The Scouting Lounge
The Scouting Lounge is a weekly podcast from The Dakota Scout, where award-winning reporters Joe Sneve and Jonathan Ellis ditch the gotcha journalism to bring candid, behind-the-scenes conversations with South Dakota’s political leaders, celebrities and newsmakers. Blending sharp insight with dry humor, the show offers a refreshingly human take on the headlines — plus a peek into the newsroom as Sneve and Ellis wrestle with the challenges of fair reporting in a polarized world. From the state Ca...
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The homeschool swing, free speech, college drag & taxes
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The fly with no name, a mayoral kitchen cabinet, electric vehicles & Republicans...
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A government Taj Mahal, Indian Country, education woes & the best license plate...
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Noem's shade, pipeline pitfalls, Corn Belt baseball & a paper route bet
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Stepping in taxidermy, the Trump tribe, AI's place in journalism & what do about...
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Sneve in the wild, locking up grandma, getting hooked on phonics & hunting for h...
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Recapping the pipeline debate, overshooting the target & a look ahead at legisla...
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The '24 election season is here, a legislative bromance, putting lipstick on a p...
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Where's the line on lawmaker payments & are legislative conflicts unavoidable wi...
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Confederate flags & No. 45, 'the great disrupter,' Democratic Party turmoil & a...
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A year of freedom, lawmakers warned & is Sioux Falls ready for a mayor’s mansion...
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South Dakota's appeal to Trump, who's running for Sioux Falls mayor & a look bac...
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The over-under on Ravnsborg PAC, a motorcycle mecca & Noem's thoughts on Ian Fur...
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Noem's fireworks fight, hanging with Kamala Harris & the odds a special session...
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Humanizing the border, Noem enters the pipeline fight & RIP Partridge Amendment
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Ditching diversity centers, misremembering a major milestone & what a rabbit pan...
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Water wars, the sanctity of the Secretary of State's Office & a chat with The Da...
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Legofying the South Dakota Capitol, a Medicaid expansion hiccup & the ongoing me...
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Term limit impacts, presidential politics & the bête noire of the left
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Deconstructing Noem's college critique & what it'll take to bring South Dakota's...
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COVID's end, pipeline pandemonium & a healthy youth sports balance
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A goat named Scout, Sioux Falls' booze crusade, carbon alternatives & country cl...
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The Madison Mafia, Dusty's debt limit & the pipeline showdown
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An economy lesson from the professor, marital acrimony in Sioux Falls & South Da...
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Buying 'swampland,' hand-crank car windows & inflation exacerbation
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A 45-year transparency crusade, secretive g-men & a busy week of quirky legal ne...
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SCOUTING TOWN HALL: Bud Light outrage, an embattled mayor & the politics of Sout...
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605 Cannabis v. DOH, mansion mayhem & Sneve's shameful lack of South Dakota hist...
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Is Costner snubbing South Dakota for Arkansas? + Latchkey kids, mansion predicti...
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Cornhole v. bean bags, Noem-Schoenbeck beef & why prosecutor likes 'truth in sen...
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Pierre in the rearview mirror, tax cut negotiations, candid thoughts on Gov. Kri...
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Is it a cut or a rebate? + Abortion, grass and 'knuckleheads'
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Remembering South Dakota's brawler, mansion suspense & late-session dust ups sti...
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Deutsch hate, budget battles & pothole city
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Protests, crime trends and winter's misery
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China balloon, uppity Minnesotans & Capitol zingers
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Frye-Mueller fallout, Ellis FOMO & 'abortion politics'
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Learning on the job, a $22M 'disunity' bridge & an early smoke out
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Labeling GOP factions, Sioux Falls' mansion dilemma & podcasting from the Capito...
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What is the Freedom Caucus, working with Chairman Mao & more GOP infighting
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A call from Kristi, commutation questions & why we can't live in New Orleans
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Evolving on China, the neurotic naming of winter storms & food tax vs. sales tax...
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Legislative predictions, how the Partridge Amendment came to be, the value of la...
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More marijuana cometh, dragging pajamas & an unhelpful bureaucrat
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Hemp, Monae Johnson's victory & hunting for South Dakota's missing and murdered
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Post-election fallout, Holy chairs at the Capitol & what's on the mind of a new...
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The GOP's weed man, when Sanford two-timed Fairview & a lesson on the First Amen...
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Did Sen. Rounds expect a red wave, is Noem meddling in leadership votes & are S....
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Special edition: Election Day predictions
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Running through the tape, show me the (campaign) money & Mayor TenHaken talks po...
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