Strange Realm - Ep. 145 - New Years Eve 2025

We give you all a hearty and happy New Year's Eve special as we ring in the New Year with a look back at the weirdest news stories of the year, a look forward at what will be entering the public domain on Jan. 1st, cheer everyone up with news that a Bolivian fish has been rediscovered and is no longer thought to be extinct, and we make predictions for 2026 and grade our last year's predictions for 2025. All of this and then, after the break, Frobisher starts a new tradition with the inaugural reading "Memory's Neon" by Dustin Cole on New Year's Eve. Happy New Year!

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Notes:
- Bethlehem Star comet theory featured in new paper
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-star-of-bethlehem-might-have-actually-been-a-comet-described-in-an-ancient-chinese-text/ar-AA1Tepoe
- Public Domain Day 2026
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/
- Bolivian fish "back from the dead"
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251225080719.htm
- Weirdest Stories of 2025 wrap-up
https://wisewolfmedia.substack.com/p/the-weirdest-stories-of-2025
- "Memory's Neon" from After Sunstone by Dustin Cole
https://farthestheaven.com/products/after-sunstone

Intro music: "night drive" by bbrainz (slowed + reverb)
Outro music: "The Hills (1986)" by Mr. Fastfinger
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