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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

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50:15

Bonus Episode: An Interview with Colorado Media...

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2025/02/03

Send us a message! Really! We have a bonus episode this week on the Get More Smarter Podcast: Jason Bane sits down with Corey Hutchins, who oversees the Journalism Institute at Colorado College, advises the Colorado Media Project, and serves on the board of the state chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Each Friday, Hutchins publishes "Inside the News in Colorado," a must-read look into how the media landscape in our state is changing...for better or worse. Hutchins tells us ab...

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91:46

So You're Living in an Oligarchic Kleptocracy (feat....

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2025/01/27

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, as the Trump regime enters its first week and begins to lay the groundwork for the worst shit imaginable, Colorado’s Democratic leaders ready themselves for the fight while Colorado’s Republicans write letters of support. We check in with our 7th and 8th favorite members of Congress from Colorado...who are quickly getting tied for 8th place. Also, our 100th favorite Colorado State Legislator does something predictably insane...

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77:21

Choo Choos and Cuckoos (feat. Chris Nicholson)

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2025/01/19

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the battle for the soul of the Colorado Republican Party is beginning. Who will be the unluckiest Coloradan to get the worst job in the state? Then, the Colorado Senate Republicans have plans! And a bunch of crinkly dollar bills! And, about half the seats in the State Senate they would need to do anything about it! Next, some men will literally intimidate witnesses to get a drunken rapist put in charge of the pentagon ...

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59:32

Republicans Unleash The Stupid

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2025/01/13

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the 2025 legislative session begins dies initii, which is not a thing but we’re going to make it a thing; with hundreds of millions in TABOR Budget Cuts looming, a big bill making it easier for workers to form a union setting up a showdown with the first floor, and the same ol BS from the House GOP MiniMinority, we’re in for 120 days of antics at Colfax and Sherman. Then, We dig a bit deeper into the 2026 statewide races (ev...

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59:34

President Musk Took Over While You Were Enjoying the...

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2025/01/07

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s 2025, so why does it feel like 1861? At least one of us is coming to you live on tape from our Nation’s Capitol where a very different kind of storming of the Capitol is happening on this election certification day, and in case you’re just waking up from a coma, yes, the American voters in their infinite wisdom elected Donald Trump president again, for reasons we are still unclear on. Then, we discuss who the real Presi...

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72:46

Aurora: Still Not Overrun by Venezuelans (feat. Dave...

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2024/12/19

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, "Deportation hamburgers," our podcast’s year in review, and the return of the Liberty in Laundry act. Oh, and the podcast makes international news! But first, Operation Aurora: Is it just a fun 2024 campaign slogan gimmick thing OR the actual beginning of rounding up tens of millions of human beings for the crime of trying to build a better life for them and their families, just like Elon Musk did! We’ll try to find out as w...

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Get More Legislating (feat. Senate President James...

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2024/12/11

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the incoming President of the Colorado Senate, James Coleman (D-Denver), joins us to talk near-supermajorities, housing policy, the state budget deficit, bipartisanship, Project 2025, and so much more. We're getting you more smarter for the next Colorado legislative session, which kicks off on Jan. 8, 2025.

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44:20

Get More Time Travel (feat. Tim Miller)

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2024/12/01

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast...we're going back in time to January 2023 and our interview with Tim Miller of The Bulwark. Before he became a national name in politics, Miller worked for Republican politicians right here in Colorado. We'll be back next week with all new episodes of the podcast once we finish digesting all of that turkey.

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82:13

Record-Setting Incompetence (feat. Elizabeth Jarosz)

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2024/11/25

Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, President-Elect Donald Trump continues to fill up his cabinet with weirdos, freaks, and credibly accused rapists, both statutory and otherwise; in other words, everything old is new again. The City of Aurora is the only major city in Colorado currently run by Republicans, and man, are they making our point for us. And our guest this week, Elizabeth Jarosz, is a market researcher with Ipsos; she explains how you can gain addi...

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59:19

In Which We Discuss Quadfectas and Underwater Alien...

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2024/11/16

Send us a message! Really!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 people like us breathe a sigh of relief when comparative normies like Marco Rubio get appointed as Secretary of State. Next, two leading Colorado Democrats have a pretty bad week based on things they said in public and not-so public. Then, we break down the final-ish results o...

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78:46

Election Results Inside the Blue Rectangle (feat....

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2024/11/09

Send us a message! Really!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-scale admission that Project 2025 was the agenda all along. We unpack the results with the one and only SMOTUS: Seth Masket, Professor of the Pod, Director of the Center on American Politics at the University of Denver and host of the excellent Politics and Baking podcast, "Power and...

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24:30

Election Day Warm Fuzzies

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2024/11/05

Send us a message! Really!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 races and the big battle for President of the United States, so we're here to bring some calm(ala) energy and tell you why we both think things are looking good. NOTE: If you are rooting for Donald Trump, then this episode will likely not improve your mood.

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101:25

Qualified Hopium (feat. Andrew Baumann)

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2024/11/02

Send us a message! Really!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 Andrew Baumann, Partner at Global Strategy Group, predicts the future and lays down a marker for what he thinks is going to happen in the 8th Congressional District and throughout Colorado; for the Presidential election; and whether or not you're going to get that bonus at th...

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81:20

The Election That Is and Was Not (feat. Nadine...

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2024/10/28

Send us a message! Really!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 with another edition of Game of Groans, and this time, it’s the RINOs versus the RATs! And we do one more round of super-future prognostication in which we absolutely nail a prediction as far away as 2026! We've also got an interview double header! Nadine Bridges, Exec...

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81:08

Get in Losers: We're Going Losing! (feat. Kate Barr)

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2024/10/19

Send us a textThis 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? Then, check your mailboxes because it’s time to vote! Ballots are either in the mail (or if you already voted, on the way back); instead of filling them out, we’re just going to predict what’s going to happen in our first 2024 edition of of "Prognostication." Donald Trump is a confused old man sw...

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73:12

The Pro-Normal Party Coalition (feat. Adam Frisch)

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2024/10/12

Send us a textThis 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 mystery of why the Arizona GOP is doing the job of the Colorado GOP, because don’t they have enough of their own problems with Kari friggin' Lake as their US Senate candidate? Donald Trump came to that part of Aurora that…really isn’t in Aurora. And the Big Lie is back in a big way for 2024, forcing ...

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PSA: Here's How to Vote in the 2024 Election in Colorado

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2024/10/11

Send us a textAlright 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 those sweet sweet envelopes of democracy coming to you literally any minute now! Colorado really does have the best voting system in the ENTIRE COUNTRY so if you haven’t gotten a text or an email letting you know your ballot is on the wa...

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Election Denial is Not Just a Mangled Joke About a...

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2024/10/07

Send us a textThis 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 the big lie; was justice served? The Vice Presidential debate was the veep of debates; we ask, “Will it matter”? Maybe one of the answers is “only if the president ends up looking pretty old!” Then, SURPRISE! it’s October! With only 30-ish days left in the most important election of our lives, wh...

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46:14

The Great Quick Hits Experiment

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2024/10/01

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.

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55:39

Venezuelan Gangs Have Not (Yet) Taken Over This Podcast

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2024/09/23

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, ...

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