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Kyle Shiely
Born
Kyle Rea Wolfram

(1975-12-20)December 20, 1975
South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota
OccupationExecutive Producer
EmployerHubbard Broadcasting Inc
SpouseBridget Anne Shiely
WebsiteKyleShiely.com

Kyle Rea Shiely (December 20, 1975 –) is a national award-winning American journalist and podcast producer known as "The Host Whisperer." He is currently the Executive Producer of the Garage Logic Podcast Network for Hubbard Broadcasting.

Biography

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Childhood

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Shiely was born Kyle Rea Wolfram on December 20th 1975, in South Bend, Indiana to Thomas Wolfram and Cynthia Shiely. He grew up in the Macalester-Groveland, Saint Paul area of Saint Paul, Minnesota. His great-great-great grandfather James Shiely was a contractor[1] whose draying business pulled the marble stone from the railroad to the State Capitol and Cathedral of Saint Paul.[2] His great-great grandfather was industrialist Joe Shiely Sr.

WCW Live

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Kyle started his audio production career on the pioneering Internet radio show WCW Live.[3] with host Jeremy Borash. Shiely helped Borash and Bob Ryder launch the show initially in March of 1999.[4] Following his time with WCW, Shiely contributed as a photographer for Extreme Championship Wrestling's website ECWwrestling.com.[5][6] He also pioneered a weekly wrestling podcast in 2000 before IPods existed, interviewing WCW[7] and ECW wrestlers[8] and future WWE stars like CM Punk and Adam Pearce.[9][10]

Talk Radio

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Shiely started working in terrestrial radio in February of 2002 at AM 1500 KSTP in St. Paul. Working his way up from weekend board-op, he ended up producing for talk personality Bob Davis.[11] When 1500 flipped to sports in 2010, Shiely landed at WCCO (AM)[12] where he produced for John Hines for more than five years.[13] Upon his retirement in 2018, the Hall of Fame broadcaster reflected on what working with Shiely meant for his career to the Star Tribune:

"For the most part I was alone on the air but my producers were legitimately partners. First, Kyle Shiely, now at MPR, who made me a better radio broadcaster than I am. We could have a show planned and if the news changed overnight, [Shiely] could reproduce the entire show coming in on the light rail."

MPR News

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Following his successful run at WCCO, Shiely moved to local competitor MPR News in September of 2017.[14] In August of 2018 he took over the leadership role of production for the local broadcast of All Things Considered.

During this time as Senior Producer, Shiely oversaw both Morning Edition and ATC.[14] Shiely briefly gained notoriety uring the COVID-19 pandemic after a tweeting out an email from an 8-year-old listener to ATC.[15] While leading ATC, Shiely and his team won the National Headliner Award for covering the George Floyd Riots, a National Murrow Award, the Public Media Award and many others. [16]

Lemonada Media

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In March of 2022, Shiely joined Lemonada Media as their first Senior Producer,[17] leading "In The Bubble w/ Andy Slavitt" to number #3 in the Apple charts by August of that year.[18] Shiely expanded the former Senior White House Advisors podcast from its COVID-19 roots to a three-days-a-week general news show.[18] He also produced the third season of No One is Coming to Save Us, featuring a live national tour of 10 cities.[19][20]


On the final episode of In the Bubble, Slavitt shared his thoughts about working with Shiely:

“I want to say one final thing of thanks to you before I do my final goodbye here, which is to thank you publicly for how you keep calm in a crisis like almost no one that I've met and maybe it comes from your live radio experience. But you know, I don't think people necessarily realize this... But before some of our shows, like mics aren't working and things aren't recording and people get ornery and people are like, well, what button should I hit? And no one knows what to tell them. And you've got an incredibly calm presence, which is, I think, meant to communicate things are going to be okay.... I think that's a crazy gift."[21]

Mischke Documentary

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Following the end of "In The Bubble," Shiely created and produced the audio documentary "The Phantom Caller of the Twin Cities" for KFAI about radio legend T. D. Mischke.[22]

Executive Producer of the Garage Logic Podcast Network

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In July of 2024, Shiely returned to Hubbard Broadcasting as the Executive Producer of the Garage Logic Podcast Network. In January of 2025 he relaunched "News From the Crabby Coffee Shop" with Kenny Olson and Amy Daniels. A month later, he created the new "Mischke" podcast hosted Tommy Mischke.

Boxing and MMA Judge

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Shiely was elected head Mixed martial arts judge by the Minnesota Combative Sports Commission in March of 2011. During his time as a boxing and MMA judge, he judged numerous boxing title fights and a UFC main event at the Target Center[23][24]

MMA Blogger

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Shiely covered the MMA career of Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar for the Minnesota Star Tribune from 2009-2011.[25]

Mental Health Advocate

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The survivor of childhood abuse, Shiely is a vocal advocate for the neurodiverse.[26] He's written extensively about the struggles growing up under a narcissistic mother.[27]

References

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  1. ^ "Who Built Our Capitol - James M Shiely".
  2. ^ University of Minnesota. "Who Built Our Capitol". Who Built Our Capitol.
  3. ^ Larson, Tim. "Who's Who in the Upper Midwest". Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  4. ^ Reynold, R.D. (2004). Death of WCW (1st ed.). ECW Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-1770411753.
  5. ^ "Photographer For Original Version Of ECW Website". ECWwrestling.com.
  6. ^ The Multimedia Promoter, June 28, 2024, retrieved June 6, 2025
  7. ^ Evans, Guy. Nitro (in Citations) (1st ed.).{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  8. ^ Joel Gertner interviewed after an ECW show in Chicago circa 2000, retrieved June 9, 2025
  9. ^ SPCW post show featuring Ray Whebbe, retrieved June 9, 2025
  10. ^ "The Multimedia Promoter". open.spotify.com. Retrieved June 12, 2025.
  11. ^ Garage Logic (April 2, 2025). A Nomad's Life with Bob Davis. Retrieved June 5, 2025 – via YouTube.
  12. ^ Brauer, David (January 23, 2012). "Michele Tafoya out as WCCO Radio afternoon host". MinnPost. Retrieved June 12, 2025.
  13. ^ C.J (August 4, 2018). "C.J.: WCCO-AM's John Hines is calling it a career after the State Fair". www.startribune.com. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  14. ^ a b "Lemonada Grows Team". Podcast Business Journal. March 15, 2022. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  15. ^ "8-Year-Old Sends Stern Letter Urging NPR To Broadcast More Dinosaur Stories". HuffPost. February 10, 2021. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  16. ^ "Award Collection". archive.mpr.org. Retrieved June 6, 2025.
  17. ^ "Steve Nelson, Kyle Shiely, & Rachel Neel join Lemonada Media". Barett Media. March 16, 2022.
  18. ^ a b "The Outsider's Insider". The Pennsylvania Gazette. December 19, 2022. Retrieved June 12, 2025.
  19. ^ "No One is Coming to Save Us". Lemonada Media. Retrieved June 9, 2025.
  20. ^ "No One is Coming to Save Us Podcast". Neighborhood Villages. May 22, 2025. Retrieved June 12, 2025.
  21. ^ "In The Bubble Says Goodbye Part 2 - In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt". omny.fm. Retrieved June 5, 2025.
  22. ^ Shiely, Kyle. "The Phantom Caller of the Twin Cities". KFAI.org.
  23. ^ "BoxRec: Kyle Shiely". boxrec.com. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  24. ^ "Kyle Shiely :: Judge :: MMA Decisions". mmadecisions.com. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  25. ^ Shiely, Kyle (July 4, 2010). "UFC 116 Live Blog". www.startribune.com. Retrieved June 5, 2025.
  26. ^ Holmes, Nick (January 19, 2022). "Chasing MacNaughton S3E18: Kyle Let's Talk". Tech Hockey Guide. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
  27. ^ Shiely, Kyle. "Outside The Wall | Kyle Shiely | Substack". shiely.substack.com. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
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