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Bald and Bloviating
Mookie Spitz
65 episodes
7 hours ago
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 Spitz play an invigorating game of political tennis. Their intense and fun conversation swings from Reaganomics and the imminent attack on Venezuela to immigration raids and Nixon's Southern Strategy, from the Epstein Files to the bunker below the refurbished East Wing only to end where they sta...
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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 Spitz play an invigorating game of political tennis. Their intense and fun conversation swings from Reaganomics and the imminent attack on Venezuela to immigration raids and Nixon's Southern Strategy, from the Epstein Files to the bunker below the refurbished East Wing only to end where they sta...
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Bald and Bloviating
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 Spitz play an invigorating game of political tennis. Their intense and fun conversation swings from Reaganomics and the imminent attack on Venezuela to immigration raids and Nixon's Southern Strategy, from the Epstein Files to the bunker below the refurbished East Wing only to end where they sta...
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1 week ago
1 hour 58 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
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 Kafka’s existential nightmares, The Cockroach as Critic is part homage, part exorcism, and part manifesto for late-life reinvention. Mookie draws parallels between Kafka’s bureaucratic dread and the generational trauma of growing up under a father who weaponized criticism. Through his signature dar...
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3 weeks ago
37 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
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” who talks more than they make. Trigger warning for your inner hack: this one hurts. From Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s single-sentence novels to Picasso’s 50,000 pieces of relentless output, Mookie dismantles the myth of “someday” artistry — the fantasy that genius waits for perfect conditions. He drags t...
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1 month ago
40 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
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 taps to the editorial suites of CBS News. Starting with Barry Weiss’s meteoric rise from Substack renegade to corporate media powerhouse, Mookie rewinds to 2015 to trace his own improbable web of connections: Ali Rizvi, the doctor-musician op-ed writer; Faisal Saeed Al-Mutar, the Iraqi refug...
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1 month ago
1 hour 21 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
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 stormtroopers, cosplayers, and holographic Stan Lee, this episode captures the raw energy of a cultural carnival where camp, commerce, and creativity collide. Mookie shares what it really feels like to stand for three straight days selling books to strangers, why covers sell more than content, and how se...
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1 month ago
1 hour 15 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
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 wallowing in blame and self-victimization. The episode opens on the Jimmy Kimmel suspension saga, where late-night jokes, FCC jawboning, and Trumpian pressure collide. It’s not really about Kimmel, though. It’s about what happens when government and media turn every controversy into a battlefield,...
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2 months ago
37 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
"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 chaos of his Chicago nightclub days in the ’90s straight into today’s fractured cultural and political landscape. The connective tissue? A phrase he once shouted across a barroom floor, echoing Dorothy and her Crew in Oz—“Liars and cowards and thieves, oh my!" That refrain becomes the lens for a bli...
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2 months ago
49 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
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 dismantle the fake civility of our age and cuts straight to the marrow of discourse. Yes, Mookie delivers an ode to his big f@cking mouth—the blessing and curse of speaking without a filter. He dissects the paradox of modern America: a culture where people either froth and bully behind the safety o...
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2 months ago
12 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
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, and the compulsion to keep your “chops” sharp—spirals into bigger questions of taste, truth, and the price of authenticity. Mookie traces his own path from blogging obscurity to millions of TikTok video views, only to confront the impenetrable “wall” of content saturation. Along the way, he revisit...
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2 months ago
1 hour 56 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
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 with zero prep, zero filter, and maximum honesty. What starts as a riff on the age-old battle between dogs and cats evolves into a deeper meditation on human nature, cynicism, cowardice, and the lies we tell ourselves just to get through life. Mookie’s rants blur the line between stand-up, therapy, a...
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2 months ago
54 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
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 fall in love with clever concepts, elaborate world-building, and exposition, while forgetting the timeless truth that stories live or die on the backs of characters in motion, solving problems to attain clearly expressed goals. Drama isn’t built on ideas, instead on people fighting for something they...
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2 months ago
34 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
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 make any other CEO weep with joy—revenue up 56% year-over-year to $46.7 billion, net income soaring 59% to $26.4 billion. And yet? The stock slid 4%. The problem isn’t Nvidia’s performance—it’s the whisper that keeps getting louder: are we living through an AI boom, or blowing up the next great bub...
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3 months ago
26 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
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: biting, bracing, sometimes overwhelming, but impossible to forget and indispensable in the right mix. This podcast leans into that truth, exploring what it means to embrace the parts of yourself that sting, instead of filing them down for mass approval. Mookie unpacks the paradox of personality—how t...
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3 months ago
37 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
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 grown into a raw, long-form experiment in thinking out loud. No scripts, no handlers, no algorithms appeased. Just blunt honesty, improvisation, and a refusal to play nice with the left-right circus. Each rant wrestles with the impossible: making sense of a culture buried under 483 exabytes of da...
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3 months ago
1 hour 7 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
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 Yunusoff—and performs it aloud. Screenplays aren’t meant to be read this way; they’re blueprints for films, terse stage directions mixed with dialogue. But what happens when you strip away the camera, the studio, the actors, and repurpose the script as a piece of audio storytelling? That’s the experiment, ...
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3 months ago
3 hours 13 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
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 within. Through the lens of Ivor’s wartime upbringing and post-immigrant insight, they examine how Americans—especially American men—have griped themselves into a corner, trading grit for grievance. The episode draws sharp parallels between the ethnic implosions of the Balkans and the tribal polarizatio...
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3 months ago
2 hours 3 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
The 4 Lost Liberals of the Democalypse
Nine months in, and Trump’s second term has officially birthed, leaving the American left shattered, stunned, and scrambling. In this blistering episode of Bald and Bloviating, Mookie Spitz digs deep into the wreckage of the Democratic Party—not through polls or punditry, but through the raw, lived experiences of four former true believers who now feel betrayed, abandoned, and politically homeless. Meet Kevin, the Latino science nerd turned Flint water victim whose rage at governmental failur...
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3 months ago
1 hour 15 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
Cats, Chihuahuas, and ChatGPT
Mookie Spitz takes listeners on a winding journey from a 1998 car overflowing with chihuahuas to the existential crossroads of human creativity in the age of AI. Using a hilarious yet unsettling analogy of a cat and chihuahua locked in a grotesque ecosystem, Mookie frames the future of digital content as a similar closed loop—one where large language models (LLMs) devour everything we’ve ever written, filmed, posted, or recorded. He breaks down how AI’s exponential growth in content creation ...
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3 months ago
19 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
Inside the Infiniverse | Part 4
Part four of Inside the Infiniverse plunges into the escalating rivalries that drive the heart of Mookie Spitz’s multiverse saga. At this midpoint of Jonnie Fazzoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine, tensions between characters reach new heights, shaping the direction of the story. At the center is Jonnie, a broke hustler chasing redemption—or at least another big scam—by building a universe-jumping machine inspired by an alluring German scientist. Opposing him is Penny Pitz, a hyper-com...
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3 months ago
54 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
Sir Speedie: Lord of Crystal & Duke of Meth
In this high-octane episode, Mookie Spitz takes listeners back to the chaotic pulse of the mid-90s with one of his favorite pieces from his Metro Mookie days. Sir Speedie, Lord of Crystal and Duke of Meth, is a fever dream of a story about a man who bends time, stretches space, and lives four days’ worth of life in one manic, drug-fueled sprint. Through Speedie’s wild eyes, we experience a world where sleep is irrelevant, every moment is maximized, and existence becomes a dizzying equation of...
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3 months ago
7 minutes

Bald and Bloviating
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 Spitz play an invigorating game of political tennis. Their intense and fun conversation swings from Reaganomics and the imminent attack on Venezuela to immigration raids and Nixon's Southern Strategy, from the Epstein Files to the bunker below the refurbished East Wing only to end where they sta...