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Speaker 1 (00:06):
It's that time of year, Happy holidays. I always say this,
it's that time of year where I am racing to
the last day of the year that we're working. You
ain't getting one hundred percent out of me after jingle Ball.
Talk that talk after jingle Ball, because guess what I'm leaving.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
I feel like our shows leading up to the holiday
are always just like kind of I don't know, there's
no structure to them, and they're so funny.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
You you havenagged by the way, I'm a little lactose
intolerance if you if you get the right stuff. I
got this creamy bourbon stuff over here that's so delicious.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Have some of that this morning.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, I want to have a conversation here right now
that I think might offend some people, and if it does,
I apologize, But I do want to bring it up
because I was having conversation with friends. I was just
recently down in Tampa, Florida, where I was visiting the
Joe Show, and those guys down there had their company's
holiday party already. Yeah, they had it on Friday. And

(01:09):
listen to this holiday party. I was invited. They actually
invited me to go to the company holiday party they
had it at the casino. Okay, so they had it
at the Hollywood casino or casino? Did you have to
dress up and stuff? Well, no, is at a casino.
You don't need to just dress up. Bugger going to
my mom, thinking James Bond. So let me tell you
what the what this was. They had their party. So

(01:31):
this is an iHeart company party for the Tampa market.
We're in Detroit, a bigger market, right, I think we're
larger than Tampa. If I'm not mistaken, I could be wrong.
I don't know the Nielsen rankings these days. So their
party was at a casino. They had food and drink,
and every employee that came to that party got five

(01:54):
hundred dollars to gamble through.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Who stop. They couldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
They could not take the five hundred dollars and just
put it in their pocket. They had to take the
five hundred dollars that they got as a gambling money
and they had to use it kind of like you
get the free spends on draftings, and they had to
use it in any money that they made from it.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
They got to that is a good holiday party.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
It did was it gave them the opportunity to participate
if they didn't have the money. So they have this party.
Everybody is invited. And I said to the lady that
plans the party down there, I said to her, I go, can.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
I be honest with you? I go, yeah, I go,
how the hell are you guys doing this?

Speaker 1 (02:30):
I go, we got budget issues, and we got you know,
we're trying to make money for the company and stuff
like that, and this is going on. And she goes, oh,
she goes, you know, our market manager gave me money
to trade with trade for those people that don't know,
is you run advertising for basically the money that it
would cost.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
For that thing.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I said, wow, they gave you some How much trade
did that cost? She goes, It was like ten thousand dollars,
like ten grand of a party. Okay, now let me
tell you about our holidays. Oh no, okay, our holiday party.
I just got the alert on this is a week
from today. Okay, we're having our office holiday party. So
on a Tuesday, our holiday party is going to be catered.

(03:08):
It's gonna be nice. We're gonna have great food and drink.
Spirits will be flying. But our holiday party is here
at the office. Our company holiday party is at the office,
no offense. But that's not a holiday party. That's over
time with cookies. We are not we are not necessarily

(03:30):
having a holiday party. We are basically forced to celebrate
the holidays in the office with co workers past the
time that we normally.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Would work here.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Is it at least in the front or is it
don't make.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
A difference because guess what, me has to drive downtown
at four am and then come all the way back
here at five pm or six pm or whatever the
holiday party is. We got to stop doing that. So
I want to put this out there. I'm gonna say this,
and if I love.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
That you're looking around the year.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Colleen's listening, I will be the team leader for the
iHeartRadio Detroit Holiday Party twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
I will co share it with you. I love. I'm
not joking.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
I love planning a party.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
And if you give us the freedom that the people
in Tampa got of at least getting you can go
out and do a trade from engine. I will come
up with the biggest badass party that we can come
up with and make everybody's year go great. Have you
seen the meme at all of the guy from Home Alone,
the What's his name, the actor Rob Schneider as the

(04:40):
door guy where he opens up the pizza and it's
the cheese pizza and he goes and the meme is
your company just made a billion dollars off yet.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Tell me give me your idea of an amazing holiday party?

Speaker 1 (04:54):
What does that look like? Here's what I'm gonna sak Kevin.
I want to ask the listeners who's had the most
amazing holiday party ever?

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Call us up and I don't want to hear.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Although we could weigh this Lydia, who's had the worst
holiday party ever? And who's had the best one? But
you're going to have to mix them up. I want
to make sure that the calls come in in their
equal I want to know the best badass party. I'll
tell you the best badass one. I got one, and
then I want to know the worst. Okay you want
to you want.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
To get me to go.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
First off, we never had holiday parties in Tucson at
our stations until after the holidays because the holidays were
always a bigger time for businesses or companies you know,
to uh to not want to do trade. January was
always a dead month, so we had a boss, Debbie
Wagner that she would say to us, Hey, we're going

(05:41):
to have a company holiday party for Christmas, but it's
gonna be in January. And it was the Weston La
Paloma Resort, and we all got a hotel stay the
entire so basically it was a hotel party night on
a Friday night, and we did it. But we couldn't
do it at Christmas because the problem is, these businesses
make a crap load of money at Christmas time, but
in January it's usually a dead month for them. And honestly,

(06:03):
I don't think there was one person that would ever
complain at that moment.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
So that was the best one.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
And we had a fun party and we all got
hotel stays, and then we all basically made a word
of the roses and cheated.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Hotels in there. It could get crazy. Mine was at
quick Ad and it's before I even started working that
quick In. Going to this party is what made me
even apply. My boy Johnson shout out John say he
had a plus one, brought me at as his plus
one the Quickened party. This one they used to throw
him at the rinsend. This boy was three floors of fun.
When I walked in They had a dude painted in

(06:37):
silver and his job was to act as like the
spirit of the tree for the whole night.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Like the whole night, he was just in the polls.
Can we get him for the office party? He too
much the second level.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
First off, everything is open bar, open bar for like
the entire night.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
I'm drunking.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
Hey, I'm off my ass off. Hey, I didn't drink
any the whole night. I found my way on the
middle level. I'm on the middle levels just walking.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Around that little people.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
Wait, all right they walking around? It's minotaurs walking around.
It was like like the half man half horse like
they I swear bro It's like it was like green
moss everywhere. It was like little elf ladies. It was
three different Like the first theme was Detroit. That's why

(07:23):
they had the spirit god the middle What is that?
That's like a half man?

Speaker 3 (07:29):
What was that theme? Though?

Speaker 4 (07:30):
That was with the little folks they was in there.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Was walking insane. Wait, I was by the way. I
wouldn't leave the little people. Can I say? Also, this
is another one too.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
I don't think have like I can't have a holiday
party on a Tuesday because I got to come to
work the next.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Day and for me and I know you're the same way,
I don't want to take off. I also I'm not
gonna not that you need a drink to have a
good time, but we all like to have some drinks.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
To have a good time.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
But then I feel like once it approaches ten o'clock,
I'm like, oh my god, I have to go home.
I have to get ready for bed, I have to
write my topics. I get anxiety for work the next day.
So I came and enjoy myself.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Well, so next year I'll be the chair or actually
you could be the chair and I'll be the co
chair whatever.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
We no, no, no, I'll co chair. You will co chair.
At the holiday party twenty twenty, we're all going home
with a kid from some.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
We may have it at some place and give away
in car. What's up, Roy? What was your wife's holiday party?

Speaker 5 (08:41):
Good morning everybody, Happy, Merry Christmas, Christmas closer. Hey, when
I tell you the story, you'll know how long ago
it was. It has to do with the pontiacs over Dome.
She worked for Quest Diagnostics. We live in Toledo, Well,
she's in heaven now. We live until so we went
up to the Pontiac Silver Dome to have her Christmas

(09:04):
party in the suite. And when I tell you, they
had the best food I've ever had. It was amazing.
From Prime Rib, the cookies, they were all good.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
The Pontiac Silverdome.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
I think I can get them to trade us.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
Traveled more than fIF If you traveled more than fifty miles,
you got to stay overnight at a hotel. We actually
went to the Lions versus forty nine or football game
the next day.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
That's awesome.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
I have the party on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
At the at the at fort Field. We could do it.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
Yeah, game day overnight for the football game.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
And if I could trade that with Sheila camp Ford
hem Ford, I would. I would do that in a second.
Oh my gosh, that would be a party. What's up, Rachel?
How you doing?

Speaker 6 (09:48):
Oh I'm good, first time, long time the boat. I
just fun to tell you that my little sister worked
for Rock Financial and years ago at her Christmas party,
Kid Rock showed up.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Oh yeah, celebrity guests like that. They always brings people in.

Speaker 6 (10:13):
Yep. It gets better because they gave a certain handful
of people private little tickets to go have a private
concert with Kid rock and one of the lobbies that
had a piano.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Oh my gosh, a little private show from kid. Hey.

Speaker 6 (10:30):
Yeah, and then it gets even better.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Oh my god, can't don't stop? Did they have minotaurs?

Speaker 6 (10:39):
Not sure?

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Okay, what's the best one?

Speaker 6 (10:42):
Okay, Well it gets a little bit better because crazy
things happen at Christmas parties. So then they go to
get in the elevator, and then they get to catch
a couple coworkers that probably shouldn't have been making out.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Okay, well listen, that's not happening in ours, but willing
to try with little people. I've never made out with
a midget, but that's going to be our next content.
We're gonna do make makeout want one? Yeah, we did
make out with a Mustang. Hey, real quick. I do
want to throw this out. What happened to the stripper party?

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Lydia? I called it? They hung up? I want them to.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Holiday party?

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, tell them the call back and great callback voice.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
This guy's initial B. What's up? B? Is this a
good party or a bad party?

Speaker 7 (11:32):
Merry Christmas?

Speaker 4 (11:33):
Too?

Speaker 7 (11:34):
Well, we don't have a Christmas party or celebration. Yeah,
we get a twenty five dollar voucher to stand at
our company merch.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
You win so far?

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Can you Can you buy anything with the merch?

Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (11:57):
You can buy like a T shirt?

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Oh my god, it's very Christmas we had. We had
that once where the boss just gave us gift cards.
I liked it. It was like a bunch of Kroger
gift cards and a bunch of Target gifts.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, and you every year were like, man, a five
Darget gift card. I'm like, I didn't want to say anything,
so I didn't want to be ungrateful, but I was like,
mine was for freaking fifty, so mad. But I think
his fifty. But the whole Christmas I'm like, I got fifty, but.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
I think the last one we got we got over
one hundred bucks ers. Yeah, hold on, Andre, the stripper
Christmas party?

Speaker 3 (12:37):
What's up? Andre?

Speaker 8 (12:39):
Greatest Christmas party ever? I worked at one of the
largest rim shops here in Detroit.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Rim shop.

Speaker 8 (12:46):
Uh huh, and so our boss uh A strip club
had just opened. The lady who owned it, or her
and her husband owned it, they sent strippers over to us.
They came in, they came in the tire shop with
the missile toes. We had a ball.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
What a Christmas stripper. Do you know if I could
trade that? Could you imagine did you imagine if we
did that, we would pull that out?

Speaker 3 (13:09):
I would want to That would be amazing. All right.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, that was the rim shop you were saying, right, Yeah, Andre,
thank you, thank you for the call.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah. Andre, do you tell everybody that you do rim
jobs for?

Speaker 2 (13:25):
I don't trust what he has to say.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
What's the name of the company. What's the name of
the company. That would be my name. All right, thank
you for the call. I appreciate it.
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