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 chain food, or have gas stations like Wawa, Sheetz, and Buc-ees replaced them?

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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 accusation surfaced at Cornell.

Cancelation attempts and accusations of sexual assault were very prevelant during Woke 1.0, which means 2.0 isn't too different from the OG, just with more explicit calls for political violence.

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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 he plays several clips from this impressive man, where his words are as powerful now as they were 50-70 years ago.

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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 Dice Clay.

Don has not just one comedy album available on September 18th, but TWO. The first is his own called Comedy is Killing Me, which can be purchased here:

The second is a collaboration with Florentine called Terrorizing Telemarketers Vol. 8.

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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 the last quarter-century, the United States doesn't even resemble the same country, and now we have people openly cheering on political killings and child murderers with impunity.

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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.

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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 be speaking at this November's American Renaissance conference, which is hosted by Jared Taylor, who wrote the forward to his book. The link to purchase Joey's book can be found here: https://arktos.com/product/american-history-z/

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