Shownotes
Join JT and his friend Jeff Peterson, also known as Weather Hack, for a lively conversation in this special After Hours edition of Grilling at the Green. The episode kicks off with Jeff sharing his insights on golf, including who he'd choose for a lesson and the dumbest thing he's witnessed on the course. As the discussion unfolds, they explore humorous anecdotes about golfing mistakes and the challenges of forecasting weather, particularly in the unpredictable Pacific Northwest. Jeff reflects on his military background, emphasizing the importance of treating others well and being true to oneself. The episode wraps up with light-hearted banter about music preferences and the perfect last meal, leaving listeners entertained and engaged.
Companies mentioned in this episode:
- Painted Hills Natural Beef
- Goodwill
- Folds of Honor
This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:
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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:Hi, everybody, it's jt and this is a special version of Grilling at the Green.
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Speaker A:That's Painted Hills Natural Beef.
Speaker A:Hey, everybody.
Speaker A:Welcome to After Hours here on Grilling at the Green.
Speaker A:I'm jt, and today we've got my friend and co conspirator on Twitter, Jeff Peterson, AKA Weather Hack, AKA boss of Real golf Chat.
Speaker A:And we thank Jeff for being with us.
Speaker A:And so you're up for this, right?
Speaker A:You're.
Speaker A:You're.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:All right, so we'll start off easy.
Speaker A:All right?
Speaker A:If you could get a lesson from one touring pro, who might that be?
Speaker B:Max Homa.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:You think you'd actually get through the lesson without busting out laughing all the time?
Speaker A:No, I didn't think so either.
Speaker A:If you could play around a golf with one of your golfing heroes, maybe they're still here, maybe they're not.
Speaker A:Who would that be?
Speaker B:Jack.
Speaker A:That would have been fun.
Speaker B:Yeah, I.
Speaker B:I grew up.
Speaker B:I mean, I caught the tail end of Arnold, but, you know, you know, growing up in the 70s and 80s, you know, it was Jack.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:What's the dumbest thing you've ever seen while playing golf?
Speaker B:Saw somebody roll a golf cart.
Speaker A:No, it wasn't you, right?
Speaker B:No, it wasn't me.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:Anybody injured have to call life, flight or anything?
Speaker B:No, but we might have called them dumbass.
Speaker A:Well, that's.
Speaker A:That's fair.
Speaker B:You know, and that was the kind part.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, well, I'm sure there was some more adjectives and.
Speaker B:Yeah, well, there.
Speaker B:There was.
Speaker B:There was alcohol involved and kind of speeding down, and they kind of missed a little bit of a turn on a cart path.
Speaker B:Got it, caught a tree root, and over they go.
Speaker A:That was it.
Speaker A:Okay, so, Jeff, if you could dine with a historical figure, doesn't have to be in the golf world, but anything.
Speaker A:Who would it be and what would be on the menu?
Speaker B:Oh, wow.
Speaker B:The military background.
Speaker B:I'd probably say either General Eisenhower or Admiral Nimitz.
Speaker A:That would be cool.
Speaker A:Did you know.
Speaker A:Did you know that Ike liked a nice coating of salt on his steak after it was cooked?
Speaker A:Before he ate it?
Speaker B:After.
Speaker A:Yeah, he cooked it with.
Speaker A:You know, they cooked it with salt and pepper and that, but when he sat down, he put a lot of salt on it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah, interesting.
Speaker B:But, yeah, Some and something for.
Speaker B:And what be on the menu would be a big old steak.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:Make sure it's Painted Hills, buddy.
Speaker A:We'll do that.
Speaker B:Send me a link.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I will.
Speaker A:What's the biggest mistake you think you have ever made on the golf course?
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:This is a two parter.
Speaker A:So biggest mistake you think you ever made on the golf course?
Speaker B:1.
Speaker B:Thinking that I could ever be good.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's common.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Pretty, you know, but probably being a dumbass and breaking a club.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But you're not alone on that.
Speaker A:There's a lot of people that do that.
Speaker A:Mine, I just banished them to Siberia or something, you know.
Speaker B:Oh, I.
Speaker B:I used to have quite a collection in the corner of the garage.
Speaker A:Did the wife finally say clean those out?
Speaker B:Yeah, I took them to Goodwill.
Speaker A:Attaboy.
Speaker A:Attaboy.
Speaker A:You know, speaking of that, a few years ago I was coming home one afternoon from the LPGA tournament here in Portland and that's way out by the airport.
Speaker A:And so I was going down Marine Drive, had to go under the 205 bridge.
Speaker A:Not that everybody listening wants to get a geography lesson here.
Speaker A:But as I was trying to get cut back to airport way to get on I205 South, I noticed there was a big Goodwill store there.
Speaker A:And I'm always snooping around in those things.
Speaker A:So I get in there and this Goodwill store was evidently Jeff, the last stop for whatever didn't get purchased out of this Goodwill store would go to the dump.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:They have these huge tables.
Speaker A:These tables are like 8 foot long and a foot and a half deep with sides on them.
Speaker A:They're metal and they've got rollers on them.
Speaker A:So they just whip them around.
Speaker A:They had two of those full of golf clubs.
Speaker B:Huh.
Speaker A:And I was digging through them like a madman because I think at that, at that store you, you buy stuff by the pound, you know, like 10 cents a pound type thing.
Speaker A:So I may have bought.
Speaker A:Found a coup old putters there or something, but I was just amazed that there was.
Speaker A:You could have started three golf teams in high school or more with the amount of clubs that they had.
Speaker A:But that's where they were.
Speaker A:What's the, you know, take that question and run with it as far as when you were predicting or advising on weather conditions.
Speaker B:Oh, wow.
Speaker A:There.
Speaker B:There was a couple of doozies.
Speaker B:I used to have a.
Speaker B:I used to have a commander at a base that he and I would bet.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:And it was a six pack bet.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker B:And you know, he was, he Was higher up, you know, than my immediate boss.
Speaker B:He was farther up the wing, wing chain.
Speaker B:And we had a weather situation that, oh, I've seen this a bunch of times.
Speaker B:The fog will clear out at 3:00.
Speaker B:It's textbook.
Speaker B:What, clean.
Speaker B:It cleared out at 3:00 a day later.
Speaker B:Oops.
Speaker A:Oops?
Speaker A:Yeah, oops.
Speaker B:You know, so, so then I had to show up like at the wing briefing with a six pack of beer and hand it to him.
Speaker A:I love it.
Speaker A:I love it.
Speaker A:Did, were, were the planes able to take off though, or was it too thick?
Speaker B:No, it was socked in.
Speaker B:It was, it wasn't Pacific Northwest, but it was zero, zero fog.
Speaker A:Got it, got it.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:What do you think the toughest part of your job is?
Speaker A:Just to follow up on that.
Speaker B:Ah, the hardest two things for me, I really had to work on.
Speaker B:One was tropical weather.
Speaker B:That was just tough.
Speaker B:I mean, you, it's like something that you almost have to be do as a specialty rather than, you know, kind of a catch all everything weather guy.
Speaker B:The other thing is forecasting snow depths.
Speaker A:That was kind of another follow up, Jeff.
Speaker A:I'd, Sorry.
Speaker A:I got a text from somebody here about the weather, so I didn't mean to look away.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:How come our weather guys are so wrong?
Speaker A:Many times, because here, here's a joke for, and I'm sure you've heard this a million times, but where we live, because, you know, it's the Northwest, they say we'll give it 10 minutes, the weather will change.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:You know, you can pretty much say that in 60% of the country.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:But you know, the other part of the joke is don't those guys ever go look out the window?
Speaker A:You know, they're always looking at their, their models.
Speaker A:I understand, I, I, I understand the theory of the science behind it.
Speaker A:I don't understand the science.
Speaker A:But, but we were talking off the air before we started, you know, little snow event happening here this weekend.
Speaker A:A few years ago that happened and it shut the whole town down, the city of Portland, Vancouver, for over 10 days.
Speaker A:Because they didn't.
Speaker A:How the hell did they miss that?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So how does that happen?
Speaker B:It's easier to miss out where you guys are.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Because weather models need data.
Speaker B:And what's to the west of you guys?
Speaker A:The ocean.
Speaker B:A big empty space.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:So you're not getting hard and fast data.
Speaker B:So it's easier to miss.
Speaker B:Since I, I've lived up there and done the weather up there.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's, you know, there are only like two upper Air stations one's at Quileute, Washington, and the next one further south is in Salem, Oregon.
Speaker B:So that's the first hard data you get.
Speaker B:With these systems coming off now you can look at your satellite picture and you can hazard a good guess.
Speaker B:But until you get data, man, that's tough up there.
Speaker A:That's just a guess.
Speaker B:At that point it's, it's a, it's a swag, a scientific wild ass guess.
Speaker A:I love that.
Speaker A:I love that.
Speaker B:You know, now I, you know, as you get more into the middle of the country, it becomes easier, but you know.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:If you really want to know 100 what's going on, you just gotta go, hey, God.
Speaker B:And then hope he answers.
Speaker A:Yeah, Like I said, you know, you go look outside.
Speaker A:I grew up in the country, so we would know if we were getting, if we were getting an easterly wind, especially in the spring, summer or fall was going to dry out everything.
Speaker A:We weren't going to get much precipitation.
Speaker A:If the wind was coming in from the west, good chance there's going to be water coming with it.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:You know, you know, and you learned that as a kid because you didn't want to screw up your playtime outside.
Speaker B:Oh, sure.
Speaker A:You know, like that.
Speaker A:Okay, so Jeff, if we put your skills to music, what would the music be?
Speaker A:Very scientific question here.
Speaker B:Oh, God.
Speaker B:Death metal?
Speaker B:Nah, just classic Midwestern rock.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:REO Speedwagon, that kind of stuff.
Speaker A:Bob Seeger.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:I grew up in Michigan, so, you know, Bob Seeger is like God to us.
Speaker A:Oh yeah.
Speaker A:He's like God to me too.
Speaker A:I love him.
Speaker A:So I tell you.
Speaker A:Can I tell you a story about that?
Speaker A:We just finished a couple of months ago, Veterans Day.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:And I, and I'm one of the anchors for a radio thon all day long, radio thon to raise money for a great group that's across the river in Vancouver called the ccvac, which is the Clark County Veterans Assistance Center.
Speaker A:And I've been doing this now for a few years.
Speaker A:The guy that started it was a Portland icon in the radio business named Bob Miller.
Speaker A:And Bob always loves to have Christmas music played during the day in this radio thon.
Speaker A:Fine.
Speaker A:He started it years ago.
Speaker A:He's, you know, we, we bow to him.
Speaker A:So this year, one of my favorite Bob Singer songs, actually, besides lots of them, is his version of Little Drummer Boy.
Speaker A:So we come back from break, I tell James, our producer, played Little Drummer Boy.
Speaker A:Get back, Song's over.
Speaker A:Bob asked me what I think the meaning of that song is.
Speaker A:And So I tell him, you know, here's a.
Speaker A:Here's a kid, he has nothing to offer when he's, you know, there with Baby Jesus and all that, but he can play his drum and, you know, he was giving everything he could and, you know, really a lesson in humility.
Speaker A:And, you know, we're filling time basically, right?
Speaker A:Okay, so we do that, we move on.
Speaker A:About an hour later, I pipe up and I said, bob, by the way, I didn't ask you what.
Speaker A:What do you think of Bob Seeger's version of Little Drummer Boy?
Speaker A:He goes, I hate it.
Speaker A:Copied completely out of left field, man.
Speaker A:I said, you hate it?
Speaker A:He goes, yeah, I hate it.
Speaker A:He goes, I like the, you know, Perry Como's version or something like that.
Speaker B:So I thought the Bing Crosby, David Bowie version or something like that.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I'm like, wow.
Speaker A:Got me.
Speaker A:All right, so, Jeff, if you were declared supreme Leader of Golf for one day, just one day, what would you decree as supreme Leader?
Speaker B:I would decree that OB should just be a point of entry, point of entry, penalty.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker B:No stroking distance, no nothing like that.
Speaker B:Just walk up, walk up to where the stakes are, drop and hit three.
Speaker A:I would.
Speaker A:Nobody's ever asked me this question because it's my show, but, you know, if I was supreme leader for a day, what I would saying in every amateur golf tournament, not pros, but an amateur, I would say you get one round that is hit till you're happy.
Speaker A:That's what I would do.
Speaker B:Ah, yeah.
Speaker B:Kind of like your own individual scramble.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker B:Everybody has.
Speaker A:Everybody has fun at a scramble.
Speaker A:So if you could erase one mistake from your past, what would it be and why?
Speaker B:I would probably join the military earlier because by the time I got out, I was, you know, I was old already.
Speaker B:I was, you know, in my mid to late 40s, you know.
Speaker B:And you had guys retired that joined at 18.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:And, you know, they're retiring at 38.
Speaker B:Now, granted, they're going back to work, obviously.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker B:But, you know, they're retired from the military at 38.
Speaker B:You know, I was 46.
Speaker B:Ish.
Speaker B:47.
Speaker B:Man, I was old and tired.
Speaker A:Yeah, those 18 year olds can do boot camp a little easier too.
Speaker B:Well, I mean, the boot camp thing wasn't that big a deal because I was still in my 20s.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:But, you know, it was one of those things.
Speaker B:I kind of, kind of had an inkling a couple years before I joined that I probably should, but I just kept putting it off because I have a very large Stubborn streak.
Speaker B:And I kept trying to make it work when obviously it wasn't.
Speaker A:I get it.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:So yeah, if I.
Speaker B:If I would have joined probably three years earlier would have probably been.
Speaker B:It would have probably been good.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I'm still sitting behind a microphone after 30 years and in front of a camera, so.
Speaker A:Yeah, you know, tell me about it.
Speaker B: basically doing weather since: Speaker A:Yeah, there you go.
Speaker A:What's the worst concert you ever attended?
Speaker B:It was here in Vegas.
Speaker B:I had to go see Celine Dion.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Who hated you?
Speaker B:Well, I got bribed.
Speaker A:Is this a wife thing?
Speaker B:Yes and no.
Speaker B:It was more one of my golf buddies who came into town with his wife and he's like.
Speaker B:He's like, dude, if you come, he says, I'll pay for the tickets.
Speaker B:I'll pay for your booze.
Speaker A:A good bribe never hurts anything.
Speaker B:I'm like, well, in that case, yeah.
Speaker B:So, yeah, we went and I, you know, I suppose if you like that kind of thing, it was a great show, but to me, it was like a howling banshee.
Speaker A:Actually, I've heard some pretty decent howling banshees I haven't heard, you know, but, you know, Seline Dion is a little iffy to me, but that's okay.
Speaker B:But the whiskey tasted good, so.
Speaker A:And it was appropriate at the time and needed, I'm sure.
Speaker A:Yeah, I get that.
Speaker A:This is kind of a follow up.
Speaker A:Jeff, what's one thing you miss about your twenties?
Speaker B:Getting up out of bed?
Speaker A:Not hurting Ain't that's the truth, brother.
Speaker B:Geez, you know, you don't make that sound every time you get up out of a chair or roll out of bed or.
Speaker A:Yeah, I've got.
Speaker A:And a lot of this is kind of a.
Speaker A:Just my take on an old punchline, but it's like it does take me about five minutes every morning to get all the body parts working in the same direction.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:Yeah, I've had a few of them replaced.
Speaker A:Those actually work well, but the.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:The stock models that came with me, they're not up to it.
Speaker A:So there.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:If you were an animal, what animal would you be and why?
Speaker B:Ah, silverback gorilla.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker B:Why?
Speaker B:Just because.
Speaker B:That's 10 how I tend to go.
Speaker B:I actually matches up pretty good.
Speaker B:I just, I go through everything.
Speaker B:Well, like a bull in a china shop.
Speaker B:Brute force and ignorance is.
Speaker B:My golf is.
Speaker B:When I play hockey, when I play, when I play baseball, when I bowl, everything just.
Speaker A:Yeah, I got it.
Speaker A:I got it.
Speaker A:A couple more here, buddy.
Speaker A:What's the worst movie you think you've ever seen.
Speaker B:Ah, geez.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker B:I'm not much of a movie guy.
Speaker B:I probably haven't been in a theater in almost 20 years, so.
Speaker B:Probably have to be something I saw.
Speaker B:Geez, back in the 80s.
Speaker B:There's probably alcohol involved and I got talked into it.
Speaker B:Yeah, I.
Speaker B:I really can't think of something.
Speaker B:I mean, I'm not into science fiction, so I think I.
Speaker B:I think I saw Tron and I was probably hammered and I didn't understand a bit of it.
Speaker B:So let's just go with that for right now.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:So given the parameters you just laid out, do you have a favorite golf movie?
Speaker A:Because they show them on TV now.
Speaker B:So Tin cup is always, you know.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Oh, Tin cup is one of those ones I'll, you know.
Speaker B:You know, I can watch even on the edited version on tv, you know, because Caddyshack is great, but you know, if they put it on regular TV, obviously it gets edited.
Speaker A:It's four minutes long.
Speaker B:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker B:Well, it's two hours, but the 110 minutes of commercials.
Speaker A:Right, right, I got that.
Speaker A:What do you want to do when you retire?
Speaker B:Retire?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:The ideal thing would be travel around and play golf, but that's not realistic.
Speaker B:What I actually kind of plan on doing is start cutting back at the weather station and just kind of work like a part time, fill in, get out of the, get out of the house, work like one day a week.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Type thing and you know, play golf.
Speaker B:Maybe.
Speaker B:You know, I joke with the starters out at Paiute that I'm like, I'm gonna come and take your job and I might do that too.
Speaker A:You might do that?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:You know, something like that.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:I'd kind of like to get more, more involved in golf probably.
Speaker B:Maybe something like that.
Speaker A:Maybe, you know, maybe you work with some charity tournaments or something.
Speaker B:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker B:Do, do some veterans.
Speaker B:You definitely do some veterans work.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:I did it.
Speaker B:I used to do it quite a bit in Omaha.
Speaker B:Don't do it as much here, but yeah, probably get involved and try to help veterans that need it.
Speaker A:I'm actually had a meeting yesterday.
Speaker A:I'm looking at working with Dan Rooney's group, Folds of Honor putting, putting an event on in the Portland area.
Speaker B:So I actually met him once very briefly.
Speaker A:Seems like a good guy.
Speaker B:Actually gave him a weather brief.
Speaker A:Well, there you go.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker B:He was Lieutenant Dan at the time.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yep.
Speaker A:What would your last meal be on death row?
Speaker B:It would be a Barbecue fest.
Speaker B:Brisket, ribs, you know, sausage, cornbread.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, the whole deal.
Speaker A:The whole deal.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:It would be a large quantity of smoked meat.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:Well, if you get to that point, reach out.
Speaker A:I'll do it for you.
Speaker A:Okay, cool.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker B:I hope to avoid that part, but you never know.
Speaker A:You never know.
Speaker A:You're in Vegas, man, you know, so you.
Speaker A:You just never.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:This is your chance.
Speaker A:Jeff, what would your message to the world be?
Speaker A:The mic is yours.
Speaker B:Well, and I don't always follow, you know, first off, be yourself, even though it rubs people the wrong way.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker B:But also just try to treat people the way you want to be treated.
Speaker A:That's probably some of the best advice anybody's given on the show.
Speaker A:I think that's good.
Speaker A:Jeff Peterson, also known as weather hack on X and Twitter and the the head Mahu at this juncture of Golf Chat.
Speaker A:I appreciate you taking the time to be on the show, buddy.
Speaker B:I appreciate you reaching out and asking me.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's not a problem.
Speaker A:Anytime.
Speaker A:This is a.
Speaker A:This is the first time Jeff and I have actually seen each other.
Speaker A:We've talked, but it's usually through digital communications, not through actual verbal.
Speaker A:So it's been a real pleasure.
Speaker A:It has.
Speaker B:Thank you, sir.
Speaker A:You're welcome.
Speaker A:We'll be back next week with another edition of After Hours here on Grilling at the Green.
Speaker A:Until then, go out, play some golf.
Speaker A:If weather permitting, be kind and have fun.
Speaker A:Take care, everybody.
