{"podcast":{"title":"Challenge Mania","slug":"challenge-mania-608324","podcast_index_feed_id":608324,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/2987894/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://www.ChallengeManiaPodcast.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a1f0ce8485f656e1d6c96fa69a8fa816.jpg","author":"Challenge Mania","episode_count":1000,"summary":"MTV Star Derrick Kosinski (@DerrickMTV) & actor / comedian Scott Yager (@SHOTOFYAGER) dive head first into the MTV Challenge universe, interviewing past, present and future contestants, breaking down Challenge news and episodes, and laying down new challenges to anyone and everyone.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-23T16:20:00.297031+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenge-mania-608324"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 540: Zach Nichols' Challenge Mania Debut!","slug":"ep-540-zach-nichols-challenge-mania-debut","published_at":"2026-08-20T14:21:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenge-mania-608324/ep-540-zach-nichols-challenge-mania-debut","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenge-mania-608324","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-540-zach-nichols-challenge-mania-debut--74393000","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74393000/ep_540_zach_feed.mp3","summary":"Derrick Kosinski & Scott Yager are joined finally by Zach Nichols. There aren't too many White Whales left when it comes to Challenge Mania. Since our debut in November 2017 we have had almost every major name in the world of The Challenge at least once. ZACH NICHOLS is someone who has evaded us thus far...UNTIL NOW. Zach sits down with Derrick and Scott live and in studio for a full career retrospective that goes 2 hours. A lot of ground is covered! WATCH THIS EPISODE HERE: https://www.patreon.com/ChallengeMania/posts/video-zach-makes-167011071 www.ChallengeManiacs.com to join the Pod Squad and get Bonus Content, Pre-Sales and MORE! www.ChallengeMania.Live for tix to shows in FLORIDA, PHOENIX, PHILLY AND NOLA! www.ChallengeMania.Shop for Swag!!","meta_description":"Derrick Kosinski & Scott Yager are joined finally by Zach Nichols. There aren't too many White Whales left when it comes to Challenge Mania. Since our…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7223,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/challenge-mania-608324/episodes/ep-540-zach-nichols-challenge-mania-debut/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenge-mania-608324/ep-540-zach-nichols-challenge-mania-debut.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}