Speaker 1: What's up, guys, and welcome to Bachelor Happy Hour. I'm Rachel.
Speaker 1: Ali is off today, but we had the opportunity to
Speaker 1: do an extra podcast for you guys, and we didn't
Speaker 1: want to wait. Well, the truth is, I didn't want
Speaker 1: to wait because you guys, if you follow me, if
Speaker 1: you listen to me, if you dare to do that,
Speaker 1: you know that I have a favorite, a clear favorite
Speaker 1: from Hannah Bey's season, and I'm not shy about him.
Speaker 1: It is none other than Mike Johnson. And I've been
Speaker 1: waiting for this day to have Mike Johnson on the
Speaker 1: Bachelor Happy Hour podcast, and I am so excited that
Speaker 1: he's here. You all know I've been pushing hard for
Speaker 1: him to be the Bachelor, and while fortunately that's not
Speaker 1: going to happen, he's still my bachelor and I'm going
Speaker 1: to talk to him about that and so much more today. Mike,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the podcast. Are you ready? Well, let's go.
Speaker 1: I've been waiting a whole season to talk to you.
Speaker 1: Mike Ready, I'm ready? Okay, So I guess I just
Speaker 1: want to start from the beginning because I feel like
Speaker 1: when I watched Hannah season, we didn't get to really
Speaker 1: know you. We didn't get in depth. You know, we
Speaker 1: saw you. There was a lot of drama that was
Speaker 1: involved with your season and I don't even want to
Speaker 1: talk about that because we saw that enough. But I
Speaker 1: feel like that's when we saw you most. Even on
Speaker 1: your one on one we didn't get to know Mike,
Speaker 1: but you are a fan favorite. The audience knew that
Speaker 1: there was something there. You were even a fan favorite
Speaker 1: of Hannah. I've heard Hannah talk very positively about you
Speaker 1: since the show's been over. So let's just from the beginning.
Speaker 1: Who is Mike Johnson? If you could describe yourself in
Speaker 1: three words? What would you say? My friends would call
Speaker 1: me since say bushy brow because I have thick eyebrows.
Speaker 1: You do have thick eyebrows? Do you do you tame
Speaker 1: your eyebrows? Are they natural? Just natural? Just black? And
Speaker 1: I'm rocking it. I'm blessed to be here with you, sir,
Speaker 1: and I'm blessed to have you on the show. Okay,
Speaker 1: three words, and I know you already talked to me
Speaker 1: about one word. Three words. If you had to describe yourself,
Speaker 1: three words, had to describe myself? Goofy, ambitious leader? All right,
Speaker 1: goofy ambitious leader. I like that you sound like a
Speaker 1: good time. I'm a great time. And then and then
Speaker 1: at the same time that somebody could learn something from you.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's dive into it a bit. How
Speaker 1: do you feel like your life has changed since this
Speaker 1: whole Bachelor experience? You know, a crazy thing. It's like
Speaker 1: when I'm in the airport and I didn't brush my
Speaker 1: hair and somebody wants to take a picture or something.
Speaker 1: That's crazy because I want to. I'm grateful to take
Speaker 1: a picture with you. But then bro, like my breath staying,
Speaker 1: my hair is not dead yet, you know those are
Speaker 1: That's the weird part. That's the weird part right there.
Speaker 1: These are things you will have to learn. I had
Speaker 1: to start getting eyelash extensions because too many times people
Speaker 1: ask for a picture and I was bald eyed. Ye
Speaker 1: stop balhead and bald eye. I never heard that before.
Speaker 1: I'm learning it off on the spot. Serious, it's just crazy,
Speaker 1: like I'm not looking at my best and people want
Speaker 1: to picture. That's when it's crazy. Do you feel like
Speaker 1: you've been able to go back to your normal life
Speaker 1: since this whole experience. When I'm back home in Texas,
Speaker 1: all my closest homies and cousins treat me like regular
Speaker 1: and if not already even more on top of me now,
Speaker 1: and I respect him, I love them and I need it.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like that's kept you grounded through this
Speaker 1: whole experience, because I see people get caught up, you
Speaker 1: don't seem to be that person. I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: caught up. What's I don't think I ever get caught up.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I was just texting my little sister,
Speaker 1: one of my best homies, a minute ago before being
Speaker 1: out here, and they just, yeah, they do help me,
Speaker 1: they stay, they keep me grounded. I think that's key,
Speaker 1: and I wish more people did that. Um, you see
Speaker 1: this world change a lot of people, and I don't
Speaker 1: feel like that's happened to you. I don't think it will. Yeah, see,
Speaker 1: I don't think it will either. Okay, So I want
Speaker 1: to know. I don't know. I'm sure the viewers are.
Speaker 1: The listeners want to know this as well, But I
Speaker 1: want to know how you How did you get on
Speaker 1: the show. So that's a really good question. My homeboy,
Speaker 1: I was working as a financial advisor and say it.
Speaker 1: You're in a safe place. No, I'm good I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say I told you already. I was at work in
Speaker 1: my office and I threw my phone across the across
Speaker 1: the room and my homeboy, my coworker, was like, what's
Speaker 1: wrong with you? And I said, man, all these girls
Speaker 1: just want to have sexual relations and I really want
Speaker 1: to be in a relationship. And he bust out laughing
Speaker 1: for like twenty minutes. She was like, what guy says that?
Speaker 1: And I was like, bro, I'm serious. And after forever
Speaker 1: of him laughing at me, he knew I was extremely serious.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be in a relationship. My last relationship
Speaker 1: probably going on the show, was twenty fifteen and crazy,
Speaker 1: it's got my heart broke, all that stuff, and so
Speaker 1: I really wanted to be in a relationship again. And
Speaker 1: you know, get married. I'm mightna be thirty two. I
Speaker 1: got like little gray hairs, my beard now rocket and
Speaker 1: you know I'm trying to have kids one day. You know,
Speaker 1: my ultimate going life has built a treehouse for my kids.
Speaker 1: And so who are you? It's unicorn? A horn just
Speaker 1: popped up on your head. And so like six months
Speaker 1: after I I had like a bitch fit, I guess
Speaker 1: you would say, because I wanted to be in a relationship,
Speaker 1: and I am picky. My homeboy send me a Facebook wing.
Speaker 1: He said, hey, you should go try out for this.
Speaker 1: And I was off work that day, so I drove
Speaker 1: down to Houston, went to the aquarium where they had auditions.
Speaker 1: And the crazy thing is they thought it was like
Speaker 1: nine ladies to every one guy. It might have been
Speaker 1: every It might have been forty nine ladies and one guy.
Speaker 1: It was crazy, right, And then I think I was
Speaker 1: only black guy there, sood out sounds like the sounds
Speaker 1: like the Bachelor. I wore a full suit. I actually
Speaker 1: got on the Houston news that night because they thought
Speaker 1: I was a bachelor, which is crazy, Like legit, girls,
Speaker 1: girls and their mom and dads were coming up to me,
Speaker 1: like introducing their daughters to me while I was auditioning
Speaker 1: for the show. You didn't even need the show, not
Speaker 1: like that at all. But it was just a really
Speaker 1: crazy experience. I mean, I had my book with me.
Speaker 1: I got to tell the story. It was gonna be
Speaker 1: a great day that day. Right, So I can't tell
Speaker 1: the story. Yeah, okay, so I have. I think I
Speaker 1: told you guys, I have a disabled veteran license plates, right,
Speaker 1: so I can park in disabled spots, and I parked
Speaker 1: in one of the zoo is. The aquarium was quite busy,
Speaker 1: and I'm parked there. I'm there pretty early and I
Speaker 1: see a guy drive buy in a van. He's like, hey,
Speaker 1: if someone are you like sitting there. I'm like, nah, bro,
Speaker 1: you can have it. So I move out of this
Speaker 1: spot so the other guy can get the parking spot, right.
Speaker 1: Good karma. People have good karma. And so we're doing
Speaker 1: that or whatever. I go upstairs and this dude in
Speaker 1: the wheelchair he's trying out for the show as well.
Speaker 1: It was a second time trying out, so me and
Speaker 1: him made a really cool bond together. We stayed there
Speaker 1: the whole time, just talking crap about the girls and
Speaker 1: the guys there and just you know, doing what people do.
Speaker 1: And he became my best friend. So shout out to you, bro,
Speaker 1: if you hear this. I completely forgot your name. I
Speaker 1: love you, that homie. But yeah, long story short, I
Speaker 1: got mad because I wanted to be in a relationship
Speaker 1: and my homeboy six months later took me then apply
Speaker 1: for the show. Oh gott I see this. I used
Speaker 1: to live downtown in San Antonio and I work my
Speaker 1: butt off as a financial advisor. I was Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year. I worked crazy hard. I'm super ambitious. And
Speaker 1: this girl in my department complace used to have her
Speaker 1: name's Ashley. She used to have like Bachelor parties every Monday.
Speaker 1: And I had never watched the show prior to that,
Speaker 1: me too, you know, being honest, and so she like,
Speaker 1: maybe me go watch one, and she said I was
Speaker 1: gonna be the be on the show. She said I
Speaker 1: was gonna be the Bachelor, which is so crazy. I
Speaker 1: was two years. Shout out to Ashley who saw what
Speaker 1: we we see now. We see now and still see
Speaker 1: and still are rooting for UM. I think it's a
Speaker 1: cool story. I love hearing how people got to the show.
Speaker 1: You know, some people submitted a video, some people tried
Speaker 1: out four or five times. I remember my experience when
Speaker 1: I went actually went to an audition to my co
Speaker 1: workers signed me up. There were people who had been
Speaker 1: there five six times. It's like American Idol had traveled
Speaker 1: to different cities. And it's like you know with athletes,
Speaker 1: when you're like hang up the cleats, it's almost like
Speaker 1: turn like let the application go. You know, it's it's
Speaker 1: a rat for you. Well, good thing. You went through
Speaker 1: the Houston audition, Yeah, definitely. They liked you. They sent
Speaker 1: you on through, you went to Hollywood, then you came
Speaker 1: on our TV screens. Um, did you have any You
Speaker 1: didn't watch the show and I didn't either, And I
Speaker 1: love talking to people who didn't watch the show because
Speaker 1: I feel like your expectations are different than the super
Speaker 1: fan who comes on the show, and there are a
Speaker 1: lot of them. So what were your expecting? Who'd you say?
Speaker 1: He Cam dead? Was Cam? Isn't Cam from Oh Austin?
Speaker 1: Was he at your audition? No? He wasn't. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you would have seen him. He was probably
Speaker 1: standing up on a ledge rapping. You'd have been talking
Speaker 1: to everybody. He would have known everyone's bio. They're social,
Speaker 1: he'd have known everything. Poor Cam. Just to digress a bit,
Speaker 1: the way that that Anyeka called out Cam at the finale,
Speaker 1: I felt sorry for him. I thought, geez, like, this
Speaker 1: guy can't win. Um, okay, So what were your expectations
Speaker 1: when you came on to the show, Because you didn't
Speaker 1: watch it before, so I know what you were. Well.
Speaker 1: I remember stepping out of the limo and I saw Hannah.
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, you're really cute, and so I
Speaker 1: was like a plus right to me. I didn't watch
Speaker 1: Colton season, so I wasn't I was unsure of who
Speaker 1: would be the bachelrette. But you didn't watch Colton season,
Speaker 1: no comic because I don't watch. My expectations were just, honestly,
Speaker 1: to be myself and have a good time and if
Speaker 1: I find love, and then I find love. Okay, So
Speaker 1: you did you know Hannah was going to be the bachelorette.
Speaker 1: I did the night before because that was when she
Speaker 1: had the five guys come out on stage with Chris
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison and that's when Cam did his little rap
Speaker 1: thing and got the row. So I knew her literally
Speaker 1: twenty four hours prior. Um, that's I see. I'm shocked
Speaker 1: that you knew her or you didn't know her until
Speaker 1: right before. That's interesting. So you really were open and
Speaker 1: just ready to meet someone, which is refreshing. You were
Speaker 1: I guess I have to say use a bachelor term here.
Speaker 1: You were there for the right reasons, and I think
Speaker 1: that I saw on my Instagram. When you're there for
Speaker 1: the right reasons, things happened differently. Oh, I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I
Speaker 1: can take that two different ways. Okay, moving on, what
Speaker 1: was your experience like on the show away from Luke?
Speaker 1: Because we saw that, we saw that play out all
Speaker 1: on the camera, so it's like, I want to know
Speaker 1: what the other side was like for you. Well I
Speaker 1: want to speak on that, but one shout out to Luke.
Speaker 1: I love you, bro, I hope you getting better. But
Speaker 1: things outside of Luke, honestly were great. It was It
Speaker 1: was a great group of guys outside of Luke. And
Speaker 1: Hannah is goofy as hell and I love it. She
Speaker 1: just speaks her mind. I love everything about her. In
Speaker 1: that regard, it was boring, Like when you're not going
Speaker 1: on a date, it's hella boring. You're just in a
Speaker 1: mansion with a bunch of dudes. What did y'all do
Speaker 1: for fun on your off days? Because you're right, what
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't see is that you see
Speaker 1: the dates rights as a viewer, you see two hours
Speaker 1: of filming when we've been filming an entire week, and
Speaker 1: you only get out of the house on rose ceremonies
Speaker 1: or if you have a date, So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of downtime you're in these great countries, these beautiful cities
Speaker 1: you've never been in before, and you don't really get
Speaker 1: to go out and see it. So what did y'all
Speaker 1: do for fun? Then I'll tell you what we did.
Speaker 1: Telling what y'all did. You know what y'all did, y'all
Speaker 1: probably y'all more buck way than we did. I just uh,
Speaker 1: I feel like y'all did drink. You know, stupid guy stuff,
Speaker 1: push ups, pull ups, all that stuff. Okay, that's definitely
Speaker 1: not what we did. Yeah, somewing around the pool, talk
Speaker 1: shit to each other, do a lot of interviews. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of that going on. We did. You know.
Speaker 1: The crazy thing is you do all these what is
Speaker 1: it called guy talk or a girl talking? On your season?
Speaker 1: None of that crab gets aired? I know, I'm like,
Speaker 1: why you got me doing all these? It mean it's tough.
Speaker 1: Tyler and I Tyler seeing I did a great one
Speaker 1: making fun of Garrett and Hannah because like they live
Speaker 1: like thirty minutes from each other. It was epic. That
Speaker 1: should have made the credits. It was. Although the church
Speaker 1: scene that y'all did at the piano was amazing. I'm
Speaker 1: glad that that made the credits and I could tell
Speaker 1: the camaraderie that you guys had on the season. Who
Speaker 1: were you close to. I'm close to a lot of guys. Uh.
Speaker 1: Like I mentioned Tyler, he did homie Dustin. I spold
Speaker 1: him earlier today, he's a homie. Dylan's my little brother, Connor.
Speaker 1: I'm those are the ones that I hang out with
Speaker 1: and talk to the most. Matteo. I want to go
Speaker 1: see him in Atlanta. Yeah, I'm pretty cool with everybody.
Speaker 1: Is the infamous group chat popping because I know y'all
Speaker 1: have it. Of course we got a group chat, and
Speaker 1: I'm the one that pisses everybody off of my Android.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, you're one of those. It's I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: they should kick you out. It's very annoying when someone
Speaker 1: goes green chat. I might get the eleven because all
Speaker 1: my dms, like Mike, can you please get an iPhone
Speaker 1: so I might listen to the fans? Yeah, you need
Speaker 1: to pay attention to that. Um okay on your one
Speaker 1: on one, I want to talk about that. Because I
Speaker 1: said this earlier, I felt like we didn't see a
Speaker 1: lot of you. Were you really nervous? Did we? Did
Speaker 1: we miss out on some conversation because I know you expressed, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm nervous, but it just seemed like a lot of
Speaker 1: nervous energy. Nah, So I definitely wasn't nervous. It was
Speaker 1: more of when I watched The Bachelorette back, all I
Speaker 1: did with smile, and I have so much more than
Speaker 1: a smile. I like, really do converse with people, have
Speaker 1: a great conversation. I feel I think the show just
Speaker 1: wanted me to. They just want to show my smile.
Speaker 1: They didn't want you to look like the angry black man,
Speaker 1: and they damn sure in portray me that light. So
Speaker 1: I'm appreciative, even though I definitely was going off on
Speaker 1: some people that deserved it. Sure I did too. You
Speaker 1: know it's good, he said it did. It's good? Oh
Speaker 1: did not ery good? Hannah. I definitely had conversations. There
Speaker 1: was no pauses in our dates at all. On both
Speaker 1: of our dates. It was great conversation throughout his fluid.
Speaker 1: They just want to show me a smile for some reason.
Speaker 1: Well it's better than a frown, right, Not definitely, I'm
Speaker 1: not a frowning. You know, it takes more. It takes
Speaker 1: more muscles to frown than it does a smile, exactly.
Speaker 1: So therefore to smile. I'm a frowner. I you'r a frowner.
Speaker 1: Are your rbfer? I'm definitely you can say bitch. I
Speaker 1: definitely have a resting bitch face boat show everybody. Everybody
Speaker 1: knows that. But I try to work on smiling because
Speaker 1: people tell me that I look angry. So it's nice
Speaker 1: that even Okay, maybe they didn't show your full personality,
Speaker 1: but at least they showed you smiling. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: good thing. Definitely have a full personality. I'm extremely loud
Speaker 1: and hilarious and I want to scream right now just
Speaker 1: out of pure excitement and enjoy I'm glad that's the
Speaker 1: energy you're bringing into the podcast. Who screamed with you? Um? Okay,
Speaker 1: so you get sent home. We all saw that, and
Speaker 1: it was really hard to watch because you were like
Speaker 1: dressed to impressed. Y'all had had the day date before.
Speaker 1: You know, you'd poured your heart out to Hannah. And
Speaker 1: I remember even in the itms, you were saying, I
Speaker 1: see her as my wife. Did you see it coming
Speaker 1: at all? No? Zero percent one did not know that
Speaker 1: I was gonna be sent home because and I asked,
Speaker 1: because and I want you to expand on that. I asked,
Speaker 1: because when I got sent home, I knew it. I
Speaker 1: was actually hugging sound and hugging audio and the cameraman
Speaker 1: before the rose ceremony, saying this was it, Like I knew,
Speaker 1: I felt it in my bones, and so I guess
Speaker 1: I assume other people have that same experience. So I'm
Speaker 1: curious where you were coming from. Oh, let's speak on it.
Speaker 1: It's juice. You ready for the juice? Time can be like, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I bet so. No, I one hundred percent thought that
Speaker 1: Hannah was gonna give me a rose. What had a
Speaker 1: shout out of doubt. But for those crazy, crazy extreme fanatics,
Speaker 1: the suit I wore was the exact same suit that
Speaker 1: I got out of the limo in. We didn't know,
Speaker 1: and for me and myself, that was like symbolism. And
Speaker 1: I did that prior to No one knows that, none
Speaker 1: of the producers know that, and so, and that was
Speaker 1: from my end because I wanted to make sure and
Speaker 1: this is real. I don't want Hannah to take this
Speaker 1: no way, nor anybody I was hearing this. I haven't
Speaker 1: brought a woman home to my mom in forever, and
Speaker 1: there's been one woman in over a decade, and I
Speaker 1: take that very seriously, whether on TV or not being
Speaker 1: on TV. And I wasn't sure if I was ready
Speaker 1: to take Hannah home, that's fair, and I didn't thought
Speaker 1: I was gonna stay. I thought she was gonna give
Speaker 1: me a rose. But I wasn't sure if I wanted
Speaker 1: to be like, hey, mom, this is you know, the
Speaker 1: beautiful Hannah. What's up? Say hi? Yeah, Hannah can play
Speaker 1: spaces by the way too, so I like that. I
Speaker 1: don't know she could play bones. So I thought that
Speaker 1: I was gonna stay. I thought Hannah wasn't leave me
Speaker 1: a rose. But for me, myself and I shout to
Speaker 1: be honest, I thought we would have needed to have
Speaker 1: a longer conversation for me to decide for myself, because well,
Speaker 1: people don't realize that this is a two way street.
Speaker 1: Like just Rachel, you are at the bachelorette, but your husband,
Speaker 1: now he was a contestant, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: he had an opportunity to leave as well, and obviously
Speaker 1: he wanted you as you wanted him. And so for me,
Speaker 1: I looked at it like that. That's why I was
Speaker 1: never nervous. It's a two way street. From me my
Speaker 1: heart has feelings as well. I think it's interesting that
Speaker 1: you say, and thank you for being honest and sharing that.
Speaker 1: I think it's fair fair for you to say you
Speaker 1: didn't know if you were ready to bring her home,
Speaker 1: because that's the other side of it. People don't talk about.
Speaker 1: You know, you watch this play out, you assume everybody
Speaker 1: wants a rose every single week, But it is such
Speaker 1: a pivotal time when you have to take the lead
Speaker 1: to your home because it's a reality check. You're in
Speaker 1: this bubble, this bachelor bubble. You are caught up in
Speaker 1: these feelings and these emotions because you have to talk
Speaker 1: about them all damn day, every day. And then you're
Speaker 1: gonna step outside of that bubble and take them home
Speaker 1: where you know, we talked about this earlier. Your family,
Speaker 1: your friends are gonna check you and bring you back
Speaker 1: to reality. And that's a scary thought. And so I'm
Speaker 1: glad that you speak on that because I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people need to realize how nerve wracking it
Speaker 1: is for the person to accept the rose to bring
Speaker 1: them home. You got to make sure that you're ready
Speaker 1: for that. And I think over that, I know you
Speaker 1: didn't watch Colton season but there was a girl who
Speaker 1: did that on Colton season. She just felt like their
Speaker 1: relationship hadn't progressed enough for her to bring him home.
Speaker 1: That's a serious thing. So I like that you set that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nothing is Hannah. I definitely like her, liked her, but
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure that is when we
Speaker 1: write for my family as well. I think that shows
Speaker 1: how much you liked her. You weren't just gonna it
Speaker 1: wasn't a game to you, and you aren't going to
Speaker 1: take her. Yeah, you aren't going to set her up
Speaker 1: for failure. You wanted it to be right, and that
Speaker 1: shows your sincerity. Another good characteristic of the Bachelor, of
Speaker 1: why he should be the Bachelor. I'm just telling y'all
Speaker 1: another good characteristic. All Right, I have so many more
Speaker 1: questions for you. We're gonna take a quick break. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let you have a breather because I feel like
Speaker 1: I've been grilling you for a moment and we're gonna
Speaker 1: come right back. All right, you guys, I'm back talking
Speaker 1: to the Mike Johnson and we've been talking about his
Speaker 1: time on the Bachelorette and how he got here and
Speaker 1: just this journey through this whole bachelorette journey. But one
Speaker 1: question I want to ask you because the way Hannah
Speaker 1: season ended, we've never seen anything like it before, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to get too into it because it's
Speaker 1: we've talked about it so much, but I am curious
Speaker 1: as to first I'll ask you this. Are you cool
Speaker 1: with Jed? Yes? Okay, So I'm not going to get
Speaker 1: a lot out of you. No, you probably will you.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, did you see this coming? Oh,
Speaker 1: that's fair to ask. I'm just because I can be cool.
Speaker 1: Someone domo be not honest about the situation, right, So, No,
Speaker 1: none of us knew that Jed had someone back home,
Speaker 1: like at all. It was. I mean, you can see
Speaker 1: my eyes right now. I was like, I was flowergasted
Speaker 1: by it. Had no idea I knew that hand I
Speaker 1: was gonna choose Jet though, um even for the moment.
Speaker 1: I got even furthermore when I got sent home because
Speaker 1: I know Ellen. Hannah had one on Ellen and she
Speaker 1: was Ellen was playing that game with her, like who
Speaker 1: she likes? And she chose, uh, what's my man's name?
Speaker 1: From the stars born Radley Cooper? She chose. Hannah chose
Speaker 1: Bradley Cooper. She likes guys that look like they haven't
Speaker 1: showered in a few days, and that's Jet, and so
Speaker 1: is that Jet. Jed looks like he has a shower
Speaker 1: or does he smell like he has a Jet? Smells good?
Speaker 1: He smells good. See to me, he doesn't look rough
Speaker 1: around the edges like that. No, it's just his style.
Speaker 1: He wears a tight jeans with the boots, you know,
Speaker 1: the nice little leather jacket thing, got a little beer going.
Speaker 1: It's just his style. He wears a ring. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not. Yeah, he wears a ring that really stood
Speaker 1: out to me. I'm not. I'm not into I did. Okay,
Speaker 1: but no, none of us knew that Jed had a
Speaker 1: woman back home. He seemed like a great guy to me.
Speaker 1: He's hilarious, He is super funny, he's these are things
Speaker 1: you don't get to see. I mean, we had Jet
Speaker 1: on the show, and of course it was more of
Speaker 1: a serious conversation, so we didn't get to talk to
Speaker 1: him about that. But it's interesting to know there's this
Speaker 1: other side of him now. Although it's sad to say
Speaker 1: that you will not make history being currently being the
Speaker 1: first black bachelor. I'm sorry. Oh no, we'll get into that,
Speaker 1: but I want to say you did make history because
Speaker 1: to my knowledge, and again I didn't watch the show
Speaker 1: before I was on it, you are the first contestant
Speaker 1: to wear a do rag and itms, oh, we have
Speaker 1: to talk about that, Hey, do rag king, let's go.
Speaker 1: I think I stood up and clapped when I said,
Speaker 1: this is the realist shit I've ever seen on the show.
Speaker 1: I'm always be me, always be a hunted to myself,
Speaker 1: and they always have us. You know, we're at home
Speaker 1: all day in the mansion. Why am I gonna take
Speaker 1: off my dud rag? Why am I gonna take out
Speaker 1: my bajamas that I have one? Like? Yeah, I wanted
Speaker 1: to be reality TV, so I'm gonna show you reality TV.
Speaker 1: I appreciated it because and what you guys don't know
Speaker 1: a little behind the scenes information is we're not allowed
Speaker 1: to wear sunglasses, we aren't allowed to wear hats, we're
Speaker 1: not allowed to wear things really on our head. So
Speaker 1: when I saw that you were able to wear the
Speaker 1: d rag, I said, way to make a statement, Mike.
Speaker 1: You know I couldn't do this podcast without talking about
Speaker 1: the doo rack. I almost posted it on social media
Speaker 1: when it happened, but I didn't. It was it was,
Speaker 1: It was great. I was a fan of it. I
Speaker 1: want to get into paradise, but before I get there,
Speaker 1: I do want to ask you a question because I
Speaker 1: felt like this was a question that was posed to me.
Speaker 1: And it's sad to say, I don't get a lot
Speaker 1: of opportunities to talk with other people in the franchise
Speaker 1: about it, just because there aren't a lot of people
Speaker 1: in the franchise that look like us. But being a
Speaker 1: person of color in this franchise, do you feel like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I guess I should just ask you. What did it
Speaker 1: feel like to be a person of color in this franchise?
Speaker 1: Did you always feel that similar to the way you
Speaker 1: said when you went to the audition and you were
Speaker 1: the only blackmail there. Do you feel like your race
Speaker 1: was an issue on hand a season? Do you feel
Speaker 1: like it's something that you had to talk about constantly?
Speaker 1: I'm very curious, let's do it. So when I found
Speaker 1: out there's a southern white girl from Alabama as a bachelorette,
Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, I'm even sending home? Now you want?
Speaker 1: I would have said the same thing, now you want?
Speaker 1: What I'm saying home. Damn that sucks. But when Hannah
Speaker 1: and I kissed for the first time, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, she might like the big lips, and then
Speaker 1: from there it would be in the back of my
Speaker 1: mind I would say, you know, could have Hannah, I
Speaker 1: see herself bringing African American guy home to her parents.
Speaker 1: And now I know her parents love and adore me,
Speaker 1: and so I respect them as well. But that was
Speaker 1: something that was my mind. Not gonna deny it. You know,
Speaker 1: I was concerned about that. But as far as the
Speaker 1: cast member goes the cast members go, I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't really here. I didn't care about none of
Speaker 1: them in that regard. I just cared about Handa and
Speaker 1: how she would feel. And that sounds like I'm trying
Speaker 1: to be a good guy, but that's just not the truth.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't care about none of the
Speaker 1: guys and how they felt. My connection was with Hannah
Speaker 1: and if she didn't if she could see pass raced
Speaker 1: and I was cool with that. No, I I'm very
Speaker 1: curious and I love to talk about it, mainly because
Speaker 1: I can. Yeah, But when I was on The Bachelor,
Speaker 1: I didn't feel that way either. When I got the
Speaker 1: first impression Rose to be Frank. I didn't know what
Speaker 1: that was because I didn't I didn't, I didn't watch
Speaker 1: the show like that before. But there were girls that
Speaker 1: came to me that said, oh, a black person has
Speaker 1: never received the first impression Rose. So those things were
Speaker 1: in my mind when I made it as far as
Speaker 1: I did. I was told a black person's never made
Speaker 1: it this far. So I didn't really feel it until
Speaker 1: those monumental to monaments and then of course being the Bachelorrettes.
Speaker 1: So I'm just very curious as to how it was
Speaker 1: for you. All Right, let's get into Paradise. Why the
Speaker 1: hell did you decide to go to Paradise? I still
Speaker 1: was single and still wanted to be in a relationship,
Speaker 1: So why the hell not? So they twist your arm,
Speaker 1: you finally decide to go. You got a day card
Speaker 1: when you first arrived, right, I did. Okay, So you
Speaker 1: have a day card and you decided to take Kaylin.
Speaker 1: I did. It was so what the America doesn't see
Speaker 1: is that I was. It was a toss up between
Speaker 1: Sydney and Kaylyn, and then Katie was my second option
Speaker 1: of who I wanted to go on a day with.
Speaker 1: But it was like dead even between Sydney and Kaylin
Speaker 1: and then Katie. I chose Kaylin or Sidney just because
Speaker 1: Sydney is quiet and I felt like at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I at least have a fun time
Speaker 1: with Kaylin. Yeah, And did you guys have a good
Speaker 1: time now? We had a great time after your date.
Speaker 1: Did you know that it wasn't gonna go anywhere after that?
Speaker 1: I knew I wanted to tell to Sydney because I
Speaker 1: told Sydney even before going on the day with Kaylin.
Speaker 1: I told Sydney, I'm gonna go on to this day
Speaker 1: with her, but I still want to talk to you.
Speaker 1: And so as soon as I got back the next day,
Speaker 1: I was talking to Sydney and I wanted to be
Speaker 1: with Sydney. And I think Kaylen had one on a
Speaker 1: day with Dean that same day. Yeah, so it worked
Speaker 1: out kind of perfect. What happened to Sydney, I mean,
Speaker 1: you guys seem to be having fun and playful on
Speaker 1: the beach. We really didn't get the end of your stories.
Speaker 1: What happened? First off, they not first off to you,
Speaker 1: that's disrespectful, but first off to the show, Like, bro,
Speaker 1: come on, you gotta like show what happened to the
Speaker 1: end of Sydney and I, yeah, weird, So tell us
Speaker 1: what happened. I broke it off with Sydney. I just
Speaker 1: felt as if I thought a couple of things. One,
Speaker 1: I feel like she didn't find me sexually attractive too.
Speaker 1: I felt like our connection just was not there whatsoever.
Speaker 1: I think that we both were trying. And I think
Speaker 1: that Sydney is a diamond. When I say a diamond,
Speaker 1: I mean that she is absolutely spectacular and very very
Speaker 1: hard to crack, and that what I mean by diamond,
Speaker 1: and so I called it ruby as well. But that
Speaker 1: diamond wasn't for me, and so I broke things off
Speaker 1: with her. And then I went to the to the wedding.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so it was before the wedding. Gosh, we
Speaker 1: really didn't see well, we don't know, so, I mean,
Speaker 1: you can kind of set the timeline for us. But
Speaker 1: I'm glad you cleared that up because I remember watching
Speaker 1: thinking what happened to Mike and Sydney. They just all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they just weren't. Yeah, that was weird.
Speaker 1: I broke it off with Sydney. It was it was
Speaker 1: respectful on both sides. It was mutual. And I went
Speaker 1: to the wedding, and that's what y'all don't get to see.
Speaker 1: I was in my zone. I was Mike Johnson to
Speaker 1: a T Mike and Dallas was up representing San anton
Speaker 1: I was just heavyes can be. I was just so
Speaker 1: just thrilled to be there. I literally forgot I was
Speaker 1: wearing a microphone. I forgot its cameras was on. I
Speaker 1: just was having a wonderful time. I were free. I
Speaker 1: was free. Yeah. I spoke to Angela, I spot to Danielle,
Speaker 1: I spoke to Bibiana, and I just had a wonderful time,
Speaker 1: Like it was. First of all, I love going to
Speaker 1: weddings because the reception and because you get the dance
Speaker 1: and oh yeah, I just have a fun time. Do
Speaker 1: the bunny hobbit. Listen when people ask me about my wedding,
Speaker 1: I'm like, let me tell about the reception. I had
Speaker 1: a fantastic time at Chris and Chris's wedding. Shout out
Speaker 1: to them their beautiful love birds. And then I went
Speaker 1: on to day with Angela. So I got a question
Speaker 1: for you, got a answer for you. What do you say?
Speaker 1: And I'm asking you this because people said it to
Speaker 1: me too. What do you say to the critics that
Speaker 1: say you don't like to day black women? Yeah, that's crazy, Um,
Speaker 1: I would say, literally my ex girlfriend prior to being
Speaker 1: in on America's face as a black woman, I come
Speaker 1: from a black woman who's a strong and beautiful. My
Speaker 1: sister and my grandmother. Don't make me go all on y'all,
Speaker 1: off on y'allum. First of all, I was on to
Speaker 1: show that the league was a white girl, So therefore,
Speaker 1: who cares my homies always telling me to follow your heart?
Speaker 1: And then my aunt's you know my aunts, they're they're
Speaker 1: the ones that want a date a black woman. And
Speaker 1: then my uncle's like, she find what's up? And that's
Speaker 1: just me being transparent. But my homeboys and my sister
Speaker 1: and my grandma always tell me to follow my heart
Speaker 1: and wasn't near and dear to me. The craziest thing
Speaker 1: is like when I if I were a data white
Speaker 1: girl and I take her back to where I'm from
Speaker 1: in Dallas and we got to certain places we will
Speaker 1: get looked at in Texas. That is true, But also
Speaker 1: true is I don't care. I absolutely love my black woman.
Speaker 1: When I auditioned to be the bachelor. I had a
Speaker 1: Microsoft word spreadsheet that I had printed out financial advising.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know, I'm weird like that. And I had
Speaker 1: three different categories of women, and the first was the
Speaker 1: black woman that I am attracted to and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say their names. And the second, the second one
Speaker 1: was like mixed chicks or whatever or other category Pacific
Speaker 1: islander type category. And the third chick. The third category
Speaker 1: is the white girls. And I mean, I'm a man
Speaker 1: that has lived around the world, living in Europe for
Speaker 1: five years, and I love all people, and I am
Speaker 1: attracted to who I'm attracted to. I have always said
Speaker 1: I would marry a black woman, but I'm not going
Speaker 1: to hold my breath. I love you being honest about this,
Speaker 1: and I ask you because, again, as as prefaced this
Speaker 1: whole conversation, I can talk to you about things that
Speaker 1: I can't really talk to every guest that comes through
Speaker 1: here because we have shared experiences. And I got the
Speaker 1: same criticism because you come on TV and you're on
Speaker 1: the season of somebney who's white. Yes, And then as
Speaker 1: the bachelorette, I have a whole shlew of men to
Speaker 1: choose from, and the one I ended up with is Colombian.
Speaker 1: So people automatically think you don't like your your last race,
Speaker 1: and you are last race, people automatically think you don't
Speaker 1: like your own race. And you know how it is.
Speaker 1: You're judged by America and then you're judged by Black America,
Speaker 1: and they're the ones, and they're the ones that usually
Speaker 1: come at you for not liking your own race. And
Speaker 1: it's so I love that you said my girlfriend prior
Speaker 1: to the show was black. They don't know your dating
Speaker 1: history before coming on the show, and so I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about that because I know you got that
Speaker 1: same criticism as well. Know I absolutely adore my black
Speaker 1: woman and my black skin. Am I Melanin and I'll
Speaker 1: kiss all over you if you're my lady. You love women,
Speaker 1: and there's and there's nothing there's but there's nothing. But
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that, all shapes, sizes, personalities, You
Speaker 1: love for women, you're a lover of women. There's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with that. You're single. I think we'll get into
Speaker 1: that later, but yeah, there's there's absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 1: And I think that your friends are right and telling
Speaker 1: you love who you love there or you said you
Speaker 1: always thought that you would marry a black woman. I
Speaker 1: truly always thought that I would marry a black man.
Speaker 1: Has to say that either, but no, and I and
Speaker 1: I put that to the side and just said I'm
Speaker 1: gonna love who I love, and it turned out to
Speaker 1: be Brian. So you know, I think that if you
Speaker 1: put those lists to the side and those you know,
Speaker 1: I have to do this and just open your heart
Speaker 1: to whatever, you'd be surprised at what comes through. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know that. There's a little um ig story that's
Speaker 1: going biba right now. It's the little white kid and
Speaker 1: a litt black kid and they run up to each other.
Speaker 1: They're on the side. Oh yeah, I've seen that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When I was a child and one of my best
Speaker 1: friends growing up, his name is Colt Simons, so cold
Speaker 1: if you hear this, what's up? Hold me? He was
Speaker 1: a white kid that lived in like our neighborhood, but
Speaker 1: he was like the white kid that had money and
Speaker 1: he was the only white kid in our neighborhood. And
Speaker 1: his parents had his driveway was some minute and they
Speaker 1: had basketball goal and it was really cool and all
Speaker 1: the black guys who come over there and it was
Speaker 1: never about race until he went to high school and
Speaker 1: those little kids I was talking about with a little
Speaker 1: white and a little black kid running up to each other.
Speaker 1: They don't think about race. I think about love and
Speaker 1: friendship and happiness, right, and then when we get older,
Speaker 1: we it just it happens. It comes about. You know,
Speaker 1: when I was in Europe, and I lived in Europe
Speaker 1: and I go on a day with a white girl,
Speaker 1: you no big deal. I got on a day with
Speaker 1: a white girl in Texas, go to Aha or something, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I'm way better in my days in
Speaker 1: But if I were to go someone with a white
Speaker 1: girl in Texas will be looked at differently versus if
Speaker 1: me and you go out. Yeah everybody, I know she
Speaker 1: has a husband. Okay, No, but I get what you mean.
Speaker 1: It's yes, yes, people think that you're supposed to. I
Speaker 1: just pulled up what I told you all about them
Speaker 1: the document here. Look I got and can I give
Speaker 1: some back some inside knowledge. Now you said that this
Speaker 1: is when you were in talk to the bathroom. We're
Speaker 1: going to get into that. But some behind the scenes
Speaker 1: things that people don't know, and that's what we promise
Speaker 1: to give you on this podcast, is that when you
Speaker 1: are in talks. They do ask you who are you
Speaker 1: interested in? What are you attracted to? What type of
Speaker 1: women or men would you like to see on the season.
Speaker 1: So that's why I want people to realize you weren't
Speaker 1: just sitting at home and pulled out this this word
Speaker 1: document because you just got it saved no production ask
Speaker 1: you who you're interested in? Definitely, So I was prepared.
Speaker 1: I mean I was taking this stuff seriously, like we
Speaker 1: talked about earlier, I was there for the right reasons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, um I was. I was going to
Speaker 1: ask him. I was good, we'll have to. Can we
Speaker 1: put up his document on one Bachelor Nation dot com? Um?
Speaker 1: You should? You should? You should put that up yourself
Speaker 1: if you're if you're comfortable with that, because that's very interesting.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about the Bachelor in
Speaker 1: Paradise reunion. Okay, I don't really you can, I be honest.
Speaker 1: You look like you did not want to be there.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to be there, very annoyed. Is that
Speaker 1: does that pretty much wrap up how you felt about Paradise?
Speaker 1: I just felt that I had nothing to contribute. I
Speaker 1: didn't when I watched the show back. I wasn't in
Speaker 1: any scenes. I wasn't about the drama. I would walk
Speaker 1: away off camera when they were having drama situations. And
Speaker 1: so I didn't fall in love on Bachelor in Paradise.
Speaker 1: So I just felt like there was no need for
Speaker 1: me to be there. And then right before going on stage,
Speaker 1: they told me that I wasn't going to be the Bachelor,
Speaker 1: and so you got me out here, you know, flew
Speaker 1: me to La I'm working to Ascot, which I don't think.
Speaker 1: No one has rocked to Ascot on the show before.
Speaker 1: I don't think so either, And I did notice it,
Speaker 1: and I just there was no need for me to
Speaker 1: be there, and you just tell me that I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be the Bachelor, So I just didn't want to
Speaker 1: be there at all. All Right, Mike, that's a really
Speaker 1: good place to stop, because that conversation is going to
Speaker 1: take another turn and I really want to get in
Speaker 1: depth with that. So coming up next, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: to Mike about how he felt about not being the
Speaker 1: next Bachelor. Stay tuned. Okay, welcome back to Bachelor Happy Hour,
Speaker 1: and I'm talking to Mike Johnson and Mike, we're just
Speaker 1: gonna go straight to it. We're gonna get into it.
Speaker 1: At this point, we know that you weren't chosen to
Speaker 1: be the next Bachelor. I'm still not over it, but
Speaker 1: I want to know how you feel about it. So,
Speaker 1: were you in talks to be the next Bachelor? Percent
Speaker 1: talks to be the next Bachelor? I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people want to know because people are upset, right,
Speaker 1: you're not You're not the Bachelor. People are rioting and
Speaker 1: I'm leading it. Okay, I appreciate it, but a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't even think that you were considered to
Speaker 1: be the Bachelor. So that's why I wanted to lead
Speaker 1: off with that question. And people probably didn't think I
Speaker 1: was considering be the Bachelor because I was trying to
Speaker 1: be so respectful of the crew at Bachelor World, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to speak about it even when I
Speaker 1: went on TV. I thought that was being extremely respectful
Speaker 1: and a gentleman of me to the Bachelor World, and
Speaker 1: Peter didn't. I don't think Peter did those interviews, and
Speaker 1: so he didn't have to go through that. I wanted
Speaker 1: to be the Bachelor reasons being because one, I do
Speaker 1: want to find a wife. Two it was bigger than me,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to represent for all people of color,
Speaker 1: and then also talking about people of color, they need
Speaker 1: to have an Asian bachelor, they need to have an
Speaker 1: Indian bachelor, they need to have other people outside just
Speaker 1: black and white, and so I want to speak on
Speaker 1: that as well. But I did audition to be the Bachelor,
Speaker 1: and one percent did want to be the Bachelor. I
Speaker 1: think that's important for people to know too. This isn't
Speaker 1: an instance where you were offered and you turned it down.
Speaker 1: You wanted it and you didn't get it. So how
Speaker 1: did you feel when you found out you were not
Speaker 1: chosen to be the Bachelor. I found out in the
Speaker 1: trailers you know before you go on Bachelor and Paradise Reunion,
Speaker 1: and I knew it all. You knew in my head.
Speaker 1: Yes I wanted to be the Bachelor. Yes, I auditioned
Speaker 1: to be the Bachelor. I went in there with the
Speaker 1: right intentions of I wanted to find love, want to
Speaker 1: be true to myself. You might have seen do rad
Speaker 1: Keene come back. I had a list of a word
Speaker 1: document of the type of women I wanted, what I
Speaker 1: was scared of, what I wasn't scared of, And I
Speaker 1: think ultimately it just came down to they chose the
Speaker 1: right person for what they want, and there's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with that at all. When I first found out, I
Speaker 1: was I'm not gonna lie. I was sad. I was
Speaker 1: annoyed when I very first found out, But then I
Speaker 1: think by the end of the night, I wasn't annoyed
Speaker 1: nomore because I was appreciative and thankful that they told
Speaker 1: me no right then and there, because now I can
Speaker 1: focus on myself. And I'm just blessed because I know
Speaker 1: i'mna find my wife and find my queen. You know, Mike,
Speaker 1: this is that's really really big of you, and it
Speaker 1: makes me still want you to be the Bachelor even more.
Speaker 1: I'm more upset this podcast. I'm telling you, don't you
Speaker 1: edit this out. I'm upset, and I just I hadn't
Speaker 1: even met you. You know most people don't know is
Speaker 1: that we have a mutual friend. Yes, my mentee from
Speaker 1: college is one of your best friends, so I could
Speaker 1: speak to your character outside of what I saw on
Speaker 1: the show. And now I'm sitting here in front of you,
Speaker 1: and I'm just so I might shut a tear. I'm
Speaker 1: just so upset that you're not the Bachelor, and this
Speaker 1: is what I have to say, and I'll ask you
Speaker 1: this too, because you've just been so open and honest
Speaker 1: and really respectful and how you're handling this whole process.
Speaker 1: This is nothing against Peter. We had Peter on the show,
Speaker 1: and a lot of times people will confuse that we've
Speaker 1: had Peter on the show. Peter seems lovely, straight lined,
Speaker 1: vanilla but lovely. And I and it's not that I
Speaker 1: don't think he'll make a great bachelor. I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, he's very Ben Higgins esque. I think they'll
Speaker 1: surround him with an entertaining cast to mask his u
Speaker 1: his magoonness. I I I again. So I'm saying all
Speaker 1: that to say it is not a knock against people,
Speaker 1: nothing against Peter. What do you think about Peter being
Speaker 1: the Bachelor? Do you think he'll make a good one.
Speaker 1: I think Peter is a good looking to do with
Speaker 1: his five o'clock shadow, He has a fun, super fun job.
Speaker 1: His family's amazing, his little brother. I know personally he's
Speaker 1: dope kid. And I said, oh, when I say, called
Speaker 1: somebody else a kid, right, I'm only thirty one, But
Speaker 1: I think I would have been more entertaining. I said it,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna stick by my word. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you'd more entertaining too. Um. Oh, you said Peter has
Speaker 1: a has a fun job. I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: have that job after doing The Bachelor. I disagree Peter
Speaker 1: is in love with being a pilot. No, I don't
Speaker 1: think it's up to him. Oh not correct, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I'm sure he'd get another job. He'll
Speaker 1: be a private father or something. I'm just saying I
Speaker 1: could just have his own plane. He might. Maybe they'll
Speaker 1: let him take a sabbatical. I don't know. It's hard.
Speaker 1: I think that's why a lot of times you see
Speaker 1: people on the show who have jobs or lack thereof
Speaker 1: of jobs, because it's hard to ask your employer for
Speaker 1: time off. So I'm not saying that as a knock
Speaker 1: to Peter. I'm just saying it's gonna be hard for
Speaker 1: him to be able to do both, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And I was a financial levisor so therefore I didn't
Speaker 1: have a boss to tell me what I can and
Speaker 1: can do. Say it again, have you really answered my
Speaker 1: Bachelor questions very well? I mean not that I was
Speaker 1: trying to get MESSI or anything, but you are a
Speaker 1: very matter of fact, and I think it is what
Speaker 1: it is. I will ask you this, are you Are
Speaker 1: you disappointed with the lack of diversity on the show.
Speaker 1: So that's one of the things I spoke about to
Speaker 1: the producers if I were to be the Bachelor, and
Speaker 1: I said that I wanted to be representative of America
Speaker 1: as far as the women that would be on the
Speaker 1: show if I were to be cast as a bachelor, like,
Speaker 1: I also feel that more people of color. And I
Speaker 1: know Peter mom is of Latin descent, but come on,
Speaker 1: Peter's white, right, Let's be honest. And so I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about things of that nature. I'm talking about I
Speaker 1: want to full on Indian guy or a full on
Speaker 1: Asian girl. For some reason, I like Asian girls. I
Speaker 1: like Sydney's Asian. I didn't know that. I didn't know
Speaker 1: that about myself until going on Paradise, open to all
Speaker 1: these different experience. Really does love women? You love women,
Speaker 1: It's what you feel, And I think that's great. Do
Speaker 1: you think that not getting the Bachelor is the best
Speaker 1: thing you never had? Right now? I'm about to say
Speaker 1: right now because I don't focused on is in the moment,
Speaker 1: and so I know that if I were to be
Speaker 1: the Bachelor, it would come with a lot more scrutiny
Speaker 1: into my personal life, into my family's personal life, and too,
Speaker 1: my sister and things of that nature. And maybe that's
Speaker 1: God's what I'm saying. It's not the right time for
Speaker 1: you to be in that spotlight. And the whole point
Speaker 1: of going on the show is a finer person, and
Speaker 1: so I want to make sure that that's the presidents.
Speaker 1: I wanted to find my wife, I wanted to find
Speaker 1: my queen, and so if I'm not on a Bachelor,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been blessed to be open up to
Speaker 1: a plethora of people that know my face, and so
Speaker 1: I may find my woman. Still, yeah, let's talk about that.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about God's plan and the women that you've
Speaker 1: been opened up to meet. A ka Demi Lavado. Oh,
Speaker 1: we got to talk about it, okay, because Demi Lavado
Speaker 1: is a fan of the show, and I have not
Speaker 1: seen her this involved ever, So spilled the tea. Spill
Speaker 1: the tea. Before I spill the tea, you said two
Speaker 1: Drake lines. By the way you said one, I'm upset.
Speaker 1: I mean you said I'm a fan. Just so you know, Um,
Speaker 1: spilled the tea on Demi. Okay, I'll ask you more
Speaker 1: pointed places, ask you questions because I will always answer it.
Speaker 1: I will always answer the question. You just got to
Speaker 1: ask them. Okay, have you met? Yes, Demi and I
Speaker 1: have met in person. How many times we met? We've
Speaker 1: met more than one time. Let me just tell you
Speaker 1: who is not going to be on Peter season. Demie Lavado. Okay.
Speaker 1: None of those girls can even stand in the same
Speaker 1: room with Demmi Levado, so you are already winning. Let
Speaker 1: me just tell you this, Mike Johnson your middle name, no,
Speaker 1: no middle name, okay, Mike Johnson. Um, how is she?
Speaker 1: I think she's amazing. She's incredibly humble when she and
Speaker 1: when her and I are together or have Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm saying this now. Don't say anything that's gonna mess
Speaker 1: up the relationship because I'm shipping this. No, not at all.
Speaker 1: I'm extremely respectful. When Demi and I are together, it's
Speaker 1: laughter and we talk about real shit, like she's a
Speaker 1: down to earth woman and I respect it so much.
Speaker 1: And she's just really humble, really cool, really fun, down
Speaker 1: to earth person. And she's from Texas and she's from
Speaker 1: Texas that in common her bodyguard from Texas too, So
Speaker 1: that's cool. Look, okay, you sound well acquainted. Oh god,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's my job to see through this.
Speaker 1: I will say that I have met Demi Levado and
Speaker 1: she did not have this reaction to me. She treated
Speaker 1: me like I don't even know if she knew I
Speaker 1: was on the Bachelor. She took a picture with me
Speaker 1: and walked away. She's an extremely sweet woman. No, no,
Speaker 1: she seems really sweet. And is there anything else that
Speaker 1: maybe you want to tell us? What is the status
Speaker 1: of your relationship with Demi Levado? My status of the
Speaker 1: relationship with Demi and I are that we are two
Speaker 1: people exploring each other. I like it. I like it.
Speaker 1: So what's next for you? Mike Johnson? What's next for me? So?
Speaker 1: I am really big and I really care about self
Speaker 1: love and insecurities, and so I am working on something
Speaker 1: right now to help raise people's self love and lower
Speaker 1: their insecurities through a media platform. I love this, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you why this is so necessary.
Speaker 1: So we just did a podcast with Blake and it
Speaker 1: went so deep it had to be two parts. And
Speaker 1: what I loved about that podcast is he was so
Speaker 1: open vulnerable. I mean, you met Blake, you saw the drama,
Speaker 1: but he talked about the darker side of being a
Speaker 1: Bachelor Nation, which a lot of people don't. I hit
Speaker 1: him up about it, and I really think that you
Speaker 1: guys should team up together and really help people through this,
Speaker 1: because everybody wants to see they were on TV and
Speaker 1: you know people they're shilling or they're going to all
Speaker 1: these events. But you know that lasts for most people
Speaker 1: six months and then the whole new crop of Bachelor
Speaker 1: contestants come in and you're lucky if you can sustain
Speaker 1: it longer than that. And when you don't, it's the
Speaker 1: dark side of things. Or if you have a bad
Speaker 1: experience and it plays out on a public platform like
Speaker 1: Blakes did, it's a darker side of things. So I'm
Speaker 1: excited to hear that you're doing something positive and I
Speaker 1: think it can really reach and help a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I agree completely. I've had family members and friends commit
Speaker 1: suicide and you know, become hurt really bad by mental health.
Speaker 1: And I know people that are in the public eye
Speaker 1: that were once in the start now they're down at
Speaker 1: the bottom, and so that plays a real toll on you,
Speaker 1: and so you asked earlier about me and my personality.
Speaker 1: Have I let things to go to my head. I
Speaker 1: try to be even killers always because I am super
Speaker 1: grateful to be sitting here with you right now, and
Speaker 1: I know that tomorrow could be gone, and so therefore,
Speaker 1: my day ones, I want to make sure that they
Speaker 1: know that I love them care about them. And that's
Speaker 1: the strongest thing that you can have is just your
Speaker 1: family and friends that are near and dear to you.
Speaker 1: But I understand that everyone goes through something and my
Speaker 1: DMS people say, how do you smile? You know, through
Speaker 1: a diversity, and so I just want to use my
Speaker 1: platform for the good, for the greater good while still
Speaker 1: having fun and still being do rat you know, Mike
Speaker 1: very powerful. Gosh, Mike Johnson. I have to say it
Speaker 1: is our loss that we don't have you as the
Speaker 1: Bachelor for season twenty four, but I am glad that
Speaker 1: you have graced us with your presence on hand a season,
Speaker 1: even on Paradise, though I know you weren't a huge
Speaker 1: fan of that, but you are a part of this
Speaker 1: Bachelor family. You're a part of this franchise, and I
Speaker 1: think that you're a really positive figure within it. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that, and so I just want to thank you
Speaker 1: so much for coming on the podcast. And I'm also
Speaker 1: excited because I feel like this is a question I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you too. I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of people haven't had the opportunity to know you, and
Speaker 1: you've really gone deep on this podcast. And I think
Speaker 1: one of the things people would say about why you
Speaker 1: wouldn't make a good bachelor is because you didn't open
Speaker 1: up or you didn't cry in certain instances. And for
Speaker 1: all those people out there who said that, take I
Speaker 1: hope you're listening to this podcast because you have opened
Speaker 1: up in a way and put yourself out there and
Speaker 1: been very vulnerable, very honest, and really shown who you are.
Speaker 1: And so I mean, like to all the haters out there, bye,
Speaker 1: I want to speak on that light. Think thank you
Speaker 1: for bringing that up. That's ridiculous when I'm not going
Speaker 1: to call her name, said that I'm not going to
Speaker 1: be a good continent for the Bachelor because I wasn't
Speaker 1: vulnerable enough or didn't cry. For one. Where I come from,
Speaker 1: when we talk about tears, we let those tears out.
Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna let tears out for the most
Speaker 1: frivolous of things. I do cry. I am an emotional person.
Speaker 1: I am in touch with my emotional side. But I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna cry for something that you've seen fifteen other
Speaker 1: dudes cry for, and so that's just ridiculous to me.
Speaker 1: I am extremely You can ask ask anybody to know me.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I don't need to ask. I already
Speaker 1: know what's up. And I'll tell you this. There are
Speaker 1: plenty of people who cry on that show, and there's
Speaker 1: nothing behind those tears. It means nothing, nothing. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that they'd be a good lead. Okay, And I'm
Speaker 1: not going to name any names, Okay, Okay, all right.
Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you so much for
Speaker 1: coming on the podcast. Really do appreciate it. It was
Speaker 1: a long time coming, and I wish you all the best.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what happens for you. I know,
Speaker 1: for one, I'm not going to be here for six
Speaker 1: months or less. I know that's right me neither. Good.
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, thank you so much for coming in today.
Speaker 1: I know you had to stay in La an extra
Speaker 1: couple of days to make this work, so we definitely
Speaker 1: appreciate it. But I feel like you kind of wanted
Speaker 1: to do it anyway, because this was a long time coming.
Speaker 1: I see it on your face now. So next week,
Speaker 1: you guys, do not forget. We will have part two
Speaker 1: of the Blake Interview. I promise this is one that
Speaker 1: you don't want to miss. It'll go up Wednesday morning
Speaker 1: and it's worth the way. In the meantime, you can
Speaker 1: get all the latest Batchter news on batternation dot com
Speaker 1: right now. And you, guys, as we say every week,
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