Jock 2 Jock featuring Tory Taylor - "Middle Fingers & Beautiful Beaches"

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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.

Returning for the jock to jock podcast here on rock little eight with our featured guest, Iowa punter, Tory Taylor is another week, Tory.

We're back at it once again.

No, as always, Brian, it's a pleasure.

Thank you again.

And I look forward to it.

You just tell me that.

Or do you really look forward to this?

No, I really do.

Honestly.

No, no word of a lie.

You can, you can turn, you can turn the recording off and no one else needs to know that.

But honestly,

but I won't.

I mean,

Nice to hear.

Michigan game a little bit tough, wasn't

it?

Yeah, it was.

I don't want to say too much about what went on in a public setting, but if it was you and I having a conversation, I'm sure that we would probably come to some sort of agreement as to how the game was handled by a particular people.

But yeah, it was a little bit frustrating because I thought we played pretty well, to tell you the truth.

Yeah, obviously we made mistakes and so did they and they just really played better than us on the day and good luck to them for the rest of the year.

One of the last things you said in the last episode was that you really didn't like Michigan and I could kind of see that in how you got out there and just got after it.

Was I reading that right?

Yeah, I just I don't really like the way that they go about things.

Not in a disrespectful manner of it.

you know, they think it doesn't stink.

Yeah, I mean, for a team that's got all that's so much talent, I don't want to go into too much detail because I might get in a little bit of trouble.

But yeah, I feel like people can probably have their own opinions that will probably be quite similar to mine.

Read between the lines as it were, right?

Yes.

Question for you.

I think about this every once in a while.

I mean, the middle finger here in the United States obviously means something.

Yeah, so I've heard.

Does Australia have a hand signal that is

equipped?

Yeah, the middle finger, but no one gets his butt heard about it back home as they do here.

Right.

Yeah.

I didn't know if anybody else, because I've heard like the OK symbol is bad news in some places, but I didn't know if you guys had anything else.

No.

Yeah, I don't really want to go into detail as to how I found out that the rude finger was a little bit rude.

because, yeah, people might paint or have a different image about me, but, yeah, I found out the hard way, but that's okay.

We can blame it on your brother.

Yeah, yeah, we will.

No, I really didn't know it was that bad until late November last year, but let's just say these people deserve that.

Like you said, read between the lines and you can probably figure out who we were playing.

Tori, you play off that you're so innocent.

in this whole whole aspect of this jock to jock podcast but what i think as soon as the red light goes off that maybe there's a little bit uh a little bit of a devil in you

i wouldn't go that far but but i think the thing is is if people are gonna have a gore at me and my teammates yeah out on the field but that's when i'll walk to return serve that makes sense

yeah sure does all right yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna leave that alone because i don't want you to return serve for me

If that's a fair statement.

Your family, we were just talking before we started recording that they had to go back home, which is obviously tough.

How was your visit?

I mean, they got to see a couple of games with you playing, got to see a win.

That has to feel pretty good.

Well, Braun, I hate to tell you they really never saw a win because we lost against Iowa State.

Nevada was canceled.

a little bit after half time.

So they never really saw me win the game, which was a little upsetting and frustrating.

But apart from that, they just had the best time ever.

Yeah, just loved attending the games.

My brother was, yeah, he was stunned to become pretty popular and so are my parents.

But yeah, they just loved it.

They honestly had a blast.

I mean, it's so hard not to have a good time here in Iowa.

The people, just the atmosphere that everyone

gives on a, on a Saturday at home games is unbelievable.

So yeah, just a big thanks to everyone out there that kind of just made their trip worthwhile.

Really.

Your younger brother, is he already going to start talking to pro kick and get in there as quickly as possible?

Maybe in a few years.

Yeah.

He's still got a few years before he worries starts worrying about

that.

Did you ever take that up with him?

Because I know as the older brother, you've got to, you know, set him straight.

You said it a couple of years, but I feel like you need to do it while you're still face to face with him.

No, so I saw him, well, I've seen him a few times and we've been pulling the ball around a bit and he says, oh, um, oh, what should I do here?

I need some help.

And I said, we are apparently already no more than me chance to figure it out yourself.

A little smart ass.

That's right.

Illinois is upcoming.

Brett Bielum, a former member of the, uh, of the Iowa staff has the tiger hawk on his leg, but Illinois is a little bit different team than they have been over the last few years.

How do you feel about them?

Yeah, I would agree.

Probably from a special teams point of view, they got two new specialists.

So it's kind of hard to understand what they're all about, only just a few games in.

But I mean, Illinois, they probably really surprised a few.

I mean, they kind of went to Wisconsin and I wouldn't say it was easy work out there because no games easy, but they kind of made it look easy from what I've seen.

We were seeing up on the scoreboard during the game and I was like, holy shit, Illinois has been Wisconsin by that much.

Wasn't

as if they won by like a field goal or a touchdown or something was a very like extremely convincing victory But yeah, I mean they're obviously gonna bring a few headaches But I'm sure just gonna be about whether are we ready for them and like I said at the start of the podcast I feel like we've made a there was a lot of growth over the weekend and I know we did win But you could really tell that we started taking some shots and the offense did really well defense was solid again.

I know they gave up

Um, quite a few points, but that's going to happen.

You plan to, um, highly ranked team and, um, hard powered offense by Michigan.

So we always knew that that wasn't going to be easy.

Yeah.

In terms of Illinois, I know that, yeah, like I said, they're going to bring a few problems and headaches, but you're just going to be about who wants it the most come Saturday evening.

Speaking of, you know, the national broadcast, um, boy, they really, they really talk you up on the national.

And I don't know if that means anything to you or not, but they,

They really sing your praises whenever you get out there on the field.

You know that?

I kind of do because I get tagged in a few tweets.

There's a couple of our pages that kind of, I think, what was it last week?

They were talking about my bloody hair or something.

I'm like, well, that's when, you know, the game is getting boring if you talk about my hair.

But yeah, no, I'm a little bit aware, but I try to say no, he probably isn't the word I want to use.

But

because in the past I've kind of been a little bit naive and just tried to ignore it, but this year I've kind of been trying to embrace it, just kind of and use it.

But I feel like when you start really buying into that stuff and you start believing your own heart, that's when you're a dead man walking.

So yeah, I appreciate all that, but that's not going to help me punt the football, is it?

How hard is it to avoid that?

Because there's a lot of people talking, not just about you, but the Iowa team.

And there's been quite a bit of negativity as you kind of

Hinted at here just a little bit early in the episode.

Oh I don't unless I'm really like friends of them or I know them personally They can really say whatever they want and it's really not gonna affect me too much some guys take things differently but If there's one thing I've learned since being here you just honestly you cannot buy in or believe anything you see on social media because at the end of the day that is one person's opinion and you see like it's crazy you see all these

preseason like expert predict predictions.

Yeah.

And it's like expert like how many downs of football have they played?

It's just some general opinion.

You know what I mean?

As bad and I don't really don't mean that in a respectful way, but it's literally one person's opinion.

I am Michigan.

Yeah, they're going to be finished ranked sixth.

Well, yeah, that's what you think that nobody knows.

Like nobody knows, but nobody can predict the future.

And I think one thing is that people try and buy into that far too much.

Um, but I get over the offseason.

That's like, that's all people can talk about.

It's like, oh, how's I, we're going to go this year?

Are they going to win five games?

Are they going to win 10 games?

Are they going to go back to India?

Like what bowl game are they going to be playing in?

Um, but yeah, I mean, I, I see it, but I don't really like worry about it because you can't, I mean, who knows what, where we're going to be.

We might win out from here or we might win one game.

Like you don't, you really don't know.

You're going to just try your damnedest to win out is, is what you're going

to do.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Exactly

spot on.

I got you.

I don't know if you caught the Monday night football game at all But someone decides at one point to run out on the field with some pink smoke And one of the LA Rams players decides to smoke the person that runs out on the field

I didn't see that live because finally enough.

I was asleep at 8 o'clock last night.

Yeah But I saw it this morning.

Yeah, that's pretty funny.

It was a Bobby Wagner just kind of bumped him over really it's quite

Quite amazing.

I thought it was hilarious because he comes around and one of the teammates like two steps and he's on him right away.

Well, then wagons just turns him.

Bam.

Just knocks

him over.

Oh, no.

And it looks like he put a he put a little stank on it for a reason.

Have you ever had to deal with either Aussie Rollsfoot or somebody running around on the field, you know, during

the game?

No.

But I'll give you some homework.

A gentleman by the name of Andrew Simons, he's actually dead now.

He died, I think, last year or was, I believe.

He was a famous cricketer back home in Australia.

Same thing happened.

Someone ran onto the cricket field and Andrew Simons just absolutely smashed him over.

It was hilarious.

It's a very, very similar thing.

Is cricket, and just playing off of what you just said, is cricket a difficult game to understand?

No, but you know what I find amusing, and I actually found this out two weeks ago.

Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world, but no one here seems to understand what it's all about.

Or is it like baseball?

You just hit it and run, and I'm like, well, yeah, you hit it and run, but it's nothing like baseball whatsoever.

Right.

But you seem to have a pretty good understanding of it.

I wish I did.

I mean, they have a, there's a cricket.

Is it a field or is it a pitch?

Sorry, it's a pitch.

Okay.

But I, I was going to say cricket pitch, but I said cricket field because I thought, you know, the listeners might get a greater understanding even though I would normally say cricket pitch.

If I was to say soccer around here, obviously people pick up on that, but it's football everywhere else in the world.

Correct?

Correct.

Yeah.

It's soccer in Australia.

So back to this, somebody gets out on the field.

They're running past you.

You're gonna trip them?

What are you gonna do?

You're gonna leave your feet out of it.

I bet that's what it

is.

Um, I probably wouldn't really just do anything apart from just kind of sit there and wait for things to happen.

Okay.

Yeah, because normally when when back home in Australia, when people run onto the field, they're actually doing it naked.

Oh.

Yeah, we call it striking.

Yes.

That we guys call it here.

Yeah, we call it streaking.

Not something you want to really pay attention to especially well, I guess out there.

They're they're a little bit more trim.

Maybe.

Yeah.

Possibly.

I try not to pay too much attention to it, you know.

Yeah.

So Tory Taylor not paying attention to the streakers that go out on the pitch.

So and I know we are getting to this fairly quickly in this, but I wanted to get to it because it was something that you seemed really excited about in the Marshall exchange program this week.

We're talking about beaches in Australia.

And you told me to look up Frankston Beach, which is off of Port Phillip.

Looks like on the eastern side of it, just south of the downtown Melbourne.

Looks

like

a beautiful place.

Please tell me more.

So that beach is about a, let's say five to 10 minute walk from my house.

So I think it's the second most popular beach in Victoria, I believe.

So everyone kind of east of there.

There's no beaches for people to go to, so everyone basically comes to Frankston Beach.

Okay.

It's one of the more popular beaches, and it's never really rough because it's on the bay.

There's cafes nearby, like restaurants.

There's a shopping center nearby, so that's probably why it's so popular.

How close are the 7-Elevens?

Actually, you probably have to walk about a 20-minute walk.

Oh, man.

How

are you going to get

coffee then?

I know.

I didn't really think of that when I told you about Frankston Beach.

There's a couple others that came up in my research and just tell me if any of these are ones that you know St.

Kilda Beach

St.

Kilda is the most popular beach in Victoria.

Okay, that's up that's up towards the city basically is the city

Brighton Beach is the one I've heard of before

Yeah, bright so Brighton Beach is really nice beach.

It's Brighton is more one of the more rich towns like everyone comes like oh, you're from Brighton.

Are you?

You know what I mean?

Yeah, kind of a little bit of a posh atmosphere to it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So there's a bit of money floating around Brighton.

So you mentioned that your father likes to go out swimming in the morning before he heads out to work.

What else is there to do surfing very popular?

Is that more seaside

surfing?

So you can surf more down south because it's ocean.

So there's there's some you can get some big swells down there, some big waves as well down there.

But in terms of the beach, I go to

I'll just really go there to relax.

So if you're to rank them, you said Frankston's your number one, though.

Well, no, funnily enough, I don't go to any of those beaches.

I go to a place called Canadian Bay Beach, which is about a five-minute drive south of my house, whereas Frankston's five minutes north.

So Canadian Bay Beach is a bit quieter.

It's more like a family beach.

Whereas everyone from Frankston, that's where all the young folks kind of go and just run them up.

And it's a pretty big beach, too, as

I could see.

So the beach is pretty much run up the whole of the coast and all the way around.

So you can really go wherever you want to tell the truth.

So you prefer ocean or you prefer the one that's on the bay there?

I prefer the bay just because it's not as rough.

That and yeah, who knows what's out in the ocean.

Well, I see what it's out in the ocean and it's not far from you and we don't talk about it or haven't talked about it.

How's Tasmania?

So Tasmania, I've been there a couple of times.

It's a little bit colder.

Probably the coldest part of Australia because it's so far down south.

But it's nice, it's really nice.

Everyone there in Tasmania are just really, really nice people.

Yeah, there's a lot of sites to go to, wineries and things like that.

Yeah, just a really nice part of the world.

A lot of my grandma's family is from there.

Is that by ferry or do you take a plane to get to?

You can do either.

So I've got a plane before and I've got the ferry a couple of times as well.

Tasmania is a part of Australia.

It's its own, is it province?

Yeah, it's just

its own little island, really, its own state.

Why did the Looney Tunes have something called the Tasmanian Devil?

Does that thing even exist?

I don't,

it used to.

I've actually, I've got a, well, I used to have a Tasmanian Devil work plush toy.

Oh, really?

Growing up, yeah, I used to like the Tassie Devil.

He was my favorite character on many turns.

But yeah, I'm not too sure.

I know that used to exist.

It was nothing like the character.

So the next episode of Marshall's Exchange Program, what I thought, Tori, I would present to you are three to four items that are stereotypically associated with Australia by Americans.

And I think that you can think of two of them are individuals.

One is an object and one is a restaurant.

And I'm wondering if these items will...

No, no, no.

I don't know.

Okay.

Object.

So one is an object, one is a restaurant.

You've

got two that are people.

One's a fictional person.

One was a real person.

A fictional person.

Yeah, a fictional person.

Usually associated with Australia.

See, we're going to get the audience thinking too.

Another is an object.

You've really got me thinking now.

Usually snakes, spiders, a lot of dumb shit that people ask me.

And

restaurants are restaurants?

There is a restaurant that's in the States that's immediately associated with Australia.

And I wanted to ask you about it because the spots.

Is it a popular food chain?

Yep.

And I'll even give you a hint.

The Hawkeye team has played a bowl sponsored by that popular restaurant chain a few times.

Yeah, I don't know.

That's fine.

That's fine.

I played in the citrus bowl and that's it.

Um, I know there's like the Chick-fil-A bowl.

Yeah, you don't have Chick-fil-A

in

Australia.

No.

No.

Well, I hope this food chain is kind of like giving you someone.

Yeah.

Because I mean, you're giving them a fair shout out.

I

mean...

should you more than anybody, at least you're in Eastern Iowa, should be getting something out of this, especially since they tie back to Australia and on their spots, they even have somebody doing a fake Aussie accent.

You've got me.

Absolutely.

I'm stuck.

I don't know what to say.

I honestly have no idea.

Like I'm trying to think of the ball game, what some of the ball games are called.

Yeah.

I know there's that one down Tampa that everyone was saying to

play regularly.

You're getting closer to chase it all.

No,

it's not the Jesus.

I'll leave it at that because I want to save it for the next episode when you will get really, really mad at me and then not want to talk to me ever again.

I

want to know what the object is because I know that I don't, you know, you mentioned four things and I really have no idea.

And I know when you tell me I'm going to be like, holy shit, I'm a dumb ass.

You're just going to be like, I blocked all of that stuff out.

I must have, I must have.

Maybe I've been hypnotized against that stuff and so I'm just blocking my memory and I'm not allowed to think about that.

I don't know.

Maybe it was one of the rules that as soon as you left your home country that you weren't to talk about them ever again and here I am bringing them up.

No.

And you know what?

I'm not going to go researching because it's going to be more interesting next week if you tell me.

You said that you usually don't

you know, partake and get angry at things, but I feel like next week might be that week.

I'll pay the time.

We'll have to wait and say, you really got me thinking now.

So I'll send you the list of the items.

See, the problem is that it's going to be that temptation to do research, you know, like how you look at game film.

You're going to start.

Are you going around in the room?

Are you doing research right now?

No, no, no, no.

I'm really just trying to stand up and really think about this because I don't know if the food chain, not the object, I mean the object could be anything.

I'm happy that I've confused you more than most of the rushes that have been sent your way on the field.

Yeah, exactly.

This one's really got me distracted.

Anything else that you want to tell the audience as we're wrapping up here today on this episode of the jock to jock podcast?

Well, honestly, make sure you tune in next week because it sounds like it could be the most interesting podcast yet.

No, just a big thank you again to everyone for looking after my family while they're here really means a lot.

Tori, good to talk to you again.

And I'm not looking forward to you being mad at me next week.

I'll be level headed, don't worry.

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.