Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, 100 days down, 1,359 to go: Donald Trump’s second nonconsecutive term in the White House is going extremely poorly by literally every metric, to the surprise of absolutely nobody on this podcast. Then, Mike Waltz has left the chat! But he has entered the nomination for the Ambassador to the United Nations. Is there literally nothing a Trump loyalist can do to actually get fired by a guy who literally made “You’re Fired” a personal catch phrase? Next Trump and Republicans are almost comically unserious about handling the scourge of gun violence that has plagued this country for essentially the entirety of the time both of us have been on the planet, and they’re still managing to find time to screw over American veterans while they do nothing about guns. And finally we zoom in on our home state of Colorado as Republican politicians try to get Democratic politicians arrested; dark money comms organizations that aren’t really think tanks finally get called out by the local press; and while the trade war makes everything dumber and more expensive, one American export is really picking up steam. Can you guess what it is? (it’s measles!)
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Another Embarrassing Brief (feat. Rebekah Stewart)
Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, that constitutional crisis we keep talking about keeps getting worse -- at what point do the people who can maybe do something about it start doing something about it, especially as Trump’s poll numbers continue to nosedive? Then, are we headed for a Trumpcession, a Trump-pression, or another worse third thing caused by the worst president the country has ever had? Then, we check in on Colorado’s representatives in two Capitols as the Colorado legislative session enters the home stretch and Republicans in Congress are doing ... whatever the hell they’re doing.But first, she’s the Colorado State Representative for the Get More Smarter Podcast and a freshman in the Colorado House of Representatives. State Rep. Rebekah Stewart (D-Lakewood) joins us to talk about what it was like in her first year of her first term in the lower chamber of the Colorado legislature.
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1:26:58
Smells like Trumpstink (feat. Kevin Ingham)
Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, with approval ratings for Republicans and Democrats alike in the gutter in Colorado and across the country, Democrats have one ally in the fight to bring their numbers back up...and you’ll never guess who it is. Then, we’ve got great news! Wait, sorry, we mean, we’ve got terrible news! The constitutional crisis is here; it’s obvious, it’s permeating everything, and we’re just as freaked out about it as you are. Next, we check in on some developments in the 2026 campaign even though we know it’s only 2025. And finally we have an update on the Colorado legislature: With just three weeks left to go, how are trifecta Democrats protecting you, us, and Colorado from the evils of Trump, DOGE, and whatever other new horrors await us? But first, he’s the left side of the bipartisan polling team at the Colorado Polling Institute and he’s got some good news and some less good news about Colorado. Kevin Ingham of Aspect Strategic joins us to talk about CPI’s latest poll, and some of the results may surprise you.
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1:32:38
A More Consistent Number of Jason Banes (feat. Sen. Jessie Danielson)
Send us a message! Really!This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the race for Colorado’s next governor is officially on! And the winner will either be Attorney General Phil Weiser or US Senator Michael Bennet -- you can bet on it. Then, don’t check your 401k or your kid’s college fund or any other investments for the next four years, as Donald Trump’s ridiculous one man tariff crusade throws the global economy into a permanent tailspin. We check in with Colorado’s Congressional Republicans as at least one of them gets ready to cast the votes that will end his career! And...do you have your tickets to the gun show? Or your background check and your training certificate? Because if you’re going to buy an assault weapon in Colorado, pretty soon you’re gonna need one! But first, we check in with State Senator Jessie Danielson about the status of one of the biggest bills in the state legislature this year. Danielson also gives us a preview of what she plans to do next in 2026.
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Does Trump have the "energy" to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act? (Feat. Silvio Marcacci of Energy Innovation)
Send us a message! Really!THIS WEEK on the Get More Smarter Podcast it’s another special interview-only episode, mostly because Jason is still in the arctic setting tariffs on islands inhabited exclusively by puffins and melting ice caps. Speaking of our apocalyptic climate nightmare hell scape, this week our guest is SIlvio Marcacci, Senior Director of Communications for Energy Innovation. We ask how truly cooked we are if Trump and Congressional Republicans repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, both literally and figuratively, and what it means for Colorado - take a listen!Links:Follow Silvio on BlueskyMake Friends with Silvio on LinkedInFollow Energy Innovation on Bluesky Read the Full Report "REPEALING FEDERAL ENERGY TAX CREDITS AND FUNDING WILL HARM COLORADO’S ECONOMY"
About 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?
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