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)
A governor's interview | Packing for Pierre | In Wasko’s defense | About that op...
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Capitol condolences | Jousting Joes | Campaigning from the middle | Dispelling t...
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DakotaFest allure | SDPB's reboot & NPR's drag | The importance of redundancy |...
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South Dakota storytellers | Cowgirls | Red-blue movies | America 250 | Who and w...
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Sturgis stories | Sioux Falls & ICE | West River v. East River | Running like yo...
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Creating jobs | immigration politics | pissing off lawmakers | budgeting blues &...
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Playing the long game | The pain of TANF cuts | Integrity v. winning | About Tru...
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Playing for the Yotes | S.D.'s low taxes | Daugaard's legacy | Introducing Mike...
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'A prison deal, if you can keep it' | Ellis' penitentiary visit | Progress throu...
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The final Scouting Report, romanticizing America’s story, raising the Stars and...
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Prison passion, lambasting DOC leadership, Rhoden-Press reciprocation, Jackley's...
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Exporting South Dakota to Mexico, demystifying Mobridge, northern border jumping...
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Bad parents, lobotomized leghorns, empty editing threats, cancellation flirtatio...
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The French Creek news drip, when deportation isn't justice, Doeden's lawnmower &...
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A governor's visit, arm wrestling the boss, wrangling Rasner, taking notes & aud...
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Legislative nutcrackers, the validation of abysmal turnout, $2B question(s), Sou...
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A pope and pizza, Sistine beauty, buying a suit in Rome, expanding the wide worl...
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Springfield's PTSD; crime, punishment, prison services & the joy of being AG; Tr...
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Breaking through, a fateful road trip, parking politics & Noem’s timely hires
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Planning to pivot, restaurant resiliency, dual citizenship & what it takes to wi...
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A warden's take on Shawshank, prison beauty, when The Scout covers crime & picki...
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Crippling Pierre's clothing boutiques, cutting teeth, pissing off a judge, polit...
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The national drag, selling Sioux Falls to the world, convention center history &...
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A forced contract extension, penalizing growth, looming cuts & the over-under on...
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Lt. Govs past and present, a gift to Noem, recent voter turnout disgrace, pee po...
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Prisons, pipelines & pragmatism; the good & the bad on ambulances; overhauling p...
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Prison upheaval, press corps jockeying, a revolt & the cane that followed, & the...
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Obfuscating public records, when party favors turn bad & the flashpoint fence —...
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Defending the One Stops, prison spending peril, stuffed animal votes, those auto...
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Journalism insights, the Sioux Falls tax bill, South Dakota's One Stop staffing...
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Immigrants at the county jail, riding with Rhoden, ESAs v. vouchers, replacing T...
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Pierre's geese mess, a quarter century without The Loop, downtown's evolution, N...
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Homeschool horror stories, winning over Sen. Paul, chasing school safety, keepin...
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Thune takes the helm, MAHA and the farm bill, tallow fries, House chaos averted,...
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Electric spending, keeping coal, nuclear resurrection, election expertise & when...
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Globetrotting with LG, explosive danger-dormant science, state fraud fallout & r...
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Deep cuts & new spending, the irony of that disclaimer, school construction grip...
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The next LG, hesitant homeschool foes & friends, a city-state Venn diagram, gov'...
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PODCAST | U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune on his path to top job, working...
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Recounting for days, holding District 15, investigating an investigation, sellin...
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Falling on the sword, giving Noem deserved credit, big trucks-little spaces, wha...
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Election prediction recap, Trump's transition, grumpy bargoers, Thune leadership...
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ELECTION NIGHT SPECIAL - FINAL PREDICTIONS
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BONUS PRE-ELECTION POD! | A shift in the polling, the perils of endorsing candid...
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SPECIAL EDITION | Redneck doppelgangers, getting lost on a mountain in Maine & h...
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A look beyond South Dakota's borders, big trucks downtown, Thune's leadership po...
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More EV talk, South Dakota’s ‘company town’, a Democratic perspective on H-IM28...
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Political party swapping, Big Pharma's poke, remembering a South Dakota statesma...
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Another scandal story, shooting at a gun range, parade permitting's racist histo...
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Pool showdown, cost of a convention center, benefits of blue-collar trades, dayc...
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