Bald and Bloviating
autor: Mookie Spitz
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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.
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- AI Marks the Beginning of Mathematics, Not the End, as the Muse Gets Sexier · 1 godz. 51 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 79Cornell mathematician Steve Strogatz cried on The Daily as he told Rachel Abrams that chasing a proof feels like courtship, a slow seduction of a muse who resists, almost yields…
- Digger: A Series of Grave Miscalculations · 1 godz. 2 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 78An Oscar-worthy Tom Cruise shines in a movie that dug its own grave, but why? Today on Bald and Bloviating, Mookie Spitz takes on Digger, the Alejandro González Iñárritu satire…
- Delete the NPCs in Your Life to Win · 1 godz. 2 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 77Mookie flies solo with a rant sparked by getting blocked by a friend of seventeen years and turning around to block someone else right back. He builds out a full philosophy of…
- Our AI Honeymoon: Full of Surprises and We're Constantly Getting Screwed · 20 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 76Mookie sits down solo on Bald and Bloviating with a comparison that caught him off guard: the anxious-avoidant relationship that once defined his most significant romantic…
- Labor Day Donald: Trump's Job Performance from B-Plus to Impeachment · 1 godz. 49 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 75Ed Powell returns to Bald and Bloviating for a Labor Day follow-up to his January appearance, when he gave Donald Trump's second term a passing grade point by point. Ed has been…
- Creators! Show Yourselves: The Antidote to Bot Slop is YOU · 48 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 74Mookie flies solo on Bald and Bloviating today, working through something that's been eating at him: a fellow Substack writer he respected has started churning out essays that…
- Forget Skynet: AI Won't Conquer Us, We'll Beg It to Take Over · 29 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 73Mookie's back solo on Bald and Bloviating with what he considers a far more realistic AI doomsday scenario than anything Hollywood's ever pitched. Forget Skynet, forget nukes…
- Know Your Sh$t: A Rant on Art, AI, and Copying Without a Clue · 58 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 72Mookie's back solo bloviating on Bald and Bloviating, fresh off an art gallery opening in LA's Design Quarter that left him with more to rant about than he expected. Before he…
- The Critical Stinker: Why Hero Worship Reeks · 34 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 71Mookie returns to Bald and Bloviating solo with a question he's been chewing on: why does he keep falling hard for public intellectuals, pundits, and creators, only to cut them…
- We Need More Cheepnis: Zappa, Nietzsche, and How Failure Fuels Art · 20 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 70Mookie bloviates solo today on a theory he's been sitting with as he watches friends, colleagues, and family members age into quiet regret, the sense that despite raising kids…
- E.T. Stay Home: How Smartphones Might Explain the Fermi Paradox · 26 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 70Mookie fires the solo rants back up on Bald and Bloviating with a theory that starts small and ends up genuinely cosmic: what if the smartphone in your pocket is quietly…
- Liberal vs Libertarian: WTF Happened to America? · 1 godz. 27 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 69Self-proclaimed "Libertarian Lite" Mookie Spitz and his liberal friend HP return to the political podcast battlefield for a volatile, funny, surprisingly philosophical follow-up…
- One Year Into Trump 2.0: Red & Blue Scorecards · 2 godz. 8 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 69What happens when two Americans with sharply different ideologies stop screaming, start listening, and actually compare notes? In this episode of Bald & Bloviating, Mookie Spitz…
- Occam's Razor: Slicing Through the Byzantine Clusterf$ck · 1 godz. 18 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 68The 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 mechanisms: turning simple…
- The Amazon Flywheel vs. A Blizzard of Bullshit · 1 godz. 53 min · Sezon 2 Odcinek 67The first Bald and Bloviating episode of Season Two provides a retrospective on 2025, and inspiration for the year ahead. Mookie celebrates and slams a year of relentless…
- Shaking the Beltway Trees with TH Forest · 1 godz. 58 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 66What 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 Bloviating podcast, where TH…
- The Cockroach as Critic · 37 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 65In this raw, sardonic, and strangely uplifting solo rant, Mookie Spitz revisits his own metamorphosis from a self-flagellating perfectionist to a liberated creator. Framed…
- Don't Be a Picassole! · 40 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 64In this blistering solo rant, Mookie Spitz takes the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature and turns it into a mirror for every would-be artist, procrastinating perfectionist, and…
- How I Almost Partied with Bari Weiss · 1 godz. 21 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 63In this 63rd episode of Bald and Bloviating, Mookie Spitz peels back a decade of intertwined ambition, friendship, and ideology that runs from Toronto brainstorming sessions to…
- LA Comic Con 2025: View from Booksellers Row · 1 godz. 15 min · Sezon 1 Odcinek 62Step into the chaos and communion of LA Comic Con 2025 with your bald and bloviating host, Mookie Spitz. From booth-side book barking with sci-fi author Ingrid Moon to weaving…
