Dumb Blonde - TBT: Wiz Khalifa - I'm Blessed to Be a Healer

Episode Date: January 15, 2026

Throwback Thursday This week, Wiz Khalifa pulls up with nothing but good vibes—and a smile that could light up the room. He sits down with Bunnie XO to talk about growing up in a military family, navigating dad life, and the bigger purpose that drives him: spreading joy. Wiz opens up about how his parents’ divorce shaped him and how it influences the way he co-parents today, plus the routines that keep him grounded—from music and hot yoga to MMA and early mornings. He also dives into Kush & Orange Juice 2, the long-awaited follow-up to the project that defined an era. And because it wouldn’t be Wiz without a little fun—he spills on his favorite stoner snacks, his dream strip club, and why performing hits like Black and Yellow never gets old.Wiz Khalifa: WebsiteWatch Full Episodes & More: YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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And Bunny X-O. Is this thing on? What's up, babies? Today we have on the couch, Wiz Khalifa. Hey, what's up? How are you doing? I'm chilling. Dude, I'm so happy you're here.

Happy to be here. Thanks for having me. You are just like the smoothest cat. Always and forever. Every time I see you, you have a smile on your face. You're just a chill vibe. You remind me so much of my dad, because I used to always say my dad was like the coolest cat. And then I found out that you were born September 8th.

My dad was September 4th. Oh, yeah. That makes perfect sense. Yeah. So you guys have just that like super chill, super cool vibe. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, of course. If I could compare you to anybody, I'm sure you get this a lot.

It's, I swear, you and Snoop Dog are like the same human, just different font. Exactly. Literally. Was he an inspiration for you growing up? Huge inspiration for me growing up, especially in my teen years, like just being like a taller and skinny dude. It was like, you know, I had to find my swag. And then just looking at Snoop, that was like the tallest, coolest, skinniest dude ever. So it was like, you know what I mean?

I definitely model myself just my whole. you know, approach after, you know, Snoop's rules. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. I miss Pimp Snoop. Yeah. Can we bring him back?

There's a lot of people who don't even know he was a pimp. Oh, I do. Listen, I grew up in that lifestyle in Vegas, so I loved Pimp Snoop. I'm like, bring him back. Remember what he used to hang out with Bishop Don Juan all the time and like that whole era that he went through? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, he raised us.

He raised us right. He did raise us right. So you know how him and Martha Stewart have that TV show? If they were to replace Snoop with you, who would you bring on as your Martha? Who would be my Martha? Yeah. I think like Chelsea Handler. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I like her. She's fucking hilarious, dude. Yeah, she's funny as hell, yeah. We love Chelsea in this house. Yeah, yeah. She actually gave is one of the first people who gave us like our first break as far as like reality TV. Yeah. She believed in our family and like shot.

I know. She's a fucking. See, I didn't even know that. She just said G to me as well. She is. Yeah. So that would be like my Martha for sure. Yeah. Dude, I think we need to do that. We could. We need to get Wiz and Chelsea Handler in a fucking TV show together. That would be so fired. Yeah, that would be awesome. I know that you're stoned all the time and you're not smoking today on my podcast. Do you fill out of your element a little bit? No, I'm good. I got high before I came in. All right, good. It's all good. I'm not tripping. What are some of your favorite stoner foods? Favorite stoner foods? I would have to go with

The funnions as far as chips. Yeah. I like to eat a lot of fruit. I like to eat like pineapple and grapes and straw. I just like get a big ass bowl of fruit. Just mix it all together. I love it. It reminds me of that TikTok.

I like a lot of fresh fruit. Yeah. From the stepbrothers. Is that from stepbrothers? I like a lot of fresh fruit. Cereal any time of a day. What's your favorite cereal? Apple Jacks.

Really? That's different. I normally hear like Lucky Charms or Caput. Crunch. Oh, okay. For real, I usually hear cinnamon toast crunch. I do love a good cinnamon toast crunch or honey grams. Yeah, honeygrams is good.

Don't fuck around. Honeynut Cheerios. Delish. Yeah, don't sleep on them either. Dude, I love me some fucking Cheerios, too. Apple Jacks are good because they're like flavored and they're sweet and the consistency. They don't get all soggy very fast. I like Apple Jacks.

Have you ever thought about doing like reality TV? I think you are literally made for it. I did. Thank you so much. I used to watch so much. reality TV when I was a kid like real world and like all of that stuff I miss the OG real world yo me too and I used to like that was my thing I wanted to be like a personality yeah and yeah so as I got older I started to make my own little series is on YouTube they're called day to days

but they're like you know they're not TV ready because there's a lot of weed on there right but yeah if I ever got the opportunity to do something like that where I could show like my family or my life or just my personality. I would love that. I think that would be hell of fun. I think you have enough star power now to make that happen. Yeah, I'm a super fun dude too. Like, I try anything. It don't matter what it is. I think people would just want to see you, like, raise your kids. Like, I would probably like the dynamic between you and your son. I love kids. Even if I got to do, like, stuff with other people's kids as well, too. Like, you know what I'm saying? I want to do, like, a weird summer camp type thing. Oh, that would be so sweet. Yeah. We're like play game.

and we boxing and we working out and we having fun and we being creative. Yeah, I'll be tired. I love that. If anybody's listening that can make that happen, you guys need to reach out to his team and make that happen. Yeah, where's the summer camp? Have you ever seen that TV show, Drunk History? I have. Okay.

So say Netflix came to you and they gave you a show called High History. What would your first historical moment be that you would relive, that you'd get stoned and just relive? I would want to get stoned and relive. Hmm. There's all good. I mean, history is like pretty dark. Yeah, it is. It is actually.

So I don't want to go through that. He's like, no dark shit. Yeah, no dark shit. I probably want to get stone and go to like a Muhammad Ali fight. That would be dope. Yeah, that would be iconic. Yeah, yeah. Dude, that would be so cool.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What a moment in time. Uh-huh, for sure. I wish boxing was like it was back in the day. Like Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard, I was a huge boxing fan growing up. So like I got to watch all that growing up. And I just feel like boxing's cool now, but it's not like it was back in the day. Absolutely.

Yeah, the sport of it has changed and just like how people enjoy it has changed. But back in the day, yeah, it was awesome. It was exciting. Yeah. You have like really, really good fighters and multiple really good fighters too. So many. Yeah, a lot of them. Mike Tyson used to hang out in the strip club that I worked out all the time.

And he was the coolest dude. He used to give me money because I never bothered him. Yeah. He'd be like, I'd walk by and he would just hand me like at like a thousand dollars and just like, thank you for leaving me alone. Yeah, he just respected that. Yeah. No, he was just so because everybody was always on him and always wanted his attention.

And he noticed that I never like just. he was already getting bombarded, but he was just the sweetest dude. That's nice. That's why it's crazy that you would. I love Mike now too. He's so cool. He's amazing. He's just super chill.

He'd be smoking weed and he just in his own world. He's a good dude, man. Anybody that can raise pigeons the way he does and love them. Right. Because honestly, like pigeons are like a forgotten, like bird. Because they used to do so much. Like they used to fucking send messages during the war. And like, you know, like they were very useful.

And now they're like known as like, You know, dirty birds. Dirty birds. And then, you know, there's Mike over there just raising pigeons. Loving on that dirty bird. Loving the shit out of a dirty bird. So I learned some cool facts about you in your childhood that I actually had never known about you. Can we go on this journey?

Yeah, let's do it. So you were a military kid? Yeah, yeah. Take me on that journey because it says that you were like, you lived in Germany, Japan and the UK growing up. Yeah, I was born in North Dakota. Oh, my parents were cold as hair. hell when they had me. Right.

Yeah. North Dakota is like, it's crazy out there how cold it is. It's brutal. Yeah. I went back for a few shows and shit. And I don't know. We might have been there in like June, but it still felt like it was like December.

Yeah. It never gets warm there. Yeah. No, it's crazy. We've been there on a few shows too. And I'm like, what the fuck is there to do out here? Nothing. Besides have kids.

Have babies. Literally. Yeah. And be in the military, I guess. Yeah. But so my parents, they, my mom is from Pittsburgh. and my dad is from New York. So they met in basic training, which was away from both of those places.

So when they had me and my older sibling, my older sibling was born on Guam. And I was born in North Dakota, which was like two totally different things. And then for the earlier part of my life, yeah, I moved around a lot. I did live in Europe for a while. I lived in Japan for a while. I lived in a lot of southern states. And my mom being from Pittsburgh, that's how I ended up going back there. And that's where a lot of my roots are at, my real family.

And that's why I spent the majority of my time, like, going to school and stuff like that. But it was really cool, like, experiencing, living all over in different countries and different states and things like that. Absolutely. Like, that had to have, like, shaped a little bit of, well, actually, a lot of, like, how you look at life. Absolutely. It definitely exposed me to a lot of different cultures and a lot of different ways of life. Yeah.

And I got to experience it young on a personal level, because I was a lot of. I was meeting a lot of kids and just, you know, mingling with them. And now as an adult and really being able to go back and dive into these cultures and experience them as, you know, a grown man, it just really, like, brought in my mind and just opened me up to a lot of different things. If I didn't have that, I wouldn't have been, you know, where I'm at. I thought that was such a cool fact about you because I didn't know that. And I was like, that's actually really cool that you're like so cultured.

Yeah, it's super cool. And like all the base kids around the world, they feel. like a connection with me. Because like, oh, is one of us. Yeah. Yeah. Because moving around a lot as a child has to be hard.

It is. Because you kind of don't have a sense of feeling like belonging anywhere permanently. It's that. And then there's like a lot of anxiety like from always being the new kid. Because when you're when you're younger, the concept of making friends, you want to just have friends forever. Right.

But you have to like make friends and then leave them. So that be the hard. part is like, oh, I've known you for like two, three years and now I'm never going to see you for the rest of my life. Oh, are there any friends that you have kept in contact with that you met? I do. I do. I have a couple friends. My boy Tyrese from, uh, from Oklahoma. My partner is Zach. He came to see me a couple times. Oh, my partner, Wesley, he live in North Carolina. I haven't seen him in years, but I still remember that fool. Yeah. There's a lot of, there's like girls that I used to date back in the day who would be popping up and shit like that. Oh, I'm sure they do. They're like,

Hey, Wes. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, yeah, you ain't getting, those days is over. No, I get that. I think it's a testament of who somebody is, though, to be able to maintain relationships from childhood. Because I have friends from fucking second grade still, you know.

So it's like, it just shows that you care and that you are able to keep those relationships going. Yeah, absolutely. Even like my friends from Pittsburgh, a lot of them are from middle school and high school. But we just got together for Will's Bachelor Party and we still kick it just on the same level, just talking shit, having a great time.

And I really value, like you said, those relationships. It means a lot to me. Is it because people, they know you from before all of this, you know? Right, right. And they keep you grounded. Yeah, when you do it the right way, they've seen you on your way up. They know that it didn't just happen overnight. Like some people, they might look at you and it's like a magic trick.

Right. Like you said, they know you. Like, we were in class together. We rode the bus together. We went to school dances together. You know, those relationships. relationships are really valuable. I love that. Yeah, every time I go back to Vegas, my girls make sure to humble me. Every time I'm, they're like, bitch, you are, we knew you before you were bunny. You know, like, calm down.

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for two years. Wow, that's a different agreement. Normally it's like every other weekend. Yeah, no, they hated each other. Oh, shit. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, they didn't get along at all. And it was the 90s and there was really no concept of like how to like navigate through that.

They didn't have as much talk about that back then as they do now. Right. So they handled it the best way that they seemed fit. And that was that. Do you think that that plays into your role with how you co-parent with your baby mamas now? Because now you have two, right? You've got Bash and then you've got the little girl now.

Yeah, my girl, Cadence. Yeah. So do you think that seeing how your parents didn't get along back then was kind of like you were like, I'm not going to be like that? And that was a driving force in making sure you had good relationships with the mother of your children. Yeah. I think it like subconsciously played a role.

because to me that was normal when I was a kid, like spending two years with one parent and two years with another. But having kids, I can never be away from my son for no two years. Like, that's insane. So if I got to get along with his mom, if I got to freaking kiss her feet,

I'm doing whatever I got to do to make sure that we're all on the same page. So that's not the agreement. And like I said, my parents did the best that they could. and I don't fault them for that at all. But I do know the difference between seeing your parents function and not seeing them function. And I would much rather, you know, my kids see me and their parents function.

Absolutely. I'm an 80s baby myself. And I just feel like parents of that era, they were not ready to cope with their trauma. Right. They were set in their fucking ways. You were not going to tell them how they are going to raise. their kids and like they were just like it was just I don't know I feel like we're such a generation of kids that are healing what our parents wouldn't yeah absolutely I think even just as a

yeah I totally agree with that and I think as adults our parents went through a lot as well they had trauma you know before but they were going through a lot as adults and I think we're blessed because late 20s early 30s late 30s looks way different now than it did back in a day. Dude, yeah, I'm 45, and I look at pictures of women that were 45 back in the day, and they look like the freaking golden girls. Yeah, exactly. Nobody would even know you were 45 if you didn't say it. So it's like, and even saying 45 isn't an older age, it just looks different now. Right. Yeah. And we're in an era where we're taking full advantage of that and where we understand what kind of gifts we have based off of what we went through and what we were

raised with. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, I mean, if people are lucky enough to still have their parents around, a lot of the times your parents learn more as they get older too. They become way cooler. Super cool. They're like, why couldn't you have been like this fucking 30 years ago? Yeah, exactly.

There'd be stuff like my son does. I'm like, so you're not going to whoop his ass and kick him down the steps and run him over with the car? Because that's what you did to me. That is. It's hilarious. No, I totally get that. So I also read that you started writing lyrics and recording music at age nine or 10. Like, were you just musical from the gate? Like, have you always had that sense of like just rhythm and soul? I think, yeah. Actually, like, my parents played a lot of music in the house. Just like getting ready or cleaning up or driving. So it was always around me. And it was something that made me feel. feel good. But I got some of my best memories for music or where I was at or what I was doing. So that kind of translated into my love for music. And then my cousins, they were, they were

rapping and doing shit just because they were older than me. So that's when I figured out that I could actually make it. And I was like, oh, okay, this isn't that difficult. It's like when you get an instrument and you start playing. It was the same thing for me. I was just kind of fucking around, like writing raps here and there. and then people just start telling me how good I was. So I just practiced and kept going and going and going. And my mind is like, I got a really big imagination. So I would see stuff that people didn't necessarily see as doable.

I would see it as like, okay, we could make an album. We could, you know, make merch. We could put on a show. You know what I mean? So I just started like developing into this over time. but it was all based off of enjoying music and loving how it made me feel. Like I remember watching music videos

and just being blown away or like saving up all my money to go buy you know, bone thugs and harmony tape or something. You know what I mean? It was so valuable to me. It wasn't like just music. So like that's what started me creating

and doing what I'm doing. Music was the soundtrack to your life. Yeah. I feel like it would, our parents actually, that was one of the really cool things that they did for us, is I grew up in a very musical household too. And, like, you know, I had so many influences. What were some of your influences growing up that inspired you to rap,

but also just even that weren't in the rap genre? Yeah. My dad listened to everything. He listened to Journey. He listened to Bob Marley. He would listen to Whitney Houston. Oh, I love Whitney. My dad had, like, a huge record collection.

So we would just sit down and listen to funk records. everything and my mom was more like the hip hop like she was she's current mom's the g oh yeah my mom's g she listened to too short oh i love it i love it okay so mom's with the shit yeah yeah yeah my mom smoke weed and everything i love mom that's who i got smoking weed from for sure yeah my mom is a g and um so yeah it's like the combination like we i had i had everything and then we grew up in a really good era of music too. Where it was diverse. It was really good R&B along with really good rap music. Bring it back.

90s R&B. Can we bring that back, please? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no for sure. That is like a moment in time that unless you lived it, you do not know what the fuck you missed. Not for real. Like it 90, I love 90, I play 90s R&B for my cows. Yeah. He loves Keith Sweat. Yeah.

Who doesn't love Keith Sweat? That shit makes you feel good in here. Like, it's not just hearing it. But, yeah, so. all that influence, but especially like from rap music, Bone Thugs and Harmony was a huge influence to me. Growing up in Pittsburgh, we're in the Midwest, so we were close to Ohio,

but just that sound and like it just resonated with me. And then the look, they had the braids and the sunglasses, and like they were just hard to me. Like, I love Bone. I was a Bone Girl, too. Yeah, for sure. When I first got with Jay, he's a Three Six Mafia dude. So we literally had Bone Thug and Three Six Mafia Wars in the House.

Of course, he won because he's daddy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, for sure, for sure. But, no, I'm a bone thugs girl through and through. They're actually coming on the podcast. I'm really excited about it. I'm gonna be, like, that's probably gonna be a fan girl moment for me. You got to, yo, it's bomb. Yeah, for sure.

So where do you think that, like, your smoothness came from? Do you think it came from your mom? My smoothness come from my dad. Really? For sure, yeah. He's just a smooth dude, yo. He's real mild-tempered, mild-mannered. Yeah.

Just everybody loves him, everybody's best friend. He don't raise his voice. He's, you know, he's just a cool dude. Yeah. He's a really, really cool dude. And he's just been a cool dude. Like, he taught me how to be cool for sure. I love, as dad's still around?

Yeah, yeah. Good. I love that. Yep, I spend a lot of time with my dad, especially, like, having my daughter. My dad comes out to the house a lot and just kicks it. And he doesn't really do too much. Like, he used to party and turn up. do all that shit.

But now he'd be like in my backyard taking pictures of birds and stuff. Isn't it crazy how life just like calms you the fuck down? And I'm like he's happy. You know, I don't try to really take him out of his element. I used to. I used to be like, Daddy, come on, man. Let's like go get some jet skis or some. He's like, nah, I just want to, you know, connect.

Yeah. I feel you? I feel that too. I sit outside with my cows all the freaking time. So your name was Khalifa. but one part of it came from an uncle, another part of it came from a Muslim grandfather? Yeah, well, the grandfather is his dad,

so it was both of them. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, so I was kind of, it's my mom's little brother, but it's my mom's father as well. So while my mom would be out doing whatever she needed to do, whether it was work or just, you know,

partying, whatever she was doing, I would hang out with my uncles and be at my granddad's house. And my granddad is like, well, he was, he passed away, but he's straight Muslim, like, pray five times a day, be in the mosque, you know, seven days a week, you know, helping the brothers out at jail. Like, everybody knew my granddad because of what he did for the community. So, yeah, that was like a real powerful moment for me just being a kid and wanting a name that was like, wasn't my name, but I would carry as my name. Yeah, absolutely. And, yeah, it came together.

It was wisdom, Khalifa at first. But my dad being cool as hell, he took the dumb off and was just calling me whiz. Yeah. He was like, I don't like the wisdom. I don't like that. He was like, just whiz. That's so cool, though. And I love that you had a grandfather that introduced spirituality into your life.

Yeah, absolutely. Do you hold any lessons from him that he taught you? The majority of it is just like the strength and, like, family and in yourself, your daily routine. My granddad was a wild dude as well back in the day before he, you know, took on his religion. Wow. He had been to jail a lot of times. He had been on drugs and he completely changed his life around and, you know, helped kids and help, you know, other people in the same situation that he was in.

Yeah. Get out of those situations or at least navigate through him. And that's what I learned from my granddad is just to really be a leader. And he was real stern, too. Like, he wasn't, he wasn't, no punk. Yeah. He was gangster. too. Yeah, he was super gang-so. He was really up front. Everybody respected him too.

Oh. So, you know, just having that as like a backbone, you know, that was, that's good. Yeah, that's great for a young man. Yeah. That's so cool to be able to, you know, look back on that with just fond eyes. So take me on this come up, okay? You dropped your first mixtape at 16, Prince of the City. Welcome to Pistylvania. Take me on that entire journey of when you dropped that first mixtape going all the way to getting signed with Warner in 2009. Okay, so I dropped my first mixtape. I think I was like 16 years old in high school. So I'm selling a mixtape in school, like physically pressing them up and selling it. And I had a... Kids these days will never understand.

Never. They don't even know. They don't know about burning those CDs. They won't have to burn a CD for what? They go on TikTok. There's no CDs to burn anyway. I know. I know.

They took albums away from us. Now they're taking... CDs away from us. It's crazy. It's just all in the air. Yeah. So I'm selling my CD. I'm going to different stores and I was a really, a real hustler to the point where I would show up and drop off 10, 20, 50 CDs and go collect the money as well the next week. And people see me around the city and they really respected what I was doing and the people who I was working with at the time as well. And it just kept building up, building up, building up till I was about 19. And then I got a record deal with Warner Brothers, but it was for a single.

It wasn't for an album. And the single did pretty well. It was called Say Yeah. And while I was on Warner, I learned how to do radio and do drops and meet DJs and go to, you know, car shows and just really promote myself. So from early stages, I got the street hustle. And then I learned the business hustle and the creative side of it as well. I'm always working on that.

I lost my record deal at Warner Brothers. They didn't want to do my album because they just couldn't see the vision. Did you lose it or did you walk away? Because I think I had read that you had walked away from it. They had the option to do the album and they didn't take the option. So we had the option to leave or stay and there was no reason to stay because they weren't going to work on my project. So we did leave, but they didn't want anything to do with me.

They had already just chalked it up. the money that they spent, they were like, it's cool, it's whatever. You can go back to Pittsburgh. So I did go back to Pittsburgh. And that's when the internet started to change. Like YouTube, Twitter, those were the main vehicles for me. Right. YouTube was brand new because I graduated in 2006 and YouTube was like kind of still, you know, like turning around.

But Twitter was brand new. And I was like, okay, cool, I could do something off of Twitter. And so I started just being on social media and just being consistent, making YouTube videos and making mixtapes that were directed towards, you know, the audience that I had and that I was building and that I knew that I had. And that just took me to a point where I was bigger and better on my own than any, you know, label or anything could market for me. Absolutely. Yeah. So that's when I started to like really travel and tour.

And then I got my deal with Atlantic through that. time. So you left Warner in 2009, but then you blew up in 2010, correct, with black and yellow off of Twitter. Yeah. Right? Yeah. That's crazy. Not many people can say they blew up off of Twitter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because that's a fucking scary. First of all, it's scary as hell. I get scared going over there. Twitter's crazy. It was different back in the day. Right, right, right. It's quick. It wasn't how it is now. Yeah, for sure. But it's so cool that that is part of your story that, you know, you used a platform that not some people most people get like famous off like youtube from back in the day or something like that but you got to utilize Twitter the way that you did yeah for sure

Twitter was like a like a subculture back then so you had the mainstream but people were low-key more tapped into Twitter than anything else like they felt like that was more real life and it was cooler and we had that edge where I could just keep supplying you know those same fans and it became more popular than the mainstream stuff. And I didn't really see that happening, but that was the goal because we just felt like we were so cool. Like, we was cooler than everybody. So it was like, you might as well watch us.

And that's what really took us to the top for sure. What did that feel like, though? Like, because this was before you even had like a number one on the radio and you're just literally going viral on Twitter. What were you feeling? What was Wiz in that moment feeling? I was super confident, really cocky. very aware of myself.

We love a king who can own it. Oh, yeah. I was owning it. Yeah, man. I knew what I was dealing with. And like you said, I had trended on Twitter a couple times, whether it was just me coming up with a topic and having everybody on Twitter talking about it

or whatever it was. I knew that I could control the Internet the way that I did. And when I dropped certain tapes like, and orange juice that shut sights completely down. You couldn't even go on the site. I'm like, oh yeah, I'm that dude. Yeah. Like, clearly.

Y'all are telling me. Yeah, how can you not? Yeah, y'all let me know. Yeah, for sure. Do you ever get tired of singing black and yellow? Jay and I literally said this at stagecoach because he was like, yeah, Wizz is coming out to sing black and yellow. And we both started laughing.

We're like, poor Wizz. He's probably so fucking tired of singing this song. Oh, I never get tired of it. Oh, really? I love that song. That is so cool. I mean, it's a vibe. It's a vibe.

It represents. it's a great time in life. It's a happy song. Yeah. Anytime black and yellow comes on, if you're not smiling and dancing and having some sort of a moment with that song, then you're just dead inside. And I can perform that song all over the world. It doesn't matter what language they speak.

You could say black and yellow. Yeah. So I'm good with that. Yeah. I could see them in like China and Japan singing black. That's what I'm saying. Right. Getting it on, getting it cracking out there.

I live. Listen, they're like, they're crazy when it comes to like, they're fanatical. They are. I've been to like. I was in Korea and they were singing Young Wild and Free in the airport just like right in front of me. Oh. This is awesome. That is amazing.

So sweet. That's a moment in time. You've evolved from black and yellow to like boss, entrepreneur, martial artist. What version of you are we just starting to see now? You're just starting to see. I think the more mature me. Yeah. Yeah, I've always been ahead of my time.

just as far as my thought process, but now my actions and the way that I treat myself, it represents all of that too. Yeah. So it's a lot of things that people don't see me doing, but the result of it is just how I am now or how I'm able to operate and move, which I'm really, really proud of and grateful for. I feel like with age, it slows us down, you know, like how your dad's watching birds and stuff like that. It just there's something, how old are you now?

I'm 37. I'm 38 this year. Yeah, so you're 37, 38. Do you feel like you're going to start slowing down a lot or do you still have that drive in you? I feel like I've already slowed down a lot. And I think I just changed things that are important to me or just certain things that used to turn me on.

They really don't do it for me no more. And I like that feeling because I'm like, yeah, I'm growing out of stuff. And I'm a different person. I'm not who I was. And I like that because. Some people get stuck and they're just that same person over and over. And then you just become like this novelty. And it's like I don't want to be, you know, a character.

Like I'm a real person. Right. I might have a very large smile and a great, you know, personality that attracts people. But that's not my goal in life is to just give that and give that and give that. Right. Like you can love me for that. I'm cool with that. like that's that's straight you see what everybody else sees but is the things that are deeper are way

more important to me now absolutely yeah i love that yeah so 2011 you dropped rolling papers and became pretty much like a household name when you look back at the 2011 rolling paper self what's something you love about him and what's something you've completely outgrown i love the hustle the drive the motivation, the self-awareness, the self-branding, and something that I outgrown is the lack of sleep. Right. Yeah, I didn't sleep out. Yeah, I need my sleep, yo.

I'm going to bed. Yeah. But I didn't care about sleep back then. I was sleep on the couch like 45 minutes and get right back up and get to it. I don't think I could do that anymore. It hurts. I saw literally for that is exactly what it is. saw some girl on TikTok was talking about she was coming out of work at like 6 a.m.

Yeah. And I used to do that coming out of the strip club. I could never. I would literally probably have a panic attack if I saw the sunrise. Oh yeah. It's painful. Yeah, I can't do that at all. Do you feel like artists are healers?

I don't feel like all artists are healers, no. Because some people are projecting their bullshit onto the world. Wow. Yeah. And some artists are so much artists that they're not even freaking human. And that's the thing about art, you know. Some people like value that and live for their art more than actual life itself. But I think the people who focus on being great people are also, you know, great artists as well. And they're not, I don't think one is better. I think actually

the chaos gets celebrated more than actually the piece. Well, that's because that's what the earth is operating on. Right. Right. Right. on right right but i think peace is the goal absolutely so regardless of what people are into we should we should try to reach that you know what i'm saying we need to figure it out we need to fucking analyze ourselves as a whole right now and figure out how to get back to that yeah yeah because there's a lot of dark ass art you know there is i consider you a healer though for sure 100% you're a good vibe and you're like a happy vibe you know what do you think that like your music does for people as far as healing. I've been blessed to be able and have been told to just change people's lives

and just make the best memories for them. Some people have met their husband or wife at my concert or, you know, I see people making out in the crowd and crying and a lot of people made life decisions based off of, you know, what they were doing at the time. And sometimes my, like you said, soundtrack to your life, the music got them. through that and helped them understand or help them pivot or help them cope or whatever it was. And, you know, I got a lot of weed smoking and riding and just party and feel good stuff. But I also have freaking See You Again, which is like, you know, one of those songs that help people get through a lot of stuff. Yeah.

And it's, that's your save me pretty much. Thank you. Like my husband saved me. Like that's that song that people will play at a wedding, a funeral, a freaking. Bar Mitzvah, like everywhere. Or at graduations. It's never going to get old. And as an artist, we're blessed to have those types of songs.

Because we don't try, you don't think that it's going to go that far or do that. But then when it actually does on that scale, you're like, wow, okay, cool, this is what it's all about. Fuck everything else. I think it does show that people are leaning towards looking for peace too and music because songs like see you again, you know, that brings people peace. piece. Right. You know, for the whole time that that song's playing, it's making them feel a certain type of way. Yeah. I think that's the goal with music in general, too, is to make people feel something. And the more you learn about how in control you are, the more sensitive you are with that message, too. Yeah, absolutely. You strike me as a really deep person. For sure. Do you, what do you think that your

soul's assignment was for coming to Earth? My soul's assignment. Simon for coming to earth is to literally make everybody else feel better because I feel so good. Right. I'm so blessed to just wake up and smile. Like I have to make somebody else smile. Yeah. Are you always in a good mood or do you have some down days too? I never really have down days.

I have moments that frustrate me and that's what it's about too is like not avoiding chaotic situations, but navigating through them. Right, facing him head on. Right. You got to go through it to get to it. You got to go through it to get to it. So that defines who you are as well. Like you can't just go around the bullshit.

Sometimes you got to go through the bullshit. That shows how tough you are. Absolutely. And those are the times where I really just try to center myself and just try to think about what the real end goal is. And it's never to be pissed or never to be upset. So it's easy for me to let that go because I know like in the end, I'm not even trying to be mad.

So how do we get to where we all cool? Yeah. Yeah. When you are in those moments that you're like flustered or upset, what is something that you do that maybe somebody listening to this podcast could be like, oh, you know what, Wiz does that? I'm going to try it. Breathe. Yeah. I'm telling you.

Take a deep breath. Have you ever done like meditation or like box breathing? Yeah. Yeah. I do hot yoga. So that's like a lot of, I do that three times a week. I love that. I could not picture your tall ass in a yoga pose.

me tall as hell for an hour and a half sweating in the front of the room with everybody else are you limber as hell with my hair up in a bun yeah I love that dude we need a freaking reality show please we this is fucking gold it's like content gold yeah you in a fucking hot yoga class would be phenomenal to just watch I would tune in I know a lot of ladies who love watching it too yeah I love it so let's talk about the 15 year anniversary cushion OG 2 that you just dropped. I mean, it was so good the first time you were like, let's fucking circle back. Yeah, yeah. It was a classic, like a defining moment in my career. Definitely got my identity off of the first cushioned orange juice. And a lot of people just had great memories of just smoking out, chilling with the

homies, having a great summer, hooking up, whatever it is, getting fresh, traveling. that's what the first cushion orange juice was really about and I wanted to return that feeling for people who were there and then people who need that now. And I worked on the album for a whole year and it was just like coincidental that it looped all the way around to the exact same time that I dropped the first one. Yeah. And we were ready to drop the second one. And yeah, the reception has been really good.

All the fans love it. They're telling me that it's as good as or maybe even better than the first one. haven't heard one bad reaction from it at all. Everybody gets it. Is that a fear that you have ever? Like whenever you drop an album, do you ever get that thought in your mind of like, what if this doesn't resonate with the masses?

I've had that before. Yeah, there was a couple albums that I dropped where I wasn't completely confident. Yeah, for sure. Because I didn't know there was some experimental stuff. I was like, are people going to really fuck with this? Are they going to accept it from me? Did I do what I was supposed to do? Like, should I have done something else?

Like, I've had those thoughts before for albums. I feel like as an artist, though, like, each album that you drop is a testament to where you're at in your life at that moment, you know? So I feel like if they all sounded the same, then that would show that you're not showing any growth. And people would probably get bored. Yeah. You know, because it's the same thing over and over again.

Absolutely. It's scary, like, reinventing. Right. And, you know, and like, you know, and like, You've got to be ready to lose some people to gain some people as well. So it's like you said, it's just a lesson in all of that. I feel like you've been able to maintain who you are, though, over the years. I don't feel like you've changed too much.

You've just always been whiz. Yeah, I've always been whiz. I never really changed. I'm really multifaceted. And I think that's a strength. That's something that plays to my strong side because I could do, I can mix genres. Right. And a lot of artists aren't really able to do that.

They can just stay in one lane or you expect one thing from them. Right. But you can expect a plethora of stuff for me and it's still going to be whiz. Yeah. What do you feel like one of your most slept on tracks is? Like if there was one track that could have got a lot more attention, what would it have been for you? One of my most slept on tracks that should have got more attention. I have a lot of plaques, so I can't really say.

that everything that I put out, it usually goes like gold or platinum. Yeah. You don't have to pick one if you don't want to. And then the stuff, like I did, I did an album was called Multiverse. It was a really good album, but I didn't, I didn't go big with this album. It was for a small, small audience. And I think later on down the line, people will, like, appreciate that for what it was for what it was right yeah i don't think it was slept on i think it's

just going to take a while to get appreciated i mean look at the google gogo dole's right now their song iris literally has come back and it was made freaking 20 years ago right that album could do the same thing yeah like that's what's cool about music is it's timeless it's timeless and we listen to records right so there's artists who drop albums that you're like hold on i didn't even know this motherfucker put that shit out right right but you're still going to grab it put it on and listen to it because you enjoy that artist. So it doesn't matter if it got really hyped up or not. It can still, like you said, enter your world.

Yeah, I feel like albums catch fire so much later on now too because things are like always coming back into style. So it's like all it takes is one video going viral now with it. And literally people are like, it's a whole new set of eyes. Yeah, yeah. It creates a narrative that people just want to be a part of. Absolutely. Have you ever done a feature with somebody or featured?

on something and then like regretted it later. Nah. I'm always happy about my features. Oh, good. Yeah, yeah. I've been blessed to be a part of some really cool ass songs. Payphone with Maroon 5. That was one that I've never even seen having a year.

Like shit like that. Like, or the Miley Cyrus song, 23. I mean, doing a song with Miley in general is just fucking, that's top tier. I just did a song with Good Charlotte too before I, before, I came out here. That's amazing. Is it rock? Yeah.

I love good Charlotte. I'm a West Coast girl. Yeah. I fucking love good Charlotte. The shit. Yeah. They're amazing. Yeah.

All right. Let's switch gears. Let's talk about being a dad. Okay. Because you have Bash and then you also have your daughter now. What would you say is the difference in between raising boys and girls? Have you noticed anything yet? Because I know she's fresh, right?

Yeah. She's like how old? She's 10 months. 10 months. So, I mean, you've got a long ways to go. Right. Being a girl dad. Right.

But just in this short time, do you notice a difference? Not yet. Yeah. Yeah, not yet. Because she's so fresh and then my son is 12. So it's like so much. It's a lifetime of difference. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I think, you know, in the next few years, especially as her personality starts to come in. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to start to see the real girl dadness start to happen. Are you excited about it? I'm super excited. I mean, I'll be like shopping for her and buying her outfits. I'll be picking out her outfits. We do like three a day, so I'm like, let me get one at least.

She gets three outfits a day? Yeah, hell yeah. Oh my gosh, I love that. Yeah, yeah. She's like our little baby doll. I bet she's fly as hell, though. She's super fly. She got chrome hearts and all that.

Oh, my, dude, I, hello, I've been trying to get chrome hearts forever. Look at her. Yeah, she got a little baby chrome. I love that. That's so cool. What's something that Bash has said to you that's made you like, question your whole personality. As far as like giving it to him?

Has, no, no. Has he ever like checked you? Like, dad, that's not cool. Oh, like, you know, like, just made you question like, what the fuck, you know? He's quick. Like, he's all day with it. So, like, sometimes he'll just be like, your teeth look like you ate a piece of cheese or something.

I'd be like, damn, bro. Like, he likes to, he likes to rip on people. So, like, he just goes. all day. That is hilarious. Does he have your musical inclination? Yeah, he does. He listens to a lot of different types of music.

I test him out on new music. So I'll be like, I put on some shit that I know is brand new. I'll be like, you like this. He'll be like, ah, it's cool. I'll be like played me what you like. And he likes old school rap. He likes newer rap. He likes rock and roll.

He played me some crazy shit the other day from some band that I never heard before. And then he's got MF Doom on his. on his phone, on his display for his phone. I'm like, all right, cool. So he's developing. Yeah. He's very eclectic already. I love that.

But that's just a testament to, you know, you and Amber, obviously showing him pretty good music. Uh-huh. What's something you're teaching him that no one ever taught you? Hmm. My parents did a good job raising me, so I wouldn't say that's something that nobody ever taught me. Mm-hmm. But the biggest lesson right now is I teach him to respect himself and to respect others so that they can respect him. Absolutely.

Because they're not going to respect you if you don't respect yourself. So I'll be like, the things that you do, they have to be a representation of who you are and what you want people to say about you. And we have those conversations over and over. I'm like, of course you're going to slip up and you're going to make mistakes. But the main thing is to be respectful to yourself and other people. And that's how you demand respect yourself. Yeah. No, that's amazing.

I feel like this generation is lacking respect to, like kids nowadays. They're just like, they're fucking wild. Yeah, yeah. And the respect factor is not there. So the fact that you're teaching bash that is amazing. Absolutely. How are you and Amber getting along these days? Do you guys still getting along for you all?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. We're super good. I love Amber because, you know, I'm sure you hear this all the time. But, you know, I grew up in Vegas. I grew up in the whole scene of, like, dancing and working girls and stuff like that. So, you know, for her to be this outspoken role model, outspoken role model for us, I've just always respected her. Yeah, absolutely.

Always been who she is. Yeah, she's a great chick. She's a great mom. She's a great friend. Yeah, that's like my partner, for real. Like, you don't get too many partners in life. And Amy is, too. That's Cadence's mom.

We're really great partners. and we've been together longer than me and Amber were together, but me and Amber's relationship is lifelong. Right. We ain't in a relationship, but we together, though. Do you believe in soulmates? Because soulmates don't always have to be romantic either. Like, you guys can be friends.

I don't know about soulmates because, to me, like a soulmate, you might not necessarily even have kids with that person. Or, you know, this person might help you build your end. empire or but me and amber like we're stronger than a lot of people because we have difficult conversations we navigate through that shit yes and that's what makes us so so strong is we don't argue every time we disagree right we're allowed to disagree but we're still going to get through it together because she's not throwing low blows i'm not being disrespectful we don't have any underlining freaking animosity towards each other and that makes the situation

way more positive than anything. It doesn't get negative. You know, we might get a little heated sometimes when we talk because we're both passionate and we both have our own opinion. But the heatedness, I might be stressed out from my job. So she might be like, okay, what's wrong for real?

Like, don't just be upset. Tell me what's going on and then we'll talk about this. Or if she's in a situation, I'm like, you don't have to, I'm not checking you at all. You don't have to check in with me. You know what I'm saying?

I respect your life. I want you to have all the space in the world. Please have space. I respect your space. I validate your space and all that. I would never want to get in the way that. Only time we have to come together is when we make decisions. So like let's make this work.

Yeah. I always say, what is it? Communication is key comprehension is vital. So if you're talking to somebody all day long and they're not hearing you, it's not going to get anywhere. And I love that you guys have that communication. Do you also have that with Cadence's mom? Yeah. I've met her before, right?

Yeah, yep. Yes, I met her at stagecoach. Yep. Okay, yeah. She's beautiful. Thank you. Gorgeous. Yeah, she's a great girl as well.

She's like, like I said, and that's my partner too. We do everything. She makes sure I eat. Aw. She made. That means a lot to. a man, especially these days, you know? Yeah, hell yeah. It's a lot. She holds it down, like, for sure in ways that other women would never even be capable of. And she does it, like, happily

too, you know? When you say that, can you give us an example of something that, like, most women wouldn't be able to deal with that she has? Just my schedule in general, I wake up at 530, and I'm up all day. I got the gym. I got meetings and Zoom calls. I got merch samples coming to the house. I got, you know, a fire pit being built. I got three dogs. That's that Aries moon. You have an Aries moon. You have an Ares moon. My husband has an Aries moon. And there's always some shit going on. Like, we've always got a project. Always. A project on top of a project. Right. And we're going to have some fun too. Right. Yeah. So you got to be ready to party as well. You got to do all that and party. It's like we have to make sure we have fun time. I love that. I love

that that seems like you just want to always make sure that you have fun and whatever it is that you're doing. And I think that's a really sweet quality to have because a lot of people don't stop to enjoy life. They get so carried away with just the grind. Right. Right. Right. You're like, nope, we're going to have fucking fun. We're going to have some fun. We're going to make some memories. And that's where the inspiration comes from. Yeah. You got to like, you got to actually do shit and live. And then if your life is just beautiful. It's poetic. So you just, you just grab those feelings. And then you just put. mental whatever your project is at the time.

Yes, sir. Yeah. Can you take me on the journey of you doing MMA and fitness? Yeah. How did you get into this? Because I think that's amazing. Thank you.

It's very taxing on the body to be doing stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. I train pretty hard too. I got into it. My big homies, they were doing jujitsu at the time. And they were like, hey, you need to come to the gym. And we're going to rough you up. up and all this stuff. So as soon as I got to the gym, they instantly were like, you need to lift

weights. Like you're way too small. You got to eat and you've got to lift weights. You could, you could actually do something if you, you know what I mean, took it seriously. So I got on like a regimen where I was, you know, doing a certain amount of calories and making sure I started sleeping. And then I just liked how my body felt and like what it did to me mentally as well. And the martial arts part of it just kind of turned into its own little thing because I was naturally a little bit gifted at it, but just being the type of person where I want to do something over and over and over and try to perfect it, that's the perfect sport for that because you just get better every day. So each and every day you learn new techniques or just fine-tuning or

practicing or drilling or there's always something to do. So it's like that forever project for me. Like, that's how I feel like martial arts is. It's just something that I could practice for the rest of my life. And it's good for my body and it's good for me mentally. It's a skill that I could use if I needed to. Hopefully not, though. No, I don't find. I don't see. But being a dad, though, you got to be ready for that shit too. Because it's like, look, I'm not calling security. I'm going to beat your dad up. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely, right? Would you ever fight in the ring professionally? If they offered it to you?

Because I think I had read also that you said you wanted to be a wrestler for a day. I did. Would you still do that? I would more do some wrestling shit than fighting because wrestling is like entertainment. It's acting. Actually getting in the ring and doing, that's not what I train for. Right. But I'm trained good enough to do some shit.

I'm always ready. Right. And anybody who's ever seen me do what I do, they know what level I prefer. form on. So the whole getting in the ring is more for entertainment. Like it makes everybody money and it's like I'm not really into all that. What if they came to you with like a bag though? What's the bag though? I mean, you name your price. It would have to be like 50 million. And then you would get in the ring. Yeah, it would be like Floyd Mayweather prices. I mean, you know, they might do it. I need 50 M's for my first fight. Guaranteed. Because it's going to like it's

going to pull a big crowd. Yeah. And I'm going to knock somebody out. Yeah. Cold. What's your move? What is your move? Like if you had a move in the ring, what would be? Well, if I did boxing, it would probably be like an overhand right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, or my, or my, or my, or my, or my, or my, or my, or my, or my, or my, or my, or my, or my, or my, South Paul. Yeah. Yeah. No, what a lead left is, is, is orthodox. But it's just coming from the left. So I'm , so I'm either hit you in the face or a little lead left body shot.

Gotcha. But if we doing moitai, there's nobody seeing me in moitai. Like boxing is different because you only got hands. Right. But if I get to use my feet and my elbows and my knees, yeah, it's, oh, there's nobody seeing me in that shit. You're knocking somebody out. Yeah, and I'm tall as hell too, so you're not even getting close to me.

Yeah, just one, one round kick. Yeah. The hardest kick is probably like the spinning back kick. Yeah. So like. If we really... You'd knock somebody's head off. Yeah.

Or like break some ribs or like puncture some lungs or something like that. Yeah, nice spinning back. I like it. Now we're talking. Yeah. We got to make this happen too. Yeah. I like elbows too because it's like...

Let me just manage you. I'm just kidding. Yeah, because with elbow, like when you boxing, you got like the gloves are protecting them. Right. But if we do MMA and I elbow you in your forehead and I split your forehead open and you're bleeding, it's going to be hard for you to fight me for the rest of the fight. Or break a nose. Or if I knee you and break your rib in the first round,

you're not really going to want to keep. Wiz, I feel like you're ready for this. I don't want to hurt anybody. I don't like hurting people. I feel like you would rock the shit out of somebody. But they got to pay me 50 M's if you want to see some blood. All right. Well, whoever's listening.

Let's make that fucking happen because I'm tuning in. I want to see somebody get their ass with. What is something embarrassing you do alone that no one knows about until now? Something embarrassing that I do alone that no one knows about. I cry a lot. Really? Yeah. You're emotional.

Yeah. That's sweet, though. Yeah. I don't think that's embarrassing. It is to me because I was watching, like, what's that Encanto? What's that Disney movie? I'm not sure. It's the one with the Spanish girl and her family.

What's that movie called? Man, I was crying to that shit the other day, though. You cried too? I'm crying just thinking about it. It was so sweet. It was the sweetest freaking movie ever. It's so sweet. It's sweet.

It's not sad. No, it's just sweet. It's like the sweetest thing. I mean, of course it's like sad. It hits you, but it's like, it's so sweet. It was like, I was like, oh, man, here we go. I don't think that's a weakness, though. I think that a man that can, you know, show emotion, that's awesome.

That just means that you're in tune with it. Yeah, for sure. I think I'm very in tune with that. it. He said I'm very in tune with it. So let's say some aliens came down to Earth and you're the spokesman for Earth. What's the first thing that you would show aliens and prove to them like that were actually like cool people down here? I would definitely smoke weed with them. Yeah. You don't think they're not already smoking weed? I think they're like past smoking weed. We might, this might be like really prehistoric to them. They're like, we've got to bring them back to the origin, right? So I would.

Because they're aliens. Like everything is faster. Yeah. It's just like, let's slow it down a little bit. Yeah. I would smoke some weed with them and I would probably play them like a parliament funkadelic record. Oh, there we go. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I would put on some, some earth music. Yeah. Yeah. Would you only smoke weed with them or would you drop acid with them? I don't really do too much acid. I can't either.

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. So I would rather just smoke the weed. Okay. Yeah. Smoke weed, listen to records. Watch a movie. movie, go for a ride, get burgers.

Aw. Any particular burger? Where are the aliens landing? Are they landing here? Not here. Nashville sucks. Let's take them to L.A. To L.A.

At least there's probably more to do. So we go to like Astro Burger or something like that in Hollywood. Because we get to cruise through Hollywood and the lowrider and smoke weed and go get burgers. Have you ever dropped acid before? Have you ever had psychedelics? Yeah, I did ask you. You don't like them? I think I do.

did too much. I did I did acid with diplo. Oh, I would never do acid with diplo. It sounds like a good idea, right? I know. Nope. Doesn't sound good to me. I'm like, it's Diplo. Like, this is going to be awesome. I feel like he's on a permanent acid trip. He is. He's walking acid. Yeah. So how did that go? It was, it was, it was interesting. It was, um, It was intense. That's what it was. It was super duper intense. And it wasn't like a bad trip or anything. Right. But I could definitely feel it. And I would like go places and be like, hold on. I need a little second to myself. And then I would just be randomly somewhere else. It was like a movie. It was like I would blink and then I would wake up in another room.

Oh no. And I would blink and I would wake up in another room. Oh, no. I would have anxiety. It was crazy. And I thought I was Aladdin on a magic carpet for a minute. I thought I was Michael Jackson when I did mushrooms. Okay, cool. Yeah. I get it. I feel that. Yeah, I definitely for sure thought I was like sailing over the city on a magic carpet. Yeah.

So that was your first and only time doing? Only time. Okay. He's like, yeah, I never. Yeah. I turned into Aladdin. I'm cool. All right. Final question. Build your dreams strip club. Name, theme, signature drink, and house rules. name nipelopolis what was the other one?

The other one was hold on. I'm still hung up on Nipollopolis and how fast you thought of that. You've thought of this before it was. The late, oops, hold on, sorry. It was build your dream strip club. Name, what's the theme?

What's your signature drink? And what's the house rules? Okay. The theme is 80s baddies. Yes, video vixen. Yeah, those are my favorite chicks. Oh, me too. That's so good.

Love them. Nice bodies, like perfect boobs, cute little butt, little bush, you know. Are you into bush? I like the little 80s bush. We like the bush. Well, we'll not have a bush floor. Yeah, it would be a floor for bush. Not the bush floor.

shit's hairy upstairs. It's hairy and it's hay. And then downstairs Nipelopolis is regularly. The signature drink will be the Napoleon Dynamite. I'm crying. What's the last one? I'm sorry. I'm still just hung up on what you're saying here.

I can't get over the bush floor. Signature drink and what are the house rules? House rules. We got to respect the ladies. That's the number one rule. Tip well and... Leave room for the Holy Spirit. Leave room for the Holy Spirit.

I like that. All right, cool. I like it. I love that. Welcome to Nipilopoulos. Wis, thank you so much for coming on the podcast, Dave. I'm happy to be here. Thank you.

I appreciate you so much. Come back anytime. I will. All right. And thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of Dumblaund. I will see you guys next week. Bye.