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Break It Down Show

We illustrate life by gathering perspectives, achievements and moments that define us. 

Sep 30, 2019

Erik Kleinsmith - Commanding Spies and Muddy Boots Collection #spyvsspy - Our guest, Erik Kleinsmith, was Pete A Turner's commander during their deployment to Bosnia while they served in the 165th MI Bn. Pete and Erik go #spyvsspy as they discuss muddy boots collection and how one leads a bunch of spies who run around...


Sep 27, 2019

Dr. Mark Glickman - Glickman's Robot Determines McCartney or Lennon - Dr. Mark Glickman and his co-authors developed an AI program that determines the authorship of Lennon and McCartney songs; which is outlined in a peer-reviewed paper. On the surface, big deal, we believe we know much of this info already, right? Do...


Sep 26, 2019

Thomas Pecora - Guardian, the CIAs Protection Master #spyvsspy - The crew featured in the movie 13 hours that's work that Tom's team started 2 decades before. The guys that did the hard security work so that CIA operators could find/work and meet sources. 

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That means he's part warrior, part...


Sep 25, 2019

Jane's Addiction vs Foo Fighters #AlbumFight - What would happen if Jane's Addiction and the Foo Fighters met in a bar each taking a stage and played Jane's Nothing's Shocking and the Foo's Wasting Light albums. 

Each band takes a turn playing a track from the album and the audience moves to the song they like?  That's...


Sep 24, 2019

COL John McKay - Surveying Arabs and Islam - On his third visit with us, COL John McKay (USMC, ret.) sits down with Pete A. Turner to lend his thoughts on Tim Mackintosh-Smith's new book The Arabs - a Three Thousand Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires, and how its study could lead to more effective foreign...