The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado Politics
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?
Episodes
225 episodes
In Which We Discuss Quadfectas and Underwater Alien Bases
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, The Big Orange Guy is assembling a rogue’s gallery of cabinet members to most likely destroy the entire federal government from the inside out, making pe...
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Season 2
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Episode 216
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59:19
Election Results Inside the Blue Rectangle (feat. Seth Masket)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we regret to inform you that we were wrong. Donald Trump is heading back to the White House, potentially with a Republican Trifecta and a large-sc...
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Season 2
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Episode 215
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1:18:46
Election Day Warm Fuzzies
On a special Election Day edition of the Get More Smarter Podcast, we've got nothing but nice, warm fuzzies for 25 minutes. We know you're probably freaking out a little bit about Colorado ...
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Season 2
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24:30
Qualified Hopium (feat. Andrew Baumann)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s everything you need to know before election day! We make our final calls for 2024 and bring in the big prognosticator himself: Pollster of the pod <...
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Season 2
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Episode 214
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1:41:25
The Election That Is and Was Not (feat. Nadine Bridges, Susy Bates, and Sen. Jessie Danielson)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, has the Trump Wall (no, not the one that never got built) finally started to crack, and is it too late to make a difference in this election? Then, we’re back w...
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Season 2
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Episode 213
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1:21:20
Get in Losers: We're Going Losing! (feat. Kate Barr)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Gabe-ish Evans is running one of the most confusing campaigns for Congress we’ve ever seen; will it matter in the closest contest in Colorado? The...
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Season 2
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Episode 212
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1:21:08
The Pro-Normal Party Coalition (feat. Adam Frisch)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, keep your kids away from Gabe-ish Evans because he might want to hit them...or at least have that option. Then, we continue to examine the myst...
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Season 2
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Episode 211
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1:13:12
PSA: Here's How to Vote in the 2024 Election in Colorado
Alright everyone, warm up those brains, sharpen up those pencils, ink up those pens, and google up those ballot initiatives, it’s time once again to VOTE IN COLORADO! That’s right, your ballots are IN THE MAIL TODAY so be on the lookout for tho...
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Season 2
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0:57
Election Denial is Not Just a Mangled Joke About a River in Egypt
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters was finally sentenced for breaking into her own county’s election equipment to try and prove ...
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Season 2
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Episode 210
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44:45
The Great Quick Hits Experiment
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s a quick hits only episode! We’re trying something new this week: Can we get through 15 topics in 30 minutes? Probably not! But you'll have...
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Season 2
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Episode 209
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46:14
Venezuelan Gangs Have Not (Yet) Taken Over This Podcast
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the federal government is running out of time (again) to pass a continuing resolution (again) to fund the government for another few months (ag...
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Season 2
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Episode 208
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55:39
No Pets Were Eaten During the Making of this Episode (feat. Sen. Michael Bennet)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, with less than two months to go until the biggest election of our lives, Kamalamentum is still picking up speed...or is it? The media, an...
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Season 2
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Episode 207
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1:21:27
Special Session Special Episode Special (and "Game of Groans")
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s the Special Session Special Episode Special! We break down the politics and a little bit of the policy from this very special session that...
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Season 2
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Episode 206
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1:06:51
The Democratic National Convention and "The Economy Numbers"
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, at least one of us is coming to you live-ish from Chicago where Democrats are producing a convention full of joy, hope, optimism, and more than...
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Season 2
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Episode 205
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1:05:36
Don't Let the Internet Eat Your Brain, Kids (feat. Charles Ashby)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Ian went on a little summer break and…the entire world changed completely! We'll talk more about the vibe shift, the VP’s VP, the Trump campaig...
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Season 2
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Episode 204
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1:03:49
Weird, Weird, Weird...but Also Good! (feat. Christy Powell)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Ian is out of town volunteering at a no-kill aardvark shelter, so Christy Powell is here to save Jason from talking to himself. Presumptive Dem...
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Season 2
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Episode 203
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1:07:42
Holy Shit: Biden is Out. Emergency Pod!
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s a HOLY SHIT HE REALLY DID IT emergency podcast! We’re recording around 2:30 pm Mountain Time on Sunday, July 21st -- just about 2 hours af...
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Season 3
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Episode 202
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22:54
Shut Up, Gaetz
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, just when you thought this election couldn’t possibly get any more insaner, Donald Trump survived an actual assassin...
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Season 3
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Episode 201
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55:40
The Get More Smarter Podcast 200th Episode Spectacular (feat. Gov. Jared Polis)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, WE DID IT Y’ALL! WE MADE IT ALL THE WAY TO EPISODE 200! The world is a mess and politics has sure gotten weird over the last two weeks but we m...
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Season 3
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Episode 200
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1:32:26
The POST-Primary Political Podcast for the People
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Colorado Primary Election is over! The winners won and the losers lost and were here to celebrate and/or weep with you, depending on ...
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Season 3
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Episode 199
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1:02:19
The Pre-Primary Political Podcast for the People
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the 2024 Colorado Primary Election is on Tuesday, June 25th, so we break down the top races. Did you know in Colorado you not only vote for PEO...
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Season 3
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Episode 198
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50:57
Water, Water Everywhere...and Not a Drop for Nonfunctional Turf (feat. Alan Salazar)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Colorado GOP’s flag burning stochastic terrorism is the straw that broke the camel’s back, strangely enough, as local county party chairs a...
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Season 3
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Episode 197
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1:18:54
The Colorado GOP Issues a Fatwa: Abandon Public Schools!
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Colorado Republican Party continues it’s absolutely undefeated effort to ensure permanent electoral dominance by the Colorado Democratic Pa...
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Season 3
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Episode 196
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1:06:19