Save A Kat

We interviewed Kat from a SaveAKat.com a website that was set up to help Kat get out of debt. In the interview she addresses hot to get out of and how to avoid debt. She also talks about her charitable causes along with some of the interesting gifts she received. Some of our viewers were concerned with the spamming practices used on Craigslist, which she also addresses. Enjoy!

The YouTube Awards- Interview Too!

http://www.youtube.com/ytawards
For the first time YouTube is recognizing user submitted videos with an award. Now some of the winners are touring the nation with interviews and spreading the word of grassroots video entertainment. Here is the press release from YouTube:

SAN BRUNO, CA -- March 26, 2007 – YouTube, the leader in online video, is rolling out the red carpet to celebrate the winners of the 2007 YouTube Video Awards that were announced today ( http://www.youtube.com/ytawards ). These individuals were on the forefront of the most creative and popular original content in 2006, helping to cultivate the YouTube community and foster the online video phenomenon.

“2006 was a groundbreaking year for YouTube, user-generated content, and entertaining online videos. With this in mind, we established the YouTube Video awards to recognize the ingenuity and achievements of our community,” said Jamie Byrne, head of product marketing for YouTube. “These individuals put the first stitches in the fabric of the YouTube community. Instead of seeing a way to share videos they saw an opportunity for worldwide visibility and through their success have changed the landscape of how a ‘star’ is defined.”

"It's incredible how quickly and completely YouTube is changing culture and it's a surreal honor to be part of something so great," said Damian Kulash, front man of OK Go. “We can’t wait to get our trophy."

As the masses learned about online video, many of the creators of these videos established themselves as personalities, going from the seemingly unknown to international celebrity, overnight. They are proof that anyone with a creative mind, a camera and a computer can produce original content and become a star. By tapping into their talents and passions, these YouTube pioneers laid the foundation for a medium that has had, and will continue to have a positive impact on how people are entertained, informed and inspired.

The Michael and Taylor Show had the opportunity to have an interview with YouTube Product Manager Michael and Powers along with the winners of The Best Comedy Anthony and Ian from Smosh.com The interview will be aired Thursday, but you can hear it now right here!

NEW MICHAEL AND TAYLOR SHOW PROMOTION!

Okay, three new things:

1.) Tommorow's show will feature some members of the Marshall-Made Movie-- Maneater

2.) The Michael and Taylor Show is hosting a basketball tournament that will pay half the booty to the players and half of the money will pay for a donation to The Heifer Project who will send a Buffalo to those third world countries in need.
3.) NEW PROMO CLIP!!!! CHECK IT OUT! IT'S OUR NEW THEME SONG!

Steve Free Interview

We recently sat down for an excellent interview with Steve Free who performed several excellent songs for us. The audio clip is posted above and can also be found in our right-column audio streamer. Here is a little information about Steve Free:

Steve Free has been called by Cashbox magazine "one of the most diverse artists on today's American scene."

The singer/songwriter/recording artist is an award-winning musician who has blended his Applachian and Native American roots into a sound that has brought him national acclaim.

Recording with Fraternity Records, he has placed three songs on national charts. "Seige at Lucasville" reached No. 57 on the Cashbox top 100 charts in 1994, and "Theresa Eyes" rose to No. 58 in 1994.


"Ridin' The Rails" hit No. 52 on the National Weekly Country Charts in 1996.

Friends in the Wind rose to No.7 in the International Independent Country / Folk Charts in 2001.

Steve has won numerous music industry awards, including five ASCAP songwriting awards and was named Songwriter of the Year in 1996 by the Academy of Independent Recording Artists.

Steve continues to play coffeehouses, arts centers, and schools throughout the Tri-State area and the Midwest. In the summer with his band, he can be seen at many fairs and festivals in the region, where he has earned a reputation as a "good-time audience participation" performer.

The Redding Brothers Concert

Last Friday the Redding Brothers headlined what was quite possibly the best local rock tour in the Huntington area at their CD release show of The Physics of Immortality. After receiving my press pass I was escorted back to the band where we got to meet the great guys of we had interviewed a few days before. We of course staged a picture and then let the boys get back to preparing to fill the Charleston Civic Center with the sounds that very well may save the world. The concert was not merely another concert, or not even just another album release party. This concert was going to buy a cow. The band is involved with The Heifer Project, a charity that donates farm animals to impoverished community and The Redding Brothers sponsored a cow from the proceeds of Friday’s show.

The opening act was Bug Lilly and Jessica Saunders who put on an amazing show of originals and covers. Bug Lilly was a great performer and Jessica’s smooth vocal take on their rendition of the Allman Brother’s Midnight Rider was quite impressive. Bug Lilly then pulled out a classic to showcase his own talents—Hit Me One More Time, by Britney Spears. This has the crowd rolling with laughter, dancing, and singing to the recently shaved pop idol’s tune. Then the moment arrived. The Redding Brothers were coming.

The band took the stage with the song Solid from the band’s new album and lead singer Micah jumped onto a desk that was placed on the stage. A small technicality forced a premature end to the song, but determined the boy’s started the song again and performed it amazingly. Later in the show drummer Gabe came forward and sang near flawlessly on another new song Chauvet, even while working heavily on his drum set and later after the band switched instruments, Gabe played one song with a drum and even ran into the audience and allowed several people play on the Djembe. Then came his piano solo that wraps up the new album and he played it perfectly.

Personalized chants, especially for Josiah, reminded us that the band was local and also highly adored. All three members were very high energy and made for an excellent show. The ending Leprechaun song was a fast paced fun song that was an encore before closing on a band favorite, Unfaithful, a longer ballad that also seemed to amaze the crowd. The band even stuck around to attend a long line of people looking for autographs and seeking to purchase their album. For more information about their touring schedule ore for a listen check out www.reddingbrothers.com. The interview with the brothers can be found here: http://themandtshow.blogspot.com

VIDEO!!!

Upcoming Interview Schedule Update: March 7, 2007

Director AND Producer of Maneater (http://www.myspace.com/maneatermovie)
An idependent film company (Wazzlehog) based right here at Marshall here is the synopsis:

Glen Collins has wanted a girlfriend ever since he was five-years-old. He's never had much luck, though. Enter D'arcy, a mysterious young woman who actually seems interested in Glen. There's just one problem--she's a cannibal. Unwilling to let that get in the way of his long-awaited chance at true love, Glen agrees to help D'arcy find victims.

Kat (http://www.saveakat.com/)
Kat is in debt, needs help and has just the way to do it. Ask! We will hear about here efforts and successes on the show.


Steve Free (http://www.stevefree.com) Interview and a LIVE PERFORMANCE!!
# 5 time ASCAP Award Winner for songwriting

* ASCAP Award for performances on National Public Radio, 1998

* Academy of Independent Recording Artist singer/songwriter of the year, 1996

* Airplay International Lifetime Achievement Award, 1999, 2000

* Timeline named one of the top new traditional albums of 2000 by Country Bunker Radio

* Ohio Artist on Tour with the Ohio Arts Council

* Ohio Governor's Award for the Arts nominee

* Ohio Appalachian Rural Action Advisory Board

Zachary Tackett and Dr. Rushton (Head of the Infectious Disease Department at St. Mary’s)

A discussion about Staph isolates.

The Demon Beat (www.myspace.com/thedemonbeat)

These guys just won the Battle for Shepfest and have earned the right to share the stage with some "TBA Big Name Band"

Interview With The Redding Brothers

Here is an interview with the Redding Brothers, make sure you check out their new album coming out this Friday at the CD release show in Charleston!

Craig Newmark from Craigslist

We interviewed Craig Newmark of craigslist.org today and he some very intersting things to say about the Internet, craigslist.org, and philianthropy through business. the interview went quite well and is very interesting for the techie, businessman and techie alike. Please enjoy and tune in tommorow morning for the interview!

CD Review: The Redding Brothers- The Physics of Immortality

http://www.reddingbrothers.com

The Redding Brothers are three brothers originally from the good old state that birthed our own Michael and Taylor Show, West Virginia. With roots in their home state of West Virginia, Seattle, and Oklahoma, the boys really bring a unique heritage to their music. With their father, a Johnny Cash-on-the-acoustic player as their prime source of influence the Redding Brothers have gone on to create what has been called their own brand of "scruffy, intelligent rock". Now, still carrying what West Virginia, Seattle, and Oklahoma gave them, they jam from their new homebase of Nashville, Tennessee.

The new album brings a much more matured album than the previous Wisdom from the Green Shag Carpet and they are preparing for a tour of Charleston, Atlanta, Parkersburg, and Pittsburgh. The brevity of each song, rarely (read once) surpassing 5 minutes makes for easy radio play and does not bore the listener. They are also appearing on the Michael and Taylor in the Morning Show this week on WMUL 88.1 Huntington, WV. The show should provide us with a great set-list, we were able to preview their new album The Physics of Immortality and here is what Taylor came up with:

Solid
This song is one of Micah's more powerful vocal performances on the album and is an excellent song overall. The background vocals are well placed and fun to listen to.

Send Me a Line
The guitar lines in this are slightly pop-like, and provide a style reminiscent of a lot of early 90's bands. The style if very catchy and the vocals are exquisite.

Chauvet
Probably the most single-worthy of the album, it is a powerful anthem that forces you to sing along. The background vocals add to the powerfulness and the chorus is incredibly catchy despite the unusual presence of a name such as Chauvet. That the Redding Brothers incorporate such an awkward sound really speaks to their high level of lyrical competence.

Searching for Love
The opening guitar riff brings you into the melancholy later to be complemented by Micah's vocals and the band really works together on this one. Though the topic may be cliche, the boys really brings something new to this one.

Coming Round
This song is very nice and mellow in the beginning and is really effective in communicating to the listener.

Fine
Fine is very neatly put together and its similarity to We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel, really makes the song fun and quirky. It is one of my favorites not in any individual aspect, but in its totality.

Wake
Wake rounds up the album in terms of spectacular songs for a while. Yet, it really is a nicely packaged song that allows Micah's tone to be led by the instrumentation in the way that only a band with a lot of comfort in each other can achieve. The chorus is very radio friendly despite the song not doing justice to the album.

Clouds
Three songs in a row, starting with this one are the weakest on the album in my opinion, but even Clouds has redeeming qualities. The song is fun and the lyrics engaging despite a weak intro, and an inability to hold my attention for too terribly long. The song is much better on repeated listening, and even has an epic quality about it.

Reaching Out a Hand
This song is good, but almost too harshly rhymed for certain tastes. The chorus also is a bit too optimistic, if such a thing is possible. The band doesn't really seem like itself here and the song would have garnished higher reviews if it was not followed by so much excellence before it.

Lofty Places
The acoustic guitar is almost not appropriate it seems here, but it fits farther into the song. The band almost seems like they are playing a song they are tired of in the intro, although the chorus is a little more inspiring.

Anger
Here the band picks up again with a nice 90's style dark ballad that is able to pass as a pop ballad. The song is well crafted and paints a beautiful imagery with the background providing beautiful undertones.

Unfaithful
The heartbeat- drum style of this song is excellent and the acoustics are great. The vocals are eerily delicious and it all makes for a very nice song.

Of The Sun (piano)
The Redding Brothers take a wonderful opportunity to go beyond the guitar and create a very pretty piano piece here. DEFINITELY worth checking out for fans of piano and Redding Brothers fans.

The new album is amazing and the accomplishments of the acoustic driven songs are very effective in bringing an excellent environment. As a 20 year old, I must admit my gratitude for the reminder of the 90's, a time of great music that I hope the band will contine to bring back into vogue. Unfortunately, the Redding Brothers left me with the same question as a lot of 90's bands... Where are the solos? Overall a well crafted album that I would definitely recommend to friends. I know we will be keeping a copy on hand for the radio station and I will be getting a copy for myself.

Make sure you tune in on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, depending on the length of our interview, it will be played on one of those days, check back here for more info!

http://www.reddingbrothers.com

Interview With Obama's Press Secretary Bill Burton

Michael and I just came out of the studio with the conference call with Obama's Press Secretary Bill Burton. The Interview is available in the right pane and below. I encourage the newspaper writers that attended to send me links to thier stories at taylor.kuykendall@gmail.com More information will be available here later!

Reporters please send me your name and what organization you were reporting for so that I may list you here.

List of Other Attending Reporters Works
Daniel Zarchy, City on a Hill Press (Barack The Vote (Written Before Conference)

Upcoming Interviews (To Be Scheduled)

Heath Damron from the Marshall University Whitewater Club (www.marshall.edu/muwc)
National Press Secretary Conference About the Campaign of Obama
Founder of craigslist.com Craig Newmark (www.craigslist.com)
Alternative Rock Band, The Redding Brothers (www.reddingbrothers.com)

A schedule of the Interviews will come to the website as soon as we find what order we are going to put them in. Also be sure to keep listening to the completed interviews in the right column!

Feb. 27 2007- Interview With Michael Leahy

The interview with Michael Leahy of Porn Nation went incredibly well! We discussed what it means to live in a Hypersexed culture and what that means for the individual. We discuss the damaging effects of pornography on personal relationships. We even threw in a little discussion of Ron Jeremy. The event Porn Nation, a story told by Lahey will be done here at Marshall University, Wednesday Feb. 28, 2007 at 9:00pm in the Don Morris room of the Marshall Student Center.

Michael Leahy has been featured on ABC's "20/20" and "The View", as well as numerous network news broadcasts across the nation.





Here is an audio player for the interview, but don't forget to check our our new interview player in the right column:

February 22, 2007- Rock Climbing for Charity

Today on the show we interviewed Jared Brownfield on his project, Climb4Habit, which is an organization of rock climbers raising money for the Habitat for Humanity by doin what they love. More information is available at www.climb4habit.org and I must unfortunately announce that our audio recording failed this morning. This is deeply regretable as it was a great show. We will be posting a video though very soon of the interview.

Update: February 16, 2007

Okay, right now I am currently having som computer trouble so new videos may take a while to update but we at the MnT show have some wonderful things planned:

1.) Interview with the speaker of Porn Nation
2.) Interview with the Climber for charity featured in the Parthenon.
3.) New web stream...hopefully with on air phone calls.

Plus a lot more... not to mention the show has been expanded to now include both tuesdays and thursdays from 6-9am with our eye on some other slots also. We are considering an evening show for our late listeners and also maybe soem live shows on the station. Let us know what you think!

Feb. 13, 2007: Interview With Rugby Coach

Quite the uneventful show to be honest, we had one interviewer and we were not at our prime. We weren't funny, and we made plenty of mistakes, but we shall fix all of that for next weeks show! Promise. We will bring in some guests to later be named on the blog...

Until then... check out our new video...

Interview with Adam Chain and Joshua Parsons

WMUL Broadcast: February 6, 2007
The latest broadcast featured an interview with Joshua Parsons, a columnist for the Marshall student newspaper, The Parthenon. We discussed some of his opinions on the Iraq War and his writings. Aadam Chain provided a humorous glimpse at life in Roane County, West Virginia, some audio clips and the full audio stream will be avaiable soon!

ThinDreamer (Josh Parsons' Blog)