Morgan Freeman
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185 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
Morgan Freeman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Those Saturday Westerns, Lash LaRue and Buck Rogers. That was a Western in space, right? Yeah. Ken Maynard. Later on, John Wayne was coming along.
He was on Rawhide, Rowdy Yates. That's when I first noticed him. And then, you know, he disappeared for a while. And then he was the man with no name. He could shoot five guys just like that.
You know, skinny, bookish. The only thing I had going for me was I wouldn't give up. I would not show up.
Chicago, Southside.
I got there at age six. First time I was ever slapped real hard. Oh. Because it was a December in Chicago. And that cold, I'd never experienced that before.
Yeah.
And at the time, the Illinois Central Railroad was the connection. So I got off the train with my biological father. Because he came down after my grandmother died, his mother. He had to come and get me and my sister. You have two older sisters? Two older brothers, a younger sister, and a younger brother.
Quintessential.
Yeah. Every time I change schools, what it seems to me, All the time. It had to be initiated into some other little gang.
And I wasn't a fighter. You could jump by four or five boys. All right, all right, all right. Jesus, quit.
We didn't grow up together. Not until I was 11 years old. Because two kids were with my mother, ultimately. And two were with her mother, my maternal grandmother.
My stepdad was it. He was my dad.
Yeah. Well, it wasn't early. It was late. He had his own issues. Sure. Who doesn't? But it was good to me and my mom.
Yeah, it was three years, eight months, and ten days in the United States Air Force.
Yeah, I got into trouble there. Want to hear one of my stories? I would love to, yes. I'd come out of high school, been able to just murder an Underwood typewriter. You were a quick typist. Yeah. And the Air Force made me a radar mechanic, and that hit my stick, you know, really.
Well... Closer. Yeah. And he hated math. The kid who was the clerk in the maintenance office was arrested for child molestation. In other words, he had a little girlfriend. He was 19 and she was 13. Oh, boy. No good. No bueno. Yeah. So I volunteered to take his place in there because dexterous with the typewriter. I could even compose a reasonable letter and all that kind of stuff.
Now, I'm working there for a few months, and a new sergeant comes to take over the maintenance department. Tech sergeant, black guy, tall, had an eyebrow that could reach his hairline. My captain, who thought I was a gift from heaven. Because of the typing speed and the composition. Yeah. I want you to meet one of my best men, he says to the sergeant. I go in.
He says, Sergeant Spaulding, this is Airman Freeman, one of my best. I said, Sergeant, it's nice to meet you. Keep your nose clean. I'm sure we're going to get along.
Oh, my God.
That eyebrow shot up too quick. Hey, look down. That was a big box next to him. You want to take this box up to the sixth tower? No. He's blank. Uh-huh. This is Captain in this fight. Captain is sitting down there with his head down. I let him stew for half a minute, I guess. And I said, Sergeant, if you want me to take this box up to the sixth tower, just tell me to do it. And it's gone.
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