Toby Doeden - Unfiltered

Episode 2

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Listen as Toby gives his unfiltered opinions on Mike Rounds' comments on Ukraine, SD sports, SD ACLU transgender tweets, and more!

Toby Doeden:

What an amazing place we live, south Dakota. My mission statement is simple to re-energize the true conservative values of South Dakota. You're listening to Toby Doden Unfiltered. Hey folks, welcome back to episode two of my podcast, toby Doden Unfiltered. I am your host, toby Doden, and before we get going on episode two, I just want to report how happy we are with the results of episode one.

Toby Doeden:

I didn't really know what to expect. I didn't know if 50 people would watch it or 100 people would watch it, but I have been overwhelmed with how many people I know personally and people I don't even know that have reached out and are happy that we are getting involved and we're talking about things that a lot of other people, quite frankly, aren't talking about. So we actually have tens of thousands of views across all of the different platforms we're on. If you want to get alerts about our new content and our new episodes, the best way to do that is to subscribe to our YouTube channel, toby Doden Unfiltered, on YouTube. You can follow us on Spotify. You can find us on all the social medias. We've got TikTok, we've got Instagram, we've got Facebook, we've got X you name it, we've got it. A simple search of Toby Doden unfiltered, will get you right where you need to go.

Toby Doeden:

So we've got a big, big, big show today. We're going to talk about several things and we're going to keep it moving. One of the things we're going to talk about is we're going to recap and I'm excited to do this because we haven't gotten to do this yet we're going to recap the recent state high school volleyball and football championships, so some interesting stuff there around the state. So stay tuned for that. We're also going to discuss a recent conversation or a speech that Senator Mike Rounds gave, specifically about the war in Ukraine. I've got some interesting takes. You're not going to want to miss that. And we're also going to talk about the ACLU of South Dakota, and that is definitely something you're not going to want to miss.

Toby Doeden:

But before we get to any of that, I had a lot of people before episode one and I've had even more people since episode one dropped that think I should talk about my career, my business career, and just talk a little bit about Doden Investment Group and where the spirit for investing came from, and so it's not that I really like. I don't think anybody really likes talking about themselves, but enough people have told me that they would find it interesting and the people they've spoken to would find it interesting, and so, in order to get as many people to watch our show and to interact with our show, I suppose it's fair of them to ask that I, you know, give a little bit more information about me, my professional life, and you know kind of where my inspiration comes from. So I remember going back as a child. I mentioned in episode one I was the baby of the family and I was much younger than my next closest sibling and so, being the youngest child, I'm sure many of you out there that are listening are the youngest child in your family. It's a blessing and a curse. Are listening, are the youngest child in your family. It's a blessing and a curse. Some say you get spoiled, but some say you also get left behind a little bit, because when mom and dad have four, five, six, seven siblings my parents had four kids by the time they get to the fourth one, especially when it's an oops, so to speak, many years after the fact, they're just kind of done with it, they're kind of tired, and so I think that's a category I fell in.

Toby Doeden:

So as a young kid I remember always having to look for ways to entertain myself. And so from a very, very young age, I always had a lot of entrepreneurial thoughts. I was a daydreamer of entrepreneurial thoughts. I was a daydreamer. I always had like, played out all these grand visions in my mind of things I wanted to do when I became an adult this is literally started at five, six, seven years old and so as soon as I graduated high school and I realized college wasn't the answer for me, I immediately started trying to become the next, whatever you want to call it. If there was a way to try to make a buck, I tried it. I bought vending machines. I started a vending company, you know, like the quarter machines you see at, like the hardware stores and stuff that have like the nuts and the peanuts. Yep, I did a whole bunch of those. I painted houses, I sold cell phones, I sold satellite dishes. I installed satellite dishes. I started a paint store with my parents. I had a couple rental properties that I had bought on a contract for deed when I was 20 years old. I was always trying to make a quick buck.

Toby Doeden:

Well, all of that basically left me working at Dwayne's, amico and Groton for minimum wage. I had just gotten married, my wife was expecting our first child, and so you know, it was at this time I kind of realized I needed to kind of put these entrepreneurial dreams on hold and I needed to do the right thing and take care of my family. I needed health insurance, I needed benefits, I needed a steady income. So I applied for a sales position job at Aberdeen Chrysler back in February of 1997. I was granted an interview. I was offered the job on the spot so I took it. My first month at Aberdeen Chrysler selling on the floor for a whole month was March of 1997. I remember it like it was yesterday. I sold 23 cars. My very first month made more money than I had ever dreamed of. Keep in mind I was coming from a minimum wage job literally pumping gas at a gas station, and a month later I had made, you know, eight or ten times what I had ever made at Dwayne's Amoco selling cars. So I was hooked from day one in the car business. I don't think it was the car business necessarily, I think it was just the sales game. I I had worked on and off for three years at 3M as well.

Toby Doeden:

I did a lot of things between 18 and 22. Okay, so, um, I worked in the summers at 3M for three years and when you work in a factory there aren't any windows right, and so when you get to work, you go inside, you don't. You don't see the blue sky or the sun for 8 to 12 hours, depending on your shift. So when I started selling cars at aberdeen chrysler, I just remember being amazed that not only could I see outside and see the sun and see the blue sky while I was working, but I could actually go outside anytime I wanted and get fresh air and I know that sounds kind of goofy for folks listening in the year 2024.

Toby Doeden:

But you know, 26 years ago, having come off of a factory job and a minimum wage you know gas station job, where I was always being told what to do every second of the day selling cars was liberating for me. Yes, I had a supervisor and I had rules, but generally speaking, I felt like I owned my own business because I controlled my paycheck. I controlled my paycheck. The more good folks that I got in front of and shook their hand and developed relationships with, the more vehicles I would sell, and the more vehicles I would sell, the more money of me. So I was hooked on the car business from day one and I love selling and I love meeting people. So that continued for a number of years.

Toby Doeden:

I got many, many, many promotions at Aberdeen Chrysler throughout the years, not going to go through those, and ultimately I ended up becoming the general manager and then the partner to the gentleman that hired me all the way back in 1997. His name's Roger Gray. He was my mentor and eventually I ended up buying out his entire stake in the company and became the sole owner. So that was kind of my early professional career. Everything I've been able to do, everything I've learned how to build teams, how to mentor, how to bond with people teams, how to mentor, how to bond with people. You know how to sell things to people. All came from my history in the car business.

Toby Doeden:

The thing is, after more than two decades in the car business I woke up one day and realized a couple of things. Number one I didn't really like the car business. You know, as a franchise car dealer you are at the mercy of the manufacturer. So aberdeen chrysler is a chrysler dealer. So we have jeep, dodge, ram right and so we can do everything right. But if the economy isn't doing well or the manufacturer isn't doing well, it can affect our business. So I don't like being involved in businesses where we don't ultimately control the outcome. You can do everything perfect in the car business and you can still lose.

Toby Doeden:

And secondly, I just really didn't particularly enjoy the business and I really wanted to venture off and I wanted to get into some other business opportunities, some other industries and kind of hedge against the car business From a business standpoint. You know there's an old saying don't put all of your eggs in one basket. At this particular time in my career all of my eggs were in the automotive basket and so I realized I needed to take resources that were available to me and I needed to find a way to expand. And the other big part about that that didn't really get discussed at the time but it's become very prevalent today is we had so many young, talented leaders at the dealership. We were growing so much talent at the dealership. We were growing so much talent. We would hire young people with no experience and we would mentor them and we would grow them, not just to teach them the car business but to teach them life and leadership and all the skills that you need to get ahead. Well, it got to the point where we had so many talented people at Aberdeen Chrysler that a couple of them had left because we couldn't find challenging opportunities for them to grow in their own personal career. So by venturing off and establishing the Doden Investment Group, it gave a lot of people from Aberdeen Chrysler and eventually from all of the different entities, an opportunity to keep growing and growing. So if they got an opportunity to lead one business or one department or one group of people and they knocked it out of the park, they were always going to have another opportunity on the horizon and that's really what has propelled the upward trajectory of our business, upward trajectory of our business. So the first thing that we really focused on, in addition to the car business, was Plaza Rentals. We started Plaza Rentals. I mean, plaza Rentals has been around a while. We really started to expand Plaza Rentals in, you know, around 2019 and 2020.

Toby Doeden:

Our mission was very simple. Our mission was to do what nobody else in Aberdeen was doing and, quite frankly, I don't know that anybody had ever done in Aberdeen. What we decided to do, and that was clean up old, dilapidated properties. We call them value added properties. So there's plenty of developers that build new apartment complexes, you know, new buildings and all this kind of stuff. Aberdeen's had a lot of new property put up, a lot of multifamily real estate, twin homes, et cetera, in the last 10 or 15 years. That's not what we were looking to do. We were looking to improve neighborhoods all over the city of Aberdeen by buying existing properties that were either dilapidated or had been significantly run down by the current owners of that property. And our goal was to buy those properties, rejuvenate them, renovate them, clean them up, get rid of the crime, get rid of the filth, make safe living quarters, for you know anybody in Aberdeen that was looking for that. So that was the first thing we started to do.

Toby Doeden:

So over the course of the last handful of years or so, I think Plaza Rentals has probably purchased, you know, maybe 150 to 200 properties. You know mostly in the Aberdeen area. Of those 150 to 200 properties, you know it's a pretty even mix of, you know apartment complexes. You know big apartment buildings all bunched together single family homes, just regular homes that folks live in, twin homes, commercial properties, storage units, we've got extended stays, we've got contractor garages you name it and we're in it. So Plaza Rentals grew very, very quickly and to this day we're still continuing to search out and look for properties that have the ability for us to be able to buy them and to renovate them and then to find either tenants for them or to find new them. And then to find, you know, either tenants for them or to find new owners, specifically single family homes. We bought I can't even tell you how many dozens and dozens, if not more than a hundred, single family homes in Aberdeen and most of them we have renovated them, fixed them up, gotten them first time home buyer eligible, which is a big deal and then we put them back on the market. So young folks, you know, have homes that they can buy. So that was really the first big thing that we did.

Toby Doeden:

In addition to Plaza Rentals, you know, we decided to invest into some businesses. We bought some businesses, we started some businesses and it may have seemed a little sporadic, I had a lot of people chuckle the last four or five years because, you know, every time something got sold in Aberdeen they assumed I bought it. Well, clearly that's not true, but we did buy a lot of stuff. We decided to focus specifically on any kind of business that the vast majority of residents have a repeated, you know, need for. So, example gas, you know, real estate rental units, coffee shop, I mean things automotive, auto body shop, car dealerships. We're not looking to invest in vanity, things right. So we're looking to invest in things that people use on a daily basis and are always going to need. And so we bought a truck stop. We've since bought a few gas stations, we've got coffee shops. We've got coffee shops, we've got liquor stores, we've got a bunch of casinos.

Toby Doeden:

A Gentry Realty Company we acquired, which has fit in very nicely with Plaza Rentals, to be able to seamlessly buy and sell property. Ingalls Event Center, downtown Ipswich Lumber is part of our group. We recently and some people probably don't even know this, but we recently just acquired Campbell's Town and Country Lumberyard in Aberdeen, which was the largest lumberyard in Aberdeen. There are only two lumberyards in Aberdeen, so we're now going to own Campbell's Town and Country. I actually have a few partners in that. So we've been very, very active in and around Aberdeen. We've got a couple other real estate companies that have a bunch of property in Groton. We have property in Ipswich, we have property in Webster, we have property in Redfield was really to revitalize and re-energize the business market and the real estate market in Northeast South Dakota, and I think we've definitely accomplished that. So we've grown to I'm not sure, probably, you know well over three to 400 employees and you know we are constantly mentoring young people, looking for new leadership roles and we're going to continue to do that. So that is that.

Toby Doeden:

Might have gotten a little longer, but I kind of wanted to touch on everything. If you have more questions on things we're doing or entrepreneurship, I love talking business with people. I think it's great when people have that drive to want to do their own thing, but it's not for everybody. I had somebody tell me once they wanted to own their own business because they wanted to have flexible hours and set their own schedule and all this stuff. And I looked at them and I'm like all right, you're kidding, right. Like when you own a small business, you are the small business, right? Like very few small businesses ever scale to the point where the owner isn't the largest driving factor in the success of that business. So everybody says they want to be a small business owner, but history has shown me that a very small percentage of people are actually willing or able to put the time and effort in that it takes to make a small business successful. The fact that my investment group, the Doden Investment Group, has been able to do this and replicate that success in more than 20 small businesses simultaneously is a testament of the great people and the great leaders we have in our organization. So enough about that. Again, if you want our content, subscribe on youtube, subscribe to us on spotify and you can also find us on just about any other social media platform out there. So, as I mentioned in my opening, we're going to talk a little bit about Mike Rounds.

Toby Doeden:

Senator Mike Rounds from South Dakota, as I'm sure most of you know. Senator Rounds, you know, had rounds and I believe it was rounds and Fisher insurance or Fisher and rounds. The man did well, was a business owner, a very, very successful insurance company. He ended up parlaying that into being the governor in South Dakota. After he was governor, he eventually ran for US Senate and I guess, as an outsider looking in at Mr Mike Rounds years ago, not being involved in politics at all, he seemed like a good fit for South Dakota.

Toby Doeden:

I think, generally speaking, a lot of people thought he did okay as governor and I think up until the last five or six years I think a lot of people in South Dakota probably had a neutral opinion of him and the work he's done as a senator representing South Dakota in DC and Mike kind of flies under the radar.

Toby Doeden:

You know, you hear a lot about Dusty Johnson for good reason, because he pretends to be a Republican, but everything he does is screams liberalism. John Thune has risen the ranks in the Senate. He's now the Senate majority leader. Kristi Noem became one of the most well-known governors in the country the last three or four years and so Mike Rounds was always kind of the big four, I guess is what we call them right, the big four in South Dakota, the four most prominent politicians from our state. Mike Rounds kind of flies under the radar, so to speak. He certainly has flown under my radar. Until recently I happened to stumble across a video of Mike Rounds in a little roundtable type discussion with other people and he proceeded to give a seven minute speech primarily on the war efforts in Ukraine.

Speaker 2:

And so now as I listen to what's happening in Ukraine and this is my opinion, it's not the opinion of the administration, it's not the opinion of the administration, it's not the opinion of the next administration coming in. But for those folks in Ukraine that are fighting against a Russian aggression that we can all see, I just feel so frustrated that we have not been able to provide them all of the equipment that they need and all of the weapon systems that they need. And I got to tell you I was shocked, I was pissed. The Biden administration has stood strong.

Toby Doeden:

I couldn't believe what was coming out of Senator Mike Rounds' mouth. Mike Rounds' mouth. Mike said US taxpayers haven't been able to provide enough equipment or weapons to Ukraine. What? Let me repeat that Mike Rounds said US taxpayers have not been able to provide enough equipment or weapons to Ukraine. Maybe somebody should tell Mike that the United States taxpayers have directly or indirectly spent $175 billion on the war in Ukraine. $175 billion on the war in Ukraine. The total aid to Ukraine since the war started is $278 billion. Of the $278 billion, the United States has paid 63% of that total. Think of all of our other friendly governments around the world. Why is the United States supplying two-thirds of the financial support to a war halfway around the country when people in America are struggling? So John Thune thinks we should take more than the $175 billion that we've sent to Ukraine. What are you thinking, john? Are we going to pass a plate around to church? Are you going to post a website where we can just put our bank accounts in and you can just draw off of it every month? Should we set up a special tax for Ukraine, john or Mike? Excuse me, I get all the rhinos confused. Mike Rounds, I would like to know how we should funnel more money to Ukraine. Let's just break down the $175 billion that's already gone to Ukraine, should we?

Toby Doeden:

Donald Trump wanted to build a border wall. Remember this. So, donald Trump wanted to build a border wall. Remember this. I'm not talking about right now or when he, you know, takes office in 2025. Donald Trump ran on the border wall in 2016. Donald Trump started building the border wall. You know what the border wall was going to cost. The border wall was going to range from $8 to $12 billion. So we've sent $175 billion in aid, money, weapons and God only knows what else to Ukraine. But everybody had a shit fit when we were going to build a wall to keep violent criminals from crossing our southern border. That was going to cost eight billion dollars.

Toby Doeden:

Do you know what it would cost to eliminate capital gains tax in the united states? You're right. Capital gains tax. Everybody knows what capital gains tax is. You buy and if you sell it for more, the government wants a share 20 to 24 percent, right? So if you buy a house for $100,000, you sell it for $200,000, they want 20 or 24 percent of the $100,000 profit. That's capital gains tax. Capital gains tax in 2023 total for our country was $163 billion. So we've already sent more money in aid to Ukraine than what we've collected in capital gains tax. Mike Rounds wants to send more. How much would it cost to end homelessness in the United States? Now, I realize this is a subjective number, but everything that I was able to research all of the experts agree it would cost about $20 billion a year to end homelessness in the United States. So we could have ended homelessness in America for almost nine years, for what we have sent to Ukraine in aid.

Toby Doeden:

But tell us, mike Rounds, how we should send more money, more weapons and more equipment to Ukraine. So how much do some of the largest federal departments in our government spend each year? What's the budget for some of these massive departments? Department of Veteran Affairs the VA it's pretty important, right? $113 billion per year, versus $175 billion that we've sent to Ukraine. Department of Education $103 billion. Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security, the department that keeps us safe from foreign adversaries spent $107 billion in 2023. But we've sent $175 billion to Ukraine.

Toby Doeden:

And for what? To launder money? To crooked deep state globalists? What To launder money To crooked deep state globalists? Is that why Mike Rounds wants to send more money to Ukraine? I don't know. I'm not making that accusation, I'm just asking the question. Department of Energy spent $36 billion. Department of Ag spent $193 billion. Maybe Mike will come on my podcast someday and explain his position to me, because I don't understand it. I don't understand it and I'm not going to get super deep into the war. I'm not a war expert, okay, I'm not going to pretend I'm a war expert, but anybody can do a little bit of research, okay, and they can find out that.

Toby Doeden:

Then Secretary of State James Baker told the Soviet Union in the early 90s that if Germany were allowed to reunify with NATO, that they promised they would not look for land expansion to the east. Well, guess what happened in 1999? Nato started grabbing more land, heading east toward Russia. They broke their promise. Not defending Russia, but that's their position. Their position is NATO broke their promise. They keep getting closer. Nato has basically just go look at a map. They've surrounded Russia. Russia feels boxed in, so they attacked Ukraine Again.

Toby Doeden:

I'm not defending it. I hate war. War should never happen. But I can tell you what we shouldn't be doing. The United States of America should not be sending $175 billion of our taxpayer money to fight some corrupt war around the world that nobody really knows what's actually happening or cares. Donald Trump has said from day one I'm going to end the war, and we know the war wouldn't have happened if he'd have been in office. But that's neither here nor there. Mike Rounds wants to send Ukraine more money. I think he even fake cried. If you watch the video and maybe we'll put the video up on our social media If you're a taxpaying citizen of South Dakota or the United States for that matter I think you should know what your elected officials are saying publicly and what they want to do with your tax money that you are already overtaxed on. So anyway, we'll follow up. In the next episode Maybe we'll reach out to Mike and see if he wants to talk to us about the funding in Ukraine. I have a feeling he's going to say no, but it's worth asking right.

Toby Doeden:

Next up, we're going to talk a little bit about the ACLU, specifically the South Dakota branch of the ACLU. We're going to talk about that. In the meantime, don't forget to subscribe to us on YouTube. You can follow us on Spotify and you can sign up for alerts at Toby Doden Unfiltered on pretty much any social media platform. Welcome back.

Toby Doeden:

There's no way to seamlessly segue into this particular discussion, but we're going to talk about the ACLU, specifically the South Dakota chapter of the ACLU, american Civil Liberties Union. Everybody's heard of the ACLU, right? I mean? It's a very, very well-known organization. The mission I want to read this mission to you the mission of American Civil Liberties Union is to preserve and protect the rights and liberties guaranteed by the United States Constitution and laws, focusing specifically on civil liberties, civil rights and human rights. This includes freedom of speech, religion, association and the right to privacy, among others. The ACLU has sworn to defend these freedoms across the political spectrum, often taking on cases that might be unpopular or controversial. The ACLU works to ensure equal protection under the law for all people, regardless of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin or other characteristics.

Toby Doeden:

Now you might be asking yourself why are you talking about the ACLU? Well, I ran across a tweet on X this week. The account is at ACLU South Dakota on X and the tweet says Trans people belong On sports teams, in restrooms, in schools, in workplaces, in families. Trans people belong everywhere. That's the tweet. And so I thought to myself well, there's got to be more. There's got to be more to that tweet than that right. Trans people belong on sports teams, restrooms, schools, workplace and family. Sure, I agree.

Toby Doeden:

A transgender woman who used to be a man should be able to be on a sports team. A transgender woman who is now a man, or a man that's now a woman, should be allowed to be on a sports team a man's team. If you're born a man and you become a woman, or you think you're a woman or you identify as a woman, you are still a man. God made men and God made women. He made nothing in between. So I agree. Aclu of South Dakota transgender people should be able to participate in sports. Dakota transgender people should be able to participate in sports. But men that are pretending to be women should not be participating in women's sports, nor should they be using female bathrooms.

Toby Doeden:

I hate to be vulgar here, but somebody's got to say it. There are a lot of transgender women who are actually biological men that still have their penises. Would you want your sister or your mother or your 14-year-old daughter in a private bathroom? No, with a biological man flipping out his penis to urinate, all under the false pretense that he woke up and decided he felt feminine. It's insane. It's absolutely ludicrous.

Toby Doeden:

So after I saw that tweet I thought well, heck, let's do some more research, maybe I'm missing something. So I scoured through the ACLU of South Dakota's Twitter page, x page, and we're going to show this on the screen. But they had a post 15 hours ago. It says dissent peacefully this holiday season. So much for being positive. When I think of Thanksgiving, I'm excited. I get to see family friends, get a little time off from work, get to eat. I love to eat Turkey, stuffing, gravy, potatoes, potatoes, all of it. Right, I might even eat cranberries. This year I've never had cranberries, but no, the aclu can't have fun. So rather than being joyous and looking forward to thanksgiving in a positive way, they have decided to tweet dissent peacefully. Why do you have to dissent? Who's dissenting? Why do we have dissenters on thanksgiving?

Toby Doeden:

So this graph that you're being shown right now says how to peacefully dissent at your thanksgiving dinner table. It starts out at the top and it says do you want to debate what I want to eat? Okay. And then it says yes, I want to debate. Then it has a sub question. It says are you being antagonized? Yep, yep. Well, if you are, take a breath. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights guarantee that everyone in this country has basic civil liberties. Are you effing, kidding me? This is all like. Do I have to memorize this for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow? Look at the middle one. Do you want to debate? If your response is no, I want to eat pie. Do you want the person to know you respect them? Yeah, it's important to me. Well, if it's important to you, I don't agree with you, but I defend your right to free expression. If you don't care if somebody cares about you eating pie. If you don't care, then just walk away and eat your pie. I tell you what I wish I would have had this 30 years ago. My Thanksgiving days and dinners would have been much, much more enjoyable had I had an expert like the ACLU of South Dakota give me a tutorial on how to properly dissent at my family Thanksgiving.

Toby Doeden:

Let's not forget folks that protested at my victory gala in Sioux Falls this fall. You heard that right. Dakota First Action, my political action committee, had a victory gala at the district in Sioux Falls. It was amazing. A couple hundred people, leaders from all over the state, were there. It was amazing. Senator Andy Biggs from Arizona was here. We had an FBI whistleblower. We had all kinds of people here. So why was the ACLU protesting outside of my gala? Because I invited a black man to give the keynote speech. You heard that right?

Toby Doeden:

The ACLU, whose primary function is to protect people like Mark Robinson, lieutenant Governor, first black Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina. Rather than protecting Mark Robinson, they attacked and vilified Mark Robinson why? Because of a comment he allegedly made and when I say allegedly, cnn is the news organization that reported this. Mark Robinson allegedly said something derogatory on a porn website 16 years ago. That's right. 16 years ago, that's right. Back in 2008, mark Robinson allegedly said something derogatory on a website in 2008. And because of that, the ACLU of South Dakota. You know their mission treat everybody equal, give everybody a fair and open opportunity. Right, respect everybody. They protested, mark Robinson. If that doesn't sum up the hypocrisy of organizations like the ACLU, I don't know what does.

Toby Doeden:

So, having grown up in South Dakota, specifically Groton, just east of Aberdeen, playing all the sports, I find it very interesting a lot of things that are happening in high school sports in South Dakota. The state championship, high school football and volleyball championships just ended. So we're just going to recap those real quick and I want to point out a couple interesting things, certainly locally interesting things and, I think, probably interesting statewide. So let's start with football. Class 9B, high school football champion kind of a local team to Aberdeen Sully Buttes beat Faulkton area 34-14. Congratulations, sully Buttes. 9a high school football championship was won by howard. They beat wolsey wessington by a score of 38 to 30. 9 double a was won by a prior 11b school that won a pile of state football championships in 11b, including when I was in high school they used to beat the crap out of us in Groton. Hamlin beat Parkston 32-8. It's interesting to see a lot of these powerhouse teams like Parkston and Hamlin and Winter bounce back and forth from nine man to 11 man Doesn't really seem to matter, they just continue to be dominant. 11b was won by the aforementioned winner. Winner defeated Sioux Valley by a score of 20-14. 11a was won by Lennox. They beat Sioux Falls Christian 14-6. Again, sioux Falls Christian is an annual powerhouse, but they were defeated this year.

Toby Doeden:

Probably the most interesting level of football right now is in 11-double-A. Pierre has been absolutely dominant. Leading up to this year, pierre had won seven straight state football titles. I'm not sure if that's ever been done. I didn't look it up. If it has. It's very, very rare for one team to win seven straight titles. It's amazing they lost this year to Watertown. Congratulations, watertown. That's a big deal Close game 20-14. And the biggest class of football in South Dakota, 11-aaa was won by Sioux Falls Lincoln over Brandon Valley by a score of 31-21.

Toby Doeden:

Now on to girls. High school volleyball state champion results. We'll start with Class B. I think by anybody's standard I might be a little biased, because I literally grew up just a few minutes from Warner and a few minutes from Northwestern, two of the predominant powerhouses in state volleyball for decades, literally this year.

Toby Doeden:

Well, if we go back a little bit, they actually changed the rules for how the playoffs are run, in large part because of Warner and Northwestern volleyball. Every year, year after year after year, warner and Northwestern girls volleyball would face each other in the regional finals. There used to be districts and then there was regions and the winner of each region would go on to the state tournament. The problem with that format was Northwestern and Warner were the number one and number two volleyball teams in the state pretty much every year, with very few exceptions for the past two to three decades. So the championship match always took place in the regional finals, and that's not what the fans want. At the end of the day, sports should be about the enjoyment and development of our youngsters, but it also needs to be about the fans. Without the fans being engaged and supporting the activities, they wouldn't happen. So fans wanted to see the two best teams play in the state championship, so they went to the Sweet 16 format, like pretty much, I think, all the classes did, and so now we can get Northwestern and Warner theoretically in the state tournament at the same time.

Toby Doeden:

So let's just look back at the last 10 years. I'm sorry, I find State B girls volleyball fascinating because everybody loves dominant programs, right? Alabama football and New England Patriots, on and on and on. Northwestern won the state b girls volleyball title in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2026 straight years, 2021 warner, 2022 chester, 2023 warner and the 2024 State Girls Volleyball Champion the Chester Flyers Amazing. So 10 years. We have six years in a row of Northwestern and then Warner-Chester, warner-chester. I don't know about you guys, but I am looking forward to next year's State Girls Volleyball and I have a feeling we're going to be there to watch it. Chester beat Northwestern this year in five sets in an exciting 15-10 deciding fifth set. Class A girls high school volleyball champion Del Rapids secured their first state title by defeating Dakota Valley in a four-set match at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls. And, lastly, the 2024 Class AA South Dakota High School Volleyball Championship was won by Harrisburg. They completed a three-peat, defeating Sioux Falls Washington in four sets. Congratulations to all of the championship teams in girls volleyball and boys football.

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