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A Second Beginning (Advanced Program) · Spotlight English: Advanced

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Spotlight Advanced. I'm Megan Nolette.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm Patrick Woodwood. 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: Famous author f Scott Fitzgerald believed someone could only become
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  Speaker 1: successful in one area of their life. If the person
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  Speaker 1: was lucky enough to find success, nothing could ever compare
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  Speaker 1: to it. It would be their life's work. But Fitzgerald
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  Speaker 1: never met Mike read On.
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  Speaker 2: Today's Spotlight, we look at a few people. They all
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  Speaker 2: achieved amazing success in two different areas of their lives.
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  Speaker 2: We also examined someone who overcame terrible pain to become
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  Speaker 2: the best at what he did.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Reid played American football in college for Penn State University.
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  Speaker 1: He played on the defensive line. His job was to
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  Speaker 1: stop the other team from moving the ball forward. He
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  Speaker 1: was very good at it. During his last year, the
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  Speaker 1: National Collegiate Athletic Association voted for him as the best
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  Speaker 1: defensive player in America. The National Football League's Cincinnati Bengals
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  Speaker 1: picked Reed to be a player. He was one of
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  Speaker 1: the best defensive players in the league for five years,
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  Speaker 1: but suddenly he quit.
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  Speaker 2: Reed was one of the best football players in the world,
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  Speaker 2: yet he stopped playing. His teammates and fans were shocked.
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  Speaker 2: But Reid wanted to do something else. He wanted to
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  Speaker 2: become a musician. He studied music in college. He played
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  Speaker 2: the piano, a large key instrument. It made a sound
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  Speaker 2: when the keys were pressed. He wanted to write songs.
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  Speaker 1: Many of his coaches, friends, and teammates thought Reed was
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  Speaker 1: making a mistake. It was very difficult to get into
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  Speaker 1: the National Football League. The chances of a person becoming
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  Speaker 1: successful in the music business were also low. But for
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  Speaker 1: the same person to do both, no one thought Reed
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  Speaker 1: could do it. However, Reid's father was supportive of his
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  Speaker 1: career change. Reid later said about his father, he.
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  Speaker 3: Was probably the most supportive person in my decision to
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  Speaker 3: leave football.
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  Speaker 1: He hated his job as a railroad worker.
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  Speaker 2: He could see that music was what I loved. Reid
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  Speaker 2: struggled at first. It took years to meet the right
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  Speaker 2: people in the music business. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 2: an important city for American music. He played small shows
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  Speaker 2: by himself to gain attention. He joined several songwriting groups. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: he became a songwriter for country music singer Ronnie Milsap.
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  Speaker 2: Milsap gained great success with some of Reed's songs. This
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  Speaker 2: led to more work for Reed. He would go on
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  Speaker 2: to write popular songs for other well known singers.
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  Speaker 1: Read What a Grammy Award, the highest award in music.
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  Speaker 1: He performed as a pianist in many music groups. The
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  Speaker 1: Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame gave him an award, But.
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  Speaker 2: His greatest accomplishment was writing the music for the song
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  Speaker 2: I Can't Make You Love Me. Bonnie Rate sang the song.
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  Speaker 2: It became her most famous work. Alan Shamblin wrote the
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  Speaker 2: words for the song. Chamblin said, one day Reid said,
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  Speaker 2: come upstairs. His piano was. He sat down and started playing.
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  Speaker 2: It was some of the best music I had heard.
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  Speaker 2: I knew it was the best thing I had ever been.
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  Speaker 1: A part of. Rolling Stone magazine picked the song I
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  Speaker 1: Can't Make You Love Me as one of the five
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  Speaker 1: hundred greatest songs ever written. Bonnie Rait recorded the song
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  Speaker 1: in just one try. Her singing was soft and sad,
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  Speaker 1: yet also strong and powerful. Many other singers have recorded
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  Speaker 1: the song since Rate made it famous. Critics called it
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  Speaker 1: one of the finest songs written during the second half
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  Speaker 1: of the twentieth century, and the music was beautifully written
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  Speaker 1: by Mike Reid, an ex NFL lineman.
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  Speaker 2: Second acts and not just for famous people. Steve Cobb
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  Speaker 2: was born and raised in the United States. He joined
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  Speaker 2: the US Army after he finished high school. After the Army,
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  Speaker 2: he went to college at George Mason University in Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: He worked for twelve years, mostly as a computer programmer,
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  Speaker 2: but it did not satisfy him. He spoke to Spotlight
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  Speaker 2: about his need to change.
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  Speaker 3: When I was almost forty years old, I decided I
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  Speaker 3: did not want to work every day on a computer.
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  Speaker 1: Cobb thought about his earlier jobs. The one he liked
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  Speaker 1: most was the military, but he was past the age
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  Speaker 1: limit for the military in America, so Cobb decided to
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  Speaker 1: become a police officer. He was by far the oldest
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  Speaker 1: in his class. However, Cob had no trouble keeping up.
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  Speaker 1: He finished first in his class in the physical fitness category.
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  Speaker 2: Steve Cobb worked for over twenty three years as a
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  Speaker 2: police He investigated several different areas of crime, including stealing
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  Speaker 2: and murder. He finally stopped working as a police officer
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  Speaker 2: at the age of sixty three.
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  Speaker 1: Cobb was twice the age of his classmates in police school,
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  Speaker 1: but he did not let it stop him. Some people
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  Speaker 1: told him he was too old to be a police officer.
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  Speaker 1: They said he could not keep up with criminals half
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  Speaker 1: his age, But Cobb worked his way to being an
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  Speaker 1: important member of the force. Cobb proved that middle age
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  Speaker 1: was not too late to change careers. He showed that
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  Speaker 1: experience and strength of character were important in achieving success.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Forgia, Singh made Steve Cobb look like a
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  Speaker 2: young man. He was born in bias pinned in Julundar,
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  Speaker 2: Punjab in nineteen eleven. He was more than twice Cobb's
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  Speaker 2: age when he decided to take up running. When Singh
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  Speaker 2: was eighty three, his fifth son, Cool Deeep died. Singh
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  Speaker 2: was overcome with grief. He started to jog as a
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  Speaker 2: way of dealing with this loss.
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  Speaker 1: Six years later he became serious about long distance running.
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  Speaker 1: At the age of eighty nine, Singh completed the London Marathon.
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  Speaker 1: This race of forty two kilometers took him six hours
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  Speaker 1: and fifty four minutes to finish. It was a world
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  Speaker 1: record for his age.
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  Speaker 2: He has since run marathons in Toronto, New York and Mumbai.
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  Speaker 2: He became famous for his races at his age. Singh
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  Speaker 2: used his fame to raise money for several charities whenever
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  Speaker 2: he ran marathons. When he turned one hundred, he competed
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  Speaker 2: in the Ontario Masters Association for Just Seeing Invitational Meat.
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  Speaker 2: This was a competition held in Toronto. He set eight
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  Speaker 2: world age group records in one day at the meet.
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  Speaker 2: No one of his age has even tried to beat
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  Speaker 2: three of these records.
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  Speaker 1: Sim Runjeet Singh wrote a biography called Foja sing Keeps Going.
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  Speaker 1: Singh was a torch bearer at the London twenty twelve Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: He finally retired from running at one hundred and one
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  Speaker 1: years old.
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  Speaker 2: But he's still alive and well. He's an inspiration to everyone.
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  Speaker 2: He said.
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  Speaker 3: The secret to a long and healthy life is to
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  Speaker 3: be stress free, be grateful for everything you have, stay
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  Speaker 3: away from people who are negative, stay smiling, and keep running.
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  Speaker 1: What does success mean to you? Can a person start
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  Speaker 1: again after a failure. 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 Mitcheo Ozarkia. 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: artificial intelligence was used in this episode. Spotlight episodes are written, voiced,
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  Speaker 2: and produced by real people for real people, no matter
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  Speaker 2: where the world they live. This episode is called a
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  Speaker 2: Second Beginning.
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  Speaker 1: We hope you can join us again for the next
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  Speaker 1: Spotlight episode. Goodbye,