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 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 Lawmaker is a former California Congressional Candidate; and we interview Charles Ashby, dean of the Colorado press corps (probably) and politics reporter for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. We ask him why are things like this.

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 racist misunderstanding of history and the constitution. We keep shouting WHAT THE BUCK about the jingoistic America First Caucus which may or may not include our 7th favorite congressperson from Colorado, Lauren Boebert.Tell your legislator to support climate legislation: bit.ly/coclimate.*Producer's note: We recorded this episode before the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial for the murder of George Floyd, so we don't discuss it in the episode.

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 we’ve been talking about for a long, long time. The lying liars are just lying and it’s exhausting trying to keep up, and Lauren Boebert takes ground in the spirit realm before sharing conspiracy theories at Club 20.---------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.

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 the country, and yes, Lauren Boebert said and did more horrible things since we last spoke. Also, we all got our shots!---------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.

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, The Colorado Republican Party elects arguably their least electorally successful member to be their chair, there is a conspiracy theorist chairing the congressional redistricting commission, we discuss whether he believes maps exist, it’s actually infrastructure week for the first time in at least 5 years, we legislate with crayons once again, and we explain to Lauren Boebert who the anti-fascists in 1930’s Germany were fighting.Links4 of the 5 candidates running to lead the Colorado GOP are still casting doubt on the 2020 election results (The Colorado Sun, 3/17/21)Kristi Burton Brown elected as next Colorado GOP chair, vows to bring “a new generation of leadership” (The Colorado Sun, 3/27/21)"Danny Moore is an election rigging conspiracy theorist, and the chair of the 12-person commission that will redraw Colorado's Congressional Districts." (Twitter, @nexton9news, 3/29/21)Joe Biden’s coming infrastructure push, explained (Vox, 3/29/21)Good Interview on Modern Monetary Theory (The.Ink, 3/30/21)The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie KeltonOnce Again, Hammers Do Not Kill More People Than Guns (Colorado Pols, 3/29/21)NYT Trump Biden Geography Quiz (The New York Times)U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time (Gallup, 3/29/21)POLITICO Playbook: Chuck Schumer’s 51-vote gambit (Politico, 3/29/21)Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century (The New Yorker, 3/29/21)-------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.

Send us a message! Really!Senator John Hickenlooper updates us on life in the US Senate, the COVID relief bill, his thoughts on the filibuster, and whether he'll take Jason to Area 51 as part of his new role as Chair of the Space and Science Subcommittee.*Note: Our interview with Senator Hickenlooper ended before news of the shooting at the Boulder King Soopers appeared on social media, which is why we don't mention it in the interview. On Monday evening, Senator Hickenlooper tweeted :"They were just grocery shopping.I can't imagine what the families of these Coloradans are experiencing. My heart goes out to them.We don't know all the details yet, but we DO know our country has a horrific problem with gun violence. We need federal action. Now."

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Republicans keep trying to make it harder to vote while admitting it is because they’re worried they’ll keep losing if everyone can vote, Democrats are good now, and your bank account probably is too, we visit the State Capitol for another edition of Legislating with Crayons, AND because she won’t stop saying and doing awful things, we have another issue of the Boebert Report. -----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.

Send us a message! Really!We’re a year into the pandemic! Democrats in Congress passed a $1.9 trillion dollar aid package that never, ever would have happened without Georgia, Arizona, and Colorado doing our jobs. We get to revisit one of our favorite segments about our second least-favorite congressperson from Colorado. Trump sucks. Things get real at the state legislature. Finally, we round it all out with our very favorite segment about our seventh favorite congressperson from Colorado. -----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.

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the CPAC conference was a lot of things, but “conservative” wasn’t one of them. Despite absolutely no evidence of election fraud, Colorado Republicans are bringing a bunch of bills to make it harder to vote. The Colorado legislature is back in session after a COVID break. Finally, Lauren Boebert continues to embarrass Colorado on many different national stages.ArticlesLauren Boebert: Alt-Facts Word Salad At CPAC (Colorado Pols, 2/28/21)Colorado GOP Won’t Be Out-Crazied by National Republicans (Colorado Pols, 2/25/21)Help Wanted: Colorado GOP seeks a leader after years of election losses (Denver Post, 2/27/21)Investigate, Please: Boebert Reimbursement Scandal Deepens (Colorado Pols, 2/23/21)Boebert Deserved Even More Than $22,260 for Mileage, Says Former Campaign Manager (Colorado Pols, 2/24/21)Boebert Calls Bullcrap On Colorado’s Public Lands (Colorado Pols, 2/24/21)Boebert Ridicule Intensifies After Especially Stupid Tweet (Colorado Pols, 2/20/21)The Vile Inanity Of Lauren Boebert (Colorado Pols, 2/25/21)Ohio is first state to sue Census Bureau over delay in data (AP News, 2/25/21)Poll: 57% Of Colorado Republicans Win The Darwin Award (Colorado Pols, 2/26/21)-----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.

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Impeachment 2 Trumplectric Trumpaloo, we keep apologizing to the rest of the country for Lauren Boebert’s very existence, and the first serious contender to take her out announces. Since we seem to have avoided an *actual* civil war, the GOP is entering into one of their very own. We go back to 2009 and discuss whether or not Democrats have learned any lessons about governing on the federal level, we preview the 2021 legislative session, and yes, it is already time to talk about the 2022 election.Colorado Impeachment Managers“Donald Trump Incited Violence to Maintain Power, and People Died”: The Democrats Arguing the Case Against Trump Will Bring Their Own Experience to Bear (Vanity Fair, 2/5/21)The Boebert ReportBoebert Mileage Reimbursement Scandal Gets Official Complaint (Colorado Pols, 2/4/21)Like We Said, Lauren Boebert’s Mileage Maths Don’t Add Up (Colorado Pols, 2/4/21)Rep. Lauren Boebert’s mileage reimbursement “raises red flags,” ethics experts say (Denver Post, 2/2/21)What We Know About Lauren Boebert’s Campaign Payments To Herself For Driving 38,000 Miles (Colorado Public Radio, 2/7/21)Lauren Boebert is Only Pretending to Carry a Gun (Colorado Pols, 2/1/21)Donovan Officially Announces Campaign Against Boebert (Colorado Pols, 2/4/21)National GOP InfightingCheney says she will not resign and GOP shouldn't embrace Trump (CNN, 2/7/21)It’s Still Donald Trump’s Party (Colorado Pols, 2/5/21)Look Out: Democrats Might Actually Act Like A Majority (Colorado Pols, 2/2/21)Inside Bidenworld’s plan to punish the GOP for opposing Covid relief (Politico, 2/8/21)_________________________________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.