October 20, 2025 • 10 mins
It's Russell's birthday today so he and Lisa asked you for your stories about the most memorable birthday you've ever had. Russell had a milestone birthday on Telethon weekend for his 21st which traumatized him and Lisa was set free on her 50th.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Getting lots of texts from people about what their most
memorable birthday was. Malan Woodridge was most memorable was her
fortieth Australia Day twenty thirteen. Group of friends and family
went to Rotto for the long weekend. There was about
six boats that went over, including her family that came
over from Sydney, and they just had a weekend of nothing.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
In a month to worry about thousands of other boats
over there.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
On that second Alan and Kelmscott says, my most memorable
birthday isn't a happy one. It was August sixteen, nineteen
seventy seven, and I got home from school expecting a
big to do, only to be greeted by my mum
in bawling her eyes out because some bloke named Elvis
had died.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
That was I clearly remember that day too, you know.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Funnily enough, I actually don't have any recollection of that day.
I was old enough to remember it, but I actually
don't remember the day.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I remember the kids at school talking about it. I
can picture where I was so.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Many other things from that time, but I don't remember that.
I just remember all the Elvis movies I watched at
the time.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Some weekends all right, what's what Maybe it will be today,
But what is your most memory birthday to date?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, Look, I guess I've had a couple. I've had
a couple that I don't remember, and I guess they
were memorable. I'd have to sort of expect others to tell.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Me about and wake up, you know, handcuffs.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
In a way, my twenty first was memorable in a
in a weird kind of way. It was it It
was it was telethon weekends on my twenty first birthday,
and it was back when it was still being held
out of Channel seven, the studios out at Chewitt Hill
and I and well actually we we worked at the
radio station that was right down the back of the
(01:35):
building at the time. You weren't there at the time
because it was a weekend. You were doing better hours
and I was, but probably I was. You were Saturday
or Sunday. No, I was doing the late Saturday night
into early Sunday shift, and you know, the building was
more alive than normal. There were people coming and going,
but we were right right down to day. Only party
snacks and drinks for me came from the vending machine.
(01:58):
But you know, twenty one, it was a real milestone
birthdays when they say you became an adult. Of course
now it's eighteen. It was then too, but twenty one
still had some sort of magic about it. But he
got the key, but I really, yeah, that's right. It
used to get a key, but it was it was
the night that my childhood ended in a certain way. Yeah,
(02:21):
I mean, if it hadn't happened before then, it certainly
did by that twenty first birthday. Because well, we were
down the back of the building and telethone was on
and I bumped into it just in passing in the corridor.
I know, I bumped into fat cat. He was, but
he was missing something and we were away from the
(02:43):
crowds and stuff. But kid's block your ears.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
He was michild.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Now block your children's ears. Now he was missing his head.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Well, he was carrying his head under his eye. It
was and a stubby beer in the other hand.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, no, I know, I'm not saying that he'd did
not have a There was no alcoholic beverage. He just
looked and kids, parents, everybody, including fact everyone loses their
head at some time. He didn't lose it. He had
it with him. But I'm not saying anything, but he yeah,
(03:19):
and so there you go. Childhood chattered right there that night,
the night of your twenty first birth Yes, so that
was very memorable. And that's in that respect, I'll never
forget it.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
A lot of memories walking the corridors of Channel seven
back then.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yes, the people you'd see, the people you'd see. Yeah,
So that was my memorable birthday.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Jane in yo kind this is awesome. She turned sixty
last year, so I decided it was going to be
a year of travel.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
She was.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
She managed sixteen countries in sixteen months, including Antarctica.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Amazing year. Now I have no money on no leave.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I was just gonna says, he has got the money. Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
So that's a pretty memorable one.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
What was your most memorable birthday? Yeah, tell me about it.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Probably my fiftieth, because that's what I gave myself permission
to leave my stupid marriage.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Oh yeah, Ryky, Yeah, on your birthday.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
On my birthday, birthday, and this is the present.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
My can we pry?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well? You know why? No, just you just know it
was just came like a bolt out of the blue
where you just went No, it.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Wasn't a bolt out of the blue.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
But I think a lot of people stay in marriages
a lot longer than they maybe should, because I think
there's an element of I got married, it's meant to be,
you know, And eventually, for some people you have to
give yourself permission to go. No, it's it doesn't work.
It never will, it never has. And yeah, happy birthday
to me.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
So you went, well, I might live another fifty years
not like this.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
How does the song go? It's my birthday? And if
I want to accept that, you didn't cry. You let
out a little hooray. There you go, all right. Yeah,
fiftieth was a bit so. Both memorable birthdays were kind
of milestone birthdays.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yes, absolutely, am Mark and tapping Hello.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Good morning, Mark.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
We're going well this morning, aren't we?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Mark?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Hello? How happy birthday, Russell?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Thank you Mark.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I'm famorable.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Last year, my wife and I celebrated our sixtieth birthday
in June. We're eleven days apart, and went on a
road trip up north and we stopped at a place
called Balara Station.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yes and.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Ye for Friday. Yeah, And unbeknown to us, our daughter
had told them and said, please embarrass our parents. So
we got called up and four hundred plus people saying
happy birthday to all.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Oh that's fantastic. I love that you share your birthday.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Or eleven days apart. I'm one the oldest, so for
eleven days, I was sixty, My wife was fifty nine,
so it was pure hell for eleven days.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Never leave, let even get it. On a single day
of those.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Eleven days, every morning we woke up and it was
your sixty knight.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And four hundred people singing happy birthday to You're probably
surrounding you. So there's nowhere you can look to kind
of avoid, you know, because people get embarrassed when a
lot of people sing happy birthday to them. Oh yeah, yeah,
is that how you felt?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
O'clock at night? It was dark, so we sort of
My wife harded the fact it was our sixtieth, so
she was very embarrassed. I wasn't that.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
She was great experience though. That place beautiful.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Thanks Randa and Amada. What's your most memorable birthday?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Morning?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Ronda, good morning, Happy.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Birthday to you.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Yeah, No, I'm my fortieth. Unbeknown to me, my husband
and my mouth sister's husband, yes, and my mum was
visiting and they had conjured up for us to meet
her for the very first time.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Oh wow, oh my god, sister.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
That's so yeah, Oh wow, quite amazing. And as soon
as she walked around into the house, I just knew
that she was my mom's daughter.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Wow. That is awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Catching up to do that night.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
So the hobbies got together and they organized it.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Yes they did. Yes, bless them.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That's nice. It took them forty years.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
It wasn't forty years.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
A great memorable birthday, and.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That is absolutely memorable.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Carolyn Palmyra on the text says, mine was December twenty
twenty three, New York City, White Christmas with my daughter
who lives in Brooklyn. She'd organized a magnificent spa day
and lunch, and then she'd got tickets for us to
see Billy Joel at Madison Square Gardens.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
That that's a hard one to chalk.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That is a memorable birthday.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
When you have a birthday that's that good, you leave
yourself very little root, but.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You can always hang on to that one.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Oh, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Every year, Gary and janderbu what about you, what was
your most memorable?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Got married on the day only twenty fairs.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh wow, big day out. You had a more exciting
twenty first than I did. It was just me and
fat Cat and fat Cat's head.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
The twenty one year want lies I what did he lie?
Right there?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Did you get what you wanted?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
You teach you my later?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Great happy birthday, gird birthday.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
He made the right call, nice and early. Well done Gary,
Oh that's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
When in South Perth on the text can't decide between
his twenty first and his twenty second because he landed
in London on his twenty first birthday and then one
year later, still in London, met his now wife at
his twenty second birthday party.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I think she probably thinks she should go with the.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Latter, probably, although the first ones did set up the
second one. Let's be honest, it's true.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
This is true, and that was forty eight years ago.
Oh jeepers Alicia in Waikiki. Hello, what's your most famorable birthday?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Good morning? Well I've had a couple, but this one
definitely stood out there. Yeah. You know the jetboat tour
that you can do out in Fremantle. Yeah, so one
tour just come in and the skippers or they said
to the boss, you know, it's looking a bit rough,
maybe we need a can. So he's like, oh no,
you'll be right, Like all good. So we went out anyway,
(09:40):
and it was rough and we were sitting at the front.
It was my mom, my dad, and my sister and
I and I don't even know what happened in that moment.
It was just the freak moment. But we went down
into the water. Then we came back up and then
we like smack the water. It was like hitting a
ton of breeks. I just looked over my mom. It
(10:00):
went limp. The little boy behind us was crying everything,
And then we found out later my mom had actually
broken her back and my collar vine. Yeah, and they
did nothing. They didn't even help.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Memorable, wow, jeepers. Oh God, well that's that's memorable, But
not so much the reasons. Oh wow, jeepers,
Getting lots of texts from people about what their most
memorable birthday was. Malan Woodridge was most memorable was her
fortieth Australia Day twenty thirteen. Group of friends and family
went to Rotto for the long weekend. There was about
six boats that went over, including her family that came
over from Sydney, and they just had a weekend of nothing.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
In a month to worry about thousands of other boats
over there.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
On that second Alan and Kelmscott says, my most memorable
birthday isn't a happy one. It was August sixteen, nineteen
seventy seven, and I got home from school expecting a
big to do, only to be greeted by my mum
in bawling her eyes out because some bloke named Elvis
had died.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
That was I clearly remember that day too, you know.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Funnily enough, I actually don't have any recollection of that day.
I was old enough to remember it, but I actually
don't remember the day.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I remember the kids at school talking about it. I
can picture where I was so.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Many other things from that time, but I don't remember that.
I just remember all the Elvis movies I watched at
the time.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Some weekends all right, what's what Maybe it will be today,
But what is your most memory birthday to date?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, Look, I guess I've had a couple. I've had
a couple that I don't remember, and I guess they
were memorable. I'd have to sort of expect others to tell.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Me about and wake up, you know, handcuffs.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
In a way, my twenty first was memorable in a
in a weird kind of way. It was it It
was it was telethon weekends on my twenty first birthday,
and it was back when it was still being held
out of Channel seven, the studios out at Chewitt Hill
and I and well actually we we worked at the
radio station that was right down the back of the
(01:35):
building at the time. You weren't there at the time
because it was a weekend. You were doing better hours
and I was, but probably I was. You were Saturday
or Sunday. No, I was doing the late Saturday night
into early Sunday shift, and you know, the building was
more alive than normal. There were people coming and going,
but we were right right down to day. Only party
snacks and drinks for me came from the vending machine.
(01:58):
But you know, twenty one, it was a real milestone
birthdays when they say you became an adult. Of course
now it's eighteen. It was then too, but twenty one
still had some sort of magic about it. But he
got the key, but I really, yeah, that's right. It
used to get a key, but it was it was
the night that my childhood ended in a certain way. Yeah,
(02:21):
I mean, if it hadn't happened before then, it certainly
did by that twenty first birthday. Because well, we were
down the back of the building and telethone was on
and I bumped into it just in passing in the corridor.
I know, I bumped into fat cat. He was, but
he was missing something and we were away from the
(02:43):
crowds and stuff. But kid's block your ears.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
He was michild.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Now block your children's ears. Now he was missing his head.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Well, he was carrying his head under his eye. It
was and a stubby beer in the other hand.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, no, I know, I'm not saying that he'd did
not have a There was no alcoholic beverage. He just
looked and kids, parents, everybody, including fact everyone loses their
head at some time. He didn't lose it. He had
it with him. But I'm not saying anything, but he yeah,
(03:19):
and so there you go. Childhood chattered right there that night,
the night of your twenty first birth Yes, so that
was very memorable. And that's in that respect, I'll never
forget it.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
A lot of memories walking the corridors of Channel seven
back then.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yes, the people you'd see, the people you'd see. Yeah,
So that was my memorable birthday.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Jane in yo kind this is awesome. She turned sixty
last year, so I decided it was going to be
a year of travel.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
She was.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
She managed sixteen countries in sixteen months, including Antarctica.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Amazing year. Now I have no money on no leave.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I was just gonna says, he has got the money. Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
So that's a pretty memorable one.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
What was your most memorable birthday? Yeah, tell me about it.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Probably my fiftieth, because that's what I gave myself permission
to leave my stupid marriage.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Oh yeah, Ryky, Yeah, on your birthday.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
On my birthday, birthday, and this is the present.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
My can we pry?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well? You know why? No, just you just know it
was just came like a bolt out of the blue
where you just went No, it.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Wasn't a bolt out of the blue.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
But I think a lot of people stay in marriages
a lot longer than they maybe should, because I think
there's an element of I got married, it's meant to be,
you know, And eventually, for some people you have to
give yourself permission to go. No, it's it doesn't work.
It never will, it never has. And yeah, happy birthday
to me.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
So you went, well, I might live another fifty years
not like this.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
How does the song go? It's my birthday? And if
I want to accept that, you didn't cry. You let
out a little hooray. There you go, all right. Yeah,
fiftieth was a bit so. Both memorable birthdays were kind
of milestone birthdays.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yes, absolutely, am Mark and tapping Hello.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Good morning, Mark.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
We're going well this morning, aren't we?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Mark?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Hello? How happy birthday, Russell?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Thank you Mark.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I'm famorable.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Last year, my wife and I celebrated our sixtieth birthday
in June. We're eleven days apart, and went on a
road trip up north and we stopped at a place
called Balara Station.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yes and.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Ye for Friday. Yeah, And unbeknown to us, our daughter
had told them and said, please embarrass our parents. So
we got called up and four hundred plus people saying
happy birthday to all.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Oh that's fantastic. I love that you share your birthday.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Or eleven days apart. I'm one the oldest, so for
eleven days, I was sixty, My wife was fifty nine,
so it was pure hell for eleven days.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Never leave, let even get it. On a single day
of those.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Eleven days, every morning we woke up and it was
your sixty knight.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And four hundred people singing happy birthday to You're probably
surrounding you. So there's nowhere you can look to kind
of avoid, you know, because people get embarrassed when a
lot of people sing happy birthday to them. Oh yeah, yeah,
is that how you felt?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
O'clock at night? It was dark, so we sort of
My wife harded the fact it was our sixtieth, so
she was very embarrassed. I wasn't that.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
She was great experience though. That place beautiful.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Thanks Randa and Amada. What's your most memorable birthday?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Morning?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Ronda, good morning, Happy.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Birthday to you.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Yeah, No, I'm my fortieth. Unbeknown to me, my husband
and my mouth sister's husband, yes, and my mum was
visiting and they had conjured up for us to meet
her for the very first time.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Oh wow, oh my god, sister.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
That's so yeah, Oh wow, quite amazing. And as soon
as she walked around into the house, I just knew
that she was my mom's daughter.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Wow. That is awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Catching up to do that night.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
So the hobbies got together and they organized it.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Yes they did. Yes, bless them.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That's nice. It took them forty years.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
It wasn't forty years.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
A great memorable birthday, and.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That is absolutely memorable.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Carolyn Palmyra on the text says, mine was December twenty
twenty three, New York City, White Christmas with my daughter
who lives in Brooklyn. She'd organized a magnificent spa day
and lunch, and then she'd got tickets for us to
see Billy Joel at Madison Square Gardens.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
That that's a hard one to chalk.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That is a memorable birthday.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
When you have a birthday that's that good, you leave
yourself very little root, but.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You can always hang on to that one.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Oh, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Every year, Gary and janderbu what about you, what was
your most memorable?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Got married on the day only twenty fairs.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh wow, big day out. You had a more exciting
twenty first than I did. It was just me and
fat Cat and fat Cat's head.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
The twenty one year want lies I what did he lie?
Right there?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Did you get what you wanted?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
You teach you my later?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Great happy birthday, gird birthday.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
He made the right call, nice and early. Well done Gary,
Oh that's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
When in South Perth on the text can't decide between
his twenty first and his twenty second because he landed
in London on his twenty first birthday and then one
year later, still in London, met his now wife at
his twenty second birthday party.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I think she probably thinks she should go with the.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Latter, probably, although the first ones did set up the
second one. Let's be honest, it's true.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
This is true, and that was forty eight years ago.
Oh jeepers Alicia in Waikiki. Hello, what's your most famorable birthday?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Good morning? Well I've had a couple, but this one
definitely stood out there. Yeah. You know the jetboat tour
that you can do out in Fremantle. Yeah, so one
tour just come in and the skippers or they said
to the boss, you know, it's looking a bit rough,
maybe we need a can. So he's like, oh no,
you'll be right, Like all good. So we went out anyway,
(09:40):
and it was rough and we were sitting at the front.
It was my mom, my dad, and my sister and
I and I don't even know what happened in that moment.
It was just the freak moment. But we went down
into the water. Then we came back up and then
we like smack the water. It was like hitting a
ton of breeks. I just looked over my mom. It
(10:00):
went limp. The little boy behind us was crying everything,
And then we found out later my mom had actually
broken her back and my collar vine. Yeah, and they
did nothing. They didn't even help.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Memorable, wow, jeepers. Oh God, well that's that's memorable, But
not so much the reasons. Oh wow, jeepers,
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