Maine Character Syndrome
6/4/202652 min
Iran leaves the negotiating table, voters enter the polls, and Graham Platner slides into America’s DMs, for better or for worse. Meanwhile, Tig Notaro weighs in on Lovett’s wedding, RFK Jr’s snake handling, and the dawn of Slam Pig Summer. Aparna Nancherla talks anxiety, stand-up and getting your foot in the door at WikiFeet, and we look back (in horror!) with a round of Second Thoughts.
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Speaker 20:30
[upbeat music] Love it or leave it. It's Love It or Leave It. Street shoe-ties.
Jon Lovett· Host0:41
[applauding] Welcome to Love It or Leave It, live from Hollywood. I'm Jon Lovett. I'm married to this haircut. [laughing] We've got [laughs] we've got a great show for you tonight, but first let's get into it. What a week. [applauding] [bell dinging] Over the weekend, the campaign of Maine Senate candidate and guy who you can easily imagine getting into a deadly bar fight over whether the transporter in Star Trek is technically a cloning machine, Graham Platner- [laughing] ... was rocked by a sexting scandal. "They're pretty explicit and I have no idea why they were sent to me," said Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg. [laughing] According to reporting in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, Platner's wife, Amy Gertner, told a campaign aide that she had found sexually explicit texts from her husband that he had exchanged with several women early in their marriage. Really putting the oy in oyster farmer with this guy.
Unknown speaker1:27
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