Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from how Stuff
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Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. Save
Speaker 1: your applause, because when we were talking about applause in
Speaker 1: this episode, I don't know if you do applaud us
Speaker 1: after a weird done um as you're listening to us
Speaker 1: in your car, on the train, or in your bed.
Speaker 1: But I hope I just assumed everyone applauded when we finished. Well,
Speaker 1: hold on a second, let's just let's just listen to
Speaker 1: a little bit of applause. Let's really soak it in.
Speaker 1: I feel better already. Yeah. I knew they loved this.
Speaker 1: I knew it. Um. You know, we are, of course
Speaker 1: talking about clapping today, applause, about what it all means
Speaker 1: in our universe and what it can tell us about
Speaker 1: the laws governing the ways that we operate in the world. Yeah.
Speaker 1: For instance, the big one, of course is when do
Speaker 1: you clap? When do you not clap? When is it appropriate?
Speaker 1: When is it unseemly? When do you not want the clap? Clapping? Clapping? Uh? Okay,
Speaker 1: And of course there's a rich tradition of clapping in
Speaker 1: childhood and happiness, right, because if you're happy and you
Speaker 1: know what, you will clap your hands. That's what the
Speaker 1: song says to do. And who we have to doubt it, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And clapping really is one of those things that it
Speaker 1: is just a rudimentary percussive instrument, right, You can use it,
Speaker 1: you can start your songs. It's like used a lot
Speaker 1: in folk music, right, Yeah, I mean it's the it's
Speaker 1: the instrument of our bodies. Yeah, it's right up there
Speaker 1: with like hand boning hamdbone hambone where you man exactly.
Speaker 1: I don't know really the rest of that song. I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody wants me to sing the rest of
Speaker 1: that song. But you can also use clapping as as
Speaker 1: even like a signal to turn electronic devices on and off. Right,
Speaker 1: Clap on, clap off. Right. So, and there's just satisfaction
Speaker 1: to a good clap. Have you ever noticed that? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like a like a good just a rich clap where
Speaker 1: you really kind of cut your hands a bit and
Speaker 1: you get that solid sound. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good,
Speaker 1: meaty connection between your hands and it sort of comes
Speaker 1: to symbolize something really important to you, right, Like that
Speaker 1: performance was so enriching and beautiful that I must somehow
Speaker 1: express myself. My wife often gets onto me, for um,
Speaker 1: when we're at events where there's clapping, Like, generally what
Speaker 1: I'll do is I love to clap, and I will
Speaker 1: I will applaud an artist or or even you know,
Speaker 1: a movie if it's if it's really had an effect
Speaker 1: on me. But but my hands get a little tired
Speaker 1: doing it. I mean, it's not that it's like wearing
Speaker 1: me out and I'm just you know, you know, out
Speaker 1: of breath or anything. But like after you know, pin
Speaker 1: and claps, you know, you get kind of a stingy
Speaker 1: sensation because I'm really committing on my early claps. So
Speaker 1: if the audience continues to applaud, I'll often go to
Speaker 1: a silent clap where I look like I'm clapping, but
Speaker 1: I'm not really making any noise because at that point,
Speaker 1: you feel like it's obligatory clapping. Yeah, So I continue
Speaker 1: to keep up appearances, but I'm not really going to
Speaker 1: contribute to the volume of of applause. And uh, and
Speaker 1: my wife thinks that's kind of silly or something. All Right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna touch back on that in a moment um.
Speaker 1: I wanted to point out that Jay Fisher, he's a
Speaker 1: classics professor Yale University, he dates the custom to at
Speaker 1: least the third century BC. He said, you see it
Speaker 1: at the end of a lot of place by plaud
Speaker 1: Us and Terrence, where they have this word plaudit, which
Speaker 1: is an imperative meaning applause or clap, So we see
Speaker 1: it there. Um. We also know that it was popular
Speaker 1: in ancient room, where it joined finger clicks and waving
Speaker 1: handkerchiefs and expression of appreciation, so they would do clicks
Speaker 1: with their fingers. I thought that was just a be
Speaker 1: nick thing that I did not realize that that had
Speaker 1: its origins in ancient room. And uh Bruno h Rep
Speaker 1: has a paper all about clapping, the sound of two
Speaker 1: hands clapping and exploratory study, and he found I thought
Speaker 1: this was fascinating. There is no gender difference when it
Speaker 1: comes to ladies and gents clapping, like sound volume or
Speaker 1: how much they do it exactly both. So he wanted
Speaker 1: to explore this idea because he thought, well, hand size
Speaker 1: is a clear sexual dimorphism, right, so his hands are
Speaker 1: big and meaty, and growths in women's hands are slight
Speaker 1: and beautiful, right, and couldn't possibly produce sounds sure exactly
Speaker 1: or the daintiest stuff, right, But he found that there
Speaker 1: was no there was no different spoints. Whoever. I thought
Speaker 1: that was just kind of funny too to find out about.
Speaker 1: But anyway, if you ever want to know everything in
Speaker 1: the world about clapping, you should definitely check out reps
Speaker 1: paper the sound of two hands clapping. So we've all
Speaker 1: been in an environment obviously where applause is taking place.
Speaker 1: If you haven't, then then we have some questions about
Speaker 1: your life. But for the most part, everyone knows that
Speaker 1: those would generally happen. So it's like a couple of
Speaker 1: people start applauding, then the applause builds, and then a
Speaker 1: curious thing begins to happen. I mean, you don't think
Speaker 1: about it as being curious at the time, because it
Speaker 1: happens all the time, but a little synchronicity leaches its
Speaker 1: way into the applause. And we know that this is
Speaker 1: really important in social constructs, right, because we've talked about
Speaker 1: the social contract that we all unwittingly sign because we
Speaker 1: want to be cooperative, we want to be a community.
Speaker 1: We have to get along, we have to have. We
Speaker 1: have certain norms that we we generally want to to meet, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and clapping is just another way to communicate. In fact,
Speaker 1: in Samoa, which is an island in the South Pacific,
Speaker 1: rhythm dancing, singing, and music are really integral to that
Speaker 1: culture and so clapping is a is huge part of
Speaker 1: how they expressed themselves through these stories and they re
Speaker 1: enact these different stories by using these sound signals. And
Speaker 1: I just wanted to play a quick clip of that
Speaker 1: because I thought it was so cool to be able
Speaker 1: to hear this community all participating in this act. And
Speaker 1: of course you should really check out videos of this
Speaker 1: as well, because any of these ritual uh you know,
Speaker 1: Simonan performances are always a real treat to watch as well.
Speaker 1: So you look at something like this and then you
Speaker 1: begin to wonder, well, is this something that um is
Speaker 1: integral to humans? Are we born clappers or we made clappers?
Speaker 1: And a pediatric physical therapist and research at the University
Speaker 1: of Hartford, she says that we are We're made and
Speaker 1: we're not born. She said that I think it's a
Speaker 1: learned behavior. I've seen babies spontaneously from excitement clasp their
Speaker 1: hands together, but the motion of clapping is a learned behavior,
Speaker 1: so the left of their own devices and an unschooled
Speaker 1: infant might learn to clap, but generally speaking, you're you're
Speaker 1: taught to clap before you do. I mean, it's to me,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a hard question to answer because your
Speaker 1: motor skills of the baby aren't really up to party clapping. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was terrible at when I was young. My family
Speaker 1: continues to give me a hell over that, but really, yeah,
Speaker 1: I couldn't like make I would try to clap and
Speaker 1: I would go like this, you're crossing your your arms
Speaker 1: if you look it, see you right now, You're trying
Speaker 1: to clap and I'm missing. Okay, do it. Now, let
Speaker 1: me do the quick clapping of hands together. There we go. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're pretty good. Now, well now I'm all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. So, um, what does all this have to
Speaker 1: do though? With social synchronicity. There's a twelve study from
Speaker 1: cognitive neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology and researchers
Speaker 1: found that the body movement synchronization between two participants increases
Speaker 1: following a short session of cooperative training, and it suggests
Speaker 1: our ability to synchronized body movements is measurable, is a
Speaker 1: measurable indicator of social interaction. So in other words, we
Speaker 1: need this, we need this motion in order for all
Speaker 1: of this to say, hey, we're all on the same page. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean you think about any kind of like a
Speaker 1: physical activity such as you know, like like any time
Speaker 1: you're your your work or your your church or your
Speaker 1: you know, whatever kind of group goes out and does
Speaker 1: some sort of service act, like if you say you're
Speaker 1: digging a ditch, like you can take people that do
Speaker 1: not dig ditches, uh normally in their courses of the life.
Speaker 1: You can get them out there. And via this kind
Speaker 1: of synchronicity that we we have built in, we can
Speaker 1: generally avoid shoveling at each other in the face by accident,
Speaker 1: because you'll fall into the synchronicity of the chore. But
Speaker 1: you're right, you're right, so we and and just I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about rowing canoe to right. So if you you've
Speaker 1: got two people rowing, but you just generally fall into
Speaker 1: these rhythms. Yeah, now it made take an hour or two.
Speaker 1: And and you're and and if it's if it's a
Speaker 1: husband and wife in a canoe, your relationship might not
Speaker 1: last long enough to reach that point of synchronicity, but
Speaker 1: stick with it because you'll get there. You know, my
Speaker 1: husband and I used to can do a lot and
Speaker 1: when we lived in Roley, North Carolina, and um, I
Speaker 1: could always sort of tell what take the weather of
Speaker 1: our relationship on those Sundays when we were doing that,
Speaker 1: because you know, if you're not in synchronicity, if you're
Speaker 1: not sort of on the same page, then you start
Speaker 1: fobble and you're not really rowing very well, and they
Speaker 1: can just sort of rudder lists. But um, what I
Speaker 1: thought was interesting about this study is that the researcher
Speaker 1: Young Um Young said that the reason why they're studying
Speaker 1: this is because it could open new vistas to study
Speaker 1: the brain to brain interface that appears when cooperative relationships exist.
Speaker 1: So they're looking at this is possibly in an extrapolation
Speaker 1: of looking at how two brains can create a loose
Speaker 1: dynamic system. So of course, you know, my futurest mind goes,
Speaker 1: this is you know, a way to study this and
Speaker 1: somehow link up brains. Yeah, I mean, there are a
Speaker 1: number of really fascinating studies out there right now talking
Speaker 1: about the possible use of this uh linking two brains
Speaker 1: together form for a single task, such as piloting a spaceship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's and it's fascinating to see something just as
Speaker 1: elementary as clapp in your hands is being able to
Speaker 1: study the ways in which our brains changed with this activity.
Speaker 1: So this is all sort of predicated, this clapping and
Speaker 1: this social interaction on this idea that has recent come
Speaker 1: out that not only are we all meme machines. We
Speaker 1: take our thoughts and we spread them, as evidenced by
Speaker 1: the Internet, but something like clapping is a microcosm of
Speaker 1: the meme and how it spreads. Okay, so if you
Speaker 1: look at classic about like applause in a in a
Speaker 1: given environment, say it show yeah. Yeah. In fact, it's
Speaker 1: looked at as as a sort of virus spreading out
Speaker 1: throughout the audience. There's a paper published recently called the
Speaker 1: Dynamics of Audience Applause and it's in the Journal of
Speaker 1: Royal Society Interface, and the lead author, Dr Richard Mann
Speaker 1: from the University of Upsala said, you can get quite
Speaker 1: different lengths of applause even if you have the same
Speaker 1: quality of performance. This is purely coming from the dynamics
Speaker 1: of the people in the crowd. So in other words,
Speaker 1: it's not like how great the performance was, it's how
Speaker 1: the meme of the applause is spreading throughout that audience.
Speaker 1: I imagine performance artists that are listening to this program,
Speaker 1: be they a musician or a wrestler or what happen
Speaker 1: you UM, or an actor, they can probably tell you, oh, well,
Speaker 1: that's obviously the case because because if you go out
Speaker 1: there and let's say you're your solo is just as
Speaker 1: excellent on this night as it was the night before.
Speaker 1: But it's a different crowd, it's a different town, and
Speaker 1: sometimes the crowd is just not going to have that dynamic.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna eat it up and uh and there's
Speaker 1: maybe a lot more to that than just you know,
Speaker 1: it being a sleepy small town versus a big city.
Speaker 1: This is why you have to plant clappers in the audience.
Speaker 1: If you if you wanted to have a big, resounding,
Speaker 1: robust applause, you know, five minute plus, you would have
Speaker 1: to have people who would be sporadically spread out UM.
Speaker 1: And the reason is because the researchers found that that
Speaker 1: that behavior, that tapering off of volume happens because people
Speaker 1: begin to not participate and then that non pretipation sort
Speaker 1: of give license um or that that lack of volume
Speaker 1: to those other people that say, okay, so I'm much
Speaker 1: anymore just sort of like how you said, like after
Speaker 1: ten claps, you're kind of like kind of done here. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it was interesting too. Then in this study that
Speaker 1: they point out that it doesn't take that many people
Speaker 1: starting the applause or stopping it to to affect the
Speaker 1: overall volume. Yeah, something a couple of people, right, So
Speaker 1: you have a couple of people start it. Let's say
Speaker 1: you have people engage in it, two people drop off,
Speaker 1: and then boom, your applause begins to to go on
Speaker 1: the downward curve fare. It can be uh like the
Speaker 1: one of the more like to two examples of this
Speaker 1: come to mind, like if if you ever been to
Speaker 1: something where you did not like the performance, say like
Speaker 1: it seems like I've encountered this before. If it's you're
Speaker 1: going to something where they're various performers, uh and and
Speaker 1: maybe you're not really there to see if it see
Speaker 1: the one that you just perform um and uh, and
Speaker 1: you're there's something in me that I'll be stubborn. I'll
Speaker 1: be like, well, I'm not going to applot that that
Speaker 1: was horrible, but then everyone else is applotting, and it's
Speaker 1: and it takes a real to it's a real test
Speaker 1: of will to not fall in and clap like I
Speaker 1: generally up at least doing my silent clap, just so
Speaker 1: I don't look like a jerk, right, And you feel
Speaker 1: kind of like a jerk on the inside, right because
Speaker 1: it's the silent or you feel like I will not
Speaker 1: give you that volume. I'll look like it, but I'm
Speaker 1: not giving it to you. And another thing that comes
Speaker 1: to mind is, um, if you've ever been to a
Speaker 1: play and you don't realize that it's family night, so
Speaker 1: it's the family members and friends of the performing I
Speaker 1: went to, uh, we went to a play years ago
Speaker 1: and it was the same case. The performance itself was um,
Speaker 1: you know, heartfelt that the performers were really into it,
Speaker 1: they were really believed in their product, but it was
Speaker 1: very rough around the edges and and ultimately just kind
Speaker 1: of weird and boring. The music was great, but at
Speaker 1: the end of it was there was a standing ovation
Speaker 1: from everyone around us, and and I kind of felt
Speaker 1: like I was going insane for a second because I
Speaker 1: was like, why is everyone loving this so much? Did
Speaker 1: we see the same play? Uh? You know? That? Is it?
Speaker 1: Is there some sort of weird generational divide here? And
Speaker 1: I begin to one, is this what it feels like
Speaker 1: to have like some sort of dementia where the world
Speaker 1: is responding in a certain way to stimuli and you
Speaker 1: are not having the same response. But it's it turns
Speaker 1: out it's just all of those people given the standing.
Speaker 1: Oh they were there because their friends or and or
Speaker 1: family were involved in the production. I love that. I
Speaker 1: love that You're like this is this is a possible
Speaker 1: alternate reality that you're experiencing and could be like dementia
Speaker 1: because again, again it comes down to the pressure, the
Speaker 1: social pressure of the applause, where if the applause is
Speaker 1: that strong for something, it's like, if there's something wrong
Speaker 1: with me that they're not fitting in with this? Why
Speaker 1: am I not having the same response? Another awkward kind
Speaker 1: of applause moment, I think is office applause because you're
Speaker 1: in a meeting someone does something great. Of course you
Speaker 1: want to acknowledge it, but then you feel like you
Speaker 1: can't not acknowledgement that you know, could you could? You?
Speaker 1: I guess you could not just sit there and fold
Speaker 1: your arms. We don't do that here though. We're pretty
Speaker 1: unsupported bunch for the most part. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: every once a while, like once every two years, so
Speaker 1: there's a cloppicking going on. Let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: and when we get back we will talk about how
Speaker 1: clapping in neurons are related. Wow, that was an inspired
Speaker 1: performance there. That that that was pretty awesome. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we had that person come in to do that. Yeah, ye,
Speaker 1: share was great. Ah. Well, um, if you're just joining us, uh.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure how you're doing that since someone
Speaker 1: listened to the first half of this podcast for you,
Speaker 1: but we are talking about applause, we're talking about clapping,
Speaker 1: and we're talking about all the stuff that you really
Speaker 1: going going on under the surface, both the psychologically, uh,
Speaker 1: socially and uh and indeed from a neuroscientific standpoint. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I wanted to mention that that um, that study
Speaker 1: about clapping. It was from a team of mathematicians and
Speaker 1: biologists from Sweden and Germany, and one of the things
Speaker 1: they graphed were the times at which people started stop clapping,
Speaker 1: and they found that that graph had a sick mortal
Speaker 1: curve like graphs of people getting infected and then recovering
Speaker 1: from a disease. So I thought that was interesting. Again,
Speaker 1: this idea that it's a social contagion. Wow, that it
Speaker 1: virally affects you, then you're you're in the throes of
Speaker 1: it for a little bit, and then gradually you recover.
Speaker 1: It's like, all right, I'm not clapping anymore. I think
Speaker 1: I'm fine. I'm fine. Yeah, I've recovered from this. Yeah. Um.
Speaker 1: I also thought it was interesting that your neurons they
Speaker 1: actually act like a clapping audience. And it turns out
Speaker 1: that your brain that's ability to adapt to circumstances in
Speaker 1: this rapid fire progression of neurons. Um it is all
Speaker 1: related to that. Because let's say you detect an object,
Speaker 1: let's say like a baseball hurtling towards your head um
Speaker 1: you have to size up the dimensions of it and
Speaker 1: its relationship to your body, and then in a split second,
Speaker 1: you're sort of switching between all this sensorial data and
Speaker 1: you're making a decision whether or not to move your
Speaker 1: head away from the ball or catch it. And there
Speaker 1: is an associate professor in the Wallace h Culture Department
Speaker 1: of Biomedical Engineering his name is Garrett Stanley. He says,
Speaker 1: there's a switching of the circuit to a different function.
Speaker 1: The same neurons do two things and switch quickly in
Speaker 1: a matter of seconds or milliseconds. Though a change in
Speaker 1: the synchronization across neurons occurs. And he says, if you
Speaker 1: think of the neurons firing like members of an audience
Speaker 1: with their clapping hands, then the sound up clapping becomes
Speaker 1: louder when they all clapped together. So it kind of
Speaker 1: makes sense that you have that immediacy like move your
Speaker 1: head or catch that ball. It's sort of like that
Speaker 1: the crescendo of the clapping of the neurons saying come on,
Speaker 1: give attention to this. Now. Another cool study that that
Speaker 1: we found one from a researcher at Ben Garon University
Speaker 1: of the Negev and I conducted the first study of
Speaker 1: hand clapping songs and it revealed a distinct link between
Speaker 1: these activities and the development of important skills and children,
Speaker 1: any young adults, including university students, which was really fascinating
Speaker 1: because they're they're studying, uh, obviously their social ramifications for
Speaker 1: clapping games. You get kids clapping together. We've talked about
Speaker 1: this too. With music. You know, people come together in
Speaker 1: song and you're essentially firing up your neurons in in unison,
Speaker 1: you're sharing in this activity, uh, this viral activity, if
Speaker 1: you will, and uh, and it strengthens the bonds between you.
Speaker 1: So obviously if you're playing uh patty Cake, patty Cake
Speaker 1: Baker's Man, Yeah, you know that kind of thing, then
Speaker 1: it's there's a lot of social activity. You're you're clapp
Speaker 1: you're moving to in unison, there's actual physical touch involved.
Speaker 1: It's uh. So it's a no brainer in that regard
Speaker 1: that it would help socially, but as it turns out,
Speaker 1: there's also there's also an impact on learning as well. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons why they wanted to look at
Speaker 1: this with kids elementary ages that they found that they
Speaker 1: really like to engage in clapping activities and clapping songs
Speaker 1: at age six, but then they drop off at age ten.
Speaker 1: And so what they figured out is that those kids
Speaker 1: when they engage them and say, like boards sanctioned educational music,
Speaker 1: like one group just in song and another group um
Speaker 1: with hand clappings songs, they found that those kids, over
Speaker 1: like a ten week period, they were able to catch
Speaker 1: up in their cognitive abilities those clapping kids as opposed
Speaker 1: to the non clapping kids. So it points to this
Speaker 1: idea that kids may gravitate to it naturally because it's
Speaker 1: integral to motor and cognitive training at those ages. And
Speaker 1: then they also found that it's good for adults as well.
Speaker 1: And part of this they point out as of course nostalgia.
Speaker 1: If you if you played these games when you're younger,
Speaker 1: then there's a warming effect to play them now. But
Speaker 1: but in this questionnaires that they sent out, they found
Speaker 1: that the adult students who took part in clapping games,
Speaker 1: they became more focused and less tense. Um, So the
Speaker 1: next time you're feeling of its stressed, Uh, maybe you
Speaker 1: just need to have some patty Cake in your life.
Speaker 1: Mandatory patty cake time. So you're sitting at your desk,
Speaker 1: you're working on something, you're under deadline, you're totally stressed out,
Speaker 1: Start clapping, yeah, or hand boning or some sort of
Speaker 1: you know, just hitting the thighs or something that might work. Um.
Speaker 1: I was trying to think of a bunch of clapping
Speaker 1: songs when I read this, and the only ones that
Speaker 1: came to mind were patty Cake, some church songs, but
Speaker 1: I can't remember any of them, but I know there
Speaker 1: are church songs that have clapping in them, and then
Speaker 1: of course we will rock you, but that's more of
Speaker 1: But certainly you get a whole you know, auditorium doing
Speaker 1: that at once. Then it's pretty spectacular. I was going
Speaker 1: to say, because you were synchronizing your entire body to this,
Speaker 1: your brain and all of your limbs, and feeling like
Speaker 1: you are now invested in something completely outside of yourself.
Speaker 1: But she kind of gives you that big, warm, fuzzy
Speaker 1: feeling towards humanity, or at least towards queen exactly exactly, well,
Speaker 1: should we slow clap ourselves out of this episode? I guess.
Speaker 1: So you have the slow clap we didn't really get into,
Speaker 1: but that, of course is the sarcastic clap. And the
Speaker 1: thing about that the slow clap, though, of course, is
Speaker 1: that sometimes you see the see a scene in a
Speaker 1: movie where the slow clap is like that, the first
Speaker 1: individual to clap is that person who stands up and
Speaker 1: just like the really heartfelt clapping slow that builds to
Speaker 1: everyone else applauding. So well, I think those are in
Speaker 1: in the films that it's like Mr Holland's opus. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, it's sort of like emotionally charged, like here's
Speaker 1: the grand moment that's been realized. Yeah, whereas the other
Speaker 1: slow cap is kind of like the an agat the
Speaker 1: Christie parlor room mystery. We're like, oh, you've figured it
Speaker 1: out to have you bravo? All right, Well, well you
Speaker 1: know we'll let you. We'll give you a moment here
Speaker 1: in just a second to to applaud us for another podcast. UM.
Speaker 1: Hopefully well done, um or slow applaud us. If you
Speaker 1: found this not all that helpful, but we think it's
Speaker 1: pretty interesting and certainly Uh. You know, some of the
Speaker 1: most mind blowing stuff is when you take something every day,
Speaker 1: something you just completely take for granted, and you get
Speaker 1: to to really dive down into the depths beneath it.
Speaker 1: So you out there, if you have any tidbits you'd
Speaker 1: like to share based on this information about clapping, we
Speaker 1: would love to hear from you. Um, what's the weirdest
Speaker 1: clapping or applause situation you've encountered? So what's the most awkward? Uh?
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