The Silvercore Podcast with Travis Bader

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.
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Timestamps 
00:00 Cold open
00:42 Twenty years in, vaccine mandates out
02:00 Refused at the Legion, the lone protest begins
04:09 Trucker Convoy, taking down the fence
05:00 Arrested walking to the war memorial in his medals
07:00 Rolling Thunder and the limits of standing on your rights
10:10 The Fourth Turning and why institutions are collapsing
18:17 Anything currently going right
20:51 Portapique, gun policy, and the firearms debate
23:51 Wildfires, arson, and the climate narrative shift
25:28 How the Silvercore Club came to exist
35:42 The $29,000 fine and the court win
46:00 Why courts alone won't change the culture
48:15 Carl Sagan, skepticism, and a logical framework
52:20 COVID, the fog, and the totalitarian impulse
59:41 Anarcho-tyranny and the strategy to destabilize
01:03:00 Shame, accountability, and bringing consequences back
01:14:00 May Day Kids in Crisis and confronting Poilievre
01:22:32 Victimhood, cultural Marxism, and the trans question
01:28:40 The greatest price: his daughter
01:31:09 Raising kids on logic, what could change his mind
01:35:00 Hard times, strong men, and how we raise the next generation
01:37:13 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.
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Chapter timestamps
00:00  Cold open. The Pentagon just released 162 UFO files
01:50  How a mutual friend's UAP footage started this conversation
03:40  The conservation officer sighting that no one can explain
07:30  Reading the Diary of a CEO UFO episode like a detective
09:20  What an actual thermal imagery expert sees in the new footage
17:00  The Nimitz Tic Tac case is not what you think it is
21:00  Rocky admits he was starstruck by the Pentagon witnesses
24:00  Wile E. Coyote, age 9, and Rocky's own first UFO sighting
27:00  The 2016 moment that pulled him back into the rabbit hole
33:00  Applying arson investigator rigor to UFO claims
36:00  Why the Go Fast, Gimbal and Tic Tac videos were chosen
39:30  Why is Trump releasing the files now?
42:00  The intelligence friends who believe, and won't say why
45:00  What would actually change Rocky's mind
47:00  Rocky's CIA-adjacent contacts and how grifts get built
50:00  The isotopic ratio testing story that fell apart
51:00  When the Pentagon tried to read him in to NORAD programs
54:00  The Sky Canada Project, and what Canada is actually doing
56:00  Asking the base commander permission to study UFOs
57:00  F-18 pilots who saw things they couldn't explain
1:01:00  Japan Airlines Flight 1628 and the Arctic walnut-shape sighting
1:03:00  The Canadian general who became Rocky's most credible witness
1:09:00  Collective ignorance versus a cabal
1:12:00  Bob Lazar has the credibility of a Labrador retriever
1:15:00  Those who talk don't know. Those who know don't talk.
1:19:00  Skinwalker Ranch and the dino beaver problem
1:23:00  How Paul Hellyer got used by the UFO community
1:26:00  Religion, ufology, and the snake-kissing Pentecostal connection
1:28:00  Admiral Tim Gallaudet, hauntings, and pre-positioned belief
1:33:00  Why humans are drawn to this in the first place
1:39:00  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 hole
1:46:00  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.

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Timestamps

00:00:00  Cold open and Silvercore Club
00:01:16  Welcome and meeting at the NFA event
00:02:01  What political science is and how Schwartz fell into firearms research
00:05:18  Breaking suburban-Ottawa preconceptions, his first time shooting in rural Alberta
00:08:51  American gun rights vs Canadian citizenship, the load-bearing distinction
00:11:27  What being treated fairly looks like, the handgun freeze and inheritance
00:13:55  Teaching gun politics at university, viewpoint diversity in the classroom
00:17:54  Storytelling, evolution, and why narrative beats statistics
00:23:00  Mass shootings, mental health framing, and why fear overrides evidence
00:25:46  Why Targeted exists, and who it is actually written for
00:27:30  The two factions of Canadian gun advocacy, hunters and sport shooters
00:31:23  Civilian-military reconnection, rifle shooting as the first federally funded sport
00:33:18  The aesthetics theory, what black rifles communicate to both sides
00:36:14  Canadian identity, the CBC, the National Film Board, and the gunless cowboy
00:39:20  Finland and the Nordic security model
00:41:11  The case for a Canadian firearms museum
00:43:41  Making the gun the object instead of the person
00:45:00  The largest deliberate mass casualty events in Canadian history, including Bluebird Cafe
00:48:13  Why cars and alcohol kill more people but face less regulation
00:51:13  The 6 percent problem, gun owners as a political minority
00:53:01  Interest group capture and why the community loses 70 percent of the time
00:55:30  Reconnecting firearms to national defence, Carney's civil-servant proposal
01:01:30  The OIC, executive overreach, and why parliament matters
01:04:35  Black powder pistols banned alongside Glocks
01:05:15  Why the handgun freeze was announced after Uvalde, Texas
01:08:19  The Czech Republic, Charles University, and a different policy response
01:10:30  The real causes of crime, mental health, and harm reduction
01:12:30  How current laws stop gun owners from seeking mental health help
01:17:51  Blake Brown and the Angry White Men question
01:22:32  Why treating the media as the enemy is a losing strategy
01:25:23  Personal agency and not outsourcing your voice to organizations
01:28:04  RCMP variant reclassifications and the case for objective criteria
01:33:00  The Bader 2020 OIC affidavit, prohibited weapons absurdities, charge stacking
01:37:15  What he would tell a PhD student starting on Canadian firearms policy
01:39:00  Suppressors and the next policy fight
01:40:29  Closing message to young Canadian hunters and sport shooters
01:42:34  Wrap

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 tracked a mountain lion by thinking like one until the birds around him started treating him like a predator.
The uncomfortable truth? Every time you step into the woods, the entire landscape is already talking about you. Your location, your mood, your intentions. All of it, broadcast across hundreds of yards before you see a single animal.
George spent four decades decoding animal language from his home at the edge of Yellowstone. In this episode, he reveals what the animals are actually saying, why experienced hunters are still missing most of it, and the one skill you can start practicing this weekend that changes everything.
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0:00:00 - Introduction and sponsor messages
0:01:54 - George Bumann joins the Silvercore Podcast
0:03:09 - What inspired George to write Eavesdropping on Animals
0:04:00 - Tracking foxes as a kid and the mystery of how animals know you're there
0:05:16 - Why George stopped hunting: health, family history, and an honest reckoning
0:09:00 - Why stepping away from hunting actually deepened his understanding of wildlife
0:11:19 - The Eden epiphany: the moment birds revealed the hidden language of the wild
0:16:02 - The coyote's word for "wolf" and how George reads animal alarms at distance
0:21:03 - Establishing a baseline: spotting the absence of normal
0:22:00 - Spidey sense, military awareness, and why rural kids have the sharpest instincts
0:25:24 - Indigenous wisdom: thinking happy thoughts on a moose hunt
0:27:27 - Your emotional state changes how animals perceive you
0:30:00 - Clever Hans the horse: what animals read in us that we don't know we're broadcasting
0:34:00 - Tracking a mountain lion by getting inside its head
0:37:48 - Crows that recognize your vehicle and hold grudges
0:42:37 - Ravens and wolves: Norse mythology meets field observation
0:49:13 - A grizzly bear encounter in British Columbia
0:54:28 - When the squirrels alarm you, the hunt is over
0:56:13 - The chickadee alarm system: counting the Ds to measure danger
1:00:00 - Trying to outsmart ravens (and failing)
1:03:20 - How your mood changes every animal encounter
1:07:07 - Prairie dogs describing your shirt colour and how fast you walk
1:08:06 - Disabilities as superpowers: ADHD, hearing loss, and trained senses
1:14:04 - Sitting with Jon Young and discovering what 70 observers reveal
1:17:41 - How AI is transforming animal language research
1:22:00 - Why game calls fool judges but not turkeys
1:24:45 - How do you call a beaver?
1:29:54 - Animal accents: why crows sound different in California, Alaska, and Maine
1:35:20 - The honeycomb landscape: reading the shape of silence
1:36:08 - Don't walk like a human: moving through the woods like a squirrel or turkey
1:40:24 - Why being quiet and receptive makes you a better person, not just a better hunter
1:44:47 - Silvercore Club member question: the single most important thing you can start doing now
1:46:22 - Faith, nature, and finding your church outside
1:49:40 - It's about belonging: why nature connection fights loneliness and depression
1:52:49 - Closing thoughts and part two teaser

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 bears and lynx with dogs he's bred himself, and just wrote the book on modern blood tracking. Literally.
In this episode, we cover the massive differences between Swedish and North American hunting culture, what happens during a real police tracking callout at 2 AM, a brown bear charge that stopped two meters from his face, the mental framework that separates good trackers from great ones, and why the "never quit" attitude matters more than breed, gear or method. Whether you track with dogs or alone with flagging tape and a headlamp, this one's for you.
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Time Stamps

[00:00:00] Intro and welcome
[00:02:12] Swedish government-hunter relationship vs. North American friction
[00:04:53] 12,000 wildlife accidents a year: Torkel's tracking operation
[00:06:00] Moose population decline, wolves and Allemansrätten (right to roam)
[00:07:44] BC vs. Sweden moose numbers and management philosophy
[00:10:02] Why Sweden shoots cows and calves first, the science behind it
[00:13:52] Wolf politics, the rural-urban divide
[00:16:00] Two hunting traditions: independent forest dogs vs. continental driven hunts
[00:18:48] Travis's Swedish hunting experiences, from Sollerön to the Norma estate
[00:25:18] Advice for hunters without dogs, and why Torkel says there's no substitute
[00:28:18] Police callout walkthrough: what happens when the phone rings at 2 AM
[00:33:33] Hulda the scent hound, trained to only track on asphalt
[00:36:22] The two-dog system, switching from tracker to bay dog
[00:38:25] Close calls with wounded game, the mentality that separates good from great
[00:40:52] The brown bear stories, dog sacrifice and a charge in the dark
[00:46:36] Why Torkel felt zero stress with a bear two meters away
[00:48:33] Travis on tunnel vision: skiing, motorcycles and a grizzly survivor
[00:51:24] The stair model for stress, starting low and staying below the red line
[00:53:14] Inoculation training: visualization, close-range drills and the safety bubble
[01:01:02] Physical fitness as the foundation for mental toughness
[01:02:16] The never-quit attitude, what elite trackers all have in common
[01:06:21] Breaking tracking into single missions: find the start, follow the track
[01:08:00] When you lose the trail, go back to the beginning and find your mistake
[01:13:53] Practical tips for tracking without a dog
[01:18:11] Drones, night vision, thermal: what Sweden allows after the shot
[01:20:55] How Swedish hunt teams self-regulate without conservation officers
[01:24:00] Bear hunting regulations, the two-dog limit and Plott Hounds from North America
[01:29:44] Dog injuries and the reality of close-quarters predator work
[01:35:05] Old methods vs. new, why emotion and tradition block progress
[01:40:22] Top performers share knowledge freely, ego kills development
[01:44:27] Where to find Modern Blood Tracking and how to connect with Torkel