The Zach Nichols Podcast - Bonus Episode Season 40 EP. 0 | ZNP EP. 59

Episode Date: August 14, 2024

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Welcome back. Welcome back to the Zach Nichols podcast. And we're doing a little solo mission today on a Tuesday. It doesn't happen very often, but we decided we wanted to give back to the fans. We sure did. You've been sticking with us through the off season. It has been the off season, although for us it seems like a little bit more of in season. Right. We've been having a lot of great... We're the WMBA. Like we felt like we had a break for the Olympics, but we were the Olympians, so we didn't get a break because we kept kicking it. That's true. Long story short, we're here today to talk about episode zero after a very... emotional yet needed episode last week honoring our good friend Ryan Knight with his sister Selena. Let's give a round of applause for Selena. For sure. What an absolute beauty. Dude, I, it made me so happy to see all the love and support that she got because it was not easy. No, that's what I was just going to say. I appreciate her coming in here and having those conversations with us because it's got to be just very almost impossible, I would think. And she's got to

think about him multiple times a day. That's got to be hard. That was like her, you know, her only sibling. Yeah. And it coming up exactly, her only sibling, her only, you have one sibling. Yeah. This is what happens. And it's coming up on his 10th anniversary, I think. So it's 14. So big, big, one more, please for Selena. What a great talk we had. For sure. And, you know, if she's seeing it, we love you and consider us a friend and resource.

And hopefully we can grow and watch each other, you know, live. And I want to see what Jake does, man, with his, he's got skills. Oh, yeah, he's going to go pro. Yeah, well, it's hope. But we have a little laundry list. We do. We got to go. So we had at our last live show in San Diego, which, by the way, we're cooking up two

new, two live shows coming to your footsteps, fingertips, and brains soon. That's tea. We're not going to drop all the details, but just know something hot is on its way. Piping. It's better than anything you get at a local bakery or McDonald's Pierre, but it's going to be a two live shows. And I'm going to give a little bit more of a hint. One's going to be another homegrown, hometown, Diddy.

The other one is going to be east of here, but we're not going to tell you where yet. Yep. No, nothing confirmed. But when I say that's T, there's double meaning for that. There is T. So hopefully you put some pieces together. At our last show. So, yeah, anyways, at our last show, we had a very lovely couple.

They made a, go ahead. You talk about that. Yeah, no. So Courtney Miller, a big fan of ours, love. you Courtney. She was at our Detroit show and then brought Nick. I'm pretty sure Nick. I hope you didn't fuck that up. I might have.

No, I'm pretty positive. It's Nick. To our live show in San Diego and they got, they got married like around the weekend. They eloped. They eloped. And they kind of, so they sent us some gifts. So they're right here. We haven't opened them yet. So we figure they look official and I hope it's not, I hope it's not

delicate. I'm not shaking it. For those of you have seen jingle all the way where like the guy thought it was, he's like, It's a bomb. It's a bomb. And they're like, oh, bro. You don't say that in here. Listen, this isn't an airport. You want to know I am. You want to look at it first.

A Middle Eastern descent. Yeah, we can look at it. Should I, should we peek? Yeah, I want to peek. Oh, there's a card. There's a card. Okay. You want to read yours? Yeah, it says Pierre. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to celebrate our day of marriage.

First day of marriage. First day of marriage meeting everyone on stage. I meant a lot. Thanks. Nick and Courtney, Nick. You think I don't know. I knew it. Mine says the exact same thing. I guess they're not personally like ones of whatever. All right. So let's see what.

inside here. Shall we? Oh, shall we dig in? We got... Oh, it's a little... It's a little... Oh, man.

We got hooked up. I don't... There's a bunch of cool shit in here. There's some honey. A biscuit. A biscuit. Biscuit. Double chocolate.

Biscotti. Ooh, coffee. A notebook. This is actually really... The early bird blend. I'll take yours because you're not an early bird. Here you all know that. Yeah, you don't...

You don't know anything... Let's see what I can give to you. Oh, what? Is this what I think it is? Oh, no. This is actually dope, though. Thank you. This is going to hold the Celsius's. This is a candle.

That is a candle. It smells delicious. It's 100% soy. How'd you know Pierre was on a candle diet? He usually eats them. I just drink the wax. And what is this? This is a honeypot? It's a mug.

Oh, no, it's a thermos. It's a thermos. It says thank you. This is awesome. We love you guys, man. Thank you so much. This is great stuff. This notebook is going to be my new black book.

I'm going to put a lot of interesting stuff in here. Are you the type of guy that has a diary? No. Do you like cream better than olive? If you want to trade. No, I'm just wondering if you like cream better. I like cream. Okay.

Do you want cream? Yeah. All right. That's right. I like olive. Matches most of my personalities. All right. Well, my cup, my thermases, olive.

That's okay. I like the cream one. Do you want to trade that too? Just kidding. I'm literally just kidding. But this is awesome. Thank you guys so much. Yeah.

No, for real. This is really, really nice. Thank you so much. I'm going to write all the jokes I have on Pierre in this book. And I'm going to date them so that our next live show, I'm going to go through each one until he's crying like a puddle on the floor. Listen, I can't be embarrassed more than I embarrass myself. Ooh, this honey though. Bee Harmony, honey.

That's awesome. Thank you guys so much. Have you seen bees make honey? It's pretty impressive. No. I haven't. I've seen like the combs. Yeah, the combs, the honey.

You're talking about in person? Yeah, my uncle has one in his yard. Fuck, no. It's crazy. Those things work hard. You're going to eat that right now? I'm sorry. It has to happen.

You glutton as fuck. Dude. You're not going to get me a biscotti, and I'm not going to at least try it. It's going to be pretty hard. Yeah, I could hear that. You got to dip it in the coffee, you cake. There's a more. That is a spectacular.

Is it? Mm-hmm. Washing it down with an ice cold cup of seven up. Listen, nobody told you to shove your veins full of butter and sugar. Listen, whenever I don't really complain, but when I do complain about not fitting into things, what do you tell me? I said, don't go, what you did it to yourself? Don't complain. And so then Pierre told me, don't complain about when your kids act bad because you, like, that's true. Do you put them here?

I know, and I just can't help myself. You, dude, listen, you don't get it yet, but you will. It's just a different sensation. I've never. It's just a different. And, you know, Jenna's hot. She's beautiful. Shut up.

up. Let's move on from Procreation. We'll start talking about episode zero. And I'm going to be honest. This is a disclaimer for the whole season. I'm going to be bitter as fuck. I'm going to have, I got such bad fomo. And not just because I want to be there to compete, but I honestly, legitimately think I could make Era 3 way stronger. And I'm not taking out anyone and not saying those aren't the five, probably the combination of the five guys on era of three are, in my opinion, the strongest five guys there as a group. But you add me in there and it's just, dude, Jordan and I already proved. Me and Jordan on the same team is a scary thing.

A little over the top if you were to, maybe, I mean, maybe that's why. Maybe they had to tame the, uh, can stop us. Tame the era, man. They had to keep, they had to keep me back. No, I didn't even get the availability call. Yeah, well, you know. I wish I was there. So I'm going to be pretty bitter.

And I'm even more better because guess what? during the opening credits, I saw myself at least twice, maybe three times. Yep. So how am I not, like, what a business decision to not have the big dog there? I think they, they might have known what they were doing a little bit. Yeah. You don't want to put the paws on people, dude. I was, I'm ready to go, bro.

There's two champions in that era, era three. You're talking about Devin and you're talking about Jordan. The champion. Yeah. I'm like the, the world game. San Diego was like the bad boys. Yeah. There's the Johnny, there's CT, and there's Jordan.

That's like Celtics Lake. Lakers, Rockets, Rockets won two when Jordan was out. But Jordan is like the Bulls, and then C.T. and Johnny are like the Celtics and the Lakers. And Team San Diego was just the bad boys. Oh, yeah, bro. But anyways, I'm not just, you know, one of the most explosive challengers of all time on the toilet and in the athletically. But I'm not there. So I'm going to be extra explosive from the microphone because I'm pissed.

I have FOMO. I think that was a terrible business decision. I mean, Corey, Leroy, and. I'm not saying any of them aren't amazing. And Tony, but, you know, you might take the top off the defense. I have a better resume than several. But we're not, I'm going to error. Listen, if I got to pick an error, I'm going to roll with my team.

Era 3s. I'm not going to hate on them. That's a great stack team. Yeah. And I'm not going to, I'll say this. If I'm making the decision, one person I'm definitely not taking off as Leroy. So it's going to be one of the last two. It's going to be Tony or it's going to be Corey.

For me. Yeah. Two non-champs. Yeah, it doesn't matter. Either one I can replace. And at least be a. I think better at puzzles. But listen, they both can, I think they both can eat better than me.

But I think physicality-wise, I think it's like, it's interchangeable. That's why I need you. Because I always forget about the eating. They should have just brought me in as like a mercenary to fuck with someone. Just bring me in to ruin someone's day. But I was in the opening credits twice, which is more, or at least twice, maybe three times, which is more than most people that are actually on the show. So if you're on season 40, I want to apologize for being a badass and getting so many clips.

In all that airtime? Even in some of the promos, there's me. They just can't get rid of me. I'm like herpes of the challenge. But more words spoken than several season 40 castmates in the first episode. Yeah. And I have way more seasons under my belt. My wife also wasn't there.

There's a lot of people that weren't there that should have been there. We'll talk about that. We'll piss some people off. I don't care. Yeah. But I'm going to stand by the fact that I should have been at least availability, availability called. Should have got called.

Yeah. Should have got called. You know, and I have a t-shirt that says, Vietnam, too. So, like, I was a total person that could fit in. Yeah, well, and the funny thing is is, I mean, I don't know what the reasoning would be. It might be, I definitely don't think you're out of sight and out of mind

because you're in the fucking thing. I got to, yeah. I was in the untold stories, too. I also have three challenged children, and listen, we all know I'm not careful, so maybe four, we don't know you. I have no idea. Jenna hasn't had her period this month, so she could be pregnant. I'm not announcing anything. I'm just saying,

I don't, you know, I don't, you know, careful. Yeah, when people say they're trying, they're having fun. Look at the not. I'm not trying. Yeah. Oh, you're not trying. No.

You're effortless with it. There's been no conversation of let's have a baby. Sure. Well, you know, sometimes you just can't. Sometimes you have too much wine. Anyways. I love wine. Is it opens up, it just, you know what it reminds me of?

What? Remember how I was telling that story about how like the Champions Hall, the dinner? Yeah. It's just a dinner party. They're at dinner party. I love dinner parties. Office dinner party, this dinner party. Anyways.

You are a charmer at dinner. When I take them to dinner with clients or guests, you're stealing the show. I did, I do. I'm a hell of, I'm like America's, well, I used to be America's best wedding date. Now I'm America's one of America's top dinner dates. Like, do you have a business meeting? You could hire me and I'll go and I'll make any. We had a business meeting today and I think I charmed the socks off our young lady.

We're not going to say who yet, but we might have our first official sponsor. And it's not a small one. No, it's not. No, it's a good one. It's not like Yankee Candle. It's even better. but that being said yeah they're at a dinner party

everyone's looking snazzy and because I'm an asshole and I just want their time to be ruined because I'm not there I was just really hoping the whole time TJ was going to come in and be like hey get your shit on we're going to go compete and put them through hell because that's what happened to me and Brad on vendettas we were both making a return and we're like oh we can't wait for the pool party

the hot tub and then TJ's like oh you're going to run up that mountain and I'm like okay cool but you're also going to stay up all night I just wanted that so bad for them yeah I just wanted them to all be tortured because I'm not there. Well, were they going to do that with all these 50-year-olds and stuff? Yeah, why not?

It's the challenge, like Wes says, that weasel. Thank you. Anyways, what would have been cool is if they brought in, like, 80 people and had you try to earn a spot on your era. Earn your spot at the dinner table. That would have been sweet, but they didn't. That would have been cool concept. Because that would have been expensive.

Sure would. But it starts out with some of the old heads chatting it up, which is good to see. You can't deny that having Mark Back on the challenge The flagship for the first time Since what I think was X's One was the last time he was on the flagship It's really cool to see him back

That is an amazing story that he's got You know he said back you know And melt knife ice with his butt That's not all that he could do Definitely not That guy's a tank Absolute unit Yeah Mark is there

Mark should not be taken lightly But you have bananas there saying he wishes he was on their era I was gonna ask you about that So Rachel asked in point blank, how bad do you wish you're on our era? Do you think he wishes he was on that era? 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.