December 2, 2025 • 8 mins
As we edge closer to end of year festivities, Lis & Russell opened the phone and text lines to ask what your unique Christmas Day talent is.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Everyone has a job. More atmosphere Christmas except it, you know,
the former Prince Andrew's Christmas part. There won't be much
atmosphere there.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
He's got no one to pull, no.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
One there to pullice. Crack it exactly. Now, that's what
you wanted to say. Do you have a Do you
have a job at Christmas?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I make the rocky road.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
That is your job every year, the rocky road.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I am.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I make a delicious rocky road.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I don't know that I actually have one specific job.
Over the years, it just feels like, actually, you know what,
I be carving the meat. I'm the no, I'm not
even trusted with that. I tend to be and I
look back over many many Christmases and I swear I'm
the gopher.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
For that.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, we forgot, we forgot the ice. Get in the car,
go and find somewhere with the ice. Go and find
a shop that's open because we need whipping cream. That's
that's always the thing. A couple of years, I do remember,
i'd be I think Chicken Treat or Red Rooster would
be open for a few hours on Christmas morning. Go
down and get a cooked chalk. Oh, okay, you know
(01:11):
things like that right, and maybe get the webber going.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yes, because I don't have a job. I don't know
how to start. I had a weber and I didn't
know how to use it.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I do, but I see it feels like I forget
every time I do it. Yeah, because you have to
be paid to do it very often. Not a big barbecue, No,
because it's too much work. I need one of those
gas ones. But I've got a perfectly good old style webber, yeah,
which are fabulous when they work. So I don't have
any specific job. It feels like I have a whole
ton of jobs. You've got rocky road.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah. Pavlov is always a specific job that falls to
someone who makes the best pavlover because a pavlover must
be crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside.
It must, yeah, it must, and not everyone can do it.
It's got to be homemade.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
So whatever your you know, your perfection is, that's that's
the job. That's the job for you. What's your job?
Christmas is coming.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Get a lot of Christmas girt red dot.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yes, we do. In fact, that that's that's that's now.
That's a job in itself. Running down to red dot
to get those last minute things that you forgot.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Making sure you've got the bon bons. The crackers could
be your job.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
The wrapping.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I have made ribbon homemade crackers bespoke to the people
around the table, like a lot of it it is.
And also you have to yell crack when you pull.
There's no gunpowder in it, but it was fun.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Good morning morning, Marissa, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Lisaw are you today?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, so what's what's your big job on Christmas Day?
What can you do that no one else can do
or that you won't allow them to do?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Salads? My keeps are sellad. But have a salad bacon
and I'll pulled all different kinds cootal salad. Let her cucumber,
your name it avocado. I'll put everything in it.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
All right, there you go, the salad maker.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Christmas isn't amount.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
In Australia.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It is.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Christmas salad.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I know it's I know it's not a big thing
in other parts of the world, but in Australia it's summer. Okay,
we can agree it's summer at Christmas and that means
it's salads a very much an important part. And Marissa
is the only person the salad queen in her house.
Thanks Marissa, Thank you Marissa.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Bye Ray in Avery, Hello.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Morning, Ray, good morning. Here are you?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
You are the pav person?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Thanks for the photo.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Right the photo you sent is amazing. It looks like
a kroken pav. It's like it's a pav tree. What's
going on there?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Just somebody said yes at one time, is just to
make multiple bases smaller roofs. They go upwards and then
put across in the top. For Christmas, I did one
Christmas time a path.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Over Christmas tree? Perfect?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It is absolutely did it taste good?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I don't know, you don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Well, there's a person, there's a little person in the
photo there that looks like they might have been just
about to demolish it. And the good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
About you know the thing about a path though so
often on a Christmas Day you're going somewhere else and
you're in the car with your path on your lap.
Did you have to transport it?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Exactly what happened. We traveled from allen Brook to Wanneroo.
Every time you went over a bump and a little
bit shorter in there.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So that one's not made for traveling. Ray I wouldn't
be doing that again.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
No, so what I do now? The problem? The problem
is if you make a pab like that, every time
you go out somewhere they want you to bring a
pair exactly. So now I just sort of beat the
grain there and make it and make the base and
just take the base.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yes, yes, the race special is assembled on site.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I've always been a transporter of the cream separately to
the pav. Pav and cream sold separately. The raven is beautiful.
Thanks for calling, Thanks Ry, bye all.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Donna on the text says my eighteen year old boy
is in charge of making the gravy. Well that answers
Paul Kelly's question, and my twenty one year old makes
the pav. My husband wraps the presents and cooks the meat,
and I do everything else. We've been doing this for
the last four or five years now.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And it works.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
It works.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yes, everyone's going on Peaches in a week, cleaner Mark in.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
June to lup. My job on Christmas Day is get
up when woken by the kid. I'm guessing that's early
crack of dawn, cracks open a can of beer. Starts Christmas.
You're allowed to get a pass on that day, start
cooking Christmas lunch, usually a roast, make a dessert normally
a strawberry roulard.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Love fancy Mark.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
And then Mark has to pick up all the wrapping
paper every time a present has been opened. As the
wrapping paper does his head in Jim Mark, I thought
I was bad. I'm not. I just do it, but
you know I'd like.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
No, I can understand wrapping paper situation like that.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
That's half the fun, kids, though, it's all yeah, there
might be a going on there.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Julie in South Perth says, my job is the plum pudding.
I soaked the dried fruits for four weeks prior to cooking,
lots of whiskey or just literally anything on the shelf,
brandy maybe, and.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Served one for the cake, one for me.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Sixpence is hidden inside.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Where do you even find a sixpence?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Anyway, there you go, custard and cream.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Jill in Bateman, Jill, what's what's your one big job
on Christmas?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Well, I'm no baker, so I leave all the cooking
to other people.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
My job is to get the party started.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Charade, Oh, charades strength.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yes, We've been playing since the kids were little and
I'm quite interesting now that they're a bit older and
the teen years.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, it's good fun, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Charades is their their game. They like to play at Sandringham.
The Royal family on Christmas Day. The Queen mother loved
nothing more than a brandy and a sherry brother and
a game of charades.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Fun, fun, Ali.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Ali, Andrew's not there. Everyone's having it's been living the charade.
Thanks Jill, Thank you, Jill.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Thanks, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Merry Christmas, Christmas, Jill, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
All right, our winner today is a Texter, kim in
maraanaroo her. She says, my job at Christmas is to
keep the memories alive. I make recipes from our mothers
that have passed on. My husband's mum's chestnuts stuff, my
sister in law's mum's Christmas pudding. She gave me the
recipe for a Christmas present. Worse, she couldn't stir it anymore.
(08:07):
Got to try it before she passed away with the
thumbs up.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So keeping the traditions going in the family.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yes, I love that.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I love that keeping memories alive thing, because there are
certain things that are that our mothers and grandmothers did that, Yeah,
and
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You can only do your best to do justice to them.
Everyone has a job. More atmosphere Christmas except it, you know,
the former Prince Andrew's Christmas part. There won't be much
atmosphere there.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
He's got no one to pull, no.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
One there to pullice. Crack it exactly. Now, that's what
you wanted to say. Do you have a Do you
have a job at Christmas?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I make the rocky road.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
That is your job every year, the rocky road.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I am.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I make a delicious rocky road.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I don't know that I actually have one specific job.
Over the years, it just feels like, actually, you know what,
I be carving the meat. I'm the no, I'm not
even trusted with that. I tend to be and I
look back over many many Christmases and I swear I'm
the gopher.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
For that.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, we forgot, we forgot the ice. Get in the car,
go and find somewhere with the ice. Go and find
a shop that's open because we need whipping cream. That's
that's always the thing. A couple of years, I do remember,
i'd be I think Chicken Treat or Red Rooster would
be open for a few hours on Christmas morning. Go
down and get a cooked chalk. Oh, okay, you know
(01:11):
things like that right, and maybe get the webber going.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yes, because I don't have a job. I don't know
how to start. I had a weber and I didn't
know how to use it.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I do, but I see it feels like I forget
every time I do it. Yeah, because you have to
be paid to do it very often. Not a big barbecue, No,
because it's too much work. I need one of those
gas ones. But I've got a perfectly good old style webber, yeah,
which are fabulous when they work. So I don't have
any specific job. It feels like I have a whole
ton of jobs. You've got rocky road.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah. Pavlov is always a specific job that falls to
someone who makes the best pavlover because a pavlover must
be crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside.
It must, yeah, it must, and not everyone can do it.
It's got to be homemade.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
So whatever your you know, your perfection is, that's that's
the job. That's the job for you. What's your job?
Christmas is coming.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Get a lot of Christmas girt red dot.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yes, we do. In fact, that that's that's that's now.
That's a job in itself. Running down to red dot
to get those last minute things that you forgot.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Making sure you've got the bon bons. The crackers could
be your job.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
The wrapping.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I have made ribbon homemade crackers bespoke to the people
around the table, like a lot of it it is.
And also you have to yell crack when you pull.
There's no gunpowder in it, but it was fun.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Good morning morning, Marissa, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Lisaw are you today?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, so what's what's your big job on Christmas Day?
What can you do that no one else can do
or that you won't allow them to do?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Salads? My keeps are sellad. But have a salad bacon
and I'll pulled all different kinds cootal salad. Let her cucumber,
your name it avocado. I'll put everything in it.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
All right, there you go, the salad maker.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Christmas isn't amount.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
In Australia.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It is.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Christmas salad.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I know it's I know it's not a big thing
in other parts of the world, but in Australia it's summer. Okay,
we can agree it's summer at Christmas and that means
it's salads a very much an important part. And Marissa
is the only person the salad queen in her house.
Thanks Marissa, Thank you Marissa.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Bye Ray in Avery, Hello.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Morning, Ray, good morning. Here are you?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
You are the pav person?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Thanks for the photo.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Right the photo you sent is amazing. It looks like
a kroken pav. It's like it's a pav tree. What's
going on there?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Just somebody said yes at one time, is just to
make multiple bases smaller roofs. They go upwards and then
put across in the top. For Christmas, I did one
Christmas time a path.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Over Christmas tree? Perfect?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It is absolutely did it taste good?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I don't know, you don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Well, there's a person, there's a little person in the
photo there that looks like they might have been just
about to demolish it. And the good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
About you know the thing about a path though so
often on a Christmas Day you're going somewhere else and
you're in the car with your path on your lap.
Did you have to transport it?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Exactly what happened. We traveled from allen Brook to Wanneroo.
Every time you went over a bump and a little
bit shorter in there.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So that one's not made for traveling. Ray I wouldn't
be doing that again.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
No, so what I do now? The problem? The problem
is if you make a pab like that, every time
you go out somewhere they want you to bring a
pair exactly. So now I just sort of beat the
grain there and make it and make the base and
just take the base.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yes, yes, the race special is assembled on site.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I've always been a transporter of the cream separately to
the pav. Pav and cream sold separately. The raven is beautiful.
Thanks for calling, Thanks Ry, bye all.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Donna on the text says my eighteen year old boy
is in charge of making the gravy. Well that answers
Paul Kelly's question, and my twenty one year old makes
the pav. My husband wraps the presents and cooks the meat,
and I do everything else. We've been doing this for
the last four or five years now.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And it works.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
It works.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yes, everyone's going on Peaches in a week, cleaner Mark in.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
June to lup. My job on Christmas Day is get
up when woken by the kid. I'm guessing that's early
crack of dawn, cracks open a can of beer. Starts Christmas.
You're allowed to get a pass on that day, start
cooking Christmas lunch, usually a roast, make a dessert normally
a strawberry roulard.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Love fancy Mark.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
And then Mark has to pick up all the wrapping
paper every time a present has been opened. As the
wrapping paper does his head in Jim Mark, I thought
I was bad. I'm not. I just do it, but
you know I'd like.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
No, I can understand wrapping paper situation like that.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
That's half the fun, kids, though, it's all yeah, there
might be a going on there.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Julie in South Perth says, my job is the plum pudding.
I soaked the dried fruits for four weeks prior to cooking,
lots of whiskey or just literally anything on the shelf,
brandy maybe, and.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Served one for the cake, one for me.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Sixpence is hidden inside.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Where do you even find a sixpence?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Anyway, there you go, custard and cream.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Jill in Bateman, Jill, what's what's your one big job
on Christmas?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Well, I'm no baker, so I leave all the cooking
to other people.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
My job is to get the party started.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Charade, Oh, charades strength.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yes, We've been playing since the kids were little and
I'm quite interesting now that they're a bit older and
the teen years.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, it's good fun, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Charades is their their game. They like to play at Sandringham.
The Royal family on Christmas Day. The Queen mother loved
nothing more than a brandy and a sherry brother and
a game of charades.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Fun, fun, Ali.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Ali, Andrew's not there. Everyone's having it's been living the charade.
Thanks Jill, Thank you, Jill.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Thanks, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Merry Christmas, Christmas, Jill, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
All right, our winner today is a Texter, kim in
maraanaroo her. She says, my job at Christmas is to
keep the memories alive. I make recipes from our mothers
that have passed on. My husband's mum's chestnuts stuff, my
sister in law's mum's Christmas pudding. She gave me the
recipe for a Christmas present. Worse, she couldn't stir it anymore.
(08:07):
Got to try it before she passed away with the
thumbs up.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So keeping the traditions going in the family.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yes, I love that.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I love that keeping memories alive thing, because there are
certain things that are that our mothers and grandmothers did that, Yeah,
and
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You can only do your best to do justice to them.
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