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I'm Sruti, I'm Hannah and welcome to a very special episode of Redhanded. It is of course the first of this year's annual Halloween story swap.

I can't even remember doing last years. Nope. I feel like that happened to a different human being. What's last year?

We've all been through a lot since then. We've all changed, we've all grown, we've all shifted. We've all made some more skin cells.

But yeah, I have absolutely no memory of what we did last year. Couldn't tell you.

No, that long course was me thinking I also can't tell you, but it doesn't matter because the only thing I know for certain is that it wasn't the case I'm about to tell you.

Well, that is, I mean, how short can we really be though if we can't remember?

How embarrassing would that be if we just, do you know what, maybe we'll just get complete amnesia and just start repeating cases.

No, don't because some people message us that they're like, I swear you've covered this case for them. I'm like, no, we haven't.

And I'm like, don't get in my brain like that. I'm like, fuck me up.

Stop fucking trying to, I can't even remember the word, it's for it. Stop trying to black magic. Stop it.

We've got a spreadsheet to write. Yeah, exactly. It can't happen because the spreadsheet will tell us if we start to type the same name out again.

Anyway, that's how I've checked and that's how I know that we haven't covered this.

Okay, I trust you implicitly.

Should I go first? I actually would really love it if you went first.

Oh, excellent. I'm very happy to do so.

So in case you are a new red-handed listener and are working your way through the back catalog in some sort of arbitrary fashion and haven't yet come across one of our Halloween stories.

What episode is this? Which is illegal, by the way, and you should be in prison if you're not listening in order.

It's highly, highly unacceptable. So stop that right now. I don't really know where to start to be honest, but criminals.

I also suspect, and this is just a suspicion. I have no basis for this.

I suspect that some people skip the Halloween story swaps because they probably look at it in the feed and think they're not going to be very good because they look like a bonus.

And that upsets me because I actually think the very first year that we did Halloween story swaps, which would have been called like 2017.

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