No Hair, All Heart

The No Hair, All Heart podcast goes deep this week with Craig A. DeLarge, MPH, MBA—a seasoned digital health leader, former pharma executive, public-health thinker, and relentless advocate for using technology without letting it eat us alive.

Rather than spoon up a “future of wellness” chat, Mookie and Craig go long-form with an intellectually honest conversation about what actually works at the intersection of healthcare, leadershi...

Parricide ranks among the most disturbing crimes imaginable: children killing their parents. The crime appears rarely — roughly 1–2% of all murders in the U.S. — yet the psychological impact lands with enormous force. 

In this Season 2 premiere of No Hair, All Heart, Mookie Spitz uses a recent, high-profile Hollywood family tragedy as a lens to examine something far more universal and uncomfortable: entitlement, parenting, resentmen...

The 96th episode and season finale of No Hair, All Heart sits host Mookie Spitz down with Claris "Bud" Hyett,  an 81-year-old farm boy turned innovative corporate problem-solver, Marine-raised straight-shooter, cancer survivor, and unapologetic truth teller. Doctors gave him months to live—nine years ago. Instead of folding, he keeps fighting, living, thinking... 

And storytelling: from growing up on a hard Midwestern farm...

In the 95th episode of No Hair, All Heart, your still-bald host Mookie Spitz sits down with Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers — clinician, sexologist, author, and all-around demolisher of America’s sexual hang-ups — for a blunt autopsy of how a shame-soaked culture raised generations of emotionally stunted adults. They trace the damage from its roots in early Christian patriarchy to modern abstinence-only education, parental silence, porn-...

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 “Chocola...

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 ...

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 adolescen...

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 — ...

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 exac...

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 conf...

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 revela...

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...

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, l...

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, ...

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—o...

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 hi...

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. Str...

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 un...

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 o...