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

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , are Colorado Democrats really good, or are Colorado Republicans really bad? We have a one word answer for you. In the worst game of musical chairs ever played in Colorado, who will lead the Colorado GOP into the next era of electoral failure, finger pointing, backstabbing, and utter delusion? We take bets!  Speaking of sore los...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , you know him as the former political reporter for Fox 31 Denver...or from...the Wall Street Journal ...or the Los Angeles Times ...POLITICO's White House Correspondent Eli Stokols is back on the Get More Smarter Podcast. Stokols talks about the difference in covering the Trump and Biden administrations, and why 2024 could...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the State of our Union is….WEIRD. Ian Silverii reports back from the worst seats in the House Gallery because Jason Bane wasn't invited. The great Christy Powell joins us with a new game where we try and explain the inexplicable, for prizes (metaphorical ones). Overtly racist pro-claymore mine lobby Rocky Mountain Gun Owne...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , it’s Groundhog Day! So we’re re-running last year's episode. Just kidding! With the 2023 Colorado Legislative Session in full swing we ask the question on everybody’s mind, is there no (Scott) Bottom(s) to the State House GOP? We have many more occasions to ask the podcast’s favorite question, "What the Buck!?" B...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , after yet another rash of mass shootings in Colorado and the country, State House Democrats are ready to do something big about it. Did you know almost 1/4th of Colorado Legislators were elected by a few dozen people? We break down the Vacancy Committee influence on Colorado Politics and why such an antidemocratic process is so...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii talk with legendary Colorado politico Alan Salazar and coin a new term from his vast experience. Currently serving as Chief of Staff to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock , Salazar has been a top adviser to Congressmen, Senators, Governors, and even Presidents -- for familiar names such as Roy Ro...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , Republicans say they want to make government smaller, but what happens when they blast it into microscopic pieces? Republicans claim they won a slim majority in Congress because they were talking about issues like inflation, crime, and the southern border, so why are the first things they’re doing trying to ban abortion and lau...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , it’s the last episode of 2022 -- you know, the year that brought the biggest Blue Wave Colorado has ever seen! Our soon-to-be-8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado nearly lost her seat; has she learned a damn thing from it? With the retirement of the worst party chair to ever lead the Colorado GOP now a sure thing, who...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Ian Silverii is on vacation, so the other guy ( Jason Bane ) found two different people who were willing to talk to him about politics. Settle in for an entertaining discussion with Jason and returning guests Christy Powell and Alan Franklin for a deep, deep, deep dive into the big electoral questions of 2022 and what Colorado&a...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Congressman Jason Crow returns to discuss Election Day jitters; his first time as a member of the minority party in Congress; and why an Assault Weapons Ban is good policy. Later, we discuss the "Infinity War" within the Colorado Republican Party and how sore losers in the GOP -- throughout the country -- keep whining...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Congresswoman-elect Brittany Pettersen joins her husband and podcast host Ian Silverii (and Jason Bane ) to talk about traveling to Washington D.C. for a whirlwind week of orientation for newly-elected members of Congress. We'll take you behind the scenes for a look at everything involved in starting a new job at the United...

Send us a message! Really! This week on The Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii sit down with Seth Masket , Director of the Center on American Politics at the University of Denver, to break down the 2022 election results in Colorado and the massive Bluenami that swept through our state. That’s it for this episode! If you loved watching and/or listening to it as much as...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we make our final prognostications of the 2022 election cycle! We also talk with pollster-extraordinaire Andrew Baumann of Global Strategy Group so that you'll know what to watch out for -- both nationally and in Colorado -- as election results start trickling in on Tuesday. Your friends will be really amazed at how smart y...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the 2022 election is nearly here! Get that ballot off your table and into a dropbox! There have been A LOT of debates this cycle, and that’s probably a good thing for democracy; we'll talk about some of them. Republican gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl , or someone on her campaign, gets outed as the brains behind one of...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Election Day is less than 3 weeks away! Will it be a red ripple, a blue wave, a green tsunami, or another color and a different meteorological event? Our guest, Andrew Baumann of Global Strategy Group, takes us through the latest "Mountaineer" polling for the answers. Later, the Colorado Springs Gazette only endorses R...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, ballots drop THIS WEEK, so get your voting dobbers ready! We’ll take you through all the latest news, including the fact that Ganahl’s Ghouls just will not stop talking about furries (Heidi Ganahl's campaign won't stop talking about a LOT of things -- we'll get to that, too). Newly minted Democratic Senator Kevin...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Furry Fury continues, and it’s no one’s fault but the person who keeps bringing it up, GOP gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl . With about 4 weeks left until election day and less than 2 weeks before ballots go out, we check in on the big races in Colorado so you don’t have to. Colorado is contributing plenty of candidates...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, a certain Republican candidate for Colorado Governor is pilled to the gills, or the ears, or the claws. The self-described “pro life” candidate for US Senate who is described by other people as “pro choice” not only voted for an abortion ban that lost by 20 points...he actually signed the petition to get it on the ballot. The GO...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Joe O’D’OH ! really boxes himself in on an issue it’s clear he didn’t ever think about once before becoming a politician; he has now taken every side known to man, and he’s using his own family members as human political shields. Heidi Ganahl is still trying to win the primary she already somehow won, and doesn’t seem to underst...

Send us a message! Really! This week on a special episode of the Get More Smarter Podcast, we're joined once again by Gov. Jared Polis, the 43rd Governor of the Great State of Colorado. We talk the 2022 campaign, truth in advertising, executing an agenda during COVID, saving people money, and the best cut of meat of a cow: The brisket.  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, Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea appoints himself the arbiter of the balance of women’s rights; finally, a man who is brave enough and strong enough to tell women what rights they can and cannot have! The battles for Colorado’s competitive congressional seats are heating up, and Ian personally doesn’t have any stake in the...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, mild-mannered President Biden suits up as Dark Brandon to bring the ruckus, because enough is enough and it’s time to fight back. Self-proclaimed fiscal conservatives don’t want to pay public school teachers one more dime, but they’re fine setting $200 thousand dollars on fire to recall a State Senator because he left their brok...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Colorado Senate Democrats gain a seat without an election, thanks to Sen. Kevin Priola; our 7th favorite member of Congress from Colorado adds another Democrat to her list of people she wants to “IMEACH"; Republican candidates like Joe O'Dea and Heidi Ganahl keep running in the wrong election (psst...the Primary is ove...

Send us a message! Really! This week on a special episode of The Get More Smarter Podcast, hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii are joined by not one, but TWO United States Senators! Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff and Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet stop by to chat about the 2022 election and the Inflation Reduction Act, including some of the lesser-known but equally-important parts of the IRA.  Senator Bennet...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Fox 31 livestreams a Colorado Republican Party press conference on the anniversary of last year’s Gas Station Disaster, and it somehow goes just about as poorly as that one. DARK BRANDON RISES and right-wing shills are losing their minds over Joe Biden looking like a badass, and having perhaps the most productive week in office...