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 professor Brad Balukjian took his obsession a step further: he snagged a wax pack of baseball cards, chewed (and promptly spit out) the bubblegum, and went on an 11,000+ mile journey to track down the players in this particular stack from 1986.

Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur talked to Brad about why he decided to write his book, Wax Pack, and what he not only learned about the former players he met, but what he learned about himself along the way.

Visit Brad's website for more information on the book: https://waxpackbook.com/

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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 Christian Left: How Liberal Thought Has Hijacked the Church.

Lucas talks to Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur about this Christian Cabal, the progressive agenda to infiltrate the churches, and the poor messaging coming from Christianity.

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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 sat down via Zoom with Check Your Brain's Tony Mazur to chat about the Buckeye State, its affection for demagogue politicians, and how Ohio seems to be the crossroads of America.

In addition to his novels, Giffels also had a stint writing for Mike Judge during the first run of MTV's Beavis & Butt-Head.

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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 [email protected].