The Silvercore Podcast with Travis Bader

Get the free bear guide Casey Braam and Travis Bader made, and enter to win an SAI Optics red dot, at : Silvercore.ca/bearEvery download is a contest entry. Silvercore Club members are entered for free automatically, and can earn a second entry by downloading the guide.Wildlife artist Casey Braam hikes into wild places, paints what he finds, posts clues online, and gives the painting to the first person who figures out where he is and hikes out to meet him. He calls it the Art Outside Project. In his second time on the Silvercore Podcast, 101 episodes after his first, Casey explains why he is doing it. The reason is bigger than art. It comes down to getting people outside and teaching them to actually see the world they live in.Casey and Travis also go deep on spring bear hunting: reading sign, judging and selecting bears, why patience and selectivity make the whole thing richer, and the hard-earned rule that can save your hunt, shoot a bear until it is down and done. From there it opens up into what makes any outdoor experience richer over time, the value of risk and the "question mark," raising kids who get dirty in a world full of cameras, and why there is no fence between us and the natural world.If you have ever felt like you walk through the woods on autopilot, this episode is about switching that off.Free bear guide and SAI red dot giveaway: Silvercore.ca/bearGear and partners mentioned:-IBI Precision rifles and barrels. - https://ibiprecision.com/**Silvercore Club members get 10 percent off through the member portal.- Norma Bondstrike ammunition-  https://www.norma-ammunition.com- SAI Optics - https://armament.com/collections/sai-optics-riflescopesFind Casey Braam and the Art Outside Project:Website: https://www.artbycaseybraam.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/cabraam/ _____Silvercore Club - https://www.silvercore.ca/clubOnline Training - https://www.silvercore.ca/Other Training & Services - https://www.silvercore.ca/course/categoryMerchandise - https://www.silvercore.ca/collections/all-merchandiseBlog Page - https://www.silvercore.ca/blogHost Instagram - @Bader.Trav https://www.instagram.com/bader.travSilvercore Instagram - @SilvercoreOutdoors https://www.instagram.com/silvercoreoutdoors____Timestamps00:00 Why he gives his paintings away01:53 The bear skulls, the invitation, and two styles of hunting05:09 Hunting for the experience, not just the kill07:35 Eleven bears in a day, and the animal he knows best14:09 The free bear guide, and why every bear looks 400 pounds16:20 A mama and cub at fifteen yards18:28 "It's not the one": passing on a taker21:00 The propeller-sound bear and a tactical retreat25:00 Tiffany's shot, and the bear that got back up28:44 Shoot it till it's down: tracking, anatomy, and lost bears33:00 Why cranked magnification gets you killed up close38:45 The Art Outside Project, and what sparked it40:50 Why getting people outside changes them45:24 Teaching your lazy brain how to actually see52:38 Two hours on a shoreline he'd seen a hundred times55:29 What makes a painting, or a meal, worth more1:00:09 How any business can steal this playbook1:04:07 The ingredients of a richer adventure1:07:02 Closer to death, more alive: the question mark1:17:12 Who's standing next to you when it happens1:18:33 Raising kids who get dirty in a panopticon world1:25:10 No fence between us and nature1:29:41 The giveaway, the guide, and the gear

Get your FREE Authorization to Carry guide: https://www.silvercore.ca/authorization-to-carry Blair Hagen has spent 30 years fighting Canada's firearms laws, and now, days after the National Firearms Association lost its president Rick Igercich, he is the one holding it together.In this episode of the Silvercore Podcast, Travis Bader sits down with Hagen, executive vice president and now acting president of the NFA, for a clear-eyed look at where Canada's gun fight actually stands in 2026: the assault-style firearm confiscation, the Order in Council (OIC) bans, the handgun freeze, and the amnesty that keeps getting extended because almost no one is complying.Hagen survived two armed robberies behind the counter of a Vancouver gun store, then was refused a permit to protect himself. He explains why firearms in Canada get banned for how they look rather than what they do, why a serious gun charge is the first thing a prosecutor drops, why the numbers behind the confiscation do not add up, and the one thing every gun owner can actually do that works.What we get into:Why "assault-style firearm" is a political marketing term, not a legal oneThe "comply or become a criminal" trap inside the current buybackEstates, the handgun freeze, and how a widow loses a collection's valueThe NFA Save Firearms program and storing prohibited firearms legallyWhether you can still buy and transfer a handgun in Canada, and where an Authorization to Carry fits inWhether you have owned firearms your whole life or have never touched one, this is a conversation about property, rights, and who decides what is yours.Find the NFA: https://nfa.caNFA on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/national_firearms_association/NFA on Facebook: https://facebook.com/NFACANADANFA on X: https://x.com/CanadasNFA_____Silvercore Club - https://www.silvercore.ca/clubOnline Training - https://www.silvercore.ca/Other Training & Services - https://www.silvercore.ca/course/categoryMerchandise - https://www.silvercore.ca/collections/all-merchandiseBlog Page - https://www.silvercore.ca/blogHost Instagram - @Bader.Trav https://www.instagram.com/bader.travSilvercore Instagram - @SilvercoreOutdoors https://www.instagram.com/silvercoreoutdoors____Timestamps:00:00 Cold open00:46 Remembering NFA president Rick Igercich02:28 How Blair got into the fight: the registry and David Tomlinson08:38 Canada's gun culture, and a global audience listening12:49 Two armed robberies behind the counter17:00 Denied a carry permit in a store full of guns20:19 "What can I do?" and the early '90s political wasteland26:00 Property rights and the slippery slope30:35 The amnesty extension and the courtroom no-win34:32 Why gun charges get dropped first, and "assault-style" spin40:49 Estates, the widow problem, and the caliber ban48:24 "We do not make mistakes": the inheritance test case50:44 Magazines, deactivation, and rules you can't comply with57:03 OIC chaos and the meaningless word "variant"1:03:15 Aesthetics over ballistics: why guns really get banned1:09:41 Talking guns with someone who fears them1:13:22 The handgun freeze and the Save Firearms program1:22:00 The toll of 30 years on the line1:24:45 Cooking the numbers: only 4,000 Mini-14s?1:29:00 The quiet plan to put gun stores out of business1:33:31 The Conservative Outdoors Committee and revolving-door courts1:37:57 Which org to support, and what you can actually do1:45:08 Closing, and Blair's goodbye to Rick

Jeff Evely served 20 years in the Canadian Armed Forces, with deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. He came home, retired to his hometown in Cape Breton, and within months found himself arrested at a war memorial he was trying to guard, then later fined nearly $29,000 for walking in the woods during a Nova Scotia fire ban.He fought back. And he won.In this conversation, Travis sits down with Jeff to unpack the $29,000 ticket, the court win against the Nova Scotia government, the trucker convoy and Rolling Thunder arrests, and what it actually takes for one person to push back against institutions that have stopped listening. They also get into the Fourth Turning, stoicism, Carl Sagan and skepticism, the limits of the courts, why politics is downstream from culture, and the deepest personal cost Jeff has paid for standing on principle.A conversation about courage, consequences, and what it costs to hold the line.Find Jeff Evely:Twitter / X: @JeffEvely_____Silvercore Club - https://www.silvercore.ca/clubOnline Training - https://www.silvercore.ca/Other Training & Services - https://www.silvercore.ca/course/categoryMerchandise - https://www.silvercore.ca/collections/all-merchandiseBlog Page - https://www.silvercore.ca/blogHost Instagram - @Bader.Trav https://www.instagram.com/bader.travSilvercore Instagram - @SilvercoreOutdoors https://www.instagram.com/silvercoreoutdoors____Timestamps 00:00 Cold open00:42 Twenty years in, vaccine mandates out02:00 Refused at the Legion, the lone protest begins04:09 Trucker Convoy, taking down the fence05:00 Arrested walking to the war memorial in his medals07:00 Rolling Thunder and the limits of standing on your rights10:10 The Fourth Turning and why institutions are collapsing18:17 Anything currently going right20:51 Portapique, gun policy, and the firearms debate23:51 Wildfires, arson, and the climate narrative shift25:28 How the Silvercore Club came to exist35:42 The $29,000 fine and the court win46:00 Why courts alone won't change the culture48:15 Carl Sagan, skepticism, and a logical framework52:20 COVID, the fog, and the totalitarian impulse59:41 Anarcho-tyranny and the strategy to destabilize01:03:00 Shame, accountability, and bringing consequences back01:14:00 May Day Kids in Crisis and confronting Poilievre01:22:32 Victimhood, cultural Marxism, and the trans question01:28:40 The greatest price: his daughter01:31:09 Raising kids on logic, what could change his mind01:35:00 Hard times, strong men, and how we raise the next generation01:37:13 Close

Last Friday, the Pentagon released 162 declassified UFO files through a brand-new portal called PURSUE. The first formal federal release in 80 years. Some are calling it disclosure. Some are calling it a nothing burger.Rocky Swanson has spent his life inside the kind of system that handles this material. Joined the Royal Canadian Army Cadets at twelve. Served a full career in the Canadian Armed Forces, including a NORAD posting. Came home and became deputy fire chief in the town he grew up in. He was approached by the federal government to advise on a Canadian UAP initiative alongside sitting members of parliament. He was a guest co-host on a podcast that interviewed Lue Elizondo, the former Pentagon official who put UFOs on the front page of the New York Times in 2017. He got close enough to see the seams.In this episode Travis and Rocky walk through the Pentagon release, the actual evidence in the new tranche, why three pilots are not the same thing as three radar tracks, why Skinwalker Ranch matters more than people think, what really happened inside AATIP, who Bob Lazar actually is, and why the most interesting UAP case Rocky has ever encountered did not come from the Pentagon at all. It came from an F-18 pilot over the Canadian Arctic.Rocky believes in the possibility of life out there. He does not believe the people on stage right now are the ones who have found it.If you came to this conversation looking for someone who will tell you what to believe, you are in the wrong place. If you came looking for someone who will tell you how to think about this honestly, settle in._____Silvercore Club - https://www.silvercore.ca/clubOnline Training - https://www.silvercore.ca/Other Training & Services - https://www.silvercore.ca/course/categoryMerchandise - https://www.silvercore.ca/collections/all-merchandiseBlog Page - https://www.silvercore.ca/blogHost Instagram - @Bader.Trav https://www.instagram.com/bader.travSilvercore Instagram - @SilvercoreOutdoors https://www.instagram.com/silvercoreoutdoors____Chapter timestamps00:00  Cold open. The Pentagon just released 162 UFO files01:50  How a mutual friend's UAP footage started this conversation03:40  The conservation officer sighting that no one can explain07:30  Reading the Diary of a CEO UFO episode like a detective09:20  What an actual thermal imagery expert sees in the new footage17:00  The Nimitz Tic Tac case is not what you think it is21:00  Rocky admits he was starstruck by the Pentagon witnesses24:00  Wile E. Coyote, age 9, and Rocky's own first UFO sighting27:00  The 2016 moment that pulled him back into the rabbit hole33:00  Applying arson investigator rigor to UFO claims36:00  Why the Go Fast, Gimbal and Tic Tac videos were chosen39:30  Why is Trump releasing the files now?42:00  The intelligence friends who believe, and won't say why45:00  What would actually change Rocky's mind47:00  Rocky's CIA-adjacent contacts and how grifts get built50:00  The isotopic ratio testing story that fell apart51:00  When the Pentagon tried to read him in to NORAD programs54:00  The Sky Canada Project, and what Canada is actually doing56:00  Asking the base commander permission to study UFOs57:00  F-18 pilots who saw things they couldn't explain1:01:00  Japan Airlines Flight 1628 and the Arctic walnut-shape sighting1:03:00  The Canadian general who became Rocky's most credible witness1:09:00  Collective ignorance versus a cabal1:12:00  Bob Lazar has the credibility of a Labrador retriever1:15:00  Those who talk don't know. Those who know don't talk.1:19:00  Skinwalker Ranch and the dino beaver problem1:23:00  How Paul Hellyer got used by the UFO community1:26:00  Religion, ufology, and the snake-kissing Pentecostal connection1:28:00  Admiral Tim Gallaudet, hauntings, and pre-positioned belief1:33:00  Why humans are drawn to this in the first place1:39:00  Science asks questions. Ufology asks you to believe.1:42:00  What Obama actually said. What Trump actually meant.1:45:00  Don't be pulled down the rabbit hole1:46:00  The series begins. What we'll do next.

Dr. Noah Schwartz is the political scientist who decided he could not write honestly about Canada's gun community without going through the licensing system himself. He took the PAL. He took the RPAL. He sat at 84 kitchen tables across this country. What he found is a story most Canadians have never heard.In this episode we cover the largest deliberate mass casualty event in Canadian history that almost nobody remembers, why the handgun freeze was announced after a shooting in Texas, the policy framework Czechia used after a university massacre that did the opposite of what Canada did, and what it means that single-shot black powder pistols were banned alongside Glocks.Get Targeted: https://amzn.to/4wbl61wMore from Noah: https://noahschwartz.ca and @NoahSchwartzy on X_____Silvercore Club - https://www.silvercore.ca/clubOnline Training - https://www.silvercore.ca/Other Training & Services - https://www.silvercore.ca/course/categoryMerchandise - https://www.silvercore.ca/collections/all-merchandiseBlog Page - https://www.silvercore.ca/blogHost Instagram - @Bader.Trav https://www.instagram.com/bader.travSilvercore Instagram - @SilvercoreOutdoors https://www.instagram.com/silvercoreoutdoors____Timestamps00:00:00  Cold open and Silvercore Club00:01:16  Welcome and meeting at the NFA event00:02:01  What political science is and how Schwartz fell into firearms research00:05:18  Breaking suburban-Ottawa preconceptions, his first time shooting in rural Alberta00:08:51  American gun rights vs Canadian citizenship, the load-bearing distinction00:11:27  What being treated fairly looks like, the handgun freeze and inheritance00:13:55  Teaching gun politics at university, viewpoint diversity in the classroom00:17:54  Storytelling, evolution, and why narrative beats statistics00:23:00  Mass shootings, mental health framing, and why fear overrides evidence00:25:46  Why Targeted exists, and who it is actually written for00:27:30  The two factions of Canadian gun advocacy, hunters and sport shooters00:31:23  Civilian-military reconnection, rifle shooting as the first federally funded sport00:33:18  The aesthetics theory, what black rifles communicate to both sides00:36:14  Canadian identity, the CBC, the National Film Board, and the gunless cowboy00:39:20  Finland and the Nordic security model00:41:11  The case for a Canadian firearms museum00:43:41  Making the gun the object instead of the person00:45:00  The largest deliberate mass casualty events in Canadian history, including Bluebird Cafe00:48:13  Why cars and alcohol kill more people but face less regulation00:51:13  The 6 percent problem, gun owners as a political minority00:53:01  Interest group capture and why the community loses 70 percent of the time00:55:30  Reconnecting firearms to national defence, Carney's civil-servant proposal01:01:30  The OIC, executive overreach, and why parliament matters01:04:35  Black powder pistols banned alongside Glocks01:05:15  Why the handgun freeze was announced after Uvalde, Texas01:08:19  The Czech Republic, Charles University, and a different policy response01:10:30  The real causes of crime, mental health, and harm reduction01:12:30  How current laws stop gun owners from seeking mental health help01:17:51  Blake Brown and the Angry White Men question01:22:32  Why treating the media as the enemy is a losing strategy01:25:23  Personal agency and not outsourcing your voice to organizations01:28:04  RCMP variant reclassifications and the case for objective criteria01:33:00  The Bader 2020 OIC affidavit, prohibited weapons absurdities, charge stacking01:37:15  What he would tell a PhD student starting on Canadian firearms policy01:39:00  Suppressors and the next policy fight01:40:29  Closing message to young Canadian hunters and sport shooters01:42:34  Wrap