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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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Another Embarrassing Brief (feat. Rebekah Stewart)
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Apr 28, 2025 |
Smells like Trumpstink (feat. Kevin Ingham)
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Apr 21, 2025 |
A More Consistent Number of Jason Banes (feat. Sen. Jessie Danielson)
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Apr 14, 2025 |
Does Trump have the "energy" to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act? (Feat. Silvio Marcacci of Energy Innovation)
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Apr 08, 2025 |
Who Influences the Influencers? (Feat. Megan Burns)
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Mar 31, 2025 |
You Go, Canada (feat. "Canadian Jason Bane")
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Mar 23, 2025 |
There are No Tariffs on this Episode (feat. Michael Dougherty)
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Mar 18, 2025 |
Unprecedented Political Pandering to Putin (feat. Sarah Wilson Sohkey)
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Mar 10, 2025 |
What Are We Even Doing Anymore?
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Mar 04, 2025 |
Putting the Fun in Fungible (featuring Sen. Jeff Bridges)
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Mar 03, 2025 |
America Wakes Up to the Trump Threat (feat. Rep. Joe Neguse)
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Feb 24, 2025 |
Is Trump...Thanos? Fingers Crossed!
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Feb 18, 2025 |
We Apparently Can't Do Better Than This
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Feb 04, 2025 |
Bonus Episode: An Interview with Colorado Media Expert Corey Hutchins
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Feb 03, 2025 |
So You're Living in an Oligarchic Kleptocracy (feat. Tom Pepinsky)
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Jan 27, 2025 |
Choo Choos and Cuckoos (feat. Chris Nicholson)
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Jan 19, 2025 |
Republicans Unleash The Stupid
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Jan 13, 2025 |
President Musk Took Over While You Were Enjoying the Holidays
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Jan 07, 2025 |
Aurora: Still Not Overrun by Venezuelans (feat. Dave Perry)
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Dec 19, 2024 |
Get More Legislating (feat. Senate President James Coleman)
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Dec 11, 2024 |
Get More Time Travel (feat. Tim Miller)
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Dec 01, 2024 |
Record-Setting Incompetence (feat. Elizabeth Jarosz)
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Nov 25, 2024 |
In Which We Discuss Quadfectas and Underwater Alien Bases
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Nov 16, 2024 |
Election Results Inside the Blue Rectangle (feat. Seth Masket)
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Nov 09, 2024 |
Election Day Warm Fuzzies
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Nov 05, 2024 |
Qualified Hopium (feat. Andrew Baumann)
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Nov 02, 2024 |
The Election That Is and Was Not (feat. Nadine Bridges, Susy Bates, and Sen. Jessie Danielson)
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Oct 28, 2024 |
Get in Losers: We're Going Losing! (feat. Kate Barr)
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Oct 19, 2024 |
The Pro-Normal Party Coalition (feat. Adam Frisch)
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Oct 12, 2024 |
PSA: Here's How to Vote in the 2024 Election in Colorado
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Oct 11, 2024 |
Election Denial is Not Just a Mangled Joke About a River in Egypt
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Oct 07, 2024 |
The Great Quick Hits Experiment
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Oct 01, 2024 |
Venezuelan Gangs Have Not (Yet) Taken Over This Podcast
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Sep 23, 2024 |
No Pets Were Eaten During the Making of this Episode (feat. Sen. Michael Bennet)
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Sep 12, 2024 |
Special Session Special Episode Special (and "Game of Groans")
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Aug 30, 2024 |
The Democratic National Convention and "The Economy Numbers"
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Aug 23, 2024 |
Don't Let the Internet Eat Your Brain, Kids (feat. Charles Ashby)
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Aug 16, 2024 |
Weird, Weird, Weird...but Also Good! (feat. Christy Powell)
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Aug 04, 2024 |
Holy Shit: Biden is Out. Emergency Pod!
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Jul 21, 2024 |
Shut Up, Gaetz
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Jul 18, 2024 |
The Get More Smarter Podcast 200th Episode Spectacular (feat. Gov. Jared Polis)
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Jul 11, 2024 |
The POST-Primary Political Podcast for the People
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Jun 27, 2024 |
The Pre-Primary Political Podcast for the People
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Jun 18, 2024 |
Water, Water Everywhere...and Not a Drop for Nonfunctional Turf (feat. Alan Salazar)
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Jun 11, 2024 |
The Colorado GOP Issues a Fatwa: Abandon Public Schools!
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Jun 04, 2024 |
In Which We Predict the Future (More or Less)
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May 22, 2024 |
The Colorado Legislature's Breakthrough Session (feat. Christy Powell)
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May 14, 2024 |
Just...Don't Shoot Dogs, Okay?
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May 06, 2024 |
Oh, Buddy...(feat. Rep. Jasmine Crockett)
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Apr 30, 2024 |
No Odor in the Pod (feat. Christy Powell)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
Is Your Refrigerator Running...To FREEDOM?
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Apr 15, 2024 |
Attorney General Phil Weiser Gets Even More Smarter
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Apr 08, 2024 |
Congressman Jason Crow Gets More Smarter (Again!)
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Mar 26, 2024 |
Sen. John Hickenlooper Gets Even More Smarter
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Mar 19, 2024 |
The Scourge of Uncertified Potatoes (feat. Christy Powell)
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Mar 14, 2024 |
The Craziest B**** in the Target Parking Lot
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Mar 12, 2024 |
The Constitution is Really Just a List of Suggestions Now
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Mar 05, 2024 |
Nopeachment and a Dozen Future Chickens
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Feb 26, 2024 |
The Made-Up Migrant Scare in Lakewood (feat. Kyle Clark)
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Feb 20, 2024 |
Coloradans REALLY Dislike Lauren Boebert (feat. Andrew Baumann)
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Feb 12, 2024 |
Every Person Listening to this Podcast is a Person
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Feb 05, 2024 |
Two Republican Stories So Crazy We Couldn't Possibly Make Them Weirder
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Jan 24, 2024 |
The Colorado Republican Party is Dying Right Before Our Eyes (and Ears)
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Jan 12, 2024 |
How Democrats Can Get it Right in 2024 (feat. Will Marshall)
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Jan 10, 2024 |
EMERGENCY POD: Lauren Boebert Goes Seat Shopping!
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Dec 29, 2023 |
The Inside Story of How Colorado Barred Donald Trump from the Ballot (feat. Mario Nicolais)
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Dec 22, 2023 |
CROSSOVER EPISODE: The 2023 Lauren Boebert Get More Smarter x City Cast Denver Holiday Clicktacular!
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Dec 21, 2023 |
Boebert, Bidenomics, and a Bread Sandwich
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Dec 18, 2023 |
We're Not Dead Yet!
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Dec 11, 2023 |
The 2023 Election Recap (feat. Seth Masket)
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Nov 13, 2023 |
Buck, Boebert, and Body Armor (feat. Marshall Zelinger)
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Nov 06, 2023 |
Okay, Seriously, Who the Heck is Mike Johnson?
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Oct 30, 2023 |
Lauren Boebert Bought 180 Pounds of Candy (feat. Christy Powell)
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Oct 23, 2023 |
Which Comes First: House Speaker or Christmas?
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Oct 16, 2023 |
A Small Colorado Town's School Board Madness (feat. Logan Davis)
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Oct 13, 2023 |
Who Will Speak for the Speakerless? (feat. Rep. Brittany Pettersen)
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Oct 09, 2023 |
Deputary Secumatary of Shutdowns
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Oct 02, 2023 |
The Government May Shut Down, But We Won't! (feat. Karen Middleton)
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Sep 25, 2023 |
Beetlebert, Beetlebert, Beetlebert (feat. Micah Parkin)
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Sep 18, 2023 |
Mike Coffman, King of Clowns (feat. Juan Marcano)
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Sep 05, 2023 |
Republican Presidential Debates = BDSM (feat. Seth Masket)
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Aug 28, 2023 |
This is Serious; Yeah, Totally
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Aug 20, 2023 |
Mumbling and Bumbling in Colorado (feat. Christy Powell)
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Aug 14, 2023 |
Let's Keep Those Indictments Coming!
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Aug 08, 2023 |
Governor Jared Polis Gets More Smarter...Again!
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Jul 24, 2023 |
Bluenami 2: Electric Boogaloo (feat. Shad Murib)
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Jul 17, 2023 |
Republicans are Even Too Weird for Colorado Springs (feat. Spencer Soicher)
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Jul 03, 2023 |
Climb Rocks, Pass Bills (feat. Dr. Erik Murdock)
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Jun 26, 2023 |
Mayoral Madness is Over! (feat. City Cast Denver)
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Jun 12, 2023 |
Thus Begins the 'Dave Coin' Economy (feat. Dave Young)
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Jun 05, 2023 |
Christian Nationalism is Coming for You (feat. Rob Boston)
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May 29, 2023 |
Everybody Gets a New Mayor! (feat. Alan Salazar)
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May 22, 2023 |
Legislative Session Wrap Up (feat. Christy Powell)
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May 15, 2023 |
Sine Die is Nigh (And We Hit 150 Episodes!)
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May 07, 2023 |
Just Do Your Job! (feat. Andrew Baumann)
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May 01, 2023 |
The Politics of Nothing
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Apr 17, 2023 |
The City Cast Denver Cross(back)over
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Apr 07, 2023 |
What (Almost) Every Denver Mayoral Candidate Has to Say (feat. City Cast Denver)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
The Colorado GOP Says "We Don't Care" About Gun Violence (feat. Christy Powell)
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Mar 27, 2023 |
All Truth, No Lies (feat. Rep. Joe Neguse)
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Mar 19, 2023 |
House Speaker Julie McCluskie Gets More Smarter
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Mar 16, 2023 |
The Answer is: Yes!
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Feb 27, 2023 |
Why Biden and Trump Are Still Tied Together (feat. Eli Stokols)
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Feb 20, 2023 |
Please Stop Yelling at the State of the Union (feat. Christy Powell)
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Feb 13, 2023 |
Kyle Clark of "Next With Kyle Clark" is, Uh, Next...
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Feb 06, 2023 |
Why Do Republicans Do Anything? (feat. Tim Miller)
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Jan 30, 2023 |
How to Go the Full Alan Salazar (feat. Alan Salazar)
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Jan 21, 2023 |
Who Sends the Splinters to the People Who Just Retired?
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Jan 16, 2023 |
The Last Episode of 2022 (Even Though It's 2023)
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Jan 02, 2023 |
The End of the End? (feat. Christy Powell and Alan Franklin)
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Dec 16, 2022 |
The GOP Infinity War, Sans Endgame (feat. Rep. Jason Crow)
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Dec 05, 2022 |
Rep-Elect Brittany Pettersen Gets More Smarter
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Nov 23, 2022 |
The Get More Smarter Post-Election Extravaganza
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Nov 11, 2022 |
Get More Smarter Before Election Day!
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Nov 03, 2022 |
State Sen. Kevin Priola Gets More Smarter
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Oct 31, 2022 |
The Blue Wave Cometh in Colorado (feat. Andrew Baumann)
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Oct 23, 2022 |
What Time is It? Voting Time! (feat. Alec Garnett)
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Oct 17, 2022 |
Get Even More Weiserer (feat. AG Phil Weiser)
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Oct 10, 2022 |
Crazier Than a Bag of Squirrels
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Oct 03, 2022 |
Nobody Has Anything Good to Say (Except Us)
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Sep 25, 2022 |
Governor Jared Polis Gets More Smarter
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Sep 20, 2022 |
Asshats in Key States
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Sep 12, 2022 |
Dark Brandon Suits Up for a MAGA Smackdown (feat. Charles Ashby)
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Sep 06, 2022 |
Come for the Christian Nationalism; Stay for the White Grievance (feat. Dr. Anand Sohkey)
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Aug 28, 2022 |
Michael Bennet and Jon Ossoff Get More Smarter
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Aug 21, 2022 |
Dark Brandon Rises for Horse Sushi
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Aug 14, 2022 |
SPECIAL: John "Captain Planet" Hickenlooper
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Aug 09, 2022 |
Two Statewide Republicans May Have Already Lost
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Aug 07, 2022 |
Undefeated Against Unicorns
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Jul 31, 2022 |
The World's Smallest Gun (feat. Treasurer Dave Young)
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Jul 24, 2022 |
Republicans Move On After Weird Primaries in Colorado
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Jul 16, 2022 |
Piecing Through the Primary Election (feat. Seth Masket)
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Jul 01, 2022 |
Predicting the Primary Election (feat. Armin Thomas)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
Heidi Ganahl Won't Let Greg Lopez Lose
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Jun 15, 2022 |
It's. The. Guns. (feat. Rep. Tom Sullivan)
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Jun 03, 2022 |
Does This Look Like it Could Be Weird? (feat. Alec Garnett)
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May 23, 2022 |
Falling on Ridiculously Dull Swords
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May 12, 2022 |
The One With the Epic Rant About Abortion Rights (feat. Christy Powell)
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May 06, 2022 |
Get Off the People's Lawn! (feat. Christy Powell)
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Apr 21, 2022 |
For a Better Circus, Add More Clowns
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Apr 13, 2022 |
Whose Demon Is It Anyway? (feat. Sen. Julie Gonzales and Scott Wasserman)
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Apr 07, 2022 |
A Mayor in Her Free Time (feat. Dusti Gurule)
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Apr 04, 2022 |
The GOP Caucus Conundrum (feat. Rep. Joe Neguse)
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Mar 27, 2022 |
The Worst Campaigns This Century (feat. Charles Ashby)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
The Get More Smarter Podcast: Episode 100!
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Mar 15, 2022 |
SOS Jena Griswold Gets More Smarter
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Mar 01, 2022 |
Holy Crap She's Really Going to Do It
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Feb 21, 2022 |
The Republican Senate Race is Straight Bananas
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Feb 15, 2022 |
2022 Legislative Preview (ft. Speaker Alec Garnett)
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Feb 01, 2022 |
Quick-Hits to End a Long Year
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Dec 22, 2021 |
2022 Colorado Election Preview
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Dec 13, 2021 |
Boebert, Somehow, Found a New Low (ft. Sara Loflin)
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Dec 06, 2021 |
What the Hell Is Going on in Mesa County? (ft. Charles Ashby)
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Nov 22, 2021 |
Infrastructure Week for Our Weak Infrastructure (ft. Commissioner Chaz Tedesco)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
Conspiracy Candidates (ft. Erik Maulbetsch)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
Representative Doctor Yadira Caraveo Gets More Smarter
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Oct 20, 2021 |
BONUS: City Cast Denver Takes Us to Casa Bonita
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Oct 08, 2021 |
Map Madness! (ft. Evan Wyloge)
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Oct 07, 2021 |
Operation Naptime: Tina Peters Returns
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Sep 24, 2021 |
Heidi Ga-Not-Gonna-Be-Governor Trips Into the Race
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Sep 17, 2021 |
Come Home Tina Peters!
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Sep 07, 2021 |
Boebert's Big Bogus Bonus Bribe
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Aug 28, 2021 |
Mesa County Missteps (ft. Congressman Ed Perlmutter)
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Aug 15, 2021 |
Choose the Side Without Neo-Nazis
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Aug 01, 2021 |
All-Star Alternate Universes
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Jul 20, 2021 |
Therapy's Cheaper Than Polling (ft. Andrew Baumann)
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Jul 13, 2021 |
The Libertarians Are Doing Their Best (ft. Jon Murray of The Denver Post)
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Jun 27, 2021 |
Biggest Legislative Session Ever (ft. Speaker Alec Garnett)
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Jun 18, 2021 |
Stop Trying to Make "Gerrymandering" Happen. It's Not Going to Happen.
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Jun 10, 2021 |
Legislating With Lunatics
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May 27, 2021 |
The Big Lie is the Only Truth (ft. California/Canada Jason Bane)
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May 23, 2021 |
The Bill Formerly Known As The Public Option (ft. Jake Williams of Healthier Colorado)
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May 09, 2021 |
Ghosted by Boebert (ft. Charles Ashby)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
Guns, Globes, and Getting Vaccinated
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Apr 23, 2021 |
Boebert Conquers the "Spirit Realm"
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Apr 14, 2021 |
All-Stars and A-Holes
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Apr 09, 2021 |
The Election Truther Chairing the Redistricting Committee
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Apr 01, 2021 |
BONUS: Senator John Hickenlooper Gets More Smarter
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Mar 23, 2021 |
Legislating With Crayons
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Mar 19, 2021 |
Using a Giant Carrot as a Stick
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Mar 10, 2021 |
Saying No to Boebert's No to Our Noes
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Mar 05, 2021 |
Impeachment 2: Trumplectric Trumpaloo
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Feb 10, 2021 |
Weld County, Wyoming (ft. Speaker Alec Garnett)
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Feb 03, 2021 |
We Tried To Warn You About Boebert
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Jan 20, 2021 |
Exclusive: Rep. Jason Crow on the Capitol Mob
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Jan 13, 2021 |
Speaker KC Becker Gets More Smarter
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Dec 09, 2020 |
It's Finally Over!!! We Won!!! (ft. Sulita Sualau & Ron Ruggiero of SEIU Local 105)
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Nov 23, 2020 |
Professor Seth Masket Gets More Smarter
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Nov 12, 2020 |
Rep. Diana DeGette Gets More Smarter
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Oct 29, 2020 |
You Eat An Elephant One Bite At A Time (ft. Laura Packard and Mayor Michael Hancock)
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Oct 19, 2020 |
Get More Weiser (ft. Attorney General Phil Weiser)
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Sep 30, 2020 |
Is All Politics Local? (ft. Senate President Leroy Garcia)
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Sep 20, 2020 |
Trump Hates the Troops (ft. Kyra Storojev)
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Sep 11, 2020 |
Diane Mitsch Bush and Alexis King Get More Smarter
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Sep 04, 2020 |
The Slate of Hate (ft. Justine Sandoval)
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Aug 28, 2020 |
Cardboard Cory - The Documentary: The Podcast (ft. Nick Rosen and Erik Maulbetsch)
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Aug 21, 2020 |
Santa Cory and the Do Nothing GOP
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Aug 13, 2020 |
Future Taiwanese Lobbyist Cory Gardner
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Aug 06, 2020 |
Q-Donkulous
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Jul 31, 2020 |
The Boebert Report (ft. David Ortiz)
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Jul 23, 2020 |
Post-Primary-Processing-Pallooza!
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Jul 14, 2020 |
Primary-Prognostication-Palooza!
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Jun 28, 2020 |
CO Legislature Review (ft. Rep. Chris Kennedy)
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Jun 18, 2020 |
Everything You Wish You Knew About Polling (ft. Andrew Baumann)
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Jun 11, 2020 |
Protests and Police Violence (ft. Jason Bane of Richmond, VA)
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Jun 07, 2020 |
Abortion Bans = Bad (ft. Jaki Lawrence of Cobalt)
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May 27, 2020 |
Rep. Daneya Esgar Gets More Smarter
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May 18, 2020 |
What the B#ck?
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May 11, 2020 |
U.F.Oh, who even cares?
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May 04, 2020 |
Rep. Joe Neguse Gets More Smarter
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Apr 27, 2020 |
Getting Coronavirus to Own the Libs
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Apr 18, 2020 |
Gov. John Hickenlooper Gets More Smarter
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Apr 06, 2020 |
COVID Conspiracies
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Apr 03, 2020 |
Federal Response to COVID-19 (ft. Congressman Ed Perlmutter)
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Mar 17, 2020 |
Caucuses and Coronavirus
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Mar 13, 2020 |
Super Tuesday Spectacular
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Mar 05, 2020 |
Surveys, Sausage Making, and Sanders (ft. Fawn Bolak)
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Feb 27, 2020 |
Gardner on Guard
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Feb 19, 2020 |
You've Got Questions; These Aren't Answers
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Feb 11, 2020 |
Impeach the Iowa Caucuses
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Feb 05, 2020 |
#CoverUpCory
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Jan 30, 2020 |
Colorado as an Abortion Safe-Haven (ft. Madeleine Schmidt)
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Jan 22, 2020 |
Weak, Frightened, and Impotent
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Jan 14, 2020 |
The Colorado Legislature Gets More Smarter
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Jan 10, 2020 |
2019 Gets More Smarter
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Dec 25, 2019 |
Gov. Jared Polis Gets More Smarter
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Dec 17, 2019 |
Buck, Buck, Neguse!
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Dec 10, 2019 |
If You Can't Defend Impeachment, Make Stuff Up!
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Dec 03, 2019 |
Jim Jordan's Jibber Jabber (ft. Katie Farnan)
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Nov 26, 2019 |
The Sideshow Bob Defense
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Nov 19, 2019 |
Post-Election Analysis
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Nov 12, 2019 |
Trump's Impeachment, Cory Gardner's 100k Bribe, and Colorado Labor
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Nov 05, 2019 |
Colorado's Big, Beautiful Border Wall
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Oct 29, 2019 |
Recall-A-Lago
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Oct 22, 2019 |
Rep. Jason Crow Gets More Smarter
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Oct 15, 2019 |
Duke or Donald?
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Oct 08, 2019 |
Impeachment Mafia ft. Eli Stokols of the LA Times
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Oct 01, 2019 |
Ukraine in the Membrane
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Sep 23, 2019 |
You Can Still Get In Trouble For Saying Nothing
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Sep 17, 2019 |
Cory Gardner's No Good Very Bad Summer
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Sep 09, 2019 |
Fake Outrage, Fake Hamburgers, & Fake Town Halls
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Sep 04, 2019 |
Modest Culottes and Cory Collisions
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Aug 27, 2019 |
Tom Steyer Gets More Smarter
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Aug 19, 2019 |
Inaccessibility is the Brand
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Aug 11, 2019 |
Republicans Won't Do Anything To Prevent Gun Violence (But What Else Is New?)
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Aug 06, 2019 |
Rep. Ken Buck (R) Does Democrats' Jobs For Them
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Jul 31, 2019 |
Finding Cory
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Jul 24, 2019 |