August 13, 2026 • 8 mins
The people have spoken in the Senseless Census!
We uncover where onions belong on a Bunnings sausage, the phone numbers you can never forget, and the surprising answers to your first celebrity crush and favourite age.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
I Heart podcasts, hear more Gold podcast playlist and listen
live on the free I Heart app. Got anything good?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Christian O'Connell's show this week has been the Census and
the morning of the Census. We had our own alternative
show Census, The Senseless Census. Seven questions what every half
an hour? Ask to you guys, and we've still got
a couple of questions to go through.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
The other day when we're doing this, we've got Patsy
to go through the findings and the producer Caitlyn has
now installed herself as Queen of the Stats.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
She'll be reading the news and sport next.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And then she'll come for my job. It's the rise
and Rise and Rise of producer Caitlyn. Okay, maca break
it down for us.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Alrighty, do we want to hit Bunnings first?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Let's go with Bunnings first. So we were trying to
work out what is the proper way to have a
Bunning's snag? Did the onions go on the top or underneath?
And by the way, next week on the show, to
the proper way. Thanks to Delicious Yorkshire Tea We're going
to be celerating the proper way to do various things,
celebrating properness with Yorkshire tea thousand dollars to win every
(01:29):
single show next week and some fine Yorkshire tea Macca.
What is what did our listener say? It was the
proper way to have an onion the snag, the.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Only way, and the proper way is we had eighty
one percent say the onion on.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Top, get in, get in, get in, get in.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
This is a win for common decency and good old
fashioned common sense.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Sad to see seventeen percent or watch crazily that onion
should be on the bottom, and then other people know
onion one percent ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I think, if you want it on the bottom, you're
not an onion lover. Don't hide your onion away. That
the beetles were trying to say to us, I think
in that song in a bushel, but it a loud
and brown on the top there alrighty.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
When it came to what phone numbers, get.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Away, by the way, just because I saw this Frank
Green vending bottle at the other day dispensing all these
Frank Greens, thought they need to Frank Green are doing
this now where you can have your own vending machine,
a snag vending machine with warm warm snacks with it
with our onions, red sauce, brown sauce, must have whatever
you one that would be huge in this country.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Yes, and you know what I would love a delicious
Yorkshire tea vending machine as well.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
M little tea comes out? What's the next one? Mate?
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I don't know what much they you?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
What phone numbers? Can you still recide from memory? A
lot a lot remember their childhood phone number, including myself
at forty three percent. Then family or friend's phone numbers
is twenty five percent, but Rio can't remember his boyfriend's one.
Famous advertising jingles like the thirteen thirteen thirty three that
(03:07):
was twenty four percent of people.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
It's amazing that one in four can remember that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
But I see from the same people don't know their
own partners, but know the really and Luba bill one
as well, but don't know their own partners. Those adverts
are living rent free in Australian's heads.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Legit Currently current family members mobiles only eight percent of
people remember.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I feel so much better now, I've got no idea
my wife's phone number?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
What after twenty four years.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Of what been married? Twenty eight years? One to four
that we don't talk about.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I remembered my partners, I reckon, are week into dating?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Wow, but that's stalking.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah, that is stalkery.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Oh she's very happy, married me ten years later.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Lovely story.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Perhaps can you take over here? You promised me you
were going to do these streamlines in time.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
This is what happened.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Perhaps he was away from me exactly, Patsy was caath Freeman.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You're taking a long way round?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Could I have done?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
I literally just gave you the starts.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Suddenly we're going out long to being married and a partner.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I said, you can't remember. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
That's saying our context. Now we don't even need to
dialect because it's in our contact system.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Exactly.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Sometimes I feel out forms for my partner. All they say, Hey,
if you have a serious injury, who's your emergency contacts?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
All right, let's go down to the next two questions.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Okay, did we want to do celebrity crush?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
First? Yeah? Go on there, great, who was.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Your first celebrity crush? The top one coming in with
movie stars at forty six percent.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
This is weird though.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
The top four people that have popularized with people's crushes
was Tom Cruise at number one, River Phoenix at number two,
Olivia Newton John at three, and Bill Murray at four.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
What Murray was the one that threw me?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I mean, I love him as a comic actor whose
first crush is Bill Murray? And I was thinking, because
a lot of those you can almost guess the age
who wants Yes, Olivia Newton.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
John, I get it? Okay, Bill Murray thinking?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
What were they were their teenagers and ground Up Day
was on?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Was he still wasn't those Ghostbusters?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Come on?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
He was Ghostbusters?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
He was kind of cute in that in like an
unusual way, you know, like spunky, but not like physically.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
For some of the ones. It might be in Groundog Day.
Sometimes it's some teenage boys and girls. What we're falling
are with Jane Bunn Right now, that's my story in
my fifties. What about cartoon characters that came up a
lot as well?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Fictional characters number one being tinker Bell, then Prince Eric
from the Living Right, what's going on? Australia's favorite the
Pink Power Ranger.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Oh yeah, you got your favorite undies onto They haven't you.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I actually have X men socks on today laundry day.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
The final one was obviously musicians at thirty four percent,
Georgie Michael number one, and Elvis present. Ye.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
All right, so favorite ages before we find out our
listener's favorite ages, real, what's your top three favorite ages?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Top three? Year six, ten years old? Because you're suddenly
the boss of the school. Yes, your first time with
a bit of authority. You get to go around, take
the lunch orders, you get time out of class to.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Go and pick it up from the school.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Yes, yeah, and then immediately humbled. When you go to
year seven, it begins again again.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You start to learn the sissifus nature of life.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Then it comes back around twenty one. I think you
got a bit more wariness of what it's like to be,
you know, an adult, a young adult. For me, it
was great. I was in college in America and that
was the best year of my life. And then thirty
because you no longer have to pretend that you like
doing the stuff in your twenties.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Good answer.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Your late twenties, you're pretending.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Oh yeah, I still want to go to the Ninth Club.
Still you're a bit of a comedian, you hit third
shape shifter.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
I don't have to pretend. I can stay home till
six o'clock. I can have dinner at five. Amazing, all right.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Top three favorite ages for me Thirteen That was the
agent when I really discover what I wanted to do
in life.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
That I was thirteen.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And then twenty eight, the year I got married and
began my career in radio. Huge year for me, nineteen
ninety eight, and then forty five that's when I moved here.
Oh yeah, Three big pivotal ages, Patsy, what's.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It for you?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Mine are a bit simpler than that. Five because I
got a baby alive doll for Christmas, and I thought
that was like all my Christmases at once.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Oh my god, you're the girls used to love those.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
It was just I wanted it, Did it already?
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Ever?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Have the baby Annabell one?
Speaker 6 (07:40):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
She had the baby beyonn Oh yeah, yes, until I
found it in the sand pit and full of sand
one day. So that was the end of baby Beyond.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh dear sad old toy storyline and got rejected.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Sixteen because of my love affair with radio was sparked
in journalism because I did work experience at my local
radio station, and I thought, these are my people.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
And then I've never said that about radio people. What
time I say these people should be on register of something.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
When I was thirty years of age and we first
went to New York and I stood on the stoop
where Carrie Carrie Stoopie is in the West Village in
Perry Street in the city, it was just like it
was very surreal because I thought, I'm finally here.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I love this show.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
It's my favorite spot here. I am yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Now partuci Kaitlin. What did our listener say favorite ages?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Okay, weirdly, the favorite age of the majority was their twenties.
The reason being was it was before they had kids
or met their partner.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Leaving home.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
What does that say about being a parent and actually
being with somebody long term?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
I'm very happy. The next one was your forties at
twenty three percent, reason being it included more confidence, great friends,
and you're happy with your job.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Brilliant.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Christian O'Connell Show go On podcast
I Heart podcasts, hear more Gold podcast playlist and listen
live on the free I Heart app. Got anything good?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Christian O'Connell's show this week has been the Census and
the morning of the Census. We had our own alternative
show Census, The Senseless Census. Seven questions what every half
an hour? Ask to you guys, and we've still got
a couple of questions to go through.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
The other day when we're doing this, we've got Patsy
to go through the findings and the producer Caitlyn has
now installed herself as Queen of the Stats.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
She'll be reading the news and sport next.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And then she'll come for my job. It's the rise
and Rise and Rise of producer Caitlyn. Okay, maca break
it down for us.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Alrighty, do we want to hit Bunnings first?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Let's go with Bunnings first. So we were trying to
work out what is the proper way to have a
Bunning's snag? Did the onions go on the top or underneath?
And by the way, next week on the show, to
the proper way. Thanks to Delicious Yorkshire Tea We're going
to be celerating the proper way to do various things,
celebrating properness with Yorkshire tea thousand dollars to win every
(01:29):
single show next week and some fine Yorkshire tea Macca.
What is what did our listener say? It was the
proper way to have an onion the snag, the.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Only way, and the proper way is we had eighty
one percent say the onion on.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Top, get in, get in, get in, get in.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
This is a win for common decency and good old
fashioned common sense.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Sad to see seventeen percent or watch crazily that onion
should be on the bottom, and then other people know
onion one percent ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I think, if you want it on the bottom, you're
not an onion lover. Don't hide your onion away. That
the beetles were trying to say to us, I think
in that song in a bushel, but it a loud
and brown on the top there alrighty.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
When it came to what phone numbers, get.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Away, by the way, just because I saw this Frank
Green vending bottle at the other day dispensing all these
Frank Greens, thought they need to Frank Green are doing
this now where you can have your own vending machine,
a snag vending machine with warm warm snacks with it
with our onions, red sauce, brown sauce, must have whatever
you one that would be huge in this country.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Yes, and you know what I would love a delicious
Yorkshire tea vending machine as well.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
M little tea comes out? What's the next one? Mate?
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I don't know what much they you?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
What phone numbers? Can you still recide from memory? A
lot a lot remember their childhood phone number, including myself
at forty three percent. Then family or friend's phone numbers
is twenty five percent, but Rio can't remember his boyfriend's one.
Famous advertising jingles like the thirteen thirteen thirty three that
(03:07):
was twenty four percent of people.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
It's amazing that one in four can remember that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
But I see from the same people don't know their
own partners, but know the really and Luba bill one
as well, but don't know their own partners. Those adverts
are living rent free in Australian's heads.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Legit Currently current family members mobiles only eight percent of
people remember.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I feel so much better now, I've got no idea
my wife's phone number?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
What after twenty four years.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Of what been married? Twenty eight years? One to four
that we don't talk about.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I remembered my partners, I reckon, are week into dating?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Wow, but that's stalking.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah, that is stalkery.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Oh she's very happy, married me ten years later.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Lovely story.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Perhaps can you take over here? You promised me you
were going to do these streamlines in time.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
This is what happened.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Perhaps he was away from me exactly, Patsy was caath Freeman.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You're taking a long way round?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Could I have done?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
I literally just gave you the starts.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Suddenly we're going out long to being married and a partner.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I said, you can't remember. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
That's saying our context. Now we don't even need to
dialect because it's in our contact system.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Exactly.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Sometimes I feel out forms for my partner. All they say, Hey,
if you have a serious injury, who's your emergency contacts?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
All right, let's go down to the next two questions.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Okay, did we want to do celebrity crush?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
First? Yeah? Go on there, great, who was.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Your first celebrity crush? The top one coming in with
movie stars at forty six percent.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
This is weird though.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
The top four people that have popularized with people's crushes
was Tom Cruise at number one, River Phoenix at number two,
Olivia Newton John at three, and Bill Murray at four.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
What Murray was the one that threw me?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I mean, I love him as a comic actor whose
first crush is Bill Murray? And I was thinking, because
a lot of those you can almost guess the age
who wants Yes, Olivia Newton.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
John, I get it? Okay, Bill Murray thinking?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
What were they were their teenagers and ground Up Day
was on?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Was he still wasn't those Ghostbusters?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Come on?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
He was Ghostbusters?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
He was kind of cute in that in like an
unusual way, you know, like spunky, but not like physically.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
For some of the ones. It might be in Groundog Day.
Sometimes it's some teenage boys and girls. What we're falling
are with Jane Bunn Right now, that's my story in
my fifties. What about cartoon characters that came up a
lot as well?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Fictional characters number one being tinker Bell, then Prince Eric
from the Living Right, what's going on? Australia's favorite the
Pink Power Ranger.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Oh yeah, you got your favorite undies onto They haven't you.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I actually have X men socks on today laundry day.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
The final one was obviously musicians at thirty four percent,
Georgie Michael number one, and Elvis present. Ye.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
All right, so favorite ages before we find out our
listener's favorite ages, real, what's your top three favorite ages?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Top three? Year six, ten years old? Because you're suddenly
the boss of the school. Yes, your first time with
a bit of authority. You get to go around, take
the lunch orders, you get time out of class to.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Go and pick it up from the school.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Yes, yeah, and then immediately humbled. When you go to
year seven, it begins again again.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You start to learn the sissifus nature of life.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Then it comes back around twenty one. I think you
got a bit more wariness of what it's like to be,
you know, an adult, a young adult. For me, it
was great. I was in college in America and that
was the best year of my life. And then thirty
because you no longer have to pretend that you like
doing the stuff in your twenties.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Good answer.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Your late twenties, you're pretending.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Oh yeah, I still want to go to the Ninth Club.
Still you're a bit of a comedian, you hit third
shape shifter.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
I don't have to pretend. I can stay home till
six o'clock. I can have dinner at five. Amazing, all right.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Top three favorite ages for me Thirteen That was the
agent when I really discover what I wanted to do
in life.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
That I was thirteen.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And then twenty eight, the year I got married and
began my career in radio. Huge year for me, nineteen
ninety eight, and then forty five that's when I moved here.
Oh yeah, Three big pivotal ages, Patsy, what's.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It for you?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Mine are a bit simpler than that. Five because I
got a baby alive doll for Christmas, and I thought
that was like all my Christmases at once.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Oh my god, you're the girls used to love those.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
It was just I wanted it, Did it already?
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Ever?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Have the baby Annabell one?
Speaker 6 (07:40):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
She had the baby beyonn Oh yeah, yes, until I
found it in the sand pit and full of sand
one day. So that was the end of baby Beyond.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh dear sad old toy storyline and got rejected.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Sixteen because of my love affair with radio was sparked
in journalism because I did work experience at my local
radio station, and I thought, these are my people.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
And then I've never said that about radio people. What
time I say these people should be on register of something.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
When I was thirty years of age and we first
went to New York and I stood on the stoop
where Carrie Carrie Stoopie is in the West Village in
Perry Street in the city, it was just like it
was very surreal because I thought, I'm finally here.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I love this show.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
It's my favorite spot here. I am yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Now partuci Kaitlin. What did our listener say favorite ages?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Okay, weirdly, the favorite age of the majority was their twenties.
The reason being was it was before they had kids
or met their partner.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Leaving home.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
What does that say about being a parent and actually
being with somebody long term?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
I'm very happy. The next one was your forties at
twenty three percent, reason being it included more confidence, great friends,
and you're happy with your job.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Brilliant.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
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