The Art and War Podcast

Tales from the Gridsquare’s admin joins Nathan and Lucas this week to discuss the cosmic horror that is waking up and remembering you joined the military, collecting supernatural stories from across the branches, giants in Afghanistan, skin walkers in the woods of Quantico, haunting screams of women in despair around Bangor Naval base, creepy ‘shared experiences’ like the ‘Mirror men’ and ‘Hat man...

Paige of Paigeosity Art returns to the show to chat with Nathan about everything from childhood pranks to the influx of newer artists to the gun community, how women and people in general need to find value in themselves, how common shoplifting has become in Seattle and the pair of artists deep dive controversy over AI art generators and their potential to take work from creatives! Nathan and Paig...

Joining Mitch this episode is Tonje Blomseth, a Norwegian outdoors content producer currently living in Fairbanks, Alaska! Tonje shares how she got into her line of work and developed a love for wilderness expeditions, dealing with the risk of Moose encounters while training sled dogs and carrying a .44 to do so, what caring for a pack of working dogs is like, her work in the Norwegian outdoor ind...

Wendigoon joins Nathan and Lucas for an Art and War Halloween special! The lads get into a brief bit of extra Queen bashing before discussing cult horror and other oddities from Terrifier to Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, found footage films like the V/H/S franchise, real life horror like the CIA using ‘Vampires’ against insurgents and the Army’s newest recruiting tool: E-girls. Other spooky things...

Schizocast five, Nathan, Isaac and Garrett are all together in-person in Canada! Garrett comes out… as Lucas, Nathan deals with some Art and War hate mail from angry pasta people, the lads get into what they’ve been getting up to: namely taking Lucas to the range and why he’s considering leaving Europe as winter energy costs soar. Isaac shares how the Canadian military was used for nonsensical bus...

Independent Journalist and Photographer Collin Mayfield joins Mitch and Nathan this episode! The lads get into the risks of reporting from a conflict zone, Collin arriving in Ukraine just days before the war kicked off, his thoughts on the Azov battalion, the reality of journalistic bias, his experiences reporting on the hard left and right protests and how they treated him as a journalist and muc...

Episode 69, Nice. Celebrating the magic number alongside ONE MILLION plays of The Art and War Podcast, Mitch, Nathan and the show’s producer B.R sit down to answer listener questions! But first, the lads get into the CIA starting their own podcast, modern vehicles being at risk of hostile hacking and sabotage, Mitch handing off POW’s to Spooks in Afghanistan and deep dive some absolute abomination...

Joining Mitch this episode, Jed Morgan, volunteer at the White Heart Foundation and leading their Guardian Project helping out veterans with PTSD and other mental health issues. The lads get into Jed’s Marine Corps career from why he decided to sign up, how he ended up Infantry over going the MP route, why the Marines, Mitch shares getting messed with for showing up to his first unit in Italy with...

In this episode, the bromance you didn’t know you needed! Nathan travels to the Land of High Fructose Corn Syrup to hang with Print, Shoot, Repeat in person! The lads bitch about car dependent infrastructure, Nathan talks about his first Waffle House experience, visiting a prop gun warehouse and getting behind some ‘smile machine’ machine guns, where prop houses get their tactical gear like plate...

This week, Nick, Blue Jean Operator, joins Mitch to chat about his time as an Army Ranger. The lads dive into their varying experiences training and getting hazed in Ranger and Airborne training respectively, trolling classmates on the Q land nav course, Mitch shares a story of a young soldier finding themselves so lost doing land nav they trekked two days off-base alone and had to be found by hel...

Something a little different this week! A few recordings fell through so stepping in with a new episode from our producer’s show ‘The B.R Hates Feds Show’, B.R sits down with Reaper 1.1 to discuss everything from small unit tactics, the evolving and re-emerging culture of the civilian rifleman, the idea of his ’skill tree’ post, how ‘marketing’ is an essential part of warfare, how the use of ‘Hobo...

Nathan hijacks the show once again for Schizocast! Garrett shares his terrifying experience of how Lasik eye surgery goes down a little differently in Ireland, the Canucks talk about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police committing the equivalent of torture and finding itself guilty of no wrong doing, poachers and protecting natural resources from abusers without government intrusion, how Canada is te...

Admin Results AKA Talking Balaclava Man AKA, Aaron (Shocking Christian name reveal?!) joins the lads once again for a catch-up! The guys get into the explosion of growth Admin has had on YouTube since last time, playing the algorithm game on social media, longevity and maintaining momentum in the GunTube world, the tough but true critique the audience gives, Admin gets into his backstory consideri...

Fred, Counting Coup Tactical, former AF Combat Controller cool guy and current Spiritus cool guy, joins the lads once again to hit some deep topics! Starting out by touching on Fred’s recent experiences working on physical and mental health with some herbal assistance and how he felt getting off of medications, Mitch gets into his own experiences seeing the difference between just showing up for t...

The lads bring YouTuber Wendigoon on to discuss his content and his penchant for the weird, creepy and crazy in the world. Mitch asks Wendigoon how channels with less advertiser friendly content deal with YouTube and ad revenue, get into Wendigoon’s not so distant beginnings and how he decided to go all in and focus on his channel, how to summon dangerous creatures like Wendigos or Hillary Clinton...

Nathan once again hijacks the show with Garrett the Irishman, VCTM Henry AKA Ana and Isaac the Seaman. Wasting no time at all, the gang get into violence at Football (Soccer) matches, Nathan crossing Canada at night and dodging rednecks and Skin Walkers, The Large Hadron Collider and using time travel to give energy drinks to Medieval peasants. The lads chat about their school days, John McAfee’s...

In this week’s show, B.R joins the lads for a debrief on some of Mitch’s Army experiences he couldn’t talk about, prior to getting out! Now shielded by his DD214, Mitch gets into everything from his experiences testing out futuristic kit like robot mules for carrying packs and equipment in the field, how an E-5 authorized a 500 pound bomb drop mistakenly and retrospectively considering the lethal...

This week, Nathan gets technical! Print, Shoot, Repeat returns alongside renowned 3D firearm Developer Ivan the Troll! The lads get right into Ivan’s introduction to printing Austrian lowers, making Twitter accounts out of a dire need to shitpost mag dump videos at ignorant pro and anti-gunners skeptical of 3D firearm reliability, Ivan explains the lore behind the meme of ’It’ll blow your hands of...

Mitch goes all in and talks Soccer unapologetically with VCTM Henry and his friend Jorge this episode. Mitch gets into why female goalkeepers can’t run backwards and jump at the same time, getting his goal keeper sister to train with a male Professional former British Red Shirt just smoking her with full pelt shots, Jorge talks about the ability and development of South American kids growing up pl...

In this episode, Lucas Botkin, CEO of Trex Arms, returns to the show! Mitch asks Lucas if he’s ever considered taking a break from social media, if he’s noticed any trends in the gear/gun industry due to supply issues, the gang touches on the strange uptick in random shootings, Nathan and Lucas discuss the pros and cons of running a business and learning new shooting related skills with ADHD and L...

Mitch finally returns to the show! Nathan gets caught up on everything Mitch has been up to since getting out including how it felt to take his uniform off for the last time, his internet detox, figuring out Golf to network, refusing to cut his hair and shave for as long as he feels like and an impromptu brief history lesson on the Armenian genocide. The lads also get into Mitch finally feeling at...

Going out with a bang, drone strike or dumpster fire? With Mitch returning next week, Nathan brings back VCTM Henry, AKA Ana, Garrett the Irishman and Isaac The Canuck Seaman for a round table about everything that would give Mitch an aneurysm! Garrett gives a hot take on Roe V Wade as banter and crashing a Renaissance fair with a CHAD, the gang get back into the fascinating and highly entertainin...

In this episode, Pat Watson of Uncensored Tactical returns to the show to chat with Nathan and B.R! The lads touch on everything we didn’t last time (Episode 024) from Pat’s world, starting with B.R and Pat hanging out in person at the Texan liberty festival ’Chillderburg’, teaching in an informal environment, Pat gets into his new foray following two published non-fiction books into a novel with...

Charlie (@Charlie_likes_coks), professional gun scientist of Garand Thumb fame sits down with Nathan to discuss a little bit of everything! Nathan opens talking bout being radicalized by r/weekendgunnit, Charlie discusses his Gay Glock, fighting against NATO at MilSim West and trolling players with ‘intel’, the pros and cons of being a shooter in the PNW and the community up in Washington, talk an...

Nathan sits down with returning guests, Garrett the Irish tech reporter (Episode 12) and fellow Canuck and Navy guy, Isaac (Episode 04) to attempt a conversation not burdened by politics. The lads educate Garrett on the state of the Canadian military, Garrett explains how he was ‘Morb pilled’ by the critically acclaimed 2022 film Morbius, staring Jared Leto, why Matt Smith is probably cursed by a...