Mike and Denise founded “Gallagher’s Army” after listeners enthusiastically responded to Mike’s call for help on his radio show one day. The Gallagher family has long been philanthropic supporters of many worthy causes in their community. Therefore, when Mike’s listeners made it possible to fill tractor-trailer loads of food and gift items for military families, the Gallagher’s knew this much-needed work had to continue – thus, The Mike Gallagher Show Charitable Foundation was born.

Mike Gallagher's road to being the 6th most listened-to radio talk show host in the country (Talkers Magazine) began in 1978 as a 17-year-old high school senior in Dayton, Ohio. Mike talked his way into an on-air shift at WAVI-AM in his Ohio hometown and has been talking on the radio and television ever since. Mike's broadcasting career has taken him from Dayton to WFBC-AM in Greenville, South Carolina (now WORD-AM) where his ratings and revenue success led to his eventual promotion to station manager. He was also host of the popular "Tiger Tailgate Show" on the Clemson Football Radio Network. Most importantly, Mike met his wonderful wife -Denise – while in Greenville. From there, the Gallagher family moved to New York, where Mike became the afternoon drive-time leader in Albany, New York on upstate powerhouse WGY-AM.

From Albany, it was just a short drive south to the nation's number one market, New York City, where Mike enjoyed a two year stint as morning drive host on WABC-AM, the nation's most listened-to talk radio station. In 1998, The Mike Gallagher Show was launched nationally with 12 radio stations. Today, Talkers Magazine reports that he's the sixth most listened-to talk radio host in America with over 3.25 million weekly listeners in top ten markets like Los Angeles, Boston, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. as well as cities all over the country, and is the 8th most recognized talk radio personality in America (The Benchmark Company). Mike has been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, and Forbes.

Besides his talk radio duties, Mike is equally comfortable in front of television cameras, too. He's a Fox News Channel Contributor making frequent appearances on all of the Fox News Channel programs as well as occasionally guest hosting one of the talk shows on the cable news giant. In addition to his busy broadcasting career, he's also a pundit for the popular news and opinion website, Newsmax.com. And he's about to add "author" to his resume as he recently began work on his first book, "Surrounded by Idiots -- Fighting Liberal Lunacy in America", to be published by William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins.

Mike is often invited to visit the radio stations that carry his show all over the country, so he spends a great deal of his time on the road, hosting listener parties and meeting with the staffs of his many affiliates.

In addition to being wildly popular with listeners, Mike is enormously respected by his peers in the radio industry. Recently, he was named to Talkers Magazine "Heavy Hundred List", the 100 most influential and compelling talk hosts in America. This is the 10th consecutive year that he has been featured on this prestigious list. Mike's syndicator, Salem Radio Network, is based in Irving, Texas (near Dallas) and his show's offices and studios are in Irving as well as the world-famous Empire State Building in New York City.

Mike's proudest achievement is his family. Mike and his wife Denise live in New York City and the Dallas area where they both are active in church and community activities. Their four boys, Bryan, Trevor, Matthew and Micah have "sprung the nest" and are living all over the country either going to college or working. However, beloved dogs Thumper and Buster are still home and require constant care and attention.

Joey Hudson, a lifelong resident of Greenville, SC, and Mike Gallagher first met when Mike joined WFBC-AM (now WORD-AM) as their morning talk host. The Mike Gallagher Show soon dominated talk radio in upstate South Carolina. Joey and his wife Peg, who sold advertising for Mike’s show for over ten years, became close friends with Mike and were with him when he made the best decision of his life – marrying Denise. The Hudson’s and Gallagher’s have traveled together maintaining their friendship for the many years since.

Owner of a local insurance agency for the past 21 years, Joey’s true passion has always been volunteer work in many non-profit agencies. Having served on the Board of Directors of Crime Stoppers of Greenville for over 15 years, Joey is currently President of the Southeastern Crime Stoppers Association. Joey has great respect for and is a big fan of those men and women who serve in law enforcement and our nation’s military.

In 1994, Joey’s involvement with Christ Church Episcopal led to him being a co-founder and President of Project Care, a local non-profit providing housing for the homeless with terminal illnesses. Additionally, Joey serves as a Lay Reader, Lay Eucharist Minister and is a Stephen Minister at Christ Church.

The South Carolina Department of Education awarded an “Excellence in Education” award to Joey for his role in establishing a 7th grade mentoring program, for “at risk” students, through his involvement with the Adopt-a-School/Business Education Partnership program.

After experiencing the enthusiastic response of listeners to “Gallagher’s Army,” Mike and Denise established The Mike Gallagher Show Charitable Foundation to encourage charitable giving and volunteerism throughout the nation. When confronted with the task of recruiting an Executive Director, Mike and Denise agreed, with his strong background and experience with non-profits, who better than their old friend Joey to help lead the troops!

On weekends, you can find Joey with his wife Peg and their cocker spaniels -“Black Jack” and "Cocoa" - tending to the other animals on their 40-acre farm just outside Greenville.