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Welcome back to the jock to jock podcast here on rock108.com online.
Wherever you get your podcast.
I am one of your hosts, Brian Marshall.
Let me check to see if he returned this week.
Thank goodness he did.
Our featured guest, Tori Taylor, Hunter for the Iowa football team.
Hello, Tori.
Brian.
Yes, I am here.
Looking forward to it as always.
Last week's episode was rather enjoyable, so I'm sure it'll be the same.
Okay.
Even after I mentioned Bluey.
Well, you ruined it
now
having you know, all right, I guess this episode We'll see what happens.
Yeah, I want to congratulate you on something that I just saw here on si.com That you and Jack Campbell you have been named on both the athletic and CBS sports calm named to the midseason all-america team.
So congratulations on that
Well, I'm not quite as special as Jack, am I?
But yeah, that's pretty cool.
Thank you.
You said you don't really look at these types of accolades and stuff like that a lot.
But when you hear something like that, it has to feel kind of specialty in some way.
Yeah, I mean, it's pretty special, but probably like I've said before in the past, it's just one person's opinion.
You know, it really depends who you ask to tell you the truth.
because I mean what am I on two of them and I'm not another so it's just a matter of people's opinions to be honest and a lot of the time, Brian, I was about to say between you and I but this isn't between you and I at all.
This is for the millions of listeners out there.
That's right.
It's usually those things are voted by people who have actually never played the game and really don't know too much about it.
So yeah, it's cool to obviously make those teams and it is pretty special.
I wanted to
throw out to the audience some of your stats so far.
You ranked second in the Big Ten and fifth nationally with a 46.1 average through six games.
15 punts of 50 yards or more this season with 20 punts down inside the opponent's 20 yard line.
Iowa opponents are averaging just two and a half yards on 13 returns.
Pretty
awesome.
Yeah, it's not too bad, but I feel like I'm kind of repeating myself, but like I've said before in the past, I'm so lucky for all the guys.
Guys just running down and making those tackles and making my job.
Because, I mean, sometimes I'll hit a pun.
I'm like, oh, that wasn't the best.
And then when you know, Kirby DeGeno, Terry Robbs, just let someone up.
And yeah, it's kind of turned an OK pun into a pretty decent one.
So yeah, really happy and grateful for those guys too.
And yeah, Luke, the longstopper as well, he makes my job so easy.
Yeah, really grateful for them too.
So I know that's my name on the stat sheet, but it really should be the Iowa pun unit, if that makes sense.
Yes, it absolutely does.
I do want to highlight and I mentioned this to you when we had lunch together yesterday, which I'm going to cover here in a second.
There was a point in the Illinois game where you punted the ball, they muffed it.
I believe Jack recovered.
You came down the field and I had to rewind this like 13 times because I was just laughing so damn hard.
You find out you're checking to see if Jack's got the ball.
You turn around and
damn near deck the, the back judge in the face with your level.
And you told
me
that you had no idea that that even came up.
No, I had no idea because I get pretty excited when there's a pretty exciting play from the punt team.
And yeah, especially when other guys are doing things, me and Terry had kind of spoken about, um, spoken about that before the game.
It's like, we really got to try and get a turnover as we haven't had one this year as we have one.
We had a couple of my first year.
I think we had one last year, but we, we hadn't had one this year so far.
So that was a, yeah, that was a big goal of ours.
I'm kind of heading into that game and the rest of the season was like, we've got to get a turnover.
And then yeah, what do you know, Cam?
We've got one.
So yeah, we're all pretty hyped and excited, but I didn't know I hit the ref more nearly hit the ref.
You're not
a
small fella.
No, is you're swinging.
It's, uh, he probably got in the way.
I mentioned that we had lunch yesterday.
Appreciate you swinging on by and
having the
chance to sit
down.
I wanted to announce that season two of the jock to jock podcast will continue even after the football season because joining us in a couple of weeks Connor McCaffrey from the Iowa basketball team will then kind of be taken over where you're at.
Fun conversation yesterday but the first thing I walk up it's you it's Connor
Our sales guy, Josh, had played at Iowa before, so I walk in and I feel like I'm the tiny little kid looking for a Happy Meal.
Yeah, you're just like the little dwarf to the side yesterday, weren't you?
I sure was.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's all.
You know, most of the time at, you know, six, one, six, two, I'm usually, you know, kind of tall and around the people.
But boy, I got around you guys and I was like, holy crap.
I am fourth and all over again.
I'm not gonna, I'm gonna get picked last in dodgeball here.
Yeah, that's all right.
That's all right.
It was all good fun.
Like I feel like your little brother would be taller than I am.
No, not quite.
You're still a tall guy.
Just not athlete level.
Like, yeah, it's my God.
Just not as tall as us.
You know, if I'd really applied myself in high school, maybe, just maybe.
I could have been the very last guy in the team.
Oh, well.
Oh, yeah.
Ohio State's coming up.
Let's get to that real quick.
I'm looking.
There's already lines on the game thus far.
And of course there is.
Yep.
And a lot of people just kind of writing this game off.
How do you feel about that?
Well, how does that work for them in the past?
That's what I want to know.
Okay.
Cuz I mean it's really one of those games like we're not gonna show away from the fact that our higher states are darn good team.
What they're what are they sick?
I don't know what ranking now, but they're they're up there.
Yes second or third Whatever they are, but they're there for a reason, you know and CDO Stroud really really good player kind of just throws around and puts it wherever he wants and They've got some skilled guys their defense is really good too.
I think that's one thing that people probably forget a lot of it is
corner just because they're scoring so many points all the time and their offense has always gone pretty crazy that people tend to forget that they're not really conceding many points the other way as well.
So both sides of the ball are getting me really interesting.
And then you add the special teams component, both their kicker and punters.
They're not too bad at all.
So yeah, to me, it'd be an interesting game.
I know from a pun perspective, they're going to bring a lot of challenges.
Special teams, the punter is also from Australia, correct?
He is, yes.
Last question about Ohio State and then we'll move on.
That place, pretty big, 100,000 plus inside the horse.
That's kind of intimidating when you're going down on the field and that gets pretty damn loud inside there.
Have you played for in front of a crowd that size before?
No, I haven't.
And I'm actually rather intrigued to say whether it's 100,000 fans or it's
70,000 fans and then 30,000 people that have money and just like going over the games because they want to say they went to the game so I'm really intrigued to see what it's like because you come to iron at 70,000 just absolutely crazy I once gone drinking that bush light and doing God knows what understands but I've always wondered with those games whether is it really a hundred thousand fans or is there you know that because there's always a few people that aren't really that
big into the sport.
But then again, it is Ohio and Ohio State.
So I wouldn't be surprised if their old fans gone pretty crazy.
But yeah, we don't really care about that.
Bring it on.
Enough about Ohio State.
Let's get to the meat of the episode.
I know that you really can't wait.
You were looking forward to this.
I said on the last episode, let's, uh, let's get you the audience of the jock to jock podcast to send us some questions.
I'll condense all of the football questions that's in right away.
A lot of people were asking, what are your thoughts on the Iowa football team and the progress so far this year?
I guess I'll just leave it at that because there was a lot of different variations on that particular question.
Oh, I mean, it obviously hasn't been the start.
And I'm going to try and wear this in a way that isn't as cliche and boring as people want to hear.
Right.
But like we know, like we haven't started the season off well.
But if you actually really think about it, we've lost
three games and two of them are only by three points a field goal which is only really a couple of players here or there and
yeah you know
like um special teams has been good and defense has been good and offense has been good in some stages but yeah everyone knows that um we need to get better like it's really it's just plain and simple that it hasn't been good enough hasn't been up to the standard that that way we want to be playing it and and everyone's pretty aware of that some people might not say it but
I'm aware of it.
And the people in the building that have a lot of what to do with everything that goes on was like, they know, like, we need to score more points.
Like it's simple.
They know that.
And we just, we just got to figure out ways to do that.
Perfect.
That question's been answered.
We're moving on from football, guys.
Mary from Michigan.
You mentioned your love for Australian chocolate, which I want to bring up here in a minute.
Oh, here we go.
Yeah.
Have you ever tried Mackinac Island fudge?
No.
I have not
all right mac and island fudge is from a small island just north of the main lower peninsula of michigan and their world renowned for this particular fudge now you mentioned australian chocolate is there a fudge or is there something like that in australia or anything like that
i don't uh say i don't know i pay people gonna be like what the f**k is wrong with you when you say this i don't i don't think i've had fudge honestly isn't is that just like melted chocolate
A variation on a theme, the texture is a little bit softer than you would find with a traditional chocolate.
Sweeter, I would say.
And this type, they actually prepare it on these large trays.
They do all sorts of different varieties, but Mackinac Island in Michigan is supposedly known for their fudge.
So I guess I'll just ask Mary's follow-up question.
If you were ever provided that, would it be something that you would try?
Yes, absolutely.
With the Australian chocolate, this goes back to our conversation at lunch yesterday.
I know that you had had a cache of Australian chocolate from your mother.
Do you still have some?
No, it's all gone.
How much did she bring stateside when she came over
here?
No, honestly, not that much.
Okay.
Not that she bought.
I said to her, I said, mom, can you bring me can you bring me licorice and chocolate and and some candy?
And she loaded it up with candy, minimal amounts of chocolate and minimal amounts of licorice.
I'm like, well, that's all right.
Like, thank you.
But yeah, I've eaten all the chocolate.
Most of the licorice is gone.
And I've got plenty of bags of candy.
But no one out there get any ideas.
You're not having any of it.
It's still all mine.
It
sounds
like that if I may, you say that you have a resolution to that problem.
Yes.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Maybe.
All right.
Yeah.
I might have a couple of friends coming over bringing me stuff, but yeah, who knows?
We'll wait and see.
All right.
See if they come through on that.
All right.
Thanks, Mary.
Sean from Hampton.
I saw the photo that you took with Brian yesterday when you guys met up.
Are those croc shoes the secret to your success?
No, because I've had them for, I don't know if I've had them, about two weeks.
So probably not, no.
My girlfriend bought them for me, but then they're very comfortable.
Crocs shoes or crocs sandals.
Did you choose the particular color?
She chose the particular color then.
Oh, I chose the color.
And yeah, she got them for me.
Okay.
Yeah.
Would you be able to punt a ball in crocs shoes?
Not as far.
No.
That would be rather difficult, I think.
TJ and Cedar Rapids.
Tori, did you hear that there's an ACDC that they're going to be releasing a children's book?
No, I had no
idea
actually.
So I think what TJ is doing is he's combining the conversation that we had about you receiving children's books and ACDC.
I have the story for you if you're ready.
ACDC has a new children's book called ACDC ABCD High Voltage Alphabet.
It's aimed at the adults, includes passages like this.
A is for Angus who thinks it's good luck to wear a school uniform
and walk like a duck.
Right, okay.
That's probably a rather interesting read.
The entry for J reads, J is for jail.
With no liberty.
Break the hell out.
You've got to be free.
It's referring to jailbreak 76.
Yeah,
yeah.
Wow, okay.
There you go.
I never thought I'd hear that in my life, but yeah, wow.
There you go.
Interesting to know.
You learn something new every day, don't you?
Hopefully, this is one of those things that you learn and then you're probably just going to push it off the side and forget about it.
ACDC, Children's Alphabet book.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing, but
yeah.
Comes out November 11th, if you're looking for that, you know, for the holidays.
Okay, yeah, sure.
I have a question for you, actually.
Did you hear that there was a, and I found this out.
Morning Show Radio in Australia is not called Morning Show Radio.
It's Breakfast Radio, correct?
Yep.
There was a breakfast radio host who decided to face her fear of spiders by letting one crawl on her.
But no one knew how afraid she was until she fainted live on the air.
What are you both scared of?
We're about to have spiders put on us.
Yes.
Where do you feel, Linda?
If
you don't feel comfortable, we don't have to.
That's not a problem.
You
want to stop?
No, no.
You sure?
Yeah.
All right.
The important thing is that you feel safe and that you feel comfortable.
Oh, no.
Oh, hang on.
Right.
Hang on.
We need to go to a break.
Go to a break.
We need to go to a break.
Yeah, we'll come back.
Oh, my God.
I did not say that.
She's a radio host in Sydney.
She's named Erin Mulan.
She agreed to face her fear of spiders by letting a small tarantula crawl across her hand.
They brought in a listener
to do- Oh, I crossed her hand.
Oh my, tell her to grow up.
I can't, she passed out.
Jesus, I mean, if it was like crawling across like her back or something like that, or like they put it on her shoulder or head or something or face, oh, I kind of get that, but like putting a tarantula in your hand, like seriously, whatever her name was again, tell her to grow up.
Wow.
She's fine.
She was back up and laughing about it a few minutes later, but they had to cut the segment short and go to commercial.
She shouldn't be laughing because that's an embarrassment to the country of Australia.
Wow.
Okay.
Yeah.
Tell her she should be fought and never, never be put on TV ever again.
I'm going to go back to the listener questions.
Moving on.
Tom, he says, my wife and I have heard the podcast and after hearing some of Tori's travel tips, Marshall Exchange program.
Thanks.
What would you recommend as some places to visit in Australia that are not necessarily tourist hotspots?
Oh, that is a great question, actually.
So definitely, if you come to Melbourne, heading down the peninsula is, it's not really much of a tourist spot.
A lot of locals had down there on the weekends and things like that.
I really think they would enjoy that.
especially when it's a nice day, like on the beach and things like that, you can get some great views.
I would say, I think that I mentioned it last week, heading out to kind of the middle.
There's places called Kakadu and things like that.
There's a lot of swimming holes you can go to.
I've never actually personally been, I really want to do that, but yeah, not as touristy just because it's kind of harder to get to.
If you like camping, there's a lot of quiet camping spots that
um, payable guard to you, but it really just depends on on what they want.
Sure.
So like if you were to have friends coming from America and you're mentioning traveling down the peninsula, a lot of people say that Sydney is a great place to visit.
But is that, is that pretty touristy?
Extremely touristy.
Okay.
Yeah.
But I wouldn't, I would tell them to guard that you really only need to spend a couple of days there.
And it's just, I don't know.
I could never live there and there's always been a bit of a debate and people from Sydney will say oh Sydney's better and they will say Melbourne's better but they don't know I'm being biased but but to live Melbourne's way better like traffic in Sydney is like Chicago times 10 it's just ridiculous
oh okay
yeah you guys rave about this giant it's like yeah the weather's a little bit better because it's a little bit further north but yeah I wouldn't want to live there it's chaos absolute chaos
How big is Melbourne, quite frankly, because I guess I could take a look at it, but how big is it really?
From a population standpoint?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, in the city of Melbourne, really not that much at all.
Okay.
Let me give me 10 seconds.
Okay.
And I'll find out for you.
Or he's right now he's
well,
so it's off to the side because I think he's looking for us
It says five million people which are I find that kind of hard to believe because the population of Australia is Only 25 million so when you really think about it that there's really get just on the 26 million people in Australia I think I may have mentioned it before everyone lives on the outskirts.
Yes, so everyone lives in
Melbourne and then Sydney and then Brisbane, Gold Coast.
Everyone lives on the border.
You go west and it's Perth and then Adelaide, South Central America.
Yeah, everyone lives on the outskirts.
Not many people live on the inner parts of the country.
My dad visited there.
When did he get back?
This week, actually.
He had to go up there for work and he just said, it's just...
it's too hot like it's yeah it's just not a place you you want to be.
Did he visit Darwin or did he?
Yes he went he
went to Darwin.
Which Darwin is on the north side of Australia in the tropics so it's just absolutely humid and probably feels pretty gross.
It does and the thing about Darwin is you have to be really careful going to the beach because of crocodiles.
In Darwin?
Yeah and I know crocodiles are
10 times more dangerous than alligators.
So yeah, with a gator, you might be, you might have a slight chance of survival.
Crocodile.
Yeah.
You might as well kiss your life away.
Oh gosh.
Well, let's go
back to Tom's
question real quick.
So if he's in Melbourne and he's trying to avoid some of the touristy stuff, would you suggest that he goes to Australian rules football?
Who's in and around Melbourne that he could go and watch a game?
Definitely got to go to watch the Richmond Tigers play.
They're my team.
Yeah, definitely has to go to Australian rules football.
It depends when he goes because I always tell people you got to go in January, right?
Because it's winter here first and foremost.
So you want to get out of this shit weather that the United States has to offer, but whatever.
That's a conversation for another time.
You want to go in January because there's so much going on.
A, the weather is really nice.
B, like everything's open.
Everything not that those things that aren't open, but you can go sit outside like you can go walk around like grab a coffee Whatever kind of just the small things that you might take for granted when it when it's cold and this showing opens on And then but sometimes like even like March is a good time to go because the weather's nice the formula one is on Cricket is kind of finishing
and
then Australian rules football is beginning Soccer still going
So yeah, there's so much going on, especially March is a great time to go because the formula one's on.
And yeah, I've always enjoyed watching that.
How are the golf courses in and around Melbourne?
I know that that's more touristy than
unbelievable.
Really?
Unbelievable.
Extremely, extremely expensive, though.
Oh,
really?
Okay.
Yeah, ridiculous prices.
Golf is kind of at a premium back home in Australia.
And it's starting to gain popularity the first few years, but
Yeah, just a really, really, um, pricy sport to play.
I feel like that's kind of, it's probably like that over here as well.
My daughter Izzy, she and I have been talking about that we do this podcast together and she asked me this question once.
What does Tori do when he gets homesick?
Well, that's a good question.
Um, well, I don't, I don't know.
Honestly, I mean, I really just,
I'll talk to like my matriarch in the country and things like that or I'll talk to my family, but I've kind of just in such a routine now that I'm just kind of used to it, do you know what I mean?
And one thing that always helps me is I always just go, you know what, like this is hard, but it's pretty cool what I'm doing, you know what I mean?
It's like there's no one else doing what I'm doing.
Like there's no other
like Tory Taylor in the world, like at the University of Iowa from Australia, like, doing what I'm doing.
You know what I mean?
So there's other guys doing what I'm doing over here at different schools, but more specifically, he's like, I always think, well, you know, this is actually pretty cool.
What I'm doing, like, at least I have the balls to do it.
So that's kind of one thing that I always think that helps me get me through.
That's a good question, though.
I like it.
Yeah.
That might be my favorite question.
There you go.
No kidding.
Yeah, so how old is your daughter?
She's 16.
Well, there you go.
Make sure you tell her.
She roots for you, and we've got that.
We both have the t-shirts, so.
Oh, I appreciate it.
Thank you.
We'll tell Izzy Austin.
Thank you very much.
So Izzy is getting a thank you from an Aussie, as it were.
Exactly.
There you go.
Mark in Mason City.
He wants to know a little bit more about Prokick.
Can you share a little bit more about Prokick?
Do you know if there's an American equivalent?
There's plenty of American equivalents.
there's so many guys over here trying to run all these camps and things like that but the sad thing about over here and this isn't me being biased or having to knock on American camps or anything like that because there's a lot of guys doing the right thing but before I start talking about pro kick over here there's so many guys that just want money and it's really sad that
It's like, oh yeah, you want to be a five star.
Well, you got to pay me like this.
Sometimes it really actually doesn't come down to to punting and coaches fall for it.
And that's a sad part is coaches sometimes fall for it because they are he's a five star.
He must be good.
He's like, yeah, we'll offer him.
Here you go.
And then you never see them play a game.
So I wouldn't say there's quite the equivalent.
But yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of people over here doing the right thing.
Like I said, like
Keith Duncan who played here a couple years ago, who I'm sure most people know unfortunately, but that's all right.
He's running his own camp and yeah, he's been doing really well.
So yeah, helps out young kids and he's just honest.
And yeah, to talk about Pro-Kick Australia is one thing that I really like about those, my coaches is that they're honest.
They just tell you where you're at from the start.
It's like, you know what?
Like, yeah, you got a chance to do this all.
like no, sorry, like we don't want to waste your time.
Like this isn't for you, do you know what I mean?
And I think that's kind of why Australians have had so much success.
His first and foremost is that we've been doing it, we've been punting and kicking the ball for so long for such an extended period of our lives that it kind of just comes natural to us.
And then secondly, is that there's so many of us over here that playing well that
And coaches here just trust our coaches, you know what I mean?
It's like when I leave, they'll hopefully bring in another Australian.
And it's just kind of a continuous cycle.
But it's also on us Australian players over here to do the right thing.
Because if you don't perform, then for example, if I shot the bet and I wasn't any good, then I was probably not going to take an Australian again, if that makes sense.
Yeah.
How many individuals start with your particular class or your campaign?
There was probably, so I joined in late June, 2019.
And there was around 35, 40 guys that kind of were going through.
But then you got, for example, you get guys coming in and trying out like every couple of weeks,
you
know what I mean?
And they're like, yep, you can join on, nope, sorry, like, you don't have what it takes to do this, blah, blah, blah, sorry.
Yeah, and then it's just kind of continuous cycle.
There's guys that go in January, like early enrollees for the January period.
And then there's guys that go in June, July for someone before the season.
So it's really just a continuous cycle.
And sometimes, right, like, say it's April, April May, spring balls kind of over and coaches go,
might call my coaches and be like, yeah, you know what?
We got one guy, but he's pretty good.
You know what I mean?
It's, it's, it's almost, and my coaches kind of use this as well.
It's almost like ordering a pizza.
It's like, what pizza do you want?
And my coaches will, all right, we got to all try and get it ready for you.
Like, do you want someone that can just stand in the pocket and have my spirals?
Or do you want someone that can kind of roll out?
Or do you want someone that can do everything?
And there's some guys that they can do everything.
And there's some guys that just
Um, a really good at one particular thing and coaches go, yeah, you know what?
That's fine.
We can work with that.
Perfect.
Whereas some coaches are like, nah, we want someone that can do this.
We want someone that can do that.
But, and I think that's one thing that a lot of players, well, not players, but coaches are kind of a little bit naive to not hear, but I hear stories around the country.
And it's like, coaches will be like, well, why can't you do this?
It's like, well, seven hour chant.
Like I've never done that in my life.
Like just cause I'm a shine doesn't mean I can do these trick shots.
Yeah.
Um, but it's, it's almost like continuing continuous cycle and pro kick was the best year of my life.
Like I can honestly say that it was just so much fun hanging out with the boys.
And I think like I said yesterday, we'll have a lunch.
I literally just love standing there and hammering balls.
Like I could do it all day every day.
If I was allowed to.
Your analogy earlier makes me ask the question, what type of pizza is Tori Taylor?
Wow.
I
don't know.
I really don't know.
You want me to leave that for
the next episode?
Possibly.
Should we say ham and cheese and pineapple?
Something pretty boring, but no, I don't know.
Wait, so
do I say the what?
Pineapple's a thing on pizza in Australia.
It is, but I don't like it.
That was honest and that too, to be as smart as that.
Do I say I'm the what?
Is that the right thing to say?
I don't know.
the lot or the supreme either way
yeah is that is that what it is i'm not sure
i'll take it i'll take it uh how often do you talk to your coaches from pro kick anymore or is that conversation not pretty much
no i talk to them quite regularly um you know like my time here is coming to an end um pretty soon um whether it's this year or next year or the year after who knows so my i mean i'm hard i'm past the halfway point of my career so they're already trying to put plans in place
to bring in the next guy.
Whoever that is, I honestly don't really know.
That's not me just saying it because I can't, but I really don't know who it is.
So yeah, I'll talk to my coaches about that and just career things and usually just general talking shit, you know.
That's what we're pretty good at.
Do
you ever get a
chance to offer advice to any of the current pro kick athletes that are there within their program now?
Yeah, so when I went home in May,
I went to pro-kick and trained with my coaches a lot.
You just meet new guys.
It's kind of funny because when I was doing it in 2019, you had guys that would come back and talk and help you with things and it's like, well, this is pretty crazy.
And then I was almost that guy in May, do you know what I mean?
It's like, well, it is pretty crazy what can happen in this space in such a short period of time.
When I go back in May,
Um, yeah, I see all the guys there and there's some guys that they go back to like, like I said, course after I played a couple of weeks ago, he was back in May.
So I was talking to him, Jordy Sandy from TCU was back at the time.
So yeah, we, uh, everyone just gets along, um, really well because everyone's been through the being through it or going through it.
So you've all got that kind of, um, one thing in common.
Um, but yeah, like, like I said before, pro kick was probably.
one of the greatest experiences I've had in my life and it wasn't easy because you kind of just you're going you're going through it and I might have to I'm moving to the other side of the country pretty soon and like I've said nothing's ever guaranteed until you sign the dotted line.
It's a bit of a well-winned experience but the greatest year of my life and met some of the greatest people and some of my best buddies.
The last question that I had from the audience, the individual didn't leave their name, so great way to close
it.
Anonymous.
They wanted to know a little bit more about Australian dishes.
So this could also kind of tie back into Tom's question.
What's an Australian dish?
I mean, I know that you had mentioned some foods that you appreciated before, but if I wanted a true Australian feel or a true Australian dish, what would we get?
Say no more.
A meat pie.
Okay.
Yeah.
So it's almost just like ground beef or like savory mince in a, in like a pie, like a small pie, like the size of your hand for a sausage roll.
Yeah.
Oh, you know what?
I'll leave those two with you.
And we'll, I really, you'll know what a meat pie is, but I want you to find out what the show in sausage roll is.
Putting it down for next week.
Yeah.
To answer the question, a meat pie, there's nothing better than a meat pie would catch up on top.
where do you get that at
oh anyway anyway you want to get out of the gas station you can go to the grocery store and you can get them you can get them from a bakery they're the best from a bakery but you might like you might go to a gas station there might be a couple bucks and then you go to a bakery and there might be six or seven dollars you know so it really depends whether um well what you want but um yeah it's funny because one of my mates Charlton the planner at UNLV he's probably one of my best mates over here
yeah
he is obsessed with meat pies like obsessed it's like mate like they're good i know but like come on grow up grow up like yeah it's he loves meat pies i reckon he when he went home in january he i would not put it past him that he probably may have had one or two a day i kid you not he probably spent half his stuff in on meat pies back then
probably.
Well, and you tell me that you can get it at a gas station so you could get a 7-11 coffee and a meat pie at 7-11.
That makes it almost the greatest place on the planet.
Well, yeah, you don't want to know how many times I've done that.
Or more of a sausage roll go because it's easier to eat.
All right, I'm gonna look that up.
I'm gonna find that up for the next time so we can talk a little bit about that on our next episode.
Yep, absolutely.
I know that we've had you.
This is our longest episode so far for season two.
Well,
like I say all the time, Brian, it's always good fun.
So and time always flies when you're having fun.
That's right.
Anything else that you wanted to add to the audience about this week or or anything upcoming, anything that you want to let them know here on the Jack to Jack podcast?
Probably not anything that I haven't really said in the past that just we're all trying to harvest.
Everyone wants to win.
um we're going to try hardest against our highest day and that's all you can ask
and i
know it sounds boring and whatnot but i feel like things are really going to start to change and move and forward we're going to finish off the season strongly.
It's great to hear.
Tori, it was great hanging out with you this week and again on the jock to jock podcast.
40 minutes of fun bro and i love it.
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