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Reflecting On Engineering Mike Gallagher's Moving Tribute to Charlie Kirk On Monday 9/22/25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, you know I've been with Saleing Media
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  Speaker 1: for twelve years and here the one Lookout Network.
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  Speaker 2: I just have to say, there are.
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  Speaker 1: Moments in this career where I feel like God's had
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  Speaker 1: me behind the board when he needed me there the most. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I love filling in on the occasion with the Joe
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  Speaker 1: Piscopo Show, and of course Arthur out every Wednesday and
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  Speaker 1: other days and whatnot. But filling in this past Monday
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  Speaker 1: for Eric Hanson, who was with Mike Gallagher down in Phoenix,
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  Speaker 1: was very uh.
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  Speaker 2: Spiritual to me.
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  Speaker 1: Because what Mike did on Monday following the Charlie Kirk
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  Speaker 1: memorial by meticulously playing a SoundBite of everybody's speech that spoke,
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  Speaker 1: and the way he did it, it just felt like
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  Speaker 1: a very spiritual moving experience to be part of behind
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  Speaker 1: the board in a moment like that, I felt it
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  Speaker 1: was so necessary to have every element hit right on time,
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  Speaker 1: right on queue, to make sure no breaks from this,
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  Speaker 1: to make.
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  Speaker 2: Sure no uh clips were cut off.
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  Speaker 1: It just had to flow perfectly, and by God's grace
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  Speaker 1: it did, and by God's grace it did. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to drop the link to the entire three hour
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  Speaker 1: memorial recap or special if you will, because I think
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  Speaker 1: you should listen to how Mike Gallagher honored his Salem
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  Speaker 1: radio colleague. And I think personally it was fitting that
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  Speaker 1: I was behind the board for that. It was a
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  Speaker 1: moment where I feel like, yes, I'm meant to be
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  Speaker 1: behind the board for this. My hand was supposed said
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  Speaker 1: guy fly the plane, as Mike would say, an engineer
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  Speaker 1: all the way through, and it's a show in a
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  Speaker 1: moment I won't ever forget. And I think personally I
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  Speaker 1: had this feeling of, Hey, we're honoring Charlie Kirk today,
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  Speaker 1: we're honoring a colleague, and as Jen Kelly has said,
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  Speaker 1: a radio brother, we are honoring someone I would share
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  Speaker 1: the airwaves with. I've said this before, and to honor
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  Speaker 1: someone you have to make it perfect. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying I don't want every show to be perfect. I do,
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  Speaker 1: but this one stood out to me. Remembering someone who
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  Speaker 1: should still be alive today and hearing the words of
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  Speaker 1: everybody that spoke, from President Trump to Erica Kirk to
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Covid, his best friend as.
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  Speaker 2: An executive producer, was moving.
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  Speaker 1: It was moving, and I really want to applaud Mike
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  Speaker 1: here for taking that moment to.
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  Speaker 2: Thoroughly give listeners.
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  Speaker 1: That much needed recap, that much need recap, because you
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  Speaker 1: may not.
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  Speaker 2: Have caught the whole thing on the Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe that with the help of Tracy and
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  Speaker 1: Christian and Eric, he designed a perfect memorial show for
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk that I don't think anybody else could pull off.
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  Speaker 2: It was quite a way to honor or falling.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I just want to say, as I started this
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  Speaker 1: whole thing, to be there felt right. To be there,
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  Speaker 1: felt spiritual, to be there, felt godly. Behind the board,
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  Speaker 1: I felt.
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  Speaker 2: A sort of spiritual movement in that studio.
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  Speaker 1: With every clip we played, I felt his presence too,
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  Speaker 1: that yes, we were honoring Charlie Kirk the right way.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't care if you have a problemly saying honoring,
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  Speaker 1: because we did honor Charliekirker, and we should honor him
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  Speaker 1: because a wife lost husband, daughters lost a father, and.
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  Speaker 2: Youth lost a mentor. The youth lost a mentor.
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  Speaker 1: And in any debate clips I've seen, I have not
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  Speaker 1: heard one bad thing Charlie Kirk has said. I'm in
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  Speaker 1: a very upfront about that I'm under one bad thing
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk said, and you know, the measure of how
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  Speaker 1: good a person is is the way he spoke about
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  Speaker 1: Adam Memorial and Boyl Boy. There was an outpouring of
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  Speaker 1: love and the fact he was missed by everyone on
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  Speaker 1: that dais.
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  Speaker 2: That you could tell he was beloved, that he was.
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  Speaker 1: Respected, and I just think that he Mike took that
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  Speaker 1: time for his show and honored Charlie the right way.
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  Speaker 1: And I am very honored to have been part of
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  Speaker 1: all of that behind the board on Monday, September twenty second.
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  Speaker 1: And again, the entire link of the show is found
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  Speaker 1: in the description below, and I gotta also shout out
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  Speaker 1: Arthur riy Dalla. He did a great show as well
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  Speaker 1: with Dave sant Trella and Phil Boyce and Mike himself
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  Speaker 1: honoring Charlie Kirk, which I also happen to be.
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  Speaker 2: Behind the board for.
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  Speaker 1: And so sometimes in the day to day life can
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  Speaker 1: get frustrating, but these moments of being there when it
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  Speaker 1: counts is what tells me God has me where he's
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  Speaker 1: wanting me to be, and honoring Charlie Kirk is where
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  Speaker 1: I was needed that day, and helping Mike honor Charlie
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  Speaker 1: Kirk is where I was needed that day, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: thankful I was, because I felt very moved by what
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  Speaker 1: transpired those three hours, with the meticulousness that Mike had
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  Speaker 1: gone through to honor Charlie Kirk salor Medium Missus Charlie.
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  Speaker 1: I did not get to meet him. I text him
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  Speaker 1: a couple of times over the years, and I was
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  Speaker 1: just always impressed when I saw how he would debate
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  Speaker 1: the opposition, all by setting up a table and saying,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk, all by setting up a table. And now
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  Speaker 1: I understand that table will be occupied by many more
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  Speaker 1: as the College Canvas tours will continue.
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  Speaker 2: But to be at the front row of this radio
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  Speaker 2: journey since Charlie was assassinated is a very spiritual thing
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  Speaker 2: for me, and.
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  Speaker 1: It reminds me God has me right where he has
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  Speaker 1: where he needs me to be, and I can say
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  Speaker 1: amen to that. You're on the one Leg Up Network.