Break It Down Show

Hosting Johnny Walker on an ep is a good day. Johnny & Pete go back nearly 20 years, to their time working together in Mosul Iraq. If you've not read Johnny's book Code Name Johnny Walker, you need to. You've never heard a story quite like Johnny's  MSG Juan Mata, freshly retired from the Green Berets fills us in on what's next for this elite warrior. Feeling called to give back some of the training the US military provided him, Juan teaches tactical skills through his company Quiet Pro Tactical LLC.

Jan Rutherford is an elite level leadership consultant. Jan is joined by hosts Pete A Turner and Tom Coyle. Jan and the fellas discuss leadership and the value of employees. Jan notes that 95% of companies will spend less if any time measuring leadership interaction with it's employees. 

Get more about Jan's work at selfreliantleadership.com

The basic advice from Jan is: be interested, read more, and work to ensure that your crew understands what's expected, what's next and that they're valued.

One of our favorite guests, we say this a lot don't we, is Dr Robert Greenberg. If you hear our smiles, it's cuz Dr Bob is an absolute joy to talk with. If you don't already know, Dr. Greenberg is THE voice in bringing literate music to the masses. His work with the Teaching Company (where you should buy his courses) redefined how people learn.

Whether it's historic figures like Bach, Wagner or Mozart--or genres like Opera or Quartets, there's a lecture that will fill your mind with wonder and knowledge.

Steve S Ryan is the best comedian among flight attendants. He is also the best flight attendant among comedians. He chose telling dick jokes as a profession since he was 17 years old thanks to an open mic night and is hooked ever since.

Our guest Steve, Comedian Matt Balaker and our host, Pete A Turner have a fun chat about comedy, addiction and how are we going to get out of this COVID mess and get back into comedy clubs. Soon we'll be back to it and doing live shows at Bastards Canteen in Temecula.

Matt Braynard heads up the Voter Integrity Project. Matt built out a call center and dove into the data. Among their sources are commonly available postal address records, voter roles and phone numbers. 

The team looked for several things: Instances of people voting in 2 states, fictitious addresses used to register, Identifying when people didn't vote, yet were recorded as having voted -- people who voted with no record of a ballot received at the state. What did they find, you're about to find out

Suzi Quatro started playing in bands in 1964. Rock and Roll was still a new genre...and the list of female musicians, she plays bass, fronting rock bands begins with Suzi. Her peers are Grace Slick, Tina Turner & Debbie Harry. With over 60 million albums sold and dozens of releases, Suzi among the most successful musicians of all time. Jon Leon Guerrero & Pete A Turner host Suzi on a brilliant chat about her career & what's next. A bit of advice, don't ever tell Suzi to use a pick when playing her bass.

Jeff Pearlman comes back to the Break It Down Show to discuss his latest book, Three-Ring Circus. From 2000-2002 Shaquille O'Neil's Lakers coached by Phil Jackson were the dominant NBA franchise. Each year they won a title. We could also write--From 2000-2002 Kobe Bryant's Lakers coached by Phil Jackson were the dominant NBA franchise. Each year they won a title. The whole thing worked and it truly was a circus. Jeff completed over 1000 interviews compiling data for this fantastic book.

Steve Tyszka returns to share his latest business with us on the Break It Down Show. Steve is joined by his CTO Brian Lau. The company is called Trubify. 

Check out Trubify at trubify.com

Pete A Turner navigates us through a conversation explaining the vision and ethos of Trubify. Steve and Brian-also musicians-explain the seemingly limitless potential for the platform. Getting musicians paid, labels paid and performers paid is the goal...and we think they've cracked the code.

Vincent is a young RnB singer who hails from Birmingham, UK. Vincent has the musical spirit of the city in his veins, having birthed talents such as UB40, Ozzy Osbourne and Steel Pulse. His songs Baby Oh I was BBC Radio', Track of the Week. 

Vincent Darby at www.officialvincentdarby.com 

We talk about his love for soul music, his lovemaking-friendly songs, his vision to become one of the most successful “Brummies,” Jon Leon Guerrero and Pete A Turner host this fantastic episode of the Break It Down

Has worked in music throughout his life. He was a musician, a technician and a go-to pro who got "It" done. When Sir George Martin said, I'm building a studio in the Caribbean, Malcolm was on the crew that built it and made Air Studios in Montserrat a reality. Malcolm works with our friend Wes Maebe frequently. When Wes said, we need to hear some of Malcolm's stories, we said yes. Jon hosts this episode and it's fantastic.  Now we just need to get another session from the incredible life of Malcolm Atkin.