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’, Elon splicing neural link into monkeys and driving them mad and much more! Links mentioned in this episode:   Follow Tales from the Gridsquare on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/tales_from_the_gridsquare/?hl=en Check out our Patreon here to support what we do and get insider perks!                             Follow the lads on IG:   https://www.instagram.com/cbrnart/?hl=en                               Follow the lads on Twitter:   https://twitter.com/CBRNDad                                Check out our sponsors:                           Use code: ARTANDWAR10 for $10 off an SMU Belt at AWSin.com                  Use code: ARTANDWAR for 5% off at midwestgunworks.com Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff!

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 Paige also get into the nitty gritty of drawing firearms, what it takes to produce a single comic/manga, Paige gets real about not taking your job home and having boundaries with your employer, playing OpFor at the Direct Action Resource Center (DARC) in Arkansas and sitting in on some classes, the listener’s uncanny ability to be wholesome in the face of the obscene and much more! Links mentioned in this episode: Follow Paige on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/paigeosity/?hl=en Check out our Patreon here to support what we do and get insider perks!                           Follow the lads on IG: https://www.instagram.com/cbrnart/?hl=en                             Follow the lads on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBRNDad                              Check out our sponsors:                         Use code: ARTANDWAR10 for $10 off an SMU Belt at AWSin.com                Use code: ARTANDWAR for 5% off at midwestgunworks.com Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff!

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 industry and quality credentials and testing versus numbers based social media marketing. Mitch and Tonje also get into parallels of making ‘outdoor’ social media content, inspiring more women to get out and explore, the spirituality and introspection that comes from spending time in the wilderness alone and Tonje shares some thoughts on psychedelics and sober meditation, hunting and processing a Moose and the differences of hunting in Norway and much much more! Links mentioned in this episode: Check out our Patreon here to support what we do and get insider perks!                         Follow the lads on IG: https://www.instagram.com/cbrnart/?hl=en                           Follow the lads on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBRNDad                            Check out our sponsors:                       Use code: ARTANDWAR10 for $10 off an SMU Belt at AWSin.com              Use code: ARTANDWAR for 5% off at midwestgunworks.com Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff!

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 including: European and Canadian self-defense laws, how Ireland went from armed revolution to tight gun restrictions, naive girls suffering after trying to make it in LA, drug induced Paranormal Activity based hallucinations, horror games and much much more!

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 busy work following the major storms up in Canada, the lads get into AI art and how it’s actually for shit posting, Lucas recounts how a classmate with a limp pulled a shotgun on partygoers and somehow wasn’t killed by armed police as well as a school trip to Beijing causing chaos with a bunch of young Irish lads, the guys share their encounters with edibles and much more! Links mentioned in this episode:    Check out our Patreon here to support what we do and get insider perks!                       Follow the lads on IG: https://www.instagram.com/cbrnart/?hl=en                         Follow the lads on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBRNDad                          Check out our sponsors:                       Use code: ARTANDWAR10 for $10 off an SMU Belt at AWSin.com              Use code: ARTANDWAR for 5% off at midwestgunworks.com Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff!

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 much more! Links mentioned in this episode: Follow Collin on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/collin_mayfield/?hl=en Follow the lads on IG: https://www.instagram.com/cbrnart/?hl=en Follow the lads on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBRNDad Check out our sponsors:     Use code: ARTANDWAR10 for $10 off an SMU Belt at AWSin.com         Use code: ARTANDWAR for 5% off at midwestgunworks.com Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff!

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 firearms you can purchase for little more than the price of a Glock! As for the questions, how many Raccoons could the trio take on with a baseball bat before meeting their end? Where are we at with acquiring land to build our studio/cult on? How did Mitch and Nathan meet B.R? Which totally not controversial figures would we each time travel back to interview? B.R explains the Brits mourning the queen and how the UK doesn’t actually have freedom of speech and much much more! Links mentioned in this episode: It is possible to remotely hack a modern car: https://cvtfradio.net/2014/08/modern-cars-can-be-hacked-remotely-from-any-where-on-earth-senator-markey/2/ I am only including these for context, PLEASE do not buy them. The economy is shit. You have better things to invest in like Tourniquets and water storage: R*tarded Keymod Space Thompson Double Barrel nonsense revolver Follow B.R on IG here: https://www.instagram.com/br.the.anarch/?hl=en Follow the lads on IG: https://www.instagram.com/cbrnart/?hl=en Follow the lads on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBRNDad Check out our sponsors:     Use code: ARTANDWAR10 for $10 off an SMU Belt at AWSin.com         Use code: ARTANDWAR for 5% off at midwestgunworks.com Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff!

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 a ‘Combat Jump’ patch on his uniform mistakenly, Jed’s first and second deployment experiences and what getting shot at for the first time feels like. Jed and Mitch also reflect on Afghanistan from the mission of appealing to ‘hearts and minds’ to the fallout of Taliban knowing which Afghan’s collaborated with Western forces, what ‘the cost of war’ really means when children are in war zones, Jed’s experience losing his legs to an IED blast while on patrol, his mental process through surgeries, recovery and rehabilitation, what lead him to the White Heart foundation and his work there and much more! Links mentioned in this episode: Check out the Guardian Project that Jed leads here! Check out our Patreon here to support what we do and get insider perks! Follow the lads on IG: https://www.instagram.com/cbrnart/?hl=en Follow the lads on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBRNDad Check out our sponsors:   Use code: ARTANDWAR10 for $10 off an SMU Belt at AWSin.com       Use code: ARTANDWAR for 5% off at midwestgunworks.com Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff!

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 carriers from, where do PSR’s scars (visible in his shirtless appearances) come from and being awake for open heart surgery. Also: Was conflict reporter Michael Hasting’s murdered (by Spooks)? How crazy are many conspiracy theories in reality? Nathan and PSR get into Bush and others now joking about the Iraq War, Operation Mockingbird and much more down the rabbit hole goodness! Links mentioned in this episode:   Check out Print Shoot Repeat on Instagram here! Check out Print Shoot Repeat's YouTube channel here! Check out our Patreon here to support what we do and get insider perks!                     Follow the lads on IG: https://www.instagram.com/cbrnart/?hl=en                       Follow the lads on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBRNDad                        Check out our sponsors:                       Use code: ARTANDWAR10 for $10 off an SMU Belt at AWSin.com            Use code: ARTANDWAR for 5% off at midwestgunworks.com Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff!

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 helicopter and how much the Ranger experience differs from regular ‘big Army’. Mitch and Nick also get into how Airsoft is a fantastic tool for practicing ambushes and use of night vision, Nick’s positive experiences attending and later working for Milsim West, the importance of maintaining great security at all times in the field, translating military doctrine for civilians, the most miserable week of Mitch’s life, how it’s nearly impossible to NOT make it through basic training these days, Nick shares how he was blown up during a deployment fighting ISIS-K when he was hit by a grenade, the lads talk coming to terms with medical retirement, making sense of the poorly defined ’mission’ in Afghanistan and much more! Links mentioned in this episode: Check out Blue Jean Operator on Instagram here! Check out our Patreon here to support what we do and get insider perks! Follow the lads on IG: https://www.instagram.com/cbrnart/?hl=en Follow the lads on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBRNDad Check out our sponsors:   Use code: ARTANDWAR10 for $10 off an SMU Belt at AWSin.com     Use code: ARTANDWAR for 5% off at midwestgunworks.com Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff!