Best Reed Riggs Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 38: ACTFL Teacher Awards as Professional Development 31:51

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Send us a text Episode 38: ACTFL Language Teacher Awards as Professional Development Show Notes Guest: Ngan-Ha Ta, PhD Ngan's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nganhata ACTFL Convention & World Languages Expo information: https://www.actfl.org/convention-and-expo Our previous episode with Ngan: Episode 9: Teacher Training https://www.bu…

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Episode 37: "Listen & Do" 39:03

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Send us a text Show Notes: Episode 37: "Listen & Do" in language teaching Reed mentioned: Ellis, R., & He, X. (1999). The roles of modified input and output in the incidental acquisition of word meanings. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 285-301. https://www.scribd.com/document/359925425/10-0000-www-cambridge-org-3B026C16F7E59E3458121D43E055…

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Episode 36: Research & Assessment 41:35

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Send us a text Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching. Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage We welcome support for the podcasting costs. See "Support" here: https://conversationsabo…

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Episode 35: Language Policy in Classrooms 40:07

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Send us a text Menken & Garcia, 2010 ch. 16 Johnson, 2013 ACTFL 90%+ TL use position statement Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching. Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage We welcom…

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Episode 34: Trying New Teaching Strategies 39:12

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Send us a text Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching. Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage We welcome support for the podcasting costs. See "Support" here: https://conversationsabo…

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Episode 33: Introducing Vocabulary 38:15

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Send us a text Episode 33: Introducing Vocabulary Show Notes Diane mentioned the book Vocabulary Myths by Keith Folse. Here is the publisher's site about it: https://press.umich.edu/Books/V/Vocabulary-Myths2 Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teach…

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Episode 32: Focus on Form 37:36

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Send us a text Episode 32 Show notes - Focus on Form Michael Long’s thinking about “focus on meaning,” “focus on form,’ and “focus on forms” in language teaching, for example: Long, M. (2008). Focus on form in task-based language teaching. In Language policy and pedagogy (pp. 179-192). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://scholarspace.manoa.h…

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Episode 31: Child Language Development & Implications for Teachers 40:15

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Send us a text Show Notes: Episode 31 (season 4) show notes: Child language development & implications for teachers Conversations about Language Teaching Episode 7 was about Conversation Analysis: YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zny0LLUh3TM Audio-only podcast episode https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/2325378/episodes/15229325-episode-7…

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Episode 30: Purposes for Picture Talk 37:03

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Send us a text Episode 30 Show Notes -- Purposes for Picture Talk Link to Cheng & Tsui webinar (mentioned by Diane as included Picture Talk): https://youtu.be/HinXS0n762g eBook (includes both ‘levels’ of Picture Talk Diane described) https://cheng-tsui.publishercart.com/product/comprehension-based-chinese-ebook/ Hawaii Department of Education https…

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Episode 29: Rethinking Authenticity 39:10

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Send us a text Episode 29 Show Notes - Rethinking Authenticity Hasegawa, A. (2018). Understanding task‐in‐process through the lens of laughter: Activity designs, instructional materials, learner orientations, and interpersonal relationships. The Modern Language Journal, 102(1), 142-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12448 Intro & outro music selecte…

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Bonus Episode 28: 当非母语中文老师 39:12

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Send us a text This episode is in Mandarin Chinese. Reed & Diane talk about their experiences as non-native learners, users, and teachers of Mandarin Chinese. Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching. Watch on YouTube where episodes are captione…

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Episode 27: A Story about Student Production 37:45

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Send us a text No show notes this time! Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching. Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage We welcome support for the podcasting costs. See "Support" here:…

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Episode 26: Children’s Books & Reading for Vocabulary Growth 26:32

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Send us a text Episode 26: Children’s Books & Reading for Vocabulary Growth Show Notes The Mandarin Companion blog has concise & helpful information about Extensive reading (ER) and 98% known language. This post also describes why children’s books are not necessarily suitable for second language learners: https://mandarincompanion.com/7-mistakes-ab…

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Episode 25: There Is No Best Method--Why? 39:14

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Send us a text Episode 25: There Is No Best Method–Why? Discussing Prabhu (1990) Show Notes We discussed this article: Prabhu, N. S. (1990). There is no best method—Why?. TESOL Quarterly, 24(2), 161-176. https://doi.org/10.2307/3586897 It is freely available online at the link above. Diane missed the number of times it has been cited – “only” 1666 …

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Episode 24: Pronunciation Development 33:49

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Send us a text Episode 24 - Pronunciation development Reed’s grad school classmate's study: https://www.hawaii.edu/sls/phd-student-wenyi-ling-2018-research-award/ The full dissertation: Ling, W. (2021). The Perception, Processing and Learning of Mandarin Lexical Tone by Second Language Speakers. University of Hawai'i at Manoa. https://scholarspace.…

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Episode 23: AI Chatbots 30:52

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Send us a text Episode 23: AI Chatbots Show Notes Dr. Rachel Mamiya Hernandez-relevant link about using AI chatbots for language learning: https://clt.manoa.hawaii.edu/blog/event/ai-chatbots-2/ Billie Eilish AI interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0c94ghBS4A Magic School AI tool, where Reed & Diane have both prompted chatbots to work with Ch…

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Episode 22: Issues with Frequency Lists 39:37

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Send us a text Episode 22 Show Notes Michael Long quote is on pp. 6-7 of the following, available freely online at the link: Long, M. H. (2016). In defense of tasks and TBLT: Nonissues and real issues. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 36, 5-33. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/ED5590DB727AE82E0A98AC05264B…

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Episode 21: Viewers' Questions & Answers 1:00:26

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Send us a text Show Notes: Video examples of comprehension-based communicative language teaching: Hawai`i Association of Language Teacher (HALT) conference presentation recording: Overview of CCLT (descriptive rather than a demo): https://youtu.be/h0Xd6zVSlxU?si=dIdenoWArOmYlW-q Teachers from Hawai`i developed a website including descriptions of di…

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Episode 20: The Silent Period 29:19

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Send us a text Conversations about Language Teaching Episode 20: The Silent Period Show Notes Search results on Google Scholar for “silent period second language acquisition” https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C15&q=silent+period+second+language+acquisition&oq=%22silent+period%22+ Diane quoted from this document: Krashen, S. (1981).…

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Episode 19: Listening comprehension as a goal 37:49

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Send us a text Conversations about Language Teaching Episode 19: Listening comprehension as a goal Show Notes We welcome questions and topics to address! We're aiming for episode 21 to be responding to questions. Write to us at [email protected]. Lichtman, K. (2019). Research on TPR Storytelling (TPRS). Fluency through TPR storyt…

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Episode 18: Complexity in Instructional Activities 47:30

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Send us a text Episode 18: Instructional Activities Seedhouse, P. (2010). Locusts, snowflakes and recasts: complexity theory and spoken interaction. Classroom Discourse, 1(1), 4–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/19463011003750624 Neubauer, D. (2022). Chinese Language Instruction with Novice Learners: Target Language Topic Development, Engagement, and Com…

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Episode 17: Comparing language teaching settings 40:09

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Send us a text Episode 17 Show notes Lichtman, K., & VanPatten, B. (2021). Was Krashen right? Forty years later. Foreign Language Annals, 54(2), 283-305. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/flan.12552 Note: ACTFL members have access to that full article through your membership after logging in. There are also several response articles, …

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Season 3 Episode 16: Using Authentic Texts 41:39

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Send us a text Season 3 Episode 16: Using Authentic Texts Show Notes: Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching. Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage We welcome support for the podcast…

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Episode 15: Language Learner Strategies 58:25

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Send us a text Season 2 Episode 15: Language Learner Strategies Show Notes The chapter is chapter 34 in this book: Celce-Murcia, M., Brinton, D., & Snow, M. A., Eds. (2014). Teaching English as a Second Or Foreign Language. National Geographic Learning. 4th edition. A free PDF of the 3rd edition (the 2001 edition) is available free here. You can br…

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Episode 14: Being a New Teacher at a School 38:35

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Send us a text Episode 14 Being a New Teacher at a School Show Notes Ngan-Ha Ta https://www.linkedin.com/in/nganhata GLAD (Guided Language Acquisition Design) https://begladtraining.com/about Our trainer in GLAD pedagogy was Luis Pelayo Zepeda. Diane’s PowerPoint with quotes from research and about language is shared freely (and you may use it with…

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Episode 13: Culture and Language Teaching 39:45

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Send us a text Episode 13: Culture and Language Teaching Show Notes Claire Kramsch: https://german.berkeley.edu/people/claire-kramsch/ A book chapter she co-authored, including interculturality and “third space”: Kramsch, C., & Uryu, M. (2020). Intercultural contact, hybridity, and third space. In The Routledge handbook of language and intercultura…

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Episode 12: Communicative Purpose 39:00

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Send us a text Show Notes: Things mentioned in the podcast with links when available: SLAyyy podcast (Ben Fisher-Rodriguez, Bill Langley, and Bryan Smith) https://slayyy.buzzsprout.com/ VanPatten, B. (2017). While We're on the Topic: BVP on Language, Acquisition, and Classroom Practice. ACTFL. VanPatten, B. (2019). The Nature of Language: A Short G…

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Episode 11: Growing from Tough Teaching Situations 37:31

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Send us a text Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching. Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage We welcome support for the podcasting costs. See "Support" here: https://conversationsabo…

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Episode 10: Instructional Language Play 43:54

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Send us a text Episode 10: Instructional Language Play No Show Notes this episode! Send us a message if you have a question about anything we referred to in the episode. Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching. Watch on YouTube where episodes a…

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Episode 9: Teacher training 35:06

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Send us a text Episode 9: Teacher training Show Notes Ngan Ta, PhD Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching. Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage We welcome support for the podcasting…

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Episode 8: Reducing workload by establishing classroom routines 1:03:55

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Send us a text Episode 8: Reducing workload by establishing classroom routines Show notes: Some of the opening of class routines mentioned: Free Writes / Fluency Writing Map Talk How Are You? / Social-emotional check-ins Calendar Talk Diane's classroom tour videos showing word posters are in this YouTube playlist. Diane's blog posts about reducing …

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Episode 7: Learning about language classroom interaction through Conversation Analysis 53:53

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Send us a text Episode 7: Carefully observing language classroom interaction through Conversation Analysis Show notes: Harvey Sacks and Emmanuel Schlegoff Their 1973 study, which more or less became a standard for Conversation Analysis as a research approach and methodology: Schegloff, E. A., & Sacks, H. (1973). Opening up closings. https://www.deg…

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Episode 6: Planning: "Communication for language" versus "language for communication" 41:14

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Send us a text Episode 6: Planning: "Communication for language" versus "language for communication" Show Notes: Reed mentioned a research study we did related to language play at the Agen Workshop. That is here: Neubauer, D., & Riggs, R. (2024). Chapter 5 Pedagogical language play in a beginning L2 Chinese classroom. In L. Darren & T. Elaine (Eds.…

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Episode 5: What can language teachers get from research? 38:07

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Send us a text Episode 5 of Conversations about Language Teaching: What can language teachers get from research? Show Notes: Video (8m 31s) by Mango Languages, What is Second Language Acquisition (SLA)? | Science Behind Language Learning https://youtu.be/WZZUCykPQWE Diane mentioned this article as an example of how a research article is structured,…

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Episode 4: Personal teaching histories from Diane & Reed 56:56

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Send us a text Episode 4 Conversations about Language Teaching: Personal teaching histories from Diane & Reed Show notes: Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching. Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned: https://www.youtube.com/@Conversat…

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Episode 3: Seating and physical classroom set up 32:25

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Send us a text Episode 3 Conversations about Language Teaching: Seating and physical classroom set up and how that affects teaching & learning Show notes: STARTALK is a US-funded program for critical languages teacher and student training. More info: The "I do, we do, you do" model is mentioned in this STARTALK publication. Schwab, G. (2011). From …

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Episode 2: Planning lessons for beginning language learners 31:42

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Send us a text Episode 2 of Conversations about Language Teaching: Planning Lessons for Beginning Language Learners Show Notes: The Agen Workshop https://theagenworkshop.com/ Swanson, P. B. (2010). Teacher efficacy and attrition: Helping students at introductory levels of language instruction appears critical. Hispania, 305-321. Read/download the a…

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Episode 0: Bonus episode deciding the podcast scope & title 35:31

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Send us a text Bonus episode 0 of Conversations about Language Teaching. SHOW NOTES: Our actual notes for planning this podcast episode & the podcast overall. 1. Deciding on a title for the show: Conversations about language teaching with Diane Neubauer and Reed Riggs 2. Blurbs about us: - Diane came from being a language learner, then a language t…

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Episode 1: Comprehensive Comprehensible Input 31:58

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Send us a text Episode 1 of Conversations about Language Teaching. Show notes: Items mentioned in the episode: Reed’s HI TESOL article (see pp. 22-24): https://hawaiitesol.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023_May.pdf The Krashen video (a classic clip from a talk by Dr. Stephen Krashen in the 1970s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUc_W3xE1w Michae…

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Standard Sports Talk: Battlin' Billies football is back with Bill Wilder and Geoffrey Huff 32:58

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Get ready for the 2022 Fredericksburg Battlin' Billies football season with Bill Wilder and Geoffrey Huff of the Billies. The coaching duo breaks down both sides of the ball and previews the upcoming season in their podcast debuts. Standard Sports Talk is a Hill Country sports podcast produced by the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post. --- Support …

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Standard Sports Talk: Gearing up for the season with Jason Roemer 38:33

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The start of the 2022 Volleyball season is just 7 days away and Reed Graff sits down with FHS head volleyball coach Jason Roemer to discuss the Lady Billies 2022 team. Full of familiar faces, leadership and energy, the Lady Billies are excited for what the season may hold. Standard Sports Talk is a Hill Country sports podcast produced by the Freder…

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Standard Sports Talk: Talking rugby with the Hill Country Blues 42:32

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Reed Graff catches up with the only rugby club in the Hill Country as George Voorhees, Philip Hawkins and Nick Klein of the Hill Country Blues Rugby Club spend some time on the Standard Sports Talk podcast. Standard Sports Talk is a Hill Country sports podcast produced by the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post. --- Support this podcast: https://pod…

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Standard Sports Talk: Back in Fredericksburg with Riggs Threadgill 18:06

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2018 FHS graduate Riggs Threadgill is back in Fredericksburg, as he is starring as the closing pitcher for the Fredericksburg Nationals. The 2021 MLB draft pick by the Washington Nationals makes his Standard Sports Talk debut to talk his pitching influences, his success in Single-A and his relationship with his brother. Standard Sports Talk is a Hi…

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Standard Sports Talk: The State of Heritage Eagles Athletics with Tim Shipman 35:24

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Heritage athletic director Tim Shipman makes his fourth appearance on the Standard Sports Talk podcast to help host Reed Graff break down the current state of Heritage Eagles athletics. The duo discusses Shipman's first year as the AD, the success of the Lady Eagles in 2022, the values that make Heritage unique and then wrap up the show speculating…

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Standard Sports Talk: The State of Harper Athletics with Chad Zenner 42:11

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Episode 2 of the State of Gillespie County Athletics series continues as we head up the road to Harper to chat with Harper athletic director Chad Zenner and the Longhorns. Zenner gets fired up talking about his kids and the future of Harper athletics. Standard Sports Talk is a Hill County Sports podcast produced by the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio…

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Standard Sports Talk: The State of FHS Athletics with FISD AD Wendy Dietrich 23:24

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To wrap up the 2022 school year and athletic calendar, the Standard Sports Talk Podcast is catching up with the leaders in Gillespie County athletics, starting with Fredericksburg ISD athletic director Wendy Dietrich. Dietrich is in her first year in the position and she takes us through the challenges of that first year, the changes in her life an…

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Standard Sports Talk: Talking Lady Billies basketball with Avery Crouse, Anabel Araiza and head coach Carrie Grona 29:50

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We had Fredericksburg ISD athletes on the podcast for the first time as Lady Billies basketballs Avery Crouse and Anabel Araiza joined the show to talk everything Billies basketball. The crew discussed being the only seniors, their individual accomplishments and the goals for the 2022 Lady Billies squad. Standard Sports Talk is a Hill Country sport…

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Standard Sports Talk: Wrapping up the fall season with Samuel Sutton 28:34

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Sam Sutton, the managing editor of the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post, makes his return to the podcast to discuss his promotion and Harper Longhorns football. Reed Graff also gives his take on the ending of the fall sports season. Standard Sports Talk is a Hill Country sports podcast produced by the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post. --- Suppo…

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Standard Sports Talk: Wrapping up 2021 with Harper head coach Chad Zenner 30:41

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The 2021 football season has ended for the Harper Longhorns, but the Longhorns are holding their heads high on a successful 2021 season. Head coach Chad Zenner spoke about his commitment to Harper, the future of Harper football and his thoughts on the 2022 seniors. Standard Sports Talk is a Hill Country sports podcast produced by the Fredericksburg…

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Standard Sports Talk: Flying high with the Heritage head football coach Tim Shipman 22:28

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The Heritage Eagles are making their yearly postseason run in the TAPPS Div. III football playoffs. Head coach Tim Shipman joins the show to discuss the win over Prestonwood Christian Academy, boast about his seniors and break down their upcoming meeting with the Bryan St. Joseph's Eagles. Standard Sports Talk is a Hill Country sports podcast produ…