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Speaker 1: What's up, guys, and welcome to Bachelor Happy Hour. I'm Rachel.

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Speaker 1: Ali is off today, but we had the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: do an extra podcast for you guys, and we didn't

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Speaker 1: want to wait. Well, the truth is, I didn't want

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Speaker 1: to wait because you guys, if you follow me, if

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Speaker 1: you listen to me, if you dare to do that,

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Speaker 1: you know that I have a favorite, a clear favorite

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Speaker 1: from Hannah Bey's season, and I'm not shy about him.

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Speaker 1: It is none other than Mike Johnson. And I've been

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Speaker 1: waiting for this day to have Mike Johnson on the

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Speaker 1: Bachelor Happy Hour podcast, and I am so excited that

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Speaker 1: he's here. You all know I've been pushing hard for

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Speaker 1: him to be the Bachelor, and while fortunately that's not

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Speaker 1: going to happen, he's still my bachelor and I'm going

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Speaker 1: to talk to him about that and so much more today. Mike,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the podcast. Are you ready? Well, let's go.

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Speaker 1: I've been waiting a whole season to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Mike Ready, I'm ready? Okay, So I guess I just

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Speaker 1: want to start from the beginning because I feel like

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Speaker 1: when I watched Hannah season, we didn't get to really

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Speaker 1: know you. We didn't get in depth. You know, we

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Speaker 1: saw you. There was a lot of drama that was

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Speaker 1: involved with your season and I don't even want to

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Speaker 1: talk about that because we saw that enough. But I

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Speaker 1: feel like that's when we saw you most. Even on

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Speaker 1: your one on one we didn't get to know Mike,

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Speaker 1: but you are a fan favorite. The audience knew that

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Speaker 1: there was something there. You were even a fan favorite

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Speaker 1: of Hannah. I've heard Hannah talk very positively about you

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Speaker 1: since the show's been over. So let's just from the beginning.

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Speaker 1: Who is Mike Johnson? If you could describe yourself in

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Speaker 1: three words? What would you say? My friends would call

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Speaker 1: me since say bushy brow because I have thick eyebrows.

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Speaker 1: You do have thick eyebrows? Do you do you tame

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Speaker 1: your eyebrows? Are they natural? Just natural? Just black? And

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Speaker 1: I'm rocking it. I'm blessed to be here with you, sir,

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Speaker 1: and I'm blessed to have you on the show. Okay,

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Speaker 1: three words, and I know you already talked to me

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Speaker 1: about one word. Three words. If you had to describe yourself,

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Speaker 1: three words, had to describe myself? Goofy, ambitious leader? All right,

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Speaker 1: goofy ambitious leader. I like that you sound like a

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Speaker 1: good time. I'm a great time. And then and then

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Speaker 1: at the same time that somebody could learn something from you.

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Speaker 1: All right, So let's dive into it a bit. How

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Speaker 1: do you feel like your life has changed since this

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Speaker 1: whole Bachelor experience? You know, a crazy thing. It's like

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Speaker 1: when I'm in the airport and I didn't brush my

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Speaker 1: That's crazy because I want to. I'm grateful to take

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Speaker 1: a picture with you. But then bro, like my breath staying,

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Speaker 1: my hair is not dead yet, you know those are

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Speaker 1: That's the weird part. That's the weird part right there.

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Speaker 1: These are things you will have to learn. I had

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Speaker 1: to start getting eyelash extensions because too many times people

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Speaker 1: ask for a picture and I was bald eyed. Ye

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Speaker 1: stop balhead and bald eye. I never heard that before.

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Speaker 1: I'm learning it off on the spot. Serious, it's just crazy,

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Speaker 1: like I'm not looking at my best and people want

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Speaker 1: to picture. That's when it's crazy. Do you feel like

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Speaker 1: you've been able to go back to your normal life

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Speaker 1: since this whole experience. When I'm back home in Texas,

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Speaker 1: all my closest homies and cousins treat me like regular

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like that's kept you grounded through this

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Speaker 1: whole experience, because I see people get caught up, you

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Speaker 1: don't seem to be that person. I don't think I'm

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Speaker 1: caught up. What's I don't think I ever get caught up.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, I was just texting my little sister,

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Speaker 1: and I wish more people did that. Um, you see

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Speaker 1: feel like that's happened to you. I don't think it will. Yeah, see,

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Speaker 1: The listeners want to know this as well, But I

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Speaker 1: want to know how you How did you get on

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Speaker 1: I was working as a financial advisor and say it.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to be in a relationship. My last relationship

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Speaker 1: probably going on the show, was twenty fifteen and crazy,

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Speaker 1: And so who are you? It's unicorn? A horn just

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Speaker 1: after I I had like a bitch fit, I guess

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Speaker 1: and I am picky. My homeboy send me a Facebook wing.

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Speaker 1: He said, hey, you should go try out for this.

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Speaker 1: And I was off work that day, so I drove

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Speaker 1: down to Houston, went to the aquarium where they had auditions.

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Speaker 1: And the crazy thing is they thought it was like

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Speaker 1: every It might have been forty nine ladies and one guy.

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Speaker 1: It was crazy, right, And then I think I was

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Speaker 1: only black guy there, sood out sounds like the sounds

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Speaker 1: like the Bachelor. I wore a full suit. I actually

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Speaker 1: got on the Houston news that night because they thought

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Speaker 1: I was a bachelor, which is crazy, Like legit, girls,

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Speaker 1: told you guys, I have a disabled veteran license plates, right,

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Speaker 1: Good karma. People have good karma. And so we're doing

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Speaker 1: if you hear this. I completely forgot your name. I

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Speaker 1: love you, that homie. But yeah, long story short, I

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Speaker 1: name's Ashley. She used to have like Bachelor parties every Monday.

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Speaker 1: and still are rooting for UM. I think it's a

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Speaker 1: You know, some people submitted a video, some people tried

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Speaker 1: the Houston audition, Yeah, definitely. They liked you. They sent

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Speaker 1: He Cam dead? Was Cam? Isn't Cam from Oh Austin?

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Speaker 1: the way that that Anyeka called out Cam at the finale,

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Speaker 1: guy can't win. Um, okay, So what were your expectations

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Speaker 1: watch it before, so I know what you were. Well.

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Speaker 1: I remember stepping out of the limo and I saw Hannah.

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Speaker 1: Colton season, so I wasn't I was unsure of who

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Speaker 1: no comic because I don't watch. My expectations were just, honestly,

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Speaker 1: I find love, and then I find love. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: you did you know Hannah was going to be the bachelorette.

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Speaker 1: I did the night before because that was when she

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Speaker 1: had the five guys come out on stage with Chris

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours prior. Um, that's I see. I'm shocked

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Speaker 1: right before. That's interesting. So you really were open and

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Speaker 1: You were there for the right reasons, and I think

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Speaker 1: that I saw on my Instagram. When you're there for

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Speaker 1: the right reasons, things happened differently. Oh, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I

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Speaker 1: was your experience like on the show away from Luke?

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Speaker 1: Because we saw that, we saw that play out all

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Speaker 1: but no, none of us knew that Jed had a

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00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,320
Speaker 1: woman back home. He seemed like a great guy to me.

424
00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:57,639
Speaker 1: He's hilarious, He is super funny, he's these are things

425
00:20:57,720 --> 00:20:59,080
Speaker 1: you don't get to see. I mean, we had Jet

426
00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:00,920
Speaker 1: on the show, and of course it was more of

427
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,240
Speaker 1: a serious conversation, so we didn't get to talk to

428
00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:06,240
Speaker 1: him about that. But it's interesting to know there's this

429
00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:09,880
Speaker 1: other side of him now. Although it's sad to say

430
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,119
Speaker 1: that you will not make history being currently being the

431
00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:16,920
Speaker 1: first black bachelor. I'm sorry. Oh no, we'll get into that,

432
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,440
Speaker 1: but I want to say you did make history because

433
00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,000
Speaker 1: to my knowledge, and again I didn't watch the show

434
00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,000
Speaker 1: before I was on it, you are the first contestant

435
00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,200
Speaker 1: to wear a do rag and itms, oh, we have

436
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,639
Speaker 1: to talk about that, Hey, do rag king, let's go.

437
00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,720
Speaker 1: I think I stood up and clapped when I said,

438
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,080
Speaker 1: this is the realist shit I've ever seen on the show.

439
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,399
Speaker 1: I'm always be me, always be a hunted to myself,

440
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,919
Speaker 1: and they always have us. You know, we're at home

441
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,080
Speaker 1: all day in the mansion. Why am I gonna take

442
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:49,560
Speaker 1: off my dud rag? Why am I gonna take out

443
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,160
Speaker 1: my bajamas that I have one? Like? Yeah, I wanted

444
00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 1: to be reality TV, so I'm gonna show you reality TV.

445
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,480
Speaker 1: I appreciated it because and what you guys don't know

446
00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 1: a little behind the scenes information is we're not allowed

447
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,520
Speaker 1: to wear sunglasses, we aren't allowed to wear hats, we're

448
00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:04,200
Speaker 1: not allowed to wear things really on our head. So

449
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:05,760
Speaker 1: when I saw that you were able to wear the

450
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,200
Speaker 1: d rag, I said, way to make a statement, Mike.

451
00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:10,639
Speaker 1: You know I couldn't do this podcast without talking about

452
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,360
Speaker 1: the doo rack. I almost posted it on social media

453
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 1: when it happened, but I didn't. It was it was,

454
00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 1: It was great. I was a fan of it. I

455
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,480
Speaker 1: want to get into paradise, but before I get there,

456
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:26,159
Speaker 1: I do want to ask you a question because I

457
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 1: felt like this was a question that was posed to me.

458
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,879
Speaker 1: And it's sad to say, I don't get a lot

459
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,920
Speaker 1: of opportunities to talk with other people in the franchise

460
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 1: about it, just because there aren't a lot of people

461
00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,240
Speaker 1: in the franchise that look like us. But being a

462
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:43,640
Speaker 1: person of color in this franchise, do you feel like, Oh,

463
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,720
Speaker 1: I guess I should just ask you. What did it

464
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 1: feel like to be a person of color in this franchise?

465
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: Did you always feel that similar to the way you

466
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,320
Speaker 1: said when you went to the audition and you were

467
00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 1: the only blackmail there. Do you feel like your race

468
00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:00,960
Speaker 1: was an issue on hand a season? Do you feel

469
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:02,880
Speaker 1: like it's something that you had to talk about constantly?

470
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:08,119
Speaker 1: I'm very curious, let's do it. So when I found

471
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 1: out there's a southern white girl from Alabama as a bachelorette,

472
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, I'm even sending home? Now you want?

473
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,479
Speaker 1: I would have said the same thing, now you want?

474
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:24,639
Speaker 1: What I'm saying home. Damn that sucks. But when Hannah

475
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,440
Speaker 1: and I kissed for the first time, I was like, Okay,

476
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:32,159
Speaker 1: you know, she might like the big lips, and then

477
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 1: from there it would be in the back of my

478
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,399
Speaker 1: mind I would say, you know, could have Hannah, I

479
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:41,359
Speaker 1: see herself bringing African American guy home to her parents.

480
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:46,520
Speaker 1: And now I know her parents love and adore me,

481
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 1: and so I respect them as well. But that was

482
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 1: something that was my mind. Not gonna deny it. You know,

483
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,119
Speaker 1: I was concerned about that. But as far as the

484
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 1: cast member goes the cast members go, I was like,

485
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 1: I don't really here. I didn't care about none of

486
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:02,520
Speaker 1: them in that regard. I just cared about Handa and

487
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 1: how she would feel. And that sounds like I'm trying

488
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: to be a good guy, but that's just not the truth.

489
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't care about none of the

490
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 1: guys and how they felt. My connection was with Hannah

491
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:17,200
Speaker 1: and if she didn't if she could see pass raced

492
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 1: and I was cool with that. No, I I'm very

493
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 1: curious and I love to talk about it, mainly because

494
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,399
Speaker 1: I can. Yeah, But when I was on The Bachelor,

495
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 1: I didn't feel that way either. When I got the

496
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 1: first impression Rose to be Frank. I didn't know what

497
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 1: that was because I didn't I didn't, I didn't watch

498
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,639
Speaker 1: the show like that before. But there were girls that

499
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 1: came to me that said, oh, a black person has

500
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 1: never received the first impression Rose. So those things were

501
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 1: in my mind when I made it as far as

502
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,120
Speaker 1: I did. I was told a black person's never made

503
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 1: it this far. So I didn't really feel it until

504
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 1: those monumental to monaments and then of course being the Bachelorrettes.

505
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: So I'm just very curious as to how it was

506
00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 1: for you. All Right, let's get into Paradise. Why the

507
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 1: hell did you decide to go to Paradise? I still

508
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: was single and still wanted to be in a relationship,

509
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 1: So why the hell not? So they twist your arm,

510
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 1: you finally decide to go. You got a day card

511
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: when you first arrived, right, I did. Okay, So you

512
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: have a day card and you decided to take Kaylin.

513
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 1: I did. It was so what the America doesn't see

514
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,639
Speaker 1: is that I was. It was a toss up between

515
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: Sydney and Kaylyn, and then Katie was my second option

516
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 1: of who I wanted to go on a day with.

517
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 1: But it was like dead even between Sydney and Kaylin

518
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 1: and then Katie. I chose Kaylin or Sidney just because

519
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 1: Sydney is quiet and I felt like at the end

520
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:43,160
Speaker 1: of the day, I at least have a fun time

521
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: with Kaylin. Yeah, And did you guys have a good

522
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,120
Speaker 1: time now? We had a great time after your date.

523
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 1: Did you know that it wasn't gonna go anywhere after that?

524
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 1: I knew I wanted to tell to Sydney because I

525
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,680
Speaker 1: told Sydney even before going on the day with Kaylin.

526
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:57,959
Speaker 1: I told Sydney, I'm gonna go on to this day

527
00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: with her, but I still want to talk to you.

528
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 1: And so as soon as I got back the next day,

529
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,159
Speaker 1: I was talking to Sydney and I wanted to be

530
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: with Sydney. And I think Kaylen had one on a

531
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 1: day with Dean that same day. Yeah, so it worked

532
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,959
Speaker 1: out kind of perfect. What happened to Sydney, I mean,

533
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 1: you guys seem to be having fun and playful on

534
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 1: the beach. We really didn't get the end of your stories.

535
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: What happened? First off, they not first off to you,

536
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,199
Speaker 1: that's disrespectful, but first off to the show, Like, bro,

537
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 1: come on, you gotta like show what happened to the

538
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 1: end of Sydney and I, yeah, weird, So tell us

539
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: what happened. I broke it off with Sydney. I just

540
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: felt as if I thought a couple of things. One,

541
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 1: I feel like she didn't find me sexually attractive too.

542
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:46,160
Speaker 1: I felt like our connection just was not there whatsoever.

543
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,680
Speaker 1: I think that we both were trying. And I think

544
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: that Sydney is a diamond. When I say a diamond,

545
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: I mean that she is absolutely spectacular and very very

546
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: hard to crack, and that what I mean by diamond,

547
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: and so I called it ruby as well. But that

548
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 1: diamond wasn't for me, and so I broke things off

549
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,879
Speaker 1: with her. And then I went to the to the wedding.

550
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so it was before the wedding. Gosh, we

551
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: really didn't see well, we don't know, so, I mean,

552
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 1: you can kind of set the timeline for us. But

553
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 1: I'm glad you cleared that up because I remember watching

554
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 1: thinking what happened to Mike and Sydney. They just all

555
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they just weren't. Yeah, that was weird.

556
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: I broke it off with Sydney. It was it was

557
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 1: respectful on both sides. It was mutual. And I went

558
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: to the wedding, and that's what y'all don't get to see.

559
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: I was in my zone. I was Mike Johnson to

560
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: a T Mike and Dallas was up representing San anton

561
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 1: I was just heavyes can be. I was just so

562
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: just thrilled to be there. I literally forgot I was

563
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 1: wearing a microphone. I forgot its cameras was on. I

564
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 1: just was having a wonderful time. I were free. I

565
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 1: was free. Yeah. I spoke to Angela, I spot to Danielle,

566
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 1: I spoke to Bibiana, and I just had a wonderful time,

567
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: Like it was. First of all, I love going to

568
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: weddings because the reception and because you get the dance

569
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: and oh yeah, I just have a fun time. Do

570
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 1: the bunny hobbit. Listen when people ask me about my wedding,

571
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:21,880
Speaker 1: I'm like, let me tell about the reception. I had

572
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: a fantastic time at Chris and Chris's wedding. Shout out

573
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,639
Speaker 1: to them their beautiful love birds. And then I went

574
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 1: on to day with Angela. So I got a question

575
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: for you, got a answer for you. What do you say?

576
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 1: And I'm asking you this because people said it to

577
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 1: me too. What do you say to the critics that

578
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: say you don't like to day black women? Yeah, that's crazy, Um,

579
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: I would say, literally my ex girlfriend prior to being

580
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: in on America's face as a black woman, I come

581
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: from a black woman who's a strong and beautiful. My

582
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: sister and my grandmother. Don't make me go all on y'all,

583
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: off on y'allum. First of all, I was on to

584
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: show that the league was a white girl, So therefore,

585
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: who cares my homies always telling me to follow your heart?

586
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 1: And then my aunt's you know my aunts, they're they're

587
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 1: the ones that want a date a black woman. And

588
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: then my uncle's like, she find what's up? And that's

589
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: just me being transparent. But my homeboys and my sister

590
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: and my grandma always tell me to follow my heart

591
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: and wasn't near and dear to me. The craziest thing

592
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: is like when I if I were a data white

593
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: girl and I take her back to where I'm from

594
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: in Dallas and we got to certain places we will

595
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 1: get looked at in Texas. That is true, But also

596
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 1: true is I don't care. I absolutely love my black woman.

597
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: When I auditioned to be the bachelor. I had a

598
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: Microsoft word spreadsheet that I had printed out financial advising.

599
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: Yeah you know, I'm weird like that. And I had

600
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: three different categories of women, and the first was the

601
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: black woman that I am attracted to and I'm not

602
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: gonna say their names. And the second, the second one

603
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: was like mixed chicks or whatever or other category Pacific

604
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 1: islander type category. And the third chick. The third category

605
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: is the white girls. And I mean, I'm a man

606
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: that has lived around the world, living in Europe for

607
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:30,719
Speaker 1: five years, and I love all people, and I am

608
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 1: attracted to who I'm attracted to. I have always said

609
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:37,719
Speaker 1: I would marry a black woman, but I'm not going

610
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: to hold my breath. I love you being honest about this,

611
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: and I ask you because, again, as as prefaced this

612
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 1: whole conversation, I can talk to you about things that

613
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: I can't really talk to every guest that comes through

614
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: here because we have shared experiences. And I got the

615
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: same criticism because you come on TV and you're on

616
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: the season of somebney who's white. Yes, And then as

617
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: the bachelorette, I have a whole shlew of men to

618
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: choose from, and the one I ended up with is Colombian.

619
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: So people automatically think you don't like your your last race,

620
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: and you are last race, people automatically think you don't

621
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 1: like your own race. And you know how it is.

622
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: You're judged by America and then you're judged by Black America,

623
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: and they're the ones, and they're the ones that usually

624
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: come at you for not liking your own race. And

625
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: it's so I love that you said my girlfriend prior

626
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: to the show was black. They don't know your dating

627
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: history before coming on the show, and so I wanted

628
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: to talk about that because I know you got that

629
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: same criticism as well. Know I absolutely adore my black

630
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 1: woman and my black skin. Am I Melanin and I'll

631
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: kiss all over you if you're my lady. You love women,

632
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: and there's and there's nothing there's but there's nothing. But

633
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that, all shapes, sizes, personalities, You

634
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: love for women, you're a lover of women. There's nothing

635
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: wrong with that. You're single. I think we'll get into

636
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: that later, but yeah, there's there's absolutely nothing wrong with it.

637
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: And I think that your friends are right and telling

638
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 1: you love who you love there or you said you

639
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: always thought that you would marry a black woman. I

640
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: truly always thought that I would marry a black man.

641
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: Has to say that either, but no, and I and

642
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: I put that to the side and just said I'm

643
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: gonna love who I love, and it turned out to

644
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: be Brian. So you know, I think that if you

645
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: put those lists to the side and those you know,

646
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: I have to do this and just open your heart

647
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: to whatever, you'd be surprised at what comes through. Yeah,

648
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 1: you know that. There's a little um ig story that's

649
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: going biba right now. It's the little white kid and

650
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: a litt black kid and they run up to each other.

651
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: They're on the side. Oh yeah, I've seen that. Yeah.

652
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: When I was a child and one of my best

653
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: friends growing up, his name is Colt Simons, so cold

654
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: if you hear this, what's up? Hold me? He was

655
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: a white kid that lived in like our neighborhood, but

656
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: he was like the white kid that had money and

657
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: he was the only white kid in our neighborhood. And

658
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: his parents had his driveway was some minute and they

659
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 1: had basketball goal and it was really cool and all

660
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: the black guys who come over there and it was

661
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: never about race until he went to high school and

662
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: those little kids I was talking about with a little

663
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: white and a little black kid running up to each other.

664
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: They don't think about race. I think about love and

665
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: friendship and happiness, right, and then when we get older,

666
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: we it just it happens. It comes about. You know,

667
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: when I was in Europe, and I lived in Europe

668
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: and I go on a day with a white girl,

669
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: you no big deal. I got on a day with

670
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: a white girl in Texas, go to Aha or something, which,

671
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: by the way, I'm way better in my days in

672
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: But if I were to go someone with a white

673
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: girl in Texas will be looked at differently versus if

674
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: me and you go out. Yeah everybody, I know she

675
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,719
Speaker 1: has a husband. Okay, No, but I get what you mean.

676
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: It's yes, yes, people think that you're supposed to. I

677
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: just pulled up what I told you all about them

678
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: the document here. Look I got and can I give

679
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 1: some back some inside knowledge. Now you said that this

680
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: is when you were in talk to the bathroom. We're

681
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 1: going to get into that. But some behind the scenes

682
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: things that people don't know, and that's what we promise

683
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 1: to give you on this podcast, is that when you

684
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: are in talks. They do ask you who are you

685
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: interested in? What are you attracted to? What type of

686
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: women or men would you like to see on the season.

687
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 1: So that's why I want people to realize you weren't

688
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 1: just sitting at home and pulled out this this word

689
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,760
Speaker 1: document because you just got it saved no production ask

690
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: you who you're interested in? Definitely, So I was prepared.

691
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: I mean I was taking this stuff seriously, like we

692
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: talked about earlier, I was there for the right reasons. Yeah,

693
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: and so yeah, um I was. I was going to

694
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: ask him. I was good, we'll have to. Can we

695
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 1: put up his document on one Bachelor Nation dot com? Um?

696
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,280
Speaker 1: You should? You should? You should put that up yourself

697
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: if you're if you're comfortable with that, because that's very interesting.

698
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about the Bachelor in

699
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: Paradise reunion. Okay, I don't really you can, I be honest.

700
00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: You look like you did not want to be there.

701
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: I didn't want to be there, very annoyed. Is that

702
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 1: does that pretty much wrap up how you felt about Paradise?

703
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 1: I just felt that I had nothing to contribute. I

704
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 1: didn't when I watched the show back. I wasn't in

705
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,879
Speaker 1: any scenes. I wasn't about the drama. I would walk

706
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: away off camera when they were having drama situations. And

707
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,240
Speaker 1: so I didn't fall in love on Bachelor in Paradise.

708
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: So I just felt like there was no need for

709
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 1: me to be there. And then right before going on stage,

710
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:26,720
Speaker 1: they told me that I wasn't going to be the Bachelor,

711
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,399
Speaker 1: and so you got me out here, you know, flew

712
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: me to La I'm working to Ascot, which I don't think.

713
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:35,919
Speaker 1: No one has rocked to Ascot on the show before.

714
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: I don't think so either, And I did notice it,

715
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:42,800
Speaker 1: and I just there was no need for me to

716
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: be there, and you just tell me that I'm not

717
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: gonna be the Bachelor, So I just didn't want to

718
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,399
Speaker 1: be there at all. All Right, Mike, that's a really

719
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: good place to stop, because that conversation is going to

720
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: take another turn and I really want to get in

721
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,879
Speaker 1: depth with that. So coming up next, we're gonna talk

722
00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 1: to Mike about how he felt about not being the

723
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: next Bachelor. Stay tuned. Okay, welcome back to Bachelor Happy Hour,

724
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: and I'm talking to Mike Johnson and Mike, we're just

725
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: gonna go straight to it. We're gonna get into it.

726
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 1: At this point, we know that you weren't chosen to

727
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: be the next Bachelor. I'm still not over it, but

728
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: I want to know how you feel about it. So,

729
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 1: were you in talks to be the next Bachelor? Percent

730
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 1: talks to be the next Bachelor? I think a lot

731
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: of people want to know because people are upset, right,

732
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: you're not You're not the Bachelor. People are rioting and

733
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: I'm leading it. Okay, I appreciate it, but a lot

734
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 1: of people don't even think that you were considered to

735
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: be the Bachelor. So that's why I wanted to lead

736
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: off with that question. And people probably didn't think I

737
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: was considering be the Bachelor because I was trying to

738
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: be so respectful of the crew at Bachelor World, and

739
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: I don't want to speak about it even when I

740
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: went on TV. I thought that was being extremely respectful

741
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: and a gentleman of me to the Bachelor World, and

742
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 1: Peter didn't. I don't think Peter did those interviews, and

743
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: so he didn't have to go through that. I wanted

744
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 1: to be the Bachelor reasons being because one, I do

745
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: want to find a wife. Two it was bigger than me,

746
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: and I wanted to represent for all people of color,

747
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 1: and then also talking about people of color, they need

748
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: to have an Asian bachelor, they need to have an

749
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: Indian bachelor, they need to have other people outside just

750
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 1: black and white, and so I want to speak on

751
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:31,280
Speaker 1: that as well. But I did audition to be the Bachelor,

752
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: and one percent did want to be the Bachelor. I

753
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: think that's important for people to know too. This isn't

754
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,399
Speaker 1: an instance where you were offered and you turned it down.

755
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: You wanted it and you didn't get it. So how

756
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: did you feel when you found out you were not

757
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,800
Speaker 1: chosen to be the Bachelor. I found out in the

758
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 1: trailers you know before you go on Bachelor and Paradise Reunion,

759
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 1: and I knew it all. You knew in my head.

760
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: Yes I wanted to be the Bachelor. Yes, I auditioned

761
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 1: to be the Bachelor. I went in there with the

762
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,800
Speaker 1: right intentions of I wanted to find love, want to

763
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 1: be true to myself. You might have seen do rad

764
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:14,240
Speaker 1: Keene come back. I had a list of a word

765
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: document of the type of women I wanted, what I

766
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: was scared of, what I wasn't scared of, And I

767
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 1: think ultimately it just came down to they chose the

768
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: right person for what they want, and there's nothing wrong

769
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: with that at all. When I first found out, I

770
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: was I'm not gonna lie. I was sad. I was

771
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: annoyed when I very first found out, But then I

772
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: think by the end of the night, I wasn't annoyed

773
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 1: nomore because I was appreciative and thankful that they told

774
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: me no right then and there, because now I can

775
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 1: focus on myself. And I'm just blessed because I know

776
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: i'mna find my wife and find my queen. You know, Mike,

777
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,800
Speaker 1: this is that's really really big of you, and it

778
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: makes me still want you to be the Bachelor even more.

779
00:38:56,200 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: I'm more upset this podcast. I'm telling you, don't you

780
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 1: edit this out. I'm upset, and I just I hadn't

781
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: even met you. You know most people don't know is

782
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: that we have a mutual friend. Yes, my mentee from

783
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,919
Speaker 1: college is one of your best friends, so I could

784
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: speak to your character outside of what I saw on

785
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: the show. And now I'm sitting here in front of you,

786
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: and I'm just so I might shut a tear. I'm

787
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: just so upset that you're not the Bachelor, and this

788
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: is what I have to say, and I'll ask you

789
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: this too, because you've just been so open and honest

790
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,280
Speaker 1: and really respectful and how you're handling this whole process.

791
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: This is nothing against Peter. We had Peter on the show,

792
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 1: and a lot of times people will confuse that we've

793
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: had Peter on the show. Peter seems lovely, straight lined,

794
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 1: vanilla but lovely. And I and it's not that I

795
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: don't think he'll make a great bachelor. I think that,

796
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: you know, he's very Ben Higgins esque. I think they'll

797
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 1: surround him with an entertaining cast to mask his u

798
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: his magoonness. I I I again. So I'm saying all

799
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 1: that to say it is not a knock against people,

800
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 1: nothing against Peter. What do you think about Peter being

801
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: the Bachelor? Do you think he'll make a good one.

802
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 1: I think Peter is a good looking to do with

803
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 1: his five o'clock shadow, He has a fun, super fun job.

804
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: His family's amazing, his little brother. I know personally he's

805
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 1: dope kid. And I said, oh, when I say, called

806
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 1: somebody else a kid, right, I'm only thirty one, But

807
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: I think I would have been more entertaining. I said it,

808
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna stick by my word. Yeah, I think

809
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: you'd more entertaining too. Um. Oh, you said Peter has

810
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:42,959
Speaker 1: a has a fun job. I don't think he's gonna

811
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,439
Speaker 1: have that job after doing The Bachelor. I disagree Peter

812
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: is in love with being a pilot. No, I don't

813
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: think it's up to him. Oh not correct, you know

814
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,439
Speaker 1: what I mean. I'm sure he'd get another job. He'll

815
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: be a private father or something. I'm just saying I

816
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: could just have his own plane. He might. Maybe they'll

817
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 1: let him take a sabbatical. I don't know. It's hard.

818
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 1: I think that's why a lot of times you see

819
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: people on the show who have jobs or lack thereof

820
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: of jobs, because it's hard to ask your employer for

821
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:11,919
Speaker 1: time off. So I'm not saying that as a knock

822
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 1: to Peter. I'm just saying it's gonna be hard for

823
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: him to be able to do both, is what I'm saying.

824
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,919
Speaker 1: And I was a financial levisor so therefore I didn't

825
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: have a boss to tell me what I can and

826
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 1: can do. Say it again, have you really answered my

827
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: Bachelor questions very well? I mean not that I was

828
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: trying to get MESSI or anything, but you are a

829
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 1: very matter of fact, and I think it is what

830
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: it is. I will ask you this, are you Are

831
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: you disappointed with the lack of diversity on the show.

832
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: So that's one of the things I spoke about to

833
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: the producers if I were to be the Bachelor, and

834
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: I said that I wanted to be representative of America

835
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 1: as far as the women that would be on the

836
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 1: show if I were to be cast as a bachelor, like,

837
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: I also feel that more people of color. And I

838
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 1: know Peter mom is of Latin descent, but come on,

839
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 1: Peter's white, right, Let's be honest. And so I'm not

840
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 1: talking about things of that nature. I'm talking about I

841
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:08,360
Speaker 1: want to full on Indian guy or a full on

842
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 1: Asian girl. For some reason, I like Asian girls. I

843
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: like Sydney's Asian. I didn't know that. I didn't know

844
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 1: that about myself until going on Paradise, open to all

845
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: these different experience. Really does love women? You love women,

846
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: It's what you feel, And I think that's great. Do

847
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 1: you think that not getting the Bachelor is the best

848
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: thing you never had? Right now? I'm about to say

849
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: right now because I don't focused on is in the moment,

850
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: and so I know that if I were to be

851
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: the Bachelor, it would come with a lot more scrutiny

852
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: into my personal life, into my family's personal life, and too,

853
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: my sister and things of that nature. And maybe that's

854
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: God's what I'm saying. It's not the right time for

855
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 1: you to be in that spotlight. And the whole point

856
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: of going on the show is a finer person, and

857
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: so I want to make sure that that's the presidents.

858
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: I wanted to find my wife, I wanted to find

859
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,400
Speaker 1: my queen, and so if I'm not on a Bachelor,

860
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: you know, I've been blessed to be open up to

861
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 1: a plethora of people that know my face, and so

862
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 1: I may find my woman. Still, yeah, let's talk about that.

863
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 1: Let's talk about God's plan and the women that you've

864
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 1: been opened up to meet. A ka Demi Lavado. Oh,

865
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 1: we got to talk about it, okay, because Demi Lavado

866
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:23,800
Speaker 1: is a fan of the show, and I have not

867
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 1: seen her this involved ever, So spilled the tea. Spill

868
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: the tea. Before I spill the tea, you said two

869
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: Drake lines. By the way you said one, I'm upset.

870
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: I mean you said I'm a fan. Just so you know, Um,

871
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: spilled the tea on Demi. Okay, I'll ask you more

872
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: pointed places, ask you questions because I will always answer it.

873
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 1: I will always answer the question. You just got to

874
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: ask them. Okay, have you met? Yes, Demi and I

875
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:57,879
Speaker 1: have met in person. How many times we met? We've

876
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:00,800
Speaker 1: met more than one time. Let me just tell you

877
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:04,320
Speaker 1: who is not going to be on Peter season. Demie Lavado. Okay.

878
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: None of those girls can even stand in the same

879
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 1: room with Demmi Levado, so you are already winning. Let

880
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: me just tell you this, Mike Johnson your middle name, no,

881
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: no middle name, okay, Mike Johnson. Um, how is she?

882
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: I think she's amazing. She's incredibly humble when she and

883
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: when her and I are together or have Oh my god,

884
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:29,439
Speaker 1: I'm saying this now. Don't say anything that's gonna mess

885
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 1: up the relationship because I'm shipping this. No, not at all.

886
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 1: I'm extremely respectful. When Demi and I are together, it's

887
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: laughter and we talk about real shit, like she's a

888
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: down to earth woman and I respect it so much.

889
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: And she's just really humble, really cool, really fun, down

890
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: to earth person. And she's from Texas and she's from

891
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 1: Texas that in common her bodyguard from Texas too, So

892
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:56,359
Speaker 1: that's cool. Look, okay, you sound well acquainted. Oh god,

893
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's my job to see through this.

894
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 1: I will say that I have met Demi Levado and

895
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: she did not have this reaction to me. She treated

896
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: me like I don't even know if she knew I

897
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: was on the Bachelor. She took a picture with me

898
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: and walked away. She's an extremely sweet woman. No, no,

899
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 1: she seems really sweet. And is there anything else that

900
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 1: maybe you want to tell us? What is the status

901
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,800
Speaker 1: of your relationship with Demi Levado? My status of the

902
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,399
Speaker 1: relationship with Demi and I are that we are two

903
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: people exploring each other. I like it. I like it.

904
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: So what's next for you? Mike Johnson? What's next for me? So?

905
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 1: I am really big and I really care about self

906
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: love and insecurities, and so I am working on something

907
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 1: right now to help raise people's self love and lower

908
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 1: their insecurities through a media platform. I love this, and

909
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you why this is so necessary.

910
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: So we just did a podcast with Blake and it

911
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,320
Speaker 1: went so deep it had to be two parts. And

912
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 1: what I loved about that podcast is he was so

913
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: open vulnerable. I mean, you met Blake, you saw the drama,

914
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: but he talked about the darker side of being a

915
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 1: Bachelor Nation, which a lot of people don't. I hit

916
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: him up about it, and I really think that you

917
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: guys should team up together and really help people through this,

918
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 1: because everybody wants to see they were on TV and

919
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: you know people they're shilling or they're going to all

920
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,479
Speaker 1: these events. But you know that lasts for most people

921
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 1: six months and then the whole new crop of Bachelor

922
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: contestants come in and you're lucky if you can sustain

923
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: it longer than that. And when you don't, it's the

924
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 1: dark side of things. Or if you have a bad

925
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,800
Speaker 1: experience and it plays out on a public platform like

926
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: Blakes did, it's a darker side of things. So I'm

927
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: excited to hear that you're doing something positive and I

928
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:46,319
Speaker 1: think it can really reach and help a lot of people.

929
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:53,320
Speaker 1: I agree completely. I've had family members and friends commit

930
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: suicide and you know, become hurt really bad by mental health.

931
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:01,359
Speaker 1: And I know people that are in the public eye

932
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 1: that were once in the start now they're down at

933
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:08,320
Speaker 1: the bottom, and so that plays a real toll on you,

934
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: and so you asked earlier about me and my personality.

935
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: Have I let things to go to my head. I

936
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: try to be even killers always because I am super

937
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,840
Speaker 1: grateful to be sitting here with you right now, and

938
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 1: I know that tomorrow could be gone, and so therefore,

939
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:24,719
Speaker 1: my day ones, I want to make sure that they

940
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: know that I love them care about them. And that's

941
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: the strongest thing that you can have is just your

942
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 1: family and friends that are near and dear to you.

943
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 1: But I understand that everyone goes through something and my

944
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,359
Speaker 1: DMS people say, how do you smile? You know, through

945
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: a diversity, and so I just want to use my

946
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 1: platform for the good, for the greater good while still

947
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: having fun and still being do rat you know, Mike

948
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 1: very powerful. Gosh, Mike Johnson. I have to say it

949
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 1: is our loss that we don't have you as the

950
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:55,360
Speaker 1: Bachelor for season twenty four, but I am glad that

951
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 1: you have graced us with your presence on hand a season,

952
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: even on Paradise, though I know you weren't a huge

953
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 1: fan of that, but you are a part of this

954
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: Bachelor family. You're a part of this franchise, and I

955
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: think that you're a really positive figure within it. I

956
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:10,320
Speaker 1: appreciate that, and so I just want to thank you

957
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 1: so much for coming on the podcast. And I'm also

958
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 1: excited because I feel like this is a question I

959
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you too. I feel like a lot

960
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: of people haven't had the opportunity to know you, and

961
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:22,239
Speaker 1: you've really gone deep on this podcast. And I think

962
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:24,880
Speaker 1: one of the things people would say about why you

963
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:29,479
Speaker 1: wouldn't make a good bachelor is because you didn't open

964
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 1: up or you didn't cry in certain instances. And for

965
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 1: all those people out there who said that, take I

966
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 1: hope you're listening to this podcast because you have opened

967
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: up in a way and put yourself out there and

968
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: been very vulnerable, very honest, and really shown who you are.

969
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,919
Speaker 1: And so I mean, like to all the haters out there, bye,

970
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 1: I want to speak on that light. Think thank you

971
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 1: for bringing that up. That's ridiculous when I'm not going

972
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: to call her name, said that I'm not going to

973
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: be a good continent for the Bachelor because I wasn't

974
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 1: vulnerable enough or didn't cry. For one. Where I come from,

975
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:04,839
Speaker 1: when we talk about tears, we let those tears out.

976
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna let tears out for the most

977
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: frivolous of things. I do cry. I am an emotional person.

978
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:15,839
Speaker 1: I am in touch with my emotional side. But I'm

979
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 1: not gonna cry for something that you've seen fifteen other

980
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: dudes cry for, and so that's just ridiculous to me.

981
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 1: I am extremely You can ask ask anybody to know me.

982
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I don't need to ask. I already

983
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: know what's up. And I'll tell you this. There are

984
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 1: plenty of people who cry on that show, and there's

985
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 1: nothing behind those tears. It means nothing, nothing. It doesn't

986
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: mean that they'd be a good lead. Okay, And I'm

987
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 1: not going to name any names, Okay, Okay, all right.

988
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you so much for

989
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 1: coming on the podcast. Really do appreciate it. It was

990
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 1: a long time coming, and I wish you all the best.

991
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what happens for you. I know,

992
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:52,839
Speaker 1: for one, I'm not going to be here for six

993
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 1: months or less. I know that's right me neither. Good.

994
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, thank you so much for coming in today.

995
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 1: I know you had to stay in La an extra

996
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:04,840
Speaker 1: couple of days to make this work, so we definitely

997
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,439
Speaker 1: appreciate it. But I feel like you kind of wanted

998
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:09,479
Speaker 1: to do it anyway, because this was a long time coming.

999
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:11,839
Speaker 1: I see it on your face now. So next week,

1000
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:14,359
Speaker 1: you guys, do not forget. We will have part two

1001
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 1: of the Blake Interview. I promise this is one that

1002
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:19,360
Speaker 1: you don't want to miss. It'll go up Wednesday morning

1003
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 1: and it's worth the way. In the meantime, you can

1004
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: get all the latest Batchter news on batternation dot com

1005
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: right now. And you, guys, as we say every week,

1006
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 1: we want to hear from you, So make sure you

1007
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: tell us what you like, what you don't like about

1008
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: the show, and tell us what you want to hear

1009
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:37,280
Speaker 1: more of we need to hear that. You can email

1010
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: us at happy hour at batchelnation dot com or visit

1011
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 1: Bachelor nation dot com and click podcast