Jock 2 Jock featuring Tory Taylor - "Sometimes You Get Stuck In The Middle Seat"

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I'm Brian Marshall.

I'll be joined by Tori Taylor.

Number nine, your punter for the Iowa football team.

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We are back for another Jock to Jock podcast on rock108.com and wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Brian Marshall.

Half of this conversation, I'm joined by my featured guest, the punter for the Iowa football team, Tori Taylor.

Welcome back.

Ron, uh, like I always say, it's, uh, it's always a pleasure to be here.

So thank you.

So we are recording just a touch later today because, uh, you were getting worked on today.

It's, it's okay to say you were getting a massage.

Yes.

More and more than happy to

Talk about that.

Yeah, every Thursday.

Just go get a massage.

Make sure the body's right ready to go for Saturday.

Do you have a particular type of massage that you get?

I don't know.

I walk in there and just say, can you do my lower back and my hamstrings?

And then I walk out and then and that's that.

So I'm not too sure.

It's not like the Thai version.

It's not the the Swedish version.

I mean, there's there's a lot of them out

there.

No, they just put the massage oil on my back massage into my lower back.

It's actually a little painful at times to tell you the truth, but I'm a tough guy.

I'm a soldier on.

You ever find those moments where you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's a little too much.

Oh, I had plenty of those today.

Come on, this is meant to be relaxing.

It's not painful.

But they got to work on.

They got to make sure that that power leg that you have on your right hand side is working and ready to

go.

Yes.

Absolutely.

I agree.

I agree.

That leads me to my question though, because I know each of the athletes that play are going to be different.

They're going to get worked on a different way.

What are some ways that you guys recover from some of the injuries, the wear and tear that comes during the season?

Well, kind of like you said, it's really on the individual and what sort of, I guess, issues or problems they have.

Some guys are sometimes just sore and a lot of guys, I mean, we all roll out as a team on a Monday morning before we left.

So that probably helps.

a lot of stretches and then yeah, just a lot of general treatment and exercises.

There's the pools like the hot and cold tum and then the recovery pool.

So a lot of guys use that.

I like to go in there most days just because it's relaxing.

And to me, although you might not get, I guess the results straight away, that sort of stuff, just money in the bank, do you know what I mean?

Which is kind of stacking up day after day after day.

But yeah, some guys have a coming back from injury.

and that's just part of that rehab.

My kind of just go in there and maybe get stretched out and things like that just to try and keep loose.

But yeah, really great training stuff there.

Lucky to have them, really grateful.

Do you ever do cryotherapy or any of the...

No, we don't have one of those cryo chambers.

So I know I've never done that.

But the cold tub is certainly cold enough to... You know what?

I want to send a little soft saying this, but it actually hurts sometimes beyond the cold tub that's that cold.

Really?

Yeah, like, oh, this is cold.

How long are you in that tub?

Oh, a couple minutes.

Really?

And you can't take it anymore?

Or are you just, that's it?

I'm going to say that's it, because that's the tough answer to say, but what you said first might be right.

Okay, fair enough.

You, in the position that you play as a punter, what do you have to have worked on?

What do you really have to do in order to make yourself game ready, week in and week out?

Well, I stretch every day at practice because, you know, being a specialist, we don't really do too much outside our periods and work.

So we're stretching a lot and rolling out.

And for me, it's just the lower part of my body, just making sure that that's as loose as possible, just trying to maintain.

mobility and flexion in the K areas on the legs.

Does the team, like it has specific coaches that go with a specific disciplines on the team, does the strength and conditioning team also have like a special teams that would come and work specifically with you and those that are around you?

Well, in terms of strength and conditioning, everyone does the same regardless of what position you're in.

Some guys might not do a certain things because of an injury or something like that.

But everyone kind of does the same and the strength stuff, they're in charge of everyone when it comes to strength and conditioning.

So it's a kind of anti-question.

They're not really in charge of any particular group.

I get you.

Some of the things I've seen on Twitter and such like that, I love watching when the team is rallying around somebody when they're doing a big lift.

Is there anybody on the team that's a big lifter right now?

Because I know you met Big E. No.

And you said

he's

a big lifter, but anybody else on the team right now?

Not during the season, no.

Because it's just kind of a maintenance phase.

But yeah, there's a few boys.

Big Jennings, Duncan O'Lyman, he can throw some weight around.

Monty Portabong can certainly throw some weight around.

Turner Palisades is a strong man.

Who else?

Yeah, a lot of the linemen they can really really throw some weight around And then those guys that are kind of just deceivingly strong Mm-hmm And it pains me to say this but and you're gonna laugh but even guys like Keith Duncan who was here a few years ago He could barely bench 50 pounds.

Oh my god.

He could squat a lot He could some guys just a good at one really can just lift one particular exercise and

Jackson Rex were off the young linebacker.

I think he broke.

He was safety at the time.

I think he may have broken the safety record in the air.

And yeah, Logan Jones, he can hang clean half a house.

And yeah, there's some strong boys, that's for sure.

You mentioned Potta Bomb.

I've also heard he's pretty fast, too.

Oh,

ridiculous.

They're crazy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's so many.

I mean, in saying that, like.

which we trained for.

I don't need to be fast, although that might have helped last week.

But yeah, there's a few guys that can certainly run the distance pretty quickly.

That's incredible.

One last thing that you mentioned it, during the Ohio State game, and I really only have two questions about Ohio State, and neither of them are really about the outcome.

Number one, what was it like

for you to play in the horseshoe.

You, you had led up to it talking about that you were excited to do it.

How did it work for you?

How did it feel?

Yeah, it was a pretty surreal experience.

Just walking out of the, walking out of the tunnel for the first time a couple hours before the game.

I was like, yeah, holy s**t, this place is actually pretty big.

Like cool stadium, great atmosphere.

Still don't think it's as loud as Kenny to tell you the truth, but yeah, it's loud.

great atmosphere and they're obviously kicking our ass.

So yeah, they're all pretty loud and enjoying themselves.

Yeah.

Second piece and you alluded to this during one of the plays, you walk to your right and start taking off.

And you said that you're not a very fast guy.

What happened there?

Look, I wish I could tell you because it was kind of one of those in the moment things I saw.

I kind of knew that.

Leading up to the game that they weren't we'll lean up the whole week.

They don't by higher states They've really been much of a they've never really had much of a tendency to kind of rush the partner or rust the unit in general So I always knew that I was gonna have a bit of time and you would have seen on the first partner kind of was stood there and Smack one down there as I had a bit of time and then I kind of just saw saw the gap and I was like, holy shit Like it's open kind of went for it and then hesitated and went for it again And then yeah three bikes are on and on top of me and

got me pretty good in the ribs and the side of my body was sore for a couple of days.

But, you know, it was a pretty big learning experience.

I won't be doing that again.

It was certainly interesting because I probably had never felt so many emotions and I never felt to tell you the truth, Brian.

I never probably felt that lonely in my life after doing that.

Just kind of just sitting there.

And then you just like, like, I've still got to play a game.

I'm going to be up again soon.

But yeah, like I said, learning experience and to tell you the truth, I don't really give a shit about it now because you just got to move on.

My mates back home certainly enjoyed it.

What hurts more getting hit in Australian rules football or by three Ohio State guys?

Oh, I've been hit pretty hard back home a few times because you know, we're in any padding.

Yep.

So I probably have to go with that to tell the truth.

Okay.

To make this a short answer towards the end of this.

This was a decision that you had made because you saw something in it.

Correct.

Yeah.

And just an idiotic decision.

I mean, I said to Coach Brown and Coach Woods, I said, look, I'm really sorry.

I really don't know what the fuck I was doing.

It was just a mental error, one up and again, but I wasn't.

Yeah, look, they weren't too placed, which I wouldn't have expected them to be.

But for me, it was just more so the fact that I let the team down.

Yeah, really grateful for everyone coming up to me and making sure that I was all good.

Yeah, tried to obviously finished out the game didn't pun as well as I wanted to but you know applying the sun the sun shines and you get up the next morning and the world's still rotating and you just get on with life.

I hate to say this because I don't play the game but it's only a game, right?

Yeah, exactly and that mindset's always helped me, you know, always.

And yeah, it was it was interesting kind of

I think it was back in April when the Masters was on just kind of when Scotty Sheffler won Yeah, he showed that note that he said that he wrote to himself just like no matter what happens As long as you try hardest and this like this week isn't going to define me as a person I just felt like it kind of helps you relax.

I've always kind of had that mindset Yeah going into seasons and going into games and just going into everything I do over here You know what I mean because then at the day I could be back home shoveling shit, but I'm not so

Here I am.

Yeah.

My, my mates certainly, um, enjoyed seeing three guys on top of me.

In fact, one of them, one of them made a photo screenshot of the image of three of high state guys on top of me and was like, Oh, I'm getting this up tonight.

And I was like, you absolutely.

Too soon.

Too soon.

Of course.

Of course.

They might as well give it to you the right way.

You know, let's, let's look forward to the Northwestern back at Kinnock.

It's a two 30 game.

How you feeling about it?

Yeah, good.

It'll be really, um, interesting to see how well we can bounce back.

And I feel like we've probably had, I feel like Tuesday was a really, really good practice.

Um, for everyone, probably the best Tuesday we've had of the year.

Um, but that really doesn't mean shit if you can't do it on a Saturday when it matters.

Um, cause anyone can practice.

Um, I mean, the Northwestern are practicing too, you know, but none of that, that doesn't mean shit until, um, Saturday at two 30 bit.

kind of like I've said probably a few times in the past few weeks is we just got to win you know like we just we really just got to win because nothing else matters but just trying to win and and getting the win because yeah it's been probably made a little frustrating in the last few weeks for certainly for Iowa fans and yeah no more certainly for us as well no one's more frustrated than than us so

you want to get to the Marshall Exchange program

I would absolutely love to.

So I gave you kind of a heads up that I'm going to be bringing you three news stories from Australia this week.

And I figured instead of asking you about this, I'm going to share some things and see what your take is on them.

Go for it.

All right.

We'll start with Virgin Australia, who's trying to make the middle seat on the airline more appealing by launching a lottery

with over $230,000 in prizes.

I know that you told me that on the bus, you look for a specific location.

You look for a specific location on the plane because you're a bigger guy.

Middle seat on the airline.

You ever done that?

Oh, you want to know a funny story?

Yes.

When I first got here, the first, my first ever trip for football, I was, we were flying to Purdue and I was stuck between Koi, Cronk and Tyler Lindebaum on the plane.

And I just thought, well, you know, I can't get anywhere.

Lucky it was only like a 40 minute trip or something.

But by the time we get on the plane, you sit in there for 20 minutes before takeoff.

And then another 10 or 15 minutes after, probably a good hour stuck between those two big fat elephants.

But no, you won't catch me in the middle seat very often.

So what they're trying to do is Virgin Australia is trying to run this promotion because they're trying to show that the middle seat's not necessarily a bad thing.

If you fly in a middle seat on Virgin Australia operated domestic flight, all you have to do is opt into the lottery within two days of your departure.

Things like a Caribbean cruise, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense since you're in Australia, free flights and tickets to soccer matches are some of the things.

The CEO of Virgin Australia says that she loves the middle seat because it gives her a chance to meet two people on the plane, not just one.

Yeah, I'll tell you right now.

The CEO of Virgin Australia isn't sitting in the middle seat.

She's probably got her own plan, so she can shut her mouth for a while, okay?

But when you go back home, are you flying through LA and then straight into Melbourne?

No, I'm going LA to LA or San Francisco to Sydney.

And then sitting in Melbourne.

So that's a bit of an annoyance, but yeah, it's a long way.

All right, second one here.

An Australian man faces charges after blinding an e-scooter rider.

with a projectile potato, the 19-year-old and a 20-year-old accomplice.

Yeah, I said potato.

You know what, Bron, I've got a question for you.

Where do you find this?

This one came from news.com.au, which means it's from Australia.

Yeah, I didn't know that actually.

But yeah, that's probably humorous actually, but you know what?

Each of their

own.

Since you and I have been working together, I've been more apt to find stories from Australia so that we can share them.

And I can learn more about where you're from.

And I

appreciate that, yeah.

And then you also get to find out what's going on with your fellow countrymen.

Yes, exactly, exactly.

In this case, a 19-year-old by the name of Trent Philip Green and his 20-year-old accomplice both faced multiple charges because the alleged attack happened in the city of Trigg in Perth.

The potatoes were allegedly fired or thrown at people from a passing car.

What happens was they injured a man so so bad with this potato that it gave him a fractured arm, facial injuries, and my God, that the surgery remove his eye.

Oh,

yeah, right.

OK.

Potatoes,

big thing in Australia at all.

No, but do you guys make what potato guns over

here?

Mm hmm.

I know a few people that used to make those in Australia, but.

I, um, in terms of potatoes, you peel them and you eat them.

Um, where I'm from, but you know what?

Okay.

People want to go chucking them at people, then they're probably going to pay the price.

Tell me about Perth.

Never been, never been ever.

Um, but from what I've heard, it's good.

It's certainly nice weather.

I'm probably the wrong person to ask.

Western Australia, correct?

Correct.

Turns out these guys, the, the 19 year old is facing one count of acts likely to endanger the life, health or safety of any person.

as well as one kind of possessing a prohibited weapon.

So that must mean they made the potato gun.

Yeah, they must have.

There you go.

The final one here, Halloween.

How big is that a holiday in Australia?

Oh, Brian, do not get me started on Halloween.

Honestly, if you're over the age of 12 and you celebrate Halloween, you need to reassess your loss.

I'm sorry.

Okay.

And especially when it comes to people,

Like there's guys on the team that carved pumpkins with their significant other and like it's just literally grow up I mean Halloween like especially I get it like if it's someone's having like a Halloween party you want to dress up like that's fine, but Just the whole idea of it.

It's like it's a kid's thing.

You know what come on

What about in Australia?

Are you is there trick-or-treating?

Is there anything like that going on?

There is

Well,

in this case, but a mom in Australia ordered a cheap Halloween decoration from Amazon.

It was a fake dead body that you cover in a black plastic and then hang it from a tree.

So she was going to decorate her home.

But when it came in her mail, her 10 year old son, when he opened up the package, inside was a adult blow up

doll.

Yeah, that's probably not yeah, I don't know what decided that

She posts it to the Facebook group what I asked for versus what I got and according to the seller on Amazon It's not a mix-up.

She wasn't sent something wrong.

They use the inflatable sex dolls because they're cheaper And

that would have been what the experience with that young fella

You cover it in black plastic, so who's gonna know?

But the problem is, is that when it arrives, it has a woman's face already painted

on.

Yeah, yeah.

That poor little kid, scarred for life.

Which is why I was asking if you celebrated Halloween in Australia

because... No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Christmas.

Christmas is a good time of the year.

I like A-Star because I'm a big chocolate pie.

And that's probably about it.

Did you get your chocolate from your mate?

Oh boy, did I get it.

Did you?

Oh, absolutely.

The stash has been replenished?

It has.

Anything that you'd like the audience to know about going into this particular game?

Yeah, I think it's frustrating as people probably are.

We just really need your support, you know.

And I think it's easier to call it a jump off the bandwagon when things aren't going well, but we really, really appreciate the fans and that's what makes such a great atmosphere at Kinney.

So yeah, really looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend.

As we're heading into the next couple of episodes, Connor McCaffrey will be joining us for season two in the basketball season.

We'll be joining us on a future episode of the jock to jock podcast.

Tori, that's going to kind of be a crazy one to have you and Conor on the same episode together.

I know.

Lucky you, huh?

Lucky you.

I know.

How often do you get a chance to interact with the other athletes?

Not that often at all,

to be honest.

Yeah, not really whatsoever.

I'm a pretty, I keep to myself a lot.

I'm not really a big going out guy at all.

I kind of just, I go to football and come home and that's about it.

Well, congratulations on everything you've done so far.

And thanks again for being on the jock to jock podcast this week.

It's an absolute pleasure.

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