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, resentment, gratitude, and the emotional violence that often precedes physical violence.

This episode rejects true-crime voyeurism, and delivers an unsparing reflection from someone who has lived on both sides of the parent–child divide: as a son shaped by fear, contempt, and unresolved anger toward a hard, emotionally distant father, and as a father who deliberately chose the opposite path: the fun dad, the permissive dad, the nice guy. Mookie questions the cost of that choice.

The conversation dissects the collision of wealth, fame, addiction, and enablement in celebrity households, arguing that unlimited resources frequently destroy the very boundaries troubled children need most. Hollywood becomes a metaphor for America itself: a culture that hyper-inflates success, worships celebrity, and then feeds on collapse — a modern pantheon of Greek gods armed with money, power, and catastrophic blind spots.

The rant moves fluidly between cultural critique and personal confession. Mookie confronts his own parenting decisions, his fear of becoming his father, and the uncomfortable possibility that avoiding hardness can breed entitlement just as easily as cruelty breeds rebellion. He reflects on generational trauma, the necessity of separation between parents and adult children, and the evolutionary reality that conflict often fuels independence.

No clean answers appear here. No parenting formula emerges. No redemption arc ties itself neatly with a bow. Instead, the episode offers perspective. Gratitude arrives late more often than anyone admits. “Good enough” parenting stands as the only honest standard. Growing up — for children and parents alike — demands brutality, necessity, and unfinished work.

Mookie's rant delivers a raw, intellectually restless meditation on family, boundaries, fame, failure, and survival — and opens a season focused squarely on the hardest truths of the human heart.

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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 to shaping major aerospace projects, from a near-death brush-fire experience to messy marriages, brutal family battles, redemption, love, and ultimately pride in the life he built, Bud doesn’t regret a damn thing.

He talks about grit, American culture losing its backbone, education losing its soul, politics losing its honesty, and what it really means to work hard, stand up, build something, and keep going when life beats the hell out of you. He also talks love, loyalty, Freemasonry, marksmanship, near-spiritual moments, and the strange miracle of still being here after doctors counted him out. Rather than gloat or complan, Bud offers profound perspective from a man who earned it the hard way, while still having his own unfinished business.

If you want a conversation that hits reality square in the jaw—resilience, mortality, family, work, and purpose—this is it. Listen, learn a thing or two, and maybe rethink what “a good life” really means.

Bud's Memoir

Where We Belong

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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-distorted expectations, and the collapse of Gen Z male identity.

Dr. Sellers breaks down how sexual shame wires itself into the body from infancy, how it warps relationships, why men are spinning out, and what it actually takes to rebuild a functional, intimate, psychologically grounded adulthood. They dive into the hard questions: the zoomer male backlash, patriarchy’s dead-end power games, America’s moral panic machine, and the core wound at the center of so much cultural chaos.

The conversation pushes past diagnosis into action: from practical frameworks for healing to community-based solutions, to the role psychedelics may play in unwinding generations of trauma. Their podcast is candid, unguarded, often provocative, deeply humane, and exactly the conversation America keeps failing to have.

If you’re exhausted by the sexual confusion, loneliness, rage, and hypocrisy that define so much of modern American life, this episode breaks the silence and clears a hopeful and prescriptive path forward.

The Guest

Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers, PhD, LMFT, CSTS, PAT is a second generation Swedish American therapist, educator, and author whose childhood on her grandparents’ homestead near Puget Sound—within Coast Salish territory—deeply shaped her values of community, resilience, and land stewardship.

As the first in her immigrant family to earn an advanced degree, Tina spent nearly three decades as a professor of marriage and family therapy, medical family therapy, and humansexuality before authoring two influential books: Sex, God & the Conservative Church - Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy and Shameless Parenting, both recognized for their impact on healing the results of authoritarian parenting, religious sexual shame, and trauma, and empowering relational intimacy.

She is the founder and chief advisor to the Northwest Institute on Intimacy—offering postgraduate clinician training in sex therapy and relational health—and Founder and Executive Director of Inanna Rising, a clinician membership collective
dedicated to equitable, just, and patient-centered psychedelic-assisted therapy training and support for activists and clinicians.

Dr. Tina remains committed to social justice, integrity, reciprocity, and weaving cutting edge cultural, spiritual, and sexual healing into a compassionate praxis.

Visit her website: https://www.tinaschermersellers.com/

Follw her on Instagram at @DrTinaShameless & @Inanna_Rising_PAT

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