Our guest is author Bill Riley. Gaby Jeurgens is Pete A Turner's co-host on this episode. Bill is an author w Brown Books Publishing Group. Bill book examines his life as an Air Force officer, his time in combat, and how his parents shaped his life. Bill discusses his dad's lessons in rabbit hunting keeping him & his team alive in combat. He gets into his mom's mental illness & how her ability to illustrate fantasy was a blessing, but her inability, through mental disease, to deal w reality & life.

Our guest on this ep of the Break It Down Show is Sean Kanan. Sean is an actor with dozens of credits to his name. Yep, he's the bad guy from Karate Kid III, but, he's also starred in 100's of daytime shows, like General Hospital as AJ Quartermaine, Young & the Restless and Bold & the Beautiful as Deacon Sharpe. Sean is more than just an actor. he's also a black belt martial artist, a multi-lingual actor-he appeared on the Italian dancing with the stars, and an author with his latest book Success Factor X.

We love swimming, we love the beach and we love getting on or in the water.  So we thought we'd explore more of the waterman conversation with our guest, Jeff Utsch. Jeff is an elite level Master's class swimmer, swim marathoner and coach for US Navy SEALs. 

Jeff and Pete A Turner discuss a variety of topics about swimming. How and why do SEALs need to learn the combat side-stroke? The value of getting in and around water for one's mental, physical and spiritual health.

The Break It Down Show welcomes, Damjan Gjorgiev to the show. Jon and Pete in an effort to improve the show brought Damjan onto the team to allow him to continue to improve the quality of the show, while the fellas put work into more future-focused projects.  Damjan is from Macedonia. Technically, North Macedonia a country in the former Yugoslavia or what's regionally known as the Balkans. Damjan also produces podcasts for a number of other clients with over 1000 episodes produced.

Album Fight Recently, a number of Break It Down Show family members create mixtapes of cover songs 

The preliminary rounds were done off-line and feature dozens of great songs. Today we're featuring 2 of our semi-finalists head to head. Dan Ruppert's list, featuring Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt, and Jimi Hendrix's All Along the Watch Tower vs Dr. Tim Furnish's list also feat Jimi's Watch Tower, EWF's cover of Got To Get You Into My Life, Our judges are host, Mike Lipari, Brian Theis and Todd Nemet

Lisa Loverro, the Managing Editor of Shape magazine sits down with WhereTraveler Podcast host, and Editor In Chief of WhereTraveler San Francisco, Teresa Rodriguez. 

Lisa and Teresa talk about how Lisa manages her day job while keeping fit herself. Lisa's health and beauty tips when she grabs her jump rope, an essential Lisa fitness tip, and hits the road. Teresa talks to Loverro about her path to her dream job as a Managing Editor for a national magazine--a story that includes JFK Jr's George magazine.

Jeremy McKane is a fantastic artist. He finds and captures beauty. In particular, Jeremy focuses his art on the underwater world.  His unique perspective for art also allowed him to see the impact of humanity on the oceans. 

In an effort to do something about the trash he saw, he started working on solutions.  He found his way to crypto and decentralized solutions to deploy help to the ocean. He's a question Jeremy is trying to answer...how do we truly close the loop on our plastic consumption?

Today, we are discussing the future of medicine and health. "Peptides will replace pharmaceuticals in 10 years" Dr. Tracy Gapin. Peptides are selective signaling molecules. By isolating specific chain of amino acids that produce a desired response in our body, peptides enable us to improve what ails us. Dr. Gapin talks about the identification and isolation of peptides that respond to any number of physical problems. There is a peptide that improves sleep. It's science, and we're exploring it today.

Dave Daley wrote an incredible book titled, "Rat Fucked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy."

Ratfucked reveals the attempt to control elections through gerrymandering, ultimately attempting to, regardless of the candidate, allow 1 party to dominate a regional election based upon party and not the candidate. Dave, Pete A Turner and Dr. Richard Ledet discuss how our politicians have pulled our country apart, by creating "landslide" districts

Navy SEAL Jeff Gum. Jeff was a special guest during our Rudy Reyes episodes, & then he co-hosted our Kaj Larsen interview. Jeff's time w "the teams" includes his role as a source handler which makes this a #spyvsspy episode. Pete & Jeff talk tradecraft for a bit, but ultimately this ep is about SungaLife. Jeff got out of the Navy & wanted to do something big. He envisioned changing how people look & feel on the beach. "Wearing a Sunga is about feeling good, it's about freedom," Jeff Gum SungaLife headliner