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

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THIS WEEK on the Get More Smarter Podcast it's a special interview-only episode!

Where do you get your news? Who do you trust? And are you just a victim of an evil algorithm, or an informed and engaged citizen? Megan Burns is here to talk about the idea of a Newsfluencer, and we ask, does the podcast count?

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Alright 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 way yet, go ahead and visit justvotecolorado.org where you can check your registration or register to vote, sign up for BALLOT TRAX to get a text or an email when your ballot is received and your vote is counted, or find the location of a Voter Service Polling Center or one of THOUSANDS of convenient drop boxes. From my house I can walk to no fewer than TWO of them without even breaking a sweat.

This is the most important election of our lives people, so make sure you’re registered to vote, fill out that ballot all the way from the top to the bottom, and turn it in before 7pm on Tuesday, November 5th. Thank you so much for VOTING, and we’ll see you next time.

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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, new polling shows Americans are already sick of Trump 2.0; will shutting down FiveThirtyEight so nobody can get a good polling average help or hurt the 45th and 47th president and his flagging ratings?

The White House is controlled by Republicans. The senate is controlled by Republicans. The House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans. The New York Times asks, 'Why won’t Democrats stop the government shutdown?' Next, there is some real pain in store for the constituents of our favorite bread sandwich from Colorado’s 3rd congressional district; will Rep. Jeff Hurd stand with the tens of thousands of people in his district who have healthcare because of Medicaid expansion, or will he side with Elon Musk and Donald Trump to kick them off their insurance and doom their rural hospitals to bankruptcy? Finally we check in with the most anti-family political party in the country, the Colorado GOP.

But first...he was the first officially announced candidate for Colorado Attorney General! He's also the Boulder County District Attorney, and a former deli worker otherwise known as Colorado’s Harvey Dent (but with just the one face). Michael Dougherty joins us to talk about his campaign to be the state’s top cop in 2026.

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This 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 us to ask the uncomfortable question: Will ANY Republican actually concede an election they lose this year?
But first, you know him as the guy who nearly beat our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado in the wildest near-upset of the 2022 election: Adam Frisch joins us to talk about his campaign for the third congressional district and what it’s been like running against our favorite bread sandwich.

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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 dumb faces; we check in with the person who wins Worst Coloradan of the Year, every year, who also happens to be our 7th favorite congressperson from our great state; and we read you things we posted on the internet. Also, BEAVERS!

• A dry California creek bed looked like a wildfire risk. Then the beavers went to work (The Sacramento Bee, 7/2/21)

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