Who Is Michael Shiels?

Mike is the host of WJIM 1240-AMs morning show, The Big Show. Here is part of his biography from www.golfpodium.com:

Michael Patrick Shiels has covered the world of golf and its major players in print, on radio and on television, and offers behind the scenes tales. Shiels wrote and produced features for ESPN's "Inside the PGA TOUR," and has authored five golf-related books, including "Good Bounces and Bad Liesthe Autobiography of Ben Wright." The revealing collaborative effort with Wright, the former CBS- TV golf analyst, was characterized by the Los Angeles Times as "Possibly the best sports book ever", while the Washington Times wryly compared Shiels and Wright to Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

Comparing Shiels to Hemingway? I found this example of Mikey's writing ability on a local website:

Dear Lucy -
I have distrubed on my honeymoon (and my first vacation in two years) because of the furor caused by your web posting protesting Saul Anuzis guest hosting my WJIM AM 1240 morning radio show.
I'd like to calm everyone down and alert you that Mark Brewer was offered to co-host with Saul, as they do when they debate every Tuesday on the show. There have been plenty of occasions when Mark Brewer was a guest on the show without Saul, as well. In addition, just off the top of my head, we have recently had the following guests on the program" Sen. Carl Levin, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Cong. Bart Stupak. Cong. Carl Levin, weekly interviews with Michigan Senate Democratic Leader Mark Schauer, State Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, Mayor Virg Bernero, Cong. Dennis Kucnich, State Rep. Ed Clemente, Gov. Jennifer Granholm, weekly interviews with First Gentleman Dan Mulhern, (who was also offered to guest host and has done so in the past), State Sen Gleason, and many more democrats.
I am a non-partisan host...and have worked hard to maintain that position...even abstaining from voting in the primary.
I think, in fairness, I deserve the opportunity for everyone on MichiganLiberal.com to read this.
Thank you.
Michael Patrick Shiels



Non-partisan? Thanks for making me laugh this morning, Mikey!

The Big Show: Lansing Michigan's Newest Comedy Team

Not sure how many of you listen to AM talk radio in the morning, but Lansing has a new morning-drive comedy team. It's called The Big Show and can be heard on WJIM 1240AM from 5:30am to 9am. Listening to The Big Show is akin to watching the O'Reilly Factor--they try their damnest to sound like they know what they're talking about, but they end up sounding like pompous douchebags. Receiving top-billing is an Agent 007 wannabe named Michael Shiels. Mikey has been annoying Lansing residents with his nasal whining and wheezing since he arrived in Lansing mid-summer 2006--ready, willing, and able to dispense his third-rate J.P. McCarthy impression to the listening public. I'm not sure if it is intentional on his part, but at times he can be quite funny. He makes me laugh. Alot. Usually I am just laughing at him though. Shiels recently married a local teeth-whitening specialist that he affectionately refers to as "Dr. Christine: Dentist to the Stars," as if Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie fly in from the West Coast to have their bicuspids and molars cleaned. Around the Capital City, Mike is known as Lansing's own version of "Star Jones" because he constantly manages to interject the names of a few of his pet sponsors into daily monologue while trying his best to act cool. A great example of this is a paraphrasing of one of Mike's informative self-disclosures: "After the show I might go to the MAC to work out, then to Dublin Square for lunch, maybe go down to the Capital. Sometimes Dr. Christine takes me to a MSU basketball game, then maybe stop at Dusty's for some wine. I got my bizzy!" What the hell is a bizzy? Some new STD? There may just be a nasty vaccination in Mike's future. And what man refers to his wife as "Doctor?" Mikey cracks me up!

Second banana on The Big Show is Tim Nestor, better known around Lansing as "Fester." Fester is the WJIM sports reporter, but often rambles on about his knowledge of history and sports. A proud Republican, Fester loves talking about his dinner dates with Michigan state Senator Tom George and has boldly predicted that Mittens Romney will be the "next president of the United States." Come on Fes get real--like a guy who stuffs his beautiful Irish Setter in a dog crate, straps it to the roof of the family truckster, then proceeds to drive 12 hours from Boston to Ontario with his vehicle covered in sticky, slimy, bister-hued puppy goo could ever become President. Or maybe I'm confusing Romney with Bush. Or Bush with the puppy goo.

Even the callers get in on the fun occasionally. There is one paranoid, love-starved Aricept-dependent old man that calls himself "Dave from Dimondale." "Dave"--if that's his real name--supplies The Big Show with secret "insider" political analysis of local and national importance. You know when "Dave from Dimondale" calls the show, something BIG is happening, like the time he reported that "Those Dems are demanding clean water, better education, and bridges that won't collapse. And Hillary won't be President since old bigots like me won't vote for her because she wears pantsuits instead of dresses."

So if you're looking for a good chuckle while on your drive to work in the morning, tune in to The Big Show. Howard Stern, you better look out, there's a new King of Comedy hitting the airwaves of your hometown!