The Art and War Podcast

Former Canadian infantryman Nathan and Canadian Navy Officer Isaac are joined by Non-Commissioned seaman Jack and Royal Canadian Airman Mark to speak openly and brutally honestly about the major issues the Canadian Armed forces are experiencing. Everything from recruitment and retaining ability dropping to embarrassing and unsustainable levels, how procurement (or lack thereof) of up to date equipment is putting service members lives at risk during peacetime, the lads touch on Enlisted vs Officer responsibilities, the ‘Royal Canadian Legion’ non-profit and how it’s made up of many civilian posers wearing medals who sue Veteran companies over use of the remembrance poppy, more on the Fat People Industrial complex and how the military lifestyle can reek havoc on your health and what, if anything, can be done to correct course before it's too late. All of that and plenty more in this episode of spicy takes and head-butting bureaucracy. (Apologies for the overlapping noise at some points in the show, multiple people were recording with one microphone setup which limits the ability to clean up audio.) 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                                       Check out our sponsors:                             Use code: ARTANDWAR10 for $10 off an SMU Belt at AWSin.com Check out our new sponsor OTTE Gear.com! Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff!

Chocolate Operator (Adam) joins Nathan and Paige this episode! He details his time working undercover and SWAT, the gang gets into everything from how to spot an undercover cop or a criminal, the low standards for fitness, unarmed and firearm proficiency amongst Law Enforcement, foreskin and John Harvey Kellog (somehow), the serial killer Ed Gein and his nipple belt, falling back to your most hardwired training under stress, Adam shares the story of fighting a drug dealer high after taking cocaine to the face, Paige talks PCP zombies, section 8 housing and much more! Links mentioned in this episode:   Follow Chocolate Operator on IG 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 Check out our new sponsor OTTE Gear.com! Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff!

Co-Founder of Spiritus Systems, Adam Holroyd joins Nathan and B.R to talk gear, government, freedom and plenty more this episode! Adam and the lads touch on how Spiritus came to be, the mess that is the US government gear acquisition process, what the attitude is towards individually purchased vs issued kit looks like on the non-SOF side of the military, the defiant culture within the US, Adam gets spicy on the Canada gun ban, the War on Terror coming home and the guys talk the present day circumstances of police interaction, where Nathan should flee to in the States and much more! Links mentioned in this episode: Follow Adam on IG here! Check out Spiritus Systems on IG 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                    Check out our new sponsor OTTE Gear.com! Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff!

This episode, Nathan, B.R and Lucas talk shit about the sweeping new Canadian semi auto firearm ban, Lucas chats about his time working as one of Milo Yiannopoulos’ interns, Milo’s shift to an evangelical gay conversion therapy grift and now supposedly becoming Kanye West’s 2024 Campaign manager, Canada’s ridiculous definition of an SBR (short barreled rifle), the Trudeau government’s tactics of tyranny via loopholes, the very real dangers of modern politics always using an 'other' as the scapegoat for societal problems, the discourse between Leftists arguing with Liberals over gun rights, Law Enforcement recruiting issues in the age of ‘Shall not Comply’ culture, new 3D printed gat developments and much much more talk on gun control! 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!

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!