December 9, 2025 • 11 mins
Barra joined Lisa & Russell to chat through their Christmas traditions adn it turns out Barra's involves a plastic bonsai tree. Plus, Russell and Barra tackle a very timely question on Dad Chat. Tune in to hear the full chat.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Barrow's here being a Wednesday morning morning, looking forward to
going out to the vines there on Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Absolutely, see our listeners, it's time not to swing a
club our second time in a week.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Yes, you get sort of bad bad vibes coming back there,
or I beg your pardon, I just won't.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Want to look at.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yes, are we going to be sitting in a bunker?
We should do that with the star. I thought you
were German? Sorry, probably across the line there. What are
we talking about this morning? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Have you noticed Christmas is on the way?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yes? I have. Do you have any Christmas traditions? Because
I had a classic I can reveal if you like,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I'm struggling to think of anything that's really sort of.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You know, we've got to drink swingers and eat roses
chocolates on Christmas morning.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
What was that about swingers mimosas?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I don't know why they were called swingers at my house,
Champagne and orange juice. I don't think the word momosa
was even to think. Tradition began about the seventies thing
and one must have roses chocolates with it, and they
have to be roses.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
They can't be much longer because they're stopping.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, it's not much of a tradition, but we like it.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, what's yours, barre?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Well, my ours was called the Bonsai award, the bonsa
in the barriage household. Yeah, because in our family it's
like an annual award now and it's for the worst
gift of the year, okay. And the way it started
was my grandmother, who was, you know, a little bit
dotty at the end, but a beautiful woman. And she
liked to use everything in the house. Even when she cooked,
(01:48):
she put she combined some stuff you just wouldn't think
could be combined. You know, what was in the pantry
that you might that's going in figs. We're using those
old figs, you know, like the prize. So one year
she gave me a plastic bonzeye tree, a plastic boni plastic.
We're definitely not getting any bigger.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
That's right, easy to defeats.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
The purpose isn't because you're supposed to prune them and stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yes, that is the point of the bonzaye.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So, I mean, nothing says Merry Christmas like a plant
you can't kill. So the rule every year is simple.
If you unwrap a gift and instantly you think that's
going straight in the regift draw. You're in contention for
the Bonzei Award of the Year, and every year we
just see he's got that.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Can you tell us what some of the winners have been?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I may not. I better not, because that's right good.
My grandma has passed. Makes you rest in peace, so
you can't libel her. But the funny other funny thing
for me with men is shopping. I don't know if
you do this rush, but Christmas Eve, if you go
to the shopping centers, it's like running with the bulls,
and the bulls the blocks. He said, I was going
(03:03):
to start in November.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, when my work hours were different, I used to.
And but you know the funny thing was in later
it used to be really, really busy, and then in
the last few years it's actually been.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Really it's the time to go.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But there's nothing left. It's like going at the last
afternoon of the rule.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Nothing left that's good for I saw a bloke in
a chemist asking about jewelry. Chemist chemist, going, we sell
a lot of stuff. We've got some tires here for you,
a garden hose.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
But I don't have a problem with the last minute
shopping met by you, I mean meant, But do you
know what really annoys me about your lot?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No, no, you don't wrap present them in a bag,
probably the bag they came in.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
The wrapping start. It's not square, your bugget it's it's
not a book unwrapping the present.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Have the pleasure of the present, please just and you
could probably get someone to wrap it at.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
The shop for you.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So they do a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Don't just hand over the bag it came in, unless
it's a Tiffany's book.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
One of them. The they do it for charity now
where just like they will they will wrap your gift.
So you come out of my store and they'll do
it for you.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
He's got money for that, looks for charity.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I know you've got money.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You're going shopping for jewelry at a chemist.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
The other thing is I reckon AI is coming in.
I reckon. There's a lot of blokes putting in the
chat GPT. What does my wife like? Should I get
my wife this year?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
What about it?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It makes me look thoughtful and like I've put some
thought because blokes have got no clue clue.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Why don't you try typing in how do I wrap
a present? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
That's true, But do you find that you try to think?
What is my wife? Because you've got to you've got
to be observant all year.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You got you do and.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Remember as well what they like. When you go down
King Street and she's looking at purses or bags or whatever,
you you got to write that down. You let her
go to Kings.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Looking for that light blue bags.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Really and yet, my other message to people out there
is listen with dads. Don't just get socks and undies.
Come on, come on, lift put some thought into some
of us.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Rely on that mate loves a sock.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I love a card too, a meaningful card. Please Tommy,
you're listening. Don't just write dear dad, Merry Christmas from
tom you.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Really you go for the heart stuff rather.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Than the you know that's that's shall we look for
some advice.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Maybe it's to do with Christmas. We don't.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Chat with Russell and Barrel.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Okay, dads, we have a question for you on the
Textuary in Bedford asks with school holidays starting and the
social media band kicking.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Intoday, timing is everything, what.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Do you recommend to keep your kids busy over the
coming weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Jobs.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, jobs, jobs, and they would enjoy but yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Job they're going to be thrilled snapchat washing the.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Car, you know, the lawn, but that blows me away.
So that so that is going to impact the under
sixteen the holidays. Yeah, getting outdoors is obviously the thing is.
I mean, the timing is.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Just an idea.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's interesting. So apparently I was talking to my son
Tommy about this is the way they're beating it is
called I should I say it? I probably shouldn't say that.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
They're pretty savvy and some of them are fighting will
five ways around it. And then of course there's the
ones that look older than sixteen and they will just
get through on the facial recognition exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
It's part of the way. The way this one is.
It's related to your gaming console. That's the only hint
I give. There's a way of having social media on
your gaming console that they've developed the kids. So I
won't say what the name is, Pete. Kids will know
right now what I'm so talking about. Listen what I reckon?
How about visiting a new playground each week? Like for example,
(07:29):
I know that sounds boring. But have you been to
Donnybrook Gates.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We could send the kids. All have to do. I
have to go.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Seriously, they've got the world's greatest you don't know, the
world's greatest playground. It's enormous.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Okay, okay, Then what do you do on the other days?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, well that's one day that there's got to be
other playgrounds. All right, I'll tell you what. You go
to Nomesville, Yes.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Anything close by. I'm just wondering if there's anything.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Nomes will interest them for a total of forty five seconds.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
So all right, it's my third option. Then do something
dog friendly. If you've got a dog, take your dog
for a walk along the go to the beach. Go
to the beach, go to the river and.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Your dog to do a trip.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
What if you're in Lesbi, Yeah, yeah, get thee get
the treats out.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
God, go to the falls. Okay, go to the Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
What if you're in Midland op shop Fashion Runway. There
you go. If you're in Midland, that's nothing to do
with Midland.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Give up Snapchat and go to the shop.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah. The what you do is you send the kids
down there and the one that comes back with the
best outfit and have like a you sort of have
like a fashion parade in your house. And whoever who's
ever got, you know, got a snorkel and a blazer
and gum boots or something.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
They win me like Mickey Rooney and Junior Garland and
put on a plane.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
This is not nineteen ben Elton, is not nineteen thirty nine, Lisa,
hang on, Bean Elton.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Does that back nineteen thirty nine? Hang on?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
How about how about reading? Reading or reading is a
great one. Or maybe watch a movie like in this
in full, not in like fifteen second clips on top.
Watch a whole movie from start to finish. Watch a
few of them.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, Christmas, Ibby, don't want to You want him to
get outside, I reckon. But reading is a good one.
You can read outside in a bean bag or something
I've got. I've got one tip today, though it blew
me away. It happened yesterday. Talk about modern parenting in
the western suburbs. This is quite this is quite remarkable.
I said to a lady. I told her that story
that I talked about my friend and her house. She
(09:47):
left her child at the day. Kim was crying when
it was chat GPT and chat GPT consoled her. Well,
she said, she wasn't even surprised. She goes, oh, yes, Well,
what I do is I've got the top seven old
psychologists in Australia and or family therapists, and I mention
their beliefs and their teachings and I put it into
chat GPT and I go, bang, this is what we
(10:09):
believe in my family. And then any dilemma that happens,
I go back into chat GPT and I'll put in
the circumstances and they will give me. The chat GPT
will give me an answer based on those seven child
psychologists family therapists. So the example was my son scratched
the car. He's ten, accidentally in the car in the garage.
(10:32):
How should I discipline him? All Right, So she goes
back in and chat GPT comes back with, well, firstly,
we think, based on your psychologist, that you should get
him to clean the car and see if he can
fix it himself. If he can't, then you take him
with the car to the panel beater and you get
him to tell the panel beater what happened. So he
(10:52):
has to go to the panel be and go listen, Hey,
Joe what happened, Joe, was I dropped a paint tent
tin on the car accidentally. Could you please fix it?
So make them responsible for what they've done. Based on
the seven big psychologists that are going around in the
world at the moment, would you do that a.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Bit too, I'd probably just get them to watch a movie.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
It was just an But what would you do to
your child if that happened, Well.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
If it was an accident, I don't mind.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I don't mind taking them to the beata and saying
and so that they buffetti.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
You know what I was growing up at least you're
younger than me, you guys, But you remember Doctor Spock, Yes,
that guy. I was brought up by him. Yeah, So
we used to go to the Doctor Spock book and
look up, what's the answer here for Adrian? You know,
Barrow's here being a Wednesday morning morning, looking forward to
going out to the vines there on Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Absolutely, see our listeners, it's time not to swing a
club our second time in a week.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Yes, you get sort of bad bad vibes coming back there,
or I beg your pardon, I just won't.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Want to look at.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yes, are we going to be sitting in a bunker?
We should do that with the star. I thought you
were German? Sorry, probably across the line there. What are
we talking about this morning? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Have you noticed Christmas is on the way?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yes? I have. Do you have any Christmas traditions? Because
I had a classic I can reveal if you like,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I'm struggling to think of anything that's really sort of.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You know, we've got to drink swingers and eat roses
chocolates on Christmas morning.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
What was that about swingers mimosas?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I don't know why they were called swingers at my house,
Champagne and orange juice. I don't think the word momosa
was even to think. Tradition began about the seventies thing
and one must have roses chocolates with it, and they
have to be roses.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
They can't be much longer because they're stopping.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, it's not much of a tradition, but we like it.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, what's yours, barre?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Well, my ours was called the Bonsai award, the bonsa
in the barriage household. Yeah, because in our family it's
like an annual award now and it's for the worst
gift of the year, okay. And the way it started
was my grandmother, who was, you know, a little bit
dotty at the end, but a beautiful woman. And she
liked to use everything in the house. Even when she cooked,
(01:48):
she put she combined some stuff you just wouldn't think
could be combined. You know, what was in the pantry
that you might that's going in figs. We're using those
old figs, you know, like the prize. So one year
she gave me a plastic bonzeye tree, a plastic boni plastic.
We're definitely not getting any bigger.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
That's right, easy to defeats.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
The purpose isn't because you're supposed to prune them and stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yes, that is the point of the bonzaye.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So, I mean, nothing says Merry Christmas like a plant
you can't kill. So the rule every year is simple.
If you unwrap a gift and instantly you think that's
going straight in the regift draw. You're in contention for
the Bonzei Award of the Year, and every year we
just see he's got that.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Can you tell us what some of the winners have been?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I may not. I better not, because that's right good.
My grandma has passed. Makes you rest in peace, so
you can't libel her. But the funny other funny thing
for me with men is shopping. I don't know if
you do this rush, but Christmas Eve, if you go
to the shopping centers, it's like running with the bulls,
and the bulls the blocks. He said, I was going
(03:03):
to start in November.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, when my work hours were different, I used to.
And but you know the funny thing was in later
it used to be really, really busy, and then in
the last few years it's actually been.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Really it's the time to go.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But there's nothing left. It's like going at the last
afternoon of the rule.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Nothing left that's good for I saw a bloke in
a chemist asking about jewelry. Chemist chemist, going, we sell
a lot of stuff. We've got some tires here for you,
a garden hose.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
But I don't have a problem with the last minute
shopping met by you, I mean meant, But do you
know what really annoys me about your lot?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No, no, you don't wrap present them in a bag,
probably the bag they came in.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
The wrapping start. It's not square, your bugget it's it's
not a book unwrapping the present.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Have the pleasure of the present, please just and you
could probably get someone to wrap it at.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
The shop for you.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So they do a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Don't just hand over the bag it came in, unless
it's a Tiffany's book.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
One of them. The they do it for charity now
where just like they will they will wrap your gift.
So you come out of my store and they'll do
it for you.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
He's got money for that, looks for charity.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I know you've got money.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You're going shopping for jewelry at a chemist.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
The other thing is I reckon AI is coming in.
I reckon. There's a lot of blokes putting in the
chat GPT. What does my wife like? Should I get
my wife this year?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
What about it?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It makes me look thoughtful and like I've put some
thought because blokes have got no clue clue.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Why don't you try typing in how do I wrap
a present? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
That's true, But do you find that you try to think?
What is my wife? Because you've got to you've got
to be observant all year.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You got you do and.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Remember as well what they like. When you go down
King Street and she's looking at purses or bags or whatever,
you you got to write that down. You let her
go to Kings.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Looking for that light blue bags.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Really and yet, my other message to people out there
is listen with dads. Don't just get socks and undies.
Come on, come on, lift put some thought into some
of us.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Rely on that mate loves a sock.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I love a card too, a meaningful card. Please Tommy,
you're listening. Don't just write dear dad, Merry Christmas from
tom you.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Really you go for the heart stuff rather.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Than the you know that's that's shall we look for
some advice.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Maybe it's to do with Christmas. We don't.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Chat with Russell and Barrel.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Okay, dads, we have a question for you on the
Textuary in Bedford asks with school holidays starting and the
social media band kicking.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Intoday, timing is everything, what.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Do you recommend to keep your kids busy over the
coming weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Jobs.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, jobs, jobs, and they would enjoy but yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Job they're going to be thrilled snapchat washing the.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Car, you know, the lawn, but that blows me away.
So that so that is going to impact the under
sixteen the holidays. Yeah, getting outdoors is obviously the thing is.
I mean, the timing is.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Just an idea.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's interesting. So apparently I was talking to my son
Tommy about this is the way they're beating it is
called I should I say it? I probably shouldn't say that.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
They're pretty savvy and some of them are fighting will
five ways around it. And then of course there's the
ones that look older than sixteen and they will just
get through on the facial recognition exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
It's part of the way. The way this one is.
It's related to your gaming console. That's the only hint
I give. There's a way of having social media on
your gaming console that they've developed the kids. So I
won't say what the name is, Pete. Kids will know
right now what I'm so talking about. Listen what I reckon?
How about visiting a new playground each week? Like for example,
(07:29):
I know that sounds boring. But have you been to
Donnybrook Gates.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We could send the kids. All have to do. I
have to go.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Seriously, they've got the world's greatest you don't know, the
world's greatest playground. It's enormous.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Okay, okay, Then what do you do on the other days?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, well that's one day that there's got to be
other playgrounds. All right, I'll tell you what. You go
to Nomesville, Yes.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Anything close by. I'm just wondering if there's anything.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Nomes will interest them for a total of forty five seconds.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
So all right, it's my third option. Then do something
dog friendly. If you've got a dog, take your dog
for a walk along the go to the beach. Go
to the beach, go to the river and.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Your dog to do a trip.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
What if you're in Lesbi, Yeah, yeah, get thee get
the treats out.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
God, go to the falls. Okay, go to the Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
What if you're in Midland op shop Fashion Runway. There
you go. If you're in Midland, that's nothing to do
with Midland.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Give up Snapchat and go to the shop.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah. The what you do is you send the kids
down there and the one that comes back with the
best outfit and have like a you sort of have
like a fashion parade in your house. And whoever who's
ever got, you know, got a snorkel and a blazer
and gum boots or something.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
They win me like Mickey Rooney and Junior Garland and
put on a plane.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
This is not nineteen ben Elton, is not nineteen thirty nine, Lisa,
hang on, Bean Elton.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Does that back nineteen thirty nine? Hang on?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
How about how about reading? Reading or reading is a
great one. Or maybe watch a movie like in this
in full, not in like fifteen second clips on top.
Watch a whole movie from start to finish. Watch a
few of them.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, Christmas, Ibby, don't want to You want him to
get outside, I reckon. But reading is a good one.
You can read outside in a bean bag or something
I've got. I've got one tip today, though it blew
me away. It happened yesterday. Talk about modern parenting in
the western suburbs. This is quite this is quite remarkable.
I said to a lady. I told her that story
that I talked about my friend and her house. She
(09:47):
left her child at the day. Kim was crying when
it was chat GPT and chat GPT consoled her. Well,
she said, she wasn't even surprised. She goes, oh, yes, Well,
what I do is I've got the top seven old
psychologists in Australia and or family therapists, and I mention
their beliefs and their teachings and I put it into
chat GPT and I go, bang, this is what we
(10:09):
believe in my family. And then any dilemma that happens,
I go back into chat GPT and I'll put in
the circumstances and they will give me. The chat GPT
will give me an answer based on those seven child
psychologists family therapists. So the example was my son scratched
the car. He's ten, accidentally in the car in the garage.
(10:32):
How should I discipline him? All Right, So she goes
back in and chat GPT comes back with, well, firstly,
we think, based on your psychologist, that you should get
him to clean the car and see if he can
fix it himself. If he can't, then you take him
with the car to the panel beater and you get
him to tell the panel beater what happened. So he
(10:52):
has to go to the panel be and go listen, Hey,
Joe what happened, Joe, was I dropped a paint tent
tin on the car accidentally. Could you please fix it?
So make them responsible for what they've done. Based on
the seven big psychologists that are going around in the
world at the moment, would you do that a.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Bit too, I'd probably just get them to watch a movie.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
It was just an But what would you do to
your child if that happened, Well.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
If it was an accident, I don't mind.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I don't mind taking them to the beata and saying
and so that they buffetti.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
You know what I was growing up at least you're
younger than me, you guys, But you remember Doctor Spock, Yes,
that guy. I was brought up by him. Yeah, So
we used to go to the Doctor Spock book and
look up, what's the answer here for Adrian? You know,
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