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The Ranch Podcast
If you’re looking for a show focusing on Idaho and local community news, you found it. This show hits issues from across the Gem State, ranging from North Idaho, East Idaho, Southern Idaho, and everything in between.
Interested in Idaho politics, ag, law enforcement, education, fish and game, recreation, and all things Idaho? This is literally your spot.
If you ever have questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate.
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Episodes
- The Ranch Podcast
Grocery Tax, Flags, Energy, & More with Lauren Necochea
Lauren Necochea is the head of the Democratic Party in the state of Idaho. This is her second visit in the legislative session, and we talked extensively about…
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The Birth of Idaho's Rangeland Fire Protection Associations with Charlie Lyons
Charlie Lyons is a multi-decade Idaho rancher who found himself at odds with BLM over fire management for almost two decades. In a heart breaking and awe…
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The House Education Committee Chairman - Doug Pickett
Doug Pickett is a District 27 Representative and sits as Chairman of the House Education Committee. He was formerly on the Revenue and Tax Committee and does…
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Fighting for School Choice in Idaho with Sen. Lori Den Hartog
Lori Den Hartog is the District 22 Senator in Idaho and is bringing the first School Choice Bill of the 2025 Legislative session forward this coming week. This…
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Kids and Crime in the Treasure Valley with Senator Codi Galloway
Codi Galloway is the District 15 Senator in Idaho and served one term in the same district as a representative from 2020-2022. She has a background in…
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The Bolter-Stall Bill and Capital Punishment with Rob Gillis
Rob Gillis is a law enforcement advocate and president of the organization Idaho Tough on Crime. He works with many legislators advocating for bills and…
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License Plate Readers in Idaho with Mike Miraglia
Mike Miraglia is a former Boise PD detective and the current legislative chairman for the Idaho Fraternal Order of Police. We spoke extensively about the…
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Gov. Little's Budget: Labor and Law Enforcement with Lori Wolff
Lori Wolff is the Administrator of Division of Financial Management for Gov. Little's office, which means she is intimately aware of what is in Gov. Little's…
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Human Rights in Idaho with Senator Melissa Wintrow
Melissa Wintrow is the District 19 Senator for and has been in the legislature for 10 years. She came in to speak about human rights issues in Idaho as they…
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Long Term Planning in Idaho with Steve Berch
Steve Berch is the first democratic representative for District 15. He has historically sat on many committees, and when he came in we spoke extensively about…
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Citizens Managing Wolves in Idaho with Justin Webb
Justin Webb is the director of the Foundation For Wildlife Management (F4WM). He grew up in rural Idaho and has enjoyed everything Idaho has to offer, but he…
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Recording Idaho's Ranching Life with Steve Stuebner
Steve Stuebner is an independent journalist and filmmaker who has worked with Idaho's Ranching and Farming communities for over a decade. He is the writer and…
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$30 Million for Idaho Water with Jeff Raybould
Jeff Raybould is the chairman of the Idaho Water Board, an eight member board directly appointed by the Governor. In the Governor’s there is a new, $30 million…
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Eagle Chamber 2024 Year In Review with Brandy Furiani
Brandy Furiani is the Executive Director of the Eagle Chamber of Commerce. She started coming in to do ridiculously fun shows on The Ranch at the beginning of…
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Idaho's Democrat Party with Lauren Necochea
Lauren Necochea is a former legislator and head of the Democrat Party in Idaho. She came to speak with me about the democrat priorities for the session, and as…
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Vouchers, School Safety, and Tech in Schools with Chris Mathias
Chris Mathias is the District 19 Representative. He is working to shore up problems with public school safety, but on the prevention and response sides, as…
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Making "Family" Successful in Idaho with Alex Adams
Alex Adams is the Director of Health and Welfare in the State of Idaho. He made it his immediate mission in the state to reduce the number of children needing…
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Parents, Teachers, and the 2025 Legislative Session with Alexis Morgan
Alexis Morgan is the Idaho State PTA President. She is also a month of four with students currently in Idaho’s public schools. Education in the state has…
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Caldwell Policing and Leadership with Rex Ingram
Rex Ingram is the Chief of Police of Caldwell and President of the Idaho Chief’s Association. In the immediate aftermath of the recent terrorist event in…
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Idaho's Sheep Industry - Food and Clothing with Brett Wilder
Brett Wilder is the proprietor of Boise River Lamb. Idaho has a rich history of lamb and wool production, but the US Lamb industry in general is constantly…
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Corporate Transparency Act Debacle with Phil McGrane
Phil McGrane is the Secretary of State of Idaho and came in to speak about the fundamental burdens and issues on small business owners created by the Corporate…
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ISP Budgets, Vehicles, and Buzz Lightyear with Colonel Bill Gardiner
Colonel Bill Gardiner is the Director of Idaho State Police. He has been in the department for almost three decades and was directly appointed by Gov. Brad…
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Idaho's Medical Response in Review with Dr. David Pate
Dr. David Pate is the former President and CEO of St. Luke’s Health System. He was a consistent voice for the medical community and medical response during the…
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SW District Health Removing the Shot with Dr. John Tribble
Dr. John Tribble has been a practicing Emergency Medicine physician for the last 13 years, he is a current family medicine MD at the Heart 2 Heal Clinic, and…
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Separatist Movements in Idaho with Gary Raney
Gary Raney is a former sheriff in Ada County, Idaho. He worked in law enforcement for decades and understands the history and nuances of different groups that…
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Taking State Ownership and Management of Public Lands with Nick Fasciano
Nick Fasciano is the executive director of the Idaho Wildlife Federation, Idaho’s oldest and largest statewide conservation organization promoting the…
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Nuclear Power, Supply Chains, and Idaho with US Senator Jim Risch
Jim Risch is a current US Senator, former Idaho Governor, and Idaho Rancher. He has worked for decades in both state and national politics and is a champion…
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Depredation in Idaho with Dexton Lake
Dexton Lake is the son of a rancher and works for the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation. One of his areas of focus is wildlife management and support for farmers…
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The Current State of Teen Drug Use with Jermaine Galloway
Jermaine Galloway is a national authority on teen drug use, drug access, and emerging drug trends. There are many over the counter options for teens currently…
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The Latino Exit from Democratic Party with Eli "The Coffee Guy"
Eli “The Coffee Guy” is a recent Idaho addition, working in corrections and having moved from Southern California. As a hispanic young man, he was told a lot…
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Idaho's Central Park and Where Your Taxes go with Tom Dayley
Tom Dayley is one of three Ada County Commissioners. Ada County is revamping the Expo Idaho area to make it into a state of the art park and recreation area…
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Implicit Bias Training in Ada County Sheriff with Chris Saunders
Chris Saunders is the Data Analytics and Intelligence Manager at the Ada County Sheriff Office. He also runs the implicit bias training for the office, which…
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Preserving Idaho's Farmlands with David Anderson
David Anderson works for American Farmland Trust and actively helps landowners voluntarily enter into agreements that prohibit development of their land in…
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Water, Water, and More Water with Dean Stevenson
Dean Stevenson is one of eight Idaho Water Board Members that are directly appointed by the Governor of Idaho. He has a long history with water, specifically…
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What is Freedom in Idaho with Ron Nate
Ron Nate is the president of the Idaho Freedom Foundation. He is a former professor of Economics as well as former state legislator from Madison County. We…
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Sovereign Citizens and Idaho Politics with Jim Jones
Jim Jones is the former Idaho Attorney General and Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court. We spoke on several issues that have a long history in Idaho…
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Preserving Idaho Lands with Cattle with Cameron Mulrony
Cameron Mulrony is the executive vice president of the Idaho Cattle Association. The cattle and ranching industry in Idaho is an integral part of preserving…
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Ada County Election Results with Margaret Carmel
Margaret Carmel is a journalist for Boise Dev and an Ada County expert. We spoke extensively about election funding, campaigns, political affiliation in Ada…
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Idaho's Water, Cattle, and Culture with Lt. Gov. Scott Bedke
Scott Bedke is the Lt. Governor of Idaho. He was integral in the water resolution that the state arrived at to preserve our agricultural industry and our…
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TEDx, Forest Bathing, and Hike to Become with Jess DeAngelo
Jess DeAngelo is a business consultant, TEDx presenter, and founder of Hike To Become. Through her extensive work in corporate America, she developed a…
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Suing META and Protecting Idaho's Youth with Attorney General Raul Labrador
Raul Labrador is the Idaho Attorney General. Idaho recently joined other states in suing META (Facebook) over practices that lead to harm to our children. Nick…
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Negranti's Sheep's Milk Ice Cream with Brandy Furiani
Brandy Furiani is the executive director of Eagle Chamber of Commerce. We got hooked up by Negranti Creamery in Eagle with EPIC sheep's milk ice cream that we…
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Closing Labor and Delivery in Emmett with Brad Turpen
Brad Turpen is the CEO of the Emmett hospital that recently closed its Labor and Delivery ward. There has been a lot of discussion about the recent legislation…
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Lava Ridge and BLM with Dean Dimond
Dean Dimond is a property owner and rancher in the Magic Valley of Idaho. He owns property that border up to the Lava Ridge windmill project, a 200,000 acre…
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Idaho's 2024 Election: Audits and Review with Phil McGrane
Phil McGrane is the Idaho Secretary of State. In this episode we spoke about the audits that are running across Idaho to verify election results as well as how…
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Farm Life, Turkeys, and Feeding the Community with Brad McIntyre
Brad McIntyre is one of the owners of McIntyre Farms & Pastures. It is a multi-generation family owned operation that delivers incredible proteins and produce…
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Protecting Idaho School Children from Tech Predators with Debbie Critchfield
Debbie Critchfield is the Idaho Superintendent of Education and came in to talk about a tech safety partnership that has been created between Idaho and Fortify…
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Water, Fire, and Common Sense with Gov. Brad Little
Gov. Brad Little is the 33rd Governor of Idaho, and has been working on several key issues over the last year: wildfire management, water calls, preserving…
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Understanding Idaho's Water Users with Paul Arrington
Paul Aarington is the executive director of the Idaho Water Users Association. He also happens to be a buddy of mine from Alliance Jiu Jitsu in Eagle! We spoke…
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Homeschooling and School Choice in Idaho with Aby Rinella
Aby Rinella is a national advocate for the preservation of homeschooling, but is also very strongly against creating school choice by funding private schools…
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Idaho Chooses Life PAC Founder David Ripley
David Ripley is the founder of Idaho Chooses Life PAC and an avid pro-life advocate. He has worked in Idaho for nearly 30 years to promote pro-life…
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A New Life with Boise Rescue Mission's Kelsey Korvela
Kelsey Korvela has worked for Boise Rescue Mission for over 17 years, holding positions in both teen and adult programs. As a graduate of the program herself…
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Authorization and Liability with Cynthia Bridge Clark
Cynthia Bridge Clark works for the Idaho Department of Water Resources and supports the water resource board. We spoke extensively about the nature of the…
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World Class BJJ in Eagle with Eric Dryden
Eric Dryden is an Eagle resident who recently competed in the world championships of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at the age of 65 and earned gold. He is also a local…
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Poke Bowl in Eagle with Brandy Furiani
Brandy Furiani is the executive director of the Eagle Chamber of Commerce. We were both incredibly pleased with the lunch provided by Paddle Up Poke, and…
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Idaho School Lockdowns with Lt. Shawn Harper
Lt. Shawn Harper is a police officer with Meridian PD and worked to formulate school lockdown protocol in Idaho. The thought of violence on school campuses is…
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Directing and Preserving Idaho's Water with Brian Olmstead
Brian Olmstead is one of eight Water Resource Board members that are directly appointed by the governor of Idaho to direct and preserve our limited water. As…
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Prop 1 Cost and Paper Ballots in Idaho with Phil McGrane
Phil McGrane is the Secretary of State of Idaho, and in this episode we discussed early voting turnout, Prop 1 costs, paper ballots in Idaho, and more. This is…
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Fixing Our Roads with Rebecca Arnold
Rebecca Arnold is the current Ada County Assessor and is running to be an ACHD commissioner. She was formerly on the commission and is running for a seat again…
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Legislation to Preserve Idaho Farm Life with Braden Jensen
Braden Jensen works for Idaho's Farm Bureau. Last year the bureau advocated for and worked with legislators on a bill that would offer incentives to farmers…