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

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

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.

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. _____ 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. ____ 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 _____ Silvercore Club - https://www.silvercore.ca/club Online Training - https://www.silvercore.ca/course/canadian-firearms-safety-course-online Other Training & Services - https://www.silvercore.ca/course/category Merchandise - https://www.silvercore.ca/collections/all-merchandise Blog Page - https://www.silvercore.ca/blog Host Instagram - @Bader.Trav https://www.instagram.com/bader.trav Silvercore Instagram - @SilvercoreOutdoors https://www.instagram.com/silvercoreoutdoors ____

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. Learn more about John Barklow: Book: Knowledge from Storms (St. Martin's Press) Website: knowledgefromstorms.com Instagram: @jbarklow Courses: outdoorclass.com Free videos: Montana Knife Company YouTube, MKC Survival Guide series _____ Silvercore Club - https://www.silvercore.ca/club Online Training - https://www.silvercore.ca/course/canadian-firearms-safety-course-online Other Training & Services - https://www.silvercore.ca/course/category Merchandise - https://www.silvercore.ca/collections/all-merchandise Blog Page - https://www.silvercore.ca/blog Host Instagram - @Bader.Trav https://www.instagram.com/bader.trav Silvercore Instagram - @SilvercoreOutdoors https://www.instagram.com/silvercoreoutdoors ____ Timestamps 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.