This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, there’s (finally) a new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; while he shares all but one consonant with the new Mayor of Denver, that’s where the similarities end. MAGA Mike Johnson is a real freak; we discuss whether or not he can make Congress function and keep Republicans in the Majority in 2024...or if he’s the gift that Democrats have been waiting for all autumn. Our 7th and 8th favorite members of Congress continue to humiliate and...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast...check your mailboxes, your email inboxes, and your text messages because ballots are on their way in Colorado! Congress tosses another aspiring House Speaker off the balcony; this time it’s legislative terrorist and sexual misconduct ignorer Jim Jordan of Ohio. That makes three down and 218 to go!  As "CNN Ken" brushes up his list of TV appearances, failed politicians of all stripes signal really, really loudly that they’d like his job.  Have ya...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s going to be pretty hard to be funny as the Hamas terrorist attacks on innocent Israelis quickly turns into a war that will mean far too many deaths of both Palestinian and Israeli civilians. We'll talk about what this means for Colorado and national politics as well. The Republican Party has once again failed to nominate a candidate that can get enough votes in their own conference to become Speaker of the House;  "CNN Ken," or is it "KenSNBC,"...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we have some extra pod! Logan Davis of the Colorado Times Recorder has been investigating the school board politics in a small town just north of Colorado Springs for the better part of a year, and he’s got a crazy story to tell that everyone with an interest in public schools needs to hear. We've devoted an entire episode to discussing the wild Woodland Park School District, which includes notable characters from the 2006 Jefferson County School...

Leaves are falling. Blue books are arriving. ELECTIONS ARE HAPPENING! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the government shutdown was avoided, Kevin McCarthy’s career was ended, and Democrats were in "array." We’ve got a crazy week in Washington to report back on with a special guest who was there for the action -- Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen! Our 7th favorite member of congress from Colorado, "CNN Ken", seems to have found a way to piss off every single faction in American...

By the time you hear this episode of the Get More Smarter Podcast, the federal government most likely will have shut down because of the MAGA clown show, but if it hasn’t -- and it didn't! -- that’s good, we guess. Our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado is trying to flood the zone with nonsense to make people forget about #Beetlebert and, well, no one is forgetting about #Beetlebert. Since Rep. Ken Buck is going to be a TV star, the CO-04 Republican Primary Election in 2024 is...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Jason Bane is psychic. Or Ken Buck is predictable. Or both! As the MAGA Shutdown Shitshow careens toward it’s inevitable conclusion, one question remains, will Kevin McCarthy screw up Ian's Yom Kippur plans this year? The scandal known as Beetlebert continues into a third week; will our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado ever be able to send a tweet without her replies becoming a hot mess ever again? The deal struck between the Colorado...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado is once again making headlines for all the wrong reasons -- this time getting kicked out of a production of the musical version of the seminal 90’s movie, Beetlejuice; the madness continues in Congress under weak loser House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as the MAGA caucus continues to demand things, move the goalposts, investigate Joe Biden and try to shut down the government (hey didn’t they all campaign...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Chairman of the party of hard work and individual responsibility just can’t seem to…work hard and take individual responsibility. Quad-dicted YUGE loser Donald Trump produced a video name checking several El Paso County Republicans in an attempt to…make them somehow even more unelectable? Former Bruce D Benson Center for Right Wing Grievance and Nonsense at the University of Colorado Visiting Scholar John Eastman is being indicted, disbarred, and...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado is trailing her leading Democratic challenger by two points. Will she realize that she’s the problem? The Colorado Republican/Libertarian Party alliance is getting sadder and stupider, as we predicted, reinforcing the idea that instead of playing stupid games with less than 40% of the voting population of a state like Colorado, maybe the Grand Old Party should try to appeal to another 10% of voters if...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, he’s Once, Twice, Thrice, Fourthce times indicted? Big ass loser Donald Trump has been charged with another series of crimes, this time in Georgia; can the big man escape the big house when he doesn’t have the power to pardon himself for committing felonies at the state level? That Colorado Republican and Libertarian party “alliance” is getting weirder, and it’s also very clearly not going to help the GOP win any more elections. Our 8th favorite...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the State Republican Party met to vote on ending its participation in Colorado’s open primary…but that failed and they’re spending big money on a lawsuit about it anyway. Lauren Boebert gets called out, again, for taking credit for things she actually opposed; she’s also very confused about the meaning of sarcasm. Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman may have pantsed himself ahead of his re-election effort this November, and Republicans around the country keep...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, former President Donald Trump has been indicted -- again -- this time for trying to stop the certification of an election he knew that he lost and then for leading a wide-ranging conspiracy to try and stay in power. We unpack what this indictment means for our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado who also apparently got a new Democratic primary opponent. The Colorado Republican Party has fallen badly out of favor with Colorado’s largest...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, our 8th favorite member of congress from Colorado took a safe Republican district and made it a tossup, all by herself! Speaking of congressional races, friend of the show Dr. Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo has gotten herself an opponent in Colorado’s newest congressional race, and let’s just say...they’re not sending their best. Denver officially has a new Mayor -- one Mike leaves and one Mike takes over -- and Senator Bennet is out there fighting for...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Colorado GOP Civil War enters the Endgame stage...maybe. Just when we thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse or any stupider, it does. Republican Parties in Arizona and Michigan are as broke as the one here in Colorado -- what's the connection? Friend of the show Seth Masket appears in POLITICO to talk about surveying GOP county party chairs across the country, and -- surprise! -- most of them still really like Donald Trump. But first, Shad...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, what are all these MAGA Republicans doing funding my centrist organization? Our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado is (still) more concerned with what Twitter thinks than doing anything constructive for her district; and the ethically compromised United States Supreme Court wraps up this term by doing some surprisingly good things on elections and gerrymandering...right before essentially ending Affirmative Action in colleges as we know...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s a floor fight! Our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado helps prove what we’ve been saying for years: Elect a bunch of clowns, and you'll get a f***ing circus. The new Chairman of the Colorado Republican Party is hands down the best one the GOP has ever had in Colorado...at least as far as Democrats are concerned. And Republican Mike Coffman, the Mayor of Aurora, is trying to become king of the third largest city in the state, or...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Dark Brandon signed the debt ceiling bill to avert a global economic catastrophe, for now, and House Republicans are revolting! (But not after supplying a sufficient number of votes to pass the bill in the first place) As a result, we have occasion to ask our favorite question, "What the Buck?" and check in with our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado as she breaks the first rule of holes...over and over and over again. Guns are the number...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we take this show on the road to visit State Treasurer Dave Young and look at all the weird stuff in the vault near his office. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy got a debt ceiling deal that’s about as good as it could possibly be (for Democrats), so don’t tell anyone! Our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado -- Rep. Lauren Boebert -- spent so much time trying to get attention for voting no on the debt ceiling bill that she forgot to show up and...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Colorado Republican Party isn’t just morally bankrupt! No, the Grand Old Party may actually be financially bankrupt as well, and the national party may bankrupt the entire nation! Yay, fiscal responsibility! Yet another fiscally conservative Republican who lit 5 million dollars of his own money on fire in 2022 losing to Michael Bennet may be talked into lighting another pile of his own money on fire in losing to another Colorado Democrat in 2024....

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Republicans are losing municipal races across the country as Donald Trump continues to destroy the party, and one of those races is in what at least used to be Colorado’s conservative stronghold. Friend of the pod, Senator John Hickenlooper, seems to share our ranking for our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado -- and he has a banger OpEd in the Grand Junction Sentinel this week to prove it. Scott “There is No" Bottoms, who is either our...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the First Regular Session of the 74th General Assembly has adjourned Sine Die and it was a despicable failure, or a resounding success, or somewhere in between, depending entirely on how much time you spend putting money into Elon Musk’s pocket. To wrap up the session in style, Christy Powell returns to play "Legislating with Crayons," and we check in on our 6th and 8th favorite members of congress from Colorado to see what in the hell they’re up to...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast...we've reached EPISODE 150!!! Holy crap!!! Ahem, Sine Die is upon us, and for those of us who don’t speak latin, that means the 2023 Legislative Session is mercifully coming to an end. With so many outstanding items we ask the question every reporter has asked this week since 1876: "How will they get it all done?”  The Supreme Court of the United States is an ethical disaster, but really only the Justices appointed by Republican Presidents; Heidi...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, The new chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, Dave Williams, is hopefully “not just milking big government” by drawing a taxpayer funded salary at 40 hours a week while also allegedly running the party for 40 hours a week...and this is according to the Republican House Minority Leader. As the scourge of gun violence continues to plague the nation one Republican state Representative says the quiet part out loud -- like really, really loud. A...

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, House Republicans continue to filibuster without wanting anything; will they do it for the next 15 days or so? The title of this show, the Get More Smarter Podcast, is intentionally bad grammar (for those of you who have emailed us about it), but someone out there in the world is showing why we can’t even joke about it anymore. While more mass shootings happen every single day in this country, Democrats in the Colorado Legislature have passed more...