The Zach Nichols Podcast - Battle For a New Champion EP. 10 Review! | ZNP EP. 22

Episode Date: December 22, 2023

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Welcome back to the Zach Nichols' Spock. The Zach Nichols podcast. Would you sneeze? Yeah. You got to hold a sneeze back? The Zach Nichols. The Zach Nichols. And I'm here with my co-host.

Mr. Zach Nichols. No, I'm here with my co-host, Pierre. Got my fresh shades on. Yep. Got them for free. They looked great. How'd you get those? Those shades.

Spend X amount of dollars at Dunnums. Oh, get in the game at Dunham's. Got to pick a gift. I love that. That's a great gift. Those are high quality. Are they? I think so. Listen, all I know is I wouldn't take a roundhouse in the face from someone wearing these. I don't know if I'll ever wear them outside of just like messing around. Well, I can't. I feel like those are great for the golf course. Yeah, I don't think they have that type of clarity. No. No, no. Well, not Tom Ford.

I mean, you know, you know what I'm saying? You got, you know, your mother-in-law gives good gifts, though, so she'll get something nice. Oh, I know. Yeah. It's a big, it's a Christmas time. I'm not. I mean, you get something. It's a big, it's a Christmas time. I'm not, to be honest with you. I haven't really been feeling the magic. Yeah, you have, because is it probably because there's no snow outside here? Maybe. Yeah. Maybe it's that.

Well, I know you're watching your movies and, you know, you're missing the kids right now. They're in New York. We miss them. We're sure here. See them like in two days. We'll see them in two days on the day off. But that's probably what it is. I think you'll feel it once you head on your way to New York.

Yeah. Any big Christmas traditions you guys want to talk about? Anything special? Yeah. For me and I've talked about it before, but watching a wonderful life on Christmas Eve is awesome. Yeah, the hot chocolate, you know, at night and the popcorn, you know. You still cry when you watch that? Oh, yeah, every time.

What about you? Anything sweet you do on Christmas? Polar Express. She watches polar express. Hot chocolate. We got it as a classic. I actually have never seen that all the way through. Oh, really?

Yeah. I'm a home alone guy. I watch Home Alone 1 and 2 on Reiki. Through and through. That's it. You've been kissing everybody. That's number two. Little Moe with the gimpy leg.

Acy said 10%. Too bad Acy ain't in charge no more. That's really good. Yeah, I've watched that movie a lot. Yeah, that's really good. We could do Home Alone all day. But happy holidays, Merry Christmas to whatever you got going on. Is there a Hanukkah going on right now?

Yeah, I think we're right in the mix of Hanukkah. We're in the heart of Hanukkah. Yeah, we're in the heart of Hanukkah. Don't know when, you know, Kwanza or whatever else you got going on as, you know, Catholics, Merry Christmas to your families. And we'll see it before New Year. So none of that yet. What are we talking about today? We are talking about battle for a new champion episode 10.

So in this episode... Did this episode suck? Yeah. Listen. Listen. I'm going to let you say that. I knew this episode was going to be bad when it started off with Kylan reading Love Notes naked. I was like, this episode was going to suck.

And like, Burnah didn't get crazy enough to save it. No. Corey is still hiding in the bushes. Yeah. This episode sucked. It was definitely... I'm not going to say it sucked, but I did think. that it was a little anti-climactic.

We'll get to the action. And all who they need to vote in to elimination? Who? Mariah's bucket caps. Those got to go. Like, she doesn't have any real friends there because a real friend would say, hey. Ditch the bucket. This is a bucket cap.

Mariah can't seem to win anything right now. She can't win the hearts of her own friends. She can't win the hearts of her own man because every time she asks him to do something, he's like, babe, I'm going to do it. He's going to be, hey, boat days. That's what he would say. And she'd be like, uh-huh.

Yeah. Whatever you say. Hey, Jay, whoa, no, there you know. James, sure you're a nice guy, but, you know. James and the giant peach. But it's James in the giant peach. Yeah. And it's just those two.

And they're on an island. Got to go. Yeah, they do. Something tells me her days might be number. Who are we? I can't say we're the style, police. Who us? Look at you.

Who's saying in his off? Yeah. That's a great sweater. This is a great sweater. I got it from Scooter. Scooter. Scooter McGrooter? Scooter out in New York.

If you have been on the challenge back in the OG days, all the OG people will know who scooter is. Okay. The new kids won't as much. I don't know who scooter is. No. If you came to my wedding, you know who scooter was. Oh, shit, man. Next time I invite me.

The next one. That's right. You weren't invited. No, I'm just playing. At the, it was COVID times, dude. Awkward. No, it was COVID. times. Everybody's uncomfortable.

I'm not. I'm not because I know I'll be at the 10-year nuptial Yeah. We've been married twice, so it's not out of the question. All right, let's get into it. Whenever we need some new decor in the house, we'll just sign up. Have I have another wedding. Yeah. To a party.

Wedding part three. The kids are invited. I could never do that. Yeah, no. Weddings are. They're a shady vibes if you have asked for gifts. Yeah, no, no, no. But at the kids, speaking of gifts, you were bringing the gifts. today with the Santa outfit.

How many gifts have you delivered to children? How many chimneys you've been down? Been down a few pipes, if you know what I mean. No, I, last Saturday, G and the people here at Santa G Power, we delivered gifts to people in the neighborhood. Turkeys and hands. Families, no food. But definitely tried to give back to the last fortunate.

And because I bought the outfit, you know, I had to wear it for the show. Well, you also wore it to the Lions game. I did wear it to the Lions game. You were like, I don't know if I'm going to the Lions game. Then you sit in the front row with a Santa outfit. How'd your Saturdays, you know? This is the MP marketing night. This is the MVP marketing night.

No, I had a great time. Detroit Lions coming through with another monster, monster victory against the Red Hot Denver Broncos. We smacked them. Red hot. They were hot before they came in. Red hot. I think they had won six or seven straight. Damn.

Yeah, dude. Russell Wilson. He's been bawling. He's a wuss. He is, dude. He sucks. No, he says. It sucks.

Well, we made him sucks. So, anyway. Over the weekend, I also got this little thing from the eliminations. So, I thought you'd have fun with it. You know, just pounding the pavement. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, sweet.

Pond of the pavement. Where would one go to get a mallet of such size? A party USA. Oh, nice. Yeah. Party USA. Yeah. So.

I chopped a tree down the other day. Actually? I sent you the pictures, dickhead. Wait. You sent me the pictures? Of the tree I chopped down? Oh, wait, by the tramp? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, okay.

Oh, yeah, yeah, we're talking about the fire pit. It's not going to be a fire pit. It's too close to the house. Oh, shit, regulation. He's a rule follower, guys. I'm not, Jenna just said it. Jenna actually just said that's not going to be a favorite. You got a vetoed?

Oh, yeah, real quick. A little veto. Super quick. Send it up the poll. We got vetoed. Guys, everyone has to deal with the boss. Okay, so we come back to the house. Melissa and Tori, they had their elimination.

Colleen kind of realizes she's not really protected and she has to win, obviously. She and Berna talk who, April from Patreon was wondering, was Burnett eating soup at the beginning of this episode? Burnet is the soup. She's the soup. She brings the soup. She does. Kylan does left a note by Melissa.

It says in her interview that he acknowledges that there are game benefits to her not being there. But she did care. He did care for her and he'll miss her. Apparently. Yeah. She's already forgotten about. about him. She's on a date. For sure. As he was doing that, as he was

reading the note naked, would love music playing. She was getting into it. All right. Probably. No. She's with Uncle Barry. So Michelle, Michelle asked Mariah, doing their skincare routine. Oh, was that when they were, yeah, they had frosting all over their faces. Yeah, just a little mist outfire. That's exactly who I'd

go to for freaking love advice. Let me go to Michelle. Let's talk about the blind, leading the blind. Anyways, yeah. No, so they're having that conversation with cream cheese all over their faces. And she pointed Blake asks, hey, like, is having James here, like, is that the best thing for your game? If you look at the composite experience, she says in her interview that although the secrets out, Johnny's vet friends are all going to target James and, you know, as long as he wins, she'll be safe. Here's my question.

Now, neither- Does she care so much? Yeah. She's fine. She's not trying to win right now. She's trying to extend her sex. She'll literally take, she's talking about taking out Horatio because she doesn't want to run against him in a final. Actually, she probably does want to run against James in the final. There you go. That's probably.

James was like the human lung, you know. But anyways. I'm sure he'll make sure he's as tired as possible. Like her protecting him. Is it just me or just super annoying? Like watching this, you're like, it's uncomfortable. It is. I don't understand why the other girls kind of like, like team with her because she doesn't really bring anything to the table.

From the beginning they did. Yeah. And so now she's seeing that she's not as protected as some of the other ones. So she's trying to like make them do what she wants them to do and protect James. But it's like you're just doing it for yourself. Right. And if they actually went along with it and protected James, they would ruin their whole fucking situation. So why, you know, even think you could get it done.

That's why that was going to be one of my other questions. It's uncomfortable. Just stop. Yeah. That was going to be my other questions. Tell you what, Doc Fessie was right about her. Tell you, you keep hammering it, the blue check. Fessie was right about her.

Now, neither of us really know James, but let me ask you this. Given what we've already seen, do you actually believe he would prioritize her over Zara? If push came to show. Like you said, I don't know. But he won't have to. He'll never have to. Right. Unless it's like a situation where it's literally between these two, he doesn't have to.

Okay. So he can have, you can have two people and never say two people's names. That's a thing. Gotcha. I always need to be reminded that. There might be a time where, like, you have no other option, but it's like because that person got themselves in a hairy, you know, predicament. But at the end of the day, like, you normally don't have to decide between your top two people.

Right. Which is why it's hysterical that all these people are just like, like, Michelle's like the most professional gaslighter of all time. She's been gaslighting everyone in her alliance all season and she's great at it. And I'm, but you watch it and you're like, she clearly is telling you this because it's in the best interest of her, not you. Always. Every time.

Every time. Yeah, every time. Like, cue the, Stevie Nix. Yeah. Yeah, dude. She actually saw that on, uh, on Twitter. I think Asaf had mentioned it rightly because I don't know if he's a, I don't

know if he's a, I don't know if he subscribes to the Patreon or what. You know what a soft is like. Yeah. Soff is literally like what it would be like to be living with in a dementia ward of a hospital. The guy makes no sense. He has no idea what's going on. He just shouts out like random things. Like, you know, like you're just like, dude, what is going on with him?

Yeah. How. So volatile. Yeah. How hilarious was that Devin interaction with him? That was one of the, I mean, I retweeted it. Yeah. It was hysterical.

Suck my ass. Yeah. Your music sucks. He's not lying. It's, you know what? But like, that's his hobby, right? Right. Yeah.

So I'm sure if someone like, if I videotaped me doing my hobbies, people would be like, dude, you suck. 100%, dude. And I, you know, I put a little rhyme here and there. I'm well aware that some people think it sucks. He probably shouldn't give a fuck. So he should. It was funny for us to laugh at it. It's funny because, like, it's funnier if he cares.

Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, if he cares, like, about his music, like, if you're that person that tries really hard at something and you're not good, it's okay to laugh at it. But when you don't understand that and you get mad and who make fun of you, it makes it that much better to be made fun of it. Yeah, no, it's hilarious. So Michelle, in her interview, she says, hey, look, she understands the conundrum that Mariah

will find herself in if, you know, she doesn't, you know, align her head in her heart and that she needs to keep playing the game separate. Michelle's right, but she's really calculated, man. She's setting the tone. So, Berna, she's in her interview, she keeps it real. She's like,

hey, you know, I personally, obviously wouldn't have gotten to this point of protection without Michelle and Jay. I would have no support anywhere else, really, but she makes a point

to address a position with Michelle. She's running towards, she sees it coming to the end of the road. Yeah. She sees the free ride coming to the end of the road

where she's like, all right, she literally spent this whole episode trying to get Michelle to tell her like, you're my, I got you, no matter what.

And the fact that Michelle wouldn't give her that she's just kept like unwinding more and more right i think we're going to have a meltdown soon oh yeah it's coming from berno you can tell that's a volcano and it's about to explode it's gonna boil over yeah for sure um here's my question though at this current time in the game do you feel like michel has been an asset or a detriment because there's a couple ways to think about it that concludes the free preview of the zack nichols podcast so go to patreon and subscribe to see the rest of the shit that we talk.

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