No Hair, All Heart

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...

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 mor...

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 ma...

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...

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 pas...

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 unpro...

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...

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...

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 surv...

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 do...

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 ma...

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 straigh...

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 i...

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....

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...

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...

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 fi...

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 bu...

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 ord...

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 tha...

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”...

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 vision...

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 Faux...

Mookie Spitz reads Section 26 of Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine — a psychedelic fever dream disguised as a love story wrapped inside a tech satire.  As Jonnie attempts the impossible feat of staying sober, he fantasizes about a stable life with Penny Pitz, the one woman who’s both his salvation and his torment. But Penny’s not playing along — she’s too busy blacking out, waki...

Back in his busted-up Chicago office, Jonnie is broke, hungover, lawsuit-ridden—and somehow still dreaming big. In this episode of No Hair All Heart , Mookie Spitz reads from the 25th section of Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine , diving into a surreal, satirical sci-fi tale of stolen ideas, doomed romance, multiversal chaos, and one washed-up anti-hero's cosmic delusions....