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A first E.L.T. listener Leslie called about the origin story of a custom that millions of people do every Sunday.

Imagine thousands of people in the stadium. It looks like the whole stadium is trying to

communicate something to someone.

Drivers are safe stuff, fans are on their feet as we go trackside.

The surrounding area you knew at some point we were going to see a wave.

Let's dive in. Hi, Flora.

First of all, do you like want to stand up and sit down quickly just to get revved up?

I might just put my hands up but stay seated.

Okay, so you called us about the wave?

Yes, I did.

Why?

It just came up because I saw it about a month ago when I attended a Dodger game here in LA and I definitely

remember leaning over to my husband when it was occurring and saying isn't this

just the strangest thing to do like if we were aliens

hovering over the stadium and watching this occur what would we think that is?

So what do you want to know about it?

I would love to know who's responsible for making this a thing.

You don't think this just spontaneously happened? If it did, wow. But I don't know, I feel like someone, someone had to come up with this.

Leslie, you're on to something. There is a mastermind behind the wave.

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