The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Destination LOVE with Peter Weber

Episode Date: June 10, 2025

Former Bachelorette Rachel Recchia revealed on the Almost Famous podcast that she thinks a fellow pilot is sexy… and she wishes she could have been on his season! Now it’s up to Ashley to confront Peter Weber and get his reaction!   Find out what’s going on in Peter’s love life, how things are between him and ex Kelley Flanagan, and if he ships Kelley and Jason Tartick as much as Bachelor Nation fans do! And find out what he’s doing on the new show “Destination X”!   Plus, Peter shares his expert opinion on all the news with regards to air travel safety. So come fly the friendly skies on the Almost Famous podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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On the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. Wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, luckily, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend's 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 or gone.

Hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That seems inappropriate. Maybe find out how it ends by listening to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, it's Daniel Fischel. Writer Strong. And Will Ferdell from PodMeets World. We are back in Las Vegas and giving the people what they want, a full week of Y2K content. Tell me, Y. Well, for the Backstreet Boys residency. sphere, of course.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, and I'm the host of the on-purpose podcast, and today I'm joined by one of the greatest athletes of all-time Novak Djokovic. He's one 14 grand slams in a glittering career. Novak, joke a bitch.

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So I guess I'm not flying solo. You are my co-captain. I'm your co-pilot. Let's do it. Let's have a play. Peter, are you captain yet or are you co-captain still? No, I'm still first officer. So I am three stripes.

Hopefully in the near future, I'd say like maybe in the next two to three years. I probably plan on trying to put my upgrade in. And then that's all dependent on it. There's open positions like in LA is where I probably would want to stay. So, yeah, two to three year mark is kind of what I have my site set on. Has all the shows that you've done over the past couple of years kind of put you back in your career? No, no. So what's really nice about the airline industry is everything's predicated off the seniority.

So the day I was hired, like instance, I was hired May 25th, 2021. So that date will follow me my entire career until I turned 65. And I have to retire. And then, so I can, essentially, you can pick up a full schedule. You can pick up overtime if it's within your, you know, FAR limits or I can drop trips. But that doesn't have any bearing on career progression. All it matters is your seniority number. And if it's senior enough to take an open position, you can get it.

Okay. That's great. I'm glad that you've been literally able to become a reality star on so many different platforms now. we're going to talk about your new show destination x in a minute it's on nbc and it's hosted by geoffrey dean morgan which is really really cool but first we have um we have some juicy stuff so we recently had rachel recia a fellow pilot on our podcast and the question was if you can go on any bachelor's season that wasn't the one that you came from hers clayton what would your choice be and let's roll the audio

I'll start I would be on Peter Weber season oh tell us why because he's sexy and we're both pilots let's go Rachel you know it's funny

I heard something about that that's cool well I appreciate that that's very sweet of her to say so because you guys have that in common and you do follow each other on Instagram have you gone back and forth at all about that no we've never had a discussion like that

I've only, I've only, we only hung out like a handful of times in person. Um, I think the last time I saw Rachel was, I want to say it was in Miami for, or Art Basel. Um, I saw her out there. Um, I saw her out there. But, uh, yeah, we got to, we got to connect out in L.A. I think she's still flying or she kind of like put that. I think she still flies. She is. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So when you guys have seen each other in real life, like, has she called you sexy? no to be honest no all of us stayed very very platonic um i think it's yeah that's not to start any

rumors that's all been very very platonic but i do appreciate that it's very sweet asaph i do feel like you could be asked by abc the bachelor again um to be bachelor because you know in recent history i think that you and joey have been the ones that have garnered the most attention and Joey seems I think he's going to make it down the aisle with Kelsey and you are still single. So what would you think if they were to come to you again? This is like five years removed. Well, of course, I would come out here. I actually am not single anymore. So we're breaking news. This is, I guess kind of yeah. This is very, very, very new. I'm like blushing right now. I know. I love it.

Yeah, I mean, to be very honest and like, I'm really blushing right now. Oh, my God. Yeah, it's very, very new, very fresh. Obviously, going to, you know, want to keep it very private and, you know, kind of figure we probably get into a little bit of that. But put any like, yeah, rumors, I guess, aside for any bachelor type comeback. Hopefully there is never the need for that because I'm very excited. And I am very hopeful. So we will see what happens. you just moved back to L.A. Did this girl have anything to do with the move? No. No. And it's so funny because I literally, so I was in New York for the last like four years. And I, you know, Kelly and I had gone back on and off a little bit during that time. But majority of it was all single. And, you know, I always wanted a relationship. But it's no secret, obviously. But, you know, it's never going to be someone of course anything. But all my friends, they were so funny. They were like all predicting when I was going to come back to L.A. They're like, dude, the second, you get back, you're just going to like, we just know it. You're going to find someone. You're going to settle down and it's just all going to work. And I was like, I would love that. That would be great. And they were spot on. They were spot on. Literally the first day. The first day? Yeah, first day. It's not crazy. Okay. So I'm assuming it wasn't an update then. No. No. It was in person. It was a beautiful old-fashioned meetup. And, um,

yeah I really like I would I don't want to like just because it's like so new and everything kind of just like keep it more private but yeah definitely really excited and it's funny how my friends literally predicted it and they all called it and who would have thought literally the first day but um kind of funny how life works out that way can you at least tell us where you met her like was this like a cute a meat cute at a coffee shop or something um it was not that we met um it was actually on a on a trip on a uh well a trip Menela kind of thing. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, we'll let you have your privacy now a little bit. Appreciate it. And maybe that makes sense as to why Kelly recently said when you guys saw each other at Coachella that you said that she was like this sister that you never had.

I meant that in the most endearing way. Like, true. And sure, I mean, what are you going to do now? I can't take it back. But truly it was, and she knows that, like, I've seen her since and everything. Like, it was the most endearing I was trying to make as a compliment. It was, you know, obviously I have so much respect for her and obviously love for her that, you know, we'll never go away like that.

And we just, you know, I try it. It wasn't for a shortage of trying, right? And, you know, sometimes people work relationship-wise. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes it's just friends. And I guess if you want to look at it a weird way, you can misconstrue it. But it was not anything like that. I was just trying to, it was trying to be an endearing comment.

And I say this, thinking that you and Kelly, like, truly have a friendship beneath all the romance. Like, I think that you really have that foundation. So you said that, um, you've seen her since and you have this girlfriend. Does the girlfriend at all think this friendship is weird? Because I personally being part of this bachelor world, I think that it's totally legit that you would have a friend and Kelly first and foremost. Does she feel weird? No. Honestly, no. I think just a lot of like honest communication and, you know, just talks. I think I've made it like very clear. Like, and you're right, Phelie and I do have like just a solid, solid friendship. And again, that's kind of where that comment came from. I guess I know how it can be like misconstrued or made to look weird. But, you know, I think she, she understands and like there's no worries there whatsoever. There's no like drama or anything like that, which is awesome. And like I really. appreciate that too so again we Kelly and I like we've been broken up for a while you know she she's

had a very serious relationship post me and everything so you know there's been a lot of time to like heal and move on and um you know obviously always wish the absolute best for her but um there's like there's no drama like that at all involved like you know moving forward with my current situation okay that's good and Kelly was is currently being shipped with jay Antarctic. The fandom wants them to be together. What do you think about them together? You were in the same house as them during

Gojela. It's such a weird thing to talk about. I it wouldn't be like weird for me. It may sound odd, but it really wouldn't. I both, you know it to be completely crazy. Like I

they're both very high. They could work. like honestly i could see it like they both are you know i think similar people in like certain regards and um again like when i think of both of them i think like the first thought that really comes into my mind is like just respect both ways and like i i look up to both of them in in a lot of different aspects of life and um yeah i zero hard feelings if that if that ever happened that ever came to be um you know i don't really know where exactly that stands but yeah it's i guess some, I'm happy that I can say that too. Like I, you know, would want everyone to be happy.

And if that ends up being the case, you know, great. If not, I think they'll be great friends. But, yeah, zero, zero hard feelings on the side of it. When they're together, do they, like, feel the pressure to be flirting together? Because that's what people are rooting for. I honestly, like, I don't want to speak for them, but I honestly think it's maybe being played up a little bit more than it actually is. Like, if, if I had to guess, like that's my impression so um yeah i don't i don't like no i don't see them you know turning it on or something or flirting with each other feeling the need to do that but i think it's being played up a little bit more than it is if i had a guess yeah has your mom barb met

the new girl uh not yet not yet yeah not yet this is like so like i said like we met like very early on but you know getting together has been a much more recent thing so Did she watch you on The Bachelor? No. Okay. It's probably a good thing. Is she tempted to watch back now? No, it's not going to.

You're going to block, like, I, too, the Apple. And, well, I think Apple is where you can always stream every season. I don't know where else your season might be, but. Yeah. No, I probably think the healthiest thing is probably not to do that. But, yeah. December 29th, 1975, LaGuardia Airport. The holiday rush, parents hauling luggage, kids gripping their new Christmas toys.

Then, at 6.33 p.m., everything changed. There's been a bombing at the TWA terminal. Apparently, the explosion actually impelled metal. Glad. The injured were being loaded into ambulances, just a chaotic, chaotic scene. In its wake, a new kind of enemy emerged, and it was here to stay. Terrorism. Law and Order Criminal Justice System is back.

In season two, we're turning our focus to a threat that hides in plain sight. That's harder to predict and even harder to stop. Listen to the new season of Law and Order Criminal Justice System on the Hi Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. 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. 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. Hello, it's Daniel Fischel Writer Strong and Wilfredel from Podmeet's World and we're bringing you Viva Las Content That's right, we are back in Las Vegas

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What message does that send? Listen to season three of the Idaho Massacre on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, so you are on this new show, Destination X. I think that it seems obvious for me to think that your wonderful gameplay on traitors played a role in you being on this. new show? I think so, yeah. Wouldn't be surprised by that. I, you know, obviously, yeah, same network with NBC and with Peacock. But I mean, for me, going on the traders is like, you know, obviously, you know, like going on the whole bachelor experience and whatnot. It was such a unique experience in its own right. But I, doing the whole traders thing really opened my eyes like the whole

gaming world and like how much I really love that. And just, it's definitely more my niche, you know, even if I wasn't with someone, I don't, I would never really do a love show again. Just that's not my thing. And yeah, I think I just found my niche. I love it. I'm extremely competitive. You know, I think, you know, some success in traders probably helped me with this next opportunity.

And this was just one like I for sure, like never could have said no to. It was right up my alley, just the whole aspect of travel and how passionate I am about that. Yeah, it was kind of felt like I was like made for this specific one. If Ben were here, he would say that, Wells was too good, has too much of a mind for traders. And that's why he got eliminated so early. People didn't want him there.

You and Wells, both in the same trader's house, what happens? Ooh, ooh, that, you know what? I really don't, I got to, like, I got to meet Wells more. I really don't know Wells that well. It's interesting. I think he obviously was like the bananas of my season. And I think coming in as like probably a threat, it obviously is, you know, if you follow TV and follow stuff that Weld has a very um just like a very intelligent person and very sharp

and that is that can definitely be kind of maybe a turnoff for you know contestants in a castle when you're trying to compete with them like that that seems like that seems like i think i think him and banana has definitely kind of played a similar role in that so i think if i played with wells in a future season i would i don't know what i would go about that um i think my mind's like Spitting like a million miles an hour here. I don't know. Well, what about Gabby? How are you, do you know Gabby at all personally?

Did you expect her to do as well as she did? No. Honestly, I, first I knew the most was Dylan that went on that season. We had kind of, he had called me up and we chatted a little bit before he left and try to give him just any advice that I could. You did, you did well.

You did very well. He won, yeah. Yeah. He freaking killed. He played an incredible game. Gabby, though, she surprised me like no other she i think she's the perfect blend of just of smarts but also flying under the radar um you know has the perfect personality for like reality tv they can also

maybe distract a little bit from how intelligent she really is and what kind of a game she's really playing under the radar so she's like in my opinion like the perfect blend for i mean obviously she won't as well so i would love to play with yeah with all of them it'd be sweet if like to do like you know an all-star kind of season at some point yeah be cool yeah the game it's a blast so you went from that show hosted by alan coming big star to geoffrey dean morgan in this show and that's cool so how much interaction did you have with both of them so allen it's funny i've gotten to know a little bit more post show we uh it was you know more after everything was already filmed like we did a couple of fun uh so he's got this club called club coming and in

in the Lower East Side in Manhattan. And so he would host a bunch of watch parties. So we'd go there. And it's fun to just kind of like have a couple nights, like just letting loose and we're not really filming anything and just have fun and chill. So I got to know him a little bit better there. Jeffrey, it was crazy.

We actually bonded. He has a bunch of tattoos. And he has like a bunch of finger tattoos. And we're like on this one, probably the coolest challenge, I think, I got to do on the show on Destination X. But we're like having some downtime. and I'm, like, looking at his tattoos.

I'm like, all right, I'm going to try to, like, bond with him. So, like, hey, I have a tattoo as well. That is the easiest way to start a conversation with somebody is talking about the meeting behind their tattoos, yeah. It's so true, though. And he had a bunch of finger tats. And so I showed him mine, mine's like the 12 for the Seahawks. And he's from Seattle. Didn't know it.

And he's a diehard Seattle Seahawks fan. So we started, like, connecting over that. And then we both got invited. This is post show. Had no idea either one of us was going. We got invited to the Seahawk game when the Seahawks were playing a job. Jets in New York. And we both show up and we're like, we're sitting right next to each other. I'm like, no, frickin' way. Like, what are the odds of this? So it was kind of like a full circle

moment. But he's a really, really cool dude. He's the perfect guy, perfect host for this kind of show. So tell us about the show. What's the premise and how do you come in to play? Because people are going to have to watch a few episodes to see you come in. Yes. So premise of the show is, it's the ultimate adventure game. It's ultimate. Remember like the game like back when you're like elementary school like where in the world is carman that computer game yeah san diego yeah yeah that's what i think i forget her last name um it's it's pretty much like that but you put a game board all across europe and everything's fair game and you get in a bus with however many contestants are left at that point the bus has all fogged out windows you can't see outside

uh the only thing you can see is sun that's the only thing you can tell like from the bright light but if anything else you can't see and the whole premise is Jeffrey essentially takes us all around Europe and puts us in certain cities for every episode and we have to guess where we're at. And how do you do that? It's you got a couple challenge options throughout that week for that episode. And if you win the challenge, you get an information. And that information obviously is gold. And it's up to you how to share it if you want to share it, but also if you want to decipher it because not all the information you're getting is accurate. And that's where the twist comes in. So there could be red herrings out there that

It can be a complete distraction or it could be legit information. And so it puts a lot of different kinks in it and twists and turns. But it's all about just creating alliances and trusting your gut, using your knowledge, using any skills you have to give yourself the most educated guess of where you're at in Europe. And then at the end of every week, a certain amount of people get selected to go to what's called a map room. It's in the bus. And we go to the map room, we have to put our X down wherever we think we are. and the person that's furthest away from that from the correct location gets booted for that week

and then you go so on and so on until until the finale so ultimate guessing game it's you know a little bit of amazing race but a whole different twist um huge it's it's got you travel of amazing race like the social social aspect game of traders guessing there too and just alliances and honestly it's it's it's I think it's first of its kind I haven't seen anything out there that's it's quite like this do your skills as a pilot help you out figuring out where you are i had yeah there's a couple instances i honestly thought it would have been more but um the main things that like i brought from the flying aspect i used um like celestial navigation as much as possible throughout it so again though that's dependent on having to have a clear night

and be able to see the north star but and it'd be outside at some point but if i could see that I could measure roughly my latitude of where I was. So going into the game, I kind of had some key cities marked out of what their latitude was and had that memorized. And so I would use that information to compare with other stuff that I'd gotten and other information I'd gathered from, you know, anyone that I was possibly working with to, like, give myself the best guess.

So it helped me in that aspect. And there was one time where it came in super clutch. I recognized a, anytime we were near airports, obviously I would like, you know, my alert would go up a little bit and I recognize the departure corridor. We have what's called SIDS standard instrument departure procedures. So when you take off out of like a big airport, every airplane follows the same course. And I recognize a certain departure procedure I had done a couple of years prior. And that was super clutch for me because I at that point was very, very lost and very confused. And so that was that was huge. So I would

say those are the two biggest ways that the piloting aspect helped benefit me. Oh my gosh. That's so cool. You must have felt very special. You must have felt like you, I would have felt like, oh, I'm cool, I'm smart. I just felt lucky at that point because this the hard part about the show

is like, and there's a lot, like almost every place you'll go through and you'll think there's no way in the world like this setting or this topography is in this country and it is though. And they do like the creators of the show did such a good job of finding like such unique spots in each country and nothing's obvious. Like nothing's

People think this game is, this is the hardest thing I've ever done. And so I was off, believe me, I was off a lot too. And, you know, it's very humbling to like realize, holy shit, I was, damn. Like, this alliance just may have saved me there or whatnot. But yeah, in that case, I was really, really stoked and happy that I finally got something because I was pretty lost at that point. I guess most people out there listening, I'd be probably like, okay, but if you go by a restaurant, you're going to see a menu, you're going to see street signs with a language.

how do they hide that from you? You don't, so nothing's really, there's a handful of times where, and you're only there after a challenge or an elimination kind of round has been completed, there's only a handful of times where you're really in like an area with a lot of other people. Like most of the places,

and that's what's kind of cool too about the show, like the shots are just going to be epic and so stunning because it's just some of the most beautiful landscapes that Europe has to offer. That's where we were spending most of our time. wasn't like in a specific town or a city where you would have access to license. Like I remember researching like all license plates and like and flags brushing up on that. But that would have been too easy.

Right. So they you're always more. It's more secluded except for like a handful of times where and you'll see how that makes sense in the game. What's bus life like with these guys? Very, uh, difficult. A lot different than like a traders aspect just because you have zero privacy. you're close quarters with each other all the time

you know you have you're sleeping on the bus daytime everything's on the bus you're traveling hours every single day to get to the next spot which made it difficult like in traders you could you wanted to have a talk and you wanted to have a chat with you know one person or a crew here and you wanted to get some privacy you go walk outside here you go into a room and close the door here you can't do that like you literally it's a lot of whispering

what was cool though is eventually like as the game kind of progressed everyone kind of got a comment understanding of like, listen, everyone's in this together. It sucks for everyone. Like, no one can really chat. Let's, like, give each other the respect to, like, go and have private talks, like, not try to butt in or be that guy. So it made it a little bit easier towards the end. We kind of all understood how to play it. But also, yeah, I mean, it's bus life. So it's, you know, cram quarters and just a different, different experience than, you know, living in a mansion from The Bachelor or Castle and the Traders.

In a TMI question that everybody loves to know about bus life, did you have to tell the driver when you had to poop? We had everything. We were fully stocked everything. We had a bathroom, showers, everything. You could do number two. Yeah. Okay. Good. You wouldn't want to. Yeah. Then I can get real uncomfortable real quick. But you could if you had to if it was an emergency. Yeah. December 29th, 1975, LaGuardia Airport. The holiday rush, parents hauling luggage, kids gripping their new Christmas toys. Then, at 6.33 p.m., everything changed.

There's been a bombing at the TWA terminal. Apparently, the explosion actually impacted. The injured were being loaded into ambulances, just a chaotic, chaotic, chaotic scene. In its wake, a new kind of enemy emerged, and it was here to stay. Terrorism. Law and Order Criminal Justice System is back. In season two, we're turning our focus to a threat that hides in plain sight. That's harder to predict and even harder to stop.

Listen to the new season of Law and Order Criminal Justice. system on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. 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. Hello, it's Danielle Fischel. Writer Strong. And Will Ferdell from Podmeet's World. And we're bringing you Viva Las Content. That's right. We are back in Las Vegas, the city of sin, and giving the people what they want.

A full week of Y2K content. Wait, we're back in Vegas? Tell me, Y. Well, for the Backstreet Boys residency at Sphere, of course. We sat down with Kevin Richardson and A.J. McLean just minutes before they took the stage and our very own Wilfredel basically became the newest member of the band. Boy band, please. Plus, the man who has the longest running comedy show on the strip joins us and gets his props.

It's carrot top, baby. And finally, we all L-O-V-E-Hur, Ashley Simpson-Ross, joins us to talk about her upcoming sold-out Vegas residency. It's a full week of nostalgic interviews you don't want to miss. Listen to PodMeets World on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, and I'm the host of the on-purpose podcast, and today I'm joined by one of the greatest athletes of all time, Novak Djokovic. The world's number one male tennis player. He's won 14 grand slams in a glittering career.

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It was an unimaginable crime. It's four consecutive live terms for Brian Koberger who killed the four University of Idaho students. The defense are on a sinking ship. It was clear at that point. He was out of options. Nearly 30 months of silence until... Bombshell development, Brian Koberger,

appearing set to accept a plea deal just five weeks before his quadruple murder trial was set to start. No trial, no testimony. He has pleaded guilty to five criminal counts, one of burglary, and then four counts of murder. In this final season, we returned to Moscow with interviews from those still searching for answers. Why did the prosecution take this? They were holding all the cars. How on earth could you make a deal? What message does that send?

Listen to season three of the Idaho Massacre on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So you and Jeney are the two celebrities from this show. She's from Love Island, USA. And you two come in together, you know, not in episode one. I'll just let people know that. No spoilers, but not an episode. one. Why would they just pick two celebrities, two reality stars to join this cast of not to be rude in any way, but like of Normies? I don't know. I think I think you kind of

saw that that the that form. So there's also Josh. Josh Martinez. He met him after the fact. He had I guess we already episode two, but he had left episode one. So we actually didn't get to see him. But he was I think he was big brother and the challenge. And so there was three of us and i don't know i think you kind of saw that format in traders season one you kind of had like a split thing oh that's right yeah just yeah it's it's a different take it's it's a different format um you know maybe there's just who knows like storylines to be had from that or um assumptions to be made from players because of you know people's past you know experiences who knows but um i think yeah it went it went great it was uh there was like really no issues

that one. All right. Well, we are so excited to watch this show. This is awesome. Thank you for explaining the concept like that. It's really, really fun. Yeah. I'm so for it. Speaking of travel, our producer, who is

so scared of flying. The woman hasn't flown since 1999. No. Yes. She couldn't go to Ben's wedding. She couldn't get to my wedding. We've known her for almost a decade. Hello, Amy Sugarman. Yeah. I mean, I'm, I know she's not

alone out there. Lots of people won't fly, but like she won't even be medicated to fly. It's sad. It's sad. She's missing out on some of life. And now she's particularly, well, she's feeling vindicated after like so many like close calls and of course that awful crash in the Potomac a few months ago. What's going on with air travel? Do you think that there's anything different? You think we're just hearing about it more? Listen, air travel is you guys, I'm not going to, you know, say anything you haven't heard before. Air travel. is the safest form of transportation out there by far. It doesn't even compare when you compare it to cars, trains,

more or whatever it is, there is nothing safer than air travel. Obviously, it's some really sad and devastating, you know, news from some of those, you know, unfortunate accidents that occurred. You know, I can't speak too much on all that. You know, I'm not in like the what called NTSB National Transportation Security Board. ones like have the full investigation on that and they know everything but it's it's tough if there's anything i can say listen it's that you know it's unfortunate with every accident though in this anything in life any type of transportation it makes it safer moving forward it's obviously horrible that that

ever happened in the first place but we always there's something to learn and i can honestly tell you like i i have zero fear of flying you know i fly obviously all the time for work for you know pleasure to get you know to get places too like it's there there's no reason to be scared it's not like there's this you know crash down of ATC now all of a sudden isn't working or airplanes aren't working anymore um it's nothing like that it truly isn't and i know it's just unfortunate timing with stuff that's happened but i really hope that people you know trust and you know in in the train that we all do you know whether it's ATC pilots flight attendants everyone mechanics everyone that's involved um it's such rigorous testing and

and consistent training on an annual basis. There's, I, you know, I know people are going to be terrified and, and I get that like someone like Amy, and it's a fear and, you know,

they have every right to have that fear. But I promise you, flying is extremely safe. And I would not just be saying that if I had any doubt in my mind, that wasn't the case. And it still is by far the safest form of transportation that you can ever do. Reagan is my hometown airport being from Northern Virginia. I always have heard

I've always heard that it's one of the airports that pilots most dread flying in and out of because of like the no fly zone and for some reason I remember like the Washington Monument or something like that

do you have you flown in and out and like do you find it to be an annoying airport I no I wouldn't I wouldn't use those words for it it's definitely a complex airport because you had a lot of really restrictive prohibited airspace that you can't fly over

with obviously the White House, a lot of the monuments there. So you have a specific departure, again, kind of getting into what I was talking about with, you know, Cid's standard instrument departure procedures. It's very strict procedures flying out of there. And when you have to make specific turns to not overfly, you know, certain sensitive areas. To be honest, I enjoy that. I enjoy, you know, kind of being in it.

And I don't like, I don't, I don't really think a pilot would say like they shy away from that. I think, you know, if a pilot's talking about shying away from something, it's probably not shine away, that's not the right word, but kind of like being whatever it is. Yeah, is more like airports with like just a lot of delays and like going in and where you know it's going to be, you know, just because there's so much

congestion on the field. But as pilots, we're never, you know, the skill level that we keep in like the proficiency that we keep at all times, there's never a case where we're going into worried or nervous of are we going to be able to handle this. We're always qualified and ready to handle whatever situation is going to, we're going to encounter. So yeah, with Reagan, again, yes, there are complex procedures there, but we're trained to do all that and we wouldn't be flying into that airport still if that wasn't the case. So hopefully this can kind of like, you know, ease some fears with people flying. But I get

it. It's a sensitive topic right now, especially with the stuff that's been on the news. Thanks for that, Peter. It's nice to have a pilot say that they like that challenge rather than dread it. They dread delays, though, and crowded airports. Which one's top of mind for you. Let's see here. Probably my favorite airport to fly into, well, it's always been in San Diego. I love flying into San Diego. I love flying into LaGuardia. I don't get to do those too often now because I'm mainly all international. Atlanta has a lot of delays. That's just, you know, a nature of the beast. That's, you know, I think the biggest airport in the in the country. I'll probably say, I guess, maybe Atlanta, but I don't really fly that that much anymore because I'm not

domestic. And yeah, you're not, well, you were Delta one point? I was, yeah. I flew three years for Delta and then now three at United. Great. And United is what your dad has retired from, right? Yeah, yeah, you retired three years ago, almost three years ago to the day. I got, that's the one I got to do is retirement flight. Oh my gosh, I was three years ago. Wow. I was flying and that's not even my life. It's just watching yours. Three years ago. Now, and since then, Jack, my little brother, he now flies for us too. We've actually been able to do a trip. We actually flew to Shanghai together. So that was a cool bucket list moment. No way. That's so cool. I love how close your family is. And you just became an uncle because he had a baby girl, Willow. Yep, little Willow. Funkle, I got funcle duties

going on. So he is absolutely precious. And has definitely, definitely done something to me. You know, I hear people say it to you like, oh, you're going to love being an uncle or an aunt. it's definitely it's cool you know obviously my little brother but i look up to him in so many ways and just seeing the father that he's become to willow and like the love that he has for her it's just such a beautiful like i'm so proud of him and i like i just want to be you know i know he has an amazing model like in our dad and you know our parents mom and dad but i can't wait to uh i can't wait for that day and hopefully it's not not too far you know around the corner so but he's definitely inspiring.

Aw. Yeah. My sister is just obsessed with our boys. She's our third parent, basically. And I'm always wondering, because she has, she's so close to them. And she talks to them every single day. When she has kids, like, is it going to be different for me because I was the parent first and then the aunt?

Is she older or younger? She's two and a half years younger. So same year, right? Yeah. Well, so you're, I'm the older one. My little brother has... I'm the older one. Oh, yeah.

So I left it, but I had the kids first. Yeah, so I just... Yeah, I don't know. I'm like, I'm going to feel the same way about your kids as you have had the opportunity to feel about mine because you didn't have kids, you know? I guess, yeah, it's an interesting take. I mean, I would probably assume it might be a little bit different just because that's your first time being around them. But, yeah, no, I'm obsessed with Willow. She is absolutely adorable and, yeah, excited.

That was a huge reason, too, to come back to L.A., which has been great just to be close. And I knew that, you know, they were pregnant, so they were having Willow on the way. And timing just kind of worked out. So it's been great. So you are a West Coast boy through and through, yeah. Don't get me wrong. I love New York City. I have been able to go back a couple times since.

And, of course, now it's, you know, the best time of the year out there. And I'll ever have a love in my heart there. But, yeah, I mean, I grew up in L.A. I grew up by here, West Coast. So it's good to be back. I'm in, like, a different area now. So it's cool. It's like, it's something new still and getting to my bearings straight.

But, yeah, being close to family has definitely been nice. Yeah. All right, guys. Well, the new show, Destination X, new episodes on Tuesdays, 10-9 Central on NBC. And it will stream, I'm assuming, the next day on Peacock. Pilot Pete, you're killing it. I assume you kill it again on this show. I don't know anything.

And we wish you the best of luck with the new girl and with, you know, United, continuing with that and Uncle Life. And we're just so happy for you. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Always great connecting. Yes. Until next time, I've been Ashley.

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