In this deeply uplifting episode of No Hair, All Heart, Mookie Spitz sits down with Chaplain Sy Alli, a man who has lived enough lives for ten people: Air Force veteran, pro wrestler, actor, private investigator, global security expert, and now, chaplain and youth mentor. His story, told with raw honesty and humility, is one of collapse, revelation, and rebirth. Sy’s path was a carousel of careers and reinventions, from the “Chocolate Playboy” in the wrestling ring, a bodyguard in the dot-com...
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In this deeply uplifting episode of No Hair, All Heart, Mookie Spitz sits down with Chaplain Sy Alli, a man who has lived enough lives for ten people: Air Force veteran, pro wrestler, actor, private investigator, global security expert, and now, chaplain and youth mentor. His story, told with raw honesty and humility, is one of collapse, revelation, and rebirth. Sy’s path was a carousel of careers and reinventions, from the “Chocolate Playboy” in the wrestling ring, a bodyguard in the dot-com...
In this deeply uplifting episode of No Hair, All Heart, Mookie Spitz sits down with Chaplain Sy Alli, a man who has lived enough lives for ten people: Air Force veteran, pro wrestler, actor, private investigator, global security expert, and now, chaplain and youth mentor. His story, told with raw honesty and humility, is one of collapse, revelation, and rebirth. Sy’s path was a carousel of careers and reinventions, from the “Chocolate Playboy” in the wrestling ring, a bodyguard in the dot-com...
In this powerful and deeply personal 93rd episode of No Hair, All Heart, Mookie Spitz sits down with Ely Winkler, the Director of Advancement at Eshel, an organization devoted to LGBTQ+ inclusion within the Orthodox Jewish community. Their heartfelt conversation cuts through theology, tradition, and identity with candid honesty and unexpected joy. Ely shares his remarkable journey from being the rabbi’s son in a Modern Orthodox New Jersey synagogue, to coming out at Yeshiva University in 2009...
Welcome to the ninety-second episode of No Hair, All Heart, the brutally honest, hilariously self-aware podcast from writer and ranter Mookie Spitz — here playinmg bald philosopher of modern absurdity. Today, Mookie delights in turning the small humiliations and generational echoes of life into raw, unfiltered narratives that swing between confession, comedy, and cultural critique by ripping into the shared awkwardness of adolescence — from his own clumsy teenage years fumbling through ...
Mookie Spitz focuses his 91st episode of No Hair, All Heart on the strange alchemy of being insulted online and learning to love it. From TikTok trolls calling him “rabbit teeth” to the philosophy of Zappa and Baudelaire, this episode explores how ridicule, rejection, and rage from strangers can become creative fuel. Your bald host recounts the viral kitchen rant that earned him thousands of views and hundreds of hateful comments — and how that digital dogpile became his crucible for resilien...
When everyone can make a movie of themselves doing anything in ten seconds, reality stops being real — and that’s when the real fun begins! Leaping into the 90th episode of No Hair, All Heart, host Mookie Spitz dissects Sora 2, OpenAI’s generative video juggernaut that’s turning imagination into mass delusion. From AGI hype to existential dread, he lays out how we’re winning the tech race while losing our minds — and why that’s exactly what makes it interesting. Diving headfirst into the surr...
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 through the most combustible square mileage on Earth. Mookie dissects how Israel’s tiny, boundaryless topography, its interlocked demographics and religions, and its barren resources make perpetual conflict inevitable — not moral, not cultural, just inevitable. Fr...
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 opinions, our politics, even our loyalties—isn’t chosen at all. Our lives are largely scripted by history, family, and circumstance. Host Mookie Spitz takes you from exactly such a steakhouse revelation about Adolf Eichmann’s bloodline to the stubborn pattern...
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 arena of creation, fame, and failure. From Beck shouting “I’m gonna be famous” in a North Hollywood taco joint, to Quentin Tarantino hustling scripts at a video store, to Anthony Bourdain stuck on fry duty before Kitchen Confidential blew the doors open,...
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 of meaningful friendship, stripping it down to its transactional, shallow, often disappointing core. From Henry Adams and Oscar Wilde to John Updike and Thoreau, Mookie draws on history, literature, and lived experience to interrogate what it means to co...
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 strange math that declares this to be the year 5,787, a number that collapses once you pit it against science, fossils, and cosmology. From there, the rant spins through the peculiar mechanics of the lunar calendar, with its leap months and shifting holidays, before landi...
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 years in time and a continent in space gives context to the fire of America’s current political and cultural chaos. He asks the hard question: are we living through our own 1935 Germany moment—or something very different? To answer that question on many pe...
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 Willis—back when Willis was still the scrappy everyman of Moonlighting and on the cusp of becoming John McClane. That accidental resemblance snowballed into surreal encounters: paparazzi mistaking him for Willis at a Hollywood party, John Travolta glaring when ...
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 good life comes not from chasing perfection but from embracing “OK”? Mookie explores the paradox at the heart of modern living: the harder we grind, the more anxious and unhappy we become. Striving for excellence often drags an 8 or 9 down to a 7. Yet w...
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 cradle him with tenderness while scorching the earth around her with a venomous tongue. To Mookie, she was “Mimi”: a donut-buying, nickname-giving guardian angel who made him feel like the center of the universe. To the rest of the world, she was the “Raging Bitch o...
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 strangers” Mookie explores the brutal truth of writing for no one’s approval but your own, and why expecting support from friends or family is a trap. Not a tidy motivational pep talk. but a candid postmortem of false starts, crippling self-doubt, stylistic mimicry, thou...
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 the same dismal number, Mookie calls bullshit on mediocrity. This episode dives into why 70%—in school, in success, in happiness—is failure dressed up as passing. What is happiness, really? Not trophies, money, or approval, but the raw, lived satisfactio...
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: celebrity scientists and cultural pundits. Mookie unpacks his disillusionment with Neil deGrasse Tyson after watching him sit silently while Michio Kaku peddled unproven hype about quantum supremacy. He reflects on how damaging it feels when someone you trust to s...
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, framed not as Mussolini but as Tony Soprano—a figure who thrives less on ideology than on mobster-style charisma and control. From there, Mookie dives back into his own past in 1990s Chicago, where he worked as a secretary at Near North Insurance and found himse...
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 to clarity. He lays bare how success can camouflage fatal cracks, how sleepless nights and family crises can dismantle even the strongest momentum, and why sometimes the only cure is to quit before you incinerate your own soul. The root cause wasn’t just...
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 story follows the adolescent rivalry between two boys in wartime Budapest, centered on a pair of stilts that transform from childish playthings into tragic symbols of survival, sacrifice, and loss. Yet the deeper resonance comes not just from the story itself, but from ...
In this deeply uplifting episode of No Hair, All Heart, Mookie Spitz sits down with Chaplain Sy Alli, a man who has lived enough lives for ten people: Air Force veteran, pro wrestler, actor, private investigator, global security expert, and now, chaplain and youth mentor. His story, told with raw honesty and humility, is one of collapse, revelation, and rebirth. Sy’s path was a carousel of careers and reinventions, from the “Chocolate Playboy” in the wrestling ring, a bodyguard in the dot-com...
