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The Brinkman ReportEpisode 7: Real Estate Meets Politics: How Shifting Power Affects the Economy and Your InvestmentThis month, Kevin welcomes Ian Silverii, host of the Get More Smarter podcast and a prominent figure in Colorado politics. Together, they discuss political shifts in key states, what a supermajority means for business and real estate, and Ian’s thoughts on prediction markets, poll reporting, and the future of US debt. Ian also shares why real estate investors should engage more with government to influence policy outcomes.
They dive into the implications of ranked choice voting, state and federal ballot initiatives to watch, and how a divided government might impact real estate investment. Plus, Ian gives a...
2024-10-2848 min
City Cast DenverPredictions, Rumors, and Insider Info on CO's 8 Congressional RacesElection Day is coming up next week, and the battle for Congress could come down to Colorado, where eight seats are up for grabs. So who are the candidates? What’s at stake? And most importantly, who’s going to win? Producer Paul Karolyi is joined by Democratic strategist Ian Silverii, and his friend and former foil on 9News, Republican strategist Kelly Maher, to break down the tightest races and the most important issues from both sides of the aisle. Paul quoted this article about abortion and same-sex marriage in the District 8 race from the Colorado Sun. F...
2024-10-2857 min
Freedom UnaffiliatedLet Colorado voters choose to get some of their ransom money backThe former head of the leftist ProgressNow Colorado, who is married to a U.S. congresswoman living in Jefferson County, has donated to the election campaigns of all three of the current Jefferson County commissioners. So, what a coincidence those same Jefferson County commissioners, all Democrats, are now going to pay him $180,000 to help dupe taxpayers out of TABOR refunds. As reported by the news site CompleteColorado.com (a project of Independence Institute, which I run), 7th Congressional District U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen’s husband, Ian Silverii, has just inked a spec...
2024-01-2505 minCity Cast DenverDoes Rep. Lauren Boebert Have a Chance in 2024?After Rep. Lauren Boebert’s “Beetlejuice” moment back in September, Liberals across the country gleefully jeered and cheered as she tried to spin the media narrative back in her favor. But now that the dust has settled, Boebert is back on the offensive. So what are her electoral chances in the Congressional District 3 Republican primary in June? And if she wins, could she beat the likely Democratic candidate, Adam Frisch, in November? Join host Bree Davies, producer Paul Karolyi and returning guests Ian Silverii and Jason Bane — co-hosts of the liberal Colorado politics podcast Get More Smarter — to look back on Bo...
2023-12-2024 minCity Cast DenverWhy Prop HH Failed, Jumbotron Proposals, and Who’s Gonna Beat Boebert?It wasn’t the biggest election of our lifetimes. It wasn’t even the biggest election in Denver this year! But this past Tuesday’s results will reshape our lives, and our politics, in some big ways. Producer Paul Karolyi is breaking down the results and looking to the future with returning guest Joshua Emerson, a stand-up comic and the co-chair of the Denver American Indian Commission, and one of our favorite political insiders — longtime Democratic Party strategist and one of the co-hosts of the Get More Smarter podcast, Ian Silverii. And finally, our Rocky Mountain Highs and Lows of the W...
2023-11-1040 minCity Cast DenverMayoral Madness: Paul and Bree on 'Get More Smarter'After interviewing almost all of the original 17 candidates for Denver mayor, host Bree Davies and producer Paul Karolyi have a pretty good sense of the race ahead of Election Day on April 4. So we were delighted when our pals at the Get More Smarter podcast -- Ian Silverii and Jason Bane -- invited us on to dish on the interviews, the ads, and everything else.Please enjoy this bonus look inside Mayoral Madness, and we'll see you for the run-off!For even more news from around the city, subscribe to our morning...
2023-04-031h 24
ComplexifiedAmanda, Lex, & Ian Silverii: Religion's In Our Politics: It's InescapableIan is a political strategist, dad, and the first gentleman of the seventh congressional district in Colorado. We discuss the tension between incrementalism and revolutions and how religious ideologies influence our political mindsets.
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2023-03-0246 min
The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsPlease Stop Yelling at the State of the Union (feat. Christy Powell)Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the State of our Union is….WEIRD. Ian Silverii reports back from the worst seats in the House Gallery because Jason Bane wasn't invited. The great Christy Powell joins us with a new game where we try and explain the inexplicable, for prizes (metaphorical ones). Overtly racist pro-claymore mine lobby Rocky Mountain Gun Owners flies its overtly-racist flag. There is still no bottom with Representative Scott Bottoms. And our 8th favorite member of Congress fr...
2023-02-1359 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsHow to Go the Full Alan Salazar (feat. Alan Salazar)Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii talk with legendary Colorado politico Alan Salazar and coin a new term from his vast experience. Currently serving as Chief of Staff to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, Salazar has been a top adviser to Congressmen, Senators, Governors, and even Presidents -- for familiar names such as Roy Romer, Mark Udall, John Hickenlooper, and Bill Clinton. We discuss the traits that these...
2023-01-221h 10
Self in Society PodcastIan Silverii on Progressive Aims and TacticsIan Silverii is the former leader of Progress Now Colorado, founder of the political Bighorn Company, and "First Gentleman of Colorado's 7th Congressional District" following the election of his wife Brittany Pettersen.
My main purpose in hosting this conversation was to see if two people with quite different political beliefs could have a civil and productive conversation. I think we accomplished that. Ian is a progressive; I’m a “free market liberal” (I’ll call myself).
This episode contains some swear words.
2023-01-212h 03The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsThe End of the End? (feat. Christy Powell and Alan Franklin)Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Ian Silverii is on vacation, so the other guy (Jason Bane) found two different people who were willing to talk to him about politics. Settle in for an entertaining discussion with Jason and returning guests Christy Powell and Alan Franklin for a deep, deep, deep dive into the big electoral questions of 2022 and what Colorado's political future looks like from here. We talk about how Republicans completely hosed themselves in 2022; whether or not the C...
2022-12-1659 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsRep-Elect Brittany Pettersen Gets More SmarterSend us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Congresswoman-elect Brittany Pettersen joins her husband and podcast host Ian Silverii (and Jason Bane) to talk about traveling to Washington D.C. for a whirlwind week of orientation for newly-elected members of Congress. We'll take you behind the scenes for a look at everything involved in starting a new job at the United States Capitol. Later, we discuss another mass shooting in Colorado -- this time at "Club Q" in Colorado Springs -- and how lawmakers...
2022-11-231h 15The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsThe Get More Smarter Post-Election ExtravaganzaSend us a message! Really!This week on The Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii sit down with Seth Masket, Director of the Center on American Politics at the University of Denver, to break down the 2022 election results in Colorado and the massive Bluenami that swept through our state.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...
2022-11-111h 38The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsMichael Bennet and Jon Ossoff Get More SmarterSend us a message! Really!This week on a special episode of The Get More Smarter Podcast, hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii are joined by not one, but TWO United States Senators! Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff and Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet stop by to chat about the 2022 election and the Inflation Reduction Act, including some of the lesser-known but equally-important parts of the IRA. Senator Bennet also discusses how he helped to make sure that drought assistance was included in the IRA for Colorado; his celebratory visit to Sen. Joe Manchin's West Virginia boat; h...
2022-08-2236 minCity Cast DenverA Denver Dem’s Guide to the Messy GOP PrimariesIt’s Friday, and we’re still deep in this Colorado primary conversation. But today, we’re talking about the craziness on the GOP side — and what role independent voters could have in next week’s primary election. Today on the show, host Bree Davies and producer Paul Karolyi are joined by Ian Silverii, a longtime Democratic Party insider, to dissect the Republican candidates and chat about what, exactly, you should be doing with your Republican or Democratic primary ballot. (Hint: he wants you to fill it out!)For more of Ian's political analysis, check out...
2022-06-2435 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado Politics2022 Legislative Preview (ft. Speaker Alec Garnett)Send us a message! Really!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)-----Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSubscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a r...
2022-02-0138 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsQuick-Hits to End a Long YearSend us a message! Really!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 includeKill the Filibuster? (1:03)CO-08 (4:35)Attorney Gener...
2021-12-2240 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado Politics2022 Colorado Election PreviewSend us a message! Really!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 SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackIntern: Taleen SampleMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSpecial 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. Se...
2021-12-1357 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsBoebert, Somehow, Found a New Low (ft. Sara Loflin)Send us a message! Really!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 gene...
2021-12-0653 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsWhat the Hell Is Going on in Mesa County? (ft. Charles Ashby)Send us a message! Really!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/---...
2021-11-2244 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsInfrastructure Week for Our Weak Infrastructure (ft. Commissioner Chaz Tedesco)Send us a message! Really!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...
2021-11-151h 06The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsConspiracy Candidates (ft. Erik Maulbetsch)Send us a message! Really!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.---...
2021-11-0555 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsRepresentative Doctor Yadira Caraveo Gets More SmarterSend us a message! Really!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 Col...
2021-10-201h 04The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsMap Madness! (ft. Evan Wyloge)Send us a message! Really!This week, our favorite Colorado insurrectionist joins the US Senate Republican Primary and we're taking bets on how badly this ruins GOP chances to beat Michael Bennet in 2022. Our 7th favorite congressperson from Colorado makes us ask, once again, “What the hell is wrong with our 7th favorite congressperson from Colorado?” The Colorado Republican Party doesn’t know the first rule of fight club, so the break the hell out of it. We have another edition of MAP MADNESS, where we discuss the brand-new redistricting and reapportionment process in Colorado AND we interv...
2021-10-071h 25The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsOperation Naptime: Tina Peters ReturnsSend us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the honest truth is that the entire Colorado Republican/conservative universe is in absolute tatters, but today we’ll focus on the disastrous launch of Heidi Ganahl’s campaign for Governor; insane conspiracy theories continue to not only influence but entirely permeate the GOP establishment in Colorado; Colorado Republicans seem to be having one hell of a time tricking anyone into running for statewide office in 2022; the Q-adjacent pillow-enthusiast, Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, returns to Colorado, and is not yet in handcuffs for some...
2021-09-2548 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsHeidi Ga-Not-Gonna-Be-Governor Trips Into the RaceSend us a message! Really!The Colorado Governor’s race has gone to the doggy day care: we interview a dog to find out what this all means. We have questions for anyone running for office in 2022 and so should you; we’ve been asking you all to vax that ass up for weeks now, and now President Biden is requiring you to do so; map madness continues with another round of staff maps from the congressional and legislative redistricting commissions; on top of being generally awful, Lauren Boebert is just, well, weird; the Mesa County Clerk Crim...
2021-09-1847 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsCome Home Tina Peters!Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast,Our main Colorado podcast competition and known logo thieves probably break campaign finance laws (or most certainly will);Colorado’s 8th congressional district doesn’t yet exist, but a solid Democratic candidate for it certainly does;Embattled Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters is still on the lam, but she popped up to talk to MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell (with whom she most certainly is not having a torrid love affair);Lauren Boebert as crooked as she is shady, and she’s very...
2021-09-0752 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsBoebert's Big Bogus Bonus BribeSend us a message! Really!This week, Donald Trump has resumed his rightful place back in the White House...just kidding, that didn’t happen. The Colorado GOP has the worst August on record: we take bets on how much worse it can get in the last week! The Republican Mesa County Clerk and Recorder is in hiding with the MyPillow guy after leaking confidential election security information to QAnon people and Lauren Boebert has about 15 enormous problems she didn’t have last week. We read you the internet, and we talk about Ian's personal favorite subject: legi...
2021-08-2846 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsMesa County Missteps (ft. Congressman Ed Perlmutter)Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, both conspiracies and conspiracy-theorists are getting a lot dumber and a lot scarier, and for some reason, lots of Colorado right-wingers are knee deep in the crazy. In a very related note, the Colorado Republican Party just cannot seem to get their poop in a group, adding to the list of infamous Colorado politics fails this week with an impressively off-key press conference, the first somewhat-legit challenger to Michael Bennet arrives, we discuss why the entire campaign will be about skinny little swords...
2021-08-1553 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsChoose the Side Without Neo-NazisSend us a message! Really!This week, national Republicans continue to attempt to warp the reality of the deadly attack on the capitol on January 6th by Trump supporters to somehow blame Nancy Pelosi; we determine if they’re the worst people on the planet, or in the galaxy; we are very mad about the fact that we’ll all have to start wearing masks everywhere again because a bunch of whiny crybabies are scared of needles like a bunch of third graders and pretend like they can’t breathe with a tiny piece of cloth over their...
2021-08-0158 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsAll-Star Alternate UniversesSend us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we have an intern and so can you! Ian dusts off his old metaphysics and epistemology textbooks from college and we dive deep into the very nature of reality. Former Colorado Christian University adjunct instructor and one-time Rudy Guilliani seatmate, Jenna Ellis, is in the news again, and we discuss why she shouldn’t be. We pay a visit to our 6th and 7th favorite congressional representatives from Colorado and realize that perhaps we do live in alternate universes after all.Hosts: Ja...
2021-07-2049 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsThe Libertarians Are Doing Their Best (ft. Jon Murray of The Denver Post)Send us a message! Really!This week, the Colorado Republican Bench is down to one candidate—what office will Heidi Ganahl run for and lose in 2022? The Big Line is back; we discuss why the Dead Guvs are the best prognosticators in Colorado Politics; teaching about racism isn’t racist, no matter how hurt your feelings get, white people; we have a new segment about Twitter, and it will come in 280 character bursts; and we talk about our 6th and 7th favorite congresspeople from Colorado. But first, Jon Murray, Enterprise and Transportation Reporter from the Denver Post, join...
2021-06-271h 26The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsBiggest Legislative Session Ever (ft. Speaker Alec Garnett)Send us a message! Really!The first regular session of the 73rd Colorado General Assembly has come to a close! We tell you what the hell happened, give you the rundown of this year’s Winners and Losers, and debate the proper pronunciation of sine die; Lauren Boebert goes from embarrassing herself to embarrassing the good people of Pueblo and they’re not happy about it; some guy who won’t be a US Senator is running against Michael Bennet; we report on some not so shocking news about Colorado’s vaccination rate and it’s...pretty good; 30...
2021-06-181h 00The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsStop Trying to Make "Gerrymandering" Happen. It's Not Going to Happen.Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we talk at length about the filibuster; we pour one out for Donald Trump’s Livejournal and encourage him to try Friendster next; we flip our Legislating with Crayons segment on its head and instead decide to legislate with laser printers and fountain pens; Colorado Republicans are using last-decade’s lies to discuss this year’s redistricting process; Lauren Boebert essentially argues for the extrajudicial killing of Dr. Fauci; and the good people of Aurora deserve so, so much better than Mike Coffman and his me...
2021-06-1051 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsLegislating With LunaticsSend us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, most Republicans continue to live in an alternative universe where Donald Trump is still President, we ask why the hell they would possibly want to do such a thing; our segment Legislating with Crayons gets its own segment, Legislating with Lunatics; we revisit the one play in the Colorado GOP playbook (and no, it’s not “trying to win more elections"); we visit with the three least powerful yet most noisy members of Colorado’s congressional delegation; and our last statewide Republican elected official does h...
2021-05-2751 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsBoebert Conquers the "Spirit Realm"Send us a message! Really!The Colorado legislature takes another run at a Colorado healthcare option to lower costs and increase quality, John Boehner is still crying, smoking cigarettes, and throwing other Republicans under the bus, and the new Colorado GOP chair is just as bad as the last one (if not somehow worse). It’s infrastructure week, for real this time, an again, we might get that train we’ve been talking about for a long, long time. The lying liars are just lying and it’s exhausting trying to keep up, and Lauren Boebert takes ground...
2021-04-1550 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsAll-Stars and A-HolesSend us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, that guy we talked about last week got shelled, Colorado is a bunch of ALL STARS because of our awesome non-racist voting systems, and Major League Baseball took notice. We have many more reasons to do another edition of Legislating with Crayons, there is yet another recall scam going after one of the most popular governors in the country, and yes, Lauren Boebert said and did more horrible things since we last spoke. Also, we all got our shots!---------...
2021-04-0953 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsThe Election Truther Chairing the Redistricting CommitteeSend us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, The Colorado Republican Party elects arguably their least electorally successful member to be their chair, there is a conspiracy theorist chairing the congressional redistricting commission, we discuss whether he believes maps exist, it’s actually infrastructure week for the first time in at least 5 years, we legislate with crayons once again, and we explain to Lauren Boebert who the anti-fascists in 1930’s Germany were fighting.Links4 of the 5 candidates running to lead the Colorado GOP are still casting doubt on t...
2021-04-0158 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsLegislating With CrayonsSend us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Republicans keep trying to make it harder to vote while admitting it is because they’re worried they’ll keep losing if everyone can vote, Democrats are good now, and your bank account probably is too, we visit the State Capitol for another edition of Legislating with Crayons, AND because she won’t stop saying and doing awful things, we have another issue of the Boebert Report. -----Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster Cylinder
2021-03-1947 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsUsing a Giant Carrot as a StickSend us a message! Really!We’re a year into the pandemic! Democrats in Congress passed a $1.9 trillion dollar aid package that never, ever would have happened without Georgia, Arizona, and Colorado doing our jobs. We get to revisit one of our favorite segments about our second least-favorite congressperson from Colorado. Trump sucks. Things get real at the state legislature. Finally, we round it all out with our very favorite segment about our seventh favorite congressperson from Colorado. -----Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSu...
2021-03-1057 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsSaying No to Boebert's No to Our NoesSend us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the CPAC conference was a lot of things, but “conservative” wasn’t one of them. Despite absolutely no evidence of election fraud, Colorado Republicans are bringing a bunch of bills to make it harder to vote. The Colorado legislature is back in session after a COVID break. Finally, Lauren Boebert continues to embarrass Colorado on many different national stages.ArticlesLauren Boebert: Alt-Facts Word Salad At CPAC (Colorado Pols, 2/28/21)Colorado GOP Won’t Be Out-Crazied by National Republicans (Colorado...
2021-03-0548 min
The Craig Silverman ShowEpisode 31 - Impeachment ShowImpeachment Show. The Trump trial in US Senate is fascinating. Lead Manager Jamie Raskin has marshaled an excellent team of Congressmen to prosecute including Colorado’s own Diana DeGette and Joe Neguse. Craig ranks the performance of all the participating attorneys and gives his take on who will win.
Whitney Traylor, 9-News Legal Analyst, enters Craig’s Lawyers’ Lounge and discusses the racism he felt growing up in Jeffco, how he participated in the campaign of Republican Joe Rogers versus Diana DeGette in 1994. This lawyer and Metro State professor evaluates Trump, his insurrection, and the US Sena...
2021-02-132h 09The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsWeld County, Wyoming (ft. Speaker Alec Garnett)Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it may be 2021 but it sure FEELS like 2020??? The Boebert Report turned out to be a pretty prescient segment, Michael Bennet introduces a big big bill in the US Senate, but why? We’re still saying "WHAT THE BUCK?!" as a large portion of his congressional district wants to leave Colorado and join Wyoming, despite the lies and the spin, the economy is still suffering (but not for the reasons right wingers are telling us) and we interview Speaker of the House Alec Garnett abo...
2021-02-031h 10The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsWe Tried To Warn You About BoebertSend us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, welcome to 2021! Things aren’t any better! The legislature is not convening this week due to the continuing coronavirus pandemic. We bring to you our latest edition of the Boebert Report entitled “We Tried To Warn You.” We continue to ask ourselves a recurring question, What The Buck?! as the Colorado Republican Party Chairman continues his descent into madness and we talk accountability, consequences, and silver linings from the nearly successful overthrow of the US Government.Sign ProgressNow's petition calling for Lauren Boebert...
2021-01-2048 min
Campaign SeasonEp. 23 – Immediate Advancement Co.
ProgressNow Colorado Executive Director Ian Silverii joins Matt to talk about his organization’s work on the ground in the Centennial State, commiserate about the condition of our national politics, and explain why he tries not to do too much explaining.
2021-01-1653 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsSpeaker KC Becker Gets More SmarterSend us a message! Really!2020 is finally almost over (thank G-d) and maybe the 2020 election will come to an end sometime too. The 2022 election cycle has already started, there’s yet another scam to try to recall Governor Polis, again, for the third time? Finally, we interview outgoing Speaker of the House KC Becker, after her final-final legislative session, most likely. Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSubscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a review if you Got More Smarter. Send all angry and...
2020-12-0958 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsRep. Diana DeGette Gets More SmarterSend us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the 2020 BLUE WAVE is here, especially in Colorado, we find Cory at the bottom of the polls (still), Lauren Boebert continues to do everything she can to make CD3 a race that she loses, and "The Dean of the Colorado Delegation," Congresswoman Diana DeGette, joins us for an interview. We talk COVID-19 vaccine, abortion rights, Lauren Boebert, and get her thoughts on the craziest election of her tenure in office. Big show!RSVP to our Election Night Live Stream! https://www.facebook...
2020-10-291h 07The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsGet More Weiser (ft. Attorney General Phil Weiser)Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, could 2020’s blue wave in Colorado make 2018 look like a tiny ripple in the pond? We find our second favorite US Senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner, deep in Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump’s pockets, we find Trump taking a page from Gardner’s playbook of fake healthcare plans, and we continue to find reasons to revisit our segment What the Buck??. We interview Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, and we say goodbye to his old boss, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a titan...
2020-09-301h 12The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsIs All Politics Local? (ft. Senate President Leroy Garcia)Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, a new poll shows what lots of other polls are showing, that Trump and Gardner are losing by double digits and progressives and their policy positions are popular! Donald Trump knowingly lied about the coronavirus, has blood on his hands (including that of 2,000 Coloradans), and Cory Gardner still hasn’t said jack about it. We find Cory auditioning for his next career as a luxury car washer, we revisit some more old political slogans to see if there’s any wisdom in them, and Pres...
2020-09-211h 10
Debut BuddiesVideo Games with Alex Silverii & Ian SilveriiReturning guest Ian Silverii and his brother Alex Silverii pop on to pop off about video games! We're talking about Fallout 2 and 3, Knights of the Round, Skyrim, Animal Crossing (and the rigged capitalism therein), and more. Plus games! And some discussion on disliking the Harry Potter series. It's nerdy, it's digital, and it's in your ears! Check out the Get More Smarter podcast at this link, or anywhere you listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-get-more-smarter-podcast/id1474155934Check out Alex's video game rap on Bandcamp: https://lock4.bandcamp.com/Subscribe, rate and r...
2020-09-201h 35The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsThe Slate of Hate (ft. Justine Sandoval)Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast it’s a very special back to school episode! We recap the Democratic National Convention that I totally watched all of, promise. We preview the Trump-brand Republican National Convention which I will watch even more of, scout’s honor, really, we bid farewell to our favorite maritally confusing counselor to the president, we zoom in on the worst vice president since Aaron Burr, we find our second favorite US Senator from Colorado trying to horse excrement his way into a second term, another edition of t...
2020-08-291h 13The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsCardboard Cory - The Documentary: The Podcast (ft. Nick Rosen and Erik Maulbetsch)Send us a message! Really!We interview filmmaker Nick Rosen about his new Cardboard Cory documentary and check in with journalist Erik Maulbetsch of The Colorado Times Recorder about a QAnon rally in Denver.Also, we talk Kamala Harris as the VP pick, find Cory writing empty bills and advertising everywhere but in Colorado, get an update on the GOP's war against the post office, check Lauren Boebert's arrest records, and so much more.Cardboard Cory - The Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hfDc0Vp87EErik's article about...
2020-08-211h 24The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsSanta Cory and the Do Nothing GOPSend us a message! Really!Americans are still struggling from the effects of the Pandemic which broke 5 million cases in the US alone over the weekend and claimed the lives of 162,000 Americans to say nothing of the economic effects made much worse by Senate Republican inaction, Trump signs executive orders that are probably illegal and definitely inadequate, and hey, no one is listening to Donald Trump anyway, our 2nd favorite US Senators tells Coloradans to Take a Hike! self-proclaimed pro-police demonstrators physically assault Black Lives Matter counter-protesters and film it all themselves, and everything is still generally...
2020-08-131h 00The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsFuture Taiwanese Lobbyist Cory GardnerSend us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast Senate Republicans keep shouting O’Doyle Rules as their car flies off the coronavirus cliff, We find our second favorite US Senator boning up on his mandarin in preparation for his next job, QAnon makes it to the White House, we weigh the relative merits of a little spray-paint against all of the horrible things visited upon this nation since 2016, and we interview yet another Jason Bane marking the first time the podcast has gone INTERNATIONAL!Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiPr...
2020-08-0655 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsQ-DonkulousSend us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast it’s less than 100 days til the biggest election ever ever ever, Senate Republicans want everyone to become homeless and then sweep them off the streets, we find Cory Gardner not in Washington doing his job, but at a ridiculous photo op with handbag designer and black bean enthusiast, Ivanka Trump, 9News fires an antifascist (and it’s not Ian this time), Aurora Mayor and vanquished former congressman Mike Coffman reminds us why we worked so hard to beat him in 2018, we play a new...
2020-07-3156 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsThe Boebert Report (ft. David Ortiz)Send us a message! Really!Pandemic-Presidential-Pardoning-Pence-Pandering-Vice President-Picking-Palooza! Another edition of the Boebert Report, we can’t seem to find our second favorite US Senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner AND we interview David Ortiz, Democratic Candidate for State House in Littleton and Centennial who is running against a dude with an impossible to not snicker at name.Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSubscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a review if you Got More Smarter. Send all angry and non-angry rants to angryrants@get...
2020-07-231h 21The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsPost-Primary-Processing-Pallooza!Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast it’s Post-Primary-Processing-Pallooza! A local gun group pulls the trigger and a tiny little flag that says BANG pops out of the barrel, Cory Gardner wears a mask, Lauren Boebert wears a gun, we tempt the fates by attempting to be light hearted about the coronavirus, even Trump’s fake poll shows him losing by 10 points, and we may get a look at his tax returns after all!LinksWhy Hickenlooper Beat Romanoff (Colorado Pols: July 8, 2020)Prim...
2020-07-141h 10The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsPrimary-Prognostication-Palooza!Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast it’s Primary-Prognostication-Palooza! The President takes a pounding in the polls, a potential politician pretends to be a professional, and more pretentious pablum from some political putzes.VIDEO: Shelly Landon from OklahomaHosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSubscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a review if you Got More Smarter. Send all angry and non-angry rants to angryrants@getmoresmarter.com.That’s it for this epis...
2020-06-281h 07The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsCO Legislature Review (ft. Rep. Chris Kennedy)Send us a message! Really!Donald Trump’s collapsing poll numbers, Andrew Romanoff and John Hickenlooper square off in three debates for the chance to take on our second favorite senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner, who put out the worst ad we’ve seen all cycle so far, possibly in our lives, and we interview Colorado House Assistant Majority Leader, our friend and yours, State Representative Chris Kennedy about the most confusing legislative session in recent memory.Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSubscribe wherever you get...
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2020-05-2622 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsRep. Daneya Esgar Gets More SmarterSend us a message! Really!We discuss the "free-dumb" to get coronavirus (1:04), FEMA diverts another PPE shipment and fights Ian on Twitter (10:12), Gov. Polis visits the White House with our second-favorite senator from Colorado (Cory Gardner) (15:34), What the Buck? gets an update (20:40), and Joint Budget Committee Chairwoman Rep. Daneya Esgar breaks down the budget crisis facing the state legislature because of the coronavirus pandemic (29:50).Follow Get More Smarter on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSubscribe wherever you...
2020-05-181h 06The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsWhat the B#ck?Send us a message! Really!This week, two polls in a row spell doom for our second favorite US Senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner, everything is totally under control with the coronavirus as cases mount well past a million, Republicans still want to kill Obamacare (even though it’s one of the few things actually helping during this pandemic), the chairman of the Colorado Republican Party commits at least one crime, a white-supremacist-terrorist-anti-virus protestor's plot to throw pipe bombs at FBI agents, and the state budget is totally f#cked ...BUT OTHER THAN THAT, EVERYTHING IS COOL....
2020-05-1159 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsU.F.Oh, who even cares?Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…we talk about UFOs!...also, the latest on coronavirus, Cory Gardner poppin’ bottles, a potential ballot initiative nightmare this November, and an update on a couple of important stories that we’ve discussed before. House Majority Leader Alec Garnett joins us later to talk about how and when the legislature will return to work.--------------------Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSubscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a review if you...
2020-05-041h 12The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsRep. Joe Neguse Gets More SmarterSend us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…the coronavirus is still a thing; election laws are merely suggestions; and Colorado Republicans are shooting first and aiming later. We also have a long discussion with Congressman Joe Neguse of CD-2 who tells us what it's like in Congress with everyone wearing masks and how we're moving forward with the next few rounds of coronavirus legislation.Share this episode with a friend -- because you know they have extra time on their hands. When you share an episode, it helps us ex...
2020-04-281h 05The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsGov. John Hickenlooper Gets More SmarterSend us a message! Really!Former-Governor John Hickenlooper, now a candidate for US Senate in Colorado, calls in from his campaign bunker to tell us what it's like to campaign in the age of coronavirus and much more.Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSubscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a review if you Got More Smarter. Send all angry and non-angry rants to angryrants@getmoresmarter.com.That’s it for this episode! If you loved watching and/or listening to it...
2020-04-0624 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsCOVID ConspiraciesSend us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…we’ll talk with House Majority Leader Alec Garnett for the latest on what the legislature is not doing...we’ll discuss how Republicans are digging themselves one hell of a hole with their wacky coronavirus responses...your hosts make a feeble attempt to support a coronavirus conspiracy argument...and we’ll explain why 2010 Cory Gardner would be perplexed by himself today.Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSubscribe wherever you get your podcasts...
2020-04-041h 05The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsFederal Response to COVID-19 (ft. Congressman Ed Perlmutter)Send us a message! Really!Congressman Ed Perlmutter (CD-7) informs us about the congressional response to the public health and economic impacts of COVID-19. Also, Ian Silverii's back! Rep. Perlmutter's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RepPerlmutter/Rep. Perlmutter's Twitter: https://twitter.com/RepPerlmutterCDC Website: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.htmlCO Dept. of Health and Environment: https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/2019-novel-coronavirusHosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSubscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave...
2020-03-1827 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsColorado as an Abortion Safe-Haven (ft. Madeleine Schmidt)Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, there’s an impeachment trial in the Senate — or is it OF the Senate (1:08), the New York Times tries to find Cory Gardner (13:33), we try to explain the greater meaning of the departure of a Denver Post conservative columnist (44:49), and we interview journalist Madeline Schmidt about her national reporting on Colorado’s unique abortion laws (22:10). Read Madeleine's article on Jezebel:The Desperate Trail to Safe-Haven Abortions in Colorado (Madeleine Schmidt, Jezebel, 1/6/20)Follow Madeleine on Twitter: @ByMaddieSchmidtRead Madeleine on the Col...
2020-01-221h 02The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsThe Colorado Legislature Gets More SmarterSend us a message! Really!We kick off the 2020 legislative session recording from the state capitol, we may or may not be at war with Iran, Cory Gardner gets caught in the impeachment snare once again, we interview House Majority Leader Alec Garnett about legislative priorities and he becomes the latest contestant on the worlds worst game show, Duke or Donald.-----TWITTERThe Get More Smarter Podcast: https://twitter.com/MoreSmarterShowJason Bane: https://twitter.com/jason_baneIan Silverii: https://twitter.com/iansilverii
2020-01-101h 14The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado Politics2019 Gets More SmarterSend us a message! Really!We wrap up with a look at the biggest stories of 2019, make some prognostications for 2020, Jason Bane finally plays Duke or Donald, and we talk about much more in our final episode of 2019.Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSubscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a review if you Got More Smarter. Have any questions or comments? Send us an email at angryrants@getmoresmarter.com.That’s it for this episode! If you loved watching and/or...
2019-12-2558 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsGov. Jared Polis Gets More SmarterSend us a message! Really!Governor Jared Polis dishes about his first year as governor and throws shade at New Mexican green chile, the US House of Representatives is slated to impeach the president of the United States for the third time in American History, Congressman Ken Buck gets called out for truancy, our second favorite US Senator from Colorado (Cory Gardner) decides if he wants to roll out the red carpet for Donald Trump after the president promises to be in Colorado “lots”, and more white supremacists show their faces for radio and voices for silent film...
2019-12-171h 08The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsBuck, Buck, Neguse!Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast Donald Trump is an anti-Semitic piece of garbage who should absolutely be impeached, we find Cory Gardner at the bottom of the gutter in a new poll, and Colorado Congressman Scott Tipton catches a primary challenge from a heavily armed West Slope barkeep.Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSubscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a review if you Got More Smarter. Send all angry and non-angry rants to angryrants...
2019-12-1047 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsIf You Can't Defend Impeachment, Make Stuff Up!Send us a message! Really!Impeachment enters a new phase with Colorado connections, state lawmakers say more gun safety legislation is coming, and Cory Gardner’s BLM move gets even worser. Alan Franklin (ProgressNow Colorado political director) subs in for Ian Silverii, who's out teaching orphan goats how to recycle.Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSubscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a review if you Got More Smarter. Send all angry and non-angry rants to angryrants@getmoresmarter.com.That’s it f...
2019-12-0350 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsJim Jordan's Jibber Jabber (ft. Katie Farnan)Send us a message! Really!This week, Chewbaca made an appearance at impeachment-a-lago while Rep. Ken Buck blew off the hearings, the US Senate primary is a slog, Trump applies maximum pressure to the wrong Korea, and Cory Gardner’s worst nightmare, Katie Farnan, plays Duke or Donald.Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSubscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a review if you Got More Smarter. Send all angry and non-angry rants to angryrants@getmoresmarter.com.That’s it for this...
2019-11-271h 05The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsThe Sideshow Bob DefenseSend us a message! Really!This week on Colorado's bestest political podcast, impeachment-a-lago gets serious, Doug Lamborn attempts to make himself useful and fails, Ken Buck straps on his best Sideshow Bob costume two-weeks after Halloween, Cory Gardner celebrates two years without a townhall, irrelevant Colorado House Republicans attempt to bring a ballot initiative to make a law that's already a law a law, again, and fairy godmother of the #resistance, Jessica Zender, plays Duke or Donald.Check out Colorado IndivisibleIndivisible Front Range ResistanceIndivisible DenverHelp Us Find Cory Event (Wednesday, November 20th)Jessica's...
2019-11-191h 04The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsPost-Election AnalysisSend us a message! Really!This week, the latest effort to save the state from TABOR’s claws goes down, the 2019 election gets messy in a top swing county, washed up old politicians trying to be relevant get smacked down by the Denver Post Editorial Board, Impeachment-a-lago gets real this week, and our Producer Ethan Black goes head to head with yours truly in America’s worst game show, Duke or Donald.Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: Ethan BlackYou can subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Goog...
2019-11-1249 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsTrump's Impeachment, Cory Gardner's 100k Bribe, and Colorado LaborSend us a message! Really!This week, Republicans are trapped between a rock and a hairpiece as the impeachment process gets formalized in the United States House of Representatives, guest Geof Cahoon plays Duke or Donald and teaches us about the Colorado labor movement, Donald Trump buys himself a friend in Colorado Senator Cory Gardner with a cool hundred-thousand dollars, which Gardner will apparently be putting into very-weird pro-oil company advertisements, the US House passes the CORE act thanks to our friend Joe Neguse, and by the time you listen to this episode, it'll be election day...
2019-11-0558 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsColorado's Big, Beautiful Border WallSend us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Colorado Republican Party Chairman and Congressional Hobbyist Ken Buck tries to throw the failed recall hot potato into someone else’s lap, Cory Gardner Gets President Trump’s Back (duh), a major Colorado newspaper demands Gardner’s resignation from office, and, as usual, the Colorado GOP is in a really, really, super bad spot heading into 2020. We also play Duke or Donald with Fawn Bolak of Keep Abortion Safe and prognosticate a border wall in Colorado.Follow Keep Abortion Safe: Instagram | Facebook | Twitte...
2019-10-2941 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsRecall-A-LagoSend us a message! Really!This week, Recall-A-Lago comes to a sad and anticlimactic end as Colorado Republicans attempt to distance themselves from the wreckage, Cory Gardner whiffs yet another chance to say out loud that it’s wrong to solicit foreign interference in an election (26:26), and a new poll finds him badly, badly underwater (12:40). The US Senate Democrats in a primary to take on Gardner in 2020 report their latest fundraising numbers and our friend Manny plays the worst game in Colorado, Duke or Donald (50:55).------Get spooky with Indivisible Front Range Resistance, ProgressNow Co...
2019-10-2259 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsRep. Jason Crow Gets More SmarterSend us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the fallout from the Cory Gardner national-media-meltdown last Friday, we play another round of the incredibly difficult game Duke or Donald, and we interview Congressman Jason Crow from Colorado's sixth congressional district. Duke or Donald AnswersQ1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | Q6Follow Get More Smarter: Twitter | Facebook | InstagramHosts: Jason Bane | Ian SilveriiProducer: E...
2019-10-161h 03The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsDuke or Donald?Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, a friend of the show tries to find Cory Gardner at a Trump fundraiser in New York City, Impeachment-a-lago gets worse and weirder, we discuss whether or not Denver should elect their sheriff, talk about the two initiatives on this November’s ballot, do a little prognosticating, and we play a new game!Duke or Donald AnswersQ1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | Q6Follow Get More Smarter: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
2019-10-0854 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsImpeachment Mafia ft. Eli Stokols of the LA TimesSend us a message! Really!Eli Stokols of the Los Angeles Times joins us from Washington D.C. to talk about his breaking news story about President Trump calling for the death of the Ukraine whistle-blower. He also talks about the impending impeachment inquiry of the President of the United States and what that means for our second favorite senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner. The recall grift gets even more obvious and even "griftier," and will Congressman Ken Buck get impeached himself from the chairmanship of the state Republican party?It's time to Get...
2019-10-0146 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsYou Can Still Get In Trouble For Saying NothingSend us a message! Really!This week, Cory Gardner is very sad, a celebration of saying nothing, one more recall to spell out, a fundraiser mystery (sort of) in Aspen, a clever chess move in a Denver primary race, and thinning out the Democratic Senate primary. Alan Franklin guests hosts because Ian Silverii is out of town.Articles MentionedCory Gardner is Very Sad That You Don’t Love BLM Move (Colorado Pols | 9/10/19)A Tale of Two Headlines, Starring Cory Gardner (Colorado Pols | 9/13/19)Sen. Gardner cheers Trump administration decision to drop water pr...
2019-09-1831 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsCory Gardner's No Good Very Bad SummerSend us a message! Really!We find Cory Gardner having a bad time on CNN and in the opinion section of the paper of record, an outgoing Denver Post reporter profiles the GOP's empty bench, Bureau of Land Management staff freak out about the poorly planned move to Colorado, and another high profile recall bites the dust.MentionedColoradans push Gardner on gun control ahead of marquee Senate race (Clare Foran, CNN, 9/8/19)Editorial: Now we know Gardner failed to protect Colorado from cuts in addition to failing the U.S. Constitution (Editorial...
2019-09-1044 minDebut BuddiesMad Men with Ian Silverii, Kristen Winkler & OllieIan's dog Ollie leads an all-star panel for an episode about MAD MEN. Shannon, returning guest Ian Silverii, and new guest Kristen Winkler get to talk about David Berkowitz, Madison Avenue, and mercury poisoning. Plus, they play FMK, Scootin' with Putin, Hot Takes and more... We might even introduce a new game called "Guess the Pete!" Ollie chimes in a fair bit, with a few barks and some sweet puppy grumbles, and we all berate Ian's pronunciation of "height" (which turns out to be an archaic form of the word that, while no longer in service, was once a...
2019-09-081h 21The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsFake Outrage, Fake Hamburgers, & Fake Town HallsSend us a message! Really!This week, we talk about the elimination of Mikes from the CO Senate primary, Jason Crow gets his first real opponent in the race to keep CD-6, Colorado Republicans throw a Support Our Stormtroopers rally in Aurora, a local reporter gets taken for a ride by Cory Gardner's comms staff, and fake outrage over fake hamburgers. It's time to Get More Smarter.Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. The Get More Smarter Podcast is hosted by Ian Silverii and Jason Bane. It is produced by Ethan Black.
2019-09-0448 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsModest Culottes and Cory CollisionsSend us a message! Really!John Hickenlooper officially drops a bomb in our hurricane of a US Senate primary, Cardboard Cory Gardner and non-Cardboard Cory Gardner meet for the first time in real life, a bunch of stupid things happen in the Pueblo recall during the state fair, a Republican state senator gets a little ghostwriting help from an oil and gas industry flak in Texas, and whether or not women's pants will be the key issue of the 2020 elections (Hint: it won't). It's time to Get More Smarter.Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
2019-08-2738 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsRep. Ken Buck (R) Does Democrats' Jobs For ThemSend us a message! Really!It's time to Get More Smarter. We talk about Gov Hickenlooper's presidential chances, who's running for the Dem CO Senate nomination, and do our best to follow the corporate money into Cory's campaign bank account. In "Finding Cory," we try and figure out why Cory ghosted VP Pence for his own fundraiser in Windsor to vote for giving the Saudi's more guns and sell our public lands to oil and mining companies. We give credit to the hero of the Mueller congressional hearings, Greeley Representative Ken Buck. Rep. Buck, also...
2019-07-3137 minThe Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado PoliticsFinding CorySend us a message! Really!It's time to Get More Smarter. In the inaugural episode of The Get More Smarter Podcast, we search for our second-favorite Senator from the state of Colorado and tear down the people behind recalls on progressive state senators.Follow us on TwitterHost: Jason Bane (@jason_bane), ColoradoPols.comHost: Ian Silverii (@iansilverii), ProgressNowColorado.orgProducer: Ethan Black (@ethanblack)Finding Cory LinksDenver talk radio host Steffan Tubbs laughs at Cory for turning his head to Trump's racism (710...
2019-07-2455 minDebut BuddiesRockets with Ian SilveriiIan Silverii (Progress Now Colorado, politics) faces off against Shannon on an episode about Rockets (because Nate's dog Rocket just turned 2!). Topics include Rocket Raccoon, SpaceX, Saturn V, Space Force, and more! Plus we've got Fuck Marry Kill and Pomme ou pomme de terre! Also: Was Shannon in the Rockettes? And does Ian get his very own point scoring sound? The answers and more are IN THE EPISODE!
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