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

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!

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 congressional and legislative redistricting commissions; on top of being generally awful, Lauren Boebert is just, well, weird; the Mesa County Clerk Crime family is at it again, who’s turning themselves in this week?; and those death panels Sarah Palin warned us about back in 2008? Well, they’re real now, and they’re in Idaho. Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackIntern: Taleen SampleMusic: Breakmaster CylinderFollow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.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,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 to talk to MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell (with whom she most certainly is not having a torrid love affair);Lauren Boebert as crooked as she is shady, and she’s very, very bad at hiding it;Ken Buck still sucks, but not as bad as...The totally-not-Republican-redistricting-squad-who-are-entirely-made-up-of-washed-up-Republicans-pretending-not-to-be-Republicans;Speaking of Republican stupidity, they’re trying to disenfranchise the majority of Colorado voters because they’re not out of power enough.Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackIntern: Taleen SampleMusic: Breakmaster CylinderFollow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. 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, 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 people and Lauren Boebert has about 15 enormous problems she didn’t have last week. We read you the internet, and we talk about Ian's personal favorite subject: legislative cartography!Stuff We TweetedIan on the CO GOP's terrible week: https://twitter.com/iansilverii/status/1428794521257709568Jason on mysterious chickens: https://twitter.com/jason_bane/status/1428362161093447680Ethan's hot Jeopardy! takes: https://twitter.com/EthanBlack/status/1428735818751909888 -----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 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 week with an impressively off-key press conference, the first somewhat-legit challenger to Michael Bennet arrives, we discuss why the entire campaign will be about skinny little swords, fancy horses, and the Iraq war (if he’s actually nominated). But first, we interview The Get More Smarter Podcast’s official member of congress, Ed Perlmutter. He tells us all the good things he’s bringing home for us from DC, and all of the no-things his Republican colleagues are bringing home to their districts. 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, 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 are scared of needles like a bunch of third graders and pretend like they can’t breathe with a tiny piece of cloth over their dumb faces; we check in with the person who wins Worst Coloradan of the Year, every year, who also happens to be our 7th favorite congressperson from our great state; and we read you things we posted on the internet. Also, BEAVERS! A dry California creek bed looked like a wildfire risk. Then the beavers went to work (The Sacramento Bee, 7/2/21)Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderIntern: Taleen SampleSubscribe 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, 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 a visit to our 6th and 7th favorite congressional representatives from Colorado and realize that perhaps we do live in alternate universes after all.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!