Idaho Pulse Podcasts

Idaho Prop 1 goes before voters on November 3rd, and this episode makes the case against it. Also on the table: the Twin Falls In-N-Out shooting and ten years of constitutional carry, flock cameras and the drift toward mass surveillance, and a plain-English economics lesson on elasticity that explains why the state taxes groceries, gas, cigarettes, and cell service — the goods people cannot...

This episode runs through the Idaho stories driving the week: cities spending hundreds of thousands on flock-camera surveillance, an alcohol ordinance buried in a 576-page Idaho Falls agenda, illegal immigration tied to violence on Boise’s Greenbelt, tax cuts that raised rather than shrank state revenue, the Fauci diaries and a COVID reckoning, and Proposition 1’s abortion measure headed for the ballot — closing with...

This episode runs a conservative, free-market lens over the issues shaping Idaho now: the spread of flock-camera surveillance and the Fourth Amendment questions it raises, a bill to shield Monsanto and Bayer from Roundup lawsuits, the fight over vaccine liability and health freedom, and the debate over COVID’s origins. From there it builds a sustained economic case — Adam Smith versus Marx, why business...

Idaho’s abortion initiative has the signatures to reach the ballot as Proposition 1, and the fight to defeat it opens this week’s rundown: a U.S. Supreme Court win for Monsanto that shields Roundup from state liability claims, the spread of Flock surveillance cameras — with Caldwell’s costs cited at roughly half a million dollars a year — back-to-back attacks on the Boise Greenbelt, and...

This episode turns basic supply-and-demand economics loose on Idaho’s biggest fights: the abortion measure likely headed for the November ballot, price controls and the minimum wage, cheap immigrant farm labor and depressed wages, and the tax subsidies used to lure Micron to the Treasure Valley. The through-line is the seen and the unseen — how policies with obvious, well-publicized winners quietly hurt the workers,...

Comparative advantage is one of the most powerful ideas in economics — and one of the most misunderstood. This episode starts there, with a simple story that makes the principle click in minutes: why trade leaves both sides better off even when one party is better at everything. From that foundation, the conversation opens onto the issues filling the headlines — tariffs, taxes, regulation,...

Bob Neugebauer and Dylan Stocker break down the DOJ suing Idaho over voter rolls, revealing how Big Ag’s dependence on illegal labor explains why Idaho’s Republican leadership blocks immigration reform, resists Trump’s agenda, and systematically defunds county sheriffs — with Stocker warning Idaho is 10 years from becoming Colorado if citizens don’t engage now....

Bob Neugebauer and Dylan Stocker deliver a wide-ranging indictment of Idaho’s political establishment: a governor’s race with no debates and a 16-to-1 campaign funding gap, a Big Ag machine that has run Idaho under both party names for decades, state spending approaching California’s per-capita rate while rural EMS runs on fumes, a $70 million corporate-controlled Launch program, political lawfare against reform candidates, and an...

Bob Neugebauer and Dylan Stocker tear into Idaho’s legislature as session wraps, exposing a stark budget imbalance: a $14.2 billion state budget versus $800 million for all 44 counties combined. Stocker reveals sheriffs have been blocked from the statehouse for years, unfunded mandates are piling on, rural EMS runs on fumes, and House Bill 659 attempts to conscript sheriffs into ICE enforcement with zero...