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 patterns of tribalism and bias that still define us today. The paradox is inescapable: our judgments feel personal and spontaneous, yet they’re deterministic, and etched into us long before we know it.
The 88th episode of No Hair, All Heart doesn’t flinch from the uncomfortable, and revels in the wonder of connection across generations, the shock of history reappearing in the most ordinary settings, and the question of whether anyone can ever break free from their programming.
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