The Zach Nichols Podcast - The Tyler Duckworth Interview! | ZNP EP. 118

Episode Date: July 25, 2025

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Hey, this is Tyler from the Challenge, ready to wreck it all down. All right, make sure you get your tickets to the live show. It's going to be September 20th, 2025 in San Diego, featuring Carl, Pauly, Horacio, and Norese, and possibly some more guests. So get on that now. You're not going to want to miss this one. Welcome back to the Zectacles podcast. I'm here with the co-host, the Big Fettuccini. What's up, guys?

But more importantly, all the way from North Dakota. challenge champion Tyler Duckworth. Thank you. One of my top 20 favorite TV personalities, if I may add. Well, thank you. One of the best things about the challenge was it got me at one point. I looked around and it was me, Tyler, and Ryan Knight in L.A. And I was like, no other time in my life with this have ever happened.

What a crew to be. That is the most motley crew. If you chose three personalities from the challenge, like fandom, me, you and Ryan Knight. People would never throw them in. It was, we had so much money. It was like four days straight where it was like, we were hanging out at your home. I got to know how this click started. Well, we were all there for the VMAs.

And Tyler had won the season prior. And so he was out in L.A. and we all went back there. And we went to that movie from air the first night. And then Ryan flew in and the rest was history. Like, yeah. There was one time we were like eating dominoes late night. Me and Ryan were just like kicking it.

We were laughing with something and I was just like, not what I'd expect to be friends with. Exactly. But he was like, do I want my house? I was like, yeah, I want my house to respond. Yeah. The Milwaukee, the Milwaukee bro. Well, yeah, because it happens because I'm upper Midwest, like he's from Wisconsin. Like it really, I didn't even think about it like that.

So like you kind of like, you knew how we operate. Yeah, he's just like, it's like just like rolling with like what I know. Yeah, for sure. And you guys hadn't, well, you, you. You didn't know him. I knew of Tyler. Yeah, I'd never done a show with him.

Yeah, but you just started hanging out. It's like real life friends. Like we, yeah, Frank, Frank actually introduced us at first and then we were just like cracking jokes

this whole movie. Yeah, it was like workout together. Yeah. Steak him into this gym. One of my favorite things about night too. I still remember this. He's like,

dude, you just got to get on that bike, but like don't bend over. You got to sit up straight. It brings all that like stomach fat from the beer. Like, I don't drink beer night. What's your drink of choice?

Vodka soda. Oh. Hello, hello. That's alive. Vodka, Diet Coke. Vaca, D.C. Yeah, skinny black bitch. Love that.

That's what it's called? Yeah. I learned that when I barton in Boston. That's amazing. Diet Coke and vodka. That's a good one. All right. So, what was your first impression of this guy?

Oh, I want both of your first impressions. Where do we start? Perfect. Beautiful. Looks like Linda Evangelista. No, I don't know. I was like, when at first, like, because after you're done with the season,

don't really pay attention to real world seasons. And when I saw the promo, I was like, what the fuck? And I was like, well, I was this guy. I was like, oh. And then like, yeah, I just got good. Yeah.

Just like the scenes of him and Ashley in bed. I was like, get that out the way, bitch. I'm looking at him. Especially when I met Ashley. It was like, just fuck. Get out of here. All right.

Your first impression of Tyler, first on screen and then in person. Well, I mean, on screen, like, you took on the champs. So I was, you know, there's nothing more of respect there as a competitor. And obviously, there are people that can do an interview and there are people who cannot. And Tyler is on the list that can. So I thought it was entertaining. But like the crazy part is, is like a lot of times, like in my interview, you might see my interview that made me in person and be like, you're nothing like the jokes you were telling in your interview.

But like your personality was just as big in person as it is on camera. So that was the thing was it just confirmed. that that I thought, A, you were hilarious. We had such good times. Like, we were, like, just paling around. But, yeah, I definitely was like, you're just as big of a personality as you portray on TV, which is,

what's the craziest part to me is how they fit your personality, Paula's personality, and Johnny Banana's personality, all in one house. Let's talk about your original cast. Let it. Let's get into it. It's top. I'm going to give it a top three. Yeah.

Thank you. All time. Cass? Thank you. Got to be. Get it up for Key West. That Mount Rushmore with him, Paula,

Janelle, and Johnny. Unsung heroes, Svetlana. Yeah. Cetlana. Absolutely. Bro.

Their rookie Smoke show. On the duel. Like, let's give her credit. Yeah. She made it to the final. Yeah.

Wild. No, that's what I'm saying. And she, and like, again, as real as, like,

as I've heard, she's as real as it comes. Like, obviously, like, I've never said a negative thing about Paula. As real as they get,

like, Johnny's done what he's done with his career. Obviously, Tyler, as real. Like, that cast, that cast was fire. And the funny part is about our cast is that they basically told us at the end of our cast. Like, you know when you're doing promo week or whatever? Yeah. They're like, yeah, Denver's doing pretty well.

We have to cut them down because we had the season. It's a rep. It's going to be like one of those seasons. And we're like, oh, okay, well, fuck my season. You know? And then have we ever spoken about Denver since? Only one. From time to time.

when he was drooling, well, we had Tyree and he was drooling over Jen. I like Jen. I like Jen. I do. I think anyone's ever drooled over Tyree except. No, Jen, Jen, Jen. Stole my fucking magnums. Oh yeah, that was yours, huh? Yeah. Yeah. Good for you.

I came prepared for nothing. And here's the best part. He was passed out in a bathroom. I was like, you wasted all those magnums and you're sitting in their toilet downstairs. Like, thanks, dude. Oh, man. Well, yeah, no, that's a lot of silicone. I wasn't.

That's like a half mile. That's a half mile of rubber, dude. Wasted. You could have made a tire with all that. For real. Tyree's a good guy. No, I was ruling over Jen. I was ruling over Jen.

She is, like, Jen is incredible. Like, so fun. I got to meet her. So good for the show. Yeah. She was great for the show. We also talked about the fact that she made, like, what, three, four consecutive finals with never going to

an elimination. That's in process. I'm scared. I would be scared of her. She got in my face. I'd like, no, ma'am. I'm sorry.

Like, I'll go in for you. Like, she, like, I remember her and cutthroat. It was like, Derek, her and Emily, like,

she's like, well, Emily, what's you're going to do? And I was like, yes, ma'am. Like, Emily Shramm. And Jen's sitting there like,

like, and I remember I was saying there with Tjibing being like, how'd this bitch pulled us off again? Right. Like, didn't she do this on like, like, Fresh Me 2? Like how's Emily scared of her?

Listen, I don't know. But you meet her in person. Enough said. Enough said. So you, sorry, we were talking about Denver and their season. Then your season came out and blew it out the water, right? I mean, I don't know why. I mean, because we had a couple cast members.

Every season does that has like two or three people that kind of fall by the wayside, right? And I don't know. It just, it was like lightning in a bottle. And I remember Mark Seligah. Do you remember him? No. He would be. I remember at my exit interview.

I think you'd probably be pretty good at the challenge. And I was like, I don't know. And so they cast us all in the duel and that we all saw how that worked out for QS. Well, Svetlan it worked out well. And then it was like me and Johnny, I took him out, which is kind of cool that I can say it was the first person to eliminate Johnny.

Yep. But like, you get a round of applause for that. He's him. I mean, you've had some. But here's the thing, if you look at my eliminations, I remember thinking about this other day. It was just like, I've gone against Johnny twice,

Derek twice, CT twice. you know come on those aren't it's not like i got any layup murderers row right you went against mount rushmore yeah and then also twice each yeah and they were like the famous ones like bananas backpack yeah you know or like t-bone it was like can i catch a break yeah no well we definitely that you even got up from that hit on in t-bone is incredible that is a definite a testament to having a really strong older brother that doesn't fuck like yeah dude is nothing compared to my older brother older I've taken that hit so many times. Just like get up and do it again.

Mom and dad don't care. That was. Dad's like toughen up. Yeah, really there. I was just like, here we go again. That was definitely one of the most ass things by the fan. So let's just zoom right into that moment. Okay, you guys have one elimination.

Yeah, let's go into it because there's something I want to talk about before that. Well, running into it. Your mic, running into it, everyone looked at rivals like this is Kenny and Wes's game. and like no one gave you guys I mean you guys were a top tier team and you were in the main alliance but like I think everyone was like oh Wes and Kenny for sure then CT and Adam but like

you and Johnny won most like three or four challenges yeah I don't think like the eight or nine we won over half yeah you guys it's funny I remember walking into that challenge being like cut through it doesn't count this is like the big deal like they're all here like Evan Kenny CT

CT Johnny like Wes everyone's here it was like walking to the duel as your first challenge. Yeah. Well, that is the worst first challenge to ever walk into it. That one, no thanks.

No, like every competitor, you're out for yourself. It's your first season. And it's like, all the dudes too. Everyone. Yeah.

Everyone. And Derek, everyone knows each other. You're just like, oh, I'm going to pick, be picked last. But I don't know,

I walked in, I said to Johnny, and I was just like, I'm feeling really intimidated. And he's like, he's like, this is we're going to sleep. You're going to be here,

here. Leroy is going to appear. And then we all had her, our positions. And then I started realizing throughout it, I was 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.