6/5/26: Graham Platner Scandal, California Elections, Screwworm Outbreak & MORE!
Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
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🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 142 minutes
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Krystal, Ryan and Emily discuss Graham Platner facing accusations from ex girlfriends, California election results continue rolling in as Raman and Steyer make up ground, screwworm outbreak after DOGE cuts, and interview with Oliver Larkin on his race in Florida.
Oliver Larkin: https://www.oliverforcongress.com/
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.1 | Hey guys, Saga and Crystal here. |
| 0:06.1 | Independent media just played a truly massive role in this election, and we are so excited |
| 0:11.1 | about what that means for the future of this show. |
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| 0:37.9 | Good to see you, too. |
| 0:39.3 | So we have a little bit of timing challenges today. |
| 0:42.7 | I have to leave here shortly, and Emily was doing another podcast that has to come in late, |
| 0:47.9 | but we wanted both of us have things to say about this whole grand platinum situation. |
| 0:52.0 | So we're going to sort of split the grand um, the, the grand platinum segment into, um, Ryan will be there throughout the, the whole process to guide us through. So we could get this covered from all aspects, but didn't want it just to be two lefties. But also, Emily actually knows, uh, the woman who is the main accuser in the story against Graham Platner. So definitely |
| 1:12.0 | wanted to get her view on what is going on there. We're also going to update you on the California |
| 1:16.3 | election results, which continue to shift in very interesting ways. We're going to update you |
| 1:20.3 | on screw worm as well. And I had an interview with Oliver Larkin, excuse me, this week, |
| 1:26.1 | who is challenging Jared Moskowitz in a Florida district in the Democratic primary. |
| 1:31.2 | Moskowitz, in my opinion, has been a real villain. |
| 1:34.1 | You can, he's certainly, he's proud to be a top A-PAC candidate. |
| 1:38.4 | He defends taking those A-PAC dollars. |
| 1:40.7 | He says basically it's, he doesn't understand why they're singled out for, |
| 1:44.5 | um, for scrutiny. Ryan, I'm sure you have some, some thoughts about his, his comments on that. But in any case, Oliver Larkin challenging him from the left and, you know, has a very interesting story and very compelling in his own right as well. Yes. Yes, indeed. And, you know, the, the news gods gifted us with a slow news day, |
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