Kamala’s meme-mentum

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Kamala Harris memes have taken over the internet. Now she needs to figure out how to capitalize on them. This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen and Miles Bryan, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Matt Collette and Laura Bullard, engineered by Rob Byers and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram and Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Noel King, have you been on the internet lately?
0:02.6	Yes.
0:03.6	Have you heard like, you know, Kamla,
0:05.6	mashed up with Brittany?
0:07.2	You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?
0:09.3	Have you heard Kamala mashed up with Beyoncée?
0:16.0	Yes.
0:17.0	America has a coconut tree.
0:20.0	And I'm not.
0:21.0	Coconut tree. And I guess my last question is have you heard Kamla mash up with my personal
0:28.8	fave Charlie XXX.
0:30.1	Okay, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nahh, nahh, nahh, nahh, nah, nah, nahh, nahh, nahh, n, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
0:36.0	Okay, on the show today,
0:38.0	we're gonna ask what the heck's going on
0:41.0	and also figure out if any of this means anything for this campaign, but you're
0:45.5	going to do something too.
0:46.5	What are you going to do?
0:47.5	All right, Vice President Harris has got a lot of attention.
0:49.5	Coconut, coconut, coconut, coconut, but what should she do with it to help her campaign?
0:54.8	We're gonna ask.
0:55.3	There you go.
0:56.3	You think you just fell out of a...
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