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EPISODE SUMMARY:
This episode of Frank About Health will shed light on an upcoming documentary release while paying tribute to Reatha Grey who has appeared on 10 episodes of Frank About Health since it's debut in 2021.
Reatha Grey returns to Frank About Health for it's season finale to commemorate 10 episodes since the show began on talkradio.nyc both in 2016 and it's return in 2021. Reatha recently won Humanitarian of The Year award on November 10th by the Olympia Awards founded by Dr. Olympia Gellini in Beverly Hills California.
During the show Jose Dennis and I will reflect on the health topics that resonated with Reatha from her appearances to the personal issues that she is concerned about like Cardiac Care and Senior Health. We will also explore Reatha's Missionary work and how she uses her acting to continue advocating for others. Including her commercials for Cabenuva and Right At Home.
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00:00:37.410 --> 00:00:44.479 Frank R. Harrison: Hey, everybody, and welcome to the season. Finale of Frank about health. This is 133 episodes in.
00:00:44.520 --> 00:01:05.060 Frank R. Harrison: and no better than having Ritha Gray come to the season finale, because this is her 10th appearance, and she has just won an award humanitarian of the year which we want to discuss on today's show and do a lot of reflections on what the year has been, and pretty much like. The episode is called what the future of healthcare is going to be about
00:01:05.099 --> 00:01:12.180 Frank R. Harrison: now, the way that we can best discuss the future of healthcare because it's really unknown. It's all based on the environment.
00:01:12.240 --> 00:01:27.619 Frank R. Harrison: on the illnesses in question, on the research out there, on a lot of advocacy programs and work that we've been discussing on Frank about health. And also it's about your own perspective on whatever the healthcare concept you're focused on.
00:01:27.620 --> 00:01:42.960 Frank R. Harrison: So the best way for us to discuss with Ritha about the future of health care is to reflect on her past appearances when she talked about senior care, cardiac care, as well as when we pay tribute to our dear Betty White.
00:01:42.990 --> 00:01:54.490 Frank R. Harrison: Now that all being said, that's what the whole theme of today's show is about. Risk, retrospective, reflective, and what we think the future of healthcare in 2025 is going to be
00:01:54.960 --> 00:02:14.039 Frank R. Harrison: so to issue my disclaimer. This episode is simply conversation between 3 great friends. So if you're not happy with the information that's being discussed. Please know they are not the views of talkradio, Dot, Nyc, or are frank about health and basically frank about health. And basically.
00:02:14.050 --> 00:02:29.260 Frank R. Harrison: this probably isn't the show for you. I mean, this is more of a chance for us to get ready for the holiday season. We're dimly lit because we lost daylight savings time, but at least we're sun setting on the year getting ready for 2025.
00:02:29.380 --> 00:02:34.509 Frank R. Harrison: All right, I think that's all, my friendly disclaimer for the moment, Ritha, welcome to your 10th show.
00:02:34.630 --> 00:02:40.820 Frank R. Harrison: and my God, I I remember how you helped me launch the show in 2,016,
00:02:40.890 --> 00:03:05.490 Frank R. Harrison: and when you and Danielle Swanson called in at the old talking alternative broadcasting studio, and I think it was 70th Street or something like that, and then, of course, you were on the second show, which got so many views that we repeated it just 3 weeks later, when we talked about senior healthcare and advocacy, especially when you were promoting one fine Christmas, I think, was the show at that time.
00:03:05.650 --> 00:03:06.400 Frank R. Harrison: you know.
00:03:06.820 --> 00:03:08.635 Frank R. Harrison: Oh, unmute first.st
00:03:14.366 --> 00:03:21.700 Reatha: I was saying. I believe one fine Christmas will be airing again on one of the channels that plays
00:03:21.920 --> 00:03:29.130 Reatha: 24 HA day, Christmas movies and Tvs and stuff. But I have a boat to pick with you, Frank.
00:03:29.250 --> 00:03:37.199 Reatha: on Saturday night. Live. They get jackets after like 5 or 6 episodes of being there. Where's my jacket?
00:03:38.180 --> 00:03:43.854 Frank R. Harrison: Oh, wow! Well, you just got another award. I was hoping you would share that with me first.st
00:03:44.170 --> 00:03:44.903 Frank R. Harrison: I will.
00:03:45.602 --> 00:04:12.849 Frank R. Harrison: No, but we had talked about like when we were working on our special project, which we'll learn more about later on in the show that we would all gather together with you, and maybe at the Beverly Hilton again, probably in the in January or February. We always want to pay tribute to you, and, as you will see, or, as you've already seen in the project, we pay tribute to our anniversary of our friendship in one particular scene.
00:04:13.090 --> 00:04:16.949 Frank R. Harrison: you know. I guess I gotta get her a jacket right. Oh, by the way.
00:04:16.950 --> 00:04:18.469 Reatha: That is a sweater.
00:04:19.170 --> 00:04:19.640 Frank R. Harrison: A sweater.
00:04:19.640 --> 00:04:21.159 Reatha: At least.
00:04:21.529 --> 00:04:45.699 Frank R. Harrison: Okay, I'll figure you know I do have an extra Madonna concert jacket. I could probably get that to you. No, but that all being said. I also, ladies and gentlemen want to introduce you to Jose Dennis. He is co-hosting the show with me tonight, because basically, he has been the executive producer of the upcoming project that we will be releasing in 2025
00:04:46.109 --> 00:04:56.249 Frank R. Harrison: co-executive producer, and at the same time he has been behind a lot of the many episodes of Frank about health, even if he hasn't been on camera. So
00:04:56.729 --> 00:05:00.479 Frank R. Harrison: who better than to reflect on the past year going into next?
00:05:00.949 --> 00:05:12.889 Frank R. Harrison: Hello, everyone. So now, aside from the jacket which I have yet to figure out how to get you what my questions are is, tell us about this award. You just got.
00:05:14.150 --> 00:05:18.350 Reatha: Well, I received an award.
00:05:19.060 --> 00:05:26.019 Reatha: I'll start off 1st with let me see, where is it?
00:05:26.520 --> 00:05:29.219 Reatha: Oh, oh, here it is!
00:05:30.870 --> 00:05:33.700 Reatha: It is cold!
00:05:35.070 --> 00:05:36.000 Reatha: The
00:05:41.010 --> 00:05:49.465 Reatha: list, Lisa Pacheco, Chow, and Dr. Olympia Jelini awards.
00:05:51.070 --> 00:05:56.389 Reatha: They're called the Olympia awards, even though it's not really the Olympics.
00:05:56.650 --> 00:05:57.150 Frank R. Harrison: Yeah.
00:05:57.810 --> 00:06:07.820 Reatha: To symbolize that everyone that received an award received a gold medal
00:06:09.380 --> 00:06:16.180 Reatha: they had about, I'd say, 30 to 40 people recipients in different categories.
00:06:16.270 --> 00:06:18.036 Reatha: Mine was
00:06:20.010 --> 00:06:28.640 Reatha: I'll just read it for you. They basically all say the same certificate of achievement. This certificate is proudly presented to Ritha Gray.
00:06:28.980 --> 00:06:36.370 Reatha: This certificate is given to Ritha Gray for her achievement in lifetime, achievement award in entertainment.
00:06:37.110 --> 00:06:45.760 Reatha: Award on November 10, th 2024, by the 15th Olympia I've award
00:06:45.790 --> 00:06:49.820 Reatha: in collaboration with Chow entertainment international.
00:06:50.200 --> 00:06:50.820 Frank R. Harrison: Hmm.
00:06:51.520 --> 00:06:58.969 Reatha: So, as well as getting the gold medal. They also had a few of our
00:06:59.010 --> 00:07:05.280 Reatha: politicians, and we have promised Frank. We will not go political on him anyway.
00:07:05.380 --> 00:07:08.250 Reatha: But this is basically the same thing.
00:07:09.226 --> 00:07:11.249 Reatha: This one is for
00:07:12.180 --> 00:07:16.370 Reatha: oh, this. This is the same. One matter of fact. Let me get another one.
00:07:17.520 --> 00:07:27.350 Reatha: This is presented by Fiona, my Cpa. California State treasurer. And basically these are just
00:07:27.540 --> 00:07:30.889 Reatha: congratulatory. You can't see it. Can you.
00:07:31.070 --> 00:07:34.350 Frank R. Harrison: Oh, it's yeah. You have a a screener on your zoom.
00:07:34.350 --> 00:07:40.910 Reatha: Oh, that's that's true. It's blurring it. But anyway, we got it from the California Legislature.
00:07:42.233 --> 00:07:44.899 Reatha: Basically congratulating all of the
00:07:45.474 --> 00:07:52.689 Reatha: people who did receive the awards. It was a very lovely night. It was in North Hollywood.
00:07:52.690 --> 00:07:53.050 Frank R. Harrison: Yes.
00:07:53.050 --> 00:07:56.500 Reatha: I was able to have what little family I have left
00:07:57.153 --> 00:08:05.420 Reatha: come and join me there. My sister, Lori Lee was there, my grandchildren, Michael Brown and Nikis Garland were there.
00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:12.529 Reatha: and myself. We were the the that's as many blood relatives as I can come up with
00:08:12.740 --> 00:08:15.479 Reatha: pretty much, but we had a great time.
00:08:15.960 --> 00:08:16.650 Frank R. Harrison: Yes.
00:08:17.750 --> 00:08:26.560 Reatha: and there was lots of lovely entertainment sometimes these shows really go way, way, way, way, too long. This one wasn't too long, and the entertainment was good.
00:08:26.570 --> 00:08:34.009 Reatha: I mean, it's not the Emmys, it's not the Grammys, and I like to think of myself as
00:08:34.309 --> 00:08:43.549 Reatha: collecting this award for the other d-list actors. I don't know if you remember the actress who called herself on the d list.
00:08:43.690 --> 00:08:54.990 Reatha: But yeah, I'm pretty much one of the ones on the d list. You don't know my name necessarily. You may recognize my face. I've had people stop me on the street and say.
00:08:55.350 --> 00:08:57.424 Reatha: I know you from somewhere
00:08:58.520 --> 00:09:06.160 Reatha: and depending on whether it's Christmas, I'll think. Well, is it the Christmas show, or is it a commercial? I've done recently?
00:09:07.170 --> 00:09:12.160 Reatha: But we are the hardworking people of the acting profession.
00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:16.302 Reatha: and people all know all the big names.
00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:27.589 Reatha: that are getting all these Grammys and whatever. But they're the ones that maybe work on 2 or 3 movies a year, because movies are hard to do.
00:09:27.670 --> 00:09:31.990 Reatha: And so you don't get to see them that often, or they're the TV people
00:09:32.070 --> 00:09:35.190 Reatha: who are like me. That may be in the background.
00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:40.449 Reatha: not necessarily an extra, but I might just say one word or 2 words or a sentence.
00:09:41.133 --> 00:09:51.159 Reatha: I I had someone remember me, for from one of the TV shows and all I said, I stuck my head around the corner and I said, are they gone yet?
00:09:51.540 --> 00:09:58.209 Reatha: And she she read, I don't. I didn't know people studied TV that hard. She said, oh, yeah, I saw you last week.
00:09:58.650 --> 00:10:00.559 Reatha: I'm like, really. Okay.
00:10:01.410 --> 00:10:02.275 Reatha: So
00:10:03.340 --> 00:10:13.179 Reatha: whole category of of actors. Most actors do not make enough money acting to survive on. They're below the poverty level.
00:10:14.630 --> 00:10:17.430 Reatha: And so they have a lot of health issues.
00:10:17.640 --> 00:10:23.200 Reatha: And Frank and I said in a little bit, we're gonna even talk about
00:10:23.640 --> 00:10:26.239 Reatha: just being a struggling actor.
00:10:26.490 --> 00:10:36.609 Reatha: and what your healthcare objectives are, and and what you can expect, because people come out to California to be stars.
00:10:36.730 --> 00:10:41.379 Reatha: And they asked me, Ritha Ritha, what should I do? I just got here from Alabama. What should I do?
00:10:41.390 --> 00:10:44.920 Frank R. Harrison: Go back to Alabama. That's what you should do.
00:10:44.920 --> 00:10:45.320 Frank R. Harrison: What's that.
00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:57.470 Reatha: There are. There are a few jobs and lots of people, and they get mad at me when I say that. But if I can discourage you. The Hollywood's going to eat you alive, so
00:10:58.010 --> 00:11:01.609 Reatha: go back, be a big star in a in a small pond.
00:11:01.750 --> 00:11:16.829 Reatha: but at any rate I appreciate my acknowledgments and awards. It was for the fact that I am in entertainment. I like, I said. I feel like I represent the little people, and when I say little I mean it adoringly. We do
00:11:16.880 --> 00:11:19.759 Reatha: a lot of work on the set
00:11:20.140 --> 00:11:29.290 Reatha: and I'm just. I'm humbled to have received it, and it. It included my work in
00:11:29.560 --> 00:11:35.999 Reatha: doing things for the homeless working in the missions, going to overseas
00:11:36.410 --> 00:11:42.710 Reatha: to do missionary work, and it just recognized that I have a lot of time on my hands.
00:11:43.390 --> 00:11:52.089 Reatha: actor, but so do the big guys. They don't do a whole lot of work either with just one or 2 big things. I just do one or 2
00:11:52.210 --> 00:11:53.980 Reatha: medium things.
00:11:54.230 --> 00:12:01.349 Frank R. Harrison: Well, as you probably saw from Logan back there, he said. You're a list in our hearts, and he's absolutely right about that.
00:12:01.350 --> 00:12:02.579 Reatha: And I mean.
00:12:02.580 --> 00:12:08.889 Frank R. Harrison: At the same time, we've also pointed out that I think with every actor's mission
00:12:09.010 --> 00:12:17.110 Frank R. Harrison: there could be a social or political reason why not referring to politics, but pause focused.
00:12:17.160 --> 00:12:20.679 Frank R. Harrison: you know, like being able to focus on the unseen
00:12:21.079 --> 00:12:28.470 Frank R. Harrison: Person with a specific illness, or the unseen person based on their age group, or their gender, or even
00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:35.339 Frank R. Harrison: even their race, or whatever the circumstances may be. And when I look at your body of work
00:12:35.620 --> 00:12:42.219 Frank R. Harrison: from one fine Christmas where you played a woman who lost both her husband and her son.
00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:48.070 Frank R. Harrison: and your whole community came out to give you gifts. At the end of it, because they realized all the work you did for them
00:12:48.520 --> 00:12:50.819 Frank R. Harrison: to all the commercials. You've done
00:12:50.830 --> 00:13:08.599 Frank R. Harrison: healthcare commercials as well as you know. One of my favorites, Hilton, and also Walmart, for back to school. Then also Betty whites off their rockers where you're dealing with the young set, and how you. The older set is getting back at them.
00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:32.350 Frank R. Harrison: You know. There's always a lot of narratives behind all of the work you do. I guess it just takes someone like me to point it out. Because, after all, I'm trying to point out that for a health oriented podcast it is your quote unquote delist work that is actually resonating more with people than a-listers are doing. Well. I remember you in the scene from Tree's company at the Regal Beagle.
00:13:34.430 --> 00:13:34.780 Reatha: Joe.
00:13:34.780 --> 00:13:35.550 Frank R. Harrison: And that was kind of.
00:13:35.550 --> 00:13:36.510 Reatha: Beagle, beagle.
00:13:36.510 --> 00:13:40.290 Frank R. Harrison: Oh, you were at a dentist office also, so there's a little bit.
00:13:40.290 --> 00:13:40.619 Reatha: And I
00:13:41.770 --> 00:13:55.860 Reatha: I was, but I was in the regal Beagle all the time. They just didn't show me the the game was not to be recognized so you could come back every week and be in the same place. But you've got your back to the camera. You're still an extra, but you got paid. So
00:13:56.507 --> 00:13:57.640 Reatha: okay, that's right.
00:13:57.958 --> 00:14:10.690 Frank R. Harrison: Well, we're about to take our 1st commercial break. When we do hopefully, I'll find some more light in here. But at the same time. I want to be able to now really flesh out your work, not just with
00:14:10.750 --> 00:14:37.250 Frank R. Harrison: what you know your missionary work, but and your and your work with the homeless. But I also want to, you know, really reflect on episodes of Frank about health that you've done where you were showing your advocacy work, and then, of course, we'll wrap up the show with the kind of advocacy that all of us collaborated on, even Logan, behind the scenes that we will be showing in 2025. All right, everybody. Please stay tuned right here on Frank. About health. We'll be back in a few.
00:16:49.140 --> 00:16:50.849 Frank R. Harrison: Hey, everybody, and welcome back.
00:16:50.880 --> 00:16:56.840 Frank R. Harrison: One of the main reasons why I love Ritha is because literally from day one, when I met her in
00:16:56.850 --> 00:17:02.200 Frank R. Harrison: February of 2013, at an Oscar gifting suite.
00:17:02.370 --> 00:17:08.009 Frank R. Harrison: We hit it off like that because of our mutual connection to Betty White, me. I was just
00:17:08.089 --> 00:17:13.240 Frank R. Harrison: meeting her and working with her agent on trying to help
00:17:13.270 --> 00:17:28.680 Frank R. Harrison: keep the show that Ritha was on active and participating with the network. And lo and behold! That's how Ritha and I managed to literally do what we can by actually working on a documentary together. That was pre obamacare. So
00:17:28.690 --> 00:17:31.410 Frank R. Harrison: from the start, we always had health in mind.
00:17:31.570 --> 00:17:48.239 Frank R. Harrison: Now, throughout our 12 years or so since we 1st met, we have been talking about healthcare issues across the board, both on and off camera and what we want to. Now, you know, Joey has a question that was going to really now flesh out
00:17:48.260 --> 00:18:06.829 Frank R. Harrison: parts of Ritha that I didn't even know until pretty much the last couple weeks, which is why she got the award due to her humanitarian efforts and missionary efforts, things that I had no knowledge of, but it really shows that while Ritha dubs herself a d-list actress.
00:18:06.870 --> 00:18:11.509 Frank R. Harrison: she's an a-list like what Logan said a list soul.
00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:20.720 Frank R. Harrison: and I think that is what her work has been able to resonate like with Retirement House I mean. The name itself speaks elderly.
00:18:20.740 --> 00:18:31.419 Frank R. Harrison: and at the same time not to mention the commercials for Cabinuva, as well as for right at home, which I which I had featured here on Frank about health.
00:18:31.860 --> 00:18:54.230 Frank R. Harrison: She's concerned about the future of healthcare. But she's also concerned about the future of her community. That's what makes a true advocate. So I guess I want to let Joey ask you about your missionary work, and then I want to recap with you some of those episodes we've done, and some of those commercials we've done, so you can educate the audience out there as to what they need to be aware of for the future.
00:18:55.320 --> 00:19:04.820 Frank R. Harrison: Yes, I would found it very intriguing to know that you went out and did missionary work. So what type of missionary work did you get into
00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:06.675 Frank R. Harrison: unmute.
00:19:10.420 --> 00:19:11.699 Reatha: I forget.
00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:12.470 Frank R. Harrison: No problem.
00:19:12.988 --> 00:19:25.530 Reatha: Okay, I'm unmuted. I've done lots of different type of missionary work I started with on Skid Row
00:19:26.349 --> 00:19:33.689 Reatha: where it was just a bunch of women and I that I didn't gather the group together. But we would go out regularly
00:19:33.980 --> 00:19:37.729 Reatha: and we would take food. We would take hot food because
00:19:37.810 --> 00:19:43.439 Reatha: people can get food down on Skid Row. People can get handouts. People can get money from.
00:19:43.520 --> 00:19:47.939 Reatha: you know, cars passing by and run into 7, 11 and get a soda.
00:19:48.150 --> 00:19:52.100 Reatha: but they can't necessarily get a hot meal.
00:19:52.730 --> 00:19:58.639 Reatha: and so we would make, you know, beans, greens, soup.
00:19:58.840 --> 00:20:01.939 Reatha: things that would stay hot. We take a hot plate
00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:07.540 Reatha: and we would go, and we would just love on them and
00:20:07.690 --> 00:20:15.099 Reatha: introduce ourselves, because one of the main complaints that the homeless have is that people look through them.
00:20:15.130 --> 00:20:20.739 Reatha: It's not like they look at them, they they look, they divert their eyes. I do it.
00:20:20.960 --> 00:20:27.170 Reatha: When the guy walking down the aisle, you know, on the street, and and I'm in the car. I'm
00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:32.740 Reatha: looking everywhere else. I can other than looking directly at him, because it's not safe.
00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:49.789 Reatha: People think, how can you just not do anything? Well, do something I'm not saying. Don't do anything, but it's not safe. If a woman rolls down her window. That's on the passenger side to give some guy a dollar. He's going to take her whole purse. Not always, but
00:20:50.470 --> 00:20:52.230 Reatha: it's just not safe.
00:20:52.710 --> 00:20:59.260 Reatha: so we would start. We would go down there. We would talk to them. We would have normal conversations with them.
00:21:00.300 --> 00:21:05.039 Reatha: We weren't there to ridicule or to judge them. We wouldn't say, you know.
00:21:05.080 --> 00:21:07.349 Reatha: Why don't you get a job? Well.
00:21:07.530 --> 00:21:12.719 Reatha: clearly they can't, for whatever reason it can be their own fault, but still
00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:15.889 Reatha: they? They want to just have conversations.
00:21:16.040 --> 00:21:22.599 Reatha: I used to love to ask them, Do you have children? And they'd say, Yes, and say, Do you see your children.
00:21:22.770 --> 00:21:29.329 Reatha: and they think about it, and they'd say, Oh, I'd love to see my children, but, my ex-wife, she won't let me see them.
00:21:29.560 --> 00:21:36.450 Reatha: and there's a reason, but it gives them an opportunity to re remember when they had a normal life.
00:21:36.610 --> 00:21:40.450 Reatha: when they really did get to go to Thanksgiving dinner.
00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:47.080 Reatha: we we used to serve well, we would volunteer to serve at the La Mission
00:21:47.270 --> 00:21:50.330 Reatha: to hand out the Thanksgiving dinners
00:21:50.550 --> 00:21:54.370 Reatha: out on the street, and they could bring their whole family, and
00:21:55.060 --> 00:22:00.920 Reatha: just have a a good old fashioned home outing.
00:22:01.420 --> 00:22:07.009 Reatha: and they would they would love it, they would enjoy it, and sometimes their families would come.
00:22:07.140 --> 00:22:13.359 Reatha: and the children would get to see their parents, and I mean men and women. There are also women on Skid Row.
00:22:14.420 --> 00:22:16.540 Frank R. Harrison: So I started there.
00:22:17.116 --> 00:22:23.350 Reatha: And just before I left, working at the La Mission I went on a mission trip to Nicaragua.
00:22:23.670 --> 00:22:25.210 Reatha: I had never been to a
00:22:25.230 --> 00:22:31.049 Reatha: well I had been to Tijuana, but I don't really consider that a 3rd World country, because you can walk right in.
00:22:31.140 --> 00:22:40.200 Reatha: But in Nicaragua it was frightening to me open sewers.
00:22:40.350 --> 00:22:43.729 Reatha: people living in 10 huts, and
00:22:43.810 --> 00:22:46.890 Reatha: the I was really touched by 2
00:22:47.180 --> 00:22:49.319 Reatha: things that happened when I was there.
00:22:49.540 --> 00:22:57.439 Reatha: We went to a place that was. It was the word it was called meant the dump, and it was a dump.
00:22:57.780 --> 00:23:00.789 Reatha: and they told us we're going to try to take food in.
00:23:00.840 --> 00:23:05.090 Reatha: but it may get rough out there, so we may have to leave in a hurry.
00:23:05.360 --> 00:23:09.990 Reatha: and sure enough, we stopped one place. We gave out a little bit food.
00:23:10.190 --> 00:23:14.919 Reatha: The next place we got to the crowd was bigger. We could tell that the word was.
00:23:15.667 --> 00:23:18.769 Reatha: You know, getting out that we were there.
00:23:18.950 --> 00:23:27.040 Reatha: And the thing is in all these 3rd World countries. Everyone has a phone, everyone because they don't have
00:23:27.220 --> 00:23:28.770 Reatha: landlines.
00:23:29.210 --> 00:23:34.260 Reatha: Their country was never developed to have landlines, but they all have
00:23:34.530 --> 00:23:41.079 Reatha: phones. They don't always have time on their phones, but they've all got phones.
00:23:41.290 --> 00:23:47.780 Frank R. Harrison: And so I figured they were calling around telling them the missionaries are here. They're bringing food.
00:23:48.900 --> 00:23:51.770 Reatha: All of a sudden we got swarmed
00:23:52.130 --> 00:24:05.790 Reatha: on the bus, and they started rocking the bus, and the bus driver said, We gotta go. We got to go get, you know, because we were throwing the food out the window, he said, no, don't throw it, because I'll run over them. Stop, you know, we got to get out of here.
00:24:05.950 --> 00:24:09.569 Reatha: and these people actually lived in the dump.
00:24:09.900 --> 00:24:13.730 Reatha: You could see the houses made out of garbage.
00:24:13.930 --> 00:24:19.329 Reatha: and it was. It was frightening. They were there with their kids. It it was just horrible.
00:24:19.850 --> 00:24:26.350 Reatha: And then another day we went to hand out Kit hand out food, and there were people.
00:24:26.740 --> 00:24:33.380 Reatha: It was a a living like suburb, I guess, but outside of the city, and they had
00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:37.700 Reatha: shacks made out of tin and bamboo, and
00:24:38.110 --> 00:24:42.189 Reatha: whatever other kind of vegetation they use for walls, and
00:24:42.470 --> 00:24:45.310 Reatha: I walked inside one to give a lady
00:24:45.640 --> 00:24:48.939 Reatha: something. Beans. I think we were giving out beans and rice.
00:24:49.380 --> 00:24:52.429 Reatha: and she had her baby in a hammock.
00:24:53.290 --> 00:24:55.939 Reatha: and her baby was only a week old.
00:24:57.100 --> 00:25:00.150 Reatha: It was so hot in that hut
00:25:00.280 --> 00:25:03.030 Reatha: it felt like I was in an oven.
00:25:03.110 --> 00:25:07.500 Reatha: and I just I broke down in tears. It's like, How can you have your baby in this
00:25:07.640 --> 00:25:11.799 Reatha: in this hot? And you're roasting your baby. This is horrible!
00:25:11.900 --> 00:25:19.090 Reatha: And outside was equally as hot, and then plus then you had the sun so realistically had no choices.
00:25:19.520 --> 00:25:25.249 Reatha: and I I was kind of hooked. Then I I wanted to go back to other countries.
00:25:25.290 --> 00:25:34.840 Reatha: and I realize we just do a a drop in the bucket, you know, when we go out there. One time I went to I was in Africa, and
00:25:35.810 --> 00:25:38.100 Reatha: they it was a group of women.
00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:44.580 Reatha: and the men in the village said, What are these women here to do? How can they help you?
00:25:44.660 --> 00:25:47.309 Reatha: And we were there to paint the school
00:25:47.760 --> 00:26:01.069 Reatha: they had built the school, and they needed it painted, and they said, Women don't paint. And so we got our brushes. We got our paint, and we painted that schoolhouse, and the men were just shocked. They were just shocked.
00:26:01.290 --> 00:26:06.769 Reatha: And it wasn't, you know, a big thing to us to go pay the school
00:26:07.270 --> 00:26:12.209 Reatha: because it was not like our schools. Believe me, one room, schoolhouse.
00:26:12.220 --> 00:26:18.070 Reatha: We paint it, but it it it. It made us feel good.
00:26:18.080 --> 00:26:22.500 Reatha: and especially when we would pray for the children. They would say
00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:30.179 Reatha: we would ask them, you know, what would you like us to pray for? And they'd say that I could get a uniform, so I can go to school.
00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:34.130 Reatha: because if they couldn't afford a uniform they couldn't go to school.
00:26:34.700 --> 00:26:42.846 Reatha: And I think of the kids in America, it's like, What do you want for Christmas. Oh, I want an Xbox and a bicycle, and Dma.
00:26:43.310 --> 00:26:49.680 Reatha: and it's like, No, I think all I think every American actually should go into a 3rd World country
00:26:50.110 --> 00:26:52.800 Reatha: and stay for a week without their cell phone.
00:26:54.290 --> 00:27:08.479 Reatha: Just to visit, not to stay at the not to stay at the Hilton, but, and I stayed at some a very nice Hilton in in Africa, but no, to go into the bush and see how people really really lived
00:27:08.990 --> 00:27:16.580 Reatha: there. And you talk about health care. One of my other heartbreaking moments was, we went to a hospital
00:27:16.810 --> 00:27:18.860 Reatha: in Nicaragua, and
00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:27.990 Reatha: we would. We went to the pharmacy, and we would see, you know, rows of empty places where the medication should be.
00:27:28.230 --> 00:27:34.420 Reatha: and then we would go, and then there would. There was no medication there, and then we would see a
00:27:35.020 --> 00:27:37.850 Reatha: prescription on a bench.
00:27:37.900 --> 00:27:47.260 Reatha: and then we'd walk further. And it was just there was no medication there. It was horrible. It broke my heart
00:27:47.330 --> 00:27:51.760 Reatha: when I think of you know all the medications we have in all of our pharmacies.
00:27:52.300 --> 00:27:59.680 Reatha: So that's a a brief look into my missionary journey.
00:28:00.320 --> 00:28:10.730 Frank R. Harrison: But would you say that the reason why that those individuals ended up on Skid Row is because they were not mindful of their health, or was it just different circumstances altogether?
00:28:11.360 --> 00:28:17.090 Reatha: We're all 3 bad decisions away from homelessness.
00:28:17.390 --> 00:28:21.240 Reatha: you know. Think about it that way. But in the real world world
00:28:21.790 --> 00:28:25.049 Reatha: you make 3 really bad decisions.
00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:29.560 Reatha: and you can end up on Skid Row. There are people there with Phds.
00:28:29.770 --> 00:28:34.570 Reatha: There are people that were very fruitful in their professions.
00:28:34.940 --> 00:28:39.089 Reatha: Something happened and or their jobs went away.
00:28:39.190 --> 00:28:42.680 Reatha: I was crushed in my own mind
00:28:42.750 --> 00:28:49.180 Reatha: at the thought of all the garage attendants that got laid off when they automated garage attendance.
00:28:50.020 --> 00:28:53.960 Reatha: and I and I don't know why it hit me one day, but it just hit me. It's like
00:28:54.330 --> 00:28:59.239 Reatha: that has to be hundreds of thousands of people's jobs in America.
00:28:59.610 --> 00:29:06.200 Reatha: If you've been sitting at a thing taking a ticket and sticking it in for the last 10 years.
00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:10.429 Reatha: what are you suited to work for. What are you suited to do?
00:29:10.670 --> 00:29:16.429 Reatha: And and a lot more is going to be missing professions
00:29:16.610 --> 00:29:21.840 Reatha: because they're gonna be taken over by AI, or whoever, or whatever.
00:29:22.500 --> 00:29:32.969 Frank R. Harrison: Well, we're about to take our next break, and when we return, do you have any other questions following that? I definitely want to hear, because I know we we had discussed about some of your concerns.
00:29:33.370 --> 00:29:35.589 Reatha: I mean, that's what long winded.
00:29:36.266 --> 00:29:37.100 Frank R. Harrison: What I.
00:29:37.100 --> 00:29:38.879 Reatha: I'll be less long winded.
00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:59.089 Frank R. Harrison: Oh, no, no, I mean definitely. You represent kind of a dichotomy on one aspect. You're a comedic actress, and you're and you really know how to pull on the heartstrings, on certain characters that you play. But then you really have intention, good intention behind all of that.
00:29:59.240 --> 00:30:04.630 Frank R. Harrison: and I guess for those that don't really know you. They never know that, or they never hear about it.
00:30:04.730 --> 00:30:16.729 Frank R. Harrison: you know. And I'm trying to work this show to make sure that people know that about you, especially before we go towards the holiday season and into 2025. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we'll be back in a few stay, tuned.
00:32:22.180 --> 00:32:23.810 Frank R. Harrison: Hey, everybody, and welcome back.
00:32:24.030 --> 00:32:26.429 Frank R. Harrison: What were the additional questions you had, Joey?
00:32:26.590 --> 00:32:29.975 Frank R. Harrison: Well, I remember watching a
00:32:31.270 --> 00:32:37.190 Frank R. Harrison: that movie that she made one fine Christmas and how
00:32:37.540 --> 00:32:44.170 Frank R. Harrison: your character always made people happy, especially when you made your cookies
00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:50.309 Frank R. Harrison: and always shared your cookies with them, and how the community came together
00:32:50.950 --> 00:32:57.879 Frank R. Harrison: when they found out about your loss the loss of your husband and child in the car accident.
00:32:58.080 --> 00:33:01.280 Frank R. Harrison: and how you shared
00:33:01.490 --> 00:33:07.809 Frank R. Harrison: that with a couple of your friends, and how the community came to celebrate you
00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:11.240 Frank R. Harrison: in the end. I thought that was amazing.
00:33:11.950 --> 00:33:12.959 Frank R. Harrison: Yeah, you always.
00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:14.440 Reatha: It's a wonderful.
00:33:14.760 --> 00:33:19.379 Reatha: It was a wonderful part for me to play. I was very excited
00:33:19.670 --> 00:33:24.020 Reatha: about being in that movie, and it's so true. There's so many people that
00:33:24.970 --> 00:33:31.039 Reatha: again they as especially as you grow older, and I don't care who you are. How many friends you have.
00:33:31.060 --> 00:33:36.789 Reatha: They decrease the older you get they pass away, they move away.
00:33:37.270 --> 00:33:39.240 Reatha: All kinds of things happen.
00:33:39.360 --> 00:33:40.650 Reatha: So it's
00:33:40.890 --> 00:33:47.600 Reatha: really good. I every time I hear on the news that somebody that the police had to make a welfare check
00:33:48.600 --> 00:33:55.420 Reatha: that that's always so sad to me, because that means no one saw them every day no one missed them, for.
00:33:55.660 --> 00:33:59.159 Reatha: you know, a couple of days to a month, you know.
00:33:59.810 --> 00:34:00.490 Frank R. Harrison: Hmm.
00:34:00.490 --> 00:34:01.100 Reatha: And
00:34:01.910 --> 00:34:08.809 Reatha: we need, and I'm I'm guilty. I I should be more mindful of my neighbors. We do kind of look out to
00:34:08.900 --> 00:34:13.729 Reatha: make sure the Amazon box doesn't get left at the wrong door, but
00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:18.920 Reatha: we really need to be closer to our our neighbors.
00:34:19.900 --> 00:34:22.640 Frank R. Harrison: When you say in the movie, right as rain.
00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:30.750 Frank R. Harrison: Obviously that was scripted. But it kind of resonates with your intention in how you connect with others. Correct.
00:34:31.050 --> 00:34:33.129 Frank R. Harrison: You just want everyone to know that
00:34:33.199 --> 00:34:35.950 Frank R. Harrison: rain is natural. It's it's it's.
00:34:36.370 --> 00:34:43.880 Frank R. Harrison: It's all natural, right as rain is what you're really saying, that it's all a natural process, right? Is that is that your what you're.
00:34:43.889 --> 00:34:50.839 Reatha: I like the way you said that I I actually I'm not in those words. I haven't, but I will use it in the future.
00:34:51.661 --> 00:34:55.829 Reatha: I've I always tell people it's just
00:34:56.399 --> 00:35:01.029 Reatha: natural life goes on, whether you're grieving
00:35:01.339 --> 00:35:06.619 Reatha: or whether you're, you know, buckling up and saying, you know, I'm okay.
00:35:06.659 --> 00:35:10.059 Reatha: Everything's gonna be all right, and you're dying inside.
00:35:10.629 --> 00:35:16.189 Reatha: But it it it. Life goes on, and it is natural, and
00:35:16.399 --> 00:35:18.999 Reatha: you need to find your purpose and do it.
00:35:19.299 --> 00:35:20.489 Frank R. Harrison: And.
00:35:21.439 --> 00:35:23.409 Reatha: It sometimes it
00:35:23.509 --> 00:35:28.889 Reatha: when it's a close relative like, even though I was very happy to have my relatives at the
00:35:28.949 --> 00:35:31.139 Reatha: award ceremony.
00:35:31.189 --> 00:35:37.449 Reatha: It was like, there's so many relatives that weren't there because they no longer are here.
00:35:38.149 --> 00:35:44.339 Reatha: And but I can't concentrate on that, because it is just natural.
00:35:45.010 --> 00:35:46.590 Frank R. Harrison: Yeah, exactly.
00:35:46.660 --> 00:35:51.820 Frank R. Harrison: Now. I I guess when I look back at the episodes that you've done on Frank about health.
00:35:52.060 --> 00:35:58.210 Frank R. Harrison: I keep remembering that three-parter cardiac show that I put together back in 2023,
00:35:58.290 --> 00:36:05.620 Frank R. Harrison: and I I think his name was Peter Weinberg, and he was talking about plaque removal
00:36:06.100 --> 00:36:29.899 Frank R. Harrison: drinks that he could highly recommend living. Well, I think, was the name of it, and you were explaining about how you were so mindful of your history with cardiac episodes that it took an entire getaway to the hospital to find out that you were just having a different reaction, an infection reaction. So it had its own Mini series tied to it.
00:36:30.140 --> 00:36:35.600 Frank R. Harrison: How would you qualify that particular episode as something that you
00:36:35.690 --> 00:36:38.709 Frank R. Harrison: advocate for, especially in the area of cardiac care.
00:36:39.140 --> 00:36:42.429 Reatha: Well, especially for women. They're
00:36:42.770 --> 00:36:54.600 Reatha: women don't have the elephant on their chest feeling they don't have any of. I shouldn't say all women, but women in general don't have the drastic
00:36:56.104 --> 00:36:58.700 Reatha: signs of a heart attack than men do.
00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:05.200 Reatha: And so I definitely advocate for women. If you, if it doesn't feel right. Go to the doctor.
00:37:05.260 --> 00:37:11.060 Reatha: go to urgent care. I know that waiting in urgent care could be the worst nightmare.
00:37:11.090 --> 00:37:19.100 Reatha: but still go and get it checked out, because what you might think is something very little might be something very big.
00:37:20.373 --> 00:37:32.520 Frank R. Harrison: That's for sure. And then what about? For example, the episode where we were talking about right at home with ritha, gray, and you were looking at
00:37:32.530 --> 00:37:37.160 Frank R. Harrison: pretty much the equivalent of cdpap care
00:37:37.260 --> 00:37:41.440 Frank R. Harrison: or caregivers within your own family, which I both.
00:37:41.560 --> 00:37:47.780 Frank R. Harrison: you know Joey and I are caregivers for my father paid caregivers. But at the same time.
00:37:47.840 --> 00:38:01.780 Frank R. Harrison: in that commercial you're talking about something that I reflected on last week's episode of Frank about health, which is a form of in-home care that could be qualified either for hospice or palliative care depending on the illness.
00:38:01.960 --> 00:38:05.679 Frank R. Harrison: What was your interest in that in doing that commercial.
00:38:06.250 --> 00:38:11.060 Reatha: Well, there are people that need care
00:38:12.040 --> 00:38:21.389 Reatha: because they can't cook for themselves really anymore. I remember when they put in the new stove for my aunt because she had been used to a gas stove.
00:38:21.400 --> 00:38:26.889 Reatha: and she had caught a tea towel or something on fire, and they said whoops got to go.
00:38:27.090 --> 00:38:33.109 Reatha: and they they had to replace the stove, and she's a hundred one years old.
00:38:33.240 --> 00:38:37.330 Reatha: She lives by herself, but she has lots of caretakers.
00:38:37.510 --> 00:38:47.439 Reatha: She does not qualify to get her caretakers taken care of, because we jokingly say that she still has the 1st penny that she ever.
00:38:47.900 --> 00:38:52.480 Frank R. Harrison: And that. And that's our basically the 2 classifications that.
00:38:53.170 --> 00:38:58.840 Reatha: But qualify for health care. You've saved enough money, and you can afford to buy
00:38:59.060 --> 00:39:06.500 Reatha: help when you need it, which can include 24 h at your home, or you're poor enough
00:39:06.730 --> 00:39:09.840 Reatha: to afford it, that you will get Government assistance.
00:39:10.070 --> 00:39:17.810 Reatha: So one of my things that I'm really advocating now is save money
00:39:18.790 --> 00:39:20.929 Reatha: because you might live to be old.
00:39:22.380 --> 00:39:26.839 Reatha: and if you don't have money to take care of yourself, you are at the mercy
00:39:27.240 --> 00:39:33.750 Reatha: of these daycare centers, these workers that come into your homes
00:39:34.650 --> 00:39:39.070 Reatha: and you don't have. You don't have control over your life. My 101,
00:39:40.200 --> 00:39:48.870 Reatha: I mean. She she gets up and walks around the house, but she really doesn't get out anymore. But she's able to have people that can take her.
00:39:49.190 --> 00:39:51.169 Frank R. Harrison: And again I just.
00:39:51.190 --> 00:39:52.720 Reatha: Save money.
00:39:52.970 --> 00:39:54.730 Reatha: Get insurance
00:39:56.570 --> 00:40:00.790 Reatha: You may have to take care of yourself, and
00:40:01.010 --> 00:40:12.369 Reatha: God forbid that you don't have any money or any relatives, or anyone who knows or cares enough about you to advocate for you. My friend. Millie had no one.
00:40:13.600 --> 00:40:21.559 Reatha: What was a a friendship that was over the years was a close friendship, but by no means
00:40:21.660 --> 00:40:27.640 Reatha: did I ever imagine that I would spend approximately 3 years taking care of this woman.
00:40:28.500 --> 00:40:33.790 Reatha: and I had no legal papers, but the system is so messed up
00:40:33.910 --> 00:40:37.660 Reatha: that I had no legal papers that said I could
00:40:38.080 --> 00:40:41.940 Reatha: order anything. They let me order all kinds of stuff for her.
00:40:42.130 --> 00:40:45.120 Reatha: because there was no one else they could talk to.
00:40:45.520 --> 00:40:50.359 Reatha: and they needed to do. And I was making decisions without having
00:40:50.430 --> 00:41:01.930 Reatha: anything signed, and and of course my friend Millie was fine with it. I never forced her to do anything she wanted to do. But you know, if if she had had any money hidden in that house.
00:41:01.950 --> 00:41:08.519 Reatha: She had people running in and out of the house trying to apply for the job that you look at them and say they're up to no good.
00:41:09.590 --> 00:41:17.299 Reatha: Wow! So it's as you get older, or while you're young, plan to get older.
00:41:18.726 --> 00:41:20.340 Frank R. Harrison: Exactly. Exactly.
00:41:20.340 --> 00:41:21.729 Reatha: Can't take it with you.
00:41:22.370 --> 00:41:23.090 Reatha: No.
00:41:23.250 --> 00:41:25.119 Frank R. Harrison: No, that's that's for sure.
00:41:25.930 --> 00:41:31.379 Frank R. Harrison: So what would you say were some of your favorite episodes that you have done on Frank about health.
00:41:31.590 --> 00:41:32.959 Frank R. Harrison: that you can recall.
00:41:33.730 --> 00:41:41.980 Reatha: Oh, I always like warning women about the heart attacks because
00:41:42.040 --> 00:41:45.670 Reatha: they they don't know. They really don't know.
00:41:48.680 --> 00:41:51.030 Reatha: And any type of warning
00:41:51.950 --> 00:42:05.639 Reatha: that we can give about healthcare, heart attacks, about diabetes, or any any things people don't know.
00:42:05.740 --> 00:42:11.100 Reatha: And it's amazing to me. Doctors expect you to know things, and it's like.
00:42:11.600 --> 00:42:18.289 Reatha: know what the last 10 big words you said were, you know, I can't look them up because I can't even pronounce them.
00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:25.209 Reatha: But I enjoy distributing knowledge because we just don't know.
00:42:25.220 --> 00:42:26.500 Reatha: Just don't know.
00:42:27.400 --> 00:42:31.770 Frank R. Harrison: We're about to take our final break. But before we go, if you were to look at
00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:34.949 Frank R. Harrison: your stages in your career since we 1st met
00:42:35.060 --> 00:42:38.109 Frank R. Harrison: from Betty White all the way up to Retirement House.
00:42:38.130 --> 00:42:43.430 Frank R. Harrison: What would you say were your top 3 milestones in the last 1212 years or so?
00:42:44.290 --> 00:42:49.030 Reatha: Well, of course, doing the Betty White off your rockers was
00:42:49.510 --> 00:42:55.360 Reatha: wonderful. We did 3 we did a year and a half worth of shows it was
00:42:55.450 --> 00:42:59.999 Reatha: fun working with Betty was the thrill of my life
00:43:00.580 --> 00:43:07.649 Reatha: she really is was just a wonderful person, and I have a surprise for you, Mr. Frank.
00:43:08.260 --> 00:43:09.020 Frank R. Harrison: Yes.
00:43:09.020 --> 00:43:15.349 Reatha: Are you ready? I saved this. This is extra extra. Read all about it. Hot off the presses.
00:43:15.710 --> 00:43:19.690 Reatha: Betty White is gonna be on a stamp next year.
00:43:19.690 --> 00:43:20.880 Frank R. Harrison: That today I'm in.
00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:23.330 Reatha: I wanted to be the 1st to tell you.
00:43:23.330 --> 00:43:37.239 Frank R. Harrison: Oh, no, I actually wanted to reach out to Jeff. But I said, Let me wait until all of this dies down. But yeah, yeah, I am sure that that is something that the Government worked on with the estate. And
00:43:38.740 --> 00:43:39.300 Frank R. Harrison: oh.
00:43:39.300 --> 00:43:41.417 Reatha: The person Logan's heard of it.
00:43:41.770 --> 00:43:48.049 Frank R. Harrison: Yeah, no, it it was on. I would. Good morning, America! And they were playing the theme from the Golden Girls as they were announcing it.
00:43:48.050 --> 00:43:48.740 Reatha: Yes.
00:43:49.376 --> 00:43:50.650 Frank R. Harrison: Oh, wow!
00:43:50.650 --> 00:43:52.929 Reatha: I can't. I can't get ahead of you, Frank.
00:43:53.526 --> 00:43:55.440 Frank R. Harrison: We know difference.
00:43:56.020 --> 00:43:57.780 Reatha: Oh, well, that's true.
00:43:58.088 --> 00:44:11.029 Frank R. Harrison: Just a joke either way. I remember, we're about to take our final commercial. I just wanted to close by saying, I remember when I went out there a year and a half ago to help for tease with her surgery.
00:44:11.080 --> 00:44:22.290 Frank R. Harrison: And you were on the phone with me the entire time, I mean, even from the moment before I boarded the plane to come out there. So you were doing a lot of help for me during that whole
00:44:22.640 --> 00:44:24.368 Frank R. Harrison: all of a sudden.
00:44:25.260 --> 00:44:34.549 Frank R. Harrison: you know, a cross country advocacy program that I didn't exactly sign up for. But she, Bertice, had no one to to
00:44:34.670 --> 00:44:46.968 Frank R. Harrison: deal with, and thankfully all the work that I've been doing for my father and for my cousin allowed me to just put it together for her. All right. Everybody will be back in a few.
00:46:51.980 --> 00:46:53.620 Frank R. Harrison: So, Joe, you had a question.
00:46:54.130 --> 00:46:59.190 Frank R. Harrison: Oh, this past year I've seen you on many commercials.
00:46:59.210 --> 00:47:03.939 Frank R. Harrison: especially Hilton commercials and and stuff like that so which
00:47:04.680 --> 00:47:11.650 Frank R. Harrison: which one has been one of your favorites that inspired you.
00:47:15.260 --> 00:47:16.165 Frank R. Harrison: unmute.
00:47:19.370 --> 00:47:23.630 Reatha: Getting. I'm used to being on the set where they somebody does that when
00:47:30.230 --> 00:47:36.479 Reatha: Oh, the Cabinouver Commercial was one of my favorite. It's a HIV.
00:47:37.515 --> 00:47:38.160 Reatha: Drug!
00:47:39.495 --> 00:47:46.570 Reatha: The I they don't call it curing, but your viral load becomes so low that it's undetectable.
00:47:46.990 --> 00:47:47.810 Reatha: And
00:47:49.340 --> 00:47:55.795 Reatha: I was the like. The grandmother of the person who was leading the commercial and
00:47:57.150 --> 00:48:06.000 Reatha: The director came over to the Gray, the group of us that were the lesser people there, and
00:48:06.050 --> 00:48:08.499 Reatha: he said, I guess you're wondering why
00:48:09.670 --> 00:48:12.440 Reatha: you're here. Why would I chose you
00:48:12.600 --> 00:48:16.559 Reatha: to be in this commercial? And we all kind of went. Yeah.
00:48:16.690 --> 00:48:22.350 Reatha: he said, because I wanted people that I felt like I could be around all day long.
00:48:23.810 --> 00:48:24.530 Frank R. Harrison: Yes.
00:48:24.530 --> 00:48:27.866 Reatha: So for actors to say, why didn't they pick me?
00:48:28.230 --> 00:48:33.199 Reatha: It could be just as simple as they didn't think they could be happy with you all day long.
00:48:35.570 --> 00:48:38.029 Reatha: and the the At Home commercial.
00:48:38.110 --> 00:48:42.820 Reatha: I enjoyed that, but I had come in on a plane, and I had not had any sleep.
00:48:43.060 --> 00:48:55.340 Reatha: and people were talking about. You were sure looking bad in that 1st scene. Yeah, I was. I was exhausted. I didn't want to be there. I'd wake up in the middle of something and ask the lady next to me, what line are we on?
00:48:58.090 --> 00:49:03.009 Reatha: It's amazing. But they actually just picked that commercial up for another year. I think so.
00:49:03.010 --> 00:49:05.309 Frank R. Harrison: It's been on since 2012, hasn't it?
00:49:05.310 --> 00:49:06.980 Reatha: It maybe.
00:49:06.980 --> 00:49:12.553 Frank R. Harrison: I mean 2022, yeah, 22. Yeah, wow.
00:49:14.300 --> 00:49:34.939 Frank R. Harrison: it must be the time of night. No, but the thing is is that I look at you in that commercial and the various iterations of it. I know there are different chapters kind of the way that they edited it together, and you're in all of those. Well, 3 of the 4 edits. There's 1 an airport scene that I don't see you in at all.
00:49:34.940 --> 00:49:37.450 Reatha: That's the Cabanubo Commercial.
00:49:37.690 --> 00:49:38.510 Frank R. Harrison: Yeah, exactly.
00:49:38.510 --> 00:49:40.320 Reatha: Yeah, I'm not in the airport.
00:49:40.660 --> 00:49:43.819 Frank R. Harrison: But my guy, my guy doesn't go to the airport.
00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:48.469 Frank R. Harrison: No, I I know the the one that you're at the party. You're actually.
00:49:48.470 --> 00:49:49.940 Reatha: Right now. That's cabinet.
00:49:50.860 --> 00:50:01.989 Frank R. Harrison: There's a party there's a that you're dancing. You're walking around with a bunch of people, you know. I guess the the thing is is that for it to have that kind of longevity 3 years.
00:50:02.140 --> 00:50:07.199 Frank R. Harrison: There must be something in the way that you're portraying your role in that commercial like.
00:50:07.200 --> 00:50:11.830 Reatha: Well, apparently it's working for them. And
00:50:12.110 --> 00:50:17.440 Reatha: Hollywood, I'm going to throw this in real quick about the the future of health.
00:50:17.750 --> 00:50:25.600 Reatha: One of the things that people don't know about actors is that we get health insurance based on how much money we made the year before.
00:50:25.870 --> 00:50:26.890 Frank R. Harrison: Right hmm.
00:50:26.890 --> 00:50:35.640 Reatha: So you can be a a lister. You the big name 1st name on the screen.
00:50:35.670 --> 00:50:40.370 Reatha: You make enough money to have your insurance, but the
00:50:41.110 --> 00:50:44.859 Reatha: it's only $20,000 a year you have to make.
00:50:45.480 --> 00:50:48.850 Reatha: and you've been making it for the last 20 years.
00:50:48.980 --> 00:50:52.009 Reatha: Your show gets canceled. You say, Okay, I'm gonna
00:50:52.190 --> 00:51:01.580 Reatha: I'm going to take a little break here. Now. I'm not going to work so hard. I don't have to worry about it. You may don't make the $20,000. You no longer have health insurance the next year.
00:51:02.010 --> 00:51:08.759 Reatha: and a lot of actors don't get insurance consecutive years, anyway.
00:51:08.820 --> 00:51:13.310 Reatha: so they don't even realize I'm not going to get insurance next year.
00:51:14.110 --> 00:51:22.179 Reatha: Others are just on the borderline. They make it, but barely every year. Those are usually probably the commercial actors.
00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:29.810 Reatha: But there's going to be a flood of people that don't have insurance
00:51:30.700 --> 00:51:36.470 Reatha: based on the fact that they just didn't qualify for it. And people that are going to be laid off
00:51:36.850 --> 00:51:43.530 Reatha: are going to have to chip in their their early retirement money.
00:51:43.560 --> 00:51:52.940 Reatha: or just the people, the number of people that are going to be turning 65, and most places are not allowing you to retire at 65.
00:51:53.250 --> 00:51:54.260 Frank R. Harrison: 70, now.
00:51:54.560 --> 00:51:58.869 Reatha: 70, and for some of the acting professions it's 73
00:51:58.990 --> 00:52:01.700 Reatha: you can't collect until you're 73.
00:52:01.870 --> 00:52:02.550 Frank R. Harrison: Wow!
00:52:02.550 --> 00:52:06.130 Reatha: So the future of of healthcare.
00:52:06.580 --> 00:52:22.109 Reatha: I again I hope you saved your pennies because they didn't give me the right advice. I've been very fortunate, but and not because I've made a lot of money. I've been very fortunate that I've made money, and it has fallen within
00:52:22.590 --> 00:52:24.450 Reatha: the amount of
00:52:24.730 --> 00:52:30.259 Reatha: money I needed to make in order to be able to continue to be covered by my insurance.
00:52:30.530 --> 00:52:31.210 Reatha: Well, but.
00:52:31.210 --> 00:52:49.400 Frank R. Harrison: Right now we're about to see how both Joey and I have worked this past year to really build that reserve going into the future. You know all about it, but I guess for everyone out there stay tuned for what you may have seen last week if you were watching last week's episode. Okay, Logan, take it away
00:52:56.340 --> 00:52:58.519 Frank R. Harrison: on a day like any other.
00:52:58.810 --> 00:53:04.360 Frank R. Harrison: March 13, th 2024 is the 40th anniversary of my very 1st seizure.
00:53:04.380 --> 00:53:08.130 Frank R. Harrison: Life can completely change its course in the blink of an eye.
00:53:08.160 --> 00:53:21.010 Frank R. Harrison: Because of my epilepsy I had to discontinue the show. The seizures were coming fast and furious. I therefore had to quit my job at Hilton. In a situation like this, most people boil it down to 2 options.
00:53:21.400 --> 00:53:25.689 Frank R. Harrison: They can completely shut down and allow this sudden change to overcome them.
00:53:26.040 --> 00:53:31.489 Frank R. Harrison: I was of that generation that you know. If you're 30 you might as well die because you're old.
00:53:31.740 --> 00:53:32.640 Frank R. Harrison: or
00:53:32.710 --> 00:53:49.289 Frank R. Harrison: they can use it as a learning experience, and pivot their life into an entirely new direction. You know I was just taken by Frank's courage to talk about his chronic health situation, and again to find a way to live with
00:53:49.290 --> 00:54:15.979 Frank R. Harrison: seizure activities and live with epilepsy. You are not epileptic, you are living with epilepsy, and to take that fact and decide I'm going to thrive in life. This is a part of my life. It's not defining me, it's not who I am. It's a part of me. In 2025 you'll hear the story of Frank R. Harrison, a man who looked at his epilepsy and chose option 2.
00:54:16.490 --> 00:54:28.419 Frank R. Harrison: I think Frank R. Harrison is a badass. He's 1 of my heroes creating a phenomenal platform to share health care, stories, treatments, opinions, and games. My academic background
00:54:28.870 --> 00:54:49.869 Frank R. Harrison: is that I have a master's degree in neuropsychology, and I did an entire thesis upon graduation that had to do with epilepsy and its relationship to depression and anxiety. So all I learned from them from the social variables that I could equate is that an epileptic patient's quality of life is always at risk in a question.
00:54:50.140 --> 00:55:09.379 Frank R. Harrison: You know there is the industry of health care, and then there is the profession of caring, you know, so the caring professions are always looking to do patient-centered care, and of course create a sense of well-being. And you know, when we are discharging patients, making sure that they feel empowered and safe enough
00:55:09.520 --> 00:55:13.490 Frank R. Harrison: to take care of themselves once they're home, they may need some support.
00:55:13.640 --> 00:55:21.900 Frank R. Harrison: We live in a world that is, I don't know if it's always been very stressful. But it's definitely gotten more stressful. I think
00:55:22.070 --> 00:55:32.150 Frank R. Harrison: they say, what like 80% of illnesses and disease and mental health stuff results as a result, direct result of stress, or is caused by stress
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:40.659 Frank R. Harrison: being frank for a healthy future.
00:55:46.470 --> 00:55:47.480 Frank R. Harrison: awesome.
00:55:48.800 --> 00:55:55.249 Frank R. Harrison: And yet the thing is is that you were talking about you. Hope you save your pennies well.
00:55:55.270 --> 00:56:03.670 Frank R. Harrison: quite frankly, with the way that I was actually with a reserve that I could thank Hilton for.
00:56:03.740 --> 00:56:06.690 Frank R. Harrison: We were able to do this project.
00:56:06.830 --> 00:56:14.109 Frank R. Harrison: But now we have to come up with the right revenue generation and do exactly that, give back
00:56:14.500 --> 00:56:16.819 Frank R. Harrison: to the community at large.
00:56:16.870 --> 00:56:28.929 Frank R. Harrison: Whether it is the Hilton community or not is still the question, but it is the overall community of those that are in need of real direction in their quality of life going forward.
00:56:29.130 --> 00:56:30.000 Frank R. Harrison: you know.
00:56:30.150 --> 00:56:49.299 Frank R. Harrison: So, ladies and gentlemen, I hate to admit it, but we're, I think, 1 min left for the show. I just have to say thank you for watching Frank about health for the last 3 and a half years, 133 episodes. Thank you, Ritha for being part of 10 of them. 10 very valuable shows
00:56:49.600 --> 00:57:02.559 Frank R. Harrison: the tribute to Betty White, the 2 h share the care panel. The 3 episode series on your cardiac event, the senior care advocacy work. You've done. Ritha's Retirement house, not to mention this very show right here.
00:57:04.070 --> 00:57:20.559 Frank R. Harrison: ladies and gentlemen, myself, Jose Dennis and Ritha Gray are basically, I think we've grown into becoming healthcare advocates. We promise that in 2025 I will continue bringing more episodes of frank about health. In addition, I will be driving home
00:57:20.840 --> 00:57:45.209 Frank R. Harrison: all of our stories together on my new portal healthymedia.com, which will launch around 2025. And, more importantly, just want all of you out there to know that the future is in your hands. You just have to be made aware of it, and I think Ritha represents that through her award and through her advocacy work. A lot of it is from within, and then she puts it out there.
00:57:45.210 --> 00:58:02.839 Frank R. Harrison: But how else are you in charge unless you look from within? A lot of people, unfortunately, have never really learned that which may explain. For example, Ritha my earlier question as to how some of those people ended up on Skid Row. They probably were not looking from within during their circumstances.
00:58:02.860 --> 00:58:06.530 Frank R. Harrison: I mean again. That's just a a takeaway. But
00:58:06.850 --> 00:58:14.500 Frank R. Harrison: thanks to Ritha Gray for being an advocate of various commercials, various TV shows, TV movies.
00:58:14.640 --> 00:58:38.559 Frank R. Harrison: Of course, I think, Ritha, you and I are connected forever. Thank you, Betty, but at the same time I know we can do even better things together. In 2025. We just got to keep with our focus and our intentions. And, Joey, I know you have a lot of similar comments on this as well. You wouldn't have stuck along with me on the last 3 and a half years of putting these shows together. If it wasn't that way
00:58:38.887 --> 00:58:52.960 Frank R. Harrison: but I just want to say I will be taking the holiday hiatus, and I intend to return with a new episode of Frank about health in the middle of January, so I will be gone for about 6 to 8 weeks, but
00:58:53.290 --> 00:59:01.380 Frank R. Harrison: there will be replays, and you can look at us on our Youtube channel as well as if you are watching us on Linkedin Facebook or twitch
00:59:01.919 --> 00:59:06.200 Frank R. Harrison: we will have future episodes between now and the New Year.
00:59:06.430 --> 00:59:11.320 Frank R. Harrison: Thanks again, Rita, for everything, and I guess we're signing off now. Okay.
00:59:11.320 --> 00:59:12.520 Reatha: My pleasure.
00:59:12.750 --> 00:59:17.176 Frank R. Harrison: Alright, and congratulations again. Humanitarian of the year.
00:59:17.730 --> 00:59:18.650 Reatha: Thank you.
00:59:18.650 --> 00:59:19.820 Frank R. Harrison: Alrighty!
00:59:20.330 --> 00:59:20.790 Frank R. Harrison: Like.
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