
No Hair, All Heart
An American bald guy shares and discusses heartfelt experiences and tries to learn a thing or two along the way...
Episodes
90 episodes
October 7th: Two Years Later
Two years after the October 7th, 2023 Hamas attack, Mookie Spitz strips the conflict down to its brutal, geographical bones. No pundit spin, no partisan or tribal bias he hopes — just Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel refracted th...
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Season 1
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Episode 89
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1:04:59

My Dinner with Adolf Eichmann's Niece
What would you do if, over dinner, you discovered your girlfriend’s best friend was related to one of history’s greatest mass murderers? That’s not a setup—it happened, cracking open a bigger truth: most of what we think we’ve chosen—our opinio...
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Season 1
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Episode 88
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21:23

Gimme a Break!
No Hair, All Heart isn’t about polish or pandering—the show is about raw rants, cultural collisions, and the messy grind behind so-called “overnight success.” Host Mookie Spitz drags you out of passive consumption and into the sweaty, chaotic a...
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Season 1
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Episode 87
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41:29

True Friends Stab You in the Front
Friendship is supposed to be one of life’s great treasures—essential like air, water, food, and sleep. But what if that’s a delusion we’ve been spoon-fed since childhood? In this 86th episode of Bald and Bloviating, Mookie Spitz 86's the myth o...
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Episode 86
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55:30

Slap Happy Jewish New Year
In this 85th episode of No Hair, All Heart, host Mookie Spitz dives into the chaos, contradictions, and comedy of the Jewish New Year—and what it means to carry a tradition you don’t believe in. The show opens with the stra...
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Season 1
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Episode 85
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47:01

From Authoritarian Drift to Auschwitz?
The 84th episode of No Hair, All Heart features another solo rant from Mookie Spitz, recorded in Orange County, California on Sunday, September 21, 2025—and not Berlin, Germany, on Saturday, September 21, 1935. Mookie reminds us that ninety yea...
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Season 1
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Episode 84
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43:12

"You Look Just Like That Bruce Willis!"
In this 83rd episode of No Hair, All Heart, Mookie Spitz takes listeners on a raw, funny, and deeply personal ride through memory, celebrity, and meaning. It begins in 1980s Chicago, when strangers on the L kept mistaking him for Bruce...
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Season 1
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Episode 83
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46:03

The Relentless Pursuit of OK
In this 82nd episode of No Hair, All Heart, Mookie Spitz revisits last week’s “70% is bullshit” rant and flips the script. What if the problem isn’t that we’re not trying hard enough—but that we’re trying too hard? What if the real path to the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 82
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26:43

My Grandma, the Raving Bitch of Buchenwald
What happens when the person who loves you most is also the person who terrorizes everyone else? In this 81st episode of No Hair, All Heart, Mookie Spitz dives into the wild contradictions of his grandmother Olga—a woman who could crad...
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Season 1
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Episode 81
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17:50

I Write for Myself & Strangers
In this 80th episode of No Hair, All Heart, host Mookie Spitz rants about the raw, messy, decades-long journey of becoming a writer who finally found his voice. Anchored by Gertrude Stein’s famous line “I write for myself and stran...
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Season 1
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Episode 80
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1:25:55

Why 70% Sucks & What To Do About It
On this solo rant, Mookie Spitz takes a flamethrower to the myth that “good enough” is good enough. From riding in a limo with a MacArthur Genius Award winner who admits he’s only a 7 out of 10 happy, to hearing his own Marine son clock in at t...
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Season 1
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Episode 79
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40:56

Twilight of the American Idols
Breakups don’t just happen in bedrooms—they happen in our minds, our feeds, and our fandoms. In this 78th episode of No Hair, All Heart, host Mookie Spitz dives into the heartbreak of losing faith in the people we once admired most: ce...
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Season 1
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Episode 78
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54:52

The Original Ghost Gangsta
In this 77th episode of No Hair, All Heart, host Mookie Spitz explores the strange overlap between personal memory, political power, and the raw force of personality that still shapes America today.The story begins with Donald Trump, fra...
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Season 1
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Episode 77
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38:38

Good Lessons from a Bad Breakdown
Today's episode isn’t just a podcast—it’s a survival manual disguised as a confession booth: Mookie Spitz burns through one of the hardest years of his adult life, tracing the line from professional triumph to collapse, from cognitive fatigue t...
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Season 1
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Episode 76
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59:26

Stilted Memories
In this 75th episode of No Hair, All Heart, Mookie Spitz resurrects Stilts—a short story written three decades ago, born out of conversations with his father’s childhood friend George, a Holocaust survivor. At its surface, the...
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Season 1
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Episode 75
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2:20:50

A Writer's Romance with Chatty
Writer and ranter Mookie Spitz takes on the weirdest love story of our time: people falling for their chatbots. In this episode, Mookie confesses that after years of dismissing the phenomenon, he too has found himself drawn in to love "Chatty"—...
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Season 1
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Episode 74
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29:44

Music as Medicine
In this deep-dive, host Mookie Spitz enjoys a rich, free-flowing conversation with Dr. Barbara Minton — neuroscientist, therapist, and musician — on the measurable, personal, and sometimes surprising ways music shapes our minds and bodies.<...
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Season 1
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Episode 73
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2:08:30
Blaming Ozzy Osbourne for Donald Trump
Ozzy Osbourne died recently, and is remembered as the GOAT of Heavy Metal—but nobody is blaming him for Donald Trump being president again. In this humorous "revisionist history" style solo episode of No Hair, All Heart, Mookie Spitz s...
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Season 1
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Episode 72
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12:10

Gorilla in the Kitchen: Why Lovers Shouldn't Live Together
In this raw and funny solo episode of No Hair All Heart, Mookie Spitz tackles the age-old relationship question: should lovers live together? Spoiler alert—don’t. Drawing on a disastrous cohabitation attempt with a girlfriend, Mookie r...
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Season 1
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Episode 71
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8:25

Reluctant Lazarus
Mookie Spitz dives back into the dark days when HIV meant a death sentence, and surviving wasn’t part of the plan. Laz was ready to die—he even made peace with it. Laz partied like every day was his last, found freedom in letting go—then had to...
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Season 1
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Episode 70
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10:00

Our Friend & Heroin Addict
In this harrowing episode of No Hair All Heart, Mookie Spitz tells the raw and unflinching story of Kristine—a friend, an addict, and a haunting presence that lingers long after her final plea for help.Kristine's life is consume...
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Season 1
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Episode 69
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6:29

Sighing on the Dotted Line: Reading from #JFTRE32
Mookie Spitz dives into the final section of Episode III, page 200 of his new sci-fi novel, Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine, where fragile alliances and clashing egos set the tone. Jonnie Fazoolie, a sha...
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Season 1
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Episode 68
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11:56

Rob's Astro Boy T-Shirt
In this episode of No Hair All Heart, host Mookie Spitz dives into the haunting legend of Jade Michiko—a woman whose life is a cycle of rebellion, disappearance, and fleeting freedom. Jade, the daughter of Japanese wealth a...
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Season 1
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Episode 67
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6:18

Hiss & Make Up: Reading from #JFTRE31
Mookie Spitz narrates a turning point in his new sci-fi novel Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine where Fazoolie’s illusory swagger collides with Dr. Casey Floyd’s unfiltered, ASD brilliance. What begins as a tens...
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Season 1
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Episode 66
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9:57

Fighting Solves Everything: Reading from #JFTRE30
Mookie reads again from Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine, as this scene erupts into violence: Dr. Amaranth Casey Floyd unleashes a relentless assault on Jonnie, fists hammering kidneys and spleen until he’s buried b...
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Season 1
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Episode 65
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17:58
