The Zach Nichols Podcast - The Trey Weatherholtz Interview! | ZNP EP. 147

Episode Date: January 23, 2026

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All right, everybody, on February 28th, myself, Pierre, Michael, are going to be doing a mashup with Champ Camp. ZMP combined with Champ Camp, Gilbert, Arizona, February 28th. If you're not there, fuck you. Hey, guys, this is Trey Weatherholtz from the Real World St. Thomas. This is my first time seeing Zach in 12, 13 years, and we're getting ready to hash some shit out on the couch. So tune in, check it out, and let me know what you guys think.

All right, welcome back to the Zach Nichols podcast. We're throwing it back this week. Let's roll the taste back 12 years and welcome Walter Weatherholtz. Yeah. To the show. Oh, I like the fake applause. That's not fake. That's all the people in the crowd.

Now, remember when I found, I grabbed your passport and found out your real name? Yeah. Oh, I remember. It's like being back in elementary school, man. I guess it's. What's that story?

Tell me that story. What's that? So what happened? I didn't find out until we got eliminated. Oh, okay. This is post. Post rivals to elimination. and I was like, you know, you check up people's passports,

and I'm like, the fuck is Walter? He goes, dude, that's my real name. The whole flight home, I just got hammered and made fun of him for his name. But more importantly, people know you as Trey. Yeah. And I know you as my one and only rival. Oh, that's right.

You've already done the one. Yeah, you were super excited to get me as your partner right now. No, I was not until we won the first two challenges that I was fired the fuck up. Yeah, yeah. How you doing, man? Welcome. Welcome to Detroit.

I appreciate you having me. Sorry we couldn't get you better weather, but that's what happens. January in Detroit, when I told everybody I was going here, they were like, why the fuck are you going to Detroit, dude? Like, it's... Magic happens in Detroit. I have no apologies, bro. I definitely want to come back and visit, like, a different time, but yeah, this is probably not...

I would say early fall. Okay. That's the best time. Yeah. Really? Better than summer? Well, I mean... Nothing's better than something.

Yeah, you're a big baseball guy, so you would like summer. But, dude, that's a good point. I also don't like hot weather, as we all know. So, like, fall, you can, like, get the 60s. it's chill. But summertime, it's... But Baltimore, like, by the way, by way of Baltimore, round applause for Baltimore in the building,

representing... Why? Because we represent... It's a sister city. The Orioles suck. No, no, no. Come on, dude. Show some respect.

Show some respect for Ripkin. Show some respect for the Iron Man. Appreciate this, that's it. That's it. That's it. I love... Ray Lewis? We're talking to Orioles.

Okay. All right. Listen, I am, I am a Ravens fan. He is. Big Ravens guy. He is. Bill's Ravens and the AFC for me, though. Okay, that's how you do it.

You're one of those guys that has an AFC and an NFC team. That's always so weird to me. I actually took like a at least a 15-year hiatus from watching NFL games. I did as well, actually. The Lions got good, so I started to watch. And as soon as I started to watch, they didn't make the playoffs. So I had no longer. And then I'm like, all right, well, it's the bills.

And then they got fucked by the refs in Denver. You always said to me, if I become a fan of a team, they're doomed. Every time. That's why when Michigan won the national championship, I didn't watch a single game. Not a single game. As soon as I started cheering for Trey, we got kicked off the show. So that's just how it works in my life.

No, literally, exactly. I'm like Charlie Brown. If you guys haven't noticed by now, this episode is unofficially sponsored by Monster, who you work with. So shout out to Monster. Thanks for all the drink. Thanks for the swag. I've never tried one of these, so we're going to just pop it and lock it. But yeah, man.

I appreciate you. Yeah, yeah, Monster. I've been with Monster for over a decade now. It's crazy. Hell, yeah. That was awesome, dude. Ironically enough, hold on,

I want his honest opinion. It's good stuff. Good shit, bro. It's good stuff. Let's see how the energy is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd ask to try it,

but I don't want herpes. Get the fuck out of here. Ironically enough. It's a mitest touch. Not for a monster. There's something called the Midas touch. I have a midas tongue. You know what I mean?

Everything I like turns to gold. It is wild. Well, nothing's turned gold since 2020. Besides a couple of popsicles. Oh, yeah. Good time. Hold on. I got something back here. Oh, what are we doing here?

Brought props. No, I didn't bring props. I brought. What you got? What you got back there, man? Yeah, man. Brought you guys. Oh,

some swag. Some swag, dude. Oh, a snapback. Yeah, man. These are sick. You don't have to, don't feel obligated to wear it now, dude. Are you kidding me?

Yeah, wouldn't match my outfit. I'm wearing it right now, dude. I appreciate this guy. You'll look like TJ Labin with that thing. Hell yeah, dude. What a compliment. Yeah, dude. Oh, I forgot to add this one on.

Yeah. Oh, way up. I love this already. All right. Carboard out? I did, right? Yeah, man. I know I'm stolen, but.

Normally, normally I'm wearing that. I wear that five days a week, Monday through Friday, but I have to give myself excuses to not wear Monster gear on the weekends just because it's my whole war drive. What do you do for Monster? So I'm in sales.

Ironically enough, I got the job after the challenge and I was, I was telling Pierre this off air was, it was, I was looking for a job as we were doing the challenge. You look great. look good? Fuck you.

Yeah, dude. You look awesome, dude. I wanted to get it. It's actually sick. I wanted to get it. You guys both look sick. Now I feel like that. I don't know.

I'm not wearing my gear for it. All right. I'll make you figure better, dude. No, no, no, no, no. You look good with it, dude. I'm up here, have some shine. All right, all right. But no, I was looking for a job that I could, like, have that I knew would be cool

if I went to go do another challenge. Because, you know, I mean, at max, we can film for, we can be away for, like, three months. so not every job that you have like let's say if you were a law enforcement officer or something you can't just go to your your guy and be like hey can i have three months off so i can go film tv i wanted to get a job that would allow me to take a temporary leave of absence and come back and come back with it obviously tj i don't i meant to look up whether i don't know what his affiliation is with monster anymore i know you had a sponsorship for a while but i knew that this company would be super cool with uh me going and leaving and coming back and shit like that so anyway that wasn't the only reason that i got the job but the opportunity came up and i've been with him ever since So it's just a sick company, man. They take really good care of me. I'm really blessed to be there, dude. I mean, honestly, like, not a lot of cool companies, you know, to work for.

It's a fucking cool-ass company, right? It's dope. So shout out, Monster, man. Appreciate you guys. Shout out to Monster. We wanted to make sure that we show them love. And honestly, I mean, that's a great insight on your mindset. You know, you had that flexibility.

We'll definitely get into all the questions. But we start with accolades. We normally talk about these accolades. So, dude. Can I say something before you start? Yes, sir. Okay, I just want the people at home to know this, because I think this is really important. Zach, when's the last time we saw each other?

The flight home from Thailand. Thailand. From rivals, too, and we filmed that in 2013. Yes. Okay. So I just flew into, just to put this into perspective, I just flew into Detroit last night. I haven't seen you in 12 going on 13 years. Yeah.

This is the first time that I've seen you. We haven't ran into each other. We haven't filmed another show together. We haven't done anything. So, besides like, but. Well, it is what it is. Maybe we get into it. We're going to get into it. Yeah, 10, 15 minutes ago was the first time I've seen you in over a decade.

And I don't know, bro. It's just, I feel good being here, man. I was really happy that you guys invited me. And I was kind of waiting for this. I told Pierre, I felt like it was long overdue. For sure. I get asked about you a lot. I get asked about my last appearance a lot, which you were obviously a huge part of.

And, you know, when this opportunity came up, I wanted to talk to you, man. I wanted to see you. Glad you came. Maybe it's maybe you rekindled something. Maybe we get close. who knows man but we'll we'll get into some shit but I just I wanted to acknowledge that I wanted to kind of put that into perspective before we just dove into it. Man this guy people helping people it's powerful stuff yeah dude yeah it's good to see you man it is good

to see and I do feel bad about my behavior in 2012 and 13 oh I'm not I know but I just you know a lot of it was most of it if not all of it was unwarranted and then I also feel bad because I fucked that elimination up for us pretty bad let's start at battle I do. I don't know about that. The season. Yeah, I wasn't even sure how. Go ahead, man.

Well, I'll be honest with you, Pierre. This is your show, bro. You can run it how you want. But with Zach, jumping right into it, I wasn't sure if that's how you felt about it. Because we haven't really talked about it, man. Like, I didn't know if you were going to like, I don't want to say own it like that because I own part of it too.

But I was curious to know how you felt because the last that I really talked to you about it was pretty much when we flew home, dude. Like, we obviously, we were really emotional on that. We were both pissed. And I remember. different things, but we haven't really talked about what happened. And more than anything, what I get from people is, because that was my last appearance. Yeah.

You know, I've heard the Zach fucked it up for you, or you were a good competitor. It sucks. You guys went out that way. But I have ways that I remember it. And I wasn't sure how you remembered it because. Well, I remember it pretty clearly 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.

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