The Art and War Podcast

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 monkey paw, the gang get into how living under heavily pro-lockdown government’s the past two years has affected them and their preferred body pillows, why Tom Cruise should be President of the US and how he would solve the baby formula crisis, Isaac shares some Officer training stories from the Canadian military, the guys get into University educations and how necessary they are and how stupid they can be, the Canadians chat about the hypocrisy of Canada’s culture of constant apology to the Natives while the current Prime Minister’s father was critical to the government run ‘residency schools’ of the 70’s Natives were forced into, Garrett shares his appreciation for ’Love on the Spectrum’ and ‘The Undateables’ TV shows. The lads also get into how long they’ve known each other, talk video game addiction and addictive personalities, the absolutely ass (filled) new Halo show, media people not understanding how to develop IP’s with deep lore, how movies are hilariously trash these days and the guys wrap up on a mostly serious note discussing the most deadly shooting in Canadian history and where the conversation is going Stateside. 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!

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how the NHS subsidizes morbid obesity, how to prevent basically every bodily ailment, rucking and packs, the majorly outdated gear Nathan was issued in the Canadian Army and the lads get into the rapid evolution of gun culture into a place where small unit tactics are becoming a common talking point. Nathan talks about his new airsoft setup, B.R retrospectively appreciates things he learnt from British squaddies he rubbed shoulders with playing airsoft with back in the UK and the lads get into the newfound respect the gun community is starting to have for the sport for the value it has. The guys also chat about art school, just how important a degree is to getting a job in a creative role, the major lack of overlap between artists and woodsmen, the fact that YOU need to plan and go on a ruck soon, the disastrous conflation of a quality reviewer and paid for opinions in the gun industry, B.R get's controversial on why government killers shouldn't be the idols of those serious about gun rights and much more! Links mentioned in this episode:   Check out B.R the Anarch 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!

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 the military with ADD, how people have missed so many telltale signs that lead to the current state of the world, the things they don’t tell you about ‘free college’ and the GI Bill in the military, the Educational Industrial Complex and the societal pressure to get into massive student debt at the start of your life. Additional (medicated) Schizo rambles and rants include: Nathan sharing the story of the Communist that stole his food and squatted in his workshop for four months, the guys get into corporations, the domino effect of societal issues and Collin shares his POV from working at a gun store during the pandemic and 2020 riots amidst all of the fear and uncertainty, the roads and why our taxes haven’t fixed them yet, wild 60’s Psychological experiments on obeying authority, Creepy Klaus, pods, bug eating and the World Economic Forum, the fallout of the Canadian trucker protests and much much more! Links mentioned in this episode:   Check out Collin Underdahl 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!

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 content in the West, how propaganda on every side has made it so much harder to know what’s real, the weird topic of propaganda in general and how we encounter it in our daily lives, Putin’s cult of personality and support even beyond Russia’s borders, how the British have completely relinquished control of their country seemingly in favor of frivolity, the growing demand for artists and recognition of them in the gun industry, the link between productivity and passion for artists, the attitude needed to grow and succeed and Mitch and Ana get into it with Soccer coaching in the US, Mitch’s hyper-competitive personality and not so peaceful sporting alter-ego, how he’s been humbled over the years and much more! Links mentioned in this episode:   Check out VCTM Henry 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!

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 his print guide, his first AR, use of the FGC-9 in Myanmar by rebels fighting the military junta and PRS shares his experiences helping to film a documentary in Bangladesh seeing the refugee crisis aftermath caused by the same tyrants. The lads also get into just how dead gun control is, the rapid evolution of 3D printed firearm technology, what you need to get set up, different materials and their strengths, how hard it is to build an FGC-9 and other projects in development, Nathan and PSR share their love for Steve1989’s MRE review YouTube, chat about the new rules on Form 1 suppressors, dipping nuggies and mag dumping with forced reset triggers, Nathan rants about weird shootings in the news and much more! 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!

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 driving tanks in the Second World War and becoming General Patton’s personal driver. Fred also shares how he almost took an artist internship at video game company Blizzard in the late 90’s, Mitch get’s into separating politics and being in uniform and how the military is making that harder by the day, Mitch and Fred discuss the process of leaving the military and the lack of priority for retaining current servicemen and women over recruiting brand new kids, Fred get’s very real about the costs to both his body, mind and home life from his time in and deployments, why you shouldn’t shrug off even minor Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI’s) and much more in this two and a half hour show! Links mentioned in this episode:   Check out Counting Coup Tactical 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             If you are interested in reloading ammo, check out our sponsor Dillon Precision here or at Dillonprecision.com! Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff!

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 experiences living abroad in Abu Dhabi in the UAE, the guys share stories of almost getting abducted as kids, Mitch talks about his gym teacher’s old school attitude to coaching young men, the lads discuss their mixed success at confrontation as young overconfident military men with Nathan angrily approaching a man armed with a handgun and Mitch confident he could disarm a guy with a knife in Italy (and who came away with scars), why the lads hate Lizzo and where Nathan draws the line on what makes a person ‘fat’ beyond what the scale says, getting yourself on track with health via good choices 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           If you are interested in reloading ammo, check out our sponsor Dillon Precision here or at Dillonprecision.com! Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff!

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 relevant feedback amongst the noise, Mitch and Mike talk about everything from free speech to the Trans Athlete debate and discuss the weight of words, truth and fairness and much much more!  Links mentioned in this episode: Check out Sons of Liberty Gunworks 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         If you are interested in reloading ammo, check out our sponsor Dillon Precision here or at Dillonprecision.com! Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff!

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 scene helped naturally shape the look and message of his brand, what being ‘Straight Edge’ means to Jack and some background on the subculture within a subculture, B.R asks about the choice to stand for something as a brand over just being a people pleasing holster company, pushing beyond the typical Conservative gun owner audience to be accessible to everyone, the story behind Guerrilla Tactical’s ‘Hoist the Black Flag’ patch, Jack’s pre-Guerrilla Tactical adventures where he joined a DIY crew of civilians volunteering to counter illegal Japanese Whalers down in Antarctica, how they pursued them all the way to Africa, sabotaging them at every turn and how that turned into working professionally to train and work alongside African Navy’s to counter illegal fishing operations off the African Coast, how he hopes his company and the industry will grow, his recent trip to Poland to do humanitarian work for Ukrainian refugee’s and much much more! So much more that we will have to have Jack back for a part two in the near future! Links mentioned in this episode: Check out Guerrilla Tactical 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       If you are interested in reloading ammo, check out our sponsor Dillon Precision here or at Dillonprecision.com! Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff!

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 their respective military branches, instructing other Marines on the range, getting out and doing some contracting work in Kuwait and Afghanistan, Mitch shares a story about being quarantined with his unit on deployment, the lads touch on ‘orders’ in the military and amongst contractors and how they dealt with low quality instruction and how it compares to regular military service, Rughi gives advice on staying on top of your resume so leaving the military isn’t quite so daunting. Rughi also gets into working as a Private Investigator and how that lead to the well known ‘weapon snatch’ from which he takes his namesake, the good and bad aftermath of the whole incident and much much more! Links mentioned in this episode: Check out Shooter Rughi 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     If you are interested in reloading ammo, check out our sponsor Dillon Precision here or at Dillonprecision.com! Check out our link tree for the rest of our stuff!