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

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 this and transcribe it every week, we feel you buddy. So let’s get into it! Topics includeKill the Filibuster? (1:03)CO-08 (4:35)Attorney General Race (8:27)The Boebert Report (9:50)Doug Lamborn! (14:41)GOP Candidate for Governor Danielle Neuschwanger's Homophobia (19:30)Finding Cory (21:56)Republican Governors Taking Credit for Stuff They Didn't Do (23:22)Two-Face Heidi Ganahl (24:06)Local Government Collective Bargaining (26:06)El Paso GOP Nonsense (28:11)Joe Oltman is Dangerous (29:39)Lara Trump Misremembers January 6th (33:40)Happy Holidays to the War on Christmas (35:03)Watch The Daily Show with Trevor Noah's segment on Lauren Boebert---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!

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 SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackIntern: Taleen SampleMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSpecial thanks to Heather Hukari for editing assistance this week.Subscribe 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!

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 out. Finally, we interview Sara Loflin, the new Executive Director of ProgressNow Colorado. We ask why she continues to make Ethan produce this podcast, thank her for her generosity, and apologize for all the things Ian screwed up that she now has to clean up.Follow Sara on Twitter: @SaraLoflin---Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackIntern: Taleen SampleMusic: 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!

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 stories to link in this episode description, but you can scroll through Charles' recent articles here: https://www.gjsentinel.com/users/profile/charles%20ashby/---Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackIntern: Taleen SampleMusic: 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!

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 Peters violates the first rule of politics by digging to the center of the earth with the world’s most invincible shovel. And we interview Chaz Tedesco, Adams County Commissioner and candidate for the 8th Congressional District. We ask him what it might be like to be the first Chaz elected to congress, probably. Learn more about Commissioner Chaz Tedesco:Campaign Site: https://www.tedescoforcongress.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/chazforcongressFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/tedescoforcongress-----Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackIntern: Taleen SampleMusic: 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!

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 Candidate Promotes Numerous Conspiracy Theories (Colorado Times Recorder, 10/29/21)Read the latest edition of The Rocky Mountaineer, a quarterly poll from ProgressNow Colorado and Global Strategy Group.---Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackIntern: Taleen SampleMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSpecial thanks to Heather Hukari for editing assistance this week.Subscribe 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!

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 another bad week in her doomed gubernatorial campaign. We discuss why we haven’t been asked to appear on her podcast yet.Our maybe-soon-to-be eighth favorite congressperson from Colorado finds a way to get boo’d at a celebration of a genocidal maniac and we test the water in Mesa county because something absolutely terrible is happening there and we cannot figure out what. BUT FIRST, we interview State Representative, Doctor Yadira Caraveo, Democratic candidate for what we believe is at least a reasonable approximation of Colorado’s new congressional district. We talk to her about her campaign and ask for unsolicited medical advice.Learn more about Representative Doctor Candidate Yadira Caraveo:Campaign Site: https://www.caraveoforcongress.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/YadiraCaraveoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/caraveoforcongress ---Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackIntern: Taleen SampleMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSpecial thanks to Heather Hukari for editing assistance this week.Subscribe 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!

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 purchased Casa Bonita. So, now what? Will the Lakewood landmark stay the same, or become a fully South Park-themed eatertainment destination? While the iconic restaurant’s future hangs in the balance, we wanted to know: What really makes Casa Bonita fun? Host Bree Davies and Producer Paul Karolyi took an official tour of the still-closed-for-dining immersive eatery with David Thomas, the “Professor of Fun.” David explains why Casa Bonita is more than just a theme restaurant — it’s an architecturally designed masterpiece that invites play, stirs imagination, and ensures that all who visit will be transported to another place and time for an experience that can be hard to put into words. The City Cast Denver Crew joined Westword Editor-In-Chief Patty Calhoun for the Casa Bonita tour, too — you can read her take on CB and the concept of fun in this week’s Westword. Get Denver news delivered straight to your inbox every weekday by signing up for the City Cast Denver newsletter: https://denver.citycast.fm/newsletter/Got a favorite Casa Bonita memory? Share it with us on Twitter: @citycastdenverOr, give us a ring and leave us a message: ‪(720) 500-5418‬That’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, 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 know the first rule of fight club, so the break the hell out of it. We have another edition of MAP MADNESS, where we discuss the brand-new redistricting and reapportionment process in Colorado AND we interview Evan Wyloge, reporter for the various Gazettes and ColoradoPolitics.com who has had the distinct pleasure of covering this public-political-cartography process not once, but twice!Follow Evan on Twitter: @EvanWylogeSome of Evan's redistricting articles mentioned in the interview- Coordinated persuasion efforts emerge in Colorado redistricting commissions’ public comments (9/20/21)- Challenge to congressional map plan over minority protections announced already (9/30/21)- Newly revealed interactions added to redistricting lobbying complaint (9/27/21)- Colorado nonprofit targeted with redistricting lobbying complaint helped draft others’ map proposals (8/30/21)-------This week, we're doing a feed-swap with our friends at City Cast Denver, Denver's only local daily news podcast. They make terrific content, and you'll find their recent episode about Casa Bonita in our feed. Subscribe to the City Cast Denver podcast and newsletter. -------Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackIntern: Taleen SampleMusic: Breakmaster CylinderFollow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Visit our website at 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, 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 to be having one hell of a time tricking anyone into running for statewide office in 2022; the Q-adjacent pillow-enthusiast, Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, returns to Colorado, and is not yet in handcuffs for some unknown reason; and, besides the people we just named, Coloradans are quite enthusiastic and unified in their support for the safe vaccines and effective masks that can finally get us out of this goddamn pandemic if only the small minority of anti-everything death cultists would just let us. LinksRepublican Heidi Ganahl Announces Candidacy For Governor (CBS4 Denver, 9/14/21)INTERVIEW: As she enters Colorado governor's race, Ganahl won't say if 2020 election was fraudulent (9NEWS, 9/14/21)The Colorado Republican Party is Just One Big Conspiracy Now (Colorado Pols, 9/21/21)Colorado Republicans visit Pueblo for decision on primary election (KOAA 5, 9/17/21)Where are the Republican Candidates for Statewide Office? (Colorado Pols, 9/20/21)davidwinney.comMesa County Clerk Tina Peters reappears, speaks publicly at Grand Junction church (9NEWS, 9/17/21)Commissioners: Clerk can't dictate what constitutes a public document (The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, 9/21/21)Newsom to national Democrats: "Don't be timid" on COVID-19 response (CBS Mornings, 9/15/21)Sorry, COVIDiots: Coloradans Still Support Science (Colorado Pols, 9/21/21)No Excuses: Get Your Free COVID-19 Rapid Tests Now (Colorado Pols, 9/22/21)Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: 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!