WHAAAATTTT? It’s an extra-big, extra-in-the-sense-of-you-get-three-episodes-this-month, extra in the way Michael and Ethan are always extra, VERY SPECIAL EVENT PODCAST! Our first episode came out on December 23rd, 2016. So here, today, December 23rd, 2021 [plus a few days because Ethan has NEVER been good with meeting actual deadlines] we offer you a thorough, comprehensive retrospective, in which we discuss literally every single thing we covered in the first five years. So really, you could listen to this and then skip to season six. Now, this one IS very long, and it doesn’t have any bullet points, so you don’t have to listen to this one. For that matter, you don’t have to listen to any of our episodes. It’s a free country. Also, future Ethan realizes that a tone poem is originally a musical genre and not a cinematic one, don’t @ him about that. (@ him about other stuff.) Next time Michael and Ethan will begin their discussion of The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene.. Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page. Donate to our Patreon! BUY A NIHILIST BLANKET! Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) and Ethan Bartlett (@bjartlett) MUSIC & SFX: "Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission. "The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. "Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.