Bald and Bloviating
Mookie Spitz
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A nonpartisan bald news junky talks to his fellow Americans from all political stripes, and dissects top stories and rants about their implications -- along with other personal, science, and tech discussions.
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S2E69 Liberal vs Libertarian: WTF Happened to America?
Self-proclaimed "Libertarian Lite" Mookie Spitz and his liberal friend HP return to the political podcast battlefield for a volatile, funny, surprisingly philosophical follow-up to their earlier “End…
S2E69 One Year Into Trump 2.0: Red & Blue Scorecards
What happens when two Americans with sharply different ideologies stop screaming, start listening, and actually compare notes?In this episode of Bald & Bloviating, Mookie Spitz and Ed Powell —…
S2E68 Occam's Razor: Slicing Through the Byzantine Clusterf$ck
The first episode of Season Two of Bald and Bloviating features Mookie Spitz on a solo rant as he takes a razor to one of humanity’s favorite defense mechanisms: turning simple truths into baroque…
S2E67 The Amazon Flywheel vs. A Blizzard of Bullshit
The first Bald and Bloviating episode of Season Two provides a retrospective on 2025, and inspiration for the year ahead. Mookie celebrates and slams a year of relentless creation—244+ podcasts…
S1E66 Shaking the Beltway Trees with TH Forest
What happens when a bald bloviator pods with an MM romance author to save America? Listen around, and find out on this 66th episode of the Bald and Bloviating podcast, where TH Forest and Mookie…
S1E65 The Cockroach as Critic
In this raw, sardonic, and strangely uplifting solo rant, Mookie Spitz revisits his own metamorphosis from a self-flagellating perfectionist to a liberated creator. Framed through the lens of Franz…
S1E64 Don't Be a Picassole!
In this blistering solo rant, Mookie Spitz takes the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature and turns it into a mirror for every would-be artist, procrastinating perfectionist, and self-styled “creative”…
S1E63 How I Almost Partied with Bari Weiss
In this 63rd episode of Bald and Bloviating, Mookie Spitz peels back a decade of intertwined ambition, friendship, and ideology that runs from Toronto brainstorming sessions to New York WeWorks beer…
S1E62 LA Comic Con 2025: View from Booksellers Row
Step into the chaos and communion of LA Comic Con 2025 with your bald and bloviating host, Mookie Spitz. From booth-side book barking with sci-fi author Ingrid Moon to weaving through seas of…
S1E61 Mookie's Weekly Bloviation: Birthday Pizza & Jam Sandwiches
Mookie Spitz is back with another scorched-earth rant, weaving together politics, comedy, health, and mathematics into one restless through-line: we are making ourselves—and our country—miserable by…
S1E60 "Liars and Cowards and Thieves, Oh My!"
The 60th episode of Bald and Bloviating takes a bloviating look at America in 2025 through the eyes (and the big bald head) of host Mookie Spitz. In this solo rant, Mookie drags listeners from the…
S1E59 Ode to My Big F@cking Mouth
Where does unfiltered honesty collide with a society drowning in bullshit? Let's try here: Hosted by Mookie Spitz, a self-described loudmouth, blowhard, and provocateur, he rants in this episode to…
S1E58 Mookie's Weekly Bloviation: Charlie Kirk, Batgirl, and AJR
In this week’s bloviation, Mookie Spitz lets loose in true Bill Burr fashion—no prep, no filter, just raw improvisation. What starts as a riff on the grind of creative practice—writing, podcasting,…
S1E57 Mookie's Weekly Bloviation: 9/4/2025
Mookie Spitz, self-proclaimed “Bloviator in Chief." channels the spirit if not the talent of Bill Burr into his 57th Bald and Bloviating episode, and his first "Weekly Bloviation": he hits record…
S1E56 Writers, Stop the H.A.I.T.E.!
In this 56th episode of Bald and Bloviating, Mookie Spitz takes the scalpel and chainsaw to one of the most destructive habits in writing: H.A.I.T.E. — “Here’s An Idea, The End.” Too many writers…
S1E55 Popping the AI Bubble
Mookie Spitz takes aim at the contradiction at the heart of the world’s biggest story from this afternoon: Nvidia, now the largest company on Earth, just delivered fiscal Q2 2025 numbers that would…
S1E54 Cornichon & Proud
Welcome back to the unapologetic soapbox of Mookie Spitz—your briny, tart, sharp-edged cornichon. A friend just described him that way, not as an insult but as the truest shorthand for who he is:…
S1E53 Mookie's Manifesto: What He Believes
Welcome to the 53rd episode of Bald and Bloviating, the unfiltered podcast of Mookie Spitz—writer, ranter, and anti-tribalist. What began as daily TikTok kitchen tirades from an arm’s length away has…
S1E52 A Ghost Dog, Evil Cat & Lost Puppy Audiobook into a Podcast...
Mookie Spitz, unable to STFU, isn’t content with simply talking. In this episode, he does something rare: he resurrects Rusty the Puppy—an original screenplay he co-wrote in 2009 with Rusty…
S1E51 Bonanza of Bajalo
Mookie Spitz is back with Ivor Bajalo—Bosnian-born, Chicago-raised, and millennial to the core—for a high-octane, unapologetic look at how America is unraveling not from foreign wars, but from…
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Bald and Bloviating has published 69 episodes since February 2025, covering topics in Arts, Books.
Bald and Bloviating is currently declining with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 57m.
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