After pulling stories out of names like Snoop Dogg and The Game in season one, Spitfire with Shirley Ju returns in April with Too $hort, Vic Mensa, Slug, Shordie Shordie and more.
After a very solid first run, Spitfire with Shirley Ju is coming back for season two. Stay tuned!
If you watched season one, you already get it. This isn’t a press junket in disguise or another podcast where artists recycle the same talking points. It’s short, loose, a little chaotic in the right way, and actually fun to watch. Shirley links up with people she already has a real rapport with and lets the conversation go where it goes.
That’s the whole thing.
Season two drops in April and brings in a new mix of guests, including Too $hort, Vic Mensa, Shordie Shordie, Slug from Atmosphere, Princeton Perez, Loe Shimmy and Lil Tony. It’s a wider net, but the energy stays the same.
What made the first season work wasn’t format. It was access and trust.
Shirley Ju has been doing this long enough that artists don’t treat her like a random interviewer. They open up. They joke around. They tell stories they probably weren’t planning to tell that day. And because the episodes are tight, you get straight to the good stuff without all the filler.
That’s how you end up with moments like Snoop Dogg explaining why he doesn’t share blunts anymore, or The Game going off about his biggest smoke session pet peeve: lip gloss. You get G Herbo talking about catching Snoop smoking his weed. You get Uno the Activist saying he hates sativa. Dave East has his own reasons for not passing the blunt, completely different from Snoop’s. Havoc lays out his weed rules like it’s a code.
None of that comes out of a rigid Q&A.
It comes from comfort.
And that’s really what separates Spitfire. It doesn’t feel like content engineered for clips, even though it produces very clip-able moments. It feels like hanging out with people who happen to be artists, not watching them perform being artists.
Season one leaned heavily into hip-hop, which made sense. That overlap with cannabis culture is deep and natural. Season two keeps that core but starts to open things up a bit more, bringing in different personalities and perspectives without losing what made it work.
It also helps that the show knows its lane. It’s not trying to be a documentary series or a deep investigative format. It’s not trying to over-explain the culture. It just captures it in small, very human moments.
And honestly, that’s harder to pull off than it looks.
There’s also something refreshing about the length. Not every interview needs to be an hour. Not every artist needs to walk through their entire life story. Spitfire gets in, finds a moment, and gets out. That’s part of why it sticks.
With season two dropping in April, the show feels less like an experiment and more like something High Times can keep building on. A recurring format that works because of the host, the tone and the people who show up ready to just talk.
And if the first season was any indication, the best parts will probably be the things no one planned to say.
