Speaker 1: I'm author Michael Riddy, True Tales of a Golden Lepricaun.
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Speaker 2: didn't thank our producer, Doctor d Richard Dugan. Today, folks,
Speaker 2: do you believe in leprechauns? And what you're about to
Speaker 2: hear in just a moment is an amazing tale from
Speaker 2: a man known as Michael O'Reilly. He's the proud author
Speaker 2: of a book called True Tales of a Golden Leprechaun,
Speaker 2: and he joins us on the Doctor Sky Experience. And
Speaker 2: we begin, of course by just throwing this out to
Speaker 2: the audience. Here is what we believe a leprechaun might be.
Speaker 3: The Tale of the leprechaun originated in Ireland during the
Speaker 3: Middle Ages. The leprechaun is a type of sprite or
Speaker 3: supernatural entity in Irish folklore. These mythical tricksters are often
Speaker 3: associated with riches and gold. Some believe that leprechauns originated
Speaker 3: from the Ac, a supernatural race in Irish mythology. The
Speaker 3: ac were small and comparable to that of elves or fairies.
Speaker 3: Legends state that leprechaan's spin time making and mending shoes
Speaker 3: while watching over their pots of gold. According to Irish legend,
Speaker 3: you'll know when a leprechaun is near if you hear
Speaker 3: the tapping of their cobbling hammer on shoes. It's said
Speaker 3: that leprechauns like to hoard gold coins and hide them
Speaker 3: at the end of a rainbow. If captured by a human,
Speaker 3: they are said to grant three wishes in exchange for
Speaker 3: their freedom. In modern times, these mythical creatures are often
Speaker 3: depicted as mischievous, little bearded men, but they didn't always
Speaker 3: look that way. Prior to the twenty first century, these
Speaker 3: legendary creatures were often depicted in red garb. Leprechauns evolved
Speaker 3: in medieval literature throughout time. Today they're often shown in
Speaker 3: green garb and tall hats, often with shamrocks.
Speaker 2: Michael, welcome to the Doctor Sky Experience. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for having me Doctor Sky.
Speaker 2: You know it's interesting. I want the audience to know this.
Speaker 2: You and I met. I was walking around the place
Speaker 2: called a mesa marketplace out there and Mason. For people
Speaker 2: who don't know this, this is probably one of the
Speaker 2: largest outdoor indoor slash markets that we have in the
Speaker 2: entire United States, where vendors of all different you know,
Speaker 2: product lines and such are all there. And I happen
Speaker 2: to be walking around there one day looking for specific
Speaker 2: hats because I was an Army veteran and still am.
Speaker 2: And I know that you had this great selection. So
Speaker 2: you and I get to talk, and I kind of
Speaker 2: like stopped in my tracks and said, you know, there's
Speaker 2: something very interesting about this man, Michael O'Reilly, So you
Speaker 2: remember the moment, So thanks for bringing me into your life,
Speaker 2: and likewise, this is going to be an interesting conversation. Likewise, well,
Speaker 2: let's start off with the book here. This is amazing.
Speaker 2: You have so much in this book that it would
Speaker 2: probably take three hours to do justice to this, but
Speaker 2: we'll do the best we can. The book entitled True
Speaker 2: Tales of a Golden Leprechaun, subtitled Well you won't believe this,
Speaker 2: but let's start off with your life. You're born in Connecticut.
Speaker 2: You spend a lot of time moving back to California,
Speaker 2: particularly your love for southern and southern California in the
Speaker 2: San Diego area. But tell me your life in the
Speaker 2: early days. I mean, you have a lot of stories,
Speaker 2: and let's concentrate on your early childhood and then let's
Speaker 2: move on in transition to you being a star athlete
Speaker 2: at a young age.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, one of the first things. And I moved
Speaker 1: and had lived in down Oakland area in San Pablo
Speaker 1: in California, and my younger days. I was there in
Speaker 1: about five or six. My friend next door had her
Speaker 1: son and he's going to go go to the swimming pool,
Speaker 1: the city swimming pool, and asked my mother if if
Speaker 1: I could go with him and my brother. So that
Speaker 1: was okay. So we did that, and before you know it,
Speaker 1: I'm in I'm in the pool there and I'm basically
Speaker 1: drowning and some somebody seen me and came over and
Speaker 1: rescued me, or it wouldn't even be a story right
Speaker 1: off the bat anyway, lived there in that area. Go ahead, No,
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: This is interesting, Michael, because the premise of this book
Speaker 2: is Saved my lumper con and.
Speaker 1: So many Oh yeah, well that that's my first one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my that's.
Speaker 1: My about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, matter of fact, I would have if I didn't
Speaker 2: have someone come over there.
Speaker 1: But happened at the pool that wasn't I didn't know
Speaker 1: how to so I'm holding onto the edge, so I
Speaker 1: uh finally was going to get out, and there was
Speaker 1: the steps weren't near me, so I just thought, I'll
Speaker 1: just I was pretty athletics for that little guy like that.
Speaker 1: So I just turned my body up and tried to
Speaker 1: flip up on top. And there's a chop there where
Speaker 1: water flows through excess water, and my foot got stuck
Speaker 1: in there and I couldn't get it loose, and I'm
Speaker 1: I'm down in the water, you know, and my foot's
Speaker 1: up high and I'm taking water in. Somehow, somebody, thank
Speaker 1: good and said spot me and knew I was in
Speaker 1: trouble and came over and gave me a hand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was my first seas very month of being a leprechaun.
Speaker 1: Being a lucky it takes to be one, absolutely. You know.
Speaker 2: Let's talk in just a moment about your athletic times.
Speaker 2: But I got a story that I want you to
Speaker 2: share with the audience. And I don't like to talk
Speaker 2: dark negativity, but you haven't highlighted in the book called
Speaker 2: The Darkest of Times. Here you are getting this amazing
Speaker 2: ten speed bicycle and you're somewhere in an apartment in
Speaker 2: alcoholm and it's very interesting, Michael, what happens as you're
Speaker 2: riding down this hill in dark clothing. I turn it
Speaker 2: over to you, Michael, to tell us the story how
Speaker 2: once again you were saved. Obviously, Okay, dog about hair raise.
Speaker 1: This was hair raising that bad. Let me get to
Speaker 1: the before. I when I went up the hill in
Speaker 1: the first place, it was a brand new bike, Ken Speed.
Speaker 1: I've never had one before, a very steep heel, was windy,
Speaker 1: and it was probably about a mile and a half
Speaker 1: two miles long going up a hill, and I was
Speaker 1: having a gear slip on me. I had a very
Speaker 1: hard time making it. Now I made it to the
Speaker 1: top summit now some way. And when I then I
Speaker 1: went to these friend's house, I was hited off too.
Speaker 1: So when it was later in the days time for
Speaker 1: me to go home, my friend asked me if I
Speaker 1: wanted to put my bike in his vehicle, then he'd
Speaker 1: give me a ride home. I said no. I said
Speaker 1: I had a heel I came up with, and I
Speaker 1: told myself, when I go home, I can't wait to
Speaker 1: go down it because I had such a hard time.
Speaker 1: So I turned it down and I was all dressed
Speaker 1: in dark clothes and then I'm going down. Then there's
Speaker 1: no lights on this road. On the left hand side,
Speaker 1: it's a mountain. On the right hand side, it's a cliff,
Speaker 1: and it's two lanes and very narrow too. There's no
Speaker 1: shoulder there at all. They're just enough for two cars
Speaker 1: to go by. And so I'm going down. They say,
Speaker 1: I know, there's the light coming behind me, a light
Speaker 1: coming up towards the bottom. And then I'm going, oh boy,
Speaker 1: this is this is getting pretty scary because I got
Speaker 1: nowhere to go and I'll go off the cliff or what.
Speaker 1: And so I just says that car was that was
Speaker 1: coming up behind me. Was right there. Okay, I had
Speaker 1: to move over to the left hand lane and let
Speaker 1: that car go by. As soon as that car went by,
Speaker 1: I zipped back over into the lane I was and
Speaker 1: the other car went by, and neither one could see
Speaker 1: me because the light on my the light on my
Speaker 1: bike was flickering and I couldn't even see because because
Speaker 1: I had lights. So then it got to the point
Speaker 1: where I got stayed from that one, which way I
Speaker 1: could have gotten killed. So I'm getting down to the
Speaker 1: bottom of the of the hill and there's an intersection
Speaker 1: there for on ramps going you know, two directions on it.
Speaker 1: You want to get on it. So right underneath that,
Speaker 1: I go underneath the freeway on the left hand side.
Speaker 1: There's a big loop there, and I thought, and I
Speaker 1: can't slow down. Oh my brakes are gone. My brakes
Speaker 1: are gone. The lights got my brakes are gone. I'm
Speaker 1: going like batter I ever think I could go. So
Speaker 1: I'm coming down underneath the highway, hoping that nobody can
Speaker 1: can be there when I'm being there for that few moments.
Speaker 1: I need to clear a spot, so I want to
Speaker 1: go into that park came out that's on the other
Speaker 1: side of the free underneath, but on the other side of
Speaker 1: the street. But if I getn't getting I can at
Speaker 1: least slowed down by going around the parking lot. So
Speaker 1: as soon as I go down, I'm not ready to
Speaker 1: turn in that and the little Bolkswagen's coming out to
Speaker 1: the street and make a right turn, just looking left
Speaker 1: to see if anybody's coming. And I'm coming from the
Speaker 1: other way and I'm right in front of it, and
Speaker 1: it pulls out and hits me, and yeah, I'm all
Speaker 1: mangled up. I thought, Wow, that was that, and wow,
Speaker 1: I go well, So anyway, there was a lady that
Speaker 1: was you know, had the vehicle, and she came over
Speaker 1: and asked me, and I, okay, well I got there
Speaker 1: on this little wall there for a few minutes. I
Speaker 1: just go ahead and go I'll go ahead and just
Speaker 1: you know, be pat and then try to get home,
Speaker 1: which was still about three miles away. So then my
Speaker 1: bike was crumbled us and my bike was crumbled up.
Speaker 1: So then I got it back to where I could
Speaker 1: get on it barely. So I'm going to I'm at
Speaker 1: the corner, but that big lot was was a corner too,
Speaker 1: so I was going to go down that street, and
Speaker 1: as a as a ROUTU was going home and there's
Speaker 1: no lights on that road either, So there's railroad tracks.
Speaker 1: Right after I made the turn, probably about fifty yards
Speaker 1: down the road, there's railroad tracks are going and angle
Speaker 1: across the road. So it happened the front wheel and
Speaker 1: I went over that rail. The front wheel got caught
Speaker 1: right in the rail, and I flipped over the front
Speaker 1: of the bike. And man, your head first in the
Speaker 1: road and it's dark. I got yeah this and I
Speaker 1: got dark clothes out. I already had this other experience.
Speaker 1: Now I thought it was miserable before. Man, now I'm
Speaker 1: really really really having a problem. So I get myself.
Speaker 1: I was laying on the on the highway, but man,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get running with young numbers. Adn't gonna see me.
Speaker 2: So I got the bike.
Speaker 1: Up the best I couldn't got off the side of
Speaker 1: the road by that tention. Cars went by, and I go,
Speaker 1: oh boy. And then I've still got my about three
Speaker 1: miles to go home. So I got the bike barely
Speaker 1: going uh and getting on finally getting on the street
Speaker 1: where I'm I'm at, I'm saying, oh man, when I'm home.
Speaker 1: So right as I had about fifty yards from where
Speaker 1: I live. The light that went out on the on
Speaker 1: the front wheel slid down in the foot and jammed
Speaker 1: the bike again, and I almost flipped overhead first again.
Speaker 1: So then yeah, so then so then so then I
Speaker 1: went in. I went I went in the house and
Speaker 1: my wife and I'm not looking very good. I'm all,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, So she said, what happened to you?
Speaker 1: I said, it's a long story. So I told her,
Speaker 1: I said, you know, I said, I said, this is
Speaker 1: what happened to me. And I could have avoided that
Speaker 1: if I would have just taken the guy's device and
Speaker 1: put the bike in his car and then take me home.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to make this real quick if I
Speaker 1: can to finish this bike story off. It was about
Speaker 1: I did. My bike was mef. I took it back
Speaker 1: to where I bought and they gave me a new one.
Speaker 1: So after a couple of weeks, I started, I'm telling
Speaker 1: you I want to go for I'm going to go
Speaker 1: for a ride. And the ride, the ride the key
Speaker 1: reason why I'm going to go for the ride. I'm
Speaker 1: going to drive to neighborhoods and down streets and just
Speaker 1: see who was really paying attention to me. Okay, well
Speaker 1: that was an eye opener. I could got hit two
Speaker 1: or three more times if I wasn't looking out for them.
Speaker 1: I just found out that how little people know when
Speaker 1: they're riding a bike, that you know other people aren't
Speaker 1: sharing that much or knowing that you're even there. So
Speaker 1: then I took to the bike home, put it up
Speaker 1: in the attic and hung it there and never wrote
Speaker 1: it again. So that was.
Speaker 2: A interesting story. Well, Mike, interesting story. And I just
Speaker 2: want to remind our listeners here you're listening to the
Speaker 2: Doctor Skuy experience here on talk radios of these OWABC
Speaker 2: A very special guest because you and I met. Obviously,
Speaker 2: I'm fascinated by your story, in your belief and the
Speaker 2: belief of many others that you have some sort of
Speaker 2: spirit watching over you and in this particular thing, not
Speaker 2: only the cocard in your opinion with the le But
Speaker 2: let me move on, let me move on to a
Speaker 2: couple of other quick stories, because okay, go ahead, go ahead,
Speaker 2: we have with you today. Okay, what's interesting is you're
Speaker 2: an athlete, and let's talk a little bit about you
Speaker 2: and your brother. We'll talk about baseball. But then I
Speaker 2: want to move on quickly if we can do some
Speaker 2: of the other things that have happened in your life,
Speaker 2: the entrepreneur, the horse whisper, and also the pastor, because
Speaker 2: you bring some spiritual want with me. But let's talk
Speaker 2: a little bit in the short abbreviated version us a
Speaker 2: little bit about your.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, real quick. This all started, you want to
Speaker 1: believe it or not. When I was about three years old.
Speaker 1: So I was living up north there in the Bay Area,
Speaker 1: and my brother and I I was a year and
Speaker 1: a half older than me. For some reason we had
Speaker 1: we just loved something to do with baseball. So I'm
Speaker 1: playing baseball in my front yard, my brother and I
Speaker 1: and I'm swinging a pretty good size bat, and I'm
Speaker 1: three years old, and I just found the love of
Speaker 1: baseball was in me. There's just something about it to
Speaker 1: this very day that Fad was disappointed night last night
Speaker 1: watching the Dinerbacks with again and shaid. Well, but anyway,
Speaker 1: it's never It's never left me. I was then my
Speaker 1: brother and I would I got in the little league.
Speaker 1: I was the star player in the li League. When
Speaker 1: I was twelve years old. I had a bat and
Speaker 1: average of over seven hundred, which is almost impossible. I
Speaker 1: hit six seven home runs and six six no hitters.
Speaker 1: He was seven home runs and bad over seven hundred
Speaker 1: in literally then I went out to playing Pony League
Speaker 1: and the next level up was totally finally went in
Speaker 1: to play in an industrial league. Uh and the very
Speaker 1: first game I was ever in that was a new
Speaker 1: guy on the team. But in practice they found out
Speaker 1: how I could hit and how I could throw. Favorite
Speaker 1: position was third base, but they wanted to put me
Speaker 1: in the game, but the third baseman they liked, so
Speaker 1: they stuck me out in the center field, which is
Speaker 1: one of the toughest spots to be if you're in
Speaker 1: the outfield, being in center field, because you had cover
Speaker 1: a lot more room and got to have a pretty
Speaker 1: good arm and all that stuff. So this guy that
Speaker 1: came up to that in that game was one in
Speaker 1: one of the times he was a league leading hitter
Speaker 1: that was in our league. The guy was probably well
Speaker 1: welled over, probably I would say at least six four
Speaker 1: or more. Okay, a big guy. So I'm out there
Speaker 1: in center field and I heard how he's a guy
Speaker 1: could hit. And it was in a park too, because
Speaker 1: of the ball game that we were supposed to be
Speaker 1: playing at. Our field was sweated to me, had left
Speaker 1: the water rain all night. But we called Parks and Recreation.
Speaker 1: They gave us a spot to play in this game
Speaker 1: in that park, so we're playing there. There's no fence.
Speaker 1: So then I the guys got me out there in
Speaker 1: center field. So I'm just thankful to being the game.
Speaker 1: And then this guy, there's a guy on second base,
Speaker 1: and the guy hits the line drive out to me.
Speaker 1: I run up and caught it on the first bounce
Speaker 1: and I rifled it back into home, played one bounce
Speaker 1: to the catcher to the guy out fifteen feet before.
Speaker 1: Hey wasn't even halfway home when the ball was he
Speaker 1: was around a third base. Win at let go, and
Speaker 1: I nailed it right there into the catcher, and we
Speaker 1: said got he goes out. So then when this batter
Speaker 1: came up, I would play him about four hundred feet.
Speaker 1: If he's going to get a hit, he's going to
Speaker 1: get a short one out. He can get he can
Speaker 1: get a single from me, but I don't let him
Speaker 1: hit it over my head because he's going to round
Speaker 1: the basin and that's going to be it. I played
Speaker 1: him extra deep, so then he was up. This one
Speaker 1: time he swung and I heard the crack of the
Speaker 1: bat from that far away, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I was coming right at me, and I'm turning. I'm
Speaker 1: going running the staff as I can the other way,
Speaker 1: and the ball's not coming down. I say, man, I'll
Speaker 1: be coming down any second. So I looked up for it,
Speaker 1: and when I could see it coming down, it was
Speaker 1: on the other side of me. But I spun around
Speaker 1: and dove out and caught it. And the after after that,
Speaker 1: in the dug out, this is this is really a surprise.
Speaker 1: In the dugout after that, when we went to when
Speaker 1: we got him out, I'm sitting there and the manager
Speaker 1: from the other team he came. He came to over
Speaker 1: over to our doorway and he said to somebody right
Speaker 1: near they said, where's your center fielder at and they
Speaker 1: pointed to me. So he came down and stood in
Speaker 1: front of me. He said, you know, he said, I
Speaker 1: am so glad I was here today. I got a
Speaker 1: chance to see something that I think is probably maybe
Speaker 1: the greatest catch in the history of baseball. And I
Speaker 1: was able to watch you do that. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you did that. He put out and shook his
Speaker 1: hand with my hand and said, boy, that was that
Speaker 1: was that was so unbelievable. So then I also, Michael,
Speaker 1: that's amazing, as I do singles in a triple in
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 2: Well you're amazing. I mean, that's why we're talking with
Speaker 2: you today. Our special guest is Michael O'Reilly his book
Speaker 2: Two Tales of the Golden Leprechaun. He has a special
Speaker 2: connection to the word leprechaun, as his book goes into
Speaker 2: some made two hundred plus pages of the amazing things
Speaker 2: in his life. And let me make it simple to
Speaker 2: the audience here. This is not a simple life. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not a man that just walks into things. You know.
Speaker 2: He works hard and has worked hard for everything he's done,
Speaker 2: as many people do out there. But his story is inspirational. Michael,
Speaker 2: a short time we have with you today, I want
Speaker 2: to cover some of these other things and no basis
Speaker 2: are going to be left out if I can help it.
Speaker 1: So try to make it as quick as I can.
Speaker 2: You are, well, that's all right, brother. You understand how
Speaker 2: to create wealth, and you do it in times when
Speaker 2: you're supporting a family, when you're basically have no money
Speaker 2: in your pocket, and you do it lawfully. You do
Speaker 2: it by being a hard worker. But give us just
Speaker 2: a quick example of your entrepreneur experience, because it also
Speaker 2: goes to you mentioning to somebody in the world, the
Speaker 2: fast food industry. I get Jack in the Box boy,
Speaker 2: that story, to me is amazing that you tell what
Speaker 2: a prospective employer. Hey, I can run this slice myself
Speaker 2: and I'll prove it to you. And I'll just play.
Speaker 2: You are the ones who comes out way ahead. What's
Speaker 2: the short version of you do? I'll I'm I'm mad.
Speaker 1: I'll make that as quick as I can. Uh. We left, Okay.
Speaker 1: We got home one night and my father was in
Speaker 1: the navy. We got home at two o'clock. We were
Speaker 1: my brother and I was working at Jack and the Box.
Speaker 1: I was working at a fast food restaurant. My car
Speaker 1: wasn't working, so my brother came pick me up. We
Speaker 1: both got off out the same time. About two o'clock.
Speaker 1: We get home and all of a sudden, my dad
Speaker 1: meets us at the door and he says, to the twoists,
Speaker 1: and I was going to call it's taking thirteen units. Also,
Speaker 1: I was either working or studying. Uh uh, sleep sleep
Speaker 1: wasn't part of the program. Anyways. If my dad says,
Speaker 1: you guys are leaving tonight, he says, you got packed
Speaker 1: your gear and said whatever you don't take, salvation army
Speaker 1: will get And we didn't cause you an hotel. But
Speaker 1: he he was out of the house when he was
Speaker 1: like fifteen, so he thought we should be going That
Speaker 1: long story short. So then we moved. So my brother
Speaker 1: was working at Jack in the Box, so he was
Speaker 1: working with the new guy was going to take over
Speaker 1: a new one up in the Sunlinarya, which is around there,
Speaker 1: not too far from bird Bank, and so we left
Speaker 1: about three o'clock in the morning. He said, well, drive
Speaker 1: up faces, I'll get you a job. So then we
Speaker 1: went there. He got the guy took my brother and
Speaker 1: made him assitant manager right away with my brother trained
Speaker 1: mother was one that trained him to run to have
Speaker 1: that jack. That's how much he wanted my brother to
Speaker 1: go before this incident naming came up. But that's why
Speaker 1: he was able to get a job for sure. But
Speaker 1: the guy he want to hire me. So then I
Speaker 1: told my brother, don't worry about bird Bank, which two
Speaker 1: miles away. So the next day I go to this
Speaker 1: Jack in the Box and uh, I, let's see about
Speaker 1: playing for a job. So the guy says, oh, ther
Speaker 1: owner's upstairs. So I go up there, walk in his office.
Speaker 1: He got big old Jack, got navy pictures all over
Speaker 1: the back behind him on the wall. And I told him, said,
Speaker 1: I'm looking for a job, and so he goes, he goes, well, okay,
Speaker 1: And so he told me how much he was going
Speaker 1: to pay me, and I said, I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: work for that because I was running this restaurant when
Speaker 1: I was when I got we left the house that evening.
Speaker 1: I was been managing that besides going to colleague. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I knew I knew a lot harder to run
Speaker 1: that restaurant. Jack in the Box was easy. So I
Speaker 1: told him, I said, I said I can't work for that,
Speaker 1: and he said, well, I don't pay that kind of money.
Speaker 1: I said, why don't you let me come in? And
Speaker 1: this is on a Thursday. He said, why don't let
Speaker 1: me come in tomorrow night, tomorrow evening, and I'll show
Speaker 1: you what I can do and I can back it up,
Speaker 1: and I think you'd be very pleased. So then he
Speaker 1: said that's a good idea. So five o'clock. That next evening,
Speaker 1: I show up and we're The grillery is the most
Speaker 1: important part of it because everything basically comes out of there,
Speaker 1: and everything has to be done in the right way
Speaker 1: and and fast and nice and all that other stuff.
Speaker 1: So he told me he had they takes three people
Speaker 1: to run that grill area on a Friday night, which
Speaker 1: is the busiest night of all the week. So then
Speaker 1: I told him, I said, I don't I don't need them.
Speaker 1: How can I show you what I can do? I said,
Speaker 1: they'll just get in my way. And he kind of
Speaker 1: he hoed at me. He said, take I said, take
Speaker 1: three people to do that.
Speaker 2: I told you.
Speaker 1: I said, I don't need them, and I can prove
Speaker 1: it to you. You just let me do it myself.
Speaker 1: So he let me do it myself. So then I
Speaker 1: ran that. I ran that all davening real quick. I
Speaker 1: never made one mistake. I have to wrap everything, make
Speaker 1: do everything, and and and so the next morning he
Speaker 1: had me come in at eight o'clock. So I went
Speaker 1: upstairs to see him. And on the back then they
Speaker 1: all have a little badge with their name on it
Speaker 1: and whatnot. So I looked on the table. He had
Speaker 1: a badge and my and my and my name had
Speaker 1: my name on it, but also below it says assistant manager.
Speaker 1: He said, he said, I'm paying you everything you wanted.
Speaker 1: He said, I'm still trying to get over what you
Speaker 1: did is you've never cooked your jack in the walk
Speaker 1: work during your whole life, and you ran that full
Speaker 1: show that night. But he said, I still can't comprehend
Speaker 1: how you did that. He made me assistant manager on
Speaker 1: he worked one ship and it's only one there's only
Speaker 1: one sistant manager on the whole crew, and it's hard
Speaker 1: to be that. So my brother and I are both
Speaker 1: assistant that I had to do it the hard way.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that proved it to him, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was quite a deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's interesting, Michael. So we're talking about the
Speaker 2: luck of the golden lumper con plus you know, a
Speaker 2: lot of sweat and tears and hard work and elbow grase.
Speaker 2: But this isn't amazing, But I want to kind of
Speaker 2: focus well I kind of focus on this, but the
Speaker 2: moments we have with you, this is an amazing story.
Speaker 2: And it seems probably a little different than many people
Speaker 2: that listen to this archive. And why are we doing
Speaker 2: this because I'm very impressed with when I met you,
Speaker 2: and I made a commitment to you that we would
Speaker 2: I would read your book, and I'm certainly glad I
Speaker 2: did and send this out to the world because this
Speaker 2: is interesting. It's like when you get knocked down, many
Speaker 2: people give up. No, Michael O'Reilly gets back up. He had,
Speaker 2: in his opinion and the opinion of many others, a
Speaker 2: blessing that some spirituality or in the form of a
Speaker 2: golden leprechaun is basically his guiding light in the background.
Speaker 2: Call it a guardian angel, will call it whatever you want.
Speaker 2: But this is interesting. Michael. You also go on and
Speaker 2: I'm doing a very short version of your life because
Speaker 2: the book goes into great detail. But you're involved with
Speaker 2: in the horse world. This is fascinating and I want
Speaker 2: you to take a few moments on those. You know,
Speaker 2: it's interesting you see horses and if people don't bond
Speaker 2: with the horse, and I know nothing about horses, and
Speaker 2: then they're beautiful and I watch them when I see
Speaker 2: the Kentucky Derby every year. But here's my thing. If
Speaker 2: you're not the right kind of personality to understand the
Speaker 2: horse or bond with them, as many people do not do.
Speaker 2: You obviously have been described as the horse whisperer, and
Speaker 2: this is interesting, and not to gloat over this. What's
Speaker 2: that connection with you and horses, because you've done so much.
Speaker 2: You've had Thoroughbred horses to race horses. You know, you've
Speaker 2: been in that big league, and you've taken horses that
Speaker 2: basically were mistreated in your opinion, to turning them out
Speaker 2: to be horses that solved love an affection and actually
Speaker 2: were given the opportunity to perform and become real champions.
Speaker 2: Talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 1: Okay, The horses in my life were treasures to me.
Speaker 1: It's a part of my life that to do it
Speaker 1: all over again, a lot of money in it, a
Speaker 1: lot of this and a lot of that, and a
Speaker 1: lot of hard work, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Speaker 1: I still miss them to this very day that I
Speaker 1: don't have any but to how I would I do
Speaker 1: is I do a lot of expreme on how to
Speaker 1: have a horse understand the things I was trying to
Speaker 1: tell it. So what I did is I came up
Speaker 1: with many many different ways to be able to ask
Speaker 1: a horse to do something I'm trying to communicate to
Speaker 1: it to get it to do okay, and those things
Speaker 1: I've done them in they're faithful. I put the horse
Speaker 1: and it's always in a classroom. I let them know
Speaker 1: that we're in class today, that I'm going to try
Speaker 1: and share something with you, okay, and then this doing something,
Speaker 1: and then when we're talking to a word, not talking
Speaker 1: to another person. But I'm able to do that. I
Speaker 1: spent so many hours. I'm so blessed to I can't well.
Speaker 1: I've had situations where I had a friend that had
Speaker 1: a young horse that was a year lan pretty good,
Speaker 1: you know, they're getting pretty good. Side of that time,
Speaker 1: he said no one could catch it. And he said
Speaker 1: I can't catch it. And this guy had like forty
Speaker 1: seven horses other than in his house. When we were
Speaker 1: telling you that, I said, I'll go and cat, I
Speaker 1: can go and get him for you. He said, there's
Speaker 1: no way you're going to get that horse. I said,
Speaker 1: I'll get him and and I said, I said I
Speaker 1: can get I said I'll give him ten minutes. You
Speaker 1: started laughing at me, and he said I can't get
Speaker 1: you a though you're not going to get I said, well,
Speaker 1: wy don't you can? I go out and do that.
Speaker 1: He said, sure you can't. I said, well, give me
Speaker 1: I need I need twelve minutes. I need two minutes
Speaker 1: to get out there, and then you can come out.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to looking out the window or
Speaker 1: anything like that. So then, now this horse doesn't have
Speaker 1: anything on his head what they call the haltzer, you
Speaker 1: leave it around and stuff like that. So I went out.
Speaker 1: I went out into the things I need to do
Speaker 1: in order to do this, and then in less than
Speaker 1: ten minutes I got that. Not only do I have
Speaker 1: the horse stop and I'm petting it, and when you
Speaker 1: try to put something on a horse for the first
Speaker 1: time that's never happened, especially around their head area, that's
Speaker 1: very frightened, could be very frightened to them. But I
Speaker 1: taught the horse how calm I was. He trusted me
Speaker 1: and I had it on that fact, I was leading
Speaker 1: him around. When he came out, he goes.
Speaker 2: How'd you do that?
Speaker 1: I said, well, I've got experience in doing that, and
Speaker 1: there are things that I can do that. It's hard
Speaker 1: to be explain how to do it. But if I
Speaker 1: watched the person watched the steps that I do one, two, three, four,
Speaker 1: how many many they are So here's when I get done.
Speaker 1: When I work with a horse, this is what's got happened.
Speaker 1: I don't get hurt, the horse doesn't get hurt, and
Speaker 1: the horse, the horse is going to learn what I'm
Speaker 1: teaching it. And when I get done, and above all,
Speaker 1: it's it's not it's not going to be a nervous horse.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a calmer horse. And I started,
Speaker 1: it's going to learn the process I'm trying to teach it.
Speaker 1: And when I'm saying this, I think I'm one of
Speaker 1: the best that's ever lived doing this. There's there's there's
Speaker 1: there's a guy named that's amazing.
Speaker 2: Michael.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyway, I love all aspects of the horses. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't change for anything. Yeah, they're wonderful.
Speaker 2: Well, Michael, this is interesting. Some people say it's very
Speaker 2: difficult to you describe in the book, and I have
Speaker 2: no knowledge of horses other than I love them. And
Speaker 2: I think you know that. Obviously they're beautiful animals when
Speaker 2: they're well treated, and many of you, of course are not.
Speaker 2: And there we go. You you described how difficult it
Speaker 2: is sometimes to get a horse into a trailer, and
Speaker 2: I never realized that could be a problem for some horses,
Speaker 2: and you go into great detail, but in memory of
Speaker 2: the horse gallant victory. You know, obviously your time with
Speaker 2: horses is very special and that is some part of
Speaker 2: this interview that I wanted to highlight. But Michael, in closing,
Speaker 2: I wish we had more time. I just have a
Speaker 2: few more questions for you, and this very interesting but
Speaker 2: short moment in time. Maybe we can do this again
Speaker 2: sometime in a longer form. Always rules, you know. I
Speaker 2: want to just mention a couple of other things. You
Speaker 2: have a special relationship with God, and I remember when
Speaker 2: you were there you described to me and your pastoring
Speaker 2: and also all the things that are so important to
Speaker 2: you spiritually. And I think that's very important because in
Speaker 2: many people's minds that's missing from a lot of the vocabulary.
Speaker 2: Not judging people, but you know, in general. But obviously
Speaker 2: that brings you peace, that brings you who you are
Speaker 2: as you a man of God. And it's interesting that
Speaker 2: you have now this is interesting. This gets into a
Speaker 2: different side of Michael O'Reilly. The website is simply coming
Speaker 2: Times dot org. And what can people find in that website, Michael,
Speaker 2: Because you've done an extensive research on what one of
Speaker 2: the more interesting books of the Bible as we talk
Speaker 2: about what the Book of Revelations and other things related
Speaker 2: to that, Am I correct that?
Speaker 1: Oh? Well, yeah, you basically are that that book was
Speaker 1: given to me by the Holy Spirit to pay the
Speaker 1: articles that are in that website. But first off started
Speaker 1: on on it. I'll say exactly. The day that started
Speaker 1: where that website got inaugurated was on inauguration Day. It
Speaker 1: was on it was on the tome on Michael the
Speaker 1: election day, and I sat back in my chair at
Speaker 1: five o'clock, five o'clock in the evening, I sat back
Speaker 1: in my chair. I'm not trying to say this to that,
Speaker 1: but I like Trump, and I'm not saying that bad
Speaker 1: about anybody else, but Trump was my guy. But I
Speaker 1: sat back in my I sat back in my chair.
Speaker 1: It's five o'clock. Not no results had come in at
Speaker 1: that point, but I'm getting ready. I'm all excited for
Speaker 1: the evening to come. I sat back in my chair
Speaker 1: and the Holy Spirit told me, he said, Mike, I
Speaker 1: want you to get a pat and once she gets
Speaker 1: something rite with he says, and I and I have
Speaker 1: experience like in the horses and studying them I studied
Speaker 1: prophecy the same way, and the Lord told me, he said,
Speaker 1: he said, I need to have your knowledge, Mike, if
Speaker 1: you have to use a benefit to other people. He said,
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you this. These things I want
Speaker 1: you to do. I want you to put together a
Speaker 1: message to take out two different ministers and preachers that
Speaker 1: will accept you showing this to them. I'm letting them
Speaker 1: have it, okay. And then it said I just took
Speaker 1: this took about two hours. And so he also told me,
Speaker 1: he said, as far as the election goes, he said Trump.
Speaker 1: He said, I know this is going to hurt you. Michael.
Speaker 1: He said, but I but I know how much you
Speaker 1: like Trump. But he said, Trump's not going to win
Speaker 1: the election. He said. I said, I'm sorry that's going
Speaker 1: to he said. But he told me, he said, I
Speaker 1: don't need a strong America right now. He said, I
Speaker 1: don't need that.
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 1: My prophecy said, I have to fulfill are about ready
Speaker 1: to take place soon, and the world's not set up
Speaker 1: for us to be strong at that moment. So I said,
Speaker 1: Biden's going to win the election, We're going to fall
Speaker 1: from power. We're not going to have the respect that
Speaker 1: we've always had. We're not going to be that country
Speaker 1: ever again. And that's where we are right now. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the website it talks about, it talks about that message.
Speaker 1: It starts off with that message. There's a thing called
Speaker 1: the rapture, which is God's next move for planet Earth. Okay,
Speaker 1: So it takes in that rapture, which is the gathering
Speaker 1: together of the same to be caught up together to
Speaker 1: meet the Lord in Heaven at a point when all
Speaker 1: this takes place, in the blink of an eye eleven
Speaker 1: to one second. That the moment that happens is there's
Speaker 1: a tribulation pretty started a seven years seven years. Then
Speaker 1: there's a second coming into the Lord. All this was
Speaker 1: given to me. I love I'm doing for articles right now,
Speaker 1: for I got what I'm looking at right now. For
Speaker 1: em I'm finishing up. He's always got me on an assignment.
Speaker 1: And I love every day I get up. I spend
Speaker 1: days with him. He's my all in all right now,
Speaker 1: and he had been for some time.
Speaker 2: Well, Michael, it's a purpose and honor to have you.
Speaker 2: Don't go away yet. I just want to quote something
Speaker 2: from your book that has always been one of your
Speaker 2: favorite pieces of Scripture, and it's from the Book of Psalms,
Speaker 2: and I quote or he shall give angels charged over
Speaker 2: watching thee to keep THEE in all thy ways. And
Speaker 2: the main consensus that I get out of your book
Speaker 2: is that you're blessed not only by the Lord, but
Speaker 2: also by the spirit of the Leprechaun. And being a
Speaker 2: man who's proud of his Irish heritage and obviously everybody
Speaker 2: you don't have to be Irish to appreciate this particular episode.
Speaker 2: But what I learned from you, Michael, is this is
Speaker 2: my summation from my side of the equation that we
Speaker 2: grow up, we obviously have difficulties in our life, and
Speaker 2: how we handle those shapes our character in the future.
Speaker 2: And never give up. And as if you're knocked down
Speaker 2: in something or emotionally or physically, you get back up
Speaker 2: and you follow the path that you believe is right
Speaker 2: and righteous. And in your coarticular case, this book Two
Speaker 2: Tales of the Golden Leprecaun explains your opinions.
Speaker 1: And I certainly.
Speaker 2: Appreciate Michael you being with us today. His website, once
Speaker 2: Again Ladies and Gentlemen, is coming Times dot org. The
Speaker 2: book Two Tales of the Golden Leprecaun with a subtitle
Speaker 2: you won't believe this, but Michael, stay on the line
Speaker 2: as we go to the heartbreak at the bottom of
Speaker 2: the hour. And that concludes this exciting addition. As always,
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