Silvercore Podcast 153 Stephane Monette

[00:00:00] Travis Bader: You're joined today by someone who has spent nearly three decades immersed in the world of hunting, fishing, and the outdoors. He's a guide, an entrepreneur, a chef, a media personality, and the CEO of Fermé Monnet, a company known for its innovative hunting products. He's also the host of Angeas. Where he shared over 1, 700 episodes of insight and passion for his way of life, but beyond all the titles and achievements, he's someone who truly lives and breathes the outdoors.

[00:00:43] Travis Bader: Welcome to the Silvercore podcast, Stéphane Monnet. Hi Travis, how are you? I'm doing really well, and I know I missed you. It's a good thing I'm a guy with a hundred 

[00:00:53] Stephane Monette: years, eh? 

[00:00:54] Travis Bader: Yes, you are. 

[00:00:55] Stephane Monette: And I 

[00:00:55] Travis Bader: totally messed up the, uh, firm. I said firm A. 

[00:01:00] Stephane Monette: No, no, no, that's fine. It's a farm. That's cool. No problem for that.

[00:01:03] Stephane Monette: Monet Farm. 

[00:01:04] Travis Bader: Yeah, over the years, man, the number of times I have butchered French names, I'm sorry, Catherine Laflamme, I know that's not your name, or Seb Lavoie, I know some I've had to back up and re record Catherine Laflamme, Seb Lavoie, right? 

[00:01:22] Stephane Monette: That's right, that's right. But the thing is, Please, please be, uh, be cool with me because even my accent sometimes gives a hard time, so we're, we're going to be okay.

[00:01:32] Stephane Monette: We're going to be okay. Well, what did you 

[00:01:34] Travis Bader: ask at the beginning? He's like, you're, you're going to be okay. You'll help me throw in some of the English words. I'll just sit back. I'll point and laugh. No, yeah, that's it. That's it. When I'll be, when I'll be in the ditch. That's right. That's right. Oh, I love it.

[00:01:46] Travis Bader: So we first met, so I've, I've heard about you. I've known about you for some time, but we got to meet face to face at SHOT Show here recently. Yeah. I'm still getting over the cough in the, uh, I 

[00:01:58] Stephane Monette: was okay. I don't know if I was okay. Normally I'm like you when I'm come back over the SHOT Show, you know, I got a coughing and stuff like that, but this year.

[00:02:07] Stephane Monette: I'll be fine. So I hope, I hope I don't get it later. No, 

[00:02:11] Travis Bader: I think you're past that, man. This year is bad. Like I've seen some people come back. I remember years ago when COVID first hit and everyone's coming back and they're like, what is going on? I remember, uh, Paul Ballard, he's been on the podcast before, a good friend of mine.

[00:02:26] Travis Bader: And he was down there at, um, at shot with me. And he was, he was green and he was in bed for about a week afterwards. 

[00:02:35] Stephane Monette: That's it. You're right. And there's a tons. Now it took like really hurting, really, really bad, but I think I would say that, you know, where we're living on a farm, we're in a little, we're a little bit on the side.

[00:02:46] Stephane Monette: So I hope, I hope we don't come here. So we just 

[00:02:48] Travis Bader: hope you got, you got a cool farm. You're not, you're not your traditional typical type of farm. Tell me about your farm 

[00:02:56] Stephane Monette: by, you know, the thing is it's a whitetail farm. Yeah. Okay, we are raising whitetail at the time was for, uh, collecting the urine for making attractant for 

[00:03:06] Travis Bader: huntings.

[00:03:06] Stephane Monette: But when the CWD stuff just arrived on the east side, so all government shut off all the collecting of these, uh, those urines. So, um But the thing is, you know, the business was like that for 30 years. So we, and we knew we here, I was on programs to collecting information for the CWD and everything. So, uh, when we see that, I would say 20 years ago, my dad, because it's a family stuff here.

[00:03:33] Stephane Monette: You know, I, we live, I live with my dad, my mom, my sons, we're all living in the barns. And, um, when we hear, you know, about CWD, we're just starting to do everything, you know, on synthetic, synthetic products, you know, not real products, but so make a lot of study, make a lot of research looking for everything.

[00:03:53] Stephane Monette: So when the law comes about the CWD and stop collecting urines, we were ready to selling stuff like. You know, like we do now, and it's incent did I'm right. S is that okay? Is synthetic? Yeah. Sed what? Synthetic. You know, not real one. It's like, uh oh. Synthetic. Yes, synthetic. Synthetic. That's, that's my French accent again.

[00:04:19] Travis Bader: Yes. Synthetic. I got you. That's it. Synthetic. That's it. That's it. Do you find the synthetic works better than different or what? 

[00:04:27] Stephane Monette: What we found out is, uh, yes. For the smell, it's really, really worked. The thing is when the hunters smell it and they found out the smell, is it sometime they said it looked perfume.

[00:04:38] Stephane Monette: You always smell like a perfume. But the thing is, when you dry it in the air. And, uh, it goes with the oxygen, the real sense is going to come by. And after that, with all the research we did for the last 20 years, we found out the way to put inside the pheromones, real, not real pheromones, but send, tell me again, synthetic, synthetic, synthetic.

[00:05:03] Stephane Monette: Paramount, so that now it's, it's really changing. It's, it's a big game changing on, on the, that kind of attractant. So we do well, everything is fine. We, um, we could not respond to all the domain. So that's fine. 

[00:05:16] Travis Bader: Isn't that funny. You bring up a really good point. Cause not only does it have to be effective for the animals to work, but you're also marketing it towards the individual.

[00:05:24] Travis Bader: It's like camouflage, right? You can have a highly effective camouflage that nobody's going to wear it. Cause they're like, ah, I don't think it looks good, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. 

[00:05:33] Stephane Monette: That's how it is. That's how it is. But your thing is, you know, from 30 years, we get that business. Now what's, what is really, really cool.

[00:05:41] Stephane Monette: It's the success of the hunters. So we don't have to sell it more now because what it really helped helping us in the social media. So those guys now are. posting their, their success for a moose, for a deer, stuff like that. So we have nothing to say about, listen, if you don't believe it, talk about with this guy, this guy shot this and this and this, and they have success with it.

[00:06:07] Stephane Monette: So that's how it is now. So, so the social media really, really put the end phases of the success of those products. So for us, what's really easy after that. So we 

[00:06:17] Travis Bader: just got our first kind of confirmed cases of chronic waste and disease in British Columbia within the last year and a bit now. Oh, 

[00:06:27] Stephane Monette: it's about a year for you guys up there.

[00:06:29] Travis Bader: Yeah. Yeah. But I didn't know. I didn't know on BCs. I didn't know. They just started kind of coming in. And, uh, but yeah, about a year. I get, I think that's about right. Uh, somebody listening will probably be able to correct me, but, uh, uh, from my recollection, yeah. Well, what does the impact like on the deer population over in Quebec?

[00:06:50] Travis Bader: And, and what was the impact like on your farm? 

[00:06:52] Stephane Monette: We, uh, they did, uh, about the last five years. Uh, they found out, uh, in, uh, in a farm, on a red deer. They got, they found out CWD in there. So, uh, there was a big emergency all in the province. So, uh, they shot over four, I would say, is that 2, 000? Yeah, I think 2, 000 deer just around that farm.

[00:07:16] Stephane Monette: Make sure there's no disease, there's nothing happen. And after five years, just last year, they says everything was fine. We have no disease in the wild. So that was really, really cool. So they found out it was really cool. The thing is, it's just a matter of time. The disease is going to come because the disease is on the South.

[00:07:39] Stephane Monette: Okay. All along the border, they have it. So, um, the thing is we have to live with the disease. That's the only thing. And the thing is in Quebec with the snow, there's, you know, the, um, the temperature is really, really. Not really perfect for the deer up north. So I think there's not a lot of chance the disease is going to come really hard like a touch like a Saskatchewan or Alberta or those, those place, you know, I don't know you guys in, in, uh, in, uh, in 

[00:08:06] Travis Bader: BCs.

[00:08:07] Travis Bader: Yeah, no, Alberta has got it. Uh, I was talking with Kevin Kossowin, uh, from the wild is a show that he puts out. And, you know, he's like, it's terrible. We go out there, you harvest your deer, you bring it back. It's hanging up. You send in your, uh, your samples for testing. You find out that yeah, it tested positive for CWD.

[00:08:27] Travis Bader: And they, they recommend that you. Uh, don't eat it, even though they don't know if it's, but the thing is, there's 

[00:08:33] Stephane Monette: no danger yet. There's no danger for human that that's even on the States, but whatever happens, nothing's really happened to human. But like, like you says, you know, on Thursday is going to eat it or not.

[00:08:47] Stephane Monette: It depends. But what I find out in the States. They don't, they don't care about if nobody's dead with that. So we just have to think about it in the States? 

[00:08:57] Travis Bader: Sorry? That's something I should know. It's something I probably should know. Do they eat the deer with CWD in the States? A lot of place where I go, 

[00:09:04] Stephane Monette: they don't, they don't care about that.

[00:09:05] Stephane Monette: Yeah. They don't care about it. But the thing is there's so much now animal about this and there's no danger for, you know, between you and me, if they tell me one of my deer got CWD, if I shot a deer, For sure. I don't think I'm going to eat it. Okay. Just make sure everything was fine. But, uh, on the top of everything, there's so much deer kill in, in the States.

[00:09:25] Stephane Monette: No one are all tested. So for sure, someone's going to eat, eat them and nothing's happened with, with no, you know, no result for the hunter. So I don't know. I don't know exactly. But the thing is, you know, that disease was there. A hundred years ago and it's going to be there until after that. So I don't know.

[00:09:43] Stephane Monette: I don't know exactly. The thing is controlling the population. That's, that's the point. If you have too much deer, some disease is going to happen to control the population. So that's how it is. That happened with the moose. That happened with the geese. That happened with all, all of them. So it depends.

[00:09:59] Travis Bader: Nature's got an interesting way of leveling things out. Same with people. There'll be a natural disaster. There'll be disease. There'll be food shortage or famine, strife, pestilence, war. Whatever the four horses of the apocalypse are. Of course, 

[00:10:16] Stephane Monette: mother nature is really, really, really strong. 

[00:10:20] Travis Bader: She's better than us on everything.

[00:10:23] Travis Bader: Sure does George Garland had something to say on that. So you think you're, you think you're going to have an impact on nature? You are just a blip. Humankind is just a blip on the universe, on the world, on earth. 

[00:10:39] Stephane Monette: And the thing is us, we know that better than anyone, because we're always on the field. You see, we always have mud on our boots and we see all the difference.

[00:10:49] Stephane Monette: You see the difference. On the, um, the, the, the temperature we see when it's changing, when you see, uh, falls coming faster or summer is too hot. We see exactly when we are on the field, the changing, I would say that those guys or those girls in, in the town are living top by top by top of them, you know, they don't know nothing about that.

[00:11:12] Stephane Monette: So, so us, we are really, really close for that. And we, we really, I think we really know more than everybody. What's going to come because we see the difference, we see the change. So, well, the best predictor 

[00:11:25] Travis Bader: of future performance is past performance. And if you've got a strong, a strong database of past performance, you've probably got a pretty good idea of where things are going to be going in the future, and that shouldn't be discounted.

[00:11:37] Stephane Monette: I see. I agree. I agree with you, but sometimes, sometimes they, if we don't have any university or a day, they don't, they don't, they don't agree with 

[00:11:49] Travis Bader: what we're saying. So never confuse an education with intelligence. Yes. They, they, they can go hand in hand. But not always. 

[00:11:59] Stephane Monette: No, no. I agree with you. I agree with you.

[00:12:02] Travis Bader: So you started guiding, was that on Anticosti Island where you started? Yeah, that's right. So Anticosti Island, I'm looking at it. The place, I'd never heard of it before you and I were chatting about it. It looks amazing. Less than 300 people living on the island. No paved roads, big waterfalls, giant caves, and over 115, 000 white tail deer on this island.

[00:12:23] Travis Bader: Just a little over seven. What's a 7, 000 kilometers. Yep. Yep. Yep. 

[00:12:31] Stephane Monette: That's right. And the thing is that Island was, uh, was, uh, that was a rich, uh, chocolate guy in the early nineteens. Did that, it's a Meunier, that name, from France. Henri Meunier. And uh, uh, Meunier, his name, was that guy. And uh, he just pay some people to brings a lot of animal on that island to hunting.

[00:12:56] Stephane Monette: And when he die, and he sell it. By the only animal who really live on it was whitetail. Moose were, moose they have a little bit, but the elk was gone, everything, and no predators. So no wolves, no coyotes, nothing up there. So, um, and why the reason I was, I was, uh, I agreed to go guiding up there is because my dad and my mom had the opportunity to buy a set up to do outfitters, be the first outfitters on the Anticosti Island, because all the island was to the government before that.

[00:13:33] Stephane Monette: So some part of the territory was given. And my dad at that time of the contact or I don't know what. And, uh, he get, he get the, the, the, the opportunity to get. Outfitters up there. So, I'm a young guy, 16 years old, Uh, at school for, uh, cooking. And my dad says, uh, You're summertime. Do you want to go fishing salmon and go hunting deer until you're going to restart your, uh, your school?

[00:14:03] Stephane Monette: Why not, you think? The answer is, 

[00:14:06] Travis Bader: uh, yes. Yes, I would. Thank you. 

[00:14:09] Stephane Monette: Yeah. That's it. So that's why it's so young. I start guiding up there. So a for Salmon fishing, you know, I was replacing the guide. So when some guys guide could not go with customer, I went guiding and after that they gave me some group for hunting deer.

[00:14:27] Stephane Monette: So that's how I started everything until 19, 20 years old. And after that I went, I finished my school. I was, um, I was going to be a cook. And, uh, by not so long, it took a year. And after that I said, no way I want to be cook anymore. 

[00:14:45] Travis Bader: I want to go in the field. 

[00:14:48] Stephane Monette: That's a different way of life. 

[00:14:49] Travis Bader: Isn't it? Being a chef, that's a, yeah, you really got to, you got to buy into that lifestyle.

[00:14:55] Travis Bader: If you're going to do it, you got to go just head first and jump in. And that can be, that can be a, a tough, a tough go. You know, when you like 

[00:15:03] Stephane Monette: wildlife, you like to go outside and everything. Always be inside on the back of the, you know, the cooking and stuff and the stress on there and everything is 

[00:15:13] Travis Bader: not for me anymore.

[00:15:14] Travis Bader: What I found is really cool is that correlation between your natural environment. And somebody who's passionate about knowing where their food comes from, because there's a difference between the person who just likes to hunt or the person who just likes to cook. The person who has a solid appreciation and understanding of, of food and food preparation and what you can do with it, who also.

[00:15:39] Travis Bader: Is drawn towards farming, gardening, uh, the animals, the biology, the, the, the marine life. Holy crow. That that's a really cool piece. And only Only, you know, in the only recently really have I, have I seen that portrayed in sort of its fullness, because everyone understands you hunt, you have meat, you can go and you've got food, right?

[00:16:04] Travis Bader: But that, that connection between nature and food and our role in all of that. Has really been, uh, put on the forefront in modern social media, in modern, like meat eater and these, uh, Netflix shows. 

[00:16:20] Stephane Monette: Those guys bring, you know, new opening of that. And I think the COVID, COVID did a lot of things on that, because we see here on the East side, a lot of increasing, uh, woman.

[00:16:32] Stephane Monette: Mother going hunting, bring the food to the family with the, the, the husband. And so, so we see, you know, from the last six years, five years, it's really, really increasing. And those environment of cooking and hunting and all those stuff going really very well now. 

[00:16:49] Travis Bader: Yeah. So my wife, we've met this, uh, red seal chef and, uh, you know, and she loves gardening and farming and she loves being outdoors and hunting and fishing, and it was interesting looking at.

[00:17:03] Travis Bader: The perspective that I brought, cause I was always, uh, survival type going out in the woods, spending time out. She's brings us very civilized nature to it. I'm like, Holy crud. This is really good food that we can eat when we're out there. We make a good team, but she's also looking at different things, right?

[00:17:19] Travis Bader: She's like, Oh, our, our elevation. We need to, uh, we need to drop down a little bit because the, uh, spruce tips, I'm not noticing them on the, uh, cause she'd collect spruce tips and eat them. 

[00:17:30] Stephane Monette: I know. 

[00:17:30] Travis Bader: Yeah. Our, our elevation is too high. We've got to go down. If we're looking for something like, well, that's interesting.

[00:17:35] Travis Bader: I'm looking at different things. She's looking at different things, but it compliments very nicely. 

[00:17:39] Stephane Monette: Of course. And there's a lot of opening now on both sides, both sides, a lot of opening. But when you put everything together, it's a perfect way. I think that's what that's that. Well, you've written some cookbooks.

[00:17:54] Stephane Monette: Of course. That's, you know, the thing is the way we live. It's really, I don't, I don't want to say normal, but the thing is we're living on a farm, raising deer, all from, from, I don't understand when, but we're always eating wild, wild meat all the time. Even it's moose. Deer, ducks, geese, whatever, okay? So, and all recipe from the family was made by dad, because my mom was doing this.

[00:18:25] Stephane Monette: Also, I'm a cook, so I'm, I'm, I'm doing a lot of cooking stuff with it. And when I found out, a lot of people, you know, with the media, social media and everything says, How you do this and how you do that and how you do, so we just say, okay, the first book we're going to do is going to be the family recipe.

[00:18:41] Stephane Monette: So whatever simple macaroni with moves or just simple stuff in the books went over, over, over what we're thinking we can sell. So we found out those people like to know simple things, what we eat every day, but with the wild, wild meat. So that was a thing. So that was really good. The second one was the same.

[00:19:05] Stephane Monette: The second one was a little bit more over it, but, uh, the first and the second ones were, we're looking now to doing another one because there's a lot of guys asking for barbecue stuff, you know, to put on the barbecue, the wild, wild meat. So now we're looking maybe to doing a, with all the project we have, that's a new, new books maybe we want to do.

[00:19:25] Travis Bader: Very cool. Yeah. I just, uh, did a chat there with, uh, Jesse Griffiths from MeatEater who's got, um, uh, Dai Due in, uh, in Texas here in the Austin area. So he's, uh, doing the barbecue and so, so passionate about what he does and so down to earth, a really, uh, really cool individual actually, but, um, I'll get, uh, uh, I'll do an introduction for you and him when we, uh, You 

[00:19:54] Stephane Monette: know, you know what is really, really important.

[00:19:56] Stephane Monette: Cool of what we do here on barbecue is bring maple syrup on everything. Oh, I love it. I love it. That's it. That's the point. So much recipe now we do with barbecue with maple syrup from in front of wild, but everything all together. Oh man, that's doing good. Good recipe is. So if you like a little bit sweet.

[00:20:16] Stephane Monette: That's really, really kind. And sometimes the meat are really strong. So bringing all those together is really, really nice. 

[00:20:22] Travis Bader: So I guess the biggest problem with putting the maple syrup on would be that you increase the risk of those sugars burning. So you just have to change how you, uh, how you cook it.

[00:20:32] Stephane Monette: That's it. That's right. That's right. And it depending, you know, sometimes you're going to cook everything at the end. You're going to put some. Like a marinade at the base with maple syrup, or, you know, you're going to, to depend, but most, yeah, yeah, you have to, you have to take care of not burning, burning the syrup on, on the barbecue.

[00:20:49] Stephane Monette: So that's, that's the most interesting thing. 

[00:20:51] Travis Bader: Oh, you should see, I have a problem. I have a sweet tooth. I know it's something I'm working on. My, uh, my wife's family has a, um, uh, sugar maples in Nova Scotia, uh, Swan. 

[00:21:04] Stephane Monette: And so we've, 

[00:21:05] Travis Bader: we've got cases and cases of those maple syrup, tin cans, the maple butter and the maple, uh, the heart.

[00:21:13] Travis Bader: Yeah, it, it gets dangerous. It gets dangerous. Yeah, 

[00:21:18] Stephane Monette: of course. And even when we go at age, we were going on at, we have to take care of that for sure. 

[00:21:24] Travis Bader: Really? I think it's probably one of the people talk about fat. Oh, you got to eliminate fats. And they talk about carbs. I think sugar, sugar is one of those things that.

[00:21:31] Travis Bader: Is like hugely, I, and I never realized that I was raised on sugar until I started to wean myself off and have a bit of a respectable relationship with it. The thing 

[00:21:41] Stephane Monette: is, the thing is natural maple sugar. It's really, really good for us. So that's the thing. I don't want to say No, it's good. That's it. It's really, really different than the white sugar or something like that.

[00:21:54] Stephane Monette: The maple sugar, it's, it's really good for our, for our health. So that's really nice. Not so much. It's like everything. Don't put too much, but no seriously. It's a real good sugar to, uh, to use. So that's why we're like that. Me and you. So that's, that's the day you say yes. 

[00:22:12] Travis Bader: So tell me, why were you down at shot?

[00:22:15] Travis Bader: Let's talk about that. I want, what do you mean? Uh, shot show in, in Vegas. Oh, 

[00:22:19] Stephane Monette: why I was at the shot show. Yeah. 

[00:22:21] Travis Bader: Um, it's because you've got a special relationship with some people that we know and love. 

[00:22:25] Stephane Monette: Yes, yes. But the first thing was for Beretta because I'm the, um. I'm a ambassador for them for Canada for, so they use me a lot on the East side.

[00:22:36] Stephane Monette: So, um, and it's been six years now I'm with them. They send me all over, all over the world to, uh, to learn about Barreiras, Sako, Tika. Uh, I, I went in Sweden for Norma. Um, so from that every year's on the sales, because when, uh, they do, uh, the SHOT Show, they have a lot of customer from the East going up there.

[00:22:59] Stephane Monette: So I've, I have some, uh, help. They need me to help the sales guys for the customer on, on the products of Beretta, Sakotika, Norma, all those stuff. So that's why I go to the SHOT Show. Normally before that was for my own business. But now I'm going mostly for Beretta to go talk about the guns and the learning I have from them and the new products I used before.

[00:23:24] Stephane Monette: So how to use like this year the Tika Ace or all those guns I have the chance to try on before. So, uh, that was it. So that was a reason. And it's cool because now I know a lot of people all around the world. So the SHOT Show brings us, you know, when you know the guys from Steiner, the guys from Norma, all those guys.

[00:23:43] Stephane Monette: So that was, that's, that's a goal every year we make, uh, we'll make sure we're going to take a, but I don't drink, so we make a, we take a coffee together and like, like I met you, that was, that was one of the good, uh, the good, uh, Time we had together. 

[00:23:59] Travis Bader: I agree. Yeah. That was a highlight of shot show. It was so, uh, Breda, you know, I've always loved my bread.

[00:24:08] Travis Bader: As when I was a teenager, I purchased a, uh, a break action. I thought it was pretty nice. It was 800 and that was more money than I've ever spent on a gun before. But Hey, this is a nice over under Breda. I mean, it had some problems. It had a little bit of a bulge in the barrel. It, the barrel had been reblued before, um, the forest stock on it had a bit of a crack and I'm like, I can fix these things up.

[00:24:34] Travis Bader: Right. Of course. Of course. So I'm like, okay, that's cool. And so I had this thing, I shot it for, for years. I, I just threw a nice butt pad on this thing and fix it up as best as I could. And I, um, Fix the bulge in the barrel and cleaned it up nicely because I was doing gunsmithing at the time and I was, it was really tight, right?

[00:24:55] Travis Bader: So when I, uh, opened it up shooting my two and three quarter, seven and a half shot out shooting some trap and press the lever open and to break it open, I had to kind of like tap it on my knee and, uh, get it open anyways. Uh, there's a group of us are out shooting and one new guy, I don't know if I should say his name on here, but I've always remembered his name.

[00:25:18] Travis Bader: I'll say, I'll say Greg N and we'll just leave it at that. This new guy who I've never met before comes up and he says, can I, can I join your group? I'd really like to shoot with you. Of course, not a problem. Right. Sounds good. And, um, then he says at one of the stations, Oh. Can I, can I see your shotgun?

[00:25:34] Travis Bader: That's kind of a nice shotgun, right? I was like, yeah, no problem. Tell you what, I got to go up and change the clays in this one, uh, tower here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm up in the tower. I'm changing the clays. And one of my buddies, Pat says, Trav, Trav, your shotgun is broken. I'm like, what? And I come down and I'm looking at this thing and it's cracked right in half at the wrist.

[00:25:56] Travis Bader: And the best I could figure was that this guy was watching me open it up and couldn't get it open. And he figured he had to like bend it over his knee. And so I'm like, and I look at this Greg guy and I say, what happened? And he was about to say something. And my other buddy is like, says, I don't know. We didn't see anything.

[00:26:16] Travis Bader: And the second my buddy said that. This guy just shut his mouth. He's like, I don't know. So anyways, I got the shotgun and I'm going to, I'll throw a picture of it up on, on here for people who are watching. I'll have to remember that one. And, uh, I I've put a couple of steel pins in and I Acra glass it back together and you can see the break in there, but fair enough.

[00:26:37] Travis Bader: I ended up selling it and I thought I did a pretty good job. I sold it for 800. I bought it for 800. I showed a picture of this to the guys at the Beretta booth. Because the guy who bought it, he says, I said, well, the barrel's been reblued and there's a crack back here. He's like, I don't care. I'm, I've already got it worked out with Beretta.

[00:26:55] Travis Bader: All I wanted was the action. They're making new barrels. They're making a new stock for me. All I wanted was the action on this thing. The guys in the bread booth were shaking their head. They're kept referring me to the new people trying to find a price on this. So I'll put a picture of if anyone is into bread and they know what model this thing is, or how much money I lost myself, 

[00:27:15] Stephane Monette: let 

[00:27:18] Travis Bader: me know.

[00:27:20] Stephane Monette: That's right. Let me know. That's right. 

[00:27:22] Travis Bader: Man. So, uh, yeah, you were down there with Baretta. You were there on Sunday for the Baretta day. 

[00:27:27] Stephane Monette: Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. I was there. I was there. I think I'm not really good on time. Okay. But I was there today before the shot show opens because I had to go to the shooting range.

[00:27:39] Stephane Monette: So I went to the shooting range of Baretta. So that's where we found out the new model just before, because you have to know, I, American drive the show. So we have to think about that from difference from Canada. So sometimes we know there's models it's going to come by, but if Americans say, no, we don't want it, we don't have it yet in Canada.

[00:28:02] Stephane Monette: So when we go to the shooting range. We're allowed to know what's guns going to be present to the Churchill. So that's why we go up there and we, uh, we, we look on everything and we can try on everything and see which you see for myself, that was the ACE, the ACE one of the TICA ACE, that was a major.

[00:28:23] Stephane Monette: Things I have to look at it to make sure everything was fine, and I look for, um, the new, uh, You know, the BRX coming, uh, was coming two years ago. So I was looking for the new models because they were supposing to have someone, some new model, but it was not there yet. So, uh, we have to figure it out at the end of this, the winter, which gun's gonna go out and we're gonna get it in Canada.

[00:28:46] Stephane Monette: So we'll have to find out after that. But a lot of things are, I see a lot of things when I went in Italy and, uh, it's not coming yet. Ah, yeah, if I say something, when I'm going to go again in Italy, I don't come back. So I don't know if I can say that, but the thing is, you know, there's so much, so much research on everything.

[00:29:10] Stephane Monette: One thing I can tell you, okay, when I went there the first time, um, In, in the same year, I went two time in Italy, the first time was to see everything, you know, the, the warehouse, uh, the production and everything, but after that, they tell me, if you want to go again, we're going to, we're going to give you a special, uh, formation for a course for, uh, the DT11.

[00:29:32] Stephane Monette: So if you know what is the DT11 is the gun to the Olympics. Okay. He's the perfect over under, uh, shotgun. So, um, so I went the first time was in, uh, May. And they shipped me back in August, August, September, something like that. And when I went in September and I went in a warehouse. It's really huge and there's some, uh, some shells on wheels and there was a tons, tons, tons, tons of, of that kind of stuff with a barrel of nine millimeters.

[00:30:07] Stephane Monette: I would say there was a hundred thousand barrel of nine millimeters was made. I said, what happened? You think, I said, Oh, maybe a war is going to come. And we're a year after that Ukraine. And you see the word we have now with the Russian, the Russian in Ukraine just started, but those guys know exactly when they're going to, something's going to happen.

[00:30:31] Stephane Monette: Prepare the cells for those guns was going to be there. So, so you see, same thing with, um, with, um, Norma. There's so much bullet going out, going out when I went there, that was crazy. There was, I was at the peak of the Ukraine war at that time. That was amazing. The bullet was going out for the war. So, so there's a lot of things you see up there when you go, you see in the warehouse, stuff like that, but.

[00:30:57] Stephane Monette: Or the guns, can I say something? Uh, I don't remember. 

[00:31:04] Travis Bader: I don't remember. Excellent, excellent. Yeah, the production of the firearms prior to the war. Si vis pacem parabellum. The Latin, if you want peace, prepare for war. Yeah, 

[00:31:16] Stephane Monette: yeah. And it's amazing, you know. Hunting is one thing, shooting, uh, uh, you know, uh, passion shooting is one thing, but when you see all those things going all around with the war, it's really, really huge, amazing.

[00:31:30] Stephane Monette: What is the, the money going in there? Just, just look what happened now with the United States. You see with all what Trump want to put in the money and their army and stuff like that. So. We know business of hunting and shooting, you know, for fun. It's a thing, but major stuff, it's really war. We cannot pass over it.

[00:31:49] Stephane Monette: It's war controlling a lot of things like that. So we find out when we will see those, uh, those warehouse and manufacture. 

[00:31:56] Travis Bader: So tell me about Anjos, what was, yeah, what was the, uh, impetus for that? Tell me what it's done for you. The thing is, we're going to say 

[00:32:06] Stephane Monette: let's talk, okay. Because it's a translation from the French to the English.

[00:32:12] Stephane Monette: So it's, let's talk in French. We don't say Anjos. Okay. It's, uh, let's talk together. You know, that's what it means. Okay. But, um, you see when the COVID start, I have a small followers, people following me. Um, on my, on my social media, like Facebook, Instagram, and stuff like that. I was more Facebook, and I'm still more Facebook.

[00:32:35] Stephane Monette: Um, but at that time You know, I could not do nothing, the barn, you know, at the farm, there was fine, but we could not ship nothing in a store. So we get maybe six months, nothing, nothing, we could not do nothing. So I said, well, I could, you know, guys like us sitting on a table looking at outside, I said, no, I have to do something.

[00:32:55] Stephane Monette: So I just, I just start every morning talking with, with my followers. Say, hey, good morning, guys. This morning, um, I'm going at the barn. We're gonna. We're going to put you some picture and just starting about the passion starts. Let's talk about hunting, fishing, the way of living, experience we have following the season, because the thing is with Angers, let's talk, it's the following of the season.

[00:33:22] Stephane Monette: So every day, what happened up there, taking the snowmobile at this time of the year, and after that, taking the ATV to go geese hunting, or after that. Moves on thing and stuff like that. So I just started that and the increase of the follower was jumping like amazingly. And the thing is those follower are really, really connecting with my.

[00:33:45] Stephane Monette: They really like the way I talk about my lifestyle, the lifestyle we have in the family. I present my son, present my wife on the, on the, the, the show and everything. And it's like, like this, you know, I'm in my kitchen now and I start everything in my kitchen. And I tried to do a studio and people said, no, no, no, no, no.

[00:34:04] Stephane Monette: You stay in the kitchen. That's what we like when you see your wife passing and everything passing. So it's really. Life, what you see is what you get. It's like that. So I started that. My business was growing like I could not believe it. And, um, After, I would say, five years now, I do a show every morning, 30 minutes, talking with my audience, talking with my followers.

[00:34:30] Stephane Monette: The only thing we changed is last year, you know, with all the social media talking about guns. They, uh, they cut off, you know, they, they cut us because if we talk too much gun, they, on live, they shut off the, the, the channel. 

[00:34:43] Travis Bader: Interesting. So, 

[00:34:45] Stephane Monette: I made my own My own on jaws. Let's talk a website where we every day.

[00:34:51] Stephane Monette: We're on this one, too. So we we are on Let's talk every morning. Facebook, Instagram, uh, YouTube, all those. But when I talk guns and they cut me while we're still live on the platform. So that's why it's so nice and so cool. So that was it. That was five years. 1,775 show back to back. Wow. 30 minute, 30 minutes every day.

[00:35:17] Stephane Monette: Yeah. That's, do you 

[00:35:18] Travis Bader: still, do you still get cut if you're talking about guns on Facebook time? Really? Because Zuckerberg came out and said, Oh, we're going to change how we do things, but it's still happening. Is it? 

[00:35:27] Stephane Monette: Yeah, yeah. If, the thing is, because if you are live, because every morning I'm live, mostly, I would say 90 percent of the time I'm live.

[00:35:36] Stephane Monette: The 10 percent is when even I'm in Saskatchewan or really far or something like that. I do a video every day. But I drop it and the, you know, the followers can see it on every day what happened up there. But, um, if you do something live and you show a gun, they cut you. Mmm. So that, that's why, you know, now, because I'm, I'm doing a live every day.

[00:36:00] Stephane Monette: So if I want to talk about Tikka, Sakko, something like that, and if I shoot a gun, they cut me right on. Because the, I don't know why, maybe it's the algorithms, uh, can I say that? Computers, yeah, they, they cut straight, straightly. You know what happened last, the last one I was cut? No. I was talking politics.

[00:36:20] Stephane Monette: Are you kidding me? Yeah, they shut down, they shut down the show because I was talking politics and they cut me out. This one I didn't know. This one I didn't know. 

[00:36:32] Travis Bader: It's really interesting looking at Canada's Political news coverage when you're outside of Canada and you see what other people are saying and what their perspective is and how insulated and highly contrived and controlled our media is here in Canada.

[00:36:50] Travis Bader: I mean, that's, I think that's one of the big reasons that Tik TOK came under fire. It had nothing to do with the, it was just, how do we control messaging and media that the people are going to be able to get? There's a, uh, there's a, what's the account? Blender, I think it is B L E N D R 

[00:37:08] Stephane Monette: they're, 

[00:37:08] Travis Bader: they're on Tik TOK and they're constantly talking about Canadian politics and they're, they're highly critical of a lot of things that are happening right now.

[00:37:15] Travis Bader: You try and find that on Instagram or Facebook within Canada. No, it says this account's blocked. In fact, social media is just. 

[00:37:25] Stephane Monette: Yeah. I tell you a story. Okay. I have a show every, uh, every, uh, every day. I'm not every day. Once, once a week in a radio station in Quebec city, they are really on the right side.

[00:37:37] Stephane Monette: Okay. I would say that. And, um, I went to the show live directly to the, to the studio. And there's a guy up there. He was doing a chronic, a chronic, like I do. And when he go out, he said, I know your voice. I said, oh, oh, you know my voice, you know, maybe, maybe of something what I do. He said, no. People working for me have a contract on you, contract on me, what do you mean?

[00:38:06] Stephane Monette: Yeah, that's it. If you have a contract on me, tell me what I have to do, you know, it says no, because I'm a specializing business on social media listener. So government people are hired me to listen to what happens. Put that in, in, um, whatever you're going to say and transmit that to government or people want to know what you're going to say.

[00:38:36] Stephane Monette: I say, no way. Say, yeah. So we have people listening to you every morning. See what you tell, ship that to, I don't know who, Varmany, don't tell me who, to know what you're going to say, how you're going to make it, how you're going to do it. So, 

[00:38:53] Travis Bader: crazy, 

[00:38:53] Stephane Monette: eh? Crazy. That is really crazy. In a country like we have.

[00:38:56] Travis Bader: Yep. Yep. I remember years ago, Um, here's, there's a website, Canadian gun nuts. Um, and when it was kind of first getting rolling and I was reading through disclosure documents that were, had email correspondence between firearms officers and other people. And they're, they're like, Oh, have you guys ever heard of this website?

[00:39:19] Travis Bader: Like what's going on over here? And like, Oh, so and so they give the name, this guy has access to it. And he's the one who's been monitoring it. And it was interesting just looking, you know, human nature is human nature, but the comments going back and forth were, Oh, I just read this thread. You can just visualize these guys sitting in their mother's basement, uh, crying about all the guns that they're not allowed to have.

[00:39:42] Travis Bader: And there's, there's this real us against them kind of, uh, mentality that's going on and there's a fear of what people may be saying or what people may be doing. And that, and that was, that was going back a long time. When did you get this information about the contract? That 

[00:40:01] Stephane Monette: was a guy just in front of me.

[00:40:03] Stephane Monette: So when I, off record after that, I talked with the guy. I said, explain me more, but he says, you know, that's normal. Now there are some business like I have, we use I, Hey, you know, intelligence, artificial intelligence. And, uh, when you say something on your podcast, we're going to put, we put this, we take out.

[00:40:23] Stephane Monette: When you say something, maybe I'm not wrong because what you see it, what you get, it's really simple and, and I think I'm a good father, you know, so, but sometimes if I see something on government and, and I just, I just tell the truth and that's how it is, but it's shaking some hands, shaking, not some hands, but some, uh, some has, I would say, and those guys don't love, and, and, and you have to know in Quebec, It's, from the last three years, hunters are more involved about, uh, you know, the deer.

[00:40:59] Stephane Monette: Uh, they know, uh, management. Uh, and it takes a long time on the east side because the, the language is really hard. You know, French to English. So, so now we have more. More guys translating the stuff we get from quality deer management, uh, whatever, whatever it is. Hmm. And now when government says the law this year for hunting is going to be this and this and this and this.

[00:41:24] Stephane Monette: But those guys have now the information from the states, from Canada, even whatever it is. And they don't agree, so they have, they have information. And that never happened before. Hmm. From the last two, four, three to four years. From that. We found out all those guys in government don't really enjoying what we're saying.

[00:41:46] Stephane Monette: So more and more I can say that I'm on the black list. Sure. If I go on the government, I'm on the black list for sure. If they know my name and if I go like a supper or something like that, you know where all those guys are. 

[00:41:59] Travis Bader: Nobody 

[00:42:00] Stephane Monette: want to talk with me. Nobody want to talk. They, they just, 

[00:42:04] Travis Bader: that's how it is.

[00:42:04] Travis Bader: Does it, does it make you more cautious about what you say when you're, when you're broadcasting? You 

[00:42:12] Stephane Monette: see, I don't think I do, I do wrong things. I just, I just talk about what is real living on a farm. I always have a gun with me. That's how it is. I see coyotes. I see wolf. I see bear. Even if one of my deer I have a broken leg, I'm stuck in the, whatever, I have to use my guns, so guns here are like a spoon for kitchen, you see, but, it's, you see in Quebec, it's not really.

[00:42:46] Stephane Monette: Normal. I would say that you see, we don't have any grizzly. We don't have any, uh, um, uh, mountain lion. So we don't, we just have the black bears and they are normally really high hand of the province. So those things, and we don't have a lot of people living there. So we don't have really. Dangerous game, even if you are on the woods every day, because myself, I've been attacked one time, two times with, uh, by bears.

[00:43:13] Stephane Monette: I've been attacked, uh, by a crowd of, uh, coyotes. So, but we're always having guns. So when you're talking about that, you love guns. It's a tool. It's something you like to use. Those guys, when you're talking about that, and even if I talk the way of life, uh, with my sons, or I, uh, I treat my sons, uh, you know, the respect, family stuff and everything, sometimes it don't go on the, on the side they want.

[00:43:43] Stephane Monette: So that's the reason, but I don't change nothing. Maybe I'll be, um, I don't swear. I don't swear anymore. Okay. That's the only thing I don't do. Why? You know, from, because what I found out is when I have, I didn't know, you see this, this things, you, you know, we're talking, okay. The camera, sometimes you don't think who's looking at you.

[00:44:06] Stephane Monette: And, and when I found out there's sometime a dad sitting with his child looking at what Stefan says. So I said, okay, from, if I be a good father, Swearing is not a good thing sometimes, I, I can say one time and I advise, take the child out, I'm gonna say something, you know, but, but the thing is, I just, that's the only thing I, I, I try to be really good, but for the rest, my opinion is my opinion, whatever I'm gonna say, whatever, you see.

[00:44:39] Stephane Monette: Here, if we're talking about handguns, it's critical. It's really, really bad. Nobody knows. You see, for myself, having handguns, it's really normal when you know how it works. Sure. You know When you know how it works, 

[00:44:55] Travis Bader: it's 

[00:44:55] Stephane Monette: really easy to, you see, so that's how it is. 

[00:44:58] Travis Bader: The idea that handguns are bad is always baffled me.

[00:45:01] Travis Bader: So what we have something that's less powerful and it'll reach less of a distance, it won't go as far as a rifle. And that's going to be the big, bad thing because what it's small. I mean, it's always going to maybe scratch my head. 

[00:45:17] Stephane Monette: That's baby scratch. I love it. I love it. But the thing is like that. So, you know, I don't change.

[00:45:24] Stephane Monette: I don't change the way I think I really, I'm really simple. But if I have to tell you it's a baby scratch, it's a baby scratch. That's, that's the only thing, you know, that's, that's how it is. So you 

[00:45:36] Travis Bader: say, you know, you're on a blacklist. Yeah. I found. That the opposite is kind of true for me. You know, they're saying an armed society is a polite society, right?

[00:45:48] Travis Bader: Well, Stefan, you've got a voice now, the fact that you have a voice and people are listening and you've got something to say, and so many people are listening to the government's actually contractually listening to what you're doing. Um, it tends to keep people in check who might otherwise, uh, not be held in check.

[00:46:10] Travis Bader: So my experience of having a podcast is that it offers a great deal of protection for an individual. You have to be cautious about things that you say and how you say it, which is like you, I don't, I do my best not to swear. 

[00:46:24] Stephane Monette: You know, we're always being good fathers. That's, that's the way I think. That's the way I, I did it, you 

[00:46:29] Travis Bader: know?

[00:46:29] Travis Bader: Yes. Um, I always try to be positive in what we talk about. If it's going to be a negative subject to try and find some positive spin or resolution, otherwise, we're just complaining. And that's a very little value to me. 

[00:46:42] Stephane Monette: And we're not, I'm not, I'm not that kind of guy. You know, I always see the good things on whatever the subject it is.

[00:46:49] Stephane Monette: You know, I don't want to go on the dark side. You know, I always think, I think it's business. Bring that, that knowledge, you know, you have to find out. If there's a problem, there's a way to succeed with that. So maybe it's the entrepreneur or something like that. Bring me on that. But you're right. That's, that's how it is.

[00:47:07] Travis Bader: Well, I found that, um, you know, cause I've, I'm a licensed firearms business. I have a licensed firearms business as well, and licensed firearms owner. And I've got to the right of me here, a framed apology letter from the RCMP from and from the Canadian firearms program for The, uh, the missteps that they made a number of years ago where people were getting a little overly ambitious in their role and trying to circumscribe businesses that would be competitive to their own and doing things that were highly illegal and highly unethical.

[00:47:41] Travis Bader: Having a voice all of a sudden keeps those people in check, the people who would try and abuse their power and abuse their position. So I found that to be an effective tool to be able to disseminate information, but also to offer layers of protection. Um, so it might be another way of looking at this, of what you have there.

[00:48:03] Travis Bader: No, no, that's 

[00:48:04] Stephane Monette: how it is. The thing is, what I found out is, Talking in front of the camera or the, the mics is one thing. So now what I use is. Using all those people who they, they, um, they are followers, numbers of followers and try to negotiating on the back. Tell them, listen, we have over 200, 000 people following us.

[00:48:30] Stephane Monette: Um, they want that and that and that. And can we talk about that? I don't want to go on their side. I'm going to say to everybody, you're not a good guy. That's not how I want to do. All those people on the back of us and they, they push out on the front and say, can you go talk with them now? I, I, I see it.

[00:48:52] Stephane Monette: They understand more about, you know, a guy like you or a guy like me. So when I call them, I say, listen, maybe can I be sitting on the table or just have an appointment with you? And I'm going to talk because from my, my, my, my business of entrepreneur. I know how to negotiate. I know, I know I have to have a win win situation with people.

[00:49:14] Stephane Monette: So maybe that, from all the followers I have on the back of me, maybe we can have something win win together. It's starting. I would say it's not perfect, but it's starting to come more and more and more. And if we have new government, Maybe we have a new, new open, open, open site or can I say that open way to, uh, to, uh, to negotiate and brings the knowledge of whatever we want is if it's gone, it's gone.

[00:49:45] Stephane Monette: But if it's management of the wildlife, the deer, the moose and stuff like that. Now we have the knowledge. Maybe more of everything and try to get, tell them, Hey, get, Hey, man, we have the, we have the, the, we have the, on our boots, we have, we're always on the field. So maybe I don't have, I don't have the university on the back of me, but I can tell you I have the university of life.

[00:50:11] Stephane Monette: So that, that I'm, I'm first I'm unqualified for that. 

[00:50:14] Travis Bader: Well, and that's exactly, and I'm glad to see that it's going that way for you. Cause I've been finding the same thing myself, because in the people say, Oh, I hate the government or I hate whatever. I hate the police or I hate the whatever, you know, it's just, they're all people and there's going to be some really terrible people in there and there's going to be some really great people in there, but the vast majority of them are just going to be, I plug in what's, what's the easiest, the path of least resistance.

[00:50:41] Travis Bader: I do my job, I get out. That's a vast majority. That's human nature, but by having the voice that you have with Anjos, by having the voice through the Silvercore podcast, you also kind of keep the bad people at bay because they realize there's going to be a spotlight put on them, but the good people have the ability to see what you're doing.

[00:51:02] Travis Bader: The people who, whose ethics and morals align with your own, and you can start to help amplify the voice of those people out there who are doing good things. 

[00:51:13] Stephane Monette: Of course, and I saw that because, you know, when you have those meeting with those people, you know, and really, really, you know, can say influence, influencer people on the back and you talk with them and they're like this, you know, they look at you like this and you see, but the guy is on the back, look at you and say, Oh, that's guy.

[00:51:32] Stephane Monette: And at the end of those meeting, those guys are leaving and this guy's going to come to you say. We have to talk. So that's the guy you want to have. And, and a lot of times that happened, that guy says, you know, I don't have any guns. But what you say is really, really logical. You know what you're saying.

[00:51:49] Stephane Monette: Can you explain me more about that? Of course. I mean, tell me when and how, and I'll be with you and I will explain. And that's really, you know, small things sometimes go big. And that's what I find out. Doing small thing to, you know. Not stopping, just asking, be really respectful, really polite, and that's going to come, that's going to come.

[00:52:12] Stephane Monette: That's why, that's why now, you see on a podcast, I will tell the truth, but be politically correct. Okay. Can I say, I'm gonna say that I'll be politically correct, but if, if you do something dumb, I'm gonna say you're dumb. So, so for sure. Sure. But the rest it's try to be politically correct. Try to have a win-win situation and brings what we can bring to the followers.

[00:52:36] Stephane Monette: You know, like whatever, whatever the subject it is, you know, if something touches you only touch other people and we're gonna make it. 

[00:52:42] Travis Bader: That's it. So how long after posting every single day, whether you're sick, whether you're tired, whether whatever, you're still posting every day. How long from when you decided to start doing that?

[00:52:52] Travis Bader: Did you start seeing, uh, positive results from your efforts? 

[00:52:58] Stephane Monette: I would say after the second year, I would say after the second year, because I was really on some subject, you know, about managing guns. Just come about, uh, when, when the last government did all those stuff. Okay. But, uh, after I would say 400, 500 show, okay.

[00:53:19] Stephane Monette: I see. The difference when I was talking on something, they were calling me, um, sometime they, they use somebody else on my, on my people around. Say, can you say that to him too? We appreciate that or tells an example. I really don't like coyotes. Okay. The reason is they, they kill my herbs. I think they have too much on the east side.

[00:53:50] Stephane Monette: They are really more big because some, some are with the wolves. So they are intelligent. They are killing a lot of my deer. Okay. In my, uh, in my herb. So I make hard time on coyotes all the times. So, uh, for myself, if you talk with me, I would, I would maybe kill. Seventy five to a hundred coyotes every year, okay?

[00:54:15] Stephane Monette: So that's, that's really normal of what I do. So when I talk coyotes, coyotes, it's, it's a part of my life all the time. I don't like them. I respect the animal. I know why he's there, but he's not supposed to be in Quebec. He's supposed to be on the south. So, okay, he's not supposed to be around. But I was telling that most of the, I would say maybe two, three morning hours, the goddamn coyotes is on the field.

[00:54:36] Stephane Monette: I shot one yesterday. I catch one and whatever. So I get a phone call. From the, the, the game warden. Mm. He says, listen, can you please just change how you say it? I said, what do you mean? But he say, you know, you Stefan, when the coyotes are inside your fans, you can do whatever you want with that. You can shoot them, you can do whatever you want.

[00:55:00] Stephane Monette: But outside there's law. The law is you could not shoot them at night. You cannot shoot them on summer. What you are saying, we're seeing now on, on the, on the field, those guys are shooting coyotes every time. So can you please change that? So for sure, for sure. I'm sorry about that. I didn't think about that.

[00:55:22] Stephane Monette: So I changed my way. Say, listen, coyotes, you have to hunt them. How to call them, how to, you see everything I have to say, and we just change that and we see the difference. So you see, so that's, that's an example of. The influence we can have when, when our mind we're thinking we're okay, but hunters taking on the other way and they hunt whatever they want or whatever it is.

[00:55:48] Stephane Monette: So that's one of the example, but there's, there's, there's a lot of example like that. 

[00:55:53] Travis Bader: So it only took you two years to become an overnight success. Yeah, 

[00:55:56] Stephane Monette: that's what I found out. That's what I found out. They call me more. They, and I would say after four years, they are scared. They are scared. Interesting.

[00:56:08] Stephane Monette: They could not believe, you see, I, I just found out about, I don't know, I just found out not really a long time ago. I did a lot of show on five years, but it's, it's my, you know, every morning I'm really passionate. So all, I jump the morning at four o'clock. Look at the news, look at everything. I was doing that for years.

[00:56:31] Stephane Monette: So doing the show, it's normal because that's what I was doing. But doing this for five years now, every day, every day. Now they look at me, they think, I don't know what they think. But now they said, okay, we have to take Because they were thinking I was doing just ten shows. A hundred show a thousand show.

[00:56:48] Stephane Monette: And now I'm going on the 2000 show. So they said, this guy is going to, they, it's going to be there for a long time. 

[00:56:55] Travis Bader: So there's, there's a good lesson in there as well for people who are entrepreneurs, people who want to succeed in life and that's the plugging away will win you the day, right? Just constantly putting in that effort will accrue over time.

[00:57:11] Stephane Monette: Yep. But that's, I think that's a secret, you know, Entrepreneur, it's 24 hours a day, 365 day on a year. Mm hmm. Whatever you do, whatever The thing is, what is really, really cool for us, it's our passion on top of that. So, talking about hunting, fishing, uh, shooting, or whatever, it's, you see, it's easy. I, I, I don't know if some guys can do that for, uh, whatever the work they did.

[00:57:41] Stephane Monette: Mm hmm. They do it. But, um Yes. It's, it's a lot of work. It's a lot of work. I can say, you know, I, I jump up every morning at four o'clock finishing the show at, you know, when everything is done, you know, I wrote the show because I do all the news on the day. I finished the show around nine. So finishing recording live and everything.

[00:58:06] Stephane Monette: Nine o'clock I have a meeting with my crew about, okay. Marketing stuff, whatever. After that, at 10 I, I go to the barn. I have 12 people working for us for, for the attractant. I do all my, I do all my job. Finish at four, come home, make lunch for my wife. Yeah. Yeah. Important. Very important. Very important.

[00:58:29] Stephane Monette: Even on my son, because we're all living in the, in the same land. So that's cool. Yeah, that's it. You know, my dad, my dad, my dad just passed away about five months ago, but the thing is, my mom is still there, but all, all the house are really close, but we don't see anybody, but that 300 yards, we're all together in the same land.

[00:58:51] Stephane Monette: So I have my two sons, my mom. Me and my wife are living in the land. So what do you think happened? If I do a white tail spaghetti, dad, do you have mom? Do you want, so that's how it is. So we're all living together. So that's, that's, I think that I think it's a bless. I think it's a 

[00:59:13] Travis Bader: 100 percent that is, if you're able to do that, that's, I think there's a lot to be said for that.

[00:59:19] Travis Bader: Yeah. Yep. So. If your hunting legacy were boiled down to one lesson, something people remember you for, what would it be? Oh, passion. 

[00:59:33] Stephane Monette: Just that it's whatever you like, whatever you want, whatever you, if you are passionate, you're going to make it, you're going to make it if I'm on a deer. I, if I see the deer I want on my wall, it could take two years, three years, four years at the time.

[00:59:51] Stephane Monette: He's going to still living. I'm going to be on it. I'm going to following him. I'm going to take picture of him. I'm going to manage the territory for him. I will do it. Whatever I have to do to try to on that deer, even on the moose, it's the same. So if you are passionate about what you like, everything's going to happen.

[01:00:10] Stephane Monette: I think because that's how it is for myself and for the family and everything. So just be. Passionated. 100%. Passionate of what you like. 

[01:00:19] Travis Bader: And where does your passion come from? 

[01:00:22] Stephane Monette: Oh, man. That's a good question. I love, you see, whitetail is, it's, it's the moose, okay? You know in Quebec, moose, it's, it's, it's the animal to hunt.

[01:00:37] Stephane Monette: But what I found out on a whitetail, it's I don't know if it's the intelligence they have, or how they, um, they react, uh, you, we have whitetail coast to coast, north to south on America, uh, I hunt them everywhere, I hunt them east side, north, states, Canadian side, everywhere, and, and even, I'm raising them, I have them in front of me everyday.

[01:01:07] Stephane Monette: And those animals bring me somewhere. Um, when I look at them, you know what it, what it amazes me? It's when my dad was living here before me because On my career, I was everywhere, okay? But the time I, I come to the barn and start living here, we have around 150 deer. And, and when I was with my dad, he was looking at them and says, Oh, that's, uh, Julie, that's his name.

[01:01:35] Stephane Monette: Oh, that's Spikey. Oh, that's, uh, Mother. And I said, how you know that? Wow. Their, their face? Yeah. What you mean, their face? But he says, when you gonna be All the time with the whitetail, their face is the same like a human. You're going to find out when you're going to be there. And it's true. All those deer I have here, I can tell you that's him.

[01:02:02] Stephane Monette: That's, that's a Ciclop, that's monster. Even he don't have his horn just by his face. That's him. That's her. That's how it is. So, so the big, big thing is Whitetail. Whitetail brings me somewhere. I don't know how. I love them from Anticoste Island or from where I was now. I hunt them everywhere. And, and, you know, what I found out in my career of hunters, I don't want to hunt more.

[01:02:33] Stephane Monette: Then three years in the same place, because I would like to go everywhere. So if I'm hunting three, three years in the same territory, even for moose, for whitetail, I move. Even if I'm, if I'm successful, I want to move. See the new habitat, the new animal, how they live, what they eat, how they travel. I just want to learn about them, about that.

[01:02:57] Stephane Monette: That's, that's one thing, passion. That's what I, that's what I can say. 

[01:03:02] Travis Bader: Yeah. Well, you've got passion in spades. That's for sure. You know, some people have a hard time finding their passion or being passionate about something. 

[01:03:11] Stephane Monette: Of course. But I think, can I, mother nature is the things I think if, if you be grounded with mother nature every day, see.

[01:03:23] Stephane Monette: I'd be amazed with, with everything I saw in the woods, you know, but if you are grounded and you don't forget, you see, when you lost somebody, like I lost my dad, you are, you're going to know one thing, sons, you know, the sons. It's, the morning is there and at the end of the day, it's going to be at the end at the same place every day.

[01:03:43] Stephane Monette: So in this, you have to find out something you got, sometimes you have no chance, no choice. You have your jobs, the circle of life is there, but if you are passion, I think. It's going to change something to think passion white tail for myself. 

[01:03:59] Travis Bader: I love it. I love it. Well, Stefan, is there anything that we haven't talked about that we should be talking about?

[01:04:08] Travis Bader: Um, I want to be more 

[01:04:11] Stephane Monette: with you. Well, we can do that easy. You're coming over here. But the thing is, what I found out is when I met you, okay. And I met all your, uh, your, your lifestyle and shiny present us at the show. It's been. I would say two months, we just don't together. I love the thing you, the thinking of your crowd and everything.

[01:04:34] Stephane Monette: So just be more time with you and you're going to come on the East side. A hundred percent. I've only 

[01:04:44] Travis Bader: stopped over at the airport in Montreal and I ran under the plane just so I could say I had boots on the ground, but that's the most I've seen 

[01:04:54] Stephane Monette: in Quebec. You see, we have to plan that on the future. Okay.

[01:04:59] Stephane Monette: I'm going to go on your side, but you're going to come on my side. And we're going to take picture. I'll show you the farm. I'll show you how we live the guns for sure. 

[01:05:10] Travis Bader: Oh, I'm looking forward to that. That'll be so much fun. And you're going to be over in Alaska. I'll be up in Alaska there in a bit. We have all these 

[01:05:17] Stephane Monette: things all together.

[01:05:18] Stephane Monette: So I think. Having fun together and all, all after that, the followers going to see it and everything. So it's going to be really, really cool. Really cool. 

[01:05:27] Travis Bader: I love it, Stefan. I'm going to put links in the description. Anyone wanting to find how to learn more about you. It's all going to be in the description.

[01:05:36] Stephane Monette: I'm going to give you my, uh, I have a personal, you see with all the crew and all the follower we have, but. Always have a email. People can reach me. Talk with me. I answer it personally every time. So I'm going to give you to you. So if guys have some question, whatever about their moves, whatever, it's going to be a pleasure to talk with you guys, whatever you are in a country.

[01:05:59] Travis Bader: That's amazing. Stefan, thank you so much for being on the Silvercore podcast. I'm looking forward to when we record our next one. Thank you so much. See you.