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

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , has the Trump Wall (no, not the one that never got built) finally started to crack, and is it too late to make a difference in this election? Then, we’re back with another edition of Game of Groans, and this time, it’s the RINOs versus the RATs! And we do one more round of super-future prognostication in which we absolutely nai...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , Gabe-ish Evans is running one of the most confusing campaigns for Congress we’ve ever seen; will it matter in the closest contest in Colorado? Then, check your mailboxes because it’s time to vote! Ballots are either in the mail (or if you already voted, on the way back); instead of filling them out, we’re just going to predict...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , keep your kids away from Gabe-ish Evans because he might want to hit them...or at least have that option. Then, we continue to examine the mystery of why the Arizona GOP is doing the job of the Colorado GOP, because don’t they have enough of their own problems with Kari friggin' Lake as their US Senate candidate? Donald Tr...

Send us a message! Really! Alright everyone, warm up those brains, sharpen up those pencils, ink up those pens, and google up those ballot initiatives, it’s time once again to VOTE IN COLORADO! That’s right, your ballots are IN THE MAIL TODAY so be on the lookout for those sweet sweet envelopes of democracy coming to you literally any minute now!  Colorado really does have the best voting system i...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters was finally sentenced for breaking into her own county’s election equipment to try and prove the big lie; was justice served? The Vice Presidential debate was the veep of debates; we ask, “Will it matter”? Maybe one of the answers is “only if the president ends up looking pretty...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , it’s a quick hits only episode! We’re trying something new this week: Can we get through 15 topics in 30 minutes? Probably not! But you'll have to listen to find out. 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 us by subscribing to the pod whereve...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the federal government is running out of time (again) to pass a continuing resolution (again) to fund the government for another few months (again), and our 8th favorite member of Congress is pretty responsible for it (again!) Then, the Colorado legislature cut about a billion dollars in taxes over the past few years and now th...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , with less than two months to go until the biggest election of our lives, Kamalamentum is still picking up speed...or is it?  The media, and apparently a decently large slice of the American electorate, are grading Donald Trump on a rollercoaster sized curve; we ask, 'Why the hell are they doing that?' Then, our newest...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , it’s the Special Session Special Episode Special! We break down the politics and a little bit of the policy from this very special session that was called to avoid an absolute fiscal calamity because of something like three schmucks and a checkbook.  Also, one of the undisputed champions of legislative nuttery goes totally off...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , at least one of us is coming to you live-ish from Chicago where Democrats are producing a convention full of joy, hope, optimism, and more than a few Colorado cameos to counter the GOP convention that was about…hell, who knows?   We've got plenty of non-DNC stuff to discuss, including new fundraising numbers for the Colora...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , Ian went on a little summer break and…the entire world changed completely! We'll talk more about the vibe shift, the VP’s VP, the Trump campaign, and so much more. Friend of the Pod, Governor Jared Polis, is calling the Colorado Legislature back into a special session, again, to cut property taxes, again, to avoid a really...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , Ian is out of town volunteering at a no-kill aardvark shelter, so Christy Powell is here to save Jason from talking to himself. Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris has changed EVERYTHING and Donald Trump’s campaign is falling apart. It’s been a wild few weeks.  Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Pe...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , it’s a HOLY SHIT HE REALLY DID IT emergency podcast! We’re recording around 2:30 pm Mountain Time on Sunday, July 21st -- just about 2 hours after President Biden announced he was stepping down from the top of the Democratic Presidential ticket, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, and making HISTORY. Listen up to find out w...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , just when you thought this election couldn’t possibly get any more insaner, Donald Trump survived an actual assassination attempt; if you’re just waking up from a coma, yes, he’s about to officially be renominated as the GOP presidential candidate. We check in on the RNC convention in Milwaukee Wisconsin where Trump picked J.D....

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , WE DID IT Y’ALL! WE MADE IT ALL THE WAY TO EPISODE 200! The world is a mess and politics has sure gotten weird over the last two weeks but we made 200 episodes of a Colorado Politics podcast and you’re still listening! Yes you! On this episode we’ll look back at how far we’ve come, how far we still have to go, and interview one...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the Colorado Primary Election is over!  The winners won and the losers lost and were here to celebrate and/or weep with you, depending on your preferred outcome. But, to be honest, we’re pretty happy with the results across the board; we’ll unpack what this all means for Colorado politics going forward, especially as it relates...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the 2024 Colorado Primary Election is on Tuesday, June 25th, so we break down the top races. Did you know in Colorado you not only vote for PEOPLE but you vote about PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING ELSE TOO, ESPECIALLY THIS ELECTION? We also go through some of the top ballot initiatives voters will see this November. And finally, just w...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the Colorado GOP’s flag burning stochastic terrorism is the straw that broke the camel’s back, strangely enough, as local county party chairs are FINALLY calling for their chairman’s ouster. Just like we told you in our last episode, being a felon running for President kind of hurts you, at least a little. We also wind up anoth...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the Colorado Republican Party continues it’s absolutely undefeated effort to ensure permanent electoral dominance by the Colorado Democratic Party, this time by saying every single Coloradan should pull their kids out of public schools; we report on how that’s going for them. Democrat of the Decade, Colorado Republican Party Ch...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , with six months left to go until the 2024 election, we look at the state of the U.S. House, the Senate, and the Presidential race that will literally determine the course of American and probably global history. Cool! Here in Colorado we have dueling slates of Republicans; we ask the question on everybody’s mind: "Will the...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the SINE has DIED; for those of you who for some reason don’t speak Latin, the second regular session of the 74th general assembly has come to an end! Best friend of the pod Christy Powell is back to give us the rundown from under the gold dome at Colfax and Sherman.  Then, some Republicans are already denying the results of th...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , Ian sings "The Final Countdown" as the Colorado House and Senate race to finish up dozens of bills before the legislature adjourns sine die on May 9th (and there are still some big f***in’ deals left to finish up).  Next, the Colorado Republican Party is putting their thumbs, their hands, and their whole bodies on the...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , we have a special interview-only episode with Texas Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, who has become a viral sensation for her willingness to say to Republicans what we're all quietly thinking. Crockett talks to us about her expectations as a Freshman Member of Congress; why people respond to her message; how Demo...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , Ian is/was coming in from Our Nation’s Capitol, Washington DC, where the GOP Micro-Majority is getting sick and tired of threats and shenanigans coming from…other members of the GOP Micro-Majority. Then, we check in on the smaller, more golden-domed capitol building in the centennial state where lawmakers only have a few weeks...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME LAUNDRY, or something; Democratic members of Colorado’s congressional delegation fight back against some of the silliest stuff we’ve ever heard of -- six or seven months before the most important election of our lives (again) We have a final update from the absolute clown show that is the Colorado Rep...