The Zach Nichols Podcast - All Stars 5 Rivals EP. 4 Review w/ Faysal Shafaat! | ZNP EP. 94

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

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The old mustard seed today, huh? I told you before it's canary. I'm a big bird. What up, though. You look like a peep. A marshmallow peep? Yeah, you look like a peep. And, but more importantly, who we got here, man.

The second best athletes ever be on the challenge. And why the fuck are you on All-Stars? Why are you on All-Stars? It's not my fault. They left me off 40. And we could talk about that if you want. Let's talk about that. I can open it up.

I co-sign you on D-N-H-40. From my perspective, like, obviously, if you look at era-five guy side, there was only five, era-four guys-size. Air-five can be one we start. On the era-four side, what, there's five guy slots, right? You had Horacio, Kylin, Josh, Theo, Pauley. Yep. So I understand the whole Horacio Naurice,

Olivia and Theo met there, right? Right, that wasn't a thing before. Yeah, yeah. So my theory is they left me off because since it was such an air, era heavy you know that was the premise of the show they didn't want era four to dominate so like you had to leave room for era one two and three to kind of win some dailies do that you put me on era four you sub out one of the other guys from era four i don't know i think it's a little different i think they wanted i think people just got sick of my show like it's like every time i go on

i win dailies and like upset with my choices and shit they're like yeah he's fucking weak-ass moves and like, bro, as a strong team, I'm not gonna fucking vote in another strong team day one, bro. Like, there's only fucking two or three of us here. Like, weak teams are obviously gonna fucking vote in strong teams. Why am I gonna vote in a strong team when I can work with them and keep the target off my back for another week?

Yeah, so basically like you just think- So now we just went from I don't know what you did on All-Stars this week. You said, why was I on All-Stars? Motherfuckers, it's called All-Stars. Like, I get it. Like, it was made for the OGs, OGs paved the way and I get it was for that.

But the show is called All-Stars. Somebody has to show y'all how the fucking daily challenge is to be completed. That's why I'm on All-Stars. You're getting pretty angry with me. Yeah, you know. Molly, I'll sweat. Yeah. Go I step out and throw a couple punches on me or something.

It's not you. It's not you. I've been waiting for this podcast. I'm just, I think you ruined. I think you, not ruined. I think you misinterpreted. I'm saying you. I misinterpreted that.

You go on CBS challenge. You go on the flagship and you dominate the dailies. So so why cast you with a bunch of some of them are 50 years old? Because it's going to you're going to there was emphasis on rivals this season. I agree. I'm just so more so I'm just saying like it's to me it's like you took one of the like, you know, the current beasts of the flagship and threw them on all stars. And that was just a wild decision to me.

I don't want to shit on it too much. But I'm glad you're there. Let's real quick. Let's go back to 40. Let's go back to 40. Why do you think? I know why I think he wasn't on 40. Are you taking?

Yeah, let's ask that first. Who spot should you have had? And I think I know who you're going to say. It's not Josh. Everybody's like, I didn't think it was Josh. I think Josh is one of the faces of your era. And me and him are very different.

Yeah, we play the game together, but we are very different personalities. We play the game different. Josh is a unicorn. Either, I would, I would say either. From the people there, it's Theo. It's got to be Theo or I would even say Horacio, just because of,

they said he didn't want to come back he was he was upset with you know the way things went down and it's like bro everybody gets upset with that shit you just got to live with it like that's what the challenge is it's not it's not professional soccer it's not a tv show first right and the moment i realized that my whole perspective of showing up to the challenge game especially on all stars we show up with all these mismatch teams we got girl girl pairs that's how that's how final reckoning was too like we looked around we're like tony and bananas are a team brad and kyle or a team and then it's Marie and Kara. Yeah.

You know, so like, they're, like, yeah, like I don't personally like that format. I don't, I think that if you're going to do rivals, do it how they originally did rivals,

do guy, guy teams and girl, girl teams and let them compete against each separate. But that's not our fault. Like, people get mad at me for playing my game to get to the end to win money. And I'm just like,

bro, I did not make the formula of this show. Like, y'all, y'all throw me in the game. And you said, all right, if you win,

you get to pick who you vote in. they're like fess is not fair you're voting this versus this person we'll change the fucking formula of the game it's not i haven't fucking won the game yet i'm trying to win the game yeah how can you be penalized for winning and then the the thing they say is fessie's playing a scared game who am i scared of steve that's fucking that's kind of adam and devon and leroy like i'm scared yeah like it's an early game i'm trying to play chess not checkers everybody watching as a viewer wants the biggest move to be made because the teams are mismatched is fuck. I get that. But we're still

playing a fucking game in there. Right. We also just want the entertainment too. That's what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying? Like I want to see you do some crazy satisfaction. Yeah, I want immediate gratification. I want to see you go and because that's, to be honest with you, if I ever come back, that'll be like, I'll just be a savage. Just entertainment.

Just entertainment purposes. Because like, my knee hurts, my back hurts. I'm old. Like, I just want to fuck. But you say that. But you say that, right? If I come back, I'll just be a savage. And I bet that was Frank's mindset, too. I can't wait to come back and be a He went all these dailies. And what happens?

He gets put with something like Sam. I'm saying savages and like I'll just make like ruthless decisions because why not at this point? You know what I mean? I threw myself into an elimination round. Before he, before he had, you know, some responsibilities and responsibilities now. All right? You might want that money. Wait, let me hear about this.

I didn't hear about this. Go ahead. When did you throw yourself into elimination? 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. Thank you.