EPISODE · Jul 29, 2026 · 1H 1M
FULL SHOW: Jacks, Yotes & Vikings QB scan, Voice of USF Tom Frederick returns, and Patrick Lalley on Rhoden's romp over Doeden
from Happy Hour with John Gaskins · host John Gaskins
It's time to go camping. The Jackrabbits, Coyotes, and Minnesota Vikings all launch their preseason practices this week. Happy Hour blasts off the month leading up to the season's kickoff with a glimpse into the three-horse quarterback race at USD and the two-horse race in Minnesota, plus the only horse SDSU hopes to ride in 2026. To some, Chase Mason may appear to be more hype than reality, considering the former University of Nebraska baseball player has only started nine games in his career at QB1. But the Happy Hour host explains why the 6'5 gunslinger with blazing speed should light up the Missouri Valley Conference Football season. Meanwhile, Coach Dan Jackson explains Mason's progress in leadership and health during the offseason. Hear first year Coyote coach Matt Vitzthum's description of the three QBs jockeying to replace Aidan Bouman. What factors will determine who wins the job? When "Coach Vitz" plans on making the call? Meanwhile, Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell whipped up another word salad in depicting the competition between Kyler Murray and J.J. McCarthy, but a recently retired Vikings legend provided a little more candor and clarity about where things might truly stand. Voice of USF Tom Frederick returns! Last summer, Frederick joined Happy Hour to walk through his over 40 years in broadcasting, including nearly 30 years calling play-by-play for University of Sioux Falls football and basketball. At the time, Frederick had just retired from calling hoops and was about to find out what life was like without spending winter Friday and Saturday nights traveling the cold and snowy interstates and highways of the Dakotas and Minnesota in the NSIC. Now, he's traveling the entire country and the globe. Hear his accounts of France, Spain, Utah, and the Western railways on an Amtrak train. Does Frederick miss calling basketball? What advice does he have for those who have retired (or are about to retire), and how they can spend all that free time happy? And, how about the '26 Cougar football team? Patrick Lalley breaks down Larry Rhoden's runaway win It's over! After an early June election failed to yield a clear-cut Republican nominee to be South Dakota's next governor, two months of more mud-slinging campaign ads on your television set came to a screeching halt on Tuesday night— an early halt. That's because Gov. Larry Rhoden's Republican primary runoff win over first-time political campaigner Toby Doeden was called by 8:08 p.m. The final score in percentage of votes— Rhoden 71, Doeden 29. How did Rhoden — the 67-year-old rancher and welder from West River who became Kristi Noem's lieutenant governor and ascended to governor one Noem took a job in the Trump administration — turn the tables so wildly on bombastic auto dealership owner Doeden, who notched the most votes of the four Republican candidates in the June 2 primary? Sioux Falls Live editor and veteran South Dakota political reporter Patrick Lalley breaks it down over Happy Hour beers at Orion Pub in downtown Sioux Falls, where all the world's problems are solved.
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