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| 3/24/26 |  A Life Underground | The Black Hills are home to more than 100 known caves - including the world's third-longest cave system at Jewel Cave National Monument with its miles of unmapped passageways, and the complex caves systems at Wind Cave National Park, which are not merely a geological wonder they also make up a sacred site for the Lakota people. We join pioneer explorer Chris Pelczarski for some hands-on spelunking in seriously narrow caves (that are sometimes home to mountain lions). Then we meet Indigenous park ranger Sina Bear Eagle and learn about the Lakota emergence story and its deep spiritual meaning. - Brian Thacker, presenter Thank you to everyone who featured in this episode: Chris Pelczarski and Adam Weaver from the Black Hills Cave and Nature Conservancy Sina Bear Eagle from Wind Cave National Park Recorded on location, this audio adventure is designed to do more than just let you hear what it's like to be there. It's designed to let you feel what it's like for real. Find out more at TravelSouthDakota.com where you'll find lots of inspiration, ideas and everything else you need to know to plan your great South Dakota adventure. Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry www.armchair-productions.com | — | ||||||
| 3/24/26 | A Taste of Farm Life | In South Dakota, the deep agricultural roots mean that visitors have plenty of chances to get a true hands-on experience, from exploring vineyards to see how wine is made to meeting farm animals and learning how to make cheese. When you participate in agritourism, you're tapping into a way of life that few visitors see. Join us as we take a stroll through a hops farm on our way to a brewery, help brew some beer, and make cheese with some friendly emus. Along the way we learn about family farming legacies, hands‑on food and drink production, experimental craft beers, and the sensory joy of tasting locally grown ingredients. - Brian Thacker, presenter Thank you to everyone who featured in this episode: Lee and Josh Anderson from A Homestead Brew Chad Blase from Farm Life Creamery Blake Thompson from Fernson Brewing Company Recorded on location, this audio adventure is designed to do more than just let you hear what it's like to be there. It's designed to let you feel what it's like for real. Find out more at TravelSouthDakota.com where you'll find lots of inspiration, ideas and everything else you need to know to plan your great South Dakota adventure. Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry www.armchair-productions.com | — | ||||||
| 3/24/26 | Hog Heaven in Sturgis | The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is the biggest two-wheeled party in the world, drawing hundreds of thousands of riders. Set in the stunning Black Hills, it's a spectacle filled with roaring motorcycles, live rock concerts, custom bikes, and communal camaraderie. Join us as we take in the stunts and music at Buffalo Chip, ride Main Street on a Fat Boy Harley Davidson, meet a 100-year-old rider, and hit the road out to Bear Butte to learn about its spiritual significance to the Lakota people. - Brian Thacker, presenter Thank you to everyone who featured in this episode: Buffalo Chip founder Rod "Woody" Woodruff Photographer Michael Lichter Sturgis veteran Milton "Mac" McKinney Centenarian rider Gloria Struck Sturgis Hall of Famer Cris Sommer-Simmons Recorded on location, this audio adventure is designed to do more than just let you hear what it's like to be there. It's designed to let you feel what it's like for real. Find out more at TravelSouthDakota.com where you'll find lots of inspiration, ideas and everything else you need to know to plan your great South Dakota adventure. Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry armchair-productions.com | — | ||||||
| 11/22/25 | The Corps of Discovery and the Teton Sioux | There are two sides to every story. That's especially true when Lewis and Clark met the Teton Sioux. Their 1804 journey through South Dakota wasn't just about exploration — it was where two worlds met along the Missouri River. Long before the Corps of Discovery arrived, Boyd Gourneau, chairman of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, says his ancestors and other Indigenous tribes had already built full lives here, rooted in storytelling and protecting the land. When Lewis and Clark reached Fort Pierre, they encountered the Teton Sioux at Fischers Lilly Park — a meeting that began in ceremony and curiosity but soon turned uneasy as trust gave way to tension. In this episode, host Brian Thacker sits down with guests to revisit that moment through both Native and explorer eyes, revealing how hope, pride and misunderstanding shaped one of America's most powerful early encounters. You'll hear from: Boyd Gourneau, chairman of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Jay Vogt, retired director of the South Dakota State Historical Society Recorded on-location, this audio adventure is designed to let you feel what it's like to be there for real. Find out more at www.travelsouthdakota.com for ideas, inspiration, and eveything else you'll need to plan your great South Dakota adventure. Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry. | — | ||||||
| 11/21/25 | The Powwow Spirit | The Black Hills Powwow is the biggest powwow in the U.S., where dancers, singers, artists, and spectators come from across North America to honor the spirit and beauty of the Great Plains Indigenous culture. The powwow comes alive through handcrafted regalia and the spirited dancers who embody history. Join us as we take in the sounds and stories from this enduring celebration that bridges generations and cultures. We meet Ruben Little Head who has been an MC at the Black Hills Powwow for 17 years, dancer and former Miss Oglala Lakota Nation winner Santana Young Man Afraid of his Horses and we get a private concert from singing and drumming group Showtime. - Brian Thacker, presenter Thank you to everyone who featured in this episode: - Ruben Little Head - Santana Young Man Afraid of his Horses - Showtime singers, Hunter Blasingame, Xavier Little Head and BJ Braveheart Recorded on-location, this audio adventure is designed to do more than just let you hear what it's like to be there; it's designed to let you feel what it's like for real. Find out more at www.travelsouthdakota.com where you'll find lots of inspiration, ideas and everything else you need to know to plan your great South Dakota adventure. Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry www.armchair-productions.com | — | ||||||
| 11/21/25 | Heroes of the Hunt | In South Dakota, hunting and fishing traditions run deep and are woven into the very fabric of the state's culture. Folks come from across the country to experience the pheasant-hunting capital of the world and to cast for walleye in the state's serene rivers and lakes. Join us at Thunderstik Lodge, South Dakota's most luxurious pheasant-hunting retreat, for a hunt with veteran guides and some of the happiest labradors you'll ever meet. Then we hit the water, jigging for walleye and saugeye on the wide Missouri River and beneath the hydroelectric dam at Lake Francis Case. But it's not just about hunting and fishing — it's about sportsmanship, storytelling, respect for nature and sharing the day's abundance. - Brian Thacker, presenter Thank you to everyone who featured in this episode: - Hunting guides Garrett, Jay and Gary - Carey Story from Thunderstik Lodge - Texan hunter Scott Senter - Michael 'Buddy' London from Central Dakota Guide Service Recorded on-location, this audio adventure is designed to do more than just let you hear what it's like to be there; it's designed to let you feel what it's like for real. Find out more at www.travelsouthdakota.com where you'll find lots of inspiration, ideas and everything else you need to know to plan your great South Dakota adventure. Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry www.armchair-productions.com | — | ||||||
| 11/21/24 | Little Town on the Prairie | In the winter of 1879, a man by the name of Charles Ingalls brought his family to South Dakota, fell in love with the area and filed for a formal homestead in the small community of De Smet. Charles Ingalls was the father of Laura Ingalls, the author of The Little House on the Prairie series. Join us as we roll across the prairie in a horse-drawn cart to Laura's homestead, take part in a spelling bee in the 1889 Little Prairie School, drop into rehearsals for the Laura Ingalls Wilder Pageant and uncover treasures in the archive room at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society Museum. - Brian Thacker, presenter Thank you to everyone who featured in this episode: - Ann Lesch from the Ingalls Homestead - Christie Hubbard from the pageant society - Mary Jo Wirtz from the Memorial society Recorded on-location, this audio adventure is designed to do more than just let you hear what it's like to be there; it's designed to let you feel what it's like for real. Find out more at www.travelsouthdakota.com where you'll find lots of inspiration, ideas and everything else you need to know to plan your great South Dakota adventure. Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry www.armchair-productions.com | — | ||||||
| 11/19/24 | South Dakota on a Plate | The South Dakota culinary scene is heavily influenced by Indigenous people, Scandinavians, Germans, Russians, farmers, hunters… and even church basement ladies. From all those sources the state has a smorgasbord of local specialties with names as exotic as some of the dishes themselves. Join us as we go on a four-course road trip around South Dakota. Our appetizer is the state's 'official nosh' chislic, followed by a James Beard winning restaurant in a town of 1,800 people, and finish up with some world-famous donuts from Wall Drug for dessert. Then of course we need a digestif. Although the one we try is… just dangerous. - Brian Thacker, presenter Thank you to everyone who featured in this episode: - Joy Ann Smith and Andrea Bear from the Chislic Festival - Joseph Raney from Skogen in Custer - Sarah Hustead from Wall Drug - Jerry Sailer from Black Hills Contraband Distillery - Cowboy Keith from the Blue Bell Lodge Chuckwagon Dinner Recorded on-location, this audio adventure is designed to do more than just let you hear what it's like to be there; it's designed to let you feel what it's like for real. Find out more at www.travelsouthdakota.com where you'll find lots of inspiration, ideas and everything else you need to know to plan your great South Dakota adventure. Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry www.armchair-productions.com | — | ||||||
| 11/19/24 | Where Bad is Good | The Lakota people called it Mako Sica. It means bad lands. It's probably not a name that a tourism office would come up with. It sounds more like a desolate and forbidding landscape. So, is it a fitting name? Join us as we hike through a colorful geological tapestry of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires in Badlands National Park in search of ancient fossils, become an unwelcome visitor in a prairie town, and go horseback riding through an endless sea of grass under the shadows of rocky buttes straight out of a western movie. - Brian Thacker, presenter Thank you to everyone who featured in this episode: - Ed Welsh and Paul Roghair from the Badlands National Park - And Casie Donald from Hurley Butte Horseback Recorded on-location, this audio adventure is designed to do more than just let you hear what it's like to be there; it's designed to let you feel what it's like for real. Find out more at www.travelsouthdakota.com where you'll find lots of inspiration, ideas and everything else you need to know to plan your great South Dakota adventure. Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry www.armchair-productions.com | — | ||||||
| 11/19/24 | Marching Back in Time | As soon as we walked into the barracks at Fort Sisseton, we were handed muskets - heavy Springfield 63s from the Civil war era. That's because we enlisted in the army. The Union Army that is. Join us as we march back in time to 1864 at the annual Sisseton historical festival, where calvary, artillery and infantry reenactors come together and bring the camp to life for a weekend, with period accurate food and music, military demonstrations, dances and much more. But we aren't just there to watch the festival. We are in it. Listen as we take part in marching drills and then perform them in front of a big crowd, join some old-timers from the cavalry regiment for some tales around a blazing fire, sleep in the haunted military hospital and step on toes at the Military Ball. - Brian Thacker, presenter Thank you to everyone who featured in this episode: - Ali Tonsfeldt from Fort Sisseton - Captain Bruce Bekkering and Amy from the Cavalry troop - Captain Kevin Ganz and the rest of the 13th Sioux Falls regiment Recorded on-location, this audio adventure is designed to do more than just let you hear what it's like to be there; it's designed to let you feel what it's like for real. Find out more at www.travelsouthdakota.com where you'll find lots of inspiration, ideas and everything else you need to know to plan your great South Dakota adventure. Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry www.armchair-productions.com | — | ||||||
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| 11/19/24 | The Greatest Show in the West | Rodeo in the United States is a pure reflection of the spirit of the American West, and it's a tradition rooted in the folklore and culture of the country. And in South Dakota, it's not only the official sport - it's a way of life. Join us as we go on a wild ride at the Black Hills Stock Show and Rodeo where over 300,000 people from all over the world descend on Rapid City to watch over 120 different events. We join a father and son team at the ranch rodeo, cheer on Gill the border collie at the sheep dog trials, take part in a bachelor cattle auction and watch seven-year-old Kreed hang on to a sheep for dear life in mutton bustin'. - Brian Thacker, presenter Thank you to everyone who featured in this episode: - Sheepdog handler and dog lover Linda Loulias - Sheep shearer Mike Por and Loren Opstedahl - Kreed, our fearless mutton buster - And the boys from Lakota Funds and the Corn Creek Bandits Recorded on-location, this audio adventure is designed to do more than just let you hear what it's like to be there; it's designed to let you feel what it's like for real. Find out more at www.travelsouthdakota.com where you'll find lots of inspiration, ideas and everything else you need to know to plan your great South Dakota adventure. Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry www.armchair-productions.com | — | ||||||
| 11/19/24 | The Land of the Giants | In Africa, people go on safari in search of the Big Five: the Lion, Leopard, Rhino, Elephant and Buffalo. But in South Dakota, you can go in search of the huge five: Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Raptor and Mammoth. South Dakota is a major hub for paleontology and in the past three decades alone some of the most famous dinosaurs in history have been unearthed here. Join us as we head out with Paleo Adventures in the northern Black Hills on a dig for 67-million-year-old T-Rex teeth and Stegosaurus bones. We then head down the road from Custer State Park, which was home to something wilder and woolier than bison: mammoths. In 1974 a mass graveyard of mammoths was found here and today it's now a museum built over an active dig site. We join the dig, work on mammoth bones in the fossil preparation lab and find a whole lot of mammoth dung in the archives. - Brian Thacker, presenter Thank you to everyone who featured in this episode: - Walter Stein and Ethan Turpin from Paleo Adventures - Dr Chris Jass, Kelly Lubbers and Alex Gardner from The Mammoth Site Recorded on-location, this audio adventure is designed to do more than just let you hear what it's like to be there; it's designed to let you feel what it's like for real. Find out more at www.travelsouthdakota.com where you'll find lots of inspiration, ideas and everything else you need to know to plan your great South Dakota adventure. Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry www.armchair-productions.com | — | ||||||
| 10/12/23 | The Fall and Rise of the Buffalo | "You're experiencing what you see on TV and the old western movies, the buffalo roaming across the prairie like that. It's that old west tradition that you don't see anywhere else in the world." – Matt Snyder, Superintendent of Custer State Park Feel the ground rumble and the dust fly as sixty cowboys and cowgirls saddle up to bring in a thundering herd of 1,300 buffalo at the 57th Annual Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup. But we're not just watching it, we are in the thick of it as we get thrown around on the back of a truck chasing the herd across the wide-open plains. Listen to one of the riders Molly as she cracks her whip and corrals the galloping beasts. We also meet Lakota rider and manager of Bear Butte State Park, Jim Jandreau, who tells us what the buffalo means to the Lakota people. At the end of the long and tiring ride we join Molly's 87-year-old dad, who had just taken part in his 53rd roundup. Along the way we discover that although the roundup harks back to a different time, the adventurous spirit of South Dakotans that has been a way of life for centuries still lives on. And that spirit is infectious. - Brian Thacker, presenter Thank you to everyone who featured on this show: - Jim Jandreau, Bear Butte State Park - Molly Olivier, Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup - Bob Lantis, Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup - Lydia Austin, Custer State Park - Kobee Stalder, Custer State Park - Matt Snyder, Custer State Park Recorded on-location, this audio adventure is designed to do more than just let you hear what it's like to be there; it's designed to let you feel what it's like for real. Find out more at www.travelsouthdakota.com where you'll find lots of inspiration, ideas and everything else you need to know to plan your great South Dakota adventure. Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry www.armchair-productions.com | — | ||||||
| 9/15/23 | Black Hills and Deadwood | "Nobody's down here except for us ghost people and the hotel staff. And some of the hotel staff in the past wouldn't come down here by themselves. Things happen in here. Things have happened to me." – Kate, Ghost Tour Guide at the Bullock Hotel, Deadwood Tales of the Wild West and lawless frontiers are ingrained in American culture - and in Deadwood, the discovery of riches in the southern Black Hills in 1874 kicked off one of the largest gold rushes in America. Not long after, Deadwood became a rough-and-ready boomtown that steadily lured bands of outlaws, gamblers, and gunslingers. Join us as we mosey down Deadwood's streets in search of famed tales and legendary residents from this wild frontier. We begin our adventure in Saloon No 10, where we join a local gunslinger (or an actor who plays a gunslinger - in daily gunfights in the streets of Deadwood) for a game of poker at the table where Wild Bill Hickok was shot dead. We then head down into the dark basement bar of the Bullock Hotel chasing ghosts and getting well and truly spooked. Lastly, we end up, as many locals have ended up, at Moriah Cemetery. There we make the pilgrimage to Wild Bill's grave where visitors have left flowers, bullets, and small bottles of Jack Daniels. Through it all, we discover that Deadwood is truly alive. Well, besides the ghosts. It's a place where the wild west spirit lives on. You can feel it – and the former coarse and cavorting town is now a lot less rough, but just as much fun. - Brian Thacker, presenter Thank you to everyone who featured on this show: - Andy Mosher, Deadwood Alive - Kate McGraw, Bullock Hotel Ghost tours We'd like to thank our gunslinging Andy Mosher and our ghostly guide Kate McGraw who gave us their time and stories. Recorded on-location, this audio adventure is designed to do more than just let you hear what it's like to be there; it's designed to let you feel what it's like for real. Find out more at www.travelsouthdakota.com where you'll find lots of inspiration, ideas and everything else you need to know to plan your great South Dakota adventure. Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry www.armchair-productions.com | — | ||||||
| 9/15/23 | Legends in Stone | "It's kind of interesting that people that come here to Crazy Horse Memorial, because it's almost like there's a spiritual calling. They don't know quite what it is. But they feel it." – Paul LaRoche, Lakota tribe member and founder of the band Brulé. The great Lakota Sioux Nation have become the international symbol of America's native people. Over 60,000 Lakota Native Americans live in South Dakota, and they believe that their very creation began in the Black Hills. Join us as we delve deep into South Dakota's rich native American history and culture. We begin our adventure by stepping out onto the arm of the Crazy Horse memorial with head carver Caleb Zilokowski (the grandson of Korczak Ziolkowski, who started it back in 1947). At the base of Crazy Horse, we join Paul LaRoche who has been coming to Crazy Horse for 25 years with his award-winning band Brulé. Through his music and dance we learn about Paul's journey back into a Native American life he knew nothing about. Along the way we uncover what makes Native American culture in South Dakota so unique. And as you hear these stories and the history of this fascinating and colorful culture, you'll soon discover that you need to experience South Dakota for yourself. - Brian Thacker, presenter Thank you to everyone who featured on this show: - Caleb and Vaughn Ziolkowski, Crazy Horse Memorial - Joe Pulliam, Seven Council Fires Native Art - Paul LaRoche, Brulé - David Flute, for singing the Native prayer Recorded on-location, this audio adventure is designed to do more than just let you hear what it's like to be there; it's designed to let you feel what it's like for real. Find out more at www.travelsouthdakota.com where you'll find lots of inspiration, ideas and everything else you need to know to plan your great South Dakota adventure. Produced by Armchair Productions, the audio experts for the travel industry www.armchair-productions.com | — | ||||||
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