Break It Down With Matt Carter

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