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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, well, it is National Radio Day Week and
you've heard this before, but I'm going to play it again,
the reel of the last eleven years, and then I'll
tell you the latest and greatest from today's world of
radio for me. By the way, Alex Garrett here, One
Leg Up Alex. We have totally rebranded. It'll be one
(00:21):
look Up, Alex News, one Leg Up, Alex Sports, one
Leg Up, Alex Adapts. All right here on One Leg
Up with Alex Garrett, the One Leg Up Alex Network.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
But but I cannot let this we go away without
playing you the current montage of where it's been going
in the last eleven years in radio.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
We're coming together here on one eleven Broadway made Alix.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah right, you gotta understand you and I knew Jackie.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Actually got to give credit to Alex Garrett. There, did
Alex find that sket You? Alex is our young engineer,
city bro.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
We are honored to have you as part of the team,
and you do a good.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Job for us. Alex. Alex, come on, you know, Alex said.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
M ans Alex, thank you for being here behind the
always a pleasure artor how was your day today?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Congratulations on your ten year anniversary thanks to Alex Garrett
and that podcast people at the station. I forwarded it
to some people at the station and Christina. They said,
there's something here, we like it. So Alex Garrett is
single handedly.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Responsible responsible for introducing Christina Cakes to the radio world
through my one Leg of Alex podcast and of course
her calling to Lucas Farrar, who's voice you just heard?
You also heard Curtis Sliwa, Frank Morano, Joe Piscopo, Kevin McCullough,
Arthur i Idalla, and so many more that that couldn't
fit that minute reel, but had a year twelve kickoff. Well,
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it started in the call screen chair for ally, since
I've been in radio now since twenty thirteen, Salem radio
host nationally syndicated radio host Mike Gallagher, he reached out
and said, would you like to be the next call
screener for the Mike Gallagher Show. Now, keep in mind
I filled in behind the board for Eric Hanson and
I've done a little call screening for Mike in the past,
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so I was really eager to say yes to this.
It would feel like moving up in the Salem world.
So of course I said yes, and I'm thankful that Salem,
New York and Salem National came to this agreement where
I could do both. We're doing call screening in the
morning for Mike and then back to Salem, New York
doing the IDALLA work during doing production work as a
production assistant, working on all cylinders last couple of weeks,
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and continuing that and of course going to be Philliam
as producer for Joe Sabilia in the Piscopo Show, and
then engineering all throughout for Joe Piscobo in the coming weeks.
But I really wanted to play this because it felt
full circle on that first Monday of the twelve year anniversary,
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because Mike said this about how he got to know
me thirteen years ago, and I'm so thankful he gave
us this shout out here.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
It dawned on me, We've got a great candidate in
New York City, working near down the hall from Eric
and Christian, a guy named Alex Garrett. Now Alex has
been a dedicated, wonderful employee of Salem, New York for
quite a while. And Alex is an inspiration. We love him.
He's got a great attitude, he's great at what he does.
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He's filled in for Eric a couple of times, but
now he's officially our phone screener, and he likes to
tell the story about how years and years ago I
had an event with Curtis Sliwa. Alex was an intern,
and Alex says that because of his interaction with me,
it kind of turned him into wanting to spend his
life in radio. So for this to come full circle
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now is just a blessing. So when you call eight
hundred and sixty five to five, Mike, welcome our new
phone screener, our dear friend, Alex Garrethan.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And it was interesting because I was just starting as
an intern slash part time engineer, and I remember vividly
Graham Walsh our hotel election night twenty thirteen, the night
de Blasio won his first term. Mike threw it to me,
actually to give updates, I believe on the Virginia race
at the time for governor. So I just I keep
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recalling that whenever he and I have interacted. Now I'm
on his team, Team Gallagher, and I'm very fortunate to
join Christian and Yasmin and Eric Hanson and the Gallagher crew.
Now in addition, to my Salem, New York duties. So
the full circle moment didn't end there though, because later
that night on the Arthur I Dalla Power Hour, another
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familiar friend I'm mentor and someone who really got me
in the door, along with Curtis Sliwa, Frank Morano, filled in.
And this is how that went. On August eleventh, the
eve of the twelve year anniversary. I mean, this is
all happening the week of the twelfth year of being
at Salem Media. You talk about full circle, Mike in
the morning, Frank in the afternoon and evening. It couldn't
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get more full circle than that.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I spent the better part of the last twenty two
years in the world of talk radio, for the last
five years hosting a nationally syndicated overnight program. But before
that I was working at right here at AM nine
to seventy doing a weekly show during the weekends and
producing the Joe Piscopo Show and the John Gamblke Show
and the Curtis Leeverers Show during the week And that's
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where I got to know our engineer and producer for
the evening, the inimitable, that one and only Alex Garrett
and it's a real privilege to be able to reconnect
with Alex and work with him again on this particular show. Alex,
how have you been my friend?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Oh Man? You know, twelve years ago this week you
brought me in with Curtis and here we are twelve
years later. Start a full circle on my end. Now,
you did miss one guy who had entered, say Man,
a Hall of Famer, Billy Billy Wagner.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
That's right, and as a MET fan usually he's always
the guy that you think of first when you hear
enter Samman.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
That's fair and fair enough.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So we're doing multiple departments for Salem Media. Group goes next?
I don't know, but we're here twelve years later. We
are moving up. It feels like and I'm so thankful
to my first OPS manager, Mark Debor, who really had
listened to all the advice to bring me on board
and is still there to this day. Matt Sambolan, who's
the current OPS manager and who pushes me to really
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excel every damn day I walk in that office at
Salem Media. Also the new GM Laura Schaeffer, and of
course legendary GM Jerry Crowley. Both of them continue to
take their chance on me every day I walk in
that door at Salem Media and so this World Radio Day,
I got to shout out the Salem Media Group family.
And of course Gaby who now joined us every Sunday
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on shake it Off with Martin Lucas and is my
fiance and wakes me up for every morning shift possible,
So thank for I couldn't do any of this without
her guidance and her you know, much more paying attention
to the schedule than I do sometimes. So there's that.
And of course Mom and Dad and my pop and
my pops up in Heaven, who I know used to
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listen to Mike every day right after Piscopo and got
to meet all these guys throughout the years. So you know,
my pops was very much involved in the nine to
seventy family twelve years ago and we miss them today
twelve years later. But there you go. That's the Salem part.
But on the side, I love to do play by play,
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and I have to say I cannot let National Radio
Day go without playing the four calls that when I'm
not talking politics on nine seventy or adaptability and Disabled
News on nine to seventy, I'm out there calling the
games I love, whether it's baseball, basketball or whatever. So
here's a little montage of the four calls. I really
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enjoyed doing that. Though it didn't make it to radio,
did make it to this podcast one leg up with
Alex Garrett. And and also we're tailored as if you
were listening to it on the radio. Burials all behind
now goes to the ballot. Here every one that was
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laced in the right field for right text and a
second go home, not a gun, and the nape take
a five, please, Creig burned to McDonald mcdonehead shuts god.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
One thousand points, one thousand career points for Khalil McDonald.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That was launch in the left field, and it will
be guys. A solo homer, a leadoff home run for
kine Ruise that one is looked in the right building
comes in and him all over the wall. And here
it comes the winning run to score in walk off fashion.
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And Sweezy comes through a walk off win for the
American League. Yeah, urfield properties ball. And of course we
talked sports a lot here and I cannot let this
go without thanking lou Terminello, who of course was there
thirteen well twelve years ago in twenty thirteen when I
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joined up, we had joined up the same day, and
he was of course sports director for many years. And
now we talk both on and off air about the
radio journey I'm on, and I'm so thankful for her
support and guidance and really a mentorship along the way,
long after he actually retired from nine seventy and twenty
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what was that eighteen? I believe it's just time is flying,
isn't it? But uh, there you go? That is is it?
National Radio date twenty twenty five in the books. I
could not let the week go by without making this
montage and this update of where we're going next in radio.
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It's going to be in the call screening chair for
Mike Gallagher in the morning and then in the production
assistant chair and engineering chair for nine to seventy either
you know, in the morning as well or later in
the day one or the other. I'm on both ends here,
So it's going to be exciting as this journey rolls
through into September. I can't believe it into year thirteen,
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I should say, so this is you know, some people
consider Chapter thirteen filing for bankrutry. I consider chapter thirteen
for this one a pretty lucky chapter so far. And
let's keep at it as a family, as a cohort
here at the One Leg Up Alex network, and of
course with the rebrand of this to be one Leg
Up Alex News, one Leg Up Alex Sports, one like
(11:00):
a Blex adapting. I feel like this podcast in and
of itself is moving forward all at the same time.
And I have to add this. When I started the podcast,
it was because I heard about how our tax dayerpayer
dollars are being wasted through nine seventy observing every host
talking about all of this government waste, it inspired me
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to start this show. Well, how cool is that in
the March of twenty twenty five, what I've said on
the show became real life when we went down to
d DNC, the National Dispert Dicies, National Coalitions Spring Public
Policy Forum to actually advocate for people with disabilities, who
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are tax paying citizens of America to get the rights
they deserve. That is the point of why this will start,
because we have to know how our tax dollars are
being spent, and why not advocate for our tax dollars
to be spent rightly? So when I went to DC.
It kind of felt like I was moving what I've
learned over the last twelve years and what I've been
talking about at the same time on this platform for
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twelve years forward. So I got to say that was
a real example of how much I've learned at Salem
Media and how much I'm putting into practice twelve years later,
and I'm very thankful I get to do that. And
I mentioned the Public Policy Forum because they're doing it again,
and I don't believe we're going to go this year,
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but I did get this update real fast. I know
it's sort of a PSA at the end of this,
but while it's on my mind. In September, they're going
to have the twenty twenty five d DNC Annual Fall
Forum taking place Monday, September fifteenth from nine am to
twelve pm at the Rayburn House Office building in DC,
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and they are cordially inviting you to attend. The event
will feature legislative and public policy updates from congressional champions
and key committee staff, with the tenants from medical, patient
and professional holders and industrial industry partners. So I'll put
a link to their website for more information, but there
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you go the DNC Fall for Forum in the next
couple of weeks here and excited to talk about that
real fast, because I believe if nine to seventy and
the Answer did not give me this chance twelve years ago,
I wouldn't even known about these other advocacy groups because
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I wouldn't have even thought to talk about how our
tax dollars are being spent. I was so sports minded
going into radio in twenty twelve, and I still love sports,
and I still will complain that the Yanks lost ten
to one today. But at the end of the day,
whether you're an athlete like Aaron Judge, whether you're someone
with disability, whether you're a pop star, culture icon, whatever,
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you pay your taxes. And I realized that life is
bigger than talking about a baseball game twelve years ago,
and now we're putting that into practice. And I think
it's because I've listened to Kevin in the afternoons for
nine years and plus on WMCA talk about this. I've
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listened to Frank every Sunday morning when he was on
nine to seventy. I saw him in action, and of
course engineering with Piscopal, listening to Piscopal, listening to Mike Gallagher.
They all have taught me that we must hold our
elected officials accountable. That is bigger than baseball. And how
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do you do it. You partner with the DDNC or
any coalition that is doing advocacy work. You might call
it lobbying lobbying, I call it advocacy work because it's
important that we are in the ears of those we
pay through our taxes. We are our salaries pay these
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people's taxes. So I did not mean to get a
rant on National Radio Days honoring today, but it's part
of how I got here. The radio world is how
I became part of the advocacy world, and there's no
doubt those two go hand in hand. Signing off for now,
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I'm one leg up, Alex Garrett