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Brad Hutchings – AI and The Median Baseball Player Mar 05, 2025

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Brad Hutchings returns to discuss AI. Pete A Turner of the Break It Down Show has been working to use AI in some of his projects. He tried to find the Median debut for all baseball players. He did the work to find Detroit Tiger phenom, Jim Proctor who today is the middle player in all players, based on debut date, in MLB history (per baseball reference). Pete Writes about Jim in an article on X. Brad and Pete discuss Grok's inability to find the median player. Pete tried a few other AIs...they just don't work this way. Brad notes that AIs will give loquacious answers, but the results are more fantasy than fact. Then a funny test happens...what happens when you ask an AI, while offline, to reference an online resource...well...AI does a performance of giving an answer. This is a fun one.

Matt Tardio - The Impact of Trump's Policies Mar 04, 2025

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Post military career former Green Beret Matt Tardio hit the ground running. HIs company tardioconsultinggroup.com focuses on Risk Management, SOP development and other custom solutions for companies. Beyond Matt's consulting work he runs the Speak The Truth channel on YouTube @SpeakTheTruthActual Pete A Turner hosts Matt to talk about practical tactical realities about the new President Trump administration. From DOGE, USAID, Dept of State adventures, Gaza and plane crashes...there's a lot of ground for Pete and Matt to cover on the Break It Down Show

Tony Tost – Directing Movie, Poker Face and Cinema Mar 03, 2025

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Director Tony Tost returns to the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner. Tony hit Hollywood running. The perfect man to take Craig Johnson's brilliant Longmire series to the small screen. Since climbing the ranks at Longmire, Tony has directed/written several projects. Tony created the series Damnation. Then he directed the 2nd season of The Terror. Then back to the northern great planes to direct Americana with Sydney Sweeney. His most recent project, that is so fresh we can only mention it, is he is the Show Runner for season 2 of Poker Face. This is gonna be a huge episode.

Everett De Morier - All About Everett Feb 28, 2025

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Everett De Morier became a professional writer in 1994, when he sold a copy of his son's ultrasound picture along with an article entitled "My Wife Is Having the Reincarnation of Elvis" to the Weekly World News. For this, he received fifty dollars and a Bat Boy T-shirt. Get Everett's latest book In the Ghost Shadows with Peter Chin on Amazon at amzn.to/4kxs4Zh De Morier has appeared on CNN, Fox News Network, NPR, and ABC, as well as in The New York Times and the London Times. He has also written for In-Fisherman, Florida Keys, Bride, and Parenting. De Morier is the author of Crib Notes for the First Year of Marriage: A Survival Guide for Newlyweds and Crib Notes for the First Year of Fatherhood: A Survival Guide for New Fathers, both from Fairview Press.n at

Ronnie Simpson - Yacht Racing and Open Ocean Adventures Feb 27, 2025

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In 2024 both Ronnie Simpson and Bryan Fuller had an ocean adventure. Ronnie was solo sailing in a race around the world. Bryan doing one of the only Atlantic crossings from Boston to London in a rowboat. Neither event is simple or easy. Both men are experts. Each mission failed...and both boats were abandoned during their attempts. Bryan and Ronnie don't know one another, yet, they have much in commo. Ronnie returns for his second visit to the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner. With Bryan Fuller the founder of Boarder Rowers and Power Rowing of Brookline Mass. Ronnie Simpson is a 39-year-old professional racing sailor from the United States of America who aims to sail in the 2028 Vendee Globe. Recently, Ronnie was the skipper of the Open 50 Shipyard Brewing which competed in the first-ever Global Solo Challenge in 2023-24. Sailing in a strong third place for most of the race, Ronnie unfortunately dismasted off of Argentina in February 2024 and Shipyard Brewing was lost at sea. Having completed 80% of a singlehanded racing circumnavigation and rounding all of the three great capes including Cape Horn, Ronnie's resolve to race the Vendee Globe is now only stronger.

Howard Blum – When the Night Comes Falling Feb 26, 2025

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Howard Blum is an investigative journalist who has drawn his attention to the Brian Kohberger quadruple murder case. Brian is accused to have murdered 4 co-eds in Moscow Idaho. The Case has been a national sensation. The biggest question is why? Why did this happen. Pete A Turner and Brook Urick welcome Howard to the Break It Down Show. Get When the Night Came Falling on Amazon at amzn.to/437Dht9 Timed for a trial that will capture national attention, When the Night Comes Falling examines the mysterious murders of the four University of Idaho students. Having covered this case from its start, Edgar award winning investigative reporter Howard Blum takes listeners behind the scenes of the police manhunt that eventually led to suspected killer, Bryan Christopher Kohberger, and uncovered larger, lurid questions within this unthinkable tragedy. Reminiscent of the panoramic portraiture of In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song, When the Night Comes Falling offers a suspenseful, richly detailed narrative that will have listeners transfixed.

Dan McLaughlin – The New York Mets and Donald Trump Feb 25, 2025

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Dan McLaughlin is a head writer for the National Review. His body of work covers a ton of ground from a deeply researched history of slavery to critiques of US foreign policy under Donald Trump. Dan is also a noted baseball blogger under the monicker, Baseball Crank. Dan has one more bit of baseball bona fides that's become known through the Break It Down Show with Pete A Turner...Dan is the nephew of Vin Scully. Dan was at Vin's induction into the Hall of Fame back in the 1980s

Larry Sanger – Why I am A Christian Feb 24, 2025

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Larry Sanger is one of the founders of WIkipedia. Since then he's taken on a litany of projects including Everipedia, ZWI Book, a Declaration of Independence, he started his own social media platform sangerfeed.org, and he converted to Christianity. Get a Slick ZWI USB drive with nearly 70000 books at shop.encyclosphere.org/product-category/zwibook A life long skeptic Larry Sanger, converted to Christianity after 35 years of skepticism, inspired by Bible study and "intelligent Christians," embracing an Orthodox faith in 2025. From Larry's Blog, "It is finally time for me to confess and explain, fully and publicly, that I am a Christian. Followers of this blog have probably guessed this, but it is past time to share my testimony properly. I am called to "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."1 One of the most effective ways to do so is to tell your conversion story. So, here is mine." https://larrysanger.org/2025/02/how-a-skeptical-philosopher-becomes-a-christian/

Peter Chin & Everett De Morier – The Ghost Shadows Feb 21, 2025

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As the US struggles with its relationship with immigrants we offer the story of Chin Chit Chuey, AKA Peter Chin who came to the US with his family. Struggled with an abusive family life and li out for the Streets. The Ghost Shadow gang became his family and he became their Dai Lo "Capo." It couldn't last, Rikers and the Jade Squad were always battling Peter's efforts. Get in the Ghost Shadows on Amazon at https://amzn.to/40OPKyS Everett De Morier and Peter Chin sit with Pete A Turner from the Break It Down Show to discuss Peter's journey through gang life, incarceration and finally redemption. Peter and Everett captured his impossible journey in a book titled, In the Ghost Shadows. which drops 21JAN2025.

Morgan Lerette - Your Tax Dollars = Migrant Child Trafficking Feb 20, 2025

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DOGE is holding to account various Departments within the US government, As our comprehension of fraud waste and abuse, other crimes grows, we're also beginning to realize the full impact of unchecked agencies. Policies intended to create positive impacts to humanity are now shown to have the opposite impact. Our desire to be compassionate has caused incalculable harm when it comes to the human trafficking of children. Even worse, the trafficking of tender aged children. Get Guns, Girls and Greed on Amazon at https://amzn.to/4hxoKuW Morgan Lerette is a former military intelligence officer who works to help us understand how our tax dollars fund human trafficking. Morgan is the author of Guns, Girls and Greed a must read to understand the fraternity like side of the Iraq War

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