Another project idea: the new Clapper ?

I have mentioned The Clapper before:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-clapper.html 

and also here:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2025/06/nuts-and-volts.html 

The reason for thinking about The Clapper:  I've been listening to the Brewer games on the radio recently.  They have won 10 games in a row: 

two more and it's free burger time ?:

https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/mlb/brewers/2025/07/21/brewers-winning-streak-free-george-webb-burgers-12-games/85306410007/ 

But the ads !  Every half inning there are three 30 second ads plus an ID and some bumper music and blather from the announcers.  Apparently there are clocks for everything now in MLB including the time between a half inning which seems to be 2 minutes.  Now the ads on the Brewers radio seem to alternate between the Brewer network ads and the local WDOR ads from Sturgeon Bay.  But still they are getting REALLY repetitive.  Something about radio ads bores into my brain after enough repetition.

I've tried manually turning off the sound and using a 2 minute timer - but that's kind of clunky.  Then I was thinking:  why not combine a timer with a Clapper (or possibly an IR remote ?).  Two claps to mute the sound and start a 2 minute timer - after 2 minutes the game sound is turned back on.

I found this web page with a kajillion clap switch designs:

https://www.homemade-circuits.com/make-simple-electronic-clap-switch/ 

They seem kinda complicated though to an old PIC microcontroller user.  Maybe a simple microphone connected to the internal comparator of a PIC.  When the PIC "hears" two claps in a brief time, hit the mute output and start a timer going.  Then after the time period is over bring back the sound.

An IR remote would probably also work but then I'd need the remote - I've always got my hands attached to me, even sprawled on the recliner.

Now (as with all my ideas) all I have to do is actually do it !  :)

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm