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Dixie The Praying Dog Honors Our Vets (Ep.53)
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In this episode of Nightly Scroll, I am joined by Dixie The Praying Dog and her owner, Brian Calvert. Dixie is a hound dog with many talents, but is best known for praying over people who need it most. The duo travels the world to honor our veterans, servicemen and women, law enforcement officers, and more. Happy Memorial Day Weekend to all who gave the ultimate sacrifice, and to the brave men and women who put their lives on the line for our great nation!
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Hailey Carania
Hello and welcome to another edition of Nightly Scroll. I'm Hailey Carania. Happy Thursday evening, everyone. Hello to everyone in the chat, all my homies scrolling with the chat. I have to let you know if you want to scroll with my homies and you want to watch the show live, you can do so every weeknight at 6pm Eastern time only on Rumble. Rumble is the only place you can watch the show. You can tune in after later on video on demand whenever you want to catch it or you can listen on your favorite podcast platform. They always post the show on the podcast platforms just after the show ends on Rumble. So. And you can always follow me on social media at Haley Carania. On all platforms, almost all platforms. Because I hate threads and I'm not on Facebook. I'm on Facebook, but I don't. I'm not answering anyone's friend requests or anything. I don't use it. But I've got a very, very special show for you tonight. I just want to tell you quickly about blackout coffee. Are you tired of week one watered down coffee? Blackout coffee is bold, fresh and roasted right here in Florida. It is shipped fast to all 50 states. So go to blackout coffee.com Haley. Use code Haley H A Y L E Y for 20% off your first order. Don't settle. Upgrade your coffee now. All right, I have two very special guests on Nightly scroll tonight. And it all started when I saw this video that warmed my heart.
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Brian Calvert
We have a special guest here. She, her name is Dixie. She is a military passenger and she is going to say a prayer for all of our military folks on board. So Dixie, would you please pray?
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Dixie
Dixie, pray, Dixie, pray.
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Brian Calvert
Dear Lord, we just thank you for all these servicemen who have helped us to be safe in our country and we just honor them today. Amen.
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Dixie
Amen. Tell them thank you, Bethlehem.
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Brian Calvert
She just said thank you so much. Veterans.
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Hailey Carania
That video is of Dixie the praying dog. She is a 9 year old blue tick coonhound. And I had to learn more about Dixie and all that she does to honor our veterans and service members. It turns out she is an actress. She makes celebrity appearances. She is a therapy dog, she is a tracking dog, and maybe most importantly, she escorts World War II, Vietnam and Korean War veterans on their honor flights to visit the monuments and memorials in our nation's capital. And yes, she prays over our vets and the flight attendants and the pilots too. And with Memorial Day right around the corner, there is no better time to invite Dixie the praying dog and her owner, Brian Calvert on this very patriotic Episode of Nightly Scroll. People in the chat are already saying that we're cutting onions here. People are very teary eyed hearing about Dixie's story already. Brian, thank you so much for joining the show. And of course, Dixie, thank you for joining the show as well.
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Dixie
Yeah, thanks for having us. We appreciate you.
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Hailey Carania
Yeah, this is, this is so much fun. And as soon as I saw the video, I thought, I've got to figure out how I can get Dixie on the show. So I want to hear more about her story and your story. So what is Dixie's gotcha story? How did this all start?
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Dixie
Well, it started out with a couple tragedies in my life. I'm 51 now. I'll be 52 this year. So back in 2012, I live just south of Indianapolis. I had a house fire. I was driving a semi at the time, and my neighbors had reached out and said, hey, there's something wrong at your house. We smell smoke. We see like a burn mark on the side of your house. And I had three dogs in the house. So of course I'm like, I don't care about the house. You know, going through the gate, kicking the door, and get the dogs out of there. Well, long story short, the dogs, they couldn't be saved. I lost my home and three dogs to a house fire. Probably one of the worst, mean, by far the worst day of my life. Just if anybody, any of your listeners out there have ever been through a house fire, you know how it is. It's. I mean, I. It was in 2012, and I'm still remembering stuff that I lost in the fire that I don't have anymore. You know, not only did I lose my belongings, but I lost, you know, family. I lost three dogs that were like my kids. So it was a very, very, very hard to handle. And just when I think it can't get any worse, less than six, six or seven months later, I'm deer hunting here just west of Indianapolis by myself. That was, that's how I relax, you know, I like to get a deer for the year to put in the freezer. And I made a mistake. I went out to cut a limb down. Nobody knew where I was at. I didn't wear a safety harness. I was up in a tree and I slipped and fell 18ft, landed on my. Landed on the side of my head, knocked me unconscious. I didn't know where I was at. And when I came to, I realized something, something pretty major was wrong. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't scream out for help. There Was nobody's going to hear me anyway. So at that point I had to make a decision. You want to lay here and die or do you want to crawl out and get help? So I made the decision to crawl out. It took me about an hour to get out to the road. And when I got out to the road, the county highway department just so happened to be coming by. They seen me, I flagged them down for help, got in the ambulance. I spent two weeks in Methodist Hospital. But while I was in a hospital, I realized, you know, somebody's trying to tell me something. You know, I just had this horrible house fire where I lost my dogs, and now here I am, you know, lucky to be alive in the hospital. Somebody's trying to tell you something. You need to do something different with your life. So in that hospital bed, I came up with a plan as a tribute to my dogs. And I've always had a place in my heart for veterans and first responders like police officers and all those folks. I'm like, there's got to be a way that I can honor those folks and honor my dogs at the same time by getting another puppy, training it to be a therapy dog and help disabled kids and veterans. So that's kind of how all that started. You know, it took me a couple of years mentally to, to get to the point where I could mentally get another dog, you know, because that's just a devastating loss, you know. So all that happened back in 2012, 2013, and finally by 2015, I was mentally prepared to get a dog. And I knew I wanted a hound of some sort because they're so, they're so lovable and you know, your job as a therapy dog handlers that make people smile. So whenever you see this face, you know, a hound dog face, you're automatically smiling right off the bat. So there's part of our job done already without us even do anything. You just see this dog come in, whether you're in the hospital or you're just having a rough time, you're smiling. So I did some research and I wanted also to train a dog to track wounded deer because hunting is a big part of my life and a lot of my friends lives. So. And I wanted also to give back to young kids that are coming and hunting as far as hunter safety goes, hunter ed safety. So. And I did my research and I found a gentleman in South Carolina that had coonhounds that were known. They have a good temperament to be around people, but they had a really good drive to track and hunt. So I picked my puppy out of a lineup.
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Hailey Carania
She is very well rounded, I must say. So she's a therapy dog. She's a tracking dog. So not all dog breeds are meant for this kind of a lifestyle. And so how did you find this breeder? How did you know that you wanted a hound dog? How did you know what service and. And what to train her on?
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Dixie
So one of my previous dogs had blue tick coonhound in her. And I'm like, why is this dog so lovable and so affectionate towards kids? And I have friends that raise coonhounds. And they're like, well, that's the coonhound in them. Coonhounds are very sociable dogs. They love people. They love kids especially. So I did some research, and everybody led me to this gentleman in South Carolina. Unfortunately, he's no longer with us, but he had a great bloodline of dogs, and he sent me a lineup of puppies that he had just had. This was in 2015. In December of 2015, I picked my puppy out, and I wanted the female. And I had a buddy that lived in North Carolina that was going to go pick her up and deliver up here. At the time, I had a girlfriend that we lived together, and she knew that I wanted the dog. So I was going to make a. You know, I was going to surprise her and surprise my family. So I'd set a big party up on a Saturday and said, hey, I've got a big announcement to make. And of course, everybody at the time that I was going to propose to my girlfriend.
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Hailey Carania
So meanwhile.
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Dixie
Meanwhile, my buddy goes down to get this dog, and he calls me. He goes, hey, we've got a problem. I'm like, oh, no, what's wrong? He goes, the dog that you picked out, he accidentally gave away. And I'm like, well, is there a female there? He goes, yeah, he's got one female left. I said, I don't want to see a picture of it. That's my dog. Everything in my life to this point has been. Has happened for a reason. Everything's meant to be. It's fake. That's my puppy. Bring her home. So he brought her up here. And then that Saturday, you know, everybody's at the house. We had to cook out. He pulls up out front. I go out and get her, and she's in this blanket. I don't even look at her. I have her in a blanket, bring her in a house, and she pops her head out, and there she was. Everybody was like, oh, my God, you got it. You finally did it. After all the hardships you'd been through, losing your dogs and the tree stand accident and all that, you finally did it. You know, I kind of wish I.
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Hailey Carania
Would after that accident sooner. Yeah, well, after that, I mean, you need time to get over something that traumatic and that tragic, so it. It's totally understandable. I mean, I can't fathom the loss of three dogs and everything that you own all at once. It's. It's heartbreaking to think about, but it seems like you finding Dixie was really meant to be. And because she is a praying dog, I'm assuming that faith is a big part of your life. At least it is now.
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Dixie
Yeah. So as soon as I was able to walk, you know, when I got out of the hospital, I have a friend that's, you know, he's. He's big in the church, and I went to church with him occasionally, and him and I have done some hunting stuff together. We take veterans out to. To hunt on his property and stuff like that, and he's like, hey, man, what you just went through there, there's more going on with that. There's somebody's knocking on your door, you know, and I knew that he said, it's. It's time. So whenever I was able to walk, I went to his church and I got baptized, and I just. From there on out, it was all focus was on Dixie and helping people after that moment. So that's wonderful. Faith is a pretty big part. You know, of course, she is called Dixie the Praying dog. And the. The. I didn't name her that. The veterans named her that. So. And that kind of leads into me training her to track the deer and do the therapy dog work and all that. So. So when she turned 1 years old, or actually she was probably 11 months old, some neighbor girls were volunteers for Indiana Flight. Indiana Flight flies World War II Korean and Vietnam veterans at D.C. and back in the same day at no cost to them.
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Hailey Carania
Yeah.
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Dixie
To see them. So the girls were like, hey, know what you want to do with Dixie when you think she's ready? Bring her to an honor flight. Maybe she could be our therapy dog. So in 2016, Dixie was probably 11 months old. I felt that she was ready, but I wanted a cool trick to teach her to pose with these veterans for a photo op. And most of the. Most of these veterans are in wheelchairs or at. At that point in their life, so I thought, you know, it'd be cool to teach her how to pray. So I kind of put her in the downward dog position. And it just kind of morphed into what it is. Yeah, I trained her with her food and all that, and I'm like, dixie, pray, and she'll get into the downward dog, and then I salute her and she'll bark out, thank you, veterans. So that first honor flight, those veterans just ate that up and like, oh, that's that praying dog. So we kept getting invited after that to all these other veterans organization events around the city and sometimes out of the state. And it just caught on as, hey, that's that praying dog. So I believe it was 2017 or 18, I started a Facebook page and called her Dixie the praying Dog. You know, that's. At that point, I didn't know that social media. I was going to make money on social media. And, you know, it's going to turn into this big thing, but here we are, you know, and so what's some.
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Hailey Carania
Of the reaction when these veterans, and some of them are almost 100 years old, if not older, what's their reaction when they see Dixie?
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Dixie
Honestly, especially when they. When the veterans get back from D.C. we bring it back to our high school, they think they're going home. They don't know they're coming to a gymnasium full of people, probably 2500 people in there, some of their family members, and they're holding signs up, they think they're going home. We bring them home and bring them in one at a time. And Dixie drives a little mini Jeep and she escorts them in on her mini jeep with American flag on it with police lights on it. And then the Gordon Pipers and then the veterans, one at a time. When these guys come back in that gym, all of them, 90% of them are tearing up. And then when they see Dixie praying next to them and as they walk by and, you know, barking out, thank you, veterans, nine times out of ten, they're tearing up or they're coming over and hugging on her and kissing on her. And I'm proud to say that next weekend will be Dixie's 33rd honor flight that she's volunteered for.
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Hailey Carania
Wow.
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Dixie
It never gets old. Every time that those guys come in, it still gets me right here every time. It's. It's just something that I. I look forward to. She looks forward to doing it. They've talked about having us fly with them over there if there was ever an occasion. But I don't want to take away a veteran spot to go over there or a medic, right, that wants to do that. So right now, our routine is on Friday night we have a meet and greet and a dinner that goes over the itinerary. Then we get up at Saturday morning at 3am and we go to the high school and we escort them to the airport. Dixie walks on the airplane with them. Once they're all seated, she says a prayer, barks out, thank you, veterans, goes in a cockpit, prays again with the pilots. They all take pictures of her. We get off the plane, they go to D.C. and do their thing. Then when they come back, that's when we do the welcome home. That's what we do for every flight.
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Hailey Carania
How many honor flights are there? I mean, you said that this is the 33rd that she's going to do. But how often are these flights coming out of Indianapolis?
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Dixie
We do four out of Indianapolis, and the year after Covid, we did five, but we've also done some in Kentucky and the Bluegrass Honor Flight. Pretty much every state in the country has an honor flight. Indiana has three. We have Indian Indiana flight, Southern Indiana Honor flight, and Fort Wayne Honor flight.
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Hailey Carania
So are people now are veterans all over the country wanting Dixie to send them off on these honor flights?
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Dixie
Yeah, we could actually go to a lot of them. But my problem is, you know, I. I drove a semi all those years for. For about 27 years. And in 2022, I hurt my back again. So since then, I realized I'm not going to get rich by driving a truck. It's just going to hurt my back more. But I was still making enough money off social media and appearances to pay my bills, and I had some savings. So since 2022, I really haven't had a real job. You know, I've sacrificed a lot financially just to be able to barely pay my bills. But as my important thing was having more time to share Dixie with everybody out there. And, you know, I hope that, that people realize, you know, everybody's stuck in the thinking they got to work a Monday through Friday, 9 to 5 job. You know, I'm more happier now with less money because I have a more opportunity to help people's lives with. With this dog. So that means more to me than being wealthy.
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Hailey Carania
You have a purpose now, and certainly after everything that you've been through, it's so wonderful that Dixie prays over people who need it the most. And there's a new study that suggests church attendance is up now and especially among younger people. What do you attribute to that?
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Dixie
Well, I would like to say it's because other people have had some issues like I have had and it's kind of woke, you know, woke them up where they see what's going on around the world, and they're like, you know, there's some bad stuff going on around the world. There's some other religions. We won't get into that. Hate, hate us, hate Americans, hate our religion. So I'm hoping that's waking people up and saying, hey, I better. I better get right with God right now, because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow or the next day, you know, so. And that's kind of how I lead my life. I, I, like you said, I. I found my purpose. A lot of people don't find their purpose. My purpose is to help people with this, with. With Dixie. That's my purpose. A lot of people don't have that honor or that blessing to do that. Yeah, I went through some bad stuff to figure it out, but now that I figured it out, it's opened my eyes to a whole new different way of how I can live my life, you know, and that goes back to not having to work the 9 to 5 job. You know, money's not everything. My. What's important to me is being able to help people, help the veterans and helping sick kids. You know, to see her put a smile on a kid's face that's been in the hospital for three months or. Last April, we walked. We did a donor walk with a kid that we watched. He was 8 years old, and he was going to pass away, and we got asked to do his honor walk in Cincinnati Children's Hospital before he passed away and he donated his organ. So when I get asked to do stuff like that, it comes full circle, and I realize I'm in the place I need to be through my tragedies, you know, and then when you look at a parent like that that's going through, losing a child, what I went through was nothing. That's nothing. So that, that. And that's what I try to open people's eyes to. Yeah, you might have some hardships. I guarantee you there's somebody out there going through ten times harder stuff than what you've ever thought about going through. So I try to put that out to people, you know, and saying, hey, it can always be worse. You know, be. Just be thankful to God that you're here and live your life the best that you can. And that's how me and Dixie try to. What we try to do.
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Hailey Carania
Well, God is certainly working through you and through Dixie, and she. I'm just. I'm looking at her right now and she's so calm. She's so lovely. How did you know that she was going to have this star power?
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Dixie
I didn't know. I. It's, you know, I can, I can only take credit so much for training her. There's. There's a lot in her, just her in general, that and her personality and how she is with kids, and I don't have any kids, but to see the way she acts around little kids and she's so gentle and loving with them. It's. It's just in her nature. It's just how she is. It's all. It's her. Yeah, I've trained her to do tricks and all that kind of stuff, but the things that she does, I mean, she never, she always, never surprises what she does at the honor flights. I mean, she just knows what to do. She'll pray on her own with these guys when they walk by. She'll just drop down and do it on her own. So it's. It's always something with her and it's. It's amazing. I would like to take credit for it, but I can't. It's all. It's her.
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Hailey Carania
Wow. Well, so Dixie is, like I said, she's very well rounded. She does a lot. She's a movie star and a TV star. So how did this come about?
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Dixie
Well, again, all this, you know, right before the. The tree stand accident, 2012, I just lost a job that I had at. At a major trucking company that has an arrow in its logo. We won't name the company, but through some. Some snowfall of my own after, I plan on retiring from that job. So that all kind of comes full circle to 2019 when Hollywood found us through social media. I was made fun of for starting social media with Dixie. Like, why do you want to do that? I'm like, well, I just want to be able to share more with people around the world that can't see her in person. So that's why I always keep her social media positive. So in 2019, I got an email from a casting agency in Hollywood that asked me if I'd be interested in auditioning for a TV show for Amazon that had a lot of travel involved. I'm like, okay, yeah, we'll check it out. So I did a zoom call the following week. Then the week after that, they flew me by myself to Hollywood for three days. I met with all the higher up Amazon executives and the production company.
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Hailey Carania
Wow.
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Dixie
They just interviewed me. I told them my story. Like, I'VE told you guys, they already know who Dixie was from her social media. So they told me they love me, but. And they wanted me on the show. But they still had all these other dogs. They had these other folks they had to interview and it was all top secret. I couldn't tell nobody where I was at. So I flew back home. Two weeks later, they said, hey, we need you to come out here again for the day. So they flew me back out there again for the day to take a, a physical, had to take a psychiatrics test because a lot of these competition reality shows, our show, the Pack is what it was called. It's like the Amazing Race with dogs is what they were casting for.
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Hailey Carania
Okay.
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Dixie
So they want you to be the reason they do the psychiatric test. They want you to be somewhat crazy, but not too crazy, because a little crazy is good for tv.
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Hailey Carania
Just a good amount.
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Dixie
Yeah, yeah. If you're just a regular, normal person with really no story, there's. That's not good tv. So I came back, did the psychiatric test, the, the physical and all that, came back home two days after that. They called me and said, hey, we want you and Dixie to come out here in December for a two week doggy boot camp. And what the doggy boot camp was, there was going to be 24 other dogs and humans there. And from the first point that I made him, until met him until then, we were doing a call on a Sunday, like a zoom call with trainers, a Hollywood dog trainer and then a trainer from Great Britain. And they would give us tasks that they want us to do that week, like retrieving, paddle boarding and that kind of stuff. But I'm like, hey, I live in Indiana, it's December. I'm not going to be able to practice paddle boarding.
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Hailey Carania
Right.
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Dixie
So they sent me a. She's going down now. They sent me a knee board and with a ball. So I had to practice in my garage, like we were on the water on this board. Dixie just bumped the camera there. So I had to practice this knee board in the garage. Just a little stuff like that. We had to do scent work, so I had to stop doing the deer hunting, the deer scent stuff, and had to switch the birch oil because that's what they use in Hollywood, right? Well, so Dixie and I flew out to la. They met us at the airport. It was all top secret. Couldn't talk to nobody. I seen some other dogs, but we couldn't talk to the people that, that, that was there like we were. And what they did, they took 12 of us, put us in one room, took the other 12, put them in another room, and we had to just go over the stuff that we were learning how to do, and we had to take a temperament test with the dogs and all that. Basically, it was the final audition. We went to a lake, and we had a paddle board on a lake together, and we had to repel off buildings together and zipline together just to see if the dogs could do it. Because if the dogs couldn't do that, they couldn't. They couldn't be on a show. And one of the biggest thing that people don't realize, these dogs can't be afraid of cameras and they can't be afraid of drones, right? So they locked us in a room by ourselves, and they said, okay, is. Is Dixie okay with cameras? I'm like, all the media attention she gets, she's gotten through honor flights with all the news always being there and all that. I'm like, she'll eat it up. She'll pose for you. So these camera guys come in, and the main camera guy that came in, he's actually Jeff Proak's personal cameraman on Survivor.
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Hailey Carania
Okay.
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Dixie
I just seen him on the finale last night. So he came in. He was one of our main camera guys. He came in and just walked around Dixie with the camera, and she just sat there, and then she stood up and she. She prayed and she posed, and then they flew a drone around, and she didn't care. You know, she's. She's so used to it. It didn't bother her. So the other dogs, a lot of them couldn't do that. You know, a lot of the other dogs couldn't wear vests. They couldn't wear booties. They had to wear booties. And Dixie wears up goggles all the time. They wouldn't wear the goggles, so.
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Hailey Carania
Well, she is one of a kind, surely. I would have loved to see videos of you guys paddleboarding together. That's a site that you don't see very often, but you're in the Indianapolis area, and the Indy 500 is coming up, and Dixie's gonna be there. So based on this conversation, you know, Dixie's okay with cameras. She's okay with people. How does she do around these, like, really noisy race days?
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Dixie
Oh, she loves it. We went to the Brickyard one year here, and we sat in the grass mound and turn one, and NBC was actually there filming her in the mound, and she was asleep with the cars going by. So that stuff doesn't really bother. She's so, and really that TV series that we, that we made, that really adapted her to all this other stuff too. I mean, like I said, that was like the Amazing Race. We flew all over the world. We were in eight different countries in 54 days, repelling off buildings and ziplining. We ziplined out of the clock tower from Back to the Future in the first episode. That's how the whole TV series starts. And then once we did that, we went to the USS Iowa, which is fitting for us. We had to search the USS Iowa in Long beach for puzzle pieces and build a puzzle to get our clue to get out of the country.
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Hailey Carania
Got it.
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Dixie
And then after we did that, we went to Mexico City, Costa Rica, Ireland, Austria, Italy, Switzerland. Then we ended up in Paris and came home. Just an amazing, amazing, unbelievable.
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Hailey Carania
I mean, wow. She's. Dixie's more well traveled than I am.
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Dixie
She's been a lot of places. She's been all over the country for different stuff that we've done. But I'm, I'm super proud of, of making the cut out of 400 and some dogs. They picked my dog to do that, you know, and 11 other dogs and we got to travel the world. I would have never traveled the world on my own if it wasn't for Dixie. And it goes back to that job I lost in 2012, right before the house fire. If I still worked at that company, there's no way they would have let me take a four month leave of absence to do that. So I'm a firm believer that everything in your life happens for a reason, even the bad stuff. And that's another good way I can re. I can help people that's going through some tough times. I'm like, hey, this is happening for a reason. You gotta trust. You just have to trust me. You're gonna figure it out down the road. You know, like that young boy who passed away last year through the. We did the donor walk, but I told his mom at the time, you're gonna make something positive out of this.
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Hailey Carania
Yeah.
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Dixie
And now she just started a non for profit about being an advocate for organ donors because her son donated some of his organs at 8 years old and saved 4 kids lives. So. Wow. People don't see it at the time when bad stuff happens, but there's always something positive that you can do out of. It's just how, how you go about doing it yourself. You know, it's all about how, how mentally strong you are and how you can pull through things.
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Hailey Carania
Would you say that Dixie saved your life?
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Dixie
Dixie is most definitely saved my life. Most definitely. I was very before Dixie, especially with the fire and all that. That's a lot of depression. Anxiety sets in. You know, after my hunting accident, I clapped one of my lungs, so it caused me to get real claustrophobic, and I would have panic attacks a lot. And I was on medication for that. And then after having Dixie for about a year, I stopped taking my medication for anxiety. And my doctor was like, why haven't you renewed your. Your medication? I'm like, I don't need it. When she's with me, I feel safe and secure. And she was like, she's your service dog. So she officially classified Dixie as my service dog. And once I realized that I had. I had a little bit of PTSD from that accident. Once I realized that, it allowed me to help the veterans better that have. Have got ptsd, like the Vietnam veterans and a lot of our younger veterans now that were in Iraq, those guys have some very bad PTSD from stuff that they've seen. So it's allowed me to open, you know, use some of my experiences to help them and then show them what a dog can do for them. And I know how many veterans I've worked with that I've went out and got dogs that's been in a bad place, and it's totally changed their lives. That dog has changed veterans lives. So it's pretty special how it's all come full circle where I can help people in that aspect, which makes me really proud.
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Hailey Carania
She's done so much, and you've done so much with her. What's next on Dixie's bucket list? Has she ever met the President of the United States? I mean, what's next for her?
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Dixie
We've been close. We met Donald Trump Jr. At the NRA convention here in Indianapolis, and Kimberly Guilfoyle and a bunch of other, you know, Ted Nugent and a bunch of other people there at that. I would love to meet President Trump. It's unfortunate that social media is the way that it is, because on Dixie's page, I don't show politics. I don't show any of that kind of stuff, because it would be nothing but hate. That picture of her and Donald Trump Jr. Was on her page for, like, a week. And I got death threats. Dixie got called names. She still gets called names because she's the praying dog and she shows the American flag. Everywhere we go, she gets called a Trumper, even though we don't. We don't promote, you know, politics, all because of the American flag. And she's patriotic and her, and she's the praying dog. I get hate every single day. You just got to overlook it, delete them and just move on. Don't interact with those folks and just move on.
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Hailey Carania
So, right. You've got to have so much hatred in your heart to look at Dixie and say something mean. I don't know how you could ever do that. But people are so divisive these days. Politics has divided us in ways that, that, that are very mean and I'm glad that you can work through that. And maybe, maybe a treat would help. So what is Dixie's favorite treat or her favorite toy?
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Dixie
Maybe her favorite treat is Buckboard Buckbone Organics. It's a treat. The company's based out of Montana. It's a treat that's made out of antler dust and a little biscuits. It's made out of deer antler dust. So since this Dixie's trained to find deer and find antlers, I mean, that's, it's. She smells the deer in it, she smells the antler in it. She does gobbles them up. She loves it.
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Hailey Carania
Well, that's amazing. So, Brian, I want to say thank you so much for sharing Dixie with us and, and all the people who watch Nightly scroll because she's so lovely and what you're doing with her is nothing short of amazing. So where can my audience find out more about Dixie and, and help your causes?
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Dixie
They can go to her website at Dixie the Praying Dog dot com. She's got merch on there that'll get you to every everywhere else. Or Facebook, Instagram, tick tock, Twitter, YouTube. It's all Dixie the Praying Dog. Pretty easy to find. Message me. I, I, I, I'm pretty active on there. I'll talk to everybody. It's all positivity. If you're having a bad day, I have her pages set up to where you can go and watch them. I've actually had soldiers that are overseas going through some rough times that have told me they can go watch her videos on social media and it gets them out of her funk. So that makes me proud too, that people can go watch her social media videos even when we're not there. And it makes them feel better, which is why the whole purpose behind her social media is that reason.
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Hailey Carania
Brian, thank you so much. Thank you for sharing Dixie with us. We will be in touch. And hopefully all the homies who scroll with me will go support you. I hope that they do.
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Dixie
See if I can get Dixie to say talk to you a Little bit. Dixie, can you tell them, tell them, tell them, tell them. Say God bless America.
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Hailey Carania
Good job, Dixie. Thank you so much, Brian. And thank you, Dixie. God bless you. Of course, this is the good stuff. I don't mess around with my coffee, you know. Now I used to be a one cup of coffee a day kind of girl. Now I'm two, sometimes three. Oh my gosh, I can even smell it. It's so good. This is a small batch. Family owned roastery right here in Florida. They craft bold premium coffee. And when I say bold, I can smell it from here. It's closed. I mean, it's open. I opened it the other day, but it's, it's closed. And I can smell it from here. It is premium coffee that actually delivers on flavor. So whether you like it strong, whether you like it smooth or black, whether you like it with a little cream, they have got a roast for you. And tons of flavors, by the way too. And they ship fresh to all 50 states. So wherever you are, you can get your hands on it. And because you scroll with the homies, you get 20% off your first order. Just you use code Hayley H A Y L E Y at checkout or hit up blackout coffee.com/hayley to grab your bag. Stop drinking weak coffee. Make the switch to blackout coffee today. Blackout coffee.com/hayley use code hayley for 20% off your first order.
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Hailey Carania
Wow. Did you all in the chat love Dixie? I love her. And Brian is so great. Their story is so heartwarming. I thought, you know, ahead of Memorial Day we have to just give thanks to all of our veterans and service members. And I have a message at the end of the show for all of them. I want to say thank you and extend my gratitude, but I want to take a quick break to tell you about blackout coffee. This is the good stuff, everyone. When it comes to my coffee, I don't mess around. That is why I drink blackout small batch family owned roastery right here in Florida. They bold bold premium coffee that actually delivers on flavor. It's not that burnt corporate nonsense. So if you like it strong, you like it black, you like it smooth, they have got a roast for you and they have tons of different flavors. This is the cinnamon French toast one and it smells so good and it tastes even better. They also ship fresh to all 50 states so wherever you are you can get your hands on it. And because you scroll with the homies, you can get 20% off your first order. Just use code Hayley H A Y L E Y at checkout or hit up blackout coffee.com/hayley to grab your bag. Stop drinking we coffee. Make the switch to blackout today. Blackout coffee.com Haley use code haley for 20% off your first order. I've got to turn now to a sad story. It's a sad update. This shooting that happened last night in D.C. a couple was killed leaving an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee at the Capitol Jewish Museum. This was just after 9pm Eastern Time last night. And the Embassy of Israel they confirmed that the they identified the victims as Jeroen Lashinsky and Sarah Milgram. They both work for the Embassy of Israel. They were set to be engaged. He has gotten a ring for her. He didn't get the chance to propose to her because they were both killed senselessly last night. And Steven Jensen, he's the FBI's assistant director in charge of the Washington field office, he said that they are investigating the crime for a hate crime motivation and potential ties to terrorism. This guy, the 30 year old suspect who, who senselessly killed this young couple entered the museum. He was detained by event security obviously after the senseless murder took place. And while he was in custody he yelled free, Free Palestine. Other eyewitnesses on the ground said that he did it for Gaza. That's what he was saying. The suspect is believed to have acted alone. He is in custody. President Trump posted on Truth Social saying these horrible D.C. killings based obviously on anti Semitism must end now. Hatred and radicalism have no place in the usa. Condolences to the families of the victims. So sad that such things as this can happen. God bless you all. And it really is so horrible that people can be so radicalized politically to the point of murdering innocent people. We have to be able to set these differences aside and not turn to violence. And it sets a really disgusting precedent when murderers like Luigi Mangione, he was the United Health Care CEO shooter, he was not a United Healthcare customer. He didn't even have United Health Care coverage. But he was just so angry with the system that, you know, he killed someone out of symbolism of his hatred for the health care system. And murderers like Luigi Mangioni are glamorized by the left and they think that they're going to be revered by their cohorts because of it. And based on some really disgusting social media comments that I've seen, these murderers are revered by the left. Radical leftists think that this is the way to a ceasefire in Gaza. It is not. The suspect will be remembered as a cold blooded murderer and nothing more. I also have another update. I told you this week about the inmates that escaped from the prison in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ten inmates escaped. I told you that they, they used a, or they had help from someone inside the prison, a maintenance worker who turned off the water so that these inmates could escape behind a toilet. And five of the 10 inmates have been recaptured as of Tuesday. Now two more women have been arrested for allegedly helping the prisoners and being in contact with them. So Louisiana State Police, they again, five of these escapees have yet to be captured. So they are still at large. Again, they are reportedly armed and dangerous or authorities believe that they are armed and dangerous. And they announced the arrest now of these two women earlier today. One allegedly gave food to one of the escapees and another one had been in contact via the cell phone with one of the other former prisoners. So we have to see what happens next. Hopefully the state police there in Louisiana can find these five guys who, who escaped from prison and we can get them back in there so they are not running amok in Louisiana or wherever else they may have gotten to by now. I told you yesterday I had a lot of trans updates, trans headline stories that I didn't get to yesterday. So I wanted to make sure that I got to them. So tonight, and this is, we're moving in the right direction here. This is a good thing. This is, we're seeing women actually stand up for themselves for a change. They are inspired by women like Riley Gaines. Thank goodness, the activist who she, this, this happened to her personally. She was a Kentucky swimmer. She was swimming against Leah Thomas, Will Thomas, and of course, famously they tied. And there was this moment on the podium where they only had one, they tied, they only had one trophy and they, they let Will Thomas hold it and not Riley Gaines. And on the podium, I mean, you don't put two people on the first rung. So there was Will Thomas at the top and Riley Gaines next to him. It's really sick what's happening. And I have a story now of A, a sophomore, a high school sophomore. She's 16. Her name is Reese Hogan. And she didn't do. Sure, maybe she, she saw that podium moment with Riley Gaines and thought, I'm not going to give this guy his moment. I'm going to take it back for myself. So they just had a, a race and Reese Hogan was supposed to win, but came in second bank based on the fact that the trans athlete, the man, came in first. And I want to show you the photo. This is the, the podium shot at first where Reese, Reese Hogan, she's the female you stand, you see her standing there on the second level of the podium there. And that's a dude in the number one slot. But this didn't last for long. So once the trans athlete got off the podium, I want to show you what Reese Hogan did. Watch. There she is taking the top spot, her rightfully earned top spot at the top of the podium. And obviously you hear cheers there. So this is a move in the right direction. Women need to be taking their rightful ownership of their, their first place spots, their scholarships, and just the peace of mind that they can be in a locker room without a man next to them. So God bless Reese Hogan and all the women who are going to be inspired by her. Now I have a story. This is where the trans ideology backfires. So there was a girl pretending to be a boy who went into the boys locker room. You know, we, we cover a lot of these stories where the shoes on the other foot, it's a boy pretending to be a girl getting his way into the locker room and into the private spaces where women are changing. This is the opposite. So this is a girl working her way into the boys locker room. She started filming in the locker room, which is of course illegal, and claiming that boys in the locker room were making fun of her. And in this video, the guys were saying, what's a girl doing in here? I am uncomfortable. And now Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, he has released a statement expressing outrage over the reports that this is. And this is Loudoun County Public Schools. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you remember all of the lunacy that happened in 2020, in 2021, during the pandemic at Loudoun County Public schools. But there was a trans person in the locker room. And this is where the whole, you know, Biden DOJ calling parents domestic terrorists. This is where it all began and it's still happening. So the Virginia governor, Glenn Youngkin, he's expressing outrage over this. He says it's deeply concerning to read reports of yet another incident in Loudoun county schools where members of the opposite sex are violating the privacy of students in locker rooms. Even more alarming, the victims of this violation are the ones being investigated. This is beyond belief. So now the parents of these boys who were filmed in the locker room are suing. The school is investigating the incident and the governor has now called on the Attorney General, Jason Mayoris, to investigate this as well. But this is what happens when our society tells trans people that their poop doesn't stink and that they're oppressed. They try to take their phone out and catch this alleged bullying incident or oppression. And guess what? That's sexual harassment. So who is in the wrong now? So I hope that President Trump, with the executive orders that he has signed, can rip funding away from these public schools. Loudoun County Public schools rip their funding away. This is where the whole trans locker room lunacy began. And I think this is where it needs to end. So hopefully President Trump can make an example out of Loudoun County Public schools. On that note, we are going to get into scrolling time and this is a very patriotic scrolling time.
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Dixie
Foreign.
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Hailey Carania
I wanted to do a patriotic scrolling time today because I've got. And I'll explain at the end of the show, but I've got a great interview for you on deck tomorrow. But I wanted to. It doesn't make sense to mix it with the patriotism. So I wanted to do Dixie the Praying dog today, honor our veterans and have America themed scrolling time. So I want to start with this photographer who caught a bald eagle on camera. This is one of the most beautiful photos I've ever seen. Watch. So it says, I captured the most detailed eagle photo I've ever taken. There's the subject there. And here's the result of the photo. Wow, that is so amazing. And I didn't even know that their eyes looked like that, that bright yellow color. I mean, it's such a gorgeous, gorgeous bird, of course, and majestic bird. But to see it like up close like that and so zoomed in, it almost looks like AI. It's so gorgeous. So can we get an eagle screech for that or a red tail, a red tailed hawk screech? Technically, same thing. This next one is a guy absolutely shredding the national anthem on the guitar. Watch. Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. He's in his cap and gown here. How cool is that? I mean, I love hearing the national, national anthem be sung, but that is really cool. And you know, he's Got his cap and gown on. And these are some of the comments left graduation with every girl's number. Someone else said 20 girls asked him to prom afterwards, but I guess prom would have already happened if he's graduating high school. Someone else said, the dad lore has begun. That's a story that you tell your kids one day. You're like, yeah, I actually shredded the national anthem in front of everyone. Everyone thought I was cool. I was the coolest guy in school. And someone else said, all right, I've seen enough. Triple the defense budget. And yeah, hearing the national anthem played on the guitar like that electric guitar, I could run through a brick wall. So I love it. Now, this last one is a horse painted with the American flag on it. It is America at its finest. Watch. My pronouns are USA My pronouns are.
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Dixie
USA how about it, huh? My name is Ted Cruz, and my pronouns are kiss my ass.
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Brian Calvert
My pronouns are kiss my ass.
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Hailey Carania
I love that audio. What was that from? I think it was the RNC maybe a few years ago. I'm Ted Cruz, and my pronouns are kiss my ass.
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Dixie
We thought that was AI said that.
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Hailey Carania
Yeah, yeah, look it up. That was Ted Cruz. I remember him saying that. Maybe I'm crazy. Does anyone else in the chat remember that? I thought it was at the RNC or something. It was at a spot beach. Ted Cruz. Pronouns kiss my ass. This is the Google search. Yep, here it is. Let's watch it. Okay, please hold. We're going to pull this up. So everyone, these are the receipts. We're coming with the receipts. I'm going to take my water break. I've been yapping. I'm Ted Cruz, and my pronouns are kiss my ass. I love it. And right after this. You got it. Here we go. Health.
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Dixie
And to give her pronouns.
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Hailey Carania
Everyone's booing.
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Dixie
Well, I'm Ted Cruz, and my pronoun is kiss my ass.
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Hailey Carania
I love it. See, I wasn't lying to you. It was real. All right, now we're getting into the blind reactions portion of the show. So I have not seen these videos, but I trust that they are good and I trust that they are funny. Oh, this man just stepped in wet concrete. Oh, oh, don't go that way. Don't go that way. Did he say oh? He just face planted in the concrete. That is. That's not good. That is not good. I've never done that. I think when I was little, my mom, like, put my hands in concrete or something, you know, But I've never accidentally stepped in concrete. That. That would be a day Ruiner. I have accidentally stepped in dog poop. I have had a bird poop on me, but cement.
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Dixie
I've stepped in a lot of concrete, but I used to do that all throughout.
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Hailey Carania
Well, that was your job. Yeah. So that makes sense. All right, next one. This is almost as cool as Dixie the praying dog. This is. What is this, a Chihuahua on a skateboard or a French. A corgi. Look at him go. Way more athletic. I'd be scared to do this. He's riding a skateboard down the stairs. Maybe it's less scary for the corgi because they are closer to the ground. So it's for me to do that. I would break a lot of bones if something went wrong. But for the corgi, the corgi, maybe it's a little easier, but this is. Look at him go. I love corgi butts. They're so cute. They're so round. I love them. All right, how many more do we have? One more. Last blind reaction. Let's go. Slow down. You'll hit the glass. It says, that was close. This is a little boy at a aquarium. Oh, little boy at the aquarium. He doesn't hit his head on the glass, but he does hit it on a little. I don't know. I don't even know what that is. Well, that's too bad. I don't like seeing kids get hurt. All right, I've got a few questions I posted on my Instagram story, and I will answer some of them now. And then I've got a message for our. Our fallen heroes and our servicemen and women. So someone asked me, what is your strength training routine? Do you do full body or push, pull or upper body? Lower body. I do upper body, lower body. So. And they have my socials up here. I post my workouts all the time. I do personal training sessions Tuesdays and Thursdays. I always post videos so you can see what I'm doing. I get a lot of questions about what my workout routine is, so you can see and you can follow along, but I do up. I do lower body on Mondays, upper body, Tuesdays, Wednesday, core and cardio, Thursday, full body. Then I try to do six days working out, depending on how sore I am. Sometimes it's five. And it just depends on my. Just depends on my weekend plans. So I'm not going to work out tomorrow, but then I'll try to do Saturday, Sunday. I won't hit legs on Sunday because I know I'm doing it on Monday. So I just kind of, like, go with the flow. How tall are you? Five seven. Five seven and a half almost. And I wear heels, so even taller. Someone in the chat said. Why Pinehurst? Number two? My family lives in Pinehurst and they live on the course there, so. Well, they live on number four, and I go there all the time. I play golf. My whole family plays golf. So that's just. That's the meaning behind that. My mom sent it. And least favorite news outlet. My least favorite news outlet. It's gotta be Buzzfeed News or the Daily Beast. They are so full of crap. Anytime I see them come up. Because I have alerts set for almost every news organization. And whenever I see the Daily Beast come up or. What was the other one? BuzzFeed News. BuzzFeed News is such a joke. They push the Russia hoax. Like, I'm over these, but sometimes they give us good content to make fun of. So they're my least favorite. But sometimes they're useful idiots, if you know what I mean. Um, I also hate. I. I mean, I love Fox News and I used to work at Fox News, but Fox News is the worst at clickbait headlines. Like, if someone dies, it's like, guitarist dead at 65. And I will wait for another push notification to come up. Who says who? It is like, I will not give in. I will not click it. It pisses me off so much. I'm like, tell me, just tell me, and if I'm interested, then I'll read it. But they get you in with the clickbait, and it just pisses me off anyway. Someone asked me my favorite dessert at home or out to eat or both. I always have chocolate at home. I'm a big chocolate girl, so I always have chocolate chips. Sometimes I'll throw them in, like a bowl of blueberries or fruit. Strawberry. My favorite dessert, though, is this place called Baked Bear. And it was in Nashville, and I miss it so much. But Baked Bear, it is a chain. They have a few locations. The closest location to me here is in Fort Lauderdale. So am I going to drive hours to go get ice cream? No. But I have thought about it, and what they do is they take warm cookies and they put ice cream in the middle. It's an ice cream sandwich. And you can mix and match the cookies. You could put a brownie on the bottom, cookie on the top. Whatever you want. Oh, my gosh, it's so good. It's. I mean, I'm really. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. But, yeah, that is my favorite dessert. Oh, I'm sad Now that it's so far away, someone asked me favorite show to watch on TV or streaming services. I don't really watch TV much anymore. I'm scrolling on my phone. It's really sad. I don't have a show. My friends keep telling me to watch Love on the Spectrum, but that seems, like, very icky to me. I feel like it's very. They're, like, exploiting people with mental illness for views. And I think that that's weird. So I don't want to watch that. I loved Ozark. I loved Yellowstone. But, like, I'm done with those series. I need a new one. So I don't know. If you have any suggestions, you can drop them in the chat. I love thrillers. I love horror movies. I love comedy. Yeah, so anything like that? I heard there's another show on Netflix that's kind of similar to Yellowstone that's out now. I forget what it's called, but maybe I'll try that. Someone said the Gilded Age. I don't know. We'll see. Reacher, I heard that's good. I don't know. Anyway, have I ever met Daddy Trump? I have. I met him once when I was working at Fox. We did an interview with him at Mar a Lago, and he was so awesome. He's so funny. He's cracking jokes constantly and, you know, he shakes all of our hands and he's, like, showing us around Mar a Lago. We walk in and he's giving us a tour and he was joking with us and he said, just because I'm the President doesn't mean I'm not still the maitre d of this place. And just very down to earth, very personable, very funny. And then when I was working at Fox, I would talk to him on the phone a lot because in the control room, not really the phone, but I would make sure that his audio sounded good and all that stuff. And I'd give him timing updates. And he was always very nice and very concerned about how well he sounded. He's like, do I look okay? Do I sound okay? He knows the power of media for sure, and what it means to look good and what that means. So, yeah, he is. He is. He is something. And I hope I get to meet him again soon. That would be very, very cool. On that note, I want to say thank you so much for joining me. I just have a quick update. Tomorrow's show is going to be awesome. It is a full interview dedicated to exposing the corrupt influence of George Soros and his son Alex, the heir to their fortune. So I hope you will tune in for that. We will not have a show on Monday for Memorial Day, so that's why I wanted to take this time to have Dixie the Praying Dog on the show. And I want to extend my deepest gratitude for our servicemen and women on Memorial Day. We honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice and giving their lives to keep the homeland safe and to protect all of the comforts and freedoms we get to enjoy as citizens of the greatest nation in the entire world. There are these snot nosed, entitled idiots who complain about the United States. I know. I play a lot of their videos on Nightly Scroll. They are not proud to be an American, but what they don't realize is just how privileged they are to have the rights that they do, the right to publicly criticize the government. They have the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to defend yourself, freedom to live out the American dream in any way you see fit. And of course, America is not perfect, but it is the shining city upon a hill. And it wouldn't be as great as it is without the men and women who have died for her and are willing to die for her. I have friends in the Army. I have family who served in the Navy. I know everyone in the chat watching this show right now has either served this country themselves or know someone who has or is serving currently. I've seen the sacrifice that not only the servicemen and women make, but also the sacrifices made by their spouses and by their families. So I want to say thank you to all of those very, very special people I know. I would not be sitting here right now doing a show commenting on politics and criticizing the government and having the freedom to say whatever I want if it wasn't for you and all who came before you. So happy Memorial Day. I will see you tomorrow and then I will see you right back here on Tuesday.