Harold Brown - We're celebrating episode 600, with our guest Harold Brown, the legendary drummer from the band War. Get in this show, Jon put it together and flexes his producer muscle hard.

Pete A Turner and Jon Leon Guerrero spoke with Harold and discussed his life growing up in Long Beach, and the groups struggle to establish itself as an iconic band, hall of fame worthy band. Special shout to Jon for taking the extra time and detail to polish up this episode into something special.

Our guest is show Producer and Co-Host, Scott Huesing. Scott as many of you know is an integral part of the show, Oh, and an Award Winning and Best Selling author. His initial book is called, Echo In Ramadi.

Pete A Turner and Scott sit down at El Rancho de Huesing to close season 6. Congratulations to everyone in the BIDS family, we've all made this happen together.

A special shout to our big brothers, Jay Mohr and Hilliard Guess. without their support, none of this is possible; we are forever indebted.

Richard is the founder and CEO of 70 Million Jobs, a project helping former inmates return to normal everyday life. Richard was a partner at the infamous Wolf of Wall Street firm, Stratton Oakmont. Two months from Richard's release from prison, he realized he had nothing, no money, no place to live, no ability to get a job. Then he saw an opportunity.

Pete A Turner brings Richard back for a second visit to the show for an update and the news gets better every time.

Steve Taylor is a city council member in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. Here on the show, we're big fans of Upper Hutt for one simple reason, No, it's not the thriving craft brew industry, nor is it the Order of the Boar International Jousting competition...it's our friend and this episode's co-host Cat Conner. Cat is the author of the Byte series and a former and future guest. Pete A Turner, gives us wanderlust as we talk about the best the Wellington region of New Zealand offers.

Jeff Bosley is a former Green Beret operative turned Hollywood actor. Combining his previous work as an SF medic with, he aims to be the next Jack Reacher taking over the role from Tom Cruise.

He shares stories of his time serving and doing his fair share of stunts, going back and forth through the various experiences from both worlds and how they shaped him to be the star we all know and love.

Haiku

Jeff The Almighty

Ex SF, now Hollywood

Reacher in real life

Don Vandergriff is the author of the Mission Command series and one of the first 30 guests we've had on the show, ONE OF THE OGs!

After nearly 600 episodes Don joins us to talk about his newest book in the Mission Command series that shows how you gotta make the right calls at the right time rather than trying to make multiple correct calls and it displays the difficulty bestowed onto the fine men serving. Listen to an all new episode of the Break It Down Show with Pete A. Turner.

Richard Siegel – Mr. Siegel Writes Washington - Rich Siegel is a writer who works across a variety of platforms. His blog is spectacular, the kind of writing that takes you on a multi-post journey that you come out of an hour later thoroughly entertained. He's also written several books based on his blog posts.

As a freelance writer, Richard has written for brands like Clorox, Google, Whole Foods, Toyota, NetFlix, Sony, Coca-Cola, BMW--which is to say, Richard is great with words and funny as can be.

Rory Kennedy - Above and Beyond, Racing to Space to Save Us All - Rory Kennedy is a documentary maker of the highest order. In her latest documentary, Above and Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow, her uncle's speech opens and closes the movie. 

Hosts Jon Leon Guerrero and Pete A Turner host Rory how discussing her storytelling. 

Next, Rory enlists Trevor Neilson, CEO of IX Investments, an investing platform stared with Howard Warren Buffett.

In an effort to feature brilliant minds that lend perspective to challenging topics, we offer Dr. Victor Davis Hanson. Victor earned a PhD in history and has spent his career writing books that his peers rave about. While we'll absolutely spend more time with Victor and his WWII books. Today's episode is about his latest, The Case For Trump. 

Rather than focus on hysteria, or hyperbole, Pete wanted to find someone who could deliver a reasonable view that would be consumable to all.

Writers like Gregg are truly unique talents. Gregg writes across a variety of media: graphic novels, traditional novels, screenplays, political speeches. You should pre-order Gregg's book Into the Fire, part of his Orphan X series. We're also told Gregg's latest screenplay was picked up by Netflix and it appears that Jason Mamoa is playing a role.

Gregg joins hosts, fellow best-selling author Scott Huesing and Pete A Turner and the fellas talk about rational thought despite political discord and life.