Bald and Bloviating
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.
Bald and Bloviating
Latest Episodes
E.T. Stay Home: How Smartphones Might Explain the Fermi Paradox
Mookie fires the solo rants back up on Bald and Bloviating with a theory that starts small and ends up genuinely cosmic: what if the smartphone in your pocket is quietly answering one of physics' most famous unsolved questions?H...
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 of American Exceptionalism” debate — this ti...
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 — political opposites with a shar...
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 piles of intellectual bullshit. Fear i...
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 across five shows, daily cont...
