February 23, 2024 • 21 mins
Pilot Pete is coming in for a landing to help Ashley break down the latest Bachelor Nation headlines!
Hear Peter’s take on Nick Viall’s return to TV, another controversy in Kaitlyn Bristowe and Jason Tartick’s break-up, and what it means to change up the “Bachelor lingo”.
Plus, Peter spills everything about the mystery girl on his Instagram!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of the Almost Famous Podcast.
It is I Ashley. I Why did I say that
like that?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I don't know how many times have you said that?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I've never said it in like this six years leaved
on this podcast, And that is Peter Weber. Y'all. We
have him on the podcast today because he is well
star of the Traders and we're going to do a
whole episode about his experience there, so stay tuned for that.
But until then, we are going to go over headlines. Now.
I know Peter that you're not fully caught up with
(00:38):
this season yet, but have you spoken to Joey whatsoever?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I haven't spoken to Joey, just exchanging a couple of
texts back and forth since his experience ended. But I
got to know him a little bit before he left
for film, and he was out in New York for
a couple of days hope, like the whole US Open.
So obviously that's all his little niche with the tennis thing.
So I got to know him when now you know,
and I had a couple of drinks. Awesome, dude, I
(01:02):
totally get why they picked him to be the Bachelor.
And again I haven't been able to catch up on
the season up to this point, but you know, have
all the faith in the world that he's going to
kill it, and I hope it works out fro him.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
He has been such a good bachelor. We're so excited
every week he's just shining. But of course our first
headline is because he always has to come with the
controversial headline making statement. Nick Yell our friend Nick Viyell
says he thinks that Joey is being too much of
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a people pleaser and he's taking the easy way out
of things. Now, you actually told me on the other
episode that we recorded that you thought of yourself as
a people pleaser on the Bachelor.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
How so okay, so interesting remarks from Nick. Obviously I
can't speak on it specifically with Joey, but I get it.
If that's what Joey's going through right now, if that's
how he's deciding to handle the show right now, I.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Totally get it.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I hope that he pulls out of that and doesn't
necessarily feel like he has to continue that route the
entire time, just because it will get exponentially harder if
he continues to do that. I wish looking back on
my experience, I just I wish I would have been
a lot more selfish. I wish I would have been
you know, I remember thinking when anyone showed up, you know,
(02:23):
when I met you know, all these thirty thirty plus women,
I was going to give each one of them my everything.
And even if, like in the beginning, I didn't feel
like a certain like hard, hard connection with them, because
everything they had sacrificed to be there and the time
they had taken out, I've just felt like I owed
it to them to really kind of still do a
little bit of a dive there and just be one
hundred hundred percent confident that, yeah, there isn't anything here
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that wears on you when you're when you're when you're
doing a show for two months, you're doing that people
pleasing you know, persona act. I get it, because it's
you don't want to hurt people, you don't you're thinking
of everything you're thinking of, Okay, how is the public
going to react to this?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Like just just pure respect for.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Human beings, Like you can't you don't want to be
addicted to anybody and not I'm not ever. I'm not,
you know, advocating for any bachelor in the future to
be addicted to you know, the women on the season.
But what I am saying is you got to put
yourself first and make decisions in the moment that are
purely for you. It's you took on that role to
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be the bacher, to go hopefully find a wife with that,
or going to come a hell of a lot of
uncomfortable conversations, a hell of a lot of uncomfortable moments,
awkward moments. Just embrace it and know it. You're not
gonna You're not gonna have it. Doesn't It doesn't matter
what way you play the show. You're not gonna have
everyone love you. You're not gonna have everyone agree with
your choices. That doesn't matter. If you're going on there
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to find a wife, go on there with that intention
and let the cards fall as they may. But you
got to put yourself first in every aspect. Is truly
my opinion, Peter.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It's like you read the article without reading the article,
because the whole thing is about Nick saying that he
hasn't eliminated anybody outside of a Row ceremony. The two
on one not included. And he said this before this
past week's episode where he did eliminate Jess at a
group date, because beforehand he was like, he's playing too
much by the rules. It's it's way easier to let
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somebody go at a rose ceremony than say, during a
group date or during a one on one, Like, hey,
I'm actually not feeling it. It's time for you to
get out of here. I wonder what Nick would say
now that he did, in like week five, episode six,
eliminate somebody during a group date, So maybe he doesn't
feel the same way anymore. But he said to me,
that's just Joey. The people please are kind of wanting
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to be nice. He comes across as super nice. It
very much does, but it's less authentic. It's the easy
way out. I don't know that it's less authentic. I think,
as you were saying, it's maybe just harder on you
in the long run.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, it makes it a hell of a lot harder. Again,
you play, it's like you play so many roles as
the Batchel, like you have so many hats on and again,
everyone focus is to find someone. But I I can see,
I can kind of see I guess maybe just the
limited time I met Joey. Joey really does seem just
like a good, good nature person, so sweet. Yeah, like
(05:13):
there's zero there's zero dick in like dick about him right,
Like he is not a bad person at all, just good,
good intentions and that kind of personality. It can be
tough in this environment to make it through two months
of again that kind of pressure cooker and that the
Bachelor is. It's tough, but it's funny. I saw what
(05:33):
I did see was his finale. They kind of like
had a similar opening. So I remember from my season
with like the end being the first thing that they showed,
and I like.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It kind of brought in.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
It works, it works for sure, but I'm just like,
oh God, I just pray that he was not going
through similar stuff of what I was going through and
maybe they're trying to edit it that way, but yeah,
because that just that was tough. But yeah, I see
some similar already for sure between between Joy and myself.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Like a switcher ruie type thought you would do that,
I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Why would you know?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Decision idiots, You're not alone. We all know you're not alone.
You probably did it in the most mild way. Actually, Okay,
So another headline of NIX. So Caitlin Bristow she posted
some Well, she actually had a conversation on her podcast
with Stacy Schroeder a couple of weeks ago, and she
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was saying that like at the end of a relationship.
We don't know what relationship it was, it could have
been a decade ago, but she said she was like
so out of touch with herself sexually that she felt
like asexual. And this made huge headlines and Bet and
I were like, is it really or she just like
not feeling the guy anymore? Right, And eventually Caitlyn learned
(06:55):
that she just wasn't feeling the guy anymore. But here's
the headline for this week. That is kind of juicy.
So Jason posted a picture on Instagram and it was
really just because you know, he was a good It
was a good picture of him. He was shirtless looking great.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Really, Tan, I've always loved, I respect the hell out
of Jason. Like I always thought I was like the
least I was probably the least in shape bacher that's
ever been on the show.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Like it just never had like the skull.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You could talk to Ben because he would say the
exact same thing about himself. You guys both look great.
Maybe you didn't have six packs, but like you still
look great.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
The definition wasn't quite there. But I love like Jason.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
You see the guy and he does it so modestly,
like guys shreded like a spartan god, and you just
you almost forget about it. I just I respect that,
you know.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Because he doesn't like really show it off a lot.
He doesn't like flawn that because like he kind of
flaunts his brain more and his business out me and
just being like a stand up guy. So anyway, he
captions the the photo little summer throwback on this cold
winter Wednesday. A changing of seasons can't come soon enough.
You know. He wanted to us a hot pick of
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himself all good and then he and then Nick writes
underneath it nothing asexual about this, oh God, and then
Caitlyn retaliates by saying, like on Instagram good morning, or
like hello Hawaii to everybody except those who use like
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use my words for clicks, I'm i'm i'm oh no
aloha to everyone except for people who make fun of
my sexuality for likes having a libido expert on my
pod soon. Okay, all right, what's your take, sassiness say,
so let me follow this. So Caitlyn, it's really between
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Caitlyn and Nick.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Now it's had nothing to do with Kaitlyn and was
saying she was just over the relationship and like sexually
had kind of like fizzled out.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well, no, it was Caitlin who was saying that. It
was like should she she herself felt a sexual She
was just talking was just stas he's not part of
the equation.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Okay, you know, it's like this is not the best
thing to admit, but I really haven't ever been in
a long enough relationship and maybe it's just not possible
for me. I think, I you know, I'm a passionate person,
as I would put it right, like, I have never
gotten to a point in a relationship where I've kind
of like lost that desire for not that you lose
(09:23):
the desire for a partner, but where it kind of
like really settles down and it's not as powerful, maybe
as as it once was.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
So Kate again, so just so I.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Follow Caitlyn is acting like she had lost it with
Jason before the end of the relationship.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
We don't know there was Jason. Don't put any words
in her mouth any one, but Nick is all of
a sudden like making it seem like it was directed
towards Jason.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Towards Jason.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I just don't get the I've never been the kind
of like the low blow type person. Why do yeah
like at that the relationship. I don't know how long
they've been broken up now for, but just I'm all
about six months that's it.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I've always been someone you try to move on like
I would personally never.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I think Kat was probably benefiting from some clicks as
well by coming on, and she knows that she's doing
so I think it's all kind of like strategic in
a way. I don't think one person or one side
is only to blame, but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
That's not my take.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It's my take is Nick and Caitlin, even though they
have been very cordial with each other in the past,
they still gotta throw fire at each other. Eight years
after that season.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
They just can't let it go.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Huh. But really it's Nick was the instigator here for sure.
For sure. In another Nick aheadline, will just bruize whatever
this one. He is doing a new show with Patti Stanger,
a matchmaking series on REDW. Yeah, so I gotta pick
his brain about how this is going to go because
I was on Patti Stanger's like Celebrity Millionaire Matchmaker and
(10:53):
it was quite the experience. I will say it was
not a positive one. So I can't wait to hear.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
When did you do that?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Years ago? It was before my second season of Paradise gotch.
I've been on two shows. Yeah, let's throw out two
headlines of our own right now. I just announced today
(11:23):
at Amazon Live that our second child, who is due
in July, is a boy, and that means we'll be
having two We will have two boys, and we are
overwhelmed with the thought. But I know that you and
your brother, you know you're the two boys for your mom. Yeah,
what advice? What I want to know is, how is
(11:46):
how can I make these brothers as close as possible?
Because you're really tight with your brother right, extremely close? Yes? Yes,
and I love that and I want that. Like do
you guys talk on the phone regularly, like multiple times
a week?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Good, that's what I want.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
We Well, first, off. Congrats, that's awesome news. Super super
happy for you guys. Maybe you'll have some Patriots players
in the making and Makejered very happy.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Dawson has quite the arm. I'm not just saying that
because I'm his mom. It's impressive.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Okay, I get and started young. Now that's that's super exciting.
Did you guys do a reveal, like a special baby reveal?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Well, we got the text from my midwife like I
have the gender, like do you want it? And we
were in Disney World and my sister was there and
she's just like, well, just do something because the first
time we did it, I didn't want any sort of
gender reveal. So this time we literally just had the
the hotel make cupcakes and they're you know, we've been
into his classic.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
You're on Space Mountain, We're having a boy.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, we weren gonna do something at like the castle,
but then it wasistically.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
To do that. Yeah, no, I I yeah, I appreciate
those words.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Have been extremely close to my brothers, you know, one
of my most treasured relationships that I have in life.
We just we grew up literally just do eating everything together,
and you know, from a very early age, we were
just we. I think my mom kind of just got
lucky with us too. But we just got along well.
We were best friends. It was almost to the point
(13:20):
where my brother would sometimes get annoy because I'd always
want to hang out with him and his friends. And
then he sometimes thought that I was still in his
friends and would like try to get some space.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
My sister and I always shared friends, like all our
best friends were together.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Okay, Yeah, my brother would say different.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
He would say that I like was taking his friends away,
but I just I just enjoyed hanging out.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
With him and his friends.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
And yeah, I mean we literally had that dynamic though
all the way through. Like I'm probably later than most people,
Like I lived at hometil I was twenty nine, right,
So not saying that, you know, you guys are gonna
have them at home until you're twenty nine, but it
was just yeah, really just organic, just great relationship. Like
I said, we were just always always together. You know,
my dad, he would be gone a lot on trips,
(14:05):
uh for work, and so it was my mom and
the two of us and my grandmother when she lived
with us, and we never felt like truth like, we
never felt like there was ever any favorites, like we'd
always you know, hassle our mom, like you know, I'm
your favorite. I'm like, it was never any of that,
Like it was just equal love shown both ways.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
A lot of just great family trips growing up.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Like my parents did a really good job of like
just making really cool core memories, especially like in the
in the whole flying theme with you know, airplanes and
in the whole career aspect. I actually just wrote an
article from Alpa Airline Pilots Association. They had a they're
doing a little segment on family and aviation and and
why that means so much to my family. And it
was really cool just to go back down memory lane
(14:50):
and just write about a lot of stories of my
brother and I as little kids, you know, going on
trips with my dad or going in the cockpit and
you know, just having really cool It's really cool that
my brother and we both followed in the same footsteps
of my dad, right, so we're both pilots, and so
we you know, try to find similar passions to just
promote with them growing up. And yeah, you're gonna see
(15:11):
I think that. I mean, you know this, every every
sibling has their strengths and their and their weaknesses, and
it was kind of cool for my brother and I,
like we always helped each other in each other's weaknesses
and all the way up until like, like I literally
was the reason that my brother got into u c
l A. Like I wrote his his college like admission
letter because he I'm.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Pretty sure I get the same with my sister. Really, Okay,
get it, I've been the better writer, but she's creative
plenty of other strengths.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yeah, now, my brother kicked my ass, Like he applied
mathematics major at UCLA, and I've always been more creative
in English side and all that, and so like he'd
helped me out with stuff, you know, being younger than
me in high school and this guy and you know,
this kid was helping with math problems and all that.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
So yeah, I'm excited. It's the bond.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Between between two really really close brothers is again I'm
sure it's very similar with sisters, but it's just it's
one of the most beautiful gifts in life that I
have ever been able to receive, and I cherish it
so much, and I really hope that you guys experienced
that with your sons.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Thank you. Yeah, not to stereotype. But I do feel
like I kind of wanted maybe like two of the
same sex, just because that, in my experience, seems to
be like the closer bonds sibling bonds.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Sure, yeah, I get that. I think it'd be cool
too to have. I've always thought be awesome have twins.
I'm like, I'm a twins guy.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
See, I would be a twins person. If it was
the first, then I would be like, Okay, I'm done.
I'd never have to be forget again. That'd be awesome.
But if you have twins on the second, then that
would be like, Hey, what's what's your age gap to
the two of you?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Or three and a half years, which I think is
a great, great gap.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
There'll be two and a half years. I'm two and
a half years. That's but that, like span is it
is a good one. All right, Well then I'm gonna
make you have a headline. Now this Ellie Smith girl
on your Instagram who you are part of your new
music video? Girlfriend or just a friend?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Now? Ellie was single?
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Put it out there, Okay, not a girlfriend. Ellie was
my very first friend in New York City when I
moved to New York.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Her mom and I are her mom and my mom.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
They grew up together, and so I was connected with
her because I didn't know anybody in moving out to
New York.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
So she was my.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Very first friend. I remember Dustin had been out visiting
and Ellie we were all out getting drinks. We'd come back.
We're hanging out my apartment, just having some drinks. There's
no furniture in the apartment.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Just like.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
She's an incredibly talented singer. Just wait till you guys
hear this music video. I'm really really stoked for her
because she's coming out with her first album. She's done Broadway,
She's done a ton of stuff, but just one of
the most beautiful voices I've ever heard. So yeah, first
friend in New York. We stayed very close, and she
asked me to be in her music video.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
With her, and I was like, never done it music video.
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
And it's a romantic music video. That's why people are
buzzing on Instagram when you release the pictures.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
It is romantic. It's it's actually there's a twist in
the song. It's it's kind of it's about a it's
the whole song, I think she said. She wrote it
in like forty five minutes, but it was inspired by
a breakup, and so it's shown all the good stuff
and the good parts of relationship, but then there's twists
in there and ultimately ends, you know, it's kind of
on empowering her and all the strength that she feels
(18:29):
moving on from that relationship and the love that she
has for herself. But yeah, it was it was fun
to film. It was very fun to film.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Nice and look look at you up being on musical.
You were also on stage at the was it?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
The beautiful? Was it Beautiful?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
A Beautiful Noise? The Neil Diamond Musical. Yeah, you guys
haven't seen it.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
No, I haven't seen it. My mom loves Neil Diamond.
So eventually we'll have to go see it in a
big Broadway girl and seeing Sweete Todd next week, and
I am so excited.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yes, oh with sett and fast Sun Foster. Yes, that's
gonna be incredible.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I know, I'm so excited. So all right, well we
have time for one more headline and Peter, I gotta
know your take on this. Jesse Palmer is changing up
the bachelor thing. Go to over twenty years in so
this week, not only it was as actually the week,
it was like a week and a half ago. Instead
(19:24):
of saying take a moment and say your goodbyes, he said,
take as much time as you need, and when you're ready,
say your goodbyes. Now, his explanation for this was that
he was looking at a Duena and Allison, knowing that
they were the girls leaving, and he just said that
there was so much tension and emotion on their faces
that he wanted to offer them the courtesy to take
(19:46):
as much time as they needed.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I like that. I have no problems with that.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I actually I think I saw an excerpt of that
was he doing like a funny thing in the pool
where he was going over different lines.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
He did another one that's another part of this article.
It says that he also said, why do we even
say this is the final rose tonight because it's so
obvious there's just some un a rose left on the table.
So is that the next line he's going to acts?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Look at I like this. I am about this Jesse taking.
You know, he's now been the host for a couple
of seasons, so he feels like he has the seniority
now and the experience as a host to you know,
give his own personal take. I think that only helps
the show. I hope he continues to kind of do
stuff and maybe it almost you know, inspires the show itself,
(20:32):
whether it's you know, in production type themes or or
way they film the show to switch it up.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I don't I don't think changes you know is bad.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Obviously it's always going to follow the same format of
what the show has always been. But yeah, I'm all
about kind of personalizing it a little bit. And I've
been I've been a Jesse fan ever since he became
the host.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
I think he's he's been.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
He was probably the perfect choice in that moment when
you had to make a you know.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
A quick decision. So yeah, I support that.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Those lines truly were Harrison's lines. Of Harrison changed them up,
then we'd probably be like, where's our familiarity, But with
Jesse changing him up, it's like, Okay, well, you weren't
the person that quote came up with it, so I
guess not as big of a deal. All right, Well,
thank you so much Peter for joining us. This was
really fun and we are going to do a whole
other episode with you, and it's all about your experience
(21:24):
on The Traders, so stay tuned for that. He's a
big hit on the show, y'all. Until that time, I've
been Ashley.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I've been Peter.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of the Almost Famous Podcast.
It is I Ashley. I Why did I say that
like that?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I don't know how many times have you said that?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I've never said it in like this six years leaved
on this podcast, And that is Peter Weber. Y'all. We
have him on the podcast today because he is well
star of the Traders and we're going to do a
whole episode about his experience there, so stay tuned for that.
But until then, we are going to go over headlines. Now.
I know Peter that you're not fully caught up with
(00:38):
this season yet, but have you spoken to Joey whatsoever?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I haven't spoken to Joey, just exchanging a couple of
texts back and forth since his experience ended. But I
got to know him a little bit before he left
for film, and he was out in New York for
a couple of days hope, like the whole US Open.
So obviously that's all his little niche with the tennis thing.
So I got to know him when now you know,
and I had a couple of drinks. Awesome, dude, I
(01:02):
totally get why they picked him to be the Bachelor.
And again I haven't been able to catch up on
the season up to this point, but you know, have
all the faith in the world that he's going to
kill it, and I hope it works out fro him.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
He has been such a good bachelor. We're so excited
every week he's just shining. But of course our first
headline is because he always has to come with the
controversial headline making statement. Nick Yell our friend Nick Viyell
says he thinks that Joey is being too much of
(01:35):
a people pleaser and he's taking the easy way out
of things. Now, you actually told me on the other
episode that we recorded that you thought of yourself as
a people pleaser on the Bachelor.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
How so okay, so interesting remarks from Nick. Obviously I
can't speak on it specifically with Joey, but I get it.
If that's what Joey's going through right now, if that's
how he's deciding to handle the show right now, I.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Totally get it.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I hope that he pulls out of that and doesn't
necessarily feel like he has to continue that route the
entire time, just because it will get exponentially harder if
he continues to do that. I wish looking back on
my experience, I just I wish I would have been
a lot more selfish. I wish I would have been
you know, I remember thinking when anyone showed up, you know,
(02:23):
when I met you know, all these thirty thirty plus women,
I was going to give each one of them my everything.
And even if, like in the beginning, I didn't feel
like a certain like hard, hard connection with them, because
everything they had sacrificed to be there and the time
they had taken out, I've just felt like I owed
it to them to really kind of still do a
little bit of a dive there and just be one
hundred hundred percent confident that, yeah, there isn't anything here
(02:46):
that wears on you when you're when you're when you're
doing a show for two months, you're doing that people
pleasing you know, persona act. I get it, because it's
you don't want to hurt people, you don't you're thinking
of everything you're thinking of, Okay, how is the public
going to react to this?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Like just just pure respect for.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Human beings, Like you can't you don't want to be
addicted to anybody and not I'm not ever. I'm not,
you know, advocating for any bachelor in the future to
be addicted to you know, the women on the season.
But what I am saying is you got to put
yourself first and make decisions in the moment that are
purely for you. It's you took on that role to
(03:21):
be the bacher, to go hopefully find a wife with that,
or going to come a hell of a lot of
uncomfortable conversations, a hell of a lot of uncomfortable moments,
awkward moments. Just embrace it and know it. You're not
gonna You're not gonna have it. Doesn't It doesn't matter
what way you play the show. You're not gonna have
everyone love you. You're not gonna have everyone agree with
your choices. That doesn't matter. If you're going on there
(03:41):
to find a wife, go on there with that intention
and let the cards fall as they may. But you
got to put yourself first in every aspect. Is truly
my opinion, Peter.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It's like you read the article without reading the article,
because the whole thing is about Nick saying that he
hasn't eliminated anybody outside of a Row ceremony. The two
on one not included. And he said this before this
past week's episode where he did eliminate Jess at a
group date, because beforehand he was like, he's playing too
much by the rules. It's it's way easier to let
(04:14):
somebody go at a rose ceremony than say, during a
group date or during a one on one, Like, hey,
I'm actually not feeling it. It's time for you to
get out of here. I wonder what Nick would say
now that he did, in like week five, episode six,
eliminate somebody during a group date, So maybe he doesn't
feel the same way anymore. But he said to me,
that's just Joey. The people please are kind of wanting
(04:36):
to be nice. He comes across as super nice. It
very much does, but it's less authentic. It's the easy
way out. I don't know that it's less authentic. I think,
as you were saying, it's maybe just harder on you
in the long run.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, it makes it a hell of a lot harder. Again,
you play, it's like you play so many roles as
the Batchel, like you have so many hats on and again,
everyone focus is to find someone. But I I can see,
I can kind of see I guess maybe just the
limited time I met Joey. Joey really does seem just
like a good, good nature person, so sweet. Yeah, like
(05:13):
there's zero there's zero dick in like dick about him right,
Like he is not a bad person at all, just good,
good intentions and that kind of personality. It can be
tough in this environment to make it through two months
of again that kind of pressure cooker and that the
Bachelor is. It's tough, but it's funny. I saw what
(05:33):
I did see was his finale. They kind of like
had a similar opening. So I remember from my season
with like the end being the first thing that they showed,
and I like.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It kind of brought in.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
It works, it works for sure, but I'm just like,
oh God, I just pray that he was not going
through similar stuff of what I was going through and
maybe they're trying to edit it that way, but yeah,
because that just that was tough. But yeah, I see
some similar already for sure between between Joy and myself.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Like a switcher ruie type thought you would do that,
I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Why would you know?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Decision idiots, You're not alone. We all know you're not alone.
You probably did it in the most mild way. Actually, Okay,
So another headline of NIX. So Caitlin Bristow she posted
some Well, she actually had a conversation on her podcast
with Stacy Schroeder a couple of weeks ago, and she
(06:33):
was saying that like at the end of a relationship.
We don't know what relationship it was, it could have
been a decade ago, but she said she was like
so out of touch with herself sexually that she felt
like asexual. And this made huge headlines and Bet and
I were like, is it really or she just like
not feeling the guy anymore? Right, And eventually Caitlyn learned
(06:55):
that she just wasn't feeling the guy anymore. But here's
the headline for this week. That is kind of juicy.
So Jason posted a picture on Instagram and it was
really just because you know, he was a good It
was a good picture of him. He was shirtless looking great.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Really, Tan, I've always loved, I respect the hell out
of Jason. Like I always thought I was like the
least I was probably the least in shape bacher that's
ever been on the show.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Like it just never had like the skull.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You could talk to Ben because he would say the
exact same thing about himself. You guys both look great.
Maybe you didn't have six packs, but like you still
look great.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
The definition wasn't quite there. But I love like Jason.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
You see the guy and he does it so modestly,
like guys shreded like a spartan god, and you just
you almost forget about it. I just I respect that,
you know.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Because he doesn't like really show it off a lot.
He doesn't like flawn that because like he kind of
flaunts his brain more and his business out me and
just being like a stand up guy. So anyway, he
captions the the photo little summer throwback on this cold
winter Wednesday. A changing of seasons can't come soon enough.
You know. He wanted to us a hot pick of
(08:00):
himself all good and then he and then Nick writes
underneath it nothing asexual about this, oh God, and then
Caitlyn retaliates by saying, like on Instagram good morning, or
like hello Hawaii to everybody except those who use like
(08:22):
use my words for clicks, I'm i'm i'm oh no
aloha to everyone except for people who make fun of
my sexuality for likes having a libido expert on my
pod soon. Okay, all right, what's your take, sassiness say,
so let me follow this. So Caitlyn, it's really between
(08:43):
Caitlyn and Nick.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Now it's had nothing to do with Kaitlyn and was
saying she was just over the relationship and like sexually
had kind of like fizzled out.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well, no, it was Caitlin who was saying that. It
was like should she she herself felt a sexual She
was just talking was just stas he's not part of
the equation.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Okay, you know, it's like this is not the best
thing to admit, but I really haven't ever been in
a long enough relationship and maybe it's just not possible
for me. I think, I you know, I'm a passionate person,
as I would put it right, like, I have never
gotten to a point in a relationship where I've kind
of like lost that desire for not that you lose
(09:23):
the desire for a partner, but where it kind of
like really settles down and it's not as powerful, maybe
as as it once was.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
So Kate again, so just so I.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Follow Caitlyn is acting like she had lost it with
Jason before the end of the relationship.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
We don't know there was Jason. Don't put any words
in her mouth any one, but Nick is all of
a sudden like making it seem like it was directed
towards Jason.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Towards Jason.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I just don't get the I've never been the kind
of like the low blow type person. Why do yeah
like at that the relationship. I don't know how long
they've been broken up now for, but just I'm all
about six months that's it.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I've always been someone you try to move on like
I would personally never.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I think Kat was probably benefiting from some clicks as
well by coming on, and she knows that she's doing
so I think it's all kind of like strategic in
a way. I don't think one person or one side
is only to blame, but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
That's not my take.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It's my take is Nick and Caitlin, even though they
have been very cordial with each other in the past,
they still gotta throw fire at each other. Eight years
after that season.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
They just can't let it go.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Huh. But really it's Nick was the instigator here for sure.
For sure. In another Nick aheadline, will just bruize whatever
this one. He is doing a new show with Patti Stanger,
a matchmaking series on REDW. Yeah, so I gotta pick
his brain about how this is going to go because
I was on Patti Stanger's like Celebrity Millionaire Matchmaker and
(10:53):
it was quite the experience. I will say it was
not a positive one. So I can't wait to hear.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
When did you do that?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Years ago? It was before my second season of Paradise gotch.
I've been on two shows. Yeah, let's throw out two
headlines of our own right now. I just announced today
(11:23):
at Amazon Live that our second child, who is due
in July, is a boy, and that means we'll be
having two We will have two boys, and we are
overwhelmed with the thought. But I know that you and
your brother, you know you're the two boys for your mom. Yeah,
what advice? What I want to know is, how is
(11:46):
how can I make these brothers as close as possible?
Because you're really tight with your brother right, extremely close? Yes? Yes,
and I love that and I want that. Like do
you guys talk on the phone regularly, like multiple times
a week?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Good, that's what I want.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
We Well, first, off. Congrats, that's awesome news. Super super
happy for you guys. Maybe you'll have some Patriots players
in the making and Makejered very happy.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Dawson has quite the arm. I'm not just saying that
because I'm his mom. It's impressive.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Okay, I get and started young. Now that's that's super exciting.
Did you guys do a reveal, like a special baby reveal?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Well, we got the text from my midwife like I
have the gender, like do you want it? And we
were in Disney World and my sister was there and
she's just like, well, just do something because the first
time we did it, I didn't want any sort of
gender reveal. So this time we literally just had the
the hotel make cupcakes and they're you know, we've been
into his classic.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
You're on Space Mountain, We're having a boy.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, we weren gonna do something at like the castle,
but then it wasistically.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
To do that. Yeah, no, I I yeah, I appreciate
those words.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Have been extremely close to my brothers, you know, one
of my most treasured relationships that I have in life.
We just we grew up literally just do eating everything together,
and you know, from a very early age, we were
just we. I think my mom kind of just got
lucky with us too. But we just got along well.
We were best friends. It was almost to the point
(13:20):
where my brother would sometimes get annoy because I'd always
want to hang out with him and his friends. And
then he sometimes thought that I was still in his
friends and would like try to get some space.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
My sister and I always shared friends, like all our
best friends were together.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Okay, Yeah, my brother would say different.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
He would say that I like was taking his friends away,
but I just I just enjoyed hanging out.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
With him and his friends.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
And yeah, I mean we literally had that dynamic though
all the way through. Like I'm probably later than most people,
Like I lived at hometil I was twenty nine, right,
So not saying that, you know, you guys are gonna
have them at home until you're twenty nine, but it
was just yeah, really just organic, just great relationship. Like
I said, we were just always always together. You know,
my dad, he would be gone a lot on trips,
(14:05):
uh for work, and so it was my mom and
the two of us and my grandmother when she lived
with us, and we never felt like truth like, we
never felt like there was ever any favorites, like we'd
always you know, hassle our mom, like you know, I'm
your favorite. I'm like, it was never any of that,
Like it was just equal love shown both ways.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
A lot of just great family trips growing up.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Like my parents did a really good job of like
just making really cool core memories, especially like in the
in the whole flying theme with you know, airplanes and
in the whole career aspect. I actually just wrote an
article from Alpa Airline Pilots Association. They had a they're
doing a little segment on family and aviation and and
why that means so much to my family. And it
was really cool just to go back down memory lane
(14:50):
and just write about a lot of stories of my
brother and I as little kids, you know, going on
trips with my dad or going in the cockpit and
you know, just having really cool It's really cool that
my brother and we both followed in the same footsteps
of my dad, right, so we're both pilots, and so
we you know, try to find similar passions to just
promote with them growing up. And yeah, you're gonna see
(15:11):
I think that. I mean, you know this, every every
sibling has their strengths and their and their weaknesses, and
it was kind of cool for my brother and I,
like we always helped each other in each other's weaknesses
and all the way up until like, like I literally
was the reason that my brother got into u c
l A. Like I wrote his his college like admission
letter because he I'm.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Pretty sure I get the same with my sister. Really, Okay,
get it, I've been the better writer, but she's creative
plenty of other strengths.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yeah, now, my brother kicked my ass, Like he applied
mathematics major at UCLA, and I've always been more creative
in English side and all that, and so like he'd
helped me out with stuff, you know, being younger than
me in high school and this guy and you know,
this kid was helping with math problems and all that.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
So yeah, I'm excited. It's the bond.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Between between two really really close brothers is again I'm
sure it's very similar with sisters, but it's just it's
one of the most beautiful gifts in life that I
have ever been able to receive, and I cherish it
so much, and I really hope that you guys experienced
that with your sons.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Thank you. Yeah, not to stereotype. But I do feel
like I kind of wanted maybe like two of the
same sex, just because that, in my experience, seems to
be like the closer bonds sibling bonds.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Sure, yeah, I get that. I think it'd be cool
too to have. I've always thought be awesome have twins.
I'm like, I'm a twins guy.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
See, I would be a twins person. If it was
the first, then I would be like, Okay, I'm done.
I'd never have to be forget again. That'd be awesome.
But if you have twins on the second, then that
would be like, Hey, what's what's your age gap to
the two of you?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Or three and a half years, which I think is
a great, great gap.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
There'll be two and a half years. I'm two and
a half years. That's but that, like span is it
is a good one. All right, Well then I'm gonna
make you have a headline. Now this Ellie Smith girl
on your Instagram who you are part of your new
music video? Girlfriend or just a friend?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Now? Ellie was single?
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Put it out there, Okay, not a girlfriend. Ellie was
my very first friend in New York City when I
moved to New York.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Her mom and I are her mom and my mom.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
They grew up together, and so I was connected with
her because I didn't know anybody in moving out to
New York.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
So she was my.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Very first friend. I remember Dustin had been out visiting
and Ellie we were all out getting drinks. We'd come back.
We're hanging out my apartment, just having some drinks. There's
no furniture in the apartment.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Just like.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
She's an incredibly talented singer. Just wait till you guys
hear this music video. I'm really really stoked for her
because she's coming out with her first album. She's done Broadway,
She's done a ton of stuff, but just one of
the most beautiful voices I've ever heard. So yeah, first
friend in New York. We stayed very close, and she
asked me to be in her music video.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
With her, and I was like, never done it music video.
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
And it's a romantic music video. That's why people are
buzzing on Instagram when you release the pictures.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
It is romantic. It's it's actually there's a twist in
the song. It's it's kind of it's about a it's
the whole song, I think she said. She wrote it
in like forty five minutes, but it was inspired by
a breakup, and so it's shown all the good stuff
and the good parts of relationship, but then there's twists
in there and ultimately ends, you know, it's kind of
on empowering her and all the strength that she feels
(18:29):
moving on from that relationship and the love that she
has for herself. But yeah, it was it was fun
to film. It was very fun to film.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Nice and look look at you up being on musical.
You were also on stage at the was it?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
The beautiful? Was it Beautiful?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
A Beautiful Noise? The Neil Diamond Musical. Yeah, you guys
haven't seen it.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
No, I haven't seen it. My mom loves Neil Diamond.
So eventually we'll have to go see it in a
big Broadway girl and seeing Sweete Todd next week, and
I am so excited.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yes, oh with sett and fast Sun Foster. Yes, that's
gonna be incredible.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I know, I'm so excited. So all right, well we
have time for one more headline and Peter, I gotta
know your take on this. Jesse Palmer is changing up
the bachelor thing. Go to over twenty years in so
this week, not only it was as actually the week,
it was like a week and a half ago. Instead
(19:24):
of saying take a moment and say your goodbyes, he said,
take as much time as you need, and when you're ready,
say your goodbyes. Now, his explanation for this was that
he was looking at a Duena and Allison, knowing that
they were the girls leaving, and he just said that
there was so much tension and emotion on their faces
that he wanted to offer them the courtesy to take
(19:46):
as much time as they needed.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I like that. I have no problems with that.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I actually I think I saw an excerpt of that
was he doing like a funny thing in the pool
where he was going over different lines.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
He did another one that's another part of this article.
It says that he also said, why do we even
say this is the final rose tonight because it's so
obvious there's just some un a rose left on the table.
So is that the next line he's going to acts?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Look at I like this. I am about this Jesse taking.
You know, he's now been the host for a couple
of seasons, so he feels like he has the seniority
now and the experience as a host to you know,
give his own personal take. I think that only helps
the show. I hope he continues to kind of do
stuff and maybe it almost you know, inspires the show itself,
(20:32):
whether it's you know, in production type themes or or
way they film the show to switch it up.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I don't I don't think changes you know is bad.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Obviously it's always going to follow the same format of
what the show has always been. But yeah, I'm all
about kind of personalizing it a little bit. And I've
been I've been a Jesse fan ever since he became
the host.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
I think he's he's been.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
He was probably the perfect choice in that moment when
you had to make a you know.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
A quick decision. So yeah, I support that.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Those lines truly were Harrison's lines. Of Harrison changed them up,
then we'd probably be like, where's our familiarity, But with
Jesse changing him up, it's like, Okay, well, you weren't
the person that quote came up with it, so I
guess not as big of a deal. All right, Well,
thank you so much Peter for joining us. This was
really fun and we are going to do a whole
other episode with you, and it's all about your experience
(21:24):
on The Traders, so stay tuned for that. He's a
big hit on the show, y'all. Until that time, I've
been Ashley.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I've been Peter.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
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