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

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, The Rocky Mountaineer is back! We dig into the latest poll from Global Strategy Group and ProgressNow Colorado to see how much Democrats in the legislature overreached this session, and how much the voters really really liked it. The failed attempt by right-wing goons to overturn the results of the 2020 election in a violent insurrection turns six-months old this week and we discuss the Russian dolls of alternative reality Republicans have put themselves in since then. We have some preliminary redistricting and reapportionment maps, and we discuss why where the lines are right now almost certainly will not matter to the seats actually being campaigned in in 2022. And we read you the internet like we’re your parents and talk about some horrible things Lauren Boebert said! But first, we interview  Andrew Baumann, an at-best-mediocre poker player and the senior vice president at Global Strategy Group, and more importantly the lead pollster on this issue of the Rocky Mountaineer. The Rocky Mountaineer Poll (mountaineerresearch.org)Colorado Democrats are heading into the 2022 election cycle in a position of strength, poll shows (Colorado Sun, July 6, 2021)First draft of Colorado’s new state Senate, House district maps could pit 20 incumbents against each other (Colorado Sun, June 29, 2021)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, the Colorado Republican Bench is down to one candidate—what office will Heidi Ganahl run for and lose in 2022? The Big Line is back; we discuss why the Dead Guvs are the best prognosticators in Colorado Politics; teaching about racism isn’t racist, no matter how hurt your feelings get, white people; we have a new segment about Twitter, and it will come in 280 character bursts; and we talk about our 6th and 7th favorite congresspeople from Colorado. But first, Jon Murray, Enterprise and Transportation Reporter from the Denver Post, joins us to talk about his weekend feature on the Libertarian Party’s 50 years of not-making-a-very-big-impact on politics in Colorado or anywhere else and the historic, bipartisan transportation bill that was signed into law last week. The Libertarian Party, born in Colorado 50 years ago, still seeks elusive mainstream acceptance by Jon Murray (The Denver Post | June 20, 2021)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!The first regular session of the 73rd Colorado General Assembly has come to a close! We tell you what the hell happened, give you the rundown of this year’s Winners and Losers, and debate the proper pronunciation of sine die; Lauren Boebert goes from embarrassing herself to embarrassing the good people of Pueblo and they’re not happy about it; some guy who won’t be a US Senator is running against Michael Bennet; we report on some not so shocking news about Colorado’s vaccination rate and it’s...pretty good; 30% of 30% percent of the country thinks Donald Trump will be reinstated as president...any day now...any day now...BUT FIRST we interview the Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives Alec Garnett!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, we talk at length about the filibuster; we pour one out for Donald Trump’s Livejournal and encourage him to try Friendster next; we flip our Legislating with Crayons segment on its head and instead decide to legislate with laser printers and fountain pens; Colorado Republicans are using last-decade’s lies to discuss this year’s redistricting process; Lauren Boebert essentially argues for the extrajudicial killing of Dr. Fauci; and the good people of Aurora deserve so, so much better than Mike Coffman and his merry band of hacks who are campaigning to join him on Aurora City Council.-------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, 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!