Ep 17 | An Unexpected Decade | Guest: Michael 'Helmsey' Helms

Strange Encounters with Rick Burgess

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🗓️ 1 February 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this episode, Rick & Bubba visit with teammate Michael Helms, aka "Helmsey." Find out how he met the guys and became one of the on-air personalities on the show. From his completely unexpected path into radio and television to the creation of the "Kickoff Hour," it's been a unique journey of more than a decade on America’s favorite radio show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome in to a brand new edition of Rick and Bubba University the podcast Rick and Bubba here.
0:12.1	Now today Bubba we move into really a popular category
0:16.5	these are what we call Rick and Bubba profiles that's right the behind the scenes of the folks that work on the show today Michael
0:23.3	Hams. Michael Hams, better known as Hamsie on the program.
0:26.2	Ham's welcome to the program.
0:27.2	Bottom of the barrel, huh?
0:28.6	No, no, no.
0:29.6	No, we're working through it.
0:30.8	I mean, we want to go through all the different people that
0:33.6	that have joined the program and I think there's a lot of interest.
0:36.7	Or Coach Leach couldn't do it again. Right or Coach Leach pushes us again.
0:40.1	Eventually we'll have that one but no pressure.
0:43.0	Look I'm excited. This is going to be fun.
0:45.0	You're getting this really if you think about you're getting it over with.
0:47.0	Yeah, well.
0:48.0	Yeah, well. Yeah, because you've been dreading it because you knew we'd unpack and get in there and you never know what we're going to ask you.
0:52.0	I know. Well, let's go back to the beginning of your relationship here and then we'll kind of get into your life
0:58.2	as much as you want to.
0:59.8	So Bubb and I have been with Speedy for almost the entire 26 years.
1:07.7	You arrived on the scene as technology was changing and really you were brought on to be almost like a interpreter to our IT department
1:19.3	because there were phrases and things that I certainly didn't understand and Bubba understood most of it but
1:25.0	you were here to try to overlook at the way we were handling our IT department to see if we were
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