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Hey folks, welcome to a special episode of The Projection Booth.

I'm your host Mike White.

On this episode, I am talking with Fred Freeman.

He is a writer who has been working in the industry for quite a while.

And I spoke to him about his early career, but mostly about, well, a little bit about

start the revolution without me, the movie Spies, the Big Bus, and a few other things along the way.

Mr. Freeman was a great, great interview subject, and I had a lot of fun talking with him,

and I hope you have a lot of fun

listening to him enjoy the interview you have been in the business for so many years I'm very

curious oh god 19 you're not nearly in my age but I would I guess my first job my first partner

was Gary Marshall and I met at Northwestern. And then we became

a writing team for a while. We worked first, our first professional job was the old Jack Parr show,

who was, I don't know if you know what that is. It's like Johnny Carson and so forth. And then we came out to the West Coast we used

to write for Joey Bishop and a bunch of comics and Joey was having a half-hour

comedy which he shouldn't have had but he brought us out Gary wanted to stay in New

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