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Jad Abumrad

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No, because the audience hasn't yet gone and done its random act when he starts the show.

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There was one thing that I discovered from reading the magic books, and this is this whole idea about passing on a piece of information through a third party.

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Now, my grandfather never speaks to my grandma.

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But he says to the technician in the studio, can you please call Gilbert Sullivan in the Strada Cruiser and ask my wife to stand by?

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Then the technician calls Gilbert and says, Gilbert, can you please ask Leslie to stand by?

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And then Gilbert Sullivan says to my grandma, Leslie, please stand by.

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Now, that is the only thing I can see

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where there's some kind of communication.

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Wait, but how would standby communicate something like a random sentence from a book or whatever?

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And that's then essentially where the theory falls down because then what happens next is that my grandma basically successfully recites a half-written crossword which someone has put into an envelope and passed up to my grandpa.

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So, like, you go, how standby means, you know, six down?

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So, really, I'm back to square one again.

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I've got, you know, the closest... You mean to this day you don't know?

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To this day, I do not know.