WEBVTT - Pilot Pete Is Back! 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:03.960 Hey, everyone, welcome back to Better Half the Hour. I'm 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:08.600 Joe and we are here with pilot Pete. Last week 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:13.280 we actually Pete, we recapture Night one episode. How do 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:13.960 you feel about that? 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:15.640 What? What a choice? 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:15.840 Why? 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:17.360 Why in the world did you would you do that? 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:21.200 I haven't it's I haven't watched it yet since since 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:23.079 actually was airing live Night one. 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:25.840 So interesting to rehash? 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:30.720 Yeah, it was, honestly it was. It makes sense why 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:35.360 like rewatching it, and obviously you were very popular guy, 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.839 and you came off a very popular season, but just 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.520 like watching it Night one, it made it makes total 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:43.720 sense why your season was so big and like why 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.880 it stayed that way because your Night one was wild. 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.720 It was just so chaotic from like the exact like 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:51.760 the very beginning. 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:55.000 Okay, so did it feel because watching it it seemed chaotic? 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:56.480 Did it feel chaotic for you? 0:00:58.480 --> 0:00:58.840 Yeah? 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:02.200 Man, it's a crazy time to kind of go back 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:07.000 to and like rehash, I think for the two biggest 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.520 things that like just threw me for such like a 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.840 loop and like started the night off in like such 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.720 a crazy way, and I was just like trying to 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.760 hang on for dear life. Was the hand of the 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:19.759 thing and then the suspense of not knowing if Kelly 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.640 was going to be there, that whole build up until 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.600 the very end. Actually, I think she was one of 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:26.080 the lot or no, the two of them were like 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:27.240 back to back, I think so. 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:29.520 Yeah, everything was like kind of going good. It was fun. 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:31.160 I was having a good time from like the intros, 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.360 and then that just like threw me for a loop 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:34.920 and I was like, oh boy, here we go. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.000 Well, you must have been kind of waiting to see 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.440 if Kelly was going to come out. Then she finally dies, 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:42.880 and then another lima pulls up and you're probably like, 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:43.760 who the hell is this? 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:44.960 Yep? 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.600 Yeah, No, the entire time, every single time the door 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:48.880 would open, I'd be like, is that Kelly? 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:50.160 Is that Kelly? Is that Kelly? 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:52.400 And then finally it is her, and then I'm like 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.000 already thrown for or not a loop. I was just 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.240 like excited, but then Hannah comes and I'm like, oh 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.480 my god, what am I doing here? 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.440 This is I'm in over my head. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:05.160 But yeah, one night, was there was there any part 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.120 of you that thought Hannah was going to jump on 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:08.880 your season? 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.640 Yeah, that's exactly what I thought she was gonna do. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.000 I like I was the only one that didn't like 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.640 really realize it in the moment, like obviously she did 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.359 and all the you know, producers everything, and I'm like, oh, 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:23.720 oh you're leaving, Oh gotcha? Okay, And so yeah, I 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.520 was a little bit of roller coashy. You get excited 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.480 for a bit and then you know and then it turns. 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.920 But yeah, I definitely that's initially what I thought she 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:31.280 was doing. 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.520 Yeah, other than those two who do you remember being 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.680 like standouts coming out of the limo, you. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.840 Know what also threw me for a loop, And I 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.240 kind of like felt like, oh boy was the kiss. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.720 There was a kiss from I think it was Savannah. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.880 I remember, because I truly remember going in. I was like, 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.760 you know what, I'm not going to kiss one girl 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.480 this entire night, Like I no, I swear to god, 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.200 you like laugh and you don't believe it, but I did. 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.360 That was my intention, And I was like I get that. 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:01.960 I'm not I'm just going to like make this easy on. 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.800 Myself, Like I'm not going to like let that be 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:05.600 a source of drama or any of that. Like I'm 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.200 going to truly use this time wisely and like try 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.800 to feel any type of connection, nothing like physical added 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.160 to it with all these women. And then that plan 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.280 went down the drain because when when Savannah kissed me, 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.679 like took all that thunder us like, no, no, it's 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:21.359 all gone now. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.680 Well then you're like, I guess who cares? I already 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:25.720 kissed one girl, Like. 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.600 Yeah, exactly, That's how my mind was working. So then 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.200 I think I probably kissed too many girls that first night? 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.079 But how many did you kiss? Do you remember? 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:37.400 I want to say it was like twelve. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.480 And the only reason I remember that is because I 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.400 have that number tattooed on my finger, so I always remember, 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:43.720 like correlated that. 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:45.920 I think it was like twelve. Yeah. 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.800 Wait, just to clarify, you didn't get that number tattooed 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:51.640 because you kissed twelve girls. I want, right. 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:55.360 The way you. 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.480 Said that really made it like that's what you did? 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.880 Oh no, no, no, I would we expect to move. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.680 That would be a sick move, that would leave. 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:06.560 Twelve girls insane. No, this is from the Seahawks for 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.560 the twelfth Man. After that we won our first Super Bowl, 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.320 my brother and I got the twelfth Man tattooed. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:15.440 So okay, just a quick question. I've actually and we're friends. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:19.080 But I've never asked you this, or maybe I haven't. 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.600 I forgot the answer. But why in the world are 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:23.080 you a Seattle Seahawks fan? 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:25.680 Everyone always yeah, is curious. 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.920 So my dad he used to live out in Seattle 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.600 and in seventy six he was out there doing flight training. 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.760 The team was founded in seventy six, so he became 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:34.680 a huge fan. We'd go to a bunch of games 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:36.800 at the Kingdom. And then when I got into football, 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.719 was like ten, ten eleven. My dad just naturally, you know, 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:41.960 got my brother and I into the Hawks. But Ben 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.599 die hard ever since. So clarification, it was twelve for 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.520 the Hawks, not for the girls, all right. 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.440 Twelve for the girls, just not tattooed on his body 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:50.080 for the girls. 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.280 One thing we saw a lot in your first night, 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.240 where I guess we do maybe you and I kind 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.000 of exaggerated this a little bit, but we see like 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.720 so many girls interrupting other girls while they're having conversations 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.120 with you. Was that throwing you off at all? Do 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.279 you remember that? Yeah? 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.720 I mean, honestly, just as like a little annoying, I think, 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.400 especially if you're like into I mean, it's annoying. And 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.560 then it's also like a blessing because if you're not 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.320 really into the conversation, it's a great lead out and 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:20.880 it's like, hey, it was so nice talking to you, 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:22.760 and you get to move on. But when you were 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:24.800 really into someone and you didn't want that conversation, and 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:26.800 it's just like ah, and you can't say, you know, 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:28.400 you can't be the one saying no, you got to 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:29.839 be polite. 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:31.000 But yeah, it was both. 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.400 There was two different emotions that you would get, you know, 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:34.800 from those situations going on. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.600 Yeah, and you you're pilot heat, So you were a 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.839 pilot and you still are a pilot. Was there ever 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.560 any period of time where because we do see, like 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.960 the truth is most most people that go on the 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.560 show and become the lead, most not everyone, usually end 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.320 up leaving their careers or jobs and kind of like 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:00.719 lean more into the world of social media or what 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:06.000 happens next. Were you ever considering leaving being a pilot? 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.839 No? Never, There was never any consideration of that for me. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.719 This the whole Like I look back and I'm just like, 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.080 I like pinch myself sometimes too, I'm like, how did 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.440 how in the world did that happen? Like how did 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.280 I make that like a how did I find a 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.880 way for that to happen? Just kind of coming into 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.560 this whole world, but maintain obviously my professional career is flying, 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.800 just because they're so different and it's it wasn't easy 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.359 like it was. It was a lot of work, a 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.719 lot of luck, and I don't know if just like 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.000 it just kind of meant to be. But I still 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.240 like am shocked that it just all worked out the 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.000 way it did. But for me, if flying didn't work 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:46.560 of a trip, wasn't getting get picked. 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.360 Up, I wasn't going to do the show. 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.360 And I kind of like I took a huge risk 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.039 because I remember for the Bachelorette, I only had the 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:55.760 first two weeks off and they're like, oh, you need 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:57.600 for sure two months committed off and you need to 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:58.280 commit that to us. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:06:59.960 I'm like, yep, I'm good. I didn't. 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:04.080 I had two weeks and I I just remember thinking, damn, 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.400 if this keeps going, like I'm just gonna have to 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.960 find a way, like and just figure this out. And 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.480 it kept going, and the first week I remember, I 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.640 was like so uncomfortable and like out of my skin. 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.680 I just didn't just having like like just I just 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.640 did not feel good about the whole, you know situation. 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:22.520 I like almost left. I was like, I can't keep 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:23.920 doing this, Like I got to get. 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:24.560 Out of this environment. 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.160 And then I got past that first week and I 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:28.720 just I started to get a little bit more comfortable. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:29.600 Son obviously I. 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.600 Stayed and then I like remember having to get my 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.800 iPad out with like the producers like trying to request 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.040 these trips off and trade them, and like I just 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:38.800 had to as I went, I was just I was 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:40.280 dropping trips and making it work. 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:43.640 So that's how I say, that's how you did it? 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.120 Did you tell like were they aware that you were 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.080 on the Bachelor. 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:51.360 Or nobody knew what I was doing? Nobody had any idea. 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.880 So the Bachelor thought that you had two months off, 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:57.440 and your job thought that you were just taking a 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:58.840 two week vag hay shed. 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.640 Yeah yeah, yeah, No I never told, Like I never 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:03.560 told any coworkers. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.160 I've just I didn't even tell my friends. 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.640 With Peter, I didn't even tell my friends what I 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.080 was doing because I like, I don't know if I'm 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.960 such a rule follower. I remember you get the packet 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.520 and it's like you cannot tell anybody what you're doing. 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.800 Everything has to be a secret, and I like took 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:17.800 that way too seriously. 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.360 So I didn't tell anyone except my immediate family. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.560 I had like a going away party because I obviously 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.680 wanted to see my friends one more time. They thought 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.880 someone thought I was going to space, like doing some 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:32.319 type of like you know, partnership with that. But I 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.080 didn't tell anybody until like everything came out and did. 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:36.160 Your parents know? 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:40.400 Yeah, of course, yea, my parents, my brother knew. But 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:41.360 that was literally it. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:42.600 I feel like I was. 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.880 I feel like I was the same way. I remember 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:49.200 going to to the Gucci store, of course, to spend 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.120 the rest of my money on a suit, and I 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:51.959 remember walking in. 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.680 There Gucci suit Night one. 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:58.000 I get a Gucci suit and then five days before 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:03.040 I try not and it's so tight. We're like, like 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.120 my buddies like you honestly, like you look like peewee Herman. 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.760 You cannot wear that suit, Like you can't wear that suit. 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:14.160 So then I go to tom Ford and I buy 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.960 a suit at tom Ford. I spent all this money 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.360 I spent basically my savings, like I spent everything, and 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.560 then I go whole night one. I couldn't fucking bully. 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.800 I was like, I am this makes total sense. I 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:28.240 am a complete idiot, Like. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.080 Wait, did you get to turn any of the suits 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:31.120 or no? 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:35.160 No? But luckily, oh I may have met I think 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.960 I think Gucci actually gave me store credit and the 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:41.080 tom Ford suit I still wear, so I've had it 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:45.320 now for like five years, okay, And it wasn't at 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:49.280 that time like it was expensive, but it wasn't like 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.480 outrageous like I feel like now like some of their 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.240 suits are like eight grand. I want to say it 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.920 was probably like a like a twenty five hundred dollars suit, 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:58.960 which wasn't there maybe like three grand, but it wasn't 0:09:58.960 --> 0:09:59.600 that crazy. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.800 Damn Guccio, you went all out. I remember, yeah, I 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.240 didn't get so I wanted. I was so excited to 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:05.880 wear a suit, and then they had me do the uniform, 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:07.400 which I was. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:07.559 I was. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.400 I was uncomfortable a little bit at first, like ah, 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:10.480 should I do that? But then I was like no, 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.600 I want to own this, and and then it became 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:21.320 that was cool with it, but that's crazy. 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.360 Do you did you realize did you know so we 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:31.520 actually disagreed on this? Did you realize that you cut 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:37.720 every flight attendant night one? At the time. Did you 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:38.440 know you were doing that? 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:40.559 Oh no, no, for sure at the time. No. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.520 I think someone did tell me that later on, or 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.280 it was it came up in an interview, But that 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.600 was completely that was just that was random that like 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.079 I didn't do that on purpose at all, Like I 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:51.680 honestly always thought it'd be the coolest thing in the 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.480 world to marry a flight attendant and kind of like 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.920 do what my parents did, just because, like to be honest, 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.719 they just get your lifestyle obviously, so like in a 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.600 way know, like someone outside the industry doesn't understand. So 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.640 I think I remember feeling like pretty bummed and like, shoot, 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:07.800 did I really Like I had no idea that's the 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:08.240 way it went. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.560 But that's so funny. I thought I thought that you 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.200 were like I'm not dating a flight attendant, like or 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.600 like this is too risky with my job situation. Joe 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.080 was like, I doubt he had any idea about it. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.040 Yeah, true in the moment, for sure, no idea. And 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.920 I think there there was one United Flight attendant, Megan. 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.040 She was I actually haven't flown with her, but I 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:31.280 know she was United Flight senate. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:32.040 She's senior to me. 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:40.760 I'm kidding it would be, though, I guess, but I 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.800 guess looking back, like now they think about it, like 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.080 there's no way you can remember every person's name, job 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.040 where they're from, like night wide, like there's oh no, 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.240 there's no way you were like those three were flight 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.559 attendants by like I. 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.080 Think the only one I knew was Megan because she 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.400 was dressed in her uniform and she yeah, she. 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.920 Probably maybe like sh worked for United, and you were like, oh, 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:03.400 me too, Well. 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.440 Didn't you work for Delta at the time or no, 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.120 yeah at that time, I wasn't even that United yet. 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:08.880 Yeah, so guys. 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:10.520 So going back to the story, So then I do 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.240 the batch threat, right, and I'm like trying to get 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.720 all these days off and as we go, and then 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:16.560 I ended up having it the full two months, right, 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.360 And I think I had like a trip, like I 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.840 cut about like three days. I was in Crete, Greece 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.160 at the finale of that season, and three days later, 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.280 I'm like back to my day job again. 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:26.720 Flying. 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.160 I'm just like my mind is just so not caught 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:30.840 up from what I just did the last two months, 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:31.800 and now I'm back to flying. 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:33.080 So that was like a trip. 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.680 But then that's crazy people don't talk about that enough. 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:40.320 The transition of coming out of filming a show and 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.679 then having to go back to everyday life is really 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.800 mentally like a challenging part of it all. I can't 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.960 imagine you being like in uniform on a plane at 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.839 your day job three days later, because A you just 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.160 went through a breakup and b you're like trying to 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.679 adjust to being resummersed in like having your phone and 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:58.800 like all these things. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.840 Yep, yeah, no, it went from you know, it was 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:03.320 actually was. 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.400 It wasn't after create from Crete, when I got like, 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.480 a we went to Paris for a week, which was 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:09.920 not complaining, that was awesome, and then had like a 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.600 one week vacation there essentially until the rest of the 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:14.480 show was done, and then we flew back and it 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.400 was from there, so like I went from the show 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.200 and then I like had this cool little mini vacation 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.880 and then I get thrust back into like normal life asap, 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:23.840 and yeah, it was, it was. 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:24.640 It was interesting. 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.000 But then for The Bachelor, I had no more resources 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:28.840 to get the days off, and so when they asked 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.040 me to like no vacation, no personal drops or anything, 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.120 and I remember, like I called my chief pilot at 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:36.880 the time, and I was like, hey, any chances can work, 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.760 and they're like, yeah, probably not, like this isn't gonna happen. 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:41.840 And I like was like, you know what, I'm gonna 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:43.640 find a way it's going to happen. I'm gonna make 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.320 it work. And I called like all one hundred and 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.000 thirty fos We're on the seven thirty seven based out 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.360 of Lax the airplane that I was on, and like 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.080 in reverse seniority order, called them all asking if they 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.040 be willing to help pick up a trip if it 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.640 fit in their schedule for the next month. 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.160 And I found like three people. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.920 And I just called those three when I had trips 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.960 to drop it, and then it ultimately ended up working out. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:11.280 Wow, that's crazy, Peter, Oh my god. So you were 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:15.600 basically having people pick up like essentially shifts or like flights, 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.959 like there might have been a situation where you're like, yeah, 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:20.720 like I actually got to go back to LA like. 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:22.080 No one picked up and I'm like film of the 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.320 Bachelor here and I don't have the guaranteed days off 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.040 and it's my job, which I'm always gonna put as 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:27.960 my priority, Like if I didn't get it picked up, 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.360 I was gonna have to leave the show, and I'm like, guys, 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.160 we got to film this another time because I can't 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:32.520 miss this. 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.200 And before that the decision had gone all the way 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:37.120 up to ed Bash. 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:38.880 And the CEO at the time, they had two camps 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:40.160 that were trying to get me just to leave the 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:41.880 absence so I didn't have to worry about the stress 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:43.600 of you know, dropping the trips and then the other 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:45.880 camp saying you know, one camp saying yes, one camp 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:46.240 saying no. 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:48.480 Ultimately got to ed Bash and he was the one 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:49.000 that said no. 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.360 And I'm like, oh, this is gonna be stressful, but yeah, 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:53.440 it made it work. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.040 But could you have so I don't know how it 0:14:56.120 --> 0:15:00.000 works with being a pilot, but could you have just 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.600 just like quit and then been like, okay, I'll just 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.800 once the Bachelor areror is like, I can't see any 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.360 airline not wanting to hire me. 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.240 No, exactly the care they don't care. 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.760 They actually probably more than not, like a super conservative 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:22.600 airline would not want that kind of attention or no, no, 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.320 And it doesn't work like that anyways. Everything's based like 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.880 on a seniority and the airlines everything's the seniority based system, 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:30.600 So it's the date of hire. When you go to 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.800 your class date, that number is stamped and that follows 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.880 you your whole career until you retire everything. 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.480 Really, so it's not like quitting jumping to a different airline. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.720 You don't do That's okay, yeah, And like I mean, granted, 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:43.600 I did do that because I want from Delta United, 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:47.040 but I'm like, I'm not a lot of people do that. 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.160 That's pretty rare, And the only reason I did was 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:50.920 it was just more of a passion move, Like that 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:52.640 was the love that I had for United since I 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:53.160 was a little kid. 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:54.840 That's why I wanted to fly there more than anything. 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:59.680 And then fly with my dad, which was amazing. But yeah, 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:00.920 so I was as we went, like I would just 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.160 be on my iPad dropping trips getting you know, I 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.120 would be able to make phone calls to some of 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:06.400 the guys that were picking them up. 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:10.240 But wow, that's crazy. Like the anxiety I feel for 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.080 you right now is just nuts. Like I can't even 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:16.480 imagine how the show was feeling, being like, well, this 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.800 guy doesn't have any time off and we're just going 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.880 to see how this goes. What did your work say 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.280 when you got back and you were like, oh, yeah, 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.040 like the reason I've been having my show's covered for 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:27.480 two months because I went on The Bachelor. 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.000 It just kind of like so that all happened. 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:37.840 We finished like November, I got my my seat, my 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:42.120 conditional job off or for me United in January, so 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:43.440 it was really only a couple months. 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.680 I really didn't say anything because the show wasn't airing yet. 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.960 So from November to December, you know, I hadn't aired yet, 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.480 I just really never said anything. And then when I 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:57.080 had my CJO, I remember almost, oh my god. I 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:00.280 remember almost giving my two weeks notice adults at that point, 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.080