The BJ Shea Morning Experience is a morning drive time radio show on 99.9 FM KISW in Seattle, Washington, owned by Entercom. The show airs Monday through Friday, 5:00 am - 10:00 am PST and is also available as a stream and a downloadable podcast from the station's official website.
About the show
The show is geared towards men and helping them become stronger by offering advice and real life examples of dealing with life. They refer to themselves as H-Holes. What is an H-Hole? "An H-Hole is someone who is painfully and beautifully honest! It's the kind of honesty that will sometimes make people call you an A-hole! But you're not... you're an "Honest-Hole" or H-Hole for short."
KQBZ era (1999-2005)
The BJ Shea Experience started as a two hour show on KQBZ "The Buzz" (100.7 FM), middays between syndicated shows by Kennedy and Tom Leykis. The primary theme of the show is relationships, primarily from a male point of view, though it has tackled some highly controversial topics of sex, politics and religion.
In 2000, Shea was dismissed from the station due to controversial comments made on air. Shea successfully appealed the decision in an arbitration hearing, overturning the dismissal.
In 2004, in the wake of the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy, Shea used his show as a platform to speak out against the attempts to increase censorship on broadcasting. "I think this is totally from the White House," said Shea. "I think that George Bush is trying to pander to the extreme Christian Coalition he thinks will back him in this election. I hope it's a huge failure and he gets kicked out of the White House."
In May 2005, Entercom Seattle LLC, parent company of KQBZ, was sued by morning show host Robin Erickson of the Robin & Maynard Morning Show, on charges of gender discrimination and creating a hostile work environment, based upon remarks made during BJ Shea's show. Shea however was not named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
KQBZ's promotional slogan at the time was "Radio for Guys," and the suit contended that it was part of the problem. "The Shea program regularly features verbal attacks on women," the suit claimed. "These attacks repeatedly and crudely attack women in general and specifically in the workplace, claiming, among other assertions, that women are bad employees whose presence in the workplace is bad for men." The suit also claimed that Shea attacked Erickson on air on the basis of her gender and age, promoting The Howard Stern Show even though it ran during Robin & Maynard's time slot on KISW, (a station also owned by Entercom,) and criticized other female Entercom employees on the air. Shea was disciplined for his on-air comments, though the suit contended that the punishment was not severe enough.
KISW era (2005-Present)
On November 30, 2005, KQBZ changed its format from FM Talk to Country music. BJ Shea's show, newly rechristened as "The BJ Shea Morning Experience," would move to KISW on January 3 to fill the timeslot vacated by The Howard Stern Show's move to satellite radio. No details were given as to the status of the Robin & Maynard show, or the ongoing litigation, except that the show would not be picked up by KISW.
The show has become one of the few shows across the United States to succeed in maintaining and growing its listenership after the departure of Howard Stern. In the ratings book that immediately succeeded the move, KISW and Shea's show both placed at or near the top in their target-demographic audience, primarily men 18 to 49
Crew members
BJ Shea
Brandon Joe Shea was born September 1, 1960, in Boston, Massachusetts. Shea self-describes himself as a "proud sci-fi, baseball-loving, epicurean geek." He has worked in the radio industry for more than 20 years, and in many different formats, under the names "Bobby J. Shea" and "Bob Ravenous". His stage name "Shea" comes from his wife Kathy's maiden name, while his actual surname is unknown. He also has two children, Joey ("The Prodigy") and Sarah ("Chick in a Box").
Before hosting his own show, Shea worked with Brother Wease in Rochester, New York.
A significant amount of the show's content involves BJ engaging in explosive rants often covering perceived injustices, gender equality issues, proper familial behavior and various sports/entertainment related themes. BJ also frequently derides his co-hosts and supporting cast for their gaffes and incompetence. However, BJ has essentially admitted that his short fuse with his co-hosts is at least somewhat shtick.
Shea focuses the brunt of his tirades on co-host "Double R". Over the years Shea has learned to deal with Double R's short comings by observing how primitive primates communicate with one-another.
Double R
Rick "The meat gazer" Robertson, or "Double R", was the producer of the show during the KQBZ era but with the transition to KISW, Steve The Producer has taken over the show's production tasks. Double R portrays himself as a stoner, acting as a comic foil to BJ's "straight man." He typically does sports news and commentary. He is often referred to as a Troglodyte by BJ, because of his lack of grip on the english language. "Unbelievable," and "Are You Kidding Me?" have become comedic catch phrases for Double R, both in reference to a botched live analysis during a televised Seattle Seahawks post-game show in 2006. As later covered on the radio, Double R's teleprompter had failed and he essentially rambled his way through his game analysis by repeating ad nauseam those statements. Since the post-game blooper, the sports segment usually opens with an audio clip of a famous athlete or celebrity introducing Double R with something in the form of "If you want unbelievably bad sports reporting, go no further than Double R. Are you kidding me? "
Double R is from Bellingham, Washington, and his association with that region of the state is one of many frequent points of conflict with him and BJ. Double R has worked in Los Angeles, for the nationally syndicated "Ferrall on the Bench", and in New York for WFAN, WNEW, ESPN Radio, and WQHT ("Hot 97"). He has a wife (referred to as "Yoko Ono"), and two sons, "Little Mick" and "Double B".Top Shelf
Top Shelf (whose real name is Scott) is the show's sound engineer. He has a hearty appreciation for alcohol, especially Crown Royal. He has a hyena laugh that has become his signature, and can unleash said laugh upon the slightest provocation. In an interview, it was asked if the crew could stop "playing that laugh". BJ revealed that it was indeed a real person and that, in the earlier days of the show, people didn't believe it was real and would get angry at how often they played it. "Toppy", as he is often called on the show, graduated from Woodinville High School in Woodinville, Washington in the upper two thirds of his class, and is the longest-standing Entercom employee on the show and in Seattle. Top Shelf's avid fandom of the Pittsburgh Steelers NFL franchise is a frequent point of derision, particularly during the NFL season. Additionally, several of Top Shelf's unsuccessful personal relationships have been fodder for the show (Babybunny).
Top Shelf drives a Camaro and has a deep appreciation for muscle cars, especially the General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard and the GTO Judge from films such as Sex Drive. His only requirements for movies are that they feature at least one muscle car and at least one hot chick.
Some of Top Shelf's favorite things are Seann William Scott, large breasts, Crown Royal and classic cars. A regular feature on the show is called A View From the Shelf, in which Toppy gets drunk on Crown Royal during an event and then drunk-dials BJ and leaves an often incoherent message, which subsequently is played on the show.
Steve the Producer
Current producer for the show, and one of just two major crew members not to have come from the KQBZ show. Originally from New York City, he produced "The Andy Savage Show" prior to his assignment to the Morning Experience.
Steve the Producer is an avid music fan, and plays drums for Seattle band "New Originals". Steve is also a dog owner, which has resulted in a running gag indicating Steve as a Zoophiliac who engages in sexual behavior with his dog, Lucy. In addition to his production duties, Steve is usually tasked with giving an on-air rundown of current news items (during which he is referred to as Steve the news tool or Creepy Uncle News Tool), providing introductions for show guests, and maintaining a daily blog of the show on the KISW website.
Steve was in an independent film released in 2006, called Jerkbeast, based on a public access show in Seattle. He played a radio DJ named "Slammin' Sammy".
The Reverend En Fuego
Current call screener for the show, upholding the show's longstanding running gag of letting callers through that most call screeners would consider unqualified for air. Often he acts as the scapegoat when a call somehow fails to meet standards. The Reverend is also notorious for suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome, which enticed the show's hosts to play fart sound effect drops when the Reverend spoke. This was later changed to a duck's quacking sound as part of the Reverend's theme when the regular fart noises were deemed too offensive. His theme is background music similar to the type played during radio news bulletins, and is almost always played when he speaks on air, along with En Fuego b
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