No Hair, All Heart

Robert Vandervoort spent his days as an AI architect before getting laid off — the irony being that "AI efficiency" was the very reason his job disappeared. Instead of walking away from the field, he went the opposite direction: self-funding VDV Labs and building Chip, an AI companion designed for the people who need presence most — patients with dementia, folks with ADHD, anyone who cou...

Bob Alper spent fifty years as a congregational rabbi. Then he became a stand-up comic, sharing stages with Lewis Black, Susie Essman, and Mo Amer, and eventually beating out 4,000 entrants in a Jimmy Fallon comedy competition, which got him a congratulatory note from Pope Francis. Turns out rabbi and comic were the same job all along, except now people pay to listen instead of checking their watc...

America turns 250 this year, and the country feels trapped in a cycle of outrage, suspicion, and political tribalism. Every election is described as the most important in history. Every disagreement becomes a moral crusade. Every compromise feels like surrender. Rich Logis believes there is another way, and he knows because he lived the alternative. Rich wasn't a spectator during Donald Trump...

Honey Gold is what happens when live music, visual art, meditation, technology, and a willingness to leap into the unknown collide. In this 105th episode of No Hair All Heart , Mookie sits down with Sariah and Taylor, the creative force behind Honey Gold, an immersive audiovisual experience that combines original music, projection mapping, visual storytelling, and intentional design to create some...

The 104th episode of No Hair All Heart  features Mookie Spitz literally sitting down next to legendary muralist and visual artist Clayton Parker for a sprawling, funny, unexpectedly emotional conversation about art, survival, craftsmanship, and the long strange road between obscurity and mastery. Clayton isn’t some gallery darling who emerged fully formed from an MFA program wearing a black turtle...

The 103rd episode of No Hair, No Heart has Mookie sitting down with Pat Donohue, one of the most respected acoustic guitarists alive and a player whose reputation among musicians is legendary. A Grammy winner, National Fingerpicking Guitar Champion, longtime performer with A Prairie Home Companion, and an artist once praised by Chet Atkins as one of the world’s great fingerpickers, Pat joins Mooki...

On this 102nd episode of No Hair, All Heart your favorite bald host Mookie Spitz is thrilled to go full ADHD with the legendary musician, producer, bandleader, teacher, radio host, and industry connector Jesse Krakow: He's the musician's musician thanks to playing with everyone cool while somehow showing up wherever the interesting stuff is popping. Jesse's jet fuel is fan obsession...

In the 101st episode of No Hair, All Heart , Mookie is thrilled to chat with legendary guitarist and songwriter Laurence Juber—a player whose illustrious career adapts and expands at every turn. From studio sessions with George Martin to lead guitar with Paul McCartney's Wings, to becoming one of the most respected fingerstyle guitarists in the world, Laurence's career has evolved with e...

Mookie is thrilled to celebrate the 100th episode of No Hair, All Heart by bringing back Dr. Barbara Minton after her first appearance on the podcast in August—and this time to share the other half of her "Music as Medicine" project: a scientist-musician partnership with guitar virtuoso and master storyteller Peppino D’Agostino. Together, they create music designed to shift the brain int...

On this MLK Day 2026 solo rant, Mookie Spitz does what he does best on the 99th episode of No Hair, All Heart: he pulls the pin on a cultural grenade and refuses to flinch when it goes off. Starting with Martin Luther King Jr.’s most misused line— “judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” — he dives headfirst into the uncomfortable paradox of our moment: a seco...

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 i...

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 uncomfortab...

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...

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-onl...

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 career...

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...

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 int...

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...

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...

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 b...

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 f...

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 vi...

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...

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 pecul...

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 th...