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?
Episodes
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Presumptive Governor-Elect Phil Weiser will show up anywhere and everywhere to answer questions, and Victor Marx will only show up to read off a notepad one time. Oh, and Republican Party officers are endorsing recently-unaffiliated Greg Lopez instead of their own party’s nominee in case you were wondering how the governor’s race is going.
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This week on theGet More Smarter Podcast, the Trump-Evans-Crank-Boebert-Hurd economy really, really sucks. Time to put the adults back in charge, and luckily, we only have four weeks until we do just that.
Then, if the national vibes for Republicans are bad, the Colorado vibes are quite a bit worse as the red team finds out it’s hard to generate enthusiasm with a terrible top of the ticket! Vict...
This week in a special episode of the Get More Smarter podcast, we run through every one of Colorado's 14 statewide ballot measures to help you figure out how to cast your vote in 2026!
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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, by the time you listen to this show you may have the longest ballot in Colorado history in your mailbox or sitting on your table, because IT’S VOTING TIME Y’ALL!
We check in on the swandive that the GOP are doing in national polls as Donald Trump insists voters pretend he’s on the ballot. How bad is the political environment for Republicans?...
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the voters -- they are voting! Just not in Colorado, quite yet! As the bluenami potentially turs into a Bluicane or a Bluenado or another, more intense azure disaster, we report on some significant movement in the polls because, apparently, voters are finally waking up! Then, we’ve got a grip of campaign ads because, as stated, voters are voting!
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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Donald Trump is trying to bribe voters with $5,000 checks if Republicans win the House and the Senate in the midterms, which we should point out, is very illegal, but also, that doesn’t feel like the kind of thing one does if one is confident in their party’s chances! Oh, and the President encouraged his supporters to commit voter fraud too, because ev...
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, We’re now 8 weeks from the most consequential election of our lives, so we’ve got some updates on the ballot as the huge list of 2026 ballot initiatives is finally certified and Colorado Republicans continue to do everything they can to get subsumed by the incoming Blue Tsunami (Bluenami?)
Colorado is one of three states in the finals to host the Democr...
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, he’s a little slow on the uptake, but it seems like GOP nominee for Colorado Governor Victor Marx is finally realizing he’s probably in a lot of trouble for his fake merch store scam. Then, a shoutout to AG of the pod and the 99.999% likely next Governor of Colorado, Phil Weiser, for cutting two huge deals to protect Colorado, even though he’s no...
This week on theGet More Smarter Podcast, with about 70 days left to the 2026 Midterms (yes, we checked) we check in on a few of the interesting elections in Colorado, even if they’re all foregone conclusions.
There’s some more on the “smoking gun” email proving the Trump administration was literally trying to punish Colorado in an effort to extract Tina Peters from prison. The...
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, with the brazen corruption and every-day scandalization of the presidency brought to us by Donald Trump, do any of us still have the capacity to be shocked by naked extortion and punishment of states that won’t bend the knee to him? We in Colorado may soon find out. Then, he’s got Three Cows, Two Faces, One Term and soon to have zero jobs, what does Co...
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, what counts as merch, and what counts as a campaign donation, and does it even matter if you’re a doomed Republican running for governor of colorado? Yeah, we’d say so. That, and we cover Victor Marx’s peculiar pick for his running mate at the top. Then, pop quiz, is The Red Flame of Liberty affixed to a certain statue on Ellis Island, the discar...
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, is Victor Marx running a campaign for Governor of Colorado, or a grifty merch store? Can it be both? Then, what do 2010 and 2026 have in common? Could it somehow be the even further collapse of the Colorado GOP because of top of the ticket vote-splitting due to the primary electorate being completely and totally brainrotted?
Then, as if that wasn’t bad ...
THIS WEEK on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s another bonus interview-only episode! This time, we check in with Michael Farrington, candidate for RTD District K up in Adams county.
Michael is a fourth-generation Coloradan who grew up and lives in Commerce City with his wife Kassidy and Great Pyrenees mix Zeus.
Michael graduated from the University of Colorado Law School, where he focused on lan...
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we have a guest co-host! State Senator and Democratic nominee for State Treasurer Jeff Bridges joins Jason Bane to discuss all of the latest political news, including...
Marxism survives the Primary Election in more ways than one, while the DSA learns about political reality. Then, Colorado’s most intense General Election battle gets underway; we try to figur...
In a special interview-only episode of the Get More Smarter Podcast, Attorney General Phil Weiser joins us to talk about his big victory in the Democratic Primary for Governor and what comes next. And also, LeBron James.
That’s it for this episode! If you loved watching and/or listening to it as much as we loved recording it, you can thank us by subscribing to the pod wherever you listen, follow...
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we try to explain what the hell just happened in Colorado's Primary Election.
Your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii were LIVE on the day after the Primary with Seth Masket -- author, political science professor at Denver University, and fan favorite guest -- over at his pod house called "The Smotus Report." This is that conversation in its entirety.
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, by the time you hear this episode there will be less than one week left in the Colorado Primary Election, so whatever you do, DO NOT MAIL YOUR BALLOT! Take it to your nearest convenient drop box which you can locate at justvotecolorado.org before 7pm on Election Night, next Tuesday, June 30th...at least, if you want your vote to count. Then, it’s our FINAL P...
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, with less than 15 days until the 2026 Colorado Primary Elections we give the electorate a vibe check and let you know who to bet the college fund for or against on Polymarket! Then the Iran war enters its 15th-ish week, or it’s already over, or it never began, or it wasn’t a war, or maybe we shouldn’t have gotten rid of Obama’s Iran Deal to...
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we continue our quest to interview every Democrat in an important primary election, and this week we’ve got fan-favorite and three-time returning champion State Senator Jessie Danielson back on the show to talk about her run to be Colorado’s next Secretary of State!
Senator Danielson represents Jefferson County’s District 22, home of the G...
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we were complaining just a few weeks ago about the lack of political ads on the airwaves and now, we’re very, very sorry, because it is nigh impossible to turn on a screen anywhere in Colorado without getting blasted by primary campaign ads…from Democrats only. Then, has Donald Trump finally gone too far? We check in with soon-to-be Ex Senator Bill Ca...
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