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

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, absolutely nobody has done more for Democrats in Colorado than Republicans in Colorado; it's not remotely close, and it's about to get worse. With ZERO statewide offices, total irrelevance in the Colorado legislature, and now zero-out-of-three incumbents running for re-election in their own congressional seats, the Colorado GOP is undeniably at their lowest point in modern history...perhaps all of history! We dance on the ashes of a once politically competitive organization that is more worried about infighting than any other sort of political battle. The Colorado House and Senate kick off the second regular session of the 74th general assembly; we do a preview of a preview of some of the big fights, the little fights, and the medium fights. 

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s a special interview-only episode! Will Marshall, president of the legendary center-left think tank Progressive Policy Institute, joins us to talk pragmatism versus performance, how Democrats can start winning working class voters again, and what the 2024 election is going to look like. 

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we almost made it through 2023 with another podcast episode, but then Lauren Boebert announced late on December 27th when LITERALLY NOBODY WAS TRYING TO THINK ABOUT HER that she was going to carpetbag her broken campaign down to the 4th congressional district. So, in this special episode of the Get More Smarter Podcast: What the Buck is our 8th Favorite Member of Congress from Colorado Doing in the 4th District?

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast...the Colorado Supreme Court held that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prevents the Secretary of State from placing Donald Trump on the Presidential ballot in Colorado, setting up a constitutional showdown with national implications. Mario Nicolais, one of the attorneys for the six electors who brought the case to the State Supreme Court, walks us through how it all went down and what he expects might happen next.

Send us a message! Really!We were so excited to be invited back to the excellent City Cast Denver podcast to talk about our 8th Favorite Member of Congress from Colorado, Lauren Boebert's 2023: from Beetlebert to facing a legit primary threat to George Santos being her grandbaby sitter to...well, all the rest. 

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast: Bidenomics? Bidenflation? Bidenpeachment? What portmanteau can’t we create with the President’s last name? Our 8th favorite member of congress from Colorado is living it up in the Big Apple! Has Rep. Lauren Boebert given up on winning reelection or has she just not realized that New York City isn’t in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District? Speaking of which, Barbora Hurd’s Husband has an ad, and it actually features him? It also happens to feature the same damn floor stompy guitar twang as every other Republican TV Ad in Colorado. And if you thought the Supreme Court of the United States was done taking away abortion rights, you were unfortunately probably wrong; we break down the mifepristone case headed to SCOTUS and hope we pronounced that correctly.

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Republicans from Colorado to Washington DC to North Carolina, to South Carolina, to California, and probably everywhere else too, in between are a big, big mess. We ask the question on everybody’s mind, how the hell does anyone still vote for them? The rats are fleeing the ship of our 8th favorite member of congress from Colorado, will it be enough to help Barbora Hurd’s Husband return the third congressional district to the red team?Just because you deny the results of an election doesn’t mean it didn’t happen (we’re talking to you, entire Colorado Republican Party); while we were out, the Colorado Legislature had a special session on property taxes and boy are our brains tired; and we announce the series finale of our segment on our 7th favorite member of Congress from Colorado -- What the Buck -- as CNNKenSNBC makes way for the CD4 primary clown car to really get rolling down to Yuma.

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the 2023 Election is over and Democrats notched some big wins across the country (and one glaring loss right here in Colorado). We break down the results and talk about what’s so special about the upcoming irregular legislative session. Of course, we check in again on our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado, Rep. Lauren Boebert, and we also talk about the most indicted Presidential candidate in history. On the topic of Republican Presidential candidates, Seth Masket, Director of the University of Denver’s Center on American Politics and the official "Professor of the Get More Smarter Podcast" returns to unpack the latest Republican Presidential Undercard Debate; he watched it so we didn’t have to! 

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…It’s our Buck, Boebert, and Body Armor episode! Jason Bane’s powers of psychic prognostication REIGN as "KenSNBC" makes it official he’s not running for reelection in 2024. Remember, if you want to know what the future holds in Colorado Politics, tune in to the Get More Smarter podcast. We also talk about Lauren Boebert, silly boots, and fully funding K-12 education in Colorado!BUT FIRST, Marshall Zelinger, Politics Guy for 9News, joins us to talk about the mosh pit that’s already forming to replace "CNN Ken," and he does it all while getting an oil change. 

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, there’s (finally) a new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; while he shares all but one consonant with the new Mayor of Denver, that’s where the similarities end. MAGA Mike Johnson is a real freak; we discuss whether or not he can make Congress function and keep Republicans in the Majority in 2024...or if he’s the gift that Democrats have been waiting for all autumn. Our 7th and 8th favorite members of Congress continue to humiliate and embarrass themselves and the State of Colorado on a national scale. But first...we’ve had a LOT more listener mail recently! It seems a lot of you really got fired up about our interview with Logan Davis about the right wing takeover of the Woodland Park School Board. Take a listen and send us your own comments at angryrants@getmoresmarter.com.