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

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/or listening to it as much as we loved recording it, you can thank us by subscribing to the pod wherever you listen, following us over on New Old Twitter AKA Bluesky, subscribing to our shiny new channel on YouTube, smashing that subscribe button on our Substack, and sharing this episode with your friends, your enemies, and your 8th favorite Member of Congress from Colorado! THANK YOU so much for listening, and we’ll see you next time!

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 not remotely making this up. We don’t say Gay-nahl as the presumptive runner-up for the GOP nomination for governor gets trapped by a pilled radio host, we see if the voter fraud lie rally brought to you by My Pillow and the Tina Peters Legal Defense Grift gets blown away by 25 mile per hour winds, and our interview with returning friend of the pod State Senator Julie Gonzales of Denver and Scott Wasserman, President of the Bell Policy center - we talk housing affordability and ballot initiative madness. You don’t want to miss this interview. 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 wherever you listen, following us over on New Old Twitter AKA Bluesky, subscribing to our shiny new channel on YouTube, smashing that subscribe button on our Substack, and sharing this episode with your friends, your enemies, and your 8th favorite Member of Congress from Colorado! THANK YOU so much for listening, and we’ll see you next time!

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 conservative thought” for the “Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization” and disgraced insurrectionist John Eastman may be the thing that finally brings Trump down after all of the crimes he committed in the wide open; our seventh-favorite member of congress from Colorado takes credit for things she voted against because she thinks her voters are as stupid as she is; We Told You So about the Aurora City Council; and we interview Dusti Gurule, executive director of COLOR, fresh off an enormous victory for abortion rights as the Reproductive Health Equity Act makes its way to Governor Polis’s desk in defiance of GOP filibusters and with the support of something between 60 and 70% of Colorado voters, despite what lies lying liars are telling.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 wherever you listen, following us over on New Old Twitter AKA Bluesky, subscribing to our shiny new channel on YouTube, smashing that subscribe button on our Substack, and sharing this episode with your friends, your enemies, and your 8th favorite Member of Congress from Colorado! THANK YOU so much for listening, and we’ll see you next time!

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 another look into our very cloudy crystal ball and tell you who is going to win so you don’t have to even bother voting; and Colorado’s 2nd district Congressman Joe Neguse joins us to talk about parks, how Colorado can help Ukrainian refugees, and his bill to designate the Amache National Historic Site as the newest national park!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 wherever you listen, following us over on New Old Twitter AKA Bluesky, subscribing to our shiny new channel on YouTube, smashing that subscribe button on our Substack, and sharing this episode with your friends, your enemies, and your 8th favorite Member of Congress from Colorado! THANK YOU so much for listening, and we’ll see you next time!

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 Hugh McKean makes the ballot via petition and then had yet another physical altercation with a member of his own caucus, so things are still going great for House Republicans and later, Charles Ashby from the grand junction daily sentinel returns once again to give us an update on the Tina Peters indictment scandal and why one particular creature comfort is missing from the Mesa County Jail.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 wherever you listen, following us over on New Old Twitter AKA Bluesky, subscribing to our shiny new channel on YouTube, smashing that subscribe button on our Substack, and sharing this episode with your friends, your enemies, and your 8th favorite Member of Congress from Colorado! THANK YOU so much for listening, and we’ll see you next time!

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 gets sillier as presumptive nominee Heidi Ganahl currently trails one of her primary contenders who believes among other things that we should let wolves murder people for being homeless, we review some new polling courtesy of ProgressNow Colorado and Global Strategy Group’s Rocky Mountaineer with returning guest Andrew Baumann, and we revisit the doomed recall of Governor Polis and last episode’s guest Secretary of State Jena Griswold. 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 wherever you listen, following us over on New Old Twitter AKA Bluesky, subscribing to our shiny new channel on YouTube, smashing that subscribe button on our Substack, and sharing this episode with your friends, your enemies, and your 8th favorite Member of Congress from Colorado! THANK YOU so much for listening, and we’ll see you next time!

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 House and Senate minority leaders as they plot to try and take the legislature in 2022, National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott begs the question: Are Republicans the party of Bad ideas, or are they the party of no ideas? BUT FIRST we interview Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, defender of democracy, bane of conspiracy theorists, and the best PR agent for Colorado’s amazing system of voting. 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 wherever you listen, following us over on New Old Twitter AKA Bluesky, subscribing to our shiny new channel on YouTube, smashing that subscribe button on our Substack, and sharing this episode with your friends, your enemies, and your 8th favorite Member of Congress from Colorado! THANK YOU so much for listening, and we’ll see you next time!

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-losers are coming back for a fifth helping of “no thank you” from Colorado voters as another preposterous ballot initiative gets filed, and Douglas County Conservatives continue their recent ritual of doxxing people they perceive as their political enemies, and that’s really irresponsible and dangerous!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 wherever you listen, following us over on New Old Twitter AKA Bluesky, subscribing to our shiny new channel on YouTube, smashing that subscribe button on our Substack, and sharing this episode with your friends, your enemies, and your 8th favorite Member of Congress from Colorado! THANK YOU so much for listening, and we’ll see you next time!

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 our 64th favorite Colorado County Clerk, Tina Peters; our soon to be 8th favorite congressperson from Colorado once again demonstrates that those who thump the Constitution understand it the very least. Douglas County Republicans haven’t learned the lessons Jefferson County Republicans learned about how school boards work, and they’re gonna pay for it, and finally we review last week’s GOP US Senate debate in Fort Lupton and introduce you to our absolute most favorite candidate for any office ever, Daniel Hendricks.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 wherever you listen, following us over on New Old Twitter AKA Bluesky, subscribing to our shiny new channel on YouTube, smashing that subscribe button on our Substack, and sharing this episode with your friends, your enemies, and your 8th favorite Member of Congress from Colorado! THANK YOU so much for listening, and we’ll see you next time!

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 TV (20:47)Enshrining abortion rights (23:58)Republicans jinxing themselves (27:10)What's next for Speaker Alec Garnett? (31:36)-----Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSubscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a review if you Got More Smarter. Send all angry and non-angry rants to angryrants@getmoresmarter.com.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 wherever you listen, following us over on New Old Twitter AKA Bluesky, subscribing to our shiny new channel on YouTube, smashing that subscribe button on our Substack, and sharing this episode with your friends, your enemies, and your 8th favorite Member of Congress from Colorado! THANK YOU so much for listening, and we’ll see you next time!