The Art and War Podcast

Editor and Producer of the show, B.R, fills in for Mitch this week and sits down with Nathan to discuss growing up under the Crown, if his accent is real, growing up in rural England shooting, feelings about supporting Chinese optic companies, gun laws in New Zealand, Canada and Britain, why places like Britain can’t be ‘fixed’, how the NHS subsidizes morbid obesity, how to prevent basically every...

Oh yeah, it's Schizo rant time, baby. Nathan takes the wheel this episode, with a one on one chat with Collin Underdahl, former Marine, current shooter for the Recon Sniper Foundation and Modlite guy with some experience behind the gun counter during the massive surge of new gun owners during 2020! Nathan and Collin get into leaving the military and Collin gets into his own experiences, joining th...

VCTM Henry AKA Ana returns to the show to chat with the lads about the situation in her family's homeland, ex-Soviet State, Bulgaria, and how the war in Russia is impacting them, and some hot takes on Soccer. The gang also get into US and NATO troops performing training exercises in active, real European villages and the hilarious resulting chaos, some thoughts on the fixation on endless war conte...

Print, Shoot, Repeat joins Nathan and B.R to chat everything 3D firearm printing related! The lads get into the odd circumstances with an irate neighbor that prompted PSR to invest in something more than his skeet gun for home defense, mindset on defensive use of a gun and being peaceful and not harmless, coming across Popular Front’s JStark Documentary ‘Plastic Defense’ and Ctrl+Pew and reading h...

Fred, AKA Counting Coup Tactical, Spiritus Systems guy, former Air Force Combat Controller joins Mitch for another solo episode. Fred gets into why he joined up, the training he needed to become a Combat Controller and his military lineage dating back to the American Revolution, Mitch shares some of his own family military history from his family fleeing the Armenian genocide to his grandfather dr...

Taking a breather from guests, Mitch and Nathan discuss the great evils of John Harvey Kellog and the incalculable damage he has done to American health, and other reasons people are becoming ever more fat and useless. The lads get into high fructose corn syrup, why modern Cereal is a shitty breakfast food, America’s car dependent infrastructure and the culture of convenience, Nathan gets into his...

Mike, Owner of Sons of Liberty Gun Works, joins Mitch and Nathan to discuss running a gun manufacturing company and being true to what you’re about. The lads get into Mike’s background and nomad lifestyle prior to settling down to start SOLGW, his personal approach to having a message while running a business, gun rights and their future, handling social media and paying attention to only the rele...

Joining Nathan, Mitch and B.R this week is Jack, CEO of Guerrilla Tactical, a holster and gear manufacturer and medical distributor. The lads get into Jack’s shared roots with Mitch, both having grown up in rural up-state New York, being raised on a homestead and homeschooled by his parents, the personality and culture behind Guerrilla Tactical and how Jack’s experiences in the 90’s hardcore punk...

The lads sit down with Rughi, the weapon snatcher of the Seattle riots and discuss the strange circumstances of mostly rural states being dominated by big city-dweller politics, how a lack of appreciation for your fellow man leads to disorder, the lads get into his background from growing up around guns to joining the Marine Corps, Mitch and Rughi discuss how difficult it is to become a sniper in...

Joining Mitch in this 3 hour behemoth bonus episode is Richard Graham, former Navy SEAL! Richard gets into everything from joining the Navy and SEALS at 17, finding out about 9/11 in the middle of his BUD/S training, tracking down Serbian war criminals in the Iraq War period, sneaking onto FBI training bases and collecting information on trainee’s going through bootcamp, how much are SEAL’s really...

Joining the lads this episode, all the way from Europe is Felix from Redbeard Tactical! A Close Protection specialist and German Army Reservist, Felix comes on the show to chat everything from similarities and differences between the US and German military, the quality of training and soldier each produces, battle drills versus scenario based training, Mitch and Felix get into their experiences be...

Joining the lads this week are returning guests: Paigeosity and Delta Magna, two artists and shooters. Mags gets into drawing with two hands, her creative mindset and what being in an intense creative ‘flow state’ is like. Paige touches on the process from envisioning something to putting it on paper, ‘Aphantasia’ the phenomenon in which people are unable to visualize imagery, figuring out your wo...

Micah Mayfield, videographer of Garand Thumb fame comes back to the show on his lonesome to discuss more behind the scenes details from behind the camera both on the range and when it comes to interacting with the wider gun industry and culture! The lads get into everything from the lack of quality camera guys in the industry who are comfortable around guns, how voice actors have refused to work w...

This episode, the lads finally satiate perhaps our most popular listener request and sit down with T.REX Arms CEO, Lucas Botkin! The conversation gets into ‘bro vet’ and gun industry exclusionary practices, Lucas’ time as a volunteer firefighter, Lucas recounts overcoming being an, ‘exceptionally lazy’ kid and making up for lost time, we get the EXCLUSIVE on where Lucas gets his jeans from, Mitch...

This episode, the lads are joined by T.REX Arms Armorer, Josh Lowry. The guys get into Josh’s unlikely Portland, Oregon origin, how state’s go down hill, what got him so heavily into shooting, making the move to Tennessee to work with T.REX and making the move with his wife, his role as an armorer and what that job looks like in his day to day, his newfound love for rucking with a rifle with frien...

This episode, Mitch and Nathan are joined by The AK Guy! Brandon Herrera, the owner and operator of The AK Guy Inc, a 07 Firearm Manufacturer based out of Fayetteville, NC., guntuber with a YouTube following of 1.7 Million subscribers, co-owner of Stark Media Group, and designer of the rifle known as the AK-50. The lads get into some routine fat shaming, how Brandon became 'The AK Guy' and how his...

 In our first bonus episode, Mitch and Nathan are joined by B.R, the editor and producer of the show, to discuss the escalating situation in Ukraine with the possibility of Russian invasion allegedly imminent, and hash out some thoughts on it. The lads get into their predictions on whether this will escalate or not, the differences between a modern war with Russia and the War on Terror, the f...

Our third co-host is back on the podcast this week! This episode, Mike Jones, AKA Garand Thumb brings his camera man and editor Micah Mayfield on to the show and the lads discuss all sorts from how he got involved doing videography for Mike, some behind the scenes and technical details behind content creation, how Micah’s deceptive hipster garb hides his solid shooting skills, his past and ongoing...

Joining the lads this week is Stephen Hancock, known for his work on SCP: Overlord (2020), The Road to Nowhere (2017) and SCP: Dollhouse (2019) to discuss film making, his process and a ton of behind the scenes insight into his work, bringing realistic tactical gear and guns to the big screen, modern films, why he’s selective about who he works with, Nathan points out some slight inconsistencies a...

Mitch is joined by Drew Hopkins of TREX Arms today to chat about what got him into shooting growing up, how important film and gaming is to growing gun culture, his rebellious streak stirred up by college campus carry rules and ditching class to train and compete with his paintball team, what degree he majored in and his issues with higher education, how working for a church gave him a strong star...

This episode, the lads are joined by Ian Porter, AKA CrimSix, an American professional Call of Duty player, currently playing for the New York Subliners. As an esports competitor he has represented multiple organizations in multiple game titles, most notably representing Optic Gaming in Call of Duty and boasts 37 COD Championships, 3 World Championships and $1.3m earned during his professional car...

Joining the lads is VCTM Henry (Victim Henry) AKA Doc Earnhardt, a Bulgarian digital artist now living in the UK, to discuss Soccer (football) with Mitch and how Nathan hasn’t heard of any major athletes, Nathan and Doc get into survival horror games and Doc discusses growing up in a country formerly in the Soviet Union, the experiences of people living under Socialism and what the younger generat...

Joining Mitch and Nathan this week is Kyle of Trex Arms, head of customer service (and secretly the CEO of the company). Kyle and Mitch discuss growing up on a farm and Kyle gets into Joel Salatin, Polyface Farms and the sustainable family homestead movement of the early 2000’s that’s currently seeing a resurgence, the lads discuss rural life, raising cows, community and culture. Mitch also asks K...

In this episode, the lads bring back Justin Li, the CEO of Qore, to discuss how his company’s opposition to vax mandates have been received and his driving mantra to ‘Do the right thing always, it will always work out’, how important it is for service members looking to transition to the civilian world ‘de-institutionalize’ themselves and how they can best smoothly transition to the private sector...

Mitch and Nathan have a very special show with our first returning guests this week, both Mike AKA Garand Thumb and Isaac Botkin of Trex Arms both come back on the podcast to chat about the evolution of gun culture and ponder where we’re going next! The group covers everything from knowing your audience when it comes to shooters and the utility of the many different groups within the firearms comm...