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when did the McDonald's um story
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happen so in 2012 I was the team Ops for
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the New Zealand men's football team that
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went to the London Olympics if you've
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ever been to Olympic Games you go to the
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athlete Village there's whatever food
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that you want and there's a McDonald's
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in there cuz they're an official partner
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together with the physio Roland Jeffrey
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who's another early guest of ours on the
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podcast we decided that we would have a
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cheeseburger eating competition to see
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who could eat the most and yeah sure
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enough one after one these cheeseburgers
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started coming out and like the lads
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were all around you had 18 players like
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six some of the other New Zealand staff
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had come down it was just eight and
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eight and eight The Story Goes that the
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black sticks hockey team wrote a formal
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complaint to the New Zealand Olympic
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Committee that the New Zealand under 23
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men's football team didn't take
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competition seriously they were all
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leading McDonald's before the
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competition and it was they were just
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treating it like a big joke I can't
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believe I've set through the
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cheeseburger story again