Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, what counts as merch, and what counts as a campaign donation, and does it even matter if you’re a doomed Republican running for governor of colorado? Yeah, we’d say so. That, and we cover Victor Marx’s peculiar pick for his running mate at the top. Then, pop quiz, is The Red Flame of Liberty affixed to a certain statue on Ellis Island, the discarded name of our patriotic hardcore punk band, or the newly-minted Republican no...
Aug 13
57 min
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, is Victor Marx running a campaign for Governor of Colorado, or a grifty merch store? Can it be both? Then, what do 2010 and 2026 have in common? Could it somehow be the even further collapse of the Colorado GOP because of top of the ticket vote-splitting due to the primary electorate being completely and totally brainrotted? Then, as if that wasn’t bad enough, we’ve got even more bad news for Colorado Republicans whos...
Aug 1
50 min
Send us a message! Really! THIS WEEK on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s another bonus interview-only episode! This time, we check in with Michael Farrington, candidate for RTD District K up in Adams county. Michael is a fourth-generation Coloradan who grew up and lives in Commerce City with his wife Kassidy and Great Pyrenees mix Zeus. Michael graduated from the University of Colorado Law School, where he focused on land use, housing, and local government. During law school, he worke...
Jul 29
34 min
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we have a guest co-host! State Senator and Democratic nominee for State Treasurer Jeff Bridges joins Jason Bane to discuss all of the latest political news, including... Marxism survives the Primary Election in more ways than one, while the DSA learns about political reality. Then, Colorado’s most intense General Election battle gets underway; we try to figure out how you would run an 18-day Primary campaign; we ponder Mitc...
Jul 16
1 hr 3 min
Send us a message! Really! In a special interview-only episode of the Get More Smarter Podcast, Attorney General Phil Weiser joins us to talk about his big victory in the Democratic Primary for Governor and what comes next. And also, LeBron James. 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 shi...
Jul 3
37 min
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we try to explain what the hell just happened in Colorado's Primary Election. Your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii were LIVE on the day after the Primary with Seth Masket -- author, political science professor at Denver University, and fan favorite guest -- over at his pod house called "The Smotus Report." This is that conversation in its entirety. That’s it for this episode! If you loved watching and/or listening t...
Jul 2
1 hr 34 min
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, by the time you hear this episode there will be less than one week left in the Colorado Primary Election, so whatever you do, DO NOT MAIL YOUR BALLOT! Take it to your nearest convenient drop box which you can locate at justvotecolorado.org before 7pm on Election Night, next Tuesday, June 30th...at least, if you want your vote to count. Then, it’s our FINAL PROGNOSTICATION before the results come in for the 2026 general elec...
Jun 25
1 hr 3 min
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, with less than 15 days until the 2026 Colorado Primary Elections we give the electorate a vibe check and let you know who to bet the college fund for or against on Polymarket! Then the Iran war enters its 15th-ish week, or it’s already over, or it never began, or it wasn’t a war, or maybe we shouldn’t have gotten rid of Obama’s Iran Deal to begin with! We find out that the federal government is using some combination of stu...
Jun 17
53 min
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we continue our quest to interview every Democrat in an important primary election, and this week we’ve got fan-favorite and three-time returning champion State Senator Jessie Danielson back on the show to talk about her run to be Colorado’s next Secretary of State! Senator Danielson represents Jefferson County’s District 22, home of the Get More Smarter Podcast in the Colorado State Senate. As a Democratic state legislato...
Jun 15
34 min
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we were complaining just a few weeks ago about the lack of political ads on the airwaves and now, we’re very, very sorry, because it is nigh impossible to turn on a screen anywhere in Colorado without getting blasted by primary campaign ads…from Democrats only. Then, has Donald Trump finally gone too far? We check in with soon-to-be Ex Senator Bill Cassidy and soon to be ex congressman Thomas Massie to see if Trump still ha...
May 28
1 hr 23 min
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