Thomas W. Gilbert - How Baseball Happened

Kevin Brennan - A Man of the People: 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 Updat... by Check Your Brain

63 min listen

Jim Clark - Ten Cent Beer Night Revisited: Beer for a dime? So conceivably, a person can get trashed at the ballpark for just one dollar? Many such cases occurred on June 4th, 1974 at Cleveland Stadium between the Indians and Texas Rangers, which caused a brouhaha between the fans and player... by Check Your Brain

73 min listen

Jim Florentine - Not Everything is Awful: 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... by Check Your Brain

64 min listen

John Byner - Five Minutes till Showtime: 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,... by Check Your Brain

42 min listen

Colin Mochrie - Room For IMPROVment: You've seen Colin Mochrie make cameos on TV shows and commercials, but he is best known for his long tenure on Whose Line is it Anyway?, both the British and American incarnations. Colin sat down with Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur about his upbring... by Check Your Brain

43 min listen

Michael Betrus - Lockdowns on Trial: The story of 2020 was indeed COVID-19, but perhaps the story of 2021 may be the result of the lockdowns. Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur sat down with author Michael Betrus, and they touched on the hysteria surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, from the... by Check Your Brain

60 min listen

Darryl Strawberry & Don Chaney - More Than a Game: 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 la... by Check Your Brain

42 min listen

Mark Dawidziak - Just One More Thing...: "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-o... by Check Your Brain

79 min listen

Anika Orrock & Bill Ripken - Baseball's Past & Present: If you turn on basic cable right now (well, after you listen to this podcast), A League of Their Own is probably on somewhere, either IFC, Sundance, or TBS. But how accurate was the film? And how accurate are analytics in today's game? In this two-... by Check Your Brain

41 min listen

Thomas W. Gilbert - How Baseball Happened: 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 Basebal... by Check Your Brain

49 min listen

Geno Bisconte pt. 1 - This Guy Gets It: 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 ... by Check Your Brain

84 min listen

CYB Trailer: 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, f... by Check Your Brain

8 min listen

A Year of Abnormality: 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 c... by Check Your Brain

56 min listen

Bill Madden & Russ Cohen - Tom Terrific & Let's Go Mets Go: 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... by Check Your Brain

42 min listen

Brad Balukjian - Wax Pack: For several decades, baseball cards were a key staple in a young man's life. Some cherished their Henry Aaron rookie cards and kept them in mint condition, while others clipped their Mario Mendoza card onto his bicycle's spokes. Author and science ... by Check Your Brain

58 min listen

Paul Viollis - Safeguarding America: No matter what some major-city mayors may say, crime rates are rising rapidly. Everything from petty crime to homicide numbers have been going up the last few years, and why is that? Paul Viollis may have some answers. He heads up Viollis Group ... by Check Your Brain

49 min listen

Chef Andrew Gruel - Restaurants Know the Struggle: Andrew Gruel is a chef, restaurant owner, and TV/radio personality based in Southern California. Restaurants across the country were obliterated not by the COVID-19 virus, but the government response to it, and it will take a monumental effort for t... by Check Your Brain

55 min listen

Jeff Blue - Linkin's Logs: 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... by Check Your Brain

62 min listen

David Fantle & Tom Johnson - Hollywood's Heyday: 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... by Check Your Brain

71 min listen

Geno Bisconte pt. 2 - Always In Hot Water: This is part two of Tony Mazur's conversation with NYC-based comedian and host of In Hot Water and Gum Fridays' Geno Bisconte. In this episode (which was split in two, as it lasted nearly three hours), Tony and Geno talk about what New York and Los... by Check Your Brain

77 min listen

J.D. Vance - From 'Hillbilly' to Senate Candidate: J.D. Vance joined the national conversation in 2016 with his book, Hillbilly Elegy, which chronicled his small-town life in Middletown, Ohio. He eventually joined the Marines, went to Yale Law, and became a venture capitalist. After all these ... by Check Your Brain

37 min listen

Russ Cohen - All The Balls: Russ Cohen is an author and podcaster. He is the go-to guy when it comes to New York and Philadelphia sports, most notably baseball and hockey. Russ and Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur talked about a variety of baseball-related topics, from their fav... by Check Your Brain

50 min listen

Tom Batiuk - Growing Up Funky: 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 ... by Check Your Brain

47 min listen

Dennis Kucinich - The Division of Power & Light: Dennis Kucinich has been a mayor (at just 31 years of age), state senator, and member of the US House of Representatives. His blue-collar style of politics has drawn undying support and staunch criticism from members of both parties in nearly a half... by Check Your Brain

39 min listen

Scott McEwen - Hell Week & Beyond: Do you have what it takes to become a Navy SEAL? Not many do. In fact, very, very few possess not only the physical makeup of a SEAL, but the mental aspect, as well. Scott McEwen helped co-write the #1 New York Times Best Selling book American... by Check Your Brain

37 min listen

Lucas Miles - Saying No to Christian Marxism: The Social Gospel has been used as a wedge to inject social justice causes inside Christianity, essentially gutting it from the inside. How do we as Christians fight this? Lucas Miles has some ideas, and he gives some background in his new book, The ... by Check Your Brain

55 min listen

Michele Traina - Divorce Diaries: Michele Traina is an actor and comedian who rather than sulk after a divorce with her ex-husband, turned it into a one-woman show. She joined Tony Mazur and the Check Your Brian podcast to talk about her process in doing a deeply personal st... by Check Your Brain

48 min listen

Rock On - 2021 Rock Hall Inductees & Norm N. Nite: On May 12th, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announced the newest members to grace their hallowed halls. Tina Turner, The Go-Go's, Foo Fighters, Jay Z, Todd Rundgren, and Carole King make up the 2021 class at the Rock Hall. For today's podcast, Che... by Check Your Brain

53 min listen

David Giffels - From Barnstorming to Beavis & Butt-Head: Native Ohioan David Giffels has penned a new tome on his home state and how it is a microcosm for the rest of the country. From its farming roots in the rural areas to the high tech larger cities, to the numerous colleges, Ohio has it all. Giffels sa... by Check Your Brain

57 min listen

Dave Thomas - From Jimmy Leighton to Bob Hope: Dave Thomas has spent the last five decades in the entertainment industry, first gracing the stage with Godspell and Second City to becoming a writer and featured player on SCTV. His stardom "took off" after being paired with Rick Moranis in the Gre... by Check Your Brain

66 min listen

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