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

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

Colorado Pols and The Bighorn Company
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?
The Great Quick Hits Experiment
Send us a textThis 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 to listen to find out.
Oct 1, 2024
46 min
Venezuelan Gangs Have Not (Yet) Taken Over This Podcast
Send us a textThis 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 (again), and our 8th favorite member of Congress is pretty responsible for it (again!) Then, the Colorado legislature cut about a billion dollars in taxes over the past few years and now the state budget is short about….a billion dollars! Are these things related? Well, sort of! Then, Donald Trump, ...
Sep 23, 2024
55 min
No Pets Were Eaten During the Making of this Episode (feat. Sen. Michael Bennet)
Send us a textThis 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, and apparently a decently large slice of the American electorate, are grading Donald Trump on a rollercoaster sized curve; we ask, 'Why the hell are they doing that?' Then, our newest segment, "Game of Groans," is back to try and figure out who the hell is actually running the Colorado GOP and (spo...
Sep 12, 2024
1 hr 21 min
Special Session Special Episode Special (and "Game of Groans")
Send us a textThis 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 was called to avoid an absolute fiscal calamity because of something like three schmucks and a checkbook. Also, one of the undisputed champions of legislative nuttery goes totally off the rails as one Republican Politician uses her social media account to go after one of her own kids’ teach...
Aug 30, 2024
1 hr 6 min
The Democratic National Convention and "The Economy Numbers"
Send us a textThis 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 a few Colorado cameos to counter the GOP convention that was about…hell, who knows? We've got plenty of non-DNC stuff to discuss, including new fundraising numbers for the Colorado Dems and GOP...and hoo boy can you just see the difference in enthusiasm right there. Congressperson Lauren Bo...
Aug 23, 2024
1 hr 5 min
Don't Let the Internet Eat Your Brain, Kids (feat. Charles Ashby)
Send us a textThis 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 campaign, and so much more. Friend of the Pod, Governor Jared Polis, is calling the Colorado Legislature back into a special session, again, to cut property taxes, again, to avoid a really bad hostage situation, again! But first, you know him as the Get More Smarter Podcast’s Western Correspondent:...
Aug 16, 2024
1 hr 3 min
Weird, Weird, Weird...but Also Good! (feat. Christy Powell)
Send us a textThis 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 Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris has changed EVERYTHING and Donald Trump’s campaign is falling apart. It’s been a wild few weeks. Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters is finally on trial, and you’ll never guess who showed up to support her. The Colorado Republican Part...
Aug 4, 2024
1 hr 7 min
Holy Shit: Biden is Out. Emergency Pod!
Send us a textThis 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 after President Biden announced he was stepping down from the top of the Democratic Presidential ticket, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, and making HISTORY. Listen up to find out what we think about that, and what we think happens next.
Jul 21, 2024
22 min
Shut Up, Gaetz
Send us a textThis 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 assassination attempt; if you’re just waking up from a coma, yes, he’s about to officially be renominated as the GOP presidential candidate. We check in on the RNC convention in Milwaukee Wisconsin where Trump picked J.D. Vance, a dude barely one year older than Ian, to be his Vice Presidential running mate for a "Double MAGA"tick...
Jul 18, 2024
55 min
The Get More Smarter Podcast 200th Episode Spectacular (feat. Gov. Jared Polis)
Send us a textThis 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 made 200 episodes of a Colorado Politics podcast and you’re still listening! Yes you! On this episode we’ll look back at how far we’ve come, how far we still have to go, and interview one of our favorite guests, Colorado Governor Jared Polis.
Jul 11, 2024
1 hr 32 min
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