Short Stuff: The wAve

Stuff You Should Know

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4.6 • 78.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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It’s a thrill to stand and, raise your arms, maybe give a woo! then sit down again, especially if you’re in a sports stadium. And especially if you’re doing it as part of a Wave.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ed Zittron, host of the Better Offline podcast, and we're kicking off our second season digging into Tech's Elite and how they've turned Silicon Valley into a playground for billionaires.
0:10.4	From the chaotic world of generative AI to the destruction of Google search.
0:14.8	BetRofline is your unvarnished and, at times unhinged look at the underbelly of tech, brought to you by an industry veteran with nothing to lose.
0:22.9	Listen to better offline on the IHot Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever else you get your podcasts from.
0:34.0	Hey and welcome to The Short Stuff. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's sitting in for Dave.
0:38.5	Let's get started with The Wave.
0:42.2	I am glad you did this.
0:44.5	I was kind of curious about the origins of the old wave.
0:47.9	Oh, yeah?
0:48.2	You don't know what you mean?
0:49.2	Yeah.
0:49.9	It's now kind of all over the world in various places, but it started out as an American thing that people would do in the stands at sports games where one bit at a time and all around the whole stadium people would stand up and raise their arms up over their head.
1:10.7	And if you look at it as it goes around the stadium, it looks like a wave. would stand up and raise their arms up over their head.
1:17.3	And if you look at it as it goes around the stadium, it looks like a wave is moving across the fans.
1:26.2	Yeah, because after they raised their arms over their head standing up, they would sit back down and the next section would do it and it would just move seamlessly when done correctly.
1:31.3	For my money, it's one of the best things that could ever happen to you is to be in a really good wave.
1:33.1	Oh, my God, I find them so thrilling.
1:38.0	I was really surprised to find that some people not only hate the wave,
1:43.7	they're like, they denigrate people who like the wave or who do the wave.
1:45.1	Okay.
1:46.0	Don't get it.
1:47.6	What do you think about the wave?
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