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Break It Down Show
by Pete A Turner
Pete A Turner explores great conversations across a vast array of topics and personalities. The Break It Down Show is over 10 years old and has published over 2000 episodes. Find Pete at @peteaturner on most social media sites.
Episodes
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David Weck – Every Step Stronger
David Weck is a prominent figure in the fitness industry, recognized for his innovative approach to movement, balance, and athletic performance. He invented the BOSU® Balance Trainer in 1999, a widely used fitness device designed to improve balance and functional strength. Here's the link to get...
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Chandra Lynn - Rooted to Rise
Chandra Lynn, M.B.A., is an award-winning author, entrepreneur, marketing strategist, and transformation coach dedicated to helping people thrive from the inside out. She is the author of the Gold Medal-winning book Root-to-Rise®: How to Love Life (even when it's messy, hard, and uncertain) and...
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Michael White - The Islamic Republic of Iran
Michael White fell in love with an Iranian girl. He picked romance, left for Iran and went to be with his wife. Until the government of Iran took Michael's arrival as a bad thing. He was arrested and charged with crimes, including offending the Ayatollah. Michael was convicted and sentenced to...
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Amber Brittain-Hale – Marco Rubio's European Tour
Dr Amber Brittain-Hale returns to the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner. Sec State Marco Rubio is having a massive impact on the reputation of the US abroad. When we're told how the US's reputation is falling around the world, it begs the question, why is the US having so much success abroad…
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Ray Fatahi — Causum, the fabric for safe and trustworthy AI
Ray Fatahi makes his first appearance on the Break It Down Show to discuss AI safety, cybersecurity, and his company, Causum. Ray offers a unique blend of technical expertise, domain knowledge, and a focus on what these AI algorithms are actually generating. Ray has a PhD in Biomedical Sciences,...
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Jeff Laugen – Benicia Home Improvement, 40 Years
Jeff Laugen founded Benicia Home Improvement in his hometown of Benicia Ca 40 years ago. Through the years, Jeff has built the kind of small town business they make movies about. This however, is a story about trust, community and love for things that people cherish the most, homes, family…
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Gabe Gaines – The Philosophy of Special Operations
Gabe Gaines is a Green Beret, long tabbed, operator in the US Special Forces. Gabe leads an ODA. In his role as team NCOIC, his task is to pass his lessons on to his younger guys. These lessons, as we find out, are not about trigger pulling. It's more about how a warrior survives the pace of…
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Mitch Ferguson - Joshua Rauh on Uncommon Knowledge
Mitch Ferguson is back on the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner. Pete reached out to Mitch after watching a recent episode of Uncommon Knowledge with guest Josuah Rauh. Peter Robinson hosts the Hoover Institute's episode that deals with today's economics. This episode is less about President...
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Mike Cote - The US, Denmark and Greenland Strategic Update
Mike Cote returns to inform us about the updated deal between the US, Greenland and Denmark. The deal updates the 1/2 century old accord. Hemispheric defense updates during the Trump Administration have caused a realignment of strategic partners. In particular, the US had gathered Central and…
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Amber Brittain-Hale - Fauda and Foreign Policy
Amber Brittain-Hale returns to the Break It Down Show to talk Foreign Policy and art imitating life. The landmark show Fauda, seen on Netflix, is breaking ground. Rather than fanciful castles and diplomats spinning intrigue. Fauda is rooted in real world actions at the ground level. Fauda gets so...
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Teresa Rodriguez – Liberte Press
Teresa Rodriguez is a bestselling author, award-winning publisher, and founder of Liberté Press, an independent publishing house dedicated to bringing powerful stories into the world. She is the author of Fly Solo and Body, Mind, and Solo, and her TEDx talk on solo travel has been viewed more…
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Robert Eringer - Counterintelligence Charles McGonigal
Robert Eringer returns to the Break It Down Show with Pete A. Turner. Robert and Pete discuss the curious case of Charles McGonigal. It's not common to have two counterintelligence pros talk about current events. Produced by Brad Hutchings.
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Semper Fi: Two Brothers in the Pacific WWII
Rhonda Lomeil joins Pete A Turner on the Break It Down Show. Rhonda come to us through USMC ret COL John McKay. John brought Rhonda to Pete's attention because of her book about her father and uncle who fought in the Pacific Theater during World War II To get Rhonda's book head to amzn.to/3SWVsPy...
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Mike Cote - The Iran vs US War Update, Trump, Rubio, Hegseth vs the Mullahs
Mike Cote returns to the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner to discuss the current events and long term outlook for the war between Iran and the US. Joining the fellas is Dr Amber Brittain-Hale. The thing we attempt to do in these episodes is provide some clear headed, non-partisan analysis…
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Paul Manna – 25 Years after 9/11 and Baseball
Professor Paul Manna returns to the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner. In Paul's syllabus for Gov 351, he provides his guidance for the use of AI in his class. Paul's class focuses on the required bureaucracy that well formed governments have. This notion of the power of the bureau being...
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Victor Davis Hanson - Trump's Counter Revolution
Victor Davis Hanson makes his return to the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner. Victor's latest book, "The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement." Get Counterrrevolution on Amazon at amzn.to/4d9uStf droped on 8SEP2026. Joining Victor and Pete is USC…
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Brian Samson – PLUGG Technologies
Brian Samson left The City, AKA San Francisco and headed for Buenos Aries. He wanted to start a FinTech company away from the distractions of Silicon Valley. That's when Brian realized that South America was teeming with talent. This caused Brian to realize the value of LATAM talent for companies...
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Tim Neverett – Los Angeles Dodgers Radio Man
Tim Neverett returns to the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner. Pete and Tim are joined by Cullen Chapron and Brian Wetzel. Tim is the radio play by play man for the Los Dodgers. Tim works with Rick Monday calling the games...and often breaking Dodger news when something breaks mid game. Tim…
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Amber Brittain-Hale – G20 Conference Analysis
Dr Amber Brittain-Hale returns to the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner. Amber and Pete are set to discuss messaging around foreign policy, the ongoing G20 conference and the discursive nature surrounding the US, Israel and Iran war. When we discuss these topics, we're focused more on policy...
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Sayre Blake - SkillSaige and AI as a Coprocessor
Sayre Blake returns to the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner. Sayre comes back to talk with Pete and Brad Hutchings. Brad is the founder of the MMOJO Knowledge Appliance or better said your own personal Data Center. Sayre is the CEO of SkillSaige and a systems engineer, programmer, designer,...
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Jack Stewart – Tom Clancy's Pressure Depth, A Jack Ryan Jr Novel
Jack Stewart returns to the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner. Jack is a former Top Gun fighter pilot who's turned to thriller writing in his post military career. Jack writes under Tom Clandy's Jack Ryan Jr banner. The latest book in the series, the 15th, drops in early Sept of 2026. This is...
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Robert Eringer - Spymaster of Monaco
Robert Eringer has had a wide-ranging career as a private intelligence consultant, undercover operative, journalist, novelist, editor, and literary agent. Before going undercover for the FBI, he was an investigative reporter, once infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan. Since parting with the Bureau,...
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Soumen Sarkar - Tech Leadership is Not Leadership
Soumen Sarkar is the Tech Philosopher who's worked, failed, won, built and designed tech solutions for decades. Soumen's in a point in his career now where he's more reflective and contemplative. This gives us a chance to have in-depth conversations about where tech is headed, how it leads...
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Jeff Frye – The Player Who Was Never Supposed to Be
Jeff Frye is a former Major League Baseball player. He stayed in the league longer than usual. When folks told him he wasn't this enough or too much of that...what they didn't account for was his desire, relentlessness and refusal to regress to the mean. Jeff is joined on the Break It Down Show…
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Amber Brittain-Hale - Political Discourse and Leadership
Dr Amber Brittain-Hale joins Pete A Turner on the Break It Down Show. Part of what Amber does is evaluate how people, especially folks in the political space. Pete A Turner LOVES having these discussions from a point of Policy and discourse rather than from a political persepective.
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Don Kurz - Do The Hustle
What if the biggest lessons in business and life came not from classrooms, boardrooms, or balance sheets, but from disco lights, devastating knee injuries, and hard-earned second chances? Life isn't a straight line to the top. It's a hustle. From NCAA lacrosse champion to Studio 54 regular to...
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Masta Ace – Richmond Hill
🎙️ Getting The Gig welcomes one of hip-hop's greatest storytellers, a Juice Crew original, and a true architect of the art form — Masta Ace. Before streaming, algorithms, and instant access changed how we discovered music, hip-hop was built differently. It lived through radio waves, park jams,...
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Edmund Richardson – Alexander, God, King, Man
An enthralling new biography of Alexander the Great, written as an intimate, present portrait of the way his world saw him and the price he paid to become history's greatest military mind. Alexander the Great: a wide-eyed boy from the hills of Macedon who ruled most of the known world by his...
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Soumen Sarkar - Thoughtful Tech and Affect over AI
Soumen Sarkar is a philosophical architect and technical product director, with 30 years of experience in Retail, internet, and telecommunications software. His expertise includes software engineering, system architecture, technical people development, product and program management. Soumen's...
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Mike Cote – Iran, US Foreign Policy and Marco Rubio
Mike Cote returns to the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner to discuss current events in the realm of US foreign policy. The recent NATO conference as well as the failure of the MOU between Iran and the US provides a wide canvas on which the fellas can paint. If we catch a break Dr Amber...
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Pete Horne - Sunwest Sales, Food Broker
Pete Horne is a food broker from Southern California. His company Sunwest Sales, is a decades old compnay that breaks brands that you reach for every day. Here's more on Sunwest's mission: Sunwest Sales collaborates with each principal to focus sales attention on areas that best serve the…
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Mother Mary – Set Me On Fire
MOTHERMARY makes retro-futuristic Art Pop. Named after the mother of Christ, the ultimate symbol of religious hypocrisy and the impossible expectations placed on women, the bicoastal project is the brainchild of identical twins Elyse & Larena, who grew up in a Mormon family in Missoula, Montana,...
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Chris Coglianese - Texas, Politics and Texas Policy
Chris Coglianese is back on the Break It Down Show talking about Texas, its policies and politics. Chris has served as a Texas Judge, which means he's the legal authority over the election at a polling place within his county. Beyond that, Chris is a seasoned veteran with lots of deployment time....
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Digital Black, Todd White and Alan Healy - Momma Said
🎙️ Getting The Gig welcomes Digital Black, Todd White & Alan Healy Some collaborations are more than just songs—they're full-circle moments. Today's conversation brings together three artists whose journeys helped shape different chapters of R&B history, each leaving a lasting imprint on the…
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Speech - Social Impact and Entrepreneurial Leadership in Music
Speech has successfully balanced creative innovation, social impact, and entrepreneurial leadership. As the founder and frontman of the groundbreaking hip-hop group Arrested Development, he helped redefine the sound and message of rap with Grammy-winning hits and award-winning videos that...
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Rick Hoppe - Rick's Rules, or Spy Truths
Rick Hoppe returns to the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner. Rick and Pete are seasoned CI Agents. That means they, at least the way they did it were spies. Spying has lots of rules, axioms, experiences...it's a craft and art as much as it is a profession. Pete and Rick discuss "Rick's Rules...
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Amber Brittain-Hale - Political Speeches
Dr Amber Brittain-Hale is live with Pete A Turner on the Break It Down Show. Amber specializes in political speech...and always has a lot to inform us when it comes to, not just what is being said, but how it's presented by the speech giver. Beyond that, how is the speech represented in media....
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Daddy-O - Stetsasonic
Few figures in hip-hop have worn as many hats—or worn them as successfully—as Daddy-O. As a rapper and founding member of the pioneering group Stetsasonic, he helped redefine what a hip-hop band could be, blending live instrumentation with innovative production and conscious, thought-provoking...
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Dan Bohmer – Agricultural Development Teams
Dan Bohmer deployed to Zabul Province Afghanistan. For a short time, Dan and Pete's deployments overlapped. During that time, our pal Dr Rich Ledet was on the ground with Pete. Among Dan's roles was working on the Agricultural Development Team line of effort. When the US goes abroad, she tends to...
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Lorraine Bencivengo-Ziff – The Queen of Slots
A veteran actress who has also worked as a social worker, paralegal, and entrepreneur, Lorraine brings a lifetime of unique opportunities turned into moments of fortune, flavored with personality, hard work, and driving mission to help others. She'll soon be seen on-screen in the new series...
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Will Feyen - The BJJ Project
Will is a Black Belt under multi-world champion Bruno Alves and trains regularly at SJJA Crows Nest in Sydney. Born in England, Will moved to Sydney at the age of 10 and started training BJJ at 14. Will has spent countless hours sparring and self-learning with high-level black belts including...
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Mike DeJong – Grow Smart
Mike DeJong first encountered aviation in 1987, a teenage Royal Canadian Air Cadet at the Central Region Gliding School. This early exposure ignited a lifelong passion, leading him to return to the world of flight in the 1990s as a tow pilot and glider instructor. For more on Mike head to...
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Pete A Turner - Counterintelligence Agent
Pete A Turner has the mic turned on him by frequent Break It Down Show guest Scott Richards. Scott and Pete have incredible conversations because of how they see the world and the rooms they've worked. In Scott's case, he's helping to negotiate international conflict resolutions, hostage releases...
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Ralph Johnson – Rhythm and Fire
Getting The Gig welcomes a true architect of the soundtrack to our lives. For more than five decades, he's helped keep the groove alive as a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, seven-time Grammy Award winner, percussionist, drummer, vocalist, songwriter, producer, arranger, martial artist, author, devoted...
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J Luke Bennecke - Blackout: Jake Bendel
Amidst the concrete jungles of Southern California, a master civil engineer became a world-renowned author, philanthropist, and daredevil pilot. While constructing bridges and highways, J. Luke Bennecke secretly plotted high-octane thrillers that became instant bestsellers. But his adventures...
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Zack Scott - Four Rings, A Championship Approach
Zack Scott is a 4 ringed MLB world champion. His efforts in helping to build world champion teams with the Boston Red Sox established Zack as a leader in leading organizations. Zack's approach applies to more than baseball. For more on Zack Scott head to fourringsports.com "The information is...
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Mike Cote - Rational Policy
Mike Cote is back to provide us wth an update on policy. As is always the case, the Trump administration is active and involved in many endeavors. The current Iranian situation is ever evolving, but calmer than a month ago. The Ukraine war continues to be relevant to the administration's goals.…
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Charles Lachman - They Shall Not See the Dawn
Charles Lachman is the author of six books: They Shall Not See the Dawn, Codename Nemo, Footsteps in the Snow, The Last Lincoln's, A Secret Life, and the crime novel, In the Name of the Law. He is also the executive producer of the nationally syndicated news magazine, Inside Edition. He has...
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Shanice - Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Nothing But the Hits
From "I Love Your Smile" to "Saving Forever For You," Shanice has always carried that rare kind of R&B warmth—the kind that doesn't just play in your ears, it stays with you. A Grammy-nominated vocalist with a five-octave range, her journey moves gracefully from chart-topping success to Broadway...
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Julian Fisher – The Intelligence Maven
A former British HUMINT specialist and author of Think Like a Spy, Julian Fisher shares espionage tradecraft adapted for everyday leadership, influence, and alliance-building with Pete A Turner. The two former field operatives explore the skills of intelligence officers—reading people…
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Pete A Turner explores great conversations across a vast array of topics and personalities. The Break It Down Show is over 10 years old and has published over 2000 episodes. Find Pete at @peteaturner on most social media sites.
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