The Zach Nichols Podcast - Battle of the Eras EP. 15 Review! | ZNP EP. 82

Episode Date: December 6, 2024

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Phone's down to class. All right. Sorry. I'm actually texting a challenger about possibly coming here. Oh, cool. Kylan. May or may not. Not Kylan.

He might be here soon. But this person may or may not be international. She might be from Arizona. She might be from Wales. I don't know. So we'll see. We'll see. Hmm.

Anyways, what's up, brother? Nothing. Happy Thanksgiving. We're back. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. No. Yeah. How was Thanksgiving for you guys?

Spectacular. Love Thanksgiving. One of my favorites, man. Yeah, me and my cousin used to have this thing on Thanksgiving where when we'd get to my grandma's house, we'd do a weigh in. And then after dessert, we'd weigh out. And we'd see how much weight we could gain. Did anyone try to, like, sneak a shit in there? Well, sneaking a shit would, you want to gain weight. Oh, you want to, oh, you want to see how much we could eat. Why? Why did I? We're trying to, or I was trying to make weight. Yeah. Who's trying to lose weight on Thanksgiving? But it was an interesting Thanksgiving.

Yeah, it was. Well, you know, is there like special different, like, so my family, we have like the straight forward Thanksgiving meals like turkey, all stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, a salad, you know, all that stuff. The essentials. Jenna's family, the Italians, they have like three different meat options. And then they have your regular Thanksgiving foods. And then they also have like six different kinds of pasta. And I'm like, wait a second. It's Thanksgiving.

You know? What is this shit? Hey man, that's still Italian. Is there special food that Caldeans eat on Thanksgiving that you wouldn't see on a Polish-American Detroit table? That's a great question. There actually is. Because that's the first thing I thought, I'm like, maybe I'm the fucking asshole who didn't know that people don't just stick to the straightforward Thanksgiving food. That's 100% true.

And that same variation, which is you have your American classics, your cheesy potatoes, your turkey, your ham, the cranberry. That all has to be there. Yeah. But you're also. going to have the ethnic, authentic. So for Chaldeans, it's this thing called Pacha, which are pig intestines filled with rice. Oh, delicious. Really? Actually? No. I'm like, what? But people love it, though. People actually love it. You know what? Like, I don't do intestines. I don't need that shit. Yeah, because intestines are just crap tubes. Yeah, there's some other shit. Are you guys fancy

cranberry people? Are you just canned? No, no. The cranberry was kind of a lie. I just said that to like sound like American. Yeah. At some point. That was kind of a lie. At some point growing. I just wanted to be like one of the guys, you know? Yeah, no, I'm not a big cranberry guy either way. But at some point in my family's like in our lives, it went from like the canned stuff where they just slice the tube of cranberry like

to like the fancy one where it's like actually like cranberry and they like, you know, the fancy one. And I'm not about really either of them. But I like the fake gelatin one a lot better. Yeah, it looks like when they slice it in cylinders, it looks like mutaralla. It's like little patties. Yeah, it just comes in a can.

It comes out, you know. I'm not a big fan of cream break. Also, I don't eat stuffing. You don't need stuffing. I don't like soggy bread. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I mean, see, like, I never experienced that, you know, to be honest. You don't eat stuffing here?

No, I don't. Have you had stuffing, G? No, this is not a Keldian thing. Oh, you guys don't do stuffing? No, no. I've heard of it, but like, I've never, you know, never done. Some people call it dressing. And they, listen, also, I'm still on the fence about.

it, but I will eat some. You guys probably don't do this either. Green bean casserole. We have similar. Similar stuff to that. Not green bean cassero, but more of a broccoli, like a broccoli cheddar type of casserole. But green beans is not a essential.

Green bean casserole could either look like prison slop or it can be one of my favorite parts of the meal. For sure. If it's cheesy enough, it's got the right crisp on the top. There's no cheesin. What is it? Like a cream? It's like a cream of mushroom.

But they have like, it can. It can either be fantastic or I don't like it. But Italians, I don't think they do green bean cassero because there was none of that. And I'm not complaining. Yeah. But I will put my mom's mashed potatoes up against anyone's. It's a hybrid. It's like they look like mashed potatoes, but they slap like cheesy potatoes.

Oh, my gosh. I'm going to have to try some. If there's anything I know is that Jenna can cook. So I'm assuming that if you like her food, your mom is on the same level. So I want to try that out. My mom makes really good mashed potatoes. Yeah, I'm going to check that. Lions won, obviously.

Barely. That was kind of a, it was like no fun to watch because, remember, I'm in enemy territory. I'm watching, uh, that's right. I'm watching the game with a couple of Jets fans, a Raiders fan. Yeah. They're all about it. They, they support, you know, me wanting the Lions to win. For sure.

They know. In the first half, I'm like, oh, do this game's over. And like, and then I go, and then I said this, oh, watch. I said, Chicago's going to come back in the second heaven won because I said that. And then, like, Chicago came out and they looked. and they looked like Super Bowl champs. And Detroit was probably eating turkey and stuffing at halftime. And that's the same old Lions fan in you that just thinks that eventually they're going to let us down.

But they might have turned a little new leaf. They might have. I mean, listen, I think they might have paid off the Bears coach at halftime too. What an idiot. Take a die. Listen, also, like they're all blaming the coach. But as like a captain or a leader of that team, at some point you got to step up and be like, someone needs to call time on it.

And if you're not like time out. Like this is like that. they lost on purpose. Big fumble. That was terrible. Well, so much more, some more football, what were you going to say?

They lost on purpose. Yeah, maybe. Lions play the Packers tonight. So we'll see what happens there. Coach LaFleur. We're getting to the nitty gritty, both in football and on the challenge.

You can tell, we're getting close to the final. We're getting close to the end of the year, 2024. It's been a crazy year. Yeah, it's been wild. Been wild.

A lot of fun stuff. A lot of fun stuff. A lot of shit. Fun stuff to come in 2025. And some of you guys have been asking, hey, like, we want to know the future of whatever. And you're going to find out all about it. Just stay locked in. Okay.

We should have a fun, 2025. Yeah. Oh, right. I would assume so. We have some events being planned behind closed doors. Yeah. And we got a couple shows to cover. Absolutely.

Let's do it. So we come back from the Corey and Josh elimination to have 11 people left. So we really are getting into goody for the men. Corey, Bananas, Derek Jordan, Kylund. Okay. Is there any surprises here? or we could see all this time. Yeah, I would say, I mean, if, like at this point,

I think Derek's a big surprise to still be there. Yeah. I think if you would have asked me to put money on who wouldn't be there at the end, I think Derek would have been for someone that I put my money on. Yeah. It's his first flagship back in a very long time. And we see that as kind of a theme here for a couple of these people. I mean, first flagship back in a long time and they're getting really, really close.

He's only done a handful of flagships, too. It's not like he's like a 10-time competitor. So, yeah, for sure. I didn't expect him to be there this late in the game, but he is. And give him props for that. Just came off a big win, riding high. Yeah, no, I mean, it was a, it was a very, I don't want to say uneventful episode, but it was kind of like.

A little anti-hoclimatic. A little bit. I mean, there's not, it's funny because it was the natural progression of the game, but that doesn't make it interesting. You know, it makes it like, we're. engaged, we're here. Yeah. We love it.

You know, we love it. But at the same time, it's like, all right, like, the format of the game doesn't provide for a lot of suspense. But, you know, there's some stuff to cover. The women left, Rachel, Kara, Aviv, Tori, Michelle, Jenny. I do, we know we're getting close to the final. So talk about, like, the different finals you've been in terms of number per people. So what was for agents three?

Or was it, am I, am I misremembering? Me, no, it was three and three. Yeah, three. It's three and three. unless you have like a weird team type season like battle the seasons was different because it was just a certain amount of challenges and then who was left on each team yeah i don't even remember it was two girls on my team two girls on brooklyn one so it was five girls five guys so yeah so yeah so in the ones that we've covered speaking of five guys you've been there lately uh not like

last week i mean i love five guys it's really good yeah i bet you do you know my order gosh don't embarrass yourself but what is it no i mean do you know what they do easy is just just plain double double cheese burger with bacon. Plain, though, just meat and cheese. Two patties, man, come on, man. Just one burger? Yeah, just one burger. Come on, bro.

Have you been to five guys, you know, bro. One burger will take you out. Do you hear what happened there? What? They fill, you know how they fill the bag with extra fries? Yeah. They actually charge you more for that. They just don't tell you.

What? The fries are more expensive and they've put extra in the bottom of the bag to make you feel like you're getting a deal, but you're not. Oh, so basically they just charge you a shit ton for the fries and they're like, oh, but you're getting them and make it seem. Listen. corporate greed yeah by the time you pay for those anyways who gives a shit yeah you're gonna they're they're gonna pay nine dollars for fries we'll see if you pay 10 their fries aren't bad they're good

yeah i haven't been there in a long time no they're good they're really good okay um so so there's so sometimes there's three we saw on all stars four or four uh three stars per per or was no there i think there was four see like in my head i said okay i know there's three a lot and i know there's four a lot does it change the way that you know that the final's gonna go down or like Do you think like three is more tailored for partner? I don't know. I think three and three is like better because like there's a bigger chance of winning money. Does it mean the final is going to be easier when you see three and three or does it not matter?

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