The Zach Nichols Podcast - Vendettas Episode 3 & 4 Review! | ZNP EP. 153

Episode Date: February 20, 2026

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If you guys have not signed up for the champ camp, ZMP mashup, next week, February 28th, Gilbert Arizona, do so now. Use promo code Z, A, C, H, all caps, preferably, lower caps works too. Do whatever you want, but it, Jordan, he's like Willie Wonk out there. He is giving out discount codes, golden tickets. Make sure you're there. It's going to be a blast. Welcome back to the Zach Nichols podcast.

Can you guys see me? Should be blending in. You look like John Cena right now, which is invisible. Big shout out to J.D. Sports for sending me this camo, North Face, wind and rainbreaker. Round of applause for J.D. Sports. J.D. Sports. You say it again, J.D. Sports.

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There we go. Hold on. You strap. We didn't post the reel today. A few moments later. We're back. We just, if you notice a nasty edit cut, it wasn't because of anything I did. It was actually Pierre.

Yeah, that's a hundred of it. my fault. Didn't do his job today, but he was able to eat a whole bag of cookies. How many good cookies are those left? There are a dozen of pop. I got two dozen. There's a dozen in the car for you, though. So I've eaten eight. You ate 75% of your cookies. And why did you leave him in the car? You don't want to share with Mike? Selfish. The four that's in the other bag is for Mike. Bro, come on. You ate eight out of 12 cookies. Bro, when you have two dozen and you're just like, You only had one dozen technically. You're giving the other ones.

It's kind of like a dumb and dumber where they think they have this unlimited money. So they're just spending as much as they have. So when you have two dozen cookies, it feels like I have unlimited cookies. So I'm eating extra cookies. So were the 12 cookies for me original? Was it a baker? There were 24 cookies for me to like have, you know, you have to have inventory to give out to people. Just, you know, it's good to have gifts.

That's how I think. So I'm like, all right, I got these 24 cookies in my head. There's no way I run through a whole bag. So I have to give a bag before I run through this one. 75% is pretty damn close. That's a C. You got a C. I mean, or, I mean, that's, I mean, to me, that's a passing grade.

It's a passing grade. It is. I mean, a C was great in college when I was in the foreign. I also didn't do it. I also didn't do it with much milk, which makes the feet more impressive. Because milk just makes cookies so easy. Are you a dunker or just a drinker? I'm mixing match.

Sometimes I'm dunking it and I'm drinking the whole milk before that soggy cookies right at the bottom of it. Sometimes you need a spoon for it. You're getting a little too drinker. I'm not a dunker. I've never been a dunker. I don't like soggy anything. My roommate in college used to put, when it was my turn to do the dishes, he used to put little pieces of bread all over it.

So it got soggy. So when I would do the dishes, I would gag. He thought it was the funniest thing ever. Turns out it wasn't that funny. Maybe puke a few times. I hate soggy bread. That's a trigger. Like when a dog, you don't have dogs, but like if anyone knows this,

like accidentally one of the kernels drops in their water bowl, and by the end of the day it expands, I gag. I hate soggy anything. That's gross. Yeah, it's disgusting. No one deserves that. Yeah, no, I agree. I agree.

That just got a little weird with you and the soggyness. They got a little bit more weirder with you getting a half chub about dunking cookies and milk. Listen, you want to make, you want to get real about it? We got real about it. Yeah, you got too. We got real about it. We've been watching. Is there anything else we need to talk about?

before we get into these episodes. Last night, I was playing Super Nintends with Anthony. And I made the mistake of talking about one of my favorite games, which happens to be on N64. And now Anthony thinks that I'm buying it for him. And while we're playing, he's like, Dad, you've got to buy me Super Smash Brothers, not knowing that I have to buy a whole new system. And I was like, dude, can't we just be like buddies that play Super Nintendo together?

And he goes, yeah, Dad, but we're gamers. And I was like, you need to stop watching YouTube. For real. Like, how do you know what a gamer is? Well, he's right, though. I'm not a gamer. Yeah, you're a gamer now. I'm not a gamer.

How much time do you spend a week playing the game with your son? Probably three times a week for a half hour. Amazing. You're a gamer at that point. An hour a week makes you a gamer. Yeah? Michael's notting. No, gamers are like gamers.

Like, that's their hobby. Listen, he's part of American culture now. Playing video games is part of being American. Dad. Welcome to America. We're gamers. I was like, oh, man. Hard to argue with that logic.

So shout out to Anthony. And yeah, Champ Camp, by this time, you should be going. And yeah, let's get into these episodes. Vendettas. This is a really good season. So just so you guys know, this is Vendettas episodes three and four we're going to cover in a row. And then early next week, we're going to have a special trader's guest. By this point, you know, is Danielle Reyes coming and talk about Traders.

Shout out to Danielle. You'll hear here on Monday probably. So, yeah. They're going to know this. By then? By then, yeah, because we're going to tease it to the fans tomorrow. So we can get those questions for Daniel. So they'll know that they'll know by then.

Super excited to talk to her with traders winding down. But blast from the past, episode three of vendettas, starts with the abysmal elimination between Corey and Nelson. We talked about this a lot. But two things to consider in retrospect. Number one, like I think we talked about it. In their heads, we're probably going to have a British person in this elimination, at least one.

So let's throw a soccer elimination out there because we could have saw, Like, if you really think about it, if those balls were flying into the net, that'd be pretty cool. Let me just tell you this. They edited that scene to make them look much better than they actually were. It wasn't just like four or five kicks each. It was, and they only showed the good kicks. How many were on target? Only Corey's first one.

That's so bad. And I, like, felt bad laughing because, you know, like, I'm like, I haven't done an elimination round in. a long time. Like, I don't want to be that guy that laughs and then goes down there and sucks like week two. But Johnny and Leroy were laughing so hard. It made it, it made me laugh.

Bro. It was, like, Nelson whiffed. Yeah. Like, one time he kicked it and didn't even hit the ball. And Corey had a lot of kicks that were just like Nelson's.

Corey just also was like launching him. Like, he was getting good connection. But like, it was bad. Yeah. Corey, I think,

is more universally coordinated. And Nelson is more of a workhorse, correct? I wouldn't even say that Nelson is a workhorse, but I wouldn't say he's more of a workhorse than Corey. But yes, Corey, actually, baby giraffes are more coordinated than Nelson. There's a- Corey should never lose this elimination. That's not true.

Oh, okay. Because you have to remember, kicking a ball, like, if you've never played soccer, kicking a, or football, kicking a ball in sand, like, that was, this all like chance like he thought he was doing the right thing by tapping it in Nelson still with a wide open net tow bashed it like dude that the fact that that went straight is actually a modern day miracle so do you bowl I mean I have bold it's not something that like I do on the regular like maybe like once every two or three years do you spin or do you straight straight throw um I do both but I prefer straight okay because like that's what I mean so some certain things work

for different people. I mean, obviously Nelson won, but in my opinion, Corey should never lose this. Anyone that's played any sports at all, you should be able to do something. He looked a lot more natural kicking that ball. Yeah. He just, he like topped it. And like you said, he's making contact. So like, from a golf perspective, there's somebody who can't even hit the ball

versus someone who can hit it, but it might go right left or whatever. He topped it. He topped it. It was just his, it was just bad luck. But that elimination around last, they were doing that for like almost an hour, I would say. Yeah. And it was so bad. After that, I'm thinking, like, these guys from the UK probably think we're the biggest bunch of chumps ever. Small sample size, but, but yes.

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