Book Of Records: Biggest Family Christmas Turnout

It’s that time of the week! Lisa & Russell cracked open the Book of Records to find out who’s hosting the biggest family Christmas do and this week, Paul from Joondalup took out the crown.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Have you set another record? Incredible world records and Russell
spook of records, We've never seen anything like it.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
We are looking for a very niche record today, A
record for the season tis the record. We are looking
for the person with the most people at the table for.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Christmas lunch, the long table.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Life, long table lunch.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
You know, I mean, And it doesn't have to just
be this Christmas, but any Christmas.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Any Christmas that has been Oh my god, big family.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Most of Christmas past?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yes, and how did it go with any arguments? Was
there anyone left off the list? And then they turned up?

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Because the Turkey has only got two drumsticks?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
That's right, so that although mind you it's wingers a
bit drumstick size.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
The Royal family Christmas will be a spot to smaller
this year.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Let's go to Como and John Hi, John Monting, John.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Hi, listener, Russell gone good?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Were good?

Speaker 4 (01:02):
I have just quickly John means grace by God, so
I really don't feel like I'm graced by God.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
You're dragging the name down.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
John rus Rustling even inspired me to this something done
forty years ago and actually learned Italian.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
How good are you?

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Well done? Well done? You can use it at the
Christmas table.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yes you can.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, when I go to Italy, I can talk to
my cousin and said, he's on a phone.

Speaker 5 (01:32):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
How many?

Speaker 3 (01:36):
How many?

Speaker 4 (01:37):
Twenty five?

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Twenty five? That's a good stand.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Did you have to Did you have to do the
cooking for that? Mate?

Speaker 5 (01:43):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:43):
No, I'm going to tell you, marm Do you think
I need.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
A kitchen or your your cop a wooden spoon across
the back of the head.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Many had to look at the wooden spoon drawer and
I was good. Thanks John, Thank you, John, Good luck
with the lessons. Check in with you. We will, Yes,
we will be following that up. You've told us now,
all right?

Speaker 2 (02:06):
On the text, bo in Rockingham says one year they
had twenty.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Six people just but pipping John there.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
That was the last time that that medy altogether because
it used to edit in fights and arguments and general
mayhem as as.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
It sometimes count Christmas, especially if the crowd gets a
little too big. All right, Bo, So that's that's twenty six. Now,
who else have we got? Are we going to Paul?
We're going to get Paul from Joodle Upper You there, Paul, Hello, Hello,
I'm good mate, all right?

Speaker 5 (02:38):
How many it has to be approximate? I actually started
to count the photo on hold and I gave up twice.
I lost count. It's approximately two hundred what.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
I don't even know two hundred people, let alone have
two hundred people for Christmas dinner?

Speaker 3 (02:55):
What's that about?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well?

Speaker 5 (02:57):
I saw, like friends and everything. When you have a
hous and later bolt container of alcohol for free and
all the food to.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Go with it.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
If you feeld it, they will come, everyone bringing their
own chair if you field it.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
But we got the trestle tables and you can see
in the picture, but we needed a park with for
the leftovers that sort of went to New Years, all
the left over alcohol and food.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Here's the photo. I've seen the photo come from the textent.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, that's that's quite a Christmas Poul.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
Yeah, that looks awesome.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Who cleaned? Who cleaned up? Mate?

Speaker 5 (03:39):
Everyone's sort of help the next day, but as in
the rubbish.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Or a food truck a port. Okay, well.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Well done mate, you were you were sort of took
care of everything.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
I know there's got to be a millionaire out there.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, and it's not you.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Paul two hundred two hundred. That's the number to beat.
We are looking for the biggest family Christmas, turnout, the
most people at the Christmas table.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
On the text, We've got Monique and at this stage
it's an honorable mention to Monique.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
She said.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
This year we will have sixty four traveling to Warnable
Victoria from w WA, Queensland, England. Matriarch, nanny, siblings and partners,
nineteen grandchildren, eighteen great grandchildren. The oldest grandchild is forty
and the youngest great grandchild is three months and celebrating
a birthday.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
On Christmas Day. Monique, that is going to be the
best day.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
I think you're going to need to use the wide
lens on the family photo for Christmas because everyone's there.
That's amazing.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
It's going to be amazing.