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What a weird comment. He's been clean for two years, why would you think he'd fall off the wagon in six months? How do you know that he hasn't been going to AA or had a support system in the last two years?
Word is he turned down that job with the Cavs. He decided to take his talents to South Beach.
What a weird comment. He's been clean for two years, why would you think he'd fall off the wagon in six months? How do you know that he hasn't been going to AA or had a support system in the last two years?
Let's all enjoy this story while it's still in the "feel good" stage, because the "let's thoroughly dissect his past, hey wait, he's not THAT homeless, did you know he was an accused sex offender in 1972, why does he have a cellphone anyway" stage is forthcoming... because we can't resist.
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His voice really could replace that movie trailer guy...he's just..THAT...GOOD...
I hope he stays clean and makes the most of this opportunity.
It was more of an opinion.Could be 6 months, could be 2 more years. I don't know. I don't know that he doesn't have a support system either. It's just from experience and research, like maalox said.
He's dead.
For f@ck sakes, man.
If you read the current stories, he has been offered a job by the NFL among plenty of other suitors. If the NFL doesn't have a solid enough support system set up to help this guy, nobody does.
Uh yeah I know...that's why I said he could replace that guy...
I never said I wasn't in the guy's corner. I applaud happy endings. The story just hasn't ended yet. I want to know where he is January 4, 2013. That's all I'm saying.
I'm sorry to rain on your parade, Viva. And You know there isn't a filter at ST. You can say .
He's been replaced as well.......
I didn't say you weren't rooting for him.
You questioned if he will have a support system. I'm telling you that based on what I am seeing, he probably will have access to one.
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That guy's voice is incredible imho
Oh you're not raining on my parade. I'm just recalling you whining like an old about whatever stupid things you've whined about in the past and getting all pissy when everyone "ganged up" on you. Plus, this is probably the best thing that's happened to the guy, probably ever, and you're already pissing on him. Yeah, what should I care?, but for someone that didn't care for being pissed on in the past, figurative not literally, you sure do have a disconnect from those same feelings now that you have a job and things are, I'm assuming, going well for you. In other words, quit being a ing Debbie Downer, Juggs.
Mmmmm...juggs...
I'm just being a realist.
I thought it said racist at first until I re-read your post.
The man will do fine as long as he doesn't do an Allen Iverson parody on the ticket, or say "nappy headed ho's" live on the radio.
One thing is for sure those other homeless guys have their work cut out for them.
But the truth is ashbeeigh does bring up a great point all the breaks and money in the world can't help you if your weak and are determined to find a way to things up.
Just look at Lindsay Lohan and others who win the Lotto.
Change must come from within.
i don't think this bum is going to change his stripes long term. more likely scenario is he ends up found in one of these
If I may.....
Sorry for the long read, but it's a great article.
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(CNN) -- By now, millions of Americans have heard from Ted Williams.
He's "the homeless man with the golden voice," a panhandler whose stunning vocal skills were recorded for an impromptu video that's netted at least 4 million views on YouTube.
But what about the good Samaritan with the video camera?
What made him stop for Williams on a dreary, overcast day when scores of people ignored the African-American homeless man during the peak of the Christmas season?
It turns out that Doral Chenoweth III, the man who filmed Williams, has a story of his own.
Videographer has played this part before
Five weeks ago, Chenoweth was returning home from Lowe's with his wife, Robin, when he spotted a thin man with wild, unruly hair at an intersection. The man held a cardboard sign that read, "I have a God-given gift of voice. ..."
"Hey, I'm going to make you work for your dollar," Chenoweth said as he rolled down his window and took out his flip camera. "Let me hear you say something."
What comes out of Williams' mouth is startling. It's a rich, baritone that doesn't match his craggy exterior at all. His enunciation is crisp, his tone smooth as suede.
Williams isn't holding that cardboard sign anymore.
After Chenoweth posted the video, it went viral. Williams did interviews on national television and radio. He's received several jobs offers, including one that comes with a home. A reunion with his 92-year-old mother is being arranged.
But the other character in this contemporary parable had played this part before.
"The first time we dated, he stopped and gave a blanket from the back of his car to a man who was homeless," said Robin Chenoweth. "I thought to myself, if he has this kind of compassion for a man on the street, he's going to make a great husband and father."
Chenoweth is paid to notice people. He's a multimedia producer for The Columbus Dispatch newspaper in Ohio. He said he stopped because he thought Williams might make a good video.
Still, he wasn't so sure after the filming. He said he sat on the video for five weeks until he finally decided to use it because it was a slow news week. Then he watched the video take off.
"I never anticipated this," he said. "A week ago, he was living in a tent behind a station in the middle of December, and now he's being flown to New York and his video is everywhere."
Looking through the lens of faith
But the reason Chenoweth stopped goes deeper than his job.
It's "standard operating procedure" for him, he said, to stop and talk to people who are homeless, whether he's carrying a camera or not.
"It's part of my faith," he said after some prodding about his motivations. "You may not be able to help someone with money, but you can at least say o, how you doing, and look at them."
About 14 years ago, Chenoweth said he was assigned to photograph a homeless ministry at New Life United Methodist Church in downtown Columbus. He was so impressed by the ability of the 50-member congregation to help the homeless that he and his wife joined.
The church's pastor said that Chenoweth routinely invites people who are homeless to the church for meals and medical attention. He's also photographed people on the street and displayed their photographs to emphasize their humanity, said the Rev. Jennifer Kimball Casto, New Life's pastor.
When asked if she was surprised by Chenoweth's action, Casto said: "Absolutely not. Doral has a special heart for people who are homeless and in need."
Chenoweth's concern for people goes beyond Columbus, and even the United States. His wife said they are regular Habitat for Humanity volunteers. They've also taken seven trips to Africa with their two children, Cassie, 12, and Kurtis, 10, to serve impoverished communities. Chenoweth has do ented many of the trips on his website.
"He's taken me all over the world," Robin Chenoweth said. "He's a fabulous husband. It's the best decision of my life to be with him."
Chenoweth sounds thrilled to see where the new-found fame will take Williams.
He had a reunion with Williams after their video went viral. A local radio station interviewed Williams, and Chenoweth was there for the interview.
"We had a big hug and shook hands," Chenoweth said. "He almost cried when he saw me."
Chenoweth was watching a local radio station interview Williams when he saw something that touched him.
"He still has my business card," Chenoweth said. "He's been carrying it the whole five weeks since I gave it to him. He was carrying it right in his fingertips."
Filming a visual parable
The Rev. Tom Long, a professor of preachingat the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, watched the video of Chenoweth's encounter and saw a visual parable unfold. It reminded him of Jesus' parable of the good Samaritan.
In the parable, a Samaritan, a group of people hated by many first-century Jews, stops to help an helpless man wounded by robbers after two Jewish religious leaders -- a Levite and a priest -- pass the man by. The story was shocking because the hero was a villain (imagine the parable of the Good Crack Dealer).
Chenoweth didn't see Williams as "visual white noise" to tune out, Long said. "He sees possibilities others don't see and acts on them and, wow, here we go," Long said.
Long said there's more to the story than the importance of treating people in need with compassion because miracles may happen. "His (Chenoweth) experiences expose what is already true about people, that even an homeless person who doesn't have a golden throat is nonetheless a child of God."
Casto, Chenoweth's pastor at New Life, said Chenoweth taught another lesson with his encounter with a panhandler.
"We are all broken in some way, but we are also gifted in some way," she said. "Mr. Williams is a perfect example of that."
with floppy s and a crack smile, you'd have to rely on happy endings ashbeeighSON.
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