Käärijä Urheilucast interview - Part 2 (ENG SUBS)

The interview was published before UMK competition on 30th of January. This is the second part where Käärijä talks mainly about his mental and health problems.
Urheilucast is a sports podcast, in which Käärijä has been somewhat a part of for many years. He has for example made the theme song for the podcast.
First part: • Käärijä Urheilucast in...
Third part: • Käärijä Urheilucast in...
Original interview in whole and in Finnish can be found on Spotify. I have edited some small parts out.
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[@arianaj977]

I never would've expected a sports podcast to be the place where I hear two men being vulnerable with each other about hard times in their lives and having a real conversation about mental health and self-actualization. This is such a fantastic interview. I love this guy more and more the more I hear from him. Thank you so much helping us international fans hear what he has to say in his mother tongue. 💚💛

[@kaarijasupporters]

You're very welcome! I really love this interview as well. That's why I wanted to share it to as many people as possible. Luckily Esko is the nicest guy and gave me permission to upload this. 💚

[@coco5241]

He is so honest, open and totally wellspoken. I love him to death.

[@anssia3123]

He's so brave talking about these things so openly 💚

[@eels3658]

How amazing that he went from near death to the positivity geyser that he is. 😁💚

[@Mezzy..]

Thank the doctors and the universe that he's still with us, he wouldn't have brought me the happiness I have today if he didn't decide to work hard and dedicate his life to his music after his condition. ❤ It's really a great story. And I want to thank him for spreading awareness about stoma bags and normalising them

[@notnorah.]

He’s so brave just talking about these type of things so openly💚.

[@finnsuomi1719]

Aivan huipputyyppi monella tapaa. Puhuu todella rehellisesti ja osaa analysoida asioita monelta kantilta. Lahjakas, positiivinen, mieletön huumorintaju. Se että Jere on tuo kaikkien rakastama mies johtuu rohkeudesta ja että hän on joutunut käymään todella rankkoja asioita elämässään läpi. Se kaikki näkyy ja kuuluu elämänasenteesta ja siitä upeasta musiikista mitä Jere tekee. 10 pistettä ja papukaijan merkki! Olen niiiiiiiiiin ylpeä meidän Käärijästä! 🎉🎉🎉

[@paiviflygar1842]

Voi huh, kuunnelkaa ! Tässä puhuu Jere, ei Käärijä, avoimesti ja miten huikeen rehellisesti. Pojalla on vahva elämänreppu, mistä ammentaa, kun myrsky nousee💪💪 kiitos kodin, lapsuuden ( varmaankin). Miten huikeen hieno roolimalli muille nuorille…. Tai ihan kaikille ❤️. On ihmisiä, joille tää antaa paljon voimaa ja toivoa. Karismaattinen lavaesiintyjä, herkkä, mutta vahva persoona, joka hurmaa ja hyppää ihmisten sydämiin ympäri koko maailman 🇫🇮🇫🇮❤️ Toivon, ettei pyöritys vie nyt liikaa voimia. ” nyt kun rauta on kuumaa on taottava”. Kuuluisa seinä voi jysähtää vastaan… helppo sanoa, kun ei ole itse kaiken tuon keskiössä. Mutta näin loppuyhteenvetona voisin sanoa kaikille epätoivossa juuri nyt oleville; ikinä ei tiedä mitä nurkan takana odottaa. Kaikki voi kääntyä yllättävän nopeesti, älkää luovuttako !! Vaikka ymmärrän, että helpompi vastoinkäymisiä ois kestää, jos tietäs etukäteen, että kaikki järjestyy vielä.. Käärijä, Jere : huikeesti tsemppiä ja iloa tulevaan 🇫🇮❤️ maailma fanittaa täysillä sitä, mitä vain sinä olet pystynyt luomaan ❤️. Tää sun juttu jää mieliin ja historiaan. Ainutlaatusta, upeeta , mahtavaa 💃🏿💃🏿🕺💃🏿💃🏿😎

[@kaarijasupporters]

Tää on jotenkin niin koskettava ja ajatuksia herättävä haastattelu. Ihan sydän pakahtuu. Olen niin onnellinen, kun sain tämän luvan kanssa ladata tänne ja jakaa ihmisille, jotka tätä eivät ole vielä kuulleet. ❤

[@Piia2023]

Kiitos tästä haastattelusta, on kyllä uskomaton kaveri tää, upea esikuva monelle tänäpäivänä. Melkein itku tuli kun tätä kuunteli ❤❤

[@kaarijasupporters]

Joo, kyllä tuossa monessa kohtaa herkistyy. ❤️

[@al.m765]

kiitos paljon 💕💕 this is a fantastic interview translation!! i love how open and honest he is in interviews

[@kaarijasupporters]

You're very welcome! This interview is so special it needed to be translated. ❤

[@nian60]

Thanks for the translation. 🙂 Great that he has such a good support network. 😊 Aww, and he was so sick. 😞 We are so fortunate that he is still with us. 🥰 Wishing Käärijä good luck tonight or tomorrow when he performs at the Madrid pre-party. 🔥🔥🔥 (I don't know which one of the days he will be on).

[@kaarijasupporters]

You’re welcome! ❤ There was a video of Käärijä on Instagram from the Frankfurt airport about 5 hours ago so the show might be tonight. So excited! ❤

[@nian60]

@@kaarijasupporters OK, thanks for the info. Me too, I hope it's tonight then. 😃 Very excited. 😊

[@vanelope7133]

Its tomorrow, today are interviews, he looks very happy and he is so handsome and funny 😍

[@kaarijasupporters]

@@vanelope7133 Oh I wish I was there! ❤😍

[@kaarijasupporters]

@Vane Lope Any idea what time Käärijä will perform?

[@hillesuumann3650]

Thank you so much for translating this and for all the stuff you upload, the live from Tampere especially. I discovered a great artist and a great human being. Käärijä helps me to live these recent months, since UMK. Thank you and all the blessings to Käärijä!

[@kaarijasupporters]

You’re very welcome! 💚 It gives me great pleasure and joy to share the love and the videos.

[@merjaknaapi4944]

❤LOVE THIS❤

[@sielukettu]

💚❤️

[@Paivipkk]

💖

[@cookies6455]

Wait... he doesn't have a stoma now? So they reversed the surgery? Glad he got better! ❤

[@kaarijasupporters]

No, he doesn’t have a stoma anymore. They managed to do a J-pouch surgery, so they made an internal pouch (to somewhat work as a large intestine) out of his small intestine.

[@As3elvv]

15:15 :((( i feel so bad for him

[@FRZNGBRGR]

3:42-4:54 no onneksi ei alkanut jatkaa samaa

[@anibelilska3818]

❤💚❤💚❤💚

[@aleksandrag-ska]

A woman left him? GIRL WHAT 😳

[@kaarijasupporters]

Well we never know what's going on in a private relationship. 🤷‍♀

[@aleksandrag-ska]

@@kaarijasupporters that’s true, we don’t! People can separate for many reasons. I don’t know why they did, nor I wanted to be nosy about it. I didn’t mean to shame anyone. My comment was supposed to be a joke and I hope it doesn’t hurt anyone 💚 thanks for uploading those interviews, really meaningful message!

[@kaarijasupporters]

@@aleksandrag-ska Yes, I understand completely! ❤Käärijä himself told more about the break-up in another interview. If I remember correctly (in a nutshell) she wanted to have kids and Käärijä wanted to concentrate on his music career. Of course things are more complicated than that, always.

[@aleksandrag-ska]

@@kaarijasupporters thank you, I did not know about that other interview. Now I am personally sort of glad that he did focus on the music and gave us Cha cha cha! Ok jokes aside, I just wish him all the best and that he can always make the choices he wants. Seems like he went through a lot of hardships, but still remains such a positive person and now also a true icon in Eurovision. I'm trying to learn Finnish language for years now and nothing improved my listening and spoken Finnish like this song! I love that he sings in Finnish, after Lordi or Rasmus and others, this is new level of Finland's representation worldwide!

[@viivi005]

@@kaarijasupportersdo you happen to remember which interview that was?

[@sagal8620]

Undra vad din exgirlfriend tänker nu ?!❤