The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado Politics

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast Donald Trump is an anti-Semitic piece of garbage who should absolutely be impeached, we find Cory Gardner at the bottom of the gutter in a new poll, and Colorado Congressman Scott Tipton catches a primary challenge from a heavily armed West Slope barkeep. Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii Producer: Ethan Black Music: Breakmaster C...

Send us a message! Really! Impeachment enters a new phase with Colorado connections, state lawmakers say more gun safety legislation is coming, and Cory Gardner’s BLM move gets even worser. Alan Franklin (ProgressNow Colorado political director) subs in for Ian Silverii, who's out teaching orphan goats how to recycle. Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii Producer: Ethan Black Music: Breakmaster C...

Send us a message! Really! This week, Chewbaca made an appearance at impeachment-a-lago while Rep. Ken Buck blew off the hearings, the US Senate primary is a slog, Trump applies maximum pressure to the wrong Korea, and Cory Gardner’s worst nightmare, Katie Farnan, plays Duke or Donald. Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii Producer: Ethan Black Music: Breakmaster Cylinder Subscribe wherever you get you...

Send us a message! Really! This week on Colorado's bestest political podcast, impeachment-a-lago gets serious, Doug Lamborn attempts to make himself useful and fails, Ken Buck straps on his best Sideshow Bob costume two-weeks after Halloween, Cory Gardner celebrates two years without a townhall, irrelevant Colorado House Republicans attempt to bring a ballot initiative to make a law that&apos...

Send us a message! Really! This week, the latest effort to save the state from TABOR’s claws goes down, the 2019 election gets messy in a top swing county, washed up old politicians trying to be relevant get smacked down by the Denver Post Editorial Board, Impeachment-a-lago gets real this week, and our Producer Ethan Black goes head to head with yours truly in America’s worst game show, Duke or D...

Send us a message! Really! This week, Republicans are trapped between a rock and a hairpiece as the impeachment process gets formalized in the United States House of Representatives, guest Geof Cahoon plays Duke or Donald and teaches us about the Colorado labor movement, Donald Trump buys himself a friend in Colorado Senator Cory Gardner with a cool hundred-thousand dollars, which Gardner will app...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Colorado Republican Party Chairman and Congressional Hobbyist Ken Buck tries to throw the failed recall hot potato into someone else’s lap, Cory Gardner Gets President Trump’s Back (duh), a major Colorado newspaper demands Gardner’s resignation from office, and, as usual, the Colorado GOP is in a really, really, super bad spot h...

Send us a message! Really! This week, Recall-A-Lago comes to a sad and anticlimactic end as Colorado Republicans attempt to distance themselves from the wreckage, Cory Gardner whiffs yet another chance to say out loud that it’s wrong to solicit foreign interference in an election (26:26), and a new poll finds him badly, badly underwater (12:40). The US Senate Democrats in a primary to take on Gard...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the fallout from the Cory Gardner national-media-meltdown last Friday, we play another round of the incredibly difficult game Duke or Donald , and we interview Congressman Jason Crow from Colorado's sixth congressional district.  Duke or Donald Answers Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | Q6 Follow Get More Smarter: Twitter | Facebook...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, a friend of the show tries to find Cory Gardner at a Trump fundraiser in New York City, Impeachment-a-lago gets worse and weirder, we discuss whether or not Denver should elect their sheriff, talk about the two initiatives on this November’s ballot, do a little prognosticating, and we play a new game! Duke or Donald Answers Q1 |...

Send us a message! Really! Eli Stokols of the Los Angeles Times joins us from Washington D.C. to talk about his breaking news story about President Trump calling for the death of the Ukraine whistle-blower. He also talks about the impending impeachment inquiry of the President of the United States and what that means for our second favorite senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner. The recall grift get...

Send us a message! Really! Today on The Get More Smarter Podcast, we talk Ukraine and impeachment (1:08), Cory Gardner prepares to explain himself (8:50), the BLM will share an office building with the real decision-makers—oil and gas companies (14:39), climate change gets more popular (18:38), and is the Democratic nomination for president a two-candidate race (23:50)? Follow us on social media:...

Send us a message! Really! This week, Cory Gardner is very sad, a celebration of saying nothing, one more recall to spell out, a fundraiser mystery (sort of) in Aspen, a clever chess move in a Denver primary race, and thinning out the Democratic Senate primary. Alan Franklin guests hosts because Ian Silverii is out of town. Articles Mentioned Cory Gardner is Very Sad That You Don’t Love BLM Move (...

Send us a message! Really! We find Cory Gardner having a bad time on CNN and in the opinion section of the paper of record, an outgoing Denver Post reporter profiles the GOP's empty bench, Bureau of Land Management staff freak out about the poorly planned move to Colorado, and another high profile recall bites the dust. Mentioned Coloradans push Gardner on gun control ahead of marquee Senate...

Send us a message! Really! This week, we talk about the elimination of Mikes from the CO Senate primary, Jason Crow gets his first real opponent in the race to keep CD-6, Colorado Republicans throw a Support Our Stormtroopers rally in Aurora, a local reporter gets taken for a ride by Cory Gardner's comms staff, and fake outrage over fake hamburgers. It's time to Get More Smarter. Follow...

Send us a message! Really! John Hickenlooper officially drops a bomb in our hurricane of a US Senate primary, Cardboard Cory Gardner and non-Cardboard Cory Gardner meet for the first time in real life, a bunch of stupid things happen in the Pueblo recall during the state fair, a Republican state senator gets a little ghostwriting help from an oil and gas industry flak in Texas, and whether or not...

Send us a message! Really! Presidential candidate Tom Steyer stops by to talk about climate change, money in politics, and whether or not the US should buy Greenland. Check out Tom's platform here: tomsteyer.com Follow The Get More Smarter Podcast on Facebook and Twitter . That’s it for this episode! If you loved watching and/or listening to it as much as we loved recording it, you can thank...

Send us a message! Really! We find No Comment Cory in Wheat Ridge and analyze why Colorado's gun violence prevention laws save lives. Follow Get More Smarter Twitter: twitter.com/MoreSmarterShow Facebook: facebook.com/GetMoreSmarter Links Constituents confront Cory Gardner on guns and immigration (Denver Post) "No Comment Cory" (ColoradoPols) Kyle Clark confronts Cory (9 News) Follo...

Send us a message! Really! This week, we talk about the cowardly responses from Republican leaders to back to back mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso Texas.  Later on, we try and locate one of the NRA’s top five Senators as he dodges town halls and any major Colorado news outlet in our recurring segment, Finding Cory.  And finally, we prognosticate about the 2020 elections, whether gun-vio...

Send us a message! Really! It's time to Get More Smarter. We talk about Gov Hickenlooper's presidential chances, who's running for the Dem CO Senate nomination, and do our best to follow the corporate money into Cory's campaign bank account. In "Finding Cory," we try and figure out why Cory ghosted VP Pence for his own fundraiser in Windsor to vote for giving the Saud...

Send us a message! Really! It's time to Get More Smarter. In the inaugural episode of The Get More Smarter Podcast , we search for our second-favorite Senator from the state of Colorado and tear down the people behind recalls on progressive state senators. Follow us on Twitter Host : Jason Bane ( @jason_bane ), ColoradoPols.com Host : Ian Silverii ( @iansilverii ), ProgressNowColorado.org Pro...