The Zach Nichols Podcast - The Theo King-Bradley Interview! | ZNP EP. 170

Episode Date: June 12, 2026

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Welcome back to the Zach Nose podcast. We got in the house, Theo King Bradley. There's a rock. There's a microphone. Yeah. Do you welcome to the show. Anything you want to talk about first? Because I want to get into, we always like to talk about the casting story first.

Oh. And how that went down. The cast that story. Yep. Okay. I actually think me getting on real world was like a meant to be thing. Yeah. This is why.

Okay, so I had been home for about a year because I had just got in trouble whatever for what I got arrested for in school. And one of my friends, I just, he randomly posted on Facebook like, hey, there's a tryout in Chicago. Somebody from Kankakeeat. I know one of y'all crazy asses can make it. I know it. I know it. it's so many people you'll be there for hours on end so before i walk in i get a text message from my girl actually and she's like before you walk in i want to let you know that i'm pregnant

oh god so she sends me a picture of the pregnancy test too the pregnancy test she takes sends a picture of it right so googled that shit type shit so i walk in as i walk in my homie geos walking out. I'm like, what up, bro? I can't believe we see you here. He's like, bro, I've been here since like 8th this morning. It's about like three or four at this time. Yeah. He's like, just good luck, bro. I've been here this long. If you get in, just good luck. So I'm like, all right, boom. I'll walk in. As soon as you walk in, the next test is where the pins at? Who got pins? How can we write up the little questionnaire thing that they have for us? So I'm like, I just look around and I just see somebody sitting at the bar.

So I just walk up to the bar and I asked the bar to him. I'm like, do you have a pen by chance? And she was like, no, I don't. But there was somebody that was sitting down at the bar and he just looks at me. He was just like, shh. And he gives me a pen. So I'm like, oh shit, bro, I'm going to get this right back to you. Like, don't even worry about it.

I'm like, no, I'm going to give this back to you. Do the little questionnaire. I give him back the pen. Now I'm about to go line up. There's a line. I think where are we at? I can't even remember exactly where we were. to do the trial, but where it was,

it's like an upstairs area that goes all the way back. So that line was all the way upstairs back, down the stairs around. So I'm walking out of nowhere, I look up. I see my boy Aaron Hall. He's the same dude that posted the Facebook thing. Yeah. So I'm like, bro, you're the reason I'm here.

He's like, bro, I do somebody else. I'm like, you're trying out. He's like, no, I'm just here for support. He's like, bro, I ain't allowed to you. You might as well sit right here. Because if you move, you're going to be here all day. We've been here since 8. Not even three minutes later, a woman walks in.

You six, come with me. Walk in. So as I'm walking up, I see this fine, like skinned girl in front of me. Fine as hell. Right? So I'm like... Now I'm interested. Let's go.

So I'm like, you know, what's up with you? How are you doing? You know, talking to her, whatever, walking in. I'm like, what's your name? She's like, my name's Jordan. So I'm like, okay, you look real good. side note from there I tried to find Shorty on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.

I tried to find her everywhere. But she was just like, yeah, I've never talked to a black guy before. And I was just like, well, I'm going to be the black dude that you should be able to talk to, you know what I'm saying? Especially after this scenario. Obviously, later on, she ended up being the Jordan that was on Real World with us.

That's the craziest thing. Like, Loki, I just got chills thinking about it. But yeah, like, that's the trippiest thing. It's like they knew my type. They knew I was about to try to talk to her. And she even told me afterwards, she was like, I'm not going to lie to you, Theo. After that, I started talking to black guys a little bit afterwards. It wasn't me, but I got us in here. So I just remember walking in doing an interview.

I think the question was like, what's your most embarrassing moment or something? And I think I just was like, I don't have any embarrassing moment. I'm too smooth for that shit. I'm pretty sure that's some dumb-ass shit I said. that and they were like what's the craziest thing going on and I'm like well my girl just said that she's pregnant before I walked in here okay you know what I'm saying you've heard that a couple times five times yeah a lot of times five time five time five time five time five time five time five time okay so you know do the little interview blah blah blah come out and then I think then their whole thing

was oh if you get a call back the same day you know you made it you know right right for a Skype interview. I didn't get a call back, but I did end up, like, talking with somebody after for a week. Like, you got 20, 30 minutes, you know. It wasn't until about a week before my birthday in April, I randomly get a call. Actually, I didn't even get the call. I had just got out the shower. My phone was dead. Turned on the phone. I got a voicemail saying, like, Theo, you want to, you know, check up when you see whatever real world, blah, blah, blah, blah. I knew as soon as I got that call, I knew I had it. Right. I knew I had it. You couldn't tell me nothing. I just, I was him at that time. Like, I was really him. Like, I was real. He's him.

He's him. You know, D1, you know, D1, man. I just, man, man, I could be on Tinder, swipe like five, six times, get another, but imagine straight back to back to back to back to back. Yeah. I believe that type of time is it? So I just knew, like, if I get this, it's meant to be And another thing, I kind of like manifested it for myself because I was like lying to my friends like, yo, I already know I made it. They just, you know, they told me through the call. I made it.

I'm cabin. I'm capping. I know I'm capping, but I just, it was something in me too. I said a prayer. I was like, look, if I'm to make this, show me if I am what I think I am. Like, show me.

If I'm not who I think I am, then I shouldn't make this. I'm not going to make it. But then I made it. Right. So then that just kind of solidified everything for me. Like, yo, I'm really one of the realest in the world. There you go.

Like, there you go. That's how you feel. What they say is like winning the lotto or harder than winning a lot? Yeah, you feel like one in a million. It's crazy, man. I do ask everybody that comes through like when it like, how did it feel to be the one? But like I think you're the first person that's ever been like now. I knew I knew I was that before I did it.

And not even know some cockiness. I just, I don't know. At that time, man, I had. too many bad things going on. Talk about it. Man, what obviously getting arrested for the stuff at school, not being able to like play ball. Hell, I couldn't even. The only job I could work was Domino's at the time.

Yeah. Which I actually loved Dominoes. That might be my favorite job I've ever had. Side note, but Domino's. But, yeah, it was just the toughest time. Like my family, like my grandmother, my mother, they were having health issues. real bad back issues and stuff like that. It was just,

it just felt like everything was just crumbling on me. So when it was something like this that finally popped up, man, I just, I'll be forever, like, appreciative. Like, for sure. Forever. Because I tell everybody, if I didn't make real world, bro, I don't know what I would be doing. Yeah.

I have no idea what I'd be doing. Talk about what you have been doing. How did it shape your life even after the show? show. Like, what you, what you're up to? Like, we tell the people where you're at right now. I'm a working man. That's what it is. I'm a working bed. I'm like a lab technician for I don't even know if I can say that. I'm sorry, beep it if you need to. You know, but, yeah, I'm basically like a chemist in my job. Just doing nothing like calculus or shit all day. And I hate it. I know. I hate it. He's laughing because he sounds just like that.

Like, I don't know if you know Johnny Donovan. Yes. I do know Johnny. I, yeah. I just hit him up like the other day. Like, bro, help me. Because if I got a clock back in, bro. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So, like, like, man, oh, my heart. But, you know, I mean, I'm living.

I'm making decent money, you know, whatever, blah, blah, but it's not about that. I never got on there to be doing this. Right. You feel me? Yeah. I got on to be doing so much more, which at the end of the day, a nigger should have jumped. I'm sorry. I said, I wasn't supposed to say niggie.

I told you you. I was going to tell you, you should have jumped. I just, I just should have jumped. But there's something with that. Like, about to tap in some trauma, bro. When I was a kid living in Indianapolis, my cousin Kerry used to work at the Dick's sporting goods. Yeah.

Now, back then, you know, they used to have the diamond wall. The rock climbing wall, yeah. So she had this coworker that just, I don't know, he thought that should have be funny. I got all the way at the top. And he like. 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.