The Zach Nichols Podcast - The Nia Moore Interview | ZNP EP. 80

Episode Date: November 27, 2024

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Hey guys, it's Naya, and I'm here on the Swamp Docky podcast, talking all things challenge. Welcome back to the Zach Nichols podcast. I'm here with everyone's favorite near-sighted gynecologist, the big fetichini. Yeah, I know my way around. More importantly, long-awaited, one of my favorite challengers, Naya, more. Give it up. Give it up. Thank you guys.

Thank you for having me. I looked up your middle names. Multiple? She's got two. What? Break it now. From probably like 1930, the origin of those? Let me guess.

Ethel. No. Grude. Well, kind of close. Yeah. It's actually one of my favorite names. What is it? One of my favorite people.

Patricia. Very close. Go ahead. You could tell you. If you don't want us to tell you. It's Ebony Pearl. Ebony Pearl. Ebony Pearl.

That's great. One of my favorite human beings is named Pearl. Interesting. In the world. Ebony Pearl, where did that come from? My father, he named me after my great-a-unt. Okay, okay. What's our pop-s?

Yeah. That's up-ups in your day-to-day-to-right? I am. My dad's my best friend. Okay, okay. Before we start, though, I do want to start out by saying, I do not appreciate that you did not have my beverage of choice waiting for me when I got here. Sweat?

Yeah. Yours. Let's get right. Wasn't that? I literally had. Let's get it. right into it. How cute are you with the snort? Oh my gosh. Don't make me fall in love in front of everybody. It probably sounds so bad in this mic. It'll make me fall in love in everybody.

Talk about it. Well, so to be honest with you, that was, I was in the gym. We were in Panama. So I would sweat walking around at that point. And Naya lost her wallet. And she was like, I don't even know how it got brought up, but you were like basically would you, I don't even know if you asked, like, do you need money? And you're like, well, yeah, we're going out. night. I'm like, all right, if you drink this sweat, I'll buy you drinks all night. And you're like, done. And I was like, no, you're no way. And I was able to ring out like a coffee cup a lot full of sweat. And she took it. It was like a double shot for sure. Oh, dude, it was like eight ounces. It was like this. Brown. Yeah, it was brown. It was from my tank top that I've been

working out in. So gross. That was washed in Panamanian, probably the ocean. And she, she downed it. No. You puked though. No. No. So let me set the record straight. I did not swallow that. surprisingly because I usually do but that particular time I did not swallow it I put it in my mouth and then I just spit it out but regardless it was disgusting but I just don't back down from a bet and I also just wanted to do it for the shock

value and it was hilarious like as you could see like even Zach it was his sweat and he was gross I guess I was gonna puke yeah I'm gonna throw up right now it was it was body temp so I did he's like warm bath water I didn't understand the whole thing and when I first said it I was like

you know I wasn't a fanz I was like knee and everyone's like I was like, okay. I had a lot of money on my cash on me that season. So I was like, yeah, you get drinks all night. So the way he described it was like you didn't hit you for some reason you didn't have money and you're just a very independent person in general. And now that I've gotten to know you, I totally understand. You're like, I ain't asking nobody for nothing.

I'm going to earn it. And you're like, yeah, I'll do. I was like, oh, man. I wouldn't do that again. But it was, it was wild times. You know, 23 year old me was a lot different than 35 year old Naya. Gosh, that was 12, 13 years ago, 12 years ago, wow. Well, maybe in the beverage department, but you have aged like fine wine.

What is the secret to your? I mean, it's very easy, very easy. We'll come a factual. We'll talk about all that, but yeah, so. I was wondering where we're going to start this one. I am just in awe. I am in awe. And I will drool later, but when is the first time you guys met each other?

Free agents. Yeah. Free ages. Naya was walking around literally sucking her thumb, taller than everybody in the house. And I was like, whoa, what is going on? And you also made a comment about how I was never enclosed. You're like, this girl is always in her bra and panties.

Literally, the whole, I would say the only time you put clothes on was four challenges. Other than that, she was walking around the house in her bra and panties sucking her thumb. That's how I am at anywhere in the world, even on the real world, even at home. I'm just, I hate clothes. Yeah, you didn't change for anybody. No, I did not. That doesn't sound fun at all to be around, at all. You missed out.

All right, well, good news is we do have Instagram, and I can't wait to talk about all your ventures and your personal adventures. But first, we're going to talk about some accolades. I must say, I would say of any challenger that posts food, yours is the most delicious looking. Like some of the stuff that you make, I'm like, that will put me, I would eat that and fall asleep. Yeah.

That's the goal. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. No, for sure. We're going to be talking all about that, but let's talk about the acclades. We have five challenge seasons. We also have a final.

There's some people that are still on this season right now that have never been to a final. But we got Naya going to a final. Round of applause for the finalist in the house. We got multiple daily wins, elimination record in the positive, five and three. Let's go. And then with the original show, Real World Portland with, you know, you got a, You came in, you came in with a huge bang and you maintained that for the entire season. These accolades are funny.

Is that, is that whole page accolades? Pretty much. Yeah. No, for sure. This whole thing is actually. No, no, no. The last couple, the last couple pages are just like, pure, like, pretending he's typing, just like a bunch of scribbles.

So, yeah, your first boyfriend said, no, I'm just, just playing. But, so let's start right away with the real world. Okay. What did you know about the whole, the whole? the whole experience. Did you want to go on it? Did they find you? Talk about how you got on the real world. So when I graduated from college, everyone was at graduation saying, oh, I'm going to go be a lawyer. I'm going to go to med school. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. What are you going to do? And I was like, I don't know. I'm just going to go on the real world. And everyone kind of

looked at me and was like, what? Like, so unsurious, right? Did you watch the real world? No. But I knew the concept. And to me, it was like just an excuse to go somewhere and party and be confined to a space where that is all I was expected to do. I was. I wasn't expected to get a real job. I wasn't expected to get serious. And so I had a full volleyball scholarship. I didn't owe anybody any money. I was fortunate enough to have that.

Debt free. That's a way to go. Debt free. And we've been in school since we were in kindergarten with no break. So I'm like, why do I have to immediately choose to like go into adulthood when I can kind of just pause here and like enjoy life? Absolutely. And so I was like, that's what I'm going to do. I'm just going to be a cocktail waitress and go in the real world.

And the power of the tongue, that is exactly what happened. So I went back to Atlanta. I became a cocktail waitress. Randomly, not even in pursuit of, and a real world casting, I find out about one at a bar close to where I'm at. And I go and it just kind of took off from there. I made it to the final. And then they called me like two weeks later and they're like,

hey, we're going in a different direction. And I was like, in the time, I was at a fight with my then boyfriend. So I picked up the phone. I'm like kind of out of breath. I'm like, hello. And they're like, hey, we want to let you know, we love you. But like, you're just not a good fit for this season. But we're going to keep you mind for something else.

I'm like, okay, great. Thank you, thank you, thank you, bye. I hang up. They're probably like, wait a second. That was not the response we expected. I didn't care. I knew that I was going. I just, they were going to have to figure it out. I know this sounds crazy. I had already decided when I was on campus at graduation that I was going on this show, even if I wasn't gun ho and meticulous about how I was going to get on it, I was lighthearted in my conviction, but it was still conviction. So I was like, I'm going to go do this, but I didn't care about how I was going to do it. So all those things just naturally happened. So even when they said no,

I remember at the end of that argument with my boyfriend that was unrelated, I said, I'm still going, they're going to have to figure out how I get, like, when I'm coming. And three weeks later they call me and they said, do you still want to come? And I'm like, my backs are already packed. Well, yeah, then you decided to pretend you were a Southern Bell

and everyone was like a white woman. I was trying to sound like what I'm not. Well, you sounded the exact opposite. Yeah. And they were like, oh my gosh, she's going to like want to cook with me and bake with me. And then like it was so funny because when you walked in there all like, what? It's like cities looking tall black girl who's not like a country little southern bell. Like I just to me, I was like if I'm going to show up late, let me surprise them all.

I don't want to just let them know like what's coming through the door. Yeah. And just having fun with it. And so that was just my natural personality, just to be a prankster. I will say when I arrived, I absolutely thought. we were going to have a good time and party because that's what I had seen from the brief times that I watched the real world it was not that these people were not having fun no your season was like where's the vibe was just on the floor when I arrived and it really didn't come up

you didn't even have you know what I said you couldn't even spice it up Portland's not like a big party city is it yeah like I didn't I didn't get that like sense that it was a huge party city no and they didn't want us there so I was told that the city was not supportive of us filming the real world there and their whole thing is keep Portland weird and they were throwing tomatoes through our windows some nights. They wouldn't let us

film at 99% of the places we wanted to go. I got hit with a bottle. Like someone drove by us in San Diego and threw a bottle at me and it shattered on my leg. A beer bottle. Luckily I was wearing... Why do you think people hated on people that went on the real jealousy? Back then walking around like a bunch of young

kids. We were like young, broke kids with a huge camera crew following them. The camera's like, we were Jersey Shore or something. They're huge. Yeah, they're like not sticks, lighting everything. So it was disruptive to a lot of people and people were just hating.

I think people are jealous. What the hell do they think they are? Yeah. Like, why is a camera following them? Right. Yeah. I want to ask you, where did you go to college and like what was your, one thing that I love about you is that you are both at the same time, a proud black woman, but also so

welcoming and so open arms to everybody you meet. So like, what was your upbringing in terms of like culturally, like, were you around a multi, you know, a multicultural area or mostly, tell me about that. How did you grow up? 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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