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He’s like the Susan Boyle of homeless men!
Normally, I would expect a homeless man to sound different. Like worms, I guess. I just basically assume that a homeless person’s voice sounds like a million worms coming out of a pile of old bean cans. But here’s this homeless guy sounding like a guy on the radio who probably has a whole house or at least a decent apartment. It’s weird, too, because any time I see a picture of an actual radio DJ I’m always blown over by how physically attractive and well put-together they are. There’s almost never more than six or seven soup stains on their clothing and you can barely even see their bald spots and lipstick teeth. So, yeah, you can imagine my surprise when this FILTHY and DISGUSTING homeless person sounded like a RADIO instead of a GARBAGE BAG! Neat! I guess SOME homeless people actually are actual human beings with dignity and self-worth. Not the worm-mouthed ones or the stinky butts, but, like, funny radio ones at least for sure. (Thanks for the tip, JCA and Adam.)
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I’m about to say something really stupid but, like, it makes me sad that homeless people are homeless. They should have homes! We all deserve homes! HELP THEM.
*We all deserve homes except for Rush Limbaugh who should live in a garbage can under a train overpass in New Brunswick.
I read rush limbaughs book the way things ought to be and he had a low point once when he was unemployed and living on his credit card and shop lifting candy bars to sustain his fat fucking self
I read that too. He was on unemployment assistance LIVING OFF THE GOVERNMENT TEAT LIKE SOME FAT LAZY FUCK
why did we even bother reading that thing? what is wrong with us?
Well, I read about it in Al Franken’s “Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot” so I think that’s a question only you have to ask yourself, my buddy.
This is my favorite exchange ever. It just goes to show that no matter what our differences might be, all monsters can come together & agree that Rush Limbaugh is a dick.
I was going to give him a dollar, right up until he plugged Family Guy.
you think that’s bad I’ll buy that for a dollar
I love you, Steve Winwood. You truly are the King of Kings™.
Well, if he’s looking to get a job in a stable medium that isn’t experiencing massive layoffs and fundamental infrastructure changes, than radio and television is the way to go.
*then, not than. I’d give my eye teeth for an ability to preview comments again.
It’s called proofreading, FLW! #yaburnt
Yes!
This guy should be the new voice of Pepsi…brought to you by X Factor! or is it the other way around?
I don’t know, I was just so enchanted by his voice.
After hearing Ke$ha for the 30th time he’ll go back to the streets
The Homeless: They’re Just Like Us!
Copper Boom. I desperately want to put my mouth on your avatar’s mouth. Just sayin’.
This comment gets so much better if you pretend Donald Sutherland is saying it, pointing up at Copper Boom with his mouth gaping open (see CB’s avatar for reaction).
I am shocked. Shocked! (Can you tell?)
lorelei! oi with the poodles already!!
Life is short. Talk fast.
He sounds so much nicer than his wife.
C’mon son, you know someone with that many cats can’t be married. Get real.
Touché, Ron Burgendy, touché.
Have you guys seen grandma Flanders lately? She used to live with them during season 4. just sa….I mean just asking.
Seriously, some radio station out there, GIVE THIS POOR MAN A JOB!
Can he truly be poor with a voice that rich?
also give me a job…i went to college and never had a drug problem
Lured to the corner of 16th and Main, many men and women lost their lives as they dashed their cars into the rocky walls of the Taco Bell, enchanted by the sweet sounds of the urban siren.
No snark zone! This man is wonderful and deserves some help. As a Columbus native, I sincerely hope someone can come to the rescue. We do have a fairly robust radio market compared to other cities of similar size.
Oh, and Go Bucks. As an Ohio resident I have to say that or I’ll be strangled by Brutus in my sleep.
The Bucks play in Milwaukee, silly.
He’s coming for you…
Columbus Monsters! Let’s complain about how HIMYM was pre-empted by the local, CBS affiliate for an OSU football special 24 hours before game time.
Classic WBNS. Anything for some more Jerry Revish beard time, amiright?
Like, no big deal or anything. It’s the first time they bother to kill a character off and CBS.com might as well be fucking Geocities so as not to confuse their prized Medicare demographic.
They better not pull this shit on The Good Wife or I will cut someone.
Columbus reprezent!*
(*I live in Dayton, but close enough, right?)
GO BACK TO CINCY!
Jay Kay. We can have a Clark County meet up and talk about how cops on I-70 are dicks.
A Clark County monster meetup would be the meetup of my hopes and dreams!
Oh my god! I didn’t know that there were so many Cbus monsters! I’m in Chicago now but I have serious love for you guys. But not the buckeyes. Fuck the buckeyes.
Looks like someone’s on the case, at least:
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/evz04/homeless_man_wgolden_radio_voice_in_columbus_oh/
Things like this remind me why I love the internet, and excuse all the 4chan stuff, almost
Angela is a beautiful name! It means “angel!” Why, I’m almost sure of it!
A downvote!? I’m just giving Internet dibs to my avatar twinsie.
Yes! Upvoted!
What about a radio station aimed at homeless people? I’m not going to follow this with any mean joke, it would just be neat.
They already have newspapers! Street Sense! Buy it once for a dollar, feel guilty for not buying it the rest of the month.
Funny enough I don’t have a joke for this video because it actually made me feel very good. Feel good video!
Sure, this guy needs help, just like all homeless people need help (even the millions who don’t sound like how you think Don Cheadle probably would before you heard him), but fuck this video. Fuck the asshole who put this together. God, this made me so mad. The fucking “earn your dollar, dance for me” nature of it was gross.
Obviously, I mean no ill will toward the homeless man, and really hope that things work out for him (I suppose one person being the internet’s pet benevolence project is better than no person being the internet’s pet benevolence project), but good Christ, the guy who made this video and that voiceover is a despicable prick. #outragegum
Yes, it would be much better if no one ever brought this homeless man to anyone’s attention, ever, and never helped him tell his story. How despicable that they tried.
There are a lot of homeless near me and sometimes I think of giving them food or something but it is always so awkward it makes me stop. Will they resent me for handing them food? Will they think I’m some rich A-hole because I live indoors ? What do I say? “I thought you could use a sandwich”? “How did you end up here”? There was a homeless guy in front of a store once asking for change and on impulse I bought him a sandwich and he said “What’s on this? Mayo? I can’t eat this, mayo gives me the shits.” And so I felt like a jerk, but also like he was a jerk. When I worked in a coffee shop there was a quiet homeless guy who came in and always tipped a dollar on his small coffee, and I usually tried to pass him a medium or large but he’d get angry. “I ordered a small.” Like I was condescending, trying to give him free stuff. But I gave all my friends free stuff, and all the regulars (that I liked). He was the only one who got mad. It was a pride issue. And he tipped! It was always so awkward; I didn’t know how to tell him that giving him free stuff was a sign of respect and affection. Years later I hope he is okay. I am sure he is worse. There is a lady who patrols downtown here and every time she accosts you will tell you a stupid, stupid lie about why she needs money. She makes me mad.
A friend of mine was homeless, living in a tree for months, and a stranger brought him a sandwich every day. He says that saved him, mentally and spiritually. If I was homeless and someone asked me for my story, I’d be glad. But this isn’t everyone. How do you talk to people? How do they talk to you? Everyone is so different. It is difficult. I like this homeless guy and the guy who made the video. Both are brave.
After seeing what’s going on on that Reddit link, I do see that a lot of opportunities for good to come to this guy’s life will come from all of this. I don’t think his story shouldn’t be told by any means. I’m really glad that positive things are coming from this. The “pet benevolence project” comment I made was misguided. That was a result of a flood of cynicism that came from watching the first part of that video. It’s great that this is happening, and that the man had an opportunity to tell his story, but the tone of everything in that video before the story was there for a “news narrative”, and is the ugliest face of an exploitive industry.
“The ugliest face of an exploitive industry”? So now you’re saying this homeless man has the ugliest face in radio? So he deserves his fate?? You’re a piece of work, CdotP! #misconstruingonpurposegum
i actually appreciated what you had to say initially quite a bit. and maybe he will get a chance because of this intervention, but you’re spot on to note how demeaning the whole thing is, starting with the camera in the guy’s face, etc.
I signed in partly because this is such a thoughtful, great comment, but also because i know exactly what you mean about awkward rich guilt. Athough ‘rich’ is probably over-shooting it. Just ‘not-homeless guilt’, really. There’s a guy i walk past most days who doesn’t harass people for money, doesn’t have a sign with heart-breaking grammar sharpie’d onto cardboard, just sits up against a bus shelter trying to keep out of the weather, and i usually just empty my pockets of change into his starbucks cup. Then a couple of d-bags I know saw him one day talking on a cell phone and they were all, “omg! that guy is totally scamming us all! he has a phone, he must be a millionaire!” And I mean, that guy could theoretically have more property than John McCain, but he’s still leaning against a bus shelter begging for change all day, and that means his life is pretty hard and my sympathy is probably not super-misplaced, iPhone or no. I just don’t get why some people are so cynical about the exact misfortunes of others sometimes.
Damn, I meant to reply to Hotspur’s comment. Now I have created the exact opposite impression to the one I intended.
Hotspur, I wish we were friends.
You too friedgold.
Great voice but can he do a falsetto? AND THE INSTALLATION IS FREE-EEEEE!
Gabe made me ashamed to have loved this.
Hey guys, I heard that as an experiment Bill Gates is going to pay that homeless man a dollar for every comment posted here, so let’s help that guy out and comment! Email at least 5 of your friends and tell them to comment too! Don’t be heartless… comment multiple times!
I work in advertising and use voice talents from around the country. His voice is really great! If he had a home and some cheap recording equipment, he would totally be hired! By me! Good guy, this guy.
give that pigeon a hotdog!
Times have been tough for Mr. Game Show.
The new Brother Sharp?
A recent fMRI study found that photos of homeless people generate neural activity in the same areas of the brain that are activated when you encounter garbage or poop. And the areas associated with facial/person recognition aren’t activated at all. So when we see homeless people, we subconsciously place them in the “trash and/or shit” category instead of the “human being” category. Great job, everyone! Very caring!
I’d love to see that research proposal. “This research will find that according to our neural pathways, homeless people are the same thing as poop. Money, please!”
When he says he loves radio, he means the Cuba Gooding Jr. movie right? Life imitates art?
I would rather listen to this guy’s classic radio voice than some fucking “Johnny and the Wingnut in the Morning” type show. Bring back classic radio voice! No more comedy duos!
HOLY SHIT GUYS – The Cleveland Cavaliers Have Offered him a Job! http://bit.ly/etIG4j
http://twitter.com/#!/DS3M/status/22665915241861120
So after this video was online for a day the guy already got a job offer from the Cleveland Cavs, who also offered him a free house. Where is your moral outrage now?