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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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · Politics for ME (and You) with Graham Platner · 29 Apr 2026 podcast

I saw awful stuff because of you people.

Like, you know, there was this kind of like deep, like frustration.

But so in 2016, I moved back to Maine.

And after I moved back to Maine, things changed significantly.

I started getting help from the VA.

I moved back to my hometown.

I got into oyster farming and I wanted to check out.

i wanted to i just wanted to be left alone i thought the whole thing was broken i didn't want to have any part of it i just wanted to sink all my time and energy into the place that i'm from started making a living on the sea got into diving got into oyster farming became the harbor master got really involved in my local community and honestly in that time frame all my disillusionment disappeared not with the bigger system but like i went i went from blaming

like America and Americans to, because I used to have this feeling like, why did you make me go do this?

Like, why did you guys make us go do this thing in Iraq and Afghanistan that I, for the life of me, cannot figure out what the purpose was?

And when I got back here and started really settling in, I realized, I became quite convinced that the average American is a truly wonderful human being.

Most people are normal.

The problem is we have a political system that elevates a lot of abnormal people.

So you get cable news.

You've watched.

And I've always been a very politically active and interested person, but not in like electoral politics.

So I really sank my time into local governance.

I became chair of the planning board.

And then I got really into the community organizing around social justice and economic justice issues.

And in doing all of that,

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