Eureka! I've got it!

[LLeff]

I could save this for when Volume 2 comes out, but I'm so happy about it that I've just got to share it in the moment.

I've been asked over the years how if Mary fluffed a line, like "chiss sweeze sandwich" or "grass reek", how would they know it on both coasts? If she fluffed it in the East Coast broadcast, would she intentionally have to fluff it again on the West Coast? If she fluffed for the West Coast, then how would East Coast listeners understand the jokes in subsequent shows that recall the fluff? Would they do those jokes for only one coast (unlikely)?

Then there's the other important question of when Jack started transcribing his shows. I think I have an answer on that. But you'll have to wait for the book on that one.

The two questions mesh, because Jack's transcribing shows for rebroadcast predates Mary's earliest spoonerism that results in "recalls" in subsequent shows. So the West Coast rebroadcast would have had the same fluff.

I live for discoveries like this...