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For over 1,775 episodes, Stéphane Monette has spoken his mind. An extremely positive, and passionate lifelong hunter, entrepreneur, and CEO of Fermé Monette, he built a business around the outdoors—only to find himself on a government watchlist for speaking out.
This episode dives into the hard truths behind social media censorship, the battle over hunting rights, and the real impact of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) on the industry.
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Show Notes:[00:00] Introduction
[02:00] Meeting at SHOT Show
[06:00] The Business of Hunting Products
[12:00] Anticosti Island & Early Days as a Hunting Guide
[18:00] Cooking, Hunting & The Wild Food Movement
[24:00] The Social Media Battle & Censorship of Hunting Content
[32:00] Government Monitoring & The Hunting Industry
[40:00] The Role of Firearms in Outdoor Life
[50:00] The Power of Consistency in Media & Business
[56:00] Final Thoughts & Advice
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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.
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
Stephane Monette: years, eh?
Travis Bader: Yes, you are.
Stephane Monette: And I
Travis Bader: totally
messed up the, uh, firm.
I said firm A.
Stephane Monette: No, no, no, that's fine.
It's a farm.
That's cool.
No problem for that.
Monet Farm.
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?
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.
We're going to be okay.
Well, what did you
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.
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
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.
I'll be fine.
So I hope, I hope I don't get it later.
No,
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.
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.
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.
So I hope, I hope we don't come here.
So we just
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
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
Travis Bader: huntings.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
Stephane Monette: it's about
a year for you guys up there.
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?
And, and what was the
impact like on your farm?
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.
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.
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
Travis Bader: BCs.
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.
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
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.
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?
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,
Stephane Monette: they don't,
they don't care about that.
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.
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.
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.
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,
Stephane Monette: mother nature
is really, really, really strong.
Travis Bader: She's better
than us on everything.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Stephane Monette: No, no.
I agree with you.
I agree with you.
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.
Just a little over seven.
What's a 7, 000 kilometers.
Yep.
Yep.
Yep.
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.
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.
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?
Why not, you think?
The answer is,
Travis Bader: uh, yes.
Yes, I would.
Thank you.
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.
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.
Travis Bader: I want to go in the field.
Stephane Monette: That's
a different way of life.
Travis Bader: Isn't it?
Being a chef, that's a, yeah,
you really got to, you got
to buy into that lifestyle.
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
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
Travis Bader: not for me anymore.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Stephane Monette: I know.
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.
I'm looking at different things.
She's looking at different things,
but it compliments very nicely.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Stephane Monette: know, you know
what is really, really important.
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.
That's really, really kind.
And sometimes the meat are really strong.
So bringing all those together
is really, really nice.
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.
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.
So that's, that's the
most interesting thing.
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.
Stephane Monette: And so we've,
Travis Bader: we've got cases and cases
of those maple syrup, tin cans, the maple
butter and the maple, uh, the heart.
Yeah, it, it gets dangerous.
It gets dangerous.
Yeah,
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Travis Bader: So tell me,
why were you down at shot?
Let's talk about that.
I want, what do you mean?
Uh, shot show in, in Vegas.
Oh,
Stephane Monette: why
I was at the shot show.
Yeah.
Travis Bader: Um, it's because you've
got a special relationship with
some people that we know and love.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
Stephane Monette: let
Travis Bader: me know.
Stephane Monette: That's right.
Let me know.
That's right.
Travis Bader: Man.
So, uh, yeah, you were
down there with Baretta.
You were there on Sunday
for the Baretta day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Or the guns, can I say something?
Uh, I don't remember.
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,
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.
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.
It's war controlling a
lot of things like that.
So we find out when we will see those,
uh, those warehouse and manufacture.
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
Stephane Monette: let's talk, okay.
Because it's a translation
from the French to the English.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Travis Bader: Interesting.
So,
Stephane Monette: I made
my own My own on jaws.
Let's talk a website where we every day.
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.
Yeah.
That's, do you
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Stephane Monette: they're,
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.
You try and find that on Instagram
or Facebook within Canada.
No, it says this account's blocked.
In fact, social media is just.
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.
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?
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.
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,
Travis Bader: crazy,
Stephane Monette: eh?
Crazy.
That is really crazy.
In a country like we have.
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?
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.
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
Stephane Monette: was a
guy just in front of me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Travis Bader: Nobody
Stephane Monette: want to talk with me.
Nobody want to talk.
They, they just,
Travis Bader: that's how it is.
Does it, does it make you more
cautious about what you say when
you're, when you're broadcasting?
You
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
Travis Bader: it's
Stephane Monette: really easy
to, you see, so that's how it is.
Travis Bader: The idea that handguns
are bad is always baffled me.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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
Travis Bader: know?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No, no, that's
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So that, that I'm, I'm first
I'm unqualified for that.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Did you start seeing, uh, positive
results from your efforts?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
So that's one of the example,
but there's, there's, there's
a lot of example like that.
Travis Bader: So it only took you two
years to become an overnight success.
Yeah,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Yeah.
Yep.
So.
If your hunting legacy were boiled
down to one lesson, something people
remember you for, what would it be?
Oh, passion.
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.
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.
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.
Travis Bader: And where
does your passion come from?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That's, that's one thing, passion.
That's what I, that's what I can say.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Um, I want to be more
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.
So just be more time with you and
you're going to come on the East side.
A hundred percent.
I've only
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
Stephane Monette: in Quebec.
You see, we have to
plan that on the future.
Okay.
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.
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
Stephane Monette: things all together.
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.
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.
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.
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.