Bald and Bloviating

Hosted by Mookie Spitz · Mookie Spitz

5.0from 2 ratings

40Podcast AuthorityScore out of 100 · How it is scored

72
Episodes: 2
Ratings: Monthly
Cadence: 2025
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About Bald and Bloviating

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.

Publisher: Mookie Spitz
Category: arts · news · science
Language: en
Explicit: No
First episode: 5 Feb 2025
Latest episode: 24 Aug 2026

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24 Aug 2026
We Need More Cheepnis: Zappa, Nietzsche, and How Failure Fuels Art
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 that despite raising kids, holding a job, and doing everything right, they still somehow missed the mark against a culture that only counts wealth and fame as success. His answer isn't to chase that standard harder. It's to dive straight into the opposite: the cringe, the humiliation, the flat-out fuck-ups that feel completely irredeemable, and ...
21 Aug 2026
E.T. Stay Home: How Smartphones Might Explain the Fermi Paradox
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 your pocket is quietly answering one of physics' most famous unsolved questions? He opens with a real, striking data point: researchers exploited a quirk in AT&T's original exclusive iPhone contract, where regional network coverage varied and rolled out unevenly across the country, to isolate smartphone adoption's actual effect on birth rates. ...
17 May 2026
Liberal vs Libertarian: WTF Happened to America?
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 Exceptionalism” debate — this time with the second Trump administration fully underway and the consequences no longer theoretical. HP argues that America is facing a moral crisis disguised as a political one. He lays out the case that Trump’s rise exposed something deeper and uglier i...

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Apple Podcasts (US): 5.0 / 5; 1 ratings
Spotify: 5.0 / 5; 1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

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Quality: 79
Social presence: 0
YouTube: 0
Engagement: 0

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