Episodes

In this episode of The Great Idaho Show, Dylan Stocker sits down with Nick Gibler of Mustang Towing in Horseshoe Bend, Idaho to talk about the reality of towing and recovery in Boise County and along Highway 55. Nick explains...

McCall is one of Idaho’s crown jewels, and that comes with a unique set of pressures. I sat down with Forest Atkinson, McCall’s City Manager, to talk about what it takes to guide a small town that serves a massive seasonal po...

Tea Party Bob, Bob Neugebauer, joins me for a wide ranging Idaho politics conversation from the perspective of someone who has spent more than fifteen years in the arena, on the ground at the Statehouse, and in the trenches o...

The Great Idaho Show took The Sheriff Series on the road to Council, Idaho, to sit down with Adams County Sheriff Ryan Zollman. Sheriff Zollman shares his path into law enforcement, why he views the job as a calling, and what...

Carson Spear is the Executive Director of the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa, Idaho, and he does not talk about service like it is a slogan. Carson grew up inside a military museum built by his father to honor Vietnam veterans. ...

Idaho is growing fast, but sheriff funding is not keeping up. Elmore County Sheriff Mike Hollinshead explains what happens when the state mandates law enforcement, jail operations, dispatch responsibilities, and public safety...

She is a Boise State professor of geosciences and the Executive Director of Boise State’s Resilience Institute, and her work is not theory. It is a community led model that helps Idaho counties and towns face growth, infrastr...

Hosted by Dylan Stocker Idaho is supposed to be the most pro–Second Amendment state in America… So why is it still such a knife fight to pass basic pro-gun reform? In this episode, I sit down with Greg Pruett , Executive Dire...

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...