Name: The Man with the Golden Voice
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Duration: 4 min 24 s
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TED WILLIAMS: You know, on January 4, 2011

Past simple

I was again homeless and penniless and hopeless,

And when I got the call that they were looking

for a homeless guy with a-- a golden voice,

I had no idea, really, who they were talking about

Again, I don't know what to make of that because I wasn't

And next thing you know, I'm on "The Today

And all of a sudden thereafter I'm on one of the leading

I've had all of the networks around the world.

Let's just say I was paralyzed with fear.

I just didn't know what to feel at any given time.

All through my homeless days, I never cried.

And it seemed like everything that I should have and would

I-- I feel like it was, really, too much too fast.

I mean, hey, giving me a job would have been one thing.

I would've-- I'd have been satisfied right then and there.

When people see me, they see an act of God.

and he's still working modern-day miracles.

I really do feel that he who was homeless

I don't want people to think of me as I left this earth

And I want my grandkids to look on YouTube

and see some of the things that their pawpaw

And-- and I'm not going to sell myself short for anything

And that reason is to be here, to talk to you,

It's a shelter that was here when I needed it.

One of the big things that I know that many of these guys

suffer from, as well as me back in the day, was socks.

But today, I'm going to give back some socks.

there at the head of the line waiting for my handout.

So this is where I have a lot of loyalties now.

TED WILLIAMS: (VOICEOVER) It's just exciting

to meet the people and to embrace them with hugs and all

was just, five years ago, in the same situations that they were.

Five years ago I held a sign that said, "I

I'm an ex-radio announcer who's fallen on hard times.

Please, any help would be greatly appreciated.

that sign today it would say, "I have a God-given gift of voice.

Acknowledge him in all my ways, and he will direct my path.

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The Man with the Golden Voice

stuff

overwhelming

appreciate

embrace