Check Your Brain

10 Years of Standup

Check Your Brain podcast host Tony Mazur dabbles in standup comedy on the side, and he recently celebrated 10 years of getting on stage. He talks about the comedians who inspired him to make this plunge (Dave Attell, Norm Macdonald, Louis CK, Bill Hicks), as well as the comics who helped him along the way (Chad Zumock, Chuck Booms, Dave Landau, Jim Florentine, Don Jamieson). Tony also discussed his love-hate relationship with the art of comedy, along with his animosity towards comedians in general, and if he plans on doing more gigs throughout 2024.

 

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.

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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.

Look What You Made Me Do

In this week's solo Check Your Brain podcast, Tony Mazur discusses the cultural sensation that is Taylor Swift and the NFL and why it matters. Specifically, he urges those who cannot stand this craze to proceed with caution, as a culture war may not end the way you want it to. He also talks about cringe white comics and rappers, dating in your thirties, E. Jean Carroll wins the lottery, elites lying about the economy, and why we should own nothing and like 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 above, as well as bonus podcasts per week. Visit Patreon.com/TonyMazur.

 

Tony is also on Rumble! Go find his video podcasts over there for free.

 

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.

Bruce Hall - Tinfoil Hat Time

Bruce Hall is a sports handicapper and former radio guy making his third appearance on the Check Your Brain podcast. He and Tony Mazur talked about a plethora of conspiracies that will make Sam Tripoli blush. Those topics include who was really behind 9/11, Elon Musk's influence, the 2020 and 2024 elections, January 6th, and Q.

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! Go find his video podcasts over there for free.

David Chapman - Four More Years

David Chapman is an author, future podcaster, and massive fan of the 45th president. He joined Tony Mazur on the Check Your Brain podcast to talk about not only the continued rise of Donald Trump in the polls, but how Nikki Haley appears to be paid for by her donors and the Ron DeSantis campaign just never took off.

 

 

David is the author of the book The Forgotten Nine, which covers nine players in the "Dead Ball" era of Major League Baseball who should be considered for Cooperstown.

 

 

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! Go find his video podcasts over there for free.

 

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.

Anthony Zenhauser - Tunnels of Comedy

Anthony Zenhauser is a comedian, actor, and podcaster based in the New York area. He joined a mustachioed Tony Mazur on the Check Your Brain podcast to talk about the Jewish tunnels in NYC, all things Stuttering John Melendez, putting the work in as a comedian, and actors attempting comedy.

 

 

Zenhauser's shows can be found on his YouTube channel, @zencomedy1979, and he is seen on The BS Show with Shuli Egar, Bob Levy, and Mike Morse every weekday at 9 AM on The Shuli Network.

 

 

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! Go find his video podcasts over there for free.

 

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.

Sarah Braasch - DEI, CRT & Other Acronyms

Sarah Braasch is making her third appearance on Tony Mazur's Check Your Brain podcast. In her first two visits, she discussed the pile-on against her over the "napping while black" race hoax at Yale in 2018. With her backstory and knowledge of novel legal theory, she came back on to break down what DEI is, how companies and universities use it, and how it is an explicit form of anti-white, anti-Asian, and, since October 7th, anti-Jewish racism.

 

Sarah has a GoFundMe to help pay her legal and living expenses since the May 2018 incident.

 

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! Go find his video podcasts over there for free.

 

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.

10 Biggest Stories of 2023

2023 was not your typical year-before-an-election. Plenty of political and cultural battles were fought, from Trump being banned from the Colorado ballot to the backlash against Bud Light. Then there were disasters in East Palestine and Maui, and a certain skirmish between Palestine and Israel. Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur covers all of that in his final show of the year.

 

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! Go find his video podcasts over there for free.

 

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.

2023 in Review

Typically, the year before a presidential election feels like a calm before the storm. Well, 2023 proved that wasn't the case. Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur does a fairly long podcast covering the top stories of 2023, from the disasters in East Palestine and Maul, to the transgender Nashville shooting, Elon Musk vs. boycotts, unrest in Ukraine and Israel, and a plethora of other topics.

 

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! Go find his video podcasts over there for free.

 

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.

Sports Landscape in 2023 with Rick Morris

Rick Morris is the proprietor of Fantasy Draft Help and the FDH Lounge. He and Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur go back nearly two decades, so Tony invited him on the show to discuss the present and near future of how sports fans will consume their content. Are the days of watching your favorite team on network or cable TV coming to an end? Is Shohei Ohtani's contract good or bad for baseball? And what about some famous athletes who passed this year? 

 

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! Go find his video podcasts over there for free.

 

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.

Celebrity Deaths in 2023

2023 saw the deaths of legends from the world of music, acting, sports, and politics. Several folks above the age of 90 passed this year, including Burt Bacharach, Bud Grant, Mad Magazine's Al Jaffee, Harry Belafonte, Pat Robertson, Tony Bennett, Bob Barker, David McCallum, Dianne Feinstein, Rosalynn Carter, Henry Kissinger, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Norman Lear, and Tony Mazur talks about them and several more in this podcast.

 

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! Go find his video podcasts over there for free.

 

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.