Break It Down Show

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, Eringer has created and directed an intelligence service for Prince Albert II of Monaco. He divides his tim...

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 itself...and why it struggles to design and relize outcomes. Brad Hutchings sits in to cohost with Pete A Tui...

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 by Pete A Turner, Cullen Chapron and Brian Wetzel.

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.

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 public company CEO, Don Kurz has moved through wildly different worlds and carried a lesson out of every o...

🎙️ 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, cassette tapes, and cyphers where your reputation was earned one verse at a time. That's the world that s...

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 mid-twenties. For centuries, historians, refugees, poets, and explorers have told his story, and yet Alexan...

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 colleagues describe him as a driven, resourceful individual who maintains a positive, proactive attitude w...

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 Brittain-Hale will join in as we discuss how the world sees and communicates about foreign policy. Be sure t...

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 strategy and vision needed to achieve your goals. We have the experience and skills necessary to achieve all s...

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, the youngest of nearly a dozen children. "It was our world… our paradigm," Larena says about those days...

🎙️ 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 genre in their own way. Digital Black first earned his place in R&B history as a founding member of Playa,...

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. Pete and Chris are likely to discuss how the various US ventures abroad are progressing. This is Chris...

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 emphasized unity, culture, and positive change. Decades later, his influence continues to reach audiences arou...

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 for Intelligence Operations," which is a working document that Rick has developed over his decades in t...

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. There's much to discuss on the Break It Down Show In this Break It Down Show episode, Pete A. Turner and...

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 lyrics that entertained us alongside his witty party anthems. Beyond the stage, Daddy-O has built an impr...

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 create chaos. Rich, Dan and Pete are going to explore the challenges of stabilization operations in co...

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 "Un$uited" co-starring with Tom Arnold and Dan Lauria (playing The Goddess of Slots, of course), and is also...

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 Charles Negromente, who he teamed up with and produced a series of instructional videos. Will understands...

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 mikedejong.com In this spirit, Mike became an entrepreneur. Mike is a multi-business owner, keynote speaker, a...

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 and consulting with foreign governments to ease tensions. Pete is a rugged combat spy whose experience...

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 husband, proud father, and grandfather. As one of the enduring pillars of the legendary Earth, Wind &...

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 didn't end there. As a licensed real estate broker and general contractor, he built homes with the precisi...

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 rarely the problem. What degrades the call is what happens in the room when you commit: the pressure, the...