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

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s Ethan’s birthday! Donald Trump is the most anti-military president in history and our second favorite US Senator from Colorado won’t say it. Colorado Republicans don’t send me a thank-you note for the graffiti at the capitol being cleaned up. Congress is working hard while the US Senate is hardly working, We we bring you the latest edition of the Boebert Report, and Kyra Storojev, Democratic candidate for HD-44 joins us.Kyra Storojev (House District 44)Website: http://kyra4colorado.com/

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast we revisit the Trump Brand Trumpvention, Ken Buck’s fashion choices are just as questionable as the rest of the decision he seems to make on a daily basis, Dudley Brown remains the worst grifter on earth, we find Cory Gardner at the bottom of the barrel, once again, and we have two amazing guests, Alexis King, candidate for District Attorney in Jeffco and Gilpin and Diane Mitsch Bush, the next Congresswoman from Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.Diane Mitsch Bush (39:09)Diane Mitsch Bush for CD3: https://dianeforcolorado.com/Alexis King (1:06:25)Alexis King for District Attorney: https://www.alexisforda.com/Sikh Coalition calls for hate crime charges in Lakewood attack (Arvada Press, 6/30/20)

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast it’s a very special back to school episode! We recap the Democratic National Convention that I totally watched all of, promise. We preview the Trump-brand Republican National Convention which I will watch even more of, scout’s honor, really, we bid farewell to our favorite maritally confusing counselor to the president, we zoom in on the worst vice president since Aaron Burr, we find our second favorite US Senator from Colorado trying to horse excrement his way into a second term, another edition of the Boebert Report highlights some news for our second favorite candidate for congressional district 3, the self-proclaimed “pro-life” party is an absolute death cult, and Justine Sandoval from COBALT joins us to play Colorado’s favorite political podcast based gameshow about conspiracy theories, QDonkulous.**Note, this episode was recorded on Monday morning, August 24th before massive protests in Kenosha, WI after police shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times. This was before the NBA strikes and the murder of protestors by a 17 year-old white supremacist militia member. For that reason, the subject is not discussed on this episode.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 interview filmmaker Nick Rosen about his new Cardboard Cory documentary and check in with journalist Erik Maulbetsch of The Colorado Times Recorder about a QAnon rally in Denver.Also, we talk Kamala Harris as the VP pick, find Cory writing empty bills and advertising everywhere but in Colorado, get an update on the GOP's war against the post office, check Lauren Boebert's arrest records, and so much more.Cardboard Cory - The Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hfDc0Vp87EErik's article about QAnon: https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2020/08/denver-anti-child-sex-trafficking-march-rooted-in-qanon-conspiracy-theories/28841/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!Americans are still struggling from the effects of the Pandemic which broke 5 million cases in the US alone over the weekend and claimed the lives of 162,000 Americans to say nothing of the economic effects made much worse by Senate Republican inaction, Trump signs executive orders that are probably illegal and definitely inadequate, and hey, no one is listening to Donald Trump anyway, our 2nd favorite US Senators tells Coloradans to Take a Hike! self-proclaimed pro-police demonstrators physically assault Black Lives Matter counter-protesters and film it all themselves, and everything is still generally terrible. LinksA president ignored: Trump’s outlandish claims increasingly met with a collective shrug (The Washington Post, 8/9/20)Top GOP super PAC launching $21M Senate ad blitz this month (POLITICO, 8/5/20)AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s false push on preexisting conditions (AP News, 8/8/20)Trump keeps promising an overhaul of the nation’s health-care system that never arrives (The Washington Post, 8/2/20)“Back The Blue” Attacks Black Lives Matter In Fort Collins (Colorado Pols, 8/9/20)Aurora city councilwoman floats idea of requiring permits for protesters (9News, 8/4/20)Local Republican Usual Suspect Helping Kanye Make Ballot (Colorado Pols, 8/5/20)New York attorney general seeks to dissolve NRA in suit accusing gun rights group of wide-ranging fraud and self-dealing (The Washington Post, 8/6/20)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 Senate Republicans keep shouting O’Doyle Rules as their car flies off the coronavirus cliff, We find our second favorite US Senator boning up on his mandarin in preparation for his next job, QAnon makes it to the White House, we weigh the relative merits of a little spray-paint against all of the horrible things visited upon this nation since 2016, and we interview yet another Jason Bane marking the first time the podcast has gone INTERNATIONAL!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 it’s less than 100 days til the biggest election ever ever ever, Senate Republicans want everyone to become homeless and then sweep them off the streets, we find Cory Gardner not in Washington doing his job, but at a ridiculous photo op with handbag designer and black bean enthusiast, Ivanka Trump, 9News fires an antifascist (and it’s not Ian this time), Aurora Mayor and vanquished former congressman Mike Coffman reminds us why we worked so hard to beat him in 2018, we play a new game, and the podcast turns one year old!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!Pandemic-Presidential-Pardoning-Pence-Pandering-Vice President-Picking-Palooza!  Another edition of the Boebert Report, we can’t seem to find our second favorite US Senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner AND we interview David Ortiz, Democratic Candidate for State House in Littleton and Centennial who is running against a dude with an impossible to not snicker at name.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 it’s Post-Primary-Processing-Pallooza! A local gun group pulls the trigger and a tiny little flag that says BANG pops out of the barrel, Cory Gardner wears a mask, Lauren Boebert wears a gun, we tempt the fates by attempting to be light hearted about the coronavirus, even Trump’s fake poll shows him losing by 10 points, and we may get a look at his tax returns after all!LinksWhy Hickenlooper Beat Romanoff (Colorado Pols: July 8, 2020)Primary Results Portend GOP Wipeout in November (Colorado Pols: July 1, 2020)Silverii: Colorado’s far-right was destroyed in the 2020 Republican primary (The Denver Post, July 9, 2020)The End Is Near for the Neville Clan (Colorado Pols: July 6, 2020)“Yosemite Samantha” Hires Crack Team Of Local Crackpots (Colorado Pols: July 7, 2020)Appearing on Racist Podcast, Boebert Joked She’ll Jello-Wrestle Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (Colorado Times Recorder: July 7, 2020)QAnon-Curious House Candidate Gave Her Customers Diarrhea (The Daily Beast: July 8, 2020)Cory Gardner is Melting Down in Front of Our Eyes(Colorado Pols: July 1, 2020)Media “Doing Everything They Can to Suppress Our Vote,” Gardner Tells GOP Activists - (Colorado Times Recorder: July 6, 2020)Supreme Court says Manhattan prosecutor may see Trump’s financial records, denies Congress access for now (Washington Post: July 9, 2020)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 it’s Primary-Prognostication-Palooza! The President takes a pounding in the polls, a potential politician pretends to be a professional, and more pretentious pablum from some political putzes.VIDEO: Shelly Landon from OklahomaHosts: 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.