Video: Homeless guy has totally awesome radio voice (with update)
Jan 4, 2011, 2:19 PM EDT
This isn’t really sports related, unless you have a sports radio guy in your area whose voice is really, really annoying (every city has at least one). I have a good replacement. Ted Williams is currently homeless, and hangs out at a freeway offramp in Columbus, Ohio, where he collects money demonstrating his “God given gift of voice.” Someone filmed an encounter with him and put it on YouTube, where it currently has around 32,000 views. You’ve really got to see this:
Williams says he’s originally from Brooklyn, and developed his voice for years before falling victim to drugs and alcohol. But he’s been sober for two years, and is trying to get his life back on track.
“Maybe someone will come along and need a radio spot or voiceover work or something; that’s the hope,” he said.
Someone get this man a job, pronto. Anyone live in Columbus who can give him a few bucks from me?
Just a great example of YouTube using its power for good, not evil.
UPDATE: Williams will be featured on Countdown with Keith Olbermann tonight.
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Homeless man w/golden radio voice in Columbus, OH [YouTube]
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- artisan3m - Jan 4, 2011 at 6:59 PM
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Send him over to ESPN ~ they just fired Ron Franklin for making sexist comments to a female colleague. We know there is a vacancy and you don’t have to be really, really good to work for the network. Example, Ron Franklin.
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- frankvzappa - Jan 4, 2011 at 9:10 PM
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they should use him as a voiceover for Rosenthal over on PFT…
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- eternalu - Jan 5, 2011 at 9:22 PM
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TSA stopped Ted Williams from getting on his flight from Columbus to NYC. No appearance on “The Today Show” on Thursday morning. No visit to 92 year-old Mom in Brooklyn. See, he didn’t have ‘proper ID’, said the TSA. So Ted spent today at the Columbus Courthouse, trying to figure out how to get a copy of his birth certificate. Obviously he did have some form of ID, but the TSA wasn’t satisfied with it. The man has been homeless for four years. OK, America – What are we going to do about this out-of-control phony security dance? These blockheads, however, are typical of our society. Follow the little rule book, and throw common sense out the window. Wrong. No little rule book takes away YOUR OBLIGATION TO THINK FOR YOURSELF. There are times you have to make an exception. That’s “the exception that proves the rule”. It’s like the traffic cop giving the mother of the little girl in a coma in Las Vegas a ‘jaywalking ticket’ – gave it to her right in the hospital. Or the policeman giving a ticket to the Dad who raced to the hospital while his wife’s water broke in the car on the way to the hospital in New Hampshire. RETRAIN EVERYBODY — OR FIRE THEM.
