December 22, 2025 • 7 mins
In the season of Office Holiday parties, we were surprised to find out how much some workers HATE attending! Plus what american hosts care about the most when having xmas guests to their house, and the return of CASSETTES!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We call it the Crazy Hey, it's Chris and Laurie
and we do the morning show on Shenandoah Country Q
one zero two in Winchester, Virginia. A beautiful place to live,
and you can pick us up anywhere you are in
the continental United States and around the world with our
free iHeartRadio app. We do this little podcast because we
get so many wacka do things that cross our desk.
(00:21):
So I'm going to start with this one, which I
thought was so funny. You know, we're just coming towards
the end of the Christmas party season, right because Christmas
is pretty close. But a survey they surveyed US workers
and they found out lorii a quarter of people working
(00:42):
in the United States would prefer to go to their
dentist and get a root canal than to go to
their office holiday party.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Oh my goodness, now I've had a root canal.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That's not fun.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Well, I would rather go to the holiday party.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Seriously, that's a serious So it's not just the author
party though, that's not the only thing they don't like.
Four out of every ten workers in the US said
they'd rather go for a root canal than socialize with
their boss after hours. I think that's great. Oh, my goodness.
So I years ago, I mean a long time ago. Now,
(01:18):
it's got to be thirty years or more. A friend
of mine named Dennis Reedy. He was my production director,
and he was a good guy, older than me, and
took me under his wing, taught me a lot. But
he put his arm around me and said, all right,
you're gonna be at the Christmas party. And I said, yeah, man,
can't wait. He said, let me give you a quick
piece of advice. It was given to me twenty years ago.
(01:39):
I said, sock it to me. Dennis looked at me
and he said, you cannot ever climb the ladder at
the office Christmas party. All you can do. All you
can do is fall down the ladder. I agree. So
your job is to go to the Christmas party, hold
on to the wrong you're on asily as you can.
(02:01):
Don't burp yeap, just get through it. Have nice manners
at the table, get through it, thank them for a
wonderful year, and leave. That's that's what you do. You smile,
you thank them, this is so fun, thank you for
the party.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And drink too much.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Lord, don't drink so much. My gosh, it's so true.
And no matter how much they encourage you, if they've
paid for a lot of booze, go up to the bar,
tell them you want a ginger raile. Tell tell whoever
it is, boy, this is a lovely cocktail. You get
out of there. Anyway, Lory, I watched someone get a
(02:36):
little too inebriated and she drank way too much. She
ended up out on the dance floor with like one
of the interns, and it turned into uh well, anyway,
it was ugly, and she was fired the next monday.
No way, yes, yes, that's crazy. So anyway, there's that,
(02:57):
all right, So that that portion of let's go on
to act two. So if you were around in the
nineteen eighties and you're driving around town, I know you
had a car that was filled with cassettes. We got
rid of eight tracks. Everybody loved cassettes. There were problems.
They got eaten. Sometimes if you left them in the
car for too long, they'd warp a little bit in
(03:18):
the sunshine. Well, everything that is old is new again, right,
Cassette tapes are officially coolh LORI, listen to this now.
Resale prices on cassette tapes exploded this year by up
to one thousand percent. As gen Z is like leaning
into analog life. They're seeing all these movies with all
(03:41):
the analog in them and going to the mall and
the things that gen X experienced right and kind of
missing realized, wait, we don't have that. So they're really
getting into all the animalogs. Love this. I too, me too,
So anyway, less screen time, more analog. Most cassette tapes
now sell for about double their original price. Holy crap,
(04:04):
I'm rich.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I know. I've got a garage full of these things.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Bas yeah, just full of themt gosh Lorie. So the
most in demand albums on cassette are going for it
ten times more than they originally sold for, especially releases
from the two thousands. So go down in that basement,
go up in that adic, go and go to your
spare room wherever it is the garage and dig through them.
Releases from the two thousands of the hottest. But some
(04:29):
tapes are actually reselling for and I mean this, hundreds
of dollars. That is crazy. The thing it just is okay,
and uh oh one more, I do have one more.
This is kind of funny. So you I'm wondering Are
you going to be hosting a Christmas party at your
house or any over the holidays? Anybody hosting anybody there?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So we have my husband's family over on Christmas Eve,
and then my cousins come over on.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
New Year's Eve, so twice we'll be hosted. That's amazing.
Can you give me just a second, just a whole essing.
You're awful, You're diary. I couldn't believe my ears. But
Lorie is hosting people at her house, all right. So
here's the thing I was going to ask. So they
did this big survey LORII and they asked people like
(05:21):
thousands of people, are you going to be hosting over
the holidays? And the ones said yes, got too advanced
to the more questions, right, And here's what they found.
Here's what they found the hosts. The biggest thing holiday
hosts are worrying about is being judged on their home. Really,
not the food, not how it tastes.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
See, I don't I don't care. I'm like, this is
real life, right, come on, any family, So I'm not
totally worried about it. I make sure the house is
clean for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, yeah, you're you're not dirty or anything. But yeah,
guests judging how clean and tidy their home is. That's
the big for me. It's like, look, we call it
early American lived in right, so here, get comfortable and
don't be surprised if the dogs on the couch.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Can I just say, I don't like to clean up
and do all this cleaning and then when everybody leaves,
you got to do it again because the house is
a mess.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I mean, I mean, yeah, that's valid, isn't it. They
don't care how the dinner tastes though, really no, they
don't care the gifts, if they were good gifts or not.
They are focused on how their house looks. This is
just it's it's number and the number of people who
said this was astonishing. But I guess how do I
(06:38):
put this?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Look, to me, it's all about getting together and having fun,
right right, and you want the food to taste good.
But I mean, I think all of this came. It
all started with MTV Cribs. Do you remember that show?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So I used to work at MTV years ago, and
I remember we're thinking, all this is doing is making
us want something that we can't have. And I knew then.
I knew that these people didn't really live in these houses.
They rented the houses, they rented, the cars, they rented
seriously to show off, make themselves look bigger than they were.
So then HGTV came along and people just wanted more.
(07:20):
All those programs, all they do is make you want
bigger and better and compare yourself to everyone else. Everyone
used to just want a nice, clean house, and a
nice house was a nice house, but it didn't have
to be the greatest thing on earth. You didn't have
to be living in a spa exactly. But things have
changed anyway, all right, gang, So look that we've come
to another end of our the crazy. Hope you have
(07:43):
a wonderful Christmas or Hanukkah or Kwanza or Festivus. Have
a great time with your family trying not to kill
each other. We will see you in the new year.
Merry Christmas and happy New Year.
We call it the Crazy Hey, it's Chris and Laurie
and we do the morning show on Shenandoah Country Q
one zero two in Winchester, Virginia. A beautiful place to live,
and you can pick us up anywhere you are in
the continental United States and around the world with our
free iHeartRadio app. We do this little podcast because we
get so many wacka do things that cross our desk.
(00:21):
So I'm going to start with this one, which I
thought was so funny. You know, we're just coming towards
the end of the Christmas party season, right because Christmas
is pretty close. But a survey they surveyed US workers
and they found out lorii a quarter of people working
(00:42):
in the United States would prefer to go to their
dentist and get a root canal than to go to
their office holiday party.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Oh my goodness, now I've had a root canal.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That's not fun.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Well, I would rather go to the holiday party.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Seriously, that's a serious So it's not just the author
party though, that's not the only thing they don't like.
Four out of every ten workers in the US said
they'd rather go for a root canal than socialize with
their boss after hours. I think that's great. Oh, my goodness.
So I years ago, I mean a long time ago. Now,
(01:18):
it's got to be thirty years or more. A friend
of mine named Dennis Reedy. He was my production director,
and he was a good guy, older than me, and
took me under his wing, taught me a lot. But
he put his arm around me and said, all right,
you're gonna be at the Christmas party. And I said, yeah, man,
can't wait. He said, let me give you a quick
piece of advice. It was given to me twenty years ago.
(01:39):
I said, sock it to me. Dennis looked at me
and he said, you cannot ever climb the ladder at
the office Christmas party. All you can do. All you
can do is fall down the ladder. I agree. So
your job is to go to the Christmas party, hold
on to the wrong you're on asily as you can.
(02:01):
Don't burp yeap, just get through it. Have nice manners
at the table, get through it, thank them for a
wonderful year, and leave. That's that's what you do. You smile,
you thank them, this is so fun, thank you for
the party.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And drink too much.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Lord, don't drink so much. My gosh, it's so true.
And no matter how much they encourage you, if they've
paid for a lot of booze, go up to the bar,
tell them you want a ginger raile. Tell tell whoever
it is, boy, this is a lovely cocktail. You get
out of there. Anyway, Lory, I watched someone get a
(02:36):
little too inebriated and she drank way too much. She
ended up out on the dance floor with like one
of the interns, and it turned into uh well, anyway,
it was ugly, and she was fired the next monday.
No way, yes, yes, that's crazy. So anyway, there's that,
(02:57):
all right, So that that portion of let's go on
to act two. So if you were around in the
nineteen eighties and you're driving around town, I know you
had a car that was filled with cassettes. We got
rid of eight tracks. Everybody loved cassettes. There were problems.
They got eaten. Sometimes if you left them in the
car for too long, they'd warp a little bit in
(03:18):
the sunshine. Well, everything that is old is new again, right,
Cassette tapes are officially coolh LORI, listen to this now.
Resale prices on cassette tapes exploded this year by up
to one thousand percent. As gen Z is like leaning
into analog life. They're seeing all these movies with all
(03:41):
the analog in them and going to the mall and
the things that gen X experienced right and kind of
missing realized, wait, we don't have that. So they're really
getting into all the animalogs. Love this. I too, me too,
So anyway, less screen time, more analog. Most cassette tapes
now sell for about double their original price. Holy crap,
(04:04):
I'm rich.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I know. I've got a garage full of these things.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Bas yeah, just full of themt gosh Lorie. So the
most in demand albums on cassette are going for it
ten times more than they originally sold for, especially releases
from the two thousands. So go down in that basement,
go up in that adic, go and go to your
spare room wherever it is the garage and dig through them.
Releases from the two thousands of the hottest. But some
(04:29):
tapes are actually reselling for and I mean this, hundreds
of dollars. That is crazy. The thing it just is okay,
and uh oh one more, I do have one more.
This is kind of funny. So you I'm wondering Are
you going to be hosting a Christmas party at your
house or any over the holidays? Anybody hosting anybody there?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So we have my husband's family over on Christmas Eve,
and then my cousins come over on.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
New Year's Eve, so twice we'll be hosted. That's amazing.
Can you give me just a second, just a whole essing.
You're awful, You're diary. I couldn't believe my ears. But
Lorie is hosting people at her house, all right. So
here's the thing I was going to ask. So they
did this big survey LORII and they asked people like
(05:21):
thousands of people, are you going to be hosting over
the holidays? And the ones said yes, got too advanced
to the more questions, right, And here's what they found.
Here's what they found the hosts. The biggest thing holiday
hosts are worrying about is being judged on their home. Really,
not the food, not how it tastes.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
See, I don't I don't care. I'm like, this is
real life, right, come on, any family, So I'm not
totally worried about it. I make sure the house is
clean for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, yeah, you're you're not dirty or anything. But yeah,
guests judging how clean and tidy their home is. That's
the big for me. It's like, look, we call it
early American lived in right, so here, get comfortable and
don't be surprised if the dogs on the couch.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Can I just say, I don't like to clean up
and do all this cleaning and then when everybody leaves,
you got to do it again because the house is
a mess.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I mean, I mean, yeah, that's valid, isn't it. They
don't care how the dinner tastes though, really no, they
don't care the gifts, if they were good gifts or not.
They are focused on how their house looks. This is
just it's it's number and the number of people who
said this was astonishing. But I guess how do I
(06:38):
put this?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Look, to me, it's all about getting together and having fun,
right right, and you want the food to taste good.
But I mean, I think all of this came. It
all started with MTV Cribs. Do you remember that show?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So I used to work at MTV years ago, and
I remember we're thinking, all this is doing is making
us want something that we can't have. And I knew then.
I knew that these people didn't really live in these houses.
They rented the houses, they rented, the cars, they rented
seriously to show off, make themselves look bigger than they were.
So then HGTV came along and people just wanted more.
(07:20):
All those programs, all they do is make you want
bigger and better and compare yourself to everyone else. Everyone
used to just want a nice, clean house, and a
nice house was a nice house, but it didn't have
to be the greatest thing on earth. You didn't have
to be living in a spa exactly. But things have
changed anyway, all right, gang, So look that we've come
to another end of our the crazy. Hope you have
(07:43):
a wonderful Christmas or Hanukkah or Kwanza or Festivus. Have
a great time with your family trying not to kill
each other. We will see you in the new year.
Merry Christmas and happy New Year.
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