'Hang loose': Mike Johnson's 'excruciating' moment as he gushes about rapper Jelly Roll

House Speaker Mike Johnson played up his trendiness in a podcast due to be aired Tuesday, dropping a hand sign as he gushed over his admiration for rapper and country singer Jelly Roll.

The Louisiana Republican gave what The Daily Beast called an "excruciating" performance while talking with Stephen Miller's wife Katie for her podcast, due to be aired Tuesday night.

In a teaser, Miller asked Johnson if he knew Jelly Roll, prompting the super awkward attempt at trendiness, the Beast wrote. Johnson "gives an offended look and lets out a scoff," before awkwardly flashing a "shaka" hand sign — a symbol of friendship in Hawaiian culture and a "hang loose" sign among surfers.

"Do I know who—yes, we have selfies together!" Johnson exclaimed, as Miller and the speaker's wife Kelly, a counselor and evangelical Christian who was also on the podcast, laughed.

Johnson had previously posted selfies with Jelly Roll after meeting at a UFC fight, writing enthusiastically, "UFC at MSG was epic!"

The podcast teaser took an even more bizarre turn when Kelly Johnson offered a peculiar brain analogy. "Men's brains are like waffles," she declared, with her husband nodding in agreement. "They have little compartments, and men actually have a compartment that has nothing in it."

The interview followed a tough few weeks for Johnson, whose party recently suffered humiliating election results and who was forced into a humiliating reversal when Donald Trump changed course on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files amid growing party rebellion.