The Zach Nichols Podcast - Vets and New Threats Episode 18 Review! | ZNP EP. 138

Episode Date: November 28, 2025

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Welcome back to the Zach Nichols podcast. Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving, you swamp donkeys. Yeah. Speaking of Swamponkeys, Pierre's reping. Yeah. Thank you for everyone that bought Swamp Dockies. I think that's going to be official name.

We've called them ZMP fans. There's ZMP fam, I should say, for a while. But you guys, I think that's an official name of our fans is Swamp Donkeys. I don't know if that's, I'm not co-signing that yet. But anyways, hope your Thanksgiving was good. Hope everyone enjoyed the football game. Let's not gloss over. That too.

All that for sure. But don't gloss over. Go get your swamp donkey teas. The link is in the bio. Get your jersey. This is your family jersey. Get it. Swam donkey G.

Get it. We should make it possible for them to put like a name on the back if they want to. We can do that. We can do that. If that's something that you want to do, let me know. Go get your swamp donkey teas. Join the family in that department. I was just kidding.

You guys already part. But you know what I mean. How's the sales on the big fetichini shirt? It's pretty good. We got one. We moved one unit. Was it your mother? Uh, no, it was my girlfriend, my internet girlfriend, Mrs. Wren, I love you, Wren.

Oh, no. She got one? She does. Hell yeah, Ren's a real one. I fucking love me. If she bought that one but didn't get the swam talking one, I'm going to be fucking pissed. Well, get pissed. No, I'm just kidding.

She got pissed. I'm not going to go through the numbers on that. She got both. Love you, Ren. We love you so much. Any big Thanksgiving traditions that your family does? Um, big, nah. Oh, well, actually, so my uncle, uh, who hosts every year, he's famous for having, like,

the beads that Turbo holds he has like a literally he has like a shrine of his own beads um so rumor rumor has it that Turbo carries the beads until it's time to compete in which at one point he shoves him up his ass yeah the rectal yeah he that's where he stores them and he gets a little boost from it they become calming they go from calming beads to rectal you never know they might have like cocaine laced you know what I mean I think they're real calming in both instances he performs better with a couple beads shoved up his bum I want you to hand delivered this clip to Turbo. Hey, Turbo, by the way.

Can we get Turbo at the live show? Does anyone know Turbo? Does anyone have his phone number? Do we need a smoke signal, a carrier pigeon? Sure. Who do we have to call at the U.S. Embassy? We don't really want him at the show. We just want him to come and perform Monday Tongue Day.

There you go. I definitely leave the Speedo at home or bring the Speedo. I don't know. He can bring the Speedo. He can bring it. We're going to have to double up security, though, because I'm not so sure that Turbo is a fan of me. I can't confirm or deny that. He actually does follow the page.

I've DMed him several times to come on the show. He doesn't know letters, though. Yeah, he doesn't read English. Oh, my gosh. There's no letter. These are letters. I wonder if he signs his own checks. We don't know.

We'll have to find out. Yeah, he's probably got a, uh, um, uh, Otani situation with like an interpreter that just signs his checks and launders all his money and probably. Yeah, no. He obviously doesn't understand. He's like, I could buy a house. No, you can put a down payment on a house. Yeah, with two.

200 come on you think it's buying a house in america well maybe in new mexico yeah maybe new mexico back in turkey that'll probably get him a subdivision but here in america he could literally buy um milios is that his name amelio ammanuel's uh neighborhood yeah manuel he's taking care of his mom and grandma with that too nitty well anyways uh let's should we get to the show should we get to the yeah it's final season baby final season um oh yeah just go to austin come to Austin we're pretty much almost sold out so like you better get on that um get your tickets to austin we'll be there live with some finalists you know you know who's coming so i don't have to tell you again but you're me he's going to be there city's going to be there johnny's going to be there

leroy's going to be there aviv and justin and justin yep there be a hell of a crowd hell of a crowd we're excited for that we're eating nachos we're eating nachos they have them uh this this episode starts with tj breaking down the teams they show everybody's interviews and yeremy used the word betrayed when speaking about Michaela. Interesting choice of words. He clearly thought they were working together and he never attempted to get them out, although she also never said his name. So I don't know.

It might have been an unfair characterization. Were they working together, though? I never saw, I mean, I guess Cedric was, yeah, I guess Cedric was working with. Yeah. Yeah. But, I mean, it seemed like, you know, he, the one thing that's interesting to me is, he's a challenged virgin, so he doesn't really understand how it works. Yeah, he's a little verge.

Yeah, he's got to figure it out. But the thing with Michaela is she said, the, the only person that really hasn't the right to be mad at me was Jeremy. So maybe she kind of, maybe she admitted that. I don't know what you guys. Let me know what you guys think, but. Yeah, I mean, you also have to remember. It's tough to like, like the cry of betrayal when there's five teams left is tough

because it's like who else are they going to vote for themselves. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And, I mean, at that point, it's like Jordan would never fault anyone for going for him at the end because this guy, you know, ultra-marathonered, you know, you know this he's listen he didn't do himself any favors in hiding his skills right all season yeah this like he's built for a final he's been proving that all season so it's like do you blame her no i don't i don't know she's got a bad ankle why would she want to run

against somebody who does this for a living like this is what he does and i actually did not know that he's from the amazing race i thought there's a survivor guy yeah some people uh corrected you a couple times yeah he's in a race yeah i watched i've been watching amazing race really with all the BB people? How's Kylin on that? Pretty insufferable. Just kidding. No, it's so standard.

No, I'm just kidding. Love you, Kylean's actually great. He just has to manage Taylor's emotions. She got him in some heat. Taylor. Yeah. Are they like together on the show? I don't know.

We have to ask Naya. Okay. Kind of a will-day, won't-day situation with them. Natalie Nogradi got eliminated. So that made me happy. I see her get eliminated. Was she there with her girlfriend? with her sister.

Oh, her sister. Oh, okay, got you. And they could not be any different looking. Different looking. Yeah. Okay, all right. You kind of bitched at her sister quite a bit. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Well, some people haven't experienced that. They show the terrain, uh,k.a. the Andes Mountain, mountains, which... Let me, let me... The Andy's Mountains have claimed a few souls, mine being one of them. Elevation is nothing. It's tough, man. That is, that is probably one.

of I would say that's probably one of the toughest places to do a final without question without question I've suffered enough on those mountains to know it's like different it's different like you can walk and get out of breath and when you're getting less oxygen in your lungs you're getting less oxygen to your muscles so this is where running a final and there's not a lot of multi-time finalists in this final but running a final and turbo ran his at sea level in Namibia his first one. Mikaela, I forgot where USA 2 was. I want to say Brazil.

No, no, no, no. It was in Prague, wasn't it? No, no, no, no. It was in South Africa. Croatia. That's where they filmed that one. Okay, got it. I don't think there's a ton of elevation there.

So going into this one, I think knowing the terrain and knowing about elevation, this is like a, for lack of a better term, more of a slog than a jog. You know, you want to make. Of course, unless your name's Sydney, in which case... 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.