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This podcast episode features an engaging dialogue with Lynn Clary and Monica Olson, the co-directors of the Standard Portland Classic, which is scheduled to take place from August 13th to 16th. The conversation delves into the nuances of their experiences as tournament directors while also revealing personal anecdotes and preferences that provide insight into their characters. Among the salient points discussed, they share their favorite aspects of travel and the significance of local culture when visiting different cities, specifically highlighting the importance of exploring local restaurants and venues. Furthermore, the episode touches upon their reflections on past experiences and influential figures in their lives, emphasizing the profound impact of family on their respective journeys. As they navigate through various light-hearted questions, the episode encapsulates both the professional and personal dimensions of their lives, offering listeners a multifaceted perspective on the world of golf and beyond.
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Companies mentioned in this episode:
- Little Bird
- Standard Portland Classic
- ladies.portlandclassic.com
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Transcripts
Welcome to Grilling at the Green After Hours.
Speaker A:The conversation that took place after the show ended.
Speaker A:Everybody, welcome to Grilling at the Green After Hours.
Speaker A:We've got Lynn and Monica with us today.
Speaker A:They're both from Little Bird.
Speaker A:If you listen to the regular show, you know all this.
Speaker A:They're the co directors of the Standard Portland Classic coming up, I should say Monica Olson and Lynn Clary, to be precise, about that.
Speaker A:Lynn has never suffered.
Speaker A:Sat through After Hours.
Speaker A:And so this is going to be a. I'm really sure of it.
Speaker A:Are you ready?
Speaker B:I suppose.
Speaker A:Okay, this is.
Speaker A:We'll start out with something really tough.
Speaker A:What's your favorite color?
Speaker A:Lifesaver.
Speaker B:Oh, red.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:What's the one song you want to hear on the radio when you start your car in the morning?
Speaker B:Well, it's maybe not a particular song, but I do.
Speaker B:I like Taylor Swift.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:You're a swifty.
Speaker B:I am.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:You guys travel a lot with your business and you do that.
Speaker A:What's one.
Speaker A:And this is for both of you.
Speaker A:What's one thing you look forward to at a particular place that you go back?
Speaker A:So, for example, if you went to Denver for a client every year, what's one place in Denver that you would.
Speaker A:One thing in Denver is a restaurant, a hotel, a sightseeing, whatever it is.
Speaker A:So you guys think about that for about two seconds and then you get to answer.
Speaker A:We'll go with Monica first because Lynn's already exhausted.
Speaker B:So one thing that I would want to see at a destination if I was traveling.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Well, I want to see what the hotel looks like.
Speaker B:I mean, that's where I'm staying, so I hope it's a nice one.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Well, you picked it.
Speaker A:So you.
Speaker B:Lynn, and local.
Speaker B:Local restaurants, too.
Speaker A:Local restaurants.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Yeah, I'd say restaurants where you're.
Speaker B:It's not a chain.
Speaker B:Maybe concert, maybe music.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Local sporting event.
Speaker A:I like that.
Speaker A:What's the first thing you reach for when you're done playing a round of golf?
Speaker B:Different shoes.
Speaker B:I want to change my shoes.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker B:And then have a glass of wine.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:I was going to say usually it's something liquid that.
Speaker B:Yes, yes.
Speaker A:Monica, how about you?
Speaker B:Yeah, I'd say the same thing.
Speaker B:A glass of wine and different shoes, for sure.
Speaker B:I feel like that's what we always do.
Speaker B:We go back to our car and put our flip flops on.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Put your flip flops on.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Are you laughing?
Speaker A:Yeah, some.
Speaker A:I'm not going to ask you, but if you can erase.
Speaker A:If you could erase one Mistake from your past, what would it be?
Speaker A:Oh, boy.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:That's deep.
Speaker A:Deep one.
Speaker B:That's deep.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:That's the shallow end of the deep stuff.
Speaker B:Not learning to play golf when I was younger.
Speaker A:Okay,.
Speaker B:I can't.
Speaker B:Don't go too deep.
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker B:I was like, yeah, you know,.
Speaker A:Hey, it's the Internet.
Speaker A:It goes on for infinity.
Speaker A:So, you know, I don't know.
Speaker B:Wait.
Speaker B:Something I would change or do differently.
Speaker A:A mistake you could erase.
Speaker A:It never happened.
Speaker B:I've never made a mistake.
Speaker A:Okay, folks, show's over.
Speaker A:Thanks for listening.
Speaker A:We're going home.
Speaker B:Coming to see you sooner.
Speaker A:Okay, there you go.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:I guess that goes hand in hand with the next one, which is, are there any regrets in life?
Speaker A:But we're not going to do that.
Speaker A:Question.
Speaker A:What's the first thing you do when you get up in the morning?
Speaker A:I mean, do you go for a jog?
Speaker A:Do you have a cup of coffee?
Speaker A:Do you.
Speaker B:It's not very exciting, but.
Speaker B:Coffee.
Speaker B:Coffee, absolutely.
Speaker B:Coffee, yeah.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:And check my emails.
Speaker A:Check your emails.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Here's a good one for you.
Speaker A:And you two are barely out of this bracket once.
Speaker A:One thing you miss about your 20s.
Speaker B:Oh, that's nice that you think that.
Speaker B:You know.
Speaker B:Well, back when we were in our 20s, there weren't cell phones, and so there's part of a.
Speaker B:Part of me that I miss.
Speaker B:Miss those days.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:There's a lot of days I'd like to just take mine and go check it in the river and be done with it.
Speaker B:Too connected.
Speaker A:What about you, Ms. Olson?
Speaker A:What's one thing you miss?
Speaker B:One thing I miss.
Speaker B:I miss the going to the bars.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:I still do that.
Speaker B:You know, Might be weird now, but I think, Miss, I miss that, like, the world is your oyster, like, and being, like, kind of blind ignorance about the world.
Speaker B:Little nice innocence.
Speaker A:Yeah, well, there was nothing you didn't think you could do.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:Exactly.
Speaker A:You could just hard charge into everything.
Speaker A:Okay, Lynn, here's one for you.
Speaker A:If you could dine with a historical figure, who would it be and what would be on the menu?
Speaker B:A historical figure.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:They don't have to be current.
Speaker A:It can be from wherever.
Speaker A:We'll bring them back for a day and have dinner with you.
Speaker B:Does that have to be a hymn, you said?
Speaker A:No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker A:Be anybody you want.
Speaker B:I have mine.
Speaker B:But I wonder if it's going to be the same as yours.
Speaker B:Probably not.
Speaker B:Mine would be Queen Elizabeth.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:Mm.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:And I don't know which Queen Elizabeth could be, but I would say I. I love.
Speaker B:I'm interested in the monarchy and I think it'd be really interesting to just sit and talk with her.
Speaker B:And since you said, what would be on the menu, obviously, tea sandwiches.
Speaker A:Yeah, she liked her sweets, this last one.
Speaker B:Yes, yes.
Speaker A:Liz, too.
Speaker A:She really liked hers and she liked her gin and tonic, so.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, we'd have a gin and tonic.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I'm kind of a monarchy buff in a way, so.
Speaker A:Yeah, she liked her.
Speaker A:She liked her scones and she liked her biscuits and her tarts and all that kind of stuff, but her corgis.
Speaker A:But I think she liked the gin and tonic maybe just a wee bit better.
Speaker A:Okay, What would be your last meal if you were on death row?
Speaker B:Oh, pizza.
Speaker B:I was going to say the same thing.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:There's no caloric limit at that point because nobody's going to care.
Speaker B:Right, right.
Speaker A:Eat whatever you want, as much as you want.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Double pepperoni, mushrooms and olives or anything or just the.
Speaker B:No, no, that's.
Speaker B:That's too healthy.
Speaker B:Just pepperoni.
Speaker A:Just pepperoni.
Speaker B:Lots of it.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:If you could play a round of golf with one of your golfing heroes, who would it be?
Speaker B:Oh, for sure.
Speaker B:Nancy Lopez.
Speaker B:And I mean, obviously she's a very good golfer, but she's so amazing, like, just a joy to be around, so.
Speaker B:And I think she'd be very patient with me.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But that's maybe where those gin and tonics could come in too.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Who was the.
Speaker B:Yeah, who would you.
Speaker B:I would have said Nancy also, because we got to meet her and I know how great a person she is.
Speaker B:But also I would say maybe, like Kathy Whitworth, our first winner, that would be even further, further back.
Speaker B:Historically, too.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:If you could get a lesson from one of the touring pros on the lpga, which pro would you ask to give you a lesson?
Speaker B:I think I would say Aki, who was our champion last year, because she looks like she'd be a.
Speaker B:Who she.
Speaker B:If anybody follows her or everyone should follow her and her sister.
Speaker B:Twin sister, on Instagram.
Speaker B:So Akih and Chizzy.
Speaker B:She would be a lot of fun.
Speaker B:So I think I'd get, obviously some great tips, but also some good laughs.
Speaker B:Yeah, I think maybe Brooke Henderson.
Speaker A:She's getting married.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker A:She got engaged.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Baseball player.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:How about that?
Speaker B:And both are coming to the standard Portland Classic this summer.
Speaker A:I saw that.
Speaker A:I. I bet those twins really raise mischief when nobody's around.
Speaker A:Oh.
Speaker B:Oh, for sure.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:They're just.
Speaker A:You can just kind of see it in their eyes.
Speaker A:And we'll hand, you know.
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker B:And their little dances.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Maybe we'll see some more of that this year.
Speaker A:If you were declared Supreme Leader of Golf, the Ayatollah of Golf, for one day, what would you, Lynn Clary, decree as the Supreme Leader?
Speaker B:Like.
Speaker B:Like a rule.
Speaker B:I could change, maybe any.
Speaker A:You're a Supreme Leader.
Speaker A:You can do whatever you want.
Speaker B:Oh, gosh.
Speaker B:I would say something about being able to play even on a work day, for it somehow.
Speaker A:You two are gonna have to sort that out between yourselves.
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I should be careful.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Monica is listening.
Speaker A:Supreme Leader Monica, what would you.
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:I cannot think of anything.
Speaker B:The first thing that popped in my head was something with clothes.
Speaker B:Yeah, like cute clothes.
Speaker B:Everyone should.
Speaker B:Women not having to wear a collar.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:That's legal.
Speaker A:Who was the biggest influence on you personally?
Speaker A:Start with Monica.
Speaker B:In all of life.
Speaker A:In all of life.
Speaker B:Oh,.
Speaker A:I can actually ask some interesting questions once in a while.
Speaker B:Yeah, those are interesting.
Speaker B:Well, I would say if it could be two people, it would just have to be my parents.
Speaker B:I mean, such great role models and still today, biggest fans.
Speaker A:There you go, Lynn.
Speaker B:Well, I know it sounds like I'm copying, but I would say the same thing.
Speaker B:I have great parents.
Speaker B:My dad's now gone, but he was a huge influence on me as far as, like, business goes.
Speaker B:He was an entrepreneur.
Speaker B:So I think when it came to starting this business, I really.
Speaker B:He.
Speaker B:He inspired me for that.
Speaker A:Okay, good.
Speaker A:Good.
Speaker A:Yeah, My.
Speaker A:My dad's been gone for 30 years and a little more than 30 years, and I think about him every day.
Speaker A:He was quite the character and quite my buddy.
Speaker A:So if we put your skills to music, it can be any skill set you have.
Speaker A:But if we put your skill set to music, what would the music be.
Speaker B:Like?
Speaker B:What genre?
Speaker A:Yeah, give me some specific music.
Speaker A:What's your favorite song?
Speaker B:Yeah, pro.
Speaker B:It would probably be pop music.
Speaker B:And I'm also a Swifty, so maybe some Taylor Swift.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Are you.
Speaker B:Are you asking if we would, like, be singing or dancing?
Speaker A:No, the music would be in the background of you doing.
Speaker A:Doing a skill set.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:So it's like you're living your life to this.
Speaker A:This particular music.
Speaker B:Oh, well, I like country, and I think that fits a little bit of my lifestyle in some ways.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:So I'd say country music.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Mine was always Bob Seger, so getting down to the end here.
Speaker A:So what's your.
Speaker A:I'll put it this way, I'll frame it this way.
Speaker A:What's the worst movie you've ever seen, in your opinion?
Speaker B:Oh, God.
Speaker B:I'm not a big Quentin Tarantino fan and my son recently made me watch one of his movies and I.
Speaker B:It's very talented and it's great for somebody, but it wasn't for me.
Speaker B:Have you seen Eurovision?
Speaker A:No, I have not.
Speaker B:Yeah, don't, don't watch it.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:It's probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen, but it made me laugh.
Speaker A:When I was in college, I wrote movie reviews for a living and I saw a lot of really crappy movies.
Speaker B:Oh, I'm sure.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So if.
Speaker A:Well, the one thing was streaming too is, you know, you can virtually see the movies that are in the theaters now at home most of the time, you know, and costs about the same.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:But my wife gets frustrated with me because she'll run a movie and I can watch it for about eight minutes and go, no, and I'm out of here.
Speaker A:Okay, you talked about deep.
Speaker A:Here's two things.
Speaker A:One isn't and one is what's one thing you wish spectators at professional golf tournaments would not do?
Speaker B:Oh, I would say don't stay in one spot, walk around, don't camp out at one hole or don't, you know, just follow one player.
Speaker B:I would say move around, move around the course.
Speaker B:And we've tried to do that where we've got like over between hole 17 and 2, we've got a bar, a food truck.
Speaker B:You know, we're trying to get people to kind of move around the course a little bit and not stay in one space.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:Ms. Monica.
Speaker B:I would say don't drink too much.
Speaker B:Yeah, but drink tournament.
Speaker B:Drink enough.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:There's that window of opportunity there, right?
Speaker B:Yeah, there's a sweet spot.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's sweet spot.
Speaker A:Okay, last one.
Speaker A:It's a toss up whoever wants to go first.
Speaker A:If I gave you a box with everything that you've lost in your life, what would be the first thing you reached for?
Speaker B:Box is things like actual physical things.
Speaker A:It can be anything you want.
Speaker A:If you've lost physical things, if metaphysical things, family members, whatever.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:Shoot.
Speaker B:Well, of course, of course that, yeah.
Speaker A:Monica, what would be the first thing you reached for?
Speaker B:I guess.
Speaker B:Can you put a human in a box?
Speaker A:Yeah, they do it all the time.
Speaker A:So yeah,.
Speaker B:I would say, yeah, something, something serious I would say would be yes, probably some of my loved ones, my father in law, we lost him a few years back.
Speaker B:If it wasn't so serious, it would be the airpods I left in Savannah.
Speaker B:Oh yeah.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Those darn AirPods.
Speaker B:I just lost them too.
Speaker B:When you said that though, when you asked the question, I was thinking my Walkman.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:It's probably in the box somewhere.
Speaker B:I know I had a pink one.
Speaker A:It's probably in the Walkman hall of Fame or something.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Graveyard.
Speaker A:Graveyard.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Okay, that's good.
Speaker A:Thank you for playing.
Speaker A:The prizes will be in the mail to you.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:Lynn Clary and Monica Olson, the co tournament directors for the Standard Portland classic coming up August 13th through the 16th at Columbia Edgewater.
Speaker A:Go to the website which is ladies.
Speaker B:Portlandclassic.com There you go.
Speaker A:Find out all the information, ticket sales, all that if you want to volunteer.
Speaker A:And thank you again for playing along with this this edition of After Hours here on Grilling at the Ring.
Speaker A:That's going to wrap it up for the show this week.
Speaker A:Don't forget we've mentioned the the Standard Classic many times on the show.
Speaker A:If you're in the Portland area, please come see the tournament.
Speaker A:It's a great tournament.
Speaker A:Until then, thank you Lynn and Monica and we will be back next week like I said, with Jim Myers.
Speaker A:Jim, Jim's been through the lightning round a few times so he's kind of, he's always ready to fire back.
Speaker A:Anyway, tell in, go out, play some golf, have some fun, be kind and take care everybody.
