Speaker 1: Welcome to them. Christian o'connald Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Last week, we were up in a Gold Coast, first
Speaker 2: time I've ever been up there since we moved to Australia,
Speaker 2: and first morning there were having breakfast and I ordered
Speaker 2: a just a sort of breakfast and the lady comes
Speaker 2: up about two months later too, I'm sorry, sir, we weren't.
Speaker 3: Able to have you able to have a hash brown.
Speaker 3: I went, all right, okay, She gues there is a
Speaker 3: nationwide shortage of hash Browns, and I went, what she's
Speaker 3: I'm not making it that way, No, in Australia.
Speaker 4: She was, Yeah, it's a major problem.
Speaker 5: I'm seeing you can't even get fries at some places now,
Speaker 5: O kidding potatoes why?
Speaker 3: I think those are the floods and stuff because of
Speaker 3: the weather conditions.
Speaker 2: Right, So do you think people are stopped paying them
Speaker 2: in freezers or something. I'm tending to go and look
Speaker 2: around and get something. Give them a way to listen
Speaker 2: to my hash Browns. He's obviously like golden hash brown.
Speaker 5: This is also just a rumor, but somebody told me
Speaker 5: that McDonald's is starting to do potato cakes and they
Speaker 5: bought all the potatoes.
Speaker 4: Hid Wake up, Wake up sheep.
Speaker 2: Moved on to the potato conspiracy Netflix stockow and it's
Speaker 2: going to eat spud seriously. All right, what did you catch?
Speaker 2: On Holiday?
Speaker 4: Nine? Four one one four three, Andrew? Good morning, Christian.
Speaker 6: You wouldn't believe what I've caught.
Speaker 4: What have you caught? Andrew?
Speaker 7: It would have been about fifteen years ago. My wife
Speaker 7: and I went to Vietnam and I was eating raw
Speaker 7: meat and I caught a parasite that went to my eyeball.
Speaker 7: And I've still got it from this day on. And
Speaker 7: about two years ago it died and it's still in
Speaker 7: my eyeball.
Speaker 3: So it's sun took over.
Speaker 7: It was from eating raw meat.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, point alert, it turns out that's
Speaker 2: not that good for you raw meat.
Speaker 7: It's just a delay, that's all. But yeah, so I've
Speaker 7: still got it at this day on. But every time
Speaker 7: I blink, I can actually see the outline of the worm.
Speaker 4: You're kidding me?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 2: Much drives me mad?
Speaker 1: Andrew?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I already lost my eyesight.
Speaker 4: Thing do nothing. Medical science can't help you.
Speaker 7: No, no, no, they couldn't do anything. They just said,
Speaker 7: you've just got to wait for it to die. And
Speaker 7: every time I blink. It is still the outline of
Speaker 7: the worm in my elbow.
Speaker 2: So you've got like three eyes in a way, there's
Speaker 2: your two and then you got the old mates off
Speaker 2: there as well.
Speaker 1: And now that he's.
Speaker 5: Died, does he stop causing your trouble? Are you back
Speaker 5: to nor great?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Can you see his corpse? Can you see his outline
Speaker 2: of his corps?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 6: I can.
Speaker 4: Oh, you gotta wait for that to break down.
Speaker 7: I don't know. Apparently it just stays there till it
Speaker 7: eventually disappears.
Speaker 5: That's what I had trouble going to sleep. But imagine
Speaker 5: closing your mind, you're like, there's that.
Speaker 2: Oh, Andrew, that is incredible, mate. Thank you very much
Speaker 2: your story and thanks for the show.
Speaker 7: Happy New Year, No, thank you you too.
Speaker 4: Michelle. Good morning, Michelle, Good morning, Christian.
Speaker 8: Guess what I caught?
Speaker 4: What do you catch? Michelle? Babies, skapies, court scabies and
Speaker 4: pirates ship scabies. How do you keep scapes?
Speaker 8: Well? You get it from a really debatable motalent to bottom.
Speaker 8: As an north I was just New Zealand.
Speaker 4: Again, clean up.
Speaker 8: We were on a campavan holiday. Anyway, the Campa van
Speaker 8: breke down, so we had to talette for the rest
Speaker 8: of the holiday, and we didn't have much choice because
Speaker 8: we didn't get to book in anywhere. And yeah, that's
Speaker 8: what we got. That's what we brought home from news.
Speaker 5: Oh my, so it wasn't just you.
Speaker 8: No, the whole family got it. There was five of us.
Speaker 2: Oh no, So how do you get scabies of the phone?
Speaker 2: So how do you get with the scapes?
Speaker 8: What do you do weet a week? And they're all
Speaker 8: pretty itchy? And I just thought, you know, I say
Speaker 8: people something like that. Anyway, I went to the doctors
Speaker 8: and he's like, oh, you've got scabies.
Speaker 4: And laugh.
Speaker 8: Yeah he did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but and what did he prescribe or treatment plan?
Speaker 8: You get a medicated cream and you've literally got to
Speaker 8: smother yourself from head to toe in this sick white cream.
Speaker 2: Creams together back days together, get that cream on each other.
Speaker 2: That's your holiday trip, the itchy family. Yeah nice, Michelle,
Speaker 2: thank you very much, No problem.
Speaker 4: We went up for a big old long drive one day.
Speaker 2: It was like a couple of hours outside of Queenstown, right,
Speaker 2: and never saw there was you know, all those remote
Speaker 2: looking be and be's they've got like.
Speaker 4: A slight swing in the wind.
Speaker 2: This thing said, now with Color TV, oh Flex.
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Speaker 2: So apparently we are in a nation wide shortage of
Speaker 2: hash Browns.
Speaker 4: Found us out.
Speaker 2: Last week at a cafe Mermaid Beach up on the
Speaker 2: Gold Coast. I ordered my breakfast and they loved it.
Speaker 2: Lad he came back and said, we won't beable to
Speaker 2: get you that hash brown. You can have some extra vocado.
Speaker 2: There's a nationwide shortage affecting all of Australia of hash Browns.
Speaker 5: It's sad to know that hash brown is so far
Speaker 5: down on the list of potato based items. I guess
Speaker 5: you've got your chips potato cakes, but hash browns should
Speaker 5: be really up the top. But no one's producing.
Speaker 2: Any no, which is very very sad. So we one
Speaker 2: of those morning. Is this true? Have you had a
Speaker 2: hash brown the last couple of days? Please let us
Speaker 2: know where are they? Weed all all flock that to
Speaker 2: have one these delicious delicacies. You found out that one
Speaker 2: of the supermarkets is limited is how many potatoes we can.
Speaker 5: We can only buy two packs now coals and they're
Speaker 5: considering a one pack purchase limit. Perfect Emily, You're kidding.
Speaker 4: Scott, Good morning, Good morning here you go. I'm good Scott.
Speaker 4: Happy new year, Happy.
Speaker 6: New year, first time caller and one year listener and
Speaker 6: he knew in Melbourne.
Speaker 2: So anniversary, this is a sweet anniversary for all of us, Scott.
Speaker 5: And you finally called it the most important time hash.
Speaker 6: Watch because my daughters are asking to me so much
Speaker 6: because she's got no hash brands. We've had no hash
Speaker 6: brands in our local coals for about six weeks.
Speaker 4: Six weeks.
Speaker 6: Chips, their chips are saving, frozen chips, potato gems, there's
Speaker 6: just nothing. The only thing left in there is that
Speaker 6: the smiley faced little things and the sweet potato chips
Speaker 6: were still no one wants those.
Speaker 5: We like the.
Speaker 2: Orange chips, no, no, no, Scott's for six weeks in
Speaker 2: Barrick there's no chips, no fries.
Speaker 6: Think and I've got another calls then this is the
Speaker 6: one in eating rice. I've gone to very the calls
Speaker 6: as well and there's been nothing. It's just what daughter's
Speaker 6: gone crazy to go to Audi and there's not even
Speaker 6: easy there.
Speaker 2: So Scott, is she this kind of age where hash
Speaker 2: browns about the only thing she eats?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Breakfast all right, Scott, thank.
Speaker 2: You very much for and happy anniversary. To joining us
Speaker 2: on the show as well. Scott have a good year.
Speaker 6: We have a good day.
Speaker 4: Bye.
Speaker 2: We need your calls on HASHWA four one four three
Speaker 2: one Here Tim, good day, Tim Batch of basics. Everyone
Speaker 2: turn the old radio now, my friend.
Speaker 4: You know the rules. There we go by Tim hash Browns.
Speaker 2: You had any Tim, Yeah, I might hope one this
Speaker 2: morning from Macer's Where find Jeloe in Geelong.
Speaker 4: We've got a long drive out so Geelong macers have
Speaker 4: hash Browns. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You don't know how lucky you are in Barrick. There's
Speaker 2: been a shortage, nothing in six weeks.
Speaker 4: Maybe they've brought all the potatoes are in okay, Jim,
Speaker 4: thank you very much. You cool.
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