With John on Vacation in Palm Springs, we've decided to take a look back at some of our best interview since the show officially began last January.

On May 23rd, 2025, we sat down with one of SDSU's all-time great Taryn Christion. Here's how the conversation went:

He rewrote South Dakota State and Missouri Valley Football Conference record books as part of a juggernaut offense that vaulted the Jackrabbits into FCS national championship contention for the first time.

Then, he had brief brushes with NFL royalty — Pete Carroll, Russell Wilson, Dak Prescott, Mike Tomlin — before coming back to start his new life and family back in his hometown. Before all that, he lit up South Dakota's largest class of high school football while developing under the state's all-time prep wins leader Kim Nelson.

Through it all, there were legendary games — like the breakthrough win over No. 1 North Dakota State in the Fargodome his sophomore year — and deflating setbacks, including a devastating injury that ripped away his high school senior season and a turnover-heavy nightmare in the 2017 FCS semifinals. Taryn Christion sits down to tell all about it for over an hour with Happy Hour host John Gaskins at The Orion Pub in downtown Sioux Falls.

While he is forever a warm spot in Jackrabbit hearts, the heartbreaks along the way make his story as human as it gets. A connective tissue to this day — the other SDSU quarterback legend Christion will be forever interwined, Zach Lujan, who is now the offensive coordinator at Northwestern and still a good friend. And, of course, there are stories about SDSU icons John Stiegelmeier, Dallas Goedert, Eric Eidsness, Jake Weineke, and more.

And there is no way we could end the conversation without Christion's observations of the program's shakeup this past winter, what new head coach Dan Jackson will bring, and how the Jackrabbit Former Players Association is helping to keep SDSU on the forefront of the ever-changing FCS landscape.

After some technical difficulties with our chat involving Aidan Bouman, we are finally able to bring it to you with only minor issues.

The USD Quarterback joined us Monday afternoon after recieving word from his agent that the Green Bay Packers have offered him a tryout with the team. He walks us through the conversations he had leading up to draft night, including his tempered expectations.

The Packers are an organization that Bouman's father was a part of during his stint in the NFL, which furthers his excitement.

Bouman also walked us through his pre-draft preparation. He took a trip down to Florida and trained with legendary former coach Jon Gruden.

Bouman's tryout begins Friday, and his future with the team remain to be seen, but he enters it with a healthy mindset.

Why does Kurtiss figure Kalen DeBoer got a huge salary bump from $8.5 million to $12.5 million, landing him in top four? How competitive is Alabama in NIL against other top Big Ten and SEC teams?

What does our QB guru think of Tide QB Ty Simpson going to the Rams to back up Matthew Stafford, the Vikings reaching to take an injured defensive tackle, his overall NFL Draft views, Cooper Terwilliger (Pierre) committing to Penn State, standouts from Riggs prep combine?

Veteran South Dakota political reporter and columnist Patrick Laley, the editor/publisher of Sioux Falls Live and co-moderator of the third and final South Dakota Republican Primary Gubematorial Debate, joins the Happy Hour host at Orion Pub to preview the issues that will be discussed and who these candidates really are.

Jaden McDaniels talked the talk, then nuked the Nuggets.

After sending shock waves through the NBA by saying of Denver, "they're all bad defenders," McDaniels and his Minnesota Timberwolves teammates railroaded Nikola Jokic and company to the rim in a wire-to-wire 113-96 blowout to take a 2-1 first round series lead on Thursday night.

How was it so easy? Will Minnesota take the title wave of momentum into the second round with ease, or are there signs Jokic can thrust revenge on Rudy Goebert and send the NBA's wildest and most riveting rivalry back to Denver tied at 2-2?

Our Happy Hour trio of Timberwolves talkers revel in the Game 3 thrills while breaking down where this series may head.

The Wolves have so powerfully emerged the last two games, it even made our panel ponder if McDaniels and others the Wolves were willing to trade to Milwaukee for the "Greek Freak" before the Feb. 5 trade deadline have earned their spurs and shut down any speculation of said trade ever happening in the future.

Will it continue to be a runaway romp or will a possible return of Aaron Gordon, who sat out Game 3, change the complexion of the Nuggets and the series?

Isn't it fun to have the regional NBA team turning heads and making waves in April again?