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Chasing Dreams All the Way to Waco (Advanced Program) · Spotlight English: Advanced

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Spotlight Advanced. I'm Roger Bassik.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm Marina Sante. Spotslights 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: Soft Suppeep grew up in Kampong Shinang, Cambodia. Suppeep wanted
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  Speaker 1: to become a famous musician. He moved to Bangkok, Thailand,
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  Speaker 1: for more music opportunities. He worked as a waiter in
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  Speaker 1: a restaurant to support himself. He spent two years playing
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  Speaker 1: his guitar and singing on street corners for money and attention.
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  Speaker 1: He formed a band with a few other musicians. The
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  Speaker 1: band played shows wherever they could. The competition with other
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  Speaker 1: bands was strong. Many musicians lived in Bangkok. They were
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  Speaker 1: trying to become successful. Finally, some of the members of
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  Speaker 1: Supeep's band quit. He was all alone again. He lost
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  Speaker 1: his job as a waiter. Suppeep could not afford to
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  Speaker 1: live in Bangkok. He moved back to Compong Shine. He
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  Speaker 1: found a job as a construction worker.
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  Speaker 2: Millions of people like Subpeep dream being successful. They want
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  Speaker 2: to become famous artists, athletes and businessmen. They think they
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  Speaker 2: need to move to larger cities to make their dreams
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  Speaker 2: come true. They believe their hometown is too small, it
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  Speaker 2: is too unknown. They could never make their dreams come
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  Speaker 2: true in a town like Kompong Chiang, so they moved
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  Speaker 2: to Bangkok, Tokyo, London, or New York City, or to
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  Speaker 2: a town like Waco, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Today's spotlight is about Chip and Joanna Gaines. We learn
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  Speaker 1: about their small beginnings. We explore their rise in popularity.
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  Speaker 1: We will discuss their famous television show. We see how
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  Speaker 1: their show's success led to many other opportunities. We examine
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  Speaker 1: the changes they made to their hometown.
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  Speaker 2: Waco is not as well known as other Texas cities
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  Speaker 2: like Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, or San Antonio. Only one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and forty five thousand people live in Waco. By comparison,
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  Speaker 2: over one million people live in Dallas. Until recently, the
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  Speaker 2: main thing people knew about Waco was that a religious
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  Speaker 2: leader named David Koresh lived there. In the nineteen nineties,
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  Speaker 2: he and his followers, called Branch Davidians, lived off by themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Law officers discovered that the Branch Davidians had many illegal guns.
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  Speaker 2: When they tried to rest Koresh, he and his followers
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  Speaker 2: shot at the law officers. The officers shot back. They
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  Speaker 2: killed Koresh In seventy six Branch Davidians.
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  Speaker 1: Until Chip and Joanna Gaines became famous, Waco was known
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  Speaker 1: for the shootout with Koresh and the Branch Davidians. When
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  Speaker 1: the Gaineses first got married and started their home design
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  Speaker 1: and repair business, it would have been easy for them
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  Speaker 1: to move to Dallas or Houston. Those bigger cities had
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  Speaker 1: better reputations they offered more potential customers, but the Gaineses
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  Speaker 1: did not want to leave their friends and family in Waco,
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  Speaker 1: so they focused on flipping houses. Flipping houses is when
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  Speaker 1: someone buys an inexpensive house that needs repairs. The person
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  Speaker 1: then fixes everything they sell it for more money. Joanna
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  Speaker 1: Gaines said.
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  Speaker 3: Once I discovered the idea of buying something it is
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  Speaker 3: undervalued to then put value into it to sell it
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  Speaker 3: for a profit, I could not stop.
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  Speaker 2: For several years. The Gainesses grew their business and improved
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  Speaker 2: at making home repairs. Joanna Gaines added posts about home
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  Speaker 2: design to a popular blog, design Mum. Gains. Posts were
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  Speaker 2: noticed by Home and Garden Television Channel or HGTV producers
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  Speaker 2: from the channel decided they might make a television show
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  Speaker 2: about the Gainesses, so they went to Waco to film
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  Speaker 2: a pilot episode with HGTV. The pilot episode is the
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  Speaker 2: first show filmed in a new program. It is a
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  Speaker 2: chance to see if the program will appeal to many people.
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  Speaker 2: If the Gainness's pilot episode succeeded, HGTV would order more episodes.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, the pilot episode did not go well. The Gaineses
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  Speaker 1: were visibly upset, Chip and Joanna did not seem to
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  Speaker 1: be having fun. It looked like the Gaineses would not
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  Speaker 1: get their own television show. But at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the pilot episode, a houseboat was delivered to the Gaineses.
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  Speaker 1: A houseboat is a house that floats on water. Chip
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  Speaker 1: had ordered the houseboat without telling Joanna. It was a
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  Speaker 1: surprise Mother's Day gift. Chip explained, Tada, this is where
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  Speaker 1: we're going to live for a couple of months.
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  Speaker 2: Joanna did not believe he was serious. She said, Baby, really,
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  Speaker 2: is this a joke.
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  Speaker 1: Joanna was not happy about a houseboat sitting in their driveway,
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  Speaker 1: but Chip was very excited about it. The producers realized
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  Speaker 1: this was when the Gaineses were at their best. They
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  Speaker 1: just needed to be themselves. They needed to joke with
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  Speaker 1: each other. They needed to interact naturally, not follow a script.
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  Speaker 1: HGTV decided to make more of the show.
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  Speaker 2: The Gainess's show was called Fixer Upper. In each episode,
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  Speaker 2: the Gainesses worked with a married couple who wanted to
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  Speaker 2: buy a house in Waco. The Gainesses found three houses
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  Speaker 2: that needed repair, then the couple picked their favorite, and
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  Speaker 2: the Gainesses redesigned the house. Chip and his employees worked
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  Speaker 2: on repairing the home. When they were done, Joanna made
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  Speaker 2: the inside beautiful. Many people watched the first season of
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  Speaker 2: Fixer Upper, and twice as many people watched second season.
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  Speaker 2: By the end of its fifth and final season, Fixer
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  Speaker 2: Upper had become the most watched series in HGTV history.
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  Speaker 1: People loved the way the Gaineses had fun with each other.
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  Speaker 1: Chip usually said or did something funny. Joanna was very
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  Speaker 1: talented at making the inside of houses beautiful. Viewers also
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed watching the Gainses play with their children. They liked
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  Speaker 1: the way they spent time with them no matter how
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  Speaker 1: busy they got. They played with them, worked with them
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  Speaker 1: in their garden, and fed their animals together. Viewers also
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  Speaker 1: liked how the Gains has improved their local community. They
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  Speaker 1: turned old damaged houses into beautiful new properties. They helped
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  Speaker 1: improve areas across Waco.
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  Speaker 2: The popularity of Fixer Upper led to many opportunities for
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  Speaker 2: the Gainesses. They started their own design company called Magnolia Homes.
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  Speaker 2: They opened Magnolia Seed and Supply, and the shops at
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  Speaker 2: the Silos. They also own Magnolia Market, and they later
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  Speaker 2: opened a restaurant called Magnolia Table. They started the Silo's
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  Speaker 2: Baking company, even started their own television network called Magnolia Network.
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  Speaker 1: All these businesses brought visitors to Waco. Thirty thousand visitors
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  Speaker 1: a week visit the Magnolia businesses. They want to shop
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  Speaker 1: at Magnolia Market and eat at Magnolia Table. They want
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  Speaker 1: to experience in person what they have enjoyed on television.
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  Speaker 1: More visitors have helped local Waco businesses make more money.
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  Speaker 1: More people are moving to Waco and renting properties. Home
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  Speaker 1: prices have increased. Waco has become one of the most
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  Speaker 1: popular places in Texas to visit. Reporter an Helen Peterson writes, Chip.
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  Speaker 4: And Joanna Gains are the two person engine of an
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  Speaker 4: entire small industry and economic boom. They have cut history
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  Speaker 4: into before Chip and Joanna and after, the Old Waco
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  Speaker 4: and the New Waco.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps the biggest impact the Gainesses made was convincing people
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  Speaker 2: that anything is possible, whether it is starting a business,
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  Speaker 2: going back to school, or simply fixing a bathroom sync
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  Speaker 2: people are inspired to try. If the Gainesses can do
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  Speaker 2: it in Waco, Texas, anyone can succeed anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of Chip and Joanna Gaines? Have
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  Speaker 1: you seen the show Fixer Upper? Have you tried doing
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  Speaker 1: a home repair project? You can leave a comment on
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  Speaker 2: The writer of this this episode was Peter Anderson. The
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  Speaker 2: producer was Mitcheo Azarki. The voices you heard were from
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  Speaker 2: the United States and the United Kingdom. All quotes were
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  Speaker 2: adapted for this episode and voiced by Spotlight. No AI
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  Speaker 2: are written, voiced, and produced by real people for real people,
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  Speaker 2: no matter where in the world they live. This episode
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  Speaker 2: is called Chasing Dreams All the Way to Waco.
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