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Send us Fan Mail The Half Hour is a current events podcast on the One Clap Speech and Debate feed designed with the intention of helping Extemp competitors (and other Speech and Debate members, as well as listening for the general public) understand the importance of political, social, or economical events on a domestic and international scale. Conflict in Afghanistan The United States withdrawal...

Send us Fan Mail We are gearing up for the National Speech and Debate Tournament on Speech Love!  If you are looking for some last minute ideas to spruce up your recorded supplemental events or some ways to improve your live virtual performance for the National Speech and Debate Tournament this summer - look no further!  Today on the podcast, Cheyenne East Assistant Coach Ashley Schulz and Cheyenn...

Send us Fan Mail We are gearing up for the National Speech and Debate Tournament on Speech Love!  Today we explore some ideas for improving debate case construction with Cheyenne East senior and good friend of the podcast, YuYu Yuan.   If you have any ideas or requests for topics to explore on the One Clap Podcast, shoot Lyle an email at lylewiley@gmail.com or check out our blog and social media h...

Send us Fan Mail On today's episode of Speech Love, check out a question-and-answer conversation with Cheyenne East Speech and Debate Assistant Coach Allen Pino, about how you can get middle school students involved in this year’s National Speech and Debate Online Tournament through the Middle School Speech Challenge and some reasons why getting middle schoolers involved is a great idea - esp...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the first episode of Speech Love - these episodes are meant to be primarily focused on helping coaches and competitors with platform and interpretative speech skills.  Today we are featuring the opener ep for a larger Speech Love series featuring Supplemental Event Skills to help Coaches and Students get psyched and prepare for Supplemental Events at the Virtual 2021 Na...

Send us Fan Mail Clappy Birthday, One Clap Speech and Debate! This episode is  a quick celebration of One Year of One Clap - with a little bit of reflection on the last year in Speech and Debate, a look back at the first year of the Podcast, and a glance ahead of what to expect in the coming year for the One Clap Pod. If you have any ideas or requests for topics to explore on the One Clap Podcast,...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to A Long Winter's Clap: 12 Days of Speech and Debate Event Overviews and Resources. For our final Long Winter's Clap episode, we will be exploring Public Forum Debate with the help of two generous and extraordinary debate talents:  Seniors YuYu Yuan from Cheyenne East and Joshua Hansen from Jackson.    Be sure to check out YuYu and Josh's hot tips and other...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to A Long Winter's Clap: 12 Days of Speech and Debate Event Overviews and Resources. Today we're looking into Humorous Interpretation - and maybe we'll get a few laughs!  Here to help us navigate Humor is National Champion interpretative competitor and Cheyenne East Speech Senior Jayden Roccaforte.  Be sure to check out Jayden's hot tips and other resou...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to A Long Winter's Clap: 12 Days of Speech and Debate Event Overviews and Resources.  Today's event is the classic long-form team debate - Policy Debate, and we've been gifted some excellent tips and ideas from Rock Springs Policy Debate Coach  Jeremiah Etcheverry - a tortured debate genius with some great thoughts to share!  Be sure to check out Jeremiah&ap...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to A Long Winter's Clap: 12 Days of Speech and Debate Event Overviews and Resources.  This episode is dedicated to Dramatic Interpretation, and we are featuring some excellent tips from Kelly Walsh Speech and Debate alum and actor extraordinaire, Bailey Patterson.  Be sure to check out Bailey's tips and other resources for Poetry on our website. If you have any i...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to A Long Winter's Clap: 12 Days of Speech and Debate Event Overviews and Resources.    This episode is all about Poetry Interpretation, and we are featuring some hot tips from Rachel West - up-and-coming stellar sophomore for Cheyenne East Speech and Debate.  Be sure to check out Rachel's tips and other resources for Poetry on our website. If you have any ideas...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to A Long Winter's Clap: 12 Days of Speech and Debate Event Overviews and Resources.  Today we are taking on Congressional Debate, and Coach Allen Pino, Congress wizard of grand repute, has some tips for us.  Be sure to check out all of Allen's ideas and other resources on our website. If you have any ideas or requests for topics to explore on the One Clap Podcas...

Send us Fan Mail The February Public Forum topic is live!  Lawrence Zhou, graduate assistant coach for the Policy Debate Team at the University of Wyoming and high school coach for the Team Wyoming initiative, is here to give us his helpful and smart take on the topic. Resolved: On balance, the benefits of urbanization in West Africa outweigh the harms. Thank you so much to Lawrence for taking tim...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to A Long Winter's Clap: 12 Days of Speech and Debate Event Overviews and Resources.  Today we are taking on Extemporaneous Speaking - featuring tips from Cheyenne East Speech and Debate Senior YuYu Yuan and Hot Springs County High School Junior Jean-Luc Willson.  Be sure to check out all of YuYu and Jean-Luc's  extemp hacks and other resources on our website. If...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to A Long Winter's Clap: 12 Days of Speech and Debate Event Overviews and Resources.  Today we are talking about Duo Interpretation - featuring tips from Jackson Hole Head Speech and Debate Coach and Wyoming High School Forensics Association President, Londe Gagnon.  Be sure to check out all of Londe's smart tips and other Duo resources on our website. If you hav...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to A Long Winter's Clap: 12 Days of Speech and Debate Event Overviews and Resources.  Today we are dealing in the ancient art of Lincoln-Douglas Debate - featuring tips and resources from our old frenemy, Cheyenne East Speech and Debate Coach Marcus Viney.  He has ideas for New Year's resolutions that will help you deal with and dominate LD debate resolutions tha...

Send us Fan Mail The 2021 January Public Forum topic is here, and Cheyenne East Speech and Debate Team Senior superstar performer and debater YuYu Yuan is on the Rock On! Debate podcast to discuss a PF topic full of action, intrigue, adventure, and espionage!  YuYu has not only spent Holiday break running camps and recording tips for our Long Winter’s Clap episodes (keep an eye out for YuYu on the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to A Long Winter's Clap: 12 Days of Speech and Debate Event Overviews and Resources.  Today we are talking about Informative Speaking - featuring tips from former Rock Springs Speech and Debate competitor and current University of Wyoming debating powerhouse, Mack Kramer.  Be sure to check out all the INFO resources on the website! If you have any ideas or requests fo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to A Long Winter's Clap: 12 Days of Speech and Debate Event Overviews and Resources.  Today we are talking about Program Oral Interpretation - featuring tips from current awesome Cheyenne East competitor, Kambrie White.  Be sure to check out all the POI resources on our website! If you have any ideas or requests for topics to explore on the One Clap Podcast, shoot Lyl...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to A Long Winter's Clap: 12 Days of Speech and Debate Event Overviews and Resources.  Today we are talking about Original Oratory - featuring quick tips from former Torrington Speech and Debate star and OO Wyoming State Champion Callie Firminhac.  Be sure to check out all the Original Oratory resources on our website! If you have any ideas or requests for topics to ex...

Send us Fan Mail Cheyenne East Speech and Debate Team Head Coach Marcus Viney takes on Killer Robots in his new LD topic analysis for the Jan./Feb. 2021 topic (Resolved: States ought to ban lethal autonomous weapons) on this episode of the Rock On! Debate podcast.  Marcus spent his Christmas wiring his slaughterbots for debate destruction while working on a new topic analysis to share - complete w...

Send us Fan Mail Worland High School Head Speech and Debate Coach and Drama Director Rick Dorn dropped by the One Clap Podcast for a candid discussion about how he balances programs,  builds meaningful relationships with students, stays loaded up on caffeine, and breaks the nerd scale.  Don't miss it! If you have any ideas or requests for topics to explore on the One Clap Podcast, shoot Lyle...

Send us Fan Mail Cheyenne East Speech and Debate Team Policy Coach Jeff Pope drops in to provide an overview of the Policy Debate Topic for 2020-2021 while answering questions from Lyle.   Jeff's high level description of this year's topic and overview of each of the three criminal justice reform areas of the resolution is full of helpful ideas and approaches.  He also discusses some pos...

Send us Fan Mail Cheyenne East Speech and Debate Team Head Coach Marcus Viney tackles a topic analysis for the 2020 Nov./Dec. LD resolution (Resolved: The United States ought to provide a federal jobs guarantee) on this episode of the Rock On! Debate podcast.  Marcus buried himself in the LD debate lab for a couple of days and emerged with a quite useful and generous topic analysis to share - comp...

Send us Fan Mail The Coach Connection #2:  What are some immediately useful coaching resources from the 2020 Online Wyoming Coaches Conference? The Coach Connection is a One Clap Speech and Debate Podcast devoted to providing helps, tips, hacks, optimism, and support to Speech and Debate Coaches in quick Q&A format.  In episode two, Lyle goes over nine immediately useful resources from the 202...