Tim is the author of Arabs: A 3000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires. This book is an absolute tome of knowledge. Anyone who seeks to understand Islam, or Arabs must have a command of Tim's power book.  

Tim is joined by our host Pete A Turner and co-host COL John McKay. John after reading, Arabs, suggested we grab Tim for a show. At that time, Tim lived in war-torn Yemen, his home for decades...currently, he lives in Malaysia., so this is truly an international episode.

This episode brings us Robin Dreeke, Robin is a best-selling author, professional speaker, trainer and retired FBI Special Counterintelligence Agent.

As counterintelligence agents, Robin Dreeke and Pete A Turner were constantly sizing people up and gaining their trust. In this #spyvsspy episode, the guys talk about using trust as a means for extracting information. 

Robin breaks down the art of leadership, communication, and relationship building into Five Steps to build trust.

Pete A Turner and co-host Chris Shafer (CEO of Tactical16) are joined by best-selling author Bob Dvorchak, a war-focused journalist of 44 years and winner of multiple journalism awards.

All three of them have a connection to the military one way or another and get into a discussion about what soldiers experience and go through in ground level and dangerous situations both in the Vietnam War and in modern warfare and how non-military people don’t always get the ground truth or receive only a part of it.

Dr. Boris Havel, from the U of Zagreb joins Pete A Turner and Dr. Timothy Furnish on the Break It Down Show. Pete met Boris during a conference at Troy University in Montgomery, Alabama. Boris is an expert on Islam and the Orient. Since we're talking about Islam, we grabbed our in-house expert Dr. Tim to join us and help us ask the right questions. The fellas discuss Iran, Islam...and make light of how folks think these guys are Islamophobes when their life's work and passion is focused on the topics.

Jerome Preisler joins Pete A Turner for his 2nd visit to the Break It Down Show. Jerome and Pete recorded during the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge at Bastogne. That battle was broken open in part by Jake McNeice and his Pathfinders ultra-heroic actions. You are going to LOVE this story--you MUST get the book. Also, Jerome has rebooted Tom Clancy's Net Force series with a new book called Net Force, Dark Web. Jerome describes pitching the Clancy estate on re-igniting the franchise.

Mike Waltz returns to BIDS, this time as a US Representative to Congress for Florida's 6th District. Mike's been a lot of things, namely, a Green Beret and a senior advisor to both the Secretary of Defense and the Vice President during a long career of distinguished service. We look to Mike to understand more of the day to day life of a representative. We learn what issues matter, where he invests his time, and how does one tackle the enormous learning curve for becoming an elected representative.

Anna Vocino – Eat Happy Too, Anna’s Crazy Idea is Quite Delicious - Pete A. Turner welcomes back Anna Vocino. Anna has been many things in her life, including a campaign finance advisor.  She's also an actor, a voice actor, stand up comedian,  podcast host and an author of cookbooks.

Anna latest book is  Eat Happy Too which is packed with 160+ grain-free, gluten-free, low carb recipes.

Mikey Bee comes back on the Break It Down Show after working for a world-famous brand. As he checked in each day at the corporate headquarters he couldn't find his, "Why?" So he worked to find his purpose. Mikey has put a lot of rounds down range and always wanted to find better targets to shoot at.  Which brings us to "Hans" Mikey's 3-D target that vastly improves the training effect over paper targets. Mikey and OL Pedro immediately after leaving this recording session helped save a man's life.

Cat Connor is the author of the Byte crime thriller series. Her novels follow a serial crimes investigative team lead by Senior Special Agen Ellie Conway. Cat and Pete A Turner discuss Cat's latest in the series, Vapor Byte. 

As Cat has progressed through the series, her characters have become a central part of her life; often demanding as much time as her children.

She's also co-Director and co-founder of 'Writers Plot bookshop': The only bookshop in the world that only stocks Kiwi authors.

Marchelle and Kathy are back talking about

Charity with Pete A Turner. The ladies continue to push the

Boundaries between giving and gifts adding in a new crypto

charity features to the Charity On Top platform.

Charity isn't just money...it's also time, location,

presence etc. Simply giving rides in support of a charity, or

running errands is a huge boost to what we can all do to help.

It's always fun to check in with Kathy and Marchelle, our

question is, how are you giving?