Welcome to Otherworld.
I'm your host, Jack Wagner.
The holiday season is officially upon us, myself,
and the team will be taking next week off to relax with our friends and family.
A well-deserved one-week break, if I do say so myself,
especially before kicking off next year with a bang
because we have some truly crazy projects in the works.
Some of them have been ongoing for way too long.
There's a few episodes I'm really excited about and I can't wait to get started.
But we didn't want to leave you completely hanging during the holidays.
So we have an extra episode this week that actually takes place on Christmas Eve.
It's about a woman named Andrea who works at a particle accelerator in Berkeley, California.
This was during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
which made life very hard and isolating for everybody in general,
but especially during the holidays.
I'm sure everybody remembers what that was like.
Andrea's experience takes place during that time,
and it happened when she was staying in a hotel near her parents' house in Marysville, California.
This is in Yuba County, which was sort of a booming area during California's gold rush.
It's sort of a old Wild West town, or at least used to be.