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Speaker 1: I Almost Famous in depth. It's been so long since

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Speaker 1: What is my life? Um, Mike Johnson, welcome to the

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Speaker 1: got Mike Johnson in Depth podcast. Ashley and Mike have

439
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,959
Speaker 1: led into a really an incredible conversation about who I mean,

440
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:24,600
Speaker 1: I think at the essence, who we are as humans

441
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,119
Speaker 1: and how we gain support and how we feel accepted

442
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 1: and how we relate. Mike, I want to and I

443
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 1: know you have more to say, and I want to

444
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,200
Speaker 1: give you just sometimes just to speak without any any

445
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 1: interruptions here. This year, we've seen some huge changes in

446
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:40,080
Speaker 1: Batch nation. We've seen sex openly talked about. Uh. We've

447
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 1: seen Demmi uh come out in a in a same

448
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 1: sex relationship. And we've seen you more than ever really

449
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: pushed to be the Batchel and have a legitimate reason

450
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,560
Speaker 1: to be the bachelor. He's his eyes are going, I mean,

451
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 1: this is something you talked about as well. I don't

452
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 1: I don't think I ever tried to be a bachelor. No, No,

453
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like you should. Like you were right there,

454
00:23:58,080 --> 00:23:59,679
Speaker 1: like you're pushing to be the Bachelor. You're in the

455
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 1: convert station the whole time. Mike, you said something that

456
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 1: is incredibly brilliant to me, something I've never even thought of.

457
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 1: You said this this If you were the Bachelor this

458
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 1: next season, ratings may have dropped for that season you

459
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 1: think they might have, but the next season it would

460
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 1: have been even greater because of who they would have gained.

461
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:18,639
Speaker 1: How do we get an audience or how do we

462
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: just get people in general to rally around new ideas

463
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,119
Speaker 1: and evolve in the way that Batchel Nation needs to

464
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,440
Speaker 1: evolve or just wants to evolve. But there's things restricting it.

465
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: I think that the people that are in the hands

466
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Speaker 1: that you need to be representative of the people that

467
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 1: you're trying to ascertain. It's just like the Oscars. They

468
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,640
Speaker 1: the people that were writing movies were all like, oh,

469
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 1: white guys, and they're going to gravitate towards West Nashville

470
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Speaker 1: to them. Right, if you have a diverse group of

471
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Speaker 1: people that choose who the next lead should be, I

472
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 1: think you would get more of a diverse outcome. I

473
00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 1: think you said something and I don't want to go

474
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Speaker 1: back that. It's just it's a powerful, powerful idea that

475
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,639
Speaker 1: you would blaze that trail, that the show would have

476
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 1: to sacrifice this season of ratings for. It's just my hypothesis, right,

477
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,639
Speaker 1: I don't think you're wrong. Like, this's the crazy part. Well,

478
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 1: we've seen in the Bachelrette. What's happened since Rachel. Ratings

479
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 1: have never been better. What's happened in the Bachelor since then,

480
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,959
Speaker 1: ratings have never been better. Here's the deal. You told me.

481
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,439
Speaker 1: You just said something before the break. You said if

482
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:25,920
Speaker 1: I went to Atlanta, nobody would know me. I was

483
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,199
Speaker 1: in Atlanta last week. Here's the crazy part and what

484
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,880
Speaker 1: I love about the show. If I'm in Atlanta, which

485
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 1: I was last week, people do know. Not everybody. Well,

486
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:38,640
Speaker 1: that might be different, but I was at the Marriott

487
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:44,360
Speaker 1: Downtown and people didn't know. And I don't think that happens.

488
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: Ten years ago. I will say that m no one

489
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 1: and my family knew what this show was prior to

490
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,160
Speaker 1: me being on the show. I have friends of every race.

491
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: They knew that what the show was. Um, we have

492
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: to have representation. It's just that simple. I mean, Rachel

493
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: was a huge push in that. I think I'll be

494
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 1: I would have been a great push in that as well.

495
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: But in order to be representative of America, we have

496
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: to have a huge push. When I had conversations with

497
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 1: Um the Hands that Be in regards to being the Bachelor,

498
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,439
Speaker 1: I spoke on Eminem, right. I was like, Eminem was

499
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 1: the you know, he wasn't the first white rapper, but

500
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: he was like the biggest white rapper, right, And guess

501
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 1: what that did for hip hop? He made it even bigger.

502
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,479
Speaker 1: You know what is Serena Williams do for tennis? And

503
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: it made it even bigger? Right, what a tiger would

504
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 1: do for golf. These are things I spoke about when

505
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 1: I was in that meeting. Um, it made I never

506
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,400
Speaker 1: thought this way. No, No, you're blowing my mind. I've

507
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: never thought in the way that you're explaining things. And

508
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 1: it's and it's not your fault. I mean, it's just

509
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: we gravitate to what we know, right, Um, I remember

510
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:56,959
Speaker 1: I was watching this one podcast. I wish I can

511
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 1: call him out because he did such a wonderful job.

512
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 1: He said, in order for us to intermingle, we have

513
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,639
Speaker 1: to make sure white people are not scared of us.

514
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: And so that's why it was so big of me

515
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,239
Speaker 1: just to beat me. I'm wearing my dow ragna. I'm

516
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: gonna say homie instead of friend. I'm gonna use my colloquialism.

517
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be me when on what you've been, when

518
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: on what you actually as when. I want my homies

519
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: back home, right. I want you to know me for

520
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: me instead of me trying to act how I perceive

521
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 1: you to act right. And I feel like when that happens,

522
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 1: we feel like we can bond better. And I think

523
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,919
Speaker 1: that's a big thing as well. I feel like today

524
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,640
Speaker 1: we are going to get to know you better. That's

525
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 1: the whole point of the in depth podcast. I want

526
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,879
Speaker 1: to start, like back from where you're from. I know

527
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,199
Speaker 1: you talked a lot about what'd you call it on

528
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: the Bachelorette. It was your mom, your grandma, your sister.

529
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 1: Would you call them your queen's So? Yeah, that's cute,

530
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: that's cute. Tell us a little bit about your childhood. Um,

531
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: did you grow up in Santancan Antonio? No, I just

532
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: I've been living there since right out there. Left the military,

533
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: I moved to San Antonio. I didn't want to move

534
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:08,200
Speaker 1: back to Dallas. I'm from Grand Prairie, South Grand Paride specifically. UM,

535
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: I didn't want to move back there, soonly because I

536
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:12,199
Speaker 1: know the tell you, man, I want to be and

537
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 1: I feel that personally, and this is like you know,

538
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: this is a message. Um, if you graduate high school

539
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 1: and you stay in your saying neighborhood, I don't think

540
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: that you will amount to the success that you can

541
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: if you were to move out. That's just my person

542
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,439
Speaker 1: with you. And I didn't want to move back to

543
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: Grand Prairie after I left the military, and so I

544
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 1: chose San Antonio, came financial advisor, did some Boston you know,

545
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: tell us about your time in the military. Um, I

546
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: was cybersecurity, which is just a nerd job. Um, I

547
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: prevented hacker from hacking into our network. I was stationed

548
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,959
Speaker 1: over in Portugal, and I would stationed over in England

549
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: where I met my ex prior to being on TV delay.

550
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: That broke my heart, you know, all that stuff, and

551
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 1: we move, man, and it broke my heart bad. Y'all.

552
00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 1: People said I didn't cry a matter of fact, wells

553
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 1: sit out and cry, and so therefore that's so ignorant.

554
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: And therefore I wasn't the Bachelor because I didn't show

555
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: emotion like that. From where I'm from, we don't. It's not.

556
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: I have shown emotion, but it's not. It's not it's

557
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 1: gonna say more than two months for me to show

558
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: that emotion. So you're a slow grower when it comes

559
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 1: to fall in love. I told hint of that, definitely,

560
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: and I think that it's perfectly fine that not everyone

561
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: is the exact same when it comes to how they

562
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: feel emotionally. So do you think the process would have

563
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: been okay for you having to in two months if

564
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: you were a bachelor? I think Jojo and Jordan's he

565
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: just reproposed, right, Yeah, Yeah, that's how things work. I mean,

566
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: you find your person. If if you're able to find

567
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: your person, then you can leave the show together. Colton

568
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 1: and Cassie aren't married, So you think you would have proposed.

569
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: I know I'm getting back into that, but you don't

570
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: know that. Do you think that you would have proposed

571
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: if you're the bachelor? If I were to be the Bechel? Yeah,

572
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: I'm I mean, I'm thirty two years old almost, I legit.

573
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: I love love. I really I really want my thunderbuddy.

574
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: I really want you know, the sexiest thing. The coolest

575
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: thing to me is like on a Friday Saturday night

576
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: when I got my like tibit. I love sleeping naked.

577
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: I love being naked in my house. Dean happened to

578
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: the friend here, Dean, he doesn't believe in underwear. Neither

579
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: do I. I'm with it, so I just rather be

580
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: naked all day. But that's another story, another podcast. But

581
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 1: the coolest and the sexiest thing to me is like

582
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: on a Friday Saturday night, you know, being with your

583
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: mate and like my girl head on my chest, playing

584
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: a little chest hairs. I love stuff like that. That's

585
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: like legit. I want that. Mike, you you're a man

586
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: who obviously feels like I can tell right now if

587
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: you could. You are what we want in depth podcast,

588
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: the man to sit down and talk about some real stuff,

589
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: dig deep with us and share your heart and your emotions. So,

590
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: what has been the biggest disap wint Mint in the

591
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: last five months of this process for you? Because really

592
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: you've seen your season air in Paradise air all within

593
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: the last sit five to six months. How how has

594
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: it changed you in a good way? And then also

595
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: how is it how is it kind of pool? I

596
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: think it always changes. Just let me let me put

597
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: this in the context. I think it always changes this

598
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: in a in a good way if we're willing to

599
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: let it. But I also think it really hurts at times,

600
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: and there's also some massive disappointments, and it's not always

601
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: the most healthy, but it's still changes us because we

602
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: learn more about ourselves. What has this last six months

603
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: been like for you as a human. Well, I'm not

604
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: a tennion unemployee no more. Yeah, that's happening. I'm definitely

605
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: on my phone more often. Um, you know, I had

606
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: to lead hi my I g for a long time.

607
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: Definitely got that back. Um. I think I'll say the

608
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: one cool thing, the positive thing, which is wells your

609
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: fiance actually said this and I thought it was really awesome.

610
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: She said, going on this show, it's like a relationship

611
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: boot camp. It's something of that nature. And I think

612
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: it's true. Like I am and have been a very

613
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: slow two open up because when I opened up, I'm like,

614
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: I'm really attached. I mean I've had one I brought

615
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 1: one woman home in a decade. And it's not because

616
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: I can't, No, you can find a girl because of that.

617
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: It's just because I'm I'm really I care right, and

618
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: if I open my heart to you, I take that

619
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,959
Speaker 1: stuff incredibly serious. And so I think the positive thing

620
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: is that I'm able to open up quicker, a whole

621
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 1: lot quicker, like on the first day of my baby.

622
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: That's what it is. If you ain't with it, you

623
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: know bye. And I'm gonna listen to you as well.

624
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm sorry, I'm like staring at you and

625
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: not you as well. And she doesn't better than you.

626
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, I know, I know.

627
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: You gotta man um. But I think that's the biggest

628
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: thing is that what well well is your fiance said

629
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: going on this process definitely is a boot camp for relationships,

630
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: and I'm so much quicker to open up and be vulnerable. Um,

631
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: I'm not wanting to cry. That's just doesn't have me.

632
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: My ex um, the only love, the only woman I've

633
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: ever said, I love you too. I didn't cry when

634
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: we broke up. I cried two and a half years

635
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: later when she said, I'm sorry, can we talk about

636
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Speaker 1: her for a little bit? You were together for how long?

637
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: Just like almost three years and then you guys, you

638
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Speaker 1: lost a baby together. What she talked about let's break

639
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Speaker 1: it down. Yeah, let's talk about it. Okay, here's what happened.

640
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Speaker 1: I think I want to I want to give you

641
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Speaker 1: the freedom do this. But our listeners, it's actually what

642
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Speaker 1: I want to, um to put it out there. Emails

643
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Speaker 1: have been Actually I heard in dot com if you

644
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: hear my story, you relate with my story, you want

645
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Speaker 1: you want to follow up whatever? When when we do

646
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: these in depths, it's actually kind of crazy. We had

647
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Speaker 1: chumped booth On after his break up with Kalin, and uh,

648
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: it was it was hard, like it was like brutal.

649
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: He was emotional to the whole thing. But and I

650
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: think you'll appreciate this. What the follow up from that

651
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: was incredible, Like the listeners going, I relate, I can

652
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Speaker 1: feel I'm not alone, And that's what these are really

653
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Speaker 1: meant to do, Like they're not meant for anything else. Um, Mike,

654
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: before we start talking here, I want you to give

655
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Speaker 1: you a second for a break, and let's take a

656
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Speaker 1: break ourselves. Um. It will come back with Mike Johnson

657
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: talking about some some real stuff. You've all heard me

658
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Speaker 1: talk about it before. You know that I've slept on

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664
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Speaker 1: It's actually been my only adult bed well because I

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Speaker 1: We're back with Mike Johnson. Mike, before I kind of

694
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Speaker 1: rudely interrupted you, but needed to UM just for the

695
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: sake of the podcast. You're gonna share some stuff that

696
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,919
Speaker 1: I think our listeners UM will relate with and want

697
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: to hear. UM. I want to give you the freedom,

698
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: just do it. You're you're on your way. The question

699
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: that actually asked was, Hey, you had a pass face

700
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: of the middle lot to you. UM. During that UH,

701
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: there was a child that was lost and you talked

702
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 1: about on The Bachelor at and you're gonna talk about

703
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: it now. Well, I thank you, uh some my X

704
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: and I met over. I just came from a deployment

705
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:23,879
Speaker 1: and I was stationed at r F leg heath Over

706
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 1: in England. And it was the day at the fourth

707
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: of July two thousand and thirteen, and I I had UM.

708
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: I went out that night to the club and I

709
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,839
Speaker 1: spoke to this lady and at like thirty minutes talking

710
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: to her, and she said, hey, you speak to my daughter.

711
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: But come to find out, I had already gotten her

712
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: daughter's phone number. Um. And so I fellas get the

713
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 1: moms approval first, got you and U uh. The young

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00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: lady and I we scheduled a date and I no call,

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Speaker 1: no showed on the date. Not good, not good at

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00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: her at all. Um. And it's funny because I remember writing, Uh,

717
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: I wrote a letter to God, per se and I said,

718
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,320
Speaker 1: I want the hard road up. I wrote a poem,

719
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 1: that's what it was. And it was to no one

720
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:19,279
Speaker 1: but God. Because I was twenty five and I had

721
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 1: been acting as if I was a rock star, you know,

722
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: from like a young child to about twenty five years old.

723
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm just done with that. I

724
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:32,799
Speaker 1: want the sweet things in life. White, you know, put

725
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: your head on my chest and let's just chill out.

726
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 1: You know, you burped my face and eat ice cream

727
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: and let's you know, I like it. You seven tones?

728
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: What's up? Um? And so after I know called her

729
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: no shoulder on the date, you know, we started talking

730
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: or whatever. And then I was supposed to go. I

731
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: was supposed to leave the military and go back to America.

732
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:58,760
Speaker 1: And she's very, very prideful, and she is extremely independent.

733
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: And I remember putting like the money in it for

734
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: a ticket inside of her shoe, and she says she

735
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: wanted to go to America with me. I didn't ask

736
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: her to because that's like a huge to say, hey Ben,

737
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: leave your life and come live with me in Texas, right,

738
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: And so she came with me. We had two separate

739
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 1: departments just because we had only known each other for

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00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:20,760
Speaker 1: three months, and she moved to America with me, and

741
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:24,359
Speaker 1: I wanted to like marry this woman, so I felt

742
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: that we didn't need to be living together even thought

743
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: want to marry her, but I wanted to like do

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00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: with what I felt was the right way. And so

745
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 1: then like there's something called tech school. I'm not als

746
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,479
Speaker 1: every leadership school. I went to that and we moved

747
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: in together and everything is beautiful, blissful. I got a

748
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: damn cat. I don't even like cats. Sacrificing Sumo Sumo

749
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,919
Speaker 1: Cinnamon Toast. Did you end up loving the cat? Oh?

750
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 1: He the cat, Sumo, that's his name. He loves me

751
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: more than her like de serious. I wish you can

752
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: call him right now. She'll tell the truth. His name

753
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,280
Speaker 1: is Sumo Cinnamon Toast. He has Mr. Toast is his surname.

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00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 1: And yes, I love Sumo, and we had um we

755
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,800
Speaker 1: became pregnant, and on the show, I told the truth.

756
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 1: I told Hannah that I wasn't there for the miscarriage,

757
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: but people kind of went off on me. But I

758
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 1: didn't have I didn't get to elaborate because quite honestly,

759
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: that's between me my ex. But I'll say, so my

760
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: ex and I had a miscarriage, and and I ain't

761
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 1: gonna do it. So my ex and I had a miscarriage.

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00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: And I really try to keep my pinky promises. So actually,

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00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: if I keep it pinky promise with you, I'm gonna

764
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: keep it, and I'll keep you pinky pinky promise with you,

765
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 1: I'll keep it. The only pinky problems I've never kept

766
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: my entire thirty one years of life is to my

767
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: exes mom when she said can I get her some

768
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: jalapeno poppers from the store. I didn't pick him up.

769
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: And I still remember that like to this day. Like

770
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:03,760
Speaker 1: I was like eight years ago almost and my best

771
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,800
Speaker 1: friend who lives in England, he was coming to Houston

772
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 1: and we lived in San Antonio at the time, and

773
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: I asked my ex fellas message right here about to

774
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: give it to you. I asked my ex baby, can

775
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: I go to Houston for a day and she said yes, Fellas.

776
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: When your ladies say yes, she means no, guy. And

777
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 1: I didn't know that lesson at the time, and so

778
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: I left. I literally was gone for maybe maybe thirty hours.

779
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 1: He came back and I wasn't there for That's what

780
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 1: I mean by that. The show made it seemed like

781
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: you weren't there for her, like emotionally. No, She'll tell

782
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 1: you I was there for emotionally and that you just

783
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: said like I wasn't there currently physically in that moment, Yeah,

784
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: we lost our we lost our child. I was there

785
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 1: for when we lost our child, but like through the

786
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 1: grieving process, which is it. It's a very serious thing.

787
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: And I literally was gone left on a Saturday, came

788
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: back on a Sunday. What Yeah, Mike, I know we're

789
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 1: gonna have listeners that relate with this, like this is

790
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: a hunt from a from a supporter's perspective, like your perspective,

791
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,760
Speaker 1: and then also from a woman carrying the child. What

792
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: was the grieving process? Like, if you if you don't

793
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 1: mind trying to explain it so that people out there

794
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: listening to go, yeah, they're there with me. Um, So

795
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: I'm like kind of shaking. I think that, for one,

796
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: the grieving process is different for everyone. It doesn't matter

797
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: your gender. I think it's different for everyone. Um. From

798
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: my ex I feel that everyone knows I want children,

799
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: Like my ultimately go in life is to build my

800
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: future children at treehouse. Um, more than money, more than

801
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 1: it is anything. That's what I want to do. That's

802
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 1: that's for damn sure gonna happen. And she knew that

803
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: and she didn't want to have children, but then we

804
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: got together. She said, I'll be a great father, and

805
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: so she wanted to have kids. And I think that

806
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: The biggest thing was her not she didn't feel like

807
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 1: she was a woman, you know, because she I'm like shaking.

808
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: The biggest thing was she didn't feel like she was

809
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: good enough for me because she felt as if she

810
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: couldn't have children. And I want to tell her and

811
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 1: everyone else out there that your man loves you, like

812
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 1: if you have a miscarriage, I love you, like it's

813
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:34,839
Speaker 1: it's okay, right, just communicate. And my ex really didn't

814
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: communicate that to me at all. But also I was

815
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: an ignorant guy. Guys, we are stupid, sorry then and uh,

816
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 1: at the time, I wasn't experiencing relationships, and so I

817
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: didn't truly know how to communicate with her either. I

818
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 1: literally became a perfect gentleman like and it's annoying. When

819
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 1: you become a perfect gentleman like, it really is annoying.

820
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 1: And that's what I did. And because I didn't know

821
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:58,919
Speaker 1: what else to do. I mean, I'm asking my mom,

822
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 1: her mom, my grandma, my sister, you know, um, what

823
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 1: to do um. And it just didn't work. But what

824
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 1: she told me two and a half years later, and

825
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: that's when I cried. I broke up with her after

826
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 1: like maybe eleven months after, eleve months after Yeah, let's

827
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: before you get there. I just want to say, what

828
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,919
Speaker 1: did it? What was the relation like between the time

829
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 1: that the miscarriage happened in the end, was that was

830
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 1: that a fact of that affected things? So I think,

831
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:31,359
Speaker 1: first of all, communications the beast thing. I don't let's

832
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:36,919
Speaker 1: let's disagree. That's okay, right, let me. I remember telling

833
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 1: my ex, um, I said, let's do it feel me. So,

834
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: my ex and I've spoken since the show. Eric. She

835
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 1: watched the show and it was a very hard time.

836
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,919
Speaker 1: When that episode aired, I called her, um tone knows

837
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: this except for the homie, so y'all know this, um So.

838
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 1: I definitely called it and reached out to her, and

839
00:44:54,960 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 1: it was a sad moment for us. And basically what

840
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: she told me was she didn't know how to She

841
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 1: didn't she know how to talk to me because she

842
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,479
Speaker 1: felt like she had failed almost And I just looked

843
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 1: at her and was like, everything that you go through,

844
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: I just wanted to be there with you. I don't

845
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: care if you went through the toughest in the world.

846
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: I want to be right there with you. And I

847
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 1: think so many people need to know that. In a relationship.

848
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: When someone loves you, I don't care what it is.

849
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 1: I don't care if you I remember joking about this

850
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 1: to my friends that like when I fall in love,

851
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,399
Speaker 1: if you cheated on me, I'm still donna love you.

852
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: I don't fall in love easily, so I'm still gonna

853
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: love you. Now your has been not cheating on me,

854
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: but like, I'm still in love you. And so I

855
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 1: think that was a big learning lesson for us. For

856
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: me because I need to know how to make a

857
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 1: good environment for you to feel that comfortable, right, And

858
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 1: I think for her it needed to be that she

859
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:57,479
Speaker 1: can be open and communicated with me and know that

860
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna love her even more because we went through

861
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 1: a traumatic experience together in comparison to going through a

862
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: traumatic experience separately, but the exact same experience. And so

863
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,360
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of what happened. We live in We

864
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 1: stayed in two separate rooms for a while. Like I said,

865
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 1: I'll sleep naked. That's like the only rule in my house.

866
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:25,359
Speaker 1: You feel me and no sleep naked, And so we will.

867
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 1: We will be sleeping naked in bed, but like we

868
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 1: want to, I'm gonna cuddle. I'm like I like to cuddle.

869
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:32,959
Speaker 1: You know, we wouldn't hold each other. That sounds so corny,

870
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 1: but it's true. We wouldn't hold each other, and we

871
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 1: want to have sex. Um. And it wasn't because of religion.

872
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 1: It wasn't because of we're upstaining from sex. I think

873
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 1: she just felt as if it could happen again, that

874
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: she could become pregnant again, even though she was on

875
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: birth control. And it was just a lot of mental

876
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: things going on. And I've learned so much and I

877
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 1: love her so much for helping me to grow in

878
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: that area. And m I actually took classes, like since

879
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 1: I've been single, like I legit want to be a

880
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 1: phenomenal husband, and I've taken classes on how to communicate

881
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 1: because communication is different than effective communication. Right. Um, I

882
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: can say, Ben, I think you're tall. That's a terrible example.

883
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go further, um, but just communication different

884
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: than effective communication. And while I was on the bachelorte,

885
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: I wasn't there for her going back to that for

886
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 1: like thirty hours max. During that grieving period and uh,

887
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: like shaking, this don't happen to me, feel me, um,

888
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's what happened. I broke up with her

889
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 1: because communication was nolan void and there will be months

890
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:48,880
Speaker 1: where we didn't have sex. And I don't cheat. I

891
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 1: refused cheat, and I desired communication and I desired sex

892
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 1: quite honestly, So you came back, um man, thanks for

893
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: sharing that. By the way, thank you just for us here,

894
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 1: but for the people listening. You've just totally opened your heart.

895
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 1: Ben Are you crying? Yeah, I know, it's just like

896
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 1: so emotional. So the thing is, then you get off

897
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: the show, you call her. You guys talked this through

898
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: and you said you cried once in your life when

899
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 1: she said she was sorry. What lever that? Now? So

900
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 1: I've cried three times? Right, You've cried three times in

901
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: your whole life this morning, you know, outside of getting

902
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: whoopings with my grandma's. So like, as an adult, you've

903
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:40,320
Speaker 1: cried three times altogether. I'll cried once when Selena died, Selena.

904
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 1: When Selena died, it's four or something. I cried. I

905
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 1: cried on Selena, and then I cried the other two

906
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 1: times with my ex. The first time was when I

907
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: cried tears of joy, Like I don't know if y'all

908
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:56,960
Speaker 1: felt that tears of happiness happened. I was with my

909
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 1: homeboy in England and he was making us like some

910
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,399
Speaker 1: sun days, right, and it was me and my ex

911
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,840
Speaker 1: and she was sitting on my lap. Um, and I

912
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 1: just broke down just because I was happy. I just

913
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: felt love. I had my best homie with me, my brother,

914
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: and I had my the woman I wanted to marry,

915
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 1: and there was nothing else more one in life. And

916
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 1: so I cried. And then the second time I cried

917
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: was when of two and a half years after we

918
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 1: broke up. Um, you know how you try to rekindle

919
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: things like I was going to ask, right, So we've

920
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: been broken up like five years now or whatever, almost

921
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,720
Speaker 1: like two and a half years after she would seeming

922
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 1: like one text like four months straight. Oh man, she triffic.

923
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,879
Speaker 1: So I go to visit her. I want to visit

924
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: her like five times. Um. The first time I want

925
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: to go visit her, we watched a girls trip. She's

926
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,839
Speaker 1: still living in the States. Yeah, she lives in Arizona. Now.

927
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 1: In my first off, my grandma, my queen, she pissed

928
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 1: me off. It's good for people. My grandma had my

929
00:49:56,840 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: exes back, my ex tell my grandma my exlide in

930
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: my face, I said. She said she talked about doing

931
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:07,240
Speaker 1: a job interview, and I said, oh, um, like awesome.

932
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: She's like, I gotta fly to Arizona and like I

933
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: watered up, and I'm like, you're moving to Arizona and

934
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: she's like, no, just the job interviews in Arizona. I

935
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 1: knew she was lying, but you know, when you love someone,

936
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: you just like you become stupid, right, And my grandma

937
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: she told my grandma, and my grandma kept that secret

938
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 1: from me. So whoever, my future wife is just no,

939
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 1: you can trust my grandma for sure. And um, what

940
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:35,839
Speaker 1: was she played there? Is? What? What? What was the count?

941
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 1: Took a job? She took a job? Yeah, because like

942
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 1: you know, when you break up with somebody, let's say

943
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: you meet you and I are together being in uh,

944
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:44,240
Speaker 1: you know, I'll be the sexy one of our relationship.

945
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: You know, we break check yourself. If we met in

946
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 1: Vegas and like broke him in Vegas, you know, it

947
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 1: maybe hard for whatever, so you might leave that city

948
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 1: or whatever. So she decided, you know, I feel it.

949
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:00,240
Speaker 1: I agree with her, and so she moved to Arizona.

950
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 1: But when I was in Arizona, we had watched girls trip.

951
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 1: We had a fantastic evening and we're literally on a

952
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,319
Speaker 1: ride home. I never forget this. We were driving her

953
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:14,880
Speaker 1: Mini Cooper, which people to have Mini Coopers. I love,

954
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 1: y'all because it's like a it's like a cult, like

955
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 1: Mini Cooper Colt and they go fast to it's the

956
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 1: nerd cult. Hey, it's a dope quote, but disagree anyway.

957
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 1: I don't have a Mini Cooper, but we were. We

958
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: were just driving. It was perfectly quiet, and then all

959
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: of a sudden, she just said, I'm sorry, and I

960
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:39,279
Speaker 1: could cry now, like tears, just I've never cried so

961
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: profusely my entire life. And we pulled over on the

962
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 1: side of the road and I don't know how long

963
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: we embraced, but the police came first off, talking about racism. Right,

964
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:52,439
Speaker 1: thank god I was in the passenger seat. Thank god

965
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 1: she was. She was crying too, And I mean, just

966
00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:00,360
Speaker 1: think about that context, right, two people in the car crying.

967
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 1: It's like one in the morning, two in the morning

968
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 1: or whatever. I could have been taken totally different, right,

969
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 1: But I own a passenger seat, and it please come

970
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:08,280
Speaker 1: up and they're like, is everything okay? And she's like, yeah, whatever.

971
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 1: So they left, but like it was, I cried, like

972
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 1: straight up crazy tears. I mean, never before ever felt that.

973
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 1: And I am an emotional person. But I'm sorry that.

974
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 1: I'm not sorry because I'm not gonna just fall for anybody.

975
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:28,799
Speaker 1: My love is deep. He felt what. I don't think

976
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 1: it's get sick of it, you said. I just felt that.

977
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: So I cried, But I don't know what it is

978
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: that I felt closure. Okay, I felt that. You know,

979
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:44,399
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not trying to. I don't care. I

980
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 1: was a damn good dude in that relationship, and I

981
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: was like when we broke up. When I broke up

982
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: with her, I didn't work for ten months, Like I

983
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:54,839
Speaker 1: didn't leave my house except for one day a week

984
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: two get groceries, like I grew my hair out, like

985
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:00,879
Speaker 1: my hair was long. Um, I didn't leave my house.

986
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: I got super skinny. Um. I think two people came

987
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: to visit me in that ten months frame. Literally, I

988
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 1: I was a prisoner of like this. I never said

989
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 1: this to anybody outside of Holmies. Right. Um, when we

990
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 1: broke up, I legit ten months was in my apartment

991
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:21,720
Speaker 1: and I was financially blessed, and so I just paid

992
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: my bills came out and I just my TV was

993
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 1: not on. I wake up, going the living room and

994
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 1: sit on the couch and just be, Um, you broke

995
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 1: up with her. I'm not following. Yeah, but I broke

996
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:36,879
Speaker 1: up with her. I think that she ain't gonna happy.

997
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: I said this, but I think that she wanted me

998
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:41,359
Speaker 1: to break up with her. Um. But I'm gonna take

999
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 1: the blame and just say I broke over her on

1000
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 1: my own volition. Um for the reason I spoke up earlier,

1001
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 1: which were we weren't having sex months only at a time,

1002
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:51,319
Speaker 1: and there was absolutely zero communication. And she said I

1003
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 1: was perfect, and I'm like, I'm not perfect. So she

1004
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 1: was say, you're really good. I'm like, what the hell

1005
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: is the problem? And she couldn't answer, So I kinda

1006
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: I gave her ultimatum, which is the terrible thing to do.

1007
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 1: Learn that lesson as well. And but yeah, so when

1008
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:06,879
Speaker 1: we broke up, I had I was at Malley lower

1009
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: her like, she's the only woman in a decade, bro

1010
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 1: that's met my mom, right in a decade, and you know,

1011
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: I'm about to be thirty two. Hasn't no one other know,

1012
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:18,879
Speaker 1: other woman's met my mom since I was twenty years old,

1013
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: and so for whoever you know, I'm in a relationship.

1014
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 1: Next and you mean my mom. That's when I take

1015
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:28,319
Speaker 1: that very seriously. My sister and my grandma as well,

1016
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 1: and my father too, And so yeah, I didn't. I

1017
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 1: literally was growing out my hair and my hair was nappy.

1018
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:39,360
Speaker 1: I was like grizzly faced. Um didn't work when I

1019
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:41,320
Speaker 1: went back to the when I went back to the workforce,

1020
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: I after the interview, I ran outside and threw up

1021
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:48,840
Speaker 1: because I hadn't been around people like you see my

1022
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 1: personal I don't give a damn right, but like I

1023
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 1: hadn't been around people, so I was that I was

1024
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 1: like isolated from life. I was basically a prisoner of

1025
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 1: my own depression. How concerned were the queens during this time? Um?

1026
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 1: So I text, right, I'm not I don't really, this

1027
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: is something I'm working. This is one of my goals

1028
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: in life, just to be a better at calling. Like

1029
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 1: I text my mom like a few days ago, I

1030
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:11,360
Speaker 1: was like, Mom, I'm in l A. I'm gonna go

1031
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 1: to New York time. I want to Vegas. So she

1032
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 1: knows where I'm at, Like, but my my family knows.

1033
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:19,280
Speaker 1: I'm not one to I mean, I was in the military,

1034
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:21,719
Speaker 1: I was living overseas for like five years. I'm I'm

1035
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: not want to call you every day, Unles, You're my girl.

1036
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:27,799
Speaker 1: That's just my personality. So my Queen's I would text him,

1037
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:30,439
Speaker 1: but I would probably I probably lied and said I'm good,

1038
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:34,840
Speaker 1: you know, prideful, stupid. Two things here. One is it

1039
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: amazes me every time. Here's here's another part of why

1040
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 1: In Depth started. Because when you hear somebody's stories, you

1041
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 1: can't help but love them, right. I mean, it's just

1042
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: that's that's a universal statement that I think everybody could

1043
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:51,879
Speaker 1: take the heart. Once you know somebody's stories, you can't

1044
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 1: help but love them because you know them. Um, it's

1045
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: makes sense to me more than ever. I liked you

1046
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:02,759
Speaker 1: because you were the good looking, offinite dude who was

1047
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: himself on the Bachelorette. I love you now because of

1048
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 1: the pain and shared suffering that we've had together on

1049
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 1: this podcast. The things that you said that I can

1050
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 1: relate with, the things that you said that I can't

1051
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 1: relate with yet it can. It can teach me, And

1052
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:20,960
Speaker 1: I think it makes more sense and ever why Bachelor

1053
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:25,240
Speaker 1: Nation is so drawn to you as just a human black,

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00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 1: white male female, just as a human man. You've been

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00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 1: through some stuff that's led you to this point now,

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00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 1: and the difference you're gonna make in this world is

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00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: something that I'm so pumped to follow and be watch

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00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 1: and watch. Um, Mike, I want to just thank you

1059
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 1: from the depths of my heart, like the as best

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00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:42,879
Speaker 1: I can to say thanks for sharing yourself and and

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00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 1: on behalf of the listeners out there thank you as well,

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00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 1: because I know somebody's gonna listen to this to be

1063
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:50,920
Speaker 1: like that's me. Um. I want to switch gears here

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00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:52,880
Speaker 1: if that's okay with you, and talk about your current

1065
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 1: dating life. And then Ashley always does this thing at

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00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 1: the end of every in depth podcast, which is a

1067
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:03,839
Speaker 1: rapid fire fun questions that she loved. But before we do,

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Speaker 1: I want to sit in this moment for a second, Mike,

1069
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:08,439
Speaker 1: because I don't want to just overpass it and say

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00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:12,799
Speaker 1: thank you. Yeah, man, thank you. And can I just

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Speaker 1: say that from first impression to a very deep impression,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I am now very I don't want to

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00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 1: offend Peter, but like it's upsetting that we don't get

1074
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 1: to see more of you on the show because we

1075
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 1: have just gotten to know you so well and like

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00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 1: you're so soulful and you're such a romantic and I've

1077
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: just been captivated by you today. Hey, the Bachelor is

1078
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 1: not the last last thing I know, but like now

1079
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:40,720
Speaker 1: it's like we all get it. If if this was

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00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:45,000
Speaker 1: aired and we had fans listening to this before, they decided,

1081
00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 1: like they'd be getting very angry emails, like more than

1082
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 1: they are right now. All right again, if you're listening

1083
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 1: and you just want a friend uh to hear you

1084
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: out emails have been Ashley, I heard me dot com,

1085
00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 1: hashtag almost famous podcast, um, or just hit up Mike

1086
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:04,480
Speaker 1: Johnson on some social media platform and say thank you

1087
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: because we know you're listening. Uh, I can't say something

1088
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 1: so like, um, I learned about self love and the

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00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 1: power of that because and winning a relationship. I can't

1090
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,960
Speaker 1: help you with your loving of yourself, and so I

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00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 1: learned that in previous relationships. And so for all the listeners.

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00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 1: If you're having anything in regards to body positivity or

1093
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: just loving yourself or just growing your confidence, or why

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00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 1: does Mike always smile out of goddamn time? I want

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00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 1: to do that more often. Hit me up. I got you.

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00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:35,960
Speaker 1: I'm working on something for that too. You got it, buddy. Hey,

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Speaker 1: thanks Mike. We'll be back with Mike after the break. UM,

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Speaker 1: lightening up a bit talking about current name relationships and

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Speaker 1: some wild rapid fire questions UM that I don't think

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Speaker 1: will cause controversy, but they will cause laughs. Take a break.

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Speaker 1: even though I do believe that our listeners are going

1147
01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:44,919
Speaker 1: to eat up every single word that you've said, and

1148
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 1: you know, just let it go and sink to their hearts,

1149
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:50,280
Speaker 1: I do think in the back of their minds somewhere

1150
01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:52,680
Speaker 1: they're like, I cannot believe that they have teased the

1151
01:01:52,720 --> 01:01:56,800
Speaker 1: Demilovano thing, and they've waited, We've waited this long to

1152
01:01:56,880 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 1: get the answer. But it would be so inappurpose to ask,

1153
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 1: like in the midst of all that seriousness, Um, okay,

1154
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 1: so you are pretty honest with entertainment tonight recently that

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01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:09,920
Speaker 1: you did you have gone on a date with Demi.

1156
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:13,000
Speaker 1: I think you've hung out multiple times. You got on

1157
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:16,400
Speaker 1: one day, we've gone on one day o um. And

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01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:19,959
Speaker 1: it all started with d M S right um, which

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01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:25,160
Speaker 1: is totally fine. We're so supportive of this. We've been talked. Yeah,

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01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:34,040
Speaker 1: we've talked, you know, racism, we talk we've talked, we've

1161
01:02:34,080 --> 01:02:37,600
Speaker 1: talked sex, and now we talked about bad Yeah. Maybe

1162
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:41,240
Speaker 1: well open here you said, Demi and I want a date.

1163
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 1: That woman is quite astounding and amazing, and that's all

1164
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 1: I'll say. You're getting to know each other, you say,

1165
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 1: and that you think she's incredibly humble, and when Demi

1166
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:54,560
Speaker 1: and I are together, it's laughter. And we talked real like.

1167
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:57,360
Speaker 1: She's a down to earth woman and I respected so much.

1168
01:02:57,480 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 1: And she's just really humble and really cool and really

1169
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:03,800
Speaker 1: on and really down to earth. Is there anything to

1170
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:09,920
Speaker 1: add to that list of compliments. I like her tattoos.

1171
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: We both have a lot of tattoos. Dean has more

1172
01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:22,439
Speaker 1: than me. And she kisses really well. Thanks for giving

1173
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:25,880
Speaker 1: us that has she put her head on your chest

1174
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:32,040
Speaker 1: and play with the little hairs. I'm not gonna say that,

1175
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 1: you're going I'm gonna catch it. Keep coming out up

1176
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:40,320
Speaker 1: so I mean, no matter what, like that Me's a

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01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:43,640
Speaker 1: great girl. In fact she is. I'm getting to know

1178
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:46,360
Speaker 1: her for her. How did you like the way that

1179
01:03:46,440 --> 01:03:50,000
Speaker 1: she was so um she was kind of the aggressor

1180
01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:52,640
Speaker 1: in a in a nice way on Instagram she was

1181
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:55,720
Speaker 1: all about going after you. How did you feel about

1182
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:57,680
Speaker 1: the girl making the first move like that for one

1183
01:03:57,680 --> 01:04:00,400
Speaker 1: of them? All about her too? And uh, she definitely

1184
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:04,800
Speaker 1: was the aggressor, you know. I find it incredibly sexy.

1185
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 1: I love that, like, come at me, you want me,

1186
01:04:07,920 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 1: come at me. If I want you, I'm come at you,

1187
01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:14,040
Speaker 1: and I'm coming at her as well. I really liked

1188
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:16,720
Speaker 1: this coupling. I really really do you call this? I

1189
01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 1: learned this shipping shipping. We definitely shipped this shipping. I

1190
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:23,360
Speaker 1: don't know what shipping was until like this, I'm learning

1191
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:27,200
Speaker 1: and shipping. We're shipping this thing, all right. So I'm

1192
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 1: gonna go into our rapid fire questioning from there because

1193
01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 1: I got some Demi related ones. So actually pull that

1194
01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:34,600
Speaker 1: up real quick, Mike. I want to ask you a

1195
01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:36,480
Speaker 1: question that I told you. I want to get try

1196
01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:38,080
Speaker 1: to get deep again, but I do think it's weird.

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01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:41,240
Speaker 1: So you are in the Demi Demi you. You're dating.

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Speaker 1: It's great, you're both in the public eye, you're both

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Speaker 1: beloved by America. Mike, what is the feeling to have

1200
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:51,400
Speaker 1: everybody asked about it then like it was and we're

1201
01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 1: one of those people, like I want to know about

1202
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:58,439
Speaker 1: this because of the rumors and the taboys everything going off.

1203
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:00,680
Speaker 1: What does it feel like to you? Because it's real

1204
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 1: for you? Astounding question. Um, be quite honest, I personally

1205
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:13,760
Speaker 1: don't like it. I I am very private with my relationships,

1206
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:17,000
Speaker 1: like straight up, but I mean I'm in this. She's

1207
01:05:17,080 --> 01:05:18,960
Speaker 1: been in this light and that's why I said, she's

1208
01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:21,720
Speaker 1: so humble and I think the world of her because

1209
01:05:21,720 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 1: like she's been able to have to deal with this

1210
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:29,160
Speaker 1: crap like I can't even imagine from her perspective, from

1211
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:33,600
Speaker 1: your fiancee's perspective as well. Just put crazy you're putting

1212
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:37,000
Speaker 1: out else. Um, I personally don't care to talk about

1213
01:05:37,080 --> 01:05:39,680
Speaker 1: you know what I do behind closed doors. I'm a gentleman.

1214
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:42,440
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna kiss until I might not be a

1215
01:05:42,480 --> 01:05:50,720
Speaker 1: gentleman of her always. But actually said earlier, Mike's is

1216
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:53,200
Speaker 1: sexy when and I'm not well that forms like that

1217
01:05:53,320 --> 01:06:00,160
Speaker 1: that I made that I can't imagine could we go

1218
01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:08,800
Speaker 1: out of your mouth? It? Yeah? What what it scares

1219
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 1: me honestly, and what scares me about it is that

1220
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:16,440
Speaker 1: if de Me and I were not to become boyfriend girlfriend, right, Um,

1221
01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:19,640
Speaker 1: how people perceive that, which, honestly I shouldn't give two

1222
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 1: about it, right, Um, no dispect to my you know

1223
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:27,560
Speaker 1: people that follow us, Um, but that it scared me

1224
01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:32,040
Speaker 1: for that reason, being quite transparent. She's a woman that

1225
01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:34,040
Speaker 1: I treat like a regular individual. I'm a man and

1226
01:06:34,160 --> 01:06:37,080
Speaker 1: she treats like a regular man. And we do like

1227
01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:38,480
Speaker 1: each other and we are getting to know each other.

1228
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:43,120
Speaker 1: But what if it were not meant to be? Then

1229
01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 1: like people are going to speculate, Oh this is that

1230
01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:47,560
Speaker 1: in the third right, and so I would rather not

1231
01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:50,400
Speaker 1: have that. But at the same time, I'm gonna be

1232
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:55,000
Speaker 1: smooth criminal when I walk through this path and we

1233
01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:58,080
Speaker 1: start our rapid fire with what is your favorite Demi

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01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:03,280
Speaker 1: of song? Um? Were you familiar with their music? Before

1235
01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:06,160
Speaker 1: I'll say I'll say it straight up, Um, me and

1236
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:08,440
Speaker 1: my homies we have not listened to a lot of

1237
01:07:08,600 --> 01:07:11,760
Speaker 1: Demi Levato songs. And it's not because of her, it's

1238
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:14,560
Speaker 1: just because of the genre that's not our go to genre. Okay,

1239
01:07:14,560 --> 01:07:17,840
Speaker 1: well you can let her know that, um, I was

1240
01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:21,040
Speaker 1: the creep that went to seven a Cambrock tour concerts.

1241
01:07:22,840 --> 01:07:25,240
Speaker 1: I will tell you. I will tell you that I

1242
01:07:25,280 --> 01:07:28,160
Speaker 1: have listened to obviously a lot more of her songs now,

1243
01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:32,080
Speaker 1: and you gotta like, I'm not gonna go further. Sorry,

1244
01:07:32,080 --> 01:07:35,080
Speaker 1: not sorry, I know, sorry, not sorry. You gotta like, like,

1245
01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:38,120
Speaker 1: I mean, she's got no sorry not sorry. I could

1246
01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:42,080
Speaker 1: sing it in my head right now that we could

1247
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:46,120
Speaker 1: power ballad. I need to hear Scott, but sorry, not sorry.

1248
01:07:46,120 --> 01:07:48,120
Speaker 1: It brings about what Scott Scraper does it mean? I'll

1249
01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:50,400
Speaker 1: be honest, and I think that's why we like each other,

1250
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:52,480
Speaker 1: because we treat each other like you know, and you're

1251
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:54,480
Speaker 1: learning about each other. It's all like you automatically know

1252
01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:56,040
Speaker 1: all these things about it. You'll be kind of weird

1253
01:07:56,080 --> 01:07:57,760
Speaker 1: if I was, like, you know, how cam is, how

1254
01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:01,040
Speaker 1: he'd be knowing about everybody? If I always became yeah,

1255
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:03,040
Speaker 1: like if I knew everything about her, it would be

1256
01:08:03,080 --> 01:08:06,640
Speaker 1: kind of creepy. It would never work. What is your

1257
01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:10,800
Speaker 1: most meaningful tattoo? This whole left arm. Because it's going

1258
01:08:10,840 --> 01:08:12,680
Speaker 1: to be just one piece, it means so many different things.

1259
01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:16,240
Speaker 1: It basically representation of what life is to me. I

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Speaker 1: guess my most meaningful one would be brief life. That's

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Speaker 1: my motto. Brief life to me means, uh, I can

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Speaker 1: say a joke about it. Firstly, it's not done, bro

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Speaker 1: is what it's done. But it's as chilling, so it

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Speaker 1: looks ugly. But brief life to me means live like

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Speaker 1: to the fullest. Um, the only easy day was yesterday,

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Speaker 1: and uh, just go out there and get it. Shut up.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to like hammer at homes, but on

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Speaker 1: my list, I said, what is your favorite tattoo of demis?

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Speaker 1: But you don't have to respond. I'm not gonna respond.

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Speaker 1: I like to breathe life. That hit me, hit my soul.

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Speaker 1: I do know what my favorite tattoo of hers is

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Speaker 1: hers is, but I won't say it. That's sweet too.

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Speaker 1: We just like hearing that. Um, what's your favorite movie?

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Speaker 1: On the plane ride from San Antonio here, I just

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Speaker 1: watched Casino again, like old gangster movies. I love Yo

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Speaker 1: Appuccino Dude is like Robert de Niro. They're freaking terrific

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Speaker 1: that they're coming out with a new mode. Yes, and

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Speaker 1: I cannot wait come out later this year. Right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: apparently they're like digitizing their faces like younger because they

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Speaker 1: do that with a Will Smith movie as well. Gemini

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Speaker 1: shout out the Gemini, you know, make sure you pay

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Speaker 1: them and almost famous for that shout out. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: have one more shout out if you're on the next

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Speaker 1: plane ride. Um, my favorite movie, because you asked, Mike,

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Speaker 1: and I should answer, because that's just I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I like I need to is the biggest little

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Speaker 1: farm on all Delta flights? Amazing movie. I've seen it.

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Speaker 1: I've seen it. Mike. You want to cry for the

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Speaker 1: fourth time in your life watching Fairy Show right now?

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Speaker 1: Power though Power favorite? Never heard of It wasn't on

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Speaker 1: Power is Amazing, It's on Showtime. Okay. Your favorite band

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Speaker 1: music artists? My favorite musical artist. So I asked this

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Speaker 1: question the other day. If you got to kill three

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Speaker 1: of these people, well we got to kill one, and

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Speaker 1: out of three of these, who would you kill Drake,

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Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar or j Cole. That's easy for me, but

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Speaker 1: I can't answer. Can we say, like we see one

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Speaker 1: of them has to go out of the room. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to kill him. They have to go. Drake easy,

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Speaker 1: Drake easy easy. I think that. But Drake makes songs

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Speaker 1: bro like, he can make songs that never been bigger.

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Speaker 1: With J Cole is playing on my ear. You gotta

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Speaker 1: be deep when you wouldn't listen to J Cole. You

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Speaker 1: can't be like happy, go lucky all the time with

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Speaker 1: J Cole and Kendrick. Yeah, I think that Drake has more.

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Speaker 1: He's more versatile, even though in that list, Kendrick is

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Speaker 1: my favorite because he does like who who would you send? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a hard one home. That's why the bottom line

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Speaker 1: is those are his three artists. No, no, my favorite

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Speaker 1: artists right now outside of Demi is going to be

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Speaker 1: uh Sabrina Claudio. I think she's amazing her, She's amazing. Um.

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Speaker 1: I like my girl named, I like like R and B,

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Speaker 1: like these new R and B artists like Janine and

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Speaker 1: the mixtape. She go hard, like I'll pull out my

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Speaker 1: phone right now. Alabama shakes, they go hard. You guys

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Speaker 1: add this to your Spotify. What was the most embarrassing

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Speaker 1: moment of your life? You don't have to get deep

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Speaker 1: here so many times, like I'm I just thought it

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Speaker 1: was the most embarrassing. My sister had um for me

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Speaker 1: put my my pants failed in Oh, I was on

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Speaker 1: a date. I'll say this. When I was on a

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Speaker 1: date and um, my car didn't started. Like we went

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Speaker 1: to a gas station and like my card and start up.

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Speaker 1: No more but see ID smooth though, So I was like,

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Speaker 1: I was like beaging my card and I told her.

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Speaker 1: I told her, unstroke the card and started. I was like,

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Speaker 1: let's let's go for a walk. That's cute. My last

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Speaker 1: question because I'm I'm being told that we need to

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Speaker 1: wrap it up. What is the first thing you notice

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Speaker 1: about a woman that draws you to her? Two different questions. Okay,

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Speaker 1: what is the first thing? There? They are, Okay, tell

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Speaker 1: them both. Okay, the first thing that the first thing

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Speaker 1: that I noticed about a woman. So like, when we're

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Speaker 1: in paradise, if you got your feet out, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: look at your feet, your feet that I'm so glad

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Speaker 1: I asked this question because that is truly a unique answer, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you don't think it is, you've got a lot

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Speaker 1: of toast. No, I am not a toe sucker, I

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Speaker 1: be I am. I'm definitely a freaking in bedroom. But

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Speaker 1: toasucking I've never done. Okay, I don't know I do.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing. Oh god, I just think no, But

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Speaker 1: what drawing me to a woman is like what Demi did,

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Speaker 1: and that confidence and that sessionist and just speaking is wrong.

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Speaker 1: I knew. So this is what I love about Ashley.

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Speaker 1: I knew that she would know some Demilvado songs like

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Speaker 1: even without even copy for this, and that she could

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Speaker 1: literally prep them into the conversation like this, like I

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Speaker 1: love a confident woman, and she sings the Confidence song

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Speaker 1: by the bot She's confident. I love it. Actually, anything else, um,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the feat thing is really funny. My sister

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Speaker 1: was convinced that Jared um wasn't with me for two

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Speaker 1: and a half years because of my Bunnians. Wait till

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Speaker 1: you take a look at my feet tomorrow on the hills.

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Speaker 1: I'm good. Hey, Mike, we'd love you, man, Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much. I promise you, bud uh just we really

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Speaker 1: appreciate you and I want you to feel that. Tonight,

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Speaker 1: let's celebrate here at the Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas

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Speaker 1: at I Heart Music Festival to That's nineteen Mike, Thanks

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Speaker 1: a lot, man, Let's do it. Everybody. Make sure you

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Speaker 1: make some smiles today. Honestly, what a wonderful experience. This

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Speaker 1: has been Hey, thank you playing on Hollywood, and thank

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Speaker 1: you shake shack for dinner. It's tasty. Oh yeah, actually

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Speaker 1: I had breakfast shake shack this morning at the airport.

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Speaker 1: It's a day of shake Shack. It's a day of

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Speaker 1: Planet Hollywood. Diana has his mustache back and just saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: make sure if you guys are interested, because everybody's freaking

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Speaker 1: out right now. If you want some shake shack, is

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Speaker 1: it a store or go to shake shack dot com

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Speaker 1: or the shaik You should you should like dance when

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Speaker 1: you say the shack out. I kind of feel like, hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: follow our lead, Mike. We do this every time I've

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Speaker 1: been I've been Ashley, I've been Mike Johnson. That's right, buddy,

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Speaker 1: See you guys. Follow the Benn and Ashley I Almost

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