Emeryland

Songs & Stories Podcast

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All we ever do is make music, talk shit, and do fun things that lead to good stories. That's what the Emery culture is about. We love telling you band stories and even more, we love convincing your favorite artists to tell their stories... even the ones they probably shouldn't. Join us each week to hear amazing stories from the road, Song Rescue (where we roast and improve listeners songs), the Damn News, and more! This podcast and our music is supported and funded directly by Emeryland. Join us at emerymusic.com

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#508 Variolation is Sounding Better and Better 21.05.2020 1:50:57

Our talk with economist Robin Hanson, not very long ago at all, shaped the way we thought about the coronavirus before it was even a pandemic. Now we have a lot of updating to do, so we invited Robin back on to help us sort out the state of how things have actually played out thus far, and what could come. Robin Hanson: Twitter: https://twitter.com/robinhanson Elephant in the Brain: On Amazon Th...

#507 Communities in the New Digital World 14.05.2020 2:02:54

Dan Koch is in the middle of a PHD program, dedicating his life to studying and doing therapy in the Christian/post-Christian online space. The small, off-beat, corner of the internet, and a certain generation, is emerging to be a field of study with its own experts, and is a growing and perhaps pivotal group for the unfolding future. How all of this unfolds is very critical. As people leave the...

#506 Ed Latimore 07.05.2020 1:55:29

Heavyweight boxer Ed Latimore got a degree in physicals and mathematics while boxing professionally, and is now an author. This gives him quite an unusual combination of attributes that brings a unique perspective to the concept of discipline and learning. Ed Latimore: https://edlatimore.com/ Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Pre-Order Emery's new album "White Line Fever" at eme...

#505 ESPN's Tattooed Music Scene Guy 30.04.2020 2:12:38

Daniel Dopp is a crossover guy, not only with music and sports, but also an indie to mainstream crossover guy. Daniel has been involved in putting out vinyl for acts like Chris Staples (twothirtyeight), Emery, The Classic Crime and the rest of the BC music family. He’s hosted house shows and promoted bands and their music since for years. Daniel moved into sports when he got an internship at ESPN...

#504 The Hard Times with Founder Matt Saincome 23.04.2020 1:49:42

As DIY musicians, we've been fans of The Hard Times for awhile now, so it was a pleasure to have Matt Saincome on to talk about his use of comedy and their non-political way of testing what material gets used or not. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland: emerymusic.com Are You Listening: A Streamo Show: https://bit.ly/2KwMtNX HIMS: forhims.com/BADCHRISTIAN Brooklinen:...

#503 Leaders Might Use Covid to Steal Your Rights 16.04.2020 1:46:46

Gissou Nia is a human rights lawyer who helps us compare authoritarian states like China and Iran as an example of how leaders could use the vulnerability of a global pandemic to affect our rights. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2EEn0F1m_k Join Emeryland: emerymusic.com Emery "Civil Wars" Tooth & Nail: 25% off Storewide at too...

#502 What’s The Deal with Data? with Tom Seiple 09.04.2020 1:35:39

Data s cience and visualization is currently the most sough t after and highest paying field there is. Our society is increasingly dependent on numbers and data, which has made two particular areas increasingly complex. There is the data that we all generate ourselves that now needs to be considered, its uses, value, and privacy, and secondly, in our information age, it is becoming ever more impo...

#501 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Tour 02.04.2020 1:13:24

We're giving you all a peak at what the BC Club gets every day! This is a fun conversation reminiscing on famous people we've run into at shows before, and tour culture. BADCHRISTIAN CONFERENCE EARLY BIRD TICKETS: https://www.badchristiancon.com/ Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Stamps.com: stamps.com code BADCHRISTIAN Policy...

#500 Covidiots-500 26.03.2020 1:22:31

We made it to 500 episodes! Today's a party; we have Dan Koch, Matt MacDonald, Aaron Lunsford and Devin Shelton here to celebrate! BADCHRISTIAN CONFERENCE EARLY BIRD TICKETS: https://www.badchristiancon.com/ Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com HIMS: forhims.com/BADCHRISTIAN Tooth & Nail: Fit for a King "Breaking the Mirror" Marri...

#499 Philosopher Agnes Callard 19.03.2020 1:58:30

Agnes Callard teaches Philosophy in Chicago, and is an author for Point Magazine. We discuss with her a couple articles from The Point in particular: Parenting and Panic , Thoughts and Prayers , and The End is Coming . BADCHRISTIAN CONFERENCE EARLY BIRD TICKETS: https://www.badchristiancon.com/ Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com...

#498 Buy All the Alcohol You Can with Matt MacDonald 11.03.2020 1:34:23

Our first guest ever, friend of the podcast and lead singer of The Classic Crime, Matt MacDonald, joins to talk about how things have changed over the last six years since we started, and how he'll have to keep changing with the economy and virus outbreak threatening the entertainment industry. Also, Toby has some questions on #toosoon? BADCHRISTIAN CONFERENCE EARLY BIRD TICKETS: https://www.ba...

#497 The Coronavirus with Robin Hanson 05.03.2020 2:34:57

Author of "Elephant in the Brain" and "The Age of Em," Robin Hanson, is one of the best brains on the planet with the most freedom to explore the things that interest him the most. In this case, that thing is the coronavirus. BADCHRISTIAN CONFERENCE EARLY BIRD TICKETS: https://www.badchristiancon.com/ Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymus...

#495 Free Burma Rangers 20.02.2020 1:23:51

Director Chris Sinclair joins to share his 8-year experience creating the documentary "Free Burma Rangers" which documents the life of Dave Eubanks and his family who started a movement of humanitarian aids in Burma and beyond. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Zip Recruiter: ziprecruiter.com/BADCHRISTIAN Brooklinen: brooklinen.co...

#494 The Sexuality of the Bible with Professor Jennifer Knust 13.02.2020 1:37:42

Toby found Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University, Jennifer Knust's, work one day when googling "premarital sex in the bible" and found her take refreshing and liberating when thinking about talking to his kids about sex. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Stamps.com: stamps.com code BADCHRISTIAN Quip: getquip.com/BADCHR...

#493 Taboos and Transparency with Aella 06.02.2020 1:27:25

Matt found Aella through the rationalist twitter community and was intrigued by her statements on radical transparency and research polls targeting things traditionally thought of as taboo. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Joybird: joybird.com/BADCHRISTIAN25 Marriage Supply

#491 End Times Anxiety with Dan Koch 29.01.2020 1:14:37

Friend of the show, Dan Koch, joins to share some of his findings through a series he's been doing on his podcast, You Have Permission, about how growing up with "Left Behind" and an emphasis on end times theology have effected people into their adult lives. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com HIMS: forhims.com/BADCHRISTIAN Hubble:...

#490 Beating Guns with Rex Harsin 23.01.2020 1:35:10

Documentary filmmaker Rex Harsin shares his perspective on gun control and filmmaking from his process of recreating Shane Claiborne's book titled "Beating Guns" into a feature length documentary. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Quip: getquip.com/BADCHRISTIAN Tooth & Nail: "Night Guest" by We Are The City Marriage Supply

#489 The Science of Rick and Morty with Matt Brady 15.01.2020 1:26:08

The show "Rick and Morty" managed to get Toby interested in science and multiple realities to the point where he researched some of the science found in episodes and found a book Matt Brady wrote "The Science of Rick and Morty" which goes to show how pop culture can be used as a trojan horse to science. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymus...

#488 Gazelle Transmogrify 09.01.2020 1:38:38

The changing of the decade brings on a reflective sense of meaning and purpose that Matt explains using gazelles, pain, surviving, future you, and yes, transmogrify. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Joybird: joybird.com/BADCHRISTIAN25 Stamps: stamps.com code BADCHRISTIAN Marriage Supply

#487 Race and Church with Dr Emerson 25.12.2019 1:40:17

Merry Christmas! We have sociologist Dr Michael Emerson on today to answer some questions about racism in the American Evangelical church and how it got that way. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Joybird: joybird.com/BADCHRISTIAN25 Marriage Supply

#486 Why Should We Trust Science? With Dan Koch 18.12.2019 1:22:44

Friend of the show, Dan Koch, uses his new psychology studies to help us understand why there's a perceived gap between the study of science, and religion. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Tooth & Nail: Christmas sales at toothandnailrecords.merchnow.com , and solidstate.merchnow.com Marriage Supply

#485 The Rise of the Nones 12.12.2019 1:44:11

Dr Ryan Burge is a "quant" political scientist, and a pastor. Through one of his articles on biblical literalism, Toby found a whole rabbit hole of intriguing data he's published about religion in America. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Stamps: stamps.com code BADCHRISTIAN Brooklinen: brooklinen.com code BADCHRISTIAN Tooth & Na...

#484 Know Any Cool New Cults? 05.12.2019 1:17:29

With the death of religion as we knew it ten years ago, comes a new birth of substitute religions in politics, cults, conspiracies, and any number of things. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com early bird VIP code EMOFOREVER SoFi: sofi.com/BADCHRISTIAN HIMS: forhims.com/BADCHRISTIAN Zip Recruiter: ziprecruiter.com/BADCHRISTIAN Marr...

#483 Derek Webb Has a New Wife and a New Album 27.11.2019 1:28:52

We catch up with our friend Derek Webb, who had recently gotten divorced last time we talked, and now is re-married, and has a new album coming out. He's been an innovator in the music industry that we've followed the example of, so it's good to catch up and see what he's been doing lately. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com early...

#482 BCPOD Goes Nuclear 21.11.2019 1:36:44

Nuclear expert Sean Wagner helps us clear up some myths around nuclear energy, how it works, and what the risks and levels actually are. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com early bird VIP code EMOFOREVER Quip: getquip.com/BADCHRISTIAN Stamps.com: stamps.com code BADCHRISTIAN Marriage Supply