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Monday night paintball, live and gloriously unpolished.
Every Monday night at roughly 8pm Eastern, Todd Ansich opens the mics for a live paintball show built around a rotating panel and an active chat. The topics run from tattoos and pre-game rituals to camping versus hotels at events, with plenty of unscripted drift in between.
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Behind The Bunker's Paintball Podcast is a weekly live show, going out Monday nights from Studio B in Cambridge, Ontario, and it makes no effort to hide the seams. Todd Ansich opens the show. He misses the count sometimes, greets the room and gets on with it. The lineup changes from week to week and that is part of the format. Gavin Sharma joins from Terratech Industries. Josh Zubizubrikis turns up in the rotation, as does Joe Kimson from Flyers Paintball, who has his own standing greeting for anyone tuning in. Austin from the Royal City Seadogs appeared on one episode and got teased for how many takes his intro might have needed. Dusty produces, and on the nights he is absent the show says so and pushes on with a few more technical wobbles than usual. Episode themes work as prompts rather than scripts. Paintball-themed tattoos. Pre-game rituals. Planning your next event. A proposal for the show's own paintball awards. Whether you camp at an event or book a hotel, which one episode treats as a genuine debate with a devil's advocate position. Gear talk surfaces naturally, including a passing note on a Planet Eclipse hat. One of the sharper stretches is a long back-and-forth on whether scenario paintball could work as televised sport, weighing golf coverage that cuts between eighteen holes, drone cameras from Olympic downhill runs, fixed and 360-degree rigs at key bases, and the awkward fact that resolution and empty screen space make the whole thing harder than it sounds. The chat is essentially another seat at the table. Names get read aloud, regulars get greeted, and one episode spins an entire bit out of the observation that in years of shout-outs nobody has ever been named Chad. Conversation strays constantly and without apology, into Easter candy traditions, green beer that never showed up at the bar, meat pie, garbage night. It always circles back. The register is loose, quick and a little unruly, with people talking over each other and correcting themselves mid-sentence. Nothing here is polished into broadcast smoothness, and that appears to be the point. With hundreds of episodes behind it and a season count in the teens, the show has the rhythm of a group that has been doing this a long while and knows its audience by name. It suits players and field regulars more than newcomers looking for a primer.
Made for: Paintball players, field and team regulars, and event-goers who want shop talk from people inside the sport rather than an introduction to it. Best suited to listeners who enjoy live-show looseness and don't mind a tangent.
What sets it apart: It is a live show first and a podcast second, so the chat, the missing producer and the false starts all stay in. The rotating panel and long run give it the feel of dropping into a regular Monday night at the field rather than listening to a produced episode.
A Weekly Live Paintball Show
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Paintball's games, travel, personalities and media challenges become an informed, good-humored conversation among people steeped in its culture.
Behind The Bunker's Paintball Podcast treats paintball as something lived between games as much as played on the field. Todd, Joe, Josh and Gavin bring the ease of a long-running group conversation to questions about dream teammates, scenario design and the practical difficulty…
Paintball strategy keeps getting ambushed by garbage night, travel disasters, and your inevitable snack debate.
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A grounded look at why scenario paintball is so hard to capture on camera.
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A loose 15th-anniversary paintball scrapbook built from studio changes, road shows, quarantine experiments, and a few wandering tangents.
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A casual paintball design chat sharpens around a four-team Battle of Narvik scenario.
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A paintball fantasy draft turns into a loose, name-filled debate about heroes, teammates, celebrity draw, and who would actually get to play.
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A paintball podcast episode discussing experiences with referees, featuring hosts and a guest referee.
Host Todd Ancich and guests Josh Zubizabrikas and Joe Kimson brainstorm ideas for turning movies, shows, and video games into paintball scenario games.
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A paintball podcast episode where hosts discuss paintball-themed tattoos and introduce guests from the paintball community.
The hosts of Behind the Bunker discuss paintball and share their Easter experiences.
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Behind The Bunker marks its 15-year anniversary by opening with a history-heavy rundown, including the claim that the show started on February 21st, 2011 and has logged 726 hours.
The hosts introduce a Christmas episode featuring a documentary premiere and an interview with Anthony 'Ledz' Ledbetter from Planet Eclipse.
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