The Zach Nichols Podcast - Battle of the Eras Reunion Part 2 & All Stars 5 Cast Review! | ZNP EP. 90

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

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Here we are back in the saddle. We're here to put a bow on season 40, and it's all just, you know, babies and memories now. It's good to be back, man. Back in the saddle. What are you talking about? Just back in the couch, dude. Yeah, dude, feels good. Yeah.

Couch feels small. What did it shrink? Yeah, I mean, I'm going to lost a pound. Yeah. Everyone prayers for Pierre. He's not handling that lion's loss very well. I'm very sad. Yeah, I'd talk him off the ledge.

I'm really, I had to cry a couple times. Yeah. Well, you know that the game. There's no way they could have won that. You know why? Why? Because Vegas would have gone broke. That's true.

Those refs had it out for the Lions. Does that mean that the bills are going to win this weekend? I don't know, dude. Honestly, the AFC operates a lot differently in Vegas as the NFC does. So, listen, no one's going to let the Lions win the Super Bowl. When it comes to Vegas. Roger Goodell. They're not going to let it happen.

Right. David Stern, he's not even going to let it happen. Exactly. Shekeel O'Neill, Charles. Charles Barkley, Ernie, none of them want the Lions win the Super Bowl. No one does. The only people that want Detroit to win the Super Bowl is the entire country that has no control over it. Yeah.

I'm wearing my grit hat because we have grit. We lose things and we bounce back. That's what Detroit's about. Of course. You guys have been, the Lions fans have been bouncing back hard for years. Now it will be the real test because whoever stays on right now, like, through this tough time, like, you're a real Lions fan. because it's going to be, there's going to be some people that leave and talk shit and blah, blah, blah.

Oh, dude, no, I'm not, listen, I don't really consider myself a diehard. I'm not a diehard fan. I do tune in when it's a winning product, I'll tune in, but like, I'll tune in next season to see how they do. I thought you were going to do us a favor by tuning out and going to sleep, and I thought that was going to help us win. I did do that. Damn it.

So halfway through the Lions game against the Redskins, I mean, the commanders. commandskins yeah the commandskins um commandi i have literally never like actually sat down and watched a lion's game i'm always doing something else or working out and i have it on and i was

you know i'm gonna go to bed give the team some good luck and actually got worse i feel like yeah it was it was he did get worse yeah but anyways sorry we will we will be back if i look sun kissed it's because i am just got back from orlando where i went and saw pier competing his larp yeah my larp My LARP tournament. What's LARP again?

Live action role play. You know what it is, bro. We were down there to watch you play. Hey, I'm a character. He was this close to winning. He almost slayed the king at the end and took over Orlando's LARP. We were gingerly touching our tips. Yeah, he was touching tips all weekend.

Let's just say I was laying iron. Oh, dude. Right on the green. Sticking woods. Yeah, no, I was. We had fun. We had a good time. Yeah, we did have a good time.

That was a blast. We will be back, Orlando. Yeah, I liked Orlando. Orlando is a great golf destination. I would recommend it. And I would also recommend a few places, but I'm not going to say I'm because I don't want to be crowded for the next time I go. Yeah, we'll keep that look at it.

So you know there was a fan that there was some debauchery that happened in Denver. There's actually another fan. I didn't tell you, but there was another fan in Orlando that I almost did some debauchery with. You just, I didn't know, you just admitted that. So anyways. But it didn't happen. It didn't happen. You know who you are.

I'm sorry that I couldn't oblige. That's why he wanted the bedroom like two feet inside of the... So we get there. We get there. And there's a bedroom. Like you walk in, it's like a foot and a half from the front wall to walk out here. I'm like, all right. Yeah, dude, take it.

Let's see what's going out upstairs. That's because he wanted to be able to come and go. There's a reason I kept the car keys on me all the time. I thought it was because you really wanted a shirt to drive it. That too. Yeah. Okay. Um,

well, uh, disgusting. I'm actually, I'm going to text my wife. I'm so much I love her. Let me text my imaginary wife. I will love you something.

Okay. All right. Let's get back to, back to business. Um, the reunion part two. It's great. It is great. Maria,

still looking good. Um, we get back and the first thing that they talk about is the vacation alliance. It's about damn time. So I'm talking about that damn time. and talked about the damn vacation alliance. Yeah, Josh seems to be the fall guy for the demise of the vacation alliance.

Let me ask you this. Do you think Josh's support and loyalty to Rachel and Johnny destroyed the vacation alliance forever? I mean, isn't this kind of like the first time in the vacation alliance has been like tested? Yeah. You know, they've had. Right. It's the first time they've ever gone through adversity and they had to pick a fall person. But, you know, I don't like it.

I'm just going to say it. I don't like it. I think everyone needs to get how Josh is bald. Stop riding Josh, guys, because here's the thing. Had they came in with those connections. It just was the luck of the draw. He had a better hand than the rest of them, and they didn't choose to go out and try to make those moves.

And it's like at what point it's an individual check. So people are like, oh, you didn't do what's best for the group. But at some point, the person who cares the least and who does what's best for them, they're probably going to be the ones that get closer to winning. So you have no problem with Josh essentially bumping Rachel who he hadn't played a game with ever. How did he do that though? And Johnny, well, there was that a moment where he could have really fought and said, hey, Rachel, like, what did it have changed?

Do you think he could have really changed anything? No. Rachel's doing what she wants. So me neither. So that's why I'm not mad about it. Okay. It's not like he didn't say anything or said he was going to say something. He pled his case.

And then she said no. So at a certain point, it is an individual. game. So get off his nuts, everybody. I get it. I get it. You have an alliance, but come on. Yeah. He's, he, I mean, if you would have made those connections, but also he, you know, he's friends

with them outside of the house, and who knew that him and Johnny were going to get along that well? Because the last time him and Johnny were on a show together, they cross swords. Yeah, he prioritized somebody else. Yeah, no, that's an interesting take. I think, I think Josh I think they're just jealous. I think it's just a bunch of jealousy. I'd be, listen,

I've been in that situation where someone has a better spot in the game than me. And yeah, that's a feeling of jealousy. It's okay to say that. You don't have to be a bitch about it, but you can just be like, yeah, I'm jealous of that. Instead of begging it seemed like he's a terrible alliance member. He didn't send any of those people home.

Right. That's factual. He had no hand in sending anyone in the vacation alliance home, if anything, he always advocated for them to stay. How much more do you want from the guy? Get off his nuts. Yeah. I don't often take Josh's side.

What did you think about Rachel saying, Occasion Alliance thinks that they're such elitists in the game that their relationships take precedence over everyone else. Hilarious coming from her, but... Well, I also don't think that's true. I think that, like I said, this is the first time that they've had any adversity against them, so they, you know, they fought for it, you know. Did I, do I agree with their tactics and the things they're saying?

No. But I don't think, I think they understand that there's other, alliances in the house and that theirs are more important to them sure like my relationship with people I'm working with I care a lot more about than you and your alliance over there that's trying to get me out so if that's what you mean by that then you're correct but I don't think a single one of them would say my relationship in my alliance should be better than all yours and it should be valued more than what you guys have over here I don't think any of them would sit there and actually say that and believe it.

They'd be like, no, I think it's the same. Yeah. Is Devin, for sure, like, the leader of it now? Like, I think it's pretty established, right? 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.