Break It Down with Matt Carter

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What Can We Do with Blockchain? (Ep 127) Jul 12, 2018

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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.

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Peer Pleasure + Break it Down (Ep 126) Jul 03, 2018

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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.

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Pedals with Matt Hoopes of Relient K (Ep 125) Jun 29, 2018

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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.

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Resilience with Author Steven Southwick (Ep 124) Jun 18, 2018

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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.

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Dave Raymond of Hidden Hospitals (Ep 123) May 29, 2018

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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.

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Winnie M Li's "Dark Chapter" (Ep 122) May 22, 2018

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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.

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Paul Segall: Geophysicist and Volcanologist at Stanford (Ep 121) May 16, 2018

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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.

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A Better Business Model for Journalism with Lindsey Quinn (Ep 120) May 08, 2018

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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.

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How to Recognize a Cult with Daniel Shaw (Ep 119) May 01, 2018

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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."

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Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life with Dr Sam Harrington (Ep 118) Apr 24, 2018

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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.

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