Episode 189: Attorney General Phil Weiser Gets Even More Smarter

Ian’s note: We’d like to dedicate this edition of our newsletter to our fan Vanessa Valle who leaves us very nice notes and comments, and also waited patiently all week for this episode, so, Vanessa, thank you for reading and listening, this one’s for you!

There will be a reading list, there will be a test, and there will be homework, but hey, you’re here to Get More Smarter, aren’t you?

THIS WEEK on the Get More Smarter Podcast, you know him as Colorado’s 29th Attorney General, largely because he is Colorado’s 29th Attorney General! That’s right, Phil Weiser is back on the pod to chat trust-busting, regulating social media, county-level gerrymandering, bad gas, and much more.

We also, kind of insanely, were very surprised to see The Get More Smarter Podcast mentioned in Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary! No, we’re not kidding, John Wenzel’s coverage of the show in The Denver Post made the dictionary for a recent example of using the word “bent” to mean “political lean,” which we admit, we have rather aggressively. Check it out:

Anyway, after our four-part lesson and all the homework the AG assigned, we still had it in us to talk about Greg Fu$k&ng Lopez somehow getting his absolutely unelectable self into congress to finish the remainder of KenSNBC/CNNKen’s term, how this totally screws everyone who’s name doesn’t rhyme with Schloren Flobert, the somewhat devastatingly lethargic campaign of Gabe-ish Evans somehow drawing a primary (and a Libertarian!) in the most (read: only) competitive election in virtually all of Colorado in 2024, how truly, unbelievably, clownishly stupid the Colorado State House GOP is, mathematically how long it would take to hand-count every paper ballot in Colorado if the super-micro-minority-party had its way, and LEGISLATING CHEMTRAILS (thankfully, somehow, not a current statewide concern in Colorado, but watch this space) and much, much more.

Yes this image was AI generated, no I can’t guarantee that people who think this is some kind of government chemistry experiment will know the difference or be able to spell “Water Vapor” any better than ChatGPT failed to do so here.

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