Send us a message! Really! 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 Neguse also took to task, earning him the new nickname, THE CABINETSLAYER. Then Donald Trump , the peace president who was going to eliminate the national debt and start NO NEW WARS is asking Congress for 1.5 TRILLION DOLLARS for his dumb unconstitutional war on Iran, leading to what ...
Apr 08, 2026•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 273
Send us a message! Really! 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 through the most straightforwardly indefensible and undemocratic system of nominating candidates we can think of. Abolish the caucus and assembly process! Then, for Donald Trump and his friends: Mail Ballots. For the rest of us: Long lines in November weather with no water or...
Apr 01, 2026•48 min•Season 3Ep. 272
Send us a message! Really! 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 with $200 billion dollars? If the answer isn’t “probably start World War III,” well, then you have a better fiscal policy than the President of the United States! Speaking of our 47th favorite president ever, he went ahead and embarrassed the entire nation several more times, ...
Mar 25, 2026•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 271
Send us a message! Really! 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 Prize President won’t bomb! Also, the Colorado GOP hasn’t won a major election in Colorado in over 12 years, but they’ve defeated their own party chairperson yet again...and just months before a critical election. Then, if you thought International Women’s Day could be the last b...
Mar 18, 2026•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 270
Send us a message! Really! 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 recorded our last episode, but, surprise, we are now. Then, the Colorado GOP is once again trying to oust their party chair in the run-up to a midterm election in which they’re about to get absolutely crushed because some things never change. And if you’re polling below “undec...
Mar 11, 2026•1 hr 22 min•Season 3Ep. 269
Send us a message! Really! 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 did it mean for Colorado? Next, we visit our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado and check in with our old 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado before going into some 2026 updates. But first, he’s one of the three democrats ...
Mar 03, 2026•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 268
Send us a message! Really! 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 flails on the national stage, Colorado democrats take the gloves off and jump into the redistricting fight with both feet. Friend of the pod Jessica Killin gets a much deserved designation from the DCCC, will it be enough to flip a distric...
Feb 24, 2026•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 267
Send us a message! Really! 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 when it comes to the massive amount of lies he will tell IN CHURCH, FROM THE PULPIT, there truly is no Bottoms. Then, the Trump administration is having a really, really bad year, and it’s only February; from failing, again, to prosecute their political opponents to losing a ma...
Feb 18, 2026•1 hr 43 min•Season 3Ep. 266
Send us a message! Really! 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 up on both sides of the aisle. Then, did new leadership bring a new dawn and a new day for the Colorado GOP? No, somehow the new Chair is even less competent than Dave Williams, which is a very high or very low bar! Then, we always said Gabe Evans would come to regret his lie ...
Feb 10, 2026•1 hr 35 min•Season 3Ep. 265
Send us a message! Really! Jason had to take another emergency trip, this time to Greenland to help negotiate the surrender of Rebel Penguin Separatists to the Kingdom of Denmark, so this week you've just got Ian interviewing Hetal Doshi, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Attorney General of Colorado in 2026. We'll be back for an even bigger pod this Friday. Hetal Doshi is a first-generation American and former senior officer at the U.S. Department of Justice. She has more than two dec...
Feb 02, 2026•46 min
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , four of the Republican candidates who will neither win the primary nor the general election to become Colorado’s next governor faced off in Weld County for a debate. We ask, why? Then, Friend of the Pod Joe Neguse won’t let Republicans in Washington DC rewrite history, neither will Jack Smith or the police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Next, the President of the United States is mentally, emotionally a...
Jan 27, 2026•1 hr 4 min
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the legislature is back in session, the first big tranche of bills have been filed, and Colorado Democrats are as ready to do the people’s work as Colorado Republicans seem somehow caught off guard despite the fact that the legislative session starts about the same time every year. Then, do you have your tickets to the gun show? Our guest this week is Jessie Ojeda from GIFFORDS, who stops by to talk about Colorado’s recent sp...
Jan 21, 2026•1 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 263
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , there’s an old saying that “No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session,” but whoever said that obviously didn’t live in the Free State of Colorado where the second regular session of the 75th General Assembly kicks off this week. Also, The big sibling of the state legislature known as Congress tried and sadly failed to assert its coequal status as a branch of the federal government, but h...
Jan 13, 2026•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 262
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , HAPPY 2026! It’s an election year, most likely a very good one for the blue team, that is unless we find a way to get in our own way which we very well could! But first, are we at war with Venezuela? It depends who you talk to. Or what social media platform you’re on, or what your definition of “war” is, or what party you belong to. Then, Donald Trump just can’t stop fucking with Colorado, and even our Republican members of C...
Jan 08, 2026•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 261
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the State of Colorado lost a giant after State Senator Faith Winter tragically passed in a car accident, leaving a huge orange and blue void in the State Capitol and in so many of our hearts. We remember a state lawmaker who wasn’t one of 100 lawmakers, she was one of one. Then, the Secretary of War Crimes is earning his new title by defending the wanton murder of random boaters in the Caribbean Sea...until people point out t...
Dec 10, 2025•53 min•Season 2Ep. 260
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the Epstein Files bill passed the House and Senate nearly unanimously and was signed into law by Donald Trump . That means that we get to see everything that was in them, right? Right? Then Trump’s mid-cycle gerrymandering mandate seems to have totally backfired on the GOP with a federal judge in Texas blocking the Lone Star State’s attempt to rig the 2024 midterms in their favor right after California voters overwhelmingly a...
Nov 24, 2025•54 min•Season 2Ep. 259
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , we can finally shut up about the shut down as it has met a rather anticlimactic end right in time for the holiday travel crunch, but, the only thing we care about is…WHO WON, and, hey, what the hell is going on with all those healthcare premiums anyway...and, hey, what's with that multi-milliion dollar payout for Republican senators doing in there? Then, President Trump is totally not worried about the release of more informa...
Nov 19, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 258
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , it’s 2017 all over again, but bigger, better, and BLUE-YER as Democrats from all sides of the spectrum ride an anti-Trump wave to huge win margins across the country that are sending Republicans into the long, dark teatime of the soul. We unpack the results of the 2025 election and ask “why the fuck did we have to learn this lesson, again, America?” Then, with SNAP benefits expiring and 1 out of every 10 flights getting cance...
Nov 11, 2025•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 257
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the money is pouring into primary elections in Colorado, but, really just for one party, can you guess which one? Best friend of the pod Christy Powell is back to break down the third quarter fundraising results in Colorado. Also, the shutdown shitshow continues into its sixth week, and most Americans aren’t stupid, so they know who’s to blame -- namely, the party who currently controls the House, the Senate, and the White Ho...
Nov 04, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 256
Send us a message! Really! Jason had to take an emergency trip to Argentina to check on his $20 billion investment in something called an "experiment in Anarcho-capitalism," so this week you've just got Ian interviewing David Seligman, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Attorney General of Colorado in 2026. We'll be back for an even bigger pod this Friday. One of the country's leading workers' rights, consumer rights, and antimonopoly lawyers, David Seligman has dedicated his legal care...
Oct 27, 2025•41 min
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the Federal Government Shutdown enters its second-ish week and Democrats seem to have the upper hand, at least so far. Then, can puppy-killer DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and her masked goons defeat an army of grannies with ukeleles and people in inflatable costumes in war-raveged Portland, Oregon? Even though 2026 is a ways away, we’ve got some more updates on the campaigns that matter most to Colorado. And we’ll tell you who d...
Oct 14, 2025•1 hr 11 min
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the shitdown shutshow or the shutdown shitshow or whatever you want to call it is officially on as Democrats and Republicans in Washington DC fail to reach an agreement on temporary funding and Mike Johnson and Donald Trump are just lying about it everywhere. Then, the hands-down winner for “least self aware giant unprecedented military leadership gathering of the century” is announced, and you won’t believe truly how much th...
Oct 06, 2025•1 hr 30 min•Season 3Ep. 253
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , despite polling showing that Colorado voters have soured on Democrats, they have not sweetened up to Republicans -- we explain why in a new segment called "Which is Worser." Then, Colorado braces for a recession as prices keep rising everywhere, the job market looks like it’s really starting to suck, and the nonpartisan economic staff starts predicting stormy skies ahead. And we’re officially back on shutdown watch as the shi...
Sep 30, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Season 3Ep. 252
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , it's a special interview-only episode! Jason was volunteering in Siberia on a sabretooth tiger preserve so Ian reached out to old friend of the pod Chris deGruy Kennedy and new friend of the pod Christina Soliz to hear about the initiative their coalition is working to place on the 2026 ballot that would cut taxes for 98% of Coloradans while raising them on anyone making over $500,000 per year. We get into the policy, the pol...
Sep 23, 2025•36 min
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , HOLY SHIT, it’s Episode 250!!! And we have a great one for you. First up, RFK Jr. gets his ass handed to him in a Senate Finance Committee Hearing and absolutely lied in his confirmation hearings. Relatedly: Governor Polis took quick action to make sure Coloradans still have access to lifesaving vaccines, proving once again that having Democrats in charge really, really matters, because Republican Florida is basically doing t...
Sep 09, 2025•1 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 250
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the Colorado State Budget got a billion dollar cut, again, thanks to Gabe Evans , Jeff Hurd , and the rest of the Republicans Colorado sends to Washington. We break down the outcome of the recently concluded Special Session. Then, friend of the pod Governor Jared Polis has some...words for HHS Secretary RFK Junior, and, frankly, they’re words neither we nor any other major Democrat in Colorado would ever use. And finally, can...
Sep 02, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 249
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , cutting taxes is bad, actually, and the State Legislature is about to go cut another billion dollars from the state budget because of it. Then, do you enjoy friend of the pod Kyle Clark’s innovative evening news show, microgiving campaigns, and refusal to let the worst stories become the most important stories? Well you better set your DVR because if a big corporate mega merger goes through, it might be the "Last of Next." Th...
Aug 21, 2025•51 min•Season 3Ep. 248
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , it’s a Special Session Special Episode Special! Again! And this time it’s not even our fault! As the effects of the Big Bullshit Bill come into focus, Colorado has to cut ANOTHER billion dollars from the state budget on top of the billion dollars TABOR forced us to cut earlier in the year. Where will lawmakers find the money? Then, a Republican state representative leaked screenshots of a secret group chat (hey, weren’t they ...
Aug 12, 2025•58 min•Season 3Ep. 247
Send us a message! Really! THIS WEEK on the Get More Smarter Podcast , we always said that Gabe Evans would deport his own grandparents if it meant he could get elected to congress, and now we have proof! Then, the Epstein Files finally seem to be the scandal that Trump can’t slither out from…so far. Speaking of which, Lauren Boebert finally got a chance to vote to release those same Epstein Files which she’s been demanding since she first ran for office back in 2020, so, how did she vote? Then,...
Jul 30, 2025•57 min•Season 3Ep. 246
Send us a message! Really! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast , the 2026 Primary field for Colorado Democrats up and down the ticket is getting crowded! And we’ve got a big announcement for you on what that means for the podcast! Then, are you a human being, with a body, and, skin, and organs, and stuff like that which needs occasional tending to? Well, your healthcare is about to get a lot more expensive, and most likely, not any better! Next, Schrodinger’s Epstein Files are the scandal ...
Jul 22, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 245
