WEBVTT - One on One with Mike Johnson 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:05.120 What's up, guys, and welcome to Bachelor Happy Hour. I'm Rachel. 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:08.200 Ali is off today, but we had the opportunity to 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:10.680 do an extra podcast for you guys, and we didn't 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:13.320 want to wait. Well, the truth is, I didn't want 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:16.600 to wait because you guys, if you follow me, if 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:18.880 you listen to me, if you dare to do that, 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:23.520 you know that I have a favorite, a clear favorite 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.120 from Hannah Bey's season, and I'm not shy about him. 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.880 It is none other than Mike Johnson. And I've been 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.320 waiting for this day to have Mike Johnson on the 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:36.320 Bachelor Happy Hour podcast, and I am so excited that 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:38.559 he's here. You all know I've been pushing hard for 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:42.279 him to be the Bachelor, and while fortunately that's not 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.440 going to happen, he's still my bachelor and I'm going 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.920 to talk to him about that and so much more today. Mike, 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:53.640 Welcome to the podcast. Are you ready? Well, let's go. 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:55.440 I've been waiting a whole season to talk to you. 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.680 Mike Ready, I'm ready? Okay, So I guess I just 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.120 want to start from the beginning because I feel like 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.839 when I watched Hannah season, we didn't get to really 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.440 know you. We didn't get in depth. You know, we 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.200 saw you. There was a lot of drama that was 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:10.920 involved with your season and I don't even want to 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.920 talk about that because we saw that enough. But I 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.039 feel like that's when we saw you most. Even on 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.160 your one on one we didn't get to know Mike, 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.480 but you are a fan favorite. The audience knew that 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.640 there was something there. You were even a fan favorite 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:27.000 of Hannah. I've heard Hannah talk very positively about you 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.040 since the show's been over. So let's just from the beginning. 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.760 Who is Mike Johnson? If you could describe yourself in 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:38.160 three words? What would you say? My friends would call 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.520 me since say bushy brow because I have thick eyebrows. 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.720 You do have thick eyebrows? Do you do you tame 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:50.160 your eyebrows? Are they natural? Just natural? Just black? And 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.200 I'm rocking it. I'm blessed to be here with you, sir, 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:54.960 and I'm blessed to have you on the show. Okay, 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:56.600 three words, and I know you already talked to me 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.760 about one word. Three words. If you had to describe yourself, 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:06.480 three words, had to describe myself? Goofy, ambitious leader? All right, 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.400 goofy ambitious leader. I like that you sound like a 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.040 good time. I'm a great time. And then and then 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.360 at the same time that somebody could learn something from you. 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.079 All right, So let's dive into it a bit. How 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.919 do you feel like your life has changed since this 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:24.000 whole Bachelor experience? You know, a crazy thing. It's like 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:25.720 when I'm in the airport and I didn't brush my 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.080 hair and somebody wants to take a picture or something. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.839 That's crazy because I want to. I'm grateful to take 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.680 a picture with you. But then bro, like my breath staying, 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.520 my hair is not dead yet, you know those are 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.600 That's the weird part. That's the weird part right there. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.200 These are things you will have to learn. I had 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.280 to start getting eyelash extensions because too many times people 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.080 ask for a picture and I was bald eyed. Ye 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.800 stop balhead and bald eye. I never heard that before. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.200 I'm learning it off on the spot. Serious, it's just crazy, 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.000 like I'm not looking at my best and people want 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.639 to picture. That's when it's crazy. Do you feel like 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.600 you've been able to go back to your normal life 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:07.120 since this whole experience. When I'm back home in Texas, 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.800 all my closest homies and cousins treat me like regular 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.839 and if not already even more on top of me now, 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:15.960 and I respect him, I love them and I need it. 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.200 Do you feel like that's kept you grounded through this 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.360 whole experience, because I see people get caught up, you 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.480 don't seem to be that person. I don't think I'm 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.200 caught up. What's I don't think I ever get caught up. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.600 But I mean, I was just texting my little sister, 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.400 one of my best homies, a minute ago before being 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.600 out here, and they just, yeah, they do help me, 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.480 they stay, they keep me grounded. I think that's key, 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.480 and I wish more people did that. Um, you see 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.720 this world change a lot of people, and I don't 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.640 feel like that's happened to you. I don't think it will. Yeah, see, 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.560 I don't think it will either. Okay, So I want 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.240 to know. I don't know. I'm sure the viewers are. 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:48.920 The listeners want to know this as well, But I 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.240 want to know how you How did you get on 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.360 the show. So that's a really good question. My homeboy, 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:59.480 I was working as a financial advisor and say it. 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.040 You're in a safe place. No, I'm good I'm gonna 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:06.080 say I told you already. I was at work in 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.720 my office and I threw my phone across the across 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.280 the room and my homeboy, my coworker, was like, what's 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.160 wrong with you? And I said, man, all these girls 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.360 just want to have sexual relations and I really want 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.599 to be in a relationship. And he bust out laughing 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.520 for like twenty minutes. She was like, what guy says that? 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.280 And I was like, bro, I'm serious. And after forever 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:29.000 of him laughing at me, he knew I was extremely serious. 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:30.719 I wanted to be in a relationship. My last relationship 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:36.040 probably going on the show, was twenty fifteen and crazy, 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:37.479 it's got my heart broke, all that stuff, and so 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:38.919 I really wanted to be in a relationship again. And 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:40.520 you know, get married. I'm mightna be thirty two. I 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.120 got like little gray hairs, my beard now rocket and 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.640 you know I'm trying to have kids one day. You know, 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.520 my ultimate going life has built a treehouse for my kids. 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:53.479 And so who are you? It's unicorn? A horn just 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.920 popped up on your head. And so like six months 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.800 after I I had like a bitch fit, I guess 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:02.839 you would say, because I wanted to be in a relationship, 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.760 and I am picky. My homeboy send me a Facebook wing. 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:08.120 He said, hey, you should go try out for this. 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.000 And I was off work that day, so I drove 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.479 down to Houston, went to the aquarium where they had auditions. 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:16.760 And the crazy thing is they thought it was like 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.680 nine ladies to every one guy. It might have been 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.520 every It might have been forty nine ladies and one guy. 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.480 It was crazy, right, And then I think I was 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:31.320 only black guy there, sood out sounds like the sounds 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.000 like the Bachelor. I wore a full suit. I actually 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:35.920 got on the Houston news that night because they thought 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:39.599 I was a bachelor, which is crazy, Like legit, girls, 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:42.320 girls and their mom and dads were coming up to me, 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.839 like introducing their daughters to me while I was auditioning 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:49.200 for the show. You didn't even need the show, not 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:50.800 like that at all. But it was just a really 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:52.640 crazy experience. I mean, I had my book with me. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:54.120 I got to tell the story. It was gonna be 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.880 a great day that day. Right, So I can't tell 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.600 the story. Yeah, okay, so I have. I think I 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:03.480 told you guys, I have a disabled veteran license plates, right, 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.600 so I can park in disabled spots, and I parked 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.880 in one of the zoo is. The aquarium was quite busy, 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.880 and I'm parked there. I'm there pretty early and I 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:13.920 see a guy drive buy in a van. He's like, hey, 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.200 if someone are you like sitting there. I'm like, nah, bro, 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:18.560 you can have it. So I move out of this 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:21.240 spot so the other guy can get the parking spot, right. 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:26.039 Good karma. People have good karma. And so we're doing 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.040 that or whatever. I go upstairs and this dude in 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:29.920 the wheelchair he's trying out for the show as well. 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:31.760 It was a second time trying out, so me and 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.640 him made a really cool bond together. We stayed there 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.920 the whole time, just talking crap about the girls and 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:38.880 the guys there and just you know, doing what people do. 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.680 And he became my best friend. So shout out to you, bro, 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.120 if you hear this. I completely forgot your name. I 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:51.080 love you, that homie. But yeah, long story short, I 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:52.600 got mad because I wanted to be in a relationship 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:54.400 and my homeboy six months later took me then apply 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.040 for the show. Oh gott I see this. I used 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.200 to live downtown in San Antonio and I work my 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.000 butt off as a financial advisor. I was Rookie of 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.840 the Year. I worked crazy hard. I'm super ambitious. And 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.800 this girl in my department complace used to have her 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.840 name's Ashley. She used to have like Bachelor parties every Monday. 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.720 And I had never watched the show prior to that, 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:19.040 me too, you know, being honest, and so she like, 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:20.880 maybe me go watch one, and she said I was 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:22.320 gonna be the be on the show. She said I 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.360 was gonna be the Bachelor, which is so crazy. I 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.000 was two years. Shout out to Ashley who saw what 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.240 we we see now. We see now and still see 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.800 and still are rooting for UM. I think it's a 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.280 cool story. I love hearing how people got to the show. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.840 You know, some people submitted a video, some people tried 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.160 out four or five times. I remember my experience when 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:43.800 I went actually went to an audition to my co 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.920 workers signed me up. There were people who had been 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.120 there five six times. It's like American Idol had traveled 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.800 to different cities. And it's like you know with athletes, 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.680 when you're like hang up the cleats, it's almost like 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.520 turn like let the application go. You know, it's it's 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:00.880 a rat for you. Well, good thing. You went through 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.480 the Houston audition, Yeah, definitely. They liked you. They sent 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.240 you on through, you went to Hollywood, then you came 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:10.120 on our TV screens. Um, did you have any You 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.000 didn't watch the show and I didn't either, And I 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.720 love talking to people who didn't watch the show because 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.960 I feel like your expectations are different than the super 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:20.960 fan who comes on the show, and there are a 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.080 lot of them. So what were your expecting? Who'd you say? 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:31.080 He Cam dead? Was Cam? Isn't Cam from Oh Austin? 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.400 Was he at your audition? No? He wasn't. I mean, 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.080 I'm sure you would have seen him. He was probably 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.679 standing up on a ledge rapping. You'd have been talking 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.480 to everybody. He would have known everyone's bio. They're social, 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.560 he'd have known everything. Poor Cam. Just to digress a bit, 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.480 the way that that Anyeka called out Cam at the finale, 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.160 I felt sorry for him. I thought, geez, like, this 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:55.880 guy can't win. Um, okay, So what were your expectations 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.800 when you came on to the show, Because you didn't 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.960 watch it before, so I know what you were. Well. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.360 I remember stepping out of the limo and I saw Hannah. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.160 I was like, Oh, you're really cute, and so I 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.319 was like a plus right to me. I didn't watch 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.520 Colton season, so I wasn't I was unsure of who 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.240 would be the bachelrette. But you didn't watch Colton season, 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:22.560 no comic because I don't watch. My expectations were just, honestly, 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.439 to be myself and have a good time and if 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.880 I find love, and then I find love. Okay, So 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.440 you did you know Hannah was going to be the bachelorette. 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.000 I did the night before because that was when she 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.600 had the five guys come out on stage with Chris 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.720 Chris Harrison and that's when Cam did his little rap 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:42.040 thing and got the row. So I knew her literally 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:46.360 twenty four hours prior. Um, that's I see. I'm shocked 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.920 that you knew her or you didn't know her until 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.079 right before. That's interesting. So you really were open and 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.400 just ready to meet someone, which is refreshing. You were 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:57.960 I guess I have to say use a bachelor term here. 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.480 You were there for the right reasons, and I think 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.679 that I saw on my Instagram. When you're there for 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:08.959 the right reasons, things happened differently. Oh, I don't know 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.079 if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:15.240 can take that two different ways. Okay, moving on, what 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.400 was your experience like on the show away from Luke? 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.520 Because we saw that, we saw that play out all 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:22.319 on the camera, so it's like, I want to know 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.800 what the other side was like for you. Well I 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.080 want to speak on that, but one shout out to Luke. 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.920 I love you, bro, I hope you getting better. But 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:35.800 things outside of Luke, honestly were great. It was It 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.319 was a great group of guys outside of Luke. And 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.599 Hannah is goofy as hell and I love it. She 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:44.839 just speaks her mind. I love everything about her. In 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.320 that regard, it was boring, Like when you're not going 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.520 on a date, it's hella boring. You're just in a 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.120 mansion with a bunch of dudes. What did y'all do 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.920 for fun on your off days? Because you're right, what 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.000 a lot of people don't see is that you see 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.680 the dates rights as a viewer, you see two hours 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.599 of filming when we've been filming an entire week, and 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.240 you only get out of the house on rose ceremonies 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.480 or if you have a date, So there's a lot 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.920 of downtime you're in these great countries, these beautiful cities 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.320 you've never been in before, and you don't really get 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.240 to go out and see it. So what did y'all 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.320 do for fun? Then I'll tell you what we did. 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.040 Telling what y'all did. You know what y'all did, y'all 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.280 probably y'all more buck way than we did. I just uh, 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:32.160 I feel like y'all did drink. You know, stupid guy stuff, 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.120 push ups, pull ups, all that stuff. Okay, that's definitely 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.719 not what we did. Yeah, somewing around the pool, talk 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.200 shit to each other, do a lot of interviews. There's 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:42.839 a lot of that going on. We did. You know. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.280 The crazy thing is you do all these what is 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.520 it called guy talk or a girl talking? On your season? 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.120 None of that crab gets aired? I know, I'm like, 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.200 why you got me doing all these? It mean it's tough. 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.280 Tyler and I Tyler seeing I did a great one 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.200 making fun of Garrett and Hannah because like they live 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.000 like thirty minutes from each other. It was epic. That 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.160 should have made the credits. It was. Although the church 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.160 scene that y'all did at the piano was amazing. I'm 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.079 glad that that made the credits and I could tell 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:12.800 the camaraderie that you guys had on the season. Who 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:16.200 were you close to. I'm close to a lot of guys. Uh. 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.360 Like I mentioned Tyler, he did homie Dustin. I spold 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.640 him earlier today, he's a homie. Dylan's my little brother, Connor. 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:26.640 I'm those are the ones that I hang out with 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:28.520 and talk to the most. Matteo. I want to go 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:32.080 see him in Atlanta. Yeah, I'm pretty cool with everybody. 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.600 Is the infamous group chat popping because I know y'all 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.079 have it. Of course we got a group chat, and 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.959 I'm the one that pisses everybody off of my Android. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:46.360 Oh yeah, yeah, you're one of those. It's I mean, honestly, 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:50.880 they should kick you out. It's very annoying when someone 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.679 goes green chat. I might get the eleven because all 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.800 my dms, like Mike, can you please get an iPhone 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.360 so I might listen to the fans? Yeah, you need 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:03.640 to pay attention to that. Um okay on your one 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:07.120 on one, I want to talk about that. Because I 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.920 said this earlier, I felt like we didn't see a 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.160 lot of you. Were you really nervous? Did we? Did 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.400 we miss out on some conversation because I know you expressed, hey, 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.880 I'm nervous, but it just seemed like a lot of 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.079 nervous energy. Nah, So I definitely wasn't nervous. It was 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.679 more of when I watched The Bachelorette back, all I 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.240 did with smile, and I have so much more than 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.959 a smile. I like, really do converse with people, have 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.240 a great conversation. I feel I think the show just 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.600 wanted me to. They just want to show my smile. 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.000 They didn't want you to look like the angry black man, 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:40.839 and they damn sure in portray me that light. So 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.719 I'm appreciative, even though I definitely was going off on 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:47.040 some people that deserved it. Sure I did too. You 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.920 know it's good, he said it did. It's good? Oh 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:54.560 did not ery good? Hannah. I definitely had conversations. There 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.959 was no pauses in our dates at all. On both 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.160 of our dates. It was great conversation throughout his fluid. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.040 They just want to show me a smile for some reason. 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.520 Well it's better than a frown, right, Not definitely, I'm 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.120 not a frowning. You know, it takes more. It takes 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.480 more muscles to frown than it does a smile, exactly. 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.319 So therefore to smile. I'm a frowner. I you'r a frowner. 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.839 Are your rbfer? I'm definitely you can say bitch. I 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:21.480 definitely have a resting bitch face boat show everybody. Everybody 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.240 knows that. But I try to work on smiling because 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.480 people tell me that I look angry. So it's nice 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.040 that even Okay, maybe they didn't show your full personality, 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:30.960 but at least they showed you smiling. Yeah, that's a 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.360 good thing. Definitely have a full personality. I'm extremely loud 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:36.840 and hilarious and I want to scream right now just 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.200 out of pure excitement and enjoy I'm glad that's the 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:47.080 energy you're bringing into the podcast. Who screamed with you? Um? Okay, 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:51.120 so you get sent home. We all saw that, and 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.080 it was really hard to watch because you were like 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.520 dressed to impressed. Y'all had had the day date before. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:00.400 You know, you'd poured your heart out to Hannah. And 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.640 I remember even in the itms, you were saying, I 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.200 see her as my wife. Did you see it coming 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:11.960 at all? No? Zero percent one did not know that 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.600 I was gonna be sent home because and I asked, 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.880 because and I want you to expand on that. I asked, 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.680 because when I got sent home, I knew it. I 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:25.400 was actually hugging sound and hugging audio and the cameraman 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:29.560 before the rose ceremony, saying this was it, Like I knew, 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:33.360 I felt it in my bones, and so I guess 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.160 I assume other people have that same experience. So I'm 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.400 curious where you were coming from. Oh, let's speak on it. 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.040 It's juice. You ready for the juice? Time can be like, yes, yeah, 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:47.000 I bet so. No, I one hundred percent thought that 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:50.120 Hannah was gonna give me a rose. What had a 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:55.720 shout out of doubt. But for those crazy, crazy extreme fanatics, 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.040 the suit I wore was the exact same suit that 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.440 I got out of the limo in. We didn't know, 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:05.600 and for me and myself, that was like symbolism. And 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:07.960 I did that prior to No one knows that, none 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:11.880 of the producers know that, and so, and that was 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.680 from my end because I wanted to make sure and 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.560 this is real. I don't want Hannah to take this 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:20.080 no way, nor anybody I was hearing this. I haven't 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.160 brought a woman home to my mom in forever, and 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.040 there's been one woman in over a decade, and I 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.160 take that very seriously, whether on TV or not being 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:31.880 on TV. And I wasn't sure if I was ready 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.400 to take Hannah home, that's fair, and I didn't thought 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:36.760 I was gonna stay. I thought she was gonna give 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:38.680 me a rose. But I wasn't sure if I wanted 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.160 to be like, hey, mom, this is you know, the 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:46.160 beautiful Hannah. What's up? Say hi? Yeah, Hannah can play 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.400 spaces by the way too, so I like that. I 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:55.560 don't know she could play bones. So I thought that 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.400 I was gonna stay. I thought Hannah wasn't leave me 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.080 a rose. But for me, myself and I shout to 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:04.520 be honest, I thought we would have needed to have 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.840 a longer conversation for me to decide for myself, because well, 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:08.600 people don't realize that this is a two way street. 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.480 Like just Rachel, you are at the bachelorette, but your husband, 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:14.880 now he was a contestant, but at the same time, 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.640 he had an opportunity to leave as well, and obviously 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.639 he wanted you as you wanted him. And so for me, 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:23.440 I looked at it like that. That's why I was 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.840 never nervous. It's a two way street. From me my 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.960 heart has feelings as well. I think it's interesting that 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.879 you say, and thank you for being honest and sharing that. 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.600 I think it's fair fair for you to say you 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.280 didn't know if you were ready to bring her home, 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.440 because that's the other side of it. People don't talk about. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.800 You know, you watch this play out, you assume everybody 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:44.600 wants a rose every single week, But it is such 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:48.040 a pivotal time when you have to take the lead 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.480 to your home because it's a reality check. You're in 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.080 this bubble, this bachelor bubble. You are caught up in 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.360 these feelings and these emotions because you have to talk 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:00.440 about them all damn day, every day. And then you're 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:04.080 gonna step outside of that bubble and take them home 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:07.840 where you know, we talked about this earlier. Your family, 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.520 your friends are gonna check you and bring you back 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.479 to reality. And that's a scary thought. And so I'm 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:15.399 glad that you speak on that because I think a 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.280 lot of people need to realize how nerve wracking it 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.960 is for the person to accept the rose to bring 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:21.840 them home. You got to make sure that you're ready 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:23.520 for that. And I think over that, I know you 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:25.679 didn't watch Colton season but there was a girl who 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.600 did that on Colton season. She just felt like their 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.080 relationship hadn't progressed enough for her to bring him home. 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:34.120 That's a serious thing. So I like that you set that. Yeah, 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:38.720 nothing is Hannah. I definitely like her, liked her, but 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:40.960 I just want to make sure that is when we 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:42.840 write for my family as well. I think that shows 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:44.960 how much you liked her. You weren't just gonna it 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:46.840 wasn't a game to you, and you aren't going to 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:48.919 take her. Yeah, you aren't going to set her up 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:50.600 for failure. You wanted it to be right, and that 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:54.440 shows your sincerity. Another good characteristic of the Bachelor, of 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:56.280 why he should be the Bachelor. I'm just telling y'all 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:00.919 another good characteristic. All Right, I have so many more 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:03.320 questions for you. We're gonna take a quick break. I'm 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:04.840 gonna let you have a breather because I feel like 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:06.560 I've been grilling you for a moment and we're gonna 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:11.639 come right back. All right, you guys, I'm back talking 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.720 to the Mike Johnson and we've been talking about his 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.399 time on the Bachelorette and how he got here and 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:21.680 just this journey through this whole bachelorette journey. But one 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:25.000 question I want to ask you because the way Hannah 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:28.000 season ended, we've never seen anything like it before, and 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.480 I don't want to get too into it because it's 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.040 we've talked about it so much, but I am curious 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:35.800 as to first I'll ask you this. Are you cool 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.280 with Jed? Yes? Okay, So I'm not going to get 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:40.960 a lot out of you. No, you probably will you. 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:43.239 I was just gonna say, did you see this coming? Oh, 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.480 that's fair to ask. I'm just because I can be cool. 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:50.480 Someone domo be not honest about the situation, right, So, No, 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.000