Stay Tranquilo - It’s Officially Christmas Season in Miami | Our Top 5 Christmas Songs Debate

Episode Date: December 1, 2025

Good morning, buenas días! Welcome back to another episode of Cafecito y Croquetas, brought to you by Stay Tranquilo & H&Co — and today’s a special one…🎄 It’s officially the first day of Christmas season!Thanksgiving is behind us, leftovers are done, and now it’s time for Christmas lights, Christmas trees, and Christmas MUSIC.In this episode, we break down:• When exactly it becomes acceptable to put up Christmas decorations• The great Christmas music debate: our Top 5 Christmas songs of all time• The classics vs. modern bops — Michael Bublé, Sinatra, Wham!, Pentatonix, Elvis, Ariana Grande & more• Latin Christmas essentials: Feliz Navidad, Celia Cruz, Willie Colón, Salano, Borito Sabanero• The perfect Christmas vibe: cigars, whiskey, cold weather vs. staying warm• The chaos of overplayed Mariah Carey (sorry, Mariah 😅)Whether you're decorating the tree, driving around looking at lights, or sipping cafecito, this is the perfect episode to kick off a full month of Christmas vibes.🎅 Drop your Top 5 Christmas songs in the comments!Let’s see who has the best list.#CafecitoYCroquetas #StayTranquilo #Christmas2025 #HolidaySeason #ChristmasMusic #Top5Songs #MiamiPodcast #LatinoChristmas #FelizNavidad 🎄 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Today's the first official day of Christmas. Basically, after Thanksgiving, I mean, I already see people. Merry Christmas. Yeah, it's about that time that, you know, people, you know, people get through Thanksgiving. Automatically, it's like, let's get the Christmas lights down. Yeah, absolutely. You know, the people that held on strong to after Thanksgiving to start celebrating Christmas. But, I mean, everyone has Christmas.

A lot of people have Christmas trees up already. A lot of... Today's the day to go get it, though. Today's the day to go get it if you really want to be really stubborn about and have your tree up by December 1st and really take over the entire month of December. Now is the time, but congratulations to you guys that hold on strong though. I credit you guys for the strength of the world

to hold off on your Christmas decorations. But yeah, Sete minoreso. We're through Thanksgiving. You have some leftovers, but the holiday, the Thanksgiving season is over, you can go to Christmas time. It's Christmas time. It's Christmas time.

Get the Christmas lights up. Get the Christmas tree up. Jam to some tunes. What's Mariah Carey? Mariah Carey. Pentatonics, the Acapella Group. you know, whatever you're interested. Interesting.

I was thinking more like jingle bells or, you know, something along the time. Dude, they're actually, they're pretty badass. Are they? They're Christmas stuff. Like, the Acapella stuff is like, I would assume. I don't know,

but I don't know if it's going to be what I'm going to be listening to in the car. No, no, no, no. I mean, bro, you'd be surprised, bro. Like, dude, they got, have you heard, have you listened to them before? I think so, maybe. They're like, they're like the most famous

Acapella group. Okay, got you. But, like, dude, like, they did like, which one, damn, they did, They did some good ones, bro. But they do have a whole Christmas album and it's like, it's like, they have like bass in there. Like it's, it's legit. It's really good.

All right. It's really good. I recommend it for sure. So then what's the top five Christmas songs of all time? Dang. I don't even know if I can give you five off the bat. Let's see. I like ones that you can kind of jam out.

No, for sure. There needs. Oh, okay. That's on your top five. Grandma got ran over by a reindeer. Let's see. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. I feel like you got to have a healthy blend of kind of like a, you know, more upbeat Christmas song like celebrate.

But then those like classic nostalgic, you know, snow falling down, fireplace burning type of vibe. There's one of the ones I like, I can't remember the song for the life of me, but Michael Bubele does it. Oh, yes. And is that one chestnuts roasting on an open fire, I believe. He's got a couple one. Let me see. Michael Babet is beginning to look like a lot like Christmas. He does that too.

That one's good too. Yeah. I'm just trying to think of the ones I did when I was little at the Christmas show. The Christmas little performances you did when you're a little. I know, I know, I mean, come on, come on. Rudolph. No, oh, absolutely. Winter Wonderland?

That's a good one. That's a good one. I'll give you a couple of mine. I'm going to go, let's see, let's see. Let's go number five. Let's start from five to one. Give you a first and all. I'll go, I'll go five Michael Boubley.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. I'm going to go Ariana Grande, Santa Tell Me. Okay. It's a little bop. It's a nice little bop. Ariana Grande. Prime Ariana Grande. At number four.

I'm going to go white Christmas number three by Bing Crosby. Okay. And then number two is going to be Wham last Christmas. Last Christmas. I like that. That's going. So that's number two. And then number one on the list.

Shouldn't be any other number one. Felice Navidad. Dude, you know what? That is a good list. Felis Navidad. Don, do, do, do, da, do, okay. I'm going to give a unique five

because I'm not going to bite off of you. Okay, okay. Ooh, damn, that's a good one. I missed that one. Um, okay, here. I got my number five. Gary for this. Okay.

I'm going to people that are actually good singers too. How about Let It Snow by Dean Martin? Okay, great one. Let it snow, let it snow, let us know. Okay. Then we're going to do. There's so many good ones. Oh, this is tough.

It is tough. Here, if you want to look at some of the timeless classics in there. I have. You got, okay. You know what I like? Run, Run, Rudolph by Chuck Berry. Okay. That is a good one.

That is a good one. That is a very good one. It's a little fun. Oh, and then I have to put in, I'm at number three, jingle bells by Frank Sinatra. Mm. Have some real music in there, you know, you know what I'm saying? I'd like have yourself a Merry Christmas by Frank Sinatra. That's a good one.

And then I'm going to have Boubley, silver bells. Mm. Silver bells. I don't know if that's number two, but that's fair. You know what, dude? I'm just kind of going as you go. So how about you? It's kind of a mix five.

Um, day. So I forgot the name. name of the song, I don't know, it's like a... Bada, bum bum bum bum, bum, bum. Isn't that the three little drummers or something drum? Yeah. Something like that? I don't know if that's what it's called, but... My pentatonic.

Drummer man, drummer boy, drummer boy, little drummer boy. Eh, it's kind of, I get it. It's like the storytelling song, but it's not something that I can just put on and listen to. Oh, that must be crazy. Yeah, it is. There's a sneaky one here. Which one?

Missile Tobe by Justin Bieber. Dude, I knew you were going to say some shit like that. I knew it. I knew Justin Bieber was going to make it. Oh, man. Dude, I saw it here. I'm like, dude, it's actually not a bad song. It isn't.

It's not. It's not. So I'm going to go with that. I'm going to end with drummer boy by Pentatonic on my number one spot. Interesting. Interesting list. It's an interesting list. But like, you know what, bro?

I'm just looking through here. I'm like, you really can't go wrong, dude. Like, any, any Christmas song, just. So Mariah Carey, Mariah Carey doesn't crack any of our top five. No. I think it's just because it's overplayed. I think it's overplayed.

It's a basic. Like I want to give a very unique top five. Yeah. Like maybe it's not necessarily like I don't like I never ever asked me like what are your top five Christmas songs? It's not something that I think about. People are asking you the wrong questions. I know. Yeah.

Like I said, we're not in December yet. It's been a year. So maybe it's going to start happening now. So at least now I have my five. True. I have to remember my list so I can stay consistent. I'm curious this one by Elvis Presley, Blue Christmas. I feel like I've heard that one.

And anything Elvis Presley's got to be good. Yeah. Let's see. This is a gag. I am a fan of the Gris. This is a friend of the Gris. This is a Rund Rueh by Trump Berry. That is a good one.

That is a bopp. That should have been number one on your list. It is, bro. Oh, this one. This is just a night. It's just like that nostalgia, you know, what we're talking about. You know, maybe lining up a little cigar,

pouring yourself a nice little whiskey. some Woodford Reserves. And you're just there. You're laid back and we're like, oh, it's Christmas time. There's nothing more manly than Blue Christmas and Alcatsy guard some Woodford Reserve. My God, I'm going to make this happen.

Elvis Presley, iconic. I was going to be the cover of our Christmas album. Outcast Woodford and let's see the Blue Christmas in the back. I'm so down. Celia Cruz has got Me Navidad, you know. Willie Colon's got La Moodga, holidays essentials and many Latino homes. Oh, no.

Oh, no. My number one, my number one, guys. I don't care. I don't get, screw the top five. Number, number, number, number, my number one, a burrito sabanero. Oh, yeah, that is yours. That is yours.

That is yours. That is yours. That is. That is. That's number one. I don't care anything else. That is a good one. That's a solid replacement at number one.

That's number one. I like that. I like that. So I'll get real pentatotinics and I'll leave number one in there because I do actually like the other ones. I like the other ones I picked. That's fair.

Merry Christmas for the whole month. Celebrate Christmas for the whole month. It's been earned. It's been deserved. Listen to that Christmas music. You guys deserve to take it easy on Christmas. Absolutely. Enjoy yourselves.

You're going to go skiing. Have fun. You're going to stay warm. I'll be there with you because I'm not going anywhere cold this Christmas either. Yeah. So you guys enjoy yourselves. Officially, Merry Christmas. Felis Navida.

Month of Christmas. And listen to it, Borrito Savanero on repeat. Yeah, absolutely. Enjoy your coffeeito. Enjoy your croquettas.