Colorado Springs. She’s my old college town and she runs right through this episode like the coal train running next to I-25. Henry Sachs lived in Colorado Springs less than a hundred years ago and this show is dedicated to him and Civil War hero General William Palmer. Carol McKinley is a professional journalist and a former Big 8 pentathlete for CU. This Buff track team captain is a special guest, describing her days in Boulder at KBCO, in Denver at KOA, & her gigs at FNC, ABC, & elsewhere. Ca...
Feb 20, 2021•2 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Impeachment Show. The Trump trial in US Senate is fascinating. Lead Manager Jamie Raskin has marshaled an excellent team of Congressmen to prosecute including Colorado’s own Diana DeGette and Joe Neguse. Craig ranks the performance of all the participating attorneys and gives his take on who will win. Whitney Traylor, 9-News Legal Analyst, enters Craig’s Lawyers’ Lounge and discusses the racism he felt growing up in Jeffco, how he participated in the campaign of Republican Joe Rogers versus Dian...
Feb 13, 2021•2 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Black History. Thank goodness for black people. Good luck to trailblazing Vice President Kamala Harris. Donald Trump would still be president but for African American voters and leaders who saved us from that scourge. African Americans have played a key role in my life. Velveta Golightly-Howell was my classmate and friend at the Denver DA’s Office forty years ago. After her incredible career, and numerous awards, I finally get Vel in Craig’s Lawyers’ Lounge for an amazing interview about her tra...
Feb 06, 2021•3 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Legal matters. This show features three men of the law speaking about that subject. Without the law, what would we have? Disunity. Uncivilization. America is based on the rule of law which means we follow the statutes set forth by our legislators. And the framers of our Constitution. Colorado State Rep. Dylan Roberts is my first guest this week in Craig’s Lawyers’ Lounge. His House District 26 (Eagle and Routt Counties) lies within the new US. Rep Lauren Boebert’s Third Congressional District in...
Jan 30, 2021•2 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tough job. Joe Biden has one now. The Inaugural was spectacular. But now what? Famous Denver attorney David Lane enters Craig’s Lawyers’ Lounge where they kick around Trump’s Big Lie and how the law should respond. Let the Trump insurrection trial begin! 67 Senators may vote guilty. Maybe more. BTW, David Lane is suing Lauren Baubert for her blockage of Twitter. Lane’s also suing Aurora cops in Arapahoe County on Monday. Respect for Brittney Gilliam. Hear it here first. Our Troubadour delivers o...
Jan 23, 2021•2 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dangerous talk. Donald Trump gave a dangerous talk on the Ellipse outside our White House on January 6, 2021. It sounded like a final command signaling the start of the violent part of Trump's Insurrection. Trump learned a lot of his speaking style, tactics, and rough manners from Rush Limbaugh and other talk show hosts. Author/historian Dr. Brian Rosenwald studied the history of talk radio for his magnificent book, Talk Radio’s America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over...
Jan 16, 2021•2 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Shabbat Shalom! A greeting and a prayer as the United States seeks to thwart Trump’s horrific insurrection. To discuss the attack on the US Capitol, we have three smart lawyer/legislators in Craig’s Lawyers’ Lounge. Terrance Carroll was Colorado’s first African American Speaker of the House. He is also a Baptist clergyman, cop, and lawyer who grew up riding his bike down the steps of the US Capitol in his native DC. We talk Golden Calf and religion as we reckon with Trump. And what comes next. T...
Jan 09, 2021•3 hr 40 min•Transcript available on Metacast David Gunders. Our Troubadour. There are lots of podcasts but not too many with their own troubadour. Every week, we find a Dave Gunders’ original song perfect for the week and its current events. Good-natured, witty, and wise, Dave tells us the stories behind the songs and how they may apply to the difficult year that was 2020. Please listen to another album’s worth of great music (12 songs) from our Troubadour. Let us hope for better times in 2021 but we are the ones who need to make it happen...
Jan 02, 2021•2 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Holiday Music! Merry Christmas. Cheery Pandemica! We celebrate holidays with festive songs. Fun caroling lyrics are published in Craig’s column in the Colorado Sun. Smile as Troubadour Dave Gunders gives his wonderful rendition of Craig’s slightly altered holiday classic, Jolly Old Joe Biden Sir. Then singalong with Craig as he sings his own witty songbook. You are encouraged to sing loud or in small groups to drown out Craig’s distinctive voice. For our holiday special and retrospective, we hav...
Dec 26, 2020•2 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Garnetts. What an accomplished Colorado family. I worked with Stan Garnett at the Denver DA’s Office and now his son Alec Garnett is Colorado’s House Speaker-Designate which means he will soon wield the gavel of immense Colorado political power. Listen and learn the secrets to raising a great son. Alec discusses legislative priorities and why he chose to live in Denver rather than his native Boulder. We review the amazing world of Colorado sports wagering under a legislative scheme Alec devi...
Dec 19, 2020•2 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Hanukkah! Thanks to US Supreme Court. Listen to the brilliant analysis of Texas v. Pennsylvania in Craig's Lawyers Lounge by accomplished Colorado lawyer Tom Downey. Tom went to Georgetown Prep where he was classmates with Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch. Tom’s insights are terrific. The Lounge stays open to welcome 18th JD DA-Elect John Kellner. This Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marines has a big job succeeding George Brauchler. Listen to John’s background and his informed vie...
Dec 12, 2020•3 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jenna Ellis? Personal attorney for Donald J. Trump? Wasn’t that Roy Cohn’s job? And then Michael Cohen? Wasn’t Paul Manafort an attorney? Wasn’t Manafort’s business partner Roger Stone? Didn’t Stone come up with that “Stop the Steal” bullcrap to contest the “rigged” election of Joe Biden? The New York Times quoted Ellis’ colleagues Stephanie Stout and Craig Silverman in their Jenna Ellis story https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/us/politics/jenna-ellis-trump.html . Jenna’s mentor in Greeley, Colo...
Dec 05, 2020•2 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Thanksgiving. We are grateful for the tenacity and talents of State Senator Rhonda Fields and Denver Judge Gary Jackson who share their life journeys. It is entertaining and instructive to learn the lessons from these pioneering African Americans who are now standout leaders in Colorado. Rhonda Fields had two beautiful kids and a great job when her world got wrecked by the June 20, 2005 murder of her son, Javad Marshall Fields, and Javad’s fiancée, Vivian Wolfe. Rhonda sought justice at th...
Nov 28, 2020•2 hr 57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rundown - Andrew Struttman - 00:03:05 Alexis King in Craig's Lawyers' Lounge - 00:39:48 Mike Foote in Craig's Lawyers' Lounge - 01:14:40 Henry Gunders - 01:36:53 Political Science. My major at Colorado College. Same with Andrew Struttman, only he went to CC’s archenemy, Denver University. I say Trump is dangerous now. Andrew says calm down. Andrew’s a Republican political pro. I am not! Listen, and decide who wins our friendly debate. In Colorado’s First Judicial District (Jefferson and Gilpin c...
Nov 21, 2020•2 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rundown - Alex Kershaw - 00:03:21 Dave Gunders - 00:45:24 Joe Salazar in Craig's Lawyers' Lounge - 00:54:26 Vic Mitchell - 01:28:16 Felix Sparks! In 1993, this Colorado hero joined the parents of murdered children and me to battle the NRA regarding gun control for juveniles. Our group was called PUNCH! People United – No Children’s’ Handguns and we won big victories in the 1993 Colorado Special Legislative Session. General Sparks was a WWII hero who survived Anzio and liberated Dachau. Alex Kers...
Nov 14, 2020•2 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast You’re Fired! A record number of Americans decided not to vote for Donald Trump. Show today features electoral reactions of some friends of The Craig Silverman Show. Welcome back Denver suburban mother and GOP legislative candidate Samantha Koch. We talk about the election where she and her hero Donald Trump were on the same ballot. Laura Chapin returns for a record third visit. This bright veteran Dem political operative returns to tell us what pleased and displeased her this election. Spoiler ...
Nov 07, 2020•3 hr 32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tricks. Treats. Halloween show opens with a sad disappearance. GERARD RUDOFSKY created one of the best Jewish delis in America. For many decades, Zaidy’s has thrived as a tremendous Denver dining destination. No more. Sad. But Gerard remembers the great times. Find out what happened. After deli discussions, let’s talk sex with esteemed Denver sex and couples’ therapist, LISA THOMAS. www.onlinecouch.com Read her work in Psychology Today. Wait till you hear the Halloween discussion between her and...
Oct 31, 2020•2 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Electoral College. It is odd the way we elect the President in America. Colorado’s voting right now on Prop 13 -- the National Popular Vote. Craig’s Lawyers’ Lounge welcomes proponents and opponents. First is Jesse Wegman, attorney/author of Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College. Jesse is also on the editorial board of the New York Times and contributed a dynamite column, The Radicalizer in Chief, which was part of the Times’ Sunday Feature, End Our Nat...
Oct 24, 2020•3 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Let’s vote! And not for the guy retweeting lies about Seal Team Six, and touting QAnon as nice pedophilia fighters. Really GOP? Backing our super-spreading President is super bad judgment. Craig’s Lawyers’ Lounge welcomes back Amy Padden, a dynamic Democratic candidate for 18th Judicial District DA. She gets Craig’s endorsement, and you will understand why. The Lounge also welcomes Doug Schoen, a famous Fox News political analyst and Harvard Law grad. Doug worked on the Bill Clinton campaign and...
Oct 17, 2020•2 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Crazy Times. The Yiddish word is mashugana and it can apply to periods of time, certain situations, and/or to people. Trump is COVID-mashugana, and he has brought on crazy and divisive times. We go over the crazy things Trump said this week. We all must consider what comes next. Good discussions help. Laura Chapin provides great talk as she feels for Kamala but not for Judge ACB. Laura preferred the Notorious RBG and wants to protect a woman’s right to choose. We discuss her opposition to Prop 1...
Oct 10, 2020•2 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Talking Tongues. One effect of Covid-19 can be loss of taste. Tongue damage. Not good. My sympathies to President Trump and the First Lady. Judge Amy Coney Barrett survived Covid-19. Her charismatic Catholic community speaks in tongues. It works for her. Dave Gunders, our Troubadour wraps up this week’s show with his fascinating song, Talking in Tongues. Our amazing guests use their tongues well as they speak with us this week. Brian Stelter is host of CNN’s Reliable Sources and author of Hoax, ...
Oct 03, 2020•2 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Spencer Haywood! When I was a Denver adolescent with hoop dreams, an older teen came to town and taught us all about big-time basketball. Not in the Denver Prep League, or college, but in the American Basketball Association where Haywood starred for the Denver Rockets. 30 points and 20 rebounds a game. Can you imagine? 1970 ABA Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player. I saw it happen. This NBA Hall of Famer tells me about his love for Denver, how he got screwed by racist and anti-Semitic Roc...
Sep 26, 2020•2 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rosh Hashanah! A new start with a new year. Right on time. Just what we needed. In an age when humans need to pray most, our congregations are either socially distanced, closed, outdoors, or on-line. But it is an interesting thing about talking to the Almighty. Everybody does it differently. In their own time. In their own way. Some even podcast. Dave Gunders, our Troubadour, has written a beautiful song called Good to Believe. The story behind the song is sensational and should make you fall fu...
Sep 19, 2020•2 hr 57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Talk Radio. Not good. Not since hosts and management sold out to Trump. Joe Walsh was a syndicated star at Salem Media till he jumped off Trump Train. Joe and I discuss true Salem stories. Prager & Hewitt. Larry Elder too. Damning truths are told by former Tea Party leader. Walsh is a former GOP Congressman now fighting to save the country by opposing Trump and his enablers. Joe knows Cory Gardner well from Congress and he will tell you whether to vote for Gardner now. I shook up Joe with this q...
Sep 12, 2020•3 hr 34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Breaking Up. It is hard to do. So sang Neil Sedaka and countless crooners in one form or another. Our Troubadour Dave Gunders has the better break-up song for this historic Trump era. Called “Hole in the Head,” it echoes a phrase Dave and I heard from our mothers. “We need that like a hole in the head!” In other words, stay away from certain relationships and bad associations. If you find yourself so entangled, get out. Now! Your survival and happiness depend on it. It is not a close call. Some ...
Sep 05, 2020•2 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Quitters never win. We need to win the hearts and minds of the American people. Don’t quit on democracy. Defeat Donald Trump. America is not Trump’s country club. Don’t let him cheat to win another club championship where he makes up all the rules and somehow gets others to go along. Former Colorado Speaker of the House of Representatives, Terrance Carroll, returns to Craig’s Lawyers’ Lounge ready for the fight. @speakercarroll is an attorney, cop, and clergyman. He also was Colorado’s first and...
Aug 29, 2020•2 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Morning light. The world starts anew. We open our eyes. Most of us wait till the sun is in the summer sky but not those who have to rise early for work. For many years, famed meteorologist Marty Coniglio woke in the wee hours of the morning to be part of the wake-up crew at 9News. Others just love the morning. That is true for our Troubadour, Dave Gunders, who gifts us this week with his beautiful song, Light of the Morning. And the story behind it goes back to pre-WWII Germany before the Nazis ...
Aug 22, 2020•4 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast A worthy endeavor for a lumberjack. Wood is good. Paper products, housing and real fireplaces need good wood. But what about trees destroyed for no good reason? Few reporters ever sold more newspapers and magazines than legendary sports columnist Rick Reilly. This talented Boulder native knows Donald Trump from celebrity and sports circles. Rick is not impressed especially after researching his bestseller, Commander in Cheat – How Golf Explains Trump. What an honor to be joined for a funny, wide...
Aug 15, 2020•3 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast My Saturday morning podcast covers four big news stories. First guest, famous former Denver cop DARIL CINQUANTA (the Blue Chameleon) just caught escaped convict who shot him over 40 years ago. SPENCER KUVIN, Palm Beach, Florida victims’ rights’ attorney tells us how his clients and he started cases against Epstein and Maxwell and what he fears will happen to Ghislane now. Wow! What a session of Craig’s Lawyers’ Lounge, which stays open to welcome Denver immigration attorney extraordinaire, HANS ...
Aug 08, 2020•2 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast CIVIL RIGHTS! We all have civil rights. Some people hire me to enforce those rights. Other times, I seek to protect civil rights through my free speech into a microphone. Or through my penning columns as Columnist at Large for the Colorado Sun. The passing of Rep. John Lewis has got me focused on civil rights and the sacrifices necessary to make civil rights happen. Bloody Sunday in Selma concerned the right to vote and joined in line that Sunday to try to cross that Edmund Pettus Bridge were yo...
Aug 01, 2020•2 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
