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The Doughnut King ( Advanced Program) · Spotlight English: Advanced

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Spotlight Advanced. I'm Colin Lowther.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm Megan Nolette. Spotlight uses a special English method
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  Speaker 2: of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no
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  Speaker 2: matter where in the world they live.
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  Speaker 1: What do people want? Usually they want to be happy
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  Speaker 1: and successful, to be loved, to have a big, healthy family,
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  Speaker 1: to own a nice home, to have a good job,
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  Speaker 1: to have plenty of money, to be free, to have
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to pursue their dreams. The doughnut King had
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  Speaker 1: it all, but then he lost it. He was alone
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  Speaker 1: with no money. How years later he made the dream
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  Speaker 1: come true all over again.
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  Speaker 2: On today's Spotlight, we explore it the high number of
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  Speaker 2: donut shops owned by Cambodians in southern California. A donut
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  Speaker 2: is dessert made from sweet fried dough. We examine how
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  Speaker 2: Cambodians started in the donut business. We discuss who was
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  Speaker 2: behind it. We talk about what happened to this person,
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  Speaker 2: How did this one man affect the nation of Cambodia.
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  Speaker 1: Ted and Goy is from Panum Penn, Cambodia. He got
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  Speaker 1: married in the nineteen seventies. He and his wife had
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  Speaker 1: several children, but the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five. Members of this dangerous political movement tortured
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  Speaker 1: and killed many Cambodians. Over twenty five percent of the
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  Speaker 1: population died because of Khmer Rouge policies. The Khmer Rouge
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  Speaker 1: used pickaxes to kill many Cambodians to save bullets. There
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  Speaker 1: were murders every day. Ted and his family escaped to
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  Speaker 1: the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Ted worked three jobs to support his family. One of
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  Speaker 2: the jobs was at a fuel pumping station. It was
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  Speaker 2: near a donut shop called Winchells. The delicious smell from
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  Speaker 2: Winchells reminded him of a Cambodian fried pastry called non Kong.
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  Speaker 2: Ted said it.
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  Speaker 3: Made me miss home.
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  Speaker 1: Ted saw many people go to Winchells. One day, he
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  Speaker 1: talked to a woman who worked there. She said their
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  Speaker 1: shop was part of a chain of stores. A chain
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  Speaker 1: is when a company opens four or more stores in
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  Speaker 1: different places. Ted joined Winchell's training program to learn how
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  Speaker 1: to run a donut shop. The company let him run
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  Speaker 1: one of their stores. After he finished the training program,
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  Speaker 1: he was able to save enough money to buy a
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  Speaker 1: donut shop of his own.
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  Speaker 2: For two years, Ted and his family ran both shops.
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  Speaker 2: They saved a lot of money. Ted decided to buy
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  Speaker 2: a bigger donut shop. He started making more money. He
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  Speaker 2: rented one of his other shops to a family of
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  Speaker 2: Cambodians who were struggling financially. He trained them and they
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  Speaker 2: ran the shop. They paid him money each month. Ted
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  Speaker 2: decided to do the same for other Cambodian families.
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  Speaker 1: In Cambodia. In the nineteen seventies, the Khmayer Rouge hurt
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  Speaker 1: and killed any Cambodians with money or education. They thought
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  Speaker 1: the West had corrupted their minds, but they were also
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  Speaker 1: scared that people with education would resist their control. The
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  Speaker 1: Khmer Rouge killed over two million Cambodians. In nineteen seventy nine,
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  Speaker 1: armies from Vietnam defeated the Khmer Rouge. Ted helped more
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  Speaker 1: than one hundred families move to the United States. He
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  Speaker 1: rented them doughnut shops so that they could make a living.
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  Speaker 3: Ted said, using money to help others is a feeling
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  Speaker 3: as powerful as any drug.
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  Speaker 2: Ted and his family became rich. They owned sixty donut shops.
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  Speaker 2: He called his chain of shops Christie's Donuts, after his wife.
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  Speaker 2: They used pink boxes because they were cheaper than any
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  Speaker 2: other boxes, and the pink boxes became popular. People started
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  Speaker 2: calling him the Donut King. They bought a large house,
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  Speaker 2: they had nice cars. They took many vacations all over
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  Speaker 2: the world. But then Ted visited Las Vegas, Nevada.
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  Speaker 1: He quickly became addicted to gambling. Gambling means playing games
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  Speaker 1: for money. He could not stop no matter how he tried.
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  Speaker 1: He talked to counselors twice, he joined a Buddhist community,
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  Speaker 1: but he kept going to Las Vegas to gamble. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: he would go thereby himself. He would not tell his
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  Speaker 1: family where he was. He would spend several days there gambling.
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  Speaker 1: He stopped focusing on his donut shops. Business suffered. They
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  Speaker 1: started losing money. Then Ted would lose more money by gambling.
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  Speaker 2: He borrowed money from the other Cambodian refugees. He gambled
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  Speaker 2: with their money and lost. Finally, Ted lost all his
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  Speaker 2: donut shops. He and his family moved back to Cambodia.
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  Speaker 1: But Cambodians did not give up. After Ted left the
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  Speaker 1: United States, others took over in the donut business. It
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  Speaker 1: was the perfect business for Cambodians who were new to America.
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  Speaker 1: They did not have to learn much English to run
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  Speaker 1: a donut shop. The cost was not very high to
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  Speaker 1: start a shop. They did not need much equipment. There
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  Speaker 1: were no large national donut chains in southern California yet,
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  Speaker 1: like Dunkin Donuts or Crispy Kreme. Today, Cambodians run eighty
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  Speaker 1: percent of the five thousand donut shops in California. They
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  Speaker 1: own more donut shops than Winchells, the company that trained Ted.
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  Speaker 1: Dorothy Chowell grew up working in her parents' donut shop.
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  Speaker 4: She said, there were some days that I worked fourteen hours,
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  Speaker 4: but now as I am older, I can look back
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  Speaker 4: at it with pride, like I am part of something.
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  Speaker 4: I am part of this whole journey that our parents
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  Speaker 4: have been on. They came here with nothing, They needed
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  Speaker 4: all the help they could with the doughnut shop, and
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  Speaker 4: we were there to help and support them whenever we can.
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  Speaker 2: Ted's life after leaving the United States was less straightforward.
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  Speaker 2: He made more mistakes. He started having sex with a
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  Speaker 2: woman who was not his wife, and when Christy found out,
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  Speaker 2: she divorced him.
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  Speaker 1: Ted left Cambodia for America. Again. He had no money.
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  Speaker 1: He could not find a job. No one would even
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  Speaker 1: hire him to make doughnuts. He met an old woman
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  Speaker 1: at a Christian church. She let him live on her porch.
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  Speaker 1: It was an enclosed room on the outside of her home.
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  Speaker 1: Her son was the minister of the church. Ted got
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  Speaker 1: very involved with the church. Soon he became a Christian.
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  Speaker 2: A few years passed, but Ted was no richer than
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  Speaker 2: when he started. He moved back to Cambodia and one
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  Speaker 2: day an old business friend asked for his help with
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  Speaker 2: a deal involving buying and selling land. Ted did a
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  Speaker 2: good job. He got more involved in deals with land.
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  Speaker 2: He became rich for the second time. He married again
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  Speaker 2: and had more children.
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  Speaker 1: A film maker wanted to make a film about Ted's life.
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  Speaker 1: She convinced him to go back to southern California. He
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  Speaker 1: did not want to go because many people did not
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  Speaker 1: like him. Christie and their children lived in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: I did not want to speak to him. But when
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  Speaker 1: Ted went, he apologized to his family. He also apologized
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  Speaker 1: to many Cambodians who had worked for him. He lost
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  Speaker 1: their money gambling. Many forgave him, but there are still
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  Speaker 1: some in Cambodia who have not. He ruined all his
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  Speaker 1: doughnut shops by gambling, many Cambodian families suffered.
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  Speaker 2: Ted no longer gambles. He says his Christian faith in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ helped him finally overcome his addiction. He is
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  Speaker 2: happy and peaceful. He tells everyone not to gamble. He
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  Speaker 2: told the BBC.
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  Speaker 3: I want to tell the world, do not gamble. When
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  Speaker 3: you gamble, your life is finished. You will destroy your family.
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  Speaker 3: Gambling is a devil.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of the donut King before today?
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  Speaker 1: Did you know so many donut shops in southern California
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  Speaker 1: are owned by Cambodians. You can leave a comment on
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  Speaker 2: The writer of this episode was Peter Anderson. The producer
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  Speaker 2: was Mitio Ozaki. The voices you heard were from the
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  Speaker 2: United Kingdom and the United States. All quotes were adapted
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  Speaker 2: for this episode and voiced by Spotlight. No AI or
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  Speaker 2: and produced by real people, for real people, no matter
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  Speaker 2: where in the world they live. This episode is called
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  Speaker 2: The Donut King.
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