Break It Down with Matt Carter

We're continuing our storyline with the move to Seattle on what happened to be one of the biggest days in US history. Our friend Joel Green joined us for the trip, and is here to recall some of the day with us. emerymusic.com Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're continuing our storyline with the summer leading up to the move - what jobs we had, and the moment our bass player Joey "headed north." emerymusic.com Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We pick up where we left off last time, and focus on romantic and family relationships that would be affected or severed with the plan to move to Seattle. emerymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt, Toby, and Devin begin the process of trying to recount the formation of the band 20 yeas ago, and see what has changed and what remains the same. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll continue breaking down the second two songs on Emery's new EP "Dead End," which is available now exclusively to members of Emeryland. Join now at emerymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm back! Thanks for still having me in your feed. For now, I'm gonna get back to what Break it Down started as, which was going in depth about Emery's music. Today we start by breaking down two of the songs on Emery's new EP "Dead End," which is available now exclusively to members of Emeryland.  Join now at emerymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emery's Devin Shelton joins me on this episode to premiere the full song "Everything That She Offered Me." Dave and I already did a song-writing break down for the drums and guitar, and now Devin explains how Toby and him took what we wrote and put vocals to it. We also see what some of you did with it and announce a winner of the song contest. Thank you to everyone who participated! Links & Sponsors: Episode Page breakitdownpod.com Facebook Emery Tour: emerymusic.com BadChristian Roadshow: bcroadshow.com Audible: audible.com/down code DOWN Song Contest Submissions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emery's new guitarist and producer Chris Keene and I walk through the evolution of "Is This the Real Life" from demo, pre-pro, and final versions. We focus mainly on the guitar parts, recording, and song structure from one version to the next as the song came to life. Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Emery: emerymusic.com BadChristian Roadshow: bcroadshow.com "Is This the Real Life" YouTube Video Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is the first of many to come that will break down the upcoming Emery record, its lyrics, guitar, production, and whatever else is interesting. Today Emery's drummer, Dave Powell, joins to introduce you to a song that started with his drum idea. This episode is also the launch of a game/contest that will allow you to compose vocals on an Emery song by downloading the instrumental stem here. The rest of the details are in the episode. Links & Sponsors: Download for Vocal Challenge: "Everything That She Offered Me" Instrumental breakitdownpod.com Facebook Emery Tour: emerymusic.com BadChristian Roadshow: bcroadshow.com Audible: audible.com/down code DOWN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After reading some of Alison DeNisco Rayome's articles in TechRepublic, I wanted to have her on and talk more about where cyber security is right now, and see where it's going in the future. What are some best practices to keep yourself secure, and how are companies taking advantage of AR/VR? Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Emery Tour: emerymusic.com Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCJABBERJAW TechRepublic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A good friend connected me with Alex Linebrink, who is the CEO of PassageX, a secondary ticketing venue that utilizes blockchain technology to promote industry accountability and transparency. It's exciting to hear about other uses of the system and get a glimpse at the tip of the iceberg of what can be done in the future with such a powerful tool as blockchain. Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Emery Tour: emerymusic.com Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCJABBERJAW PassageX Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dewey Halpaus caught me outside a venue in Portland for an interview on the Peer Pleasure podcast. He has a great way of interviewing people, so I wanted to share it with you all here as well! Among many things, we talk about the new Emery album, and how in the world I became a Christian with the way my brain works. Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Emery Tour: emerymusic.com Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCJABBERJAW Peer Pleasure: peerpleasurepodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being a band guy on the road, gear heads tend to find each other. For me, Matt Hoopes of Relient K is always on the top of my list for guys I like to talk about pedals with. Now he's creating his own pedals, so we go in-depth about the technical aspects of what distortion is and the components inside pedals. Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Emery Tour: emerymusic.com Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCJABBERJAW 1981 Inventions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steven Southwick is a professor at Yale University of Psychiatry, PTSD, and Resilience. He is also the author of "Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges," which I was eager to talk with him about, since we seems to share similar philosophies on the power of the mind effecting the body. Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Emery Tour: emerymusic.com Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCJABBERJAW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hidden Hospitals is finding a new way to do things in the independent music scene. Thanks to John Frazier for hooking me up with Dave to talk about the alternative ways he's looking at music, the industry, and art in general without a focus on size or profit. Links & Sponsors: Hidden Hospitals: http://www.hiddenhospitals.com/ breakitdownpod.com Facebook Emery Tour: emerymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I was interested in talking with Winnie Li after hearing about her unique perspective and outlook on live after surviving a violent rape while traveling overseas. Most people try to avoid thinking about and sympathizing with their aggressors, but Winnie wrote a book about her experience and humanized him trying to understand his perspective.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Emery Tour: emerymusic.com Audible: audible.com/DOWN OR text DOWN to 500-500 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii on the news, I was lucky enough to get Geophysicist and Volcanologist Paul Segall to discuss in depth how volcanoes work, the formation of the earth, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other very real cataclysmic events that have and will happen on this planet.     Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Emery Tour: emerymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I wanted to talk to Lindsey Quinn, the Managing Editor for The Hustle, after noticing how much better they are at delivering news well. Instead of obnoxious click-bait sponsored articles, The Hustle sends good quality tech and business news to my email inbox that I actually want to read every day.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Emery Tour: emerymusic.com The Hustle: https://thehustle.co/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My fascination with the Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country lead to a conversation with today's guest Daniel Shaw, who has personal experience being in a cult. He is a psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC, and most recently wrote a book called "Traumatic Narcissism: Relational System of Subjugation."   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Emery Tour: emerymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After practicing internal medical for 30 years and being a trustee on a hospice board, Dr Sam Harrington decided to refocus his life on informing others on how they can live the best end-life possible. He shares the personal experience of his father's death, and explains how sometimes the best option can be to refuse medical treatment.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Emery Tour: emerymusic.com Dr Sam Harrington: samharrington.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim McTauge, Underoath's guitarist joins for a conversation about their inner-band dynamics and how it applied to the songwriting process and production, specifically with their new album "Erase Me."   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Emery Tour: emerymusic.com Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCJABBERJAW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hunger Games actress, Angel Giuffria, was born missing half of her arm, but has embraced the life of a "cyborg" using augmenting prosthetics to enhance her life. We go in depth about the mechanics of and customization of her arm. She's also heavily involved in the transhumanism movement, and interested in how humanity is progressing to a higher level of human-machine integration.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCJABBERJAW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tipi is a French research program used to resolve conditions such as depression, PTSD, fear, anxiety, anger, and grief, among others. Cedric and his colleagues claim that Tipi can permanently regulate unhealthy emotional and behavioral patterns.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCJABBERJAW https://tipi.pro http://cedricbertelli.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest today, Ed Lyon, is considered (according to Roseanne Barr) to be “the funniest tax guy in America." He has appeared on over 500 television and radio broadcasts and has spent his career making tax law understandable to the average joe, and adding to it a sense of humor.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Zip Recruiter: ziprecruiter.com/BREAKITDOWN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Johann Hari is a best-selling author and has given a most-viewed TED talk on addiction. His latest book, "The Lost Connections" has been hit with some controversy as it explores deeper causes and alternative treatments to depression beyond anti-depressants.    Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Away: awaytravel.com/down code DOWN https://thelostconnections.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James holds degrees in physics and mathematics, including a doctorate in the latter, and works primarily as a voice calling for honest reflection upon, and thus change in, our religious and cultural landscape. We discuss the almost religious behavior of the movement behind Jordan Peterson as well as the behavior of activism on the left, much of which seems to be underpinned by Critical Theorists and academia.    Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Zip Recruiter: ziprecruiter.com/BREAKITDOWN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kelly Hogan lost over 100 pounds and gained her fertility after going on a low-carb diet and then cutting out carbs entirely by eating only meat. Believe it or not, she's been going strong on that for 8 years, and is healthy as ever. Hear for yourself!   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCBREAKITDOWN Matt & Toby Tour: http://theclassiccrime.com/#tour http://myzerocarblife.jamesdhogan.com/wp/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Rippetoe is an American strength training coach and author. He has published a number of books and peer-reviewed articles. He has a BS in Geology with a minor in Anthropology. Mark laughs and says it's embarrassing that I am 6'3" 175 lbs and says I'm 50 pounds underweight and can be dead lifting over 300 pounds in 6 months if I train effectively.  Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCBREAKITDOWN Zip Recruiter: ziprecruiter.com/BREAKITDOWN Matt & Toby Tour: http://theclassiccrime.com/#tour Starting Strength: startingstrength.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steven Salzberg is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University. He also worked on the Human Genome Project, sequenced the genomes of many bacteria, and his research group develops software for DNA sequence analysis.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCBREAKITDOWN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jamie Kilstein is a well-known stand up comedian, radio show host, writer, and host of the new Fuck Up Pod. We discuss the ins and outs of beginning to do open mic comedy, and Jamie shares some of his experience with the misery of being a twitter activist.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCBREAKITDOWN https://soundcloud.com/jamiekilstein Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emery and As Cities Burn are on the road this week, so we passed out the mics and captured a conversation about what it's like playing tiny shows and big shows, funny mistakes local bands make, and funny demos that people give and send to labels.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Zip Recruiter: ziprecruiter.com/BREAKITDOWN Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCBREAKITDOWN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mohit Mamoria is the CEO of Authorito and lives in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.  He is a web developer who now studies finance and economics and has much to say about the possibilities of decentralized technology and the future.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCBREAKITDOWN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Stine has been teaching guitar for over 20 years and has taught millions online. His style and approach is fascinating and certainly applies well outside the realm of guitar and music. We explore lessons, music theory, and modes, as well as alternative and online types of learning.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCBREAKITDOWN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are Selfies a sign of the narcissistic millennial generation that will ruin the country? Or is there more going on than just duck-lip pouty-face photos in front of the bathroom mirror? Steve Holiday is an instructor and doctoral candidate at Texas Tech University and conducted a scientific study on the matter.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCBREAKITDOWN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Jacob Weindling is a staff writer for Paste Magazine and has been researching and writing about cryptocurrency. We get into the future uses of Bitcoin and blockchain technology, including the Ethereum System.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCBREAKITDOWN     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By popular demand, I invited the other half of my band, Toby Morrell, on to discuss "I Quit Church" along with Zach Bolen, who produced the album. We do a listen through of the whole album and talk about how it was created and things that stick out to us about it.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Rockabilia: rockabilia.com code PCBREAKITDOWN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ashok is a Pulmonary Physician who's working on using gaming to improve the medical field. I was interested to talk with Ashok because the use of technology and entertainment to solve antiquated institutional problems like healthcare fascinates me.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Away: awaytravel.com/DOWN Rockabilia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aaron and I discuss the themes and events behind Copeland's album "Beneath Medicine Tree" for the Labeled podcast, which turned out to be a great thing to share with you all here as well.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook BarkBox: barkbox.com/DOWN labeledpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Professional Mind Coach Vinny Shoreman hypnotizes Matt, but first they get into to the concept of taking charge of your mind and the way you think.    Links & Sponsors: vinnyshoreman.com breakitdownpod.com Facebook Rockabilia: rockabilia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave Feldman is a senior software engineer who began a LCHF diet in 2015, and has studied it extensively since. Through his engineering mind, he's noticed patterns in his study of the diet similar to the distribution of objects in a network. This has allowed him a unique perspective on the way our bodies work, which he calls the Cholesterol Code: Reverse Engineering the Mystery.   Links & Sponsors: cholesterolcode.com breakitdownpod.com Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It seems like everyone these days is talking about artificial intelligence, but James Barrat literally wrote the book on it. His book "Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era" describes the potential dangers of humans developing artificial intelligence that could eclipse that of humans. Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, just to name a few, have all warned of these dangers.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mainstream media seems to be the worst place to find real information about politics and policy, including gun control and terrorism. Today I'm talking to Steven V Miller, Political Scientist at Clemson University. Let's change the source of how we think about and learn about politics to come from people who write papers and do the actual research.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you have a band, podcast, product, or platform, you probably know that digital marketing is important, but it certainly isn't simple. It's something this podcast, The BadChristian Podcast, and Emery have struggled to do well, and largely haven't done. Today I thought I'd have a conversation on air with a new acquaintance, Joe Kalis. So sit in as I ask questions and try to learn some better techniques and habits.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Sudio Sweden: BREAKITDOWN15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host of Matt's new favorite podcast "After On" Rob Reid, joins to discuss his new Sci-Fi book of the same name and themes including: augmented reality, consciousness, government privacy, artificial intelligence, Fermi paradox, synthetic biology, and belief and terrorism.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook After On Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Senior Interaction Designer at Google, Joel Beukelman shares some insider secrets of the state of the tech industry and where he sees it going in the next few years, or at least what he's allowed to share. He also confirms Matt's bias that formal education won't be necessary for the success of the next generation. Follow Joel on Twitter: @_bklmn and at https://www.youtube.com/bklmn   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Opinion often makes its way into doctrines like The Nashville Statement, and it's our job to do the work of figuring out which is which. Dan Koch comes on to dissect this new doctrine to explain what The Nashville Statement is, and break down how it effects both Christians and non-Christians alike.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook https://www.patreon.com/depolarize https://www.reconstructpodcast.com/ That's It: thatsitfruit.com code DOWN BarkBox: barkbox.com/DOWN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2006, Underoath self-destructed and left Warped Tour amid rumor of drug use among other things. This is the full uncut interview with drummer Aaron Gillespie about that summer and the events surrounding it. Some of this audio was used in the Labeled (Tooth and Nail) Podcast that Matt produces. Go listen to that full episode first, and come back here for more details from Aaron's point of view.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook That's It: thatsitfruit.com promo code DOWN Labeled Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kings Kaleidoscope is one of the few bands that has experienced that breakout success every new artist asks about. Lead man Chad Gardner joins to discuss their new mixtape, "The Beauty Between," which is a collage of hip hop, rappers, chamber choirs, and worship music featuring rappers Andy Mineo and Propaganda. They break down a couple songs' themes and inspirations with his unique style of organized chaos.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Away: awaytravel.com/down promo code DOWN Kings Kaleidoscope Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Koch joins today to discuss the weekend's events in Charlottesville, Virginia. Matt wonders how we know who is in what group, and what's worse, a hate-filled person or a violent actor? While white-supremacist are repugnant, do they deserve any protection? They also discuss the results of a poll Dan conducted on Facebook asking about roadblocks to faith and issues with making it stick.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt has explored the Ketogenic diet for the past couple years, in part due to his friend and producer Aaron Sprinkle, who has made some major life changes, including a LCHF (low-carb, high-fat) diet after discovering he was at risk for Type 2 Diabetes. They bring clarity to the ketogenic lifestyle and discuss some advantages and common struggles that come with such a change.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Casper.com/down Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt was recently a guest on VOX Podcast with Mike Erre and Andy Lara on the future of mega-churches. It's a great conversation that we wanted to share with you here as well! VOX Podcast launched in 2015 as a place to engage in many of today's culture's most challenging conversations around the LGBTQ community, American politics, church politics, and Christian culture's catastrophe of marginalizing the very people that Jesus himself would associate with.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com voxpodcast.com emerybook.com emerymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices