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Jock 2 Jock · Sat Oct 15, 2022
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I'm Brian Marshall.
I'll be joined by Tori Taylor.
Number nine, your punter for the Iowa football team.
Next.
We're back for the jock to jock podcast.
I'm Brian Marshall, joined by my guest.
Number nine for your Iowa football team in the puncher, Tori Taylor.
This may be the time that Tori finds the second most fun throughout the week, besides being on the field.
Well, it's going to be the most fun this way, because I want to be on the field this week, which is nice, but looking forward to
it.
So the game against Illinois, let's do a short recap of that.
I was probably really just another opportunity gone.
a game that we really probably we all know that we we should have won but um yeah a few things just didn't go away and we really didn't play well um all quarter to Illinois that they played really well and certainly deserved to win but yeah we just couldn't do what we needed to do to win and yeah pretty plain and simple Illinois deserved to win and we didn't really
the thing that that I had talked about in the last episode they're not the same Illinois team that they have been over the last
nine years
No, not at all.
And yeah, they certainly had some good players.
And yeah, guys, you probably didn't really know much about Connor just stood up as well.
I thought their punter, Q Robertson, he had a good game.
Their kicker was good.
So just looking at that from a specialist point of view, those guys hadn't really been playing as well as they probably wanted to.
But yeah, they really stood up for them that night.
And so did a lot of other Illinois guys.
You were talking about the punter exclusively there.
Yeah, we spoke per game for a few minutes and then after the game for a minute or so, you don't really get much time on to do it.
But yeah, we spoke when we could.
Does he have roots back to Australia?
Did I catch that?
Yeah, he's from Australia.
Was he also a pro kick individual?
Yeah, he trained the same year as me.
So we trained together for a good 10 to 12 months.
See, I'm uncovering more and more as we talk, Tori, that there's gentlemen that are coming in from Australia.
that are punting not only in college, but they're going all sorts of places.
You mentioned your friend at UNLV.
You got the individual there at Illinois.
Yeah,
and I think I'll be planning against one against Ohio State, Purdue and Minnesota.
So there's still three more to go.
Well, we'll save the Ohio State talk to next week's episode, which I was also thinking we could have the audience ask you some questions because I've asked a lot of things.
Kind of fun.
Far, far away.
Did you hear about that there's a 49 year old playing defensive lineman in North Dakota?
49.
I didn't hear about that and I find that extremely hard to believe, but if true, good on him.
It is true.
The gentleman had served for about 20 years in the Army and National Guard.
And then when he was working third shift, he decided he wanted to go back to school.
So then he enlists and he's playing for this North Dakota State College of Sciences, the Wildcats.
He's defensive lineman.
He's got
three or one solo tackle three assisted tackles and While I know you're not 49 how does being older?
Affect you and and how you work with your teammates on the team.
I appreciate you saying that I'm actually half his age So that's kind of a little crazy to think about but um, I'll probably Struggle with it a little bit at the start just been being a lot older than guys and probably just not really
Grasping the fact that they are younger than me and younger people tend to do different things and then from a maturity point of view, but I've always kind of hung out with the older guys to tell you the truth.
Nothing against the younger guys or anything like that.
I live with young guys and they're great, but I've always kind of associated myself with the older guys anyway.
So everyone gives me a little bit of shit being older, but you wouldn't really know it.
Did you have anyone in particular that was on the team that helped you out right away?
Yeah, probably the guys I live with like Henry Marquise, Max Cooper.
I'm really good friends with Spencer as well.
And yeah, just a lot of older guys.
Ryan Gassande as well.
A lot of older guys when I first got here, they were the ones that really helped me.
You mentioned the bi-week here earlier.
How much does a bi-week help or hurt in preparing for the next game?
Well, I know from my point of view, I really needed it.
Just because, yeah, it's just, it's a long season.
You kind of forget, like when you're out of season, you're like, oh yeah, 12 weeks, it's going to go quickly, blah, blah.
Can't be too bad.
But then you're getting to see and you're like, holy shit, like, yeah, it's gone quickly, but it's certainly a massive grind.
But yeah, I'm really, really looking forward to having the weekend off and getting to watch some other games and yeah, just kind of relaxing and decompressing and all that.
So yeah, looking forward to that.
I mean, in terms of preparation, I mean, it probably affects guys.
Um, a bit more than others.
It really just depends on the individual.
Um, but for me, I know I'm really excited.
Um, kind of just have this weekend off and then hit the second half of the season.
Can you still watch American football as a fan, even though you play it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, I enjoy watching college football and NFL.
Um, I really enjoy watching too, especially.
I kind of just get home on a Sunday afternoon, click on the TV, do some homework and watch the games on the background.
Listen to you being all responsible by doing your homework.
Yeah, exactly.
Who are some teams that you like to follow?
I don't really, I don't really have a team to tell you the truth.
As silly as it sounds, I kind of like following teams with first and foremost that have Australian guys in them.
Yeah.
Um, and then just exciting teams to watch, you know, like I really enjoy watching the charges.
Um, and they got cool uniforms and really, um, like the Giants uniforms as well as silly as that sounds.
But I think from someone that's kind of kind of.
from the outside it's uh yeah that's just kind of the avenue i've gone but i i enjoy like watching the exciting teams as well
when you see the australian guys that are playing in the nfl are there any particular individuals that you kind of want to follow in their footsteps in a way
yeah i mean there's guys that i obviously look up to and it's kind of cool it's just like wow they did the same thing as me but i really enjoy um yeah watching all the Aussie guys especially guys like mitrish now to get the 49ers
Um, he's like, it kind of, not similar to me, but you know, like a tall, uh, I wouldn't say lean dude or anything like that.
But he's just kind of, whereas the other guys are like other guys like Cameron Johnson and Michael Dixon, they're a lot shorter guys that have a lot of power as Mitch is kind of, he's like someone that I kind of look up to a bit more than the others.
Do you have any contact with guys that are currently in the NFL on a, just like on a personal level?
No, not really.
I mean, if I, like, wanted some advice or need but talk to them, I could, like, but no, it's anti-question.
No, not really, because they're off, kind of, like, doing their own thing, if that makes sense.
Yeah, they've got a few extra games in post-season, all that going on, too.
Yeah, but if someone's paying
you a million dollars, you'd probably do it, wouldn't
you?
Sure, absolutely.
Yeah.
I mean, that's nice money, but I don't have the skill set that, you know, half of this conversation has.
A million, a million dollars to do radio.
That'd be great.
Oh,
wouldn't
that
the
money?
Not quite.
Well, you're kind of doing the radio thing right now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I figure we get to this sooner than later, just because I think there's a lot to this.
We're going to get to the Marshall Exchange program like right now.
And the thing that we have been talking about mostly throughout the Marshall Exchange program, Tori's travel tips.
is positive things.
When I would go to Australia, when we would go to Australia, when we go to Australia, things that we should look for, things that we should be participating in.
But I mentioned four items or four things that are stereotypically associated with Australia that probably drive you freaking nuts.
And you're probably asked about them daily, or at least once a week.
So I figured I would knock these out and this may be the make or break of the jock to jock podcast featuring Tory Taylor.
Yeah,
I agree.
All right, let's do it.
The first one is a fictional character who's featured in a movie.
It made it into the United States in 1986, a film that was originally set in the Australian Outback and then in New York City starred an actor by the name of Paul Hogan.
The movie is called
Crocodile Dundee.
Michael J. Crocodile Dundee.
You?
Out here alone?
Oh, that's a joke.
City girl like you?
You wouldn't last five minutes, love.
This is a man's country out
here.
Dundee, of course.
Of course it is.
It's funny you say that because now that I think of it...
I think I watched that, that was on TV here probably or sometime last year.
Okay.
And I watched it, but I had not watched it for years.
I watched it when I was a lot younger.
I didn't really kind of understand it, but yeah, it's not, it's not a bad movie.
But yeah, I don't get asked about that as much to tell you the truth.
How often does somebody hear your accent and then try and mimic you and say, there's a knife.
There's a
knife.
So it it would probably be only be if I said something that people don't usually say here.
Okay
Yeah, whereas sometimes like I'll catch myself saying me instead of my like, you know, like or do you want to hop in my car or something like that or?
Some of that and then that's when people will kind of imitate me bit I don't know like sometimes if I'm having a conversation with someone it probably happens at least once a week
maybe once every two weeks.
Do you give that individual who would bring up crocodile dundee or try and mimic your accent?
Do you give them a look or what do you do?
I usually just say that's bloody terrible.
I don't have to do that again.
Do you know what I mean?
Yes.
Because I can do an American accent a little better than I can do an Australian accent.
You mentioned that in an early episode and I would love to hear it, but you said you probably weren't going to do it on the podcast.
Hmm.
Yeah.
I can't.
I can't.
I'm not going to embarrass myself like
that.
Well, I mean, you heard me just absolutely butcher an Australian accent there.
I mean, how bad was that on a scale of one to 10?
Pretty bad, right?
10 being the worst?
Yeah, sure.
I'd say like seven.
I've heard a lot worse.
Everyone does like a British accent, if that makes sense.
Yes.
Number two, this was an actual, this was an individual who was living.
This isn't a fictional character, but had a television show that made it to the United States and became very popular.
He was born in February of 62, and nicknamed the Crocodile Hunter.
They don't get quite as big as the ones on the coast.
Bearded Dragon, you can see why they're called a bearded dragon.
They've got this little beard here, and when he gets all contankerous, all cranky, or you've got a big mouth too.
He opens up his mouth and shows this beard and that sign of toughness.
I am so tough.
Stay away from here.
I'm going to bite you.
You bit me on the nose, you little
brat.
That's Steve.
Yeah.
Yes, the man.
Yeah.
He was the man.
Very, very sad day when he died.
Yeah.
Very, very, very sad day.
Was this a popular show in Australia as well?
Uh, I actually don't know.
I didn't know that he had a show over here to tell you the truth.
Okay.
Um, so that, yeah, that's news to me, but.
Yeah, everyone is kind of knew who he was, you know what I mean?
Everyone is kind of uses that crazy psycho that would kind of play with crocodiles and do crazy shit than no one else wanted to do.
I think that's where the snakes and spiders thing came from was from his show because maybe.
I watched the very first show that he had this weekend in preparation for this.
And he takes, he goes to the Komodo Islands in Indonesia.
And he's chasing around these Komodo dragons, which if
they're scary mother, those things like they, I think if they, they don't kill you straight away, but they'll inject you with a poison and then they'll come a couple of hours later and they know you're dead and I'll just get eight you
up.
I asked about Steve Irwin because like you said, he's crazy.
He's always using words like crikey.
Going back to the question about the crocodile Dundee you get crikey.
Do you get that kind of thing where they're they're imitating Steve Warren to you?
Someones they'll be like crocky or they'll say we make if that makes sense.
Yeah.
It's the people that talk to you about it, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
I knew that this was okay.
I've got two left.
Are we gonna
make it?
I was wondering are we okay right
now?
We're fine.
Okay.
This is the one that I think this is the one that can not confused you but you were really stuck on here last time It's a restaurant chain that was formed in Tampa, Florida But it's an American chain of Australian themed casual dining restaurants
here
in the
outback We know what's important in life Food
You feel the same way.
Get to Outback Steakhouse.
I got
a blooming good recipe for onion.
What is Outback Restaurant or Outback Steakhouse?
Outback Steakhouse, you're exactly
right.
I've never been.
I've never been.
And funnily enough, no one ever mentions that to me.
Okay.
Which is probably why it took me so long to kind of figure it all out.
The Blumen Onion.
Is that something that exists in Australia or is that just something stupid that we had over here?
I don't even know what that is.
So it's legitimately an onion that looks like it's blown up.
It's fried.
And then in the middle has a like a special sauce that you dip the pieces of the blooming onion in.
It tastes great.
Day one.
Day two, you probably didn't want to have that blooming onion.
Yeah, no, that doesn't sound too pleasant at all.
But no, I haven't had that nor have I. I don't think I've ever been to an outback steak house.
Interesting.
And you haven't been to an outback bowl because the last time.
The Outback Bowl that Iowa was at, they won over Mississippi State ranked 18th at the time in 2019.
So that was just before you joined the team, right?
Yeah, I got here in 2020.
Yeah.
Well, Outback Steakhouse, that one, you got that.
And it sounds like we're kind of back on an even keel here until I bring up this final item.
Associated with Australia, probably more than you want.
This item...
It is typically constructed as a flat airfoil that is designed to spin about an axis perpendicular to the direction of its flight.
It is the boomerang.
Okay, all right.
Now we can we can talk about the boomerang.
All right.
So that's actually something that's used by the indigenous people of Australia.
Okay.
I don't know whether it's like some sort of weapon or something like that, but I actually have tried to throw one one time and Yeah, it didn't come back to me.
What goes
supposed to
what goes farther you punting a football?
Are you throwing a boomerang?
Oh That's a good question.
I think I could throw now.
I could find a bull feather.
Okay So you're more dangerous punting the football than you would be with this boomerang Correct.
I agree How do you feel because we got through that that okay?
Yeah, I was look I was a touch nervous.
I Really thought
If it wasn't Crocodile Dundee, I thought the boomerang was probably going to get my head lopped off.
No,
we got very fine.
You mentioned this, and this is why we're doing this.
I mentioned those four items.
I mean, there's other things that come in.
There's actually a television show for young kids called Bluey that they're really into nowadays.
Is that
something that you... Yes.
Yes, it's funny I say that sorry because my mom...
Gave me all of these bloody bluey books.
Oh, no told me.
Oh, can you give him to this key King and I'm like mom Like their books like no no one reads books anymore.
Everyone goes on the iPad and watches bluey and all that stuff on the iPad, you know But yes, don't bright don't mention bluey.
It drives me nuts that thing I didn't even know what it was until mom gave me half a library worth of bluey books.
Wait a second.
That's what
That's what maybe that's
what's it.
Yeah.
That's what's going to tick you
off.
Yeah.
Sorry, Ray, the strength coach for us.
He, he's kids.
Yeah, loves Bluey because he was, he was telling me about it because I never knew.
He's like, oh, do you know about Bluey?
I'm like, no.
He's like, oh, my kids love this.
Just showing in shape.
I'm like, oh, nice.
Is there anything that I'm missing out on?
I mean, with these items here or anything else that we could turn things around and.
Be positive about the Marshall Exchange program here this week.
No, because I feel like we've really hit all the most important parts and what people need to know about Australia.
But I really like the idea of getting some fans to ask them some questions.
I really think that'll be interesting.
I don't want to make it all about football.
Let's talk about life in general and I want to learn a bit about them too.
So yeah, it can't all be about football.
So we're gonna do this a couple of different ways that you can submit your questions to Tori If you want to tag me at morning Marshall on Twitter easy to email me direct Brian at rock108.com
not not too many date football related questions that that'll get me in trouble
Tori, I know that this episode has My heart is starting to slow down just a little bit now
This didn't go as bad as I thought it was going to.
That's good.
Well, I guess I'll see you next week then.
That's positive.
That's absolutely right.
So next week, questions, fan questions for Tori, not all about football, but you can send those on over to us.
Anything else that you wanted to include for this episode of the jock to jock podcast?
Everyone just make sure I know it's kind of easy to jump off the bandwagon when things aren't going well.
So everyone just stick with us because
I know things aren't going the way they want to be at the moment, but it'll turn and get really looking forward to Santa Pact out of Kinect against Northwestern in a couple of weeks.
Absolutely.
And those t-shirts are still available.
Yeah, t-shirts still available.
We're nearly at the $50,000 mark, so everyone get out there and buy a t-shirt.
It's awesome.
Thanks
so
much, Katori.
Appreciate it, Brian.
Thank you.
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