Vanessa Otero - Ad Fontes Media, Analyzing Your News - Vanessa Otero, a patent attorney, decided to put her nerdy skills to work and analyze new sources. Her work led to hear founding Ad Fontes Media an interactive source for news media analysis. 

To learn more about Ad Fontes Media click here

There's a free interactive model that forces deep dives into the quality and reporting of stories and news outlets. There's also an educational edition to give teachers the ability to teach students how to better analyze the news. Funny, our co-host is Erik Kleinsmith who's Pete A Turner's former commander. As a spy, Erik is always looking for a way to unseat his adversary; and brings us Vanessa's story. 

Learn more about Ad Fontes Media work here

#espionage #spy #spyvsspy #news #politics #podcast #episode #counterintelligence #intelligence #analysis #trump #foxnews

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Haiku Who’s telling the truth It’s Ad Fontes Media Our vision is help
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Eli Crane - Bottle Breacher, Navy SEAL Turns Beer Top Popper - Today’s guest on the show Eli Crane is a former Navy SEAL, an entrepreneur and CEO and founder of “Bottle Breacher” company. Bottle Breacher is a successful business that prides itself on employing veterans and giving back to their community one pivo at a time. Eli's concept survived and became a true win from the folks at Shark Tank. You know you've got a hell of an idea when two of the investors, Kevin O'Leary and Mark Cuban invest.  Hell of a product, a hell of a dude.  

In this episode, Pete A. Turner and Eli Crane are joined by their friend Jason Piccolo where they discuss on a couple of very important topics, such as what lessons has military life thought them and how they are implementing them in civilian life, the life of a veteran after active duty, what challenges they are faced with and how they can overcome them and what people like Eli are doing to help fellow veterans ease their transition back into civilian life.
Haiku Eli Crane pops tops Being who he wants to be Stay thirsty my friends

#navy #seals #military #life #brotherhood #entrepreneur #transition #civilian #business #lesson #sacrifice #politics #activeduty #improvement #help #veteran #identity #mindset

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​Ambassador Robert Hunter - President Clinton's Top Man at NATO - Dr Robert Hunter is a true master of statecraft. HIs experiences date back to the Johnson administration. He's written over 1000 articles for all of the top journals and magazines. He's advised presidents and ultimately was Pres Bill Clinton's ambassador to NATO. 
Pete A Turner met Ambassador Hunter at Troy University's NATO conference in fall of 2019. Robert recognized the quality of Dr Rich Ledet and Pete's work and beelined to our heroes. Throughout his career Robert has made a point of getting to know the most knowledgeable people in his world...and now we get to access his brilliant mind 
#StateDept #trump #obama #clinton #LBJ #carter #presidents #statecraft #phd #groundtruth #policy #foreignpolicy #bids 

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Haiku
Bill Clinton picked him
Ambassador to NATO
Ready for the world
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Matt Balaker - “A Comedian’s Story” Matt’s Book About Greg Giraldo - Matt Balaker is a comedian, writer and consultant. His most recent work is a book called “Greg Giraldo: A Comedians Story”  ( http://www.greggiraldobook.com/ ) a biography about a brilliant comedian, his work and the tragedy that ended his life early.

Listen to some of Greg's most hilarious moments at roasts. ​

In this episode, Pete A. Turner and Matt Belaker discuss the life of a comedian, what inspires them and what drives them to make people laugh but also how this way of life can have its own toll.

They also get into the book “Greg Giraldo: A Comedians Story”  that obviously tells the story of the comedian Greg Giraldo and analyze the various aspects that make or break a comedian, how he became so great, what makes them tick and how depression and addiction can take it all away in an instant.

Haiku
He couldn’t beat it
With us wanting more, he left
A genius of jokes

#comedy #comedian #jokes #funny #inspiration #brilliance #standup #biography #book #writer #tragedy #addiction #episode

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Wade Lightheart- Minds and Body Health, Optimizing Lifestyle - Pete A. Turner is joined by Wade Lightheart a 3-time all-natural bodybuilder champion, an adviser to the American Anti-Cancer Institute, Founder of the Prosperity & Health Alliance and Director of Education at Bioptimizers Nutrition Get 10% off by using the code "podcast10"  

The guys get into a discussion about how important it is for men, especially above 40, to optimize their lifestyle by applying techniques that will improve their health, both body and mind. This includes the 5-step test that determines their condition and what steps are needed in order to achieve the maximum your body has to offer by non-toxic and healthy solutions. 
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Get Wade's Water, a healthier water maker makes a better you.

It’s an eye-opening conversation that addresses how the food industry, technology and modern lifestyles lead to lack of testosterone and the lack of will to exercise thus leading to lower health, and how this has an impact in all areas of life.

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#health #menshealth #testosterone #lifestyle #exercise #body #inspirational #natural #values #nutrition #author #champion #allnatural #bodybuilding #episode #podcast #eyeopening

Haiku
Get off the couch
Apply the 5-step program
Live long, stay happy
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Mike Guardia - Tomcat Fury, History of America's Fiercest Fighter Plane - The F-14 Tomcat has been in service for over 40 years. She's a hell of a jet and author Mike Guardia decided it was time to do a biography on one of the most iconic planes ever created. 

Get Mike's latest book here
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Mike comes back to the Break It Down Show and joins Pete A Turner to discuss his latest book. Pete runs Mike through a series of curious, but educated questions that get to all of the things we want to know about this incredible plane and what it's meant to those that fly and love it. 
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#airforce #war #combat #fighter #topgun #tomcat #gruman #jet #flight #usa #redflag #jester #maverick #history #author #bids #podcast

Haiku
Gruman’s F-14
Air Superiority
Pretty fucking cool

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​Brad Johnson - CIA Station Chief, Americans for Intelligence Reform - Today's show features former CIA Station Chief Brad Johnson. Brad is the President of the American Intelligence Reform. This is a spy vs spy episode with Pete A Turner, hosting Brad and digging into current events and how they as spies would exploit them. 
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The guys discuss the problem with dismissing Secretary Hillary Clinton's email scandal as "what aboutism." Further, they hold accountable the government for their lack of honesty in dealing with recent investigations; followed by not conducting the assessment of the damage caused by recent intelligence breaches. 

A quick note to mention, watch for Pete talking about, "Placement and Access" it's a critical term and concept. 

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#spyvsspy #combat #whataboutism #clintonemail #clinton #CIA #groundtruth #bids #intelligence #exploitation #china 

Haiku
Why emails matter
From one spy to another
‘Cuz they’re TOP SECRET

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Herb Thompson – Follow Me! Green Beret Leading Fellows to Business - Herb Thompson is our kind of warrior. He's smart, fearless and confident. Now that he's retired from the Green Berets, he's several things: a consultant for Accenture, an ambassador for the Green Marine and founder of SF2Biz. 

Pete A Turner hosts Herb in a conversation about what Green Berets actually do, how they survive and transition to the next thing. We've had a bunch of Green Berets on the show and Herb meets the standard with ease, you're gonna love him. 

#combat #warrior #peace #transition #podcast #scholar #episode #iraq #afghanistan #culture #consultant #greenberet #SF #specialforces

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Haiku
FID was the mission
He’d rather talk than kick doors
Today he’s just Herb
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Evan Sayet - Cramming Inboxes by Turning Comedy Into Intelligence Analysis - Comedian, TV writer, author Evan Sayet joins with co-host Erik Kleinsmith to discuss their unique collaboration. While giving a speech on politics and predicting ideology. Evan gave his first speech (at the Heritage Foundation) in the political spectrum, a talk that would go viral, about understanding ideologies and liberalism. Erik took Evan's speech and built a computer-based predictive model to predict ideological or political mindsets.

Get Evan's book Apocali Now!
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Pete A Turner, who served under Erik Kleinsmith in Bosnia directs a conversation that is surely going to shock you.   
#politics #podcast #intelligence #analysis #liberalism #bids #groundtruth #vision #comedy #spies #espionage #AI #modeling

Haiku
Apocali now
Evan goes to Washington
Inspires a spy

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Marjorie K Eastman - Frontline Generation Stacks the Deck in Our Favor - Marjorie K Eastman is a speaker, author, warrior and leader. She's also a former intelligence officer in the US Army; making this an #spyvsspy episode. Marjorie's book, Frontline Generation is a memoir reflecting for her son the experiences of being in combat and serving in the post 9-11 world. 

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Marjorie also has a featured deck of cards she created with the Bicycle company. The cards feature veteran charities and companies. The deck is a fantastic stock stuffer and is available until the end of 2019 then it's gone forever. 

Marjorie and Pete A Turner dig in and talk about commanding the complex military units that fight today's wars. 

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#bicycle #podcast #episode #combat #warrior #bids #cards #frontline #generation #groundtruth #spyvsspy #iraq #deployment #army #leader

Haiku
It’s Reggae and Soul
Singing his life’s diary
Oh, and we’ve got Wes
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