

The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado Politics
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The Get More Smarter Podcast is a weekly overview of Colorado politics. The podcast is hosted by seasoned Colorado politicos Jason Bane of ColoradoPols.com and Ian Silverii, former 9News talking head, former Denver Post Columnist, former Executive Director of ProgressNow Colorado, and current has-been. Each week they dive into the local and national news, and for some reason, have had Governors, US Senators, Members of Congress, and countless local elected officials as guests over the years. The guys are also frighteningly good at predicting the future. No, really. Are you ready to Get More Smarter?
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Dec 17, 2019 • 1h 8min
Gov. Jared Polis Gets More Smarter
Send us a message! Really!Governor Jared Polis dishes about his first year as governor and throws shade at New Mexican green chile, the US House of Representatives is slated to impeach the president of the United States for the third time in American History, Congressman Ken Buck gets called out for truancy, our second favorite US Senator from Colorado (Cory Gardner) decides if he wants to roll out the red carpet for Donald Trump after the president promises to be in Colorado “lots”, and more white supremacists show their faces for radio and voices for silent film as 710KNUS comes under renewed scrutiny for harboring neo-nazis.Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSubscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a review if you Got More Smarter. Have any questions or comments? Send us an email at 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!

Dec 10, 2019 • 48min
Buck, Buck, Neguse!
Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast Donald Trump is an anti-Semitic piece of garbage who should absolutely be impeached, we find Cory Gardner at the bottom of the gutter in a new poll, and Colorado Congressman Scott Tipton catches a primary challenge from a heavily armed West Slope barkeep.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!

Dec 3, 2019 • 50min
If You Can't Defend Impeachment, Make Stuff Up!
Send us a message! Really!Impeachment enters a new phase with Colorado connections, state lawmakers say more gun safety legislation is coming, and Cory Gardner’s BLM move gets even worser. Alan Franklin (ProgressNow Colorado political director) subs in for Ian Silverii, who's out teaching orphan goats how to recycle.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!

Nov 26, 2019 • 1h 5min
Jim Jordan's Jibber Jabber (ft. Katie Farnan)
Send us a message! Really!This week, Chewbaca made an appearance at impeachment-a-lago while Rep. Ken Buck blew off the hearings, the US Senate primary is a slog, Trump applies maximum pressure to the wrong Korea, and Cory Gardner’s worst nightmare, Katie Farnan, plays Duke or Donald.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!

Nov 19, 2019 • 1h 4min
The Sideshow Bob Defense
Send us a message! Really!This week on Colorado's bestest political podcast, impeachment-a-lago gets serious, Doug Lamborn attempts to make himself useful and fails, Ken Buck straps on his best Sideshow Bob costume two-weeks after Halloween, Cory Gardner celebrates two years without a townhall, irrelevant Colorado House Republicans attempt to bring a ballot initiative to make a law that's already a law a law, again, and fairy godmother of the #resistance, Jessica Zender, plays Duke or Donald.Check out Colorado IndivisibleIndivisible Front Range ResistanceIndivisible DenverHelp Us Find Cory Event (Wednesday, November 20th)Jessica's TwitterHosts: 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!

Nov 12, 2019 • 49min
Post-Election Analysis
Send us a message! Really!This week, the latest effort to save the state from TABOR’s claws goes down, the 2019 election gets messy in a top swing county, washed up old politicians trying to be relevant get smacked down by the Denver Post Editorial Board, Impeachment-a-lago gets real this week, and our Producer Ethan Black goes head to head with yours truly in America’s worst game show, Duke or Donald.Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackYou can subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and SoundCloud. Leave us a review if you Got More Smarter and pass us along to your friendsThat’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!

Nov 5, 2019 • 58min
Trump's Impeachment, Cory Gardner's 100k Bribe, and Colorado Labor
Send us a message! Really!This week, Republicans are trapped between a rock and a hairpiece as the impeachment process gets formalized in the United States House of Representatives, guest Geof Cahoon plays Duke or Donald and teaches us about the Colorado labor movement, Donald Trump buys himself a friend in Colorado Senator Cory Gardner with a cool hundred-thousand dollars, which Gardner will apparently be putting into very-weird pro-oil company advertisements, the US House passes the CORE act thanks to our friend Joe Neguse, and by the time you listen to this episode, it'll be election day in Colorado, so we do some prognosticating and you'll find out how right or wrong we are.Duke or DonaldQ1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | Q6Impeachment Actionmoveon.org/impeachHosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackYou can subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and SoundCloud. Leave us a review if you Got More Smarter and pass us along to your friendsThat’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!

Oct 29, 2019 • 41min
Colorado's Big, Beautiful Border Wall
Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Colorado Republican Party Chairman and Congressional Hobbyist Ken Buck tries to throw the failed recall hot potato into someone else’s lap, Cory Gardner Gets President Trump’s Back (duh), a major Colorado newspaper demands Gardner’s resignation from office, and, as usual, the Colorado GOP is in a really, really, super bad spot heading into 2020. We also play Duke or Donald with Fawn Bolak of Keep Abortion Safe and prognosticate a border wall in Colorado.Follow Keep Abortion Safe: Instagram | Facebook | TwitterFollow Get More Smarter: Twitter | Facebook | InstagramHosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackYou can subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and SoundCloud. Leave us a review if you Got More Smarter and pass us along to your friends.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!

Oct 22, 2019 • 60min
Recall-A-Lago
Send us a message! Really!This week, Recall-A-Lago comes to a sad and anticlimactic end as Colorado Republicans attempt to distance themselves from the wreckage, Cory Gardner whiffs yet another chance to say out loud that it’s wrong to solicit foreign interference in an election (26:26), and a new poll finds him badly, badly underwater (12:40). The US Senate Democrats in a primary to take on Gardner in 2020 report their latest fundraising numbers and our friend Manny plays the worst game in Colorado, Duke or Donald (50:55).------Get spooky with Indivisible Front Range Resistance, ProgressNow Colorado, Rocky Mountain Values and Sierra Club Colorado for Cardboard Cory: A Spooky Night with Voters.Where: The Alliance Center (1536 Wynkoop St, Denver, CO 80202)When: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 6:30 PM - 8:30 PMLink to Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/962198880782683/-------Follow Get More Smarter: Twitter | Facebook | InstagramHosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan Black You can subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and SoundCloud. Leave us a review if you Got More Smarter and pass us along to your friends.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!

Oct 15, 2019 • 1h 3min
Rep. Jason Crow Gets More Smarter
Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the fallout from the Cory Gardner national-media-meltdown last Friday, we play another round of the incredibly difficult game Duke or Donald, and we interview Congressman Jason Crow from Colorado's sixth congressional district. Duke or Donald AnswersQ1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | Q6Follow Get More Smarter: Twitter | Facebook | InstagramHosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackSpecial Thanks to Jordan Spalding and Coby Neumann for recording this week's episode.You can subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and SoundCloud. Leave us a review if you Got More Smarter and pass us along to your friends.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!


