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Have you ever noticed how the simplest family moments can fill your heart with unexpected joy? That warm feeling when your grown children enthusiastically say "we'll be there" without hesitation creates a sense of connection that's irreplaceable. This weekend brought exactly those precious moments - time with Grand Cam on Saturday followed by a full family gathering on Sunday that sparked reflection on what truly matters.

Beyond personal reflections, several compelling news stories deserve attention despite minimal mainstream coverage. A tragic incident involving the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee woman raises serious questions about media priorities and reporting patterns. Meanwhile, a surprising political clash erupted between Senator Rand Paul and Vice President JD Vance regarding military action against a Venezuelan boat allegedly involved in drug trafficking - highlighting fundamental differences in perspective about appropriate use of force and constitutional principles even within the same political party.

Two extraordinary international stories round out our discussion. First, the shocking conclusion to a four-year saga in New Zealand where a father kept his three young children hidden in remote wilderness after kidnapping them from their mother. The situation ended dramatically with the father's death during a police confrontation and the children's rescue. Finally, we explore the remarkable heroism of a dog in Peru who saved its owner's family by extinguishing a stick of dynamite thrown into their yard - sacrificing its ability to bark normally but preventing a potentially devastating explosion. What would your pet do in a crisis? Share your thoughts and tell me something unique about your dog - what special tricks or quirks make them part of your family?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, happy Monday.
I hope y'all had a greatweekend.
I know I did.
I had a great weekend.
It was wonderful.
Saturday we had Grand Cam andthen Sunday we had the family
over.
It just filled my heart withjoy that the kids wanted to come
over.
When we invited them, they saidyep, we'll be there.
Not like no, I got somethingelse to do.
Oh, nope, they said we'll bethere.

(00:28):
It just oh, and they came.
They came.
I was so excited.
Well, it just warmed my heartthat they were there.
It was great, all right.
So we have some stories here.
First, I need to talk aboutthis, this story, this horrible
story I forget where it was, butwas it in Charleston?
I think somewhere in theCarolinas, maybe I don, I don't
know, I could be wrong when thishomeless black guy stabbed to

(00:50):
death this white woman I saywhite, but she's also a refugee
from Ukraine.
She escaped Ukraine.
She was working a job, a pizzajob or something like that.
She got on this train I didn'tknow they had trains wherever
this was they were talking about.
I thought it was a bus for somereason but pulled out a knife

(01:13):
and stabbed her in the neck justbecause what in the world and
you know what?
None of the major newsorganizations are reporting it.
I only saw it on x, so I don'teven know the whole story behind
it, other than that's what Ijust said and you're hopefully
you're going to hear it on theblaze.

(01:33):
If you don't have a subscriptionto the blaze, get one.
What?
Listen to pat gray live there.
Pat gray is live.
His show is live from six toeight in the morning.
All right, I need to move.
First of all, hello and welcometo my son's crew.
I don't want to say who heworks for because I don't want
to out anybody and you know,keep it all anonymous.

(01:55):
But they're a hardworking crew,they are hard workers, they
work with their hands and theirhands they work a lot so, and my
son revealed yesterday thatsometimes they listen to my
podcast.
So hello guys, welcome.
Hope you have a great morning.
Okay, all right, we need to moveon to the three stories that I

(02:17):
have here for you on my X-File.
The first one is Rand Paul ripsVance's despicable and
thoughtless defense of deadlystrike on Venezuela boat.
What is wrong with Rand Paul?
I like Rand Paul, but come onnow.
Rogue GOP Senator Rand Paul hasdelivered a stunning rebuke to

(02:39):
Vice President JD Vance'sdefense of the Trump
administration's deadly strikeagainst Venezuela boat,
allegedly involved with drugs.
Now you remember the story lastweek?
I mean, just shot the boat outof the water, which was good,
and then Vance apparently on X,wrote Killing cartel members who

(03:01):
poison our fellow citizens isthe highest and best use of our
military.
But paul ram paul, a libertarianleaning senator from kentucky
who has repeatedly tangled withpresident trump on various
issues, accused the vp ofglorifying an execution that
took place without a trial.

(03:21):
What is wrong with you, randPaul?
Stop.
Jd says I don't give a shh whatVance says.
Killing people, he accuses it.
Wait, if a crime is the highestand best used, paul 62 clapped
back.
Did he ever read To Kill aMockingbird, paul said.

(03:42):
Did he ever wonder what mighthappen if the accused were
immediately executed withouttrial of representation?
What a despicable andthoughtless sentiment.
What is wrong with ram paul?
What does he want us to do?
Go arrest him, put him on trialand then just have a liberal
judge say no, they need to bereleased.
F you, ram paul.
I cannot believe he even istrying to defend that crap First

(04:05):
.
There isn't this work, didn'tTrump?
Oh my Sorry, I got distracted.
There's a bunch of runners outhere with headlamps on running.
Wow, one, two, three, four,five.
There's out there jogging Fiveof them.
They must be here.
They must be here from out oftown.
Okay, sorry, back to the story.

(04:30):
What was I saying?
Oh, didn't Trump label them asa terrorist organization?
So, yeah, bye, I have no hardfeelings over that whatsoever.
Next up, we're going to save thehero dog for last.
Okay, the next story fugitivefather on the run with three
kids in wilderness for fouryears was shot dead during a

(04:51):
shootout with New Zealand cops.
This is not here in America,obviously, but apparently this
guy, this father, took his kids,have been living in the
wilderness for four yearskidnapped his own kids and left
A father who has been on the runwith his three young children
through New Zealand's remotewilderness for the past four

(05:13):
years Where'd he get the age ofthese people, these kids, four
years was shot dead on Monday ina shootout with cops during an
attempted burglary at a supplystore, with the children being
found by authorities.
Tom Phillips disappeared intothe Waikato Wilderness with his
children Ember, who is now nine,nine, so four years ago she was

(05:37):
five or he was five, maverick,10, who was oh, did I say five
four years ago?
That would make her five.
Yeah, so the other one would be, who is now 10, would be five
and jada, 12 would be.
Set would have been seven.
Just before christ Christmas in2021, after a fight with their

(05:57):
mother, who had sole custody,nobody even knew if the three
children were alive until theywere spotted by a group of pig
hunters in October 2024.
At the time, they were seenwearing masks and carrying hefty
packs while Phillips guidedthem through the woods early
Monday.
Oh, there's a picture of himtoo.

(06:18):
Wow, wow.
I wonder who snapped thatpicture?
All right, early Monday, policeresponded to a property in
wherever part of the sprawlingWakata region where Phillips and
the children were previouslyspotted.
After receiving reports of aburglary, information came to

(06:38):
the police that described twopeople.
Okay, whatever, here we go.
So he was shot.
The kids were rescued, wow, allright, you can go finish
reading that story if you'd like.
At least the kids were alive.
But can you imagine?
Can you imagine, what thosekids are having to go through
now?
Their dad has been shot.
They've been living in thewilderness for four years with

(06:59):
him and, wow, it's crazy.
All right, hero dog, here we go.
This is in.
This happened in peru.
This pup deserves a round of apause.
Oh gosh, you guys, stop withthe jokes.
A dog in per, peru, is beinghailed as a canine champion
after she extinguished a stickof dynamite that was chucked

(07:23):
into her owner's yard, savingthe entire family but leaving
her unable to bark, poor babyApparently.
There's a sicko that was outthere and he threw the stick of
dynamite and the resident is ajournalist.
So this guy threw the stick ofdynamite into this journalist's
yard.
Who knows why?
I don't know.

(07:43):
I haven't read the whole story.
I don't even know.
If it tells us, it may not tellus.
I think this is.
This story is particularly justfor the dog, all right, so
Carlos Alberto, oh my God, one,two, three, four names this guy
has, let's see if I can do itwithout butchering it.
Carlos Alberto Macias Sarati, ajournalist, was more Hold on, oh

(08:05):
my gosh, all right, sorry, Ihad a frog in my throat.
I had to clear out, all right,back to the story.
Clear out, all right, back tothe story.
Was more surprised by his dog'sheroism than the threat itself,
waving the whole, waving offthe would-be fatal blast as part
of his line of work.
His dog m-a-c-h-i-s what?

(08:28):
What is that?
M-a-c-h-i-s mchus?
What?
Why not just name him rover?
I mean, come on, macchusmatches mac, I don't know.
His dog, macchus, was likelyjust as shocked when he watched
an explosive fly into their yard.
The dog did not know it was astick dynamite.
Okay, dog probably thought itwas a stick and a toy.

(08:49):
He went to go play with it andchase it.
Outdoor surveillance footagecaptured a black clad suspect as
he lobbed a sparking objectinto the front yard before
sprinting away, not stickingaround long enough to see if
they had accomplished theirmission.
The slight pup, a stout cockerspaniel mix weighing just 25

(09:13):
pounds, scampered down thestairs and directly into the
explosive, honing in on thefizzing fuse.
Mackus originally poked at thefuse and shuffled the dynamite
around before she bit into it.
The fuse miraculously went outin her mouth, successfully
averting near disaster.
As authorities discovered, theexplosive was the kind of

(09:33):
dynamite used in landmines.
Goodness gracious, in the dayssince they realized that her
vocal cords were fried,downgrading her ferocious bark
captured into their surveillanceto a mere rasp.
You can hear her bark now, zaratold the outlet.
Still, makis continues to makeher presence known and has since

(09:56):
become a bit of a celebrity, Iguess.
So, uh, so they just skip overthe whole story of somebody
throwing a stick of dynamiteinto this yard.
How about, let's?
Let's follow that story.
What do you got on that?
But I'm glad the dog is okay.
All right, we need to move on tothe question of the day.
All right, speaking of dogs, Iknow some of my listeners have

(10:18):
dogs.
Remind me of their names, theirbreeds, and tell me something
unique about your dogs.
What kind of tricks can they do?
Just tell me something uniqueabout your dog.
That's the question of the day.
We don't have a dog anymore.
We had Jack-Jack.
Oh, he was so precious.
We just have a cat now, ifanybody wants one.
No, she's pretty old.

(10:40):
How long do cats live?
I think I've googled thisbefore.
She's pretty old.
She's gosh.
She's at least 16, 17 years old, maybe something like that.
Maybe not that old, maybe 15.
I don't know.
She's pretty old for a cat, Ithink.
But she doesn't act like it.
Okay, uh, I gotta go.

(11:01):
Thanks for listening.
Love y'all.
Bye.