The Silvercore Podcast explores the mindset and skills that build capable people. Host Travis Bader speaks with hunters, adventurers, soldiers, athletes, craftsmen, and founders about competence, integrity, and the pursuit of mastery, in the wild and in daily life. Hit follow and step into conversations that sharpen your edge.
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The Silvercore Podcast explores the mindset and skills that build capable people. Host Travis Bader speaks with hunters, adventurers, soldiers, athletes, craftsmen, and founders about competence, integrity, and the pursuit of mastery, in the wild and in daily life. Hit follow and step into conversations that sharpen your edge.
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June 16, 2026
Ep. 188: Why Canada Really Bans Your Guns | Blair Hagen NFA
<p><br><strong>Get your FREE Authorization to Carry guide:</strong> <a href="https://www.silvercore.ca/authorization-to-carry">https://www.silvercore.ca/authorization-to-carry</a> </p><p>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.<br>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.<br>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.<br>What we get into:</p><p>Why "assault-style firearm" is a political marketing term, not a legal one<br>The "comply or become a criminal" trap inside the current buyback<br>Estates, the handgun freeze, and how a widow loses a collection's value<br>The NFA Save Firearms program and storing prohibited firearms legally<br>Whether you can still buy and transfer a handgun in Canada, and where an Authorization to Carry fits in</p><p>Whether 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.</p><p>Find the NFA: <a href="https://nfa.ca">https://nfa.ca</a></p><p>NFA on Instagram:<a href="https://www.instagram.com/national_firearms_association/"> https://www.instagram.com/national_firearms_association/</a></p><p>NFA on Facebook: <a href="https://facebook.com/NFACANADA">https://facebook.com/NFACANADA</a></p><p>NFA on X: <a href="https://x.com/CanadasNFA">https://x.com/CanadasNFA</a></p><p>_____<br>Silvercore Club - <a href="https://www.silvercore.ca/club">https://www.silvercore.ca/club</a></p><p>Online Training - <a href="https://www.silvercore.ca/">https://www.silvercore.ca/</a><br>Other Training & Services - <a href="https://www.silvercore.ca/course/category">https://www.silvercore.ca/course/category</a><br>Merchandise - <a href="https://www.silvercore.ca/collections/all-merchandise">https://www.silvercore.ca/collections/all-merchandise</a><br>Blog Page - <a href="https://www.silvercore.ca/blog">https://www.silvercore.ca/blog</a></p><p>Host Instagram - @Bader.Trav <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bader.trav/?hl=en">https://www.instagram.com/bader.trav</a><br>Silvercore Instagram - @SilvercoreOutdoors <a href="https://www.instagram.com/silvercoreinc">https://www.instagram.com/silvercoreoutdoors</a></p><p>____</p><p>Timestamps:</p><p>00:00 Cold open<br>00:46 Remembering NFA president Rick Igercich<br>02:28 How Blair got into the fight: the registry and David Tomlinson<br>08:38 Canada's gun culture, and a global audience listening<br>12:49 Two armed robberies behind the counter<br>17:00 Denied a carry permit in a store full of guns<br>20:19 "What can I do?" and the early '90s political wasteland<br>26:00 Property rights and the slippery slope<br>30:35 The amnesty extension and the courtroom no-win<br>34:32 Why gun charges get dropped first, and "assault-style" spin<br>40:49 Estates, the widow problem, and the caliber ban<br>48:24 "We do not make mistakes": the inheritance test case<br>50:44 Magazines, deactivation, and rules you can't comply with<br>57:03 OIC chaos and the meaningless word "variant"<br>1:03:15 Aesthetics over ballistics: why guns really get banned<br>1:09:41 Talking guns with someone who fears them<br>1:13:22 The handgun freeze and the Save Firearms program<br>1:22:00 The toll of 30 years on the line<br>1:24:45 Cooking the numbers: only 4,000 Mini-14s?<br>1:29:00 The quiet plan to put gun stores out of business<br>1:33:31 The Conservative Outdoors Committee and revolving-door courts<br>1:37:57 Which org to support, and what you can actually do<br>1:45:08 Closing, and Blair's goodbye to Rick<br></p>
June 2, 2026
Ep. 187: The Price of Speaking Up: Fined $29,000 for Walking in the Woods | Jeff Evely
<p>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.</p><p>He fought back. And he won.</p><p>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.<br>A conversation about courage, consequences, and what it costs to hold the line.</p><p>Find Jeff Evely:<br>Twitter / X: @JeffEvely</p><p>_____<br>Silvercore Club - <a href="https://www.silvercore.ca/club">https://www.silvercore.ca/club</a></p><p>Online Training - <a href="https://www.silvercore.ca/">https://www.silvercore.ca/</a><br>Other Training & Services - <a href="https://www.silvercore.ca/course/category">https://www.silvercore.ca/course/category</a><br>Merchandise - <a href="https://www.silvercore.ca/collections/all-merchandise">https://www.silvercore.ca/collections/all-merchandise</a><br>Blog Page - <a href="https://www.silvercore.ca/blog">https://www.silvercore.ca/blog</a></p><p>Host Instagram - @Bader.Trav <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bader.trav/?hl=en">https://www.instagram.com/bader.trav</a><br>Silvercore Instagram - @SilvercoreOutdoors <a href="https://www.instagram.com/silvercoreinc">https://www.instagram.com/silvercoreoutdoors</a></p><p>____</p><p>Timestamps </p><p>00:00 Cold open<br>00:42 Twenty years in, vaccine mandates out<br>02:00 Refused at the Legion, the lone protest begins<br>04:09 Trucker Convoy, taking down the fence<br>05:00 Arrested walking to the war memorial in his medals<br>07:00 Rolling Thunder and the limits of standing on your rights<br>10:10 The Fourth Turning and why institutions are collapsing<br>18:17 Anything currently going right<br>20:51 Portapique, gun policy, and the firearms debate<br>23:51 Wildfires, arson, and the climate narrative shift<br>25:28 How the Silvercore Club came to exist<br>35:42 The $29,000 fine and the court win<br>46:00 Why courts alone won't change the culture<br>48:15 Carl Sagan, skepticism, and a logical framework<br>52:20 COVID, the fog, and the totalitarian impulse<br>59:41 Anarcho-tyranny and the strategy to destabilize<br>01:03:00 Shame, accountability, and bringing consequences back<br>01:14:00 May Day Kids in Crisis and confronting Poilievre<br>01:22:32 Victimhood, cultural Marxism, and the trans question<br>01:28:40 The greatest price: his daughter<br>01:31:09 Raising kids on logic, what could change his mind<br>01:35:00 Hard times, strong men, and how we raise the next generation<br>01:37:13 Close</p>
May 19, 2026
Ep. 186: The Pentagon Just Released 162 UFO Files. A Canadian Forces Insider Read Every One.
<p><br>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.<br>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.</p><p>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.<br>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.<br>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.</p><p>_____<br>Silvercore Club - <a href="https://www.silvercore.ca/club">https://www.silvercore.ca/club</a></p><p>Online Training - <a href="https://www.silvercore.ca/">https://www.silvercore.ca/</a><br>Other Training & Services - <a href="https://www.silvercore.ca/course/category">https://www.silvercore.ca/course/category</a><br>Merchandise - <a href="https://www.silvercore.ca/collections/all-merchandise">https://www.silvercore.ca/collections/all-merchandise</a><br>Blog Page - <a href="https://www.silvercore.ca/blog">https://www.silvercore.ca/blog</a></p><p>Host Instagram - @Bader.Trav <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bader.trav/?hl=en">https://www.instagram.com/bader.trav</a><br>Silvercore Instagram - @SilvercoreOutdoors <a href="https://www.instagram.com/silvercoreinc">https://www.instagram.com/silvercoreoutdoors</a></p><p>____</p><p>Chapter timestamps</p><p>00:00 Cold open. The Pentagon just released 162 UFO files<br>01:50 How a mutual friend's UAP footage started this conversation<br>03:40 The conservation officer sighting that no one can explain<br>07:30 Reading the Diary of a CEO UFO episode like a detective<br>09:20 What an actual thermal imagery expert sees in the new footage<br>17:00 The Nimitz Tic Tac case is not what you think it is<br>21:00 Rocky admits he was starstruck by the Pentagon witnesses<br>24:00 Wile E. Coyote, age 9, and Rocky's own first UFO sighting<br>27:00 The 2016 moment that pulled him back into the rabbit hole<br>33:00 Applying arson investigator rigor to UFO claims<br>36:00 Why the Go Fast, Gimbal and Tic Tac videos were chosen<br>39:30 Why is Trump releasing the files now?<br>42:00 The intelligence friends who believe, and won't say why<br>45:00 What would actually change Rocky's mind<br>47:00 Rocky's CIA-adjacent contacts and how grifts get built<br>50:00 The isotopic ratio testing story that fell apart<br>51:00 When the Pentagon tried to read him in to NORAD programs<br>54:00 The Sky Canada Project, and what Canada is actually doing<br>56:00 Asking the base commander permission to study UFOs<br>57:00 F-18 pilots who saw things they couldn't explain<br>1:01:00 Japan Airlines Flight 1628 and the Arctic walnut-shape sighting<br>1:03:00 The Canadian general who became Rocky's most credible witness<br>1:09:00 Collective ignorance versus a cabal<br>1:12:00 Bob Lazar has the credibility of a Labrador retriever<br>1:15:00 Those who talk don't know. Those who know don't talk.<br>1:19:00 Skinwalker Ranch and the dino beaver problem<br>1:23:00 How Paul Hellyer got used by the UFO community<br>1:26:00 Religion, ufology, and the snake-kissing Pentecostal connection<br>1:28:00 Admiral Tim Gallaudet, hauntings, and pre-positioned belief<br>1:33:00 Why humans are drawn to this in the first place<br>1:39:00 Science asks questions. Ufology asks you to believe.<br>1:42:00 What Obama actually said. What Trump actually meant.<br>1:45:00 Don't be pulled down the rabbit hole<br>1:46:00 The series begins. What we'll do next.</p>
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