, that's great. So tell me about the first book
so that people can go out and buy it, and
so all the proceeds go towards helping.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
It's called Sweetheart, Animal Lions Foundation. It goes into what
I call a fund that disperses the funds out again
to all the needy, little mom and pop shelters, everybody
who needs help. They'll phone and say, you know, would
you help us with a fundraiser, would you give us
something to auction? Will you do a painting? Lately they've
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come up with this brilliant idea. At the fundraisers, the
people will at they auction me off as an artist
to paint somebody's pet. So they they they'll they'll say,
I'll pay a thousand dollars for a painting of my pet,
and somebody will say, well, i'll pay twelve hundred. I'll
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pay and so. But then we take all of them.
We say, whatever, whatever you know, we'll give a price
to it. Let's say it's there's been the best has
been about three thousand. But they're there, their originals, their mine,
and they're your pet. But anyway, people are always very
giving in a spirit of a fundraiser, you know. So,
(32:04):
So I just recently did a painting. I was at
a fundraiser where we raised are you ready, yeah, quarter
of a million dollars for the shelter. Wow. Quarter of
a million dollars for the shelter. And it's the it's
the Harbor Island Shelter off the coast of Seattle. Maybe
you know it, but anyway, so I did the first.
It was the first for me. I did two pets
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in one painting, two rescues. And I just recently sent
her an email showing her the showing her the results,
you know, the painting, and she just loved it. It
just really made my day. She just just loved it.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Well, bless you.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
That is So that's what I do. That's a lot
of what I do.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
You definitely deserve. I am awarding you. I mean, you've
had so many awards, but I am going to award
you doctor Morris's Beneficial Presence on the planet award.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Wow, and not.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
All of my guests, not all of my guests. Again,
that's a word. I still have people go Hi, I
didn't get a word. Well, you didn't deserve it, but
you definitely you deserve more than one award with what
you are doing, what you have done, as what you
continue to do. I think it is. I mean, you're
(33:21):
just like you remind me of that saying you don't
grow old. You don't stop laughing, because you grow old.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
You grow old if you stop laughing.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Laughing that's totally. I mean, you've laughed so much just
in the short.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Time we've been together, and you're just.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
A delight, absolutely you and you still are friends with
Alan Alda. I saw that written out.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
No, that's family. No, that's beyond friendship. That family My boy, Mike,
Jamie Farmimil uh and Gary Bergolf and well we lost
Bill Christopher of course, we lost Dwayne Rogers Harry, We've
suffered as a family. David Ogden of course, is still
(34:12):
with us. It's it's it's simply a family. I don't
know how else to describe us. We're only closer than most,
I think, because family is what you're born with. I mean,
you got them there there, and you grow to love
them or you put up the step. But we we
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choose to love each other. We know each other really
well and uh, and we still love each other dearly.
So I see them often, talk to them. Uh. In
the case of Alan and I, we live in the
same city, we see each other. And Arlene, who's a
dear friend his wife is separate from their team. I
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I call her my dear friend and communicate with her
on a one on one occasionally. You know, we have
our own relationship, so to speak. You know, the same
thing with Joey Farr, same thing with Shelley Faberat married
to Mike Farrell, whom I had as a friend before
I met Mike. But anyway, it's a family. It's a family.
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Holidays when we can.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
That's great, and I'm sure they're just delighted to have
you in their life, as anyone would be.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
So we feel that way about each other.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Now don Wells from Gilligan's Island. She's been on the
show and she's also become a friend of mine too.
I get invited to play poker with her. But she
mentions the same thing about how you know Gilligan's son
is actually a good friend of hers and I got
to meet him.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Oh yeah, so it.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Is definitely a family affair. So that's beautiful. That's beautiful.
How do people get a hold of you? Take classes from? You?
Buy the book? All of that date you have a
date with you will Well?
Speaker 3 (36:13):
I lived in New York, even though I pretty by
coastal from time to time. The classes generally are arranged
through schools and you know, or a theater. If I'm
working at a theater, they will build that into the program.
When we wrap one evening, would you stay or after
(36:36):
the matinee, would you stay and do a Q and
A or give a masterclass, et cetera, and so forth.
So that's how those things work. The book, it is
very important. Yes, while you can buy it on Amazon,
you wouldn't be doing as much good for the animals
(36:56):
if you do that, they keep fifty five percent of
the proceed But if you buy it online from my website,
the animals get one hundred percent of the proceeds. That
those go into the Sweetheart Animal Lions Foundation and they
the money goes to wherever Farm Sanctuary when they need us,
which is always, I mean, the one thing about being
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in the environment for animals we needy. We are needy
all the time. Got to feed them, gotta socialize them,
got to get them placed, gott to rescue them, clean them,
get them shot, do the blood work, find out what's
going on, and so far and so on. And in
the case of farm Sanctuary, it's endless because it envelops
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other species that need different care or wildlife sanctuaries where
we have exotics and so forth. But the need is endless, endless,
and the fight against cruelty, torture and cruelty is endless. Uh,
(38:02):
we're fighting now a bill that's out there to kill
wild horses. Well, hello, y, they're part of American history
and culture. Anyway. It's a never ending battle and you
just have to look at where we were. We've come
a long way and look to the future to keep
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making it better, that's all. But you can't dwell on
on the bad, right, you have to just try to
fix it, you know, you just get out there.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
And totally totally agree staying in the solution.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
So so the website is www dot with heart one
word capitals kepital h s wit capital at art dot com.
And that's where you can buy the book and that's
where you know, every penny goes into the foundation, which
goes into Bye do we by? Do we our oldest shelter.
(38:55):
I'm in fact I'm going to see them tomorrow taking
them two hundred dollars. Check why why? Because I brought
them two kittens, a rescued and they did all the
work spain neuter bloodwork, socializing and placement, the two which
we didn't want to separate. They were siblings. Placement into
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a forever home within I think it was seven days.
Within seven days, those two babies are going to live
a life of love and comfort and respect and so
so I'm giving them a check from the Foundation for
the work they do. So that's kind of an example
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of what I'm trying to do. The operative word in
the Foundation is alliance. All of these incredible. If you
buy the book, you will see the last few pages
we have a listing of all the phenomenal work out
there being done by different organizations, and they're the ones
that were holding hands with and trying to have help
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each other. Allion.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
That's beautiful. Chris has put up your website, So Sweetheart
s w I t heeart dot com. You know, if
you are shaking your head at all the CNN constantly
negative news lately and you think that nothing good is happening,
I am here on this show always highlighting and here's
(40:23):
today is no exception. Go to Sweetheart dot com. Any
amount will do. You will be helping yourself be a
beneficial presence on the planet. You'll be helping Loretta, You'll
be helping animals.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
And auld be helping yourself. It's a great thing to
do to lift your spirits and help absolutely the world.
If you're helping the earth, you're helping the environment, but
you're really you know, you're lifting your spirits. I'm not
saying to feel better is the motivation, but damn, you
(40:58):
can't knock how good you've no.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
I absolutely I got that lesson. The other week, I
was helping a blind woman in the bathroom, and what
I realized when I walked out is she gave me
the gift. I didn't help her.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
She gave you.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
You got it, and so so yeah, help yourself and
do something that makes you feel absolutely phenomenal. The last
question I always ask my guests is who would you
like to express some gratitude towards that has helped you
be who you are?
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Who has helped me be who I am? God, I'd
have to say, I'd have to say my mom and dad,
my family, my big brother. I'd have to say, I
am with some parts all made up of things that
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that they Yeah, I'm a part of them, you know.
I'm made up of parts of them, all the good parts.
Although I have my mom's bad feet, I have her
great memory. She was phenomenal. She had an incredible memory.
My brother is his his phenomenal purity. He was such
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a an innocent, guileless human being, just such a role model.
And my dad his pacifism, his easy going and he
would walk on. He'd walk on, you know, strikes or
protest marches with me, you know, killing head he was.
(42:53):
She was into it. Put on his little hat and
come out with me and march against whatever cruelty left
whole trap or I mean you know he was there
feeling the same way. Yeah, I'd have to say, those roots,
those grassroots, and even see, I believe you grow because
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of disadvantages, of which I had a lot.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Really, we didn't even get into that. I can't imagine.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
No, my mom and dad did not want me to
be an actor, and no, they didn't want me in
the arts, which is surprising since she put me in
dance class and I was singing in a choir. I
was a major red I was a cheerleader. I was
always in your face. I was always out there performing.
(43:48):
And yet I think part of her was terrified that
I was taking it too seriously and I wasn't going
to get married, have babies and live a block away,
which was her dream. And it took a lot long
while for me to convince her that I had to
live my own dream, that I would die for her,
but I couldn't live for her. But when she came around,
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it was the greatest gift you could get as a daughter,
this pride and glowing acceptance. And from my brother too,
first time he saw me on stage, he wrote a
little note saying, you know you have found your niche
(44:33):
and I can understand now your passion and your gift.
And it was a lovely note. I obviously still haven't
and you know, stuff like that. And we used to
go to church and wrote. So when I was home
waiting for my turn, my dad was too, so Bob
(44:54):
was gone. He was an older boy, and my mother
was gone to church. So Dad would say, just get
out toe shoes and dance for me, would you. So
those are gifts that they gave me. And even as
I say, the protests only helped me underscore my passion
(45:17):
to become an actor, my passion to do with what
I thought God gave me so to speak, you know,
And so that's good. I mean, I'm glad everybody didn't
just give me everything I wanted. When you work for
something and you get it, the pleasure I think has
(45:39):
got to be tripled because you feel deservant and you're
never really complacent about where you are because you know
it takes work to do what you want to do.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Absolutely absolutely, And we are out of time, so you
are going to have to come back.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
Oh please please, yay, And you have my permission about
your theft. I understand it, it's not really I have
a philosophy about that. If you tell somebody you're going
to steal it, it's not really theft.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
Yeah, okay, so we have this deal. You and I yay.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Thank you so much, And I would love to have
you invite Alan. I think it would be a great
sexual healing episode if the two of you came on
and talked and we can talk about anything but uh,
that would be fun. But whatever you'd like. You're invited
to my studio anytime. I love you. I'm so grateful
(46:43):
that I got to meet you. I love my job.
I am so lucky to do what I do.
Speaker 3 (46:50):
Why you're lucky because you know what you have a
lot of people are lucky, and they're they're not aware
of how lucky they are. So they missed that part.
They miss it until the end and they oh, they
look back and say, I was so lucky to look
at look around you now, everybody and and see what
(47:13):
you've got. Feel lucky now and enjoy your luck. Yes,
you know, and that's what you're doing. So you're very,
very very lucky.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
Thank you, Thank you that much. Gored us you too,
God bless you. And we'll definitely be talking to Harlan
to get you back.
Speaker 3 (47:34):
Okay, alrighty.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
I did not want that one to end, not that
I want any of my shows and we never have
enough time. But welcome to the balance bar, my little
magic one.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
Wow wow, wow wow wow. Make sure I am on here? Yes, good,
you have you have me in person. I was backstage
chatting with you, and man, I am just blessed beyond
(48:27):
measure to have saved and you know, forever in my
YouTube TV channel Treasure Chest of shows. This incredible. I
love this, you know. I love when I am inspired
(48:49):
to have these incredible creative throwback Thursday that came out
of me actually being exhausted a little because I went
(49:09):
from a once a week show to an every day,
freaking show, and I said yes, before I kind of
realized the amount of work that I was only doing
once a week, two every single weekday morning. This was
right when COVID started, when Fred called in said would
you like the morning show? And I'm like yeah, and
(49:29):
then you know it. It's a lot to do five
shows a week, especially when you have eight jobs or
seven jobs outside of the show. Well, two of the
jobs is produced and hosts, so I have six other jobs.
So I think a guest had postponed and I had
(49:50):
a slot and it was like twenty minutes before, and
I thought, well, let me just put up a past
show from my treasure chest. And that became the Throwback
Thursday series. And I am so glad that I thought
(50:12):
of that, or it was inspired to me by my
ups man, my universal power source who delivers every morning
when I meditate, that's what happens. And because of this
special series Throwback Thursday, I get to pop it up.
Loretta Sweat died Friday and my mom passed Thursday early morning,
(50:36):
so to be able to have her interview and share
it with you again and re listen. I have a
great memory, but recall suck sometimes, and so just to
hear her voice right now that she's on the other side.
(50:56):
She's not gone, she hasn't been lost. You know, her
love is all over the place, and her legacy is
all over the place, and you know, those of us
who love and will miss her, that love is forever
grounded in our hearts and will never be forgotten. But
(51:17):
to be able to listen to her words again, particularly
about the you know, the emphasis that she wanted to
move from the hot lips, you know, sex thing to
feminism and how she's way more appreciative of having nurses.
(51:44):
Thank her for the role model she played as the
major in you know, this is a that was like
a pioneering role for her to you know, strong, powerful, smart,
accomplish woman in a male dominated I mean, come on
in the army and and have that influence, you know,
(52:10):
in the medical field and being responsible for the nurses,
and you know, Alan All does tribute to her. I
just read was exactly that. Let's see, I had it up,
see if I can quickly get it. But yes, Loretta
(52:31):
was supreme, was a supremely talented actor. She deserved all
her ten Emmy nominations. I didn't actually know that, and
we didn't talk about that on the show. She didn't
bring it up, but and she had two wins.
Speaker 3 (52:45):
But more than.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
Acting her part, she created it. She worked hard in
showing the writing staff how they could turn the character
from a one joke, sexist stereo type into a real
person with real feelings and ambitions. We celebrated the day
the script came out listing her character not as hot Lips,
(53:12):
but as Margaret Loretta made the most of her time here.
Speaker 5 (53:18):
Wow, what a beautiful tribute, and boy did how fortunate
am I to have had her talk about this important
distinction from her what was alan Alda says, her one
joke sexist stereotype, you know, into a real person in
(53:39):
her role in being an inspiration as a strong woman
in the entertainment industry and with her character.
Speaker 2 (53:53):
But you could tell, like I mean, it's not just
her character. It definitely is exactly who she is. And
I am going to pop up her website because as
far as I know, you know, this was her legacy,
life's passion, helping her help it was to animals. There's
(54:15):
still I'm sure ways in which there's a lot of
solution on here. And I want you to go and
you know, support, I'm sure instead of you know, just saying, oh,
(54:36):
I'm so sad she's gone, you can actually do something
to support. She's you know, watching us and loving us
from afar. But just like that dream I told you
about my dad, I know where all of my loved
ones who have passed are and they're still you know,
(54:56):
watching us on the big screen and cheering mom when
something it happened. So you want to let the reditude
to cheer for you on the other side, please go
and support that which she was so passionate about. So yeah,
sweetheart dot com And let's see, did I put that up?
(55:20):
And I think I already put that up? Okay, So
I gonna end. I'm going to end this episode with
some gratitude sandwich. We didn't do it at the top
of the show. On throwback Thursdays, we don't start, but
we end with breakfast taking a bite of my gratitude
sandwich because I want to make sure that I get
(55:41):
all of the Throwback Thursday spotlight interview in its entirety
before I get back on here to to do the
gratitude taking a bite of my gratitude sandwich with you.
So top of the butt, things that were grateful for
outside of ourselves bottom of the butt, and things that
we're grateful for inside of ourselves, also known as appreciation.
(56:05):
Taking that from Abraham Hicks law of attraction work that
I do. So what am I grateful for?
Speaker 3 (56:13):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (56:14):
Somebody just gave me a hug? Thank you one of
my subscribers. Feel free to chat. Please do free subscribe.
Thanks for the reminder. I'm so blessed and grateful. I
just found out that this YouTube TV channel has a
three million, eight hundred and eighty nine thousand impressions, which
(56:38):
is more than I can even wrap my head around.
But it was part of the reason I'm grateful that
I'm going back on world tour. Eight Ways to Happiness
got cut short by COVID going around and I've been
sort of, you know, doing one off travels to do
(57:01):
workshops or speaking or teaching around the world. Last year,
you know, I was in Australia, New Zealand, China, and Canada. Well,
I'm going back out and the decision has been made
Canada for July, Africa for August, Hawaiian Puerto Rico for
(57:24):
September October. I'll be back here because of the Newport
Beach Film Festival that I've been a sponsor for eight
plus years now, and the Catalina Jazz Festival where my
twin sister, Keko Matsui is performing in October, and a
veterans event on November eighth with Heaven and Earth Oasis.
(57:45):
So I'll be back here and then back out teaching,
speaking and writing, finishing my screenplay Life by a Thousand Cuts,
which deals with mother daughter relationships and speaking to that
as well, going back to Shanghai for a month and
then to Taiwan's for a month. So I will be back,
(58:09):
you know, between big trips, but won't be the home base,
will be abroad, and then I'm not going to be abroad.
But yes, I'm going to be abroad, but I'm not
going to be abroad. Sorry, I couldn't resist. And then
we'll see, you know what my EPs man delivers, whether
it's a one year contract somewhere abroad or whether I
(58:33):
come back in the new year of twenty twenty six.
But I am grateful for all of the opportunities. If
you know anyone that are in those cities or countries
that you know I'm finally going to take to heart
those invitations that have been collecting since the book came out,
(58:56):
and I'm going to fulfill those. So even though I
may have already been there and I used to have
a rule like I only do things once, I'm breaking
that rule, but so grateful for all out of that,
and I appreciate that I am just like Loretta Suit
an energizer bunny. Because life is way too short to
(59:20):
sit around and eat bomb bonds and watch a series.
I'm going to juice my life as usual. Thanks for
joining me today and remember it's all about balance in
peace out world, peace through Inner Piece Tomorrow Straight Talk
with James Hawthorne. Now go and have the best day ever.
(59:42):
I'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (59:49):
Ten fifty AM. Don't forget that number. And for you
young people who got here by accidentally fat fingering your
FM band selector, We're an AM radio station and AM
refers to more than just the time of day.
Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
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