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

Send us a message! Really! He’s a geologist, he’s a brewer, he’s a mayor, he’s a governor, and he’s the dude who cut the biggest deal on climate policy in the history of the country. Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper joins us for a special episode of the Get More Smarter Podcast so that you can get all the details of the historic Inflation Reduction Act straight from the source! That’s it for this e...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, sure abortion is popular in Kansas, but how will it play in the heartland? It’s not November, but GOP candidate for Attorney General John Kellner already lost his race, and as a matter of fact Lang Sias probably did, too. Meanwhile, the top of the ticket is going nearly as poorly as the Ganahl campaign utterly implodes and the O...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Joe O’Dea is a unicorn! So was Darryl Glenn! We dive deep into Colorado election law to determine if mythical creatures meet the qualifications to run for U.S. Senate. Losing losers who lost their primaries are raising money for a recount that will show that they are in fact losing losers who lost their primaries, again, but not...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Heidi Ganahl picks a running mate, again, and somehow it goes worse than the time where she picked a running mate who didn’t end up being the running mate; a group of people calling themselves Democrats for Heidi appear out of nowhere and at least one of them is a Republican who ran for state senate like two years ago and is sti...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Heidi Gah…Gah…Gah…not going to win the Governor’s race as she bungles yet another campaign layup; the Colorado Republican Party tries to convince voters not to vote for Jared Polis by spending quite a lot of time publishing his many accomplishments; GOP US Senate Nominee Joe O’Dea gets mad when people repeat the things he says,...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast...we were wrong! Turns out neither Jason nor I are infallible, and if you are, good for you! We unpack this week’s somewhat surprising Primary Election outcomes with our special guest, University of Denver Professor Seth Masket, who directs the Center for American Politics. We talk about what happened, why, and how the Primary mi...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast...with one week left to go in the primaries, Colorado Republican Candidates are finally on the air with their own ads after leaving the entire environment open for months. Will it change the outcome of any of the races? We'll tell you. Also... The Denver Post Editorial Board comes right out and says it: John Eastman is proof...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the GOP is freaking out about a tactic they’ve used and we’ve used and everyone has used before, mostly because they do not want to talk about their terrible ideas that no one agrees with. We pre-preview the newest edition of the Rocky Mountaineer, and it’s exactly what we thought it would be; Colorado plays an oversize role in...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast...there have been 213 mass shootings so far in 2022. What are we even doing anymore? Our 6th and 7th favorite congresspeople from Colorado continue to embarrass themselves (and all of us) on a daily basis; primary ballots drop next week; and we predict the election results so you don’t have to. But first, our guest this week is s...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the violent white replacement conspiracy theory embraced by many Republican politicians spurred yet another mass shooting in a community of color; we ask why on earth some Colorado Republicans have courted and accepted endorsements from some of the conspiracy’s biggest boosters. Our 7th favorite congressperson from Colorado spen...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, HAPPY SINE DIE to everyone except for the Colorado House Republicans who, despite having the smallest legislative minority in memory, tried to hold the entire legislature hostage until…well they don’t know either. We’ll talk about the bills that have passed so far this session, and a few that might turn into a pumpkin when the c...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Colorado legislature protected abortion rights RIGHT BEFORE a leaked memo from the Supreme Court shows they’re poised to overturn Roe v. Wade...and Colorado Republicans remain on the wrong side of this issue that they were POSITIVE would not be important this cycle (whoopsie!). Later, Christy Powell returns to chat campaign...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Christy Powell Strikes Back! She was such a big hit with our listeners that we wanted to bring her back to talk campaign finance (and Ian is not at all worried that she’s going to permanently replace him because she’s smarter, funnier AND taller). Christy reads us campaign finance reports in a French accent...Colorado Republican...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we’re going to keep things simple. The Colorado Republican Party held its state assembly last weekend, and it was an incredible disaster. There are not enough words to adequately describe this dumpster fire, but we’re going to try with the help of guest host Christy Powell!  That’s it for this episode! If you loved watching and/...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, results from some of the Republican assemblies last week tell us what we already know, the Colorado GOP is screwed. Also, we preview the state assembly with contests for Governor, US Senate, and Secretary of State. A Republican candidate for Congress claims basic healthcare is human sacrifice to the demon lord Ba’al, and we’re n...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, not to be outdone by the US Senate GOP Primary Field, the Republican candidates for the brand-new congressional district 8 say insane things, in public, and it’s all been recorded! We ask how on earth any of these people plan to win a general  election in a competitive district. Heidi Ganahl acolyte, former “visiting scholar in...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, incumbency ain’t what it used to be, especially for the Colorado GOP. We discuss how not one but *both* state GOP caucus leaders got told by their base that they’re just not crazy enough to be a republican state legislator. Meanwhile, the "Big Lie" continues to haunt the red team here in the Centennial State; we take a...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we evaluate the worst campaigns we’ve ever seen in Colorado and ask if the current presumptive GOP gubernatorial runner-up’s campaign makes the list, YET ANOTHER State Representative drops a loaded firearm in the state capitol after rushing to committee, we ask why the hell this keeps happening, Colorado House Minority Leader Hu...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we made it into triple digits! Meanwhile, gas prices are up, so are profits for Big Oil. Could these things possibly be related? We ask Oak Creek Colorado bar owner, AAA Colorado Spokesperson, and enormous Deadhead Skyler McKinley what’s driving the increase in gas prices, and it ain’t Joe Biden. The Colorado Governor’s race get...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, WAR, what is it good for?  Showing truly how deranged the GOP has become as they cheer Putin and attack Biden on the eve of Russia invading a sovereign nation, apparently. Colorado Republicans jump the Crimesharknado like the Fonz but with less class and more shrill opportunism, they also seem to have an issue with their own Hou...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Jason is almost eerily psychic because our 64th favorite County Clerk in Colorado, Tina Peters, is actually running for secretary of state!!! The Crimesharknado narrative takes another hit as the presumptive GOP nominee for governor talks about all the alerts she gets on her Nextdoor app, The now-at-least-four-time-anti-abortion...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Republicans are still trying to figure out how to talk about the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th 2021 that was sparked by Donald Trump and literally carried out by thousands of his supporters wearing his name all over their clothes; Colorado’s Most Famous Political Criminal Kicks gets a new contender from ou...

Send us a message! Really! Jinx! This week we talk the 2022 Colorado legislative session with Speaker Alec Garnett. Subjects include (but are not limited to):  Term limits (3:59) Working alongside insurrectionists (6:46) Voting for paragraph-long amendments in support of Tina Peters (without reading them) (11:47) Saving people money (13:35) The state budget (16:03) Getting the Avs and Nugs back on...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, an all-quick-hits episode! For our last show of 2021 we’re trying something new, a wide range of topics having missed our very, very obvious opportunity to make the 2022 predictions episode our last one of the year. Also we want to give a special shoutout to that conservative tracker who drew the short straw and has to listen to...

Send us a message! Really! This week, we predict the future so you don’t have to! And yes, we knew you were going to say that. Lauren Boebert is a bigot and the Colorado Republican Party are a bunch of little cowards, but what else is new? Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii Producer: Ethan Black Intern: Taleen Sample Music: Breakmaster Cylinder Special thanks to Heather Hukari for editing assistance...