A Mouth Full Experience Podcast
A Mouth Full Experience — Season 2 Is Here, and It’s Already a Whole New Era
Season 2 of A Mouth Full Experience kicked off on May 11, 2026, and the energy is different — louder, richer, and fueled by the hundreds of thousands of viewers and listeners who made Season 1 a cultural moment instead of just a debut.
Hosted by Kawasi Weston — simply Kawasi — and Andre Wells, the show returns with that signature blend of conversation, music, food, fashion, and identity, but now with the confidence of a platform that knows exactly who’s watching… and how many are coming back hungry for more.
Season 1 didn’t just introduce a podcast — it introduced a movement. It proved that community isn’t something you wait for; it’s something you build, brick by brick, story by story. Every episode layered intention with indulgence, intellect with flavor, and culture with craft. That’s what pulled in the audience. That’s what kept them. That’s what made the show impossible to ignore.
Kawasi brings the spark — a fusion of music, fashion, and legal insight that turns every conversation into a masterclass in ownership, authorship, and creative power. His lens is sharp, stylish, and strategic.
Wells brings the texture — fine wines, artisanal cheeses, hospitality, luxury — the kind of taste that turns a conversation into an atmosphere. He doesn’t just talk lifestyle; he curates it.
Together, they create a rhythm that feels like a late‑night rooftop conversation with the right people, the right playlist, and the right bottle open. It’s smart. It’s sensual. It’s intentional. It’s fun.
And now?
Season 2 steps in with momentum, maturity, and a bigger audience than ever — ready for deeper dives, bolder stories, and conversations that feel like you’re sitting at the table with them.
This isn’t just a show.
It’s a world.
And Season 2 is already turning the page.
A Mouth Full Experience Podcast
“Hey Friend, How you doin?”
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“Hey Friend, How you doin?” — a check‑in that turned into a conversation we all needed.
In this episode, Kawasi Weston and Andre sit down at the iconic DTLA eatery Good, Clean, Fun for a raw, unfiltered dialogue about mental health, emotional honesty, and the quiet battles people carry behind the scenes.
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Just two friends talking about what it means to really be okay — and what it means when you’re not.
If you’ve been moving fast, pushing through, or pretending everything’s fine, this episode is your reminder to pause, breathe, and check in with yourself. Pull up a seat and join the conversation.
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Kawasi, @kawasiofficial [Singer, Songwriter, Executive Producer]
Andrew Wells, @iamandremonroe [Writer, Actor, Executive Producer]
Hey, what's up everybody? I'm Quasey. And I'm Andre. And this is A Mouthful. A Mouthful. Look, so we look a little bit different today because we've noticed that, you know, we've just been full speed ahead.
SPEAKER_02You know, and also too, it's like diving into because we've been diving into some real serious topics. And I think right now it's just about a good just checking in.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And I think we don't usually give each other time or people time to unpack what we're doing, right? We just go and go and go and go and go and go. So this episode is called. Hey friend. How you doing? How you doing? And honestly, I can't even tell you the last time I've just had a conversation with you without it being scheduled, without it being, you know, there being talking points, without there being Just being, it's just always business. Yeah, it's always business with us now. And you know, we're not we're not um, you know, complaining because we do appreciate the comments, the views, y'all stopping us in public.
SPEAKER_02But you know, it's just like people got real shit going on, you know what I mean? So it was just like one of those things where we just wanted to kind of just have a little catch-up. First of all, we have to say where we're at.
SPEAKER_01Um we are at Good Clean Fun in downtown LA. Good clean fun, you know. Shout out to Ian. Shout out to Ian. Um, and what's your favorite thing about this bar?
SPEAKER_02You know, I feel like it's a very relaxed place. You know, you can always have a good uh cheese and charity board. They have a lot of good natural wine selections. They do. Right now we are on a skin contact wine. So anybody just explain that, please. So basically, what it is, the whole difference is it's made from white grapes, and all they do is they just have the actual grapes seep into the thing. So that's why it gives it a little bit more of a hue color. Yeah. People often get it confused with rose confused with rose, but it's not rose because it's not made with red grapes, it's made with white.
SPEAKER_01So when you say scan content, I thought he was trying to get a little freaky. I was like, scan content? Like they made this from touching each other. Look, just be it being ignorant. But no, uh, my favorite thing here is probably the margarita pizza. I love the margarita pizza. It's really good. Um, and I love the we're we're outside in beautiful downtown LA. It's giving vibes. A lot of characters. It's giving in and you know what? We we needed some good, clean fun. I and I reached out to Ian over here, and they've just been nothing but hospitable and just full of love and full of light. Um, I know I just made my 14th year here in LA. Wow. You know, kudos to me. And it is, yeah, you can we can we can toast of that. And it has been um a whirlwind because I moved here with $1,300. No, psych, $300 in a dream. I wish I had $1,300. I moved here with $300 in a dream, and I was sitting to myself, you know, talking to you know my partner, and I was like, damn, am I really here doing what I wanted to do? Like, you know, have I done it? Have I made it? You know, like is is is oh is is it? And I just found myself like wanting to push and push and push and push and push and push is never enough, right? But I know we have to just sit down and just, you know, we we've done a lot of things.
SPEAKER_02It's weird where because you always think where I could be more and I'm at where I'm at, where I'm at. Yeah, but the pro the thing is we are a lot further than we were of like two years ago when we initially started this. Yeah. And I think that's something that we have to grasp upon because I think the fact that we even came this far is a huge accomplishment.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and and I I want to ask you, so what do you how do you view Andre now than where we were in uh January of 2024 when we when you called me, you was like, hey Quasey, I got this idea, let's make this happen. How are how have you changed?
SPEAKER_02How is Andre? With me, it's about getting the acknowledgement because I and you know how I am. I'm like one of the most oblivious people. I don't I just be doing my own thing. I be minding my drinking my water, minding my business. Mind my business. And um, when people come up to you and be like, hey, what's up? And I'm like, excuse you, like it's kind of jarring for me because I'm like, who are you? And I'm like, Harpa, who is this person? I'm like, like, and I don't want not trying to be rude, but like sometimes like who are you? Like I don't like and in my mind, because also too, I do work in the restaurant, I think it's one of those things where and this is how people, when you run into your server and stuff outside of like their actual environment, they sometimes have to be like, Well, who are you? Yeah. And it's just like they expect you to be that same person. It's not like I'm not the same person.
SPEAKER_01You you you you people don't know that you're very you're naturally very, very introverted. Like you really, you don't really, you're not really outside until you want to be outside. Like you're not really that. So when y'all see Andre in person and he you You gotta give it a minute. Yeah, you gotta give it a minute, let it register. I I do think that you are a bit more social than you were when we first started this thing, you know. I d I don't think either of us knew what where this would go, but I know that you have embraced it the best you can, you know what I mean? And I think you've you've bloomed, but I I think what we can't do is allow the expectation of us to fuck with the internal version of us. And I found that happening with me.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Because I I mean I know we've always joked about how you know a quasi just be in the strays.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Everybody say I have strays around. Why do you always have so many strays?
SPEAKER_02And I will say, like, you know what, you have been a lot more, I guess, I would say, selective about who you let into your inner circle. Yeah. I mean, we've I mean, we've always had issues, but like, you know, someone of those things is I feel like you do know what people are up, and then you put, I feel like you do time to put people in a box. And that's not a bad thing.
SPEAKER_01You know what it is? My grandmother always told me, she said that you never know who you meet. You never know who you meet. So be kind to everybody. And and honestly, if I can if I really be honest, that's how I met you. I I was walking on the strip.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god, that is the funniest story ever.
SPEAKER_01And I got stopped by Andre and an old friend of ours asking me where the nearest pool party was. That's how we met. And now it this is it's been 10 years since I met you on the strip that they're.
SPEAKER_02It's been longer. It's been because this was actually in 2014.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I thought it was 16. No, you're right. No, it was 14.
SPEAKER_02It was funny because you know how Facebook wants to remind you about your age. Oh, yeah. And they said this was what happened 10 years ago. What happened 10 years ago? Remember the whiskey of go-go performance.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Oh, sheesh. So, guys, Andre used to. Um, I was a part of a collective uh Calliope Records. Andre was our manager, Andre was our booking agent. Andre would get his gigs around LA. Andre was a Andre, you were a good manager. You you were a good manager. So I I forget about that time. Those times, Andre would get his gigs around LA. That is crazy.
SPEAKER_02And so I was looking, I'm like, damn, that was like over 10 years ago. Because then it was funny because that, and that was correction, that was 2015. Wow. So 2014, a year prior, was that picture where it was me, you, and then the the one that we should not talk about.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because I I had my first performance, guys, in uh March of 2014 at the Mint. I headlined the Mint. The mint, shout out to the Mint, and they gave me my first opportunity here in LA. Um, they allowed me to headline the show. So you're right. Yep, you're you're totally right.
SPEAKER_02But the experience was funny because me and my former room at the time, we were looking for a like a I guess a pool party at the Luxor, and then we were on the strip, and then we just ran into you. Yep. And I guess it was.
SPEAKER_01I think I think I was singing too. I was singing.
SPEAKER_02No, no, no. This was happening after the film. Okay, okay. So what ended up happening was like, oh, we're looking for that same pool party too. So we're looking around, and then we ended up finding out that, oh, yeah, the pool party shut down. Yeah. Like, man, what's up? Yeah. In this random limo driver. I remember the story. Yeah. It's the funniest thing ever.
SPEAKER_01It was the funniest. We ran into this guy who said that someone had booked the limo for two hours or four hours, and the people never showed up. So if we had $300, we could take the limo for the next four hours. So guess what? We pulled in our money. And I remember we were in the back of this limo in Vegas, and they were, we were so shit face drunk. They had all the champagne and wine and hennesy. I just remember us riding in the city. I don't look good. So we were just riding around in the car. Remember, Andre was so drunk and me, and he would be turning, and we would just be, you know, falling in the backseat. Then we went to the strip club. Went to the strip club.
SPEAKER_02And so this one, it was funny, and then he started swinging. Uh swinging. Yeah. He started singing.
SPEAKER_01I started singing, yeah.
SPEAKER_02He started singing, and my former room at the time was actually somebody that was a music producer. He was a women producer. And then he didn't hear his voice. The moment that you started singing, he fell in love with you.
SPEAKER_01Oh man. He likes to sing.
SPEAKER_02Allegedly. That's not alleged, baby.
SPEAKER_01Allegedly. But uh I I I I I wanted to remind us, are you guys of how we met? Because people don't know how Andre and I met. They think we've been friends forever, but we met organically this way in Vegas, and we've had a friendship since then. And it's just incredible to me because I just made my 14th year here yesterday in LA. 14 years in LA is like shit I can survive in the world.
SPEAKER_02Because I because you know, I mean, I am from California originally, but I grew up in Northern California for the most part. And I've been down here since I was 16. So I'm at the point where I've been in LA longer than I've been in Northern California. Which is kind of uh crazy.
SPEAKER_01Do you feel like LA has had a positive or negative effect on your mental health?
SPEAKER_02You know what? I think because you know, we did have I had to have a time where I had to regroup myself because you know I I it's kind of sad and it's unfortunate because I've always had anxiety, but then it was one of those things where I think where, and a lot of people don't realize this. There's this thing called high-functioning depression, and I never realized what that was. And the thing you let us know what that is. So sometimes it's just like you, and I you know what it's really prevalent in the black community because you keep it moving because we were raised.
SPEAKER_01Pray it away.
SPEAKER_02You know what I mean? Just pray it away. We were just like, just you gotta keep it moving, you gotta keep it moving, you gotta keep it moving. Yeah. And you don't sit there. And the thing is, like, when you check out, you really check out. Yeah. And then I wasn't realizing that until a point where I, you know, I got into a really dark place.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And you can be a little mean, Andre. You can be a little mean, you know what I mean? I'm not using it. And you're already naturally mean, but they're they're part we we like the naturally mean Andre. You know, we look we we like him because you know we can we can banter, he can be cute, but the mean mean Andre don't want to be around nobody, you're irritated. And we're gonna talk about the mean coisy too, guys. Like, I'm not off limits because I can be I ain't shit some days either. But what do you think the mean me is? How what is the mean you mean?
SPEAKER_02You know what? The mean you is when you get to the point where you get in, I don't want to say party mode, but then you don't usually you're very good at reeling it in. Want to make little raves until five or six in the morning. And then when you don't, and then when somebody tries to stop you, and that's when you start getting crazy, and then you think everybody's against you. When we're trying to say, hey, maybe you should go home. Why the fuck do you think I need to go on the room?
SPEAKER_01Do you agree? Is that is that is that when I'm high functioning, is is when I'm partying a lot? Is that when I'm the most suppressed? I'm talking to my partner who's not on camera. Is that when I'm the most what what I'm curious because I'm but I'm like that all the time. I'm a party, guys. I love it. I'm I'm a party guy.
SPEAKER_02You get like like needy, like, where's my scooter?
SPEAKER_01No, I need the club because I I I really I feel like you know, in the way that we work and how we work, I I and being from the South, you know, uh black people, especially black queer men, we don't have spaces like they do in LA where we can just go and dance and uh, you know, and just well now they do in Atlanta, right? But I grew up, people don't know this, but I grew up in Albany, Georgia. Albany, Georgia is the only town that Martin Luther King was arrested twice. And Martin Luther King said that Albany, Georgia was always gonna be a white man's town. It's till today, it's surrounded around 47 miles of cotton fields. 47 miles of cotton fields. And it's it uh and I'm gonna segue. Everybody's like, okay, why do you have a problem with Mexican Latin people saying the N-word?
SPEAKER_02Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Right, and because I was just in a recent situation. Mexican, my Latin brothers and Mexican brothers and sisters, until you go to Georgia, Jim Crow South, and you see people that you know and the friends and friends that you know that are still getting lynched and hung from trees and and drowned and killed on boats with the with their other you know counterparts, you guys, just because you grew up around some black people in Compton and Watts or wherever you grew up around, it doesn't give you the right to say that word.
SPEAKER_02It hits different. And I think people don't realize that.
SPEAKER_01Because you people are being unalived. And I've I've had to fight for my life by someone calling me the N-word. You know, and you know, like I said, I've been in situations where I had to do it.
SPEAKER_02It's cute until you're in the in the thick of it. Because you know what, this is how I was raised. We were always told, especially from my dad's side, because they're from Detroit, and like you know, that word gets dopped freely, but we are also raised, you don't ever use it in a mixed company. Right. So you just don't do it because it's one of those things. If you allow it in a mixed company, they're gonna feel like they can say it.
SPEAKER_01It's just like you you're married, right? You call your wife baby, honey pie, sweetie bug, ladybug, gym bug, whatever you call your wife. Another man can't just walk up and call your wife that. Yeah. Or you the you know what I mean? Like there are terms of endearment that a certain group of people or associations have that, you know, they can say. And that has affected my mental health the most, and I'm I'm bringing that up because I've lost friends plural in LA.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_01Because my my Latin, Mexican, you know, El Salvadorian friends who have grown up in LA, they're accustomed to saying the N-word. And it is a thing out here, and it's a thing out here in LA, and I just can't get behind it because my grandmother was had to guard rest her soul, take unalive two, three white men that were trying to kill her, calling her uh N-word B, I T C H. My cousin was found hung in from a tree two years ago. My cousin's friend was killed. I mean, the list can go on and on if we need enough reason. So when you meet people from the south and they say, hey, we don't feel comfortable saying that word, respect it. Respect it. Don't try to argue your way out of it. Don't say, Oh, I got a cousin and oh, our struggle's the same because it's not the same. And you look ignorant as fuck, trying to normalize that. It's not okay.
SPEAKER_02And the issue because you know, yes, the struggle is same, but you still don't need to say that word. I don't I get how you can identify that the struggle being the same as a still use a word like that.
SPEAKER_01Until you until your ancestors are brought here unwillingly on a boat while they were out picking grapes and berries in the forest, the the the main difference is black people did not choose. The ones that were born here, they were born here, but the the ones that did not that went they didn't choose to be here, they were brought here illegally. And the last time I checked, and and and the last time I checked, the difference is uh Latin people, Mexican people are coming here willingly to for for for rights and for freedoms. And it's all due respect, this is the place to be. But that's the big, that's the biggest dichotomy.
SPEAKER_02You know, and then also one thing that we wanted to touch on too, because uh, you know, like uh was it last month was uh you know gay pride month, and we had a conversation, you know how I felt. I'm like, you know what? I feel like the concept of pride is not what it used to be.
SPEAKER_01And and and basically, guys, this is just just unpacking these episodes in a way where we haven't had the chance to talk to each other. To really talk about it. Because pride, we did pride and we were out with our rainbow colors on and our pride flash and all this stuff. But guess what? People forget the meaning of it. I saw more straight people at Pride than gay people. Which is fine. It's totally fine. We're all about the ally, but when did pride become about the moolah?
SPEAKER_02It became monetized, and then it also became people forgot the true, true original message.
SPEAKER_01Can I ask you, Andre, how how did pride come about?
SPEAKER_02Can you educate the people? So, you know what, and this is the thing that always irritates me because you out here, and I say, you know, you out here drop like throwing ass back here on my book. Remember, if it wasn't for a black trans queer activist named what? Marcia Pete Darley. And that Pete stands for pride. She sat there and literally pride started from a riot. Stone Raw riots. It's a protest.
SPEAKER_01And this woman started. Shout out to Outside LA for the soundtrack that we didn't need. We didn't know we needed. We won't. It happens, it happens.
SPEAKER_02But this is where I feel like people don't remember, like, pride is actually a movement.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yes, we want to celebrate it, but we can't keep away the fact that it was a movement.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And I feel like that's where it's been moving further and further from.
SPEAKER_01I agree. And then I just want to pivot too, but then I, you know, we ho it's not West Hollywood is not the same anymore in Los Angeles. You know. West Hollywood is not the same anymore because I go there and you have straight people in queer spaces telling gay people not to hit on them. What do they do that at? Like, you are in a gay space, and there's been so much violence there lately because straight people go to West Hollywood now, and they get mad that gay people are hitting on them, or queer people, or trans people, whatever, are hitting on them in spaces designated for their community. I mean, you don't have to go out there. You ain't gotta go out there. Like, what's up?
SPEAKER_02And afraid of also keep in mind though, there's people, well, I mean, there are people blatantly hitting on you, but then there's people are just trying to be nice.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And don't mistake people's niceness for something completely different.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because uh uh unfortunately I know we've said this a long time, but just because you're straight, that don't mean a gay person wanna get with you. And just because you're gay don't mean, you know, you the hide the shit in under the streets, you know, but I don't know. I those are my grievances. The whole thing about the N-word, you know, and my my my Latin and Mexican brothers and sisters, um, you know, a lot of them, you know, don't feel that way, but other people do, and then that the whole pride thing, it really had been messing with me because I I couldn't even go out, you know, and have a good time doing pride because and that was supposed to be our release. Yeah. But I didn't I didn't get a release, so you know, and up as you like to say, you know, clubbing at the at the at the at the raise until five in the morning. Dealing with my trauma. You know.
SPEAKER_02Also, too, it's just well, you know what? Okay, also, you know what, because I know you've also been busy at work. I've been busy at work. And I know you, you know, I don't know, like just doing the new music. I know you finally, finally, finally, yeah, finally ready to release some new stuff.
SPEAKER_01Okay, guys, so you're gonna get the exclusive here first. I have a song coming out. Uh Afro House. This is my first time. I'm kind of nervous, you know. But uh shout out to DJ Roger Milan uh of Portugal. Um, I have a song called Where Goes the Love. The song will be out by the time this episode airs. So just support the king. Uh it's a song that is dedicated about what's going on in the world. The song called Where Goes the Love, and I wrote it on the way to my aunt's funeral. And um, it's basically about where is the love? What happened to it? Like we used to be able to talk things out, we used to be able to kumbaya, but now it sounds like everybody just wanna, you know, be at war with each other. So the song is a constant reminder that when we are face to face, when we are having real conversations, it's hard to hate something that's in front of you. So it's it's a it's a reminder for people to just come together and um just dance, just sweat it out, you know what I mean? And I cannot wait to perform it, and I cannot wait for uh you guys' opinion about what you think of it. Um very vulnerable record, but I'm singing down. I'm singing down, and I'm having fun, and I'm just you know, you know, I'm a grown man now. I know myself, so it's gonna be good, Dre.
SPEAKER_02You know, the fact that you say you're ready, you know it's ready because like you don't be ready for anything.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_02Because I'm like, oh, crazy, it's no, no, it's not ready. It's not ready.
SPEAKER_01Even though it's perfect, you're like, it's not ready. But I'm I'm excited, so thank you for bringing it up. This is good. That's how you know I'm healing. I'm in the lab, I'm healing, so we're good. So what's about you? So I really want to know. I really know because you all cloak and dagger.
SPEAKER_02I started writing again. What? Yeah. And it was funny because you know, shout out to my friend Mikhail. Like we went to college together. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Shout out to Mikhail.
SPEAKER_02You know, every and I'm not gonna lie, I'm gonna be basic. Everybody got on this heated rivalry kick, and then the one soft porn, the soft gay porn that personally, I felt like it could have been a little bit more raunchy or maybe it's just me being me, because I'm a freaking.
SPEAKER_01You're trying to see the Ludingling?
SPEAKER_02Not even that, just a little bit more like interesting. But my whole thing was just me just being in a fraternity and just going to that. And I thought it would be weird to have that angle, so I started writing and I came up with a new concept. And I know I gave you a couple pages or a couple the pilot updates.
SPEAKER_01You did, you did, you did. You did. Um Are we giving names out or what? Are we just gonna keep we're gonna keep it? Can you tell us what the general no man me? They be still ideas out here.
SPEAKER_02So the general no uh the general like object or I say the premise. The premise is just basically how people navigate themselves within the Greek system, and then some being out and some being closet.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_02And so I'm gonna say that's gonna be the uh the general premise of it.
SPEAKER_01I think it's gonna be great. I think it's gonna be great. I just and I wanna say, I want to thank you for uh just calling in, just checking in. You know, this is uh a check-in and one more time, friend. How you doing?
SPEAKER_02I'm good, how you doing?
SPEAKER_01I'm better now, you know.
