Does 'weird' work for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz?

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Ever since Minnesota governor and Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz called Republicans "weird," we've seen other Democrats embrace this name-calling strategy and deploy it in interviews and in memes online. We've also seen Republicans lobbing the "weird" moniker right back at Democrats. To get into how "weird" this all is, Brittany chats with NPR culture reporter Andrew Limbong and NPR political correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben about this new political strategy and redefining "normalcy" in 2024.

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0:27.0	Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's Been a Minute
0:30.7	from NPR. A show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. A warning that this segment contains some mature language.
0:47.0	This week on the show we're connecting the dots between rubber, glue, and sweaty dude.
0:53.6	I know, I know.
0:55.1	How are all these things connected?
0:57.0	Well, we're going to find out with NPR Culture reporter Andrew Limbogg,
1:00.8	an NPR political correspondent Daniel Kurt Slavin.
1:03.4	Andrew, Danielle, welcome to it's been a minute.
1:05.8	Yo, what's up, Brittany?
1:07.0	Will glue stick to a sweaty dude?
1:09.8	No, I'll just let you know.
1:12.6	I was going to say, I'm like, Andrew, I don't know, I feel like you're getting out and about.
1:16.3	Do you know?
1:17.3	I don't know.
1:18.3	I have no clue. I have no clue.
1:19.3	All right, so I got to ask about, when someone is being weird, do you call them out or do you let it slide?
1:23.7	Oh let it slide. If someone is like you know back in the school days eating their
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