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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So the next time I saw her was on a weekend. And she said, when did you eat last? Tuesday? Wednesday? I ran out of rice.
Yeah, and she worked in the Board of Education, and she was instrumental in getting me a job. So I went to work as a transcript clerk at LACC. I was thinking, okay, so I'm going to try to get into the playhouse. Somebody said, no, you don't want to do that, man. We got a better theater department here at LACC, and you can go take classes for free because you're working there. That's what I did.
Yeah, I was on stage in New York. Go back to Dungeon Theater and then work your way into Off-Off-Broadway and then Off-Broadway and then Broadway. That started at around age 30.
Yeah. In San Francisco. Did I mention San Francisco?
The opera ring. We did Broadway shows and musicals. So I was in West Side Story and Mushroom on the Mattress and Can Can and the Three Penny Opera.
Garment District, New York. And a friend of mine who worked there got me a job as a skip tracer. Oh, that's a guy looking for people out on bail? That's different. I'd call it skip tracer. It's not. I'm tracing clothing. Oh, okay. Can I try the shipment tracer? Okay. Okay. And I was good at that. If you send a truckload of clothes somewhere and it didn't arrive, where is it?
Well, it's with the mafia down the street.
Am I right? Is that where a lot of it was? Not the mafia, but boy, you're in the mix there.
So they were moving me up in the hierarchy. And the guy who was the audit clerk took off. He got his license as a CPA. And they said, do you want to take that desk? You get a $5 a week raise. If I make them from 55, I'm going to go to 60. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I get the job. I'm good at it. Now people are bringing me stuff to do. This was part of your job back there. Really? Yeah.
And this and this. They said, well, he didn't ever have time to do it. And you do. Okay. How much was he making a week? Right. Well, he was making $105 a week. Well, come on. That's like a $35 a week raise just like that. We can't do that. These people who've been here 20 years are just up and leaving now. There's a phone call from a woman I knew from San Francisco. She was in New York.
We were taking dance lessons in San Francisco. I did jazz and tap and jazz. Ballet. Yeah, you were very into dancing. An actor who can move and sing, you've got that much wider possibility. Opportunity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she called me and she said, did you know that Michael Kidd was holding auditions for Dances for the World Fair? The next day, at my lunch hour, I went to the audition.
My kid says, how soon can you start? How soon do you want me? I said, today.
I'm not coming back.
My supervisor, he said, how much does this pay? I said, I'm not coming back. I got a job. I'm dancing. He said, how much is the passes? $92 a week. Okay. He says, okay, how long is that going to last? I don't care how long it lasts.
I had done an off-Broadway play. That I'm not allowed to say the name of, but you can. Yeah. The Nick Lovers with Vivica Linfers. and Stacey Keech. We had a short run, show closed. I auditioned as a replacement for the part of Rudolph the head waiter. And I got it. So I just moved from off-Broadway to Broadway. I was in that show for 11 months.
And a guy came to me and he said, I would like for you to come with me. I'm going to do a little show. We call it the DMZ. Some singing and some skits and stuff. Primarily, we're going to be anti-war. I don't have the kind of money that you're making here, but you'll get press. You joined that.
There was some empty times between the World's Fair 64. The World's Fair job didn't last long. but a few months, count rehearsal, and the show itself closed in a couple of months. So I was on the street for the most part. But I went to work at Needix. Needix is like early, early, early, early McDonald's.
It's another one of those places where you go and you can get these little hot dogs, you can get donuts, a cup of coffee, you can get scrambled eggs and bacon. Fast food. Yeah. And they paid $49 a week and you worked 44 hours a week. So a dollar an hour, basically. Yeah. And it was a sign shop that says, no tipping.
Heaven forbid.
So I say to the guy in my orientation, I said, no tipping. People are going to sometimes tip you. You give them good service. What do you do? Give it back.
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