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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Episodes (209)
Room for improvement | ‘Back to normal ... what we have here is good’ | A big jo...
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Asking hard questions | Connecting dots | Clinging to leadership | Flock camera...
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Visiting Wrigley | Winning state | Forging better athletes | New 9-to-5er | Maki...
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(STRONG LANGUAGE) ‘Doors win wars’ | Vanquished & helpful | Mr. Mandate? | Lesso...
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South Dakota Republicans will decide | Final days, final attacks | Finding humor...
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Twigs & Ernie | A 'nice' $69M surplus | The governor who shall not be named | Le...
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Remembering David | Congratulating Christine | Sneve's correction | Trolling wit...
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Blacklisted? | Political Covidians, cowards or 'Midwest Nice'? | Ellis & Joe's f...
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A recount advantage | Get ready for court | A divided GOP | Tit for tat in the g...
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EPISODE 200: 100 cops short | Lincoln Day dinners | McPherson County mania | Eri...
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Zak v. Zach | Sioux Falls Central District civic champions | Two campaigns, two...
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Doeden's Matt Hurley & Rhoden's Ian Fury collide | Bombing an intro | USD love,...
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Toby's Babe Ruth call | The Doeden entourage | 'Simplifying' Sioux Falls civics...
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Partying in Parkston | Hanging at Hansen's | In the K-12 trenches | The pipeline...
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Dusty's got pipes | A long-shot's 'Hail Mary' | Data centers, electricity & taxe...
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DSU shines | Coalescing Sanford, Avera & Monument | Navigating new nurses | Skel...
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The postmortem | Ellis & Lalley decompress | Handwritten notes & more debate rul...
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(Steel) horses | Badlands dirt biking | Re-hooked on phonics | Classroom renegad...
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The mystery of the bogus candidates | 3 theories | 2020's sus count | What a cou...
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Running while building | From S.D. Trade to the U.N. | Being Brittany Lindberg's...
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Selling out & selling out | The politics of being A-political | Did $ioux Falls...
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Jon & Joe reunite | Discovering mead | Turning trash into goods | Saving the wor...
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Busy busting bad guys | Happy trees | The 'No' vote | Westward pork & city growt...
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Gravy days of newspapering | Field guide for data centers | Building trust | Und...
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Making a mayor mad | Crafting contracts | SNAP success | Stressing war | Balanci...
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Senate lockdowns | Tonnes the Tie Breaker | Fighting for public education | Read...
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'The Dicks' | TIFs, China & the American pork producer | The prison-Smithfield c...
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A third penny in a post-penny world? | Hunting for CHICOMS & political posturing...
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Lounge carpet laying | Pipelines + prisons + data centers = GOP leadership clash...
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A very bad day | Nosey neighbors | Rescued by a former legislator | Data center...
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Guess who's back? | Recharged with a second chance | Civic engagement: ER editio...
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A five-year itch? | Seat drama | Heading west | Future Fund feud | Winning by wi...
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County clash | Data center discourse, flipping birds & Jamie to the rescue | Jou...
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'Trump Derangement Syndrome is real' | Filibuster fortification | Reclaiming ced...
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Christmas ambush | Data center deluge | No subsidy for you | What's indoor recre...
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The Sporting Lounge? | All ball bearings — 'and drones now' | A 10-game Marshall...
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Rapid City's showdown | Targeting TIFs | Military matriarch | Speech or deceptio...
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The magic of Christmas | Robots are coming | Data center dividends & disruptions...
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Getting passed at 90 mph | First winter snow | Dusty Johnson's junk food gambit...
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A political ghost | Forged in service | Prison push autopsy | Fundraising conces...
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An interim councilor | Lobbyist distrust | Term limits | Candidate Rhoden | Leav...
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Cannabis clash 5.0 | Electorate education | Defending public schooling with a ho...
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Toilet humor | Dell Rapids' good bones | Tough turbine blades | Regional teamwor...
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Property tax whiff | The young's burden | Holding to the Legislature | Don't Den...
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America first | AI warfare | Data taxing | Pheasants, fields & friends | Congres...
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Government's COVID bloat | Fat kids | Fee v. tax | Cool 😎 accountants | Unsung...
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The birth rate crisis | Leading by listening | The independence of SD Dems | Sha...
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1A shines again | Marketing mushrooms | Prosecutor politics | Planning in haste...
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Christening a shooters haven | Remolding city government | Late night ego stroki...
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Reading a room | Prison (un)popularity | Toby Doeden & $$$ | The awful's 1A shie...
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