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3:12So on this program, I have talked a lot about politicians and taking them to

3:17task. People who pretend to be one thing in public and in private are monsters.

3:22And I've mostly focused on my own party.

3:24People like Corey Mills and Tony Gonzalez, who just recently dropped out of his re

3:27-election campaign. But today I'm going to talk about a Democrat, one of the most

3:32deceitful people running for office this year.

3:35His name is Graham Plattner, and he's running for the Democratic nomination for the U

3:39.S. Senate in Maine against incumbent Governor Jenna Mills in the primary and against Susan

3:44Collins, the incumbent senator in the general.

3:47Plattner has quickly become a progressive darling, earning the endorsement of Bernie Sanders, Ruben Gallego,

3:53David Hogg, Gen Z for Change, Our Revolution, and the anti -Israel track, AIPAC.

3:58He's raised millions of dollars across the country, most of them small -dollar donors, close

4:02to 8 million, more in the last quarter than either the governor or the senator.

4:07He's raised, and he's raised them on the back of the campaign that he is

4:12a true working -class advocate.

4:15You know, and it's working.

4:17That plot, that plan, that selling point is working.

4:21Right now, he's got a very significant lead in the primary and a smaller but

4:25respectful one in the general.

4:27In the last six public polls, Plattner led by an average of 12 .5 points

4:32against Janet Mills and three and a half points against Susan Collins.

4:37Plattner has spent the majority of his campaign really honing in on that working -class

4:42image, and he's just an everyman.

4:43You know, he's the real version of what Pete Buttigieg and Beto O 'Rourke and

4:48Tim Walz and James Tallarico pretend to be.

4:51He's speaking to the masters.

4:52He's a veteran, and he's an oyster farmer, and he wants you to know over

4:56and over again, I'm just a veteran and an oyster farmer.

4:59And to his credit, I will give him credit on something, he did serve in

5:02the Iraq War. He signed up in 2003, stating to the New Republic that even

5:07though he protested the war before signing up, he still signed up to serve and

5:11went to combat. He said his inspiration for serving was he read a lot of

5:15Ernest Hemingway. I just want you to hear that again.

5:20He read Ernest Hemingway at 17, and that's...

5:22That's why he decided to go to war in Iraq.

5:24Of course, being something of an upstart and a fighter really came very easily to

5:30Platt very early. In his yearbook superlative, he was known as the most likely to

5:36start a revolution. And he held up a sign in his yearbook stating free Kosovo,

5:40Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine, Kurdistan, and Tibet.

5:44All of those are subjugated lands.

5:46They're all just suffering from colonization.

5:49He's anti -colonization. And from the ripe old age of 17, that's what he wanted

5:53you to know about him.

5:54Now, he likes to create the narrative that he was radicalized by his time overseas

5:58fighting in Iraq. But clearly, that's not true.

6:00He's always been a champagne socialist.

6:03And the key word in there is champagne.

6:05We'll come back to that in a second.

6:07Anyway, he served four combat duties and he suffered from PTSD.

6:09He went to college on the GI Bill.

6:12In 2020, he took over an oyster farm, which he says doesn't earn a lot

6:16of money. But him and his wife are able to get by over the nearly

6:19$5 ,000 a month he receives in benefits as a disabled veteran.

6:23That's about as blue collar as it gets, right?

6:25Veteran, oyster farmer. He's like the main version of Dan Connor from Roseanne.

6:30He's just an all -around working -class guy.

6:33Only Graham doesn't come from any version of a hard -scrabbled existence.

6:37See, when he went to primary school, he went to a place called Hotchkiss, which

6:41is a private boarding school in Lakeville, Connecticut.

6:44And then he went to John Baptist Memorial.

6:46You may ask, wow, that sounds expensive.

6:48You know, that's a boarding school.

6:50Yeah, that was a very expensive school.

6:52In today's dollars, Lakeville currently costs over $70 ,000 a year.

6:57And from my best search, John Baptist Memorial is about $12 ,500.

7:00Much more reasonable than the first school, but still expensive.

7:03Not exactly a place that a working -class person can afford to send their kids.

7:07And I get that it was years ago, because I think he's 41 now.

7:11But nonetheless, it was expensive no matter when he went.

7:14See, Planner doesn't come from a working -class background, despite all the flannel that he

7:18wears on the campaign trail.

7:19His grandfather was one of the world's most renowned architects and interior designers.

7:23You could still buy his furniture, and it cost upwards of $20 ,000 per chair.

7:29His father was also a very successful lawyer.

7:33Graham likes to cosplay that he is this underdog.

7:35And to a point, he is against the governor and the senator.

7:38But his family has long -standing political ties in Maine.

7:42It's not a case of Mr.

7:43Smith goes to Washington. His father, Bronson Planner, served as the assistant district attorney in

7:48Maine, ran unsuccessfully for the state Senate, and chaired a board of a local nonprofit

7:53that maintained close ties to the Senate Majority Leader, former Secretary of Defense, and former

7:57Maine governor. Planner's rugged exterior should be offensive to working -class people, the same way

8:03it was offensive to black people that, back in the day, in the early days

8:07of the movies, his white actors were put on blackface, pretending to be something that

8:11they are not. How wealthy is Planner's family?

8:14We don't know. But his father is wealthy enough that he could drop $60 ,000

8:18to support Democratic candidates running for office over the last 15 years.

8:23And that doesn't even include money he gave to local candidates running just in Maine.

8:27That's just federal candidates. $60 ,000 in 10 years.

8:30Not many people can afford to do that unless they have a lot of money.

8:34So the Working Class Act is really a facade.

8:37Graham says he doesn't own any stocks, and he doesn't.

8:39But you really don't need to when you likely have an inheritance.

8:44Look, I don't fault anyone for making a lot of money.

8:46I don't fault anybody for wanting to give that money to kids or protecting their

8:49children. That's totally honorable and admirable.

8:51What I do find something that needs to be held to count is people lying

8:58and lying all the time, which is something Graham seems to have a problem with.

9:04He has a very unhealthy relationship with the truth.

9:08Let's start with the Graham's infamous tattoo.

9:10Now, this is a story you may have actually heard about.

9:13Graham Planner was revealed that he had a Nazi tattoo on his chest.

9:17It had a Nazi skull and crossbones.

9:19It was called Tunkov. I believe this way you pronounce it.

9:22It probably isn't because you guys know I'm not great at pronouncing things.

9:25He apologized. He said he got another tattoo to cover it up.

9:28He said he received the tattoo in 2007 when he was on leave in Croatia

9:32on a drunken night with his military buddies.

9:35And he said that he was totally unaware that it had a connection to Hitler

9:39and the Nazis. And he told Pots of America he's covered it up.

9:42And he's not a secret Nazi.

9:44He wants you to know I'm not a secret Nazi.

9:45He also proclaimed during the podcast that he was a World War II history buff,

9:52which is I figure a World War II history buff might not might know, you

9:57know, what what the skull and crossbones meant.

10:00And he says that he's been an anti -fascist since he was 12 years old.

10:05That seems healthy for what a 12 -year -old should be thinking about.

10:07I don't know about you.

10:08I was at 12. I was probably watching X -Men.

10:10I don't I don't really think that I was thinking about fascism.

10:14But Graham Plattner wants you to know he's been doing this for a long time.

10:17CNN, though, reported that in as early as 2020, Graham's friend said that he described

10:23it as a Nazi style tattoo.

10:25But I'm sure that's just probably the only time Graham seemed to connect himself with

10:29anti -Jewish and authoritarianism. Right.

10:31Like he couldn't possibly have more connections with people who were anti -Semitic and authoritarian.

10:37Wrong. See, as recently as 2021, when he was the ripe age of 36, Graham

10:43called himself a communist and a recreational drug user.

10:47He said, I'm a vegetable growing psychedelic.

10:50tasting socialist these days, and then said, in fact, I got older and became a

10:54communist. That would explain why in recent videos, Graham has said that the United States

10:59should be working in cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party, not in opposition.

11:04You know, that regime, that government that puts their own citizens in internment camps, forces

11:09abortion until like five minutes ago, manipulates their currency, steals our IP and funds our

11:14enemies. We should be working with them.

11:16That's Graham Plattner's idea of foreign policy.

11:19We should just give them a big Graham Plattner bear hug.

11:22It was while he was writing on this, he's, see, this is how you know,

11:27like millennials as a generation, we're going to have a rough time running for office,

11:31most of us, because he seemed to love Reddit.

11:35He wrote on Reddit a lot, and that's where he wrote those comments about being

11:38a communist. Now, he has since said, listen, I'm not a communist.

11:43I'm not a socialist. I'm a small business owner.

11:46Don't believe what I wrote on Reddit.

11:48I'm just a small business owner.

11:49He's a small business owner of a business that he doesn't draw a salary from.

11:54See, nothing, nothing makes sense.

11:57Graham wasn't young when he wrote this.

11:59He wasn't a child. He was close to middle age when he declared that he

12:02was a communist. And as he gets older, he became more of a communist.

12:07And I want you to remember, he said, he said, communist, not democratic socialist.

12:12He didn't align himself like Bernie Sanders ideology.

12:15He said, communism, the ideology that killed 60 to 100 million people in the 20th

12:23century. Communists, when you look at the death toll, make Nazis look like child's play.

12:28Probably why his Nazi tattoo didn't bother him that much.

12:31NBC News asked Graham about this, and he said, I want to talk about my

12:35evolution as a human being, he said.

12:37A lot of Americans also want to have the hope that you can change and

12:40you can evolve and we can be in a society with grace and forgiveness to

12:43people. Because if we can't, if we can't think of people as just ossified into

12:48who they are right now and can never be something different, then what's the point?

12:52This is such a nonsensical comment, right?

12:54This wasn't, this is from 2021.

12:57He wasn't a teenager. I don't believe a 15 year old should be held accountable

13:02for what they write on social media for their whole entire life.

13:04You were 36, dude. You were not a kid.

13:08This is not a million years ago.

13:10This was six years ago.

13:13But he does, you know, all this evolving.

13:16And apparently he hasn't evolved from Graham's big Jewish question.

13:21See, Plattner has a tendency to just accidentally keep finding himself around people who really

13:28don't like Jews. And it's not like they're, you know, they're coming to him.

13:32He somehow is finding them.

13:34In January, 2026, a few months ago, he appeared on a YouTube podcast hosted by

13:40Nate Kronachia. I'm guarantee you I'm slaughtering his last name.

13:43I've never watched him. You know why I've never watched him?

13:46He's a very well -known anti -Semitic conspiracy theorist who promoted Holocaust deniers.

13:51He has a long history of making up the conspiracies that Israel is behind the

13:55Kennedy assassination, 9 -11, and the death of Charlie Kirk.

13:58He also that October 7th in Israel was a false flag operation.

14:01Now, maybe Graham didn't know that before he was going to show, maybe, you know,

14:05a PR producer booked him on a show.

14:08But when he was on the show, he said, I'm a longtime listener and fan.

14:12Well, that's weird. The guy with a Nazi tattoo who calls himself a communist till

14:17he was 36 is a longtime fan of an anti -Semitic conspiracy theorist.

14:21It all must be a coincidence.

14:23And then on February 26th, he retweeted the social media comments of Stu Peters, another

14:27prominent Holocaust denier who called Judaism a death cult.

14:31Graham said this was just another error.

14:33He deleted the post. It's just another coincidence.

14:37Graham is full of just ending up in coincidences.

14:40Graham's excuse for all this is he just doesn't know.

14:43He's just joking on the internet.

14:45He doesn't know. He doesn't know.

14:46It's just all a joke.

14:47Here's something that I know.

14:49When the same thing keeps happening over and over and over, it tends not to

14:54be a coincidence. Now, let's talk about some public policy positions on, you know, the

14:59issues that I think is really important that he may not want you to know.

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18:32Nazi tattoos, support for anti -Semitic podcaster, retweeting Holocaust deniers, claiming you're a communist into

18:38your mid -30s. Only to say afterwards, it's just not if it's true.

18:42It's just, you know, a series of things that have happened to me.

18:44He's just a blue -collar guy who spent his childhood at expensive boarding schools with

18:49deep local political connections who's really a man of the people.

18:53Although the man's character leaves a lot of questions, what are some policies that he's

18:57running on and talking about?

18:58Well, in his campaign announcement, he gives a lot of populist platitudes that life for

19:02working class people in Maine is unaffordable because of billionaires and corrupt politicians.

19:06You know, those are to blame.

19:08He says the billionaires are driving us into poverty.

19:10Doesn't really explain how, but that's a hot take.

19:14His solution to these problems is universal health care, no more wars, and more money

19:19for veterans. So basically, you're, you know, you're same talking points from Bernie style, Bernie

19:25Sanders style Democrats. That's all it is.

19:27Only that's not the only thing he's always said.

19:31See, Graham is a guy, once I said, once again, he loved Reddit.

19:35He loved forums. He loved to talk all the time well into his mid -30s

19:39when it's, you know, I get when you're a teenager and you're bored after school

19:42and you write on social media.

19:43When you're in your mid -30s, you should be doing a little bit more than

19:45posting on Reddit. Graham had some strong opinions that I don't think they're making into

19:49his ads anytime soon. Graham was deeply obsessed with the Black Lives Matter movement and

19:54the defund the police movement in 2021.

19:56Shocking, I know, with that kind of background.

19:58You can't believe that a guy like that is really into the defund the police

20:01movement. He posted, quote, all cops are bastards and mispolice conduct is a, quote, problem

20:06that extends deep into the profession as a whole, end quote.

20:10See, here's how you know, by the way, the whole working class thing is a

20:14shtick and an utter lie.

20:16Police aren't just a force to protect innocent people.

20:20I mean, they are that and that is extremely important.

20:22But from a working class perspective, someone who actually grew up working class, whose father

20:27was actually a cop, whose uncles were actually cops and they grew up real poor,

20:31the police aren't just a force to protect people.

20:35It is a it is a ladder of social prosperity.

20:38If you are working class, like really working class and college is just not your

20:42thing, it's out of reach financially.

20:44It's you didn't you're just not from an education background.

20:47You don't have those kinds of brains.

20:48We want you want to take out student loans.

20:50How do you manage to get into the middle class?

20:53You join a public sector union like the police, like a civil servant job can

20:57give you the ladder of opportunity to make it to the middle class in one

21:02generation. There is a deep economic factor behind the police that working class people understand

21:08that people like Graham Plattner do not because he's not working class.

21:12He is a show pony.

21:14Now, his opinions on police, not shockingly, extend to ICE.

21:17He doesn't want to reform ICE.

21:19He wants to disband it.

21:20No immigration enforcement whatsoever. But rest assured, Graham actually is for some type of, you

21:26know, law and order. It's just a paramilitary organization.

21:31I'm not joking when I say that because Graham, this is according to the main

21:36wire, Graham was an active member and taught instruction at the main socialist rifle association.

21:43You may remember. When he said he was, you know, a socialist, he said he

21:48wasn't a socialist. He not only was a socialist and was a communist, but he

21:53actually participated and taught advanced firearm instruction to a paramilitary group, surely after the Black

22:00Lives Matter movement led to a rise of riots across the country.

22:04Once again, he was 35 years old when he did this.

22:08He took all of his training in the military, and by the way, he worked

22:10for Blackwater or something else he doesn't like to talk about.

22:13They worked for a private military organization.

22:15And he used all those advanced socialist, you know, skills for a socialist agenda, for

22:20a socialist paramilitary organization that just may need them for self -defense.

22:26Wonder why? Once again, that also came from a Reddit post.

22:29Man, this guy loved posting on Reddit.

22:31Back in 2013, he also posted that Black people are poor tippers at restaurants and

22:37said that sexual assault victims need to take responsibility and accountability.

22:40But sexual assault victims, Jews, police, they aren't his only target.

22:46Graham Plattner's ire runs deep.

22:48He also really doesn't like the same people in Maine he's pretending to support, rural

22:55whites. See, Maine has the largest population of rural whites in New England, and they

23:00actually split their electoral college votes by congressional district in the presidential election.

23:05It's one of only two states besides Nebraska to do that.

23:07So Maine's second district, which is basically 100 % rural, they vote for Trump, and

23:13they give one electoral college vote for Trump in the last three presidential elections.

23:16Trump won Maine's second district by 10 points in 2024, 7 points in 2020, and

23:2110 points in 2016. Back in 2020, someone on his Reddit feed said, white people

23:27aren't racist or stupid as Trump thinks, and Graham replied, living in white rural America,

23:34I'm afraid to tell you, they actually are.

23:37Once again, he wants everyone to look away.

23:39He says, this is what he says now, he's just a white guy from, I'm

23:43just a white guy from rural Maine, I know these people, and I'm not a

23:47racist. Why would Graham say such a thing, though?

23:51This is in 2020. He is well into his mid -30s when he's saying, white,

23:56rural whites are stupid. And Maine has a large population of rural whites, especially given

24:03that Maine's second congressional district, that same district he's talking about, being full of stupid

24:08people, they voted for Obama twice, they voted for Kerry, they voted for Gore, and

24:12they voted for Clinton. So why would they vote for Donald Trump?

24:15Is it because they're stupid, or is it because their communities were devastated by open

24:20trade with China, by NAFTA, and by other policies?

24:23By the way, policies that Graham very much supports.

24:26And it's put Maine in a terrible position.

24:30Open trade with China devastated northern Maine, as did NAFTA.

24:34And Graham Plattner wants you to understand, he thinks those rural whites in northern Maine,

24:39they're stupid, and we should work with China.

24:42So why would voters in northern Maine support Trump?

24:46Because he opposed the things that destroyed their communities.

24:48It was out of self -interest.

24:50It's not because they're stupid.

24:51Why did Graham say that?

24:53Because he believes it. Like, he believes all cops are bastards.

24:58Like, he believes a sexual assault victim should take responsibility.

25:01I'm not even going to go into his dating life.

25:03I've looked, trust me, I did a deep dive on this guy, and there is,

25:06he is not kind to women.

25:07I'll just say it like that.

25:09Or hasn't been, I guess, pre -marriage.

25:11Maybe he's nice to his wife, I don't know.

25:12But as someone who dated, not kind to women.

25:16He believes in communism. He believes in socialism.

25:20He's a man of intense privilege.

25:23Someone who's able to go to the finest boarding schools as a child.

25:27Go into the military because he was inspired by Ernest Hemingway.

25:30I mean, who even says that out loud?

25:33He voted, he was voted most likely to start a revolution.

25:37And, you know, listen, you don't have to be working class to support working class

25:43ideologies or to be a populist.

25:45Look at Huey Long, Ross Perot, Donald Trump.

25:48None of them, none of them were poor.

25:50But they didn't fake it.

25:51They didn't lie and say they were.

25:53They were honest with who they are.

25:55He wants the public to act like the movie Men in Black when they take

25:59out that little pen and a light goes off and everyone's memories just wipe clean.

26:02He doesn't want you to know what he has said 45 seconds ago.

26:07He wants you to have, treat him like a completely blank slate and only wants

26:12you to know the very narrow vision of who he is that he is, that

26:16he thinks is acceptable. No, the true darkness in this man isn't just the fact

26:23that he's not working class.

26:24It's that he detests working class people.

26:27And if you ask him, right, if you ask him, why would you say these

26:32things? He keeps saying, just look at my growth.

26:34Look at my growth. Listen, I 100 % believe people can grow.

26:39A 15 -year -old, as I said, should not be responsible their whole life for

26:42what they write on social media.

26:43This was not a 15 -year -old.

26:45This was a 35 -year -old.

26:47This is not somebody who grew.

26:48This is somebody saying the truth because he was saying the truth of his opinions

26:54when he was 13, when he was 18, when he was 35.

26:59All of a sudden, after 30 years of being a communist, of being a radical,

27:04of being a protester, of being a champagne socialist, he wants you to understand he's

27:09not any of those things.

27:10He's just a working class oyster farmer.

27:12That's not a one of those things.

27:13You're welcome. This is a dangerous, dangerous person.

27:17He's doing an impersonation of John Fetterman, who, you know, likes to flirt with people

27:22who hate Jews and thinks they're responsible for all the wars in the world.

27:25So if you live in Maine and if you live near Maine, it is your

27:30responsibility to get this message out.

27:33Graham Plattner is a very dangerous individual who is lying to voters about who he

27:38actually is and what he believes.

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31:15First question comes from Tristan.

31:17Not sure why the GOP White House keep trying to push the SAVE Act.

31:20It's not getting 60 votes and voter ID is not going to be anyone's top

31:24issue this November. I think it'd be easier to fix the voter integrity issue state

31:28by state. We could very well get trifectas in Arizona, Wisconsin, and Michigan this fall.

31:33One, blue states aren't going to go with it.

31:36And remember, there are a lot of, well, there used to be more, but there

31:38are some swing seats in blue states that you would need to win in order

31:41to keep the house, like in New Jersey and New York.

31:44And then there's a few in California that honestly you could still win even with

31:47the gerrymandered map. And secondly, a lot of people feel like they don't have until

31:51November. That November without voter ID is going to be a disaster.

31:55So they want to get it done early.

31:57And it's something that Trump has this big fight for.

32:00And I've been very critical of him.

32:02But Ken Paxton's campaign, putting out that message that he will drop out if they

32:06pass the SAVE Act, was an act of brilliance.

32:09It has pushed back the Cornyn endorsement from Trump.

32:11It's not coming out as of right now.

32:14It could be coming out later, but it hasn't come out yet.

32:18And I think it was an act of genius on part of his campaign.

32:21So smart. Put the ball back in the corner of John Thone.

32:24And he's got to pass something or get something along to avoid this very expensive

32:30primary. So, so smart. Okay.

32:33Next up comes from Dave.

32:34Big fan of your show.

32:35Are you able to explain why Ohio is now solidly red?

32:37I am a millennial growing up.

32:39I always remember Ohio being considered...

32:40a consummate swing state, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

32:44Thanks, Dave. Okay, Dave, thank you for listening.

32:47As a millennial, I remember those days.

32:49Part of the reason is because Ohio, well, because the party has changed is the

32:55moral of the story. Because working class whites have become Republicans in greater numbers and

33:01more college educated urban people voters have become more Democratic, Ohio has been benefited from

33:08that more than basically anybody else.

33:10If you go back to 2008 and 2012, northern Ohio and the Mahoning Valley were

33:15solidly blue. I mean, deep, deep Democratic parts of the state and the rural counties

33:20in Ohio actually only voted for Republicans by like, you know, they gave them like

33:25between 50 and maybe 60 percent of the vote.

33:28Most rural counties did not get more than 60 percent of the vote in Ohio

33:31in 2008, which is shocking now by today's perspective.

33:35Fast forward to 2024, or the Mahoning Valley is Republican.

33:39All those areas in northern Ohio are basically outside of Cleveland Republican.

33:44Canton, I think, is maybe Democratic too, but there's not much that is still Democratic.

33:48Most is Republican. And the rural counties, instead of giving 50 to 60, are giving

33:52a 70 to 85. So you have a 20 point shift among the rurals and

33:57you have the entire northern area that used to be Democratic strongholds going maybe 55,

34:0350 for Republicans. And the Democratic Party has basically collapsed.

34:07We'll see if it anything swings back this year with with the upcoming election, given

34:13that they have a good Democrats have a good slate of candidates.

34:16But it's kind of hard to see that, you know, that much movement.

34:19Last question is from R.

34:21Shannon. They write. I don't know if R.

34:22Shannon's a woman or a man, but R.

34:24Shannon, you write to me and I appreciate you for listening.

34:26Are there any or have there been any politicians who want to increase the voting

34:30age? I think personally it should be 21, but probably 25.

34:3318 is far too young.

34:34Younger people overall are dumb and want free things.

34:38Also, by the way, old people want free things too.

34:40I also sign out tangent.

34:42It's very scary. These young people are the future leaders.

34:45We are raising the dumbest kids ever.

34:49I kind of think everyone thinks that their generation is the dumbest generation ever.

34:53I remember when millennials were told that they were the laziest people.

34:57And almost every millennial I know is working like 45 jobs trying to hold it

35:02together. So I don't know.

35:05I don't know the whole I will say this.

35:06There is a big difference between Gen Z and millennials in the sense of and

35:09this is a big part of it.

35:11The smartphones and the personalized entertainment has definitely created a hard cultural barrier between Gen

35:21Z's and Gen Alpha and millennials and older because I grew up and I know

35:26I was the only one.

35:26I didn't have a TV in my room.

35:27We had one TV in the house.

35:28And I know some people had TVs in their room, but most people I know

35:31didn't. Most kids I know didn't.

35:33And if you wanted to watch something, you had to kind of watch what your

35:37family watched. And there was a lot of jokes being made on television shows that

35:42were intergenerational, like that old people would get and young people would get and you

35:46kind of had a better understanding of what they were thinking about, what they were

35:52talking about and more, I guess, more conversation, not more conversations, but more cultural cornerstones

36:01of things that happened in your past.

36:03So it was more understanding.

36:05Zoomers and alphas, they don't have, everything's personalized to them.

36:08They don't have to know or learn about anything.

36:10So there is that. I don't want to call them dumb, though.

36:12I don't think they're dumb.

36:13Sometimes they're less than smart, but it is what it is.

36:16As far as the question goes, with voting age, yes, Vivek Ramaswamy, he wanted to

36:21raise the voting age to 25 when he was running for president.

36:24Obviously, he never became president, but like the previous question, he might be governor of

36:28Ohio. Kind of hoping that doesn't happen, but it might.

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