As we shambolically lurch towards 2025, John Frobisher Smith fights the flu and attempts, with his co-host Raven Black, to put on an entertaining end-of-the-year event. Featuring footage of the Sun generated by the best AI available, news about quantum teleportation, the miasmatic "chemical fog" engulfing the Southeast US, how everyone on earth with blue eyes is related to a single common ancestor, and a look back at predictions for this year made last New Year's Eve, and a look ahead at predictions for 2025! All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher reads more from "Our Haunted Planet," by John A. Keel.

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Notes:
- the Sun probe was a success!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrwdxpljyxo
- deadly Chem Fog?!
https://sqauk.com/mystery-in-the-skies-southeastern-states-shrouded-in-bizarre-chemical-fog-during-uap-surge/
- Quantum Teleportation
https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/quantum-computing/quantum-teleportation-achieved-over-internet-for-first-time/
- Everyone on earth with Blue eyes is a descendant of ONE person
https://www.msn.com/en-us/society-culture-and-history/history/every-blue-eyed-person-on-the-planet-is-a-descendant-of-one-single-person/
- Prediction 2024 roundup and Predictions for 2025
- Our Haunted Planet
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Haunted-Planet-John-Keel/dp/1517343119
https://archive.org/details/Our_Haunted_Planet

Intro music: "night drive" by bbrainz (slowed + reverb)
Outro music: "Curious Constellations" by SURGE
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
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