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We Need More Cheepnis: Zappa, Nietzsche, and How Failure Fuels Art
Season 2 Episode 70
Mookie bloviates solo today on a theory he's been sitting with as he watches friends, colleagues, and family members age into quiet regret, the sense…
6 hours ago
E.T. Stay Home: How Smartphones Might Explain the Fermi Paradox
Season 2 Episode 70
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 yo…
3 days, 8 hours ago
Liberal vs Libertarian: WTF Happened to America?
Season 2 Episode 69
Self-proclaimed "Libertarian Lite" Mookie Spitz and his liberal friend HP return to the political podcast battlefield for a volatile, funny, surprisi…
3 months, 1 week ago
One Year Into Trump 2.0: Red & Blue Scorecards
Season 2 Episode 69
What happens when two Americans with sharply different ideologies stop screaming, start listening, and actually compare notes?
In this episode of Bald…
7 months ago
Occam's Razor: Slicing Through the Byzantine Clusterf$ck
Season 2 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…
7 months ago
The Amazon Flywheel vs. A Blizzard of Bullshit
Season 2 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…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Shaking the Beltway Trees with TH Forest
Season 1 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 B…
9 months ago
The Cockroach as Critic
Season 1 Episode 65
In this raw, sardonic, and strangely uplifting solo rant, Mookie Spitz revisits his own metamorphosis from a self-flagellating perfectionist to a lib…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Don't Be a Picassole!
Season 1 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, procrastin…
10 months, 1 week ago
How I Almost Partied with Bari Weiss
Season 1 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 Toront…
10 months, 2 weeks ago