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
302 episodes
Victor Marx Wrote Some Books (feat. Christy Powell)
This week on the Get 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 ...
Energy is a Battleship (feat. Angela Thomas)
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 b...
The Red Flame of Voter Roll Destruction
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? Yea...
Gubernatorial Grift and Three Cow Gabe
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? C...
BONUS INTERVIEW: Michael Farrington, Candidate for RTD District K
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 Distr...
Marxism All Around! (feat. Jeff Bridges)
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 lates...
Presumptive Governor-Elect Phil Weiser is in the House!
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 come...
So, About that Primary Election (feat. Seth Masket)
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...
In Which We Reveal the Primary Election Winners (Probably)
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! Ta...
MAHA or Haha?
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 ...
BONUS INTERVIEW: Jessie Danielson - Democrat for SOS
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 sho...
Congressional Republicans Wake Up...Sort Of (feat. John Hickenlooper)
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 t...
Jared Polis and the Unpardonable Commutation
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, have you or a loved one attempted to prove the big lie by committing identity theft, knowingly lying about the security of elections, and breaking into your own office to tamper with voting equi...
The Cajun Karate Master (feat. Amanda Gonzalez)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, by the time you hear this the state legislature will be just hours away from adjourning sine die. But because we record on Fridays, you’re going to have to wait a week to get the downlo...
The Primary Election is Coming, but the British are Not
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, with a little less than 70 days left until the Colorado Primary Elections, we wonder…where the hell are all of the ads? Do the candidates know that they ...
Fundraising and Prognostication for the Primary (feat. Christy Powell)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, is Donald Trump the least popular president in history, or just the least popular president in history so far? We dig in to the President’s late...
Where is the Floor? (feat. Dwayne Romero)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Democrats are UP and Pam Bondi is out as the "America Last" President fires yet another member of his cabinet -- one that friend of the pod Joe...
Blame it on Biden
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, as Democrats prepare for their state assemblies you can bet a bunch of lawyers are preparing legal briefs in case their candidates don’t make the ballot ...
Toasting and Un-Toasting the Bread Sandwich (feat. Alex Kelloff)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Bread Sandwich was toast, and now he’s…untoasted as Donald Trump un-undorseses him for the seat he already has in Congress. Then, what would you do w...
Colorado Republicans Have No Confidence in Anything (feat. Evan Munsing)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, by the time you hear this episode we may be at war with Cuba, or Ecuador, or Transylvania, because there is seemingly no country that the FIFA Peace Priz...
The DHS Secretary is Noem More (feat. Joe Neguse and Shannon Bird)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, there’s a lot going on in Colorado and the world this week, so we’ve got two interviews AND a full episode for you! We weren’t at war with Iran when we r...
Why is Inflation? (feat. Manny Rutinel)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, does Colorado have MAGA Democrats? One concerning candidate forum might provide an answer. Then, Donald Trump delivered his first-ish State of the Union address in his second term; what d...
This Goes Out to All You Legislative Lunatics
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of cold hard cash, what does the SCOTUS tariff smackdown mean for Colorado’s 8th favorite member of congress? Then, while President Trump
We May Have Reached Rock Bottoms (feat. Dr. Francisco Rodriguez)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, a Colorado Republican State Representative who will not be the state’s next governor has re-earned his podcast nickname as he proves, once again, that wh...
On a Scale of Zero to Authoritarianism, Where are We Now? (feat. Tom Pepinsky)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the reports of the political insurgency in Colorado Politics appear to have been greatly exaggerated; we check in on how the 2026 primaries are shaping u...