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This is episode 173.
We're going to review the podcast in 2025.
There's 40 episodes in 2025?
Mm-hmm.
That's, I don't know, about 12 episodes shy of one every week.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, 52 weeks in a year.
And I would say this was the year of lists.
Yeah.
Because we did list episodes more often than not.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm so surprised at how you come up with stuff.
I have an internet browser.
Oh, the keys for you?
That I use to find topics and stuff.
Oh, okay.
That's probably why there's so many lists.
Oh, okay.
There's a lot of lists out there.
I was trying to give you credit, and look, you denied it.
Mm-hmm.
In episode 134, we played Gay or Nay.
Do you remember doing this?
I think so.
Ooh.
Excuse me.
Wow.
Yeah, it was in that weird thing, who's gay and who's not.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
I can't remember who we were talking about.
I think it was just a really long list, wasn't it?
Yeah.
Speaking of lists.
Celebrities.
Yeah.
In episode 135, we talked about Stonewall Bridge.
I remember that.
What was it?
Stonewall Bridge?
Yeah.
We talked about Stonewall, didn't we?
What did we talk about?
He said, what did we talk about?
Stonewall Bridge is a retirement thing.
That's right.
It was guys trying to put it together where the younger gay person stays with an older guy.
And I remember at the end of the episode, we said we ought to look into that, and did we?
No.
No, we never did.
We didn't.
We never do.
In episode 136, we talked about the Equal Rights Amendment.
I don't remember that.
You do or you do not?
I don't.
Try not to sound so excited.
Sorry.
The Equal Rights Amendment has, how do I put that?
It's been in the works for so long.
Something like 50 years.
Okay.
And still hasn't passed.
Okay.
It's just to the point where people think that women have equal rights when they don't.
No, no.
It's probably never going to pass.
That's a shame.
I'm trying to get that many states.
I need to agree on something.
In episode 137, we checked out Mastodon again.
We went through your Mastodon page again?
Since it says again, I'm guessing that we did Mastodon posts in the previous year.
Yeah.
Those were always fun because I only post on Mastodon when I think it's something interesting.
Yeah.
But it was fun.
It's fun to look and see what you got on there.
Yeah.
Since you don't ever look at it, that was probably your only chance.
In episode 138, we were paranormal bears.
Yeah.
How was that going, too?
Because I'm not really involved.
I went again in, see, that was February, right?
I went again in November, and it went much better the second time.
Okay.
Good.
And then in episode 139, we went off topic.
I wonder what we talked about then.
I don't know.
I should have bought my tablet.
I should have bought my tablet with me so I could look and see what the topics were.
Obviously, it was not anything about marriage or relationships or gay.
Yeah.
Because that seems to be the majority of our topics.
Mm-hmm.
And no, I'm not going to stop the podcast right now and go get my tablet and look.
No, I wasn't expecting you to.
In episode 140, we asked EVP questions.
Okay.
Do you remember that?
Mm-hmm.
Do you remember what EVP means?
Electric voice phenomenon?
Yay.
I'm not a complete moron.
Those are the questions that I ask when I do an investigation, and I thought it would
be interesting to ask ourselves the same questions.
Okay.
But you don't remember that?
No.
In episode 141, we asked what would happen if gay marriage was overturned.
I don't remember that.
I kind of remember that.
How do you not remember?
That was one of our best episodes of the year.
How do you not remember that?
Hmm.
I guess we'll have to go back and listen to it.
I guess so.
In episode 142, we talked about stupid things Trump said.
Which is everything.
I think we did this several times.
That Trump, bad-mouthing Trump.
Yeah.
Probably.
He deserves all of it.
We're just moving right along here.
Yeah, we are.
In episode 143, we guessed celebrity top or bottom.
I don't remember that.
You don't remember that?
No.
There was a list of celebrities.
There were a list of celebrities, and we were to guess whether they were a top or a bottom.
Oh, yeah, I know we did, but I just don't remember, you know, who we said what and what, you know,
what we said about who and what, you know, so.
Well, I don't either.
It was just our opinions anyway, so it's not like we investigated or something.
Yeah, that's true.
In episode 144, we discussed basketball terminology.
I remember that.
So, there is one you remember.
Mm-hmm.
Because you said a bunch of things.
A bunch of them had to be made up.
Yeah.
Well, they didn't make sense, and I remember that.
I believe that list came from Outsports.
Hmm.
And it was things that the announcers literally had said.
Oh, okay.
That sounded like innuendo.
Hmm, okay.
You know what innuendo is, right?
Yes, I know what innuendo is.
That's an Italian suppository.
Oh, shut up.
Gosh.
In episode 145, we discussed Trump's executive orders.
Ugh.
Which is kind of like another episode of stupid things that Trump said.
Yeah.
In episode 147, we talked about recent news, which was always difficult.
Why is that?
Well, for instance, last year and this year, we're not doing a roundup of the news for the year.
Okay.
Because two years ago, we did that.
And you got very upset and stopped.
That's right.
Yep.
And we had to finish recording a couple of days later.
A couple of days later.
That's right.
So last year, we didn't do that at all.
And of course, we're not doing that again this year.
This year.
Thank you.
Typically, when we talk about news, it's hardly ever good news.
Yeah.
In episode 148, we talked about new conspiracy theories.
Yep.
Now, I don't remember much about this one.
I don't either.
I'm trying to think of some of the conspiracy theories.
I would have to look.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Interesting.
In episode 149, we talked about what was up.
Not down, but up.
Like an umbrella.
I guess so.
It would go up a chimney down, but not down a chimney up.
Mm-hmm.
In episode 150, we talked about 150 episodes.
Wow.
That's a lot.
Yes, it is.
A whole lot.
That must have been about midway through.
Midway through the year.
Yeah.
And we're headed for 175 pretty soon.
Mm-hmm.
So, we've got like two more to do and then quit.
Yeah.
Well, we're not quitting anytime soon, are we?
I don't plan to.
In episode 151, we talked about the top gay movies.
I remember these, but I remember we didn't know a lot of them.
Yeah.
What I remember is that we don't watch near enough gay movies.
Yeah.
In 152, we talked about...
What gay pride is.
Yeah.
And that's a subject I think we've covered...
A few times.
...more than once.
Mm-hmm.
We've covered it a few times.
I don't know.
I guess because it bears repeating, it's not like the definition changed or anything.
Yeah.
In episode 153, we talked about gay occupations.
You remember that?
Yes.
I don't remember which...
I think the conclusion we came to was some people move towards some occupations because
it's...
It's generally acceptable for gay people.
Yeah.
And not necessarily that gay people were any better at those things.
Mm-hmm.
It was just easier, I guess.
More likely to succeed or be included in...
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
And not be discriminated against.
Yeah.
In episode 154, we talked with each other at the Gay Pride Festival.
Mm-hmm.
That was one where we bought the wireless...
The Pell microphones, I think.
No, no, no.
We actually had wired microphones at that.
I don't think we had the wireless yet.
It was really a terrible episode because the audio quality...
You know, we were in a big, huge, echoey hall, and there were people playing music and laughing
and talking, and we knew it was not going to be a very good...
Yeah, good episode.
...episode.
But the conversation was interesting.
In episode 155, we caught up on recent events.
Yeah.
And I don't remember if that was our recent events or if it was recent events in the world.
I don't know.
We've talked about so much.
I know.
It's hard to remember.
In episode 156, we discussed why stupid people become successful.
I don't remember that.
A few months ago, I put all of our podcasts on YouTube.
Mm-hmm.
And on YouTube...
They will tell you which are your most listened-to podcasts, and that's the one that is the most
listened to.
Really?
Mm-hmm.
Like, stupid people are successful?
Yes.
That's funny.
How many views does that have?
Like, three?
Oh, maybe 20-some.
Yeah.
Most episodes don't even get one view.
Really?
Yeah.
Hmm.
It's a good thing we're not depending on YouTube for a living.
No.
In episode 157, we talked about...
Truthiness.
I don't remember that.
That blank look on your face.
It was how the definition of what a lie is has changed.
Okay.
That a certain politician can say, that's fake news, and everyone will...
Fall for it.
Yeah.
Believe it.
Just because I think fake news is anything he just doesn't like.
Yeah.
Pretty much.
Let's see.
We're...
One...
In episode 150...
58, we talked about low-hanging fruit.
Remember that?
Mm-hmm.
What was that about?
Low-hanging fruit.
Stuff that's easy to pick on.
It was current events, pretty much, wasn't it?
It was about Trump.
Yeah.
That's...
Yeah.
Okay.
But it's stuff that's easy to pick on.
Mm-hmm.
So, yeah.
Low-hanging fruit.
Everything he does.
Well, and he deserves that, too, because he thinks everything else...
He doesn't seek to go after higher fruit, so...
How's that?
Something about taking...
The high road.
Yeah.
If you always take the high road, everyone else can run away or something.
In episode 160, we talked about more curious things.
And since that says more, I'm guessing we had an episode called Curious Things.
Yeah, Curious Things was 159.
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
159 curious things and 160 more curious things.
I don't remember.
That must have been from a news feed.
Hmm.
Okay, probably.
It's just hard to remember them all.
In episode 161, we talked about flush bunking.
No idea.
And in episode 162, we talked about bolligation.
Okay.
Those were both terms that I completely made up out of the blue.
Okay.
Just...
And nobody called me on it, not even you.
Okay.
Everyone just accepted that those were words.
Just now, you mean?
No, no.
When we did those episodes...
I made up the word flush bunking, and I made up the word bolligation, and nobody commented
on it.
Hmm.
You're too smart for all of us.
Nobody cares.
In episode 163, we talked about things gay people were blamed for.
Hmm.
I can see that you don't remember.
No, because...
That was a pretty good episode.
I'm going to blame it on flush bunking and bolligation.
There was a lot of natural disasters and stuff that...
Oh.
Yeah.
Just terrible.
Terrible.
In 164, we talked about things to do in October.
I remember that.
That was a long list.
Mm-hmm.
That was like a hundred things.
And we don't do any of them.
Like candles.
I suppose we did sometime during October.
Yeah.
In episode 165, we went to the zoo.
I think that was after we got the wireless microphones, and I did record everything that
we said and did.
And you would think that would make it an easy episode.
No.
It was not.
No.
I had no framework to work off of deciding what to cut and what to leave.
Yeah.
Difficult.
And I think we spent like two or three hours, so I had to go through all of that.
Yeah, it wasn't easy.
But we're just getting all kinds of sounds all over the house, aren't we?
Yes, we are.
And we have a ghost.
In episode 166, we did a deep dive on the Bear and Curra podcast.
Do you remember that?
No.
We were in New Jersey.
Okay.
To see your mother.
Okay.
And we couldn't do a podcast, so I did a podcast about the podcast.
Oh, okay.
I gave the web page to an AI and said, generate a podcast about this, about our podcast.
And they did.
Oh, okay.
And other than pronouncing our names wrong, which you can't really fault anybody, let
alone an AI, for.
Yeah.
It was pretty good.
Was it?
Uh-huh.
Huh.
Do you, you listened to it?
I know I made you listen to it.
I, I, hmm, okay.
Is it the one with the chick and the guy?
Yeah.
Yeah, I think, yeah, okay.
Um, where are we?
Um, in episode 167, we talked about gay stereotypes.
I remember that.
What do you remember?
Just the different stereotypes and being feminine and, feminine, twinkish, stuff like that.
Hmm.
That's all.
Uh, in episode 168, we talked about stupid things.
Questioned, believe.
That is the second most popular episode on YouTube.
Oh, really?
That's funny.
So, I guess we should put the word stupid in every one of our episode titles so people
will listen to them.
In episode 169, we talked about the paranormal.
That.
That was after you did your.
That must have been, yeah, after we did, or I did the second paranormal thing at the museum.
In episode 170, we talked about being naked.
What?
That blank look means you don't remember.
I just don't remember anything being special about it to you.
That's when everyone found out that I do each episode completely naked.
And you wear three layers of clothes and an overcoat.
Okay.
In episode 171, we talked about non-sexual things that make men attractive.
Mm-hmm.
I remember that.
Well, that was just a few weeks ago.
In episode 172, we decided who was naughty and who was nice.
Mm-hmm.
Sort of like our top and bottom.
Top and bottom episode.
Yeah.
What, do you have a joke where it's this week?
Why don't robots have brothers?
I don't know.
Why?
Because they have trans sisters.
God.
That's actually cute.
I'll give you that one.
This was episode 173 of the Baehr and Curadh podcast.
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This is Curadh.
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