The Silvercore Podcast with Travis Bader

OneBC leader Dallas Brodie sits down with Travis Bader for the first conversation in the Silvercore Podcast's BC Election 2026 series.

The conversation runs in three parts: the person, the party and the platform. Brodie traces her path from corporate lawyer, youth defence counsel, broadcast journalist and Residential Tenancy Branch arbitrator to her election as MLA for Vancouver-Quilchena in 2024. She talks about getting her PAL in 2021 and her expulsion from the BC Conservative caucus in March 2025.

On the platform, Travis puts questions from the Silvercore community to her on OneBC's proposed 25% cut to personal and corporate income tax and two-point PST cut, a 10% savings target for every ministry, the party's position on the federal firearms buyback, a provincial storage program and a provincially appointed chief firearms officer, hunting licence revenue, moose and caribou declines, Crown land access, Aboriginal title and the Cowichan decision, SOGI 123 in schools, public safety and addiction, and her first 100 days.

ABOUT THIS SERIES
On September 25, 2026, Travis invited the leaders of all five parties with seats in the BC legislature to the same long-form conversation, with the same format and the same community questions, and followed up on September 28. At the time of recording, OneBC accepted, the BC NDP declined, Centre BC was arranging a date, and the BC Conservatives and BC Greens had not responded. Any leader who accepts before the October 24 election gets the same opportunity. The views expressed are the guest's own. Silvercore does not endorse any party or candidate.

During the conversation, Ms. Brodie names Silvercore as an example of a contractor for a provincial firearms storage program. Silvercore has no storage plan and no arrangement with OneBC or any other party.

CHAPTERS
00:00 About this series: who was invited and who answered
01:37 Welcome, Dallas Brodie
02:47 Law, broadcasting, business and the road to the legislature
07:21 Fishing, a PAL and learning to shoot
12:29 A public decision with a personal cost
19:48 Federal influence, labels and political debate
26:23 The strongest argument against her platform
28:15 SOGI 123 and what is taught in schools
37:11 The 25% tax cut and how it is costed
40:24 A 10% savings target, including health and education
41:17 The federal gun buyback and a provincial storage program
46:37 Hunters, conservation and listening to the experts
51:38 AI and decision-making in government
58:17 The RCMP, the buyback and a provincial chief firearms officer
1:02:47 Where hunting licence money goes
1:04:44 Debt, deficit and the snap election
1:06:41 Moose, caribou and predator management
1:10:25 Crown land access and Aboriginal title
1:14:58 Affordability: what changes for a young family
1:17:40 Repeat offenders and open drug use
1:20:53 The Cowichan decision and private property
1:28:21 Improving life for Indigenous people
1:30:09 Intergenerational trauma and policy
1:36:39 Polarization and leadership
1:42:33 Her first 100 days
1:44:12 Her pitch to voters who have never voted OneBC
1:45:29 Closing thoughts

FIND OneBC
https://1bc.ca

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This content is for information and entertainment only. Nothing here is professional, legal, or safety advice. Firearms, hunting, and outdoor activities carry real risk. Know and follow the laws that apply to you, use safe practices, and get proper training from qualified professionals before acting on anything discussed. Silvercore accepts no liability for how this information is used.

Jay Nichol spends around 140 days a year in the mountains. He guides black bear, mule deer, mountain goat and coues deer across British Columbia, Alberta and Mexico, and runs The Mindful Hunter, an unsponsored gear-review and podcast platform that has grown into Mindful Hunter Outfitting, the Forged in the Backcountry apparel line, and Mindful Munitions, a new Canadian store for the gear he trusts.

In this conversation with Travis Bader, Jay explains what he changed after too many clients missed their shot in spring bear camp, how 18 years of sobriety shaped the way he leaves home for a hunt, and what sends hunters out of the backcountry early.

From Jay:
The Truth About Training for Mountain Hunting (free downloadable plan): https://youtu.be/wAugmpvZrtc
Free downloads and tools: https://www.mindfulhunter.com/tools
Kowa TSN-88A Sweepstakes: https://forgedinthebackcountry.com/blogs/resources/kowa-tsn-88a-sweepstakes

Find Jay Nichol:
The Mindful Hunter: https://www.mindfulhunter.com
The Mindful Hunter Podcast: https://mindfulhunter.podbean.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MindfulHunter
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindful_hunter
Mindful Munitions: https://mindfulmunitions.com
Forged in the Backcountry: https://forgedinthebackcountry.com
Forged in the Backcountry on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/forgedinthebackcountry
Mindful Reviews: https://www.mindful-reviews.com

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Silvercore Instagram - @SilvercoreOutdoors https://www.instagram.com/silvercoreoutdoors

This content is for information and entertainment only. Nothing here is professional, legal, or safety advice. Firearms, hunting, and outdoor activities carry real risk. Know and follow the laws that apply to you, use safe practices, and get proper training from qualified professionals before acting on anything discussed. Silvercore accepts no liability for how this information is used.

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00:00 Introducing Jay Nichol
03:00 Leaving home at 15
04:00 Only as sick as our secrets
08:00 Stolen CDs and the start of addiction
14:00 Addiction as a sense of purpose
18:00 The rite of passage nobody gave him
24:00 Letting people help you
26:00 Two mistakes: no mentor, no community
32:00 The annealing hot take
35:00 University with no high school diploma
40:00 Proving something to his father
43:00 Ego death and moments of clarity
49:00 Clean your house before you leave
52:00 The dark years, 2023 and 2024
56:00 Tapping out versus breaking
1:01:00 Why men talk shoulder to shoulder
1:09:00 Hours per day doing what you love
1:12:00 Anger as fuel, and compartmentalizing
1:17:00 Telling his daughter no
1:19:00 1,200 rounds in five days
1:22:00 The kneeling logging road shot
1:24:00 Buy a 223, shoot 1,000 rounds
1:27:00 Kill the weak parts
1:30:00 Zone two and the StairMaster
1:36:00 Travis on going into AFib
1:42:00 The illusion of learning
1:45:00 Nothing died, so you failed
1:47:00 36 deer in 105 minutes
1:50:00 Spend it on field days, not a spotter
1:52:00 Forged in the Backcountry
1:56:00 Outfitting in BC, Alberta and Mexico
2:00:00 Launching Mindful Munitions
2:04:00 Why the focus is men

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 booking took five years and one condition: in person only.
Twight climbed in the Alps, Alaska and the Canadian Rockies, including The Reality Bath, a route that went unrepeated for 37 years. He climbed the Slovak Direct on Denali in 60 hours with Steve House and Scott Backes. His books Extreme Alpinism and Kiss or Kill were picked up well outside climbing, including by military units who found the chapter on attitude and character applied to their work. He later worked on nine feature films, most of them with director Zack Snyder, building physical transformations against production deadlines.
In this conversation, recorded in person in Montana, Twight talks about what separated him from better technical climbers, why he keeps walking away from things at the top, and what he has found in the valley since.
Topics covered:
- Growing up the son of a National Park Service law enforcement ranger
- Taking up shooting in 1995, and mentors including Brian Enos and Pat Rogers
- Getting disqualified before firing a shot in his first match in 21 years
- Self image, permission to fail, and why some competitors stall
- Mount Hunter in 39 hours nonstop, and the arithmetic of pack weight
- Writing while drinking, and the decision to stop
- Building the cast of 300, and why fast results do not hold
- Leaving the Aquaman job when the paycheque became the only reason to stay
- Declining physical capacity, and purpose after achievement
A conversation about total commitment, and the bill that comes due for it.
Learn more about Mark Twight:
Website: https://www.marktwight.com
Substack: https://marktwight.substack.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wfmft
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Join the Club - https://www.silvercore.ca/club
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This content is for information and entertainment only. Nothing here is professional, legal, or safety advice. Firearms, hunting, and outdoor activities carry real risk. Know and follow the laws that apply to you, use safe practices, and get proper training from qualified professionals before acting on anything discussed. Silvercore accepts no liability for how this information is used.
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00:00 Five years and a one word reply
06:20 A ranger father, an anti-authority son
12:50 Nine films, mostly with Zack Snyder
17:20 Forty pounds and a changed life
20:00 Extreme Alpinism reaches Special Forces
26:50 The mountains are not clever, men are
28:40 Guns are stupid, then a range day
31:30 Brian Enos, Gunsite and mentors
41:50 Back to competition, DQ'd first match
49:40 You never outperform your self image
51:20 Permission to fail
57:20 Seven lives in one lifetime
1:01:00 Mount Hunter, 39 hours nonstop
1:04:50 The Slovak Direct in 60 hours
1:11:00 Why he stopped climbing
1:16:30 Writing drunk, and what it cost
1:29:00 Coming down to the valley
1:38:40 Borrowed beliefs and in-group politics
1:44:40 Hunters, conservation, common ground
1:47:20 Paragliding before anyone knew how
1:56:40 Something to rebel against
2:00:20 The first gym, and what it taught him
2:06:40 Invitation only, everyone on parole
2:12:30 300 and the website that crashed
2:16:30 Fear, rationalization, walking away
2:23:20 Walking off Aquaman
2:31:50 Fast results are unstable results
2:46:20 Why dangerous things matter
2:51:40 Risk tolerance over technical skill
3:03:40 No off-ramp for veterans and athletes
3:08:00 Intent instead of intensity
3:17:30 Saying goodbye to Daryl Miller
3:23:20 What success means at 65

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 faster than an ambulance, and days later faced a decision about a clot-busting drug with minutes on the clock and nobody to call.
The man who returns to the Silvercore Podcast is in what he calls the afterglow. Colours are brighter. Food tastes better. Any familiar face is an old friend.
Ian cold-called the SAS out of directory assistance and got a yes. He policed Wreck Beach by getting out of the car and learning names. He wrote a counterterrorism paper that got him summoned to the principal's office, and he has rebuilt his off-duty carry proposal into something a province could adopt on its own. And he answers the question an RCMP recruiter asked him at 19: do you have a healthy or an unhealthy interest in firearms?
His answer got the room to go quiet.
Ian speaks as a private citizen. His views are his own, not those of the RCMP.
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The Silvercore Club keeps you sharp and has your back. $5M excess liability insurance for hunting, fishing, and shooting across Canada and the US, member discounts, and a community that gets outside. $59/year.
Join the Club - https://www.silvercore.ca/club
Firearms & hunting courses - https://www.silvercore.ca/course/category
Merchandise - https://www.silvercore.ca/collections/all-merchandise
Host Instagram - @Bader.Trav https://www.instagram.com/bader.trav
Silvercore Instagram - @SilvercoreOutdoors https://www.instagram.com/silvercoreoutdoors
This content is for information and entertainment only. Nothing here is professional, legal, or safety advice. Firearms, hunting, and outdoor activities carry real risk. Know and follow the laws that apply to you, use safe practices, and get proper training from qualified professionals before acting on anything discussed. Silvercore accepts no liability for how this information is used.
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00:00:00 Welcome back
00:01:00 The warning shots
00:12:00 The big one
00:18:00 The clot buster decision
00:29:00 A song and a $5 bill
00:43:00 Is there any such thing as a coincidence?
00:53:00 A Reaper in the desert
00:56:00 Cold-calling the SAS
01:04:00 The afterglow
01:12:00 They don't look like supermen
01:19:00 Radio, Wreck Beach and who works for whom
01:32:00 Smart on crime
01:35:00 Off-shift carry, the proposal rebuilt
01:48:00 Define the problem first
01:55:00 The paper and the principal's office
02:10:00 A Liberal beat him to it
02:14:00 "I wanted to live my life armed"
02:26:00 The next sidearm
02:36:00 Courts and credibility
02:38:00 Until next time

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 21 years in the US Army, 15 of them in Delta Force, and fought in the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993.
The day episode 124 finished recording, Kyle got a phone call telling him he had bladder cancer. He had just told Travis, on tape, that he was living as though he had six months left. What happened next changed how he and Melynda live.
In this conversation:
The phone call after the last podcast, and the lung finding that followed for his wife
Why The Next Mission reads the Bible through a special operations lens, and why Bible scholars are not the audience
Ehud the left-handed assassin, and how researching a bronze dagger led to Herodotus and tin from ancient Britain
The Apostle Paul chained to a Roman soldier, and the two words that would have stopped his beating
Why Melynda's name is on the cover, and the five chapters she red-X'd out of Leadership in the Shadows
Two poems read aloud that have never been published anywhere
Twelve years without a drink, and the conversation in Hawaii that changed how he saw it
Why the Christian who did the most for his faith in two years is a Muslim friend
What tribe actually means, and why it has nothing to do with skin, geography, or religion
The redactions left visible in the book, and the note inside the cover confirming no AI was used
The Next Mission is 432 pages, published June 6, 2026. Signed and personalized copies are available direct from Viking Tactics. It is priced at $27.17, a reference to Proverbs 27:17, iron sharpens iron.
Kyle Lamb and Viking Tactics
Signed copies: https://www.vikingtactics.com/shop/the-next-mission/
Stay in the Fight Foundation: https://www.vikingtactics.com/stay-in-the-fight-foundation/
Team VTAC Podcast: https://kylelamb.libsyn.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vikingtactics
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00:00 The best conversations happen off the record
01:41 Welcome back, Kyle Lamb
02:19 The year-end question, and what happened that same day
03:40 "Mr. Lamb, you've got bladder cancer"
04:50 Then it was his wife
06:20 What he said to God in the truck
11:20 Time is the gift
13:30 Nims Purja and purpose after achievement
16:20 What's the mission today?
23:00 How the book started: Ehud and the bronze dagger
26:10 The Apostle Paul, chained to a Roman soldier
30:15 Battlefield reflections and the audiobook
31:15 Why Melynda's name is on the cover
33:50 Speaking, elk season, and his grandson's first hunt
36:10 The attention span of a squirrel
39:40 The Kyle pile
45:40 The guns he'd never get rid of
50:20 Commander's intent: reach the unreachable
51:30 Don't wear your faith as a badge
55:20 The Muslim friend who sent him a Bible verse
1:04:20 What tribe actually means
1:08:30 How his prayers changed
1:11:50 Twelve years without a drink
1:14:30 What an answer to prayer looks like
1:21:00 The farther from the flagpole
1:26:20 "If I shoot guns, I get paid"
1:29:20 The path of Musashi
1:34:40 Two poems, never released anywhere
1:46:10 What the public doesn't see
1:47:20 The five chapters his wife red-X'd
1:50:50 Putting the light on evil
1:51:50 Meek is not weak
1:56:40 Cutting twenty percent
2:00:40 Why he writes at a sixth grade level
2:15:20 Do you feel guilt?
2:22:20 The motorcycle in the classroom
2:26:30 Where to get the book, and why it costs $27.17
2:28:20 The redactions and the unit approval