The Zach Nichols Podcast - All Stars 4 EP. 5 Review w/ Nicole Zanatta! | ZNP EP. 43

Episode Date: May 4, 2024

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What's up, guys? This is Nicole, and I'm here on Zach's podcast where we talk about everything. The challenge, personal lives, what's going on, who I'm fawking, and who I'm not. Enjoy it. Welcome back to the Zach Nichols podcast. I'm here with my co-host, Mr. Zach Nichols. But more importantly, probably one of my top three roommates ever, but I think my favorite bunkmate. Yes. Nicole, make a girl say a Zanada.

I love that introduction. She's like, sorry, I'm not sorry. Yeah. I'm a coxman. The biggest, nobody has gotten more ass on this couch than Ms. Nicole's than not. Thank you so much for being here. I actually never did anything on this couch.

Oh, not yet. Not yet. Not yet. I'll be honest with you. I've been trying to turn them like you've been burning him. So if I could turn you, that'll be a good mark. I haven't hooked up with a challenger yet. Yet.

Or maybe I have. It's really good to have you here. I really. I'm such a fan, especially from everything that Zach has told me. And how does it feel to be one of the big stars on Challenge All-Stars 4? It feels good. Like, obviously, listen, at the end of it, it's a game. I mean, I think that I'm good to make a final.

And hopefully I'm good enough to win a final. It seems to be a struggle. Well, as long as the ankles stay good, right? The ankles, the shoulders, I don't know what else. I mean, my entire body pot. Remember with Cam, I have five anchors put in? From... From...

But me and Kim wrestling on what was that season? You did some wrestling on this episode? Wait, you wrestling? You wrestled? Yeah. Double agents. Double agents. Double agents.

Double agents. Five anchors. Really? Yeah, you did hurt your shoulder. Damn. So, Cam's a salve. That is a great, I mean, that is a great legacy question. Is do you feel, what do you feel has gotten you or held you back?

Wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa. Do you guys plan that? You guys are cute. Who? Oh, me and all. Yeah. You guys look like you're on a date. Hey, all on a date.

All line. need in this life of sin me my girlfriend. I'm gonna turn you what would be what would have been crazy if you were the same number. Yeah, I know right? Well, I would have been the nine. I should have been the nine since you're

six. You're fun, dude. You are fun. You're fun. We're hanging out after it. No, dude, go Nix, by the way. Round of applause for the New York Knickerbockers. It's been a while. It's been a while. It's been a while. You guys have struggled. Yeah. You guys.

We wouldn't make it a lot more money if we played for them, though. Yeah, no, for sure. Probably. I made $1,500 this week. Yeah, I'm, yeah. Yeah, Brown Christmas time, I put, like, something like $200 that LeBron wouldn't make it out of the first round. Cashed in, baby. I know.

You're a savant when it comes to the gambling. Few bets, you know, you lost one, win one. That one, that one was stupid, though. Rogers come back. Okay, so. Anyways, more important, we had a really important guest. My favorite punk mate. we ran you were in an integral part of me almost winning vendettas i wish you would have on i know i wanted

it so bad but i just remember um when we were in the hotel before we went to vendettas i literally got there and like we had kind of met on um invasion and i just remember like i see nicole she makes eye contact with me and then i get on the elevator and i go to my room i was sneaking jena to my room because she came to visit and like there's a knock on the door and i look and Nicole's like just answer and she's like i know jena's in there she's like but like but like She goes, we're good, right? And I'm like, what do you mean? She's like, we're good this season.

And I'm like, yeah. And then it actually ended up working out that like me and Tony made a deal. You and Tony had the deal. And then like our room was like command central of that whole show. We got a little squirley for a second when you almost went to elimination. I was like, oh. Yeah, besides that, we ran it. So I appreciate you.

So I was going to ask, I say, I think, you know, for me personally, we look at some people, especially like, you know, Brandon, we'll talk about them later, that legacy question starts going like, are you in the top half? Are you in the bottom half? You've run two finals, okay? What do you think is, you know, the next step? Like, is there something that you're missing during those to not let you get it? Was it luck? Like, I know there's so much that goes into it, but why haven't you gotten a championship in your opinion? Oh, okay, championship. Because I have shitty luck. Like, I really don't know what it is because I do feel like I have what it takes. But when it comes to showtime, something just goes wrong.

So I feel like it's just not my time yet. Yeah. And I mean, I know it's shitty to say that, but that's the truth. Like, I'm like, okay. You also have to remember with your job, her profession, she's not someone that can just be like, on this season, this season, next season, next season. She can't do back to backs.

And what that does is it makes it so every time you show up, you kind of got to play catch up. You don't know what I'm saying? You got to play catch up with the alliances. Like now, if you did every show like a lot of people do, you wouldn't have to do that. So you do have to start from a more difficult position, especially if like the Tonys and the me and people who you know got you locked in aren't there.

So I think that has a lot to do with it too. Oh, 100% just because I feel like we were just talking about it actually. And I kind of said that I don't have a big group of people that I'm going in with. It's kind of like I have a solid three maybe and that's it. And to me I feel like I'm never nervous because listen, if you want to throw me in, throw me in. If you could beat me, you deserve to be there then. I'm like, what am I going to say? But then again, like, I'm also not going to ride with people that I feel like you don't deserve to be there or you're not good enough.

Right. You're not going to help me. I don't need you. 100%. And how many seasons have you done? I wish I knew that question. Okay. It is a, it gets cloudy.

I'm just curious, but. Maybe like three or four. Invasion. Not more than five? Invasion vendettas. You then did double agents. All stars four, right? Right.

And that's it. So, yeah, only four seasons. You've made a big impact in your four seasons. It seemed like a lot more. I thought it was like, if you would have asked me, I would probably said like between six and eight. Well, that's why. That's why it's profound and why it has to be stated because two out of three are in the final. Yes.

All right. And you come close. So to me, as a fan, I'm like, oh, she's really in the mix. Like, it's bound to happen. I mean, she's got to get more at bats. I think I can vouch and say that girls are scared of her. Yeah. They're afraid.

They don't want to, they don't want to mess with her. Yeah. So she's a threat. Mm-hmm. You know? So let's get into the episode. I do feel sorry. I'm going to jump in.

No, please. It's your show. It's your couch. No, I don't even say that. I do feel like as far as the threat part, in my eyes, I feel like there's always a stigma as far as the top three girls are Rachel, Cara, and Laurel. However, I would have to say, looking at it, I don't think that that's the top three

in the bigger picture. I do think that Carr is really good. Like, I do think that she deserves to be there. Yeah. But I also feel like there's a lot more to the game. than just like a physical. Right. So is there someone...

But I think you are physically. Like I would think I could be. I would compare your athletic ability to a Casey. I think I'm better than Casey. But I would talk your shit. No, I'm not just so I'm happy. I do think I'm better.

I'm comparing your skill set to that because you're a female who's very good at like a basketball or a football. Like you're very good at like ball sports. Yes. Which is not typical of a female competitor because they don't, a lot of them don't, like Jenna was a cheerleader. So put a football on her hands and you're going to literally rock her world. You know what I'm saying?

Like that's the difference is I would compare you to that athletic ability, which makes you very intimidating because you're not, like, if it's like, hey, we're going to play a physical tackle you game, you're not going to lose to many people. And I know that because I've also wrestled you. You're a little, you are pretty strong. That is true. That is true. I was going to say, okay, so you're wrestling him, you're wrestling in him, you're wrestling in these.

So when do I want? My turn. All right. Okay, so let's get into the episode and there's going to be so many, like, trickle questions. So go on any tangent you want. Trust me. This is your couch. That's the way we do this show.

You guys are missing the episode. I wish that this was next week because next week's episode is when, like, there's game moves that are made. Okay. And you will see more than more. I do want to see some of your game moves for sure. Oh, what type of game moves? Well, I'm interested to see because that Tony leaving is like a big hit. Oh, that's tough.

But. Yeah. Because think about it, you had Jay and Tony. I was like, yeah, you were locked into, yeah. So I was interested to see that and that changed the whole, because Tony's a presence, man. Right. Well, that was going to be one of my- And you guys are a tandem.

You guys are like bread and butter. That was going to be one of my first questions. Like, talk about what you came in with. Like, who was your like, a little lines? And how was it when Tony left? Like, were you heartbroken? Like, how was it? So first of all, I never tell someone that I'm going.

So no one knows. It really is like, listen, because if I see you and we're friends, well, guess what? I have your back. I've never been one, but that backstap somebody, that's not me. So coming in, I was like, Tony and Jay, Jay's number one and Tony's number two. I was like, what could possibly go wrong? The other guy was Leroy just because I've done seasons with him. So in the back of my head, I'm like, I'll be working together or are we not working together?

Because I know with you and Leroy, I think that was- We had some friction towards the end because, and that's what the crazy thing about that to me is I never, ever went for Leroy. I just wouldn't tell him my game moves and I wouldn't protect anyone around him. But his name never came out of my mouth. And my name actually came out of his mouth. But there was friction because he didn't think I was being honest with him. And I wasn't.

But I'm also like I won more money than you over the span of our career. And there's a reason why I won more money was because I kept certain things from you to play a better game. But I never went out of my way to go for Leroy because I think he's that genuinely awesome of a person. Yes. So that is my thing with Leroy. And I know that he probably looks back and is like, Zach's a weasel. He's a liar. He's this, he's that.

But it was like, I was just playing a game before he realized that this is the game you got to play. But, yes, we had friction in the game, but I absolutely love him. One of the funniest people alive. And he is someone that I would have a con, I would think, would think you'd have a conversation with because you can trust him 100%. Yeah, going back to Leroyer just for a second. You just feel like, you know, he's the, you're, bananas is being Will Ferrell. And you know what I mean? And like, how can you win if I'm winning?

You know what I'm saying? He was for a long time. Yeah. That was his stick. He stuck around because he was bananas. Like they worked. It was like his only alliance. Yeah.

And how about one time I can win and Johnny's like, nah? Like I gotta win. That's literally it. That's literally their relationship. And then honestly, Cam came around and was like, play a better game. Yeah. And then I never actually got to.

War of the Worlds too. I saw, I got to see that transformation happen. And I was like, they came back. They're dangerous together. Oh my gosh. That concludes the free preview of the Zach Nichols podcast. So go to Patreon and subscribe to see the rest of the shit that we talk. Go do it now.