Check Your Brain

Check Your Brain

Tony Mazur is a radio personality and stand-up comedian who has a diverse array of interests and hobbies, from old Hollywood and TV shows to sports, to contemporary pop culture and politics. Not every podcast is for everyone, but if you enjoy comedy, old Hollywood, and baseball, this is your weekly one-stop shop.

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June 25, 2025 66 mins

Ben Chew is an NBA author, blogger, and analyst, and he joined Tony Mazur's Check Your Brain podcast to recap the NBA Finals and champion Oklahoma City Thunder. Ben and Tony also touched on how the new crop of talent aren't getting their just due, the NBA clinging to elder players, and the viability of the league in existing and potentially future markets.

 

Ben co-authors a book on the 75 Greatest NBA Players, along with previous ...

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Each year around mid-June, Tony Mazur invites his wife Leah onto the Check Your Brain podcast for a fun chat. They're celebrating five years of marriage this week, and this is the fifth edition of this podcast. They talk about AI songs, cooking mishaps, Tinder adding height preferences, and growing old together.

 

Be sure to subscribe to Tony's Patreon. $3 gets you just audio, $5 gets video AND audio, and $10 has all of the above, ...

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June 11, 2025 36 mins

Father's Day is this weekend, and Mother's Day was a month ago, and Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur salutes both of you in this podcast. But how does one become a parent? How do couples even meet these days? It's looking bleak out there, boys, so Tony talks about what's going on in the dating world and how to fix it.

 

Be sure to subscribe to Tony's Patreon. $3 gets you just audio, $5 gets video AND audio, and $10 has all of the abov...

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Ever notice how so many commercials on TV lampoon the buffoonish white guy? Or is it just Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur? He has pointed this out on a few podcasts, and here's another round of stupid white guy commercials.

 

Be sure to subscribe to Tony's Patreon. $3 gets you just audio, $5 gets video AND audio, and $10 has all of the above, as well as bonus podcasts per week. Visit Patreon.com/TonyMazur.

Tony is also on Rumble! G...

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May 30, 2025 67 mins

Though there's no doubt the Democrat Party will regroup in someway ahead of the midterms in 2026 and 2028 presidential election, they really aren't learning their lessons as far at outreach to males. Almost as if calling them horrible, racist, chauvinistic patriarchal bigots for decades had some crippling effects. Tony Mazur of the Check Your Brain podcast talks about the Democrats' issue with men, as well as the sad shilling Jake ...

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May 21, 2025 71 mins

This week, it was announced that former president Joe Biden was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. The odds that no one knew about this diagnosis until a few days ago are very, very slim, as Tony Mazur points out in this week's podcast. This news came out the week a damning book about the final years of Biden's presidency by Jake Tapper is set to hit bookstores.

 

Be sure to subscribe to Tony's Patreon. $3 gets you just audio,...

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May 14, 2025 56 mins

As some of you may know, Tony Mazur was once a radio guy and music program director, so every now and then he shares his insight on the state of music. In today's Check Your Brain podcast, he discusses some of the songs that made the Spotify Top 100 most played list for the week, as well as another that got the boot from the platform.

 

Be sure to subscribe to Tony's Patreon. $3 gets you just audio, $5 gets video AND audio, and $10...

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The Shiloh Hendrix story is a fascinating one, especially since it wasn't long ago where the woke mobs successfully ruined the lives and souls of individuals for the crime of expressing non-regime-approved viewpoints. Sarah Braasch became persona non grata back in 2018 over a "sleeping while black" hoax at Yale Law. She joined Tony Mazur on the Check Your Brain podcast to give the perspective of someone who was doxxed and canceled,...

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April 30, 2025 45 mins

According to Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur, we live in perennial high school, where everyone wants to be accepted into the "in" crowd. A big part of that is staying up-to-date on the latest TV shows, movies, music, slang, and trends, such as Sabrina Carpenter, the Savannah Bananas, etc. Or as Tony and others would call it these days, slop.

 

Be sure to subscribe to Tony's Patreon. $3 gets you just audio, $5 gets video AND audio, an...

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Will Tanner is law school graduate, Substack writer, and knower of all things Rhodesia, a country that fell nearly five decades ago and was renamed Zimbabwe. Will joined Tony Mazur on the Check Your Brain podcast to talk about the renewed interest in Rhodesia, its rise, its independence, its fall, and its aftermath since 1980, as well as his infatuation with the country and its aesthetics.

 

Will's work can be found on Substack at ...

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April 16, 2025 39 mins

A much different Check Your Brain podcast this week, as Tony Mazur pays tribute to his friend Anthony Petrone, who passed away on April 6th at the age of 45. Anthony was one of Tony's best friends and biggest supporters, even being the first to subscribe to his Patreon (he later unsubscribed after three months because he "just doesn't listen to podcasts") In this episode, Tony tells stories about Anthony and discusses how we should...

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Bruce Hall is a long-time friend of Tony Mazur's, dating back to his days of hosting a Sunday morning sports show out of Westchester, NY. Tony had Bruce come on to talk about the absolutely nothing coming out of both the Epstein and JFK files release, then he expanded on other theories that the corporate press has deemed conspiracy. Among these topics: who were the Dulles, the World Bankers' blood thirst for war, Big Pharma's impac...

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April 2, 2025 57 mins

Steve Grillo is a former Howard Stern Show intern, and he lived to tell his story on both the Check Your Brain podcast, as well as his new book Gorilla Parts: Top Shelf Stories from the Most Famous Stern Show Intern Ever. He talked to Tony Mazur about how he got the most envied internship in radio, working with the cast at an ungodly hour, the greatness of Billy West, and getting to know Stern Show regulars like Jessica Hahn and Pa...

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No, not Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur, though he is certainly not on the lookout for a radio gig. But Anthony Cumia of Opie & Anthony fame has returned to regular radio at WABC and then some, as the rapid and rabid response for him garnered a syndication deal. Tony talks about why this is win-win for Cumia, as well as the state of radio in general, which usually shies away from "controversial hosts." Could this be a new beginni...

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March 19, 2025 64 mins

Recently, Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur was a guest on his pal Chad Zumock's Public Access Show, where they watch old commercials, talk all things retro, and harken back to both of their radio days. They both did the latter in discussing Anthony Cumia's return to terrestrial radio and his subsequent syndication deal.

 

Admittedly, this is more of a video show without a set timeslot, so follow Chad on X (@ChadZumock) to see when the...

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March 12, 2025 94 mins

The week of March 8th, 2020 began with a recommendation to wash your hands and don't touch your face, and it ended with "oh my God, the world is ending." That, of course, was a hysterical reaction, but that reaction continued on for well over two years. In his annual recap of the 2020 insanity, Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur lays out everything from the mandates like wearing masks in swimming pools and filling skateparks with sand t...

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March 5, 2025 53 mins

A former Check Your Brain podcast guest and lead singer of the Misfits continues to have his gigs canceled, really, for the "grave" sin of having right-of-center politics. Basically the only way to see a Michale Graves live performance is in your living room. Tony Mazur talks about how the tentacles of cancel culture remain, as Graves and other comedians continue to have venues pull the plug.

 

Support Michale by donating to him, b...

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February 26, 2025 77 mins

Cal Yeater is an actor from South Carolina, and he joined the Check Your Brain podcast to talk about a wide array of topics. He and host Tony Mazur talked about meeting Ron Jeremy, comedians actually being funny again, and their favorite conspiracy theories to tell at cocktail parties.

 

Be sure to subscribe to Tony's Patreon. $3 gets you just audio, $5 gets video AND audio, and $10 has all of the above, as well as bonus podcasts p...

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February 19, 2025 53 mins

Claude Stuart is a comedian, writer, and actor living in Southern California, by way of Mississippi and Texas. He joined Tony Mazur's Check Your Brain podcast to talk about the process of comedy, adapting to new distribution mediums, working with Dennis Miller, Vince Vaughn, and Louis CK, and some advice for young comics.

 

Claude's Dry Bar special is available on Tubi and YouTube, and his most recent work was on a show called Funn...

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Is this it for the Kansas City Chiefs? Will the Bills or Ravens finally break through next season, or will the Texans, Chargers, Redskins, or another dark horse team come out of nowhere? Tony Mazur had two of his favorite people in Rick Morris and Ken Mosca not only recap the Super Bowl and NFL season, but the business of sports as a whole. Is baseball becoming a glorified niche sport? Will the NFL continue to dominate? Are NBA fan...

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