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I prefer this guy to the homeless "pregnant" lady outside of ESA...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW6-tfX9GbE

Radio show clip of where the Cavs offer him a full time job and to pay a mortgage for him.
 
Marty McFly said:
Damn. I really need to get working on my voice if this many companies are so desperate.
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Desperate? Not really.

1. Dude has an amazing voice.
2. Who ever lands this dude is going to get an incredible amount of publicity which = money.

I say the Cavs are genius.
 
Another news article:
https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110106/ap_on_sp_ot/us_odd_homeless_radio_voice

Homeless man's voice prompts job offers
By TOM WITHERS, AP Sports Writer

CLEVELAND – With a deep, refined voice, Ted Williams simply asked for help to get off the streets.

He's been heard.

Left homeless after his life and career were ruined by drugs and alcohol, Williams has been offered a job by the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and is being pursued by NFL Films for possible work. He and his compelling tale became an online sensation after The Columbus Dispatch posted a clip of Williams demonstrating his voiceover skills by the side of the road.

"This has been totally, totally amazing," Williams said in a phone interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, his voice choking with emotion. "I'm just so thankful. God has blessed me so deeply. I'm getting a second chance. Amazing."

Williams was contacted Wednesday by the Cavaliers, who have offered him a position that could include announcing work at Quicken Loans Arena, the team's downtown facility. Williams said the team has offered him a two-year contract and said they would pay his living expenses.

"I can't believe what's going on," said Williams, a father of nine, adding he feels like Susan Boyle, the Scottish singing sensation who became an overnight star. "God gave me a million-dollar voice, and I just hope I can do right by him."

It's been a whirlwind for the golden-voiced man, who was recently living in a tent and whose past includes a lengthy list of arrests. He has served time in prison for theft and forgery and has been cited with numerous misdemeanors, including drug abuse.

Williams was most recently arrested on May 14. He pleaded guilty to a first-degree misdemeanor theft charge. In court records, his address is listed as "Streets of Columbus."

Upon learning of Williams' criminal history, the Cavaliers said their offer still stands.

"We believe in second chances and second opportunities," said Tracy Marek, the team's senior vice president of marketing. "The gentleman deserves an opportunity to explain certain situations. We're not jumping to conclusions. It's not fair."

Cavaliers spokesman Tad Carper said exact details of the team's offer and their plans to help Williams with housing were still being worked out.

The Cavaliers did not know much about him, but were touched by Williams' ordeal.

"When you know something's right, you just have to launch," Marek said. "One of the big things that we talk about here, with our organization, is how important urgency is — when you see something that feels good and seems right. The important thing that we wanted to do is to let Ted know that we have something here for him."

During a timeout in the first quarter of Wednesday night's game against Toronto, the Cavaliers put a picture of Williams on their giant scoreboard and urged fans to send him messages at https://www.wewanttedwilliams.com.

"We hope Ted accepts our offer," said Cavaliers announcer Olivia Sedra.

The 53-year-old Williams will appear Thursday on NBC's "Today" show. According to a network spokesperson, he was on his way Wednesday night to see his 90-year-old mother, who lives in Brooklyn and has stood by him during his battles with addiction.

"She has always been my best friend," he said, crying. "When I was a kid, she would take me down to Radio City Music Hall and on the subway. I'm just glad that she is still around. I prayed that she would live long enough that I could make her proud and see could her son do something other than stand along the side of the road with a sign asking for money."

Julia Williams is thrilled her only child is turning his life around. She can't wait to see him.

"This will be my day to see my son get up and do something to help himself," she said. "He has so much talent. I hope this will be the thing for him. He came from a nice family. And then he went poor, poor. So, maybe this will build him up and let him see that there's more in life than hanging around with the wrong people, and taking drugs."

Williams said his life began spiraling downward in 1996 when he began drinking alcohol "pretty bad." He used marijuana and cocaine and lost interest in his radio career. He eventually wound up on the streets, despite the best efforts of his children, seven daughters and two sons who all live in the Columbus area.

"They have mixed emotions about what is going on," Williams said. "During my detox stages, I had a tendency to eat up everybody's food. I'm a grandfather, too, and I was eating what should have gone to their kids."

Williams said he celebrated two years of sobriety "around Thanksgiving. I just hope everyone will pray for me."

Williams initially was spotted by the Columbus newspaper standing near an exit ramp off Interstate 71. In a video interview that quickly became wildly popular, Williams — holding a cardboard sign that asked motorists for help and says, "I'm an ex-radio announcer who has fallen on hard times" — explained in his smooth, bottomless voice that he was drawn to radio at the age of 14.

When he first heard Williams' soothing delivery, Kevin McLoughlin of NFL Films, which has chronicled pro football for nearly 50 years, knew he had to contact the unknown man.

"It's that voice," said McLoughlin, director of post-production films for the NFL told AP. "When he was telling his story, I said, 'That's what we do. This guy can tell a story.' Somehow, some way, I need to get a demo with him. He could be that diamond in the rough."

McLoughlin has not been able to contact Williams, but he intends to track him down.

"The man deserves a second chance," he said.
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i don't want to be super wet blanket man but this story is even more people magazine-ish and frustrating to me than it was initially.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih9WT5nNzdI

here's video of his staged reunion with his mother. first, he's been groomed, but he's wearing the same camo coat that he was in the first video. i'm guessing this was forced on him by his handlers so the audience would better recognize him, but even if it wasn't, the idea of him being forced to wait to see his mother while two networks get their cameras ready for the money shot is repulsive imo. all for our supposed benefit. this is profiting off of sentimentality and i hate it, because it distracts us from our failures as a society to let someone become homeless in the first place. we feel soooo good that in a small way, we helped this guy back on his feet when we may have helped push him down in the first place

death to meme culture
 
Just remember that at one point it was simply a local newscaster talking to a homeless guy and putting the video on Youtube...
 
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