Hello, hello.

And welcome to Shorthand, which is, oh, hi, I am so loud in my own ears. Hold on. Much better. I don't like my voice anymore than you do. Too much sometimes when it's your own ears, though. Your own voice in your own ears is a bit? Well, apparently, I think we'd be used to it by now. Yeah, I feel like sometimes I do get used to it, but then sometimes it like sneaks up on me like a ghost. Apparently, you don't like the sound of your own voice played back to you because you're listening to it vibrating through your own bones, so it's deeper when you hear it. So that's why a lot of people will listen to their own voice and be like, I'm not that high pitch. Ah.

Yeah, apparently. Also, it might be completely false. I'm choosing to believe it. You're not here for facts, people. No, especially not on shorthand, the factual show where we talk about facts that we like. You're not here for facts about bone ears. You're here today for facts about lakes that explode.

Kind of.

Yeah.

Hook.

In the far northwestern corner of Cameroon in a deep valley nestled between lush green hills,

lies a tranquil lake with cream-colored cliffs rising from its water's edge. Colorful birds, troops of baboons and kaleidoscopes. I was trying to set the scene.

Give us your baboon noise. Is that what they sound like? I actually don't know.

A bit more screechy, aren't they?

I mean, I don't know, but I must have told this story before,

but my friend's brother lives in Simons Town in South Africa,

and he accidentally left the kitchen door open.

Oh, yes.

And the kitchen is on sort of like ground level. It's like one of those upside downhouses where the bedrooms are downstairs. And he came back into the kitchen and there was just a family of baboons with their own tupperware that they had brought. I'd leave. Taking stuff out of the fridge. Oh yeah, it would be the baboon's house. I would not live there anymore. Have fun living in this house.

So, yeah, Marcel had to rush them.

Because that's what you have to do.

You have to make yourself look bigger.

So I don't know what sound they were making.

But they did cower in Marcel's abominable presents.

So we have. Surouti's noises.

We have colourful birds.

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