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Jock 2 Jock · Sat Nov 19, 2022
Thanks for downloading this episode of the jock to jock podcast presented by rock 108 and sponsored by I'm on communications experience the I'm on difference.
I'm Brian Marshall.
I'll be joined by Tory Taylor.
Number nine, your punter for the Iowa football team next.
Welcome to the jock to jock podcast here on rock 108.com and wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm half of the conversation normally, but we've got a special guest who is joining us for this episode of jock to jock winding down in the football season.
Not only do we have Tori Taylor joining us, but Kate Savris from the Count the Kicks campaign.
Kate, welcome to the show.
Thank you so much.
Glad to be here.
So Kate, you're one of the five original founding moms of Healthy Birthday.
Can you talk a little bit about that for me?
Yeah, absolutely.
Healthy Birthday is our nonprofit organization.
Most people know us for our Count the Kicks campaign, which is a stillbirth prevention campaign that teaches expectant parents to track their baby's movements in the third trimester of pregnancy.
where the five of us are all from Des Moines.
We all lost our daughters in the early 2000s.
My daughter, Emma, was born with congenital heart defects, but the other four founders all had stillborn babies.
And we were told it was rare, barely ever happened, kind of like winning the lottery, which isn't a great equation, right?
But we started to talk about, is this really rare?
We started to look at the numbers and found that it's not rare at all.
And we wanted to do something about it.
When you guys founded the program and started getting out there, how hard was it to get the information out into the hands or into those that need it the most?
Like maybe something that you would have needed earlier on in your pregnancy.
Right.
Absolutely.
Well, you know, thinking back to we really launched our campaign.
about 2006, 2007 is when we first started to get the message out.
And we actually, I should back up, we learned about a study in Norway where they had tracked their, taught their expected parents to track their baby's movements in the third trimester.
And so this was research based, right?
It was simple.
It was easy.
It was free.
And we said, why don't
moms know about this.
This is easy.
It costs you money, right?
It's just learning to pay attention.
And so the five of us really thought that we could just do it on our own.
We thought, well, five moms, you know, we have powerful stories to tell, and we're going to just tell everyone.
Well, the forming of our nonprofit was an integral part of that.
We also had to find people who would help us tell our stories, help us educate moms.
One of the unique things that Hawkeye fans will appreciate is one of the first people to help us do that was Coach Farrance.
In 2006, he agreed to record a radio PSA for us and talked about, you know, just like on football.
every kit counts we keep track of the statistics and football and it's important to do that in pregnancy and you know really he said yes to five women that were really just getting started with our advocacy.
We were very much deep in our grief and him saying yes to us and agreeing to share our message was truly remarkable and something we are
Um, grateful for to this very day.
So it makes it even more special that, um, people like Tori are involved with us.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You mentioned he's here with us.
Tori Taylor, number nine, the punter for the Iowa football team.
Uh, Tori, how did you guys get connected up?
How did you guys find out about each other with a counter
kick?
Uh, so we'll at first started out in.
or what would have been a couple of weeks into the season last year, and Ray Gunn reached out to me and said, hey, we're thinking of doing some t-shirts.
Like, here's a couple of designs.
Do you like them?
And I said, oh, sorry.
Like, I'm not really interested.
I've never really been interested in the whole NIL stuff.
As I've kind of thought, it's always been a bit of a distraction.
And on top of the fact that being an international student, I've never really been, well, never been allowed to kind of participate in any of that NIL activity.
I was like, I'm not going to worry about it every time.
And I just said, oh, no.
And then I kind of got talking to them again.
And he kind of just floated the idea out.
He's like, well, would you be interested in sending it to charity?
And I said, oh, yeah, sure.
I said, oh, I'll be happy to send it to the hospital.
And if you can think of anything else, maybe something not quite as big as the hospital.
And he just, yeah, he mentioned that there was a campaign called Count the Kicks.
And I'd never heard of it before.
Having only been an offer about a year and probably had he never mentioned it I probably wouldn't have even found out about it again Even though coach friends has mentioned it a couple of times in team meetings Just the work that he's done and then yes, I'm middle of September and Mike just reached out said hey look we're gonna do the punting is winning t-shirt We'll send the money off to count the kicks and I just said oh, yeah, sure like sounds good and
This is no word of a lie.
I honestly thought like, you know, if we can sell like a few t-shirts and Like a couple hundred bucks here there or there like goes to counter kicks and like that's great.
That's awesome.
And then it was probably Was it the Thursday leading up to the Kent State game?
I made the announcement and my Twitter just went crazy like absolutely crazy probably craziest it's ever been and I think that really showed like how much of an impact will
It really just showed the support from our fans, just in general, not only towards me, but just the rest of the state of our and the Count and the Cooks organization.
And then that Thursday and Friday people were like, oh, I'm so excited.
Like, this is awesome.
Like, I can't wait to buy one.
I can't wait to buy one.
And then I would have been about after a month.
Like, I messaged Mark and said, like, hey, Mark, just out of curiosity.
Like how much money do you think you've raised?
And he's like, oh, we're still doing the calculations, but it looks like it's about eight or not $1,000 just within the first month and I was like, holy shit.
I was like that, like that is awesome.
And then I remember I would have been like December kind of months of season had finished.
I said, oh, how much money are we raising?
And he said about $13,000.
And I was like, holy shit, like that is absolutely incredible.
So from what I started off as like some that I thought like might make, you know, like
For five hundred dollars.
I was like, oh, like great.
Yeah, like the biggest thing to me was just like doing I didn't want anything to be a distraction to me But then kind of like learning more and more about the organization and just kind of realizing what everyone had been through I was like, you know, I like this is this is awesome.
And I think I said it in Like the big 10 network came out.
It's probably like the best thing that's happened to me like since I've been here like and I'm not just saying that because
Kate's on the on the lawn, but it really, it really has been unbelievable.
Kate, from your perspective and the organization's perspective, what does it mean to have Tori say, yeah, no, I'd like to do that.
Oh my goodness, you're not going to make me cry in front of Tori, are you?
Probably.
It's
okay.
It's okay.
You know, what's so remarkable about what he has done is that, you know,
in this space that we're in, right?
We, I lost my daughter 21 years ago, you know, nobody needs to care, right?
You know, we've very much gone on with our lives and had, you know, healthy children and lived productive lives.
And it, you know, I oftentimes, the five of us say to ourselves like, why?
Why do other people, why do we still matter?
Why did they still matter and why did they matter to people who never met them or didn't even know us?
And so it's really hard for me to really put into words what that's like to see a young person, a young man, these athletes and we can tell you about.
all kinds of other athletes who are following in Tori's shoes to take on a cause that they don't have to.
They just, I guess that's as simple as I can say, they don't have to do it.
There's so many things that they have to do and so many things that, you know, so many great organizations out there.
Think of the time that these athletes are putting in during the day to all of the work they do to entertain us on
you know, a football field, right?
So the fact that Tori was willing to say sure, and every time I text him with something, it's sure.
Now, I might get a little bit of shit in the process, Tori.
A little, a few, you know, we have that kind of relationship now.
So if your listeners have listened to Tori long enough that that won't surprise you, right?
Yeah and
I think sorry like on that Brian um and to the people listening like a lot of people like might think that like oh like Tori's like oh he's doing like this great thing for those ladies in the organization but like I actually like really enjoy it like I honestly like love it because there's I don't think there's like any greater feeling in life is like when and it's funny like I was talking to um a guy there that like Aaron Cameron who used to play that iron
he was just kind of talking about we were just talking about like how can you like add something to the world you know like there's there's so many like guys out there like there's all these athletes and whatnot like you look at all these guys it's like yeah like earning that tens of millions of dollars which is like great for them but it's like what are you actually like giving like to the world and the biggest thing for me was that how like Kate and like the rest of the ladies and all those families like how they not like
Been through through any of that.
I don't think it would be as important to me if that kind does that kind of like make sense I've had none of them like lost a child or anything like that and we're just like doing this for the Connors of their high kind of I Don't want to like sound negative by saying that but does that kind of make sense that like when Someone's been through like so much hardship.
It's like
Like I know Kate and the ladies think oh like this is awesome what Tori's doing but like I actually enjoy it just as much and like Kate was texting me last night saying hey like I've got some county kick stuff like and as you can tell like see I'm running I literally that's all I wear because I really really enjoy it and people always ask like I haven't got a massage before and one of the ladies like wow I love your county kick stuff so like
I personally actually enjoy it just as much, which I think is awesome.
And money to the side, it's been fun for me too.
And I know my parents who really enjoyed it too.
That was one of the things I was going to ask.
Kate, you got a chance to meet Tori's family when they were here in Iowa, right?
I
sure did.
I did.
Yes, that was...
Yeah, they hated Kate, but
that's all right.
I was going to ask what the conversation was like between you and his parents and how you put over Tori.
I mean, I have to imagine that that, I mean, they understand he's a great, he can kick the ball far, but to tell them about what he's done for your organization.
Oh my goodness.
You know, it's funny because I actually first kind of met them virtually because we had an event that Tori was going to speak at and this summer.
And so I, his mom's
face popped up on you know my suggestions on Facebook and I thought oh I should reach out and like tell her how much this is meant to us you know and but then you know you're like oh I don't think this is weird like who is this person yeah
and tell and tell them what it's led to there's a cutout of my mom in Kate's kitchen
you want me to go get that
no I don't
Isn't that unbelievable?
Anyway, okay.
Sorry.
I thought I just had to put that in there.
Continue the story.
Oh, so yeah.
So I reached out.
I really just wanted to introduce myself.
Say hi.
And I mean, really long story short.
I mean, I have a ticket.
My whole family is going to Melbourne in March
and
staying with the tailors.
They are, I mean, the most incredible people.
We had the best month while they were here.
They became like family and we have really fun text conversations every night.
I mean, yeah, I feel like I've known them forever and Tori got into more than he really bargained for.
You know, he's got all these extra Iowa moms now and then he's got this whole family, you know, like.
If you provide him Australian chocolate, he will, he will, he'll gravitate towards you.
Oh,
oh,
absolutely.
Absolutely.
I had all kinds of Australian goodies that they brought us back.
So wait, you're one of the few that have been able to sample some of the Australian chocolate in Tori's stash?
Oh, not in Tori's stash.
Okay.
I brought it to
me before because no, no, no, I Tori, I got.
I got Australian chocolate, I think, before even you.
And Dutchie brought me some, too.
His friends brought me chocolate over.
I mean, I've got a straight line to the Taylor family.
I'm
one of the
many beautiful things that have come out of this relationship, for sure.
If I'm to give you a pro tip that I've learned from the Marshall Exchange program, which is a segment that we do on the podcast between Tory and I, and I learn about if I'm to go to Australia, things that I should know.
Maybe not necessarily as a tourist, but definitely just make myself so I don't stand out as much.
Do you have young kids?
No, my youngest is 16.
So the good news is, is that you won't have to watch Bluey.
That would really tick off Tori.
I can take it.
Yeah, anyway.
God.
Bluey, huh?
Bluey.
It's really fun to tick off Tori if you haven't figured that out yet.
It's one of my favorite things.
Um, I met Tori.
We went out for lunch.
It was kind of a show meeting with him and Connor McCaffrey for this jock to jock podcast.
Personally, I don't want to take him off because I'm smaller than he is.
And I stand, you know, six foot, six foot one.
But when I was with him, Connor and, uh, one of the other guys who used to play Iowa basketball, I felt like the little kid.
So I'm not, I'm not ticking off Tori.
He'd take me out.
Um,
With the money that Tori has helped to raise through the punting is winning t-shirts, do you have a total in mind right now?
Do you have any ideas of what we're looking at for 2022 so far?
Yeah, so while Tori's done a couple of things for us, you know, the punting is winning shirts and then Reagan had the I cheer for the punter shirts, which also benefited us.
And between that and then also, I don't know if he shared what he's doing with every kit counts, but
that he's got pledges from Hawkeye fans and who are pledged for every punt that he makes donating to his campaign.
So between all of those things, he has raised, I mean, I need a final total here, but I'm sure it's not over.
So I can't say final, but he has raised nearly $50,000.
Wow.
Yeah.
And that, like, it's, yeah, it's just interesting listening to Kate say that because that was the goal.
December 31st like before we play the bowl game was like I really wanted to make sure that we got to $50,000 because Yeah, it's pretty pretty remarkable number.
So yeah, I mean, I'll have to reach out to Mike and I'm from Reagan until the phone number is but I know like my every kid counts campaign That's it about I think just over $23,000 and that's guys like
Some guys have made like massive contributions like Spencer Patrice made a $6,000 contribution.
Wow.
Estelle has made a couple thousand dollars contribution.
And then it's just, it's really just people here or there, you know what I mean?
Whether it's just donating a couple of dollars or like a dollar a point or something like that.
And the beauty about being at our is we pun a lot.
So every, every time I'm out there punting.
Yeah, money's going to a good cause.
Although money will be good for the team, it's good to count the case.
And that money that he's helped to raise on your side of things, Kate, how does that help out the mothers that you're working with?
What do you guys use that money for?
Oh, you know, education.
Every time, you know, the beauty in all of this is that both the
every time we do a podcast like this or you know have an article or anything anyone watches that funding is winning shirt right we're raising awareness for count the kicks somebody asks what that is and we can direct them to our resources and then obviously you know the funding goes to educating parents all over the world about the importance of tracking their baby's movements it helps us support our app which we is
free in all of our app stores.
So we want to keep that free so that parents have that access, that there aren't any barriers.
You know, we have to educate a new segment of the population every day because every day there are new moms entering that third trimester that need to know about pound the kicks.
So our work is never ever done.
What Tori's done is twofold, not only just in raising money, but the awareness it's created is
beyond our wildest dreams to be honest with you.
That's probably been the most important thing for me is that just being able to like use the platform as a student athlete to create awareness.
It's like to me it's never really been about the money or anything like that because that stuff kind of just takes care of itself and yeah it's great that people are kind of like going and buying a t-shirt because the money's going on a good cause but kind of like what Kate said when you when you're buying the t-shirt
and it's like when you see like oh punting is winning it's like people know that like okay like that's going to count the kicks and then not every person's going like oh what's count the kicks but then you know there's always that odd person that might need it that goes you know what i'm just gonna um search what this is about and i think like the the biggest moment for me is like not only like helping the the ladies and and the families as well um because i know like the families are the face of the organization but it's also the families too
and like even like meeting like little lamb last year was like a cool thing for me because it's like because you say so many like charities and things like that you're like oh like where is this money going like yeah it's going to like research and and all that like seeing like firsthand like oh like this is this is what it's doing is awesome
it's my uh it's my hockey shirt that i'm wearing this year i'm wearing it right now where we're doing this yeah
i appreciate it
Kate, to raise the awareness and the education one more time, please provide the website where we can find the app for those that need it and kind of take it from there.
Yeah, countthekicks.org is our website for that information for expecting parents.
You
can also download our free app.
in the apps, all the app stores count the kicks.
And then if you want to support Tori's campaign or every kick counts campaign, you can go to everykickcounts.com or you can go straight to his page, which is bit.ly forward slash Tori Taylor.
Awesome.
Now, normally I would separate, but because I know that the two of you
have this working relationship that you've had for over the time.
Normally I'd say, I know you're busy and you want to take on, but I'm going to invite you to stick around if you want to stick around for the remainder of the podcast.
Oh, I think I want to do that.
Tori may want me off there, but this could get entertaining.
Oh, that's fine though.
All right.
So Tori, let's get to it.
The Wisconsin game, it's cold.
There's a light snow falling.
There's a Brian Marshall sitting in the stands, freezing his ass off.
I'm running the stairs back and forth to the bathroom.
How does Tori Taylor stay warm on the sideline during the Wisconsin game?
Oh, oh wait, I have something before you even talk.
See the eye roll?
Yeah.
Tori, the Taylor's cannot handle the cold.
Let me just say the men in the Taylor family cannot handle the
cold.
Oh, shut up, would you?
Enough.
Patty, kick her out, Bron.
Oh, I got to kick her out now.
So I want to see how he answers this.
His dad was frozen at a high school football game and we all just laughed.
All the women just laughed and said, hmm, and then I realized it's it's the men in the Taylor family.
They can't take it, but we'll see how Tory answers this question.
Okay.
Well in fairness to my dad he goes swimming every morning in the winter so I wouldn't say he's the soft one But it wouldn't surprise me if it was only wearing a t-shirt and jeans when it's 40 degrees outside Yeah, and flip flop so maybe that's the reason he was cold but to answer your question more directly Brian, and I'm sorry that Kate interrupted It was yeah, it was a little bit chilly probably the first cold game like really cold game we've had for the year
It's yeah, it's actually pretty warm on the benches like once those kind of things get fired up You're actually very very warm and sometimes it gets too hot I'm sitting on there for too long.
So it was fine, but I was out there I was out there a fair bit last week.
What was it my not ten times?
Yeah So yeah, it's it's pretty easy to stay warm On the sidelines, especially with all the benches and that going so didn't have too many problems.
It was certainly cold
Um, in the warm up and all that, but yeah, once the game gets going and the bench is a fought up, you're all good.
When you say benches are fired up, it's, it's a heated bench with hot air blowing on you too.
Yes.
Yeah.
Everything.
Yeah.
Probably the warmest place in our year.
You're not messing around on that.
Yeah.
When the, uh, started to kind of fall and I think he came out for one of the punts, like I kind of looked, I looked down to see what the flags were doing on the goal posts and I said, okay, well.
That ball could either be a rock or, or what's he going to do?
And you nailed it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was not too bad.
The ball, um, the ball doesn't travel as far in the cold, which is frustrating, but not much you can really do about that.
When you're out there on the field and Wisconsin, they were a tough team offense.
Like you said, you punted quite a few times.
What was your takeaway from the game?
Not just a W. I mean, and I mean a win in this case.
But to be able to face that team and overcome after so many years of having the Heartland trophy somewhere else.
Yeah, I mean, it was kind of a, it was a really, really strange game.
Like both offenses weren't really playing that well at all.
And then Coop had the pick six for a touchdown.
And yeah, we, we blocked a punt early in the game too.
So those were two probably contributing factors.
But to answer your question, it was just a really, really bizarre game.
Yeah, it was what what do we got 14-0 and then they scored a touchdown with a minute and a half to go and I was like, oh, that's not good.
You kind of probably think that we were almost down.
I started as 14-10 because they kicked the field goal.
You'd almost think we were down by a couple of touchdowns with that late touchdown that they scored.
But yeah, just really, really important win for us moving forward.
So, Kate, I guess I'll direct this question to you because both you and I have watched it as fans there at Kinnock.
When we see them coming down the tunnel as the swarm to back in black and then come out to enter Sandman, pretty powerful when you're inside the stadium itself, right?
Oh my gosh, incredibly powerful.
I get chills just thinking about it.
Yep, amazing.
I get a little bit of a tear in my eye when the team comes out like that.
Tori, can you walk us through what it's like being a player coming in as the swarm?
And feeling the stadium as you're coming down the tunnel, what's that like?
I mean, it's it's a strange feeling like it's obviously you get goosebumps and all that and it's pretty energetic.
But this is going to be probably a pretty funny response.
But so when we leave to go back into the locker room, what is it, 25 minutes or so before the game?
There's not many people in the stands.
And I'm always thinking like, oh.
Like I hope it's a full stadium like I hope it's at full capacity today because like it's really important blah blah like there doesn't seem to be that many people right now and then Especially the Northwest and game a couple weeks ago because you always like all I fans always show up and then it's like Northwest and we lost a few games and It's like all they're gonna show up today And then yeah, you walk into the locker room There's not many people there and then when you walk down the race and you kind of just see everyone
You just like, oh, holy shit.
Like, yeah, this is going to be fun.
And it's just a really, really bizarre feeling.
Yeah, really fortunate enough to be a part of it, really.
Have you ever been asked or would you ever take one of the front rows of the swarm heading on out just because of your position or would you just rather be in the back?
No, so it's seniors at the front.
Yeah, I just kind of just make my way down there and we kind of have to wait a minute or two.
And then once they give us the old clear to go out there, we'll
hold hands and run out there.
So I'm usually in different parts of the swarm each week.
I got you.
That was my next question is like, who do you link up with?
You know, who do you?
Oh, whoever's
there, honestly.
I'm no superstitious person about any of that.
One of the coolest things that I got to watch being there with his family is, you know, you and I can talk about getting goosebumps, right?
But imagine like never having the opportunity to watch your son play and getting that after two years, right?
So.
to be there with the tailors and to watch his little brother Ashton, that swarm.
I tell you, that is a memory that will stick with me forever.
It was the neatest thing.
And I just wish I tried to take, they're probably tired of me taking so many videos, but I tried to take videos so that I could see it because it was just like, I almost felt guilty experiencing that with them because it was just, it was so neat, so neat.
At the end of the Wisconsin game, Tori, did you help lift the Heartland trophy?
72 pounds?
No, I didn't.
I didn't realize it was that heavy.
But me and Ryan Gussande lifted the Nebraska game.
What is it?
The Hero's Trophy last year, and we copped so much for it because people were like, yeah, can we let the two punters take the bloody trophy?
Blah, blah, blah.
So yeah, never done that again.
So
this week it's Minnesota, and there's another trophy up for grabs on that one too.
Minnesota's playing teams tough this year.
What do you think?
Oh, I mean, first and foremost, I mean, you kind of hit hit the nail on the head really, just another tough team.
But I mean, you're playing big 10 football in November.
So every team you play is going to be tough.
And they go on both sides of the ball on special teams as well.
I know from a special teams point of view, they really clean things up the last couple of years.
A couple of years ago, they were kind of all over the place.
But now you don't really know like what to expect, but they've just really simplified a lot of things.
And I think that's really benefited them.
Um, a lot, but yeah, they've, um, they've made pretty light work of some, um, pretty decent teams this year.
So yeah, it's certainly going to be a challenge.
You got a friend on the special team side of Minnesota.
I do.
Yeah.
Well, one of my, um, good mates, Mark, yeah, he's the punter for Minnesota.
So yeah, probably the gap, the one game we'll look forward to the most each year.
Um, cause I get to see him.
He's, yeah, he's one of my good buddies and we're trying to get a buck home in Australia and each one Perth Australia.
So here we come and stay at my house, um, quite regularly too.
So.
Yeah, really, really nostred.
And Brian Mark's raising money for Count the Kicks as well.
Isn't that cool?
They're both teamed up this week.
So they're both supporting us.
And that would kind of lead to one of the other questions that I didn't get a chance to ask earlier.
So Count the Kicks, that's a national campaign, correct?
Correct.
Yeah.
So then there's a lot of different individuals, Tori, not not being the only one, but you mentioned Mark is also doing it too.
Anybody else in the Big Ten that's helping out right now?
I think those are
Big 10, we actually have the greatest participation, numbers-wise, our high school athletes.
Actually, we've got over 100 high school athletes all over the country.
And then we have a couple of NFL players as well.
Are you ready to switch over to the Marshall Exchange program?
I've got some more Australian news stories this week, Tori.
Yeah, show whatever, just follow them
away.
I'll start here.
A Sydney restaurant owner says that she's received several death threats earlier this year.
Why in the world would she receive death threats at all?
What do you think, Tori?
I mean, she's in Sydney.
You said that Sydney is a little tough.
There are a bunch of snobs in Sydney, so it wouldn't surprise me.
I don't know.
What did she do?
So she's
pretty extreme.
It is.
She's using a robot waitress amid pandemic staff shortages.
The Matterhorn is a Swiss restaurant on Sydney's North Shore.
She recently spent
28,000 Australian on a high-tech robot waitress to help carry plates and take customer orders.
Robot named Bella also sings happy birthday to customers as singing in indoor restaurants is currently not permitted in the state under COVID regulations.
You know what's crazy?
If we were talking about this in 20 years times, I feel like it'd be a little bit of normality, you know what I
mean?
Right.
I feel like that's the way the world's going to be.
So, yeah, death threats is a
Quite the extremity, but
the death threats came from an email insinuating that the restaurant was quote part of the right wing Perfecture that was facilitating robots taking over the world So it's Kate you heard it in 20 years time Tori wants robots to take over the world
Excellent.
I believe it
I'm not saying that but I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised if it happened
Oh,
that would that would be a bad thing for Tori.
Yeah
because I've watched some of the special robots that they put together to punt the football and that the robot can bring its leg all the way up back here that Tori cannot do.
He can't do that.
Definitely not.
No.
The other story, this one, Kate, I know this is the first episode that you've done of the jock to jock podcast.
So I have to apologize for some of the content that comes.
Oh, don't apologize.
All good.
I'm going to tell you, my husband would be
fortified that I am on that I am not eligible for a podcast titled jock to jock.
I can tell you that I, my athletic ability is zero.
So it's pretty funny, but
the only reason I'm on jock to jock is because I'm a disc jockey.
So I don't have the athletic ability either.
So Tori, the second story today.
An Australian woman's trip to a beach led to a bizarre discovery which she shared in a series of now viral videos on TikTok.
She was in North Queensland's Magnetic Island.
Do you know where that's at at all?
Well, it's in North Queensland.
I mean, that's a good guess, I guess.
I actually don't.
I don't think I've ever heard of it.
What were they finding?
So the warm crystal clear waters and the long beautiful beaches she says in the video, it's massive.
Look!
And she puts her...
Foot next to the item for scale.
The video triggered hundreds of responses from people who became invested in the discovery.
Kate said you wanted to participate.
What do you think this woman found on this beach in Australia?
I mean, it has to be some kind of animal, right?
Right.
Yep.
You're on the right track.
OK.
Massive.
I don't know.
Don't they only have kangaroos in Australia?
Isn't that it, Tori?
Oh, shut up, would you?
Spiders?
Oh, a spider.
I'm going to go with spider.
How about
that?
I'm going to go with spider, Tori.
She's right along the lines of it being related to an animal in some way, shape, or form.
Stingray, is it?
It does come from the water, I will just tell you now.
Many have concluded that while it looked like an octopus's tail, they concluded that the strange object found on Queensland's beach was that of a whale's penis.
Oh, my God.
People were mocking this on TikTok.
One person, quote, was saying, Willie lost his Willie.
And another person for a while.
It's even worse.
Somebody else also said he's just called Moby now.
But in this case, they say that sometimes whales, when they fight, may or may not try to bite each other.
And this could have been a product of that.
Oh, God.
So while there's no snakes and spiders in Australia, there's a pretty good chance that if I go swim in the water, your father, you should probably warn your father to stay away from whales so they don't bite him.
Yes.
They're running in their
whale dicks.
They're called dorks.
Did you
know
that?
Dorks.
There you go.
No, I didn't know that.
I don't really spend too much time.
educating myself on mammal penises, but that's okay.
I think that's a quote from the episode.
Tori Taylor not counting the kicks, but not educating himself on will.
Well, you know, you can go from the remainder of the rhyme there.
Yeah, that's what I got for the Marshall Exchange program.
I found those two stories and I go, this one's perfect for Tori this week.
Yes.
Yes.
Not realizing that we'd have somebody from a wonderful organization.
The rest of the organization is going to listen and go, I'm sorry, you did what now?
What have I done?
All media
is good media, I guess, right?
We'll take it.
What have I done, Tori?
Tori and Kate, Kate, one more time.
Can you please give the websites and where people can find Count the Kicks?
Yes, countthekicks.org is where you can find information about our silver prevention campaign, Count the Kicks.
You can download our free Count the Kicks app on the app store.
So expect the parents in the third trimester should go there.
And if you would like to support Tori's Every Kit Counts campaign, you can visit everykitcounts.com or you can go directly to his page at bit.
dot lee forward slash tori taylor
tori anything else you'd like to add to the audience going into the Minnesota game kind
of like always we're really excited for the opportunity and yeah this agent's still alive and yeah there's a lot that's going to happen i think
also got that Nebraska game where you got to beat them up at the end of the year you know that right absolutely yeah so i can carry the trophy off
I will include this little bit as we wrap up our program.
The views that were expressed and some of the stories that were told in this program do not necessarily represent Kate Saffris and the Count the Kicks program or Tory Taylor and his involvement in the jock to jock podcast.
Well, I know, like me and Kate didn't mention it.
You did.
So it's all on you, Bron.
Yeah, that's okay.
You guys, I appreciate you guys spending time with us.
Kate, thanks for hanging out.
Oh, thanks for having me.
Enjoyed
it.
Appreciate it.
As always, Bron.
Thank you.
Thanks for listening to this episode of the jock to jock podcast presented by rock 108 and sponsored by I'm on communications experience the I'm on difference
