207 episodes

Craig served for sixteen years at the Denver District Attorney’s Office where he was a Chief Deputy District Attorney. Craig has appeared hundreds of times on local and national media. Subjects have included the death penalty, serial rapists, the JonBenet Ramsey case, Columbine, the Oklahoma City Bombing trials, the Kobe Bryant case, and the Aurora movie theater massacre. Craig is the host of The Craig Silverman Show which airs Saturday mornings from nine till noon.

The Craig Silverman Show Craig Silverman

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Craig served for sixteen years at the Denver District Attorney’s Office where he was a Chief Deputy District Attorney. Craig has appeared hundreds of times on local and national media. Subjects have included the death penalty, serial rapists, the JonBenet Ramsey case, Columbine, the Oklahoma City Bombing trials, the Kobe Bryant case, and the Aurora movie theater massacre. Craig is the host of The Craig Silverman Show which airs Saturday mornings from nine till noon.

    Episode 202 - Colorado Democratic Party Chair Shad Murib

    Episode 202 - Colorado Democratic Party Chair Shad Murib

    Rundown - 
     
    Shad Murib - 08:19
     
    Troubadour Dave Gunders - 01:36:50
     
    "If God Was Watching" by Dave Gunders - 01:53:53
     
    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's Speech - 01:57:52
     
    Find out why Colorado Dems elected this dynamic leader. Murib grew up in Littleton, Colorado, the son of Arab Lebanese immigrants. Murib learned valuable life lessons growing up in his south Denver suburb, especially when his sibling announced as a lesbian. Murib is a proud progressive.
     
    As a Democratic stalwart with talent, Shad Murib has worked for and with Senator John Hickenlooper, Colorado AG Phil Weiser and Colorado Governor Jared Polis. He’s married to former State Senator Kerry Donovan and they were married by their friend and political colleague, State Senator Dylan Roberts. 
     
    We find out about the Copper Bar Ranch that Shad and Kerry own and run high up in Edwards, Colorado. They raise Scottish Highland cattle and wait till you hear the taste described, especially the tenderloin. Stress-free ethical slaughter makes the taste difference. Hear it explained at the end.
    https://www.thecopperbarranch.com/
     
    This name-dropping episode features further mentions of Colorado’s top elected officials with a special shout-out to Rep. Jason Crow and Senator Michael Bennet for their dedication to trying to protect freedom in Ukraine. The host and guest salute the performance of President Biden too, standing up to Putin, Trump and the GOP.
     
    Colorado Republican Chair Dave Williams gets discussed, including his taunts at his party chair counterpart. When MAGA goes low, Shad Murib responds with winning policies, strategies and powerful responses. The process in the Colorado CD4 special election necessitated by Rep. Ken Buck’s resignation is thoroughly explained.
     
    Murib intends for Democrats to be competitive in every part of Colorado including CD5. What will the impact be of Trump’s endorsements of Boebert (CD4) and Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams in CD5? The connections of Putin to Trump to MAGA-GOQP gets reviewed with Murib worried about fascism.
     
    Shad Murib goes on Fox News and will debate any semi-honest broker, but we discuss how far gone Twitter (X) is now with Elon Musk platforming the likes of Alex Jones. Modern media get discussed as do conflicts amongst Dems at the Colorado Capitol.
     
    DA races are partisan in Colorado as are Sheriff races. Dems need to compete smarter and harder especially with disingenuous MAGA law enforcers refusing to enforce gun laws like Red Flag which they do not like. Local races are big, but the huge political issue is Trump v the rest of us. Dems must lead us now. ​​
    https://www.coloradodems.org/
     
    Troubadour Dave Gunders provides a lively conversation about the NYC trial delay. He also loved the SOU by POTUS. His song, If G-d was Watching is aimed at MAGA-GOP-type hypocrites who make money off of Big Lies like Big Con Don, the MAGA-GOQP nominee.
    https://soundcloud.com/dave-gunders/7-if-god-was-watching
     
    The Craig Silverman Show - Every Saturday morning at 9 a.m. Colorado time

    • 2 hr 43 min
    Episode 201 - Karen Friedman Agnifilo

    Episode 201 - Karen Friedman Agnifilo

    Rundown - 
     
    Karen Friedman Agnifilo in Craig's Lawyers' Lounge - 06:20
     
    Troubadour Dave Gunders - 01:01:31
     
    "Nikki's Latest Song" by Dave Gunders - 01:13:52
     
    Listen to the former Chief Assistant District Attorney of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, Karen Friedman Agnifilo (KFA). As Second-in-Command, Ms. Friedman Agnifilo oversaw an office of approximately 500 lawyers, 700 support staff and roughly 80,000 cases per year.
    https://www.meidastouch.com/author/karen-friedman-agnifilo
     
    Now, KFA puts her acute legal analytical skills on the LegalAF podcast which is a key part of the Meidas Touch streaming network with over 2 million subscribers. No one in the media knows more about the DA’s Office, where she worked for 3 decades and which now prosecutes Donald Trump later this March. 
     
    Law and Order accurately depicts the New York DA’s Office where KFA has served as that iconic show’s legal consultant for many years. Karen Friedman Agnifilo’s pride in her prosecutorial office shows throughout the interview.
    https://wolfentertainment.com/news/chicago-fire-fbi-law-order-and-law-order-svu-real-life-heroes/
     
    Find out about the NYC all-star trial team assembled to take on the former president.  Learn about Judge Merchan, who also hails from the DANY prosecutorial office and will be presiding judge. We discuss likely outcomes in terms of verdict and politics.
     
    KFA and host discuss the disgust society should feel at Trump’s threats against prosecutors, judges and media members. Who will want to take such truth-telling jobs under a dictator? So much rides on the Rule of Law taking care of justice for Donald Trump.

    • 1 hr 21 min
    Episode 200 - John Jackson and Ken Toltz

    Episode 200 - John Jackson and Ken Toltz

    Rundown -
     
    John Jackson and Ken Toltz - 03:51
     
    This bicentennial episode of The Craig Silverman Show features a special mixture of sidebar podcasts, Craig’s Colorado Corner (panel show) and Craig’s Colorado Homefront (WWIII?) with our two favorite foreign correspondents.
     
    Show dedicated to the memory of the late Alexei Navalny, killed by Putin, something ignored by Trump/Putin friendly MAGA-GOQP media. Discussed also are implications of Russian disinfo via Alexander Smirnov.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHDueubF0QY
     
    The world is at an inflection point as democracies and freedom are under threat in Israel, Ukraine and the USA. We discuss Super Tuesday results and their impact on each nation. Nikki Haley’s equivocation, Mitch McConnell’s departure and US S/Ct rulings analyzed.
     
    Elon Musk gets discussed, as he must be, given his role now openly helping Putin and Trump. Armed Forces of Ukraine soldier (via Colorado), John Jackson, explains why the battlespace of Twitter (X) mustn't be surrendered. YouTube as well.
    https://www.youtube.com/@JJUkraine
     
    Ken Toltz explains the sadness pervading Israel as the Netanyahu government keeps letting people down and ancient enemies are at the doorstep. Every day is sad since October 7 and this native Denverite gives his view from the riven Holy Land.
    https://kentoltz.medium.com/every-day-is-october-7th-db7945b7ce3e
     
    The violent June 18. 1984, Denver assassination of Alan Berg gets remembered again as a predicate to the authoritarian hate that is consuming parts of the planet now. Ken Toltz proudly tried to defeat isolationist authoritarian MAGA antecedent, Tom Tancredo, back in 2000.
     
    This bicentennial show addresses the growing MAGA fascist threat and what a Trump victory means for Ukraine, Israel, America, freedom and democracy. These are big issues discussed with brilliant passionate guests who have stakes in this war.
     
    The Israeli War Minister Benny Gantz's trip to Washington DC gets reviewed and approved. Benjamin Gantz is better than Benjamin Netanyahu, who is corrupt and an easy mark for mobster autocrats. Volodomor Zelensky remains rock solid after surviving an attack in Crimea.
     
    The Craig Silverman Show - at age 200 - hopes to make a positive impact in the pro-democracy movement. Listen to John Jackson quote Ronald Reagan. Freedom is not free. But this podcast is free and we want you to enjoy, appreciate, learn and share.

    • 1 hr 22 min
    Episode 199 - Dani Newsum

    Episode 199 - Dani Newsum

    Rundown -
     
    Dani Newsum in Craig's Lawyers' Lounge - 12:34
     
    Troubadour Dave Gunders - 01:40:38
     
    "Billy B and the Fair Skinned Girl" by Dave Gunders - 01:44:34
     
    Craig’s Lawyers’ Lounge opens wide to welcome Dani Newsum. She's a trained civil rights attorney, who spent decades as a formidable panelist on Colorado Inside Out where she often argued with Craig and David Kopel and many others. Dani can be feisty.
     
    Nowadays, Dani Newsum is the director of strategic partnerships at Cobalt, a Colorado pro-abortion rights group that had a friendly split from NARAL Pro-Choice America in January 2020 to focus on state-level battles and reproductive rights advocacy within Colorado. OMG, the battles now, post-Dobbs.
     
    Dani explains what Donald Trump has meant for female reproductive freedom and how Cobalt is fighting back with Ballot Initiative 89 which will place women’s right to choose enshrined in Colorado’s Constitution.
    https://coloradansforreproductivefreedom.com/
     
    Dani Newsum was raised by the remarkable Fitzroy “Buck” Newsum who has a substantially correct Wikipedia page but for his birth date and the picture of him as a young airman. A decorated Tuskegee Airman, Colonel Newsum was a Congressional Gold Medal recipient. Dani’s mom Joan is special too.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzroy_Newsum
     
    Learn how Dani Newsum decided to be an attorney, and then a civil rights advocate. She attended Denver’s Thomas Jefferson High School and then became a lawyer and a talk show host on 630 KHOW. Find out some behind-the-scenes’ stories about Colorado Inside Out back in the day.
     
    We discuss the awful decline of the Colorado Republican Party, as embodied by Lauren Boebert. We review the latest with respect to Colorado’s embarrassment in Congress. The modern media and legal landscape gets reviewed. So does Dani’s fascinating life story.
    https://images.app.goo.gl/FcHoTXxSgAbYkzh98
     
    Show Troubadour Dave Gunders entertains with a song reminiscent of America’s less-than-honest justice system given the recent MAGA-friendly delay moves made by the U.S. Supreme Court. In Billy B and the Fair Skinned Girl, the wise narrator sings a story of an unfair justice system.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLoy0P2NdKo

    • 1 hr 52 min
    Episode 198 - Amy Padden wants to be Arapahoe County DA

    Episode 198 - Amy Padden wants to be Arapahoe County DA

    Rundown -
     
    Intro with Troubadour Dave Gunders - 00:35
     
    "Your Way Too" by Dave Gunders - 13:41
     
    Amy Padden in Craig's Lawyers' Lounge - 19:28
     
    Craig reviews speeches by Nikki Haley and Joe Biden - 01:27:58
     
    Craig’s Lawyers’ Lounge welcomes back Amy Padden who seeks the job of District Attorney in Denver County’s southern suburb of dynamic and growing Arapahoe County, Colorado. Amy has a terrific prosecutorial resume working with various Colorado law enforcement agencies.
     
    Learn how Amy grew up in Erie, PA and got her law degree at Georgetown.  Marriage brought Amy Padden to Colorado and she now lives in Aurora, CO with her husband and dogs. Arapahoe County contains a wide variety of towns, villages and major cities.
    https://www.amypadden.com/
     
    Amy Padden pledges to bring a balanced approach to crime in the 18th Judicial District which for the first time has shed Lincoln, Elbert and Douglas Counties (which are becoming Colorado’s new 23rd JD). Listen and learn about Arapahoe County politics in the age of Trump and the delicacies of interacting with neighboring DAs. 
     
    Learn about Amy Padden’s passion for public service and her JAG attorney father who is proud of his accomplished daughter. Right now, Amy Padden has no opposition within her own Democratic Party and with the recent decision of incumbent GOP DA John Kellner not to run.
    https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/arapahoe-county-da-john-kellner-wont-run-for-re-election-in-2024/
     
    Find out what Amy thinks about online justice and how she prefers the personal face-to-face approach. She is reluctant to let artificial intelligence influence decisions and arguments coming out of her office if elected. Padden explains how deputies may be divided up with the 23rd JD.
     
    Troubadour Dave Gunders brings his usual great conversation and his strong song titled, Your Way Too. An open mind is critical when interacting with humans. Do ladies listen better than men?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwZdhdMoHBo
     
    We wish Fani Willis would have listened to advice not to take the witness stand as cell phone records are killing her credibility and the good Georgia case against Trump, et. al. We consider the irony that Willis’ sexual indiscretion will benefit sex offender Trump.
     
    Some powerful speeches were delivered, taking on Trump and his mobster pal, Putin. Listen to Nikki Haley stand up to bullies Putin and Trump.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrXEsxwhNUQ
     
    Hear Joe Biden do the same thing in his own epic speech. Haley and Biden both honored the late Alexei Navalny and has consistently stood up to bullies.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDtmWkWCaEY

    • 2 hr 6 min
    Episode 197 - Sandy Phillips

    Episode 197 - Sandy Phillips

    Rundown -
     
    Intro with Troubadour Dave Gunders - 00:35
     
    "World Gone Crazy" by Dave Gunders - 27:08
     
    Sandy Phillips - 43:18
     
    Craig's Analysis of Dan Caplis on Trump's NATO Statements - 02:38:08
     
    Death of Alexei Navalny is dissected during Opening. Then Trump court cases are discussed, including immunity ruling stay request before the US Supreme Court, the Fani Willis developments and the NY business fraud.
     
    Also covered is the allegation Alexander Smirnov bore false witness against Joe Biden. Russian collusion?!? Donald Trump‘s betrayal of NATO is reviewed at the start of the show and also towards the end.
     
    Inspired by a mass shooting tragedy years ago, Show Troubadour Dave Gunders composed, World Gone Crazy, his powerful song about the troubling news families receive regarding gun violence.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKgxjKJfC5g
     
    Jessi Ghawi lost her life at the Aurora Theater Massacre, a victim of a madman with an assault weapon of war that should not have been allowed in civilized society. Sandy Phillips, Jessi’s mother, along with her beloved husband Lonnie Phillips have been making that case ever since.
    https://t.co/aWyyfZmw5w
     
    Find out more about the remarkable Sandy Phillips by listening to this comprehensive interview with one of the world's strongest mothers and gun reform advocates. Sandy Phillips’ life shattered on July 20, 2012 when she got the call at her Texas home. She’s now dedicated to helping others.
     
    Sandy Phillips grew up a Long Beach girl who spent over a decade as a trailblazer at DisneyLand. She had remarkable encounters operating the Matterhorn roller coaster and a brief encounter with Walt Disney himself at a Disneyland restaurant. She was there at the dawn of Disney University.
     
    Sandy Phillips moved to Texas and her daughter, Jessi Ghawi, was a proud Texas girl until she fell in love with Denver, Colorado and had the opportunity to be a sports reporter. Jessi attended Metro State while also working on sports talk radio. Jessi was a red-headed spitfire who loved Batman movies.
    https://t.co/kcsZYxlFBF
     
    After experiencing the murder of their beloved daughter Jessi, Lonnie and Sandy Phillips dedicated themselves to public service. They helped write an outstanding and instructive book titled Tragedy in Aurora: The Culture of Mass Shootings in America. Sandy discussed the court process and what it was like working with DA George Brauchler.
    https://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-Aurora-Culture-Shootings-America/dp/1538123436
     
    Sandy Phillips reacts to the Kansas City Chiefs celebration parade shooting. PUNCH! “People United – No Children’s Handguns!” successes at a 1993 Colorado Special Session reviewed. 1993 Montbello murder of Theron Hicks by Danny Akers with a Mac-11 recalled. If more guns made us safer, we would be the safest country in the world.
     
    Sandy Phillips is delightful as she recounts her amazing encounters with celebrities like Peyton Manning, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and many more. Learn how Sandy Phillips has started her own organization, Survivors Empowered. Consider joining as well!
    https://www.survivorsempowered.org/
     
    Sandy Phillips can now find some happiness again. She is still grieving and healing, but she has a message as she travels from one mass murder scene to another, from Sandy Hook to Buffalo to Uvalde. Sandy’s daughter Jessi is honored on this show. So is Jaime Guttenberg, as we remember Parkland.
    https://apnews.com/article/gun-violence-civil-liberties-happiness-4f59f1ae978f5adeb1057299e752c3ec
     
    Donald Trump wants his base to have as many assault weapons as possible. His retribution will be bad, as modeled after Navalny’s experience. Vlad Putin is a scourge and at the end of the show, we discuss Dan Caplis' claim that Trump’s NATO threats were meant to be funny. That’s sick. And dangerous.

    • 2 hr 54 min

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