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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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47:24

Tom Batiuk - Growing Up Funky

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2021/04/07

Avid newspaper readers have seen Tom Batiuk's work for nearly a half century. He is the creator of the wildly popular and sometimes controversial Funky Winkerbean, and he also created Crankshaft, a spinoff of the former. Tom and Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur talked about the history of Funky Winkerbean, how it went from a "gag-a-day" strip in the beginning to a narrative-based story arc years later that touched on serious subjects such as cancer, death, suicide, and gay rights. They also pondered

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49:25

Thomas W. Gilbert - How Baseball Happened

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2021/03/31

If you're a die-hard baseball fan, you've probably been told that Abner Doubleday started baseball about 155 years ago. According to author Thomas W. Gilbert, not only is that a myth, but he explains the story behind the myth in his book, How Baseball Happened. Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur chats with Thomas about the beginnings of baseball, what sport it was derived from, the early teams and star players, and how its popularity exploded into the 20th century. For more information and how to

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01:24:22

Geno Bisconte pt. 1 - This Guy Gets It

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2021/03/24

Geno Bisconte is a New York City-based comedian and host of the podcasts In Hot Water and subscription-only Gum Fridays. Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur got so much content out of Geno he needed to split it into two episodes (the second part will be released down the road). Tony and Geno riff about their cats, past relationships, his early days in standup, and coming up with edgier material in this current climate. In Hot Water is on Monday through Thursday afternoons on CompoundMedia.com, and

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01:10:39

David Fantle & Tom Johnson - Hollywood's Heyday

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2021/03/17

In the days before Twitter and Instagram, fans would have to pen a personal letter to their favorite celebrity, stamp it, send it through the postal service, and MAYBE said celeb has a chance at reading it, AND THEN the opportunity a response will be sent is quite minuscule. David Fantle and Tom Johnson were so obsessed with the golden age of Hollywood that, as teenagers, they flew all over the country to interview and soak in their favorite actors on the stage and screen. They put those

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55:30

A Year of Abnormality

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2021/03/11

FREE PODCAST. A year ago today, I was in Southern California for work, and decided to make a side trip to Los Angeles to catch a hockey game, concert, and comedy show, all while the world began shutting down. From the moment I picked up the rental car at 3 PM till when I arrived some 10.5 hours later at the hotel in Carlsbad, the world became a different place. I decided to start this "311 Day" recapping the day that was in 2020 one year ago today, which was the final day of the "old normal."

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01:01:37

Jeff Blue - Linkin's Logs

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2021/02/06

Linkin Park is one of, if not the most successful rock band of the last two decades. But their beginnings weren't so meteoric. All of that trial and error and they never gave up; they just needed someone who saw their potential. Jeff Blue was the one to give him their first break, and he documented their success with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, in his new book, From Xero to #1: Becoming Linkin Park. He talked to Tony Mazur about their dozens of failed auditions and what it took for them to

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42:29

Darryl Strawberry & Don Chaney - More Than a Game

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2021/02/06

Darryl Strawberry is a multi-time all-star, Rookie of the Year, and four-time World Champion. So after all the accolades, why is his post-career life more fulfilling? The Straw sobered up from the booze and the blow and found the Lord. And for the last two decades, he has become and author and evangelist. His new book is called Turn Your Season Around. Don Chaney is a long-time NBA player and coach, but since his retirement, he has suffered from what's called Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy

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01:03:05

Kevin Brennan - A Man of the People

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2021/01/04

Kevin Brennan is a nationally touring standup comedian and occasional television writer originally from Philadelphia, but is currently based out of the New York City area. He made guest appearances on Spin City and Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, but he had to massive breaks: an HBO One Night Stand special in 2005, and a 2014 Sirius XM radio appearance that endeared him to a new audience, which helped launch a podcast of his own, Misery Loves Company. Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur and

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41:45

John Byner - Five Minutes till Showtime

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2021/01/04

John Byner has been a fixture on the small screen for decades. From his early appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show in the 1960s, through his cameos in the '70s on The Odd Couple and The Carol Burnett Show, to starring on his 1980s sketch show Bizarre, Byner's face and especially his voice (or should I say voiceS) are unmistakable. His new autobiography is out now called Five Minutes, Mr. Byner: A Lifetime of Laughter, about his years in showbiz, meeting and working with his childhood heroes, to his

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42:17

Bill Madden & Russ Cohen - Tom Terrific & Let's Go...

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2021/01/04

Tom Seaver was the first superstar of the New York Mets. During his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992, Cooperstown, New York was a sea of Mets blue and orange. Sadly, he passed away in 2020 after complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID-19. Bill Madden is a former New York Daily News columnist, and he is the author of the book Tom Seaver: A Terrific Life, and he spoke with Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur on the legacy of the Mets' long-time ace, "The Midnight Massacre," his

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01:03:35

Jim Florentine - Not Everything is Awful

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2021/01/04

Comedy and rock music make strange but familiar bedfellows, yet not many comedians have tested those waters. Sam Kinison did in the 1980s, and Jim Breuer is doing that today, but not many have taken advantage of that. Jim Florentine is a New Jersey-based comedian, and is the host of Everybody is Awful (Except You) podcast on Barstool Sports. He also voices the character Special Ed on Comedy Central's Crank Yankers, and was one of the three hosts of VH1 Classic's That Metal Show. In this

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01:18:35

Mark Dawidziak - Just One More Thing...

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2021/01/04

"Just one more thing," "There's something that bothers me," and of course "What did you pay for those shoes?" are some iconic lines in the history of Columbo, one of NBC's rotating Mystery Movie programs in the 1970s, then later brought back as one-off specials on ABC from 1989 through 2003. Mark Dawidziak is a former television critic at the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Akron Beacon Journal, and he is the author of The Columbophile. He joined Tony Mazur on the Check Your Brain podcast to talk all

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07:54

CYB Trailer

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2021/01/04

Welcome to the Check Your Brain Podcast! In this brief episode (if you want to call it that), host Tony Mazur previews what's to expect in the forthcoming episodes. It is essentially a hodgepodge, a menagerie of interests that pop into Tony's mind, from sports to comedy, to pop culture and even some politics and religion. Not every episode will be something that piques your interests, but he assures you there will be something for everyone. Special shoutout to Eric C. Fischer for his great work on

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