Holy crap, man. We made it five years. And we're still going!

Usually our year-end Best Ofs feature stories that were voted on by our audience. But for this episode, we did something a little differently. Here, the six people most responsible for bringing you this show every month -- the band (Eric, Dwight, Claire, Jim, and Becca) plus Nerdologues founder Kevin Reader -- share their favorite pieces from across the history of this podcast! We're gonna go back in time to an iO classroom used as a last-minute replacement, we're gonna go to the Adler Planetarium, and we're gonna sing some Wilson Phillips. It's been a heck of a five years. Here's to five more.

This episode, enjoy:

• Cover Stories: Hold On
• Alex Talavera: Crisis on Infinite Alexes
• Eric Barry: Escort
• Matt Young: KC Jones
• Larissa Zageris: Lisa Frank Love
• Katie Johnston-Smith: Ride or Die
• Tracie Hall: The Real Kwanzaa
• Jonathan Lester: A Jew's Encounter with a Christmas Tree
• Cover Stories: Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)

Thanks to Cards Against Humanity for sponsoring this week's episode (and so many throughout our five years!), and thanks of course to the Chicago Podcast Coop as well.