Ep. 140 - VanderSloot vs Schwarzenegger! 4KChaos! Frontier Center upgrade!

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This week the Idaho Falls podcast covers... The mental zombie apocalypse, why to plant flowers after Memorial Day, McDonald's KPop Demon Hunters Huntrix Meal with Ramyeon McShaker fries and Derpy McFlurry with boba, host clubs, Saja Boys and the baby of the boy band, tummy bubbles and Tiny Bubbles, Mike's second annual Detroit trip with Battleship Barb, United Wholesale Mortgage and billionaire Mat Ishbia, Detroit style pizza and Buddy's Pizza vs Loui's Pizza, Denver gate B67, Cook of Mormon apron and devastating Mark Twain quote, the Idaho Goldbacks are now available, our new computer and 4k upgrade coming soon, Katelynn and Valerie Jensen update is good news but still leaves the main question unanswered, upcoming fundraiser and how you can help, Karley's leveled up homemade Stella's Pot of Gold ice cream with Lucky Charms marshmallows and Double Stuf Golden Oreos, our good LDS friends being exposed to public nudity like the General Conference streaker and the Rexburg highway flasher, we finally get vetted for the HeroGasm Mountain Masquerade, The Boys season 5, Snake River Animal Shelter Fur Ball, Shoshone-Bannock Casino Hotel, Lane and Whitney from Virgin River Land and Cattle Company, Michelle Ziel-Dingman and Dayne Dingman, Andrea and Ed Todd, events coming up include the East Idaho Home & Garden Show this Friday and Saturday April 17-18 at the Mountain America Center, the Good Vibes Festival this Sunday April 19th at the Shilo Inn, the Ammon Parks Spring Scavenger Hunt continues through next Monday April 20, and the open house for the newly remodeled Frontier Center for the Performing Arts is Wednesday April 22 at 4p

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This week the Idaho Falls podcast covers... the permanent record of what really happened in Idaho Falls, why one of Mike's Instagram accounts may have been deleted, Karley dog sits for the Jensens and has a hilarious reaction to being yanked around, Kevin's daughter gets a perfect ACT score, Lagoon is open and debuts its new ride The Nutcracker, we attended the Idaho Falls Advertising Federation Gem Awards and honored longtime local legend DeLyn Hendricks, other name drops include Don Jarret of 96.1 and 102.1 The Wolf and Idaho Falls Arts Council executive director Gray Augustus and Gary Stewart and the staff of IE Productions and Andrea Todd and Porter Pro Media and Son of Erik Design, how Dan and Sarah Guthmiller of Film Garage 208 will bring your creative vision to life whether you're making a video or producing a podcast or building a brand, we finally try those gas station mushroom gummies and give our review, Mike's new favorite movie The Fall (2006) looks like it's full of CGI but isn't, Mike out of town this week but returns just in time for Homelander and Butcher and the premiere of the final season of The Boys, our exclusive sneak peek of the new menu at Camas Sports Grill at the Shoshone-Bannock Casino Hotel, Kevin Greene of the Idaho Falls Chukars and Spud Kings and his 33 year career, how the subconscious mind can create content that surprises and confounds the conscious mind, what the heck is a napkin spot, Jewel, Song Exploder, Mike's dream interpretation tip, Raising Cane's opens in Pocatello and coming to Idaho Falls and we hope they fare better than Popeyes, is Cane's Sauce just fry sauce with pepper, Detroit famous butter based Zip sauce, Chicago style deep dish pizza was invented at Pizzeria Uno and perfected by Lou Malnati's in our opinion, Detroit style pizza was invented at Buddy's Pizza and perfected at Loui's Pizza in our opinion, our friend to Jeremy Sowell spotted this 1B 8 Idaho license plate, the hazards of northbound I-15 construction in Pocatello around the new Northgate interchange, how AI summaries are helping illiterate people communicate, in the very near future only smart judgmental people will read the original text, the shift to analog activities and craving connection, Mike's new favorite AI art slop genre AI DreamCore, the Summer of Pokémon GO was 10 years ago in 2016, we should live in such a way that if anyone speaks badly of us no one would believe it, but being open about our flaws invites others to comfortably confide in us without fear of judgment, Mike's stepdad passed away in February 2025 and bio dad just passed away in March 2026, and either that or the gas station gummies led to a profound paradigm shift, what Mike admires and respects about Viktor Wilt and Brenden Peach, great photo from The Greater Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce, we're working on moving to 4K, Tchaikovsky and Danny Elfman and the celeste, We Don't Talk About Bruno was actually a huge smash hit, Mike's strict 3 day autophagy fast with inspo from Tyler Brooks from A&B Productions and a hilarious realization about Jesus' 40 day fast, the Snake River Animal Shelter Fur Ball is this Saturday night April 11, the Good Vibes Festival happens Sunday April 19th at the Shilo Inn, the Ammon Parks Spring Scavenger Hunt continues through April 20, and the open house for the newly remodeled Frontier Center for the Performing Arts is Wednesday April 22 at 4p

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How the famous East Idaho wind closed I-15 and blew away St. Paddy's Day celebrations and contact lenses, why every house needs a better package drop box, Red Bull Spring Edition Cherry Sakura and ironic spring break weather next week, Dylan Carter returns to weekend weather on Local News 8, shoutouts to brothers in podcasting Jeff & Greg for 16 years and Roddy TV for 100 episodes, why Idaho ranked near the top for inbound movers in 2025, did we superscoop East Idaho News and the new Girl Scout cookie, how podcasting just beat radio, the viral misheard Ella Langley lyric and why it sounds naughty, the badvertising agency comments and Mike replies and doubles down on his opinion, and another thing, Mike's bio dad dies and nothing of value is lost, how the Edgar Allan Poe speakeasy typo makes them look sus, why Grocery Outlet is closing in Idaho Falls and Pocatello by March 21, Valerie Jensen's medical mystery reaches People magazine and our hope that it helps Val and other children, whether Battleship Barb should try THC gummies or CBD gummies for pain and sleep, there are two more nights of Something Rotten! at Thunder Ridge High School Performing Arts Center in Ammon, this Friday March 20 it's the Reed's Dairy warehouse ice cream sale in Idaho Falls, and March 20-21 the East Idaho Fly Tying and Fly Fishing Expo at Mountain America Center in Idaho Falls

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Katelynn Jensen and 6-year-old Val fundraiser:

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Mike's fluke flu and random injuries, does success cause Satan to sabotage you, new Idaho Falls mayor Lisa Burtenshaw has a mechanical engineering degree and we fully support her idea for a community center with a lazy river, Mike is sans headphones and might keep it that way, are ear prints the new retina scans, Drea from the other IFAF dubs us hot chicks who get free drinks, the upcoming AdFed Gem Awards and the Badvertising Agency, new menu sneak peek event at the Shoshone-Bannock Casino Hotel, the Snake River Animal Shelter Fur Ball and Lane and Whitney Virgin and the Spud Kings and the 2026 Dineen Cup at the Mountain America Center, East Idaho News effect theory and was it special treatment at Abracadabra's and Taco Bell, that one friend who always thinks the waitress wants him, Mike's epic rant on the radio riffraff was like witnessing a murder and an autopsy and a barbeque, why we're going to stop punching down on the radio rabble and the first one to a million challenge we propose instead, the HeroGasm Mountain Masquerade on April 25 2026 at The Heart Events, get vetted at https://www.herogasmevents.com/, since no headphones means more mobility we go crazy and switch seats for a second, Mike's new sense of super smell is a bit of a curse, Karley sometimes loses things, neither Mike nor Karley are very political but if they were they're not sure if they would be liberal or conservative or a mix of both, drugs being used in clinical trials to explore mental health benefits, the people who call others libt-rds from California in the comments, zigging and zagging, Idaho Falls Drinking Liberally isn't just a Facebook group it's also a 20 year old club that meets irl every other Thursday, Dan Henry and the group also started Idaho Falls Pride, we add another number one license plate to our photo collection that already includes 8B 1 and 1J 1 and 3C 1, this time it's 1T 1 from Teton County, also epic entries 8B 67 and BUTCHKN, upcoming events include March 12-17 AACT Something Rotten musical at Thunder Ridge High School Performing Arts Center, March 20-21 the East Idaho Fly Tying and Fly Fishing Expo at the Mountain America Center, then April 11 the Snake River Animal Shelter Fur Ball at the Shoshone-Bannock Casino Hotel

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Did East Idaho News just grant us establishment status, Cody Roberts is a multi-talented Cameron Crowe, Texas Roadhouse and studio chairs and decades of farts, other East Idaho celebs like Cartier Dior Eliasen and Addy Faith and Madi Danger and The Idahoan, Katelynn Jensen and daughter Val fundraiser, potential opportunities like milk and cookies with the mayor and Spud Kings Zamboni rides, if a bad agency only fills up 15% of a screen does that mean they only delivered 15% of the job, neti pots and nose blowing, 6666 Facebook followers, we teach eggheads the difference between highly restrictive radio and the freedom of podcasting, Salt Lake City International Airport winning best airport in North America and the nearby cleanest gas station restroom, Idaho Falls best breakfast poll results include Perkins and Smitty's and Abracadabra's but not North Hi-Way Cafe, why Dark Romantasy is the latest trend and how female gaze storytelling is reshaping monster movies, why unconventional male leads appeal to women more than traditional heartthrobs, beaver activity along the Snake River and how Idaho Falls is protecting riverbank trees, upcoming events include Open Deck Night at The Heart Event Center in Idaho Falls this Thursday March 5, Habitat for Humanity's Boots and Builds event at Holiday Inn and Suites Idaho Falls this Friday March 6, and March 12-17 Something Rotten at Thunder Ridge High School Performing Arts Center in Ammon

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Katelynn Jensen and 6-year-old Val medical mystery (scleroderma? hemiatrophy?) fundraiser:

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Winter finally arrives in East Idaho and Bryce Canyon National Park, snow in the desert and Bert Kaempfert and Jingo Jango and Fotomats, the one year anniversary of Mike's stepdad passing and old family photos, one hour photo embarrassment, Cartier Dior Eliasen opening New York Fashion Week with the Idaho Potato Commission and No Kid Hungry, Depression era flour sack fashion, upcoming interview with East Idaho News and the fear of selling out, The Simpsons 800th episode and how they went from subversive to mainstream, invite for Idaho Falls mayor Lisa Burtenshaw to have Girl Scout cookies and milk with IFAF, the bad agency strikes again with another careless typo and how that reinforces our opinion of their competence or apparent lack thereof, when a local just-OK-bear DJ begs for votes in what our AI says is a popularity contest does that mean he's not that popular, another person who doesn't like the bad agency guy, The Post Register appears to copy and paste AI into a social media, why not to use the Facebook pre-filled "Smile: It's your birthday" message, Good 2 Go and Got 2 Go, blue and orange and the Broncos and the redneck spittoon sfx bell and Rango, which Idaho beef and potatoes have been recalled and why, Karley's not a chicken plucking French provincial dainty maiden, she's more of a milk fed English countryside dairy farmer girl, should we do a show until the gas station mushroom gummies kick in, Idaho Falls Rescue Mission shelters at capacity and how you can help with the Walk in the Cold fundraiser on Saturday March 14, Epstein files updates and disturbing details of true crime, train horn blares for 10 minutes and wakes up all of Idaho Falls and some of Ammon last Friday, new Kid Zone Indoor Playground opens with a virgin ball pit, students walk out and protest ICE at the go the Broadway Bridge, what school is warning against a viral prank that sounds even more dangerous than crying wolf, Punch the Monkey at Ichikawa Zoo in Japan finally accepted by fellow macaques, March 12–17 Something Rotten at Thunder Ridge High School Performing Arts Center in Ammon, March 20–21 East Idaho Fly Tying and Fly Fishing Expo at the Mountain America Center, April 11 Snake River Animal Shelter Fur Ball 2026 at Shoshone Bannock Casino Hotel

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Presidents' Day and hiking and moleskin, Idaho Falls Symphony Red Dress Concert and Jordan Bowman, Idaho Falls Water Tower colors for Valentine's Day and does purple count, Gentlemen Broncos and Wild Orchid and White Lotus, why this YouTube commenter probably hasn't seen Varsity Blues, drone footage of the old Idaho Falls water tower dismantling, McDonald's Valentine's caviar immediate sellout and eBay scalpers and the Airbus Beluga, Sugarbeast Ice Cream tasting with Jared Gold including Louisiana Crunch Cake and getting gob snacked by savory hot cheese, sick Lion King 1½ reference, Addy Faith collab featuring Giovi from Giovi's Garden, Roddy Radio Podcast with Addy Faith and Levi, Rexburg Police Department's social media sense of humor, sailor superstitions and the origins of Friday the 13th tattoo flash sales, how Taylor Swift keeps the triskaidekaphobia away, Mike Helps Idaho Instagram vid, purple again, RIP James Van Der Beek and cancer sucks and so does medical bankruptcy, Katelynn and Val medical GoFundMe and transportation issues, Taylor Swift help pls if you're feeling it, Idaho Fashion Designer and Project Runway Junior alum Cartier Dior Eliasen kicks off New York Fashion week with her amazing collection of potato sack fashion with Famous Idaho Potatoes to benefit No Kid Hungry, INL contractors Battelle Energy Alliance and Idaho Environmental Coalition employees get laid off voluntarily and involuntarily but not mechanically, Bonneville County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Bryan Lovell named Law Enforcement Officer of the Year by the Greater Idaho Falls Police Foundation, America's 250th anniversary kickoff with Declaration of Independence reading at the courthouse, ball in a cup, the name Classy now seems exclusively reserved for over-the-top satirical depictions of sex workers like on Family Guy and South Park, why the infamous 1981 Mud Lake Bunny Bash had to happen, Watership Down trauma, upcoming events this Saturday February 22 Kids Karaoke at The Heart Events, March 12-17 AACT - Ammon Arts Community Theatre Something Rotten at Thunder Ridge High School Performing Arts Center, and tickets are on sale now for the April 11 Snake River Animal Shelter Fur Ball at Shoshone-Bannock Casino

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