December 6, 2024 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, we're back at it, ladies and gentlemen. I
am Stormy. It is the Pulse.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thank you for joining us for another episode and today.
You know, the holidays are around the corner. So depending
on what time or day you're listening to the show,
then there's let's see, eighteen or seventeen more days before Christmas.
Plenty of time for you to get in where you
fit in. And I'm gonna tell you why in a moment.
My special guest today is the.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
One and only.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I love it already.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
K ninety seven's Mike t.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
What's up everybody. How y'all doing out there? Yeah, hey, Stormy, Hey,
Mike is in the building. Man, pay holidays.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Have holidays to you.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Santa Santa on We are you playing with it today? Yeah?
I'm ready, Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So you guys, I don't know if you know Mike
tie let me let me help you. Well, you want
to tell everybody what you do in the city and
and all that good stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I am the program director for K ninety seven. I
also do afternoon Drive on K ninety seven through the seven.
I'm also the official DJ for your Memphis Grizzlies and
the official DJ for your University of Memphis Men's Tigers.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Hey you doing tonight?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You in my ct E double what we do?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
The man that Glorilla was talking about a couple of
days ago.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, yeah, that guy, she said, I love my city
because every time she was at the Grizzlies game, you guys, Yeah,
and every every time day, Yeah, every time she hear
the bucket the sound effect. But you know what it was.
Actually it was crazy because as kids fell as, y'all
(01:46):
know it when when we used to play ball, like, yeah,
that's what we say, we're just going in. It's a
Memphis thing.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And Gloriala brings it to her music, I'm telling.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You, Yeah she was. She was really gloing too.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah. Yes, she's beautiful, beautiful girl.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And you know it's okay, So Mike has something that
he's doing, So let's get that out of let's get
the work out of the way, and then we're gonna
get to, you know, all the other stuff that he's doing.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
But you're doing something special for the holidays.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Mike T's trunkle Mike T's trunks of toys to benefit
the Salvation Arts.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Okay, trunk of toys, Okay, So what made you do this?
And is this the first one?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
This is the first one, the first annual. This is
my first toy drive, So not my goal. What made
me want to do it was last year I was
working on Mike's bikes to donate bikes to the Memphis
Girls and Boys Club. But obviously with bikes, you gotta
(02:44):
put those bikes together, and so that's still in the works,
but it's just a lot of moving pieces with you.
So I called wind that the Salvation Army has angel
trees and with those angels trees, if you didn't know,
it's where kids were right after wishless and then the
(03:04):
community can go and pick an angel and then whatever's
on that list you go and buy. So so what happened,
So my thing it was what happens if one an
angel isn't picked or somebody doesn't always get exactly what
they want. So that's why I just kind of want
to step in and say, hey, let's do a we
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do a toy drive.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And help them out and help them out. So what
did the Salvation Army think when you brought this idea
to them?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
They were ecstatic. They were ecstatic again and they you know,
basically the same thing that I just said. You know
a lot of the angels, you know, don't get picked,
so a lot of the kids are just kind of,
you know, kind of left out. Yeah, and I wanted
to step in. I feel like every child to have
a toy to open up and enjoy on Christmas cath everybody,
(03:55):
every child shad have that that warmth. Yeah, some of
the you know yeah, so yeah, no, that's where we
stepped in. There you have it might tease trunk of toys.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Okay, So how is it going?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
The first year going amazing? Shout outs to all of
our sponsors. Uh, you can you know, you can find
our drop. Our drop applications are Plato's closet. Uh, vascular Yeah,
cut that part out, Vascular interventional physicians. I always it's
(04:30):
a tongue twister. Yeah, but v P v I p
v I P in Memphis and South Haven and then
Sunrise at Kyrieville, who are providing the trunks for our
trunk of toys. So yeah, all the bens from from
what I've seen even up here at iHeart, they're full. Yeah. Toy.
So tomorrow was on Saturday, We're doing our Memphis Grizzlies
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rap party. The w R a p rap party, So
we'll be at the Plato's on Germantown German time.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Tomorrow is Saturday, Saturday. For those that are listening on Sunday,
it's pasted right. But if you're listening to this show
on Saturday, then that's today.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And what time from one pm to three pm?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Okay, okay, yes, and then what are you at the
rap party? Are you spitting lyrics or are you rapping gifts.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
To s but no, but yeah, no, it's it's a
rap party. And everybody who comes by and donates to
toy you'll get some Memphis Grizzly swag, a Memphis Grizzly
City Edition stars. What's kind of cool about it is
boj He's one of the hosts for for the Grizzlies games.
He'll be out there, The Grizzy Girls will be out there,
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the University of Memphis cheerleading and Palm Squad will be
out there. And I've also got pouncers going to be
out there as well. Pizzas, good food good.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So wow, yeah, it sounds like a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So I love it.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I think this is the time of the year too,
because a lot of people, you know, they maybe miss
out on Giving Tuesday, or they may not even know
about Giving Tuesday, but a lot of people want to
give during this time of year. A lot of people
are like, I don't have anybody that I can give to.
You know, maybe some people that are empty nesters, their
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kids are gone and grown.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And you know, and they're like, I want to be
able to give.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And so this gives those folks an opportunity to get in.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
On giving your Yeah, yeah to uh you know, bring it,
make a child's holiday a little bit brighter. Yeah, yeah,
I'm excited. And then on Monday, if you're listening, Sunday tomorrow,
we're going to do to drop off at the Croc Center,
okay and donate the toys to the Salvation with the
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trunks and everything.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
So yeah, that's special. Yeah, that's special. Now are you
dressing like Santa? Uh?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I don't know about that, but that's why I got
my my handy. Uh Santa's hat. I don't know. I
don't know about Mike t doing all that. Man, I
don't know about Mike Te doing all that.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Now you're speaking to yourself.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I don't know about that. But yeah, no, Yeah, it's
just the joy in the spirit of Christmas and the
opportunity to give back for a great cause. Stocking stuffers,
hot wheels, dolls, board games.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Question, Yeah, board games.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I need to bring some stuff. I got some stuff
at the house. Yeah, brand new stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Unwrapped, unwrapped, unwrapped, new toys, I said, hot wheels, just legos,
stocking stuffers, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Okay, So so what ages did you Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Well, I'm thinking between I would say between five and
eleven ten.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Okay, so the kitty kitties, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Because I mean, like, that's why I wanted to do
like Mike, Mike's bikes was gonna be between eight and thirteen.
Those other kids riding bikes, So toys. Kids usually stopped
playing with toys, like what.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Twelve novel some of them.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I mean, well, you got legos some kids do? You
got grown kids who do legos? But no, I'm just
saying you got grown men to do them.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
PlayStations.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
No, No, we're not, no, no we're not. No. No,
don't what if somebody brought one that would be amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You're not gonna turn them away, are you?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Because you never know?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Don't lift Look a gift horse in the mouth, right,
You never know what somebody's got, what they want to give.
So here's your opportunity to give to a great cause,
and not just a great cause, but to kids.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You're gonna put a smile on somebody's face. Yeah, and
you're gonna make somebody really, really happy. So if you
got the means, Hey, Elon Musk is around here these days.
You never know, he might want to You might say, hey, Mike.
So if he did, if he love must call you
and say, Mike, I want to get your trunk of toys.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
What would you say?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I'll laugh, But I mean, I mean, like you said,
you never you.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Know, you'll know, You just never know, you never know. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
So okay, I love it, and I love the fact
that you told me already that the trunks are already full.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
The o the bens, the bends are full, so we
we we go pick them up and hopefully, yeah, the
trunks will be full too. But the bens right now
are full at all the drop off locations. Oh and
I forgot to play those closet in Jackson, Tennessee as well.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh okay, okay, so we were okay Jackson tennis that
come on here.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, so that that one store me, the those toys
that go to the Salvation Army in that community.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Okay, oh okay, Yeah, but I love that too.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I love that it's not just a Memphis thing that
it's you know, you're reaching to other areas as well.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
That's I think it's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, Jackson, South Haven, all the branch.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah. So how you feel? How does doing this make
my tea feel?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I just feel like I'm in a position to create,
uh and execute something that I've always wanted to do.
It makes me, I don't know, it makes me good
for lack of a better word, but uh, it's it's satisfying.
It's satisfying knowing that I'm that, I'm that, I'm, like
(10:20):
I said, using my position to execute my first holiday
toy drive.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's got to make you feel real good.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yeah, it makes me feel I'm not I'm not the
young might t no more. I'm I'm more mature.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Mike, did do you have children?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You don't have children. I don't do you want children?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I want children? Okay, just hadn't happened.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
It just hadn't happened. Yeah, so this the is gonna
be Mike T's kids too.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So your family's growing.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Hooking the kids up.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, I love it. That's awesome. I think it's awesome
because thank you. The biggest thing for Christmas for a kids.
And you know this because for us it was a
big thing. You wake up in the morning, you got
something under the tree.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yes, Stormy, So let me tay a live with something
random fact out subject, kind of subject. So yesterday was
my mom's birthday. Well, today's Thursday was my mom's birthday.
We always put our Christmas tree up on her birthday.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
So obviously she lives in Arizona, so while she was
putting it up, she kind of face found her. So
long story short, I'm putting mine up today. What Yeah,
and I'm excited about that.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So you're a mom, You're and your mom are doing
something together even though you're far apart.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
How often are you from Memphis?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I'm from originally from Chicago, but I've lived in Memphis
the majority of my life. I went to Raleigh Egypt
Junior High School, down transferst to Barto. I graduate high
school in ninety six, went to ut Martin. But uh,
I'm in Memphis long enough to No, I know Memphis
like the back of my head.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Oh no, you are a Memphian.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah I am, yeah, just because I talk like I
got some during sense that main to come out of here. Nine.
And you know what I'm saying, you hear me, Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I just heard that.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Memphis right down, Yeah, straight up.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
No, it's real Memphis.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Memphis is uh, it's not living here is not just
to me a culture, It's it's infectious.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I love our city. We love our Yeah, we love
our city and anything and the culture man's yeah. And
anything we could do for it, we will.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And we understand the how big and and and y'all
forgive me because I know some of you are thinking,
you know, how big you know, Elvis Presley is in
our city and alc Poems of the World and Boo Mitchell's.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Of the World and things like that.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
But we understand too, uh, the gravity of how big
Glowrilla is for the culture to especially right now. You
know what I'm saying, It's like she's glowing for Memphis.
I mean number one on Billboard for that's the artist,
you know, artists of the year. That's crazy album up
in there as well. Yeah, so and everybody, you know,
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my family was here for Thanksgiving and my son was like,
who is Glorial?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
But my grandson knows.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Exactly you know, you know, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Loves her like I love her, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
So it's like the culture, the Memphis culture that she
brings is spreading and people seem to love it, and
we love that they love it. Yeah, definitely love us
some GLORIALA. So, tell me about all the years that
you've been working for K ninety seven. Tell me about
your journey with.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
My journey so well, this is crazy because somebody told
me I needed to start documenting my story.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
So my very first DJ gig was nineteen ninety eight
at the Crystal Palace. That was when I very That's
when I first started DJ and DJ.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, this is before.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
This is before K ninety Okay, then, but I'm I'm
leading up to how I got hired. Yeah, because I
really feel like I got touched. So then from there
graduated djam parties at ut Martin. I was doing mix
shows on our competition. I'm not gonna say their names,
but anyway, I was doing a college party and shout
(14:17):
out to Howard Q and one one I'm spending. I
get the top of my shoulder. I turn around. It's
Nate Bell, drove all the way to Martin for a
college party. Yeah, and he just goes, Man, when you're
gonna when you're gonna come work for me? And I
was like, for real? He was like, yeah, so two thousand,
(14:37):
I really been here since. Honestly since two thousand. I
was here before before suing them.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Okay, so you got tapped by Nate Bell.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I got touched by Nate Bell. So I started doing
mix shows in twenty twenty. Then twenty twenty eight, I
was doing nights full time. And now you know, look
at you, APD don't want the new drive.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
How does that feel?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Because I know the radio is an ever changing uh
and everything is. But you're like, for lack of a
better phrase, one of the last men standing.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah, I guess so, because I started out carrying record crates.
Now I'm just carrying a computer to get in the
Phetex for to DJ. But yeah, no, it's it's a
it's a it's a I feel like it's a blessing.
I don't do clubs. Anymore. Yeah, just because uh, I
(15:40):
live downtown and DJing for the Grizzlies and the Tires
and the Tigers. I really don't have a lot of time.
But I feel like, you know, for my t we're
paving the way for other DJs, Like I'm not gonna
be able to do this forever. But before me, there weren't.
They weren't DJing and ephetex for them like they are now.
(16:01):
So now there's an opportunity, and you know, I love that. Yeah,
it's just you know, and then even with mixed shows
on on K ninety seven, like I'm giving DJs an
opportunity to to rock out and mixed with us, I'm
getting they're getting opportunities that I didn't have. You know,
(16:22):
I had to go through a lot to to to
be where I am today. So just being able to
give that next generation an opportunity, it feels pretty good.
That's how you get your blessing.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
So for the Southern Heritage Classic, you guys had DJs
K ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
New jerseys and everything.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So tell me about those. Tell me about actually.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Prep Curry Prep made those. I called them one day
with the idea I wanted some customized K ninety seven
jerseys in like a baseball type thing. I don't want
to do the basketball jersey. I don't want to do
the foot And I told Prep what I wanted. I
totally what type of the v Nick baseball warm up jerseys,
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told him the color and he just worked his magic. Yeah, yeah,
look good? Or didn't it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Prep, Curry, come on here, Prep, Prep, and check in
with Prep because he's got stuff going on for the
holidays here and as well. I think he's got to
show that he's as coming to town.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
As he's always looking on the camera. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Man, he's doing his thing.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
But the young people that were wearing those jerseys, tell
me about that, because y'all, you know what I thought
was amazing. And I don't even know if anybody noticed
it other than me, and maybe they did, not that
I'm special in anything like that, but I noticed that
the DJs that had those on, y'all were all over
the Classic Oh yeah, there was somebody inside of the uh,
(17:50):
the the Mayor's tailgate.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
There was Stormy. I want Thoroughbreds around me. I want
I want people ask me all this time, man, Mike,
how do I mix on K ninety seven. How do
I bro if you got if you asking me, you
ain't it? I want I want thoroughbreds. I want and
what I mean by thoroughbread I want somebody that when
I see them, they have a glow about them when
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they when they when they rocket, when they DJ, and
it's just something about them that that's special. And everybody
not to be arrogant, nothing like that. But everybody ain't
just got it like that, just being honest. But shout
out to him. DJ Houston Exclusive, DJ one Pretty Brown,
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Alfa Whinsky, who is amazing. DJ King Louis v myself.
But I want I want thoroughbreds. I want nice dope,
talented DJs. It's not just it's not what you play,
it's how you how you play it, it's how it's
how you carry yourself. It's your brand. What what what
are you attaching your brand to? How are you building
(18:57):
your brand? Like? What do you what are you posting
on social media? Like if you if you DJing, if
you're a DJ, why are you posting pictures with guns
on your social media?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Like?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I don't want to. I don't want to attach my
brand because because when you rock with us you're essentially
I'm essentially attaching my brand to you, So you're an
extension of me and the radio station, and we have
to look and carry ourselves in a certain Wow. That
helps because I'm not trying to be arrogant and say,
(19:29):
you know, we just all that now. I'm not saying that,
but it's just it's it's a certain brand and level
that I'm looking for. Yeah, with mixers and and DJs
and stuff like. But I love my team. I love
them guys, them girls who'll be rocking and shout outs
to It's a big sue as well, who put me
in a position to be able to be like, well, Mike,
that's your baby, just do you.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That's amazing. I love that.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I think the one thing I love about this business
the most is when you're able to give back to
young folks because, like you said.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
We're not gonna be here for Yeah, we're not gonna be.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Well, I'm not gonna be you're not gonna be you know,
so opening doors and creating avenues that's how you're you know,
Mike Tyson's definition of legacy.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Oh my god, y'all.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Hadn't seen it.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Look it up.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
They told that little girl.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
But his definition of legacy it made me feel like
I was like feeling crunchy because I was like, oh lord,
here I am trying to build a legacy and this
man is telling me it's selfishotistical.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah, I think, but that is my definition of legacy.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
My definition is when you're giving back and it doesn't
end with you when you leave, You're leaving other people
that can do what you do.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
You taught them. You know what I'm saying, You've poured in.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I had somebody tell me that I was a part
of their legacy, but I felt like it was in
a in a in a negative way for me. It's
like a legacy to me, is you leaving something in
a better place, or you're given the next generation an
opportunity to do something. Well. This particular person, I'm not
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gonna say his name, but I felt like he was
trying to hold me back in a sense, like how
am I a part of your legacy when you're trying
to hold me? But I think me going through those
trial and tribulations made me know that or understand that
I didn't want to be that type of leader or
I didn't want to be that type of program director.
(21:27):
I wanted to be I wanted to be different. I
wanted to be one of the Nate Bales of the
worlds and give you know, young DJs and young voices
and young radio personalities. You know, the stand Bales of
the world, the Stormies of the World's the big suits
of the world, an opportunity for them to beat them
without me trying to.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Hold them down.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Hold him down, and yeah, control what you're doing on
your show. How am I a part of your I
just that just didn't sit too well with me when
he told me that. I get it.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
But I think we all anybody who's ever gone or
you know, gotten better with what they do. And this
is not just in radio, but even in your career,
if it's corporate or wherever it is, if you've got
a business, everybody's had somebody like that.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
And it's how you go through it.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
A long time. God, I went through it a long.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Time, and I think it's how you go through it
that gets you too, what it is God really has
for you. But it's something about I feel like you
have to have experiences like that, and it's just me,
because I told my son this long time ago, we
were he was he was being mentored by somebody who
was similar, and I told him, I said, I believe
(22:44):
God is allowing you to go through this so he
can show you what he does not want you to
do right, so you can be better, and so you
can really fall into the gift that he's getting you.
Because if if and I tell kids this all the time,
there have been times in my career where I've tried
to sound like Oprah or Wendy Williams or somebody else.
(23:07):
I am not Oprah, I am not Wendy Williams. I
am not any of them. I am Stormy Taylor, little
girl from Magnolia, Arkansas. And I realized the best thing
that God wanted me to do was be myself because
somebody's waiting on you know, somebody like you or not
(23:27):
like you, but somebody who has the courage to be themselves.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, be yourself. I would be yourself. Yeah, especially in radio,
you always want to be yourself. No, just a testimony
and a quick story on my journey. I remember I
was doing overnight.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And by the way, if you're listening to the show,
forgive me because there's been a minute since I told
you who I'm talking to. K ninety seven's Mike t
is sitting down with me. He's got his trunk of toys.
So we're going to tell you a little bit more
about that in a moment. But that's who I'm talking to.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I'm Stormy. Thank you for listening to the pulse. Go ahead,
my tea here.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
But yeah, no, I was just gonna say so, I
was doing overnights on on K ninety seven, but I
lived right here in East Memphis on Mount Mariah at
the Foxwood apartments. If you're on the East side, you
you're familiar with the Foxwood is it's a trap now.
But long story, sure, I used to have to walk
to work. I used to walk from I don't know
if you know where. For example, you know where the
(24:21):
Dixie Queen is on My Mariah. It has to walk
from way down there to here. And at the time,
I'm not gonna say his name, but there was a
DJ rid and Clean Too big boy truck Rims on
the joint. I'm walking down the street. He hit his horn,
just keep on driving.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Yeah, so I'm literally having to, you know, walk to work.
But I guess what I'm trying to say is like,
that's just my testimony on if you if you want something,
you have to stay consistently, you have to want to
go and get it. Like nothing. Nothing is easy, nothing
is every Like stad to sleep with my I was.
I used to sleep in my van in the parking
(25:03):
lot of the radio station because I was homeless for
like two weeks. But I had to. It was a
it was a part of my journey. Wow, I had
to dig into it. Yeah. Yeah, I've been through a lot, man,
a lot. That's why I don't. I don't. I don't
take it for granted at all. That's why you know
when you ask me what, you know, what, how do
I feel about doing my Tea's trunk of toys? Like
(25:26):
it's man, it's it's you know, it's an honor and
the privilege to give back to this community that I
love so much. You know what I'm saying that I
that I worked hard, like I said, to be in
this position to be able to create a toy drive
and execute a toy drive because I've been through so
much man, so now I'm able.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
To get back man.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah, yeah, how long have I known you?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You ain't know that now, I know nothing none of this.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Yeah, yeah, I've been through it, and.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
You know that's God. That Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
That's like a testimony, a testament to you never know.
You never judge a book by its cover, because you
never know what the other person is going through. People
do not tell you about their lives, and people like
us sometimes we are pride. I shouldn't say pride for
but we're privately.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yeah yeah, well pride fool in privates.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Well yeah, it doesn't hurt.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
To be both. It doesn't hurt. It doesn't hurt.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Well to yeah, to a f pride could be be
down true.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
So but but but the human part of us can
say you and I that we have been that way.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we can't.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah and but yeah man, okay, well Mike t uh
did oprah on me?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
I'm about to cry to.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
The way around. Okay, So y'all got to give, y'all.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Got to I'm asking please please please come by uh
play those closet from from one pm to three pm
if you're listening on on Saturday, we'll be at to
play those closets the Memphis Grizzies Rap Party and then
on Sunday, we'll be at the Croc Center.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Is it Monday?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
On Monday? I'm sorry, on Monday, Yep, on Monday, we'll
be at the at the Croc Center to to deliver
the toys. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
And is it too late if I come by the
Croc Center?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
What time would you be at the Croc Center on Monday?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Two to four?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Two to four?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Y'all got it?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Y'all got the times. And for those of you that
want to give, is there another way? Can we reach
out to you on social media? Can we email you?
Can we?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
My I g is at DJ Mike T d J
M my I C T E E for the and
I would say for the full list of job by locations,
I would go to K ninety seven FM dot com. Okay,
you could email me. There's an email on my Ashley
you know what. The link There's a link in my
bio that'll give you directions on where to go to
(27:58):
the for the job out look, Cass. There's a link
in my bio at DJ Mike T on my instagram.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Okay, okay, so you got it. You got all the ways.
K ninety seven FM dot com at DJ Mike T
M I C T E E on Instagram or Facebook.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Or just Instagram, but either on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah, hit them up and give to the kids because
they definitely need it. And you you hear what it's for.
It's not for Mike, is not for me. It's for
the kids.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Salvation for the kids. It's all about It's all about
the kids and putting smiles smiles on faces for Christmas morning.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Don't you love that when you give to something that
it actually goes to where you say.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
It's yeah, yeah, there's no no money, no nothing like that,
just straight to the kids, going to where it's supposed
to go.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I love it. Mm.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Thank you for doing back.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Man, it's amazing and I'm just I'm proud of you
and hearing your story.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I'm proud of you. Yeah, it's it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
And I just look for God to do even bigger,
better and better things in your life.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Is he's still working on me?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, on all of us. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
And I'm not just nothing Santa.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Just Mike said he ain't going.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I ain't going no, man, Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I love it. Well, thank you, Mike.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
This has been refreshing. Thank you for being on the show.
Thank you for agreeing to be on the show.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Thank you for to just come by.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yeah, I would love that too, And thank you for
just just being a part of what's happening good in
our community.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah, doing a whole lot of good out here. I
like that. Mike Te's trunck a toy, Mike T's trunk
of toys the first and you my first ever toy job, y'all.
Thank you, Pauls. I love you.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Get into it, y'all.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Go to k ninety seven fm dot com to find
out more, or find Mike T on Instagram, Facebook at
DJ Mike m I C T E E to find
out the drop off locations. You did say Plato though,
and you said Sunrise, m V I P M VI
I P.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, you got it all right? Good any parting words?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Thank you? Pulse?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Okay, thank you, Stormy, You're welcome. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I'm still not just to say I love y'all.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Bye, it's the Pulse.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
We're keeping our fingertips on the pulse of our community.
I am Stormy. We'll see you next week, same time,
same station. God bless you have a great week.
All right, we're back at it, ladies and gentlemen. I
am Stormy. It is the Pulse.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thank you for joining us for another episode and today.
You know, the holidays are around the corner. So depending
on what time or day you're listening to the show,
then there's let's see, eighteen or seventeen more days before Christmas.
Plenty of time for you to get in where you
fit in. And I'm gonna tell you why in a moment.
My special guest today is the.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
One and only.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I love it already.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
K ninety seven's Mike t.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
What's up everybody. How y'all doing out there? Yeah, hey, Stormy, Hey,
Mike is in the building. Man, pay holidays.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Have holidays to you.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Santa Santa on We are you playing with it today? Yeah?
I'm ready, Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So you guys, I don't know if you know Mike
tie let me let me help you. Well, you want
to tell everybody what you do in the city and
and all that good stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I am the program director for K ninety seven. I
also do afternoon Drive on K ninety seven through the seven.
I'm also the official DJ for your Memphis Grizzlies and
the official DJ for your University of Memphis Men's Tigers.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Hey you doing tonight?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You in my ct E double what we do?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
The man that Glorilla was talking about a couple of
days ago.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, yeah, that guy, she said, I love my city
because every time she was at the Grizzlies game, you guys, Yeah,
and every every time day, Yeah, every time she hear
the bucket the sound effect. But you know what it was.
Actually it was crazy because as kids fell as, y'all
(01:46):
know it when when we used to play ball, like, yeah,
that's what we say, we're just going in. It's a
Memphis thing.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And Gloriala brings it to her music, I'm telling.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You, Yeah she was. She was really gloing too.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah. Yes, she's beautiful, beautiful girl.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And you know it's okay, So Mike has something that
he's doing, So let's get that out of let's get
the work out of the way, and then we're gonna
get to, you know, all the other stuff that he's doing.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
But you're doing something special for the holidays.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Mike T's trunkle Mike T's trunks of toys to benefit
the Salvation Arts.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Okay, trunk of toys, Okay, So what made you do this?
And is this the first one?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
This is the first one, the first annual. This is
my first toy drive, So not my goal. What made
me want to do it was last year I was
working on Mike's bikes to donate bikes to the Memphis
Girls and Boys Club. But obviously with bikes, you gotta
(02:44):
put those bikes together, and so that's still in the works,
but it's just a lot of moving pieces with you.
So I called wind that the Salvation Army has angel
trees and with those angels trees, if you didn't know,
it's where kids were right after wishless and then the
(03:04):
community can go and pick an angel and then whatever's
on that list you go and buy. So so what happened,
So my thing it was what happens if one an
angel isn't picked or somebody doesn't always get exactly what
they want. So that's why I just kind of want
to step in and say, hey, let's do a we
(03:26):
do a toy drive.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And help them out and help them out. So what
did the Salvation Army think when you brought this idea
to them?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
They were ecstatic. They were ecstatic again and they you know,
basically the same thing that I just said. You know
a lot of the angels, you know, don't get picked,
so a lot of the kids are just kind of,
you know, kind of left out. Yeah, and I wanted
to step in. I feel like every child to have
a toy to open up and enjoy on Christmas cath everybody,
(03:55):
every child shad have that that warmth. Yeah, some of
the you know yeah, so yeah, no, that's where we
stepped in. There you have it might tease trunk of toys.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Okay, So how is it going?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
The first year going amazing? Shout outs to all of
our sponsors. Uh, you can you know, you can find
our drop. Our drop applications are Plato's closet. Uh, vascular Yeah,
cut that part out, Vascular interventional physicians. I always it's
(04:30):
a tongue twister. Yeah, but v P v I p
v I P in Memphis and South Haven and then
Sunrise at Kyrieville, who are providing the trunks for our
trunk of toys. So yeah, all the bens from from
what I've seen even up here at iHeart, they're full. Yeah. Toy.
So tomorrow was on Saturday, We're doing our Memphis Grizzlies
(04:54):
rap party. The w R a p rap party, So
we'll be at the Plato's on Germantown German time.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Tomorrow is Saturday, Saturday. For those that are listening on Sunday,
it's pasted right. But if you're listening to this show
on Saturday, then that's today.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And what time from one pm to three pm?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Okay, okay, yes, and then what are you at the
rap party? Are you spitting lyrics or are you rapping gifts.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
To s but no, but yeah, no, it's it's a
rap party. And everybody who comes by and donates to
toy you'll get some Memphis Grizzly swag, a Memphis Grizzly
City Edition stars. What's kind of cool about it is
boj He's one of the hosts for for the Grizzlies games.
He'll be out there, The Grizzy Girls will be out there,
(05:50):
the University of Memphis cheerleading and Palm Squad will be
out there. And I've also got pouncers going to be
out there as well. Pizzas, good food good.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So wow, yeah, it sounds like a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So I love it.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I think this is the time of the year too,
because a lot of people, you know, they maybe miss
out on Giving Tuesday, or they may not even know
about Giving Tuesday, but a lot of people want to
give during this time of year. A lot of people
are like, I don't have anybody that I can give to.
You know, maybe some people that are empty nesters, their
(06:27):
kids are gone and grown.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And you know, and they're like, I want to be
able to give.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And so this gives those folks an opportunity to get in.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
On giving your Yeah, yeah to uh you know, bring it,
make a child's holiday a little bit brighter. Yeah, yeah,
I'm excited. And then on Monday, if you're listening, Sunday tomorrow,
we're going to do to drop off at the Croc Center,
okay and donate the toys to the Salvation with the
(06:56):
trunks and everything.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
So yeah, that's special. Yeah, that's special. Now are you
dressing like Santa? Uh?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I don't know about that, but that's why I got
my my handy. Uh Santa's hat. I don't know. I
don't know about Mike t doing all that. Man, I
don't know about Mike Te doing all that.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Now you're speaking to yourself.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I don't know about that. But yeah, no, Yeah, it's
just the joy in the spirit of Christmas and the
opportunity to give back for a great cause. Stocking stuffers,
hot wheels, dolls, board games.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Question, Yeah, board games.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I need to bring some stuff. I got some stuff
at the house. Yeah, brand new stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Unwrapped, unwrapped, unwrapped, new toys, I said, hot wheels, just legos,
stocking stuffers, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Okay, So so what ages did you Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Well, I'm thinking between I would say between five and
eleven ten.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Okay, so the kitty kitties, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Because I mean, like, that's why I wanted to do
like Mike, Mike's bikes was gonna be between eight and thirteen.
Those other kids riding bikes, So toys. Kids usually stopped
playing with toys, like what.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Twelve novel some of them.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I mean, well, you got legos some kids do? You
got grown kids who do legos? But no, I'm just
saying you got grown men to do them.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
PlayStations.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
No, No, we're not, no, no we're not. No. No,
don't what if somebody brought one that would be amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You're not gonna turn them away, are you?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Because you never know?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Don't lift Look a gift horse in the mouth, right,
You never know what somebody's got, what they want to give.
So here's your opportunity to give to a great cause,
and not just a great cause, but to kids.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You're gonna put a smile on somebody's face. Yeah, and
you're gonna make somebody really, really happy. So if you
got the means, Hey, Elon Musk is around here these days.
You never know, he might want to You might say, hey, Mike.
So if he did, if he love must call you
and say, Mike, I want to get your trunk of toys.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
What would you say?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I'll laugh, But I mean, I mean, like you said,
you never you.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Know, you'll know, You just never know, you never know. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
So okay, I love it, and I love the fact
that you told me already that the trunks are already full.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
The o the bens, the bends are full, so we
we we go pick them up and hopefully, yeah, the
trunks will be full too. But the bens right now
are full at all the drop off locations. Oh and
I forgot to play those closet in Jackson, Tennessee as well.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh okay, okay, so we were okay Jackson tennis that
come on here.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, so that that one store me, the those toys
that go to the Salvation Army in that community.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Okay, oh okay, Yeah, but I love that too.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I love that it's not just a Memphis thing that
it's you know, you're reaching to other areas as well.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
That's I think it's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, Jackson, South Haven, all the branch.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah. So how you feel? How does doing this make
my tea feel?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I just feel like I'm in a position to create,
uh and execute something that I've always wanted to do.
It makes me, I don't know, it makes me good
for lack of a better word, but uh, it's it's satisfying.
It's satisfying knowing that I'm that, I'm that, I'm, like
(10:20):
I said, using my position to execute my first holiday
toy drive.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's got to make you feel real good.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yeah, it makes me feel I'm not I'm not the
young might t no more. I'm I'm more mature.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Mike, did do you have children?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You don't have children. I don't do you want children?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I want children? Okay, just hadn't happened.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
It just hadn't happened. Yeah, so this the is gonna
be Mike T's kids too.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So your family's growing.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Hooking the kids up.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, I love it. That's awesome. I think it's awesome
because thank you. The biggest thing for Christmas for a kids.
And you know this because for us it was a
big thing. You wake up in the morning, you got
something under the tree.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yes, Stormy, So let me tay a live with something
random fact out subject, kind of subject. So yesterday was
my mom's birthday. Well, today's Thursday was my mom's birthday.
We always put our Christmas tree up on her birthday.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
So obviously she lives in Arizona, so while she was
putting it up, she kind of face found her. So
long story short, I'm putting mine up today. What Yeah,
and I'm excited about that.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So you're a mom, You're and your mom are doing
something together even though you're far apart.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
How often are you from Memphis?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I'm from originally from Chicago, but I've lived in Memphis
the majority of my life. I went to Raleigh Egypt
Junior High School, down transferst to Barto. I graduate high
school in ninety six, went to ut Martin. But uh,
I'm in Memphis long enough to No, I know Memphis
like the back of my head.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Oh no, you are a Memphian.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah I am, yeah, just because I talk like I
got some during sense that main to come out of here. Nine.
And you know what I'm saying, you hear me, Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I just heard that.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Memphis right down, Yeah, straight up.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
No, it's real Memphis.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Memphis is uh, it's not living here is not just
to me a culture, It's it's infectious.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I love our city. We love our Yeah, we love
our city and anything and the culture man's yeah. And
anything we could do for it, we will.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And we understand the how big and and and y'all
forgive me because I know some of you are thinking,
you know, how big you know, Elvis Presley is in
our city and alc Poems of the World and Boo Mitchell's.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Of the World and things like that.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
But we understand too, uh, the gravity of how big
Glowrilla is for the culture to especially right now. You
know what I'm saying, It's like she's glowing for Memphis.
I mean number one on Billboard for that's the artist,
you know, artists of the year. That's crazy album up
in there as well. Yeah, so and everybody, you know,
(13:03):
my family was here for Thanksgiving and my son was like,
who is Glorial?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
But my grandson knows.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Exactly you know, you know, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Loves her like I love her, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
So it's like the culture, the Memphis culture that she
brings is spreading and people seem to love it, and
we love that they love it. Yeah, definitely love us
some GLORIALA. So, tell me about all the years that
you've been working for K ninety seven. Tell me about
your journey with.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
My journey so well, this is crazy because somebody told
me I needed to start documenting my story.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
So my very first DJ gig was nineteen ninety eight
at the Crystal Palace. That was when I very That's
when I first started DJ and DJ.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, this is before.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
This is before K ninety Okay, then, but I'm I'm
leading up to how I got hired. Yeah, because I
really feel like I got touched. So then from there
graduated djam parties at ut Martin. I was doing mix
shows on our competition. I'm not gonna say their names,
but anyway, I was doing a college party and shout
(14:17):
out to Howard Q and one one I'm spending. I
get the top of my shoulder. I turn around. It's
Nate Bell, drove all the way to Martin for a
college party. Yeah, and he just goes, Man, when you're
gonna when you're gonna come work for me? And I
was like, for real? He was like, yeah, so two thousand,
(14:37):
I really been here since. Honestly since two thousand. I
was here before before suing them.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Okay, so you got tapped by Nate Bell.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I got touched by Nate Bell. So I started doing
mix shows in twenty twenty. Then twenty twenty eight, I
was doing nights full time. And now you know, look
at you, APD don't want the new drive.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
How does that feel?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Because I know the radio is an ever changing uh
and everything is. But you're like, for lack of a
better phrase, one of the last men standing.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah, I guess so, because I started out carrying record crates.
Now I'm just carrying a computer to get in the
Phetex for to DJ. But yeah, no, it's it's a
it's a it's a I feel like it's a blessing.
I don't do clubs. Anymore. Yeah, just because uh, I
(15:40):
live downtown and DJing for the Grizzlies and the Tires
and the Tigers. I really don't have a lot of time.
But I feel like, you know, for my t we're
paving the way for other DJs, Like I'm not gonna
be able to do this forever. But before me, there weren't.
They weren't DJing and ephetex for them like they are now.
(16:01):
So now there's an opportunity, and you know, I love that. Yeah,
it's just you know, and then even with mixed shows
on on K ninety seven, like I'm giving DJs an
opportunity to to rock out and mixed with us, I'm
getting they're getting opportunities that I didn't have. You know,
(16:22):
I had to go through a lot to to to
be where I am today. So just being able to
give that next generation an opportunity, it feels pretty good.
That's how you get your blessing.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
So for the Southern Heritage Classic, you guys had DJs
K ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
New jerseys and everything.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So tell me about those. Tell me about actually.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Prep Curry Prep made those. I called them one day
with the idea I wanted some customized K ninety seven
jerseys in like a baseball type thing. I don't want
to do the basketball jersey. I don't want to do
the foot And I told Prep what I wanted. I
totally what type of the v Nick baseball warm up jerseys,
(17:09):
told him the color and he just worked his magic. Yeah, yeah,
look good? Or didn't it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Prep, Curry, come on here, Prep, Prep, and check in
with Prep because he's got stuff going on for the
holidays here and as well. I think he's got to
show that he's as coming to town.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
As he's always looking on the camera. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Man, he's doing his thing.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
But the young people that were wearing those jerseys, tell
me about that, because y'all, you know what I thought
was amazing. And I don't even know if anybody noticed
it other than me, and maybe they did, not that
I'm special in anything like that, but I noticed that
the DJs that had those on, y'all were all over
the Classic Oh yeah, there was somebody inside of the uh,
(17:50):
the the Mayor's tailgate.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
There was Stormy. I want Thoroughbreds around me. I want
I want people ask me all this time, man, Mike,
how do I mix on K ninety seven. How do
I bro if you got if you asking me, you
ain't it? I want I want thoroughbreds. I want and
what I mean by thoroughbread I want somebody that when
I see them, they have a glow about them when
(18:14):
they when they when they rocket, when they DJ, and
it's just something about them that that's special. And everybody
not to be arrogant, nothing like that. But everybody ain't
just got it like that, just being honest. But shout
out to him. DJ Houston Exclusive, DJ one Pretty Brown,
(18:34):
Alfa Whinsky, who is amazing. DJ King Louis v myself.
But I want I want thoroughbreds. I want nice dope,
talented DJs. It's not just it's not what you play,
it's how you how you play it, it's how it's
how you carry yourself. It's your brand. What what what
are you attaching your brand to? How are you building
(18:57):
your brand? Like? What do you what are you posting
on social media? Like if you if you DJing, if
you're a DJ, why are you posting pictures with guns
on your social media?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Like?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I don't want to. I don't want to attach my
brand because because when you rock with us you're essentially
I'm essentially attaching my brand to you, So you're an
extension of me and the radio station, and we have
to look and carry ourselves in a certain Wow. That
helps because I'm not trying to be arrogant and say,
(19:29):
you know, we just all that now. I'm not saying that,
but it's just it's it's a certain brand and level
that I'm looking for. Yeah, with mixers and and DJs
and stuff like. But I love my team. I love
them guys, them girls who'll be rocking and shout outs
to It's a big sue as well, who put me
in a position to be able to be like, well, Mike,
that's your baby, just do you.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That's amazing. I love that.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I think the one thing I love about this business
the most is when you're able to give back to
young folks because, like you said.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
We're not gonna be here for Yeah, we're not gonna be.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Well, I'm not gonna be you're not gonna be you know,
so opening doors and creating avenues that's how you're you know,
Mike Tyson's definition of legacy.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Oh my god, y'all.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Hadn't seen it.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Look it up.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
They told that little girl.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
But his definition of legacy it made me feel like
I was like feeling crunchy because I was like, oh lord,
here I am trying to build a legacy and this
man is telling me it's selfishotistical.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah, I think, but that is my definition of legacy.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
My definition is when you're giving back and it doesn't
end with you when you leave, You're leaving other people
that can do what you do.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
You taught them. You know what I'm saying, You've poured in.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I had somebody tell me that I was a part
of their legacy, but I felt like it was in
a in a in a negative way for me. It's
like a legacy to me, is you leaving something in
a better place, or you're given the next generation an
opportunity to do something. Well. This particular person, I'm not
(21:06):
gonna say his name, but I felt like he was
trying to hold me back in a sense, like how
am I a part of your legacy when you're trying
to hold me? But I think me going through those
trial and tribulations made me know that or understand that
I didn't want to be that type of leader or
I didn't want to be that type of program director.
(21:27):
I wanted to be I wanted to be different. I
wanted to be one of the Nate Bales of the
worlds and give you know, young DJs and young voices
and young radio personalities. You know, the stand Bales of
the world, the Stormies of the World's the big suits
of the world, an opportunity for them to beat them
without me trying to.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Hold them down.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Hold him down, and yeah, control what you're doing on
your show. How am I a part of your I
just that just didn't sit too well with me when
he told me that. I get it.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
But I think we all anybody who's ever gone or
you know, gotten better with what they do. And this
is not just in radio, but even in your career,
if it's corporate or wherever it is, if you've got
a business, everybody's had somebody like that.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
And it's how you go through it.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
A long time. God, I went through it a long.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Time, and I think it's how you go through it
that gets you too, what it is God really has
for you. But it's something about I feel like you
have to have experiences like that, and it's just me,
because I told my son this long time ago, we
were he was he was being mentored by somebody who
was similar, and I told him, I said, I believe
(22:44):
God is allowing you to go through this so he
can show you what he does not want you to
do right, so you can be better, and so you
can really fall into the gift that he's getting you.
Because if if and I tell kids this all the time,
there have been times in my career where I've tried
to sound like Oprah or Wendy Williams or somebody else.
(23:07):
I am not Oprah, I am not Wendy Williams. I
am not any of them. I am Stormy Taylor, little
girl from Magnolia, Arkansas. And I realized the best thing
that God wanted me to do was be myself because
somebody's waiting on you know, somebody like you or not
(23:27):
like you, but somebody who has the courage to be themselves.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, be yourself. I would be yourself. Yeah, especially in radio,
you always want to be yourself. No, just a testimony
and a quick story on my journey. I remember I
was doing overnight.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And by the way, if you're listening to the show,
forgive me because there's been a minute since I told
you who I'm talking to. K ninety seven's Mike t
is sitting down with me. He's got his trunk of toys.
So we're going to tell you a little bit more
about that in a moment. But that's who I'm talking to.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I'm Stormy. Thank you for listening to the pulse. Go ahead,
my tea here.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
But yeah, no, I was just gonna say so, I
was doing overnights on on K ninety seven, but I
lived right here in East Memphis on Mount Mariah at
the Foxwood apartments. If you're on the East side, you
you're familiar with the Foxwood is it's a trap now.
But long story, sure, I used to have to walk
to work. I used to walk from I don't know
if you know where. For example, you know where the
(24:21):
Dixie Queen is on My Mariah. It has to walk
from way down there to here. And at the time,
I'm not gonna say his name, but there was a
DJ rid and Clean Too big boy truck Rims on
the joint. I'm walking down the street. He hit his horn,
just keep on driving.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Yeah, so I'm literally having to, you know, walk to work.
But I guess what I'm trying to say is like,
that's just my testimony on if you if you want something,
you have to stay consistently, you have to want to
go and get it. Like nothing. Nothing is easy, nothing
is every Like stad to sleep with my I was.
I used to sleep in my van in the parking
(25:03):
lot of the radio station because I was homeless for
like two weeks. But I had to. It was a
it was a part of my journey. Wow, I had
to dig into it. Yeah. Yeah, I've been through a lot, man,
a lot. That's why I don't. I don't. I don't
take it for granted at all. That's why you know
when you ask me what, you know, what, how do
I feel about doing my Tea's trunk of toys? Like
(25:26):
it's man, it's it's you know, it's an honor and
the privilege to give back to this community that I
love so much. You know what I'm saying that I
that I worked hard, like I said, to be in
this position to be able to create a toy drive
and execute a toy drive because I've been through so
much man, so now I'm able.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
To get back man.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah, yeah, how long have I known you?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You ain't know that now, I know nothing none of this.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Yeah, yeah, I've been through it, and.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
You know that's God. That Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
That's like a testimony, a testament to you never know.
You never judge a book by its cover, because you
never know what the other person is going through. People
do not tell you about their lives, and people like
us sometimes we are pride. I shouldn't say pride for
but we're privately.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yeah yeah, well pride fool in privates.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Well yeah, it doesn't hurt.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
To be both. It doesn't hurt. It doesn't hurt.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Well to yeah, to a f pride could be be
down true.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
So but but but the human part of us can
say you and I that we have been that way.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we can't.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah and but yeah man, okay, well Mike t uh
did oprah on me?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
I'm about to cry to.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
The way around. Okay, So y'all got to give, y'all.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Got to I'm asking please please please come by uh
play those closet from from one pm to three pm
if you're listening on on Saturday, we'll be at to
play those closets the Memphis Grizzies Rap Party and then
on Sunday, we'll be at the Croc Center.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Is it Monday?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
On Monday? I'm sorry, on Monday, Yep, on Monday, we'll
be at the at the Croc Center to to deliver
the toys. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
And is it too late if I come by the
Croc Center?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
What time would you be at the Croc Center on Monday?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Two to four?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Two to four?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Y'all got it?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Y'all got the times. And for those of you that
want to give, is there another way? Can we reach
out to you on social media? Can we email you?
Can we?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
My I g is at DJ Mike T d J
M my I C T E E for the and
I would say for the full list of job by locations,
I would go to K ninety seven FM dot com. Okay,
you could email me. There's an email on my Ashley
you know what. The link There's a link in my
bio that'll give you directions on where to go to
(27:58):
the for the job out look, Cass. There's a link
in my bio at DJ Mike T on my instagram.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Okay, okay, so you got it. You got all the ways.
K ninety seven FM dot com at DJ Mike T
M I C T E E on Instagram or Facebook.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Or just Instagram, but either on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah, hit them up and give to the kids because
they definitely need it. And you you hear what it's for.
It's not for Mike, is not for me. It's for
the kids.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Salvation for the kids. It's all about It's all about
the kids and putting smiles smiles on faces for Christmas morning.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Don't you love that when you give to something that
it actually goes to where you say.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
It's yeah, yeah, there's no no money, no nothing like that,
just straight to the kids, going to where it's supposed
to go.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I love it. Mm.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Thank you for doing back.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Man, it's amazing and I'm just I'm proud of you
and hearing your story.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I'm proud of you. Yeah, it's it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
And I just look for God to do even bigger,
better and better things in your life.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Is he's still working on me?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, on all of us. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
And I'm not just nothing Santa.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Just Mike said he ain't going.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I ain't going no, man, Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I love it. Well, thank you, Mike.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
This has been refreshing. Thank you for being on the show.
Thank you for agreeing to be on the show.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Thank you for to just come by.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yeah, I would love that too, And thank you for
just just being a part of what's happening good in
our community.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah, doing a whole lot of good out here. I
like that. Mike Te's trunck a toy, Mike T's trunk
of toys the first and you my first ever toy job, y'all.
Thank you, Pauls. I love you.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Get into it, y'all.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Go to k ninety seven fm dot com to find
out more, or find Mike T on Instagram, Facebook at
DJ Mike m I C T E E to find
out the drop off locations. You did say Plato though,
and you said Sunrise, m V I P M VI
I P.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, you got it all right? Good any parting words?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Thank you? Pulse?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Okay, thank you, Stormy, You're welcome. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I'm still not just to say I love y'all.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Bye, it's the Pulse.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
We're keeping our fingertips on the pulse of our community.
I am Stormy. We'll see you next week, same time,
same station. God bless you have a great week.
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