Michael Healy Rae On The Tommy Tiernan Show

How are you guys? Well, how are you? I'm very good now, it's good to be here. I am very. It just doesn't assure me that it's real. Yes. Wait, I want to see if you're real. Yes, am I funny? shoes, uh, do you mind if I ask you what exactly you think is funny? I know they're a little different, right, it's nice to be here anyway, Tommy, no, let's just take the shot now, them. They're practical, yeah, yeah, and they're a little clumpy, yeah, I thought shoes like this would be a big hit at Calvin, that's where you're from, right?

No, you have to go down a little. uh, I'm a fan of yours, why, why, why am I afraid, you shouldn't be afraid, I think you're, you're, um, I stand a little bit on you, yeah, I'm really afraid, no. I don't know, it's all, it's all lovely, and now that I've met you, I feel compelled to make your face, that's the most decent thing I can do, and then what I do about you is, um, it's about imagining. , uh, if you live in an independent country, the idea is that you can come up with laws that suit you and they don't have to make sense to other nations, other nations don't have to approve them, but if you play a card and it seems meaningful to the Irish, so these are the rules we have to live by and I say sometimes it takes visionaries to see this and I said the Healy Rays, Dan and Kerry are such visionaries that they are trying to introduce the reintroduction of drink driving in the only country.

Mexicans wouldn't even have the guts to drive under the influence, just for the country newspaper, because country people live further from the pub, on crooked, unlit mountain roads, and should be allowed to drive drunk on the streets. roads and you could say to them, well, what if? They hit a pedestrian and the answer is good, if a man walks down a country road at four in the morning, it's probably over when a drunk driver hits a drunk pedestrian, sure whose fault it is, oh

tommy

, you're a alpha man but that was what I wanted to say, there is an element of truth in that, I know there is no no, but I like the way about the independent republic of county Kerry, that's good, you know that well, I'm sure that if We have the money to blow it up.

We would get the country and you would float like Cuba to the southern hemisphere. Good luck to you, but we're stuck with you now, so I don't think it would be much of a loss if we separated from the rest. of the country, no, what do you think we would lose now? Look at all the people in Dublin who would miss us, yes, but we would get over it, as you know. I mean, I wouldn't really be interested. in the connection that you have with the dan and kerry community uh, I'm very interested in your philosophy of life, I'm very interested in the way you use language, very interested in your kind of bravery when it comes to dealing with the media Dublin and things like that. that, so you really inspire me in you, you know well, the only thing I think that makes us different from others is that it's about people and it's about meeting people, liking people and building relationships with people, it's like you in your job.

I know I was listening there before I came out and I mean I've seen your

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s and everything and you like your audience you like your audience go well with me I'm dealing with people I like to get people in a different way that I like help them with the problems they have and then they say yes, if I have a problem I go to him because he will do the best he can, then the feeling of satisfaction you should have. It must be phenomenal, especially when things go good and then when things go bad, it's bad.

Can you give me an example of something? Give me an example of something that went wrong. I will give you an example. I don't mind telling it. story against myself because it was probably one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made and the mistake I made at that time I wouldn't make again because now I'd be smart enough to listen to what they were telling me, remember? What fake residential accounts were people who had people who knew everything about banking but they went to the banks and the bank managers and the people at those institutions told them?

Oh, well, Tommy, do you have a brother in New York? use his address and you will get much more interest on your account, okay then tell me he didn't even sign up, you didn't dream this in your head, you knew to change all these things, but they told you about it and suddenly you saw that you were getting more interest, so happy days, everything was great. Then the revenue found out and went after those people, but if you say, for example, I had fifty thousand in one of those accounts. When the income came after you, they were literally looking for the whole fifty thousand, if not sixty thousand, so a very nice old man in a certain place came to me with his problem and when they told me about it, the first thing I thought The point was that he didn't have the responsibility that the income said because a lot of the poor man's money was his pension and they were taxing him on the pension element, which they had no right to do right away, they lowered it. a good while, but one night I was going on a trip and we started to end up with the problem that he had to pay practically every penny he had, even though I had reduced it, all his savings were going to go away and this poor man had done nothing bad he was an old man he worked hard all his life and he called on the phone and said Michael, you helped me everywhere in the world, but can we do something else with this monet and I said oh God, no and this is no place, I blame myself and no one else, I told him in other words, I told him that we were at the end of the line and I told him no, that we have to pay for it and what I told him was that you will have to pay for it and of course.

Far away said no, no, no, I won't pay for it, Michael, he said no, I won't, and he was driving and you see, I helped him but he didn't register, I didn't understand, he thanked me and left. I hung up the phone not the next day, but the following year, I was listening to my Christmas carol in the morning and the radio operator came up with the death notices. I was called to the man's death notice and called a neighbor. I couldn't tell him that he knew anything. I called the neighbor and said: you know? Did you know that man acting like he wasn't sure because he couldn't divulge his confidence? and the man said "Oh I should of course we did one two dealing with him he had some problem and one thing he would never do he would want to shoot me I would never tell one person but another person's problem was so I said oh so Maybe he was and what happened to the metal we can't understand he said he stood up at the kitchen table the night before last and hanged himself so what he did was hang up the phone on me and then the harmony of what I had told him that he I would have to pay for the hanging myself, you can imagine how I felt, so talk about that making what I call a political mistake and since then I found myself on a psychiatric services committee for a year too, where I learned a lot about mental illness. and the difficulties that that causes and, in fact, I like dealing with people I have problems in that department because if you called me tomorrow and who said well you know my hand is the rest or what are we going to do about it or if you said well you know that my head is very bad, I'm in a bad place.

I don't make any difference, it's just another medical problem and I actually say that it's a problem from the head up or from the neck down, you know, and for me it's all the same, It's a problem that needs to be addressed, but I would never do the same thing again. mistake I made that night because now I can see, uh, I can see the problems with people now before they realize it, I mean, that poor man, God be good to him, like um, and the horrible way he people from maybe the previous generation maybe this is it. generation overly respected authority uh authorities that the church and the banks took um and it's a shocking indictment on the behavior of financial institutions it's shocking Can I ask you if you would have your time again with that man?

What would you say well? I know exactly what I know exactly what he would do. I would know if that situation happened tonight. I would sit in front of my camera no matter where I was. She would knock on his door that night before he went to bed. I would sit and wear him out by sitting by the fire talking to him just talking to him because as long as you can keep a person engaged and keep talking to them and keep them interested, you're in for life. and as you must remember, in rural areas, people can have families of their own, they can have nieces and nephews who are lovely and great, but remember that nieces and nephews have their own families and they are there, so they can't be here even if they adore their uncle or aunt.

They can't be inside the house with them. You know, at times when that person might feel lonely or upset. Would you be a person of faith? Well, like me. I believe in God and I believe in heaven and I guess one of the main reasons I believe in heaven is because I believe that this would be enough noise to pass through and end up inside the ground and there would be nothing else. Like that's what's in it, I think we should go into town tonight and go to more mines 'cause what's the fight, where do you get sustenance, where are you, is there a place you can go when things?

To get to the top here I would go for a walk, but I can't do it half as much as I would like, but if I could go to work every night I would be very happy, but I don't. Being able to do that I used to want, but not recently. uh, shoot, I like to shoot, but I can't do that half after enough. Couldn't I ask you what keeps you going? I saw you one night at a

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in Killarney and I remembered that halfway through I became my son and said God, how does he do this?

It's not easy and making people you know laugh is extremely and keeping people engaged. Yes, what you do is surrender to another energy and trust it. The people who listen to you know that it is a mischief born of the desire for joy. Now I'm wrong. I may be wrong sometimes, but I think you did that too. That has always been my commitment. I realized. something a few years ago that was in terms of standing up and a crowd, if they're wild, you have to be wilder, so a comedian is a little bit wilder than the wildest person in the room, that's a good way to say it and so it is. but I know I love it and I know I know myself too.

I didn't get into wrestling for money and I know if there was no money in wrestling I know I would still be doing it, it's just part of it. of my experience as a human being is relating to people in that situation. It's just part of who I am now. I didn't, how would you say? It was not because of a job that I dedicated myself to politics, it was because I liked politics when I went to national school and, I repeat, this is not a very nice thing to say, but when I found out that he had done a TD somewhere place in the country, I loved it because what it meant was my father was good, don't laugh, my father was my father was good at organized elections, he was an expert election director, so I knew he would leave after three weeks of fight against the boys' elections, so for me it was three weeks after school. and enough throughout the country and it wasn't just that it was dust because he didn't like it you wouldn't be standing when my father would be there you would be working for your posters they would give you handouts doing the donkey's work that's involved in an election like a young man would, yeah and uh, but I loved it so you could listen to it and the death was recorded like that and like that, hey, thank God, I thought I'd never go until and you'll be. being able to negotiate in an exotic place like me or something, yeah, and being a lot of fun after three weeks of staying in a hotel where no, staying in a hotel is a nightmare, staying in a hotel at that time was a great problem, like being in a room that had a sink in the car, you know you were in bed and you were looking at this thing, imagine a sink in a bedroom, there was no time to remember knowing that the bedroom was next to them, but there was a toilet, it seems to me like it's the first of A whole country is made up of different personalities, different energies, uh, and I think we're lucky to have it, even if we can always agree with you, even if we always understand Kerry, uh, that We are and I want to say that this has been, it has been a pleasure. talking to you and it's a pleasure to live in the same place as you want to say that really ladies and gentlemen

michael

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