The Zach Nichols Podcast - Rivals 1 Episodes 5 & 6 Review! | ZNP EP. 111

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

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Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back from vacation. Yes. Good to be back. It's nice to get a little bit of rest from your rest, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're resting, but we're also. We're not. We're hosting, but we're resting. I am not resting. Yeah. I hope, good to be back after that explosive Brandon Nelson interview. It's good to have him here. Yeah, that one was a heater. Yeah, he's, by the time you're hearing this, you know, you've heard it. And it was pretty crazy. crazy, but I don't know what we'll see. He came out of the bullpen like John Rocker, bro. Ready to go. Wild man. Need him back on TV.

Need that energy back on the screen. For sure. For sure. But yeah, man, how's it been, bro? How you been the past week or so? Dude. I'll be a whole lot better when the Knicks get out of it. Yeah, get bounced.

Well, you're pretty close. I've never cheered for Indiana in my life. But I find myself a big fan right now. Fuck Indiana, though. I mean, yeah. I don't like that's how much I dislike the next but if you know something about me you know it's not necessarily the team it's the players on the team the players on the team and I just can't stand Carl Anthony Towns I'm gonna say it to the camera he makes me sick and I honestly I don't like

Jalen Brunson either that's ridiculous I respect the talent yeah you just don't like the character I just don't like the character I don't like the flopping I don't like how every time Brunson and towns go to the basket, they think they get followed. That's just not reality. And the refs aren't going to call every single time you get touched a little bit in the Eastern Conference finals. I love that they're letting them play. They should.

It's fun. It's fun basketball. I hate Tiki Tech follows. And Indiana is probably the best coach team in the NBA. Rick Carlisle, former Piston. He's also a former Celtic. And Maverick. He's got a lot.

He has stars and stripes. He was a journeyman. Jim Carrey clone. He played, dude. Yeah, yeah, he's the man. Oh, you know that. Yeah, I knew that. Yeah, he's a...

I don't know if that was like out of your... No, I knew that. But, yeah, by the time you're hearing this, the Pacers will have probably advanced to the Eastern Conference, or into the NBA finals against the Thunder. So you have a prediction. It's hard for me to go against the Thunder

because they're so young, but they're just so young, but they're just better. I'm just, like, yeah, I just think there's too much gas in the tank there. Yeah, too much energy. Probably. Probably. Probably.

I don't know if the East holds a flame. to the west. Probably not. Probably not. But I think I'm going to go for, I'm going to also put my nod in for the OKC. Okay. How's the home front? We got ready for baby four.

You're never ready, dude. We're geared up. Everyone will be like, what was the hardest transition? Like, zero to one was insane, like crazy. But zero to, or one to two, blew my mind. Two to three blew my mind. So I'm sure this is going to be the exact same thing. Yeah.

Just, you know. I'm actually scared to think about it. Now that you brought it up, I'm starting to sweat. Firecrackers, dude. Yeah, my kids don't listen. What's up with Carmella? How's her personality these days? She's crazy.

She's crazier than Beans. Girls be crazy. I never thought I'd say this. I thought Beans was the worst baby. I'd ever been around in my life. Now she's a sweetheart. Has, yeah, I was going to say, I feel like Beans has turned the corner. She has.

To being more like, she's not a terror anymore. maternal, like, to her sister. No, not so much. So much. No, but she's gotten a lot sweeter for sure. But Carmel is just taken over. Third times of Carm. Yeah, dude.

She's insane. Okay. And she has like a natural mullet. Oh, yeah. That nickel's hair. No, no, no, no, no. Straight natural mullet. Short on the sides, flowing in the back.

I don't know if that's nickel's hair. I don't know. She looks most like Nichols than the other two. Yeah, she does look like me. She's pure niz. But actually, it's funny because she looks just like Anthony. So I don't know. Who knows?

Well, see how it shakes. All right, well, rivals, episode five, we are back to the house. This is a heater. Yeah, there's some action here. After the Brandon and tie elimination with Wes and Kenny, it starts out with this drinking game, playing cards. They're having fun. And they show Adam, try to give Jen a little smooch. When's the last season where they showed, like, playing?

They don't really show like the stuff in the house. The hangout. The hang out. They show a little bit of like the parties that they have, but like they don't show like the card games. games, probably because it's too raunchy for primetime TV. Maybe. I don't know. We love this.

I love this. I like getting, I want to know what the energy is inside the house. Like what is the, who's getting along with who? Who's playing games with who? I'm trying to think, like, they do show house reality still. Yeah, of course. But, you know. But this is like, this is like summer camp.

Like this is an old school challenge still. This is like your eighth grade trip. Yeah. That's how you feel watching. You definitely feel a shift like in the, it's like in the modern. era now. Yeah. You know, it's like the Jets and watching the Flintstones.

When people say like, oh, it's like all about the competition now. Like this is, I get what they're saying now. Because it's like, we miss this where it's like kumbaya. Always talking about game. Yeah. And the only time we really see how like that type of reality is like, but they do go out and they have house parties and stuff and whatever. But they don't show like the details of what they're doing.

It's more like people. They show the game conversations. The game combos. Yeah. Yeah. I like a little bit of the raunchiness. It's not going to lie. Yeah, this is, where's this Venezuela?

A little bit of the steak and cheese.com. Do you remember that? No, what's, is that a, is that inappropriate? Remember E-Bom's World? Yes, E-Bom's World for sure. It was, like, kind of like that. A-Busite. Ish.

Ish. Yeah. E-Bom's World was dope. Yeah. Did you already the soundboards? No. Oh, geezer. I used to play bubble trouble on mini-clip, though.

That was my shit, bubble trouble. But anyways, okay, so. Did you ever play Oregon Trow? Oregon Trail, no. That makes me feel so old. Michael, Oregon Trail? Oh, he doesn't, yeah. You're the old man in the room, yeah.

Sorry, Charlie. Put us in the comments. Put us in the comments. What games you used to play if you played Oregon Trail, E bombs world. Put in the comments, we want to know. I also want to know,

what was your first gaming system? I played, no, no, I played the original place, but it was 64 that I owned was 64. Okay, that was the first one. Besides a Game Boy. Besides like the original Game Boy, it's 64. 64 was the last one that I owned. Yeah.

The first one that I owned was Atari. One stick, one button, played Frogger at my cousins. That was basically the one that we had. And then I got my uncles, NES, regular Nintendo, with the Duck Hunter, that one. The orange gun and shit. Then Christmas, in second grade, I got Super Nintendo. And that's basically where I peaked. Yeah.

There. The Donkey Kong game on that console. Donkey Kong was dope. Super Nintendo. Super Mario World. I could beat the whole world, all the crazy other places, Star Worlds. Bro. The other game, Turtles and Time.

I think that was regular Nintendo. I don't know nothing about that. Okay. Dude, that system, GoldenEye, oh, GoldenE was 64. I got 64, but I peaked on Super Nintendo. Yeah. Pull it out.

I don't have it. it anymore. We got it. We got it. We can get it. You can get all that stuff. Yeah, it's crazy. But isn't it funny, like, how this is from 2010, that was like our, I don't know, for me, that was like my high school, college prime, but it looks like way older than that. Yeah, this was like the year. This is like right when I was getting done with college-ish. It looks like it's 30 years ago, but it's only 15. See, but it's crazy. That's how I know I'm old because when I'm watching it, it doesn't, like, I think that's like when I was a kid, though. And so that's what I think of when I think of like young people. When I see young people nowadays, I'm like, what is that creepy-ass creature and what world is it from? They were the worst pants. Today, right? Oh, yeah. The worst pants ever, this generation. They're either, they're either like skin tight or they're-

I don't know. The weirdest, the fashion trends, like, I'm stuck in this era's fashion trends, too, I think. So I'm like, are you officially Mr. Nichols or do you introduce yourself as Zach? I'm Zach, but I'm, you're bordering Mr. Nichols. Oh, I identify as Mr. Nichols. I introduce myself with Zach, but I identify as Mr. Nichols. Hey, hey, Mr. Nichols.

Yeah. I got a lot of, I got a lot of grain in the face here. Oh, dude, that's a fine. That is a fine. Damn it. I don't know who this could be. The girl in the friends don't answer it. Should be answered?

You're not busy. Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? It's probably that hooker service. That's what it sounds like calling you back. All right.

My name is Sky. Oh, that's exactly what it was. Skyler. One of those phone sex accounts you hit up. Worst Catholic ever. Disgusting. Skyler. You make me sick.

Okay. Skyler, I paid my dues. He's a monthly fee guy. Yeah, speaking of paying your dues, Adam, he's trying to pay his dues. He said in his interview that he's got a crush. Like, talk about this is how this is like, he got played on national.

Big time plate. Yeah. Yeah. At the beginning of the episode, I mean, he said he had a crush on her for three years. I feel the same way, even though I've only seen her for three weeks. She proceeds at this point, gets naked, jumps into the pool. Who knows if that's even what he was looking at in that moment, but it guy, production did him dirty. He's drooling.

He's drooling, dude. Yeah, it's like when you get, you're getting the dog's food ready, you put the in the bowl and you turn around. They're just drooling. That's what he was doing. Oh, yeah. Slobbering. Dude, I never wanted to get caught in that position. Laurel joins him, joins her, Mandy joins her, Paula joins her, and of course, Tyler joins her.

So have you witnessed anything like this? Yes. Naked pool parties? Yes. Who's the most infamous? Well, 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.

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