The Zach Nichols Podcast - All Stars 5 Rivals EP. 5 Review w/ Sam McGinn! | ZNP EP. 95

Episode Date: February 28, 2025

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Hey, it's Sam from the Challenge All-Stars Rivals. Make sure you turn into the Patreon for all the juicy details. Cheers, guys. Cheers. Sam, welcome back. Welcome back. Sam again to the Zach Nichols pocket. A round of applause.

And this is for San Diego. Cheers to San Diego. I love tequila in the morning. I love San Diego. You're sipping the whole thing. Oh, I'm just going to sit throughout the show. Hello. We're getting intoxicated out here.

No, we're not. No, we're not. I am. That's apple juice. So a lot of people have been asking It was actually in the New York Post They want to know Yeah

Which milkshake was tougher to throw down Tj's milkshake or Anisa's milkshake Um so Neither Neither Neither No neither Whose milkshakes

Brought Sam to the yard More Okay Anneser threw a bag on that Her lap dances And I was like, that's it. Sold. Sign seal delivered.

Whoa. Well, first and foremost, you guys, this is a kids show. Is it? Is it? Or making kids show. You've made two while we've started this show. You know me. I'm going to buy you a place.

Every cocktail needs a straw. That's true. But can I just? Every milkshake needs it straw. Go ahead. First of all, those were paper straws. They destroyed. Nobody likes paper straws.

Nobody does. No. We'll say. You know what? Who thought that you and Frank win a sucking contest though? I didn't think I would. No.

Frank. Sam has some experience. What? Do you not? No. No? No. Never have I ever in my life.

Oh, wow. Sam's like, I thought, Sam's like never crossed the line. Oh, really? Because I've heard, you know,

if it was going to happen, it would have been when she shared up. No, I've slept with you guys, but I'm, I'm gold star from the waist Okay,

all right. Got, I got, I got it. But you guys don't do that to each other? Is that? I thought that's part of the whole, I thought that's part of the experience.

I thought we were talking, straws, penis. Okay, got it. Getting wild. Do we need to get a diagram out for you? I don't know.

I don't watch that type of videos. I don't know. Whoever read that note in the corner of the picture should draw the diagram. With the highlighter. It looks like, it looks like Anthony grabbed a pen. I'm going to write this note. It might be,

actually. Speaking of Anthony. Yeah, what's up with the big guy? I got Dad's night tonight at his preschool. Oh, the duty. Imagine.

Imagine how many years ago? 2011, when we filmed? 13. No, no, no, no, no. When we filmed the real world. Yeah, so it's four, it'll be 14 years. 14 years ago, if I said 14 years from now, you'll be sitting on a swayed blue couch

with me and a 400-pound guy in an Aladdin shirt. And I said later that day, I'll be going to Dad's Night at my son's preschool. And you would have said. Absolutely not. Exactly. But here we are. He looked at kids like this.

Yeah. Back then. He'd see like kids walking down. I hate kids. Still do. But can I also say how, you can ask Pierre, he'll co-sign this,

Angie, this has been my favorite season to cover. And I'm, the FOMO is so real, but the joy of watching you got you and Frank compete together is amazing. It's great.

It's so nice because like, we're in such different places than we were when we did Battle of the Seasons. Oh, 100%. That like, we're actually enjoying our time together. Yeah. Instead of being,

at each other's throats the whole time. You know the interpersonal drama that we had on our team? We were the most dysfunctional champions in all the time. For sure. No, yeah. No, because the growth from everyone, but especially Frank, is monumental. Like, he's a complete, like, he is so much fun to watch. And can I say in an era that we've just had the vacation alliance jammed down our throat,

you and Frank are the greatest thing that's happened in this. challenge in a long time. You guys are coming in. You're just, like, it's like there's a old school San Diego, back to San Diego, not old school San Diego, back to San Diego, was all casted for a reason. And we're seeing right now why that is happening. You guys are coming in, you are shaking up the game in every realm. And in a world of vacation alliances, I'm here for Sam and Frank. I love that. I love it here. Cheers to that. And it's actually really cool to see before you even had a win where that actually institutes real power,

you guys were still moving all the pieces around. It's like, how do you do that without winning? So you know the second you guys get a little W, something going to happen. Oh, yeah. Well, I knew, so what they didn't show is we read a clue. Like, they brought clues back for us this season. And this was, I love the clues.

Oh, dude. Corey and I went out to the yard and we found this thing and this like weird bees nest thing that they had created. And it was like a plank of wood with it. like burned into it like an old, like it looked like survivor clue almost. So we brought it in and we read it. Didn't show a glimpse of that.

But like it was like this next challenge is going to be trivial. And so we knew it was going to be trivia. And Frank and I knew that trivia was going to probably be our one and only possible actual win. I don't believe that for a second. There's other things you guys can win at.

From what they've shown, I'm going to agree with you. It's probably the only thing you guys can win. Listen, as long as there's not like a long distance run in it, I think you guys will fare very well. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But so as soon as we found out with trivia, I was like, okay, this is, this, my brain's full of so much useless knowledge. It's not even funny.

Not challenge related, but like just random facts. Like for the crosswords, one of the, like, Devin called me the closer. He'd call me in it. The closer. Bring in the closer. Yeah, exactly. And like, there was one. And it's like, it was like, what is the Pillsbury doughboy's real name?

And I was like, oh, I know this. And so I sat there for like a minute or two. And I was like, oh, popping fresh. And he looked at me and he goes, how the fuck do you know that? Oh, you're going to be so. Is it popping fresh? It is. You're going to be so disappointed in me.

I didn't know the Simpsons dog's name. I don't know the Simpsons dog's name. I've never seen an episode of The Simpsons. Oh, really? I had neither. And I forget it now. I thought I'd never forget it, but now I don't know it. If I had one guess, it'd be Roscoe.

That's what I said. And it was wrong. Is it really? It's, uh, Santa's Little Helper. That's the Simpsons' dog's name. Or maybe it's not the Simpsons. Maybe it was a different show.

But anyways, I was supposed to know a cartoon dog's name and I didn't know it. And the consequence of that was we got shot up into the air. We were sitting on the seat and it was like, you're wrong. But I knew you and Frank were going to win, especially when the first question that came out was like, it was more of like,

more than trivia, it was like, how well do you know each other? I'm like, those two are so straight with that. Yeah, no pun intended because neither of you were straight. But like,

they're so good. They're so good with that because, obviously they like I think you guys know each other like the back of your hand well that and like when we were lining up outside getting ready to go in we're like all right obviously it's trivia and then frank and I looked at each other we're like what if it's like a newlywed game where how well do you know your partner and so frank and I stood outside and we're like all right what's your star sign is like I'm a tourist I'm a Sagittarius I was like how many siblings do you have he's like I have one I was like I also have one and then so like we went through like what's your favorite color you know stuff like that and then literally they cut a question out was how many siblings do you have. So literally two of the four questions that we decided to talk about were the first. But you guys do that stuff without going over it. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like I knew you were a Sagittarius.

I knew Frank was a tourist. I had to hear about Cinco de Franco. Sinco de Franco. Nonstop. He's born on Cinco de Mayo. Yeah. It's always single. That's why I never forget his birthday.

Well, we saw with the, that's great. Cinco to Franco. Can we get him here for Cinco to Franco? Come on, Franco. He said he'd come here. You did? All right. I'm getting excited.

I just think he's like, I think he wants, like, you know how Frank is very much so like, it has to be like, he wants it to be the perfect episode kind of thing. Same thing with me. That's why I was like, I was like, I was like, this is the weekend that I want to come because instead of talking about how I shit the bed in the mud,

I would much rather say, hey, I'm now undefeated in trivia. You are. You are undefeated in trivia, and I was. I mean, your challenge undefeated up to this point. You've never been on a challenge that you've lost up to right now. Can we get a round of applause for Sam my fucking beginning here? And I like how like you said it too. Like when you were like, listen, like you can see.

They might think we're the worst, but like we're like the pretty much the only champ champ team here. Throw some respect on our names. I'm on that boat. I was pissed about that actually. I mean, you guys know what I feel about Veronica and Katie. But how did you feel whenever you heard most, the majority of the fucking group saying that you guys are the worst team? That's bullshit. Well, that concludes the free preview of the Zach Nichols podcast.

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