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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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Signup to Generate a PitchA 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 is hosted by Mookie Spitz. The show has published 80 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "AI Marks the Beginning of Mathematics, Not the End, as the Muse Gets Sexier" (16 October 2026, 111 minutes), "Digger: A Series of Grave Miscalculations" (6 October 2026, 63 minutes), and "Delete the NPCs in Your Life to Win" (27 September 2026, 63 minutes).
Bald and Bloviating publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 69 minutes across 80 episodes.
Booking probability for Bald and Bloviating is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Bald and Bloviating requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Bald and Bloviating's contact route on record: verified email.
Mookie Spitz hosts Bald and Bloviating, a news podcast with 80 episodes published.
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Episode #79
Cornell mathematician Steve Strogatz cried on The Daily as he told Rachel Abrams that chasing a proof feels like courtship, a slow seduction of a muse who resists, almost yields, then holds out for one more night. Now...
Episode #78
An Oscar-worthy Tom Cruise shines in a movie that dug its own grave, but why? Today on Bald and Bloviating , Mookie Spitz takes on Digger , the Alejandro González Iñárritu satire starring Tom Cruise as an eccentric...
Episode #77
Mookie flies solo with a rant sparked by getting blocked by a friend of seventeen years and turning around to block someone else right back. He builds out a full philosophy of blocking, treating it as a clean, dignified...
Episode #76
Mookie sits down solo on Bald and Bloviating with a comparison that caught him off guard: the anxious-avoidant relationship that once defined his most significant romantic partnership, and the relationship humanity is...
Episode #75
Ed Powell returns to Bald and Bloviating for a Labor Day follow-up to his January appearance, when he gave Donald Trump's second term a passing grade point by point. Ed has been a Trump supporter since 2016, Mookie has...
Episode #74
Mookie flies solo on Bald and Bloviating today, working through something that's been eating at him: a fellow Substack writer he respected has started churning out essays that are, unmistakably, AI-generated. Not...
Episode #73
Mookie's back solo on Bald and Bloviating with what he considers a far more realistic AI doomsday scenario than anything Hollywood's ever pitched. Forget Skynet, forget nukes launching themselves, forget robots seizing...
Episode #72
Mookie's back solo bloviating on Bald and Bloviating , fresh off an art gallery opening in LA's Design Quarter that left him with more to rant about than he expected. Before he even gets to the art, he works through his...
Episode #71
Mookie returns to Bald and Bloviating solo with a question he's been chewing on: why does he keep falling hard for public intellectuals, pundits, and creators, only to cut them off completely the moment they lose...
Episode #69
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...
Episode #69
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...
Episode #68
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...
Episode #67
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...
Episode #66
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...
Episode #65
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...
Episode #64
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...
Episode #63
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...
Episode #62
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...
Episode #61
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...
Episode #60
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...
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