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

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , with approval ratings for Republicans and Democrats alike in the gutter in Colorado and across the country, Democrats have one ally in the fight to bring their numbers back up...and you’ll never guess who it is. Then, we’ve got great news! Wait, sorry, we mean, we’ve got terrible news! The constitutional crisis is here; it’s ob...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the race for Colorado’s next governor is officially on! And the winner will either be Attorney General Phil Weiser or US Senator Michael Bennet -- you can bet on it. Then, don’t check your 401k or your kid’s college fund or any other investments for the next four years, as Donald Trump’s ridiculous one man tariff crusade throws...

Send us a message! Really! THIS WEEK on the Get More Smarter Podcast it’s another special interview-only episode, mostly because Jason is still in the arctic setting tariffs on islands inhabited exclusively by puffins and melting ice caps.  Speaking of our apocalyptic climate nightmare hell scape, this week our guest is SIlvio Marcacci, Senior Director of Communications for Energy Innovation. We a...

Send us a message! Really! THIS WEEK on the Get More Smarter Podcast it's a special interview-only episode!  Where do you get your news? Who do you trust? And are you just a victim of an evil algorithm, or an informed and engaged citizen? Megan Burns is here to talk about the idea of a Newsfluencer, and we ask, does the podcast count?  That’s it for this episode! If you loved watching and/or...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast the race for the worst job in Colorado politics is back on! Who among us gets to be the next Chair of the Colorado GOP? Then, who wants to Chuck … Schumer ? It could start with one of Colorado’s Senators. And finally, our least favorite member of congress from the 8th congressional district continues to follow in the footsteps of...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , new polling shows Americans are already sick of Trump 2.0; will shutting down FiveThirtyEight so nobody can get a good polling average help or hurt the 45th and 47th president and his flagging ratings?  The White House is controlled by Republicans. The senate is controlled by Republicans. The House of Representatives is control...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the brilliant businesspeople and billionaires that are currently running the country are driving the economy off a cliff; as Donald Trump’s approval ratings slide into net-negative territory at record speed, are we great again yet? Then our neighbors to the north get rightfully pissed at American voters for putting this madman...

Send us a message! Really! On this episode of the Get More Smarter Podcast , "Baby of the Show" Sam Silverii made quite a bit of news as his mom had to schlep him across the country just to be able to do her job forcing House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans to scramble to lock down all their votes on the worst budget resolution we’ve seen in our lifetimes. Town Halls are back, and t...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , we already make the joke about the actor Jeff Bridges in the intro to the interview but we’ve got the Chairman of Colorado’s powerful Joint Budget Committee -- State Senator Jeff Bridges -- on the show to explain the insane math problem that is the Colorado state budget. The economy is rolling along, unemployment is low, and re...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , Sam Silverii is three weeks old, which is five days younger than the Trump Administration, and even he knows what’s going on in DC is bonkers. We check in with our 8th favorite soon-to-be-one-term member of Congress, who has spent his time in Washington hiding when he’s not too busy doing Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s bidding. A...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , Jason Bane is joined by guest host Megan Burns as we continue to keep you updated on what you need to be watching as the Trump administration floods the zone with nonsense. Gabe Evans may be earning a new nickname, while Lauren Boebert just keeps on doing Lauren Boebert things. We’ll also discuss the good and the bad in the sta...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , President Trump hasn’t even  been in office for two weeks, and he’s already breaking most of the country. Our seventh favorite member of congress is making some really dumb decisions, and so is our eighth favorite member – though that’s a lot more predictable. Sen. Michael Bennet is verbally destroying every Republican in his p...

Send us a message! Really! We have a bonus episode this week on the Get More Smarter Podcast : Jason Bane sits down with Corey Hutchins , who oversees the Journalism Institute at Colorado College, advises the Colorado Media Project, and serves on the board of the state chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Each Friday, Hutchins publishes " Inside the News in Colorado ," a m...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , as the Trump regime enters its first week and begins to lay the groundwork for the worst shit imaginable, Colorado’s Democratic leaders ready themselves for the fight while Colorado’s Republicans write letters of support. We check in with our 7th and 8th favorite members of Congress from Colorado...who are quickly getting tied...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the battle for the soul of the Colorado Republican Party is beginning. Who will be the unluckiest Coloradan to get the worst job in the state? Then, the Colorado Senate Republicans have plans! And a bunch of crinkly dollar bills! And, about half the seats in the State Senate they would need to do anything about it! Next, some m...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the 2025 legislative session begins dies initii, which is not a thing but we’re going to make it a thing; with hundreds of millions in TABOR Budget Cuts looming, a big bill making it easier for workers to form a union setting up a showdown with the first floor, and the same ol BS from the House GOP MiniMinority, we’re in for 12...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , it’s 2025, so why does it feel like 1861? At least one of us is coming to you live on tape from our Nation’s Capitol where a very different kind of storming of the Capitol is happening on this election certification day, and in case you’re just waking up from a coma, yes, the American voters in their infinite wisdom elected Don...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , "Deportation hamburgers," our podcast’s year in review, and the return of the Liberty in Laundry act. Oh, and the podcast makes international news! But first, Operation Aurora: Is it just a fun 2024 campaign slogan gimmick thing OR the actual beginning of rounding up tens of millions of human beings for the crime of t...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the incoming President of the Colorado Senate, James Coleman (D-Denver), joins us to talk near-supermajorities, housing policy, the state budget deficit, bipartisanship, Project 2025, and so much more. We're getting you more smarter for the next Colorado legislative session, which kicks off on Jan. 8, 2025. That’s it for t...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast ...we're going back in time to January 2023 and our interview with Tim Miller of The Bulwark. Before he became a national name in politics, Miller worked for Republican politicians right here in Colorado.  We'll be back next week with all new episodes of the podcast once we finish digesting all of that turkey.  That’s i...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , President-Elect Donald Trump continues to fill up his cabinet with weirdos, freaks, and credibly accused rapists, both statutory and otherwise; in other words, everything old is new again. The City of Aurora is the only major city in Colorado currently run by Republicans, and man, are they making our point for us. And our guest...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , The Big Orange Guy is assembling a rogue’s gallery of cabinet members to most likely destroy the entire federal government from the inside out, making people like us breathe a sigh of relief when comparative normies like Marco Rubio get appointed as Secretary of State. Next, two leading Colorado Democrats have a pretty bad week...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , we regret to inform you that we were wrong. Donald Trump is heading back to the White House, potentially with a Republican Trifecta and a large-scale admission that Project 2025 was the agenda all along. We unpack the results with the one and only SMOTUS: Seth Masket, Professor of the Pod, Director of the Center on American Pol...

Send us a message! Really! On a special Election Day edition of the Get More Smarter Podcas t , we've got nothing but nice, warm fuzzies for 25 minutes. We know you're probably freaking out a little bit about Colorado races and the big battle for President of the United States, so we're here to bring some calm(ala) energy and tell you why we both think things are looking good. NOTE:...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , it’s everything you need to know before election day! We make our final calls for 2024 and bring in the big prognosticator himself: Pollster of the pod Andrew Baumann , Partner at Global Strategy Group, predicts the future and lays down a marker for what he thinks is going to happen in the 8th Congressional District and through...