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In our last episode, Tori shared his feelings on Luc Lachey's recent injury.
Oh, I was absolutely devastated.
Like, I remember just running down and I was like, because I didn't know it was him at first.
And I didn't realize it was that bad because, you know, God's like, go down like where there'd be cramp or, um, they may have just like rolled their ankle or something like that.
And I'll get taped up and go back out there.
then when you see like other players like going like yeah like come over come over that's when I was just like oh this ain't good yeah saw him after the after the game and yeah it wasn't wasn't the greatest moment um but he's meaning great spirits you know he's kind of strolling around and getting around everybody and you wouldn't even know.
Getting after it this week with number nine Tori Taylor welcome to the show.
Thanks again for having me on.
I'm a little disappointed that you were not the football player with Taylor Swift up in the Suites.
Oh,
that would have been nice, wouldn't it?
Yeah, now that would have been very nice.
How much of a distraction do you think that is for any player that is on the Chiefs or the Bears team?
Everybody's worried more about what Taylor Swift is doing up in the booth up there.
Yeah, I mean, they're professionals and, you know, in the bull snap, I think that's the last thing they'll be.
they'd be thinking about, but probably subconsciously, it's probably in the back of their minds a little bit.
I'm not too sure.
That's probably a question for one of them.
Aaron Andrews goes up to Patrick Mahomes at the end of the game and asks him about the pressure to get the ball to Travis Kelsey to score a touchdown from all of the Swifties.
And he said, Travis just ran his own route and he threw it to him.
Yeah, exactly.
If you were to do the same thing like Travis Kelsey did,
What celebrity would you like to have up in the box cheering Tory Taylor on?
That's a good question.
I don't really have any celebrity crushes, to be honest.
Yeah, off the top of my head, I couldn't really tell you one.
Or the girl of Game of Thrones.
Which one?
I don't know her name.
Daenerys.
The blonde.
Yeah, the blonde.
I wouldn't mind having hair at a game.
Okay.
Did you have any childhood crushes when you were growing up in Australia?
That's what I'm trying to think of.
I don't think so.
Okay.
No, not really.
I got you.
Yeah, I'm not really one of those guys that kind of has one of their celebrity crushes.
But
if Travis Kelsey hadn't done this, and let's say Taylor Swift took a shine in to Tori Taylor, and let's say things progressed, you realized you could change her name to Taylor Taylor?
Yeah, that would be pretty cool, wouldn't it?
Or you could be Tory Swift.
I wouldn't really want to date someone that's more popular than me.
Oh, okay.
That came off wrong.
I wouldn't want to date someone that's in the spotlight, if that makes sense.
Distraction?
Yeah, that, and I just don't want them to be better than me.
You heard it here, folks, here on the Juck Juck Podcast.
I didn't think we're going to start this way, but yeah.
Here we are.
How did you feel about your performance at the game against Penn State?
Oh, from a personal point of view, I was pretty happy overall.
You know, I hit a few balls that were really nice.
And I was more so just happy that I was able to kind of, I guess, hit a few nice balls and prove myself in the wetter conditions because it's not very easy handling the ball when it's really wet and it was a little windy too and it was colder than usual for a September game.
So.
From a personal point of view, yeah, I was pretty happy with my own performance, but from a team point of view, yeah, we've got a... Josh is just texting me.
He
said, celebrity crush hands down Rachel Bush.
I don't even know who that is.
Anyway, tell Josh to shut up.
We'll do that.
Yeah, go back to the NBA.
We just, from a team perspective, it just wasn't our night, but yeah, we'll be better this week.
You mentioned the condition of the fields in the mist in the air.
Let's talk about your special team's teammates.
They're really something else in this, helping you to get four inside the 20.
Oh, totally.
Seven punts, 366 yards, 52.3 average, with a longest 62.
Highlight a few of your teammates and how they helped you out during the game against Penn State.
Well, first and foremost, everyone protecting.
Everything starts with protection.
And where everything starts with the snap and protection.
So, first and foremost, Luke did a really good job handling the ball and stuffing the ball in the wet.
And then the guys...
in front of me protecting, did a really great job.
But then the guys getting down the field, like you look at TJ Hall and Cooper Dejean and things like that, all those guys hustled down the field.
And I think that may, I've probably said it before quite a few times.
Yeah, it just makes my life so much easier knowing that you kind of got guys out there running down and getting after their ass a bit.
So it's good.
How do you specifically process a loss, especially one where you performed like you did and no points are scored?
How do you process that?
It's a little strange because
It's interesting you know someone asked me this morning like oh hey feeling I said oh yeah good luck You know all I can do is worry about my own performance and worry about what I do and not even not from a selfish point of view But just knowing that you know if I just worry about what I can do worry about hitting good balls the rest will kind of take care of itself So I kind of take that once it into anything because there's no real effect that I can have on the offense or the defense because I don't play in those positions Yeah, I can help the offense by I'm advancing the ball on fourth down, but and then
same with the defense as well by trying to pin them deep.
But I really just kind of worry about doing what I need to do to be successful from a personal point of view, which would then transition into giving the team success.
The black pants with the yellow stripe.
It took me a second when I saw you go out on the field, but it looked like you guys were wearing tear away pants at first.
Oh, really?
Yeah, I liked that alternate uniform.
It was nice, huh?
Have you...
Worn something like that before because I don't
think we're never worn white with black pants But I really like it.
Yeah, had we won we might have kept it, but we lost so we'll probably never see that again
Tell me about Riley Thompson.
He's up on your Instagram page and on your Instagram story as of the time or
yeah, so he's a he's one of One of my good mates that I went to school with He was a couple years younger than me, but yeah went to school with him and then One of my other good mates Jackson Ross who I was closer with
He was always friends with Riley and then they both joined Pro Kick, middle of last year or maybe starter last year.
And then, yeah, Jackson went to Tennessee last year and Riley went to FAU and then Riley made the transition across the Penn State early this year in January.
So yeah, it was pretty cool being able to see Riley after the game and I was talking with him before the game too.
So it's always good fun seeing.
other Aussie guys probably one of those things that people probably don't realize but such a cool moment.
I actually sent the photo of us to one of my teachers in high school and yeah, he thought it was pretty cool too, so yeah, special moment.
The thing that you shared on Instagram here as we're recording, was that the high school that you guys both attended that shared it on their
page?
Yeah.
Yeah, so that was pretty cool.
Why did Riley decide to grow a porn mustache?
I don't know.
Yeah, I'm really not sure.
He looks like an idiot.
I can't see you with a
with a little
mustache like that.
Yeah, no, that's not my thing.
I shave every Friday.
Do you?
There you go.
Yeah.
Okay.
Would you ever grow a big bushy beard and then be?
Definitely not.
Let's talk really quick previewing Michigan State.
Michigan State's another tough team, but this one is at Kinnick.
This one also turns out to be a 635 kickoff on this one.
How are you feeling about Michigan State?
I mean, obviously excited to kind of
um, correct a few wrongs from last week.
Like I said earlier in the episode wasn't, we know it wasn't our best game.
You know, some people probably think that what are you having done blah, blah, blah, but it's like, we know it wasn't our best game.
And, uh, yeah, we're just kind of trying to go out there and rectify a few things.
But Michigan State, um, obviously it's, um, unfortunate what happened with their coach and things like that.
I don't really know the full story, but, um,
Looks like he did a few things wrong with that for them to worry about.
We're not worried about that.
But you're playing a big 10 team, and big 10 teams have talent coming out of their backside.
So you know that there's going to be guys out there that can play football.
If they couldn't, they wouldn't be there.
And it's Michigan State.
I think they had a couple of guys drafted last year.
Probably be the same this year.
You know guys are going to rock up and perform.
And they're probably kind of at that stage where they're coming in to an away game.
You got nothing to lose so we know that they're gonna be a challenge No one's not you to that, but yeah, we're really excited to get back out there and just play and Yeah rectify a few things and from last week
you guys are currently only three and one So it's
not
like the thing is all falling apart and like some people are saying the sky is falling already And it's like no hang on a minute.
We're still early in the season here
Yeah,
you've mentioned this on the show before that you look at it, you know, not only just game by game, but
you know, section by section.
Are you moving into the next section now with this being at home Michigan State 635 under the lights feels pretty good.
Yeah, absolutely.
I love I love night games.
The body just feels a little bit looser.
I feel like yes, I'm really excited to play a night game, especially at Kinney because it's always pretty special environment.
Are you ready for dumb ass or drongo?
Let's do it.
Dumb ass or drongo.
This is two stories that I give to Tori and he decides
Which one is from America, dumbass, or Drongo, which is Australian slang for somebody of a slow person?
Of the four episodes we've had so far, Tori, we've had 16 available points.
You currently have eight out of 16 points.
So I'm at 50%.
I've got an S.
You had said on the first episode, originally said that you were going to get 45 points.
Yeah, I know
what
I said, Brian.
Thank you.
Okay, all right.
You think you got this ready to go to here today?
I don't
know,
I will
try.
Alright, Eric is 33.
He called the cops recently when someone stole $10 from him.
Turns out Eric walked up to Largo Police and freely admitted he was selling weed.
Someone ran off with his 10 bucks.
The second story.
Journalist Kristen wanted to find out the limits of what you can name your baby.
Kristen gave birth to her son in July and submitted the name
Methamphetamine rules to the births deaths and marriages register Which one is a dumbass?
Which
one is second one's drongo?
Okay, the second one's gotta be drongo first one dumbass
final answer on that Yeah Two or two.
I'm
back, baby.
All right back to get two more points.
No, I don't know Just to get two points.
You gotta give me a clue like I thought it could be anywhere
Eric is 33 Largo police.
There was your clue Largo police.
I don't know Largo police
Do you remember any any other clues I may have given you in previous episodes?
No Wait, are we in America or at the moment?
Yes.
What one did I say?
Yeah Largo police.
I don't I mean one of the how many states are there?
50
50 yep
50.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, no that that really helps
Let's just go with Iowa.
Nope, not Iowa.
That one was in Florida.
I've mentioned on a previous episode that-
That was gonna be my next guest.
Did I remember you mentioned something in Florida?
That's what-
Far
out!
Okay, you could get three out of four here if you can tell me where journalist Kristen wanted to find the limits of what you can name your baby.
She named her son, third son, methamphetamine rules and submitted to the births, deaths and marriages register.
Where do you think?
What state or city in Australia?
You got it.
Can you give me a clue,
please?
When people talk about Australia, you're really only talking about probably one to two areas.
I'm gonna go with New South Wales then, Sydney.
Correct.
Let's go.
So three out of four?
Three out of four, that's right.
You are currently sitting at?
11 out of 20, 55%.
All right, so we're going up a little bit.
Thank you.
You are very welcome.
Is methamphetamine a big deal in Australia like it is in the States?
Yeah, it can be in certain parts.
I'm not really too sure.
I've never even smoked a cigarette, so I stay away from that stuff.
Not only are you a prime athlete, but you're such a good boy in the fact that you haven't even smoked a cigarette.
Well, it was kind of one of those things that growing up, my parents always said like, hey, if you guys want to go out and have a couple of drinks with your friends or you want to go to a party, that's fine.
But they kind of said for as long as you live in this house like if you do any drugs you can get out So it was kind of one of those things like yeah, you know, that's that's more than fair enough So it was I just never really want to want to talk my parents down in that regard and I Just think it's not it doesn't do any good for you But not not really I'm not really a big drinker in general to be honest.
I don't think I've asked you this before.
What is your one vice?
I Can't
Well, I think probably people probably don't really like, sorry, don't really like, but know about me is actually like reading books, like I read a lot.
Cause I feel like that's kind of good for you.
But it was weird, you know, even when I was kind of, when I finished high school and I was 19, 20, you know, a lot of my mates would go out, but I'd rather just sit on the couch on a Saturday night, watch the football, have a can of Coke, smash a bag of candy and go to sleep.
You know what I mean?
Your vice is a bag of candy then.
Probably yeah,
okay,
not so much anymore.
I try and eat a little cleaner But yeah, I'd have a bag of candy around then maybe once every couple of weeks In fact, I have a little bag of peanut M&Ms every Friday night.
That's like my little you know pretty game snack
What's on your watch list right now if you're not reading a book?
What are you watching either as a TV show or a movie or what are you into?
I prefer TV shows and I'm kind of in the middle of game of thrones at the moment
Oh, so that's why Daenerys came up.
Yeah.
I wish you nothing but the best against Michigan State coming up this week.
Again, folks, we're at three and one is record this right now.
Tori, any last minute words for those that are listening to the jock to jock podcast about the team this week?
No, not really.
Probably just more say, you know, like we know last week wasn't our best effort.
Like period, like literally at all, you know, but there was a couple of positives to take out of the game.
But yeah, we'll be a lot better this week.
We know we need to kind of just move on and everybody else does too because you can't change the past.
Tori, thanks again for the time.
You're welcome.
That'll do it for this week's Jock to Jock podcast.
If this is your first episode that you've listened to, go back in the archives and listen to the previous episodes from this season and...
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