The Zach Nichols Podcast - Traitors 4 Cast Review + Producer Mike Joins For 2025 Recap! | ZNP EP. 143

Episode Date: January 2, 2026

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Happy New Year, because this is coming out in the new year, right? Yeah, yeah. So welcome back to the Zach Nichols podcast. This is the first episode of 2006. We have a lot to reflect on from the past year. Do you want to reflect a little bit, Fettuccini? Or what are you thinking? I'm leaving 2025 in the past, man.

Why? What was so bad about it for you? Listen, I may have, I don't think I've, the entire year. That's not true. No, I think it is. Oh, that's. No, seriously. I think it is.

Oh, yeah. It was Christmas time of 2024 was your last. That's, all right. Chill out with the facts. Okay. Chill out with the facts. What's crazy is you said chill out, but then you said with the facts. Yeah.

Chill out with the fact. Don't be. No. So your resolution for 2026 is to get the old D wet, huh? Yeah. Well, I clearly have not had an issue with that. I had, what, three kids this year? Just about.

Yeah, probably. Just about. So is that your res? Well, no, I want to have more than zero. So that's your resolution. Yeah, but I wanted to be with people that I at least know their names of. You knew her name. I'm just kidding.

I don't do that. And that might have been a lie. Might not have been a lie. Everyone knows now that a, well, it wasn't a lie because you knew her name. No, no, that was not a lie. But the, uh, the amount of, the amount of, the amount of, uh, intimacy I've had in 2020, could or could not be a lie. Could be a 2025 verge.

Is that your resolution? No, my resolution is to be healthier. And I'm not putting a number on it. I'm not putting a weight. I'm not doing any of that. Well, then you don't have any goals, so then it's not going to work. Fuck.

You got to actually, like, give me facts. If you're going to say, I want to be healthier, you have to have obtainable goals. Like, for me, I want to get back up into the two 30s. Oh. I want to start throwing weight around. I want to be able to drive the golf ball 300 yards. That's a great goal.

Yeah. That's a great goal. I want to be, I really don't have any, I don't really believe in New Year's resolutions, really, because, like, I think if you set, goals at the beginning of the year, you're a loser because you most, like, you should be setting goals like monthly and stuff like that. So I don't really have a resolution, but if I want to put a number on something, I would like to get my size back. I think that in the last four years, I've

taken a hiatus from, like, focusing on, like, my, my exercise and workouts. Like, I've been working out, but I haven't been doing everything else in between. Like, I haven't been eating three meals a day. I haven't been, my nutrition has just been like eat what I get. So yeah, there's, I guess if that's a resolution it is. But that's also started like a couple months ago. So size. Let's just talk about competitor size. Are we talking battle of season size?

Are we talking vendetta size? What are we, where are we at? Roy of the Worlds 2 towards the tail end. I'm there right now. World's 2.20 right now. 225. There's been some times on this podcast where you looked a little, little skinny. Yeah, October.

Well, earlier, I mean, I got. below 200 for the first time since high school this year. Well, because I just like as a, you know, full-time job, busy with other things like this. I don't remember to eat. And kids, like, I'll just like go the whole day without eating because I'm busy. So I'm going to really start to focus on like eating, I think. Good foods, you know. I can show you a thing or two.

No, that's why I said good foods, not fettuccini. But yeah, no, like, so yours is to be healthy. So if I'm going to put a number on it, this is what I'll say. I would like to be able to buy Lulu Lemon pants that fit in store. Because they used to go up to 50. And when I knew that was not going to last forever. So I bought like five pairs. But now I'm getting to the point where they're getting worn out.

So I want to be able to fit in Lulu pants that I buy in the same day. So I think they're at 46. Do we have a tape measure in here? Maybe. Oh, damn. I would just like to take a tape measure out and show everybody what a 50 inch waist looks like. They got rulers. They got yard sticks.

The only thing is I don't actually, that's true. Like I don't want to get too much. much bigger because I still want to fit in all my pants that I bought. I'm giving you game right now, dude. Yeah, so you want to fit in your clothes. You want to fit below a 50. I want to be able to buy a pair of Lulu Lemon pants and wear them. 46.

It's a good goal. Okay. So what are we going to do to achieve that? Here's what I want to know. Should I take drugs to do it? No. No. That's your professional opinion.

It doesn't mean as much. Oh, I don't know how much it means. No, no. I just want the result. Well, no, you got to put it in the work. And if you're going to take a, I mean, I know you're talking like the Gem Zempec. I would stay away from that only because that's not health.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. No, I mean, people have their vitamins. You know, people take vitamins all the time and stuff like that. Oh, Zempex not a vitamin. Okay. I'm just saying, I'm just saying people do what they got to do to get their figure.

I'm going to tell you this much right now. My brother-in-law works for Pfizer. So he knows all the inside deeds. He literally said, I would never. He goes, and anybody that works in that division will say the same thing. You should never take that. Well, it's that bad for you. Okay. Well, I guess I'll keep eating Cheney. But I did, look, I made, uh, I made some adjustments to my home to increase my health and wellness. So I'm excited about that. Great stuff, though. 2026 is going to be

a great year. We're super excited. I'm super excited. I'm super excited for the future. I'm excited for every day I wake up. Amen, brother. Yeah, I don't not, I don't really like, I don't count the years. You know, I never really looked at my watch after I got a cell. phone because the time's on there. I think every day you should just strive. Strive. Strive and happy to be alive. Exactly.

All right. Well, how was the holiday season that so far? Holiday season is always great for me. It's busy. It's stressful. I put together a lot of shit. A lot of gifts. I threw my back out, putting together the kids gifts a couple weeks before Christmas.

Are they getting cars and stuff? Are they getting electric cars? Like, they have all that, though. They already have these, like, electric scooters that they ride around the house in. Beanie gets a bike. The shitty part about my house is I have a, I have Christmas, right? So that encompasses everyone. But then Bean's birthday is the 27th, the Genesis of the 31st.

So it's like murder is row for my wallet because it's like, really? Like, you guys got to have both birthday and Christmas because I don't want to cheese either of them out and be like, oh, this is a Christmas and birthday gift. So that's, that sucks. I think the best time to have a birthday, May to August-ish. Yeah, August did. Well, August is great, but like, I'm just saying,

like, if you can be somewhere in the middle of the year, you get the best of both, because there's like a good, like, you get like a good separation. Like, I have, Carmela was born in February. Like, to me, that's not enough time. Like, you're just getting done playing with your Christmas gifts. And now you get reloaded with more gifts.

It's like, then you have to wait. wait until Christmas the following year. Anthony kind of hasn't made. For you, I mean, it's kind of like, hey, if there's a big purchase you got to make, like a laptop or... I got an iPad. Stuff like that.

That's a great time to get it because it's like a little bit too much for just a solo birthday. No, you can't do that. You can't do that. That's insulting to people that are born around that time. Yeah. Oh, wow. So Beanie, I got her an iPad for her birthday.

Whoa. Yeah. Mainly just because my kids travel a lot. And it's more. Coastal. It's more of a gift for us, Jenna and I, because it's like, we need you to shut up. Oh, here, rot your brain on this for a couple hours, so we don't have to listen to it. On our way to Christmas lasagna. I'm not a big, like, screen person. Like, I don't want my kids on screens all the time, but there are times that warrant it 100% flights. You never, like, as a single dude and you're,

you know, you know how this goes. Thanks for reminding me. Not, not, okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. As a childless dude. Okay. If you're on a plane and you hear a baby cry, the first thing I always think is, what the hell kind of idiot brought these kids? This is what I thought when I had kids. I was like, what kind of hell jerk brought these kids on this plane, ruin everybody's nap time or whatever.

Then you have kids and like you look at the parents that have a baby crying and you're like, sometimes I'll get up and be like, hey, can I help? Like, do you want me to hold them? Do you want me to do this? Because I know I feel that. So like we, I'm big on like, like you saw Anthony when he's on the plane to Minnesota. What do you have?

The iPad. And what did I have? My iPad has a backup iPad. Yeah. Yeah, but he was a gentleman on Yeah, but he's also four. I'm talking like zero to two is a tough age of trail. And now, let's say we're driving. You're talking about the most painful 10 hours of your life driving from Detroit to New York because someone's got a poop or pee because you got potty trainers. So you're stopping every hour. They're crying about stupid shit. They give them food. Oh, they dump it out. Like, so. The screen gives you some peace and quiet and some, like, actual time to drive. So again, like parents that are like, oh, I would never let my kids stare at a screen.

It's like there is a time that warrants it. Now sitting around the house, I'm not big on that. Get outside. Get outside. Play with the millions of toys. You've been outside as per Jenna Stores. You've been in that snowman. That concludes the free preview of the Zach Nichols podcast.

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We're going to go over my summer in Spain, even though it wasn't summer. It was actually towards Thanksgiving. But either way, it's going to be a blast.