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Julia Maki Pyrah and Nico Cotroneo - Guardians & Civil Unrest DC - Julia Maki Pyrah is back with another book. Julia serves in the DC Air National Guard. In June of 2020, Julia deployed to protect the George Floyd protestors and limit the damage done by the rioters. The response to the Guard's presence was problematic. Notable folks like Sen Amy Klobuchar and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser were openly disdainful and combative. Similarly, the news was also negative, or dismissive of the task at hand.  Get on Amazon at Conversely, when Julia deployed as part of a division-sized, 28000 service members, element in DC-a truly outsized response, the media and Mayor Bowser were lauding the guard. So, what changed? This story and what it's like for folks like Julia to deploy within the US is covered in Guardians. Today's intro is provided by Chris Schafer who is the CEO of publishing company . Chris and Pete go back a few years now...and we love supporting their support for authors like Julia and Nick.  Check out the LIVE! version of the  -  Please support the Break It Down Show by doing a monthly subscription to the show  All of the money you invest goes directly to supporting the show! Haiku Deployed to support Then served glass infused pizza We're better than this Similar episodes: -   -   -  Join us in supporting Save the Brave as we battle PTSD.  Executive Producer/Host: Pete A Turner  Producer: Damjan Gjorgjiev  The Break It Down Show is your favorite best, new podcast, featuring 5 episodes a week with great interviews highlighting world-class guests from a wide array of shows.

Russ and Zoe Ellis – Oom Chugga Remix Challenge, Songs From the Garden - As his daughter Zoe would say, Russ’ album is more than just him finding his songwriting voice at 85, it’s his celebration of learning and doing. He is a participator in life and a connector of humans. Get on Berkeley Cat records berkeleycatrecords.com/category/russ-ellis This father-daughter duo joins us to discuss new songs, family ties, participating and enabling participation. chimed in, his Berkeley Cat Records produced Oom Chugga Remix #4. Oom Chugga Remix bassist and friend chimed in as well to complete the old “back yard crew”. Pete A Turner, Jon Leon Guerrero and the Break It Down Show proudly present family. Check out the LIVE! version of the - Please support the Break It Down Show by doing a monthly subscription to the show  All of the money you invest goes directly to supporting the show! Haiku Oom Chugga Remix Joined the creative forces That's a gift to Russ Similar episodes: - - - Join us in supporting Save the Brave as we battle PTSD. Executive Producer/Host: Pete A Turner Producer: Damjan Gjorgjiev The Break It Down Show is your favorite best, new podcast, featuring 5 episodes a week with great interviews highlighting world-class guests from a wide array of shows.

Rob Neyer & Jim DeFelice – Baseball Hall of Fame - and talk with Pete A Turner and the Baseball Hall of Fame.  Rob discusses his idea of a player needing 2 hooks.  Jack Morris had that great world series game 7.  Andy Pettie however doesn't quite have it.   The Baseball Hall of fame announces is 2021 class of players...and we're glad to post our thoughts on the day the hall makes the call.  Is it Curt Schilling?  Roger Clemens? Barry Bonds?  Gary Sheffield?  We'll talk about all of them.  Watch the   Please support the Break It Down Show by doing a monthly subscription to the show   All of the money you invest goes directly to supporting the show!   Thanks to Rob Neyer for today's introduction. Rob has been a fantastic supporter of the show from early on...and we're the better for it. Check out Rob's podcast at   Haiku It’s the baseball hall Rob and Jim sort their ballot Let’s see if they’re right ​Similar episodes:  -   -   -  Join us in supporting Save the Brave as we battle PTSD.  Executive Producer/Host: Pete A Turner  Producer: Damjan Gjorgjiev  The Break It Down Show is your favorite best, new podcast, featuring 5 episodes a week with great interviews highlighting world-class guests from a wide array of shows.

Jeffrey Reddick - Don't Look Back & Final Destination - Jeffrey Reddick returns to the Break It Down Show to discuss his directorial debut . During the last episode, we discussed Jeffrey's back story and how he developed as a screenwriter with New Line Cinema. Jeffrey hit an absolute smash with his Final Destination franchise. Watch on Amazon at Pete A Turner and Jeffrey talk about Don't Look Back, what it takes to make a movie like this, the actors, and some of his inspirations like Wes Craven. Jeffrey wasn't known as a director, but it sure seems like he's changed that now; don't look back. Watch the Thanks to Hilliard Guess for today's introduction. Hilliard introduced us to Jeffrey back when we first started coming to LA to record episodes. Check out Hill's podcast at Here's a great episode with Hilliard on BIDS Please support the Break It Down Show by doing a monthly subscription to the show   All of the money you invest goes directly to supporting the show! Haiku You’ve written the best Directorial debut Don’t you dare look back ​Similar episodes:  -   -   -  Join us in supporting Save the Brave as we battle PTSD.  Executive Producer/Host: Pete A Turner  Producer: Damjan Gjorgjiev  The Break It Down Show is your favorite best, new podcast, featuring 5 episodes a week with great interviews highlighting world-class guests from a wide array of shows.

Jordan Hodges and – The Shade Shepherd - The movie started out as, "Let's go to the woods and just improve and shoot a movie." Jordan Hodges had been working on Faulisi to make a movie for years. After several failed attempts...he got him The movie ended up becoming the Shade Shepherd. A tale of two brothers helping each other when drugs, the law and time all start to run short.  Watch the Here's what you'll love in this episode: Geoff Calhoun joins Pete as cohost-there's never enough Geoff in our lives, Jordan and Chris clearly love each other, finally, the way they talk about this film...you'll get why we featured these dudes.  Thanks to Michael Lipari for the fantastic Introduction. Check out his company Go Cheetah at also listen to the CEO of Go Cheetah on the Break It Down Show Please support the Break It Down Show by doing a monthly subscription to the show   All of the money you invest goes directly to supporting the show! Haiku Let’s go to the woods And improvise a movie Brothers on the run` ​Similar episodes:  -   -   -  Join us in supporting Save the Brave as we battle PTSD.  Executive Producer/Host: Pete A Turner  Producer: Damjan Gjorgjiev  The Break It Down Show is your favorite best, new podcast, featuring 5 episodes a week with great interviews highlighting world-class guests from a wide array of shows.

Andy Summers - Triboluminescence and Being the Limit - status as a legend was certified when he, and Sting formed As a band they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame. He's won several GRAMMYs and sold over 100 million albums. Andy's work on the keyboard and guitars gave texture to the incredible body of work he created with the band.  Check Andy's latest work The success of the Police ultimately enabled/forced Andy to find new things to explore as an artist. In particular photography...as he evolved past emulation, he discovered his own area for creation. Merging media now defines Andy as an artist. Music, improvisation, photography, spoken word and anything else that fits, that's how Andy pursues art. There's a great back story to this episode that Jon Leon Guerrero and Pete A Turner tell, you should ask them about it.  Please support the Break It Down Show by doing a monthly subscription to the show   All of the money you invest goes directly to supporting the show! Haiku Every song a hit It's Triboluminescence and pushing limits ​Similar episodes:  -   -   -  Join us in supporting Save the Brave as we battle PTSD.  Executive Producer/Host: Pete A Turner  Producer: Damjan Gjorgjiev  The Break It Down Show is your favorite best, new podcast, featuring 5 episodes a week with great interviews highlighting world-class guests from a wide array of shows.

Benjamin Madrid – No Place, Scam of the Century - Benjamin Madrid is a seasoned commercial actor, who also performs stand up comedy. Benjamin co-writes and stars in No Place a movie about a low level hustler who gets in deeper than he expects.  is cool watch it on Amazon at No Place is directed and co-written by Peter Matsoukas. We love Indie movies...and we love supporting . One of the things about Indie movies is there's a family in each project. In this case a new community of filmmakers had to be nurtured in Indianapolis (the location). Pete A Turner and Benjamin talk about the movie, Mac (Benjamin's character) and what it takes to build that family.  The  -    Thanks to Michael Broderick for the fantastic Introduction. Check out his short Fathers and Sons on Vimeo Head to Michael's charity Gallant Few gallantfew.org/ Please support the Break It Down Show by doing a monthly subscription to the show  All of the money you invest goes directly to supporting the show! Haiku No film industry To help in Indiana “No Place” film fixed that Similar episodes: - - - Join us in supporting Save the Brave as we battle PTSD.  Executive Producer/Host: Pete A Turner  Producer: Damjan Gjorgjiev  The Break It Down Show is your favorite best, new podcast, featuring 5 episodes a week with great interviews highlighting world-class guests from a wide array of shows.

Nicholas Joseph Cunha and Nicole Fahel - Bang! Bang! Movie - What do you do when you graduate from film school...be it from the acting, directing or other programs?  Why you make films of course. This is exactly what Nicholas and Nicole did with their movie .  at Pete A Turner discusses the filmmaking process with Nicole and Nicholas. They managed to get a 6 figure budget, shoot in Brazil and get Indican to pick up their movie.  Not bad for some emerging, yet talented moviemakers. Bang Bang is a heist movie...and it gets crazy fast.  Check out the LIVE! the version of the     Please support the Break It Down Show by doing a monthly subscription to the show  All of the money you invest goes directly to supporting the show!   Haiku The movie a heist The filmmakers undaunted A vision granted   Similar episodes: -  -   -    Join us in supporting Save the Brave as we battle PTSD.    Executive Producer/Host: Pete A Turner  Producer: Damjan Gjorgjiev  ​   The Break It Down Show is your favorite best, new podcast, featuring 5 episodes a week with great interviews highlighting world-class guests from a wide array of shows.

Celeste Butler - No Peace - is getting it done. Her parents said she couldn't start pursuing her pop music career until she was 16. Celeste's response was to book an audition on her 16th birthday-and she nailed it. Celeste went on to get a BA and MFA from USC founding her pop dreams with education.  Get all the news on She entered a contest judged by John JR Robinson...and won. JR mentioned her on the Break It Down Show...and now here we are, on JR's birthday being inspired by Celeste and her approach to music. JR, Jon Leon Guerrero and Pete A Turner host this incredible conversation. Check out the LIVE! the version of the    Please support the Break It Down Show by doing a monthly subscription to the show  All of the money you invest goes directly to supporting the show!   Haiku It's, Ain't Nobody And a 4 bar idea Look OUT! It's Celeste   Similar episodes:  -  -  -    Join us in supporting Save the Brave as we battle PTSD.    Executive Producer/Host: Pete A Turner  Producer: Damjan Gjorgjiev  ​   The Break It Down Show is your favorite best, new podcast, featuring 5 episodes a week with great interviews highlighting world-class guests from a wide array of shows.

Phil Chalmers – Where the Bodies are Buried - life work involves getting to know, befriend and understand serial killers. Along the way, he's spoken with notable serial killers like Dennis Rader, the BTK killer. At his best, Phil is creating closure for families of victims. His decades of work understanding the murderous mind enables him to create paths to confessions solving the unsolvable. Phil tells these stories on his show   Get all of Phil's at   Phil's book, , reveals clear identifiers of school shooters. He also presents the habits and practices that killers display on their way to the unthinkable. During the show, as Phil talks about serial killers calling him to talk, Eddie Seda the Copy Cat Zodiac ACTUALLY calls in and appears briefly on the show. Shelley Klingerman and Pete A Turner Host this impossibly good episode.   Check out the LIVE! the version of the   Please support the Break It Down Show by doing a monthly subscription to the show All of the money you invest goes directly to supporting the show!   Haiku Serial Killers Send Phil pictures of his wife Yet, he writes them back   Similar episodes: - - - ​   Join us in supporting Save the Brave as we battle PTSD.   Executive Producer/Host: Pete A Turner Producer: Damjan Gjorgjiev ​   The Break It Down Show is your favorite best, new podcast, featuring 5 episodes a week with great interviews highlighting world-class guests from a wide array of shows.