The Silvercore Podcast with Travis Bader

Travis Bader

podcast@silvercore.ca

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Booking Overview

A competence- and mastery-focused show where the host speaks with capable professionals from military, sport, and outdoors backgrounds. It’s a strong platform for guests who can discuss integrity, skepticism, and real-world principle—especially where policy, institutions, and personal accountability intersect.

Metrics

Episodes: 189

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: Canada

YouTube: 18.4k subscribers

Instagram: 19.0k followers

Contact Information

podcast@silvercore.ca

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Host

Travis Bader - Host of The Silvercore Podcast, focused on the mindset and skills that build capable people. His interviews explore competence, integrity, and mastery across wilderness and daily life, often engagi...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Substantial real-world credibility in competence-driven arenas (military/public service, outdoors, athletics, craftsmanship) or academic/policy expertise with demonstrable, first-hand engagement (e.g., conducting research by personally navigating regulatory systems). Guests should be able to discuss institutions, integrity, and risk/principle clearly and come with a credible track record.
Required Achievements:  
Veteran/public service leadership experience, Policy advising or governmental/organizational involvement (direct or advisory), Academic research with hands-on fieldwork or primary-source evidence gathering, Notable legal or civic outcomes related to principle/institutional pushback, Published work, public credibility, or specialized technical expertise

Recent Guest Discussions

Jeff Evely - Courage And Accountability When Resisting Institutions; Legal Consequences For Principle; Skepticism/stoicism; Cultural Drivers Of Politics; Personal Cost Of Standing On Principle.

Rocky Swanson - Declassified Uap/ufo File Processes; Evaluating Evidence And Expert Testimony; How Intelligence Programs Operate; Personal UAP Encounters; Critique Of Belief-based Approaches.

Dr. Noah Schwartz - Canadian Firearms Policy And Licensing; Firearms Advocacy Dynamics; Mass Casualty History And Policy Decisions; Narrative Vs Evidence; Harm Reduction Framing; How Institutions And Rules Shape Behavior.

Recent Topics

Competence, Military, Outdoors, Firearms, Public Policy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Silvercore Podcast with Travis Bader
:

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

June 30, 2026

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...

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

June 16, 2026

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...

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

June 02, 2026

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...

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