Graham Platner

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2,222 appearances 59 recordings 20 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Up First from NPR · Can Graham Platner survive another controversy? | NPR’s Newsmakers · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

What is the material outcome of this?

Because I think that the people who are quote-unquote qualified, for quite some time they've completely forgotten that that's what they should actually be thinking about.

And that's why we are in the straits we are today.

Well, I mean, I started raking blueberries when I was nine.

I had my first W-2 job before I even went to high school.

I bagged groceries and pushed carts, did landscaping, and then worked on the Appalachian Trail for the AMC on the professional trail crew.

Those were all jobs that require you to work and use your hands.

After that, I joined the infantry, where I spent my 20s engaged in combat operations for this country, struggled afterwards, and then eventually came back to Maine, where I have become a diver and an oyster farmer.

My wife and I combined make about $60,000 a year.

For the record, my father is a small-town lawyer in Ellsworth, Maine, who did bankruptcy and real estate law for his career in Ellsworth.

Yeah.

Not a billionaire.

Most certainly not.

My mother, by the way, still works.

She still runs her restaurant because in her 70s, she has no retirement.

So she's going to work for the foreseeable future because she's got no way to retire.

I mean, to me, if that's your definition of being like a wealthy rich person, then I think those people's definitions need some attending.

Yeah, it's very simple.

If the bulk of the money that you get to –

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