SS26 - South Dakota

America! Summer series. Welcome back to our state series celebrating the 250th birthday of the USA. In this episode, we're in South Dakota. Oh, so, okay. Yes. Yes. Scott, can you tell me the capital? Pierre. Very good. Boy, look Look at that confidence. Never even heard of confidence. Kelly's mad because he knows them all too. I know man. I don't get enough. I don't know if I can think of any city in South Dakota to be honest with you. Pierre. Pierre. Pierre now. City? City. Okay. There's. Here you go. Okay, Kelly. What South Dakota military installation near Rapid City is home to one of the largest and most important bomber bases in the United States. Is this an Air Force base? It is. Oh, very good. You're good with Air Force bases. I'm military brat. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. I am not I'm going blank. I'm going. Nick, I thought you would be. I know, but I'm going blank on South Dakota like a Starts with an E. Starts with an E. Starts with an E. Yeah, Edwards Esther Edwards Edwards in California. E is in Florida. E. Uh Uh we're going to I think we're going to give up on this one. Okay, I stumped y'all. Ellsworth. E. I have I have heard of it. I didn't I didn't know. I don't hear that one much. Yeah. No. Yeah. Oh. Okay. All right, Brian, what world famous event started in 1938 by Pappy Hull. In the Black Hills grew into one of the largest motorcycle gatherings on Earth. Oh, okay. I got it. Yeah. Oh, is that uh Sturges? Sturges. Got it. Yeah. There we go. Just motorcycle rally. Brian, big big motorcycle guy. Yeah. Huge, huge. All the Harley leathers. He just likes the chaps. That's awesome. He walked right into that one. Just chaps. Okay, Andy. Yeah. Which South Dakota National Park is famous for dramatic rock formations, rich fossil beds and one of the nation's largest protected mixed grass prairie.. Is that the bad lands? up there? Yeah. That is correct. Of course it is. Obviously with confidence I say. It is so much confidence. I hope that's the only one because that's the only one I know. Yeah, very welcoming name. Yeah. No, that's right. But it sounds like it's a very rugged scenery. with wildlife like bison, big horn sheep, prairie dogs and endangered blackfooted ferrots. Spring song. Yeah, it's a great Springsteen song. It is. Yeah, it's a great one. Uh Nick. Yeah. What's South Dakota favorite often sold at power Pow wows and community gatherings features seasoned toppings piled onto a piece of golden puffy flat dough instead of standard shell. Oh, that's interesting. I mean, I feel like a taco. A street taco or a walking taco but I don't you know, taco of some sort. It is a taco of some sort. The the golden puffy flat dough is an indicative of the rest of the Waffle taco? like a. The Funnel taco. It's a fry bread taco. Fry, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yes, which is traditional Native American bread, I believe. Yes. Um, I had it in Colorado once and it was really good. Yeah, okay. Okay. Yeah, sounds really good. Yes. Kind of like a chalupa of sorts. Oh. Yeah. I got you. If you want to relate it to something. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Scott, what cave system in South Dakota, one of the longest in the world is famous for rare boxwork formations that look like delicate honeycomb made of made of stone. Man, nothing's coming to mind here. Me neither. I mean, I'm known for The honeybee cave. That honeybee cave, baby. It's Excuse me. I I did not know this one either. It's the wind cave. Ah. No, that's new to me. Never heard of that. Never heard of that. What does that sound though. I 100%. I got a new rabbit hole to dive down. There you go. It's not a rabbit hole, it's a honeycomb. Right. Honey honey rabbit. Wind cave. Home hole. It all makes sense. It adds up. And uh no, Kelly. Yep. Yes. What little house author is closely associated with Demet, South Dakota, where several of her family's frontier years inspired later books. referring referring to the little house in the prairi author? Yes. You got it? I do not. I yeah, no. I I should know this. It's a girl, isn't it? Laura? Laura's Laura's. That is correct. Very good. My other guest was Louis May Alcott. Did everybody watch the show when they were We certainly put ours in. I've seen quite a bit of it, yeah. My mom was a big fan of that. I think they're reviving. Michael Landon reviving. Yeah. Cool. Okay. Never got into it. Um Brian. Yep. What HBO drama took its title from a historic lawless Black Hills town? that boomed during the 1870s gold Rush. Phenomenal series. Oh, um Ah. Hold on. He's right there. I can. He's going to get there. Say it one more time. What HBO drama took its title from a historic lawless Black Hills town that boom. Is it Deadwood? There we go, baby. Nice job. Yes. We had faith in him, right? I love it. . Great, great, great series. I've only seen really good. I didn't know that was really well done. I didn't know that was Timothy. Yeah. I like him actually. Yeah. Oh, there's a bunch of actors. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Isn't that show does that have the record for like the most cuss words used in the TV series or something like that. I've heard. They did at least at one time. Yeah. one guy from John Wick, Shane something. He's in the. Oh, the guy that's in charge of the uh the Continental or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, he's in. He's like he's like the main guy. Ian Mchane or Ian. Yeah. He's like the main guy in Deadwood. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, he's like the bad guy, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um next up is Andy. Okay. What enormous sculpture in the Black Hills shows four US presidents carved into the granite and draws millions of visitors to South Dakota. It is Mount Rushmore and I can't decide if I want to like that's you have in order to visit this, you have to be very specific about where you're going because it is so in the middle of nowhere. I've heard that. Right? And it, you know, it's an iconic American monument. Mhm. But there's nothing else going on out there really too much. It is remote. But yes. Mount Rushmore is my ass. I think she was just looking just for the answer at that point. Yeah, sorry. Then that is so correct. Okay. Very very good. Okay, Nick. What unusual bit of admission trivia, does South Dakota share with its northern neighbor because President Benjamin Harrison deliberately mixed up the papers before signing them in 1889. Wow, I She lost me pretty early on. I'm not sure what the question is exactly. Yeah there is a question. What what admission? Wait, say that again. So what I'm going to rephrase it just a tiny little bit. What unusual Piece of information. Does South Dakota share with information? It's a weird question. You know what? I'm going to just tell you the answer. Why don't you just drop some knowledge on us right now. I'm going to tell you the answer. The answer is nobody knows whether South Dakota or North Dakota became a state first. Oh. There is no answer to that. Well that's actually hot trivia. Yeah. I don't how do you ask that question? They entered the union on the same day and Harrison shuffled the documents so no one could say for sure which one came first. Oh, intentionally. He said the hell with it nobody's listening anyway. the benefit of doing that. Right. Just being. Christ, I can't find it the hell with it. Okay, well, thank you for exploring South Dakota with us for our state series celebrating the 250th birthday of USA. Summer series