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

Send us a message! Really!Donald Trump’s collapsing poll numbers, Andrew Romanoff and John Hickenlooper square off in three debates for the chance to take on our second favorite senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner, who put out the worst ad we’ve seen all cycle so far, possibly in our lives, and we interview Colorado House Assistant Majority Leader, our friend and yours, State Representative Chris Kennedy about the most confusing legislative session in recent memory.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 we are still getting emails from corporations and nonprofits engaging in performative email allyship. Turd Ferguson makes his debut at the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission, an initially controversial police accountability and reform bill get surprising bipartisan support in the Colorado Senate, and despite all that, the walls are clearly caving in on Colorado Republicans. Plus, our interview with Andrew Baumann, Senior Vice President of Research at Global Strategy Group (and is really the only one qualified to do any prognosticating on this podcast at all). 

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast...Coronavirus is not our first topic today as protests about police violence take over headlines...Colorado Republican lawmakers do the worst thing they could have done...we find our second favorite U.S. Senator, Cory Gardner, in a really bad place...and we talk to another person named Jason Bane.* Producer's note: This episode was recorded on Monday, June 1st. Because current events move so quickly, our discussion on the Black Lives Matter protests in Denver and around the country are slightly outdated. This episode is coming at you later than usual because ProgressNow was focussed on organizing grassroots support for SB20-217: The Enhance Law Enforcement Integrity Act. Please sign our petition and tell your state senator to support this important piece of legislation for police accountability. https://bit.ly/yesonsb217

Send us a message! Really!Does the right to contract a deadly virus stop at the tip of your windpipe? The Colorado legislature goes back to session in an alternative universe that barely resembles where they were in March when they shut it down, our second favorite US Senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner becomes the first candidate for senate do decline the 9News debate in 22 years because he’s a coward, the great tax cut wars of 2020 begin and one side is a bunch of lying liars, and our latest edition of WHAT THE BUCK? (Because you don’t see Morgan Carroll making a fool out of herself every single week, now do you?)  Finally, we interview Jaki Lawrence, Strategic Communications Director for Cobalt, who walks us through yet another partisan abortion ban which will not only go down in flames but also waste a lot of time and money doing so.Check out https://cobaltadvocates.org/

Send us a message! Really!We discuss the "free-dumb" to get coronavirus (1:04), FEMA diverts another PPE shipment and fights Ian on Twitter (10:12), Gov. Polis visits the White House with our second-favorite senator from Colorado (Cory Gardner) (15:34), What the Buck? gets an update (20:40), and Joint Budget Committee Chairwoman Rep. Daneya Esgar breaks down the budget crisis facing the state legislature because of the coronavirus pandemic (29:50).Follow Get More Smarter on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.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, two polls in a row spell doom for our second favorite US Senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner, everything is totally under control with the coronavirus as cases mount well past a million, Republicans still want to kill Obamacare (even though it’s one of the few things actually helping during this pandemic), the chairman of the Colorado Republican Party commits at least one crime, a white-supremacist-terrorist-anti-virus protestor's plot to throw pipe bombs at FBI agents, and the state budget is totally f#cked ...BUT OTHER THAN THAT, EVERYTHING IS COOL.-----Follow Get More Smarter on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.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…we talk about UFOs!...also, the latest on coronavirus, Cory Gardner poppin’ bottles, a potential ballot initiative nightmare this November, and an update on a couple of important stories that we’ve discussed before. House Majority Leader Alec Garnett joins us later to talk about how and when the legislature will return to work.--------------------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 coronavirus is still a thing; election laws are merely suggestions; and Colorado Republicans are shooting first and aiming later. We also have a long discussion with Congressman Joe Neguse of CD-2 who tells us what it's like in Congress with everyone wearing masks and how we're moving forward with the next few rounds of coronavirus legislation.Share this episode with a friend -- because you know they have extra time on their hands. When you share an episode, it helps us expand our audience. Together, we can all Get More Smarter.--------------------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…first quarter fundraising numbers for federal campaigns are out, and there’s big news...Republican House Minority Leader Patrick Neville might be the worst person in Colorado...and Republicans can’t yell at the coronavirus so they’re shaking their fists at the people trying to keep us safe.Share this episode with a friend -- because you know they have extra time on their hands. When you share an episode, it helps us expand our audience. Together, we can all Get More Smarter. We’ll talk at you next week.

Send us a message! Really!Former-Governor John Hickenlooper, now a candidate for US Senate in Colorado, calls in from his campaign bunker to tell us what it's like to campaign in the age of coronavirus and much more.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.