For our final episode of the year, Olivia Allen-Price and Katrina Schwartz answer the questions we get most often about the show: How do you choose which questions to answer? How long does it take to make an episode? What's your favorite episode of all time? And more! Join us for a behind-the-scenes chat about the making of the show, plus we'll share some big news about something exciting coming in 2023!

Links, in order of being mentioned on the show:

• How the Filbert Steps Came to Be an Oasis in San Francisco
• How Did a 184-Foot Shipwreck Wind Up Grounded in the Carquinez Strait?
• The Sordid Saga of San Francisco's Trash Cans
• Are You Inked? How a San Francisco Tattoo Artist Changed the Industry
• Sign up for the monthly Bay Curious Newsletter
• Feel Like the SF Bay Used to Be Bluer? You're Not Imagining It
• You Used to Be Able to Call POP-CORN and Get the Time. What Happened to That?
• Inside Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's Life in San Francisco
• Endless Winter: A Fresh Look at the Donner Party Saga
• The Bay Area During the Ice Age (Think Saber-Tooth Cats and Mammoths)
• Preorder the Bay Curious Book! Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org  Chronicle Books. International buyers go here!

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Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Amanda Font and Brendan Willard. Our Social Video Intern is Darren Tu. Additional support from Cesar Saldaña, Jen Chien, Jasmine Garnett, Carly Severn, Jenny Pritchett and Holly Kernan.