Graham Platner
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2,222 appearances
59 recordings
20 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Graham Platner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Up First from NPR · Can Graham Platner survive another controversy? | NPR’s Newsmakers · 1 Jun 2026
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I do get a chuckle out of the fact that suddenly everyone is an expert on this version of skull and crossbones.
But for 17 years of my life, including getting screened for tattoos, never once came up.
I think it's just a healthy form of it.
Which is, yeah, look, I mean, I lift weights.
I shoot guns.
My background is obviously in the military.
I work outside.
Most of my hobbies are things that people tend to associate with manly stuff, I guess.
At the exact same time, I go to therapy.
I have a very open sort of dialogue and emotional relationship with my wife.
I work incredibly hard to put myself in places where
where I share space with folks who have very different outlooks or backgrounds as me, and then open up to the idea that their lived experience is exactly as valid as mine.
And that kind of thing throughout my life has really been the most educational thing that's ever happened to me.
Even on this campaign, I mean, I have interacted with more people in the past nine months than I think I might have interacted with my entire life beforehand.
That is educational.
When you are willing to be open and accepting, when you're willing to not just immediately get defensive about things and understand that you may have preconceived notions, you may have ways of speaking, you may have ideas that when you interact with other folks, they inform you that either you're wrong or maybe what you're saying is hurtful and harmful.
And then instead of getting angry about it, you understand it and you engage.
That, I think...
is incredibly manly.
The idea to be open, the idea to be vulnerable.
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