WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:08.720 It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine 2 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:13.359 day. Now here's Nick Coffee, Well not exactly Nick Coffee. I like 3 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:17.320 say, I'm the substitute teacher here, and that is I'm Scott Fitzgerald along 4 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:20.920 with John Alden making life fun for you on your way home. It's hot 5 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:24.280 out and John not gonna talk a little bit about what you do in the 6 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:27.879 heat out there and now you keep yourself cool. I just am excited every 7 00:00:27.879 --> 00:00:31.079 time I can go home and my ac is still running. So that's my 8 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:34.920 anxiety point there, John, we had to replace ours just last year. 9 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:39.000 It was charable. Oh it's off days where we'd get the temperature in the 10 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:41.799 house would get into the mid eighties and we're like, this is this is 11 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:45.240 not doable this day and age right, right, dude, that's my anxiety. 12 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:48.679 Now. We bought a good system and I've got a great mechanic knocking 13 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:52.439 on this fake for Micah that we know that goes to our parish and he 14 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:54.880 takes care of us and says we're in good shape for a little bit, 15 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:58.079 so hopefully that holds true. We're gonna talk a little bit about dealing with 16 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:00.560 the heat. We're gonna check in. Also, lots of sporting events going 17 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:03.079 on right now. We've got Euro twenty twenty four, We've got Spain and 18 00:01:03.239 --> 00:01:07.239 Italy. I think they're just about wrapping up. We'll talk about that, 19 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.920 We'll talk about the Travelers. We'll see how Justin Thomas is doing big, 20 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:12.799 big doings in Major League Baseball. Tonight we'll check in on that. But 21 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:17.560 one of the things I love about doing this show is I love talking to 22 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:19.879 people in sports and not necessarily the x's and o's, and as we mentioned 23 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:23.879 at the top of this show, and I'm a big fan of TikTok. 24 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:26.480 It's not a bad thing. It's okay. I ran across somebody on TikTok 25 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:30.840 who not only is a great entertainer, but also does something with I love 26 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:34.719 that is they talk about football helmets. I'm a Uni geek. I love 27 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:38.920 Uni watching football, and I had a chance to catch up with this gentleman. 28 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:41.959 Here's my conversation with them here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Well, 29 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:42.760 you know, if you listen to the show, I'm a big fan of 30 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:47.879 TikTok. It occupies my commercial breaks while I'm home on the couch and I 31 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:52.640 stumbled on this guy because he's he's got helmets, and he's got a lot 32 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:57.359 of them, and now he's my go to it is Tom Elmery joins us 33 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:00.040 now and Tom, what a great collection of helmets. And first of all, 34 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:02.799 greetings to you. Thanks for taking time to talk to us, Thanks 35 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:06.920 for having me on. It's always a pleasure to talk football helmets, and 36 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:09.400 you know I'm addicted to them. How in the world did you get started 37 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:14.199 on TikTok in your love of football helmets, because I see your followers are 38 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:16.800 increasing every day. Yeah. The funny thing is it kind of started around 39 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:21.080 the pandemic a little bit, like a lot of things did, where I 40 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:24.919 had a lot of my helmets in boxes in the basement because I had moved 41 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:30.639 to Michigan from Colorado. I'm originally from the state of Michigan, and things 42 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:34.000 were slow, and of course broadcasting was difficult. We were doing a lot 43 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:38.280 of stuff remotely on the play by play guy for Eastern Michigan, and so 44 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:42.039 I started taking the helmets out of boxes. And then you know, the 45 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:44.599 kids were doing TikTok stuff and they're like, Dad, you should make a 46 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:47.879 TikTok or something, and so I sat with a helmet and did a TikTok, 47 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:51.879 and when I woke up the next morning, there were like tens of 48 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:54.479 thousands of views, and people were jumping on and tell me about this helmet, 49 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:58.400 tell me about that helmet. And then here here we are, now 50 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:02.199 over three hundred thousand, and I'm doing things with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and 51 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:05.879 other teams, and it's a lot of fun. Oh, it looks fun. 52 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:08.319 And your helmets look really good back there, Tom, And so what 53 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:13.719 I'm gonna ask you first, when you look back to what got you first 54 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:15.240 into helmets? What was the first helmet that caught your eye? Well, 55 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:19.800 it was funny, and it was you know, I always liked Bucko Bruce 56 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:23.560 the Tampa Bay Buccaneers helmet, and I have a Leroy Silman autographed helmet, 57 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:27.840 and the first video I ever did, I was sitting with that and I 58 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:30.879 was just saying, Hey, the NFL is gonna let teams wear more than 59 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:34.759 one helmet this year. And then someone said, hey, I see a 60 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:38.680 Lion's helmet behind you. What's the story there? So I did the history 61 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:42.080 of the Lions, and then NFL teams started reaching out, like, tell 62 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:45.599 our history, and that's how it kind of grew. And then when I 63 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:47.919 got done with the NFL, I'm like, let's start with colleges. So 64 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:52.520 that's what we've been doing, rolling through universe. I say we I'm the 65 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:54.560 only guy. I'm a one man band. But started rolling through all these 66 00:03:54.680 --> 00:04:00.199 universities and it's been great. I learned something new every time I do a 67 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:04.400 school, and it's fascinating the history of teams. And it's been more fun 68 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:09.439 for me than it has been anybody else because I'm learning all these things, 69 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:13.879 like, oh, that's why they're the South Carolina Gamecock, so that's why 70 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:17.279 the Clemson Tiger Paul looks that way, or it's just fascinating stuff. You 71 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:20.199 were talking with Tom Helmer. You can follo him on TikTok. He does 72 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:25.560 some fascinating helmet talk and Tom before TikTok, it seemed like there were a 73 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:30.680 lot of YouTube sites people were refurbishing helmets themselves and buying the decals. Do 74 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:33.079 you get into that at all or is this just kind of looking at the 75 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:38.199 helmets themselves. I don't get into that, and I do follow some guys 76 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:41.319 that do that, and it's amazing and I'm somewhat jealous when they take a 77 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.480 helmet and they build it all up and do it that way. I'm not 78 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:46.959 artistic. I'm not good at putting stickers on helmets, so I'm trying to 79 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:53.160 stay in my lane. But that stuff's pretty fascinating, and I'm more amazed 80 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:57.279 at how many people like football helmets and the stories behind him. I thought, 81 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:00.240 when I did this, I'm gonna do it for my own entertainment because 82 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:02.680 I'm bored, I'm at home. You know, maybe I'll learn something as 83 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:05.439 I go along. If somebody watches, great, if not, whatever, 84 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:10.759 But it's been kind of fascinating how many people are into it. In fact, 85 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:13.920 I was on a flight this morning and the guy next to me goes, 86 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:15.920 aren't you the helmet guy? And I go yeah, he goes, 87 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:19.160 hey, I love your videos. I'm like, unbelievable. That's what I 88 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:23.120 did. I stumbled on you and I immediately reached out to you. Now, 89 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:27.199 where can folks find you? On TikTok Tom It's called hooked on Helmets 90 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:30.399 And if you don't have TikTok, I push a lot of the videos to 91 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:34.040 YouTube, same name hooked on Helmets all one word, that's awesome. Okay, 92 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:36.519 and looking at your helmets behind you, you look, we look about 93 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:42.000 the same age I grew up. Of course. Now is he Bruce the 94 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:46.120 Bucco? Is that what we're calling him now the Tampa it's Buco Bruce Bruce 95 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:51.720 originally and Lamar Sparkman was an artist for the Tampa Tribune and he actually sketched 96 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:58.120 it all out for Tampa Bay and they made that the logo. So there's 97 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:00.720 a history there. Obviously they've change their look quite a bit with the pewter 98 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:06.120 helmets and the flag on ever there. But there's so much artistic you know, 99 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:10.120 integrity. I don't know what the word is, but and I'm trying 100 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:14.360 to find the helmet behind me. Such a collection it is, yeah, 101 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:16.879 but I mean I just like it with the sword and the mouth and the 102 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:20.480 look and the colors and everything like that. It's a beautiful look. It 103 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:25.959 was interesting when when the Buccaneers had me down, they pointed out to me, 104 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:28.839 you know, we wore our road unis the entire first year as a 105 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:32.600 franchise. They never wore the creamsickle jerseys that entire first year. They only 106 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:38.199 wore all whites with the helmet and then the Creamsickle came on, and then 107 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:41.879 for a while they tried to distance themselves from that look because that era was 108 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:45.879 such bad football for Tampa Bay. But now it's we kind of come to 109 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:48.759 this Polk classic and people love that look. Now they want to see it 110 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:51.079 rolled out at home. I don't think they'll ever roll it out at home 111 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:56.480 because the Buccaneers and their fans feel very protective of that look. They're like, 112 00:06:56.639 --> 00:06:59.680 we want to wear that at home with our creamsickle. But they they 113 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:02.199 love that look now. Well, you being from Michigan, you know when 114 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:06.120 the Lions played the Buccaneers last year, and boy, that looked like an 115 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:11.079 old school eighties matchup back from the sombrero. I mean that was a nice 116 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:14.959 look, and I can certainly appreciate, you know, Tampa fans, Look, 117 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:17.399 those are some ugly years. Let's try not to come back there. 118 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:23.480 I'm looking at your helmets behind you and being an NFC North formerly NFC Central 119 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:27.879 kind of guy, that Viking's helmet looks really good with the gray face mask 120 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:31.600 and you have the It almost is like the Viking horn is bigger than what 121 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:35.000 it is on the current helmets that they have. They have changed yet almost 122 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:38.639 touches in the back. They've played with the horn a little bit, they've 123 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:41.839 played with the paint color, and of course they're rolling out a new helmet 124 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:45.920 this year that's all white. For the first time in franchise history, they're 125 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:48.720 going with a white helmet. They're also going to have a silver center stripe. 126 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:53.040 They've never had a center stripe on a Viking helmet before, and there's 127 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:57.800 no gold anywhere in the uniform. They've never done that either. So they're 128 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.519 calling it their Winter Warrior look. They're going to wear it against the Bears 129 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:05.839 in December in a home game. And of course the commenters on TikTok are 130 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:11.079 like, you're indoors and you're calling yourself Winter Warriors. But it's interesting how 131 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:15.079 our teams are branching out and going with different looks. We just saw the 132 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:18.199 Ravens put out a new look a day or two ago, and a lot 133 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:20.879 of people said, well, really, it looks like the Washington Huskies, 134 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:24.839 but they've gone with a different lid of purple lit. They've only had a 135 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:28.800 black helmet in the entirety of the Ravens franchise. In fact, they've only 136 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:31.519 had two helmets. They had the first one they probably still have if they 137 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:35.639 didn't get sued by the guy who originally made the logo, so they transitioned 138 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:39.480 out of that, tried to wash that away, and have had one look 139 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:43.120 since nineteen ninety nine. Tom Helmer's joining us. He is the helmet guy. 140 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:46.120 You can followhim on TikTok phonem on YouTube. He's got an amazing collection. 141 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:50.159 His videos are awesome. I stumbled on him. He tells a story 142 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:52.879 like no Weather. Got to ask you, Tom, what we have you? 143 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:58.279 Which one do you prefer? The Tampa Old School or pat the Patriot 144 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:01.720 Patriot Pats and other beautiful one. I'll tell you my three favorite NFL helmets 145 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:07.759 Houston Oilers, oh yeah, and Bucko Bruce because I just the colors, 146 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:11.080 the look, all of it's beautiful. I like to say, I'm like 147 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:13.360 Jesus, I love them all. I love all helmets because they all have 148 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:16.519 a story, they all have a great look. Cleveland Brown's whatever, you 149 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:20.399 know, The Cleveland Browns are the color they are because of Bowling Green. 150 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:24.639 Oh that's right, now, that makes sense. Yeah, they went over 151 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:30.759 there for training camp and Paul Brown saw a jersey hanging in the hallway and 152 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:33.000 this is when the Browns were trying to figure out who they're going to be 153 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:37.919 and they go, those are our colors, and wow, Cleveland Browns are 154 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:41.399 their colors because of Bowling Green University. I did not know that. That's 155 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:43.600 interesting Now I'll never look at that the same way. What do you make 156 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:46.440 of the LF logo though? Should you slap that on a helmet or just 157 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:50.440 keep it the same? I mean, you know, you're kind of like 158 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:52.279 Penn State, right, you just stay true to your look for the most 159 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:56.320 part. For Cleveland getting out of the box, they're gonna wear a white 160 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:58.639 face mask this year, so they're just they're going crazy with a white face 161 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.200 mask, you know. So well, you know, put the elphone on 162 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:05.799 there. It's make some changes, play with it a little bit. Let 163 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:09.000 me ask you this again, talking with Tom Helmer. He's a helmet guy 164 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:11.200 through and through. You can see him on TikTok, you can see him 165 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:13.919 on YouTube. Let me ask you this, Tom, in this day and 166 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:16.399 age, when we're all trying to make the different colors, obviously, because 167 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:18.879 it's marketable, you put out in New Jersey, folks are going to want 168 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:20.799 to buy the New Jersey. We're seeing it with City connects when it comes 169 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:24.480 to Major League Baseball. You're a Michigan guy. You look at the different 170 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:28.240 uniform commos of Michigan. Do you approve them mixing up the uniforms at home 171 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:31.480 or should they stick to the traditional look. I like the traditional look, 172 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:37.080 but I understand it. I understand why teams you're really marketing to eighteen year 173 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:41.840 old as a team, you're trying to impress the guys you want to play 174 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:46.440 there. There's the legacy, there's all that stuff. But it was interesting 175 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:48.480 because I talked to a friend who worked at Nike in Oregon, and I 176 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:54.000 talked to him about all the uniform combinations they have, and they said a 177 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.759 lot of alumni were furious with the way we play with the uniforms. We 178 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:01.320 said, we're not making them for the alumni, making them for the players. 179 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:05.399 And Oregon will bring four or five seniors every year on campus to the 180 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:07.440 Nike campus and they go, what do you want? What do you want 181 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:11.000 to do here? And they kind of create it and it's become Oregon's things. 182 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:16.080 So while I'd always like to see Michigan at home in the blue jerseys 183 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:18.360 and the gold pants, I get it when they wear the all blues or 184 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:22.519 different stuff, and they're trying to market but it's hard. Like Michigan, 185 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:26.080 it's hard. You can't play with that winged helmet. Really, wait, 186 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:28.559 what are you going to do to make that different? You have one of 187 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:31.080 the most classic helmets in college football. You don't want to tamper with that 188 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:35.159 too much. Talking with Tom Helmer, follow him. You can see his 189 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:37.120 helmets during every one of his videos. Tom, when I'm looking at your 190 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.799 helmets back there, do you again? You and I look about the same 191 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:45.120 age. Remember the buttercups right L had in the helmets As far as the 192 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:48.279 padding was concerned. Do any of your helmets have that in that or those 193 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:52.600 just all kind of have the new padding in them now? Some have, 194 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:58.120 like the the Carl Eller Vikings one, Oh wow, mansion kind of in 195 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:01.919 there like they did back in the day. You have the actual padding. 196 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:05.679 I got a Michigan helmet here that well, it's got the bar across, 197 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:09.960 it's got some of the padding in there. But it's interesting even as you 198 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:13.080 know, when I was down with the Buccaneers and they let me in the 199 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:16.600 equipment room, which is always a no no because I'll be in there all 200 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:20.240 day. But we're talking they got to run two different combinations of helmets. 201 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:22.919 They're going to have ninety guys in training camps, so they got to have 202 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:26.559 about two hundred helmets. And the way they're doing NFL helmets now, those 203 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:31.840 are two grand a pop. Wow. They're scanning heads and making these fitted 204 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:35.879 helmets. So every helmet's two grand. So two grand times two hundred, 205 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:39.120 that's your helmet budget now for an NFL team. So when you look at 206 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:43.159 these college teams that are trying to roll out different combinations, it's one thing 207 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:48.120 if you're just changing stickers on a helmet color, but when you have different 208 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:52.360 colors and running different combinations, the price tag goes up in a hurry. 209 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:54.000 Oh I bet it does again. Tom Helbert joining us, fall him on 210 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:56.600 TikTok, fall him on YouTube. He's the helmet guy. If you love 211 00:12:56.679 --> 00:13:01.600 helmet, you love his website. I see the all black Falcons helmet back 212 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:05.679 there. That has to be one of my favorite Tom because one of my 213 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:09.399 favorite players all time in the NFL is Deon Sanders, and I actually flew 214 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:13.279 down to Miami the year that he played for the Braves and then flew down 215 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:16.840 and then they played the Dolphins in that game. And I love that look 216 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.600 by the Falcons, brought to us by of course the great Jerry Glanville. 217 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:24.879 I love that look. Landville introduced that all black. Now, you know, 218 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:28.200 when the Falcons started, originally they had some gold in the center stripe. 219 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:31.759 And that's because when they originally made their helmets and were black and red, 220 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:37.399 Georgia Tech fans were upset. They it looks too much like the Georgia 221 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:41.639 Bulldogs, and you guys are in Atlanta and we're Georgia Tech. So they 222 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:45.200 added some gold to the helmet to try and a pease the Georgia Tech fans. 223 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:48.840 So that's why the old school Atlanta Falcons and now the throwbacks they were 224 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:52.840 have that gold in there because Georgia Tech said, you can't have all Georgia 225 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:54.440 colors and be in this town. You got to put some gold in that 226 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:58.639 uniform. I did not know that. And of course the other helmets you 227 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:01.759 have up there, one of the more iconic helmets no longer worn in the 228 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:05.159 NFL to Washington and I'll say their name, the Redskins. I mean, 229 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:11.600 what an iconic look that was in the National Football League. They and I 230 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:16.080 see a Raiders' helmet. There probably the two most recognizable helmets at least. 231 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:20.240 Here's the interesting thing a lot of people don't know about the Washington Redskins helmet. 232 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:24.840 That isn't just a Native American they just drew out of thin air. 233 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:30.200 That is John two guns white Calf, who was very influential as far as 234 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:35.360 Native American culture and working with Congress in DC to make sure that Native Americans 235 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:39.919 were taken care of. So Originally, before that they had the yellow helmet 236 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:45.519 with the R on it. This one right here, this helmet was designed 237 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:50.600 by Vince Lombardi. Lombardi was the GM and a coach briefly for the Redskins. 238 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:54.639 He designed this helmet and then passed away before they ever wore it in 239 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:56.519 a game. But they had this helmet. And then there was a guy 240 00:14:56.600 --> 00:15:01.039 named mister Wetzel who was of the black Feet tribe, and he flew to 241 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:03.279 DC and he said, listen, if you guys are going to be the 242 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:07.919 Redskins, we would love it if you would put an actual warrior on the 243 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:11.480 helmet. Here's our chief, John two guns white Calf, and there's a 244 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:16.039 profile picture of him, and the Redskins copied that exactly and put him on 245 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:20.399 the helmet. So there's actually quite a few Native Americans that are upset that 246 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:24.240 he's not on the helmet anymore because that represented their culture and that was a 247 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:30.519 real individual. So it's been interesting for the Washington commanders now because I don't 248 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:35.200 think they're going to stay that name, but they're working on transitioning into something 249 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:39.279 different. But it's a real person that was on that helmet for all those 250 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:41.840 years. That's what I'm saying. When you fall, Tom, you learn 251 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:43.559 stuff like this. I did not know that. Tom, just a couple 252 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:46.559 questions. I know you're busy and we'll let you go, but I could 253 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:48.679 talk to you all day about this. I see that Buffalo Bill's helmet behind 254 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:52.600 you. Do you think the Bills go back to the red helmet. The 255 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:56.759 interesting thing about the Buffalo Bills is their initial colors were blue and silver, 256 00:15:56.960 --> 00:16:02.679 and the reason was because they got some hand me down uniforms from the Detroit 257 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:06.480 Lions when they started up as a franchise, So they were getting the lions 258 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:10.720 old stuff and wearing that the red helmet too. There was a rumor that 259 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:15.279 they switched to red because their quarterback at the time was colorblind and everybody in 260 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:18.320 the division had a white helmet. It turned out to not be a true 261 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:21.559 story. They did go for the red for a while, and then Josh 262 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:25.159 Allen actually came out in a red helmet at training camp last year. One 263 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:27.639 day. Everybody went nuts. But they have not gone back to the red 264 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:30.519 helmet. But there's a lot of Buffalo Bills fans that love that lid, 265 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:34.360 you know. Again, wrapping up here with Tom Helmer real quick, one 266 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:37.919 of the team. I wanted to talk about Tom, and I'm warming up 267 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:41.559 slowly to the new Dolphins logo. I think it looks like an airline tail 268 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:45.600 logo. To be honest with you, I was a big fan of the 269 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:48.120 old logo when it comes to uniforms, and I know you're a helmet guy, 270 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:52.720 but when the Dolphins put on that old school Dolphin logo and they wear 271 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:57.320 the black cleats, that is amazing to me. That is just a great 272 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:02.320 look. And maybe it's part of my but I like the black cleat look. 273 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:03.680 I like the black cleak too. It takes you back, like el 274 00:17:03.680 --> 00:17:07.039 of a sudden, it's Larry's anka. You're going back to some of those 275 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:11.359 days. Maybe I actually have a larry' zanka helmet back here somewhere. The 276 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:17.240 interesting thing about the Dolphins logo is that the guy that created that logo is 277 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:21.359 the same one that created the you for the University of Miami. Same guy 278 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:27.000 did the artwork for both, and so he's pretty famous as far as yes, 279 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:32.920 floridago create two different iconic logos. So I think that's a pretty interesting 280 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:34.960 story. But yeah, the Dolphins logo, I like it. It's been 281 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:38.240 tweaked more than you think over time. And if you go down onto my 282 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:41.960 page on Hooketown helmets and look back and go through all the NFL stuff, 283 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:48.960 you'll you'll realize a lot of helmets initially were done by newspaper artists. Patriot 284 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:52.480 pat you brought up earlier. Yeah, that was a thing where the Boston 285 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:56.000 Globe goes, hey, they're gonna name themselves the Boston Patriots. We need 286 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:00.759 artwork on this for tomorrow's paper. And a cartoonist at the Boston Paper drew 287 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:06.759 Patriot pat in about a forty five minute span, and then when the Patriots 288 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:10.640 saw it in the paper, they decided that should be the logo that was 289 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:14.119 on the helmet. That's such a fresh logo. You just do you see 290 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:18.240 it and you immediately know you're either thinking Steve Grogan, maybe Jim Plunkett if 291 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:22.599 you're a little older than me. But so let me ask you last question 292 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.319 for you, Tom, and that is when you see teams that wear the 293 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:29.319 old school unis and then the other team doesn't do it, do you think 294 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:33.200 maybe both teams should wear those together. I would like to see that. 295 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:34.960 You know, if you're gonna have a little bit of nostalgia in the game, 296 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:38.720 let's go back to nineteen eighty or let's go back in time a little 297 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:44.039 bit and enjoy the matchups there. Like you talked about the Lions playing against 298 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:47.279 Tampa Bay. You know, the Lions used to have kind of these glittery 299 00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:51.519 silver numbers back in the day with Billy simms like if you're gonna go down 300 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:55.039 and play them in the cream sickles, let's pop on the white jerseys with 301 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:57.720 the glittering numbers, the silver pants, let's get after it. Let's go 302 00:18:57.799 --> 00:19:03.279 back to the old school Lion that was just blue yes inside right, Like, 303 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:06.920 let's let's enjoy a little bit of nostalgia with the game. But it's 304 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:08.680 interesting in going through the helmets too. Somebody said, what are you gonna 305 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:11.960 do when you run out of helmets? I go, I'm not right. 306 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:17.160 New helmets collagen pro all the time. The evolution is exploded. So if 307 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:21.440 anything, we're kind of in this golden era that's taking off of helmets where 308 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:25.519 it's new stuff all the time. Well, and your you have your finger 309 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:27.279 on the pulse, you know, Tom, It's just amazing to be able 310 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:30.480 to talk to you. I watch you on TikTok. You can follow along 311 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:34.640 give us their handles again on YouTube and TikTok. Hooked on helmets, that's 312 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:37.400 all you got to look for. You can find me on YouTube and TikTok, 313 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:41.720 and I probably have one hundred and fifty videos out right now. On 314 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:45.519 TikTok. You can get the entire NFL history on there. I'm updating helmets 315 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:51.160 and we're plowing through colleges as we go. Be careful because it's addictive. 316 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:55.960 I'm just telling you, Tom, that's what we want. That's right. 317 00:19:56.079 --> 00:19:59.599 Appreciate you, buddy, Have a good I guess the rest of the summer 318 00:19:59.640 --> 00:20:03.079 we'll be talk and I'm sure more during football season. Anytime have me on 319 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:07.079 any time, It's been a pleasure. Oh and welcome back. Boy. 320 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:11.359 It is hot. It is hot, hot, hot out there. Good 321 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:15.160 afternoon. I'm Scott Fitzgerald. It is John Alden, working heavy and hard 322 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:18.359 in the control room as we're keeping trying to keep you cool here. It 323 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:22.920 is I will say this, though it's cold in this studio. Oh really, 324 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:26.240 I'm cold, dude. They keep mine pretty temperate. Yeah, well 325 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:29.880 they locked these down so you can't play with them. And John and I 326 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:33.519 were just having a conversation off the air. Over about three years ago. 327 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:37.599 I lost about eighty ninety even some will argue close to one hundred pounds, 328 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:42.759 and after losing that weight, the heat doesn't bother me as much as it 329 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:45.599 used to it. I don't like it, but it doesn't bother me as 330 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:48.960 much as it used to. And it's been chilling here. It says seventy 331 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:52.599 one. But you know, I'm finding myself. You know, I'm rubbing 332 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:56.039 the hands together in here, and that's a good problem to have. Giving 333 00:20:56.039 --> 00:20:57.279 out hot it is out there. I'm Scott Fitzgerald, filling in for the 334 00:20:57.359 --> 00:21:02.000 vacationing Nick Coffee. He's gonna be out for the next couple days. We're 335 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:04.039 gonna be with you through tomorrow. Just getting a break, you can listen 336 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:08.119 in the mornings. I'm on with Tony Cruz from five to nine doing sports. 337 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:12.279 Don't don't get quite as much chance to talk in the morning, not 338 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:15.400 by choice. I think if Tony had his way, I could, he'd 339 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:18.119 probably had me jump in there every segment with him. But it's just, 340 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:22.599 you know, you're in that that in between time when you're trying to prepare 341 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:26.119 sports and trying to run a show, and you're trying to communicate with people 342 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:29.559 around the world and coordinate stuff, and don't always get the chance to chime 343 00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:33.000 in with Tony there. So I'd love to talk more, but you just 344 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:37.119 you gotta do what you gotta do. Speaking up before we get to talk 345 00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:38.039 about this heat, John, I just want to get you caught up on 346 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:42.880 a couple of things, some local things sports wise, our own Justin Thomas 347 00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:48.160 is playing in the Travelers. He finished the day two under to minus sixty 348 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:52.640 eight in the first round. That leaves him tied for twenty seventh, so 349 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:57.319 not bad after he shot that awful eleven over last weekend. And talking basketball, 350 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:00.000 John, I don't know, not a lot of people know this storyline, 351 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:04.599 but former Miss Kentucky basketball finalists out of Sacred Heart Academy. So Kaya 352 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:10.559 Johnson. She plays for Team USA is Under eight team as Under eighteen team, 353 00:22:10.680 --> 00:22:15.160 as does Bethlehem's Leah Macy. Johnson dropped ten points yesterday. Lea Macy 354 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:18.359 dropped eight points. It's all part of the America Cup in Columbia. Team 355 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:23.519 USA one and I'm not making the score up, dude one fifteen to twenty 356 00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:29.440 one, fifteen to twenty As the top team from Group A, Johnson, 357 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:33.000 Edwards and tam USA are moving on to the quarterfinals. They are averaging bro 358 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:37.039 just almost one hundred and five points per game and their average margin of victory 359 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:41.759 is well over seventy three points through three games. That is, and those 360 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:45.400 are their future basketball stars. And they're coached by Terry Moren and I you, 361 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:48.880 by the way, oh yeah shot Terry Moran. A yes, So 362 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:52.519 underappreciate just a couple of local sports stories. I wanted to relay to folks 363 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:55.079 that they may not know about it, and that's what we try to do 364 00:22:55.119 --> 00:22:57.559 in the mornings on HAS. I mean, it's easy to regurgitate the same 365 00:22:57.599 --> 00:23:00.720 soundbites and that the nash No media does. But we got a lot of 366 00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:04.640 good local stories going on here, as we heard from Jeff Melby talking about, 367 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:11.240 of course Louse City and what they did, and they're outstanding new folks 368 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:15.880 in their new talent, especially with racing Louisville and just the organic talent that's 369 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:18.519 grown in Jensen Wilson is the name I was thinking of out of e town. 370 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:22.200 So long story short, we got a lot of good local stories and 371 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:25.960 we'll talk more about those tomorrow. So John, what do you do? 372 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:29.000 Just stay cool? Bro? What do you do? Man? Are you 373 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:32.519 staying cool? Obviously you mentioned the h VAC, the ac, that kind 374 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:34.759 of stuff. That's as long as you got that lockdown, you're doing pretty 375 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:38.839 good inside the house. Yeah, obviously, if you've got a family member, 376 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:41.680 or even if you've got one of these at your own house, if 377 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:45.720 you've got a pool, this is the prime time season to get in the 378 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:48.079 pool. And I'll tell you what. This may not be the best way 379 00:23:48.119 --> 00:23:51.880 to stay cool, but it's one of my favorite ways to relax this timing 380 00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:53.799 year. Is a hot tub. I love a good old fashioned swim spot 381 00:23:53.880 --> 00:23:57.039 slash hot tub. Give me some jets, give me, give me something, 382 00:23:57.039 --> 00:24:00.279 massage in my back. I'm feeling pretty good on a summer night. 383 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:04.119 Really, that's interesting. The heat doesn't bother you being in the hot tub 384 00:24:04.119 --> 00:24:07.359 and then having hair outside. There are certain temperatures maybe this week is one 385 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:11.319 of those, one of those times where I would maybe hesitate to stay in 386 00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:14.279 a little bit longer. But if you've got one of those units, and 387 00:24:14.279 --> 00:24:15.920 I don't have one of these, but I do have my in laws do 388 00:24:17.039 --> 00:24:18.599 have one of these. If you've got one of those hot tubs where you 389 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:23.519 can turn the temperature down to make it almost just more comfortable for this time 390 00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:26.559 of year, that's the way to go. In my opinion, I think 391 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:30.759 you're right. You know, it's funny every year I go through this with 392 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:33.079 my car. I'm one of those I like cars. I love cars. 393 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:38.119 I love Nascar, I love Formula One, I love Indie. But when 394 00:24:38.119 --> 00:24:41.119 it comes to buying a car, I don't need, you know, a 395 00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:45.160 luxury item. So I usually go in the cheap end. When I'll buy 396 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:48.359 a brand new car, but it'll be cheap. It'll have AC, it'll 397 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:52.119 have a heat, it'll have a radio, all that good stuff. But 398 00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:55.200 I don't need something to keep me, you know, I don't need the 399 00:24:55.279 --> 00:25:00.279 latest and greatest. Well, inevitably, every car I own. It's that 400 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:03.960 magical point where the AC gives out. Oh, and that's mine just gave 401 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:07.000 out like a week before. This heat had bad timing, you know. 402 00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:10.079 And but to be honest with you again, since I lost the weight, 403 00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:11.279 it doesn't really bother me. And I don't spend a lot of time in 404 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:17.200 my car. But so I was looking and I saw something that they had, 405 00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:19.119 and I've been mean to get to one of my favorite auto places. 406 00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:22.200 It's like a do it yourself thing. I think it just needs to be 407 00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:26.519 recharged, and I think there's something that that I can either. Yeah, 408 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:30.079 there's something that I can get. I was looking at it here, some 409 00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:32.440 sort of refrigerate. I don't even know if it's gonna work. I gotta 410 00:25:32.440 --> 00:25:34.039 stop in there and find out. But it's one of those things I keep 411 00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:37.359 telling myself, I'm gonna I'm gonna get it, and I never do, 412 00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:41.359 and so I just endure it. I rolled the windows down, and and 413 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:45.119 it's true, especially and you're you're you're primarily commuting in the overnight hours. 414 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:49.160 Why the sun's not out right, I kind of enjoy that fresh air as 415 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:52.720 you're driving into you know, driving downtown. So maybe it's some more bearable 416 00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:56.720 for you. It is, it is, and and you know it was 417 00:25:56.759 --> 00:26:00.640 worse, Like I said when I was heavier. That what's interesting is, 418 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:03.960 you know, I just I worry so much about my ac going home, 419 00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:07.000 but I also have to accept the fact there's nothing I can do. It 420 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:08.799 goes out. I gotta get it repaired. Yeah, you get it fixed. 421 00:26:10.759 --> 00:26:14.319 Nobody likes the extreme temperature zone. Nobody likes extreme cold. I really 422 00:26:14.680 --> 00:26:18.359 do you remember when we had the polar vortex that year. I feel like 423 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:22.160 over the past few years we've had a couple What's weird about the winters we've 424 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:25.480 had in Louisville, at least in the past five or ten years. They're 425 00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:30.119 not super long, but there's usually one, maybe two weeks where it gets 426 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:33.519 to the unbearable point. People don't know how to act, and that's just 427 00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:37.440 the way things roll in this part of the country. But I think it 428 00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:41.640 was not this past Christmas, but the Christmas before where they had people like 429 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:45.799 you and a few of our other news guys on standby. Maybe maybe did 430 00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:48.319 you even come in. I think it was around Christmas that I don't know 431 00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:49.640 if it was actually Christmas Day, but it was around that time. A 432 00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:53.440 year or it got pretty unbearable. Yeah, it's that's one of the things. 433 00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:56.759 That's the thing with this gig. My wife says every time she's over 434 00:26:56.799 --> 00:27:00.240 it. Now she just knows it used to be when I first started, 435 00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:04.200 because you can't go driving in that it's it's you gotta go. And I 436 00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:08.839 mean I was when COVID hit. There were like three people. In fact, 437 00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:11.559 I still have the card in my wallet. I Heart issued us a 438 00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:15.559 special hazard card. Did you get what? I never saw I was furloughed, 439 00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:18.039 but I did have a card. You got a card? Yeah, 440 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:21.960 right before the furlough, they gave me one of those hazard cards and then 441 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:25.559 a nice relic to have because they literally thought they were going to shut the 442 00:27:25.559 --> 00:27:27.839 streets down. Yes, they literally, and you were gonna have like checkpoints 443 00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:32.640 to have cards to get through. So you know, I was here all 444 00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:37.319 through COVID. I I've been here through some of the worst. I mean 445 00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:38.720 there were times I didn't tell my wife this, and she doesn't listen to 446 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:41.680 the station, so I won't bother her, but there were I don't usually 447 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:45.680 get too freaked out about driving in snow or thunderstorms or anything like that, 448 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:49.079 and part of that was living in Michigan. I mean, I've drove through 449 00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:56.240 some crazy snowstorms, but there were a couple of times when I came in 450 00:27:56.359 --> 00:27:57.680 I was like, Okay, I don't know if this is going to happen, 451 00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:02.039 and maybe this was a bad choice on my part, and but we 452 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:07.000 made it. But when we had the polar vortex that was the year our 453 00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:10.799 house was popping. It was so cold, I mean so cold. I 454 00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:15.319 mean we had seen temperatures that were fifty sixty below. And I just at 455 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:17.359 the time, I had a really old car. It takes a lot for 456 00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:19.920 me to buy a new car. So I just remember not only was my 457 00:28:19.960 --> 00:28:23.680 aic out, but my heat had gone out. Oh man. So luckily 458 00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:27.839 enough, I for my days in the Navy, I still had my old 459 00:28:27.880 --> 00:28:30.680 pea coat. And if you've not seen an authentic navy pea coat, these 460 00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:36.000 things are amazing. They are the thickest thing. They will keep you warm. 461 00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:38.079 I just remember, here's when we're in a bitch of Blane and I 462 00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:42.319 was coming down the Waterson and I remember wrapping the flaps of my pea coat 463 00:28:42.599 --> 00:28:48.279 or foat just to stay warm. And if that wasn't the kicker, there 464 00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:52.880 was an electrical short in my car and my headlights went out. Oh my 465 00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:56.599 gosh. Now the nice thing was nobody's on the road in the morning, 466 00:28:56.319 --> 00:28:59.440 and so I was able to get it. So at that point I did 467 00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:00.759 finally break down by the way, and I just told my mother, I 468 00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:03.119 said, I think I need a new car, and and we went and 469 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:08.440 got it. But you get into these weather extremes, and the important thing 470 00:29:08.519 --> 00:29:11.559 is it's a lot of it's mental. A lot of it's just keeping your 471 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.319 wits about you, you know, don't get too stressed out. My wife, 472 00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:18.119 my wife has seasonal defective disorder. If it's cold, her mood is 473 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:22.200 off. Now the heat will alter my mood sometimes, but not crazy like 474 00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:27.839 I'll get not unmotivated. But I certainly look at when I looked down at 475 00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:30.440 my phone in the in the lky weather app, I look at it and 476 00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:33.119 it says straight nineties for the next week and a half. And I'm like, 477 00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:37.640 I'd say, what it does to me? And it's not so much 478 00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:40.680 seeing it, but like, for example, this past week in Father's Day, 479 00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:41.599 you spend a lot of time outside. That was one of the first 480 00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:45.759 days of it being that hot. Yes, the next day, the next 481 00:29:45.880 --> 00:29:51.359 morning, I was so drained from all of the sun and heat exposure that 482 00:29:51.480 --> 00:29:55.799 I was physically exhausted, and it was it was so much more harder, 483 00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:00.279 Yeah, getting out of bed compared to the past several days. That's exactly 484 00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:03.400 right. It is. It's very hard. And you look at it and 485 00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:08.640 you go, man, and then and then once it's here, then you're 486 00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:11.039 like, okay, we're in it. Now, let's let's just make this 487 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:14.799 happen. But you know, I know in the in the mornings, when 488 00:30:14.839 --> 00:30:17.000 I get up to your point to get up about two in the morning, 489 00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:19.440 you walk out and the garage door opens and you're like it just hitch in 490 00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:22.720 a face, like it's the mugginess now, right, we're in the midst 491 00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:26.640 of the humidity, and yeah, the swamp the swampiness. Well, and 492 00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:30.160 I'm lucky. We're lucky here because we get to work in an environment where 493 00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:33.559 I was listening to me, I was just complaining I was too cold. 494 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:36.359 You know, you got these people like that work out of the Ford Truck 495 00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:38.720 Planner working factories or maybe listen to us on the way home right now, 496 00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:41.240 going, dude, you have no idea what it's like to work all day 497 00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:44.960 and now we have no right to complain it, No, no, little 498 00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:48.119 studio. Please don't hear me complaining. Please don't hear that. I totally 499 00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:51.559 every time I go by folks with that are working outside on the roads, 500 00:30:51.640 --> 00:30:56.000 you know, or working just work on to HVAC ladies and gentlemen. You 501 00:30:56.039 --> 00:30:59.920 both have to go out there and you got to work out. I mean, 502 00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:02.960 I remember getting orace he repaired before. I'm watching a guy who came 503 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:04.079 over just I mean, my man looked like he just got out of a 504 00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:07.680 swimming pool. And so you got to work out there in that. And 505 00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:12.359 and of course, lest we forget our first responders, you know, and 506 00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:18.359 to looking at the firefighters who when it's extremely cold have to go out there 507 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:22.920 and spray water, and then when it's extremely hot have to don that gear 508 00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:26.880 and go out in the heat. So yeah, please don't hear that I'm 509 00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:32.880 complaining, just making light of the fact. And as Matt Melosevich said when 510 00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:36.680 we talked things non football, if you listen to Kentucky Focused this week, 511 00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:41.599 you'll hear Matt and I had a nice weather discussion. This is common. 512 00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:45.119 This won't be the that We'll have hotter temperatures as we get into August, 513 00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:48.880 we haven't broke any records yet, at least that I know of. That's 514 00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:53.880 surprising. Yeah, I do feel like all of these nineties for this time 515 00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:56.640 of year. I mean today, like like like Matt said's we're going to 516 00:31:56.680 --> 00:32:00.400 be the first day of summer at some point, I guess, And you 517 00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:05.559 know, today's whenever that official solstice time hits. Because one thing we might 518 00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:09.160 do is have consecutive days with ninety degree high temperatures. Yeah, exactly. 519 00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:13.400 I don't know when that would be, but that started. I guess it 520 00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:15.279 was Saturday or Sundays past weekend. If it's going to go in the next 521 00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:17.839 week. I mean, that is a lot of days hitting the nineties. 522 00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:22.839 Oh and you remember it was so beautiful right before it hit. Oh yeah, 523 00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:25.079 and so everything fell in line. Tony and I had this conversation just 524 00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:30.039 last week. It's interesting, right when we come out of spring, we 525 00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:31.920 get into Derby and my yard looks like carpet. I mean, it is 526 00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:36.839 such just a pop in green. Even my wife, like, especially right 527 00:32:36.839 --> 00:32:38.000 before sunset, my wife goes, oh my god, the yard looks so 528 00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:42.440 green. I said, it does that, and then I said, what 529 00:32:42.519 --> 00:32:46.720 happens is and it usually happens in July, it comes through and then everything 530 00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:50.240 dries up, and because Tony says, well do you keep water? And 531 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:52.839 I go no. At that point, I just give up. At that 532 00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:54.559 point, I let my yard go dorm it and it just settles in for 533 00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:58.559 the winter. I don't try to get it back. I don't. I 534 00:32:58.599 --> 00:33:00.319 tried all that when we first moved in, and I don't try to get 535 00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:04.920 it back. But the important thing here is, you know, we're talking 536 00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:09.359 about yards. The important thing is keeping yourself comfortable, keeping yourself, taking 537 00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:14.440 the right precautions to keep yourself hydrated. And we say it over and over, 538 00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:16.359 and sometimes it can sound like a broken record, but that's how the 539 00:33:16.359 --> 00:33:22.200 message gets through. Because people can get complacent, people can forget, and 540 00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:23.160 then I always get a little bit more nervous. When I was coming home 541 00:33:23.160 --> 00:33:25.440 from the gym last night, you're starting to see a few more of those 542 00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:30.359 HVAC trucks out on the road. Oh yeah, And you start to see 543 00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:32.519 them out and about and trying to fix stuff. But we do this every 544 00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:36.680 year. We do this every year. Real quick though. The last time 545 00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:43.119 the city of Louisville had a large number of consecutive days of temperatures above ninety 546 00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:46.200 degrees. It was back in August of twenty ten, fifteen days straight with 547 00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:51.880 realating at least ninety degrees. Oh good fine, dude, good fine. 548 00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:54.480 So I think we may break that then be close to you know, if 549 00:33:54.720 --> 00:33:58.400 definitely we get to two weeks, will be close to And that's not a 550 00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:01.359 record, the overall record, leive it or not. Back in nineteen twenty 551 00:34:01.359 --> 00:34:07.159 one, from June twenty second to August second, forty two days of temperatures 552 00:34:07.199 --> 00:34:10.960 of at least ninety degrees. So and this was before AC. Oh yeah, 553 00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:14.360 I don't know when AC was invented, but yeah, nineteen twenties, 554 00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:19.000 that's insane. And this was yeah, this was before AC. So then 555 00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:21.679 you take that and that's well. And that's why some of these homes in 556 00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:22.800 my other gig where I work over in Germantown, that's why some of these 557 00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:27.639 homes have such big porches because people would go out and sit on their porches 558 00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:30.800 and that's how they would cool off. Speaking of before we I know we're 559 00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:35.320 going to break here. Did you see the team, the football team and 560 00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:40.199 is it Montana that they were practicing just this past week it was snowing. 561 00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:45.840 Really, it was snowing. Something about those high elevations. Huh they had, 562 00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:50.639 Yeah, they said, and I'll get where it Hillcrest. Apparently Hillcrest 563 00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:54.760 High School. It began snowing at Montana State University on Monday during a summer 564 00:34:54.800 --> 00:35:00.000 football session. The moment was caught by Brannon Mossholder. He is the head 565 00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:05.960 coach of Hillcrest High School football Idaho Falls, Idaho. They said that you'll 566 00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:07.760 see it. I'll try to see if I can kick this out VX. 567 00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:12.639 I just lugged out of my ex account and they said it was snowing, 568 00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:16.719 but the temperature Saturday is going to reach eighty three. That's just insane. 569 00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:20.719 That's a heck of a swing. That is a heck, but it is. 570 00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:23.000 And all this is attributed to La Nina. It's it's moving over to 571 00:35:23.079 --> 00:35:25.920 We're moving over to La Nina. All right, there's your weather talk for 572 00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:29.559 today. We're gonna take a quick break. When we come back, we're 573 00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:31.679 gonna wrap things up. Great first day. Thanks for having me, everybody. 574 00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:36.559 I appreciate that Nick is on vacation and he'll be back with you on 575 00:35:36.599 --> 00:35:38.679 Monday. And this is always a treat for me. I always enjoy coming 576 00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:42.440 in here. It's just a lot of fun to be able to do this 577 00:35:42.519 --> 00:35:45.800 something I look forward to. And John makes this easiest pie, that's for 578 00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:49.119 sure, a little top gun for you. We're back after this on Sports 579 00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:53.480 Talk seven ninety. Here we go summer. How'd you know? Summer sixty 580 00:35:53.559 --> 00:35:58.280 nine, Bro, that's when I was born. Oh really nice, very 581 00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:01.400 nice six song though. Hey, John Aldon. I wrapping things up here 582 00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:05.119 on this first day, filling in for the first of two days for the 583 00:36:05.159 --> 00:36:08.079 vacationing Nick Coffee. I'm Scott Fitzgerald. I'll be back on the airwaves tomorrow 584 00:36:08.119 --> 00:36:12.239 morning five o'clock with Tony Cruz. Then we're gonna do Radio Study Hall on 585 00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:15.360 Saturday. It'll be Joe Jacomino and yours. Truly just Thursday is the new 586 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:19.000 Friday for me, man, and this is so much fun. I love 587 00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:22.679 when they asked me to do this on Thursdays and Fridays because tomorrow is going 588 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:24.480 to be a lot of fun and this has been fun. Big, big 589 00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:28.639 thank you to Matt Melosvich with WLK. Why I posted that interview, by 590 00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:30.840 the way on social media, Matt and I talking a little baseball. If 591 00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:34.719 you want to get in line with that big thank you to Jeff Milby. 592 00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:37.719 Appreciate you as always, my brother, Jeff. You'll hear more of my 593 00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:42.400 conversation with Jeff tomorrow morning. Coming up with Tony Cruz. A big sports 594 00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:45.639 weekend is on tap here locally, a lot to talk about. Tomorrow, 595 00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:47.679 John and I are going to meet back here, same time, same place, 596 00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:51.920 same bat channel, and we're gonna talk with somebody who you've heard on 597 00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:55.719 WHS a few times. Got a tie to one professional sports organization. We'll 598 00:36:55.760 --> 00:37:00.440 talk to him as well. John Olden, you're the best my friends. 599 00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:02.800 Always looking forward to it. Tomorrow, same here. I'm Scott Fitzgerald, 600 00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:06.800 He's John Alden. Safe drive home, everybody, Talk to you tomorrow morning 601 00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:08.199 on news Radio eight forty WHAS