The Art and War Podcast

Nathan, B.R, and Phil the camera guy get together to discuss the assassination of Turning Point USA Founder, Charlie Kirk. The lads talk about the extreme divide the shooting has put Americans through, how some on the right is putting Charlie on a pedestal as a hero to some on the left dancing on his grave while making comments joking about harm coming to his family and the fallout of these extrem...

Ctrl+Pew's Alex reunites with Nathan and B.R to discuss what has changed in the world of 3D printing firearms from when the hobby first blew up to how things have developed in 2025. The lads get into everything from updated 3D printer recommendations, some of B.R and Ctrl+Pew's shared history in the gun space, how printed guns have changed the face of gun rights across the earth, the FGC-9...

CBRN Specialist, Happy, joins Nathan and B.R in this episode to touch on the subject that started it all for CBRNart. The lads work through what each letter of CBRN stand for: Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear, the likelihood of each threat, what those threats are made up of, and how they are deployed or become a danger. The guys also get into topics like CBRN search and rescue effor...

Nick Orton, the man behind the popular Instagram page: Tales From The Grid Square and now a series of books collecting military paranormal tales joins Nathan for his second appearance on The Art and War Podcast! Nick and Nathan talk skin walkers, Hawaiian warrior ghosts, people believing they are in relationships with AI, evidence of Gnomes, the drone phenomena over New Jersey, UFO/UAP's and &...

B.R and Phil the camera guy head to Knoxville, Tennessee to check out GOALS 2025, a gun industry trade show and advocacy summit that is open to the public, put on by Gun Owners of America. The lads get into their post-show feedback, who they talked to and who was of interest including Irregular Design Group, Kommando Store, Drill Index, Czechpoint USA, Henry Repeating Arms, ACE VR, Lead & Stee...

This week, Stephen Hancock joins Nathan and Phil the Camera guy. Stephen is a director and cinematographer, responsible for SCP: Overlord, SCP: Dollhouse, and STALKER: Shadow of the Zone amongst other work. Nathan and Phil talk Stephen's experience filming STALKER, Phil and Stephen get into camera equipment and RED vs Canon, short films Stephen is working on with his new media company: Altavision,...

This week, Nathan and B.R discuss the latest 'Sig-cident' involving an Sig P320 / M18 handgun, with this particular uncommanded discharge resulting in the death of a U.S. Airman station in Wyoming. The lads talk bluntly about the on-going lack of accountability from Sig in regards to these incidents and scapegoating via blaming the holster or user. Also discussed: The 'Tim-cident', AKA, Tim Kenned...

Nathan sits down with returning guest, Jared of Orion Training Group for his fourth appearance on the show! The lads get into a multi-day CQB night vision course Jared hosted and Nathan attended, how learning from subject matter experts such as competition shooters is invaluable for armed professionals, and the misguided, often disingenuous attempts by some police departments of 'Community Pol...

B.R is joined by Phil the Camera Guy and Georgie of Ruinbane Hobby and The Art and War Discord to discuss his first competition shooting experience. The lads get into 'popping the cherry' and getting a competition under your belt, messing up, the 'gamified' elements of competition shooting, stacking 'procedurals', and making friends at shooting competitions. The lads also get into Mike Lee's faile...

Lucas returns to Schizocast with Nathan, freshly back in Ireland after a trip to Dubai. The lads talk about the riots happening in North and South Ireland relating to migrants and the wider topic of what is going on in Europe right now. The guys get into Lucas of Arabia's exploit's in Dubai and what he makes of the city, the people, and the culture and the recent developments with Iran. When they...

Joining Nathan and Al this week is a member of The Art and War listenership community: Alaskan. In this episode, Alaskan recounts his experience surviving a mugging while on a date ten years ago that resulted in an extremely violent encounter that ended with him in the hospital, fourteen rounds fired and his attacker dead. Alaskan shares everything from the emotional and traumatic impact this had...

Ben Sanderson of Gun Owners of America joins Art and War once again to discuss what in the world is going on with the HPA (Hearing Protection Act), the SHORT Act, what this has to do with a massive tax bill and much more! The lads get into it with Ben on all the new ground taking developments for gun rights in 2025, discussing what the reality on the ground is for deregulating suppressors and pote...

Returning guest Jack from Guerrilla Tactical joins B.R. and Nathan for Part III, celebrating five years of the company’s growth. They trace the business’s path from its early days of taking orders through Instagram DMs without a physical store to constructing a dedicated facility in the Pacific Northwest woods. Jack reflects on the challenges of scaling operations, hiring and managing a growing te...

B.R is joined by returning guest: Icepick Jay. The lads get into America’s darker history from its founding into the 20th century and present day on how many widely unspoken about subjects deeply impact what America is today. The lads jump around, talking Chris Dorner, the post-911 - War on Terror mindset of young men, Columbine fandoms, American apathy, our ever increasing trade of autonomy for s...

Eighteen time MoH recipient* Charlie Coks joins Nathan, B.R, and Al to catch-up on what he's been up to between his Guntube and competition shooting exploits since the guys last spoke. The lads also talk how the internet briefly turned on Charlie after mistakenly believing he was a NFA supporting cuck, Nathan and Charlie talk dogs, the India-Pakistan conflict and Indian rants ensue, and discus...

In this episode, Nathan, B.R., and Al revisit 'Gun Culture 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0,' examining the state of the 'citizen rifleman,' competition shooting, and the declining urgency for training since the COVID era ended. B.R. dives into the massive Raoul Moat manhunt in Britain, Nathan shares his recent work as a volunteer RSO, and the trio dissects the gun community's downward spiral...

Donagh from the Swiss Thrash-Metal band, Xonor, joins Nathan and B.R to discuss all things band related, controversy in the European metal scene to their message, the evolution of the band, Donagh's military service in Switzerland, his Irish roots, the state of gun rights in Switzerland, encounters with the law while filming music videos and much much more! Check out our guests here: https://x...

Joining Nathan for an irreverent roundtable on starting and succeeding with basic fitness is Noah of Clean Muscle LLC, alongside Idaho Gym owner Lance, a different Phil, and Jose the Mexican surgeon. The gang discuss fitness 101, eldritch horrors in the woods, working out to avoid being taken advantage of by Bigfoot, Psychedelics being used as medicine for PTSD, the differences in medical care cul...

Chuck and Kareem from Open Source Defense join Nathan and B.R. this week to dive into what OSD and Open Source Capital is all about! They unpack their mantra of "100% Gun Rights, 0% Culture War," explaining its meaning, the origin story of Open Source Defense, the broader team working behind the scenes, and how their day jobs in tech and professional fields—especially Chuck's decade...

Joining Nathan and B.R for a Schizocast is gunsmith, Ben Gould, as well as private pilot and aircraft recovery specialist, Matt, both of whom are competitors of the cult-like annual shooting competition, Cola Warrior. The lads get into Cola Warrior and what the crucible of Peep eating, soda chugging, obstacle course centric and shooting challenges is like for competitors, with Ben sharing his two...

"The P320. It ends today." Bold words spoken by Sig Sauer on March 7th as they address the years long controversy surrounding their handgun, the P320 allegedly firing without the trigger being actuated. Widely adopted by Law Enforcement, the US military as the M17, and private citizens, the P320 has come under fire for allegedly posing a risk to those who use it. In this more journalistic episode...

Devin Jones, aka "Devin with an I," joins Nathan to share his journey from enlisting in the Marine Corps in the mid-2000s through his jump into gun industry media work. Devin reflects on indoc in SOI for Recon and his deployments, the guys discuss discuss racial issues in and out of the military, pulling from personal experiences, and the tough road of transitioning to civilian life—dealing with i...

It is finally here! B.R, Nathan and Phil's spin-off project from CBRNart and The Art and War Podcast: PP.TF, is live! To celebrate, the guys are taking an episode to break from the usual agenda to discuss what PP.TF or Propaganda Proliferation Task Force is all about. With the three all working as creatives in the gun space, as well as the CBRN merch desperately needing a refresh, the guys wan...

Logan and Aiden of Americana Pipedream Apparel return! Having last spoken to B.R and Nathan in early 2023 for episode 93, we had a bunch to catch up on with the AP lads. The gang get into what international incidents have cropped up since we last spoke, how the company is evolving as the guys enter their fourth year in business, how building Americana Pipedream has aged the guys as well as what op...

Icepick Jay joins B.R and Phil the Camera guy to share his story on how he came to work in the gun industry, and what made him the man he is today. Jay shares his story growing up in Baltimore in the early 90’s, being raised in a Russian Judeo-Christian environment, dealing with bullying and being sheltered from a young age, how that lead him to hardcore music and skinhead culture, what skinhead c...