
Bald and Bloviating
A nonpartisan bald news junky dissects top stories and rants about their implications, along with other personal, science, and tech discussions.
Episodes
50 episodes
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 upbringi...
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Season 1
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Episode 51
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2:03:48

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...
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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1:15:30

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 grotes...
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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19:40

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 char...
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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54:50

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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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7:22

Inside the Infiniverse | Part 3
In this third installment of Inside the Infiniverse, Mookie Spitz dives even deeper into the opening Episode of his new sci-fi novel, Jonnie Fazzoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine. What begins as Penny Pitz’ routine in...
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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1:03:21

Whacking Mokie
Mookie Spitz reads Whacking Moki, a short story based on a true story that captures the brutal clarity of nature and the unexpected bonds forged in the face of death.The tale follows Dieter Dunt, a former Alabama radical who rei...
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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17:48

When Miss France Was Almost Mister
Mookie Spitz rewinds to 2001, when French beauty queen Elodie Gossuin was crowned Miss France—and almost immediately became the subject of a tabloid-fueled smear suggesting she was transgender. What started as a rumor spun by the New York Daily...
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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14:11

The 3 Types of Manager
Mookie Spitz dives into the world of management archetypes with a mix of humor, hard-earned scars, and unfiltered truth. Drawing on his chaotic years running Chicago nightclubs in the 90s—where powder-fueled nights bled into daylight columns fo...
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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24:44

Israel Wants to Annex Gaza & the West Bank
In this blistering solo episode, Mookie Spitz rips away the sanitized headlines and drills into the raw truth behind Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank. Far from the usual media spin, Mookie lays out how the Netanyahu government—propped...
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Season 1
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Episode 42
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38:07

Top 10 DJ Pro-Tips
In this riotously sharp episode of Bald and Bloviating, Mookie Spitz takes listeners back to the wild, sweaty nights of Chicago’s 1990s dance club scene. Drawing from his time as a barback, bartender, and eventually club manager—plus h...
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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10:36

DJs, AI, and the Hubris of Bullshit Artists
Mookie Spitz lays out a blisteringly clear thesis: today's AI "creators" are often nothing more than digital-era DJs—bullshit artists hiding behind technology, mistaking curation for creation, and swaggering with a confidence they haven’t earne...
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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53:59

Dom Donald & Elon the Brat
Mookie Spitz tears apart the flimsy fabric of modern etiquette, dragging it through the mud of our digital cesspool. What starts as a deep dive into why Nixon chose to resign—bowing to protocol over narcissism—explodes into a sweeping,...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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1:12:15

Nixon Didn’t Have to Quit — And Neither Do You
Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace — not because he legally had to, but because he bowed to etiquette, tradition, and the unwritten rules of political “decency.” In this episode, Mookie Spitz unpacks that moment in history when decorum outweigh...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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43:28

Two-State Solution? Now?! A Jew & a Muslim Debate
Jewish agnostic Chicagoan Mookie Spitz and Muslim agnostic Canadian Ali A. Rizvi — who grew up bouncing between Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Pakistan — dive headlong into one of the planet’s most radioactive debates: the two-state solution for Isra...
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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1:45:18

Inside the Infiniverse | Part 2
Mookie Spitz brings you the next installment of the unhinged director’s cut you didn’t know you needed. In this series, he takes apart his novel Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine — laying bare the cosmic insanity, tw...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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1:01:54

Beware the 95/5er! Are You Giver or Taker?
Mookie Spitz rants about the messy power dynamics that shape our relationships. Inspired by a fiasco where he got kicked off X for flooding timelines with his novel, Mookie pivots to something way deeper: why so many of us are stuck in lopsided...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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57:15

Inside the Infiniverse | Part 1
Mookie Spitz unleashes a cynical, hyperverbal annotation of his new novel Jonnie Fazoolie & The Transfinite Reality Engine through the layers of his latest cosmic fever dream designed to enthrall readers, writers, sci-fi nerds, exi...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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58:25

Ode to Luxurious Bloviation: Tweeting My Entire Novel
Mookie Spitz dives headfirst into his manic creative process — from obsessively shaping his sci-fi novel Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine into rigid three-line paragraphs, to pulling off an audacious stunt: tweeting...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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45:07

The Spider's Jar: Blowing Borges' Mind
In this expansive solo episode, Mookie Spitz takes listeners on a hallucinatory, high-concept journey through the philosophical backbone of his new novel, Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine. The focal point? A chapter...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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2:50:37

Big Apple Breakup: New York City Sucks
In this brutally honest episode, Mookie Spitz unleashes a full-throttle rant on why he walked away from the city he once loved — New York Fucking City. From the dopamine-drenched highs of Broadway and late-night oyster bars to the r...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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53:15

@$$hole Bosses & Backstabbing Colleagues
Mookie Spitz dives headfirst into why work so often feels like a slow-motion train wreck — and why the people around you are usually the ones going off the rails. Drawing from decades of personal experience to create a satirical expose worthy o...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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32:49

Brandsplaining the Yang Gang
In this unapologetic, no-holds-barred solo episode, Mookie Spitz reflects on his surreal brush with presidential politics — a behind-the-scenes strategy session with Andrew Yang during his 2020 campaign. Armed with decades of marketing and bran...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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59:10

Choose the Red and Blue Pills
Mookie Spitz opens up about the thin line between science and mysticism, between reason and wonder, and concludes we need to embrace both. Through vivid stories of premonitions, near-misses, and life-or-death moments, Mookie explore...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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56:02

The Jewish American Civil War, Part 2
In this powerful follow-up, Mookie Spitz returns to the raging civil war within American Jewry — a battle that’s only deepened post-October 7th. Moving beyond satire, Mookie delivers a heartfelt, provocative message: a call for Jewish Americans...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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42:47
