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

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the worst statewide campaign we’ve possibly ever seen in Colorado somehow got worse. The saga of Mesa County Clerk and Recorder, Tina Peters continues to get even weirder, bringing in our seventh favorite congressperson from Colorado who is a racist bigot, and some Colorado Republicans want you to think it’s sexist to point that...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, a whole episode dedicated to Mesa County Madness! We welcome Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Reporter Charles Ashby back to the show who gives us the definitive rundown of the continuing scandal surrounding Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and what role Lauren Boebert’s former campaign manager has in it all. There are too many wild s...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s infrastructure week! The Colorado Republican party has already surrendered the Governor’s race in 2022 in Colorado, but who’s going to be able to run the biggest grift on them in the meantime? A bald white dude with glasses tells Democrats how to win elections, and we're not talking about Ian. Friend of the show Tina P...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, election results, polls, conspiracy theories, Congressional InSAINEity, lots to talk about and not a ton of time to talk about it in AND we interview with Erik Maulbetch, political reporter for the Colorado Times Recorder, about the complete and total red-pilling of the Colorado Republican Party. Colorado Republican Statehouse C...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, MAP MADNESS continues, we’ll talk about who’s most mad about it.  The GOP Clown Car of the US Senate Primary gets clownier, but are these, like, fun happy birthday clowns or terrifying knife-weilding transform into giant monster spider clowns?  Presumptive GOP...candidate for Governor, Heidi Ganahl, somehow finds a way to have a...

Send us a message! Really! This week, we're doing a feed-swap with our friends over at City Cast Denver. They are Denver's only daily news podcast! We love listening every day and reading their newsletter. Subscribe to them and Get More Smarter™️ about Denver every morning. https://denver.citycast.fm/ Here's their episode description: It’s official: Trey Parker and Matt Stone have p...

Send us a message! Really! This week, our favorite Colorado insurrectionist joins the US Senate Republican Primary and we're taking bets on how badly this ruins GOP chances to beat Michael Bennet in 2022. Our 7th favorite congressperson from Colorado makes us ask, once again, “What the hell is wrong with our 7th favorite congressperson from Colorado?” The Colorado Republican Party doesn’t kno...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the honest truth is that the entire Colorado Republican/conservative universe is in absolute tatters, but today we’ll focus on the disastrous launch of Heidi Ganahl’s campaign for Governor; insane conspiracy theories continue to not only influence but entirely permeate the GOP establishment in Colorado; Colorado Republicans seem...

Send us a message! Really! The Colorado Governor’s race has gone to the doggy day care: we interview a dog to find out what this all means. We have questions for anyone running for office in 2022 and so should you; we’ve been asking you all to vax that ass up for weeks now, and now President Biden is requiring you to do so; map madness continues with another round of staff maps from the congressio...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Our main Colorado podcast competition and known logo thieves probably break campaign finance laws (or most certainly will); Colorado’s 8th congressional district doesn’t yet exist, but a solid Democratic candidate for it certainly does; Embattled Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters is still on the lam, but she popped up t...

Send us a message! Really! This week, Donald Trump has resumed his rightful place back in the White House...just kidding, that didn’t happen. The Colorado GOP has the worst August on record: we take bets on how much worse it can get in the last week! The Republican Mesa County Clerk and Recorder is in hiding with the MyPillow guy after leaking confidential election security information to QAnon pe...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, both conspiracies and conspiracy-theorists are getting a lot dumber and a lot scarier, and for some reason, lots of Colorado right-wingers are knee deep in the crazy. In a very related note, the Colorado Republican Party just cannot seem to get their poop in a group, adding to the list of infamous Colorado politics fails this we...

Send us a message! Really! This week, national Republicans continue to attempt to warp the reality of the deadly attack on the capitol on January 6th by Trump supporters to somehow blame Nancy Pelosi; we determine if they’re the worst people on the planet, or in the galaxy; we are very mad about the fact that we’ll all have to start wearing masks everywhere again because a bunch of whiny crybabies...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we have an intern and so can you! Ian dusts off his old metaphysics and epistemology textbooks from college and we dive deep into the very nature of reality. Former Colorado Christian University adjunct instructor and one-time Rudy Guilliani seatmate, Jenna Ellis, is in the news again, and we discuss why she shouldn’t be. We pay...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, The Rocky Mountaineer is back! We dig into the latest poll from Global Strategy Group and ProgressNow Colorado to see how much Democrats in the legislature overreached this session, and how much the voters really really liked it. The failed attempt by right-wing goons to overturn the results of the 2020 election in a violent ins...

Send us a message! Really! This week, the Colorado Republican Bench is down to one candidate—what office will Heidi Ganahl run for and lose in 2022? The Big Line is back; we discuss why the Dead Guvs are the best prognosticators in Colorado Politics; teaching about racism isn’t racist, no matter how hurt your feelings get, white people; we have a new segment about Twitter, and it will come in 280...

Send us a message! Really! The first regular session of the 73rd Colorado General Assembly has come to a close! We tell you what the hell happened, give you the rundown of this year’s Winners and Losers, and debate the proper pronunciation of sine die; Lauren Boebert goes from embarrassing herself to embarrassing the good people of Pueblo and they’re not happy about it; some guy who won’t be a US...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we talk at length about the filibuster; we pour one out for Donald Trump’s Livejournal and encourage him to try Friendster next; we flip our Legislating with Crayons segment on its head and instead decide to legislate with laser printers and fountain pens; Colorado Republicans are using last-decade’s lies to discuss this year’s...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, most Republicans continue to live in an alternative universe where Donald Trump is still President, we ask why the hell they would possibly want to do such a thing; our segment Legislating with Crayons gets its own segment, Legislating with Lunatics ; we revisit the one play in the Colorado GOP playbook (and no, it’s not “trying...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, for Republicans, the Big Lie is the Only Truth; we find more voter fraud (can you guess who did it this time?); the Colorado Republican Party gets Q-curious, again; we’re counting down to Sine Die and we’ll tell you what that means; we FINALLY have an excuse to talk about Doug Lamborn, and boy it’s a doozy; and we check in with...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, POLLS POLLS POLLS! We dig into the numbers so you don’t have to. Donald Trump is a sad, sad man; the GOP is the party of "No"….ideas; we have a double-barrel of "What the Buck?!" and "The Boebert Report"; our neighbors to the East have some really wacko lawmakers (and no we’re not talking about Nebr...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we’re getting a new Congressional district, and so are you; Lauren Boebert is worse now; it turns out that when you put people who like government in charge of government, people like what they get; there’s an imaginary war on red meat (as Ian brines an 18 pound brisket for homemade pastrami; a current Colorado Republican Lawmak...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, 2021 is already on track to set the record for mass shootings in the USA. It’s Earth Day, Week, and Month here in snowy Colorado in late April. The Colorado option gets confusing for people who don’t want you to have healthcare, and we discover that the Colorado January 6th Insurrectionist, state Rep. Ron Hanks, has a seriously...

Send us a message! Really! The Colorado legislature takes another run at a Colorado healthcare option to lower costs and increase quality, John Boehner is still crying, smoking cigarettes, and throwing other Republicans under the bus, and the new Colorado GOP chair is just as bad as the last one (if not somehow worse). It’s infrastructure week, for real this time, an again, we might get that train...

Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, that guy we talked about last week got shelled, Colorado is a bunch of ALL STARS because of our awesome non-racist voting systems, and Major League Baseball took notice. We have many more reasons to do another edition of Legislating with Crayons, there is yet another recall scam going after one of the most popular governors in t...