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I want to take a ride on a mini train. You can help. ever you listen to your shows. Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon.

This is your host, DJ Louis the 14th. And most importantly, we have a live show coming up on December 9th. It's actually two live shows,

but the first one at 7 p.m. is already sold out. The second show, which we just announced last

week, which will be myself. Who Weekly is Lindsay Weber. Let me say this is Peyton Dix and Billboard's Jason Lipschitz talking about our favorite pop songs of the year at 9 p.m. Still has some tickets available. So grab them while you still can at poppanthianpod.com. You're not going to want to miss this. Even if you have tickets to the first one, stay with us all night for a totally different second show. It's going to be so much

fun. So grab your tickets, show notes of this episode, or at pop pantheonpod.com. Second, very important

piece of housekeeping, we are currently soliciting your opinions on tier rankings that you disagree with.

This year, we're expanding that to include the entire history of pop pantheon. So if you have a tier ranking that you have beef with, and let me just say this, I don't want to hear about Brittany, who we already spent two and a half hours dissecting this year, or really Kylie, who each got their own episodes devoted to tier ranks this year. But pretty much anything else is fair game. Let us know, give us a well-reasoned response and we might just take it up later this

year on an episode. You can send those as voice notes or emails to Poppantheon pod at gmail.com. Also,

for my LA girlies, the last gorgeous gorgeous of 2025 will be on December 5th at Los Globos and

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