The Zach Nichols Podcast - The Shane Landrum Interview! | ZNP EP. 105

Episode Date: April 25, 2025

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Hey guys, it's Shane. You need to watch Zach Nichols' podcast with Mr. Pierre over here because I give you the shit you've never heard before. Welcome back to the Zach Nichols podcast. I'm here with the big vettuccini. That's right. But more importantly, the star of all stars five, Shane Landrum. One of the stars. One of the stars.

But what I will say was, and you know this, I was really excited when I saw that you were on this cast. Thank you. Because you're just pure entertainment. Thank you. And it's even better when you're in the house watching all of it and not just getting the 2%. But because I actually reached out to you and told you I was really excited. And then it started. And I'm like, dang, Shane's being a wallflower.

Yeah. But you made up for it. Thank you. But anyways, Pierre, go ahead. We got to introduce. Oh, yeah. I mean, we're going to start these shots. We're given to us by our good friend Greg.

Shout out to Greg. I know he's going to be super excited. He always wants everybody to drink this because it's his favorite thing. from Chicago. So if you guys want to do it, I'm not, but have fun. What's it called? Malort. Malort liquor. I've heard of this. Malort liquor in Chicago, bottled and produced. So shout out to Greg. It's getting drunk. My brother's like tekeels. Tekeels O'Neill's on it. Oh, Michael wants a shot. It reminds me of honey whiskey. That's what I'm like cinnamon, honey. Rubbing alcohol is probably going to burn right through me. Here we go. To Shane. Yeah, to Shane. To the podcast.

Thank you, man. Thank you for being here all the way from. D.C. Everybody's taking them down. How's it going down? You got a coffee. Oh, that is. Wow. Delicious.

Is this a paid sponsorship? No. Oh, this is hell on earth. Dude. It burns and then the aftertaste is like... Was you sealed? Yes. Okay, good.

I didn't check. Yeah, they both are. No, like that... Sorry, Greg. The aftertaste burns and it's kind of like I drink. Turpentine. Yes. Have you ever had that?

I've never drank it. As a kid, I used to huff it. It's a bad day to start huffer glue. Oh, man. Well, that's a great place to start. I do want to talk about your upbringing and how you got out of the challenge. But first, all right. You all right?

No, I'm good. All right. Well, first, we got some flowers that we need to give out. I got to talk about these accolades. Okay, we got Shane Londonman the building. OG of OGs. Am I saying that correctly? Road ruler.

Oh, road ruler. No, I want the right way. I, because I, you know, there was the little social media back, well, there was a lot social media attacks from Frank. So I had a few responses. And in the course of one of my responses, I've been on every single era of the challenge. You've competed in every era?

Yep. Zero. So your first season was- Johnny can even say that. I was era one, error two, error three. So you did a single digit challenge, like zero through nine. Yeah, Battle of Sexes was era one. That was my first challenge.

And then era two was fresh meat one. and then era three was the invasion of the champions and then era four was Final Reckoning. Ladies and gentlemen, the only people who have been on TV longer than Shane Landrum are the fucking Simpsons. Suck our asses, Kardashians. A road ruleser, holding it down.

One of the OG original shows. Honestly, road rules was like growing up, like watching... I still want my accolades. Yeah, but road rules? I felt being on Road Rules was so much more superior than being on the real world because, like, you weren't just, like, laying in the house being like, you know. But anyways, back to the accolades. No, I did work. Thank you.

Big work. And I want to pronounce it right. Because, you know, we got you here. What's the right way to pronounce it? Land Drum. Landrum. Is that not what I said? No, I was, that was mine.

You had that accent on the first part of the last part. Okay. So Shane Landrum in the building. We got nine challenge seasons and two. an All Stars or Champs for Stars and then All Stars rival nine. And in those nine, 39 daily wins. You're winning like four or five per season. Like, well, on some.

On average. Not on All Stars 5. Not on All Stars 5. With some money, one, you got 18,500 with the original show Road Rules Campus Cross. So talk about growing up and how the hell did you get on TV. Yeah. So first, the headphones are, I'm not yelling.

No, no, you're not. You're perfect. I just yelled. That's probably why. Everyone scared of them was probably burst. Because I said, suck my ass, Kardashian. Zach has been too long. It's nice to hear your voice. It is.

It is. It is. Pleasure. It is nice to be with you, Shane, because, like I said, I think you're one of the most entertaining people on TV. Back at you, obviously. I can't wait to get into some Final Reckoning stuff. So the, I was like Zach.

I loved Road Rules. I didn't want to be on Real World. And I was, this is so long ago, but I was the first gay male to be. on that show. Round of applause. That's back when they thought gay men were weak, that sort of stuff, so showed up in casting.

They say out gay man because there's been some questionable people before me. We're doing that. But anyways, anyways, I've always thought if OG fans are here, if you remember Noah who used to play the guitar in the RV, that's who I always thought maybe was,

is one of the community. But Noah, if you're watching, so sorry if you're not. So the, I was 20, I sent in my videotape, like the traditional way they used to do back in the day. BHS, right? Correct. Oh, yeah, VHS.

And I made mine stand out if you've ever, like, taken a brown paper bag and burned the edges to make a wanted sign for Halloween or something, like a cowboy party. I know straights don't do themes like gays do. But I did that on the outside and I had a picture on it and I was like wanted for road rules. I think that helped me stand out. That's smart.

But you know what? It didn't do enough because I went through way more interviews than the other cast members. They had like five. I had nine. Did it to make sure. Yeah. And then they flew me out to L.A. And I was such a wild child.

I even on the final interview, I was convinced I wasn't going to be on the show. and they did the whole, if you watched it back in the day, you can't go out with someone from Biedeman Murray, but an editor came and slipped me his number while I was at that final interview. So I texted, no,

I don't even know cell phones exist. No, cell phones did, but I paid for that text, I guess. Yeah. T9, 10 cents.

Yeah, right? Well, I was out of my range because I was in L.A., so there was probably more. Like a quarter. You were roaming.

You were roaming. Yeah. So the, guy was like, I can't take you, but this guy, Ben Sallee, who was a former Bueyman Murray employee who did like making the band, and he ended up being the tour manager for Brittany. So I got to go see, we have been friends for a long time since then, but he took me out to L.A. I mean, we were out until six, seven in the morning. And as we were pulling into the hotel for me to get ready to get on my flight to go home, the Bueheman Murray employee waiting for

me recognized Ben. And so at the airport, they called me, they told me, you're, you the rule. You're not on the show. Yeah. And I was like, whatever, fuck off. I don't really care. I really didn't think I had it. I got mine. Yeah. At that point, I was like, I'm a nerd. I never thought I was anything special. And flew home and a week later, they were like, can you leave in a week? And that was on the show. Yeah. That's what happened. Wow. So it was that undeniable. You break rules. And then they're like, wait, that's actually what we want. Is someone who's going to break the rules? Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. So, uh, that's awesome. So, uh, One question I love asking anyone that's an MTV kid is when you're on that level, MTV was the biggest thing in teen, you know, in teen and an older, young adult culture.

You're one in a million. How did it feel to be one in a million coming from where you came from? I always felt like I didn't belong. I really felt that way. It took me. So we filmed Road Walls. I thought it was a joke. Like I thought it was a big prank.

and like, like, it wasn't real. Yeah. It was, this is before Ashton. So there was. Always before that show. Right when Joe Millionaire, do you remember Joe, do you know, Joe Millionaire was this reality show, phenomenal show. They convinced all these women that this guy, Joe was a millionaire, but he was really a construction worker. And they vied for his million dollars.

And at the end of the show, he actually, like, banged this girl in the woods. It was one of the best reality shows. You got to go back and find it. So he got to get ass off of being rich when he wasn't. Yeah. And at the end of it It was like a Sign me up for that

A prank for them Back in the day You don't even have to You're fine Yeah no I'm just joke Can we do one where they think I'm skinny And then they find out I'm just saying

Overedly obese Like that's in the day Like you gotta play to your strengths Listen there's people The older I got The more unattractive I thought I was But then I started pooling the guys

That I craved in college And that's when I realized Like there's fucking weird people off. And like, as soon as I accepted it, it was like, fuck yeah. Like, yeah, that's like, don't be something. You're not. Play into what you got.

Well, can we talk, can we talk about the fact that you're literally an era one kid, but you look like, 27? Like, honestly, like, you haven't aged. I really appreciate it. It's real. Day. Pierre, if I knew you, maybe you haven't aged either. Who means?

I, I really, I generally appreciate it. I felt like on All-Stars 5, either. I did know that I probably, like, had tweaked some, some people who had a little control over the lighting because I was not looking cute in those interviews. Don't say that. Well, it also probably was 100,000 degrees. Oh, so hot. Yeah. So high.

It smelled like mold and the, like, because the, we were in, we were filming the interviews in the same place they filmed 40, which was a fake, um, wedding venue. Yeah. And so it wasn't even a kind of a real house. And they, you know, all of the stories about that building were. already out by other cast members. So I don't know if they had any sort of, you know, air conditioning or any of that stuff. So, yeah, it was kind of. Well, even if they have it, they always turn it off because it's like, oh, we don't want the background noise.

But note to BMP, AC's on right now and you can't fucking hear it. It's called white noise reducer. Yeah, fix it in post. Yeah, voice isolation. Figure it out. So you're how old and then how do you deal with fame? Man. That concludes the.

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