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?
In Which We Discuss Quadfectas and Underwater Alien Bases
Election Results Inside the Blue Rectangle (feat. Seth Masket)
Election Day Warm Fuzzies
Qualified Hopium (feat. Andrew Baumann)
The Election That Is and Was Not (feat. Nadine Bridges, Susy Bates, and Sen. Jessie Danielson)
Get in Losers: We're Going Losing! (feat. Kate Barr)
The Pro-Normal Party Coalition (feat. Adam Frisch)
PSA: Here's How to Vote in the 2024 Election in Colorado
Election Denial is Not Just a Mangled Joke About a River in Egypt
The Great Quick Hits Experiment
Venezuelan Gangs Have Not (Yet) Taken Over This Podcast
No Pets Were Eaten During the Making of this Episode (feat. Sen. Michael Bennet)
Special Session Special Episode Special (and "Game of Groans")
The Democratic National Convention and "The Economy Numbers"
Don't Let the Internet Eat Your Brain, Kids (feat. Charles Ashby)
Weird, Weird, Weird...but Also Good! (feat. Christy Powell)
Holy Shit: Biden is Out. Emergency Pod!
Shut Up, Gaetz
The Get More Smarter Podcast 200th Episode Spectacular (feat. Gov. Jared Polis)
The POST-Primary Political Podcast for the People
The Pre-Primary Political Podcast for the People
Water, Water Everywhere...and Not a Drop for Nonfunctional Turf (feat. Alan Salazar)
The Colorado GOP Issues a Fatwa: Abandon Public Schools!
In Which We Predict the Future (More or Less)
The Colorado Legislature's Breakthrough Session (feat. Christy Powell)
Just...Don't Shoot Dogs, Okay?
Oh, Buddy...(feat. Rep. Jasmine Crockett)
No Odor in the Pod (feat. Christy Powell)
Is Your Refrigerator Running...To FREEDOM?
Attorney General Phil Weiser Gets Even More Smarter
Congressman Jason Crow Gets More Smarter (Again!)
Sen. John Hickenlooper Gets Even More Smarter
The Scourge of Uncertified Potatoes (feat. Christy Powell)
The Craziest B**** in the Target Parking Lot
The Constitution is Really Just a List of Suggestions Now
Nopeachment and a Dozen Future Chickens
The Made-Up Migrant Scare in Lakewood (feat. Kyle Clark)
Coloradans REALLY Dislike Lauren Boebert (feat. Andrew Baumann)
Every Person Listening to this Podcast is a Person
Two Republican Stories So Crazy We Couldn't Possibly Make Them Weirder
The Colorado Republican Party is Dying Right Before Our Eyes (and Ears)
How Democrats Can Get it Right in 2024 (feat. Will Marshall)
EMERGENCY POD: Lauren Boebert Goes Seat Shopping!
The Inside Story of How Colorado Barred Donald Trump from the Ballot (feat. Mario Nicolais)
CROSSOVER EPISODE: The 2023 Lauren Boebert Get More Smarter x City Cast Denver Holiday Clicktacular!
Boebert, Bidenomics, and a Bread Sandwich
We're Not Dead Yet!
The 2023 Election Recap (feat. Seth Masket)
Buck, Boebert, and Body Armor (feat. Marshall Zelinger)
Okay, Seriously, Who the Heck is Mike Johnson?
Lauren Boebert Bought 180 Pounds of Candy (feat. Christy Powell)
Which Comes First: House Speaker or Christmas?
A Small Colorado Town's School Board Madness (feat. Logan Davis)
Who Will Speak for the Speakerless? (feat. Rep. Brittany Pettersen)
Deputary Secumatary of Shutdowns
The Government May Shut Down, But We Won't! (feat. Karen Middleton)
Beetlebert, Beetlebert, Beetlebert (feat. Micah Parkin)
Mike Coffman, King of Clowns (feat. Juan Marcano)
Republican Presidential Debates = BDSM (feat. Seth Masket)
This is Serious; Yeah, Totally
Mumbling and Bumbling in Colorado (feat. Christy Powell)
Let's Keep Those Indictments Coming!
Governor Jared Polis Gets More Smarter...Again!
Bluenami 2: Electric Boogaloo (feat. Shad Murib)
Republicans are Even Too Weird for Colorado Springs (feat. Spencer Soicher)
Climb Rocks, Pass Bills (feat. Dr. Erik Murdock)
Mayoral Madness is Over! (feat. City Cast Denver)
Thus Begins the 'Dave Coin' Economy (feat. Dave Young)
Christian Nationalism is Coming for You (feat. Rob Boston)
Everybody Gets a New Mayor! (feat. Alan Salazar)
Legislative Session Wrap Up (feat. Christy Powell)
Sine Die is Nigh (And We Hit 150 Episodes!)
Just Do Your Job! (feat. Andrew Baumann)
The Politics of Nothing
The City Cast Denver Cross(back)over
What (Almost) Every Denver Mayoral Candidate Has to Say (feat. City Cast Denver)
The Colorado GOP Says "We Don't Care" About Gun Violence (feat. Christy Powell)
All Truth, No Lies (feat. Rep. Joe Neguse)
House Speaker Julie McCluskie Gets More Smarter
The Answer is: Yes!
Why Biden and Trump Are Still Tied Together (feat. Eli Stokols)
Please Stop Yelling at the State of the Union (feat. Christy Powell)
Kyle Clark of "Next With Kyle Clark" is, Uh, Next...
Why Do Republicans Do Anything? (feat. Tim Miller)
How to Go the Full Alan Salazar (feat. Alan Salazar)
Who Sends the Splinters to the People Who Just Retired?
The Last Episode of 2022 (Even Though It's 2023)
The End of the End? (feat. Christy Powell and Alan Franklin)
The GOP Infinity War, Sans Endgame (feat. Rep. Jason Crow)
Rep-Elect Brittany Pettersen Gets More Smarter
The Get More Smarter Post-Election Extravaganza
Get More Smarter Before Election Day!
State Sen. Kevin Priola Gets More Smarter
The Blue Wave Cometh in Colorado (feat. Andrew Baumann)
What Time is It? Voting Time! (feat. Alec Garnett)
Get Even More Weiserer (feat. AG Phil Weiser)
Crazier Than a Bag of Squirrels
Nobody Has Anything Good to Say (Except Us)
Governor Jared Polis Gets More Smarter
Asshats in Key States
Dark Brandon Suits Up for a MAGA Smackdown (feat. Charles Ashby)
Come for the Christian Nationalism; Stay for the White Grievance (feat. Dr. Anand Sohkey)
Michael Bennet and Jon Ossoff Get More Smarter
Dark Brandon Rises for Horse Sushi
SPECIAL: John "Captain Planet" Hickenlooper
Two Statewide Republicans May Have Already Lost
Undefeated Against Unicorns
The World's Smallest Gun (feat. Treasurer Dave Young)
Republicans Move On After Weird Primaries in Colorado
Piecing Through the Primary Election (feat. Seth Masket)
Predicting the Primary Election (feat. Armin Thomas)
Heidi Ganahl Won't Let Greg Lopez Lose
It's. The. Guns. (feat. Rep. Tom Sullivan)
Does This Look Like it Could Be Weird? (feat. Alec Garnett)
Falling on Ridiculously Dull Swords
The One With the Epic Rant About Abortion Rights (feat. Christy Powell)
Get Off the People's Lawn! (feat. Christy Powell)
For a Better Circus, Add More Clowns
Whose Demon Is It Anyway? (feat. Sen. Julie Gonzales and Scott Wasserman)
A Mayor in Her Free Time (feat. Dusti Gurule)
The GOP Caucus Conundrum (feat. Rep. Joe Neguse)
The Worst Campaigns This Century (feat. Charles Ashby)
The Get More Smarter Podcast: Episode 100!
SOS Jena Griswold Gets More Smarter
Holy Crap She's Really Going to Do It
The Republican Senate Race is Straight Bananas
2022 Legislative Preview (ft. Speaker Alec Garnett)
Quick-Hits to End a Long Year
2022 Colorado Election Preview
Boebert, Somehow, Found a New Low (ft. Sara Loflin)
What the Hell Is Going on in Mesa County? (ft. Charles Ashby)
Infrastructure Week for Our Weak Infrastructure (ft. Commissioner Chaz Tedesco)
Conspiracy Candidates (ft. Erik Maulbetsch)
Representative Doctor Yadira Caraveo Gets More Smarter
BONUS: City Cast Denver Takes Us to Casa Bonita
Map Madness! (ft. Evan Wyloge)
Operation Naptime: Tina Peters Returns
Heidi Ga-Not-Gonna-Be-Governor Trips Into the Race
Come Home Tina Peters!
Boebert's Big Bogus Bonus Bribe
Mesa County Missteps (ft. Congressman Ed Perlmutter)
Choose the Side Without Neo-Nazis
All-Star Alternate Universes
Therapy's Cheaper Than Polling (ft. Andrew Baumann)
The Libertarians Are Doing Their Best (ft. Jon Murray of The Denver Post)
Biggest Legislative Session Ever (ft. Speaker Alec Garnett)
Stop Trying to Make "Gerrymandering" Happen. It's Not Going to Happen.
Legislating With Lunatics
The Big Lie is the Only Truth (ft. California/Canada Jason Bane)
The Bill Formerly Known As The Public Option (ft. Jake Williams of Healthier Colorado)
Ghosted by Boebert (ft. Charles Ashby)
Guns, Globes, and Getting Vaccinated
Boebert Conquers the "Spirit Realm"
All-Stars and A-Holes
The Election Truther Chairing the Redistricting Committee
BONUS: Senator John Hickenlooper Gets More Smarter
Legislating With Crayons
Using a Giant Carrot as a Stick
Saying No to Boebert's No to Our Noes
Impeachment 2: Trumplectric Trumpaloo
Weld County, Wyoming (ft. Speaker Alec Garnett)
We Tried To Warn You About Boebert
Exclusive: Rep. Jason Crow on the Capitol Mob
Speaker KC Becker Gets More Smarter
It's Finally Over!!! We Won!!! (ft. Sulita Sualau & Ron Ruggiero of SEIU Local 105)
Professor Seth Masket Gets More Smarter
Rep. Diana DeGette Gets More Smarter
You Eat An Elephant One Bite At A Time (ft. Laura Packard and Mayor Michael Hancock)
Get More Weiser (ft. Attorney General Phil Weiser)
Is All Politics Local? (ft. Senate President Leroy Garcia)
Trump Hates the Troops (ft. Kyra Storojev)
Diane Mitsch Bush and Alexis King Get More Smarter
The Slate of Hate (ft. Justine Sandoval)
Cardboard Cory - The Documentary: The Podcast (ft. Nick Rosen and Erik Maulbetsch)
Santa Cory and the Do Nothing GOP
Future Taiwanese Lobbyist Cory Gardner
Q-Donkulous
The Boebert Report (ft. David Ortiz)
Post-Primary-Processing-Pallooza!
Primary-Prognostication-Palooza!
CO Legislature Review (ft. Rep. Chris Kennedy)
Everything You Wish You Knew About Polling (ft. Andrew Baumann)
Protests and Police Violence (ft. Jason Bane of Richmond, VA)
Abortion Bans = Bad (ft. Jaki Lawrence of Cobalt)
Rep. Daneya Esgar Gets More Smarter
What the B#ck?
U.F.Oh, who even cares?
Rep. Joe Neguse Gets More Smarter
Getting Coronavirus to Own the Libs
Gov. John Hickenlooper Gets More Smarter
COVID Conspiracies
Federal Response to COVID-19 (ft. Congressman Ed Perlmutter)
Caucuses and Coronavirus
Super Tuesday Spectacular
Surveys, Sausage Making, and Sanders (ft. Fawn Bolak)
Gardner on Guard
You've Got Questions; These Aren't Answers
Impeach the Iowa Caucuses
#CoverUpCory
Colorado as an Abortion Safe-Haven (ft. Madeleine Schmidt)
Weak, Frightened, and Impotent
The Colorado Legislature Gets More Smarter
2019 Gets More Smarter
Gov. Jared Polis Gets More Smarter
Buck, Buck, Neguse!
If You Can't Defend Impeachment, Make Stuff Up!
Jim Jordan's Jibber Jabber (ft. Katie Farnan)
The Sideshow Bob Defense
Post-Election Analysis
Trump's Impeachment, Cory Gardner's 100k Bribe, and Colorado Labor
Colorado's Big, Beautiful Border Wall
Recall-A-Lago
Rep. Jason Crow Gets More Smarter
Duke or Donald?
Impeachment Mafia ft. Eli Stokols of the LA Times
Ukraine in the Membrane
You Can Still Get In Trouble For Saying Nothing
Cory Gardner's No Good Very Bad Summer
Fake Outrage, Fake Hamburgers, & Fake Town Halls
Modest Culottes and Cory Collisions
Tom Steyer Gets More Smarter
Inaccessibility is the Brand
Republicans Won't Do Anything To Prevent Gun Violence (But What Else Is New?)
Rep. Ken Buck (R) Does Democrats' Jobs For Them