Break It Down with Matt Carter

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.comvoxpodcast.comemerybook.comemerymusic.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 LIVEThat'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.comEmery shows: emerymusic.comJB's Instagram: @jbburnsredCasper: 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.comThat's It: thatsitfruit.com promo code DOWN for 10% offBSW: bswusa.com promo code DOWNhttp://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 & Linkshttp://www.breakitdownpodcast.net/http://outerloopcoaching.com/ code BIDPOD5 for $5 off "Release it Right" or "Unleash it Right" webinarshttp://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.comhttp://bswusa.com/ code DOWN for 10% offAudioFeed 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.comhttp://www.shannondingle.com/http://bswusa.com/ code DOWN for 10% offAudioFeed 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.comhttp://bswusa.com/ code DOWN for 10% off AudioFeed Festival - badchristianday.comhttps://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.combreakitdownpod.com https://www.patreon.com/breakitdownpod emerymusic.comhttp://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.comhttp://bswusa.com/ code DOWN for 10% offFollow @MagnoliaBBQ on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices