The Zach Nichols Podcast - Vendettas Episode 10 Review + the Aneesa Ferreira Interview! | ZNP EP. 162

Episode Date: April 17, 2026

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Are you done ingesting? Yeah, man. Welcome back to the second goes podcast. I wanted to drinking water. Is that ingesting? Yeah, just the noise. The noise was disgusting. Well, this is, hold on.

ASMR. ASMR. Yeah, that was what I was waiting for you guys not to hear, but go throw up. First of all, they don't care. They've been listening to you chew ice every freaking week. Ice is, I can't not chew ice. Yeah, exactly. But it's just different.

It's different going into that stomach. Okay, got it. So I'm discussing. So is that what you're saying? Kind of. All right. Well, I think you're disgusting. You can say that all you want.

All right. Iceeater. What do you got there? What are you sipping on? Orange shoes. Yeah, okay. Vendettas. No, it's John Daly's drink, the good boys.

No carbonation. But there's out to John Daly. Shout out to Tiger Woods. My favorite alcoholics. They're great. He wasn't. He just was under the influence. How do you go under the influence and blow a 0.00?

because he was on drugs. I know that, but it's kind of awesome. He just had random oxycodons in his pockets. They pulled out a tin of nicotine shoes. Not Alps is probably why he got pulled. Oh, that's 100% why he got pulled off. And then they pulled out two oxycodons. The best part about it was they're like,

he's on the side of the road and he's like, I'm calling the president. Yeah, I was just on the phone with the press. Yeah. He knew he was like, listen, Uncle Don, I did it again. Is there anything we can do to eliminate this press? I'm sorry, Tiger.

Yeah. No chance. I mean, I don't, listen, Justin Timberlake, Tiger Woods. Like, if you do it, you should, I mean, you should be prosecuted by the full, whatever the law. So, yeah, the rumor is, is that the polo he was wearing on Sunday Red immediately sold out. Like, immediately. Like that one. That's the sad part is like, you know, I get pulled.

If I got pulled over for a DUI, like, everyone would be just so pissed. No one would buy help. But Tiger gets pulled over in the Sunday Red and it just goes viral. Everyone wants it. Hey, man. That's what happens when you're a pop culture icon like Tiger Woods. You're a challenge icon, though. I'll give you that.

I am. But Tiger's way better. I'd rather be Tiger than me. Just, I mean, you know, hey, you got something Tiger doesn't have. What would be even better if he competed at the Masters? That would be, I mean, I don't know if he's much of a threat anymore, but you do have something he doesn't have. I think Tiger is always a threat. What?

What do I have the tiger doesn't? A family's still together. That's terrible to say. It's a truth. Listen, we got to, we got to support keeping families together. I'm about it. Tiger, he does his best, though. They have a nice little situation going on. His kids seem to love him.

What does 18 holes smell it? Tiger's fingers. Okay. Okay, that's a good one. That's one of my favorite jokes. I've had some dad jokes locked in. I need to have him ready for the pod, though. That's not a dad joke.

You can't tell that joke at the dinner. That's not a dad joke? It's a golf joke. It's a golf joke. I don't know if it's a dad joke. I don't know how many dads are telling their kids those jokes. Well, putting holes in the fingers. 13 holes.

Only happens if you're going to go. Did you ever hear the, there's two things. Fingers and holes. Wow. Wow. I'm messed up. There's,

sorry. There's, so, do you ever hear the voicemail that Tiger sent after he got busted? Yes, I have. It's like, hey,

this is, this tiger. Elyn found my phone. So if you could just stop contacting me for the time being, that would be great. Okay. Sounds good. Bye.

Yeah, Tiger, man. It's just, I don't understand the guy with everything has everything and insist on fucking it. I really don't get it. I really don't. Listen, he had an iconic run. Yeah, he did. I mean, he's a rock star for sure. Maybe that's it.

Maybe he just, his dream was to be a rock star and not just like the best possible athlete. He was the best possible. He achieved that. So he's going to move on. I mean, when you're talking about goats of sports. You got Muhammad Ali. I don't think he's the best of golf. Of all time?

No, I'm taking Jack Nicholas. I think he has a more impressive resume against a better group of individuals. I mean, Tiger had a pretty impressive run there for a solid 15 years. Yeah, for number two. That's like LeBron. You know how I feel, I love that you say that, but you know how I feel about like the greatest full time conversations now? It's like not worth it to argue about it. No, it's not, but it's fun.

It's fun. We do it on the challenge all the time. Yeah. Is it Johnny? Is it Jordan? Is it C.T.? It's a good. It's an opinion. It's how you perceive it. Because, like, for basketball, do you value longevity or do you value the impact, whatever? So if you value longevity, you have to go with LeBron. So I guess if you value longevity, I guess you've got to go with Jack.

I value longevity. I value the opponents, really. And that's what it is. I think that, you know, what Jack and Tiger was just way more dominant in a shorter period of time. than him. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. If he doesn't,

this is my point about Tiger. If he stays on the rails, if he's focused, locked in on his game, and don't get me wrong. Things happen in his life. He lost his dad, whatever.

There's a lot going on there. He was doing all that shit when his dad was a little bit. Right. His dad kind of encouraged it, kind of not encouraged it, but like set the standard. That's the whole thing with Tiger.

His dad was a, he was a womanizer. He loved golf. He was cocky, all these things. So, you know, had he stayed on the straight and narrow, you know,

as Tom Brady has, he might last the test of time. He might have 25 ragers the way they thought he would. Okay, but here's the thing is. Same thing with C.T. I got to bring it back to the... CT has a little tiger in them if you want to get... Exactly.

He's got that blood of the tiger. Yeah, dude. C.T. is the C.T. is the C.T. of the C.T. of the C.T. is the Lawrence Taylor of the challenge world. There you go. It's like, that's crazy. But yeah, it's what you value. you for sure but no yeah i'm a big tiger guy i mean it's funny because like if you like like you forgive the shit yeah like the d like the d like the d ui is like you like everyone laughs at tiger's

du i's because everyone loves them but like a normal joe guy or anyone like if they're not as like loved like people like people like literally like loving like there's t-shirts with his like like you know with the towel over his head in fairness if i'm being fair i should be appalled to be honest. I should be like you're damn it. You're putting people in danger. You're a fucked up person. All these things. And I do feel that way. It just the fact that it's tiger and it's drugs.

It's just it makes it kind of funny. It's hilarious. Yeah, it makes it kind of funny. No one got hurt. That's the only reason why, but they could have. For sure. He could have hit a dad going home from work. He could have hit a kid on a bike. He could have done a lot of damage with that. So it's terrible. Shouldn't be behind the wheel. Also like if I'm that rich, I'm getting a driver. Tiger. if you need a driver, I'm available.

I don't have shit going on. Sorry, guys. Sorry, Mike, sorry, Pete. Tiger called me. I'm going to go drive him around while he does drugs. And you can keep secrets too. You sign that NDA. You're good.

You're not talking. No, not with that job. Yeah. I'm a, yeah, I mean. The point is this tiger can afford to pay you to be quiet. Also, you say like all these things like, did he stay on the rails? Does he just not have a great publicist?

Come on, bro. Did you see the Justin Timber, like, DUI? Yes. Now that was, I'm on tour. I'm on World Tool. I'm Justin Timmer. The cops don't listen to Justin Timber. Nor do they care.

But anywho, let's get back to Vendettas. Episode 10. Like we spoke about, it is getting very, very good. This is getting juicy. And we're in the midst of what you've called several times as your masterpiece. How does it feel to watch back and see the political prowess that you guys had, which is now that I'm watching it, I know what it is.

It's bullying, but it's working. It's 100% bullying. It's working. Dude, listen. We see exactly why I had to do what I had to do in episode 11. Cam wins an elimination round. She comes back. She robs Devin of all her cash.

Devin had half as much money as me and Tony had. So Tony and I had multiple conversations where, I mean, we were like, listen, we have to do whatever we can because at a certain point, people are going to stop picking teams and throwing grenades because they become useless at a certain point. Like the grenades really, like Cara got a grenade throwing on her team won. So for me, I told Tony, I'm like, we got to protect the cash, right? Because, and we also have to protect our assets.

At this point, did you know you had to finish the final to get it? We had no idea. We just thought you had to get to the final. Got it. But I mean, imagine having 30K and you get second. You don't know what second is, but second's going to be something like 20, 15. 30 grand, right? Tops. So if you have 30, 40K going into the final...

How's money? Right. Now you're doubling that and now it's pretty much a second place finish. You know, so we were having constant conversations in the room about we have to protect our bank account and the only way to do that because you can't throw a grenade at someone in the Troika. So we had to stay in the Troika.

And there was a few times that I did start to have like a tremendous amount of guilt. But I was like, The guilt, like, and this is something that I learned from Johnny Bananas. As soon as you let human emotions come into your gameplay, it weakens you. It's a soft spot. So I had to really, like, kind, like, I had to, what's that called? Conscience.

I had to fight my conscience in a few moments where I was like, oh, man, like, this is not, it's not a good. Real life morals do no good for you in a fake game. Exactly. Real life morals do no good for you. We had to lock in. But yeah, no, episode 10. The thing about Vandettas was it was weird because you're watching it and you're like,

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