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TIL that "wallah" is a religious phrase
It basically means “I swear to god”
Wallah, the sound, has a number of roots. I'd only heard it used as an anglicized version of voila, which is relatively recent in the English language and started as a joke.
Here's a link from someone who put in more work researching this than I can bother with.
Wallah wallah wallah uh, tell me more, tell me more...