Break It Down Show

Eddie Gore – Playing for Keeps - Eddie Gore, a Nashville native, is one of the few producers in the record business possessing the great ears of a player/arranger with the ability to engineer the most demanding recording in any musical style. Check out Eddie's work at eddiegore.com or at eddieandjusty.com When Steve Cropper, Legendary Memphis guitarist and songwriter, decided to step away from the...

The DOC - No Longer Carrying the Pain - Growing up in the 80's means that Pete A Turner and his age peers witnessed the birth of Rap and Hip Hop. One of the most influential bands of all time was born in that era. NWA, exploded on the scene with raps that wound founded in Dr Dre's sample-centric beats and the magic of Ice Cube and The DOC's raps. Part of the evolution of DOC is re-acquiring Tracy...

Don Frazier - History of the Old West – Donald S. Frazier is the Director of The Texas Center at Schreiner University in Kerrville, Texas and a veteran of several decades in the college classroom. He is the award-winning author of books on the American Civil War, Texas History, Military History, and the US-Mexican Borderlands. Get Don's book Blood and Treasure on Amazon: amzn.to/3KbzoXb Don Frazie...

David Eubank - Free Burma Rangers - The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) is a multi-ethnic humanitarian service movement working to bring help, hope and love to people in the conflict zones of Burma, Iraq, and Sudan. Working in conjunction with local ethnic pro-democracy groups, FBR trains, supplies, and later coordinates with what become highly mobile multipurpose relief teams. After training these teams...

John Murray – Counterintelligence Agent Abroad - John Murray and Pete A Turner were both Counterintelligence Agents in the 165th Military Intelligence Battalion. During their tour in Germany, the Dayton Peace Accords attempted to border peace in the crumbling and lethal Balkans. As members of the IFOR forces deployed to ensure that peace, the 165th deployed and scattered around the region. Deploye...

Chris Goulstone - Chapel of Rock - Producing TV and Film music for over twenty years with over 100 albums to his name, Chris Goulstone works from Sambourne House Studios, providing cutting edge tracks for shows around the globe. Chris Goulstone runs the Chapel of Rock. chapelofrock.com When Wes says, "You should have...on the show" Pete stops what he's doing and books the guest. Chris is a wealth...

Erik Kleinsmith - DB Cooper, Hoffa, Zodiac, Cracking the Coldest Cases - Erik Kleinsmith Erik has authored books on intelligence analysis, found the 9/11 hijackers BEFORE 9/11, helped solve the DB Cooper case...and a lot more. Erik used to be Pete A Turner's commander in Bosnia when they were in the might 165th MI Bn. You'd imagine that commanding a company of spies would be the pinnacle of one's...

Chris Bell - Chapel of Rock, Drummer - Chris Bell is known as a drummer. However, our buddy Wes Maebe says Chris can do it all. As a drummer, Chris' credits include Big Country (this band is a personal fav for those of us who grew up on the Quake in San Francisco) Thompson Twins, Donovan, Plant/Page, Gene Loves Jezebel and BIDS alum Raie. Check out the Chapel of Rock at chapelofrock.com Chris is p...

Dave Matheny – The Silencer Shop - Dave Matheny founded the Silencer Shop. It's interesting when we hear the word silencer for guns, we have images in our head that likely have no bearing in reality. For most people, the next time they see a silencer in real life, will be the first time. To learn more head to the SIlencer Shops website silencershop.com For most people, silencers are something from...

David Pietrusza - 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents - The presidential election of 1920 was one of the most dramatic ever. For the only time in the nation's history, six once-and-future presidents hoped to end up in the White House: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Theodore Roosevelt. It was an election that saw unprecedented lev...

Nathan Gorenstein – The Guns of John Browning - Nathan Gorenstein offers the first major biography of John Moses Browning, "the Thomas Edison of guns," brings to life a visionary inventor whose astonishing array of firearms have shaped American culture and armed the world's militaries for more than a century. Get Nathan's book on Amazon at amzn.to/3q4ceJB Visit Nathan's website thegunsofjohnmosesb...

Jack Hues - We Gotta Work Together - Jack Hues is the singer-songwriter and composer best known as the frontman for Wang Chung. In standard times Jack would have spent most of 2020 performing in the USA and Europe promoting his first solo album, PRIMITIF but as the pandemic shut the world down Jack set his living room up as a studio and began writing and recording ideas. Go to JackHues.com to lear...

Pete A Turner – Customary Disregard for Religion - Sometimes, Pete A Turner is the guest on the Break It Down Show. Our host for this episode is Dr Wilfred Reilly. Wil is covering Pete and Dr Rich Ledet's recent academic article discussing the impact of religion on operations in Conflict Zones. This article was published in The Challenge to NATO Global Security and the Atlantic Alliance get this b...

Mike Guardia - Skybreak, the 58th Fighter Squadron - Mike Guardia returns to the Break It Down Show to talk military history with Pete A Turner. Mike cranks out books at a pace that makes us shudder. We'll discuss the 58th Fighter Squadron, the top MiG Killers of Operation Desert Storm. To support Eric J Turner's family, go to the donation link: gofund.me/8684337c or hit Pete on FB, DM etc. Get Mi...

Matthew Dennison - The Queen - Matthew Dennison is the author of eight critically acclaimed works of non-fiction, a journalist and broadcaster. He read English at Christ Church, Oxford, as Douglas Jerrold Scholar, and afterwards the History of Decorative Arts at the University of Glasgow. Get Matthew's last book on Amazon at The Queen: An elegant new biography of Her Majesty Elizabeth II amzn.to/3...

Adrian Goldsworthy – The Fort - Adrian Goldsworthy is a British historian and novelist who specializes in ancient Roman history. Adrian Goldsworthy attended Westbourne School, Penarth. He then read Ancient and Modern History at St John's College, Oxford, completing a D.Phil. in ancient military history from the University of Oxford in 1994. That dissertation laid the foundation of his first book,...

Jon Klein - Guitarist for Siouxsie, Specimen and Sinead O'Connor - Jon Klein is a producer and multi instrumentalist. His career started in the 70's playing with several seminal and influential bands in the Post Punk family of genres. Apparently, he also likes to play in bands with S's...Siouxsie, Sinead, Shriekback, Specimen, Space Tribe... Connect with Jon on FB Jon's found success all over the...

Randall Reeves - The Figure 8 Voyage - Born and raised in Northern California, Randall Reeves, 57, grew up reading and dreaming of the sea. He learned to sail on the rivers of central California and often "borrowed" the family sailboat for solo ventures to the San Francisco Bay. These turned out to be formative escapades. While in college, Randall interviewed world-famous solo sailor, Bernard Moit...

Irina Skaya – Comedy LIVE on Stage - Irina Skaya is a comedian who's taken over LA. Her windy road to the big league of comedy began in Ukraine, where she's born. She grew up in Tucson Arizona. Then she traveled to London and studied theatre, film, and creative writing. Irina moved to Los Angeles a few years ago to pursue standup. She's worked all the big LA clubs and is ready to get back on stage...

Aurora Winter - Turn Words Into Wealth - Aurora Winter combines the best of Silicon Valley with the best of Hollywood. Using her expertise in film and neuroscience, she helps people tell memorable stories that build brands, books, and businesses. A leader who is a published author and a powerful public speaker has a huge advantage in marketing, sales, and advertising. Through her books, courses, a...

Michael Julian – Active Shooter Survival -. Michael trained under his father and founder of National Business Investigations, Ron Julian, becoming involved in the family business at a young age, assisting his father in many forms of investigations. He majored in Administration of Justice in college where he was inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa International Scholastic Order for academic achieveme...

Deborah Stone – Counting, Numbers & Decisions - Deborah Stone has taught at Brandeis for decades. Her books have often become the standard for understanding policy and decision making. Dr. Stone has taught at Brandeis, MIT and a variety of other places… She's got roots in political science as well as other social sciences. Her latest book Counting explains the fallibility of numbers. Get Counting...

Mitch DeVore – Counterintelligence & Psy OPS - Pete has known Mitch De Vore for nearly 30 years. They met in the Army during Counterintelligence school. Because being a badass counterintelligence agent isn't enough, Mitch transitioned over to Psychological Operations. With Deployments to Kosovo and the Middle East. Of course, Mitch can't just be a badass PsyOps warrior...his day job has him doing...

Chase Hughes - Advanced Human Skills, Influence and Persuasion - Chase Hughes is a leader in the intelligence and human dynamics space. Chase spent almost a decade deciphering the human matrix. In an effort to locate the farthest 'wall' where human influence ended, Chase discovered that it didn't. He began to develop a map for influence and behavior profiling to enable people in our agencies to re...

Mandy Barnett - Every Star Above - Mandy Barnett, one of Nashville's enduring musical treasures who has showcased her mesmerizing voice on stages across the globe, started singing at five years-old. She has been singing since. Barnett's style is rooted in the classic country and pop crooning of iconic singers and timeless sounds. She delves into a song with a keen interpretative sense, getting rig...