The Zach Nichols Podcast - The Chelsie Baham & Hannah Chaddha Interview and Traitors 4 Episode 1-3 Review! | ZNP EP. 145 & 146

Episode Date: January 16, 2026

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Welcome back to the Zach Nichols podcast. I'm here with the Big C. Alice. That's right. That's right. There's, you know, that's a good one. Never used that, though. Yeah, the Big Cialis. The Blue Chew King.

Nope. Nope. Had to borrow his mom's golf hat for today's pod. That one is accurate. That one is accurate. I did go into my mom's closet and grab this one. No, I've had this one for years. He better bring that to Orlando because that might be your good luck charm.

Maybe. A lot of good things have happened in this hat. The big double men. That's right. That's right. The big piece of gum. How are you? Bro, I am fantastic.

Feeling great. Life is great in 2026 right now. No complaints for me. Actually, I had a few. If, I'm going to tell you something right now. If there ever is a Rivals 4, it's going to be me and Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft Teams is the bane to my existence. I fucking hate Microsoft Teams. In fact, the craziest thing to me is I was thinking today and I'm like it's such a shame that people years ago be like where's business made the bar and the golf course now instead of enjoying ourselves and having meetings on a golf course and talking for what needs to be what five 10 minutes tops and then enjoying ourselves we have to sit in front of a computer screen in Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams is probably a response to. for more lives in the last five years. And I'm not going to finish that sense than a lot of other things. Who's winning in a hall, bro?

You are Microsoft teams. Not Kylan. We saw a video. Yeah, you filmed it, you piece of shit. Oh, maybe. I might have, I might have filmed it by request by some challengers where Theo. Zero champs, by the way.

Zero champs were in that video. There were zero challenge champions in that video. Apparently the best two people to ever do Paul. brawlers, Kyle and Theo. They're not losing to anyone. And let me tell you something. I'll take it from Theo, but not from a guy who has never been in a physical elimination round. Talk about you, Kylan. And also, the other thing was I personally, out of my own bank account, will set up a haul brawl against both of those guys in Fessie because I promise you that menace is a problem. and he's getting paid to compete against people in American gladiator sports,

neither of those guys are walking out without having you to go to a hospital. I mean, whoever wants to take that action, you know, if you really... We're pulling out a mortgage. If you really, like, I'm hoping that they were just kind of doing that to stir the pot because if they truly think that they're going to be not just me, but fessie, they're crazy. Like, they're mentally insane. That guy could bench press each of them.

At the same time in opposite arms. All right. Well, I'm not going to doubt either of them. I think they're both capable. But if you had to put me on the spot and say, make your expert analysis pick, I'm picking Fessie against both of those guys. Unfortunately, for, you know, if anyone cares.

But yeah, that I, fun video to make, though. We had a good time making that. Yeah, dude, you're a loser for that. Listen, they gave me a script. I read the script. I get hired for a gig. What do you want to do?

In Orlando, everyone's getting four mulligans around. You're getting zero. Bro, I'm the one that needs them the most. Yeah, that's true. All right, we have some announcements. First, we just want to talk about programming. Zach, talk about what we're going to be doing in terms of giving them content for the next couple weeks or so. We're smacking you guys with a mouth full of content coming up.

Actually, the tier two part of this episode is a fantastic little treat. So make sure if you're not subscribed to tier two, do that. Yes. If you're on the YouTube, if you're on Patreon free, if you're on tier one, you're going to want to hear tier two. We got Chelsea and Hannah in the building. from Big Brother. Round of applause for them. So it's the off season.

We all know that. But so when it's the off season, we really have no rhyme or reason to who's coming in. Like people that are available that want to come in. They're obviously coming in. But we are going to simultaneously cover vendettas. That's coming at you soon. We're going to do the first episode of that.

We're also going to be covering traders because I feel like if I cover traders, there's a bigger chance to be getting on it. Kaz, hit me up. casting cast. Yeah, where you at, Katz? Because I would be, I'd dominate. Listen, there's three robs on this season. There's no Pierre's and no Zaks. That's bullshit. There's also no Johnny's. Johnny was supposed to be on this season.

Whoa. He got dropped. What? They didn't want to bring on too many gamers. Is what Johnny said in his podcast, uh, this last week that I watched. Um, yeah, they want, he was, uh, slated to go and he got dropped last second. Wow. Too many gamers, but at least he knows he's in the rent, like, he needs to be back. Listen, it's crazy. crazy if he's not.

If you're going to bring Dorenda back, who's an amazing cast member, you've got to bring back the king of the ring, Johnny Bananas. He needs to be on the show. I'm not glazing him. It's just, it needs to happen. No, he needs to be on that show. He needs to be back. He needs to be given another shot because the thing about traders, that's different.

And obviously, Big Brother and Survivor, that's, and I don't know so much about Survivor, but even amazing race. In the challenge, you always have an opportunity to redeem yourself. In Traders, he had zero. control of going home. He was not able to defend himself. He was not able to go and do an elimination round to earn his way back in the house. It's like once someone decides, the traders decide like you're out of there, you're out of there. It'd be different had he gotten voted out by the group and he will, you know, whatever, but he didn't. He showed up and he got voted out because of his status.

I know that that obviously is going to happen to a lot of gamers, which we've seen, but I would like to see him go there because I want I want the jokes and I want the toxicity because there's something cool about a very formal Scottish setting and then just an absolute clown. Correct. Bring in the humor. And we're seeing that with Michael Rapaport. We are. We are.

I love it. Yeah. He's been tremendous. As we said, he's burning hard and fast. But that flame might be coming out soon. There's been some suspicions on him. He's safe right now. So we'll get into all that.

But moving forward with the programming. So that part. While if, for example, let's just say we get a guest, which we have a guest for you next week, which we think you guys are going to enjoy. If we get a guest that is available to come in, we will probably continue to cover those. But if that said person is not on the vendettas, then what we'll do is we're not going to ask him about vendettas because he wasn't there. We're going to just then add that that'll be like a tier two episode. So you'll get me and this bonehead talking about whatever show is currently on the docket. whether that be traitors or vendettas,

and then the tier two will be our guests. So we have actually, we have a crazy schedule moving forward. We do, we do. I like to keep it a secret, but if you want to spill anything, you know, I'm not going to spill anything yet. I think we'll tease it soon,

but what other thing I will say is, if you have not gone to a champ camp yet or a ZMP live show, then guess what? Now is your time to do that, because we are collaborating with, Jordan himself on the Arizona champ camp. We will be down there.

We'll be doing more than we did in the Minnesota one. It's a collaborative effort. So make sure you go to that event. It's February 28th. February 28th. I don't know if we can. I think we're good to talk about it. But basically,

if you want to go to ZMP and you want to go to a champ camp, this is both. Yeah, we're going to be doing a little bit of both. Is this a ZMP? Yeah, it is. Is it a champ camp? Yeah, it's both. We're going to basically be doing,

helping out with the champ camp following. we're going to be doing a live podcast, basically just a question and answer afterwards. If you don't want to compete, you don't have to. There's general admission just to come and hang out with everybody. Yeah, the GA is cool. It's a cool experience, a like six, seven hour experience. It'll be fun. Yeah, it's like going to a challenge but not having to compete, which is what I've always wanted to do.

Correct. So maybe you check into that. We may not have actually been supposed to announce that yet, but fuck it. I don't care. If Jordan has a problem with that, then he knows where we live. Yeah, I'll have to go get a sledgehammer. He knows where we're at. He can call us.

Yeah. Because if it's a golf club, I'll tell you, he'll be in his car crying. Oh, man. Is he ever going to get a win against you? He was 2026 the year? Oh, yeah. I beat him twice now and he's beat me once. Which day?

Oh, the errand day? Well, yeah, when we were at Torrey Pines, he actually ended up beating me that day. But I beat him, I beat him the day before fresh off the plane. Oh, that's right. The difference is... That concludes the free preview of the Zach Nichols podcast. So go to Patreon and subscribe to see the rest of... of the shit that we talk.

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