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Join Jeff Tracy as he welcomes Jeff Peterson, a meteorologist and head of Golf Chat, to discuss the intersection of weather and golf. Peterson shares insights from his 22 years of service in the Air Force and how his military experience shaped his career in meteorology, emphasizing the importance of weather awareness for golfers. They delve into the dynamics of weather forecasting for airports and the impact of conditions like storms and snow on air traffic control. The conversation also touches on the lighter side of golf, including humorous anecdotes and the diverse golfing community that thrives on platforms like Golf Chat. With tips on managing your golf game and travel, this episode is packed with valuable information for enthusiasts and casual players alike.
Links referenced in this episode:
- birdieball.com
- paintedhillsbeef.com
- pigpowder.com
- westonkia.com
- heritagecookware.com
- hammerstahlknives.com
- golfchat.com
Companies mentioned in this episode:
- Painter Hills Natural Beef
- Oregon Crab Commission
- Weston Kia
- Birdie Ball
- Pig Powder
This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:
OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy
Transcripts
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Speaker B:Well, our guest this week is Jeff Peterson.
Speaker B:Weather goes by weather hack on X Twitter.
Speaker B:That always reminds me of like the arm artist formerly known as Prince.
Speaker B:You know, when they say that Jeff lives in the Las Vegas area, he's an Air Force veteran.
Speaker B:How we met, just so you know, is through Golf Chat.
Speaker B:Jeff's the head honcho on Golf Chat and every Tuesday night they come on X or Twitter and he has a series of about five or six questions.
Speaker B:Sometimes he creates them, sometimes people send them in.
Speaker B:It's a lot of fun.
Speaker B:I always enjoy looking forward to it because I can really kind of lay out a little sarcasm there.
Speaker B:But Jeff, welcome, my friend.
Jeff Peterson:Thank you very much, Jeff.
Jeff Peterson:I'm glad to be here.
Speaker B:I'll get the name of the host and the guest right today.
Speaker B:I'll put it that way exactly.
Speaker B:So let's do a little bit about your military service first and then how you got into being a trained weather observer.
Jeff Peterson:Ah, well, man, that's a long story.
Speaker B:I did like, we got 10 minutes.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Jeff Peterson:Okay.
Jeff Peterson:I did about the six year program in college and ran out of money, said, hey, I'm gonna make money and go back to school.
Jeff Peterson:Well, then I had to go pay rent, do all that other stuff on my own, and I just kind of went, well, this isn't working.
Jeff Peterson:So.
Jeff Peterson:And my happiest college classes were in meteorology.
Jeff Peterson:So then I started looking at the military as a way to get experience and then maybe go to National Weather Service or something like that.
Jeff Peterson:And so I looked at the Navy and I'm like, nah, six months on boats.
Jeff Peterson:No Marines.
Jeff Peterson:Yeah, no, I'm not a Marine.
Jeff Peterson:Those guys are.
Jeff Peterson:Those guys are a different breed and I love them to death.
Jeff Peterson:And then I went air Force and walked in, walk into the recruiter, and next thing you know, I'm off to basic training.
Speaker B:Well, at least you kind of get to fly for free sometimes when you're with the Air Force.
Jeff Peterson:Sometimes yes, sometimes no, right?
Jeff Peterson:Yeah, sometimes, you know, you know, you would get like preferential boarding.
Jeff Peterson:That's about it.
Jeff Peterson:Or when the Air Force would send you to school or something like that.
Jeff Peterson:Yeah, you know, get a flight for free.
Speaker B:I have a brother in law who was in the Air force and he was stationed Virginia, South Carolina.
Speaker B:But wherever he was, there was a hub at the airport and that's where people coming from active beauty to go to another base or whatever, they all came through his base.
Speaker B:And he always, he always said, because I know he doesn't listen to the show or neither does his wife, so that won't get him in trouble.
Speaker B:But he said when you found a good looking girl come through, you just kind of delay her orders for a few days.
Jeff Peterson:Those paperwork guys, they know, they know how to do things.
Speaker B:Yeah, they did.
Speaker B:So when you got out of the service, did you, did you have aspirations of, you know, being kind of an Al Roker kind of guy on national television or did you just want to really stay in the, in the weather service?
Jeff Peterson:Well, jokingly, like, I do have a broadcasting minor and I was jokingly said that I had a face made for radio.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Jeff Peterson:So there goes all the dreams of going to the weather channel or anything like that.
Jeff Peterson:Honestly, I stayed in 22 years.
Jeff Peterson:So I retired from the Air Force and my last two and a half years I got into the civilian side working at Omaha's airport.
Jeff Peterson:And so after I retired, I've been working on the civilian side ever since.
Speaker B:And so do you actually go into the airport every day and up in the tower, are you in a bunker somewhere just looking at computer models or what?
Jeff Peterson:I'm actually, I'm actually in a building right at the base of the tower.
Jeff Peterson:I have my own office.
Jeff Peterson:Some locations at different airports, they're directly in the tower.
Jeff Peterson:In Omaha, my building was like two miles away from the terminal, basically at the end of a Runway.
Speaker B:Sure.
Jeff Peterson:So you know, it varies depending on location.
Speaker B:So how close do you work with the airlines as far as.
Speaker B:And I know you're on the civilian side now, but when you see something on the map, if you see a big storm front coming in, or believe me, I've been caught, I've flown enough over the years.
Speaker B:I'm a 2 million miler, Jeff.
Speaker B:So, you know, you get in turbulence, you get all that, you know, when it's clear and sunny, a lot of times you can't see the turbulence.
Speaker B:But when there's clouds or there's a possibility.
Speaker B:Possibility of snow or freezing rain or ice or something like that, how does that work?
Speaker B:You just call up and say, hey, Bob, you got a rough patch coming in?
Jeff Peterson:Yeah, no, not really.
Jeff Peterson:I'm not rarely in.
Jeff Peterson:I should say, I'm rarely in contact with the airlines.
Jeff Peterson:They have their own weather people at, like, the headquarters.
Jeff Peterson:Like, Southwest will have theirs in Dallas, United has theirs in Chicago, etc.
Jeff Peterson:Etc.
Jeff Peterson:My job is to basically make things easier for air traffic control and airport operations.
Speaker B:Okay.
Jeff Peterson:And, you know, it doesn't come into play a lot here because obviously Vegas has a lot, you know, really nice weather.
Jeff Peterson:But in Omaha or something like that, I would tell airfield ops, like, they have their.
Speaker B:Ha.
Jeff Peterson:They have a snowstorm going on right now.
Jeff Peterson:I would say, hey, you've got about two hours to get ahead of the snowplow or the plowing of the runways before the next wave of heavy snow comes through.
Speaker B:Okay.
Jeff Peterson:Or during thunderstorm season, it's like, okay, you've got about 35 minutes before the storm hits.
Jeff Peterson:So you want to get the fuel guys off the ramp.
Jeff Peterson:You want to get the baggage handlers off the ramp and stuff like that.
Jeff Peterson:That's kind of what.
Jeff Peterson:Where I specify.
Speaker B:Okay, so does that also apply to, like, if there's an issue on the ground?
Speaker B:We've all been through it, and they have to put you in a holding pattern because they've got too many trying to.
Speaker B:Too many planes trying to get on the ground and get out before a weather experience happens.
Jeff Peterson:Yes.
Jeff Peterson:Yeah, it does.
Jeff Peterson:I don't make that call.
Jeff Peterson:I just let air traffic control know what's going on, and then it's all up to them.
Speaker B:Well, see, I'm not looking for somebody to blame, Jeff, honestly, but.
Speaker B:But I've been in enough holding patterns, you know, spent a.
Speaker B:Spent a week, one night in Cleveland, that type of thing.
Speaker B:So it's really interesting to me.
Speaker B:So right now, folks, if you don't know this, because we record the show, you know, previous to the air date, we've got a little thing happening here in the Northwest and in the Portland area where I live.
Speaker B:And as Jeff and I were talking off, off before we started recording the show, I should say we've got weather coming in from the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker B:We've got cold air coming down from Alaska and Canada, and they always seem to meet right down between Seattle, Portland, like Eugene, and we're in this little bowl here where everything just kind of stacks up is the.
Speaker B:We're one of the few places in the, in our country where that happens.
Speaker B:You know, we, you got Florida, you got stuff coming in off the Gulf or the Atlantic and the Bahamas and that.
Speaker B:And in Southern California, you never know what the hell's going on down there.
Speaker B:So how, how aware before they fly should people be of the potential weather and before you're heading out on a very expensive golf trip, you know, very, very, very, very.
Jeff Peterson:And it's easier than ever now because with all the apps and the availability of information, you should never get caught short, you know, especially like long term.
Speaker B:Sure.
Jeff Peterson:Like say, okay, I'm wearing the shirt band and nudes.
Jeff Peterson:Hey, I'm going to bandit.
Jeff Peterson:Now I should know, you know, what to expect, what to pack.
Jeff Peterson:You know, sometimes, you know, mother nature will bite you in the butt.
Jeff Peterson:You know, happens, happened to me a lot.
Jeff Peterson:You know, you get that pop up thunderstorm and which will throw that monkey wrench, you know, when, you know, when you give them the 20% chance of a thunderstorm and while that 20% hits.
Speaker B:Yep.
Jeff Peterson:You know, then you get stuck.
Jeff Peterson:But, you know, whoops.
Jeff Peterson:Excuse me.
Jeff Peterson:Everything, everything's available.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Okay.
Jeff Peterson:Everything's available.
Jeff Peterson:I mean, you know, and you know, I'm not going to recommend one weather app over the other because they're all basically the same until you get into the pay to play.
Speaker B:Yeah, right, Right.
Speaker B:We're going to take a break.
Speaker B:I'm going to be back with my buddy Jeff Peter Peterson from Las Vegas, also known as the weather hack on X, formerly known as Twitter Golfer.
Speaker B:We will be talking about golf very shortly and Air Force veterans.
Speaker B:So we thank you for that.
Speaker B:Stay with us.
Speaker B:We'll be back in just a minute.
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Jeff Tracy:This is an encore.
Speaker B:Welcome back to Grilling at the Green.
Speaker B:I'm jt Today we're talking with my friend Jeff Peterson from Las Vegas who's a meteorologist, the head honcho at Golf Chat.
Speaker B:You know, it's always amazing to me that up here we're kind of battle hardened.
Speaker B:Jeff, as far as if it's going to rain, you just put on your rain gear, you know, And I'm getting to the point in my life where it's.
Speaker B:If it's raining too hard, it's like, no, I'll watch it on tv.
Speaker B:I don't want to do that.
Speaker B:I've done that too much.
Speaker B:But we have this little segment coming into this part of the show where we ask our guests to give a golf travel tip.
Speaker B:And you're very well traveled and you're very familiar with the weather, More so than 99.9% of the people out there.
Speaker B:So what would you recommend that a good travel tip is for?
Jeff Peterson:People always bring extra golf shoes.
Jeff Peterson:I agree that, you know, I mean, then you can go into, you know, make sure you buy a quality travel bag and, you know, lots of different ways to pack the bag to try to prevent damage.
Jeff Peterson:But as we've seen, even a hard case can get messed up.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Jeff Peterson:No, I mean, like, especially if you're going someplace where you're walking and you're walking two rounds a day, like banded dudes.
Jeff Peterson:I always, you know, I always have extra shoes, especially abandoned and, you know, so just so you can take a break between rounds, go in, change shocks, change shoes, and then at least have a little bit of fresh feeling in your feet before you go out again.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker B:That's a great tip.
Speaker B:That's Jeff Peterson, our meteorologist.
Speaker B:All right, now, he's our resident meteorologist here on Grilling at the Green, but also the head guy at Golf Chat on Twitter.
Speaker B:We're going to talk about that.
Speaker B:We'd like to thank the folks at Weston Kia for making these Golf Tip.
Speaker B:Trip tip.
Speaker B:It's possible.
Speaker B:I can't ever say that, Jeff.
Speaker B:Anyway, I could have written that easier, you know, but not me.
Speaker B:I had to do it the hard way.
Jeff Peterson:Oh, heck, yeah.
Speaker B:Let's talk about Golf Chat.
Speaker B:We've got about five minutes here for the next break.
Speaker B:I just kind of stumbled across you guys a couple of years ago or whatever.
Speaker B:What's the, what's the backstory in the history of golf chat?
Jeff Peterson:Boy, I wish I could tell you.
Jeff Peterson:No.
Speaker B:Okay.
Jeff Peterson:I am the fourth or fifth host.
Jeff Peterson:I.
Jeff Peterson:I'm not 100% sure.
Jeff Peterson:I got randomly paired out here in Vegas with a guy from Twitter, and he goes by one bearded golfer.
Speaker B:Yeah, I'm familiar.
Jeff Peterson:Yeah, he even.
Jeff Peterson:He does a pod called Blind Shots.
Jeff Peterson:But he, you know, I spent.
Jeff Peterson:Spent a round with him, and he got me into Golf Chat.
Jeff Peterson:And then I just started participating.
Jeff Peterson:And let's see.
Jeff Peterson:And then there was.
Jeff Peterson:Since I've been.
Jeff Peterson:It's been Ben Grian and Jay Wallace.
Jeff Peterson:Who's up from your.
Jeff Peterson:Your neck of the woods, right?
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:And then I.
Jeff Peterson:Then I took over from Jay.
Speaker B:Oh, okay.
Jeff Peterson:It was.
Jeff Peterson:It was started by, I think, someone in California, but I can't.
Jeff Peterson:Like I said, I don't know the whole details.
Speaker B:Well, it's.
Speaker B:I can see where it would be, even though it's only once a week, but to come up with six fresh questions every week and then manage it, you know, know when to fire off the next question, do all that.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:I've been in those situations, but not with Golf Chat.
Speaker B:And I don't want to do golf chat.
Speaker B:I like.
Speaker B:I like writing sarcastic and humorous answers and.
Speaker B:And go from there.
Speaker B:And sometimes you get some really thoughtful answers from some of the participants.
Speaker B:So I would recommend people listening to this.
Speaker B:If you're on Twitter, just look out, look up real golf chat.
Speaker B:And this is the man that's running it.
Speaker B:And you'll have some fun.
Speaker B:I think.
Jeff Peterson:Sometimes.
Speaker B:Sometimes.
Jeff Peterson:Yeah, sometimes you can.
Jeff Peterson:You can kind of be sarcastic and, you know, snarky and stuff like that.
Jeff Peterson:And sometimes you got to take it seriously.
Jeff Peterson:It's all depends on.
Jeff Peterson:And sometimes you can mix it up.
Speaker B:Yeah, I try to poke fun at myself, mostly.
Jeff Peterson:Yeah, me too.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:If I can poke fun at myself and get the point across, I'm good.
Speaker B:I don't like pointing at other people and saying, hey, doofus like that.
Speaker B:I don't do that.
Speaker B:I try to put myself right in the crosshairs, and I do a very good job of it.
Jeff Peterson:Most of the time, I'm an expert because I have those short game issues that I always.
Speaker B:Yes, yes.
Speaker B:My, my.
Speaker B:You know, I'm pretty good, except from the tee box to the flag.
Speaker B:Other than that, I've got it.
Speaker B:I've got it down pretty well.
Speaker B:So, Jeff, what do you think is the most fun you've had doing golf chat as far as answers or participants or even crazy questions that people have submitted and you've gone ahead and used?
Jeff Peterson:Yeah, I think some.
Jeff Peterson:You know, I think it's when I.
Jeff Peterson:When I really go out and ask for questions.
Jeff Peterson:Sometimes you'll get a couple of doozies that you'll just sit there and laugh.
Jeff Peterson:Yeah, you know, I.
Jeff Peterson:And I think that's fun because, see, not every golfer and not everybody on Golf chat thinks the same way about the game.
Speaker B:Right.
Jeff Peterson:You know, you got.
Jeff Peterson:You got the guys that take it.
Jeff Peterson:Oh, God, this is serious.
Jeff Peterson:And then you got guys who crack a beer as they're walking up to the first tee.
Speaker B:Right.
Jeff Peterson:You know, you got guys that play high end courses, you got guys that play, you know, pasture pool, basically kind of like grew up, you know, so, you know, you can't just channel anything to one particular group.
Speaker B:Yeah, I can.
Speaker B:I can see that.
Speaker B:I can see that in your questions, too.
Speaker B:Because obviously the way some people answer the question, you can tell that they've played at Pebble a half a dozen times, you know, or they've been invited to play Augusta or something like that.
Speaker B:And then.
Speaker B:And then you've got the hacks like me that get out there and we've got a $10 course across the freeway from where I live.
Speaker B:We also have a very opulent course which is right behind our house.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:But if you want to just go, you know, kill an hour and a half and play nine and walk around, nobody's ever run that $10 course.
Speaker B:It's all flat sand greens like that.
Speaker B:But you've got folks like that, too.
Speaker B:So I think it's.
Speaker B:I think that speaks indicatively of the whole golf genre.
Speaker B:We're such a wide and varied group.
Jeff Peterson:Yes.
Jeff Peterson:I mean, you know, and that's kind of what's cool about it, too.
Speaker B:Yeah, it is.
Speaker B:It's very cool.
Speaker B:Jeff and I are going to take another break here.
Speaker B:We've got to do a little business here, but we're talking with Jeff Peterson, golfer Graham Poobah of Golf Chat on Twitter X excuse me, Meteorologist, Air Force vet.
Speaker B:And we're going to talk about his golf game when we come back.
Speaker B:So please stay with us.
Speaker B:You're listening to Grilling at the Green.
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Jeff Tracy:This is an encore.
Speaker B:Welcome back to Grilling at the Green.
Speaker B:I'm jt.
Speaker B:I better turn on my clock here.
Speaker B:And we thank you for listening today.
Speaker B:I've got Jeff Peterson with me, who is the head of Golf Chat.
Speaker B:I'm pushing Golf Chat for no other reason than I think it's a lot of fun and it's something to look forward to for about an hour every Tuesday night.
Speaker B:You can answer at your own pace.
Speaker B:You don't have to answer the questions right then.
Speaker B:You don't have to answer them at all.
Speaker B:But if you want to have some fun, check out Golf Chat on, on X Twitter or whatever.
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Jeff Peterson:Oh, perfect.
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker B:I've reached out a couple times for some cooking tips, barbecue tips, so I'll make sure we get you some there.
Speaker B:So let's talk about your golf game.
Speaker B:How much of your golf game is reflective in the questions that you write?
Jeff Peterson:Wow, that's a good question.
Jeff Peterson:Really?
Jeff Peterson:Not much, other than, like, when I do poke fun at myself with the short game issues that I have or I've had for my entire golf life, you know, it's just, you know, it's down to acceptance now, basically, you know, I've gone through the grieving stage and just, you know.
Speaker B:Yeah, I get it.
Speaker B:I get it.
Jeff Peterson:Back in, back in the day, I may have had to sacrifice a wedge or two just because it was misbehaving.
Speaker B:Yeah, well, sometimes they do better off in other places on the planet than they do in your golf bag, you know, take up a new residence, so to speak.
Jeff Peterson:Exactly.
Speaker B:Did you start playing when you were a kid?
Speaker B:I did.
Speaker B:With your dad or brothers or something?
Jeff Peterson:No, actually, my grandparents on my mom's side of the family were both golfers.
Jeff Peterson:Both very good.
Jeff Peterson:You know, my dad's side of the family didn't play, but, you know, started off, you know, slapping it around grandpa's yard a little bit.
Speaker B:Right.
Jeff Peterson:And then you know, at some point in the early 70s, around 10 years old, you know, got my first set.
Jeff Peterson:Little Kmart beginner set.
Speaker B:Yeah, my.
Speaker B:A guy that is on our show frequently, Bruce Furman, who's, you know, rated golf digest top 100 teachers and all that stuff he talks about, he grew up in Iowa and then he went to school in Texas and stuff.
Speaker B:And, and he talks about getting his first set was a Laura, was it?
Speaker B:Laura Bird?
Speaker B:Laura Boss.
Speaker B:One of the.
Speaker B:There's a lot of Lauras in the LPGA back then and.
Jeff Peterson:Right.
Speaker B:Not so much today.
Speaker B:But he said he gotta, you know, ten dollar set from Kmart and that's.
Speaker B:And he still had the driver.
Speaker B:He doesn't use it, but he kept it after all these years.
Speaker B:Wow, that's cool.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Bruce is our age, so that's, that's saying something.
Speaker B:He's got a museum piece there.
Jeff Peterson:Exactly.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:Like that.
Speaker B:So when did you know you were hooked?
Jeff Peterson:Pretty much the first time I played.
Jeff Peterson:Yeah, you know, when I.
Jeff Peterson:Because my grandparents also kind of like what you were saying.
Jeff Peterson:Had the, the little cheap course right across the road from their house and nobody ever played it.
Jeff Peterson:So we could go out there.
Jeff Peterson:My brother and I could just go out there and slap it around to our heart's content.
Speaker B:Yeah, it, you know, it's funny and I'm.
Speaker B:I'm assuming that when your first set you had.
Speaker B:Well, they weren't hickory shafts, but they were wooden club heads as far as the driver and the three and that type of thing.
Speaker B:Screws, you know, heavy stainless steel or aluminum shafts and.
Speaker B:Yeah, and that.
Speaker B:And, and if you didn't.
Speaker B:Blades.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And if you didn't hit the golf ball very well with it, you could use them in the garden.
Jeff Peterson:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker B:They could break up dirt clods like a mother.
Speaker B:I know that for a fact.
Speaker B:So once you knew you were hooked, did you start playing on a regular basis?
Speaker B:Did you play in school?
Speaker B:Did how many times did it affect your arriving on time for the Sunday family dinner?
Jeff Peterson:You know, now I didn't play.
Jeff Peterson:I mean, I played during the summers.
Jeff Peterson:I was mostly involved in baseball and they didn't.
Jeff Peterson:Especially at that time.
Jeff Peterson:They're like, you don't play golf and play baseball on the same time and stuff because it'll screw up your swing and then, you know, you roll into football season.
Jeff Peterson:So it's like, you know, I played when I could when I was a kid, but I didn't do anything like play for a school or anything like that.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:They should ask John Smoltz about that playing golf and screwing up your, you know, your swing and playing baseball.
Speaker B:I think he.
Speaker B:He's the epitome of it.
Speaker B:That's not true particularly.
Jeff Peterson:Exactly.
Speaker B:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker B:I'd like to get him on the show sometime.
Speaker B:Were you able to play when you're in the service?
Speaker B:I know the military's got some nice golf courses, not just here in the States, but around the world.
Jeff Peterson:Yeah, I played.
Jeff Peterson:That's where I really, really got into.
Speaker B:It, because.
Jeff Peterson:The weather business at the time and at some bases it still is.
Jeff Peterson:It's 247 business.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Jeff Peterson:So a lot of times, you know, I'd work weekends, but I'd have Tuesday and Wednesday off.
Jeff Peterson:And my wife said.
Jeff Peterson:My wife would go to work, and I.
Jeff Peterson:And we didn't have kids at the time, especially my first assignment, and I drop her off at work and just go play until it was time to pick her up.
Speaker B:Well, that's not a bad day.
Jeff Peterson:That's not a bad day.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's not a.
Speaker B:That's not a bad day.
Jeff Peterson:And the.
Jeff Peterson:The rates were very cheap.
Jeff Peterson:And, yes, there are some absolutely gorgeous golf courses out there in the military, and there are some that aren't, but.
Jeff Peterson:Yeah, you know, it's like, anywhere.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:I had a client when I was in the horse business, Jeff.
Speaker B:He was a.
Speaker B:He was in the Air Force, actually, and I don't know what.
Speaker B:He maybe got up to be a captain maybe.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Something like that.
Speaker B:His job was to play golf with generals.
Speaker B:If, you know, he was kind of an attache, if you will, with a golf bag.
Speaker B:And if they had generals coming into Okinawa, for example, they would take him with them.
Speaker B:He was stationed.
Speaker B:He was stationed in Washington.
Speaker B:And they would.
Speaker B:They would, you know, say, Aaron's, you're going with me this week.
Speaker B:Pack your bags like that.
Speaker B:And they'd be gone for a week.
Speaker B:And I said, well, Steve, how long were those meetings?
Speaker B:He goes, oh, hell, they were deadly.
Speaker B:They were 45 minutes.
Speaker B:And then the rest.
Speaker B:The rest of the time we were on the golf course.
Jeff Peterson:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:How do you get a job like that?
Jeff Peterson:I have no idea.
Speaker B:Well, he was a scratch golfer, though.
Speaker B:Yeah, well, that.
Speaker B:That helps.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Jeff Peterson:You know, you can't.
Jeff Peterson:You can't be a general's aide and be a chop, especially if the guy.
Jeff Peterson:If the general likes to play.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Well, he was, you know, he said, oh, yeah.
Speaker B:He said, I played with some guys that were just horrid.
Speaker B:And I said, well, that would be me.
Speaker B:But he said, as long as you had the patience.
Speaker B:And I never Suggested things unless they asked.
Speaker B:If they ask, I would help them and we could straighten out some small parts of their game.
Speaker B:And then they always wanted to take me on the next trip.
Speaker B:So I know, I don't know what his technically his real job was supposed to be, but that became his full time job for like six years.
Speaker B:So.
Jeff Peterson:Good for him.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's what I think.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Jeff Peterson: ou know, since like basically: Speaker B:Yeah, I think this was in, I would guess it was in the late 60s through the mid-70s.
Speaker B:I haven't seen him in a long time.
Speaker B:He may not still be alive.
Speaker B:He was a lot older than I was when I met him.
Speaker B:But that was his job.
Jeff Tracy:Oh, sure.
Speaker B:That's a hell of a job.
Jeff Peterson:Yeah, it is.
Speaker B:So how's your golf game changed over the years, Jeff?
Jeff Peterson:I have used to hit it long with a big, with a big draw.
Jeff Peterson:Then it went to a turn signal hook basically.
Jeff Peterson:So then I taught myself how to hit a fade and got down to about a one at one point and then all of a sudden that didn't work and now I'm in the process of rebuilding it again.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Jeff Peterson:And for the first time in my life I'm taking lessons.
Speaker B:Really?
Jeff Peterson:Yeah.
Jeff Peterson:Distance has never been an issue.
Jeff Peterson:I don't hit it as far obviously as I used to, given the fact that I'm old.
Jeff Peterson:But you know, for my age I get it out there pretty well.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's kind of my deal too, is the control.
Speaker B:I've never had too big of an issues with, you know, putting the mileage on, so to speak.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:It's, it looks good when it starts and then kind of, you know, 150 yards out there, it starts deciding, you know, which exit it's going to take.
Jeff Peterson:Exactly.
Jeff Peterson:Then you got to put on the turn signal.
Speaker B:Yeah, you got to put on.
Speaker B:Sometimes we've had to shoot up flares and stuff to go find the damn thing, but you know, it's just one of those things and I think that's probably indicative of, you know, when you get over 50 type thing.
Speaker B:But I, I mean, I've got the same problem.
Speaker B:Listen, Jeff Peterson and I are going to take a break here and we're going to be back in just a few minutes with more on grilling.
Speaker B:It's green.
Speaker B:We're going to wrap that part up and then we're going to do the after hours lightning round with Jeff and see how he fares with that.
Speaker B:Please stay with us, everybody.
Speaker B:J.T.
J.T.:Here.
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Speaker B:Which I happen to have a couple.
J.T.:Of those and they work great.
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Jeff Tracy:This is an encore.
Speaker B:Welcome back to grilling.
Speaker B:It's green.
Speaker B:I'm J.T.
Speaker B:a couple of things here real quick.
Speaker B:I wanted to talk to you briefly about Hammersall knives and Heritage cookware.
Speaker B:I just, we just started using those products on my cooking stuff and I'm really impressed with them.
Speaker B:Hammer Stall is, of course, great.
Speaker B:German Steel Heritage is from a family owned company in Tennessee.
Speaker B:They're both the same outfit and you can go to either one of their websites, hammerstone knives.com or heritagecookware.com and give them a look, give them a try.
Speaker B:They're, they're very good.
Speaker B:They work well.
Speaker B:Not just for the kind of the stuff that Leanne and I do, but at home, daily use.
Speaker B:If you're into barbecue or, you know, really trying to improve your skills, I would recommend Hammer Staller Heritage.
Speaker B:That's.
Speaker B:I would.
Speaker B:That's all I'm going to say about that.
Speaker B:And like I said, Jeff is going to stick around for after hours with us.
Speaker B:Were you ever in danger of being called back into service, like, you know, 20 years ago or so when we started messing around the Middle east and all that?
Jeff Peterson:Well, that, that's right when I was in.
Jeff Peterson:So I've been, I've been over to that part of the world more times than I care to think about.
Jeff Peterson:So, you know, including, including a summer in beautiful downtown Baghdad.
Speaker B:Yay.
Speaker B:Yay.
Speaker B:I spent some time in beautiful downtown Riyadh.
Speaker B:And actually Riyadh is kind of pretty in its own sense, but I'm surprised you spent that much time over there and still have trouble in the bunker with all that sand.
Jeff Peterson:Actually, here's the funny thing.
Jeff Peterson:My short game issues are only in the fairway.
Speaker B:Really?
Jeff Peterson:Yeah.
Jeff Peterson:My bunker game, while it's not great, but I'll get out of the bunker and out of the green and onto the green.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Jeff Peterson:Which is really, you know, rule one is get out of the bunker.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So.
Jeff Peterson:And then coming out of the rough is really not an issue either.
Jeff Peterson:But yeah, my, my wedge heebie jeebies are, are all off the fairway.
J.T.:Huh.
Speaker B:I, I'm just crappy with them all anymore.
Speaker B:So I don't worry about it.
Speaker B:I just hit it.
Speaker B:Like, I will say that I did get to play Golf over there.
Speaker B:And I was in a little town called De Rob, which is about 90 clicks out.
Speaker B:And that's where there's a lot of expats there from the oil companies.
Speaker B:So they built him a little nine hole golf course there.
Speaker B:I still got a hat from it.
Speaker B:And there was, you know, you can't play on that course or similar courses over there like in Abu Dhabi and that and worry about the sand because there's sand everywhere.
Speaker B:You know, you got to target the grass and try to keep going forward.
Jeff Peterson:Right.
Speaker B:And that, that was a learning experience for me.
Speaker B:And, and you're not supposed to drink, at least in the kingdom.
Speaker B:We did not obey that rule when we were on the golf course.
Speaker B:But it was a lot of fun and I was surprised when I pulled up and kind of, you know, it's a bit desolate out there where I was outside of the city.
Speaker B:As you know, if you've been in Baghdad that you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker B:And, and then you see this kind of patches of green and kind of a uniform, symmetrical and you say is that a golf course?
Speaker B:And they say, yep, that's the only one we got here.
Speaker B:So did you ever play over there or did you get over to the Emirates and play?
Jeff Peterson:Yeah, I actually have been over to Abu Dhabi and played there once.
Jeff Peterson:Rental clubs, the whole nine yards.
Jeff Peterson:Obviously I'm not going to bring my golf clubs going over there.
Speaker B:That's interesting.
Speaker B:What was it like?
Jeff Peterson:It was hot and it was humid.
Jeff Peterson:It was probably the most humid I have humidity I've ever experienced and that's even spending time in the southeast US and stuff like that.
Speaker B:Yeah, because I can tell you in the kingdom it was not humid.
Speaker B:It was just hot.
Jeff Peterson:Right.
Speaker B:Period there.
Speaker B:And you could see guys out there on the, on the course that were dressed in their native garb.
Jeff Peterson:Right.
Speaker B:You know, kind of like how do you.
Speaker B:How you hit a golf ball with a bathrobe on?
Speaker B:I just don't know.
Jeff Peterson:Well, I don't know given the, given some of the swings I put on a ball, maybe I need to try that.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Jeff, real quick before we get out of this part of the show, tell them again how they can find you on.
Speaker B:On X Twitter.
Speaker B:Slash Elon's experiment and tell them about Golf Chat real quick.
Jeff Peterson:Okay.
Jeff Peterson:Golf Chat, really?
Jeff Peterson:Tuesday nights ever at 8:30 Eastern, 5:30 Pacific.
Jeff Peterson:Look for at real Golf Chat on Twitter or just go for the hashtag Golf Chat and that'll lead you there.
Jeff Peterson:I just answer or I just ask six questions a night.
Jeff Peterson:Or six questions every Tuesday night, and you can answer them at your own pace.
Jeff Peterson:And who knows, you might connect with people and end up on golf trips with some of them.
Speaker B:There you go.
Jeff Peterson:You'll see.
Jeff Peterson:You'll see some good answers, you'll see some bad answers.
Jeff Peterson:You'll see serious, sarcastic.
Jeff Peterson:You'll see everything.
Jeff Peterson:Oh, and also, you know, if you just want to follow me at Weatherhack, I'd appreciate that, too.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker B:Jeff Peterson live from Vegas today.
Speaker B:We appreciate it, buddy.
Speaker B:We're gonna get out of here.
Speaker B:Jeff is sticking around for the after hours, so if you listen to this on the radio, terrific.
Speaker B:We thank you for that.
Speaker B:If you listen to it on the pod platforms out there, God, we're on a ton of them.
Speaker B:We appreciate that, too.
Speaker B:So for Jeff Peterson, I'm Jeff Tracy.
Speaker B:We thank you for listening to Grilling at the Green.
Speaker B:And we'll be back next week.
Speaker B:Do what we always say.
Speaker B:Go out, play some golf and be kind.
Speaker B:Take care, everybody.
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