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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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TED WILLIAMS: You know, on January 4, 2011
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I was again homeless and penniless and hopeless,
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in some people's eyes.
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And when I got the call that they were looking
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for a homeless guy with a-- a golden voice,
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I had no idea, really, who they were talking about
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until someone called me and told me,
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it's you that you're looking for!
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Your video went viral!
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Again, I don't know what to make of that because I wasn't
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familiar with viral videos.
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And I didn't post that video.
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And I knew nothing-- very little,
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should I say-- of the internet at all.
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And next thing you know, I'm on "The Today
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Show" with Matt Lauer and Meredith
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and all of those great people.
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And all of a sudden thereafter I'm on one of the leading
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doctor shows on television.
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I mean, the cameras, the lights--
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I've had all of the networks around the world.
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I went from homeless to Hollywood.
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[LAUGHS] I went from drinking rotgut
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to Grey Goose in a matter of minutes.
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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Overwhelming would be an understatement.
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Let's just say I was paralyzed with fear.
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I was paralyzed with-- with success.
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I just didn't know what to feel at any given time.
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My emotions surfaced out of nowhere.
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All through my homeless days, I never cried.
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My father died, I never cried.
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Here, I get to this point.
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And it seemed like everything that I should have and would
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have cried for surfaced.
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And I just became an emotional wreck.
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I-- I feel like it was, really, too much too fast.
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I mean, hey, giving me a job would have been one thing.
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Ted, you know, you've won this.
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You've-- you've got that.
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And thank you so much.
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I would've-- I'd have been satisfied right then and there.
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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When people see me, they see an act of God.
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They also see that God is still alive,
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and he's still working modern-day miracles.
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I really do feel that he who was homeless
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will lead the hopeless home.
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I don't want people to think of me as I left this earth
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that I was a crackhead.
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I want them to-- to see the impact.
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And I want my grandkids to look on YouTube
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and see some of the things that their pawpaw
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was proud of, that did.
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And-- and I'm not going to sell myself short for anything
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because God gave me this for a reason.
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And that reason is to be here, to talk to you,
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to tell you to keep me in your prayers.
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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This is Friends of the Homeless.
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It's a shelter that was here when I needed it.
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One of the big things that I know that many of these guys
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suffer from, as well as me back in the day, was socks.
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We didn't have many.
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But today, I'm going to give back some socks.
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All right, Danny.
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-I love you, brother. -I love you.
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You know I do.
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Thank you, man.
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TED WILLIAMS: (VOICEOVER) I was right
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there at the head of the line waiting for my handout.
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So this is where I have a lot of loyalties now.
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There's my brother.
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How you doing?
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TED WILLIAMS: (VOICEOVER) It's just exciting
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to meet the people and to embrace them with hugs and all
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of that stuff because they know that I
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was just, five years ago, in the same situations that they were.
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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Five years ago I held a sign that said, "I
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have a God-given gift of voice.
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I'm an ex-radio announcer who's fallen on hard times.
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Please, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Thank you, and God bless."
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You know, if I was asked to rewrite
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that sign today it would say, "I have a God-given gift of voice.
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Acknowledge him in all my ways, and he will direct my path.
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Thank you, and God bless."