Is Graham Platner the Most Electable Man in World History?
Head in the Office
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5.0 • 797 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
This week, Graham Platner finds himself embroiled in yet another controversy that probably won't have electoral consequences. Amid the controversy, the HITO boys reflect on the state of the Maine senate race, the Democratic party’s strategy writ large, and the motivations behind most of the anti-Platner forces. On the Iran war side of things, on Monday, negotiations completely broke down as state-affiliated Iranian news announced Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz and no longer consider talks while Israel continues its operations in Lebanon and Gaza. The boys also cover protests outside of Delaney Hall, an ICE detention center in New Jersey, where detainees are doing a hunger strike.
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(0:00) Susan Collins blames veterans for their own deployment
(5:40) Intro
(9:30) Iran War CONTINUES
(26:20) Graham Platner controversies
(54:18) Delaney Hall & Massive anti-ICE protests
(1:09:05) Reviews/ending
Seen on this episode:
Delaney Hall hunger strike - https://www.reuters.com/pictures/protests-outside-newark-ice-facility-hunger-strike-inside-continues-2026-05-28/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/us/new-jersey-ice-facility-protests
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/30/protests-ice-immigration-detention-center-new-jersey
https://tracreports.org/immigration/quickfacts/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/29/us/ice-protests-new-jersey
Iran war -
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/iran-us-negotiations-strait-of-hormuz.html
Platner -
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/graham-platner-maine-senate-texts.html
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | To absolutely nobody surprise, Graham Platner, the man the myth, the legend, has found himself |
| 0:04.1 | in the news again. |
| 0:05.3 | Graham Platner, stay out of the news challenge, level impossible. |
| 0:21.6 | Graham Platner, chill, challenge. Once a month, there's a clip of him saying, like, oh, yeah, there's no more controversy. He's coming. Exactly. And then there's another controversy. And then there's another controversy. And I'll be it like they get like lesser and lesser and lesser and lesser to an extent as they come along. |
| 0:24.5 | And you, some people are saying that like the DNC is reaching because it they've all come from the DNC and we're naturally going to dive into that this |
| 0:29.2 | episode because grand platinum we've said is America's most electable man he is no matter what |
| 0:34.0 | happens with that that's a bad thing he just surges in the polls. There is, he's an enigma. Truly, I cannot get my finger on this one. I do not know what's going on. Every time I look at the news, it, it's crazy to me. But before we get into Platner's newest controversy and the Iran War news that just broke before this episode started. |
| 1:13.5 | I wanted to start the show with Grand Platner's opponent, Suzanne Collins. Yes. Because she cannot win. Yeah, no, Susan Collins, she sucks. She votes for all the bad stuff. She pretends to actually care about it. She's been in the Senate for a trillion years, been in government for a trillion years. She's a trillion years old. She's got to go. And it's crazy that like Democrats didn't even like try to beat Platner in any real way. |
| 1:14.5 | But they're complaining about them. |
| 1:30.8 | No, absolutely. So much of what is going on in this race for this one Senate seat is just jaw-droppingly stupid. Oh, it's crazy. I got to say. And speaking of jaw-droppingly stupid, we have Suzanne Collins remarks over. I want to say this happened a week ago. This happened fairly recently, though. Graham Platner made a video. |
| 1:28.3 | I think he's made a couple of these at this |
| 1:32.1 | point talking about how Suzanne Collins voted to send me and my buddies to war and die in war because |
| 1:36.5 | she voted for the Iraq War. Yes. And a reporter, a friendly reporter, went up to Suzanne Collins |
| 1:42.1 | and asked her this question and she had the following to say. |
| 1:45.1 | Mr. Platner says that you sent him to war, but in fact he enlisted twice. What is your comment on that? |
| 1:51.6 | Well, first of all, he not only enlisted twice after the war was started, but he also went to work for a security company. |
| 2:04.5 | A lot-key cooked him there. |
| 2:05.6 | A black order after his term in the service was over. |
| 2:13.1 | So I respect anyone who steps forward to serve their country. But the fact is that was Platterner's decision to serve. He was not drafted. Oh, my God. Interesting how it's, it's great. I respect anybody's decision to serve. That was Plattner's decision to serve. He was not drafted. We haven't had a draft in. God knows how long. Exactly. We haven't had a draft in forever. And it's like, I respect his decision to serve, but I don't respect the experiences |
| 2:39.1 | he took from his time in the service. I respect his decision to sign up and die for the war that |
| 2:43.5 | I voted for, but I don't respect any criticisms of my actions that he may have had because of that. |
| 2:48.6 | And it's like, yeah, sure, he enlisted, but also, like, the government lied relentlessly |
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