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

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 to win more elections"); we visit with the three least powerful yet most noisy members of Colorado’s congressional delegation; and our last statewide Republican elected official does her level best to lose whichever thing she’s running for next before even telling anyone what it is.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, 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 the only likely statewide Republican candidate for...something. But first, Canadian Jason Bane returns! We ask if he’s moving back to the States now that Donald Trump is no longer president.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, 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 Nebraska’s weird unicameral legislature); finally, we sit down with Jake Williams, executive director of powerhouse advocacy organization Healthier Colorado and host of The Wooden Teeth Podcast. We ask him to explain the bill formerly known as the public option.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’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.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, 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.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 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.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, 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.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 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 iThat’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!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."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 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.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!