Do you all remember the slow clap in movies and TV shows?

They tried really hard to make the slow clap a thing in the 80s and 90s.

And if you don't remember movies from back then, let me just bring it up to speed.

You're sitting there and there's a bunch of people and it's just the right moment and

the right conversation and the right lighting and somebody says something or something goes

down and there's this profound instant of mutual recognition.

Like everybody gets something at once, it dawns on them and something happens.

Like lives are changed, but listen to how much I'm struggling to quantify that.

You can't really package it up and be like, oh, this is just what it was like.

It's just unpackageable.

So then filmmaking and TV shows and stuff, they introduced the slow clap.

And that was the thing where somebody gets up and they say something that's brave and

difficult.

And then one person, usually the person who was portrayed as being against those ideas

earlier, kind of gets this confused look on their face and then this moment of slowly

nodding and recognizing that they were wrong about everything all along.

And then they stand up and they start to clap slowly because it's like it's dawning

on them.

And then it's like, yeah, yeah, oh, yeah, that was the most important thing that's ever

been said ever.

And then everybody else joins in and it's a moment.

And then the music swells.

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