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Talking It Out

Emmanuel Acho, Plus: Mike Johnson Addresses Not Being Chosen as the Bachelor

Talking It Out

Telepictures TV | Warner Bros.

Society & Culture, Relationships

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Former NFL star, sports analyst, and best-selling author Emmanuel Acho joins Mike Johnson and Bryan Abasolo for the podcast premiere of “Talking It Out with Mike and Bryan.” Emmanuel breaks down the unwritten rules of being Black in America and gives advice to Bryan on how he and Rachel can best teach their (future) biracial children. Emmanuel also shares the most important lesson he’s learned from the great Oprah Winfrey and reveals whether he’d ever step into the role of Bachelor. Plus, Mike Johnson shares his true feelings, once and for all, about not being chosen to become the first Black Bachelor. Don’t forget to rate and subscribe so you never miss an episode! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the first episode of Talking It Out. I'm Brian Eppesol and I'm here with my co-host Mike Johnson and we're excited to start this new journey with all of you beautiful people.

0:13.5

What's up everybody? It's your boy, Mike Johnson.

0:16.0

I'm excited to be here and start this year off with the new amazing podcast.

0:20.0

Brian, let's get into it.

0:22.0

We're talking it out. Today we had one of the dopest

0:25.1

guests that we could possibly have we had the one and only Emmanuel Acho that's your

0:29.9

homie right that's my homie man I've known him for a while you know him and

0:34.4

Rachel go back to the the UT days definitely so I love it I just I love the

0:39.9

Texas the Texas folk that we have being a

0:43.3

texting myself I mean like the dude is just amazing I mean he's a former NFL

0:47.9

linebacker if you don't know play for the Eagles he's currently a sports analyst

0:52.3

he's a New York Times best-selling author slash

0:55.2

host of uncomfortable conversations with a black man on YouTube that has

1:00.7

garnered millions of views. The man is doing his thing and he is he is

1:04.8

absolutely killing it right now man and I mean come on Oprah co signed him I mean that's

1:10.3

all that's all you need to know right there. I mean we talked with the manual

1:13.1

a no holds barred conversation on how 2020 affected not only our lives but our

1:18.5

relationships with the people around us. I love it because what we keep telling people is how real we want to be. No conversation is untouchable. We touched on all of it. We touched on relationships with ourselves, with our friends, facts, our partners,

1:32.8

very key.

1:33.8

Careers, it was beautiful.

1:36.1

And then what he has going in the future.

1:38.0

One of my favorite parts of today's show

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