Graham Platner
speaker
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
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One is because even in high school, I had some absolutely spectacular teachers who sort of opened, who opened my eyes up to, I would like a, um,
Like a criticism of the larger system that wasn't, that didn't require you to like look for scapegoats in other working people.
I'm voting for Trump.
No, and I was, and so like that, so like, and also obviously I have two very loving parents who very much engendered in me this idea that like you need to be open with other people and you need to be like empathetic and compassionate.
And I think my lucky star is that I have two wonderful parents that did that.
Um, but I will say the other thing is like, after I, when I got back, uh, I, I definitely, uh, how do I put this?
Like, I, I definitely was looking for like answers and in that, you know, like I, and a community and a community, hence why, you know, hence why the internet, um, because I certainly wasn't getting it in the real world.
but I was also going to college.
And in school, I became friends with a number of people who had very, very, very different lived experiences than mine.
And in doing that, I realized that like, oh, like the best thing for me to do is to like spend time around people who have had a totally different life than I have and understand that their life, their lived experience is just as valid as mine.
And that the more that I can like...
the more that I can, one, open myself up to those people and then also have them open up to me, the more I get to learn about the human experience and the more I get to learn about, and it's really difficult to do that and also start thinking that you should like hate other people.
So like, I think in some ways it was those sort of, I had a good foundation, honestly.
I also got a lot of that in the Marine Corps.
Like, you know, like the Marine Corps is I mean, if we're talking about like people want to be part of a community, having a purpose, feeling connected and like and for young men, there's the whole like aggression and violence thing.
Like I was I was the Marine Corps infantry.
I mean, it doesn't get more those things than that.
That's the training.
But I also got to the end of it and realized that it didn't fill any holes in me.
Like it didn't, in fact, it had left me
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