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Ep. 194: Jay Nichol: Why Most Hunters Fail Before They Leave the Truck
Season 6 · Episode 194
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 • Duration 02:09:50
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.
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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 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
Ep. 193: Mark Twight: Trained the 300 Cast, Then Walked Off Aquaman
Season 6 · Episode 193
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 • Duration 03:25:30
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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Ep. 192: "I Wanted to Live My Life Armed" | Ian Sim Returns
Season 6 · Episode 192
Tuesday, August 25, 2026 • Duration 02:39:56
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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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.
Ep. 191: The Next Mission: Kyle Lamb on Cancer, Faith, and the Poems He's Never Published
Season 6 · Episode 191
Tuesday, August 11, 2026 • Duration 02:34:39
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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Ep. 190: John Barklow: They Needed a Mountain Warfare Expert. They Picked a Diver.
Season 6 · Episode 190
Tuesday, July 14, 2026 • Duration 01:42:51
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 military needed mountain warfare experts and almost none were left. They picked a diver from Cleveland, Ohio, and his work went on to reshape cold weather survival training for a generation of special operators.
In this conversation, Travis Bader and John go far past gear. They get into the mindset that keeps you alive when things go wrong, the difference between chasing happiness and building satisfaction, and why the hunting and firearms communities are so quick to turn on their own. John breaks down his famous rewarming drill in full: what to do if you fall in cold water in the backcountry, why you keep your wet clothes on instead of stripping them off, and how your own body heat dries your system from the inside. He explains how to train it safely in your own backyard before your life depends on it.
He also tells the story of a British Columbia horseback hunt that nearly ended under 1,400 pounds of falling horse in the dark, opens up about two hip replacements and refusing to let the old man in, and shares, for the first time publicly, who wrote the foreword to his new book.
Some of the best survival lessons of your life are the ones John learned the hard way, so you don't have to.
John's first book, Knowledge from Storms, is available for pre-order now. This episode includes a giveaway. Details are in the show and on our channels.
Ep. 189: Why This Wildlife Artist Hides His Paintings in the Wilderness | Casey Braam
Season 6 · Episode 189
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 • Duration 01:31:47
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 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. In his second time on the Silvercore Podcast, 101 episodes after his first, Casey explains why he is doing it. The reason is bigger than art. It comes down to getting people outside and teaching them to actually see the world they live in.
Casey and Travis also go deep on spring bear hunting: reading sign, judging and selecting bears, why patience and selectivity make the whole thing richer, and the hard-earned rule that can save your hunt, shoot a bear until it is down and done. From there it opens up into what makes any outdoor experience richer over time, the value of risk and the "question mark," raising kids who get dirty in a world full of cameras, and why there is no fence between us and the natural world.
If you have ever felt like you walk through the woods on autopilot, this episode is about switching that off.
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 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. 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. What we get into:
Why "assault-style firearm" is a political marketing term, not a legal one The "comply or become a criminal" trap inside the current buyback Estates, the handgun freeze, and how a widow loses a collection's value The NFA Save Firearms program and storing prohibited firearms legally Whether you can still buy and transfer a handgun in Canada, and where an Authorization to Carry fits in
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.
Ep. 187: The Price of Speaking Up: Fined $29,000 for Walking in the Woods | Jeff Evely
Season 6 · Episode 187
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 • Duration 01:37:40
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.
Ep. 186: The Pentagon Just Released 162 UFO Files. A Canadian Forces Insider Read Every One.
Season 6 · Episode 186
Tuesday, May 19, 2026 • Duration 01:46:55
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.
Ep. 185: 37 Dead at the Bluebird Cafe: Why Canada Won't Talk About It with Dr. Noah Schwartz
Season 6 · Episode 185
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 • Duration 01:43:11
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.
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
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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
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
00:00 Cold open: they picked a diver 01:00 The best introduction he's ever had 02:00 Cleveland, Ohio does not grow mountain men 05:00 Enlisting in the Navy at 19 07:00 The cardinal direction: a heading he couldn't name 08:00 Breaking the script he was handed 10:00 Happiness versus satisfaction 17:00 The harder you work, the luckier you get 18:00 When it goes wrong in the mountains, who does he call? 21:00 COVID, and the birth of Knowledge From Storms 23:00 The inciting incident: his drill in a competitor's marketing 27:00 Why the hunting and firearms communities eat their own 28:00 The camo wars, and refusing to fight in public 31:00 Trust is slow to earn and fast to lose 34:00 Travis at 16: the station wagon, the cabin, and hypothermia 38:00 Where he learned cold: diving, the Sierras, and Mark Twight 41:00 After 9/11: rebuilding a lost cold weather capability 42:00 Making the soldier durable 45:00 The rewarming drill on camera, and Adam Foss 47:00 The static rewarming drill: clothing is shelter 48:00 Why building a fire can be the wrong first move 49:00 Trap the heat, then move 51:00 An hour in: the shivering stops 54:00 Do it in your backyard, not in the middle of nowhere 57:00 Granddad in denim, and what modern gear actually changed 59:00 The active rewarming drill: one bucket, any trailhead 1:02:00 Mark Twight wrote the foreword, announced here first 1:05:00 Extreme Alpinism: the book that prepared men for war 1:06:00 Going light without getting forced out: the margin of safety 1:09:00 Three days pinned in a Mount Rainier blizzard 1:11:00 Planning builds confidence, confidence builds decisions 1:13:00 Keeping your world small when the float plane leaves 1:16:00 We romanticize the mountains. Here is the rest of it. 1:19:00 The PPCLI research miss 1:20:00 The BC horseback hunt that went wrong 1:22:00 1,400 pounds of horse in the dark 1:24:00 Giardia, and the unforced error he owns 1:28:00 Two hip replacements, and not letting the old man in 1:32:00 Who the book is for 1:35:00 OutdoorClass and Montana Knife Company 1:38:00 Start higher on the mountain, but climb it yourself 1:39:00 Student of the game: enjoy where you are
00:00 Why he gives his paintings away 01:53 The bear skulls, the invitation, and two styles of hunting 05:09 Hunting for the experience, not just the kill 07:35 Eleven bears in a day, and the animal he knows best 14:09 The free bear guide, and why every bear looks 400 pounds 16:20 A mama and cub at fifteen yards 18:28 "It's not the one": passing on a taker 21:00 The propeller-sound bear and a tactical retreat 25:00 Tiffany's shot, and the bear that got back up 28:44 Shoot it till it's down: tracking, anatomy, and lost bears 33:00 Why cranked magnification gets you killed up close 38:45 The Art Outside Project, and what sparked it 40:50 Why getting people outside changes them 45:24 Teaching your lazy brain how to actually see 52:38 Two hours on a shoreline he'd seen a hundred times 55:29 What makes a painting, or a meal, worth more 1:00:09 How any business can steal this playbook 1:04:07 The ingredients of a richer adventure 1:07:02 Closer to death, more alive: the question mark 1:17:12 Who's standing next to you when it happens 1:18:33 Raising kids who get dirty in a panopticon world 1:25:10 No fence between us and nature 1:29:41 The giveaway, the guide, and the gear
00:00 Cold open 00:46 Remembering NFA president Rick Igercich 02:28 How Blair got into the fight: the registry and David Tomlinson 08:38 Canada's gun culture, and a global audience listening 12:49 Two armed robberies behind the counter 17:00 Denied a carry permit in a store full of guns 20:19 "What can I do?" and the early '90s political wasteland 26:00 Property rights and the slippery slope 30:35 The amnesty extension and the courtroom no-win 34:32 Why gun charges get dropped first, and "assault-style" spin 40:49 Estates, the widow problem, and the caliber ban 48:24 "We do not make mistakes": the inheritance test case 50:44 Magazines, deactivation, and rules you can't comply with 57:03 OIC chaos and the meaningless word "variant" 1:03:15 Aesthetics over ballistics: why guns really get banned 1:09:41 Talking guns with someone who fears them 1:13:22 The handgun freeze and the Save Firearms program 1:22:00 The toll of 30 years on the line 1:24:45 Cooking the numbers: only 4,000 Mini-14s? 1:29:00 The quiet plan to put gun stores out of business 1:33:31 The Conservative Outdoors Committee and revolving-door courts 1:37:57 Which org to support, and what you can actually do 1:45:08 Closing, and Blair's goodbye to Rick
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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
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.
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
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