“Dakota Town Hall” is a weekly politics podcast hosted by Brad “Murdoc” Jurgensen and Jake Schoenbeck. With the summer bringing a slower season for political news, I was invited to join the podcast to talk about the history of South Dakota’s governors, one by one. It was a fun time.
As Kevin Woster has found, I can walk through the Governors (the Trail of Governors, that is) in about two hours. But it turned out it took more than 13 hours to talk through all thirty-three governors with Murdoc and Jake. We later recorded a bonus hour, covering the ten governors of Dakota Territory.
Here are the twelve podcasts we recorded – my segments usually run just over an hour:
| 1-8: Mellette, Sheldon, Lee, Herreid, Elrod, Crawford, Vessey, Byrne (1889-1917) | Spotify | Apple Podcasts |
| 9-15: Norbeck, McMaster, Gunderson, Bulow, Green, Berry, Jensen (1917-39) | Spotify | Apple Podcasts |
| 16-19: Bushfield, Sharpe, George T. Mickelson, Anderson (1939-55) | Spotify | Apple Podcasts |
| 20-23: Foss, Herseth, Gubbrud, Boe (1955-69) | Spotify | Apple Podcasts |
| 24-26: Farrar, Kneip, Wollman (1969-69) | Spotify | Apple Podcasts |
| 27: Janklow (1979-87) | Spotify | Apple Podcasts |
| 28-29: George S. Mickelson, Miller (1987-95) | Spotify | Apple Podcasts |
| 30: Janklow (1995-2003) | Spotify | Apple Podcasts |
| 31: Rounds (2003-11) | Spotify | Apple Podcasts |
| 32: Daugaard (2011-19) | Spotify | Apple Podcasts |
| 33: Noem (2019-present) | Spotify | Apple Podcasts |
| Governors of Dakota Territory (1861-89) | Spotify | Apple Podcasts |
SoDak Governors 