Wesley Morris
speaker
836 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5 Jun
Wesley Morris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is her in 1974.
She's just like, I don't want people screaming song titles at me.
No, not at all. I mean, she's not a person out here trying to do what they call fan service. I mean, this is also a person who said she'd never perform again. I mean, I swear to God, in 2015, we found out that she'd had this aneurysm. We thought she wasn't going to make it. And I think...
For people who do come out the other side of that situation, you know, if you're even close to being a Death Star, the idea that you're going to live for nine more years and that for at least three of those years you're going to be thriving in public, you're going to go to the Grammys, and I don't know. I can't imagine what that's like.
being bedridden again, but there's some... Something was just like, nope, not like this. Not like this. Y'all gonna have to find another way to end this. Yeah. It's not gonna end here. Yes. I want to go back to that Grammys moment, actually. The thing that really struck me and completely embarrassed my skepticism about, was this her choice? She got bills to pay? What is going on here?
With this return. But the Grammys performance, I mean, for my own two eyes, it just said, Wesley, shut up. Why were you suspicious? I just, you see. She's not going to do what she doesn't want to do.
I understand that. Yeah. But, you know, the entertainment business is full of stories where people have been weekends at Bernie's. Like, lots of people have been propped up. made to keep working when they shouldn't have been, and we don't find out until it's too late. So I just wanted to know. But this performance, to me, was just so life-affirming.
And it was beautiful because I just can't imagine writing something like, when you're, what, 25, 26 years old?
Probably even younger when she wrote it. And to re-inhabit that song as an 80-year-old, like, and have it mean even more.
I mean, it's just so... Rich. I was going to ask you if there was a moment that really messed you up. Was this a moment?
Why are you so sheepish about it?
I'm throwing a tissue at you.
She sang a song about Job, so she'd appreciate that. Sasha, I mean, you've been in my life for such a long time. It's wild to have a conversation with you about, on a microphone anyway, about a thing we'd be talking about at our desks. I know. So fun. So thank you for doing that. I really appreciate it.
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This episode was produced by Elissa Dudley, edited by Wendy Doerr and Paula Schumann, and engineered by Pat McCusker with production assistance from Kate Lopresti. Special thanks, by the way, to Maddie Macielo and Nick Pittman. And thanks to you for listening. Talk to you soon.
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