December 8, 2025 • 6 mins
Lisa & Russell opened the text and phonelines to ask what was your New Year's resolution? And more importantly have you stuck with it?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And here we are for University Notre Dame. And how's
your New Year's resolution going? You know the one you
made nearly a year ago.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, it has been nelly a year. Some people might
stick to them for a couple of weeks. Some people
might stick to them for much longer than that.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Gyms are very busy in January, and then by about
the second February there they're a little less crowded. Yeah,
that's a New Year's resolution that always seems to go
by the way side.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Well, I just want to say congratulations.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Barry in Bayswater on the text he's told us he
was going to give up smoking this year. Took a
few months to get there, but now he's seven months.
In seven months and four days. You'll be counting the
days for a while yet, I know, because I gave
up smoking, you remember a few years ago. Hardest thing
I've ever done in my life.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
But once you get past that's a certain amount of
time away from it, Barry, and you're pretty much there.
You won't let yourself go back, but you have to.
It's a conscious you have to be conscious of it. Yes,
because it's so too many times I went, oh, I'm
really under control.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Now I'll just sneak in one of little sneaky City
next minute. Another two years, so it just yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Never a smoker. I was never a smoker. But one
thing I've seen is that former smokers once I've reached
a certain point and it's really well behind them. Yeah,
they are the most anti smoking people.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I know.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
They just cannot be a but they just can't be
around people that they just really don't want to be
around people.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Oh no, I enjoy a big old sniff if you.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Really yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I know that I
have to be very actively aware of making sure I
never have one.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
But it doesn't have to be just smoking. It can
be anything, you know what. The weirder the better. We
want to find out what your new Year's resolution was
and whether you stuck to it.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well call us on thirteen ten six five or Tech
zero four seven six ninety six ninety six ninety six,
and there are four tickets to a special preview screening
of Avatar Fire and Ash up for grabs, Fire and
Ash The only Ash do you want to know about nowrot.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So we want to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Melan Woodridge says, I bought a treadmill in December last year.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
My New Year's resolution was to use it at least
four days a week.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I had to bring it, you know, down from an
upstairs room from an old couple. I had to bring
in the big guns with muscles, daughter's gym friends to
bring it downstairs and get it on the ute. Well,
it lasted a week and is now collecting dust in
the game's like. I had an exercise bike that served
as a third you know, clothes rack thing.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I got a stepping machine about thirty years ago, that
same thing. It was really handy when it was raining outside.
You could hang your shirts over it. Yes, yeah, Melanie, look,
three weeks to go and.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Give it another, give it another, Sure, say this time
call your treadmill this time.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Grant in forest Field, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Good morning, We're good.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
How about you?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
What was your resolution and have you stuck to it?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I have stuck to it. I said I wouldn't drink
for a year.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Oh and you haven't.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
No. Well, I went out on the eleventh of January
to a pub and the first thing you do, you
walk up to your bars, buy a drink. So that's
the only drink I've had this year.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Okay, well that's not bad.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That's so the new year's resolution kicked in eleven days after.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah, well, what I'm going to do is go to
all the tenth of January this next time.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Brilliant?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Have you?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Has it helped save you know, money?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Oh? Most definitely. I've got a lot more money in
the account.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Now, and I bet a few less numbers on the
scales too.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Oh yeah, yeah, I suppose, I'm relatively said.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Anyway, Okay, okay, well, Grant tell me this. Do you
leap better when you're not drinking asking for a friend?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
You wake up a lot better anyway? You do?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Okay, you actually get a better sleep, don't you, Grant?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, And you're not feeling like rubbish in the morning.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yes, because I have this new thing where I wake
up at one thirty in the morning and I don't
want to believe it's the wine, but something tells me it.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Might be the wine.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I thought you said you were grabbing something at that.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Just about driving you to it. Well, grat good for
you. You're an inspiration.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Well done, mate, And when you get to January next
year and you celebrate having made it, don't celebrate too hard,
all right, mate?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Not a problem.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
So great, that's great, all right, So that's well done.
There's someone who's well and truly well and truly stuck
to it.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Hayden from Gosnels has stuck with his of going to
the gym and getting stronger.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Good for you, hold on, and.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Julian Bellajua says, I made a resolution five years ago
not make any more New Year's resolutions that I was
not going to actually do.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Ironically, it is the one resolution I've stuck too. Good
for you.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Actually, Peter from Manning did the same thing that they're
on the they're on the same they're on the same resolution.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Stick to what you can stick to you, I say.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Matthew's in doun Craig morning, Matthew.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Morning, how are we?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
We're good? Has has your resolution going? Still sticking to it?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Ummmm sort of?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Please explain.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The idea was to save a couple of thousand dollars
a month total, you know, twenty thousand dollars for the year. Yeah, yes,
and so I'll.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Fall about thirty five thousand dollars short.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So that's still not bad. Still not it is.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
That I actually spent more.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yes, I'm not very good at math, but I can
work that out.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
That's not that bad, Matthew. There's a lot of people
are way worse situation than you.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Look, wow, something about.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
God loves to try about you and you gave it
your best shot.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Well, I am going to roll him into next year
and excellent.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Too late, all right there you go. Oh, well, look
at he tried. Like I said, he's you know what
is he only fifteen. We've had a couple of people
say that they've they've given up drinking, which is admirable,
and have stuck to it and done very well. Paul
from Yanjibab has also stuck to his his New Year's
(06:44):
resolution from last year. He said, I wasn't going to
drink anymore. I'm not going to drink any less either,
and he's stuck to it. He's maintaining
And here we are for University Notre Dame. And how's
your New Year's resolution going? You know the one you
made nearly a year ago.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, it has been nelly a year. Some people might
stick to them for a couple of weeks. Some people
might stick to them for much longer than that.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Gyms are very busy in January, and then by about
the second February there they're a little less crowded. Yeah,
that's a New Year's resolution that always seems to go
by the way side.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Well, I just want to say congratulations.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Barry in Bayswater on the text he's told us he
was going to give up smoking this year. Took a
few months to get there, but now he's seven months.
In seven months and four days. You'll be counting the
days for a while yet, I know, because I gave
up smoking, you remember a few years ago. Hardest thing
I've ever done in my life.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
But once you get past that's a certain amount of
time away from it, Barry, and you're pretty much there.
You won't let yourself go back, but you have to.
It's a conscious you have to be conscious of it. Yes,
because it's so too many times I went, oh, I'm
really under control.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Now I'll just sneak in one of little sneaky City
next minute. Another two years, so it just yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Never a smoker. I was never a smoker. But one
thing I've seen is that former smokers once I've reached
a certain point and it's really well behind them. Yeah,
they are the most anti smoking people.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I know.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
They just cannot be a but they just can't be
around people that they just really don't want to be
around people.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Oh no, I enjoy a big old sniff if you.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Really yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I know that I
have to be very actively aware of making sure I
never have one.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
But it doesn't have to be just smoking. It can
be anything, you know what. The weirder the better. We
want to find out what your new Year's resolution was
and whether you stuck to it.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well call us on thirteen ten six five or Tech
zero four seven six ninety six ninety six ninety six,
and there are four tickets to a special preview screening
of Avatar Fire and Ash up for grabs, Fire and
Ash The only Ash do you want to know about nowrot.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So we want to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Melan Woodridge says, I bought a treadmill in December last year.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
My New Year's resolution was to use it at least
four days a week.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I had to bring it, you know, down from an
upstairs room from an old couple. I had to bring
in the big guns with muscles, daughter's gym friends to
bring it downstairs and get it on the ute. Well,
it lasted a week and is now collecting dust in
the game's like. I had an exercise bike that served
as a third you know, clothes rack thing.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I got a stepping machine about thirty years ago, that
same thing. It was really handy when it was raining outside.
You could hang your shirts over it. Yes, yeah, Melanie, look,
three weeks to go and.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Give it another, give it another, Sure, say this time
call your treadmill this time.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Grant in forest Field, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Good morning, We're good.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
How about you?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
What was your resolution and have you stuck to it?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I have stuck to it. I said I wouldn't drink
for a year.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Oh and you haven't.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
No. Well, I went out on the eleventh of January
to a pub and the first thing you do, you
walk up to your bars, buy a drink. So that's
the only drink I've had this year.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Okay, well that's not bad.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That's so the new year's resolution kicked in eleven days after.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah, well, what I'm going to do is go to
all the tenth of January this next time.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Brilliant?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Have you?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Has it helped save you know, money?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Oh? Most definitely. I've got a lot more money in
the account.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Now, and I bet a few less numbers on the
scales too.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Oh yeah, yeah, I suppose, I'm relatively said.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Anyway, Okay, okay, well, Grant tell me this. Do you
leap better when you're not drinking asking for a friend?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
You wake up a lot better anyway? You do?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Okay, you actually get a better sleep, don't you, Grant?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, And you're not feeling like rubbish in the morning.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yes, because I have this new thing where I wake
up at one thirty in the morning and I don't
want to believe it's the wine, but something tells me it.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Might be the wine.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I thought you said you were grabbing something at that.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Just about driving you to it. Well, grat good for
you. You're an inspiration.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Well done, mate, And when you get to January next
year and you celebrate having made it, don't celebrate too hard,
all right, mate?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Not a problem.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
So great, that's great, all right, So that's well done.
There's someone who's well and truly well and truly stuck
to it.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Hayden from Gosnels has stuck with his of going to
the gym and getting stronger.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Good for you, hold on, and.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Julian Bellajua says, I made a resolution five years ago
not make any more New Year's resolutions that I was
not going to actually do.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Ironically, it is the one resolution I've stuck too. Good
for you.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Actually, Peter from Manning did the same thing that they're
on the they're on the same they're on the same resolution.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Stick to what you can stick to you, I say.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Matthew's in doun Craig morning, Matthew.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Morning, how are we?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
We're good? Has has your resolution going? Still sticking to it?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Ummmm sort of?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Please explain.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The idea was to save a couple of thousand dollars
a month total, you know, twenty thousand dollars for the year. Yeah, yes,
and so I'll.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Fall about thirty five thousand dollars short.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So that's still not bad. Still not it is.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
That I actually spent more.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yes, I'm not very good at math, but I can
work that out.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
That's not that bad, Matthew. There's a lot of people
are way worse situation than you.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Look, wow, something about.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
God loves to try about you and you gave it
your best shot.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Well, I am going to roll him into next year
and excellent.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Too late, all right there you go. Oh, well, look
at he tried. Like I said, he's you know what
is he only fifteen. We've had a couple of people
say that they've they've given up drinking, which is admirable,
and have stuck to it and done very well. Paul
from Yanjibab has also stuck to his his New Year's
(06:44):
resolution from last year. He said, I wasn't going to
drink anymore. I'm not going to drink any less either,
and he's stuck to it. He's maintaining
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