The Zach Nichols Podcast - Rivals 1 Episode 1 Review! | ZNP EP. 108

Episode Date: May 16, 2025

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Welcome back to the Zach Does Crack podcast. Just getting Zach Nichols podcast. I'm here alone today. Pierre is taking a dump. It's going to take him a couple hours. Oh my gosh, man. I hear his fucking stuff. Wait, wait.

Oh my dude. You're a freaking mess. I just called Pierre the world's biggest five-year-old. He literally ties his shoes like a five-year-old. He has buzzed like here around his neck. My hair's all on this fucking microphone. And he calls his condo the Wonderland. That's a lie.

That part is. I know. That's probably the most believable thing of all of it. You see, I didn't have a problem with anything else that you said, but don't, don't, you know what I'm saying? The condos, the condos has been good. Condo's been good to us. But not us. I've only been there like once.

I stay out of it. It's been good to me. I stay out of the sinful lair. Anyways, you would walk in there and I'd be like, what amount of money? Are you willing to bet that a Catholic lives in this apartment? And they would literally be like, everything I own my house. Why? I was so Catholic about my spot.

No, I'm saying. they would think it wasn't a Catholic place. Oh, they would think it wasn't. That's a little, that's a little too far on the other side, but okay. You are one of the world's worst Catholics. Bro, that's such BS. That's such BS, bro. You're gonna say, you say B shit?

That's B shit, dude. That's bull garb, dude. That's excrette. Well, I'm, okay, what? What's not true? You're a bad Catholic. You're a terrible Catholic. That's not sure.

Okay, you're in the bottom 20th percent. No, no, I refuse. I will not abide by this, by this belief system. I am a good Catholic. I'm an okay Catholic. I'm all right, Catholic. I'm not that bad Catholic. I'm all right.

See beginning of Catholicism. You know there's a new pope today. Yeah. Did you hear about this? Yeah, Leo, but his name's not even Leo. He's 69 years old. American Pope. Shout out to USA.

Can I get a round of applause for America, please? Love America. American Pope. How do they, I have no idea how the Pope works. And we're not going to talk about it because guess what? No one in that's listening to this probably care. They care. They care. I mean, they care, but not, they didn't, they didn't sign on to listen to this to hear you talk about the Pope.

I'm jacked about it. What's, what? Then I can proceed my. What's more mediocrity. Okay. In Catholicism. You're closer to, you're closer. You're close to average, but you're still below average as it goes.

So if the scales like this and this is in the middle Catholics, you're definitely below that. I'll give you that. Good news for me. Well, you can still go down, but. Christ loves the sinner. He loves him a sinner. Oh, he forgives. He loves him.

Dude, he was hanging out with prostitutes and murderers. Dude, that's how we all should live. So I need to do more messed up stuff. I still love you. I still love you, but by loving you, I'm holding you accountable. But appreciate it. You can still go down, but there's a lot of more room to get better.

All right. Anyways. Let's also on the docket. What's the relationship status? Oh, my gosh. We're a second date update right now. Yeah, let's get the second date update. Just kidding.

We won't talk about that. No, no, we'll keep it. quick. No, no, no. By the time you're hearing this, like, you're actually going to hear tomorrow. Let's just say you can sexte pierre again. He's open to sexting. I'm not happy about it. And he has, he has self-induced sleep apnea. That has not been confirmed. He's got a retest. For the right of this time. Okay, so no details, but Pierre had a sleep apnea test the other day and he decided to stay up all night. I'm sure you want to tell people why.

No, I'm not going to. I'm not that bad. I was nefarious, so I didn't get enough sleep. I was doing nefarious activities and I didn't get enough sleep for my sleep. He was doing hood rat shit with his friends. But, but, but when I turned it in, because I originally they told me it has to be four hours of sleep. And they're like, she looks at it and she goes, three and a half, now you're probably good. You're probably good.

They're going to let me know. So who knows, I might have sleep apnea. I might be bane in the near future. Then he's going to traveling with you's going to be that much of. worse. Do you know how bad it's going to be to travel with you at that point? You're going to need three suitcases. Buddy, we'll hire help. It's all good. All right? We can have them bring the whole fucking caboose like Aladdin, you know, coming in with the elephants. You're going to be the guy that you're going to get an hyperbaric chamber to sleep in. But then you need special

PJs. Yeah, well, you know. Shout out Oxford Center. Do you know what that? Being a three, four XL, you always need custom PJs at my size. So that's not a problem. They can't be made out of certain materials in those chambers. Oh, shit. We got to go see the suit lady like in the No, for real. That's actually serious right now. A hyperbaric chamber and Troy exploded with the kid in there. So that's why I said shout out Oxford Center. Oh, shit, dude.

Yeah, I'm sorry about that. Me too. That situation. But what we're doing is we are giving you guys a blast from the past and we're going to go over rivals one. And what's cool about this is I've seen it multiple times. This was like when I became locked in on the challenge because this season of rivals filmed right before I filmed the real world. So by the time I got out of the real world, this had been airing that summer.

So I binged it because I was like, dude, I'm on next season, even though I wasn't. That sucked. But I was fired up. I thought I was going to be on the next one. So I was like, I'm in, I'm locked in.

And then I kind of started watching a bunch of seasons at that point. So I know quite a bit. And I know quite a bit of the people. And you know a few of them too. So what I want to do before we get into it, just for funsies, let's go over the teams. I like that.

And you tell me, like, as someone who doesn't know, I mean, you didn't look up the, the, you don't really know the results, right? Not really. Okay, but you, you, sort of, but yeah. Maybe we'll go over the teams and you tell me how you think they'll compete as a team. Okay. Because they're, you know, it's pretty fresh to you.

But from what you know and kind of being a challenge fan, let's just assuming that you don't, have you even seen every episode, like who's going to be the teams that you think are going to be the winners, who's going to be the elimination people, not who's going to win because that's, everyone knows that, but like just what you think of them as a team. Yeah, no, for sure. Okay, we'll go through it. So, obviously, I know,

the way that people speak of Johnny. And, you know, it's bananas and Tyler. It's bananas and Tyler. You know, I don't know much. I don't know much. Their beef started on the,

they were on the same real world season. Their beef started on their first challenge they did together. Yes. They had a good amount of people from Key West and Johnny was like, hey, we have to stay together. And then basically Tyler got chosen

to go into elimination round. And as someone who's from your season, you would think, they're not going to call me out. It was a dual one, I think. It was dual one because they were calling people out. And was the duel? It was dual.

And Tyler called Johnny out because I think that's what the group wanted. And I think he was trying to get in with the older guys. He threw Johnny. And so their beef started there. And they kind of just, and then Johnny came back on the next season and got Tyler thrown out right away. Man, Johnny gets a bad rap. Like, he gets betrayed a lot. Well, yeah, that's kind of how it started.

So he did that because CT was there. There was a bunch of big hitters there. And they were like throwing the rookies. but then a rook, they didn't realize that that's how it was going to get voted in. And when Tyler got thrown in, he should have called out someone else because he knows Johnny's never going to say his name. Yeah. Because they're from original season. So that's where it started.

And then they just had this like tick for tech relationship from there. So I did make notes on the intros. I'll say, I don't know how they're going to perform. I will say the intro was more like pissed off brothers than rivals. You know what I mean? Like I didn't really see it as a rival, just from the initial. I don't know. Like Johnny could have been with a few different people.

I mean, he could have been with Wes. He could have been with several people from the island. Yeah. Okay. So very next, we see Evelyn and Paula. Now, at the introduction. And at this point, Paula's been on like seven challenges and never won. She hasn't broken through.

No, she hasn't broken through. So like she's kind of known as like the perennial losing. She's always, she gets good to the end. Then she gets eliminated. It's funny. You said that. She's giving me nony energy in terms of I'm here to play. I'm loved.

I want to win. really badly. She's got her fingers crossed and it's Evelyn and she's stoked, you know. Evelyn is, you know, highly regarded in this first episode as somebody that everyone consumes is the number one contender. So I'm assuming, you know, obviously, you know, first episode, they already won elimination. So, um, second. What's crazy is that they even were the first team to get last and go in. Yeah. That's what was crazy. It was. A bit of a shock. It was. Yeah. Especially when you go to the ticker, especially when you go to the timer. Yeah. You know, so next team I got here is Kenny and Evan.

I'm sorry, Kevin, Kenny and Wes, my bad. So now one thing that I loved about watching this episode, and we'll get through it later, but Kenny is like, that's why they say he's the new bananas. He's the whole episode. Or bananas is the new Kenny. Yeah, well, yeah, exactly. Banana is the new Kenny.

The entire episode is Kenny talking shit. Yeah, Kenny's hysterical. And Kenny is basically like the way I saw it is. Kenny is likable. he talks a lot of shit but he's like likable in the way he does it. It's almost like how Knight had that they could say whatever they wanted

and get away with it. That's how you, what you see from him. Right. That chicks love him, the guys want to be him. He's the captain of the football team and then they're pairing him against CT

who's essentially the bad boy wears a leather jacket, drives a corvette, and gets like sneaky hot girls. They're pairing Kenny with Wes. With West. No, no, I'm saying like I feel like they're building this rivalry,

this Kenny CT rivalry and the big scheme. That's how you're, feel about watching it for the first time? For the first time. That's how it looks. But I can't tell you how I felt. I didn't probably, was probably way too young to even think like that. Yeah. But with Wes, it's classic, it's classic Wes being, you know, I know it all. But at the same time, now he's not the lot of his voice in the room. Now Kenny's a lot of voice in the room. What's crazy is though that. That concludes the free preview of the Zach Nichols podcast. So go to Patreon

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