Well, hey, welcome back to Mysterious Universe.

This is Season 35 Episode 1, back after our holiday break.

It's great to be back in this chair.

Not that I've been gone for very long, but we mentioned it on the last plus show, but I have completed my day job.

It is done over with, and we are ready to rock in 2026 and get all of this dialed in for you.

And again, still working on the video end, but that'll be several months out.

But this is your first time listening.

I'm Joe Hodgson, and Brandon Thomas is with me right now. How's it going, buddy? I am Brandon Thomas. I am with you. Not physically, but man emotionally and spiritually and mentally I'm here with you, Bubba. This is, and with all of you. Thank you for joining us. And so how was everybody's holiday? Hope everybody had a good Christmas, Maha'ana Kwanzika.

And, you know, the fake New Year, the Gregorian New Year.

Yes, let's talk about this.

Do you want to talk about it?

Yeah, give them a heads up on this.

Okay, so if you are chucking around Happy New Year's at this time of year,

the roll of the calendar from December, which means Deca, which is 10, into the new year, which is 2026, allegedly, then you are on what's called the Janus calendar.

You're worshipping, you Janus worshipping heathens out there on the wrong timeline have been apprehended and it's just a skew and that's no big deal. Now, what's fascinating is when you look at it like this, if you think about it, September means seven and then you follow it up. Yeah, you follow it on up there and then it makes more sense. Plus, it's just a feeling thing with me. This i heard it it made so much more sense to me so

i will wish you a happy new year good sir when it actually shifts over in late march early april yes

that's it that's all that's all that aside that's okay but anyway happy january

emu weather report i mean we did um we did that on the last plus episode the weather's been the the weather. But it has been weird as shit. We had an Australian Christmas out here in Texas. It's just been warm. And it's been nice. So... We usually do have a warmer, warmer this type of time of year. Well, not warmer, but at least sunny. And it's been just dumping rain, which yes, we need the rain. I get it. but now I don't have to work out in it. So I'm actually a lot more stoked about the rain this year. And that has been the M.U. Weather Report. So what do you have coming up in plus? Oh, I guess I should kind of tell everybody what we're going to talk about today. This is a, I'm going to be covering, well, it started with a book by Lois Wetzel about, I don't have

in front of me, but I ended up ditching that book because it wasn't great show material,

but it was the seed that led me down this trail.

We're going to be going down today, which is OBEs, NDE's in general,

and this is this dude named Jeffrey Long, and it's a book called Evidence of the Afterlife,

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