Episodes

This episode isn’t a recap. It’s a reflection. I sat down with my friend Kevin Miller to talk about why radio still matters, what real conversation sounds like in an edited world, and what I’ve learned listening to Idaho over...

Bogus Basin isn’t just where Idaho goes to ski. It’s a year-round mountain operation, a nonprofit, and a piece of Treasure Valley culture that most people enjoy without ever seeing what it takes to keep it running. Today I si...

Idaho is not a headline. Idaho is people. And if you want proof, this episode is it. Executive producer Shannon McGuire joins me in the KIDO studio to talk about The Potato Movie , why it was made, and how it supports Supreme...

Idaho is gorgeous, dangerous, and absolutely worth respecting. In this episode, Dylan sits down with Kim and Steve Machado of Mash Idaho — an Idaho brand that turns the state’s wildest places and stories into T-shirts, connec...

From artificial intelligence and airports every week to wood stoves, trap lines, and Atlanta Idaho. Author Zach Hansen walked away from a successful tech career and turned himself feral in the Idaho backcountry. We talk about...

Boise just finished another election, but the big story is what comes next. Former Boise City Council candidate Lynn Bratescu joins Dylan the day after the vote to talk about flags, property taxes, homeless policy, legacy Ida...

In this episode, I sit down in the KIDO studio with Reverend Bill Roscoe of the Boise Rescue Mission and Kevin Miller of KIDO Talk Radio to talk about faith, recovery, homelessness, seniors being priced out of housing, and Mi...

A Boise original. Kenny Calkins walks through 70+ years of Idaho plumbing—why the trades still change lives, the story behind his famous slogan, and the projects that shaped our state (yes, including the night he thought the ...

A veteran SRO with a tech brain and a pastor’s heart. Officer David “Deputy” Gomez (Garden Valley/Boise County) went from Micron engineer to one of America’s most practical voices on kids, phones, and the digital traps living...

Jennifer Mauk didn’t just stumble into leading Idaho’s most iconic small-business network—she turned it into a living, breathing extension of the state itself. From Miami beaches to McCall lakes, from social work to executive...

Valley County Sheriff Kevin Copperi joins The Great Idaho Show. From McCall to Cascade, Donnelly to Warm Lake, Valley County is one of Idaho’s crown jewels — and one of its busiest recreation corridors. Sheriff Copperi has se...

A mountain bar with a music problem—in the best possible way. Kevin Courtney turned a shuttered roadside stop into Lowman’s community living room: yurts on the hill, live shows all summer, a wood-and-iron patio that frames th...

A blunt statewide reality check with Jeff Lavey , Executive Director of the Idaho Sheriffs Association . We cover why county jails are breaking, why Idaho is still on analog 911, what it really costs to stash state inmates in...

The Great Idaho Show — Idaho Fish & Game on Hunting Season, Tags, and CWD Fall in Idaho: crisp mornings, bugling bulls, and a thousand ways to get outside. Dylan sits down with Idaho Fish & Game pros Roger Phillips (Public In...

Idaho through a youth’s eyes—straight from the classroom to the forest. Ginger Stocker (U of I forestry & fire ecology) talks COVID-era school, work ethic, Idaho Parks & Rec, scholarships, the Experimental Forest, and her fir...

In this Sheriff Series episode of The Great Idaho Show , Dylan sits down with Owyhee County Sheriff Larry Kendrick. Owyhee is officially classified as “frontier” — 7,666 square miles of rugged Idaho country with just 13,000 r...

Chandler’s didn’t happen by accident. Restaurateur Rex Chandler walks through 50+ years in fine dining—from Sun Valley ski mornings to building Chandler’s Prime Steaks & Fine Seafood inside Hotel 43—plus why service culture, ...

Ada County Sheriff Matt Clifford joins the Sheriff Series — Idaho’s only project documenting all 44 sheriffs of the state. Clifford talks about the realities of leading law enforcement in Idaho’s fastest-growing county: balan...

Bonneville County Sheriff Sam Hulse: Growth, Budgets, and the Future of Idaho Law Enforcement Bonneville County Sheriff Sam Hulse sits down for an unfiltered conversation about what it really takes to keep one of Idaho’s fast...

What could be more Idaho than machine guns? Dylan sits down with David Nielsen, President of the Idaho Automatic Weapons Collectors Association , for a no-holds-barred conversation on history, collecting, and the thrill of fu...

Sheriff Kieran Donahue: Growth, Gangs & the Fight for Idaho Canyon County Sheriff Kieran Donahue joins The Great Idaho Show for a no-holds-barred conversation about the realities of policing in one of America’s fastest-growin...

🚨 What does it really take to run law enforcement in one of Idaho’s wildest and most underfunded counties? In this episode of The Great Idaho Show , I sit down with Boise County Sheriff Scott Turner to talk about traffic, tax...

In this episode of The Great Idaho Show , we sit down with Art Gregory — radio historian, broadcaster, and founder of The History of Idaho Broadcasting Foundation, Inc. Art takes us on a fascinating journey through the histor...

Former 1985 Super Bowl Chicago Bear tight end Tim Wrightman joins us in this week’s episode to share his extraordinary journey from the gridiron to rural Idaho. Tim recounts stepping onto the field with the 1985 Super Bowl–wi...