Jad Abumrad

It just was this feeling inside you that you get going, hang on, what?

When Jesse heard those broadcasts, his obvious question was, how did they do that?

Well, this is the question that I wanted to know.

For so long.

And there have been many, many theories.

I mean, they used to get letters in from listeners all the time.

There's this box of press clippings we found at the bottom of my grandma's closet, and we started going through these press clippings.

And there were wild theories, like little Morse code transmitters in their teeth.

I mean, one of the theories I quite liked was someone who wrote in saying there was a green man that ran between their shoulders.

And he knew this on authority because he also had a green man.

And so that was precisely how they did it.

But you are totally convinced that this was a carefully worked out trick of some kind.

Yes.

That is the one part of almost certainty I can say.

There has to be some secret code, some tapping of the sum, something.

Two nods.

Jesse, for his part, ended up going through a ton of these theories as he interviewed magicians and historians, read through magic books.

Initially, one of the theories that made sense to him is that the code was in the silence.

That basically, my grandparents and my grandma were so in sync that between each time a sound or a word was uttered, they'd inside their head start going through the alphabet.

And they'd be so in tune, so in sync, that whatever letter