The Zach Nichols Podcast - The Chuck Mowery Interview! | ZNP EP. 176

Episode Date: July 20, 2026

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Hey guys. This is Chuck from Chuck and Big D. I'm on the Zach Nichols podcast talking about my time on the challenge, how I got fucked, how I have one of the only stats ever in challenge history. And yeah, tune in, check it out. All right, welcome back to the Zach Nichols podcast Saturday edition. Big thanks to Chuck Maori for coming all the way. Hey, how are we doing?

I thought you're coming from Atlanta. Nope. But you came from Dubai. Dubai. All right, you want to tell us all what you're doing out in Dubai? nowadays. Yeah. So I've been in the dive world, the scuba dive world now since, I guess, before you even started reality TV. Man, it's been like, what year is it? I guess like 15 years. Yeah, it's 2026. Yeah. Like 15 years now or so. So yeah, I'm, uh, I got a really good opportunity

to help run a dive program over in Dubai now. So, you know, I got a team of like 30 guys and a couple mermaids. There you go. A professional mermaid rangler. That's right. In the house. I'm the Murr manager. The Murr manager.

Is that what it says on your office door? It says on my coffee cup. Does it? That's legit. That's legit. I'm sure they're not too hard on the eyes. Professional mermaid. But, Chuck, did you know that you have a challenge stat that nobody else actually has?

I did not know. Do you want to know what it is? I am dying tonight. All right. You are the only challenger in. in the history of the show to be on the show and never actually get to compete in a single daily or a single elimination

or the only person to ever be on the challenge to not go into the main house. Round of applause because that's Hall of Fameworthy. And you know what? I'll be the first to tell you it is not your fault. Oh, my God. The amount of sleepless nights I've had. It's just ridiculous, man.

I just can't imagine like in your head, You get the call. You get confirmed. You're like, finally. Brain, train, lift. Yes. I get to show every one what I'm worth. And then you get buried at the bottom of the hill.

They have Brittany. That's where they screwed you over. Yeah. I mean, if you want to get into that, it was. Yeah, let's get right into that. It gives deeper than that. So first off, on Are You the One, I was the challenge master. I won more challenges on my season of Are You the One than anybody else.

Right. So I was like, I'm built for this. Yeah. I got this. And when I got the... Which is impressive now because for those you don't know, Devin. Devin.

Nelly. Ellie. Amanda was on that season. Brittany, obviously. What other? Cheyenne. Cheyenne, who's Corey's baby mama and mom. So a pretty...

Pretty good tack. It was stacked. It was stacked. Yeah, yeah. Multiple season challengers on that show. Are the cops here? The cops. So before the cops took Mike out and he...

strip searched them. We were talking about how stacked his season was. Chuck was the challenge master on a season, which is impressive because Devin's good at challenges. That's a challenge champion. That's some big elimination rounds. And then you get called to do the challenge. Well, first, after Ari the one, Brittany and I were together.

Right. And you guys were not perfect matches. We were not perfect matches. On the show or in real life. Yeah. Yeah, that couldn't have gone downhill faster. but then we ended up moving to Georgia and she got the first call and I did get a call. And that stings.

I was like, what the fuck, dude? I got all of these stats. This chick just sit on my couch all day smoking weed and she's going and I'm out here training every day. I'm not going, what the fuck? I made a call too, which probably didn't help my case at all. But I was pissed. It doesn't.

Yeah. Yeah. So I learned. Yeah. And that's, I think I got a target on my back. But yeah. So then she went out and did her thing. But then not only she did 30, 31.

So she did back to back two. Did you get a call for 31? Not even availability call. I didn't get anything until 32. Yeah. And then when I got it, I was like, okay, finally, you know. And by that time, Brittany and I were broken up. Right.

And so I knew what my role was going to be going on there. And there was no doubt in your mind that that was your partner going into the house. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I had a really good idea. I was really, really hoping that. Did we know that it was going to?

be like that and not until they split us up yeah okay but they knew that they were bringing you in there with brittany and brad and their new thing yeah yeah i was really praying that i was going to get linked up with devon because he was there initially he was there at the beginning until things went south yeah um but we all knew like it was going to be you with your exes or whatever it was and so i was prepared for that and then then uh filming got delayed for a couple days Yeah. Oh, because that yes. We were so we were in that hotel for what three or four days? Yeah, where we filmed. Yeah, and I was roomed with bananas Well, I had CT. We would just literally watch time time lifetime movies all night long neither of us would sleep. We just sit there and watch like all these movies back to back. Yeah, bananas just taught me how to how to clean my Twitter feed from anything He's the best. He's the best at that make it look pearly white. I forgot how long. I forgot how long.

we were in that hotel, but that, I don't know what night, but somewhere in that night was when Devin found out his dad passed. And then he was out. Then I think we waited a few days because they had to get, you know, yeah. But he still didn't show up until after that challenge. But anyways. Yeah. Yeah.

So we were at the hotel. And then the morning we went to compete, we went and they did like the meeting thing. And they split us into two groups. And we went to the top of them out. And Brittany was in that group. And I don't think at that point, I still didn't know. what the theme was going to be. And then at the top, they told us,

and they probably said the same thing at the bottom, they were like, you're going to dig out your partner. And I was like, okay. And then we're all, but I thought I was going to be with Brittany because I lied to her face and threw her in the season before, and she went home. I threw her in against Laurel. And she went home, so I'm like, I'm going to be with Brittany.

And then when I wasn't with Britney, I was like, okay, I'm going to be with Brad. Yeah. But then Brittany was up at the top of the mountain, which we sat up there for like eight hours to wait until dark, dark. Yeah. And that's when we started it. But where you got screwed over because it makes no sense why they wouldn't put you with our group because you would have been front.

There's no way you're going to lose that game. No. Well, there's no reason I should have lost even then because 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.