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

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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Jason is almost eerily psychic because our 64th favorite County Clerk in Colorado, Tina Peters, is actually running for secretary of state!!! The Crimesharknado narrative takes another hit as the presumptive GOP nominee for governor talks about all the alerts she gets on her Nextdoor app, The now-at-least-four-time-anti-abortion-losers are coming back for a fifth helping of “no thank you” from Colorado voters as another preposterous ballot initiative gets filed, and Douglas County Conservatives continue their recent ritual of doxxing people they perceive as their political enemies, and that’s really irresponsible and dangerous!

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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Republicans are still trying to figure out how to talk about the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th 2021 that was sparked by Donald Trump and literally carried out by thousands of his supporters wearing his name all over their clothes; Colorado’s Most Famous Political Criminal Kicks gets a new contender from our 64th favorite Colorado County Clerk, Tina Peters; our soon to be 8th favorite congressperson from Colorado once again demonstrates that those who thump the Constitution understand it the very least. Douglas County Republicans haven’t learned the lessons Jefferson County Republicans learned about how school boards work, and they’re gonna pay for it, and finally we review last week’s GOP US Senate debate in Fort Lupton and introduce you to our absolute most favorite candidate for any office ever, Daniel Hendricks.

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 shiny new channel on YouTube, smashing that subscribe button on our Substack, and sharing this episode with your friends, your enemies, and your 8th favorite Member of Congress from Colorado! THANK YOU so much for listening, and we’ll see you next time!

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Jinx! This week we talk the 2022 Colorado legislative session with Speaker Alec Garnett. Subjects include (but are not limited to): 

• Term limits (3:59)
• Working alongside insurrectionists (6:46)
• Voting for paragraph-long amendments in support of Tina Peters (without reading them) (11:47)
• Saving people money (13:35)
• The state budget (16:03)
• Getting the Avs and Nugs back on TV (20:47)
• Enshrining abortion rights (23:58)
• Republicans jinxing themselves (27:10)
• What's next for Speaker Alec Garnett? (31:36)

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Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, an all-quick-hits episode! For our last show of 2021 we’re trying something new, a wide range of topics having missed our very, very obvious opportunity to make the 2022 predictions episode our last one of the year. Also we want to give a special shoutout to that conservative tracker who drew the short straw and has to listen to this and transcribe it every week, we feel you buddy. So let’s get into it! 

Topics include

1. Kill the Filibuster? (1:03)
2. CO-08 (4:35)
3. Attorney General Race (8:27)
4. The Boebert Report (9:50)
5. Doug Lamborn! (14:41)
6. GOP Candidate for Governor Danielle Neuschwanger's Homophobia (19:30)
7. Finding Cory (21:56)
8. Republican Governors Taking Credit for Stuff They Didn't Do (23:22)
9. Two-Face Heidi Ganahl (24:06)
10. Local Government Collective Bargaining (26:06)
11. El Paso GOP Nonsense (28:11)
12. Joe Oltman is Dangerous (29:39)
13. Lara Trump Misremembers January 6th (33:40)
14. Happy Holidays to the War on Christmas (35:03)

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Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

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This week, we predict the future so you don’t have to! And yes, we knew you were going to say that. Lauren Boebert is a bigot and the Colorado Republican Party are a bunch of little cowards, but what else is new?

Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Intern: Taleen Sample
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

Special thanks to Heather Hukari for editing assistance this week.

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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the worst statewide campaign we’ve possibly ever seen in Colorado somehow got worse. The saga of Mesa County Clerk and Recorder, Tina Peters continues to get even weirder, bringing in our seventh favorite congressperson from Colorado who is a racist bigot, and some Colorado Republicans want you to think it’s sexist to point that out. Finally, we interview Sara Loflin, the new Executive Director of ProgressNow Colorado. We ask why she continues to make Ethan produce this podcast, thank her for her generosity, and apologize for all the things Ian screwed up that she now has to clean up.

Follow Sara on Twitter: @SaraLoflin

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Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Intern: Taleen Sample
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

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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 shiny new channel on YouTube, smashing that subscribe button on our Substack, and sharing this episode with your friends, your enemies, and your 8th favorite Member of Congress from Colorado! THANK YOU so much for listening, and we’ll see you next time!

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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, a whole episode dedicated to Mesa County Madness! We welcome Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Reporter Charles Ashby back to the show who gives us the definitive rundown of the continuing scandal surrounding Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and what role Lauren Boebert’s former campaign manager has in it all.

There are too many wild stories to link in this episode description, but you can scroll through Charles' recent articles here: https://www.gjsentinel.com/users/profile/charles%20ashby/

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Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Intern: Taleen Sample
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s infrastructure week! The Colorado Republican party has already surrendered the Governor’s race in 2022 in Colorado, but who’s going to be able to run the biggest grift on them in the meantime? A bald white dude with glasses tells Democrats how to win elections, and we're not talking about Ian. Friend of the show Tina Peters violates the first rule of politics by digging to the center of the earth with the world’s most invincible shovel. And we interview Chaz Tedesco, Adams County Commissioner and candidate for the 8th Congressional District. We ask him what it might be like to be the first Chaz elected to congress, probably. 

Learn more about Commissioner Chaz Tedesco:

• Campaign Site: https://www.tedescoforcongress.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/chazforcongress
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tedescoforcongress

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Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Intern: Taleen Sample
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

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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 shiny new channel on YouTube, smashing that subscribe button on our Substack, and sharing this episode with your friends, your enemies, and your 8th favorite Member of Congress from Colorado! THANK YOU so much for listening, and we’ll see you next time!

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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, election results, polls, conspiracy theories, Congressional InSAINEity, lots to talk about and not a ton of time to talk about it in AND we interview with Erik Maulbetch, political reporter for the Colorado Times Recorder, about the complete and total red-pilling of the Colorado Republican Party.

Colorado Republican Statehouse Candidate Promotes Numerous Conspiracy Theories (Colorado Times Recorder, 10/29/21)

Read the latest edition of The Rocky Mountaineer, a quarterly poll from ProgressNow Colorado and Global Strategy Group.

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Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Intern: Taleen Sample
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

Special thanks to Heather Hukari for editing assistance this week.

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a review if you Got More Smarter. Send all angry and non-angry rants to [email protected].

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 shiny new channel on YouTube, smashing that subscribe button on our Substack, and sharing this episode with your friends, your enemies, and your 8th favorite Member of Congress from Colorado! THANK YOU so much for listening, and we’ll see you next time!

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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, MAP MADNESS continues, we’ll talk about who’s most mad about it. 
The GOP Clown Car of the US Senate Primary gets clownier, but are these, like, fun happy birthday clowns or terrifying knife-weilding transform into giant monster spider clowns? 
Presumptive GOP...candidate for Governor, Heidi Ganahl, somehow finds a way to have another bad week in her doomed gubernatorial campaign. We discuss why we haven’t been asked to appear on her podcast yet.
Our maybe-soon-to-be eighth favorite congressperson from Colorado finds a way to get boo’d at a celebration of a genocidal maniac and we test the water in Mesa county because something absolutely terrible is happening there and we cannot figure out what. 
BUT FIRST, we interview State Representative, Doctor Yadira Caraveo, Democratic candidate for what we believe is at least a reasonable approximation of Colorado’s new congressional district. We talk to her about her campaign and ask for unsolicited medical advice.

Learn more about Representative Doctor Candidate Yadira Caraveo:

• Campaign Site: https://www.caraveoforcongress.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/YadiraCaraveo
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/caraveoforcongress 

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Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Intern: Taleen Sample
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

Special thanks to Heather Hukari for editing assistance this week.

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a review if you Got More Smarter. Send all angry and non-angry rants to [email protected].

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 shiny new channel on YouTube, smashing that subscribe button on our Substack, and sharing this episode with your friends, your enemies, and your 8th favorite Member of Congress from Colorado! THANK YOU so much for listening, and we’ll see you next time!