The Zach Nichols Podcast - Battle of the Eras EP. 2 Review | ZNP EP. 61

Episode Date: August 23, 2024

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Welcome. Welcome. Welcome back to the Zach Nichols podcast. It feels much lighter in here today without our ex-producer. The f***. Just kidding. Pierre loves me. He's just a d.

But how are you doing, Pierre? Bro. How was your vacation? It's great, man. Was it? You think you're about to cry. Dude, that's skinny. I look skinny.

You do. Black is thinning or you've been starving yourself? Definitely not the latter. For sure. For sure. I probably consumed 200 grams of sugar the past five straight days. Let's talk about that. Well, we have Amish Lickrish, which if you're from Michigan, you know Amish Lickrish is

Hell, yeah, crack. Unbelievable. It's crack, people. If you don't know what Amish Lickrish is, go to Pierre's house and raid his cupboards. Oh, yeah, all of it. Lifetime supply. That's like the second tier that I have in house because I also have the Pull and Peel, which is a staple for you guys.

I know you guys like the Pull and peel. We do love the Pull and peel. Real quick. But we don't eat Pull and peel. like perverts and you I just eat them like they're a fucking liquor If you don't pull it, you're missing out on the fun Do you do you do string cheese the same way?

You sure do Just keep doing that everybody Watch Pierre do the pull Look at that Look at that form You don't get the 360 by fucking chomping on the shit Actually I feel like you would get there quicker

Maybe You can ask me how I'm doing How are you doing? I feel liberated I feel No. You don't even ask me why. I know. I'm not even just saying. I feel amazing. I feel I feel empowered. You are empowered, dude. Single dad in it. And I had my doubts. I thought I was going to fail miserably. Yeah, you've been holding it down. Just you and the top two. Yeah, the top, the originals. Yeah. The OGs. Jenna had to head home to take care of some family business. And she left me. Can't believe she did it.

Yeah. Yeah. I can't believe she left me alone with the older two. But we know you can handle beans by. yourself but beans and anthony together it's a deadly mixture but you've been doing okay dude listen house is clean both of them made a nutritious dinner last night asleep by 845 wow it worked uh worked yesterday all day dude it's been great i proved a lot to myself

hey all you fucking haters out there changed every damn diaper mm-hmm that's gee what the gee's just throwing in random oh yeah i like that I like that one everyone was probably like like what that's what he thought too and I was like

change every damn diaper. Yeah. Dude, give me one more of those. That was weird. All right. That's like when Pierre's driving and he's got to squeak a fart out. He just kind of lifts one of his cheeks, but there's a little extra skin so it just

still squeaks out. I'm pretty courteous with the farting. I go to the bathroom to fart. Every single fart? I mean, I'm not going to say 95%. Really? Bro, there's a lot of gas, man. You got to be courteous.

You got a lot of gas? But what you're fucking, when I, when I, spend four. $40 at McDonald's for breakfast, you would have. All right, all right, all right, all right. It's true. All right, man, that's enough, bro. You're getting a little too. No, she's good.

Keep it up. Keep it up. Come on. Bring on the heat. Let's go. How about it? That is appreciated. Speaking of the heat.

Yeah? What about them? How about the friction between your legs walking up those sand dunes? Oh, man, dude. We had somebody called me out in the DM's like, dude, you can't get up those sand dunes. But here's a thing. I was like, what the fuck? But here's the thing.

You proved that you did because if you are at the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes and you take a picture in front of Lake Michigan, it means you did a three and a half mile trek up sand mountains. Or you drove up there and walked it. You drove the dunes? Yeah, you can, there's a way that you can drive at the top. I didn't, I'm not going to lie. I didn't go all the way down and up, but I could have. No, you could have. No, you could not have.

All right. See now following on here. My dad made me do that the Sand Dunes trek when I was five. I've heard some stories about Bruce and his Savage. He made my whole family do it. My mom got done. I've heard my mom curse maybe five times.

Oh, maybe more, like 10 times my entire life. One was when my dad made her walk from the beginning of the sand dunes, Lake Michigan, and back on like a hundred-degree day. She was cursing him out when she got back and he didn't buy her water. Wait, wait, but just to be clear, three out of five scholarship athletes in your family, though, right? $150,000 saved. There was three scholarship athletes.

My sister got offered a scholarship to play volleyball, but she chose to be a student. And my brother had a career-ending injury when he was a freshman high school, so we didn't know whether he could do it or not. So it's a lot of money saved. But my dad did it with my brother on his back. He's something else. He's an Adonis.

You'll get there. Yeah. And then it was funny after he saw me meltdown on national television, free agency. He was like, are you kidding me? He's like, you did the sand dunes when you were five. You couldn't climb up that volcano. I'm like, well, it's a little bit different now.

Honestly, it's crazy because when I was there, I did think I was like, dude, if you wanted to train for a fucking challenge, there's no better place. You know what he would make us do when we were at the dunes growing up and we were all in high school and college? We'd go for like a normal run. And then he'd be like, right, get in the car and he'd take us to the sand dunes. And there'd be like, our family would be like running sprints up and down the dune. Everyone's looking at us like, what the hell's wrong with these people. And it's like, Bruce is like blowing a whistle, making a sprint up and down the dunes. Yeah.

I always wondered why Jill never wanted to talk to me. Now I know why. She was saving me from a lifetime of hell. You can't go on vacation with my dad unless you work out with them every morning. What if... And if you don't... So my buddies came on vacation and my dad would try to wake him up and they weren't waking up. And then he started vacuum in the room that they were sleeping in.

They didn't care. So then he got a shotgun and started racking it. And they woke up. Yep. Then they're up. Then they're up. But speaking of more heat. Let's talk about the heat.

How about that? episode. I'm not going to lie to you. One of my first questions is, is this in greatest contention for greatest episode of all time? That was a challenge fan's wet dream. A whole episode of

elimination rounds. And not just these soft, cushy-ass, wuss elimination rounds that we've been seen a lot lately. Real ass elimination rounds. And I got to say, another week where I'm in every fucking highlight. I've got more screen time. Let's talk about cast members that I've got more screen time then.

Nehemiah. For sure. Derek Derek. Brad. Brad. I'm the star of this show. I've been in more more than Jordan. Call me chairman of the Hall. Hall. Hall brawl was brought up in my era and I'm the president of the Hall. You are and TJ confirmed it earlier this year when he's

basically said if you think of Hallbrough, there's one name that comes to mine, Zach Nichols. And you know what's funny is I actually lost in Hall Brawl my first time but because I had big Sam again. Sam Gim again. But gay, that's the game. But what was more impressive was I think I'm the only person to ever win a round of hall brawl by jumping some way hurtling someone. Oh, straight hurdle. One of the best, one of the, my opinion, most athletic moments in challenge history. And you know what? I don't care if you don't agree because it was awesome. You try hurtling another human in a like literally

like it was like maybe a seven foot hall. Well, that's the thing that's underrated about it is the ceiling. People think about the width, but the ceiling is the fucking hard part. The ceiling was the roof. Yeah. As George would say. It was on fire that day, bro. And then I gronged my helmet. Yep.

Just fucking, just concussions yourself on the top. I didn't hit, no, I grunt. When I won, I took my helmet off and I slammed it as hell. Oh, yeah. And I was like, I'm the man. What was the elimination where you threw it into the fucking? It was the one where we were on scaffolding. We had to break through the layers.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. D. And I was pissed because I, because I felt like Frank pulled one of those moves that was like, you know, like, oh, like, I got your back. but then, oh, he's going to go in. Let me step aside. Kind of like Rachel did this episode.

Yeah, exactly. A big Rachel move. I thought it was a little bit snaky. I love Frank, and I, you know, I'm sorry, but I tossed that helmet at him. It rock, ricocheted off his back. What I always wonder was he had plenty of time to just catch it. Yeah. Yeah, just put your hands up.

It's dodgeball. It was a great throw. That was probably my last great throw I ever had. Well, it was an incredible episode. A round of applause for the producers who've been listening about what the fans have wanted. We've been wanted some physicality, and we fucking got it. Oh, yeah. Not only did we get it.

Pauli's family for the next 12 generations got it. Holy shit. Wow. We can get back to that later, but oh, my gosh. It's on the docket. I felt it. Yeah. You heard that from Timbuck, too.

We were probably just doing our thing on the golf course and just heard a, and we're just like, oh, I know this was a storm today. It was fucking. Pauli's unborn children in Kara's womb. Stop it. And Kara's eggs were like, like, oh, God. That was insane. But you know what?

Polly gets the award for bravest and dumbest challenger in a single moment. All in one? Yeah, dude. Who cries to take on a 6' 6'2-265-pound kid head on? We'll get to it. Yeah, we'll get to it. But you know what we need to talk about? Talk to me.

Oh, real quick. Go ahead, real quick. Buy your tickets for San Diego. Just kidding. Detroit Live Show 2. Kyle Christie, Brad Fioreenza. There might be some more people coming. Actually, there's some stuff I got to tell you about.

You don't even know about. Get your tickets. It's going to be a wild show here in Detroit. Buy them now. But yes, let's get to it. Let's get to it in it. You're going to love what I have to tell you. Let's get inside of it.

Let's get all up in it, bro. Let's get up all. Let's impregnate it. Okay. So when you walk into elimination round and you see all those different ones, minus take shelter. Fuck that one. I don't want to do that one.

But when you see the three bangers, everyone gets goosebumps. And the people that go in are walking in, instantly got to hit the porta potty to take a fucking oh yeah oh yeah some people you know you see that type of stuff you get horny for it you're like man get me you know what you want to be in this hand and honestly it's crazy because i mean has there ever been a challenge episode no daily no voting no politics just eight for just four straight limbs and unbelievable it was great yeah it was unreal what did you think about that do you like the way they set it up because i know you didn't like

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