Hello, hello. Welcome to Shorthand. If you are listening to this, that is what the show is called, Shorthand. And it's a weekly show for all of our Wondry Plus subscribers.

And we started Shorthand a few years ago to cover all sorts of fascinating things that didn't quite fit on the red-handed main feed.

So essentially, Shorthand is just a show about things we think are interesting.

And it is a lot of fun.

Usually, not today, it's going to be horrible today.

But normally, we cover all sorts of things in the last few months have been quite the

wild ride.

We've looked at the absolutely amazing and absolutely taker of zero shit Hawaiian queen, done her in the last couple of months.

We have. We have also done the truth behind foreign accent syndrome, which was probably one of

my favorite episodes we have done in a long time. It's basically a rare brain disorder where

people wake up speaking in a totally different accent. And also the entirely bonkers,

but not disproven theory that the Earth is hollow.

And there are aliens living inside it.

And if the Earth isn't hollow and if the core is molten lava, which is what we're all expected

to believe, why is the ocean cold?

Questions. All questions we kind of answer

on that short hand on the hollow earth theory.

And of course, it might still feel like summer,

certainly does in this studio that we're currently recording,

but it is nearly October.

And October means spooky things over here at Red-Handed

and on shorthand, we will be diving into all sorts

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