Almost Famous In Depth: Peter Kraus

In Depth with the most popular Bachelor that never was: Peter Kraus.

This likeable, fan favorite, never appeared on anther incarnation of the show...find out why.

His experience on the show deeply affected him thus changing his relationship with the franchise. We get to the bottom of what went down when he was asked to be “The Bachelor”.

We hear the story of how he got involved with The Bachelorette which actually started way back in high school. And, we uncover need to know details about Peter Kraus now...

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous in Depth. Hey,
everybody at the Almost Famous Family, if you heard last
week's episode, we asked you to go out and review
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(00:24):
and rate our podcast on iTunes. Hey, Ashley, it's time.
We've been been doing a lot of these. It's been
really awesome. During the break. We've been sitting down with
some of Bachelor Nation's favorites, some people that you haven't
heard from in a while, some people who have you've
you know, heard from from the last season. We've been
doing these in depth episodes as many as we can.

(00:45):
And Sophia wrote in the and she said to us
next in depth idea. The email reads really enjoyed the
in Depth podcast with Peter and Hannah am I would
like to see if you can get Peter Krauss on
the in Depth podcast. I feel like no one really
knows where and who he is. So we've heard you,

(01:07):
We've responded, and as a result, actually I want to
welcome Peter Krause. Hello, Hello, thanks for having me, Peter.
We like to start out asking everyone about their home
life as a kid. So tell us about your family
and where you grew up and what kind of click
you ran with. We're going way back right. Oh my upbring,

(01:31):
so I mean born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin. Um,
I grew up in a time, a little home and cute,
a little called the Sack. Parents bought it with, you know,
the little money they had. I think it was like
when they bought it something like that, a little place,
and honestly it was probably the most exciting and fun

(01:55):
and it's like outdoor, energetic kind of upbringing I could
have if we got bored and outside. I mean it
was January negative five degrees out and my mom was
putting vasiline on our faces because we were staying outside too.
So like my mom was always into arts and crafts
and um exploring the countryside, and my my dad worked
a ton, so we'd see him at night. We would

(02:17):
always sit down for a nice family dinner and stuff
when we could. But upbringing itself as all about the neighbors,
the kids, the community that we built in this little
neighbor of ours, and we're always in someone's basement megan
sports or playing Mario party or something like that. It
was just a really fun, exciting upbringing. I got an
older brother. He uh, he made sure to let me

(02:39):
know that I was the younger brother plenty of times.
How would you pretty good? When did you decide in
at a young age that you were a cheesehead? The
why that? I was actually a forty Niners fan for
right twelve years. Well, so, at the time it was
Steve Young, and before that it was Joe Montana. There
like star quarterbacks and Jerry Rice and Gary and Hearst

(03:00):
and all these amazing players that played for them. And
my dad was a huge Packers fan, and as a
young kid, I wanted to rebel. So I'm gonna pick
the best team there is outside of the Backers, So
I pick the forty Niners. And then as I grew
up and got close from my dad and saw kind
of the passion that he had for and really started
to follow his path, I realized how passionate he was
about the Packers, and I think that that's where the

(03:22):
love for the team came from. When I was about twelve, thirteen,
and then now it's oh my god, it's a die
hard Packer fan. Now I go to every game I can.
I'm around probably like four or five different games around
the country around the year, like away games. Just yeah,
I'm a fan. Now, let's go back to your high school.
If you were to tell your high school self and

(03:42):
your high school friends that you were going to be
like one of the biggest heart throbs of the Bachelor
franchise one day, what would they think about that? Well,
according to my yearbook, they'd all believe me. I guess,
Oh my gosh. Explain. So I don't remember doing this,
but when I was a senior, you know how we
have like senior quotes, right, Yeah, mine was to be

(04:07):
on The Bachelor someday. Of all things. Granted, like at
the time, I had to go to a shaved head,
I wore like massive fake diamond earrings, I had like
Polo and fubou and like air Force ones on all
the time. I was completely different person. But apparently that
was my aspiration as a senior in high school. It
was to be on the elaborated that a little bit

(04:29):
for us. So do you mean you can go back? Yeah? Yeah,
tell us more about this. And three, I think was
the first season of The Bachelor, and every girl in
school was talking about it. And I had never had
a girlfriend. I never kissed a girl. Um, it was
just kind of like a normal dude to hanging in
the background, and I saw all the attention that this handsome,

(04:51):
successful guy I got and all the girls wanted to
talk about and wanted to be around, and I was like,
I want to be that guy some day too, So
that it's the only thing good thing. I honestly don't
remember writing it, but I did, and now it's out
there for everybody to stay forever. Okay, so what year
to do? Graduate? I grad year after yeah, oh yeah, yeah,

(05:15):
Well that's why it was my senior quote. It's like
it was on the top of everybody's minds at the time.
Were you watching the show along with all the girls
in school? So I've never actually seen a season of
the show until my first well, mind, I should say hours,
How do you wanna call it? Really? So you never so, Okay,
we're gonna stay in high school for a bit, but

(05:35):
this is something here. Um, you even through high school,
you just heard the rumors about what the show was
doing and you said, hey, I want a little love too. Yeah,
And I'm sure you got a little hate for that,
like a little heat probably from the public for writing that.
They thought, you know, your intentions were wrong and your
response would be what Well. So it was after the

(05:57):
airing of Rachel's season that I was on on and
I got a text from a friend that was a
year ahead of me in high school and she said,
do you know that this is out there? I'm like,
who photoshop? This is? Why is someone trying to throw
me in the bus like that? And it's like, I
text another buddy because I was in Los Angeles at
the time. I said, do you have your yearbook? And

(06:18):
he said, yeah, somewhere down there in the basement. So
he went and checked and sure, there was so weird.
Do you have that yearbook now at your parents? I'm
sure it's at their house somewhere you got down in
storm somewhere in the basement. It was destiny at this
point you believed it. You mentioned that you had never

(06:39):
had your first kiss at that point, So then when
did you have your first kiss? And tell us about it.
My first kiss was the year after well, the summer
after senior year still me too. Me and Peter Krause
both had our first kiss at nineteen. I was well,
I was still eighteen at the time. Whoa, this makes

(07:02):
me feel so much cooler bloomer. I guess, I don't know.
But then, yeah, once I kissed a girl, was like, oh,
this is this is what I've been missing. It was great.
Everything else kind of followed suit in the following years
after that. But alright, so once you got you got
rolling with it. I was a fan at that point.
Now what do you think held you back? I mean,

(07:24):
what kept you from kissing until then? I didn't think
any girls were interested in me at that time. I
was kind of like the awkward, pudgy arts kid that like,
I was in the art studio all the time. Um
I wanted to. I went to a private school where
everybody were Abercrombie or American Eagle, and I couldn't afford that,

(07:46):
so I wore about it. A bunch of stuff that
we could get like second hand stores or hand me
down from my brother, and we're a lot of things
that I could I'm sorry to say this, but like
steal off the racks. So it was all like self
pole and Karl can I and Foo Boo and shoot
like a lot of reebox shoes and oh my god,

(08:08):
I had these like Valure onesie suits that were just terrible.
Those are all the rage though, those j Lo suits,
the juicy you could not breathe in them, so like
it got so hot. Oh my god, imagine you guys
listening Peter Krauss in a juicy Vlore sweatsuit in the
early to that knockoff. Yeah, okay, so was all of ours.

(08:35):
Yeah so, I just girls never approached me in high
school or before that, and so it wasn't until late
my senior year I started to get I guess a
little bit of attention from some people. And yeah, so
when my first senior year in high school, but didn't
kiss her, like, there was no kissing or anything that

(08:56):
same my first official date would have probably been ProMED
and I didn't kis him either. I avoided it at
all costs because I didn't want to waste my first
kiss with him. But then I honestly wasted my first
kiss anyway, at the age of nineteen. It was really bad.
Hopefully that guy's not listening. He's not. He has absolutely
no idea. He was my first kiss as well. Noum

(09:19):
that kiss does either? Yes? Actually, number now is our
senior party and we all like set up tents out
in the field and there's this girl that I had
a crush on for a while, and I think we
just like kissing our sleeping bag and that was it.
Kiss in a sleeping bag, like hers was there and
mine was here kind of thing. Okay. I was like,
you were zipped up in the same sitting bag, moving fast. Okay,

(09:42):
So how did you get from this late bloomer to
model Peter Cross? Oh that's a gap. A gap will
fill in the gap. Yes, all right. So I graduated
high school to jousd and four. I went to school
for just general studies because I couldn't afford me sleep
to go to art school. And so my plan was

(10:03):
to go to local tech school and work my way
into the university and then go for architectural design. And
about halfway through I want to say that degree, I
got dared by a friend, my buddy Matt Jones, dared
me to go into a local um modeling agency, and

(10:23):
so I just walked in there and we had just
eaten all you can eat Chinese buffet. Like I'm talking,
I was not ready for this thing. And much as
I was just starting to grow out my hair, I
was still kind of just pludgy and awkward, kind of
finding myself at the age of nineteen, I want to say.
And I walked in there, I said, tell you what,
why don't we start you up with a test shoot.
Come back in a week or two and we'll do

(10:45):
a test shoot, see how things go. And I looked at,
Oh my god, the pictures are so bad. I was
wearing like pink polo pop collar. I had like a
size forty six suit on and I wear a forty
or forty two. Like it was just all so bad.
But they they saw something that I didn't even see
myself at the time and asked me to do a
professional shootdown for that, And so it just kind of

(11:05):
started the career. Interestly. I mean, one of the things
that uh, you know you're known for, uh coming off
of Rachel's season is the gaffe tooth uh And obviously
at that point you have kept it. Um was it
was it a conscious decision? I mean, even going into
being a model, was it a conscious decision to keep
this as a child? What led you to to kind

(11:27):
of rocket. I thought you meant after Oh no, no no,
we're gonna replace that. You're gonna feel it. No no, no.
So growing up, I never knew it was a thing
that was abnormal. I guess I never saw it as, oh,
I have gaffeeth mm hmm. So like my my dad
has it, my brother has it, my grandma had it,

(11:47):
my aunt, my great aunt had it. So it was
just the family traits whatever, but he had It's what
you're known for. I mean, people love it, like and
they should, but like, it's it's what you're known for. Really,
so many celebrities. I never really noticed or thought about
having a gap teeth until prior around the show that,
like I really started to notice, So this is not

(12:08):
a normal thing. Like I always knew I had a
gap between my teeth and we like make fun of
it with my buddies and stuff, But I never knew
it was as rare as apparently it is. And so
when people really started to pointing out in the show,
and Rachel obviously had a gap as well, it was
something to talk about kind of bond over. If you
filled in your gap, it would be like if um,

(12:29):
it would be like Jennifer Gray when she's getting a
nose job. It just it would ruin everything. There's a
s I don't think it would require braces otherwise I'm
gonna have two really big front teeth. Do you guys
think that? Like, do you remember going on the show

(12:49):
for the first time and having people say things about
you and that you like and it was like a shock,
Like you never knew it was wrong with you until
it's amplified from a show and everybody picks apart every look,
every physical feature, every like speech impediment you have. Like,
I've realized so many things that I don't do that
quote unquote normal or that it is regular because of

(13:10):
the show. One thing that I I don't like to
bring up, but it's kind of hard not to, is
I never realized the amount of negativity out there. I
have so many fun, exciting, kind, generous people in my
life that when I went on to the show, I
really realized for the first time how negative awful people
could be. And so all those comments really come to

(13:31):
a shock when you see that for the first time
and people are saying like, Oh, you're boring, your stupid,
your family, Is this your that I was floored by it,
and now it's unfortunate that now it's like second nature.
And I think all of us I can probably speak
for when I say, is you just kind of rolled it?
You're you're told to like just brush it off like
it's not even there. Do you remember any comments that

(13:53):
specifically you would get a lot and that would really
affect you, Oh, everything. I'm a sensitive person and so
and I'm also like a perfectionist in too many ways
where I took to heart too many things I think
that I heard, which is probably a big part of
why I didn't necessarily want to be a part of
everything again and took me a long time to I

(14:14):
want to potentially be back in the franchise or even
consider the thought, Yeah, what about I mean you guys. Actually,
so when we met in Vegas, I didn't know much
about you yet at that point, but then everybody told
me when I said that I met you, they brought
up the crying you were known. I was like, what,

(14:34):
she's so sweet, thank you. Yeah, I know, it's like
shockingly she doesn't cry that much. And just a regular
social setting, what's it's It's like, once you go on
the show, people will pick out this one trait and
that becomes you, Well, what was your trait? You think
I won't say the gattief. I don't think I have
anything A personality trait, yeah, but I don't even think

(14:55):
there was anything. I was just like the nice guy
from the Midwest and that that was it. You gotta
remember remember a lot of people being very fond of you,
like as a as a contestant back then, like you were.
I mean you every season has them right that Tyler
Cameron's the Peter Crosses like you guys would be in
the same like arena when it comes to the conversation

(15:18):
of hey, you're the good looking guy who wouldn't end
up with the girl who we all hope, you know,
would become the Bachelor, which you know, kind of catapults
us into the season of your life that we know
you from, which is being on the back Starette Rachel
Lindsay season to the Bacharette. How did you get there?
So at the time I was working here in town.

(15:38):
I own an in home personal training business, and a
couple of clients of mine recommended I try and There's
They were fans of the show and said that they
think I'd be successful or enjoy it and it would
be a good experience for me. So I said, screwt it?
Why not? So I looked into it and you had
to simply some like a single picture, and I think,

(15:58):
like a quick little bio. So I sent that, and
then a couple of weeks later I got an email,
I want to say, or maybe a phone call, and
they asked for like an extended version of it. So
they're like, all right, now we need like ten or
twenty pictures plus a longer bio all these questions that
they asked. And I love that you admit that you
are the one that submitted yourself. I feel like there's

(16:18):
so few guys that are like, oh, yeah, I signed
myself up. Everybody's like, oh I was nominated, I was nominated.
I signed myself up. Ben, I don't remember you were
nominated that kind of I like, did it alongside of him?
So she was like coming to my office, can you
sit down beside me? And who signed you? The marketing
director at my company at the time. So she came

(16:39):
to my desk and said, hey, there's a casting call
in Denver. Would you go? And I was like, I'm
not going to a casting call and she's like, well,
if we sign you up, would you help me with it?
And would you respond? And so we went to her office,
so like I kind of sign myself up. Sweet, yeah, cool, Yeah,
you submit yourself. Oh yeah, I submitted myself with the
most elaborate audition tape you'll ever seen in your life.
You can go on my Instagram. I put it up

(17:00):
a couple of months ago. I think it really is.
Here's what's funny is I hear everybody's processes, and like
I think Dean when he went on, he was picked
up by like a friend from the show a week
before taping started or something like that. Yeah, who sent
him to Amy? Because our producer Amy was the one
that put his audition right in front of their faces.

(17:23):
Even tapes sending like an audition tape wasn't until like
the fourth or fifth step for me. Oh, I think
it's is a little different for everyone. I sent in
my audition tape the first thing, along with like that
whole online questionnaire and stuff, but I didn't hear from
them for nine months, Yeah, which is super weird. I
think that I submitted in July, like July, early August,

(17:47):
and I'm thinking that they it was they were either
fully castid for the next season or they didn't want
me on Wa Pablo season because we would not have
like I would have been eliminated night one. I'm on
public season. I think was Ben your Bachelor? No no, no no,
no crystals? Okay, that would have been really funny. Wouldn't
that be funny? I've been on my Bachelor. I'm super weird. Okay,

(18:10):
So tell us more about your audition process. When did
you finally meet with the casting producers and how did
you leave feeling? Oh? Yeah, I think I did like
a skype kind of call first. If I did that
like extended, Um, what's gonna call it audition? How do

(18:32):
you wanna call it? Like bio? I met them in Chicago.
That was my first one on one meeting, and that
went really well. I mean, everybody's super nice. I'll never forget.
They gave me a Bachelor tope bag and a Bachelor
pen and a T shirt. I remember those. Yeah, I
still have my like no way, well, at least if

(18:54):
I don't get picked, I've got these. Did they give
you that big Manila envelope with it? I don't think so.
What was that? Oh, that's like they're like, hide this
under your shirt as you leave, because that means that
you're on to the next level. And they don't want
to show off to the other people in line that
you have it. No, you didn't. I never got that really,

(19:14):
so they knew with you right away. They're like, this
girl is good. Put her on. I'm wondering why that
was all different. No, So like, yeah, Chicago is the
first one on one and then I think maybe like
two months later, they flew me out to l A.
And we were put up in a hotel out by
the airport, and you know, you get to talking to

(19:36):
some of the producers at that time or just people
that are helping out, and it sounded like there's probably
a hundred guys in there or something like that. Through
the interview process of each one of them face to face,
you'd go in and that was the first time that
I met alone and Bennett and the whole crew and
bat down next to me for the first time. We're like,
who is this guy? Like is he just here to
shoot this and give me some jokes and you're just

(19:58):
picking me apart? And then come to find out, you know,
like a month later, he's like the head of the
show at the time. Mm hmm. That's trippy. That's funny
because when I saw a Lan, I knew that he
was the executive producer because I had a friend who
had met him and she was like, he's the biggest
character you're ever going to meet. Make sure that you
impress him. So and I saw him in that room

(20:19):
of twenty or so producers. I was looking straight at
him and I was like, I gotta make this guy laugh. Now,
Lucky married and then he married me. He embarrassed, you know,
he married us. He was our officient. No, I didn't
know that. Yeah, that's fun yea. Well, so, Peter, we

(20:41):
go through this whole process. You're obviously liked by the
cast and crew. We're going to fast forward to your
season and you arrive on Rachel Lindsay season of The
bachelorat we can you know, walk Ashley and I through
that season in your from your perspective, because we could
ask you a bunch of questions to put out detail,
but I think it's just most healthy and helpful if

(21:02):
you walk us through what you saw. Um, where do
I start? Night one? Talk about the surrealism that is
pulling up in the limo. Oh my god. Well, first
it was taking a black car, I guess, from the
airport to the hotel. And I think I was still

(21:24):
like texting with a producer at that point. I can't
remember like super specifics of the names and stuff, but
I think someone tell me like when you get here, um,
your phone will be taken from you. And so I'm
super nervous and I show up to that hotel and
there's nobody there. So I'm just standing the lobby by myself.
Like what do I do? Is I start walking around
looking for someone, and I see like a guy working

(21:46):
out in the gym, and I see like another guy
walking down the hall. And also the producer comes like
running around the corners like you can't be here. WHOA.
So they quick ushered me off my room and took
my phone and you like sealed it into a bag,
and so all right, like settling for the night, enjoy
here's the schedule of things that you've been doing our
next couple of days. And so fast forward through those days,

(22:10):
and nerves are building and boredom starting to set as
you're there for a few days. And I think it
was that like noon or so we had to start
getting ready because we're gonna go to the house at
like four or five something like that. And you know,
I'm a pretty shy, nervous person typically, and so that
that was, Oh my god, that just build up of

(22:31):
that first like three or four hours and you're getting
suited up and we go down into the lobby and
that's when I met four of the other guys. It
was Josiah Brian Um, what else was in my spot
with me? Eric? Maybe there there's like four or five
us that were down in the lobby first. And so

(22:53):
they put us all on the the limo and just
any random order, and we pull up to the bottom
of the hill for the house, and that's when they
asked us to get out and hang out for a second.
And that's when I was told that I was gonna
be the first one out of the limbo of the
entire thing. Is that how it hurt? It was Todd.
Todd told me it was gonna be the first one
out of the little Yeah. So at the bottom of

(23:15):
the driveway there was this like little pop up tent
and the guy in there a bartend or whatever, and
I'm starting ripping shots to keep telling the story in
this detail. Oh my god, Yes, that was bad. So
finally begin in the car and we drive up the
hill and as you pull up and kind of around
the corner, you can see Rachel for the first time,

(23:36):
and her dress is all sparkly and her hair is
beautiful and the lights are shining on her, and the
ground is wet sort things just glistening and gorgeous, and
you're like, this is so surreal. She's absolutely stunning. Um,
and then I blacked out, like I don't remember anything
from that point on. Also, I just like woke up
in the house. It's like, all right, well, oh but

(23:57):
it's okay. I don't know. Actually, I both have commented
many times that blacking out when you came Elmo is
very common. Oh yeah, I can imagine. I can't think
of one person who's told us. Oh yeah, I remember
exactly what happened from like the door of the limo
to the door of the house. Oh. I don't even
think I was telling myself. I hadn't told her my name.

(24:19):
I was like, I had one job tell her my name,
and I didn't even do that. In terms out I did.
I did say my name at some point like you can.
You can be a professional athlete and have a huge
event that you trained for all your life and you're ready.
But something like this, it's like it's one singular event
that will never happen again, that's never happened before. There's
all these nerves leading up to it. There's all the

(24:40):
pressure leading up to it. Plus you're just trying to
meet this person for the first time and develop relationship.
It was overwhelming, to say the least. It was a
surreal experience, for sure. Can you tell our audience how
it feels to not get the first impression? Rose? That
wasn't too bad? Um, disappointing, but it wasn't terrible because

(25:05):
I feel like a lot of people they're like, oh
my god, you had not even ten minutes with this person.
How can you be so heartbroken when you don't get
that Rose? And it's bizarre. But it's very very sad
because it's basically like, oh, your first impression wasn't good enough. Yeah,
I mean I thought she and I had a really
good connection on our first sit down and it was

(25:27):
actually longer. I think we talked forb minutes. Yeah, that
was good. Um, obviously I want of the first impression roads,
but I don't think I was too disappointed about it.
There was definitely points later on. I got to some point,
did you kiss her on that one? Okay, I wasn't
even gonna kiss her on our first date. Yeah, I

(25:49):
wanted to, you know, remain a gentleman, and yeah, it
just she leaned in for the kiss, and it was
the most awkward first kiss because I like, I didn't
want her to be the one a lean in for
the first kiss, but then it was too late and like, well,
I'm definitely gonna reciproc Kate, and so this is like
awkward interaction. But I mean once they kissed her, yeah,
I was like, I'll definitely kiss again. When did you

(26:13):
start feeling like a front runner? Honestly, when we went
on our first date, so I was the first one
on one day and the very first time we started talking,
I didn't even think about it as that experience anymore.
It was like she and I connected so quickly as
even just like a friendship level. So we had a
really unique experience where I guess a lot of times

(26:35):
on dates, you meet them at the date spot, you
hang out for a couple of hours, you get shipped
to the next date spot meet them again for a
couple of hours, kiss goodnight. She came and picked me up.
I drove the two of us in a Tesla to
an airport where we got on a plane together, flew
to the location, took a limit together to the location,
and then had our first full day date. And it

(26:58):
wasn't until after that that we got put into separate
cars to go freshen up, eat all that stuff at
a separate location. If we were with together with each
other for probably eight hours, I want to say, before
we separated for the first time. Um, and then we're
together together for probably another like four so hours, I
want to say, we were together like all day that

(27:19):
first day, and the whole time we were together, we
never stopped talking. That's amazing. Constant, yeah, constant communication, so
much laughter, a lot of fun. We just I mean,
I felt like I was really good friends with her immediately,
and so I never really felt like a front runner.
It was more like I really enjoyed this person's company,
and I think we have a really good thing going.

(27:41):
The problems started for me when also it was eight
weeks before I had a date with her again. I
was gonna say, an eight hour first date could be
very intimidating if you don't have a natural flow and conversation.
What I'm saying a twenty minute date without is I mean,

(28:01):
I've gone one days where like you just sit there
searching for stuff to say and there was never a
gap in conversation the entire time. M Well, so it
took you eight weeks then to have that next day. Hey, Peter,
we're going to come back and have you kind of
pick it up where you're at with kind of the
gap in between the first day and second day leading

(28:22):
up to then obviously at the end of the show
and to your life now. Hey, we'll be back with
Peter Krauss on the in depth episode of the Almost
Famous podcast. All Right, Peter, so we know when you
started to feel like a front runner. When did you

(28:43):
start feeling like, oh, man, I'm falling in love with
her and I think I may want to end up
with her. Because we all know that you didn't feel
comfortable getting engaged at the end, and this was something
you were very clear with the entire time. But was
there a point where you're like, oh, I want to
end up with her in the end? And just not
propose where do I start. So, yeah, there there was

(29:08):
eight weeks between my first date in my second, and
I think, unfortunately what happened for me during that time,
Like I was so ready to go on my second
date with her right away and get to see her again,
and I got to get little snippets of her here
and there. Um, But you know, be completely honest with you, guys,
I've been going to see like a life coach for

(29:30):
years now, and more so after the show and all
that because of all the emotional tax that it took
on my life basically, and uh, come and find out,
like I have abandonment issues and learning to deal with
those throughout life, and the experience itself forced those issues

(29:51):
to come to the surface full force. I mean, I
developed these really strong feelings for this person right away
and really enjoy your company. And then you start to
see other people developing strong relationships with that same person,
and so my natural instinct is to protect myself a

(30:12):
little bit, and so I would just kind of stayed
at the back of the crowd. I try not to
make two good friends with too many of the guys.
I had my good core group of guys that was
really good friends with, but for the most part kind
of stuck to myself. Um, when I did see her,
it was all about her. Every time we went on
group dates, I'd give as much attention as I could,
try to step out of like the back and be

(30:34):
up there in front so she could see me and
get a lot of one on one connections. Um. But
the first really like difficult day I had was we
were in Copenhagen. You know, we were in Oslo. We're
in Oslo, so the first abroad location that we went to,

(30:54):
and we went on a group date during the day
and it went really really well. And then that night
we had our cocktail like ours, whatever you wanna call it,
and she pulled me aside and we went up to
her room and shared like champagne, and um, you know,
they're filming all this, and she had a hot tub
out on a balcony. So we went out in the

(31:16):
hot tub and had this like awesome moment of like
just talking and then made out and it was great.
And then I go back down and I was like
in a relationship with her in my head at that point,
and she gave the rose to someone else. The date

(31:36):
rose to Will that there. I mean, I remember it
horror and he was pumped and I was shocked, and
I think that's where I really realized, like this is
a totally different experience, Like I should have watched the
show beforehand. Looking back at that moment, like now I

(31:56):
see that's always the case and in many cases, like
the lead knows who they really like, and you know,
the show itself is in a way a bit of
I don't want to say a game, but like there
are certain things that you probably have to do as
a lead, um two, yeah, do it for the show
kind of thing. And so I took so much offense

(32:19):
internally in that moment that she didn't like me the
way that I liked her, that I didn't think, like,
this is also part of what I signed up for.
I can't just be the one she keeps giving date
rossis too kind of thing. Um So that was that
was like the first kind of like gut punched for
me on the show, and when I started really question
things and have some troubles with it and try my

(32:42):
best to try and ignore it. But then I think
it was Kenny went on like a date with her
one on one date the next day or like a
group date or something like that. And when he came back,
he was talking about how he had also gone up
to a room and they like hung out in the
hot tub, and I was like, like, and this is
nothing against her. She did absolutely nothing wrong. I hold

(33:03):
never did hold anything against her as more, just like
I emotionally, it wasn't capable at that time of deciphering
what this meant, and was so thrown off and so
hurt by it that I think from that point on,
I just was in my head NonStop with the entire process.
It's like, I'm in love with this person, falling in
love with this person, and they are literally dating other

(33:25):
people doing the same things that I hold to be
so special, and they're able to do it with others.
So I like it downplayed what I thought was a
really good connection in my own mind. And so then
when we finally did have our second date, I was
all torn up and confused about all that, but then
also so stressed out that this is the only second
time that I'm going to have like a full day

(33:47):
with this person, and the next chance I see them
will be with my family, And so it was again
like the pressures of that so then you go on
your family date, and the majority of the time I
was talking to my family or talking to my friends,
and so she and I didn't really progress our relationship.
And then we met her family and it was the
same thing, like catching up on the last day talking

(34:08):
about that, but then talking to families and not really
catching up with each other and building a relationship. And
then it was let's fly off to Europe and talk
about getting engaged in like two three days. And so
I was still wounded. Basically, I don't like me to
sound so negative, but it's what happened, and trying to

(34:30):
like still get through the relationship and progress it and
let this person know that I truly care about them
and I'm falling in love with them walm ending a
wound at the same time, and then having the pressure
of engagement is just a couple of days away, and
I am still trying to like wrap my head around
everything and make sure this is a relationship that will
last a lifetime and I'm not caught up in the moment,

(34:51):
and you know, we can get along outside of these
walls and all sort of stuff. So it just became
so overwhelming that I think I dug my feet in
the ground, just like I'm not ready get engaged, Like
I really really like you, falling in love with you,
but I need to get to know us together before
I can, you know, just jump to that level. Have
you been able at this point to communicate with Rachel

(35:15):
kind of the wounds that are understandably so, I mean
from a Leeds perspective, I would I would have a
hundred percent understood that you had been confusing her. I'm
sure she was as well, had you been able to
communicate that with her at that point. I think I
was so wrapped up and trying to like progress our
relationship and make her happy and show her the good

(35:37):
sides of me that I don't think I ever communicated that.
We definitely had like our conversations about the engagement, but
I also don't think I don't think at the time
I realized why I was thinking or acting the way
that I did. I mean, in any breakup, you go
back and you play things back through your head and
with a clear mind and realize, Okay, this is probably

(35:58):
why this actually happened. Um. You know, there's a lot
of people that need time and space to figure things out,
and there's a lot of people that need to talk
about and unfortunately, my way of fixing things and partnerships, relationships,
whatever it may be friendships is to talk about it
and talk out the problems. And sometimes that's not the

(36:21):
best thing to do. Sometimes that causes more stress and
more pain and more separation. Um, can you know, build
off a height and emotions and so I wish I
had known the things now then, and you know I didn't,
so I kind of rolled with what I was doing
and it ended up the way it ended up. Are

(36:42):
you willing to talk to us about the abandonment issues
and where they came from? I don't know if you guys.
Do you guys believe in nature or nurture or combination
of both, combination of both my opinion. So my belief
is that, um, everybody has preset levels of stress and

(37:05):
emotion and all these things that you're just born with it.
So I don't know if you guys know this, but
when your grandmother was pregnant with your mother, your emotional set,
basically it was already being imprinted on your yourself. So
like your mom was already developing your egg when her

(37:26):
mother was four months pregnant with her so any of
the stress emotional and physical that your grandma went through
was imprinted on your mom, which then has been printed
on your egg, which then actually translates down to you
at some point. So no matter who you are, where
you are, you are built off at some level with
a baseline of stress or anxiety or even depression all

(37:48):
these things. So that's like the nature side of it.
And then you get the nurture, and it's just the
environment that you brought up in the people that you're
around all the time, and how you interpret those situation
is based off that no nature. Um So where it
all came from specifically, I I can't say for sure,

(38:09):
but there's ideas in my head and with my life
coach that we've talked about. Um yeah, there's definitely like
a heightened level I'm sure of stressed for me And
yeah that showed up has abandoned issues. Well yeah, well,
I mean thanks for sharing. I think, I mean, so
many of us right sit here and go I don't

(38:29):
know why I feel the way I do or why
I react the way I do. Um, but as you
dig deep. I mean I just mentioned on the podcast
last week, I've been in therapy now for uh a
month now. Kind of walking through some of this stuff
too when it's been it appears has been super helpful
for me. Um, to identify some of these things. Well, hey,

(38:52):
I want to jump ahead here. Then, Uh, you're sitting
in the seat here, or you're sitting in the time
period where you and Rachel are developing feelings, you're leading
up to a proposal. And so we flashed to that
day you were the runner up. And as we mentioned,
looking back always helps, It always helps us process better
looking back on this. How would you process this experience

(39:13):
of how did you describe that day, the pains and
the the ups and downs of it. Well, so she
and I had our final date and conversation the day
before we were supposed to, um like offer up a proposal.
I don't know how to say that, get down on
one knee, right, um, And she and I had the

(39:34):
conversation that night, and um, you know, like the relationship ended.
She Um, she and I just didn't see eye to eye.
And I also truly believe I did watch the season
back not too long ago for the first time, and
you can see from the start that she is in

(39:56):
love with Brian, like absolutely obsessed with Brian, they click
on a level that she and I never did. When
all those people came out all the time and saying
all these awful things about her choice or about Brian
and put me up on a pedestal, it really made
me upset because they didn't see the background of it.
There's a lot that the show doesn't show. There's a
lot a lot a lot of hours of tape and

(40:17):
not everything makes it to screen. And um, looking back
at it, I could even say, they probably trying to
give me an edit to potentially become the Bachelor, and
so it was gonna make me look better. And you know,
he wasn't as important at that point, m um. So
you know, obviously you think she made the right choice.
And they seemed so happy and beautiful together and she

(40:41):
and I just weren't meant to be and so the
relationship ended, and um, you know it sucked. Obviously. I
cried a bunch. Megan was my producer, and she played
the same song over for me for brobably like six
hours straight as I cried on the floor. But then
you know, like a couple of days later, of all
the what was me, she and I were able to

(41:01):
go to Madrid, and I was like, Okay, new start.
I'm in Madrid. Beautiful city. Is gonna be a lot
of fun. You know. For all I know she and
Brian didn't end up together, because you know, I'm still
fresh off the break up at that point. I don't
know what happened after she left, And it wasn't until
Brian's producer walked past us with her producer and I

(41:23):
was like, uh, like, okay, they're together. That that was
like the sign I needed. Um. So, yeah, that was
a rough couple of days after the fact, and then
I got back home and everything just kind of went
right back to the way it was. It was back
with my family hanging out, I had a new puppy,
m Like. It was okay for a few days, and

(41:47):
then the season starts and there's all like the stress
and fear and excitement of the show coming on and
watching yourself on TV for the first time. That was
exciting and terrifying. Mm hmm. Yeah. So did you think
that possibly after your breakup, that she wasn't going to
pick anyone? I did, yeah at the time, And you

(42:09):
inferred that it kind of upset you a little bit
in that moment to see that she did what it
was confirmation of the fear that I had that she
had gotten engaged to Brian or at least like, you know,
go on with Brian. M hm. You got a lot
of flak at the time for being on the show

(42:32):
and not being willing to propose, because they want all
people who signed up for the show to of course
be marriage oriented, and a lot of people are like, oh, well,
if he doesn't want to propose, then like, why the
heck is he here? But is it because you were
still unfamiliar with the process and knowing what you knew,
you thought that you were going to have a lot

(42:53):
more time with her before that proposal. I definitely went
into the experience thinking that there was more time with
the person. And I think for some people the process
does work, and the timeline and like the the rate
at which you have your dates and you spend time
with the person works really well for some people and
for some people it doesn't. For myself because there was

(43:14):
a huge gap in the middle, and then there was
these things that kind of like I'm gonna call him
gut punches during that time. Again, no fault of hers,
it was just the way that the process went for me. Um, yeah,
it set me back. It had the process spent different,
I don't know, maybe even like the show itself could
have worked for me. I can't say it was, you know,

(43:36):
hindsight is what it is at this point. We we
recently had Hannah Ann on the In Depth podcast and
we spoke to her about kind of her time on
the show and how long it's taken her to recover
from her break up with Peter, and she mentions it
she's still recovered. How long did it take you to
cover from from this whole? I guess not even the
show part as much, because we'll get into that too,

(43:57):
but the relationship piece of this. Oh, I don't know.
I mean, how long did that thing? I think it
took an extentded period of time for me because as
you watch the show, it's constantly reopening the wound, and
then after the show, all the talk about me becoming

(44:19):
the Bachelor kept that wound open, and then every time
someone would post on social media, I'd see it, it it
would reopen the wound. And then every time that they
talked about the next Bachelor coming up or you I like,
I watched a little bit of the next season the Bachelorette,
and like that opened back up because it brings you
back to all the same places and some of the

(44:40):
same experiences. And so I watched me like a couple
of half episodes and UM, yeah, I'm just gonna do it.
So I think the wound took a long time to
fully close. And now it's more the show itself and
all of the craziness of it and the aftermath of it.
There's so many amazing I came from the show, Like
I met you, guys. Vegas was one of the funnest

(45:02):
weekends of my life. It was I remember that year.
That's when we found out. Actually actually, um, Peter and
I were at lunch with Wells when he told us
that he was dating Sarah Highland for the very first time.
Remember that, Peter Sarah. Yeah, Sarah had just had like
a surgery and they FaceTime and they were the sweetest couple.

(45:26):
Oh my god. Yeah, I remember that. I remember when
they faced time in the car for the first time
on our way to the Heart Festival, and then we
had that sunnight. Then you didn't feel good. You had
that like horrible fever. And then I went out with Wells,
Dean and Peter, and I was like, there are millions
of girls around this country who would just pay so

(45:47):
many thousands of dollars to be in my spot. Right now,
it's not alive. And I just met everybody for the
first time, and we were trying to go to a
club and they wouldn't let us in, so I pretended
to be wells as manager. I was like, yeah, yeah,

(46:08):
we should. You should probably let him in here. I
don't know if you know that, remember that. I think
it worked. We got into that club. Oh no, no,
you're right, we did. No, it was Paris. That's so good. Well, Peter,
we're getting here to a really interesting part of this

(46:29):
whole experience. And one day, actually they were both super
intrigued to talk to you about, Um, you know, kind
of this this ending of the show felt, you know,
felt heavy. Then you kind of disappeared. Uh and in
a way that nobody really understands. And I think that's
one of the parts that has intrigued everybody is where
did Peter go? He was loved, he there was controversy

(46:52):
surrounding him not getting engaged. Uh, where did you go?
Where have you been? What happened? Um? Where did that go? Home.
I just kind of went went home. I tried to
go back to normal life, and it didn't work. Like
there there was nothing normal about life from that point on.

(47:14):
You know, during the summer that I was airing, I
was at my parents house a lot. I didn't even
go back to my house at ton Um try to
start work back up with my in home training business,
but all people wanted to do was talk about the
show and get all the inside information about it. And
I opened myself up to new clients and all of
them would come in for one session, which you know,
I always gave out one free session to get to

(47:36):
know people, and then they would never come back at
that point, so I was just like, yeah, so I
just became like this entity to people and it drove
me crazy. So eventually I just kind of said, screw it.
I'm gonna just keep hiring trainers to take care of
everybody and I'm not going to do that myself. And yeah,

(47:59):
I don't I don't really know what I did that summer.
I worked out a lot, just kind of did my
own thing. Um eventually got to do some traveling from it.
You know, I went to New York for a couple
of interviews. Um, I went to meet you guys in Vegas.
I went up to Canada a couple of times to
meet some people and do a couple of events. There

(48:21):
wasn't really a whole lot of structure in my life
for a while after the show, like it really changed
everything quite a bit around Bachelor Nation was that they
wanted you to be the Bachelor, but that you were
asking too much, holding out, and that they didn't want
to beg for you, so they decided to go with Ari.

(48:41):
Is there any truth to that? M okay, yeah, all right.
So they asked me to be the Bachelor and I
said no, like a straight up now. And a couple
weeks later they called and made a little bit more
formal and I again said no. And then we were

(49:06):
out in New York for Good Morning America after the
um after the Final Rose, and they asked me there
and again I said no, And by that time I
was starting to talk to a girl, and um, you

(49:26):
had feelings for They asked, you know again for a
third time, flew me out to l A to talk
about it really like straight up, and um, you know,
I told him I had started to talk to him,
and they said, well, are you guys in a relationship?
And I said no, like okay, well would you be
willing to leave that or exit that? And I wasn't sure.

(49:51):
So then we really started talking about like the details
of the show itself and how it was really hard
for me, and I couldn't say I would for sure
be able to get in an engage. And at the
end it wasn't that I knew for a fact that
I want to was more, I couldn't have promised them
that I would, and I didn't want to be forced
to do it if I said yes to the show.
And there's a lot of back and forth in this

(50:13):
meeting that we had, and um, money was never discussed
until we got to the actual compensation and I said, well,
I make considerably more than that already per year. Why
would I give up in my thoughts, like the rest
of my life's being known as Peter the Bachelor and
no longer as Peter for the amount of money that
isn't life changing. And so money was discussed and we

(50:37):
all agreed it wouldn't make sense to, you know, pay
a ton of money, because then you're no longer doing
it for the right reasons. So money was never actually
like a major factor in it, but they did think
that there was, you know, a certain amount that I
would be paid. I guess that would that would be
fair compared to my my income at the time. UM.

(51:01):
I said, all right, I mean that sounds fine. And
so then we started talking about the details of the
show itself and came to agreements on some of the
things that could be changed to help me with what
I needed in the show, which I mean, I'll just
so you straight up. I wanted to be able to
spend more time with people individually. UM. I wanted to

(51:22):
be able to just like go into the house and
see people in their natural habitat so that way it
didn't feel like they were putting on a show for me.
It was more like, this is who you actually are
when you're unsuspecting of what or not what the where
I'm at. UM. I wanted relationship counseling for myself in
the top like four or five girls during the process,

(51:45):
so that way we could work things out on a
deep level. And then I wanted continued support, um for
myself and that person that I chose after the fact, UM,
because I saw that pressure that Ryan and Rachel we
are put under, and I thought it was extremely unfair. Um,
I think Brian got a really bad rap and didn't
deserve it. Even though, like I said my things about

(52:07):
Brian on the show, I said them out of frustration
of losing the girl that I was with to that man. Um.
So there's conversations and uh, yeah, I think those are
smart requests. Yeah, I didn't want to. I don't want

(52:27):
to be a dick about it. I didn't wanna be like, hey,
I'm I'm better than this, or this is what I deserve.
I was just saying, like, I do actually want to
fall in love and get married at some point, but
I want to you'll make it under my term this
kind of thing. This is my life, it's my long term.
It's not just a short term goal for me. I
understand the show can progress my life and my career

(52:50):
in many ways that it probably wouldn't otherwise. But at
the same time, I was confident enough that I could
do that on my own, under my own hard work,
and so I wasn't gonna sacrifice some of my leaves
um to be that. So you mentioned not wanting to
feel the pressure of needing to get engaged or being
forced into it did frustrate you to see the following

(53:12):
seasons go like this, Ari SWITCHERU Colton Fence Jump, no engagement,
Peter failed engagement, no relationship. It made me think like
maybe I put way too much pressure on myself for
that because I read too much of what everybody was
saying in social media worlds and saying that it was

(53:32):
all about the engagement nothing else mattered, And that just
goes to show that, no, it's about following your heart
and picking the relationship that's best for you in any
form of that comes in. And I think at the
time it was still so much about engagement that I
was just really frowned upon by those people who were
watching the show solely for the engagement. You you say

(53:55):
a lot of this, Peter in it's kind of a
tone of this is what you were doing at the time,
and so don't want to ask you now, how many
years out would you have changed anything? Would you have
done any of this different? What I have? No? Um do?
I sometimes wonder what life would have been like had
I done things different all the time? Um? You know what,

(54:19):
what if I would have said yes and just been
the bachelor? You know what? Would life be like now?
Would I be with someone right now? Would I be
in New York or l a where most of the
people seem to go. Um, I don't know how how
would life change? Would my business have its stores closed
right now and me like scared to death watching tens

(54:42):
of thousands of dollars walk out the door every week? Like,
I don't know. It could have been life changing. But
at the same time, all the attention has been a
ton already and I wasn't the Bachelor. I can't imagine
what you as the Bachelor experience on a regular basis.
I mean, you are forever been the Bachelor, m Um,
I do you're everywhere a show? Yeah? I mean and

(55:08):
and you and I. You know, as we talked about,
we both had our own I'm not gonna call it damage.
I don't know what you would like, our own issues
from it, you know, you we both emotionally are trying
to still kind of recover from, you know, this week,
I in all vulnerability, like I went on a texting
spree to actually saying like, hey, I'm sorry that sometimes
I feel you as a co host, like, hey, I'm

(55:30):
sorry that sometimes like I don't feel like I match
up to what you need as as a partner here,
and it mostly comes to a place of like I
hear it, and I see it, and it affects me,
and it still affects me as a thirty one year
old man five years later. Yea. And so when you
when you say this stuff, Peter, like, you're not alone, right,
And I think actually could say and probably say the

(55:52):
same thing, like this stuff affects you, but in the
same breath, it does change your life forever and in
a lot of good way. And so that leaves me
the next question with you is do you want any
of that stuff? Like do you want to be in
l A and New York? And do you want to
be in a relationship right now? And then also please explain,
like where your business is that right now? Like how
how how is this brand new venture that you and

(56:14):
I talked about, I don't know what six months ago
we texted back and forth about it, Like how is
that doing? Oh? Do I want to be in a relationship? Yes?
Do I wanna find the love of my life and
have a beautiful house with a picket fence and like
six dogs. Hell yeah, I want to have little kids.
I want to push them in carts and play with

(56:34):
him out in the yard. And yeah, like baby kisses
are the best, the cutest, sweetest little things on earth.
I stand want all those things, but I I want
to wait till I find someone that is my best
friend first and we developed a relationship that is, you know,
undeniable in its connection, and then from there take the

(56:57):
next steps in life. You know, I've grown a lot
since being on the show and changed a lot in
my life. And uh, I think I really know what
I want and I'm not wasting my time with things
that aren't there for me. So I've tried a couple
of relationships. Like the girl I was talking to at
the time, it instantly didn't work. It's actually like we

(57:18):
stopped talking weeks after that conversation with Ashler. Um. But yeah,
like I want those things. I want to build my
gym up here. I want to open up a couple
more if I can. Um. You guys know, I traveled
the country doing boot camps and it is my favorite
freaking thing on earth. Like the rush and the high

(57:40):
that I get from that and the smiles and the
energy that I get from the crowd are as close
as I'll ever become to being a rock star, and
I think it's the coolest thing, and I will do
that till it is no longer available. H Unfortunately, attention
and fame that came from the show that built those
crowds is waning a little bit, so the crowds aren't

(58:01):
quite as big as they used to. Beat. Hey, we
understand that too. Yeah, the further you get from the
show obviously the least that's there. So you have to decide,
all right, do I go back on the show to
you try and pick that back up? Where am I
happy with where I'm at? Am I happy with the
life that I have, And I'm really happy with the
life I have. I have the gym of my dreams,
I have my family, I have my dog. I have

(58:23):
this beautiful apartment that I love. Um, I was gonna
buy a house. Unfortunately I'll have put down hold a
little bit. But yeah, No, I'm happy. I'm good with
where everything's at right now. And at some point I'd
like to get out of Madison once the gym is
up and sufficient. Um, I want to get somewhere warmer.
This winter crap is just killing me, taking me down

(58:45):
a little bit every day. M hmm. Have you had
a relationship strong enough to speak of since the show? Um?
Not really. Why do you think that is just haven't
found her? Are you on the apps? I'm on, I

(59:06):
was on. I guess, like you could say, a dating now.
I log on and off of Bumble every now and then.
But no, I think it's I just haven't found the
right person yet. Um. Living in Madison, the dating pool
is pretty small. You kind of know everybody at this point.
I mean it was the case before I went on
the show. I went on the show because I was
single and wanting to, um, you know, find a relationship

(59:27):
that wasn't in Madison, and came back wanted the same
kind of things and that just hasn't changed even though
it's been three years. I remember there was rumors about
you and Bibby. Anything you'd like to address there, Um, Gibby,

(59:50):
I don't know. I think it she nice friendship, relationship
you want to call it like it obviously ended on
a sour note. She had what she wanted to say
about it, and it is what it is. I don't
like to talk about people when they're not around or
give my side of the story. And I'm sure she
has her reasons. So those kind of stories come up

(01:00:13):
a lot when you do involve yourself with Bachelor Nations.
So now I've got to know, a couple of years distanced,
would you think about doing Bachelor in Paradise again to
find that person to amp up the business combination of both. No. Never,
you will never be on a Bachelor franchise show again.

(01:00:33):
I can't say that I want to do Bachelor in
Paradise personally, especially knowing that, like the group of girls
that were just on the show, we're all really young. Yeah,
you know, I'd like to date thirty and above if possible.
The women would love to hear that out there, like
that's fine. Um, but yeah, I don't think Bachroom Paradise
is quite my thing. Gotcha nothing again, I just don't

(01:00:56):
see myself being successful on there. Why did you back
out of Winter Games? Because the ladies were waiting for you?
That was like the buzz about town at that parade.
They're like, okay, but wait a second, is Peter gonna
like show about the house or something? Because we all
came here because Peter was supposed to be here. Hey,
I was there too. They all knew you were still

(01:01:18):
wounded bad and not running. Then I actually just saw
some random like clip of your leaving. Oh wow, that
was an emotional moment that was heavy for like real
life heavy, like yeah, that's it was like that in
front of everybody that takes a lot of balls. Yeah.
It was like one of the weirdest, most like emotionally

(01:01:40):
charged moments in my life. And it happened on like
a crazy little bachelor show. I don't get it, but
it still happened. Sometimes it comes out at the most
moments and you just gotta follow it. And what happened.
It's good. It's been good for me. It was like
a stick in the ground moment. So where where were
you at? Where were you? So I actually said yes
to it, and I think it's just like a couple

(01:02:02):
of days before we were supposed to leave, they text
me like, um, change your plans. You're not invited anymore.
What in the world. Yeah, So that was the end
of that, and I just looked at my text like
I don't know what I did, but okay, you still
don't have any clue. No clue. Um. My personal opinion

(01:02:23):
it was that Ari was the bachelor at the time,
and because I was the guy that you know was
being talked about as another opportunity to be bastlar I guess,
or it could have been bash or what it is.
Maybe they just didn't want the conversation to even be had.
They just wanted to nip it in the button, you
know with That was just my own personal opinion. I
have no clue. Maybe I paid somebody off in some way,

(01:02:45):
or maybe they heard something. I have no clue. Wow,
which I'm glad it didn't go because you guys were
literally like ice skating the whole time. Oh, I think
you would have had fun with the skiing and stuff.
You would have blown everyone out of the water, well will,
I don't know. Ben was pretty good actually, and so
was Dean. But I'm not a snow person. I don't

(01:03:08):
go on snow very well. I would have been crushed. Okay, Peter,
you're missed by Dean and myself. And I know you
and Dean are still good buddies and uh still h
he You know he considers you one of his best friends,
and um, I know you keep in touch. Peter. We
end every in depth episode with two things. One is

(01:03:30):
we allow you to just monologue here and share with
our audience, who's listening, anything that we missed, anything you
want to share with them who are listening, and just
kind of want to catch up in your life. And
then actually always ends in a really fun way with
a rapid fire round Peter for the next minute or
however long you would take. Thirty seconds, the stage is yours,
the audience is listening. Say whatever it is that you want.

(01:03:53):
The first thing that comes to mind is saying thank you. Um,
you know, after they came and actually shot my home
to own stuff for Winter Games, I got to talk
to producer's face face, and I think it's the first
time I ever got to say thank you for the experience, um,
you know, reach out to Rachel and social media and

(01:04:14):
just said thank you via Twitter for the experience. And
it was genuinely life changing for the better in so
many ways. Like I was saying with Vegas, like I
honestly had so much fun. I was front row to
see Halsey to the point where my body was shaking
from the beat, and she made eye contact with me.
I just like, this is the craziest experience in my life, Like,

(01:04:38):
oh my god, BB, Yeah, she's awesome. We actually talked
back and forth just for fun for a little while
and like she's great. Um yeah, it's just it's been
such a life changing experience to like even now to
this day, I get recognized all over the place. People
support me just because of that show. Um it allowed

(01:05:02):
me to build a social media where I was able
to put all that money away into open up my
gym for the first time, a dream I had had
for ten years. Um it filled the gym for the
first month. Like the majority of people that came to
the gym, I will not lie about it. We're probably
just fans of the show, and so they came and
supported and all the boot camps that I go down,

(01:05:24):
it's all because that show. Like all these people that
come and see you becomes that show, And like, granted,
I hope they get to know me and see who
I am as a person. They enjoy me as a
person to want to be a part of my life
because of who I am, not just because of the show.
But they wouldn't have had that opportunity to see that
if it weren't for it. So I'm eternally grateful for
the opportunity and for Rachel keeping me An around as

(01:05:45):
long as she did. Um, Yeah, it was. It's a
life changing experience. M Well, thanks for sharing, man, I
really appreciated. Alright, ready for rapid fire? Why not, let's

(01:06:09):
do it. What's the favorite what's your favorite delivery you've
been getting since quarantined? Zero? Actually no delivery, no deliveries.
What's your favorite thing to make in the kitchen since quarantine?
I make a lot of tacos, tacos, all of the
taco pizzas. I really like tacos in any form. This
sounds good me too. Who's your celebrity crush? Oh, celebrity crush?

(01:06:33):
I have no clue right now, pass because I don't know.
Do you have a celebrity man crush? Dean? Okay, Well
that leads into my next question, which is probably the
same answer. Bachelor guy who you'd like to steal some
swag from? Well, obviously, like Tyler has been the top
of the town for a while now, and he and

(01:06:54):
I actually chatted, and he's an awesome guy. He's super nice,
got a good head on his shoulders, So I just
give him props. What was the last conversation you had
with your dog? Because I heard that you guys have
been talking. Uh, probably to just take a second and
actually take a dump. She just like walks around the
circle's constantly, So you please just sit still for a

(01:07:17):
second and go to that. Who's the last person you texted? Actually, Iggy,
Dean and Alex we're in a group thread right now,
blown up as texts. Okay, And what's a show that
you've been been watching during during Turing Paradise and Turn Quarantine.

(01:07:39):
So it's on Disney Pluss called Mandalorian. Oh okay, you're
Star Wars fan that show. If you haven't seen it,
you have got to walk. Yeah. I think Jo would
really like it. So who's your verite Star Wars character?
What's your favorite episode of the franchise? Good question. I
think all those recent movies that they've just come up
with are exceptional. Kylo Ren is one of the coolest characters,

(01:08:00):
and the fact that I won't like spoiler, but how
his character changes towards the end of the movies is awesome.
Oh oh my god. Yeah. I mean, Jared thought that
it was gonna be hard to get me into these
new episodes, but I'm like Jared Kyler run and that
love story, the sexual tension that leads that lasts for
so many hours I'm in the Only thing I won't

(01:08:21):
recommend is watching episodes like one through three and not good. Well,
you know, Hayden Christensen for all of us girls out there,
not bad to look at for a couple of hours.
Good point. Alrighty, Well, is there anything you'd like to
plug talk about Peter Crossfitness. Uh, talk about Peter Grosses. Uh.
Check on my website. I do a live workout every
day at noon. It's myself for one of my trainers

(01:08:43):
and uh. We do live workouts at noon in Central
time and they last for twenty four hours. You just
got to sign up on Peter Crossfitness dot com. Sounds good.
Thank you so much for for doing this. It's been
really fun. Yeah, Peter Aston, I always want to like
we're very appreciative of anybody sits down and trusts us
when with an in depth It's not easy for anybody
do to talk about themselves for an hour and fifteen

(01:09:05):
minutes and to walk through this process. So Ashley and
I and almost Fama his podcast. I want to say
thank you, of course, thanks for having me. Thank you
so much. I feel like people got to know you
so well for this good I'm glad. I'm sure there's
always more stories to be had, and there's everybody's opinions,
but it's good to share it from my side. Then
you want to sign us off. Hey, Peter, H follow

(01:09:26):
along here. Ashley and I always end these episodes in
the same way. You're gonna understand it, so just repeat
after us. Hey, with everybody listening out there, from the
Almost family again, I say, if you can comment or
review on iTunes, it would be super awesome for Ashley
and I to see that. If you appreciate this podcast,
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(01:09:47):
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