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Hey everyone and welcome to our throwback episode. In our throwback episodes, we are reintroducing

you to some of our most popular episodes. This is great for new listeners who want to learn

more about the work we've done

in the past, and it's a great refresher if you've been a listener for a long time. Enjoy.

So tell us a little bit about how you got into debate. It's actually an interesting story

when I was growing up of in eighth grade, and I actually started off doing like speech and

interpretation events.

I was a duo interpretation competitor.

And then when I moved to high school, I went to the first meeting that they had for the,

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