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Welcome to the 53rd episode of Bald and Bloviating, the unfiltered podcast of Mookie Spitz—writer, ranter, and anti-tribalist. What began as daily TikTok kitchen tirades from an arm’s length away has grown into a raw, long-form experiment in thinking out loud. No scripts, no handlers, no algorithms appeased. Just blunt honesty, improvisation, and a refusal to play nice with the left-right circus.

Each rant wrestles with the impossible: making sense of a culture buried under 483 exabytes of daily digital noise. Mookie cuts through the Wall with a mix of humor, philosophy, political heresy, and personal scars. From abortion to immigration, from social media tribalism to Second Amendment rights, his so-called Manifesto doesn’t fit into anyone’s party line. Listeners on both sides call him everything from “raging socialist” to “MAGA maniac”—usually after watching less than fifteen seconds. He's not alone, another victim of a society allergic to nuance.

Explorations dive into what it means to live in a fractured world where identity, freedom, empathy, and common sense constantly collide. Guests on his podcasts range from close friends to strangers, acupuncturists to policy wonks, each thrown into the fire of unscripted debate. Expect contradictions, uncomfortable truths, occasional catharsis, and zero patience for the algorithm’s shallow attention span.

So here are the Top 10 Tenets of Mookie’s Manifesto so you know where he stands, and what he'll likely say when he sits and records:

1. Identity is Innate — race, gender, sexuality, selfhood: respect it.
2. Nuance is the Norm — embrace complexity, reject ideological purity tests.
3. Arm the People — but train them like drivers, not vigilantes.
4. Abortion Not Extortion— her body, her call, even if the procedure sucks.
5. Turn the DHS into HR — control the border, match jobs with migrants.
6. Go Full Madisonian — local choice beats federal tyranny.
7. Shrink the G — less federal meddling, more personal responsibility.
8. Let Everyone Rant — free speech > censorship.
9. Grown Markets over Mandates — liberty means risk and consequence.
10. Embrace Common Sense + Empathy — the only ideologies worth having.

Sound Libertarian? Close, yet no official affiliation there, either. What do you think? What's your Top 10 list look like? Jump on the pod and share yours. 

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