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The Vigilante President
Season 1 Episode 22
Mookie Spitz dives into the dark heart of authoritarian allure, drawing creative parallels between Abel Ferrara’s cult classic Bad Lieutenant and the…
1 year, 4 months ago
Blame Canada... and Ali Rizvi
Season 1 Episode 21
Mookie Spitz turns the tables on Ali Rizvi, and invites the Canadian podcaster, tweeter, and author onto his own show. They dive into the swirling ch…
1 year, 4 months ago
Got Game?
Season 1 Episode 20
Seems two kinds of people inhabit the planet: those who have game, and those who don't. Here I rant about the importance of identifying yourself and …
1 year, 4 months ago
An Up and Coming Andy Dick
Season 1 Episode 19
Doing things unconventionally my whole life, I've encountered unconventional people -- including celebrities-to-be Beck, and as described here, Andy …
1 year, 4 months ago
Katy Perry's Rocket Ride
Season 1 Episode 18
Buckle up and get set for some serious bloviating. Your bald host, Mookie Spitz reconnects with coiffed musician, psychologist, and desert van-dwelle…
1 year, 4 months ago
It Is John McWhorter's Achilles' Heel
Season 1 Episode 17
In this solo episode of Bald and Bloviating, host Mookie Spitz riffs on his linguistic pet peeve: the overuse of the passive voice. Prompted by a rec…
1 year, 4 months ago
Trumpageddon and Bernie's Revenge
Season 1 Episode 16
Mookie Spitz talks to a self-described leftist, Jared Vaugh Davis, to dissect the deep dysfunction of American politics, with a focus on what's gone …
1 year, 4 months ago
Signal to Noise: A Concerned Marine Father
Season 1 Episode 15
The Yemen attack Signal fiasco embodies the new administration's attitudes toward protocol, security, and the role of government itself. Here's my ta…
1 year, 4 months ago
Beck is a Winner, Baby
Season 1 Episode 14
"I knew them when..." is the ultimate celebrity trope, in this case a true one when back in North Hollywood, California in the mid-80s, I got to know…
1 year, 4 months ago
A Quickie At the End of the World
Season 1 Episode 13
Science fiction is often based on the counterfactual conditional, "What if...?" I based this short story I wrote back in the mid-90s on two such spec…
1 year, 4 months ago