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

What are the weirdest thing?

I actually think my, my education on this was in my time on planning board.

That's interesting.

Planning board in Sullivan?

Yeah.

Because like on planning board in a small town, especially you like craft policy, implement policy, and then see the material outcome of that policy sometimes within weeks.

And it's happening to your neighbors who are going to come tell you if it's fucked up.

And so for me, that was a really incredible experience because the words on the page actually translate to a material thing and you have to be very careful about it.

And also more importantly though, you have to be flexible because sometimes you'll write the words on the page, you implement it, and then it does something different than what you thought.

And then you need to be willing to revisit.

Yes.

And I don't... I'm not mistrustful of bureaucracy because...

I honestly, bureaucracy in some ways is necessary.

It's how we keep systems functioning.

The problem is we've resulted in bureaucracies that cannot be flexible at all.

I mean, regulatory capture is a real thing.

Look, even in the small business food world, I've dealt with it firsthand.

You're like, the only way I could meet this standard is if I was like a multimillion dollar company that could afford all this nonsense.

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