Check Your Brain

Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur has been on the road of late, and he noticed how (with some exceptions) there are virtually no lines at fast food restaurants. McDonald's is trying to find out what happen, and their response seems to be to give up. Their stores are grey boxes with kiosks and without character, and that may be the way going forward. Have the younger generations risen up and said no to...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently commented on how "crazy" everyone got during what's now called Woke 1.0. That means, what, Woke 2.0 is underway? When did 1.0 end and 2.0 begin? It seems Woke was never put away in 2024, and it's coming back with a vengeance. As Check Your Brain host Tony Mazur mentions in this episode, the last week has seen a broadcaster fired over old tweets and a #MeToo a...

A topic Check Your Brain host Tony Mazur has been pondering lately has been the death of monoculture, as well as the nod towards nostalgia, or Stuck Culture. He talks about how the powers that be are still pushing Baby Boomer entertainers such as Madonna and Howard Stern, even though the marketplace never asked for them.   Tony also joined Ryan Hoppe’s Hoppe Hour podcast to discuss the topic furth...

In a slightly different type of Check Your Brain podcast, Tony Mazur talks about a man named Fulton J. Sheen. Some were introduced to him on the radio as Father Sheen, others Bishop Sheen during the early days of television. This week, he will beatified in St. Louis, Missouri at the Dome at America's Center, where Tony will be on Thursday. Tony discusses how he was introduced to Bishop Sheen, and...

Don Jamieson is a comedian and host of various hard rock shows, most notably VH1 Classic's long-running That Metal Show, along with Eddie Trunk and Jim Florentine. Don made a return appearance to the Check Your Brain podcast with Tony Mazur to talk bad football and sports fandom, "Blue Dot Fever" canceling tours, the impact and forced decline of rock music in the culture, and all things Andrew Dic...

Remember "Never Forget" in the days, weeks, months, and years after September 11th? Well, did the American people forget, or were they distracted by culture war issues, vices, and outsized elements out of their control? In this episode, Tony Mazur looks back on 25 years since the 9/11, as well as a year since Charlie Kirk's assassination, how we got here and what we can do to reverse matters. In t...

Dolly Parton's death last week at age 80 signaled the end of what was called Monoculture. Today, due to demographics and technology, Americans don't collectively watch the same movies and shows, listen to the same music, or even consume the same news. The culture has been broken into thousands of subcultures, for better or worse, as Check Your Brain host Tony Mazur lays out in this week's episode....

Joey Oliver is a journalist, YouTuber, and now author of the book American History Z: Gen Z's Journey to the Far Right. He joined Tony Mazur on the Check Your Brain podcast to discuss his story in adopting right-leaning politics, how the Zoomers differ greatly from older generations when it comes to these issues, and how men and women have become hostile voting blocs against each other. Joey will...

Sarah Braasch is a frequent guest of the Check Your Brain podcast, as she made news in 2018 over a "napping while black" race hoax at Yale. In this episode, she offers her expertise in not only academia, but the DEI industry overall in the West over the sad story of Jason Arday. The youngest professor at Cambridge University recently made news over his plagiarism and embellished claims, or downrig...

In a time where younger Millennials and Gen Z (those under 40) are concerned about the rising cost of goods, including $20 burritos, even the conservatives thumb their noses at the youth, believing them to be lazy and wanting their avocado toast handed to them. As Check Your Brain host Tony Mazur points out, rather than ignore the pleas of the young, perhaps try listening to them. Maybe the deck i...

It's pretty obvious to most that the Republicans will get walloped in the midterms. They had the House, Senate, presidency, and two-thirds of the Supreme Court, yet they prioritized another country's interests (and megadonors) over their own. Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur believes the Republicans will inevitably walk back the talk of mass deportations, even though that is betrayal of the highest o...

In this solo episode of the Check Your Brain podcast, host Tony Mazur delves into some of the political and cultural issues that have set up a seemingly immovable partition among the sexes. From being girl bosses to embarrassing one’s spouse on TikTok over trivial complaints, to divorcing a husband because he wants to relax after work, one can see why younger men have opted out of the dating marke...

In this solo edition of the Check Your Brain podcast, host Tony Mazur delves into one of the biggest soft spots for Millennials: nostalgia for the 1990s. Were those days great that they want to relive them? Is it because popular culture is lame today? Or is this all a trauma response?   Be sure to subscribe to Tony's Patreon. $3 gets you just audio, $5 gets video AND audio, and $10 has all of the...

Over the weekend, Senator Lindsey Graham died at age 71. Though Check Your Brain podcast host Tony Mazur won't speak ill of the dead, he does talk about the legacy of childlessness and warmongering South Carolina senator leaves behind. While many in MAGA wanted to scale back and become isolationists, Graham wanted more war, and the neocons ended up hollowing out the America First movement and wore...

Making a return appearance to the Check Your Brain podcast is Mark Mazur, father of host Tony Mazur. Mark just celebrated his 70th birthday, which happened to coincide with America's 250th. In this episode, the Mazurs talked about what has changed in this country since the Bicentennial, the struggles of young Americans while their politicians sold them out, and the schism in the Roman Catholic Chu...

(Replay from 2021)   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...

Check Your Brain host Tony Mazur had never seen Van Halen live (he was born the year OU812 was released). He decided to pull the trigger in June of 2026 to see both David Lee Roth AND Sammy Hagar, just eleven days separating the two shows. He shares his experiences in seeing both concerts and how it has become buyer beware when seeing artists or bands born before 1960 perform live today. Some sing...

Each June, Check Your Brain host Tony Mazur brings his wife, Leah, onto the program to discuss whatever is on their minds prior to hitting the record button. In this episode, the couple, who are celebrating their sixth wedding anniversary, talk about styles and slang words from the 1990s, music not feeling as special anymore, and a glimpse into the looksmaxxing world of Clavicular.   Be sure to su...

Ken Mosca is a friend, frequent guest, and even Patreon supporter on the Check Your Brain podcast, and he joined Tony Mazur to talk about a variety of sports topics. First, Ken gloats about his New York Knicks raising the championship banner, then the two get in a long discussion on sports betting ruining the games and whether of not Major League Baseball will strike in 2027.   Ken and Tony also t...

The Male Loneliness Epidemic continues. Men and women have become adversarial political blocs with different sets of values, thus bringing an inability to bridge those gaps. The term Hoeflation is how average looking women who consume large quantities of social media feel like they deserve a tall, handsome, and wealthy mate and won't settle for less. Where does that leave the average male who may...

Ken Silva is a journalist and author of the new book The Trump Assassination Plots: What the Investigations Missed and Why It Matters. He joined Tony Mazur on the Check Your Brain podcast to go over what occurred in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13th, 2024, from the actual story to the narratives peddled in the aftermath, to who Thomas Crooks actually was and why Donald Trump, the man who was shot,...

This week on the Check Your Brain podcast, Tony Mazur is joined by John Kerezy, a retiring associate professor at Cuyahoga Community College. In his second appearance on the show, John and Tony talked about the changing of consumer habits when it comes to mass media, specifically the dwindling relevance of late night comedy shows. They also touch on AI's use in media and the backlash it is already...

In yet another free solo episode of the Check Your Brain podcast, Tony Mazur (along with ZeroHedge) asks the question, where have the men gone? He lays out what has gone on, from being forced out of the workforce to lacking a purpose in life, culminating in an incel, defeatist mentality. It's not too late to fix this.   Be sure to subscribe to Tony's Patreon. $3 gets you just audio, $5 gets video...

Prior to Napster and LimeWire, the music industry seemed to be a cash cow. Everyone wanted in. But in the world of streaming, artists are making literal pennies on the dollar. Some bands will need tens of thousands of listens and likes to make a paycheck. The music industry is broken, which is why Bruce Springsteen and the Red Hot Chili Peppers have cashed in their chips and sold their music catal...

The Savannah Bananas have become one of the most polarizing topics on social media. Fans either love 'em or love how their kids react to them, or have a deep hatred of all things Banana Ball. Tony Mazur talks about the meteoric rise and how some kids' first introduction to baseball may be because of the Bananas, and that may not be the best thing. He also covers travel ball and the changes Rob Man...