Check Your Brain

730 Days to Flatten the Curve

On March 11th, 2020, COVID-19 was officially declared a pandemic. By March 16th, restaurants, bars, gyms, salons, etc. all closed up shop almost nationwide. Two years later, mandates and restrictions are being dropped, but as Tony Mazur points out in this podcast, the psychological damage has been done, especially to children and their development.

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Cover art for the Check Your Brain podcast is by Eric C. Fischer. If you need terrific graphic design work done, contact Eric at illstr8r@gmail.com.

Return of Geno Bisconte Pt. 1

Geno Bisconte (and Aaron Berg and Anthony Cumia) sadly WON'T returning to the Funny Stop in Cuyahoga Falls for another Comedians of the Compound. Geno is also the co-host of In Hot Water on Compound Media, and in part one of this podcast, he chats with Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur about comedy in 2022, Tony losing his grandmother and why he's angry about it, and favorite comic strips, from Peanuts to Calvin and Hobbes.

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Cover art for the Check Your Brain podcast is by Eric C. Fischer. If you need terrific graphic design work done, contact Eric at illstr8r@gmail.com.

Tho Bishop - Libertarian View of Russia, Ukraine

A timely podcast today with Tho Bishop, editor at the Mises Institute and proud resident of Florida's "Redneck Riviera." Tho joined the Check Your Brian podcast to talk about who Ludwig von Mises was, about the Mises Institute, and the libertarian viewpoint of Putin and Russia, Zelensky and Ukraine.

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Cover art for the Check Your Brain podcast is by Eric C. Fischer. If you need terrific graphic design work done, contact Eric at illstr8r@gmail.com.

Christian Toto - Virtue Bombs

Christian Toto is a writer and author of the book Virtue Bombs: How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost Its Soul. He joined Tony Mazur and the Check Your Brain Podcast to talk about how certain figures went "woke" for fame and notoriety, such as Howard Stern and Patton Oswalt, and how celebrities like Gina Carano and Louis CK can rebound after their "cancellations."

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Cover art for the Check Your Brain podcast is by Eric C. Fischer. If you need terrific graphic design work done, contact Eric at illstr8r@gmail.com.

Tony Lyons - The Censoring of RFK Jr.

Tony Lyons is the president of Skyhorse Publishing, the company responsible for putting out Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s book, The Real Anthony Fauci. The book is a big seller, even though RFK Jr. has seen a blackout in mainstream media and cannot promote it nearly anywhere but Tucker Carlson and talk radio.

Tony Lyons discussed this media blackout on the Check Your Brain podcast with Tony Mazur. The book can be purchased here

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Cover art for the Check Your Brain podcast is by Eric C. Fischer. If you need terrific graphic design work done, contact Eric at illstr8r@gmail.com.

Spotify’s Sticky Situation

The quest to "cancel" Joe Rogan continues, this time with compilations of him using the N-word in different contexts. Spotify is in an odd place as being a platform for podcasts, not a publisher, yet the calls to throw Rogan off of the service are white hot.

Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur weighs in on this predicament, which he believes to be a bad precedent as far as furthering sometimes uncomfortable conversations.

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Cover art for the Check Your Brain podcast is by Eric C. Fischer. If you need terrific graphic design work done, contact Eric at illstr8r@gmail.com.

One Year of Me

My podcast is one year old! I'm not sure how long some of you have been listening, so I decided to make a clip show of my favorite interviews from very early in the first year. These guests include former MLB star Darryl Strawberry, comedian Don Jamieson, Chef Andrew Gruel, comic/impressionist John Byner, Funky Winkerbean creater Tom Batiuk, and comedy writer Tom Leopold.

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Cover art for the Check Your Brain podcast is by Eric C. Fischer. If you need terrific graphic design work done, contact Eric at illstr8r@gmail.com.

Dr. Raymond Schuck - Cultural Impact of Don McLean’s American Pie

In 2012, BGSU Firelands professor Dr. Raymond Schuck co-authored a collection of essays with his father about Don McLean's smash hit "American Pie." It hit #1 in January of 1972, and the figures and meaning inside the lyrics continue to be left up to interpretation.

Dr. Schuck and Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur went through their interpretations of what "American Pie" may mean, but also the cultural impact of the song and what was occurring in the late-1960s and early '70s in America.

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Cover art for the Check Your Brain podcast is by Eric C. Fischer. If you need terrific graphic design work done, contact Eric at illstr8r@gmail.com.

David Koenig - Shooting Columbo

Whether it be on MeTV, IMDB.tv, or other places, Columbo made a resurgence during the pandemic. David Koenig capitalized on that with his new book, Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV's Rumpled Detective. David spoke with Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur about how Peter Falk got the gig, the NBC Mystery Movie wheel, favorite episodes and guest killers, the "new" episodes, and its legacy over the last half century.

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Be sure to subscribe to Tony's Patreon. $5 a month gets you bonus content, extra podcasts, and early access to guests. Visit Patreon.com/TonyMazur.

Cover art for the Check Your Brain podcast is by Eric C. Fischer. If you need terrific graphic design work done, contact Eric at illstr8r@gmail.com.

Bobby Valentine - Valentine‘s Way

Bobby Valentine was a scrappy utility player who transitioned into one of the most colorful managers of his generation. He helped turn two doormat teams in the Texas Rangers and New York Mets around, and he has chronicled some great stories in his new book, Valentine's Way: My Adventurous Life and Times.

 

Bobby V chatted with Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur about managing those teams that were loaded with talent, his early use of analytics, his relationship with the late Tommy Lasorda, and of course his fake mustache after being ejected from a game.

 

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Be sure to subscribe to Tony's Patreon. $5 a month gets you bonus content, extra podcasts, and early access to guests. Visit Patreon.com/TonyMazur.

 

Cover art for the Check Your Brain podcast is by Eric C. Fischer. If you need terrific graphic design work done, contact Eric at illstr8r@gmail.com.