The Zach Nichols Podcast - Battle For a New Champion EP. 11 & 12 Review! | ZNP EP. 24

Episode Date: January 5, 2024

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Welcome back to the Zach Nichols podcast. I'm here with my co-host, Mr. Zach Nichols. What's going on? What's going on? How are you doing? I'm good, man. How are you? Feeling groovy.

It's Ben. You got your, let me see. What's on that shirt, man? What does it say? Johnny Cash, baby. Ghost Rider's in the sky. Oh, man. He was one of a kind.

Do you feel like you're the Johnny Cash of the challenge? I'd love it if I actually were. But that's like one of those things. Like you can't make up your own nickname. You also can't do that. I refuse to do that. Right. Like, I knew a guy one time.

His name was Patrick. And he was the biggest douche ever. But he wanted everybody to call him Swayzee. No. And I'm like... Like, go around saying that? Like, call me Swayze. Yeah, he's like, yeah, everyone calls me Swayze.

And I was like, let me get this straight. Who actually does? And I'm like, your parents? Well, no. My siblings? Well, I'm my only child. I'm like, so who calls you that? Because I think you're just asking us to call you that.

Like, you're making up a nickname for yourself. Yeah. And I'm like, that's a pretty cool nickname. So I said, you can't give yourself a cool nickname. And you can't. No, you can't. You've actually given me a pretty good nickname. I thought it was hilarious the first time you called me Big Media. Oh, yeah, that was on the golf course. Big media. Oh, yes, wait till we start gambling out there and I start really talking shit. I'll give you some real good nickname.

I cannot wait. Big poppy media. Yeah. Yeah. You guys got to understand. I don't think I could ever see myself on a level playing field with Zach in anything. And I had about one summer, which is last summer. I was probably better than at golf. And then this summer, you might have overtaken me. But when we go to Monroe Beach, money's getting on the floor. I'm telling you that. We're going to gamble something. The most I'm going to do with a dollar a hole. Okay. We can do that.

Because if you lose every single hole all day, you only owe someone for it. By the end of the weekend, it might be $91. 91. I get you on all $91. I don't know if you're going to get me on all 91. I'll be lucky to get you on $5. I've been practicing. I know, no.

You're getting better than that. I'm hood. Yeah. Like, I'm like, I'm practicing for golf as if it's like Rocky 4. Just putting the hours in it. Yeah. Outside in my garage. Yeah, no, you're, see, like, that's the difference.

Like, chopping, chop in the wood. Chopin the wood. Just swinging. When they talk about Kobe and being in the gym, like, you're getting those reps in. I hate sucking that shit. Yeah, I, you guys, I'm telling you, I'm, I'm more okay with it. That's why I play golf and that's why I do stuff. I'm okay with sucking at something the first summer, second summer, but this will be my

third summer that I've had golfed. Actually, I was really good when I first started because I didn't care. I didn't really know what I was doing. And then when I started to get to know it, I got worse. Yeah. And now I'm kind of like slowly stepping my way up. I like that. I like that.

We're going to find some way that everyone plays with someone different each day or figure it out and, like, see who has the best weekend. So it'll be fun. Yeah. How was a new year situation? Everything was good. Jenna's birthday. Oh, it was great. Happy birthday, Jenna.

Give a round of applause, please. Yeah. It was fun. No. It's a crazy week for us. Yeah. We got our daughter's birthday. We got Christmas.

That's right. We got Jenna's birthday. My brother-in-law's birthday is the 21st. My niece's birthday is the 26. My other niece's birthday is the 12th. That's all in December. Wow. That's murderers' row for our wallets.

Wow. Yeah, on top of Christmas, man. That is nuts. But hey, you knock it all out. You save for that time of the year and see the family, which is the best part. So, yeah. Next year is going to be a brighton Christmas. Yeah, we'll be in Michigan next Christmas.

Let's go. All right. Cool. So relax. Let's hop into. But we got to. a Thanksgiving bar mitzvah to go to. Oh, Thanksgiving bar mitzvah? New York.

Oh, yeah. It's a dual. Well, we do Thanksgiving, but we have to go to a bar mitzvah that weekend. Oh, that's all. Hey, you know what I'm saying? Two and one. Yeah. Two and one. Make it a whole week. I've been to one bar mitzvah. Yeah. I've never been to a bar mitzvah. Jews party hard for those. Oh, sure, bro.

It was like a... Talk about pulling out the wallets. Oh, man. Yeah. They didn't hold back. No, they didn't hold back. And it was crazy. You know, uh, I have a phrase in one of my, uh, one of my, rhymes, which is like heavy envelope. Like, it's my godson's communion. In this case, bar mitzvah. That's, you got to pull out the envelope.

That's an Italian, Jewish thing. We pull them out. Suppose. At a Polish, at a Polish community, everyone just gets drunk. Yeah. Including the kids. So.

What days do they start drinking in the Polish community? All now? Yeah. Well, my family was basically 21. Yeah. I'd say before my generation, before my mom pulled the reins back, 14. 14.

Yeah, your grandpa was getting rocked at 14. My grandfather trained his horse how to get back into the barn from the liquor store because he'd go there to get his second case of beer in the afternoon. And in case he passed out, the horse knew how to get into the barn. So if they ever couldn't find my grandpa, they would just go into the stable and he'd be asleep with his case of paps. So, yeah, that's like, you know, class, class, class. Class, class.

Anyways. Let's get back into the episodes. I know we had two to cover. This whole thing is going to be Tier 1 because we do owe you. the episode review every single week, and we splash you with the Big Brother people last week. So let's get into it. Love you, Tiffany, by the way.

We're obsessed with you. I am. Okay, so we get back from the elimination with Colin and Durel to learn that the night is not over and that a daily is happening right now. That's the worst. Man, would that suck? TJ has so much more.

To enjoy, Kyle doesn't even get to enjoy his win, which secretly kind of makes me laugh a little bit. And then you got to, like, your safety is, like, so short there. Now you're right back into the mess. So it's funny. All night challenges are no fun.

I hate all night challenges. Like when I came back from Vendettas, that was my first time back in a while, I'm thinking I'm like, hell yeah, we're in Spain. This is going to be beautiful. And they're like, oh, yeah, your first challenge starts now. And we had to stay up all night pretty much. And I was just like, there was a point about three hours in of that six hours just standing in the circle where I was like, I'm going home. I'm just going to step out and be like this. some worth it. I made a big mistake but coming here.

Like, I'm not ready for this. Like, I totally like, I shouldn't have gotten the flood. Yeah, I shouldn't have gotten the flight. Like, I'm totally a normal person now. Like, this doesn't appease me. And then like, I mean, I was in second place going into that. And I just thought like, dude, this isn't worth it. And then something happened about after an hour where I just like, I snap back into that mode. And then I watched that switch for that season. That switch flip. So anyways, the night, all night.

Tara is a name drop. I might hear her later. All night challenges. are the opposite. Not the best. It's funny because like... Of the best. They're total loose butthole. For those of you who are in fantasy football championships,

which that whole league was loose butthole. Yeah, it was, but Brandon is coming on the show. Congrats to Brandon on winning that. But the anxiousness, it's funny. Like when you like have like a lot of money on the line

or like this championship that you've worked so fucking hard for, it's imaginary championship, this anxiety is such a high level. And then I realize like, oh shit, when you're on the challenge, this is every day, your anxiety. Yeah. All the, like, I was like, I was like really, you get like, you get, once you're safe and you're not going to elimination round, you get whatever time is left between that moment until the next, the, that elimination round is over.

Then you're thinking about it. I'm not safe anymore. And it's just nonstop anxiety. But like I said, that's what like people back in the day lived with. Because it was like, if I don't find food today, I'm going to die. Yeah. Like that was like that. I mean, we're just talking about getting eliminated from a show, but, you know.

For sure. High pressure, dude. Yeah. And it makes it, you know, if Kylan is able to go on and make a final and win, I mean, you know, those are those are the overcoming these moments where, you know, anxiousness to straight up competition, those are what it takes. Yeah. And all night challenges are terrible as it. Yeah. Like, but just it depends.

They can make them very, very bad. Everybody's kind of fueling up like before they go. Is that, I mean, that's normal. It's not, did they set them up for that? Like, like, fueling up as in like food. Yeah. I would probably do the same thing because you don't know if you're going to be. be standing still all night or if you're going to be running and moving and the last thing you're

I would like the last thing that I would think would be an eating challenge at night because you got the darkness so like the best slash the hardest most frightening one for me was in Spain we had to swim between the two yachts all the way underwater in the ocean at night and dangerous oh dude I don't want to go in the ocean during the day I don't want to go in the ocean during the day knee deep but now I'm like diving down 15 feet and swimming between two yachts. Like I'm pretty sure there's probably nocturnal shit in the ocean that comes out to eat at night. You could bet your ass. So I didn't really want to do that.

And I was on, I was like, you know what? That was terrible. But it was a lot better than having to stand in a circle all night long. Yeah. You know, so I don't know. Would I rather dive into the ocean at night and potentially be food? Or would I just be miserable for 12 hours? Knowing, knowing you, you're probably a rip the,

band-aid off type of person like just put me in the put me in the water it's my time it's my time yeah exactly um so everyone's fueling up and they show berna kind of like eating by herself kind of looking like the weird kid at lunch um as they head out sad i don't like i didn't like that either i don't like seeing people eat alone that's like a really i don't know why but that like really strikes me like it gets you yeah and and you feel like i bring it up because obviously like they're making berna look a certain way, which if she is that way, you know, that's it's sad that, hey, she's not being sad at at lunch or dinner or whatever. And then she's, you know, kind of, I don't want to say getting jealous, but playing a little cock block situation.

Oh, what do you mean? A little? Yeah. Yeah. She was freaking Ben Wallace in there blocking everything. Yeah. The Can't be a tumbo. Yeah. She's like, no, you neither. Get out. She's like, I'm not getting it. No one is. Here's the crazy thing about Burner, though. Here's a thing. I think she's not being her off. I don't think she's being authentic. I think she's trying too hard and it's coming off as fake. Because typically when people don't, like, if you're a lunatic, but you're just being you and you're just unraveling and you're crazy,

like people still will hang out with you and talk to you and laugh with you. But like, it just seems like everyone's just so turned off by her. Like, and not in that way, like the gross way, but in a way like, it's like, I don't know what I'm getting from you. You're not authentic and you're walking around cock blocking people. Yeah. No, it's sad. I mean, I say all this to teaser just to say like, look,

I know what it's like to be, look, feel different to be somebody that not everyone wants to talk to. But like, you can't, you can't put fire with fire. But at some point, I always have a hard time with this too because where there's like people that feel bad, there's people that there's a reason why no one's sitting by them. You're right. Do you know what I'm saying? You're right. Like, especially in a house that's intimate.

Like you have a chance to get to know everybody. And if you choose to not sit with her, that's like, there's a reason for it. So, I mean, while I do feel bad, I also. kind of want to say like, I would say the same thing to my kid. I'd be like, well, what are you doing to make people not want to sit by you? Maybe like not do this or that or whatever you are doing, I think you are probably putting something out there that people don't want to be around. Yeah.

And at the same time, if Burner really feels like all these people are weird and maybe we got twisted, maybe she's choosing to sit away from everybody. For sure. Maybe she didn't want to sit by anyone. At that part. Because I love eating by myself. Yeah. Like, I would love that.

You're right. You're right. I always tell people, oh, you're right. If there's someone sits next to me, then the cameras are on me. Yeah. I'm just trying to chill. That's why I would always wake up before everyone because I would just want to do my own thing. Right.

No, for sure. Even to this day, I know that's when you get a little personal time, you get your work time in, get up early, do your workouts. It's great. It's healthy. Yeah. The most successful people get up early, so I'm jealous. It's not hard. You're going to get me there.

You're going to have to someday. Yeah, one day. You're going to have to get married one day and then you're going to have to have kids. And then you're going to realize that your day is not your own. so you have to find times where you can make it your own. Yeah, no, that's some real game right there. No, you have to. Even though I did that beforehand, because I had a zest for life.

Yeah, yeah, dude. Yeah, dude. Yeah, dude. Love it. So, yeah. So we're at the dinner part. They're getting ready to go to this all night challenge. They arrive at the graveyard, you know, something's going on.

And then it's called the Daily Banquet of Champions. So maybe they didn't know. But first impression, what do you think of this eating challenge? Dude, I hate eating. Those are pretty nasty. things. They were gross. Skinning colon stew. Pigs now. Yeah. I'm not eating. I'm not eating those groceries.

Yeah. Like hell no, dude. Growthies. Yeah, who's whose colon was that? Then there was brain soup, which looked like chili. Yeah. Brain soup. And I've eaten brain before and it's not too bad. Especially if it's in like, it looked like it was in like, you know, some tomato sauce. I think Bernal literally said people in Turkey

eat brain soup everything. People in Turkey are different. And how did you call that? Her being, her being associated with soup. Her just being a soup. Like you literally pulled that out of thin air. Oh, dude, this is like, these are hors dupreys for Turkish people all the time. So she just looks like a soupy, a soupy season.

The way you called that, I don't know, you guys, I'm telling you, Zach will tell me stuff both on the air and off the air. And I will have no idea. I'll be like, bro, this is like, there's no way you know this. And it somehow happens to be true. And then I just tell them like, you, bro, what? what sorcery do you have? I have a sixth sense for this stuff. But I think what's going to really prove it would be probably two years before all that

Dwight Howard shit came out. What I say about Dwight Howard? You said, dude, this guy likes trannies. Oh, yeah, I said that. Flat out. I'm like, Dwight Howard's into it, man. So me and Bennett, we're just being like, dude, dude, Zach's like a conspiracy theorist. Like, he's just like hating for no reason.

Sure is shit. He like came out and he like admitted it. Yeah, he's like, no, that was definitely consensual. and I told him like, dude, I called that. Like, no hate either. I was like, this is for fact. This is how this goes. Dwight Howard loves this.

Yeah. And they're like, you know, they're like, you're crazy. They almost didn't hang out with me for a while. And then this comes out and they owe me an apology. I'm telling you, man. The more, the more life I live next to this guy, the more I realize I do have to take your opinions, no matter how crazy they are, very seriously.

100%. I got a few real crazy ones. I don't know if we're ready for yet. But I did call the Dwight Howard situation. and I did say that Brennan knows a lot about soup. Hey, that was nuts. So we'll go, we'll get into it. So, yeah, the trivia stuff, it didn't really feel like it mattered.

There were some hard ones, but most of them were real easy. Like, I wrote a couple of them down. Yeah, let's go over those. Yeah, I do have a couple of them. Recent Academy Award, Avatar or Everything Everywhere All at Once. This is easy. I've never seen either of a movie, but I would say recent. I know Avatar is not super recent.

Well, no, the second one was recent, but it's basically like Avatar's not going to win a best picture. Like that's my thing is I would have said the other one because I was, I think of Avatar when I was like, that was like 2014. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they had a second one. They had a second one. Didn't even know that. There you go.

Didn't even know that. Didn't even know that Taylor Swift still had albums coming out. Yeah. There's the, which country won the World Cup? There's all these. That one, I think I would have just said Argentina because I would, that's really the only team that I know of. Yeah. Over France.

Like I know Brazil hasn't won it in a minute. That's right. And then the Michael Phelps one. I had a known that. Yeah, that's, you know, easy. I wouldn't have a... There was a couple tough ones. There's a couple tough ones.

But basically, I just thought it wasn't that much of an equalizer. It didn't really matter. Or did you know the K, uh, the, uh, Christiana Ronaldo? I actually did know that one. I didn't know that one. But you don't go on Instagram as much as I do. I know the type of shit, you know, that I didn't know the followers, but I would have, I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have, I would have guessed Kylie's.

Oh, oh, you wouldn't have? Oh, okay, there you. I would have guessed Christiana Ronaldo, only because I remember hearing that a couple years ago, someone said you've got the most followers. Which is kind of crazy. I mean, even though he's accomplished a lot more in his life. Do you really think that he's the most, the hottest guy in the world? Yeah, I do.

You think he's the hottest? No, no, no, no. I think that he is one of the most desired men in the world. Attraction, I'm not going to talk about a man's looks, but I do think he's one of the most desired men in the world. I do. We'd have to be fools to not put Tony Raines up there. For real.

If you haven't checked out. Tony's jawline and abs and just physique lately. Yeah. I would, he's got the dad bought in full effect. No, he doesn't. He has, he's the father figure.

Listen, if you can't stay here and tell me that Tony Raines is not one of the most handsome men in the world like you're a fucking liar. You got it. Well, I guess I'll say it, Tony Raines. Very, one of the most handsome men in the world. There you go.

Can anyone? No one. Yeah, there you go. There's no. Argue. Seriously. Tell me. Tell me that he's not one of the most handsome men in the world.

I don't have an opinion on him But you can be totally a straight guy and be like Tony Raines is one of the most handsome guys He is a great looking guy He gets a lot of attention, you know He's I'm just saying he's I think he's I think he's If you put him next to Christiana Ronaldo I would have to say a lot of people Would choose Tony over him

I think you know Maybe You know maybe Tony Raines you know he can compete with the guy that has 180 million Followers on Instagram Tony doesn't have as big of a platform There you go Now

Do you think think those getting that answer wrong really made that bigger difference in the amount you had to eat or just the weight of the box oh yeah i couldn't don't think you could really tell no way to the box i think they all had the same plates um each one had to i like i like i this is one thing i really did like about it the eating challenge is everyone had to finish their plate so um everyone had to do their part yeah you can squeak squeak out of it like tory yeah you could the old troy like oh sorry vegan vegan yeah vegan vegan deuses and we'll cool cool cool Totally vegan.

Yeah. I don't know. You can't do that here. Vegan. Those were not vegan buttholes. I'm not eating a butthole. Yeah. It's not vegan.

Oh. Yeah. Certainly if it's not a kosher, vegan, gluten-free butthole. Yeah, you can't eat it. Can't have it. Yeah. So.

Lutton-free buttholes are hard to find. Yeah. No, so. But you know what? What team did you think was going to win? I thought, to be honest, let me go over the teams. Hold on.

Oh, I thought the team with Asaf would win because I thought he's just dirty. He'll just eat it. He's just put anything in his mouth. Yeah, he'll just, whatever it is. So that was, it was Asaf.

Yeah, Raven, Asoff, J, Olivia. Yeah, yeah, Raysav. No, I didn't think they were going to win. I think Raven is too prissy. Okay. Olivia, I don't think she really wants to eat that stuff. I didn't see a big. They don't have a big eater.

Maybe the Berno Horacio, Emmanuel, Zara, that's always, any team with Zara is a good team. I mean, Emmanuel is saying like that looks like his grandma's house, dude. Yeah, he's comfortable there. Yeah. Oh, man. I'm going to be honest with you. I was banking on Corey. Yeah.

I thought, yeah, I'm like, come on, he's going to chow. Yeah, well, he didn't. He gave it effort. He won, didn't he? No, wait, did he? It was him, James, Mariah. Y'all, I'm Trevor. And Colleen.

That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. He did win. He did one. He did one. Corey, I know you listened to the show. Sorry, I messed that up, man.

It was like a week and a half ago. But, yeah, so Corey took it down. That was awesome. Consequently, he also ate the colon. Oh, he ate the colon. He ate the colon. Why was it called a stew and it wasn't in like anything? It looked like Kalamari.

Yeah. It did. It really did. Fried up some butthole. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, he ate it raw. Raw.

Raw. The raw. That was, that looked like country fried butthole. Not buttholes, too. Do you think if you put butthole in a crock pot long enough, it would fall apart? Yeah, I think you can disintegrate and get, you know. Also depends on who's butthole. Some buttholes are going to have a little more elasticity.

They're going to last a little bit longer in there. So I guess it's the age of the butthole. Yeah, you know. Wait, speaking of ages of buttholes. Stop it, man. The Epstein list is coming out. Oh, the Epstein list is coming out. Why are you dangling it in front of us like a hot dog?

Like, we're going to release it. No, we're not. We're going to release it. Oh, wait. No. No, we're not. We're not. Do you really think? Dude. Come on. Like, okay. So here's the thing. 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.