Lisa Poritz - Funky Mulligan Afterhours
The salient point of this podcast episode revolves around the engaging and candid dialogue between the hosts regarding various aspects of golf and personal reflections. We delve into thoughts on the influence of prominent figures in the golf world, the significance of pace in both professional and amateur golf, and the potential of the sport to assist young individuals in enhancing their mathematical and social skills. Furthermore, we explore light-hearted yet profound inquiries, such as the hypothetical dining choices with historical figures and the personal impact of past experiences on our present journeys. Ultimately, our discussions encapsulate the multifaceted nature of golf while fostering a sense of camaraderie and introspection among listeners.
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- Painted Hills Natural Beef
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- Funky Mulligan
- Etsy
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Transcript
Welcome to Grilling at the Green After Hours.
Speaker A:The conversation that took place after the show ended.
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Speaker A:Now you can watch the television version of this show with me and my co conspirator, Leanne Whippen, who's a Hall of Famer, barbecuing.
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Speaker A:Tim Boyle, Jimmy James, to name a few.
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Speaker A:David Jacobson.
Speaker A:David had a lot of fun with him out at Waverly one day, so check that out.
Speaker A:Okay, Lisa, this part of the show is where I ask people.
Speaker A:Kind of irreverent or some people will say irrelevant questions.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:But it's all fun.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:Are you ready?
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker A:You think you're ready?
Speaker A:Okay, we'll start out with something easy.
Speaker A:If you could play golf with one of your golfing heroes, who would it be and where would you play?
Speaker B:Ah, I guess I would play with Jack Nicklaus.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker B:Don't know where I would play, though.
Speaker B:Oh, well, Augusta, if I get on the ground.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:I mean, I would love to play against the national, but I don't think that's in the cards.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:If you could get a lesson from a touring pro, who might that be?
Speaker A:Man, Woman?
Speaker A:Doesn't matter.
Speaker B:Touring pro, I would say probably if maybe Rory McElroy.
Speaker B:If he could just teach me to drive it a little further, I could play better.
Speaker A:Oh, well, yeah.
Speaker A:God, that guy could.
Speaker B:I know, I know.
Speaker B:He pounds it.
Speaker A:So he's not a big guy?
Speaker A:No, no, he's not a big guy.
Speaker A:Who.
Speaker A:Who do you think was your biggest influence on you, personally, in your life?
Speaker A:That doesn't mean just about golf or your medical career or that.
Speaker A:But who would you tell us is your.
Speaker A:The biggest influence on you?
Speaker B:Oh, I guess it would have to be my parents, kind of equally.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I, I can't think of anybody else who would have influenced me that much.
Speaker A:Oh, that's fair, because I think my dad was that way with me.
Speaker A:If Lisa was declared supreme ruler of golf for one day, what would you decree as supreme ruler?
Speaker B:You don't fix your divot, you can't come back.
Speaker A:Golf club, you get a golf clap for that.
Speaker A:Lisa.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:In the fairway or your pitch marks on the green.
Speaker B:And if you don't set the flag in straight, then you have to leave immediate.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:If we put your skills to music, what would the music be.
Speaker B:Like?
Speaker A:Me, my golf skills, your life skills, your doctor skills, your golf skills, the whole package.
Speaker A:What would you, what would you say the music should be?
Speaker B:I have no idea.
Speaker B:I don't know if I'm able to come up with an answer for this one because now I'm blanking on every song I've ever heard.
Speaker A:We can come back to that.
Speaker B:Let's come back to that.
Speaker A:We can come back to that.
Speaker B:That one's hard.
Speaker A:What's the.
Speaker A:What's the biggest mistake you ever.
Speaker A:You think you've ever made on a golf course?
Speaker B:You mean like in a shot I.
Speaker A:Tried to hit, Whatever.
Speaker A:And it's a very open ended question because we get lots of open ended answers.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker B:Um, I probably earlier in my career, I, I can't remember a specific shot, but I probably tried to hit some shot that I didn't need to hit in a match play event.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:When I could adjust, all I need to do is get it on the green.
Speaker B:I probably tried to hit something I wasn't capable of.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:I can't off the top of my head, think of, you know, any specific shot, but I'm sure I've done something to that effect.
Speaker A:Oh, I think we all have.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:What's the dumbest thing you've ever seen somebody else do while you were playing in a tournament?
Speaker B:Playing in a tournament or it just.
Speaker A:You know, with friends on Thursday?
Speaker A:Whatever.
Speaker B:I've seen some people try and drive carts up slippery hills and spin out.
Speaker B:That's probably the dumbest thing I've seen people do on a golf course.
Speaker A:Okay, that's fair.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I've seen people drive their electric cart, you know, their electric push carts into all sorts of things.
Speaker B:Sandcraft, creeks.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:If you could dine with a historical figure, anybody, who would it be?
Speaker A:And what would be on the menu?
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:You know, it's probably going to be something medical.
Speaker A:That's fine.
Speaker B:Somebody, you know, maybe Watson and Crick in the DNA.
Speaker B:You know, I don't.
Speaker B:I don't think the food would matter as much as.
Speaker B:As, you know, learning some of that.
Speaker A:The conversation, if you will.
Speaker B:Conversation.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:As long as I didn't have to eat food from whatever century they were from.
Speaker A:No, you'd get to do today's stuff.
Speaker A:Not.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A: Not: Speaker A:Yeah, no, we don't.
Speaker A:We don't do that.
Speaker A:What's the one.
Speaker A:What's the first thing you think about when you get up in the morning.
Speaker B:Where the snooze button is?
Speaker B:And if I really have to get up when it goes.
Speaker B:The alarm goes off.
Speaker A:Yeah, well, you're retired, so, you know, that's totally up to you.
Speaker A:Now, if you could erase one mistake from your past, what would it be?
Speaker B:I probably made some, you know, errors when I was learning to be a surgeon that I wish I could erase.
Speaker B:Obviously, I can't give you details, but.
Speaker A:No, no, no.
Speaker B:There's something like that that, you know, I mean, I'm sure I've done things that I.
Speaker B:That impacted me, that I wish I didn't do, but those would have impacted someone else, so.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Or, I mean, I can think of some errors I made when I was learning.
Speaker A:But that's why you were.
Speaker A:That's learning.
Speaker B:It's true.
Speaker B:But I still wish I hadn't done them.
Speaker A:Oh, sure.
Speaker A:Oh, sure.
Speaker A:What's your favorite flavor?
Speaker A:Lifesaver.
Speaker A:I told you these were irrelevant.
Speaker B:Oh, red.
Speaker A:Red.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:I have never heard anybody.
Speaker A:And I.
Speaker A:And I just actually started asking that question, but I've never heard anybody say, like, the yellow ones, it's green or it's some of the orange when I talk to people, but I've never had anybody say a yellow one.
Speaker B:Now, there's some pineapple ones sometimes that I like, but they're not in every role.
Speaker A:No, no, but you kind of.
Speaker A:I know people, you know, if they're like, you open up the end and there's again, a red one or a green one on the end, and you kind of go through them, and then you get to that nasty yellow one, and you check it, and then you go on through the roll.
Speaker A:Just what people do.
Speaker A:Elisa, what's.
Speaker A:I know, again, you just barely turned 40, but what's one thing you miss about your 20s?
Speaker B:You know, I'm not just 40.
Speaker A:I know.
Speaker A:I'm teasing.
Speaker B:Okay, good.
Speaker B:What Do I miss about my 20s?
Speaker B:Well, honestly, I worked really hard during my 20s.
Speaker B:I was a surgery resident for most of them, so I'm not sure there's much I missed because I don't think I slept much or had much fun.
Speaker A:Probably.
Speaker A:Probably not.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:If you were an animal, what animal would you be?
Speaker B:Probably a fuzzy dog.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:You've had time.
Speaker A:Now you're no longer a resident.
Speaker A:But what's the worst movie you think you've ever watched?
Speaker B:Oh, I know it's a cult movie and I know everybody likes it, but Princess Bride, I think that was it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah, I know that's.
Speaker B:That's very popular some people, but I just.
Speaker B:I couldn't.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker A:My wife and my daughter, they were.
Speaker A:But I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna go outside and stand in the rain for a while.
Speaker A:It'd be more fun.
Speaker A:Do you consider yourself a sweatshirt or a formal wear girl?
Speaker B:Sweatshirt.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:What's the over golf pullover?
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:Three quarter zip.
Speaker A:Something like that.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:A couple philosophical things there.
Speaker A:Biggest change you think should be made in pro and then amateur golf, if any changes you think should be made.
Speaker B:Well, it's all the rage right now, but I think they obviously need to speed up professional golf.
Speaker B:Yeah, but also amateur golf, because if you watch the college kids play, they smoke it.
Speaker B:Yeah, well, no, but they know.
Speaker B:But how long it takes them to play.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:So, I mean, I play fairly quickly, but I think you just.
Speaker B:You need to teach people efficiency.
Speaker B:They can still spend their time on the wall.
Speaker B:They just have to start getting ready sooner.
Speaker B:So I think that's a huge change that needs to be done.
Speaker B:And I'm also not sure I agree that you need to.
Speaker B:If you're going to roll the ball back for the professionals.
Speaker B:I don't know that you need to roll the ball back for the amateurs.
Speaker B:I mean, we're not playing the same game.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker B:You know, although, if everybody has to make new golf balls, then there'll be more colors for me.
Speaker B:So it might be a good thing.
Speaker A:When you have about 6 billion balls to work with and, you know, literally in a couple thousand of them at my house here for you if you ever need them.
Speaker A:But my own personal interjection here, I don't.
Speaker A:I'm not in favor of rolling the golf balls back myself, and, you know, I'm just not.
Speaker A:But we.
Speaker A:It doesn't make any sense to do that when we've advanced the technology of the clubs and the shoes.
Speaker A:The gear, everything else.
Speaker A:And then you take the one thing that's consistent in every shot and you say, okay, we're going to make that right.
Speaker A:Bad.
Speaker B:Make different drivers for the Tour players.
Speaker B:Let them have a less hot face.
Speaker B:You know, those of us who need the distance have the hot faces and let them, you know, the tour play players.
Speaker B:Not have the same exact equipment.
Speaker A:Put them back in persimmon.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, Maybe you can do that.
Speaker A:Lisa, do you think golf can help kids that have trouble with math or social skills?
Speaker B:It depends on what you do with it.
Speaker B:I mean, obviously, you know, if.
Speaker B:Depends on how much trouble.
Speaker B:If they have trouble adding.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker B:Because you can add your score, you can do.
Speaker B:Teach them, do calculations about, you know, adjusting distances for wind and that sort of stuff.
Speaker B:I mean, beyond that, it's.
Speaker B:That's just fairly simple math.
Speaker B:I don't think it's going to help them with calculus.
Speaker B:Unless you're Bryson DeChambeau, and then you have to use calculus.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Well, I didn't like calculus myself, but.
Speaker B:And as far as social skills.
Speaker B:Yes and no.
Speaker B:I mean, golf can be a solitary sport.
Speaker B:I mean, you could go and hit on the range and you can go afterwards and play all by yourself, or you can go and hang out for four hours and spend time with people and talk to them.
Speaker B:So I think, you know, that's a really good thing.
Speaker B:I mean, I play golf with a lot of people who don't play golf the way I do, but I play with them because I want to spend four hours with them, not because I care where they hit the ball.
Speaker A:Yeah, well, maybe we can play sometime.
Speaker A:You never know.
Speaker A:Okay, the music question is back.
Speaker A:And then we have one more after that.
Speaker A:Your Life to Music.
Speaker A:What would the music be?
Speaker B:I have no idea.
Speaker B:I'm sure there's some Billy Joel song that would.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Would fit.
Speaker B:You know, his songs were a little bit more of a story.
Speaker B:I can't play the piano, though, so it's not that one.
Speaker A:We Didn't Start the Fire.
Speaker A:Maybe that song, something like that.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, what's the.
Speaker B:Yeah, I kind of like that one.
Speaker B:There's another one.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's the one about.
Speaker B:Yeah, sure, let's go with that.
Speaker A:Okay, okay.
Speaker A:That's legal.
Speaker A:That's legal.
Speaker A:What.
Speaker A:What would be your last meal if you were on death row?
Speaker B:Geez, I like fried chicken.
Speaker B:Chinese food.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Thai food.
Speaker B:Something like that.
Speaker A:Okay, well, you know, at that point, you don't have to worry about your caloric intake, so.
Speaker B:Nope, nope.
Speaker B:You don't have to worry about.
Speaker A:No, it's all good or anything.
Speaker A:Nah.
Speaker A:Yeah, you won't be needing a Pepcid afterwards.
Speaker A:I'll put it that way.
Speaker B:Nope, you will not.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Assuming that the people who were providing it made it.
Speaker A:Well, yes, that's true.
Speaker B:All that stuff made badly is just no good.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Lisa Porridge from Funky Mulligan.
Speaker A:Dr.
Speaker A:Lisa, thank you very much for putting up with me today and the show here.
Speaker A:And again, you can find Lisa's stuff@funky mulligan.com.
Speaker A:etsy.com and then you said you.
Speaker A:What you.
Speaker A:Your Instagram.
Speaker B:Yeah, you're on Instagram also Funky Mulligan on Instagram.
Speaker B:And I said, if you have any interest in stuff that you don't see or any ideas or want things in different colors, certainly direct message me through the Etsy app or through Instagram.
Speaker B:And yeah, we can certainly talk about different colors.
Speaker A:We can do that.
Speaker A:And I am going to find.
Speaker A:I make it my mission to find a black Cor golf ball.
Speaker A:So you could make some Oregon State stuff.
Speaker A:Because we.
Speaker A:You've got the orange already.
Speaker A:I can see it on the back wall there.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker B:Right, right.
Speaker B:So, yeah, so some of the oranges.
Speaker B:Let's see.
Speaker A:Well, on that tray right under your golf club and the green.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:There's an orange.
Speaker B:That orange is pretty pale.
Speaker B:That's the, that's the inside of a velocity.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:I'm pretty sure somewhere I have an orange and black ball.
Speaker B:Let's see.
Speaker B:The problem is most of the oranges are mixed in with other colors.
Speaker B: ybody's coming out with their: Speaker B:So you never know.
Speaker B: : Speaker B:And last year it was.
Speaker B:Or two years ago, it was green.
Speaker B:So you never know.
Speaker A:Yeah, you never know.
Speaker A:I'll call.
Speaker A:I'll call Dean Snell.
Speaker A:I actually know him.
Speaker A:And ask what the colors are this year for the Snell golf balls.
Speaker B:Yeah, let's see.
Speaker B:This one I've got is purple, and I think this is one.
Speaker B:This one's got a Snell in it, and that's like a pale pink.
Speaker B:I don't know if every company is as compulsive about how often and how regulated they change their the colors.
Speaker B:Like, I can look at the arrows on a Titleist golf ball and tell you what the inside colors are.
Speaker A:I know you said that because you asked me what the numbers were when I talked to you on the phone and you said, yeah, it's not the.
Speaker B:Numbers, it's the arrows on the side.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:But I can tell you from the colors on that one what year they were.
Speaker B: o the maroon and Teal one was: Speaker A:Oh, geez.
Speaker A:We're gonna have to have another chat one of these days, Lisa.
Speaker A:I need to know more about this.
Speaker A:Okay, well, thank you so much, folks.
Speaker A:That's gonna wrap it for after hours.
Speaker A:And don't forget where you can find this and the shows.
Speaker A:And don't forget to come by the if you happen to be in Portland, come by the Portland Golf show at the Expo Center February 28th and March 1st and 2nd.
Speaker A:We will be there.
Speaker A:Till then, go out, play some golf.
Speaker A:Have some fun.
Speaker A:Most of all, be kind.
Speaker A:Take care, everybody.
