The Silvercore Podcast with Travis Bader

Ep. 193: Mark Twight: Trained the 300 Cast, Then Walked Off Aquaman

Mark Twight joins Travis Bader on the Silvercore Podcast for a conversation about alpinism, Gym Jones, the training behind 300, and life after peak performance. The booki

Ep. 192: "I Wanted to Live My Life Armed" | Ian Sim Returns

Ian Sim spent nearly three decades in the RCMP. In December, alone in his apartment, the strokes came. He saved the wine, booked an Uber to emergency because it was faste

Ep. 191: The Next Mission: Kyle Lamb on Cancer, Faith, and the Poems He's Never Published

Retired Delta Force Sergeant Major Kyle Lamb returns to the Silvercore Podcast to talk about his new book, The Next Mission, co-authored with his wife Melynda. Kyle spent

Ep. 190: John Barklow: They Needed a Mountain Warfare Expert. They Picked a Diver.

John Barklow spent 26 years in the U.S. Navy, most of it teaching Naval Special Warfare how to survive the coldest, most unforgiving mountains on earth. After 9/11 the mi

Ep. 189: Why This Wildlife Artist Hides His Paintings in the Wilderness | Casey Braam

Get the free bear guide Casey Braam and Travis Bader made, and enter to win an SAI Optics red dot, at : Silvercore.ca/bear Every download is a contest entry. Silvercore

Ep. 188: Why Canada Really Bans Your Guns | Blair Hagen NFA

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, da

Ep. 187: The Price of Speaking Up: Fined $29,000 for Walking in the Woods | Jeff Evely

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

Ep. 186: The Pentagon Just Released 162 UFO Files. A Canadian Forces Insider Read Every One.

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

Ep. 185: 37 Dead at the Bluebird Cafe: Why Canada Won't Talk About It with Dr. Noah Schwartz

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 t

Ep. 184: The Secret Language of Animals: How to Hear What the Wild is Saying About You | George Bumann

George Bumann can hear a coyote two miles away and tell you there's a wolf on  the ridge. He's watched ravens rat out approaching eagles before they're visible. He's trac

Ep. 183: Charged by a Brown Bear at 2 Meters - Torkel Norling on Tracking, Stress & the Never-Quit Mindset

Torkel Norling does 200 to 300 wounded game recoveries a year. He gets called by Swedish police in the middle of the night to track traffic-hit wildlife, hunts brown bear

Ep. 182: "I Shouldn't Still Be Here" | Sir Drifto on Risk, Adventure & Knowing When to Stop

Nathan James, known online as Sir Drifto, holds the world altitude record for the highest electric paramotor flight and has flown hundreds of miles in a vintage open cock

Ep. 181: "The Old Version of Yourself Has to Die" | Josh Botha

Josh Botha showed up to his first precision rifle match with a blind-magazine .204 Ruger and no idea what he was doing. A decade later, he's a four-time Team Canada World

Ep. 180: The Outpost

This episode introduces something new inside the Silvercore Club. It’s called The Outpost. A private weekly podcast for members where I share reflections from the field

Ep. 179: Melt Your Face Off Hot Wing Challenge | The Wild Kitchen x Silvercore

This was supposed to be a hot wing challenge. It turned into something else. We sat down to take on a melt your face off hot wing challenge and ended up in a real conver

Ep. 178: Why Training Fails Under Stress | Chris Butler on Perception, Video Evidence, and Use of Force

What looks obvious on video often tells the least important part of the story. Chris Butler has spent decades inside high consequence decision making, as a search and re

Ep. 177: SBS Special Forces Veteran on Violence, Awareness, and Self Protection

Violence arrives fast and leaves a long shadow. Former British SBS Special Forces veteran Sonny Smith returns to the Silvercore Podcast for a grounded conversation on aw

Ep. 176: What Do You Want to Be Remembered For?

As the year comes to a close, I reached out to a small group of past guests and asked them one question. What do you want to be remembered for? Their answers, and my own,

Ep. 175: The Explosives Expert Who Refuses to Live a Small Life

Matt Barnett grew up dreaming about explosives. At fourteen he blew up his hand, looked death in the face, and kept going. Today he is one of the most fascinating figures

Ep. 174: Inside the CIA: A Case Officer’s Untold Stories

Doug Patteson spent years overseas as a CIA case officer recruiting assets, running operations, and navigating a world built on secrecy and human psychology. After leavin