Bachelor Happy Hour - Pilot Pete Is Back!

Episode Date: May 21, 2024

Today on “Bachelor Happy Hour,” Joe and Serena sit down with the one and only Peter Weber. After recapping his iconic Night 1 episode of “The Bachelor,” we have the man himself here to reminisce on his time as the lead. From his Night 1 nostalgia to his dating life today, Peter is getting into it all. Plus, Peter tells us the crazy story of how he balanced being the Bachelor and his career as a pilot — you won’t want to miss it. Tune in now to hear all this and more, and be sure to follow so you never miss an episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Bencher. Happy Hour. I'm Joe. And I'm Serena. And we are here with Pilot Pete. Last week, we actually, Pete, we recapped your night one episode.

How do you feel about that? What a choice. Why in the world would you do that? I haven't watched it, yeah, since actually it was airing. of night one so this will be interesting to rehash yeah it was honestly it was it makes sense why like rewatching it and obviously you you were very popular guy and you came off a very popular season um but just like watching it night one it made it makes total sense why your season was so big and like why it it stayed that way because your night one was wild it was just so chaotic from like

the exact like the very beginning Okay, so did it feel, because watching it seemed chaotic? Did it feel chaotic for you? Yeah, man, it's a crazy time to, like, kind of go back to and like rehash. I think for the two biggest things that like just threw me for such like a loop and like started the night off in like such a crazy way and I was just like trying to hang on for dear life was the Hannah thing. And then the suspense of not knowing if Kelly was going to be there, that whole buildup. until the very end. Actually, I think she was one of the last, or no, the two of them were like back to back, I think. So everything was like kind of going good. It was fun. I was having a good

time from like the intros and then not just like threw me for a loop. And I was like, oh boy, here we go. Well, you must have been kind of waiting to see if Kelly was going to come out. Then she finally does. And then another limo pulls up and you're probably like, who the hell is this? Yep. Yeah. No, the entire time, every single time the door would open, I'd be like, is that Kelly. Is that Kelly? Is that Kelly? And then finally it is her. And then I'm like, already thrown for or not a loop but I was just like excited but then Hannah comes and I'm like oh my God what what am I doing here this is this is I'm in over my head but yeah fun night was there was there any party you that thought Hannah was going to jump on your season yeah that's

exactly what I thought she was going to do I like I was the only one that didn't like really realize it in the moment like obviously she did and all the you know producers everything I'm like oh oh you're leaving oh gosh yeah okay And so, yeah, it was a little bit of rollercoachia. You get excited for a bit and then, you know, and then it turns. But yeah, I definitely, that's initially what I thought she was doing. Yeah. Other than those two, who do you remember being like standouts coming out of the limo?

You know what also threw me for a loop and I kind of like felt like, oh boy, was the kiss. There was a kiss from, I think it was Savannah. I remember, because I truly remember going in. I was like, you know what? I'm not going to kiss one. girl this entire night like no i swear to god you like laugh and you don't believe it but i did that was my intention and i was like i'm just gonna like make this easy on myself like i'm not gonna like let that be a source of drama or any of that like i'm gonna truly use this time wisely and like

try to feel any type of connection nothing like physical added to it um with all these women and then that plan went down the drain because when when savannah kissed me like took all that thunder I was like, no, no, it's all gone now. Well, and then you're like, I guess who cares? I already kissed one girl. Yeah, exactly. That's how my mind was working. So then I think I probably kissed too many girls that first night.

How many did you kiss? Do you remember? I want to say it was like 12. And the only reason I remember that is because I have that number tattooed on my finger. So I always remember like correlated that. I think it was like 12. Yeah. Wait, just to clarify, you did.

didn't get that number tattooed because you kissed 12 girls I want, right? No, no, no. The way you said that really made it seem like that's what you did. If you said that, I would respect the move, but that would be a sick move. That would be 12 girls.

Insane. No, this is from the Seahawks for the 12th man. After that, they won our, we won our first Super Bowl, my brother and I got the 12th man tattooed. Okay, just a quick question. I've actually, and we're friends, but I've never asked you this. or maybe I haven't I forgot the answer,

but why in the world are you a Seattle Seahawks fan? Everyone always, yeah, it's curious. So my dad, he used to live out in Seattle, and in 76, he was out there doing flight training. The team was founded in 76. So he became a huge fan. I would go to a bunch of games at the kingdom. And then when I got into football,

I was like 10, 10, 11. My dad just naturally, you know, got my brother and I into the Hawks, but I didn't die hard ever since. So clarification, it was 12 for the Hawks, not for the girls, all right? 12 for the girls, just not tattooed on his body for the girls. One thing we saw a lot in your first night where I guess we do,

maybe you and I kind of exaggerated this a little bit, but we see like so many girls interrupting other girls while they're having conversations with you. Was that throwing you off at all? Do you remember that? Yeah. I mean, honestly, just is like a little annoying, I think. Especially if you're like into, I mean, it's annoying and then it's also like a blessing

Because if you're not really into the conversation, it's a great leadout. And it's like, hey, it was so nice talking to you and you get to move on. But when you were really into someone, you didn't want that conversation. And it's just like, and you can't say, you know, you can't be the one saying, no, you got to be polite. But, yeah, it was both. There was two different emotions that you would get, you know, from those situations going on. Yeah. And you, your pilot, Pete, so you were a pilot and you still are a pilot.

Was there ever any period of time where, because we do see, like, the truth is most, most people that go on the show and become the lead, most, not everyone, usually end up leaving their careers or jobs and kind of like lean more into the world of social media or what happens next. Were you ever considering leaving being a pilot? No, never, there was never any consideration of that for me. just the whole, like I look back and I'm just like, I like pinch myself sometimes too. I'm like, how did, how in the world did that happen? Like, how did I make that? Like, how did I find a way for that to happen? Um, just kind of coming into this whole world, but maintaining obviously my

professional career with flying just because they're so different. And it's, it wasn't easy. Like it was, it was a lot of work, a lot of luck. Um, and I don't know if just like it just kind of meant to be, but I still like, shocked that it just all worked out the way it did. But for me, if flying didn't work of a trip wasn't going to get picked up, I wasn't going to do the show. And I kind of like, I took a huge risk because I remember for the Bachelorette, I only had the first two weeks off. And they're like, oh, you need for sure two months committed off and you need to commit that to us. I'm like,

yep, I'm good. I didn't have two months. I had two weeks. And I just remember thinking, damn, if this keeps going, like, I'm just going to have to find a way like and just figure this out. And it kept going. And the first week, I remember I was like so uncomfortable and like out of my skin. I just didn't like just like just did not feel good about the whole, you know, situation. I like almost left. I was like, I can't keep doing this. Like I got to get out of this environment. And then I got past that first week and I just started to get a little bit more comfortable. So then obviously I stayed. And then I like remember having to like get my iPad out with like the producers like trying to request these trips off and trade them. And like I just had to as I went. As I went,

I was dropping trips and making it work. So that's all to say. That's how you did it. Did you tell? Like, were they aware that you were on the Bachelor or the Bachelor? No, nobody knew what I was doing. Nobody had any idea. So the Bachelor thought that you had two months off and your job thought that you were just

taking a two-week vacation. Yeah. Yeah. I never told, like I never told any coworkers. I didn't even tell my friends guys. Jesus, Peter. I didn't even tell my friends what I was doing. because I don't know if I'm such a rule follower.

I remember you get the packet and it's like you cannot tell anybody what you're doing. Everything has to be a secret. And I like took that way too seriously. So I didn't tell anyone except my like immediate family. I had like a going away party because I like obviously wanted to see my friends one more time. They thought someone thought I was going to space like doing some type of like, you know, partnership with that. But I didn't tell anybody until like everything came out. Well, did your parents know?

Yeah, of course. Yeah, my parents, my brother knew, but that was literally it. I feel like I was the same way. I remember going to the Gucci store, of course, to spend the rest of my money on a suit. And I remember walking in there. You got a Gucci suit, night one? I get a Gucci suit. And then five days before I try it on.

And it's so tight. We're like, like my buddies, like you, honestly, like you look like Pee We Herman. You cannot wear that. suit. Like, you can't wear that suit. So then I go to Tom Ford and I buy a suit and Tom Ford I spent all this money. I spent basically my savings. Like, I spent

everything and then I go home night one. I couldn't fucking bully. I was like, I am. This makes total sense. I am a complete idiot. Wait, did you get to return any of the suits or no? No, but luckily, oh, I may have, I think

I think Gucci actually gave me store credit and the Tom Ford suit I still wear so I've had it now for like five years and it wasn't at that time like it was expensive but it wasn't like outrageous like I feel like now like some of their suits are like eight grand I I want to say it was probably like a like a $2,500 suit which wasn't there maybe like three grand but it wasn't that crazy damn Gucci though you went all out I remember yeah I didn't get I wanted I was so excited to wear a suit and then they had me do the uniform, which I was, I was uncomfortable a little bit at first. I was like, yeah, should I do that?

But then I was like, no, I want to own this. And then I became, I was cool with it. But that's crazy. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. Well, wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast. So we'll find out soon.

This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now, he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor, and they're the same age. And it's even more likely that they're cheating.

He insists there's nothing between them. I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend really cheated with his professor or not? To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK. Storytime podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I never envision being with a woman. I'll just be honest. I'm Jamel Hill, host of the Sports and Politics Podcasts Politics. On this week's episode, I'm joined by basketball legend, Candice Parker,

who stops by to discuss her candid new book, The Can Do Mindset, in which she shares why she waited two years into marriage to come out. Like when I close my eyes at night, every night, I was like, I need to find my prince charming. Like, it was never a princess. Like, that never entered into my mind. But, you know, as I learned, sometimes life gives you things wrapped in a package that you didn't expect it. And that was just, you know, and honestly, it took me a long time to be okay with myself. Make sure to listen to this week's episode of Spolitics on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

Hi, my name is Enya Eumanzor. And I'm Drew Phillips. And we run a podcast called Emergency Intercom. If you're a crime junkie and you love crimes, we're not the podcast for you. But if you have unmedicated ADHD... Oh my God, perfect. And want to hear people with mental illness, psycho babble. Yes, yes.

Then Emergency Intercoms the podcast for you. Open your free Iheart radio app. search emergency intercom and listen now. Do you, did you realize, did you know, so we actually disagreed on this, did you realize that you cut every flight attendant night one at the time? Did you know you were doing that? Oh, no, no, for sure at the time. No, I think someone did tell me that later on, or it came up in an interview.

but that was completely that was just that was random that like I didn't do that on purpose at all like I honestly always thought to be the coolest thing in the world to marry a flight attendant kind of like do what my parents did just because like to be honest they just get your lifestyle

obviously like in a way that no like someone outside the industry doesn't understand so I think I remember feeling like pretty bummed I'm like shoot did I really like I had no idea that's the way it went but that's so funny I thought I thought that you were like I'm not dating a flight attendant like, or like, this is too risky

with my job situation. Joe was like, I doubt he had any idea about it. Yeah, true. In the moment, for sure, no idea. And I think there was one United Flight in Senate, Megan. She was, uh, I actually haven't flown with her. But I know she was United Flight Senate.

She's senior to me. I don't know. So that's why you're kidding. It would be though, I guess, but I guess looking back, like, now that I think about it, like, there's no way you can remember every person's name, job, where they're from, like, night one.

Like, there's no way you were like, those three were flight attendants by. Like, I think the only one I knew was Megan because she was dressed in her uniform and she like, yeah. And probably said maybe like she worked for United and you were like, oh, me too. Well, didn't you work for Delta at the time? No, yeah, at that time, I wasn't even not United yet. Yeah. So guys, so going back to the story, so then I do the Bachelorette, right?

and I'm, like, trying to get all these days off. And as we go, and then I ended up having to get the full two months, right? And I think I had, like, a trip. Like, I cut up at, like, three days. I was in Creek Greece of the finale of that season. And three days later, I'm, like, back to my day job again, flying. I'm just like, my mind is just so not caught up from what I just did the last two months. And now I'm back to flying.

So that was, like, a trip. But then I go. That's crazy. People don't talk about that enough, the transition of coming out of filming a show and then have to go back to everyday life is really mentally like a challenging part of it all. I can't imagine you being like in uniform on a plane at your day job three days later. Because A, you just went through a breakup and B, you're like trying to adjust to being resumersed and like having your phone and like all these things.

Yep. Yeah. No, it went from, you know, it was actually, it wasn't after Crete from Crete when I got like, we went to Paris for a week, which was not complaining. That was awesome. And then had like a one week vacation there essentially until the rest of the show was done. And then we flew back. And it was from there. So I went from the show. Then I like had this cool little mini vacation. And then I get thrust back into like normal life ASAP. And yeah, it was it was interesting. But then for the Bachelor, I had no more resources to get the days off. And so when they asked me to like no vacation, no personal drops or anything. And I remember I like I called my chief pilot at the time. And I was like, hey, any chances can work? And they're like, yeah, probably not. Like this isn't going to happen.

And I was like, you know what? I'm going to find a way. It's going to happen. I'm going to make it work. And I called like all 130 FOs. We're on the 737 based out of LAX, the airplane that I was on. And like in reverse seniority order, called them all asking if they be willing to help pick up a trip if it fit in their schedule for the next month. And I found like three people.

And I just called those three when I had trips to drop in it. And then it ultimately ended up working out. Wow. That's crazy, Peter. Oh, my God. So you were basically having people pick up, like, essentially shifts or, like, flights. Like, there might have been a situation where you're like, yeah, like, actually got to go back to L.A. Like, no one picked up on a flight.

And I'm filming The Bachelor here. And I don't have the guaranteed days off. And it's my job, which I'm always going to put as my priority. Like, if I didn't get it picked up, I was going to have to leave the show. And I'm like, guys, we got to film this another time because I can't miss this. And before that, the decision had gone all the way up to Ed Bash and the CEO at the time. and they had two camps that were trying to give me

just a leave the absence so I didn't have to worry about the stress dropping the trips and then the other camp saying you know one camp saying yes one camp saying no ultimately got to Ed Bash

and he was the one that said no and I'm like oh this is going to be stressful but yeah we made it work but could you have so I don't know how it works with being a pilot but could you have just like

quit and then been like okay I'll just once the bachelor air is like I can't see any airline not wanting to hire me as a pilot. I don't think the airlines care. They don't care.

They actually probably more than not, like a super conservative airline, would not want that kind of attention. No, no. And it doesn't work like that anyways. Everything's based like on a seniority and the airlines, everything's a seniority-based system.

So it's the date of hire. When you go to your class date, that number is stamped and that follows you your whole career until you retire. So everything. So it's not like quitting, jumping to a different airline.

You don't do that. That's not, okay. Yeah. And like, I mean, granted, I did do that because I went from Delta to the United. But I'm like, I'm not a lot of people do that. That's pretty rare. And the only reason I did was it was just more of a passion move. Like, that was the love that I had for United since I was a little kid.

That's why I wanted to fly there more than anything. And then fly with my dad, which was amazing. But yeah, so as we went, like I would just be on my iPad, dropping trips, getting, you know, I would be able to make phone calls to some of the guys that were picking them up. Wow. That's crazy. Like the anxiety I feel for you right now is just nuts. Like I can't even imagine how the show was feeling being like, well, this guy doesn't have any time off.

And we're just going to see how this goes. What did your work say when you got back and you were like, oh, yeah, it's like the reason I've been having my show's covered for two months because I went on The Bachelor. It just kind of like, so that all happened. We finished like November. I got my seat, my conditional job offer from United in January. So it was really only a couple months. I really didn't say anything

because the show wasn't airing yet. So from November to December, you know, hadn't aired yet. I just really never said anything. And then when I had my C.J.O I remember almost, oh my God, I remember almost giving my two weeks notice to adults at that point.

And thank God. My dad was like, you know what? Just hold off. until you have everything for sure confirmed. And so I did. And then COVID hits. And then the United job offer gets postponed for like a year. If I would have left Delta, I wouldn't have been able to gone back. So I lucked out that I

did it that way. But yeah, I kind of just let everyone figure out as the show came out and started airing and promoting. I didn't really like tell people. People started to be like, how did you go film this show? Like, when did this happen? That's wild. All the crews were very curious how I made it work.

But yeah. Honestly, that's, that's a talent in itself like no that is truly you make things happen i don't i don't recommend it i don't you should be a producer that's what you should do that's that should be your next your next producer pete yeah dealing with everyone's job problems let's jump to uh let's jump the traders real quick because yeah just you were on that show uh people don't know traders uh competition show on peacock um how how how when did you get on the show like what was that process like so i yeah i never thought i'd ever do reality tv again i wasn't ever

like closed off to it but i just kind of thought that ship had like sailed and i just was in a different chapter in my life and then uh i remember like a week before this is in september like early mid-september i get a text from a you know a casting director and they asked me if i'd be interested in it and i had seen a little bit of season one with ari so i was like wait yeah I know exactly what this is. Yes. It looks fun too. Like watching it, putting yourself on the show as a contestant, you're like, this looks

like it would be a lot of fun. Yeah. 100%. But then I was like, but I have to get time off from work. So let me give you a call back in the next. I'm like, here we go again. Got the time off from work. So luckily, it was a lot easier this time.

Also, it was a lot shorter filming schedule. I think it was like three weeks, three and a half weeks total. But I got the EOK. I was able to get, you know, the time off. and I was able to move trips around. So then I said, I called her back the next day. I was like, yeah, let's do it. And then a week later, we're already filming.

So I think I was probably like filling or something, like a last minute cancellation because like literally a week from the call to first day of filming. But it was the coolest thing I've ever done. Dude, I literally was, I was like such like a little kid. It was like Christmas every night. It was so hard to fall asleep because I was so excited for the next day. And then I wake up and like go run out to like go see the presents at the tree. Like I was so excited to play that game.

Just because you never knew what was happening. You never knew what the missions were. I always thought these like shows, these crazy missions and like pushing yourself looks so freaking cool. And so I was like, I actually, because I always wanted to do that on the baton. Like the craziest stunts. Like I never got to jump out of an airplane. I was so bummed.

I was like I wanted one of those dates. And the traders, I knew that was going to be like every single day. So it was just pure excitement. And then you add in like the mental gymnastics of the game. it was exhilarating. You just, you felt like it was incredible. That's my, so yeah, I just did a competition show that's probably airing right now

if you're listening on Amazon Prime called The Goat. But, yeah, like the mental part of the game is so much fun. It's like, to me, that's like it's just, it's like be, it's like an immersive board game. And you're just like, this is, you get lost in it.

it is you do you go back to feeling like you're a child like I'm a kid playing a game yeah this is fine there was a point I remember like I would I would be like when we break for a little bit or lunch or whatever like I was just wanting like I didn't care about having normal conversation and I loved all the like the cast was great like I wanted to get away from the normal combos and just get back to gameplay whenever we weren't talking gameplay that's all I could think about getting back to and I was like we'll get to know each other like fine after all this let's just like play and I like I got so wrapped up in it and so lost, but I loved every second of it. You're obsessed.

Did you have a favorite challenge? Yeah, the first one. The first one we did, we like had, we were in this like literally picture Harry Potter and like one of those where like the quiddage stadiums are and like the mountain or like the lake outside of Hogwarts. And it was like one of those lakes. They call them locks out there. And it looked like the lockness monster was 100% swimming like in the depths of it. Like, it just had that ominous feel. And then, like, the clouds are, like, low level over the mountains.

And they had this huge, like, TV production set. Like, obviously, as a viewer, you don't see it. But there's huge cranes and, like, tents and, you know, all, like, security people and, like, seals. Like, like, not Navy SEALs, but, like, people, like, in the boats getting ready to rescue if they need be. And this huge production. And then we get to go in, like, this frigid water and go, like, swim and gather all these puzzle pieces, like, and row the boat. And, like, there's flames going. off like when we finished it was just it was so cool as I'll never forget that experience and

everyone still was part of it because no one had been kicked off yet so the whole group was together and everyone was working together and it was it was pretty special my boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now I'm seriously suspicious oh wait a minute sam maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit well Dakota it's back to school week on the okay story time podcast so we'll find out soon this person writes my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now, he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now, hold up.

Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor, and they're the same age. And it's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them. I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend really cheated with his professor or not?

To hear the explosive finale, listen to the okay. Storytime Podcast on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I never envision being with a woman. I'll just be honest. I'm Jamel Hill, host of the Sports and Politics Podcasts Politics. On this week's episode, I'm joined by basketball legend, Candice Parker, who stops by to discuss her candid new book, The Can Do Mindset, in which she shares why she waited two years into marriage to come out. Like when I close my eyes at night, every night, I was like, I need to find my prince charming. Like, it was never a princess.

Like, that never entered into my mind. But, you know, as I learned, sometimes life gives you things wrapped in a package that you didn't expect it. And that was just, you know, and honestly, it took me a long time to be okay with myself. Make sure to listen to this week's episode of Spolitics on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Hi, my name is Enya Umanzor. And I'm Drew Phillips. And we run a podcast called Emergency Intercom. If you're a crime junkie and you love crimes, we're not the podcast for you.

But if you have unmedicated ADHD... Oh my God, perfect. And want to hear people with mental illness, psycho babble. Yes, yes. Then Emergency Intercom is the podcast for you. Open your free IHeart Radio app. search emergency intercom and listen now. So you as a contestant player on the show, you go pretty far,

but it seemed you are like the first one that kind of like cracks the code of starting to pick up on who these traders are. Yeah. And it ends up, I guess like it ends up being your demise at the end, but it was kind of like, you either do do it the way you did it I don't know I guess what I'm

asking this in a terrible way but is there anything you feel like you could have done different the only thing I could have done differently was postpone

when I like went on the offensive and once I did I was like committed to that and I couldn't slow down I couldn't back down in fact I thought my protection

and my safety was in being the more aggressive I was the better the more you know I outspoken I was about calling people out that was my protection because if I'm putting all this heat on people and if I'm right if I'm putting all this heat on people that are actually the traders and then they quickly you know knock me out and get rid of me the very next day that's kind of given up their game and so now that that was my protection and then they can't be so obvious to get rid of me right away if I'm loud and I'm consistently on them the second I kind of drop off now I'm probably going to get poached and people aren't going to notice it as much.

So I think once I committed to that, but again, I kind of was forced into that just by the nature of like, I remember we did that move with the Bergey shield block and, you know, had like this lie going on to try to infiltrate and kind of see if that would make it back to the traders and they would get on board with it too and believe it.

So because it was such a public move, I was already, I was locked in. Once that was successful, I was like, all right, I've made my bed and game on and let's see how far we can take this. Yeah, it was, it's like one of those situations where it's like, damned if you do, damned if you don't, you were, damned if you do, damned if you don't, but you were kind of like in that situation where it was like, yeah, you didn't really like any way you played it, you were kind of fucked, but it was kind of like, I just got to go 100% at this because

it could work. Yeah, and also like, to be completely honest, I just like, it was so much more fun to be aggressive in the game, then kind of like sit back. Like I don't know if I could have done that. I would have just been like chomping at the bit too much. Who were you like close with or are you still close with anyone from the show? Oh yeah. We actually, it was cool.

We got pretty much the whole, not the whole cast, but like I just had dinner, went to to see Great Gatsy with peppermint the other night. She lives out in the city. Actually, you guys should meet her. She's in the, she's in Manhattan as well. I see Trichelle a lot Bergey bananas out in L.A.

Dan Fadre and Parvety we got to do a bunch of cool like press after and like some promo stuff so we got to spend some time together. Ecc and Sue Yeah your mom too

Yeah Were you surprised when they asked you about that at the reunion? because, like, you guys seemed surprised when they were like, oh, you know, Barb just posted with Ecken Sioux, what's going on? Yeah. Or were you kind of expecting it? I was kind of expected. Honestly, it was so harmless.

Like, I, you know, Ecken's obviously in London. So she had come out a couple days before everyone else did out to L.A. for the reunion. And my mom knew she was out there. So, you know, her, Christine, my sister-in-law, went out to lunch. But it was just harmless. I just connected them because I was really close with Ecken. and then everything blows up and, you know, everyone starts having all these opinions and guesses about everything and nothing really was going on.

We're just really good friends. It's crazy because it's like when you're like when you got on a dating show, especially like The Bachelor and you are, you become the lead. It's like then anything you post with the opposite sex, everyone's like, yeah, like another pretty single girl is like they must be dating. They must be dating. Like they're four months into it. like an engagement's coming or something like I yeah an engagement's coming if Pete if you could do

any um if you could like if you had your choice at the next competition reality show or any reality show what would you choose special forces 100% I want to do that so bad just obviously that the ability to have to like so I want I wanted to go to the Air Force academy right when I was out of high school that was my initial dream wanted to go be a fighter pilot and a part of that was the opportunity to go push myself and really see what I was made of. And I remember looking forward to that, like going to the initial freshman year boot camp and all that. Long story short,

didn't get in directly. So I ended up going a different course in life. But I feel like this is like one of the closest things to experiencing that. And obviously just the competitive side of me would love it. It's funny. I feel like Bachelor Nation owns that show because they keep winning that. They've won both seasons, right? Bachelor Nation has done pretty well across the board on other reality shows.

I feel like. lately. Yeah. Like you and Ari both did really well on Traders. And then like everyone that's been on special forces are bachelor. Hannah, Nick and Tyler all finished. All crushed. How did you do on the goat there, Joe?

You got to stay tuned. It was on prime. It's Aaron right now. I'm feeling pretty confident. Joe like literally. What would you do? What would I do? I don't know.

I haven't really given a lot of thought to going back on reality. I was pretty like not interested in going back on any reality show until Joe did the go. And I just think hearing like how much fun. You would do trade. I would do traitors. I would do traders. You guys bullshit at the opportunity. Yeah, and just seeing you do it and like hearing how great an experience you had. Like, I don't know, Bachelor is a very intense filming process and I did two seasons back to back and I'm engaged now.

So like that's all great. You're married. I'm married now. Oh my God. Jesus. Sorry. For God for a second. We're married.

I am going on naked and afraid. No, no. Oh, that's good. That's funny. But yeah, I would do traders. I don't know if I would do. Survivor. I think like the cold.

I would do it. I would do it. You know, I don't know. I'd be curious to see if I would be able to. I lose weight very easily and I would be worried about, I think it would be like detrimental to my health in a lot of different ways. Like more like a like the go honestly looked amazing. Like I feel like I would totally do that.

But yeah. I like the like more like camp fun reality competition shows like. like I think traitors in the goat are great examples yeah I'm trying to think special forces is a little intimidating to me as well I want to special forces too I'm with that like I do yeah like I really do like I I really want to be able to challenge myself like physically like that like even just do that on the goat the goat is definitely it was the the social aspect of it is very challenging and that's what I found to be the most fun but but physically you know the games are more like campy Silly, like, carnival-esque. You know what I would love, though, for Bachelor to do? And I don't know if they would ever do this, is like, do like a, like a broad, like a summer house style show where it's like just a bunch of us get to like go live in a house for the summer and like party and just like film as we go. I just feel like that would be a cool experience.

I feel like they all lost that. They should just pay for us to party for the summer. I mean, like, come on. I don't know. It'd be fun till you get to film now having like done two shows and like with other people from the franchise that have also like we've all done reality before. We all have that in common. Like a paradise but just like Hampton style. Yes. Like an alumni paradise. But like we're like not necessarily with as much focus on dating. Just like hanging out. I like that idea. Like not having a focus on dating just kind of being friends with each other and hanging out. That would be like a dot. What do they call like a docky follow? They called a vacation. They call it a vacation with friends. It's what you're asking for to pay for.

I don't think that's too much to ask for after what we've been. If you see, you're listening, let's do it. Pete, anything, what else you got going on? Anything you want to share? Any new things coming up, dating life? What's going on? To be completely honest, like right? Everything's kind of slowed down a little bit for me, which I'm very, very happy about.

because I've been on go nonstop, just kind of like from traders until I was doing a ton of travel. I was doing Thailand, a ton of cruises, just, you know, a bunch of events all around the country. Right now it's kind of like slowing down a little bit, which I kind of need. You know, I haven't been flying too much right now, unfortunately, just because everything going on right now with, you know, out of, you know, one of my big routes is Tel Aviv, so we're not going there right now. So flying has been a little bit slower, but, you know, it's been giving me some time to kind of just hang out and do some kind of more events, you know, in the whole, in this space with everything. That was a cool seeing you at F1. That was a blast. But honestly, yeah, nothing like

crazy on the horizon, which I feel like I need because I've been going, going, going without stopping for a while. Yeah. What kind of dater are you? Like, are you like an aptitude? Are you like out of the bars picking up girls? Are you like three dates a week? Like, what is your single boy lifestyle? Who three dates a week, I don't, I could not do that. I was on the apps for a little bit. I'm not really, I'm not on them anymore. I had some success with that. It was, you know, nothing crazy, but definitely had some, you know,

met some great women from it and had, you know, some good dates. To be honest, I'm really not into like, I feel like for the first year, year and a half in New York, I was like in the bar scene and it was cool and I enjoyed it. I've kind of like seen myself like segue out of that. That's not really like my spot anymore. It doesn't really do it for me. I'd rather just like hang out, maybe like on the rooftop and like have a drink up there

and listen to some good music. Like I'm kind of getting over that scene. But not definitely not three dates a week. Maybe like one day a week. And I like to do fun dates like in the city. I like to, you know, take advantage. You know, go ride a bike around Central Park and go like lay out a blanket or something

down the west side highway like this is such a cool city to date in so there's no shortage of ideas like museums um yeah city like an activity yeah cities i like doing over i mean dinner is cool too but i love taking it like comedy show um that's a great date um there's just yeah chelsea peers so many options nice all right well this has been fun pete we'll uh we'll let you go uh we're going to be gone this weekend but we'll be back next week So we got to link up. Yeah, we'll go do something. Yeah, Pete, thank you so much for coming on.

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