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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But you asked me if I wanted to. Oh, wow.
But you know, the guy became my best friend. Oh, he did? Yeah, absolutely. He'd stand around and wait for me to pull that shit. Yeah. How did you end up in the Air Force? I needed to get out of Mississippi. I'm never going to be in the movies in Mississippi. I got to leave. I wanted to fly a jet. I wanted to be a pilot.
Yeah, you know a lot about me. I'm trying.
Thank you.
That's a sad part of that, because my grandmother, who was life savior for me, died alone. All of us, we left home. And she said to me, if you stay here and go to school, I had two partial scholarships. For drama, right? Yeah. And no, I got to go.
Yeah. I'll buy you a car if you stay home.
No, I didn't. I just never thought about it. And when I think about dying, I think about just not being here. I do things and I fly planes, sailboats and stuff. You work out, you play golf. Yeah. And we get into some situations when you think, well, I guess this is it.
Yeah, but if you're on the ocean, you got a good sailboat. It's very survivable.
That's the worst part of sailing right there. No wind. The ocean, flat calm. And you're pretty much in the doldrums. And the doldrums is that area between the equator and, say, the next 10 degrees north or south. Nothing happens there.
However, there is a current. The current is only going to be about a knot and a half, two knots, but you're moving. Ah.
It just doesn't.
Going 10 degrees of latitude at one and a half knots is very fast. So if you're headed for the Southern Ocean, you're going to go through them. It's a lot of trust. Or if you've got a good engine and enough fuel, you put on your motor. Get the fuck out of the doldrums. Oh, right.
It's freaky. You've been on the ocean, there's waves, there's wind, and then here you are with nothing. You think, you know, I could very well die here.
You know, when I die, I want to be. He's gone. I don't want to be lying down with tubes everywhere. Somebody sitting and waiting and I'll jump out a window. I ain't going through that shit. Well, I'm not.
I've always been, because of these backgrounds, it's kind of self-motivated. You have to do for yourself. Get a job when you're 13, 14 years old. That starts you off on, yeah, I can do this.
When I first got to LA, it was February of 59. I had $175. I got a new garage apartment for $45 a month. But the first month's rent, 45. And then you have to put in that deposit. That's another 45. That was February, and that money ran out in April. I mean, completely out. I remember eating rice. That was it. Were you living around here? I was living in 4905 2nd Avenue, I think. 4509 and a half.
I made a friend who was a friend of the sergeant. His name was Sergeant John Wesley Spalding. And he told me, When you get to L.A., look up this guy. He's a friend of mine from way back. So I did. And the guy befriended me, and his wife was another one of those. Every time I have been in really dire straits, this is a woman who got me out of it. Yeah, yeah.
Reached in and pulled. Anyway, we hooked up, his wife and I. By that, I mean she liked to do stuff that he just didn't care for, going to swimming pools, going bowling, going roller skating. Being social and out there. Yeah. Well, she just enjoyed doing that stuff, and I enjoyed doing it. So she was happy to have somebody to do it with. It was no hanky-panky, although she was gorgeous.
Although it was killing me.
And then one day he said, God damn, man, you eat here more often than I do. That was his subtle way of saying rides over.
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