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Season 2

Dec. 28, 2025

Idaho Reflections | Why We Still Do Radio | A Conversation with Kevin…

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...

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Dec. 21, 2025

Bogus Basin Behind the Scenes: Snow Science, Lift Upgrades, and Idaho…

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...

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Dec. 14, 2025

Shannon McGuire: The Potato Movie, Supreme Moms, and Why Idaho Heals …

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...

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Nov. 30, 2025

Zach Hansen: Turning Feral in Idaho and the Future of the Trades

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...

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Nov. 23, 2025

Boise At A Crossroads with Lynn Bradescu

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...

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Nov. 16, 2025

Boise Rescue Mission, Miller’s Mission & 900 Meals a Day (with Rev. B…

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...

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Nov. 9, 2025

Kenny Calkins of Cloverdale Plumbing — “If you need a plumber bad, yo…

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 ...

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Nov. 2, 2025

The Digital Devil & Idaho’s Kids: Officer Gomez on Predators, Phones,…

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...

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Oct. 26, 2025

Buy Idaho: A legacy of local, Where Small Business Meets Community.

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...

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Oct. 19, 2025

Valley County Sheriff Kevin Copperi joins The Great Idaho Show.

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...

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Oct. 12, 2025

The Lowman Inn: Idaho’s Back-Door to the Sawtooths

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...

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Oct. 5, 2025

Jeff Lavey: Idaho’s Jail Crunch, 911 Failures, and Who Pays When Offe…

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...

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Sept. 28, 2025

The Great Idaho Show — Idaho Fish & Game on Hunting Season, Tags, and…

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...

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Sept. 21, 2025

Idaho Youth Perspective: Forestry, Firefighting & Finding Your Path —…

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...

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Sept. 14, 2025

Owyhee County’s Frontier Sheriff: A Conversation with Sheriff Larry K…

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...

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Sept. 7, 2025

Rex Chandler — How Boise Got Its Benchmark Steakhouse: Service, Jazz,…

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, ...

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