Mike Johnson Takes Boomer Cringe To The Next Level With Painfully Awkward Podcast Move
Stephen Miller's wife, Katie Miller, has a podcast, and her upcoming interview with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and his wife, Kelly Johnson, is already looking deeply cringe. In a preview clip for the episode shared on X (formerly Twitter), Johnson was asked about Jelly Roll, a singer who recently became everyone's new crush after he debuted his beard-free look. In perhaps an attempt to poke fun at himself or to seem cool (we really don't know what he was thinking), Mike did a mix of something like a shaka gesture with one hand and what may have been an attempt at a "rock on" style sign of the horns gesture with the other. And then he said, "Yes, we have selfies together."
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Mike did take a couple of photos with Jelly Roll at a UFC event at Madison Square Garden in November 2024. And we feel like that's something that he could have just said without the inexplicable hand movements. It seems as though the internet agrees. "Johnson should never try to throw shaka. What a babooze," one person posted on X. Another person said of that moment, "Holy smokes ... this made me react like nails on a chalk board."
For the record, Jelly Roll was asked about that UFC appearance with Johnson and Donald Trump, with some fans questioning his political leanings. The singer insisted that he wasn't political at all and that it was simply an honor to meet anyone who held such positions of power.
Mike Johnson and Kelly Johnson can't seem to help but serve awkward moments
The teaser clip from Katie Miller's interview with Mike and Kelly Johnson also gave us some insight into Kelly's understanding of how men's brains work. "Men's brains are like waffles," she explained. "They have little compartments. And men actually have a compartment that has nothing in it." It's not the biggest red flag in Mike and Kelly's marriage, but we're still left wondering what's going on with the two of them.
Some people on social media were left baffled by the clip. One X user asked, "Is this real or an 'SNL' skit?" Another said, "This is miserable to watch." The full interview with Mike is set to drop later on November 25, but if it's anything like the teaser, we're not sure we can handle watching the whole thing.
Miller started her podcast, "The Katie Miller Podcast," in August 2025, and her first guest was JD Vance. That interview didn't have quite the same level of cringe that we got from Mike, but we did get the tidbit that JD was forced to spend time with Usha Vance via a book club.