The Zach Nichols Podcast - Vets and New Threats Episode 2 Review! | ZNP EP. 120

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

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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. All right. Now that Rogan's not here, spill, what's going on? Round of a ball is with a birthday boy, 38 years old yesterday. No, 28.

28? 28. 24 kids. As of tomorrow. I will have four kids. We're going in tomorrow. Is that official? Oh, yeah.

11 a.m.'s the induction appointment. Baby should be out by four. I should be home by 630 and bed by 9. I love it. We don't have any help here? What's the deal? You're by yourself, just you two? The way I see it is Jenna's mom's coming in town, and my mom is like, oh, super grandma.

Like, she's like, I got them. Hell yeah. But my thing is this. Yes, we're having a new baby, which is an incredible blessing. And I'm really excited. That being said, what good am I in the hospital when there's nurses and doctors? And Jenna told me, too, she's like, there's three of my other kids, right, that need me. And two dogs.

And I don't want to burden any one person with my zoo, my chaotic. It's a lot of life to handle. So my mom's going to obviously be there. And if I have to stay in the hospital, I will. But the plan is Jenna wants peace and quiet. And I don't know if anyone knows this in here, but there's a thing in the hospital in the room that you go on after you have a child. And it's called the daddy windowsill. They're like, oh yeah, there's your spot to sleep.

And it's a window cell. And there's a pad on it about this big. And then they give you a pillow. It's about the size of like this pillow that I'm sitting on. And right above it is an industrial strength air conditioning fan that blows straight on your face with zero humidity. So I've never not gotten a sore throat. And, um, no, I'm going to try not. to get a sore throat this time.

I'm not going to stay. Yeah. I'm going home. You've got to be taken care of. Right. Especially if it's an 11 a.m. birth, we got time. Oh yeah, that thing will fall out before noon. Is that going to stay the night?

Of course she is. She wants to stay the night without me. She literally told me I don't even have to show up to the birth, but I kind of want to be there for that. Yeah, I just might want to make that one. Yeah, I want to see Francesco Rose enter the birth. I was just going to, is that the name is that? Oh, was that not supposed to tell?

No, I, I'm cool with it, but I just, I don't. know what your arrangement is with your wife. Francesca Rose. Yeah, that's the name. She'll be born by the time that this is air. Yeah, yeah. So she'll be born tomorrow. That's exciting.

What's even more exciting is, no, I'm just kidding. Yeah, no. Well, you were just, okay, so we, daughter number three on the way. We were just talking about some of the vernacular that your other daughter was using. I thought it was very interesting. Oh, yeah. So my daughter, beans. She walked up.

Good old beanie. I gave her. She asked for. fruit snack the other day. And she loves fruit snacks in my house are gold, right? Sure. Costco. We get them with Costco and they're gone in like a week.

Oh, yeah. Currency. And I gave her her fruit snacks. She goes, oh, yeah, titties. And I was like, what? She goes, titties. I'm like, where'd she learn that? Where did that come from?

Me, apparently. Is that your, is it so that's a good thing? No, that's terrible. I got to stop saying tities when Jenna makes something. No, no. When Jenna makes something delicious for dinner, I got to stop saying, Oh, yeah, titties. Which is, I think, one of the greatest compliments you could say about chicken parm.

Absolutely. You know? I mean, chicken parm is literally breast, titties. So titties applies in that scenario. No, you know what the best part about having a baby is? Well, besides having a baby. What? I have two sisters who live very close and am my brother and my mom who are all phenomenal chefs.

So they all bring over all this food. But my whole family besides, you know, titties and beans, like they don't eat. Like, Jenna and Anthony are so picky. Like, I get all this delicious food made for me. Oh, so it's just nobody, you don't have to share it with anyone? Well, beans and Carmella. But yeah, no, my siblings are bringing over. I got some fried tacos coming.

I got some chicken fried rice coming. Homemade yum yum sauce. Yum yum sauce guy? You know. You don't really like Asian food. No, not really. Yeah, you like to go south of border. When it comes to food, pretty racist.

But not land to the food. Keep it within my. You got to chill with those things. It's a kid show. I'm just kidding. And everyone knows that's not true because I'm an Italian stallion when it comes to the food. Can we break down the Britney Spears moment that left you hairless? Oh, my God.

So, all right. Do you want to know the truth? Yeah. I was in a bar in Birmingham, Michigan, Dick O'Dow's, Saturday night. And I just walked around and looked around and I'm just like, I'm so fucking old. Like, I have to rebrand. Stop acting young. You're not young.

We're not that young. Oh, I'm young. No. You're 38, dude. I got the, I got the stamina. Think about whenever we were Cedric's age, so early 20s, right? Like how old 40 sounded to us? Bananas is 42.

Well, it's not that old. S.D. There you go. You know what? Let's just get to that real quick. We could always segue out and talk about other shit, but I got to just say, this was probably one of the most unintentionally hilarious episodes of of the challenge I've ever seen.

Could you imagine being 26 years old and losing your girl to someone 18 years older than you? And he's wearing a fanny pack. A fanny pack. Yeah. Bro. I rarely text cast members. I had to text Johnny about that.

Yeah? What did you say? I said this is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on national television. Like a 40-some-year-old dude stole a 26 year old's girl while wearing a fanny pack. But not just stole his girl. Made him unravel to a point where he punched a wall and had a male cheerleader consoling him being like,

you're authentically you, authentically crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Like how it started out was like, me and D were hooking up. It's not a big deal. I'm here to win the challenge, but couldn't drop it. And it escalated into him literally breaking, getting a boxer's break on his mind.

Going full Andy Bernard. Yeah. full Andy Bernard. Full Dunder Miflin, hand to wall. Bro, I couldn't stop laughing and it wasn't even supposed to be funny. Yeah, it was. That's funny. It's hysterical.

I can't wait to unpack that, but Will. Who? He's in his feelings. Okay, so at this point, you know, he's watched a few seasons of this. Yes. What rookies are making an impression to you where you're like, I need to see that rookie back? Oh, man. Before this season or on this season right here?

No, no, no. This season are watching these new kids because, remember, they're not going to cast all these new kids again next season. They're going to take the ones that killed it or either did really well or were really entertaining or if they were both even better. Yeah. Think about it. I can't get enough of D. When it comes to the entertainment value, I like Blue, but Tate, you know what I'm saying?

She showed her shit this season. Or Tay? No, D, I just. So you think she's coming back no matter what? Yeah. She's locked in. I think. I think she's the future of the new era.

I was thinking, I mean, going into this episode, you know who I thought was like, damn, like she might be amazing. stay soon. Blue. Yeah. But unfortunately, I think her performance, that elimination round is going to take that away from her. Yeah, you think it's just a little too. Losing is one thing, but giving up is another. And I'm actually really upset that TJ didn't let her have it.

Like, if this was like season 17 through last time I did, it was 34, T.J. would have given her the business. The only thing that I'll say to back her up is that she went second playing defense, and I think she was already past the number of points. So I think, if I remember correctly, it doesn't matter. You fight. Fight to the whistle, right?

Fight to the whistle. If that was true, the Patriots wouldn't have beat the Falcons. I mean, hey, the whistle ain't over until it's over. 28 to 3. Yeah. Now, mathematically, yeah, but here's the case, then the game should have ended at that point.

But my point is, I, you know who else I think is going to be an unsung hero? I think America. America. Yeah. Really? I think she, I think her interviews are pretty good. She's okay. Yeah, she's all right.

I'm not in love yet. I don't need to see her on TV at this point. They haven't given her enough air time. Yeah. Is that at all skewed by you being a big brother fan? No. I think, I just think, like at first I,

because I at first, I didn't like her on Big Brother. Right. And I didn't think I was going to like her on this season, but I think her, I think it's like her like, her like, cool, like bubbly person.

Like kind of like. You probably started getting along with CT and you're like, I know, like, it's kind of like how Alyssa Snyder's, her interviews were so good and authentic that I was like, damn, like she grew on me. It's kind of like that. Fair enough. But yeah, obviously, D.

I think Sydney is like a bull in a China shop. She's just, she's doing the Pauly Califiori entrance. Like she's trying to do, she's basically saying, I'm going to say and do whatever I have to to get recasted. Yeah, I mean. And it shines through, but we haven't seen the performance. We haven't seen the performance. We see that she has some Division I accolades as I believe a cross-country.

Endurance runner. Yeah, this is important. We'll see. We'll see if she can get. physical. I mean, this, this was a great episode when it comes to physicality. Do we have the most physical competitors in it? Not necessarily. This is what Rogan wanted. This is, this is what Rogan was kind of like the coin flip about. You know what I mean? Because a cornflip changes the whole game here. But let's get into the episode. Let's start at the top. We come back from the

Rogan and Justin elimination. Just like we talked about TJ letting the cast know they will now be getting new partners after every elimination, starting with the winners getting to choose and then the rest in the order of which they finished. And the words, of blue, it got spicy. So how do you feel about this format? 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.

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