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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Live across the Great Lake State. You're connected to Michigan's
most engaging and influential radio and television program, Michigan's Big
Show starring Michael Patrick Shields, presented by Blue Cross, Blue
Shield Michigan and Blue Care Network.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm producer and creative director Tony Cuthberts.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Now in the shadow of the Capitol Dome and Lansing.
He's heard from the beaches of Lake Michigan, to the
halls of power and behind closed doors. Here's Michigan's Michael
Patrick Shields quatles and exactly fifteen seconds we'll be on
the air.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I speaking Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
What an honor it is to be on this show.
You know I used to peek in on your studio
when you're next to the Grand.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Travers Pike Company.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Again, that's a pretty good show.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
This much time to finally get myself on this show.
Michael Patrick Shields is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Good morning world, Good morning Michigan.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
A very pleasant fire Keepers Casino Friday, October seventeenth, to you.
One bite, everyone knows the rules, another one as we
get your Friday morning Turkey on the road. Lapacha Sia
con Tuttivoi it's Michael Patrick Shields with you, and we
never let the birthday of a beautiful person pass without
taking notes. We're going to do that right up front
(01:21):
today on October seventeenth. And there's a reason. That's because
my son, Harrison Ambrose Shields was born on this date
in history, nineteen ninety six in Pontiac, Michigan. He emerged
about the size of a football. And yeah, I remember
looking at him under those hot lights, you know that
(01:42):
they put him on. It looks like when you go
to a buffet and they have those hot lights and
there's a little person. There's a little person laying on
the metal there and crying a little bit but not
too much. And I thought, this is for life, man,
this is for life. And I think I told him
that little infant, little newborn baby.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I said, all right, all right here I am. Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And it was quite a day because you know, I
was kind of an idiot. I didn't know what I
was doing. And there was this hospital suite there at
Saint Joe's and Pontiac, and you know, there was like
a twenty four to forty eight hour period of waiting
where his mother, Via was you know, you knew it
was about to happen, but I don't know. I always
saw the movies where you got to get in the car,
(02:26):
drive seven hundred miles an hour and hurry up and
get there. No, this was like forty eight hours of
Oh she was home listening to music and there were candles,
and then went to the hospital thinking it was going
to happen, and they had her walking around and maybe
many of you women who've gone through this have experienced this,
walking up and down the aisles trying to sort of
(02:46):
induce the labor. Now go home, false starts, went back home,
came back, and then it was like a like a
hotel room kind of, and so, you know, I put
some music on and I lit some candles, and the
doctor came in and said, who in the hell lit
these hand I don't know, because it's a hospital.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You can't do that.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So I blew out all the candles and everything. And
then it became an emergency situation because I guess he
had the umbilical cord around his neck because the heartbeat
started to dip. Then it became all business and boom,
that bed went zooming out of the room like a
formula one car and somebody, one of the nurses or
somebody just threw a packet at me, like and it
(03:26):
was like a parachute packet. Put this on and follow us,
and it became a Cesarean section situation.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
And you know, there was a.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
There was a like a little wall made of cloth.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
So I was by Vera's head.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I didn't see, you know, the actual procedure going on
until they hoisted Harrison from out behind the thing. But
you know, a couple months later, I'm like, you know,
I should probably watch on TV what that actually looked like.
And they had one of those shows where you could
watch a Cesarean section on television. I probably made it
at about forty five seconds, like I can't. It's a miracle,
(04:04):
damn it. And so he's a miracle. And so happy
birthday the Harrison Ambrow Shields. He's not the size of
a football anymore, but we've been to a lot of
football games and we played football and all of that
kind of thing. Now he's a lawyer and so on
this date in history, he shares a birthday with Alan Jackson,
the country singer. In fact, his mother and I went
(04:25):
to an Alan Jackson concert one time at the Palace
of Auburn Hills. Eminem the Rapper from Detroit Slim Shady. Yeah,
Now that's some music that Harrison would be more likely
to listen to. He's fifty three today, sharing a birthday
with Harrison.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Uh who else?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Oh, Pope John Paul the First was born on this
date in history, nineteen twelve. He's the pope that lasted
only about a month and woke up dead, as the
Irish would say, after a very short reign. And there's
always been some speculation that perhaps he was murdered, and
people wondered. You know, he was from Venice, by the way,
(05:07):
and a battalion, seemed like a very nice fellow who
wanted to reform the Vatican Bank. And that's why if
you go and you look some of the speculations, some
of the books that are written about it, as I recalled,
and none went in there to give him breakfast his tea,
and he was asleep.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
He was dead.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So that gave us the Polish Pope, Pope John Paul
the Second, which was big where I was from in Wyandott, Michigan,
because it's a very Polish community, and I remember just
the pride and then the historical impact of bringing down
the Berlin Wall and the end of the Soviet Union
and the lack of domination of the Russians in Poland
brought on by Pope John Paul the Second going there
(05:48):
and showing up in Poland Carol boy Tila and the
crowd of maybe a million people showed up chanting we
want God, and that was impossible for the Russians to ignore.
I think, speaking of Daredevil's Evil Knieval was born on
this date in history, I did meet him once. He's
the guy that used to take his motorcycle to Las
Vegas and even tried to go over the Grand Canyon.
(06:10):
He was born on this date in nineteen thirty eight.
Evil canieval. Oh, he wrecked more than he succeeded. I
think he was a madman from out in Montana somewhere
like that. And he came to Detroit one time and
I met him to record an interview at the hotel.
What was at the Saint Regis next to WJR. There
the Fisher Building, and Evil was ten in the morning
(06:33):
in the lobby.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
We met him. He looked a wreck man and he said,
I was here last night. I went looking for the hookers.
Where are all the hookers?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
We're in midtown Detroit. I said, you went walking around
here last night at midnight? He said, yeah, I was looking.
I said, you just had your greatest dare of all time.
I mean, never mind the motorcycle jumps. I swear I
said that. Now he's not that way in Detroit anymore.
But at the time it was. Rita Hayworth was born
on this date in history from pal Joey, and that's
(07:04):
like a rat pack sort of a thing. And of
course she's not the only rat packer born on this
date in history. Well, it was a little bit of
history apparently, because well it was Joey Bishop who died
on this date. He's the last surviving member of the
rat Pack. Levi Stubbs, the lead singer of the Motown's
(07:26):
Four Tops, died on this date in history. And to
speak locally of Detroit, the first Cadillac was completed in
nineteen oh two in Detroit, Michigan. In nineteen nineteen, the
Radio Corporation of America was formed, Thank you very much.
Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion and went to prison,
and the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Mother Teresa
(07:47):
in nineteen seventy nine. You think Mother Teresa and Donald
Trump should get the Nobel Prize. Pope John Paul, the
one that I just mentioned, met Queen Elizae at the
Vatican at this time too in history. And in two
thousand and six, the three hundred millionth person was born
in the United States.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I don't know how many there are now.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Dali Lama got the Congressional Medal of Honor on this state.
And there was a big day for famous people and honors,
wasn't it. Don Coriel Air Coriel invented passing in the NFL,
was born in this date in history. Margo Kidder, who
was Lois Lane in the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeve,
who of course was close with Jane Seymour, who I
see was back on Mckinhawe Island just a week ago.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Welcome back her.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I hope she got over to Mission Point Resort where
they made that movie in the theater there. Of course,
there were some exterior from the other hotel, and Jane
Seymour visits that hotel too. But we say a good
pure Michigan morning to you on this Friday. It's October seventeenth,
George went from Cheers and Norm macdonald' share a birthday
today too, Happy birthday to my son Harris and Shields.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
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Luxury Infinity Giveaway on Saturday, October twenty fifth. Win a
share of one hundred twenty thousand in cash and Red
Hot credits or the Grand prize a luxurious twenty twenty
six Infinity QX sixty. Drawing start at two pm with
(09:20):
five winners of twenty five hundred in Red Hot credits.
At four pm, three winners each get five thousand cash.
Then at six pm, five winners received seventy five hundred
in Red Hot credits, and at eight pm it's another
drawing for three winners of ten thousand cash. At ten
pm it's the Grand Prize drawing for a stunning Infinity
(09:40):
QX sixty. Earn entries daily plus earn double entries every
Wednesday now through October twenty fifth for the Keys to
Luxury Infinity Giveaway. The best giveaways, The biggest guaranteed prize
is only at fire Keepers. Get your Vegas on at
fire Keepers Casino Hotel on ninety four to xit one
oh four in Battle Creek Management reserves all rights. On
(10:01):
each episode of My Business Matters the Michigan Chamber Podcast,
a Michigan Chamber team member will sit down with a
special guest or guests who are influential employers, policymakers, and
leaders here in Michigan. We'll discuss relevant, timely issues affecting
our state's economy, workforce, and our communities. Will help foster
pragmatic problem solving, and we'll do it with civility.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Each episode is fifteen to twenty minutes in length, just
long enough to get the key updates and hear those
important conversations while being short enough to listen on your
commute or that break during your day.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Check out our latest episode, hosted by me, Jim Holcombe,
Michigan Chamber President and CEO. We'll talk about Line five
and building the Great Lakes Tunnel. It's one of the
biggest infrastructure projects in Michigan history.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Tune in and learn more, Like and subscribe to My
Business Matters podcast on any of your favorite podcast platforms.
Just search am I Business Matters until we connect next time.
On My Business Matters, I'm Jim Holcomb, President and CEO
of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce,
Live across the Great Lake State. You're connected to Michigan's
most engaging and influential radio and television program, Michigan's Big
Show starring Michael Patrick Shields, presented by Blue Cross, Blue
Shield Michigan and Blue Care Network.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm producer and creative director Tony Cuthberts.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Now in the shadow of the Capitol Dome and Lansing.
He's heard from the beaches of Lake Michigan, to the
halls of power and behind closed doors. Here's Michigan's Michael
Patrick Shields quatles and exactly fifteen seconds we'll be on
the air.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I speaking Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
What an honor it is to be on this show.
You know I used to peek in on your studio
when you're next to the Grand.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Travers Pike Company.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Again, that's a pretty good show.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
This much time to finally get myself on this show.
Michael Patrick Shields is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Good morning world, Good morning Michigan.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
A very pleasant fire Keepers Casino Friday, October seventeenth, to you.
One bite, everyone knows the rules, another one as we
get your Friday morning Turkey on the road. Lapacha Sia
con Tuttivoi it's Michael Patrick Shields with you, and we
never let the birthday of a beautiful person pass without
taking notes. We're going to do that right up front
(01:21):
today on October seventeenth. And there's a reason. That's because
my son, Harrison Ambrose Shields was born on this date
in history, nineteen ninety six in Pontiac, Michigan. He emerged
about the size of a football. And yeah, I remember
looking at him under those hot lights, you know that
(01:42):
they put him on. It looks like when you go
to a buffet and they have those hot lights and
there's a little person. There's a little person laying on
the metal there and crying a little bit but not
too much. And I thought, this is for life, man,
this is for life. And I think I told him
that little infant, little newborn baby.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I said, all right, all right here I am. Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And it was quite a day because you know, I
was kind of an idiot. I didn't know what I
was doing. And there was this hospital suite there at
Saint Joe's and Pontiac, and you know, there was like
a twenty four to forty eight hour period of waiting
where his mother, Via was you know, you knew it
was about to happen, but I don't know. I always
saw the movies where you got to get in the car,
(02:26):
drive seven hundred miles an hour and hurry up and
get there. No, this was like forty eight hours of
Oh she was home listening to music and there were candles,
and then went to the hospital thinking it was going
to happen, and they had her walking around and maybe
many of you women who've gone through this have experienced this,
walking up and down the aisles trying to sort of
(02:46):
induce the labor. Now go home, false starts, went back home,
came back, and then it was like a like a
hotel room kind of, and so, you know, I put
some music on and I lit some candles, and the
doctor came in and said, who in the hell lit
these hand I don't know, because it's a hospital.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You can't do that.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So I blew out all the candles and everything. And
then it became an emergency situation because I guess he
had the umbilical cord around his neck because the heartbeat
started to dip. Then it became all business and boom,
that bed went zooming out of the room like a
formula one car and somebody, one of the nurses or
somebody just threw a packet at me, like and it
(03:26):
was like a parachute packet. Put this on and follow us,
and it became a Cesarean section situation.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
And you know, there was a.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
There was a like a little wall made of cloth.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
So I was by Vera's head.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I didn't see, you know, the actual procedure going on
until they hoisted Harrison from out behind the thing. But
you know, a couple months later, I'm like, you know,
I should probably watch on TV what that actually looked like.
And they had one of those shows where you could
watch a Cesarean section on television. I probably made it
at about forty five seconds, like I can't. It's a miracle,
(04:04):
damn it. And so he's a miracle. And so happy
birthday the Harrison Ambrow Shields. He's not the size of
a football anymore, but we've been to a lot of
football games and we played football and all of that
kind of thing. Now he's a lawyer and so on
this date in history, he shares a birthday with Alan Jackson,
the country singer. In fact, his mother and I went
(04:25):
to an Alan Jackson concert one time at the Palace
of Auburn Hills. Eminem the Rapper from Detroit Slim Shady. Yeah,
Now that's some music that Harrison would be more likely
to listen to. He's fifty three today, sharing a birthday
with Harrison.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Uh who else?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Oh, Pope John Paul the First was born on this
date in history, nineteen twelve. He's the pope that lasted
only about a month and woke up dead, as the
Irish would say, after a very short reign. And there's
always been some speculation that perhaps he was murdered, and
people wondered. You know, he was from Venice, by the way,
(05:07):
and a battalion, seemed like a very nice fellow who
wanted to reform the Vatican Bank. And that's why if
you go and you look some of the speculations, some
of the books that are written about it, as I recalled,
and none went in there to give him breakfast his tea,
and he was asleep.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
He was dead.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So that gave us the Polish Pope, Pope John Paul
the Second, which was big where I was from in Wyandott, Michigan,
because it's a very Polish community, and I remember just
the pride and then the historical impact of bringing down
the Berlin Wall and the end of the Soviet Union
and the lack of domination of the Russians in Poland
brought on by Pope John Paul the Second going there
(05:48):
and showing up in Poland Carol boy Tila and the
crowd of maybe a million people showed up chanting we
want God, and that was impossible for the Russians to ignore.
I think, speaking of Daredevil's Evil Knieval was born on
this date in history, I did meet him once. He's
the guy that used to take his motorcycle to Las
Vegas and even tried to go over the Grand Canyon.
(06:10):
He was born on this date in nineteen thirty eight.
Evil canieval. Oh, he wrecked more than he succeeded. I
think he was a madman from out in Montana somewhere
like that. And he came to Detroit one time and
I met him to record an interview at the hotel.
What was at the Saint Regis next to WJR. There
the Fisher Building, and Evil was ten in the morning
(06:33):
in the lobby.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
We met him. He looked a wreck man and he said,
I was here last night. I went looking for the hookers.
Where are all the hookers?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
We're in midtown Detroit. I said, you went walking around
here last night at midnight? He said, yeah, I was looking.
I said, you just had your greatest dare of all time.
I mean, never mind the motorcycle jumps. I swear I
said that. Now he's not that way in Detroit anymore.
But at the time it was. Rita Hayworth was born
on this date in history from pal Joey, and that's
(07:04):
like a rat pack sort of a thing. And of
course she's not the only rat packer born on this
date in history. Well, it was a little bit of
history apparently, because well it was Joey Bishop who died
on this date. He's the last surviving member of the
rat Pack. Levi Stubbs, the lead singer of the Motown's
(07:26):
Four Tops, died on this date in history. And to
speak locally of Detroit, the first Cadillac was completed in
nineteen oh two in Detroit, Michigan. In nineteen nineteen, the
Radio Corporation of America was formed, Thank you very much.
Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion and went to prison,
and the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Mother Teresa
(07:47):
in nineteen seventy nine. You think Mother Teresa and Donald
Trump should get the Nobel Prize. Pope John Paul, the
one that I just mentioned, met Queen Elizae at the
Vatican at this time too in history. And in two
thousand and six, the three hundred millionth person was born
in the United States.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I don't know how many there are now.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Dali Lama got the Congressional Medal of Honor on this state.
And there was a big day for famous people and honors,
wasn't it. Don Coriel Air Coriel invented passing in the NFL,
was born in this date in history. Margo Kidder, who
was Lois Lane in the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeve,
who of course was close with Jane Seymour, who I
see was back on Mckinhawe Island just a week ago.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Welcome back her.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I hope she got over to Mission Point Resort where
they made that movie in the theater there. Of course,
there were some exterior from the other hotel, and Jane
Seymour visits that hotel too. But we say a good
pure Michigan morning to you on this Friday. It's October seventeenth,
George went from Cheers and Norm macdonald' share a birthday
today too, Happy birthday to my son Harris and Shields.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Refine your ride at fire Keepers. It's the Keys to
Luxury Infinity Giveaway on Saturday, October twenty fifth. Win a
share of one hundred twenty thousand in cash and Red
Hot credits or the Grand prize a luxurious twenty twenty
six Infinity QX sixty. Drawing start at two pm with
(09:20):
five winners of twenty five hundred in Red Hot credits.
At four pm, three winners each get five thousand cash.
Then at six pm, five winners received seventy five hundred
in Red Hot credits, and at eight pm it's another
drawing for three winners of ten thousand cash. At ten
pm it's the Grand Prize drawing for a stunning Infinity
(09:40):
QX sixty. Earn entries daily plus earn double entries every
Wednesday now through October twenty fifth for the Keys to
Luxury Infinity Giveaway. The best giveaways, The biggest guaranteed prize
is only at fire Keepers. Get your Vegas on at
fire Keepers Casino Hotel on ninety four to xit one
oh four in Battle Creek Management reserves all rights. On
(10:01):
each episode of My Business Matters the Michigan Chamber Podcast,
a Michigan Chamber team member will sit down with a
special guest or guests who are influential employers, policymakers, and
leaders here in Michigan. We'll discuss relevant, timely issues affecting
our state's economy, workforce, and our communities. Will help foster
pragmatic problem solving, and we'll do it with civility.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Each episode is fifteen to twenty minutes in length, just
long enough to get the key updates and hear those
important conversations while being short enough to listen on your
commute or that break during your day.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Check out our latest episode, hosted by me, Jim Holcombe,
Michigan Chamber President and CEO. We'll talk about Line five
and building the Great Lakes Tunnel. It's one of the
biggest infrastructure projects in Michigan history.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Tune in and learn more, Like and subscribe to My
Business Matters podcast on any of your favorite podcast platforms.
Just search am I Business Matters until we connect next time.
On My Business Matters, I'm Jim Holcomb, President and CEO
of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce,
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