Break It Down With Matt Carter

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

Josh Zepps is an Australian media personality, political satirist, actor, and TV show host. He and Matt discuss the importance of context and heart behind offensive words, topics off limits to people of majority race or gender, and how shutting down conversation by those people doesn't equal progress. They also articulate how both journalism and science are incomplete processes.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com #WeThePeople LIVE That's It: thatsitfruit.com with promo code DOWN for 10% off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

August Burns Red's guitarist JB Brubaker joins today to discuss his process switching from mic'd amps to DI for live shows, share tour stories, and the frustrations of traveling with a rig. Matt also plays a clip of a solo JB wrote on an Emery album and get into arranging, style, and tablature.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com Emery shows: emerymusic.com JB's Instagram: @jbburnsred Casper: casper.com/down with promo code mentioned in episode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We Are Libertarians podcast host Chris Spangle joins Matt to discuss political engagement. They have similar views and stances on politics, but different opinions of how to go about engaging or not engaging and on what levels. They also discuss what role culture has in the political realm.   Links & Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com That's It: thatsitfruit.com promo code DOWN for 10% off BSW: bswusa.com promo code DOWN http://wearelibertarians.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Art of Charm's Jordan Harbinger joins for this 4th of July episode where we discuss how technology effects social skills, differential learning styles, and costs and benefits of having "Southern Charm." Jordan and Matt connect in business as well, with networking, work ethic, and the extreme-ownership ethos.   Sponsors & Links http://www.breakitdownpodcast.net/ http://outerloopcoaching.com/ code BIDPOD5 for $5 off "Release it Right" or "Unleash it Right" webinars http://bswusa.com/ code DOWN for 10% off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ellen Mauro has a passion to open the discussion on abortion to bring attention to the nuances and complexities of the issue. We talk about the common points of contention and attempt to humanize the views that we may disagree with.   Links and Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com  https://www.patreon.com/breakitdownpod emerymusic.com http://bswusa.com/ code DOWN for 10% off AudioFeed Festival - badchristianday.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shannon Dingle is a freelance speaker and writer who talks about all the topics we’re taught to avoid in mixed company. She doesn't shy away from the hard places, from politics and privilege, to trauma and disability. Her work and story has been featured by the Today show, Christianity Today, NPR, and Good Morning America. She has a multi-ethnic family in Raleigh, NC, and we get into how she has been attacked by self-proclaiming alt-right.   Links and Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com  https://www.patreon.com/breakitdownpod emerymusic.com http://www.shannondingle.com/ http://bswusa.com/ code DOWN for 10% off AudioFeed Festival - badchristianday.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt McGinley, drummer for Gym Class Heroes who toured with Matt Carter in Emery, joins this episode to talk about his work on the new S-Town Podcast and This American Life, and his dream of doing film composing.   Links and Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com  https://www.patreon.com/breakitdownpod emerymusic.com http://bswusa.com/ code DOWN for 10% off AudioFeed Festival - badchristianday.com https://smalltalkmusica.com/ https://stownpodcast.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adam Skatula, Tooth & Nail Records' head of A&R joins Matt to discuss his history at T&N, and their process in creating the new podcast "Labeled: The Stories, Rumors, and Legends of Tooth & Nail Records." This podcast also includes the second episode of Labeled, which is all about the T&N's legendary A&R, Chad Johnson, who is responsible for signing well-known artists such as Underoath, mewithoutYou, Further Seems Forever, As Cities Burn, and many more.   Links and Sponsors: labeledpodcast.com breakitdownpod.com  https://www.patreon.com/breakitdownpod emerymusic.com http://bswusa.com/ code DOWN for 10% off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a common trend for music industry people to get involved in the food industry. One example of this is As Cities Burn's drummer Aaron Lunsford, who started cooking at restaurants after the band broke up, and now runs his own barbecue business in Nashville called Magnolia BBQ.   Links and Sponsors: breakitdownpod.com  https://www.patreon.com/breakitdownpod emerymusic.com http://bswusa.com/ code DOWN for 10% off Follow @MagnoliaBBQ on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices