Our views and musings on the city of Knoxville, TN. Some great music from local artists and culture, culture, culture!
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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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Robin Dreeke Returns to the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner. Robin is discussing his new book Unbreakable Allies. Robin and Pete always vibe well and inspire one another. This will be a great episode. Get Unbreakable Alliances: A Spy Recruiter’s Authoritative Guide to Cultivating Powerful and Lasting Connectionsamzn.to/3YQcDB6 A blub from Rob…
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Dan Goldbacher and Scott Weldy – OC Bird of Prey Center
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58:50How's this for cool? We're hanging with Scott Weldy and Dan Goldbacher who study and work with birds of prey at the Orange County Bird of Prey Center. Dan Goldbacher and Scott Weldy are experts in birds of pretty. How we managed their habitat is one of the most fascinating things you'll encounter. Joining us from the Irvine Ranch Conservancy is Dav…
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Brad Hutchings – AI and The Median Baseball Player
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1:06:45Brad Hutchings returns to discuss AI. Pete A Turner of the Break It Down Show has been working to use AI in some of his projects. He tried to find the Median debut for all baseball players. He did the work to find Detroit Tiger phenom, Jim Proctor who today is the middle player in all players, based on debut date, in MLB history (per baseball refer…
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Episode 1: Devin Pressley - New Experiences in Real Estate
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14:01Devin Pressley has had a very interesting journey into his career in real estate agency. We talk about it.
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Matt Tardio - The Impact of Trump's Policies
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1:14:57Post military career former Green Beret Matt Tardio hit the ground running. HIs company tardioconsultinggroup.com focuses on Risk Management, SOP development and other custom solutions for companies. Beyond Matt's consulting work he runs the Speak The Truth channel on YouTube @SpeakTheTruthActual Pete A Turner hosts Matt to talk about practical tac…
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Tony Tost – Directing Movie, Poker Face and Cinema
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1:03:37Director Tony Tost returns to the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner. Tony hit Hollywood running. The perfect man to take Craig Johnson's brilliant Longmire series to the small screen. Since climbing the ranks at Longmire, Tony has directed/written several projects. Tony created the series Damnation. Then he directed the 2nd season of The Terror…
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Everett De Morier - All About Everett
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1:04:32Everett De Morier became a professional writer in 1994, when he sold a copy of his son’s ultrasound picture along with an article entitled “My Wife Is Having the Reincarnation of Elvis” to the Weekly World News. For this, he received fifty dollars and a Bat Boy T-shirt. Get Everett's latest book In the Ghost Shadows with Peter Chin on Amazon at amz…
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Ronnie Simpson - Yacht Racing and Open Ocean Adventures
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41:46In 2024 both Ronnie Simpson and Bryan Fuller had an ocean adventure. Ronnie was solo sailing in a race around the world. Bryan doing one of the only Atlantic crossings from Boston to London in a rowboat. Neither event is simple or easy. Both men are experts. Each mission failed...and both boats were abandoned during their attempts. Bryan and Ronnie…
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Howard Blum – When the Night Comes Falling
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58:20Howard Blum is an investigative journalist who has drawn his attention to the Brian Kohberger quadruple murder case. Brian is accused to have murdered 4 co-eds in Moscow Idaho. The Case has been a national sensation. The biggest question is why? Why did this happen. Pete A Turner and Brook Urick welcome Howard to the Break It Down Show. Get When th…
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Dan McLaughlin – The New York Mets and Donald Trump
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1:09:33Dan McLaughlin is a head writer for the National Review. His body of work covers a ton of ground from a deeply researched history of slavery to critiques of US foreign policy under Donald Trump. Dan is also a noted baseball blogger under the monicker, Baseball Crank. Dan has one more bit of baseball bona fides that's become known through the Break …
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Larry Sanger – Why I am A Christian
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1:07:15Larry Sanger is one of the founders of WIkipedia. Since then he's taken on a litany of projects including Everipedia, ZWI Book, a Declaration of Independence, he started his own social media platform sangerfeed.org, and he converted to Christianity. Get a Slick ZWI USB drive with nearly 70000 books at shop.encyclosphere.org/product-category/zwibook…
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Peter Chin & Everett De Morier – The Ghost Shadows
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56:12As the US struggles with its relationship with immigrants we offer the story of Chin Chit Chuey, AKA Peter Chin who came to the US with his family. Struggled with an abusive family life and li out for the Streets. The Ghost Shadow gang became his family and he became their Dai Lo "Capo." It couldn't last, Rikers and the Jade Squad were always battl…
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Morgan Lerette - Your Tax Dollars = Migrant Child Trafficking
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1:20:30DOGE is holding to account various Departments within the US government, As our comprehension of fraud waste and abuse, other crimes grows, we're also beginning to realize the full impact of unchecked agencies. Policies intended to create positive impacts to humanity are now shown to have the opposite impact. Our desire to be compassionate has caus…
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Gregg Hurwitz is a New York Times best-selling author. He's also educated by Jordan Peterson. Gregg has appeared on the Break It Down Show, AND on Jordan's show...you may draw your own conclusions about that. Gregg and Pete A Turner hit if off several years ago during a Break It Down Show recording session at Gregg's house. That has led to many con…
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Army Command Sergeant Major John Wayne Troxell served as the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the senior noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Armed Forces, from Dec. 11, 2015, until his retirement on Dec. 13, 2019. In this role, he served as the principal military advisor to the Chairman and the Secretary of …
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Tim Grover - Barnstorming Babe Ruth
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1:02:27Babe Ruth is probably the biggest cultural figure of the 20th century. Nearly 100 years after his death, his name remains relevant. In 1922, after losing the World Series to the cross bridge rival NY Giants, Babe Ruth and Bob Muesel departed for a barnstorming tour of the Mid West. Tim Grover, a Mid West kid from Iowa took to this story and wrote a…
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Hasard Lee – The Art of Clear Thinking
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1:00:26JUSTIN "HASARD" LEE is a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and an International bestselling author known for his work in leadership, decision-making, and change management. He specializes in applying lessons from the cockpit along with the latest research to transform how organizations approach strategy, culture, and innovation. He works with a d…
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Brooks Crenshaw & Wil Reilly - Trump, Policy and the Golden Era
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1:09:19Brooks Crenshaw and Dr Wilfred Reilly join Pete A Turner on the Break It Down Show. A lot of going on in the world today. President Trump is moving fast, and fulfilling campaign promises...but is this a good thing? Pete A Turner and the folks at the Break It Down Show are working to bring some insight and some reason to this new/old administration.…
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Scott Richards – The Israel vs Palestine Cease Fire Phase 1
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1:03:02Scott Richards returns to the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner. Scott's influence on the negotiations between Hamas and families is undeniable. Further, Scott has helped international partners seek to bring an end to the violence fomented on 7OCT 2023 when the terrorist group Hamas attacked Israel. Now that Israel and Palestine have entered a …
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Brad Hutchings and I continue our discussion of AI and it's practical applications in the business world. Be sure to get to BradHutchings.com to learn more about what Brad is up to...Pete A Turner and the Break It Down Show are proud to present Brad Hutchings and AI.By Pete A Turner
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Allona Kagan earned her BA in Art History from UC Berkley and MA in Arts Administration from Columbia University. Art spirituality and writing are her life long passions. A reiki healer and a channel, she connects to spiritual source for inspiration for her life and writing. She lives in Marin county, California. Allona joins Pete A Turner on the B…
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Ben Buehler-Garcia – American Warrior Radio
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1:00:48Because he never wore a uniform or carried a badge, Ben Buehler-Garcia has always considered it his duty to support those who do. When the creator of American Warrior Radio died unexpectedly, Ben decided to jump in with both feet knowing nothing about the radio business. At first his plan was for it just to be a weekend labor of love, often subsidi…
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Sebastian Bae – Littoral Games For Real Wars
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1:11:49Sebastian Bae joins Pete A Turner and Brad Hutchings live on the Break It Down Show to discuss how games help improve performance in complex situations. Sebastian is widely regarded as an expert in the field of applying games and strategy to real world performance. Sebastian J. Bae’s work principally focuses on wargaming, emerging technologies, the…
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Alex Sanfilippo – PodMatch and Podcasting
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1:10:48Alex Sanfilippo is a founder of PodMatch a service that supports podcast producers, hosts and guests. PodMatch was created to serve you in your podcasting journey on either side of the microphone Check out PodMatch at podmatch.com PodMatch elevates the voices of independent podcast hosts and guests to maximize their impact…
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Julian Fisher - Spies and the Art of Influence and Alliances
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1:18:32Julian Fisher is a seasoned field operative like our own Pete A Turner. Yep, this is a Spy vs Spy episode. Julian has authored a book called "Think Like a Spy." Discover the secret skills of influence and persuasion taught to intelligence officers and learn how to adapt them to win over personal and professional allies to your cause. Get Think Like…
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Jon Shaivitz is an LA-based feature film writer/director originally from Baltimore, Maryland. Jon learned the fundamentals of screenwriting and filmmaking from his early days interning and working as a Set PA on TV shows for HGTV, National Geographic and industrial video content for Rock Creek Productions of Washington DC where he also got first ha…
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