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
214 episodes
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
In Which We Predict the Future (More or Less)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, with six months left to go until the 2024 election, we look at the state of the U.S. House, the Senate, and the Presidential race that will lit...
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Season 3
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Episode 195
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59:40
The Colorado Legislature's Breakthrough Session (feat. Christy Powell)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the SINE has DIED; for those of you who for some reason don’t speak Latin, the second regular session of the 74th general assembly has come to ...
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Season 3
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Episode 194
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1:15:10
Just...Don't Shoot Dogs, Okay?
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Ian sings "The Final Countdown" as the Colorado House and Senate race to finish up dozens of bills before the legislature adjourns sine die on ...
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Season 3
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Episode 193
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59:57
Oh, Buddy...(feat. Rep. Jasmine Crockett)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we have a special interview-only episode with Texas Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, who has become a viral sensation for her willingness to say to Re...
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Season 3
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Episode 192
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48:17
No Odor in the Pod (feat. Christy Powell)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Ian is/was coming in from Our Nation’s Capitol, Washington DC, where the GOP Micro-Majority is getting sick and tired of threats and shenanigan...
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Season 3
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Episode 191
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1:12:50
Is Your Refrigerator Running...To FREEDOM?
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME LAUNDRY, or something; Democratic members of Colorado’s congressional delegation fight back against some of the sill...
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Season 3
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Episode 190
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1:00:25
Attorney General Phil Weiser Gets Even More Smarter
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we’ve got a longer episode because there's lots to discuss. First, there are more than a few problems for Colorado republicans in more than a f...
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Season 3
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Episode 189
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1:20:10
Congressman Jason Crow Gets More Smarter (Again!)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Second Regular Session of the 74th Colorado General Assembly is about halfway over: Democrats are taking big swings at big bills and Republ...
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Season 3
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Episode 188
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1:03:09
Sen. John Hickenlooper Gets Even More Smarter
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast...we have a special interview-only episode with the man who was the first guest on the original show way back in May 2016. You know him as Denve...
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Season 3
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Episode 187
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45:34
The Scourge of Uncertified Potatoes (feat. Christy Powell)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast...Christy Powell is back on the podcast, and we’ve got a whole Christy-only special on the halfway point of the Colorado legislative session as a...
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Season 3
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Episode 186
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48:01
The Craziest B**** in the Target Parking Lot
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Super Tuesday came and went and left us with the same situation we had beforehand; that’s right, it’s a Biden-Trump rematch, and no, there’s no...
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Season 3
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Episode 185
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1:00:36