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.

Episodes

July 23, 2025 • 100 mins

Rick Morris is the proprietor of FantasyDraftHelp.com and main dignitary of The FDH Lounge, a freeform place to talk about whatever Rick is interested in. Recently, he invited Tony Mazur onto his show about the halfway point in the Major League Baseball season, so here is that conversation.

 

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July 16, 2025 • 50 mins

George Chiger is a competitive eater hailing from the Poconos region of Pennsylvania and is a top 20 eater in the world. He joined Tony Mazur on the Check Your Brain podcast fresh off competing in the Nathan's Hot Dog Contest in Coney Island to talk about his eating and training process, and if a normal person has what it takes.

 

George is all over social media, and in September, he will be in Buffalo chowing down wings and shovel...

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July 9, 2025 • 59 mins

Some songs are better left untouched. Others can be greatly improved upon. Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur listed his top ten favorite cover songs that, in his opinion, are better than the original. He even asked his X followers, friends, and Patreon supporters what theirs were.

 

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Tony Mazur and Chad Zumock used to do a weekly podcast called Mondays with Mazur, but as is the case in life, schedules change and the weekly hit couldn't be met. However, they are resurrecting the show with a monthly themed episode, and this week featured terrible old TV promos and crossovers from the 1980s. Halfway through, comedian Dave Landau calls in for a quick chat.

 

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Dave Parker was an incredible all-around player from the mid-seventies till the early 1990s, having an entire arsenal of trophies and accolades. However, it took until 2025 when he was finally inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Sadly, he won't be in attendance, as he passed away over the weekend at age 74.

Tony Mazur interviewed The Cobra on his podcast back in 2021, and he decided to re-share it for new listeners who didn't ...

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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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June 18, 2025 • 41 mins

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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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April 23, 2025 • 62 mins

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.

 

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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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April 9, 2025 • 73 mins

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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March 26, 2025 • 49 mins

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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