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

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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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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.

Articles

• Lauren Boebert: Alt-Facts Word Salad At CPAC (Colorado Pols, 2/28/21)
• Colorado GOP Won’t Be Out-Crazied by National Republicans (Colorado Pols, 2/25/21)
• Help Wanted: Colorado GOP seeks a leader after years of election losses (Denver Post, 2/27/21)
• Investigate, Please: Boebert Reimbursement Scandal Deepens (Colorado Pols, 2/23/21)
• Boebert Deserved Even More Than $22,260 for Mileage, Says Former Campaign Manager (Colorado Pols, 2/24/21)
• Boebert Calls Bullcrap On Colorado’s Public Lands (Colorado Pols, 2/24/21)
• Boebert Ridicule Intensifies After Especially Stupid Tweet (Colorado Pols, 2/20/21)
• The Vile Inanity Of Lauren Boebert (Colorado Pols, 2/25/21)
• Ohio is first state to sue Census Bureau over delay in data (AP News, 2/25/21)
• Poll: 57% Of Colorado Republicans Win The Darwin Award (Colorado Pols, 2/26/21)

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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,

• 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, very bad at hiding it;
• Ken Buck still sucks, but not as bad as...
• The totally-not-Republican-redistricting-squad-who-are-entirely-made-up-of-washed-up-Republicans-pretending-not-to-be-Republicans;
• Speaking of Republican stupidity, they’re trying to disenfranchise the majority of Colorado voters because they’re not out of power enough.

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 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 President of the United States is going to be in a few weeks, and why having the richest man in the world handpick the leader of white nationalist parties across the globe is a pretty concerning development. And, even though the Democratic Primary for Colorado’s statewide offices is over 17 months away, we’ve got TWO candidates for two of the state’s top spots that have already announced, one with a minor conflict of interest to disclose for the pod! Finally, we check in with soon-to-be-one-term Congressman Gabe-ish Evans as he bombs his first interview after being sworn in to a seat he’s just keeping warm for the 2026 Democratic Nominee; no need to get any books on those shelves because you’ll be moving back home before you know it.

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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: @ByMaddieSchmidt
Read Madeleine on the Colorado Times Recorder: https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/
Other Articles

• The White House doubles down on its dumbest impeachment defense (Paul Waldman, Washington Post, 1/20/20)
• Where Is Cory Gardner? (Elaina Plott, New York Times, 1/19/20)
• Steve Staeger Greets Cory Gardner at DIA (9News, Twitter, 1/16/20)
• Canceled: Jon Caldara (ColoradoPols, 1/20/20)
• Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren Are Democrats' Best Choices for President (NYTimes Editorial Board, New York Times, 1/19/20)
• More pizza, fewer vegetables: Trump administration further undercuts Obama school-lunch rules (Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 1/17/20)
• 'You're a bunch of dopes and babies': Inside Trump's stunning tirade against generals (Carol D. Loennig and Philip Rucker, Washington Post, 1/17/20)

Finally, congratulations to Ian and Sen. Brittany Pettersen on the birth of their first child, Davis James Silverii.