December 9, 2025 • 9 mins
Lisa & Russell opened the phone and text lines to ask listeners to sum up 2025 in one word and let's just say there were definitely highs and lows for everyone. Tune in to hear more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Twenty twenty five is well, it's not that far off
being done and dusted. And if you had to describe
your year in a word, do you have a word
that would describe twenty twenty five for you?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Less? I'm just having a think about it. I'll get
back to you.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
All right. Well, I've got a few that have a
few options. Okay, a couple broadcasting rules won't let me,
yes broadcast, so come, so I'll come down. I'll come
a roller coaster.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Roller coaster, roller coaster, okay?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
All right?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well, I mean I was here, then I wasn't here.
When I was here again, now you're here with me,
and I'm glad to be here. And I didn't want
to not be here. And then I went somewhere else
and then really wanted to come back here, and then
I was here again. So it's been.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's been absolutely thrilled to have.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, so it's been. I would say roller coaster would
sum up my years.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, I suppose in that case my word would be next.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yes, Well, hopefully you won't have to say that again
for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
No, I don't want to say that again. I'm done.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Stick a pin in me, lock me in buck with
me new people.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Paul in Jodle love good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Morning Paul, morning and thanks for a good radiators in
year as well. No, probably the last time I've talked
to you.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Be really good, my word. Yeah, it's pulse.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's like being up down up down.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Up, like a chart on the wall of a heartbeat.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh, it's actually a.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Healthy pols too, because there's as many downs as up.
So a fifty to fifty is not bad.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
That's fred hope. Hopefully it's ending on it up, I
think so.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I've got Christmas off this year, so it's got to
be better than working it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Okay, okay, so that's where you get the chance to
flat line, but in a good one. Yeah, in a
good way.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, that's up to the sky like off the clock,
that all nothing but blue sky.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, you bet.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
That's good to hear, Paul. That's great mate. We hope
you've had a good year. Obviously it's been a little
bit up and down, but we hope that. We hope
that next year has more more peaks than troughs for you.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I think it will.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
So yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Have Thank you, Paul, Thank you, Paul, have fun. We
will well that's what we always aim to.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Do, Paul, as long as I've got one each day.
At this stage, it's about all you can hope for,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It is it is.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Someone on the text has said cacophony, but they haven't
left their name. No. Melissa and Maranguru said electrifying.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
That's a good one. That's good. Hillary's daniel Good.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Morning, Danielle.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Money in one word, Dannielle, bogie bougie? Oh I love that?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Sorry? Was that bougie boye boogie?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Oh? Hang on boozy boogie? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, I love the English language.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Why is he being bourgeois Danielle.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Well, it's been the year of forty for myself, my
husband and all of our friends. So I've gone all
out this year. Holidays, musicals, comedy shows, concerts, fancy restaurants.
We've been to three balls, we've been on the cruise. Yeah,
we've just had the here of the year of this busyness,
(03:36):
really really likely.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I bet you didn't think of the rest of us,
did you, while you were out there living it up
like a royalty bogie?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
A photo of a cotil with me it's been a
very boogie forty. I'm exhausted actually.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And I shed tears for you. In Italy we're so
we're disappointed to hear that you're so tired after all
of that.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Entertainment pointed a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I think that's fortieth to everyone, and it's the new thirty.
So may the next ten years because Bougie.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
As all get out, yes, thank you a year too,
You're welcome a year to remember, Danielle in places I'm
sure obviously subparts that you don't remembers.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Not that's right over yet.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
So that's a few places to the very end.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Thanks daniel by.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
There you go, Bougie. I was I didn't see that
one coming as a as a year as a word
to describe.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
A good one, though, I word I like it. Tim
and Beldarvis on the textays fast.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
That's one. I think we all feel that one. Craig
from Banksha Grove, he says, with inflation, let's say interesting.
See what he did there? I like that interesting in
a holding.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Pattern holding Pat Sharon in Mount Hawthorne says perplexed, Yes,
which is a great word.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I think it is. I go with fast and perplexed,
two words I'd probably use as well. Excited would be
a good word for some to sum up the year
of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
You couldn't ask for more than that. If you can
say excited, that's great. But can you Let's see what
Patty and Oakford says some up here twenty twenty five
in one word, Patty, excited.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
My wife is probably want to kill me, but I'm
going to say nauseous. No. Why because for nine months
my wife has complained that she's nauseous every day. She's
had a very hard pregnancy. No.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, you've probably got to kill me, but yeah, she is.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Glad to hear that every day I come.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Home because she's the one with the baby inside.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I know, I know, here's a good thing, Patty. After
nauseous goes, you're both being excited exciting.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yes, it is exciting.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Poor thing, that's awful.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah. And just to top it off, near the end
of the pregnancy, I'm in a moon boot. Yeah, so
my wife wasn't impressed.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Nauseous one time too many and she kicked you.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah exactly. It happened in more, but she really kicked me.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
When is the baby jew Patty.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Next week's Christmas brgle just before Christmas.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Fantastic. We're excited here all congratulate.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
We wish you all the best, all of you from
all of us. Thanks there you go, all right, nauseous, Yes, well,
this is a good reason for it.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Adam in Belmont says twenty twenty five has been harrowing.
Both he and his wife have had several health issues,
but he says, at the end of the day, it's
better than death what they've both gone through. Adam, we
hope that twenty twenty six will be a much better year.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I was just going to say, at least there's another year,
a new year coming. Turn it around.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Janelle and Ferndale says, discombobulated one of my personal favorite words, Janelle,
I never know what's going on anymore. The world's movie
too fast.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Don't worry, We're with you. We all feel discompopulated quite often.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Grace is in alchymos. Grace hit us with your word
to describe your year.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Exhausting, exhausting.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I think plenty can.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
That one to take us through that.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
I have my wife had a baby in March. Oh gosh.
Going off of what Patty was saying with his wife
and the nausea, I can feel that, and I can
feel the exhaustion afterwards.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Plenty of people who can relate.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
But hang on, once again, you weren't the one having
the nausea.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
So I can lead off with Patty. Oh, it was
the wife.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
But you still don't get the lack of sleep though.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You know, Patty as well and your wife are just
together shaking their hands at the.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
They don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
We take the exhaustion in the middle of the night afterwards.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Okay, that's true, all right, Grace. Well, let's hope twenty
twenty six is a little less exhausting for you.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Okay, have a great first Christmas with the little one.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yes, thank you, so you're Grace.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Hi, Oh there you go. Exhausting. Yes. Sum up your
year twenty twenty five in one word? Okay, can you
do it?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Wanneroo, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
The morning crew, how you go?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Good? Sum it up one word. The words is splendiferous. Splendifference.
That's a lovely word. Splendifference not used enough, no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Not just definitely life for living.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
You know, the year has been fantastic.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I've got a great lady in my life, beautiful door
five fantastic grandkids.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Oh that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
And that's how they make me feel splendiforous, splendiferous.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
See if you feel like that at nine o'clock on
Christmas Night with five crag if it's still feeling splendifferent.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You'll be splendiferous out by then, mate.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You will be they do. Oh well, that's lovely, Craig.
Congratulations on being.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Splendiferous, and thank you Craig for being the first in
twenty twenty five to say splendiferous on ninety six a FM.
You'll probably be the last, but you're also the first.
Oh good love being a third. Thanks going you, Craig.
Have a great Christmas.
Twenty twenty five is well, it's not that far off
being done and dusted. And if you had to describe
your year in a word, do you have a word
that would describe twenty twenty five for you?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Less? I'm just having a think about it. I'll get
back to you.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
All right. Well, I've got a few that have a
few options. Okay, a couple broadcasting rules won't let me,
yes broadcast, so come, so I'll come down. I'll come
a roller coaster.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Roller coaster, roller coaster, okay?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
All right?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well, I mean I was here, then I wasn't here.
When I was here again, now you're here with me,
and I'm glad to be here. And I didn't want
to not be here. And then I went somewhere else
and then really wanted to come back here, and then
I was here again. So it's been.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's been absolutely thrilled to have.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, so it's been. I would say roller coaster would
sum up my years.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, I suppose in that case my word would be next.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yes, Well, hopefully you won't have to say that again
for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
No, I don't want to say that again. I'm done.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Stick a pin in me, lock me in buck with
me new people.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Paul in Jodle love good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Morning Paul, morning and thanks for a good radiators in
year as well. No, probably the last time I've talked
to you.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Be really good, my word. Yeah, it's pulse.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's like being up down up down.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Up, like a chart on the wall of a heartbeat.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh, it's actually a.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Healthy pols too, because there's as many downs as up.
So a fifty to fifty is not bad.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
That's fred hope. Hopefully it's ending on it up, I
think so.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I've got Christmas off this year, so it's got to
be better than working it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Okay, okay, so that's where you get the chance to
flat line, but in a good one. Yeah, in a
good way.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, that's up to the sky like off the clock,
that all nothing but blue sky.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, you bet.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
That's good to hear, Paul. That's great mate. We hope
you've had a good year. Obviously it's been a little
bit up and down, but we hope that. We hope
that next year has more more peaks than troughs for you.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I think it will.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
So yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Have Thank you, Paul, Thank you, Paul, have fun. We
will well that's what we always aim to.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Do, Paul, as long as I've got one each day.
At this stage, it's about all you can hope for,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It is it is.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Someone on the text has said cacophony, but they haven't
left their name. No. Melissa and Maranguru said electrifying.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
That's a good one. That's good. Hillary's daniel Good.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Morning, Danielle.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Money in one word, Dannielle, bogie bougie? Oh I love that?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Sorry? Was that bougie boye boogie?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Oh? Hang on boozy boogie? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, I love the English language.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Why is he being bourgeois Danielle.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Well, it's been the year of forty for myself, my
husband and all of our friends. So I've gone all
out this year. Holidays, musicals, comedy shows, concerts, fancy restaurants.
We've been to three balls, we've been on the cruise. Yeah,
we've just had the here of the year of this busyness,
(03:36):
really really likely.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I bet you didn't think of the rest of us,
did you, while you were out there living it up
like a royalty bogie?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
A photo of a cotil with me it's been a
very boogie forty. I'm exhausted actually.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And I shed tears for you. In Italy we're so
we're disappointed to hear that you're so tired after all
of that.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Entertainment pointed a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I think that's fortieth to everyone, and it's the new thirty.
So may the next ten years because Bougie.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
As all get out, yes, thank you a year too,
You're welcome a year to remember, Danielle in places I'm
sure obviously subparts that you don't remembers.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Not that's right over yet.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
So that's a few places to the very end.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Thanks daniel by.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
There you go, Bougie. I was I didn't see that
one coming as a as a year as a word
to describe.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
A good one, though, I word I like it. Tim
and Beldarvis on the textays fast.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
That's one. I think we all feel that one. Craig
from Banksha Grove, he says, with inflation, let's say interesting.
See what he did there? I like that interesting in
a holding.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Pattern holding Pat Sharon in Mount Hawthorne says perplexed, Yes,
which is a great word.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I think it is. I go with fast and perplexed,
two words I'd probably use as well. Excited would be
a good word for some to sum up the year
of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
You couldn't ask for more than that. If you can
say excited, that's great. But can you Let's see what
Patty and Oakford says some up here twenty twenty five
in one word, Patty, excited.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
My wife is probably want to kill me, but I'm
going to say nauseous. No. Why because for nine months
my wife has complained that she's nauseous every day. She's
had a very hard pregnancy. No.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, you've probably got to kill me, but yeah, she is.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Glad to hear that every day I come.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Home because she's the one with the baby inside.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I know, I know, here's a good thing, Patty. After
nauseous goes, you're both being excited exciting.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yes, it is exciting.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Poor thing, that's awful.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah. And just to top it off, near the end
of the pregnancy, I'm in a moon boot. Yeah, so
my wife wasn't impressed.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Nauseous one time too many and she kicked you.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah exactly. It happened in more, but she really kicked me.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
When is the baby jew Patty.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Next week's Christmas brgle just before Christmas.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Fantastic. We're excited here all congratulate.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
We wish you all the best, all of you from
all of us. Thanks there you go, all right, nauseous, Yes, well,
this is a good reason for it.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Adam in Belmont says twenty twenty five has been harrowing.
Both he and his wife have had several health issues,
but he says, at the end of the day, it's
better than death what they've both gone through. Adam, we
hope that twenty twenty six will be a much better year.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I was just going to say, at least there's another year,
a new year coming. Turn it around.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Janelle and Ferndale says, discombobulated one of my personal favorite words, Janelle,
I never know what's going on anymore. The world's movie
too fast.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Don't worry, We're with you. We all feel discompopulated quite often.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
All right.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Grace is in alchymos. Grace hit us with your word
to describe your year.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Exhausting, exhausting.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I think plenty can.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
That one to take us through that.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
I have my wife had a baby in March. Oh gosh.
Going off of what Patty was saying with his wife
and the nausea, I can feel that, and I can
feel the exhaustion afterwards.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Plenty of people who can relate.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
But hang on, once again, you weren't the one having
the nausea.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
So I can lead off with Patty. Oh, it was
the wife.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
But you still don't get the lack of sleep though.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You know, Patty as well and your wife are just
together shaking their hands at the.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
They don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
We take the exhaustion in the middle of the night afterwards.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Okay, that's true, all right, Grace. Well, let's hope twenty
twenty six is a little less exhausting for you.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Okay, have a great first Christmas with the little one.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yes, thank you, so you're Grace.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Hi, Oh there you go. Exhausting. Yes. Sum up your
year twenty twenty five in one word? Okay, can you
do it?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Wanneroo, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
The morning crew, how you go?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Good? Sum it up one word. The words is splendiferous. Splendifference.
That's a lovely word. Splendifference not used enough, no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Not just definitely life for living.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
You know, the year has been fantastic.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I've got a great lady in my life, beautiful door
five fantastic grandkids.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Oh that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
And that's how they make me feel splendiforous, splendiferous.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
See if you feel like that at nine o'clock on
Christmas Night with five crag if it's still feeling splendifferent.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You'll be splendiferous out by then, mate.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You will be they do. Oh well, that's lovely, Craig.
Congratulations on being.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Splendiferous, and thank you Craig for being the first in
twenty twenty five to say splendiferous on ninety six a FM.
You'll probably be the last, but you're also the first.
Oh good love being a third. Thanks going you, Craig.
Have a great Christmas.
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