No Hair, All Heart

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 q...

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 de...

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"—not romantically, but creatively.

What begins as a quirky experiment—feeding his new sci-fi novel into ChatGPT—turns into a revelation. The bot doesn’t just spit out summaries, it ge...

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.

From the opening minutes, they explore music as an active force that can heal, harm, or transform depending on its use. Dr. Minton breaks down what EEG brain mapping reveals about individual respo...

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 stitches together a wick cultural autopsy, tracing the lineage from reality TV trailblazer The Osbournes to Trump’s The Apprentice, and from there straight to the heart of MAGA madness.

Did Oz...

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 recounts how spilled coffee, scattered silverware, and his “gorilla in the kitchen” energy nearly torpedoed their romance.

Mookie digs deeper into why cohabitation is not the harmless “next step” couple...

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 pick up the pieces when the world refused to let him go quietly.

The drugs kicked in, flipped the script, and dumped him back into life he didn’t ask for. Suddenly, the man who found meaning ...

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 consumed by ritual. Her addiction is not chaos but a dark science: the precision of a chemist, the devotion of a priest, and the relentless drive of someone who lives only to escape. Her world shrinks to a sin...

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 shameless hustler with just enough charm to keep his schemes afloat, lures Dr. Amaranth Floyd—a weary, sharp-minded physicist—into his universe-jumping gamble.

Their relationship is a cocktail of manipulation a...

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 and control, breaks away from her gilded cage to wander the world in search of her own salvation. Her journey takes her through Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, before she finally lands in the rave-soaked chaos ...

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 tense standoff quickly spirals into a chaotic dance of intellect and ego.

Their conversation crackles with intensity and awkward reconciliation of sorts. Jonnie, ever the bullshitter, pitches his vision with th...

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 beneath an avalanche of office debris. BS, Jonnie’s black cat with white mittens, watches like an indifferent judge while Casey stands triumphant. But this is no ordinary beatdown—it’s a confrontation ...

When a box of century-old photographs and letters arrives on his doorstep, Mookie Spitz opens more than just a package—he opens a door to the ghosts of his Hungarian Jewish ancestry. In this intimate solo episode, Mookie takes listeners through a visceral journey: the chemical decay of daguerreotypes, the haunted eyes of relatives he’s never met, and the absurdity of placing meaning on objects that ultimately mean nothing—except fo...

Jonnie Fazoolie’s latest venture is teetering on the edge of collapse. Fertile Descent LLC — his latest paper tiger of a company — needs more than smoke, mirrors, and Jonnie’s mile-wide grin to stay afloat. To pull off the scam of his career, he decides to bring in someone who can actually do the work: a real scientist with credentials so heavy they could sink him.

That’s when Dr. Amaranth “Casey” Floyd walks through the rickety doo...

Jonnie Fazoolie is back—and this time, he’s pitching nonsense harder than ever. In this chaotic reading the conman-entrepreneur is on the hunt for his next big break: a bogus startup that will make him the next pet rock millionaire.

Fueled by ego, Adderall, and pure delusion, Johnny cold-calls investors, annoys strangers, and dreams up inventions nobody needs—while convincing himself he’s a visionary. Between scam pitches to adult f...

In this audacious and darkly comic installment, Mookie Spitz performs the 27th reading from Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine, delivering a razor-sharp satire of tech hype, startup culture, gendered power games, and the delusional grandeur of would-be visionaries.

Penny’s back in Jersey City with rebo-teeth, an estrogen throne, and a plan. She’s rising through the ranks at Fauxbes publishing, weaponizing charm and...