Jad Abumrad

And yet she was a party to it.

She's the one.

He says, you know, oftentimes when you're doing tricks, somebody knows everything and the other person is, you know, in the dark.

Yeah.

You mean like one of the partners intentionally not knows what's happening?

It might have happened here.

He may have...

decided that he would be the knowing one, she would be the innocent, and maybe therefore, and this is just a hunch, but just possibly everything she's saying to her grandchild, instead of being a kind of dodge or a little bit of a lie, maybe it was the whole truth.

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Hey, I'm Jad Abumrad.

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Yeah, and a black box is a thing, it's a box.

Something goes in, you can see what that is.

Something comes out, which is different, and you can see that.

But you do not know what's going on in the middle.

It's a mystery.

I love it.