I made the original radio show programme version of this show for my series The Joe Jackson Tapes Revisited. It was meant to be broadcast by RTE Radio 1, in Ireland, at Christmas 2018. However, they pulled the show. Now it is a podcast in my series, The Joe Jackson Interviews. Mike was my mentor in broadcasting, we worked together for ten years, I regard him to be a friend and so I felt free to ask the man the kind of questions that other interviewers might shy away from. And Mike had no problem with that. Here he discusses, in a frank and fearless fashion, subjects such as Eamon Dunphy, RTE, The Irish Times,  and more personal matters such as his childhood, and marriage break-up. It really is Mike as you never heard him before and you won't until I upload the second interview we did, as a companion piece to this, thirteen years later in 2013.