The Spin-ter Wonderland season is upon us! Get ready for a head-to-head bracket elimination of your favorite holiday hits with our annual NAUGHTY OR NICE Competition! We've selected fourteen songs by artists we've covered on the podcast in the last year and pitted them against one another to determine who comes out on top, based on YOUR VOTES! From Frank Sinatra's crooning Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas to Lady Gaga's Christmas Tree, we've got a blend of new tunes and familiar favorites in the running this year. The Beach Boys' Little Saint Nick is also looking for redemption after underperforming a few years back. Will Fall Out Boy's Yule Shoot Your Eye Out remain our champion??

James & Connor are back to talk about their holiday traditions, previous Naughty Or Nice contests (including the tragic and complicated elimination of Wham! and Last Christmas a year ago). We'll play memory games about Connor's scores and units, learn about each of these seasonal staples, and compete against each other with our own brackets to break a years-long tie. Then we'll end the episode with a new memory game that might end up with James on the naughty list after all!

Thank you for another great year! Which of these holiday songs were your favorites? Would your bracket have matched the final score? Are there any artists we've covered with more deserving Christmas classics? Let us know on social media, and follow us into 2026 next week wherever you get your podcasts!

Check out this episode's playlists!

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7HbbcFipapfg9h2BLUxGeR?si=2da8e2471a844871

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJtsKngXJU&list=PLYumnChiw_I_gaLMEZ0UiHzFwkN22kQu-

Thanks for listening!

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0:00 Intro

2:47 Tales Of The Glories Of Naughty Or Nice Long, Long Ago

6:29 Have We Been Naughty Or Nice?

11:33 The NoN 2025 Bracket

18:02 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Sinatra) vs. You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch (Tyler, The Creator)

25:40 Another Lonely Christmas (Prince) vs. Not Another Christmas Song (Blink-182)

33:20 Cherry Tree Carol (Wiggles feat. Hozier) vs. Christmas Tree (Lady Gaga)

41:45 We All Need Christmas (Def Leppard) vs. Little Saint Nick (The Beach Boys)

49:46 Together Again And A Very Merry Christmas (Randy Newman) vs. The Christmas Song (Olivia Dean)

57:10 Alone On Christmas With You (Cody Fry) vs. 8 Days Of Christmas (Destiny's Child)

1:04:11 A Nonsense Christmas (Sabrina Carpenter) vs. Winter (The Rolling Stones)

1:10:38 Round 2.1

1:12:19 Round 2.2

1:14:15 Round 2.3

1:16:16 Round 2.4 Featuring Yule Shoot Your Eye Out (Fall Out Boy)

1:19:28 Round 3.1

1:20:50 Round 3.2

1:22:56 Round 4: The Finale

1:24:30 One Last Experiment

1:29:33 Final Bracket Recap

1:30:28 One More Game For Connor

1:46:58 Final Spin

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