A Warrior's Best Friend–LIVE from the Navy Seal Museum with Baden K-9
In a celebration of a warrior's best friend, Charlie records LIVE from the Navy Seal Museum in Ft. Pierce, Florida with Baden K-9, the world's premiere canine training company which specializes in advanced law enforcement and military work for dogs that are in active service all around the world. Charlie, Josh, and "Yoda" discuss Charlie's new dog, Briggs, and how Baden K-9's unique training philosophy helps instill a warrior spirit in both owner and animal. Baden K-9 breaks down what it takes to train an elite dog, but also what it takes to become an elite human trainer. In what may appear as an animal-centric conversation, Charlie, Josh, and "Yoda" walk through the many human lessons that can be learned through training and being connected to a tier one canine, as well as the force multipliers that can gained being so closely connected to a combat assault dog. Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Special Bond Between Dogs and Humans00:08:45
Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, a special advertiser-free episode of when I visited the Navy SEAL Museum with my dog, Mr. Briggs.
And I was there with the organization and the company that raised my dog, Baden Canine.
They are the world's premier company to raise dogs and deploy them in tier one units all across the world.
I can't even talk about all the places their dogs are, but we ask about the spiritual component of owning a dog.
We talk about what you can learn from a dog and some amazing first-hand experiences from that.
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Hey, everybody, welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.
I don't always do shows in front of Blackhawk helicopters, but when I do, it's only at the Navy SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce, Florida.
With me today are two amazing guys, Josh from Baden or Badden, Canine.
I got that right.
And then we'll just call the friend to my left, Yoda, from the Navy SEAL Museum and also the Canine Project.
I've been wanting this conversation for a while.
Josh, I'll start with you.
My new dog came from your farm, came from what you guys do, and I've just been so blown away and impressed.
And our audience knows all about Mr. Briggs now.
And I just want to first just kind of for you to introduce yourself and tell our audience, you know, what do you guys do at Baden?
Hey, thanks, Charlie, for having us.
So my name is Joshua Perry.
I come from Baden Canine.
It's a Canadian facility that was founded by my family back in the 70s, early 70s.
And we breed, raise, and train Dutch Shepherds, German Shepherds, and Belgian Malinois.
Like Briggs, the Dutch Shepherds are a unique dog and a good-looking dog.
So that's who I am.
How long have you been doing it?
The company now was founded in 72.
I've been doing it for 24 years.
Awesome.
And so Yoda, you run the C-9 project, or you help run it, and also this museum.
Tell us about both.
Okay, great.
So the museum itself, the mission is to capture, preserve, and present the history of naval special warfare to the public.
And then within that, they have a charitable 501c3 organization known as Tridenhouse Charities.
And within Tridenhouse Charities, they've got four pillars on it.
But one pillar is the Canine Project.
And That's an entity that really focuses on marrying up the right dogs with the right veterans who require the veteran, who require the dog.
And that also translates right into the veteran's family.
So really it's affecting both the veteran and the family itself.
And that's it in a nutshell.
And that was stood up.
How long was it stood up ago?
It was stood up even before I was on the scene.
Yeah, about eight years ago.
Eight years ago?
Eight years, five, eight years ago.
And that was a real intimate collaboration with the museum and Bed and Canine.
And the original director of the program was a gentleman named Phil Ryan.
So if you come to the museum, you'll get to meet Phil as well.
He's done a lot of time, energy, and love into that program.
I recommend everyone in Florida, or if you're in Florida, traveling, just to come by Fort Pierce.
It's an amazing facility.
So Josh, I want to ask you about training dogs.
And dogs are very unique creatures.
It's unlike any other dog on the animal kingdom.
It's one of the few animals, if not the only animal, you can correct me, that will leave his or her mother to actually come to humans.
There's a special bond between dogs and humans.
Just talk a little bit about that.
Is it over-exaggeration to say it really is man's best friend?
Why is it that the man and the dog mesh so magically?
You know, you said my father explains it better than I do.
He said, you know, the only creature that leaves, that will leave the bitch, the female, the mom, and join man.
So you walk into a pen full of puppies and walk away and that female will leave its mother, its source of life, to join a new life with the human being.
So I don't think there's a really one answer to it because it's magical.
But, you know, at the Canine Project, what we see with the veterans, what that does in the healing process is just amazing.
Let's dive deeper into it, though.
So from the principles of Batten are very similar to the principles that you're trying to instill in good human beings, right?
Obedience, understanding your surroundings.
It's not like training horses.
I mean, I like horses.
They're fine, but there's something different with dogs in particular.
Just kind of dive into that and elaborate just what we can learn from dogs and vice versa.
Okay.
Yeah, I think, you know, one of the biggest, speaking of the working dogs, the working dogs and responsibility, you know, there's a new movie coming out.
I forget the name of it.
There's a new movie coming up with a Malamois in it.
And, you know, there's a lot of people talking about the responsibility from getting a Malamois, you know.
And I think, you know, that's a great point.
And it shouldn't be a point that's being made because discipline and responsibility should be in the human being.
But it's not.
And, you know, when you work with these dogs, it's a great reflection of who we are and where we are.
How so?
Discipline.
Discipline's a big one.
Accountability, responsibility, consistency.
You know, when you're looking at the veteran and the canine project, these men, these special forces, we're at the UDT Navy SEAL Museum, the Navy SEALs.
You know, the tip of the spear as far as capability goes, responsibility goes, accountability goes, discipline.
And you look at these veterans that come out of this environment, and to have these skills and not be able to keep them current in a civilian population is a big challenge for them, right?
Even in marriage.
So where do you apply those skills, those high level of skills?
And when you hand them a dog and you not only challenge them to draw those skills back out, because they put them away in a Pelican case is what they did.
They put the uniform away.
They put their sword away.
They put their capability away.
You ask them, hey, where are you from?
And they don't tell you.
Right?
But you can see it in the dog.
So, yeah, that's really important.
I can say that growing up with a dog, it enriches your life infinitely, right?
And it brings out a different side of you.
And it requires you to think bigger than yourself, right?
It requires you to all of a sudden, you know, be aware of another heartbeat in the house, and they might see things that you don't see.
So, Yoda, talk about from the psychological perspective, maybe some anecdotes in particular of how you've seen veterans or people that have gone through some very serious stress, post-traumatic stress, be blessed or benefited by integrating a dog into their life.
That's really a good question, Charlie.
Young Warriors as Sharp Knives00:04:41
So if we step back again and keep focusing on the veteran for a second, it's going to come into understanding.
So when you look at most veterans, I'm just going to speak about the special operations community, but it really applies to every warfighter, no matter what branch you're from and what your trade is or your MOC is.
When the young warrior is brought up through their training and they're just getting in service in those first few years prior to combat, they're really like a knife, a really sharp knife.
And they become even sharper through their training and the indoctrination of military principles.
And then they go through their service, and then they may go, their career may take them in different directions, but there's stress right from the beginning.
And then eventually they're brought onto the battlefield.
And on the battlefield, they may go on the battlefield once.
They may go on the battlefield 100 times, 200 times.
But what ends up happening is they're being utilized for the purpose that they're supposed to be utilized, just like a knife.
When you use a knife over and over, what happens to it?
It gets dull.
That's exactly right.
And so then the warrior completes their career, but there really isn't in the military a re-sharpening process.
It's just constant, you get training, but it's constant use, constant use, constant use.
And the warrior leaves their service, and whether they realize it or not, we're all, we've been dulled by our service, by our combat experience, and so forth.
And there's an old ancient saying from scripture that says, iron sharpens iron.
It's a proverb, yeah.
Yep, that's right.
And we believe, we can't prove it through scripture, but we believe in the badden philosophy is what I learned from Josh's pops.
And we've seen it in life walking with the dogs, that the dog helps sharpen the warrior.
And then when the warrior applies the correct training philosophy with consistency, then the warrior continues to sharpen the dog.
So you have this back and forth of iron sharpening iron.
And now what's being sharpened, that's the big question.
Like, are we talking about their combative skills?
No, we're not talking about that.
We're talking about their ability to focus.
We're talking about their ability to gain control of their emotions.
And on the battlefield, as every warrior knows, it's all managing emotions on the battlefield.
Skills are dime a dozen.
Someone's relatively intelligent and has general athleticism.
You can teach most young men and young women to do most of the skill sets that we do.
But applying them under stress, that's all about emotional management.
And then when we come back and then we retire and we find there's more stress retiring and leaving our teams and not having a mission, and then we start rolling into losing control of our emotions.
And these creatures demand that we have control of ourselves.
They demand it.
And if we don't have control of ourselves, we will not have control of the creature, the canine.
So the warrior has to make a choice when they walk into this program that the Navy SEAL Museum and Baden Canine has put together.
And that decision is: really, am I going to learn to manage my emotions again?
So it's almost like being reborn, in a sense, when they go through the process.
Can I ask you just as a follow-up?
And I'm sure the answer is yes, but I'd love to hear a story or two of people that were at a low point because they weren't able to manage themselves.
And the integration of a bad dog was a turning point for them.
Is this a frequent type story?
Yeah, that's easy.
I mean, I mean, there's already, there's every, there's almost every, well, every man in the room here that your audience doesn't see, there's people here looking at us, making sure we say the right things.
But no, I'm joking on that.
That's very easy.
I'm going to tell you the story of a teammate of mine, and I'm just going to call him Jimmy.
Families Finding Change Through Commitment00:04:04
Okay, so Jimmy, Jimmy was married, had three young'uns, went through his military service, gone through a divorce right before he left service, left service, re-hooked up with his wife and his children again.
And now they're trying to make it work.
But the challenge now for the family is that he's dull and he's having issues on how to control his emotions.
And the family can't understand that because his wife was with him through his whole service.
So when she met him, he was sharp as a katana, a samurai sword.
And she just saw him get duller and duller and duller and not understanding what was happening.
And so after reintegrating back with his family, now he was in greater danger of a permanent divorce, a permanent separation from his children, because there came to a point where even the children didn't want to be around him.
So when they finally figured out, and I think it's definitely the Lord that does the whole thing and brings in the tools to make it happen.
But when they finally figured out that there's this opportunity with the creature, with the canine, to help Jimmy re-sharpen and regain control of his emotions, they jumped on board with it.
And it wasn't easy because the whole family had to commit to that process, and the whole family had to commit to consistency in what Josh and his father called fuy it.
Leave it.
Yeah, so we just got some folks.
We got some movement back and they're just doing their job.
We can edit it out.
Fuyit.
Hey, fuyitat.
Wait.
Fuyit.
Leave.
Good leave.
Leave it.
More comes back.
Good leave.
There you go.
Yeah, so once they committed to that process, things started to happen, but then they started to realize this is not easy.
It takes labor, as a gentleman both Josh and I respect in the business world would say to us all the time that there's nothing without labor.
And that's the cornerstone.
That discipline to commit to the process.
Be consistent in the process and labor in it.
Then they started seeing the fruit.
And the fruit started coming a little bit later.
Now, there was instantaneous fruit, of course, from that initial excitement.
Josh sees it all the time.
People marry up with the dogs.
They're really excited.
So there's some initial commitment to working on themselves with their families.
But then when they hit the labor, sometimes people, you know, you're a month in and you're struggling a little bit with your consistency in the training and the philosophy.
And then it's like that labor gets hard.
And the reason why it's hard for the Warriors is because they're dull.
They're not as sharp as they was when they were in their 20s, where they could be as disciplined.
And we never minded, like Dan's looking at me over the years, and we know exactly where we're talking.
We didn't mind laboring when we were in our 20s or 30s.
But now that we're out of service, we're like, why do I want to labor anymore?
I did all that stuff.
But for the families that stuck to it, they started to see the change.
Emotional control, learning to understand themselves again, and learning to be open-minded enough to look at their wives and their children and say, hey, I don't really understand you, but I'm going to try a much more effective manner to do that.
So I found that the biggest effects with Jimmy is the family cohesion through going through the process, if that makes any sense.
Blaming Humans for Bad Dog Behavior00:05:48
It does.
Yeah, I've had Briggs for about six weeks now, and it's work.
I mean, it's work to have meaningful things in life, but it's definitely worth it.
And, you know, just for everyone to understand that Baden, it's not your run-of-the-mill training.
It's full integration of the dog to be an augment to an efficient and effective and meaningful life.
And, you know, Josh, you could talk a little bit about some of the kind of services you guys provide, whether it be for special forces protection or family home protection that we have, right?
And I could say that for all the death threats we get, it's a great deterrent.
It really is.
But anyway, just having the dog around has been so fulfilling for us, my wife and I.
But it's been a challenge at times, not going to lie, to reorient ourselves in our life.
It's like, you know what?
No, I can't just be flipping through email right now.
I got to, you know, I have to be focused on something bigger than myself.
So talk just more about the services you guys provide and just kind of the training that you're able to offer.
Okay, good.
Yeah, I think, you know, a lot of people see the relationships with the military and the veterans and they avoid or it deters them thinking that we are a military service or emergency service provider only.
We're not.
Our foundation of our company, it revolves around the family and the family home protection program.
The veterans and the emergency service law enforcement canines is a big part of our company.
We do supply a small, unique capability with training and canine to a few military services and branches.
But to be honest with you, the family home protection program allows us to be giving at the charitable level with the Navy SEAL Museum and other charities.
So like Yoda was discussing, the effect on the veteran, that effect goes right into the Family Home Protection Program as well.
It's challenging, it's demanding, it's emotional.
But like you're noticing, the deterrency with the family home protection, the canine integrating into the family is huge.
I mean, people just respect these dogs.
There's this really primitive, my father is a saying, primitive does not mean outdated.
And it's not outdated.
It's very primitive capability.
The dog holds this natural capability to detour someone, even at the violent level.
I mean, they might have an idea of what they're going to do, but that idea changes very quickly when they come against one or two of these.
Yeah, and it's B-A-D-E-N canine.
You guys can look it up.
Josh, I want to ask a follow-up question.
And you say that two things.
You say, show me the dog.
I can read everything I want to know about the owner.
That's why my dogs are all so good looking.
Yeah, they're all so handsome, right?
And then just kind of an interesting question that I asked you before, and you can go any way you want to go with this.
Is there a such thing as a bad dog?
People say there's no such thing as bad dogs, only bad owners.
I'd love to get your thought on that so you can unpack it any way you want.
Okay, so I'll tell you that I get asked that question a lot.
Can you teach an old dog new tricks?
And are there bad dogs?
Okay, I would say that the reflection of bad lies on human beings.
And I would put the blame on humans.
I don't believe the SPCA should be in business.
What is that?
The animal control, all the dogs being given over to because of their disobedience or their aggressiveness on the streets.
That's a major, they're going to hate me for this, but that's a major money-making machine just on human beings to...
No, it's a North American thing.
So you have animal control, which we call it the SPCA.
And my brother works for them, by the way, my younger brother.
And you look at how much money these facilities are making based on the disobedience in the lack of consistency and discipline in human beings.
We see this not only in the dog world, we see it in a lot of different avenues of our walk in life.
You know, so a bad dog for this community makes money.
They'll get that dog, they'll charge the owners, they'll bring the dog in, they'll rehabilitate it and put it back out on the streets maybe to another family, and then that dog again cycles through.
So there are bad dogs.
Yeah, I've met them.
I've met a few of them.
But their handlers are worse off.
So they've got a breed that they had no business getting.
They have known nothing about the herding breeds, the mastiff breeds, the mollister breeds, the terrier breeds.
I mean, today's society bases a breed on its look, not a capability.
So you have the show world which is destroying dogs.
Tell me why.
Just based on look.
There's major inbreeding.
There's major.
There's a lot of skill in animal husbandry in breeding.
There's titles on dogs.
I'll sell you a piece of paper.
This dog's titled.
His father was XYZ.
Vaughn, who cares?
And you sell them.
I've had clients, well, I paid literally $120,000, $150,000, $220,000 that want to show me a set of papers.
This is the truth.
And I don't care about papers.
And, you know, it's a show-me.
Don't talk about it.
So we've successfully, and this isn't the boast of getting on a pedestal.
This is we've taken bad dogs and we've brought them into this work and given them direction.
We've taken bad handlers and brought them into this work, whether it be a 15-year-old that won't listen to his parents or whether it be someone like me that didn't want to listen to my wife, right?
You're gone too long, right?
You've got to come home.
Two Dogs Take Down Three Taliban00:14:08
So it's the responsibility lies on the human being, the handler.
So old dog new tricks, the answer is yes.
You know, I think that that falls on genetics.
And under stress, everything falls back on your foundation and genetics.
So I think genetically, if the dog...
My dad says this, you know, giving my father credit because he's the foundation of everything.
If the handler is able, the dog is capable.
So he's always taught us that.
If the handler is able, the ability for the handler is the capability that goes down the leash into the dog.
So if you put that dog, that old dog or that bad dog in an environment with handlers and human beings that are able, then that dog falls back on or into the environment of capability.
So we've done it.
So I just want our audience to know, this is going to be hard to convey via audio.
You guys got to check out the Bad and Canine website.
The kind of force of nature these dogs are able to command is remarkable.
The spots they're able to fit into, the drills they can run through, and the stressful situations they actually can operate in.
It's the highest level of stress and demand that you could possibly imagine from emergency response to all of this.
It's not, I hate to say it's not a normal dog.
I could say that.
I know it sounds, you know, you're shy of that.
It's not.
It's a full integration into what is the modern warrior.
Talk a little bit, Yoda, just about Navy SEALs in general and just how the dog actually allows some of their missions to be executed, special forces.
I don't think some people actually have a full understanding.
Some people say, oh, yeah, they're just there to sniff bombs.
But it's a part of the unit.
It's considered to be a weapon itself.
Okay, so that's a great question, Charlie.
The first thing is, is when the canine or the combat assault dog is what's really what they're called, they're a huge, or they can be, if they're utilized correctly, can be a significant force multiplier for the units.
And that's not just naval special warfare.
That's any unit within the United States Armed Services.
In naval special warfare, I'm not going to get into how they're utilized, but the significance of how they're able to assist the warfighters, whether they're rolling out in a small team or a large team for whatever mission they're doing, a direct action mission or a strategic reconnaissance mission, is the dog has capabilities that the human being doesn't have.
So one is their detection capabilities.
So a detection capability from a dog, dogs have far significant hearing than the human being does.
They can hear movements and sounds that we don't naturally hear.
And then they can indicate on them.
So that can warn teams about various different threats that can be around them or threats that can be lying in wait at some distance.
And when I'm saying some distance, I'm talking hundreds of meters.
Wow.
All right, hundreds of meters.
And then they can be utilized kinetically, where is they can actually be used to go out and bite, go out to distract.
So as teams are entering doing one thing, dogs can be utilized to distract.
But would you like to hear a small little story?
If you can.
Yeah, I can tell you a small story.
I'm not going to tell you which special operation unit this was, but this is a true story.
So this soft unit was out on patrol.
They were patrolling to move into a position to do a mission.
The mission isn't important here.
And they had two combat assault dogs.
And these two combat assault dogs were off lead and were punching out about 500 meters to a kilometer in advance.
Then they would basically punch out, reconnaissance the area themselves, looking for threats, come back to the team, punch back out, come back to the team, and so forth.
And that was the pattern of which they would move.
Well, anyway, on one of their punch outs, about a kilometer out, these two combat assault dogs bumped a Taliban, a small Taliban force of three enemy that had discovered the movement of the soft patrol, and they had set up a hasty ambush, meaning we're going to set it up really fast.
So the dogs decided together to engage these three Taliban.
So they engaged these three Taliban, and when this happened, the patrol could hear gunfire.
They figured out, because it was only one type of gunfire, that it's probably their dogs in a tick.
And a tick for your viewers just means troops in contact.
And so they figured out that their dogs were in a fight.
So the drill for them at that point was to just hunker down, stop in position for a period of time, assess, do all their drills with rear comms, rear link comms, all that kind of stuff.
These dogs are attacking Taliban.
The dog support.
That's right.
No human support.
These dogs engaged a Taliban ambush that was waiting for that small patrol.
So the end state was, is the dogs eventually came back.
I don't remember the exact time.
It doesn't matter, but it would have been a short period of time, probably within the hour.
The dogs came back to the patrol and they were pretty shot up, like multi-system trauma from 762 rounds.
And so they had to pull in a nine-line for the dogs and a nine-line for your viewers.
It's just a process we call from medivac and we get our people off the battlefield.
So after the dogs are extracted out, they decided to move forward and do what's called an SSC.
It's kind of like a sensitive site exploitation, but they're doing it on where the ambush site was.
So they went up to see what was happening.
When they got up, they were able to piece it together.
All three of the Taliban were dead.
All were dead.
And they were able to piece together really quickly that the two dogs had flanked.
One dog had come on one side of the Taliban ambush, and the other dog came on the other.
True story, this is true.
And came on the opposite side, and they kind of figured out from the angles of the ballistic angles of the 762 rounds that these three Taliban enemy had jumped up and were on their feet shooting at the dogs trying to kill them.
And they weren't successful at that.
And so the dogs, in their own way, how they fight, and that's a whole other discussion, how the dog fights.
The two dogs killed the three Taliban.
Two on three.
Two on three.
And did the dogs survive them?
Oh, yeah, they both survived.
And they both were able to make their way back to the patrol.
And they survived the surgery or whatever.
Yeah, yeah.
It's really neat.
So I'm going to get into that.
That's good.
You're leading me into that.
So the dogs were able to make their way back to the patrol.
The dogs got Kazuvaked out.
Patrol, I don't know if they carried on with their mission or not, because that is a compromise, but that doesn't matter in the story.
Now, where it gets even leave, it gets just as interesting.
It gets just as interesting is that Josh gets a phone call from this unit and says, hey, we just had two dogs seriously wounded in a tick.
We need two dogs, replace them right now.
So, anyway, in this process of Josh and his team replacing these dogs and getting two new combat assault dogs back into the battle, into the battle space, we had the opportunity to go to Germany and meet the two dogs that were in the tick and shot up.
And their injuries were severe, but the dogs survived.
But they had to be taken out of service because of their injury.
And when we got there, their kennel master was who basically hosted us to meet these dogs was sleeping every night in the cages with the dogs.
So the bond between the man and the dogs went far off the battle space.
And then we met the dogs.
They brought the dogs out.
And I'll tell you this: if you've never met a dog that has killed a human being in battle, you won't understand the look in their eyes, but you can see it in their eyes, just like you can a man who's got who's got battle-wear eyes.
Wait.
So that's, did that answer your question?
Well, I mean, it's an extraordinary story.
And I mean, forgive my ignorance on this.
Is this a well-publicized story?
No one knows about it.
It is now.
No.
Just to answer that.
We have permission to share the story without giving out any of the details of the unit placement.
It's all publicized.
It is?
It is.
So that part of it's not well publicized.
It's the three on two or the actual event.
But that story, there's actually a video online of one of the dogs that actually ended up due to the injuries passing away.
Yeah, they honored that dog and acknowledged that mission and that situation.
But yeah, that story is public.
Well, those dogs and they're being awarded and honored is public to a point.
But that actual incident in detail like that is not.
It's an extraordinary story.
Three Taliban with firearms not able to take down two dogs.
And they were all killed, all three of them.
Yes.
Wow.
Okay, so in closing here, I want you to talk about the canine project, how people could support it.
I don't want to oversimplify it, but if people are listening, foo it.
If people want to financially support giving dogs to veterans who need them, is that something they could do?
So tell us the website, how they can get behind it.
Absolutely, 100%.
So it's pretty simple.
This program, the Canine Project, comes under the Trident House Charities with the National UDT Navy Seal Museum.
So folks, go to the National UDT Navy Seal Museum website, which is NavySealMuseum.org.
Is that right, Philly?
Okay.
And then when you go in there, just search for Trident House Charities and read through, and there's a very simple process by which you can donate.
Cool.
Okay.
The other thing that's also really cool, which when we got involved with the museum a while back, was they throw these really fantastic events.
And they're very diverse.
Some events are super fun, canine demonstrations.
Some are full Navy SEAL capability demonstrations with SEAL operators and helicopters and kind of like reenactment, like reenactment of combat, but all in fun, all in fun.
So it's very family-oriented.
You can bring your family.
Our muster, our main muster in November is like that.
And we'll get like 2,000-something people come rolling through, and it's super fun.
And then there's the high-profile galas and dinners where donors come in and they commit to dropping some good coin for Tridenthouse Charities and the Canine Project.
And those are great events, too.
Sometimes they're black tie events.
Sometimes they're a little more casual.
And these take place across America in different places.
So contact the museum and you can learn more about it.
Great.
So Josh, let's make sure people know how to contact Bad and Canine.
And any other closing thoughts just in general of kind of what we're talking about here?
Yeah, thanks.
So just bad and canine.com.
Excuse me.
Yeah, bad and canine.com is a website.
Instagram, Bad and Canine, Facebook, all the good stuff.
I think alongside partnering with the UDT Navy Steel Museum and Tridenthouse Charities, specifically the Canine Project, our company provides canine protection for the family.
And through that program, we can give more back to the veterans.
So that's where a for-profit company is charitable.
So bad and canine.com.
Well, it's Briggs has enriched my life, and we'll still get to know each other.
But if anyone really wants to take that next step, not just get a Fuffy Dog, but really get into it, I encourage them to check out Baden.
Also financially support the museum and also the Canine Project.
It's really important.
Thank you guys so much for joining us.
This was awesome.
Thanks, Charlie.
That was fun.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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