The Zach Nichols Podcast - The Gabe Wai Interview! | ZNP EP. 123

Episode Date: August 29, 2025

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What's up with it? This is Gabe here, the big grizzly bear, here at the Zach Nichols podcast. We win it. We talk about spicy things, gameplay, everything. I'm in here with my boys. We're going to get it started. 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, Pauli, Horacio, and Norese, and possibly some more guests.

So get on that now. You're not going to want to miss this one. That was 100% on it. intentional. That was awesome. That was cool, though. That was pretty great. And that song? I love that song. That's like the 90s summer jam. 100%. It's a Acorn remix, too. Never really

matter too much. Not a remix guy. Sorry. Unless it's Salt Shaker remix. Anyways, welcome back to the Zach Nichols podcast. I'm here with Prison Mike. But more importantly, Gabe Y. Yes. I'm shocked that you haven't

been arrested after assaulting bananas. Damn. Ain't lying there. No, it was. But you know what? You got to give Johnny some credit. Yes. He battled.

Yeah, 100%. It was, you don't see it, but I literally, I grabbed Johnny's hand and say, hey, man, this guy is still a champ. Of course he is. And it's one of those things of, you're still battling a champ, you know? Like, oh, there's never time that, oh, you definitely thought you had that done. No, I didn't. Because I'm still going to.

think, okay, until that horn blows. Exactly. Because at the end of the day, you never know what's going to be the outcome. And any true competitor respects their opponent, and that's how you went. Yeah. Well, what would have been even funnier, though,

is if you just grabbed all three ropes and just held them all at once. They wouldn't let us. Otherwise, you probably would have. Yeah, I wouldn't let. Do your best, Chief. Now, second on my agenda list is, why were you pissing everybody in the house off?

Oh. Let's go through it. What's the point of it? Getting right to it. Getting right to it. At the first we talked to so far as like, Yeah, dude, gay pissed everyone off. Okay, here's the thing, though.

So watching it back, I'm like, okay, like, when I came out and I was done, and I was like, damn, like, I really, I really messed up. And I was almost, I was just like in a kind of depressed state of mind. For sure. And then I watch back and I look at everybody. And I see Ben was playing and he was lying straight to my face. then I see Sydney, talk shit about everybody

Love Sydney, but she talks shit about everybody And these are all little things that I was mini-picked on And I was like, Gabe, you're a piece of shit. So, going into the house, off-rip, me, Ben, and Jeremy were talking in the hotel. We were bored.

Zach you know how it is. And so we were talking in the hotel. Ben is writing down to the little notebook, his little notes. And I'm like, okay, sure, whatever. Weird, but carry on. Yeah. Okay, sure, whatever.

Very weird. Very weird, by the way. Well, I know a lot of people do bring note, that's like a thing. The dogs are talking, you know, is that? Go ahead. People bring notebooks because they're trying to see, okay, on the trivia day, nine times out of ten, you're going to have a whole bunch of questions. So that's why they bring notebooks.

They write down, okay. every elimination, every challenge, everything like that. Smart. So it's fair. But, yeah, so we go into the house. Off rip, me and Adrienne are kind of getting a little chummy. A little cozy. A little cozy.

Oh, shit. Where's this then, dude? The good stuff never airs. I think it's just because it wasn't like, we weren't as outward as Rogan and Izzy. Yeah. No one is as outward. He's in the living room. No one is outward as Rogan.

Brogan does not care if there's an audience. In the kitchen, the hallway, everywhere in between. I know for my experience. So you're being low-key with Adrienne? Is that you telling me? This is right away? Yeah. So this is like our first weekend in, because that hill was on a Friday.

We go into Saturday, Sunday. And then Monday, me and Adrian, we're already done. Yeah. Oh, so it's the first, not only is it just a weekend, it's the first weekend. Yeah. Okay. That is the definition of hidden. quit it.

That's called Welcome Week for all you college people. That's Welcome Week. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, hooked up with this girl at Welcome Weekend. That's what we're talking about. The very first one. And your first challenge, too. Yeah.

All right. We're having fun. So we're getting a little chummy, but then we go into the first challenge, then we go into the first elimination, and Rogan comes up to me and say, hey, bro, I'm hearing your name. My, I've watched the season for, a little while, right? So I'm like,

oh, dang it. Like, I'm gonna be the first man, boo. They always love to shoot at the tall guys. They always love to shoot at the big guys, like right off the bat. I'm not trying to be another Kells. So I was like, all right, let me, let me try to mitigate this.

Yeah. So I'm like, hold on. I heard this story about Justin. And the real story is, Justin watched the challenge. He was like, I don't know if I can do that. And then he, he's like, you know what? Actually, I can.

And then he obviously goes on to the show. I tell Rogan, I say, hey, how about let's do this? Let's say that he did not want to ever be here. And so then we go and start saying that. And then it gets around and then Justin gets thrown in. I'm cool. I'm off. Mission accomplished. Hold up. You're like, I'm way better at this than I. Hold on. We planting seeds over here.

100% because I don't want to go in. Okay. First boot, no. So you're willing to lie week one. Yes. Yes. He's a MTF kid, man. So that's a great way to start.

So that's how I pissed everybody on. Gotcha. And because Justin was locked in with all the girls, that's all it takes. Piss off the girl's best friend. He's right. Even Ashley said she loved him, so you don't want to piss off the girls' best. Yeah, you never want to do the bestie. That's tough.

Actually, though. No, Ashley's great. great. It was cool. Yeah, no, I mean, with Ashley. I was cool. I don't,

I don't see everyone else on the new threats. Listen, we've seen back to back episodes where she is chastising these new threats and really giving them a piece of her mind. So the fact that you're telling me you got along with her, it's interesting to me. Ashley, I think,

would say that I was probably one of her best partners. Because when she was yelling at, you guys don't really see it, but she's yelling at me. When we slip and fall on that, um, Madness, I'm like, come on, you got it, you got it.

And there was a point where Ashter's like, Gabe, I cannot go anymore. And I was like, huh? No, no, no, no, we're not doing that. So I literally, I grab her. Ashley's like, I grab her and I pick her up. And I walk up the mountain with it. Like Hector Zerone? Like you just, because I was like, no, we're not doing this.

You Stanley Yelmaster off the mountain with your balls. Yes. I was like, no, we're not doing this. We're not doing. Yeah, no. Not quitting. They make movies about that shit. That's awesome.

So you got along with Ashley. That is interesting. That is interesting. Okay. You probably also don't know. Rogan took the gold balls, right? He and Ashley both had a gold ball. Oh yeah.

He told us. He ripped one from her. He ripped one from us. I was like, Rogan, we just talked about us being cool, bro. It's like taking candy from a baby. The classic bait and switch. All right. So before we get into where we're at, let's just talk about who you are.

Where are you from? How are you on the challenge? Tell us who gay why is. Who gay boy is. So my previous name was Ika Brown. Okay. And that comes from, I lived in Indonesia for four years. So in WWE, they're like, hey, let's make an Indonesian warrior.

Let's kind of chop this up and have you speak Indonesian. So Saibis Abhis Sārya, Indonesia. I can speak fluently in Indonesian. Didn't understand any of that. What'd you say? I just basically said I can speak in Indonesian. That's what's up. That's what's up.

Hey, fact check him. Hey, fact check him. Yeah, fact check him. Fact check that man. I don't even know if we could do that. The fans, bro. They'll take care of it. Oh, gotcha.

Appreciate it. Which you gave CT had real nice appreciated in this episode. Let's get into the episode, actually. I want to get your background later. So we come back from your elimination with Johnny. So talk about that triumph. What did it mean to you to take down what the challenges? The challenge is Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Floyd Midwether, Serena Williams, like that type of legend in a challenge.

Your first challenge. He said he was the challenge. So you beat the game. The funny thing is 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.