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This premiere episode of GOD, POLITICS, and SPORTS. We look at how faithful GOD is, war in Iran, and the sports world. Enjoy this premiere episode and send your comments. You can view the podcast on YOUTUBE @GPSWITHBILLSMITH. 

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God, politics, and sports. Three areas people say you should try to avoid. But here we are. I'm Bill Smith, and I look forward to talking to you about faith, politics, and sports. What's up, folks? It's Bill Smith with God Politics and Sports. Looking for another great day, another great session, another great time period to talk to you. And I want to hear back from you. Once again, you can go to the YouTube channel, which you should be looking at, GPS with Bill Smith, and get in the comments. I apologize the other day, yesterday, that I did not have the YouTube settings correct so that you could see onto YouTube and see me uh with that. So I'm sorry, not see me, but be able to put your comments on there. So that was 100% uh my fault. So I'm enjoying a day off from work. I have my something from my grandson for his uh his birthday some years ago. Holla at your pop pop. That was uh his dad is a big uh uh Biggie Smalls fan. So this is one of the themes. I can't remember, it was his second birthday, I believe it was first or second birthday. Uh we go to San Antonio for all these birthdays. We don't always go for Callie's because she's here a lot of time for her birthday. But December, November, we usually get out, we try to go to the kids' birthdays, the grandkids' birthdays, uh, most of the time, uh, as often as possible. Now the adult kids, eh, young yon, you adults. Just hit daddy up for a Cash App. And that's what they do. You know they're looking for it, even though they act like they're trying not to. So I just I'm just so excited about what's going on. Uh so many great things going on. Hold on, let me get a little bit of my black rifle coffee. That's some good stuff that'll get you rolling today. So, you know, I got my black rifle going, I got my my uh pure vitality ready to go, ready to hit these gyms. And but first and foremost, I did outside of praying first thing in the morning, is and I thank Jesus for another day. He has given me another opportunity to come forward and speak to you, awesome people around this country, around this world, and some things we got going on. So we're gonna be broadening our our horizons with with GPS, uh, going in different avenues as far as audio, getting on Spotify, getting heard around the the world. So we're looking at getting that taken care of, uh going into some negotiations today. Uh, or by the time you get this, it won't be today. The negotiations will already be over. So I'm talking, but anyway, bottom line is we're we're going into some uh some conversations and talks to get some uh some channels going uh ourselves, and which would of course branch out into uh the Spotify and some other audio podcast uh around the countr around the world, excuse me. So God is doing some great things and he's stretching. God is stretching my mind, God is stretching my heart, God is stretching spiritually, God is stretching. Uh I can't say God is stretching my pocket because he provides all my needs according to his riches and glory in Christ Jesus. So there's no strength in, I mean, there's no stretch, excuse me, it's no stretching out in that when it comes to the pocketbook. It's just a matter of me trusting and reaching out and believing him and walking by faith and not by sight and knowing that what God said he's gonna do, then he's gonna do it. And I can't be afraid, nor can you, should you be afraid to trust God if He's giving you something to do. Trust Him, get out there and get it done. Watch what God does for you in your life. I'm a firm believer in that. Your pace of faith is important, and this this word that we've been getting, and I don't know what everybody's pastor is teaching them around the country. I just know what mine is. Uh my pastor, my bishop is sharing with us. And one of the things is our faith, and our faith and our pace. First off, one of the brothers, elder Jason, powerful word about where your faith is formed, just in that seed, and now we're hearing about your pace of faith. And it was just the prelude that set it off. But that pace of it, are you gonna move forward or are you gonna sit still? Are you gonna take up those challenges? Are you gonna let those challenges overwhelm you? The failure is not fatal, and success is not final, but never moving will never get you anywhere, and then that's where you get overwhelmed. So that's why we walk by faith and not by sight. And faith is a verb, faith is an action word, and I want you to begin to walk by faith and not by sight. And I have none of this written down. This is all about what God is sharing with me to pour out to you on God politics and sports. Some of you have businesses, some of you have uh dreams. Um, you may want to write a book, you may say, Hey, I have a great uh uh uh play I can write, I have a great script for a movie, I can do the movie. You can do the movie on your phone. You can edit, you can all those things you can do, and you can turn out a great movie. It's crazy. Now, I'm gonna tell you this for those of you who are way too young to know this. Have you ever seen a movie Rocky? One of the greatest movies that was ever made, that dude, Sylvester Stallone, wrote that movie based off of a fight he saw Muhammad Ali and Chuck Webner. He wrote that movie, and the studios at first turned him down with it, and he kept pressing and he kept pressing till he broke through with that, and now we see how far along he's come uh to the point of being the king of Tulsa, which I love that TV show. Sheridan, that was a great show you came up with. But but not just um him, uh you you have so many other terrific young men who went about using their credit cards to create a movie. Robert Townsend uses credit cards to come up with a movie, and that movie branched into so many great things that you end up with uh uh the five heartbeats. Because that man, now the movie he did was way before the five heartbeats, but he he what stepped out and he got in action. I may not agree with with Spike Lee politically, not even a little bit, but I will say this much with him. When he stepped out with Do the Right Thing, and some of the other movies that he did, uh, he didn't have the money for it, but he stepped out, he pressed out, and he got those things done. So that's where you get your school days, uh, Mo Better Blues. You get all those things that X or Malcolm, all these different movies came from because somebody took a chance and they pressed out there. So, what is inside of you, especially as a child of God? And then, and I know not everybody watching this is a born-again believer, but what dreams and hopes do you have inside of you? Do you say, hey, I want to start a youth sports program, but I'm not really sure. Well, keep your eyes and ears out because uh I will be developing some classes soon, uh, and it'll be on the uh on the on an app that will give you an opportunity, and I'll have more information for that. So just a little tease to give you an opportunity to start to build, and I will walk, I will walk you through the the starting process, the recruiting process, or I'm sorry, the recruiting process, the paperwork, the financial side of it, all those things that are important that you need to have to get your uh 5013, all those things so you can be tax exempt, all those things we'll start to walk you through. And I'm saying we because a lot of tax stuff my wife knows. I just handle a lot of the more the hands-on, but those financial things she's really good at. So there's gonna be these opportunities that come up. Jump on board. You say, hey, you know what? I love security, I love law enforcement. I'm not I'm not geared up to be a police officer, but I want to keep my church protected, then go for it. Talk to your pastor and say, hey, this is what we can do. And and it's uh there's businesses that I know that can come out and train your uh members into how to protect their the your ministry as well as their own selves. And I I we have to say, you got some nuts out there that they'll attack you in church thinking that it's getting their point across, and that's not what we want. We have enough going on around our country already, so we don't want to exasperate. That's a good word. Man, where'd that word come from? That just exasperate. No, we don't want to make things worse by not being able to protect ourselves. Because one of the things that I was talking to some uh um criminal justice teachers at a high school, and that's one of the things that really disappoints them with some things, is because high schools, a lot of schools don't want their teachers, some teachers, the ones who should be, armed because uh liability, whatever you might say, but if someone wants to look for a soft target, they look for schools. But if they know that a school has people in there besides maybe one or two armed resource officers, but there may be teachers, male or females, that are walking around that are armed, then you you have less likely a chance for them to want to target that soft target, what they consider a soft target. So, anyway, I am so excited once again as we keep doing this. I didn't have to work today, and you say, Well, what do you do on your days oftentimes you don't have to work? Well, we have a uh seven, I mean, I'm sorry, a uh girls flag football team I talked about. Um, thanks to the lack of coaching on my part or too much coaching, I should say. We got Mollywapped our first game. So I destroyed our playbook and I came up with a just six plays for them. So I develop them, give that to them, and then I take and I I do our wristbands for all of them so that the plays will be in the wristbands. Once I print them out, they'll be in the wristbands so that way when they get out on the field, all they have to do is look at uh the wristband, and then I mark off where each one of their positions are so they know where they're at on the field. And I try to do that because one, I did not think I would get this caught up into flag football, but I love effort, and one of the things, and I'm gonna be honest with everybody, my effort our first game was over the top. Because one thing I've learned over the years is you can't punish a learner, and when somebody's learning, it takes a little bit more patience. Uh, being competitive coaches is great. Being competitive, uh, whether you're a teacher, a coach, a parent, you don't want your kids competing again. Well, they can compete against each other sometimes, depending on what y'all are playing. But we must understand one thing that being competitive does not mean we have we stopped teaching. And in those, in those moments that aren't the greatest of times, there are great teaching moments that that can come up. So we were having a tough time in our in our game, and the girls were giving me the effort, but uh I I did not take into account that, hey, some of these girls never play football, period. They might even have they don't even watch it, but they decide they're gonna come out and play. So I definitely uh can't wait for our next practice so I can get out there and coach them up the right way and make sure that they're learning this game and loving this game, and then also that they're they don't walk around on pins and needles because uh I bark. Dudes, I don't care. Shut up and get over it, period. That's what you out there for. But with these young ladies, uh, we can't always um I can't always be like that because we never know what they may face in different things uh in life. So we want to prepare them to be able to to uh battle through. But this segment of GPS is brought to you by Q's uh craft sausage, and it's it's selling, it's going coast to coast, border to border. And I want you to make sure that you get a uh a hold of that. And you can see, look, I got my iPad, all the plays and stuff for the girls are in here. I take it, print it out, so you know what I'll be doing uh as the course of this week goes on. But there's a war that's going on. There's a war that's going on in in um in Iran. We went to uh they went into Pakistan and for the sit-down, if you will, to uh get a peace done, ceasefire. Well, we're in a two-week ceasefire, but so we can get this all and it didn't come to pass. Unfortunately, it didn't come to pass. Both sides are very demanding, both sides uh I I believe what I ran, they're not gonna falter. And I think one of the reasons why is this why would you falter when you have a kingdom that's divided? Why would you falter when you have half the people who who say they don't say that they don't want you to have something, but then they go after the person who's making sure that you don't, because they don't like one person. You're not going to, Iran is not going to um agree to many things when they can open up the news or turn on the news or get whatever they get from Russia or or China, wherever they get their information from. And you see uh our uh senators and and house leaders, uh Senate leaders on the Democrat on the opposite side, the Democratic side of the Republicans attacking the president and saying this is wrong and that is wrong. Where videos have come up over the years, decades of them of them backing something like this, but now they don't want it to happen. You may not like it, and I said this before, never changed it. I was not thrilled with this. Not not because of gas, etc. I believe we're gonna, if we're gonna say, if our president is gonna get up there and he's gonna say America first, then it needs to be America first. Now, if you can show me some connection that, and I I've seen some things that lean me more towards saying, okay, this we're dropping some stuff on them, it's cool. You show me this connection that's gonna protect Americans from not just now, but decades down the line, then I'm all for it. And I think some of that has been exhibited at different time periods. Maybe not as much as everybody would like for it to be, but I know I I really firmly believe that some of those things have been uh exhibited. So we have a a tough time with foreign policy when every time the president says something, and not all the time does he speak wisely. Uh sometimes he does speak um haphazardly, and I'll say that. And if I ever met him, I would tell him the same thing. Hey, sir, you slow to speak, quick to listen. We've all done that. Nobody on this planet can say they never said anything and said, Well, I should have thought about it first. But when we're dealing with foreign policy and we have young men and young women in harm's way, we don't need to have this kind of battle going on in the House and in the Senate and Congress with the president. Uh, not that we sign off on everything. That's how we ended up in Vietnam. Um, I am a historian. I'm a historical buff, so please don't say, well, you weren't even around. Technically, I was. I was born in August of 1968, so I did catch the end of it. Um, I didn't know what was going on. I grew up playing Army Men. We used to get the little green army man. My dad would buy those things. My dad was a Marine and he was in the guard, but he was uh he was a Marine before he went to the Army National Guard. So I've always I've been around military stuff my whole life. Now my dad was in the Marines after I was born, but it was Army men, war movies, etc. I had such a desire, and then even everything that I did is can consider combat, whether it's uh living on Beach Street. No, I love Beach Street growing up. That was the coolest street. Can I say real quick? Growing up in Morestown, you had certain streets, and this is not the I'm not trying to make a racial thing. This is funny to me. You had certain streets you knew. Beach Street was black, from from one, from Central Avenue, from Central to I forgot the one street that it was black. You knew B Street was black, Church Street, it's not like this anymore, but from Central Avenue, right where my Uncle Joe's house used to be, his barbershop, all the way up to, and I forgot the name of the street. I'm sorry, I forget some of the names of the streets of my hometown. It was it was just one like one black, you knew it was like going over railroad tracks and the and the color just changed. I'm teasing. But you knew different things when you were, and now, granted, that's how it was, and everybody spread out, um, etc. I really spread out far. I spread all the way out to El Paso. But anyway, we have so much going on, and so I really just pray that we get it together as a nation. Our leadership starts to find that that ground and say, okay, we're in the war. We want to make sure that our men and women are protected, they have the funding to fight, but you have an out. There has to be an out. There has to be a conclusion to this thing. Because nobody wants to sit up here and a year down the line we're still dropping bombs, missiles, etc. This will not be the only hotspot that goes on. And speaking of that, you had in Nigeria, I believe, on Easter, either it's 26 or 50, I can't remember the exact number. Excuse me. Christians that were black Christians, and I say black Christians because it's Nigeria, but there's a point to it, that were massacred on Easter. Now, when you have an actor, John Cleese, I believe, who's liberal as you get, say, how can black lives matter when nobody black in position of authority, position, political position, and making a stink about Christians, Christians being massacred by uh Islamic radicals in Nigeria and not a word is being said. And he brought up a very good point. How can you talk about black lives matter when you only matter when you're when you're trying to get something out of somebody or you don't like or if it's just a white police officer that may have done something. We've had black police officers do crazy things to young black males. Um not all of it was justified, but you don't hear black lives matter. So that was his point. I if I could divert, and I'm not once again, if I could divert our military towards a direction, I would give more support to Nigeria that they can eliminate such radicals like this that will go into churches and shoot people. I you don't have to believe what I believe, but you're not gonna walk up in the church and just start shooting people. That's crazy. That is crazy uh with with that going on. And but we're blockading with a great Navy that could move to Nigeria, etc. But right now we're we're blockading the Strait of Humaz, and uh I hope that that blockade starts to squeeze things down so we get the uh the results that are needed. Now, if you don't know anything about a blockade, one look it up. But blockades over decades, over the centuries, have created great results because it cuts off all avenues of large avenues, I will say that, of commerce, food, waters, etc. So those things get, and you go all the way back to uh we'll just go back to the Civil War. And you saw many time periods with these with these blockades that just shut things down, and it created it it does create terrible uh environments for those that are living behind that blockade, but militarily it does get the results that people may be looking for. So we're we're in that phase right now where we are battling through with that, and I want you once again, I and I've already said it before. You don't have to support the president, you don't have to like Jeffries, you don't have to like Schumer, you don't have to like Johnson, you don't have to like Thune, you don't have to like any of them, or you can love everybody. The bottom line is you never put your mouth on our soldiers, our seamen, space forceman, Marines, Air Force, coach, you don't put your lips on them. Outside of the kiss them on the cheek, kiss them on the forehead, tell them God bless you, go do what you gotta do and come back safely. And the the quote I have from George Patton, it wasn't fools, the word he actually, well, he used the the word of you is bastard. And it's not a bad word. It's the connotation that you use it in. I know what the word means for anybody says, Oh my god, he cussed. Look up the word. But what he was saying was, because that word means without father, without parents, but what he was saying was that make the other person die. That's how you win a war. You make the other person die for his country. And I want us to make sure we keep supporting our troops. Let's keep cheering for our troops. Let's keep cheering for our troops. And we want to make sure that we get great cheering for them. And we're excited that they all come back safely. Not maimed. They come back safely. And that we win this thing we gotta do because it's once again it's a battle going on. But it starts at home. So let's cheer for them. You know what? You cheer for your teams. You go to cheer for your sports teams. How many of you going into the playoffs? The NBA playoff games, I believe that the play-in games start uh they start today, and we want to make sure that my 76ers defeat the magic. So if you're a Sixers fan, you need to be cheering for them loud. You see this right over my shoulder. BAM! Sixers. Gotta cheer for them loud. So anyway, they got the magic. It's the playing game. So they need to win that game so that way they automatically get the seventh seed. And they get the seventh seed, then they'll get the Celtics in the first round. We'll see how that goes, how they play them. It's terrible with uh Embiid, Joel Embiid. He's in he was in Houston and ended up with appendicitis, had to get surgery. So basically it ends the season, including the playoffs, unless they he he has great recovery skills, he'll be out. The Hornets play the Heat. And I have the Heat when for some crazy reason, I have the Heat winning that game, and then the Heat will play the Magic, and then the Magic eliminate the Heat. So that's what I had that for the Eastern Conference. Western Conference, you got Suns and Blazers, Clippers, and Golden State, the Warriors. I don't for the 9-10 game, I think Steph is due for a huge game. So I'm gonna take Golden State to win that first one, that 9-10-10 game. And I'm I got the Suns winning the 7-8. And then the Clippers will knock out the Blazers for the uh for that for the eighth spot. So that's that's how I have that one uh coming down. So it should be a lot of fun with that watching those games this week because that it all happens Wednesday, I'm sorry, Tuesday, uh, which was uh Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. So these games they they flow through them. They don't they're not gonna waste any time uh with these games. So we we already know that uh uh this playoff series, this seat this playoff uh season uh leans west. Uh right now I'm I'm looking at the Spurs and the Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals and I'm semifinals, excuse me, and uh the uh Lakers. The Lakers in Houston, that's gonna be a really good series. I'm gonna lean Houston, but that's gonna be a really good series. It depends on when Luca comes back and when Reeves comes back. Now I think that three-headed monster with with LeBron, I still gotta give him his props. He's not the goat. He's nowhere near the goat. I put him in the top six. I get five. I'll buy you know what? Somebody asked me, and then I'm trying to think what I'm telling you. I got Jordan, there's Kobe, there's Kareem, there's Magic, and there's Bird. Then I put then I put my man in there. I put LeBron in there, somewhere in there. So you don't have to agree with me because I tell you this much. Uh those kind of lists, those opinions, like me, I always say opinions are like booty holes. Everybody got one and they all stay. So everybody's opinion is a little different on that. I can say to you, who's the greatest golf or okay, never mind. It's Tiger Woods. Alright, we ain't gonna. I mean, you got Jack and just say tiger and let's just stop. Alright. So we're not even gonna we're not even gonna debate that one. That's not even one of debate. But I can say, oh, who's the greatest talker of all time on a microphone? Well, some people are gonna say uh Ric Flair, which is strong point. Some people may say Hogan. Ah, same stick, but not too bad. Some people and the smartest ones, and the ones that are smart like me, will say Dusty Rhodes. But there everyone will say that some will say CM Punk, some will say MJF. You have all these different thought processes uh and opinions on that. So the NBA playoffs um is exciting and and it should be these playing games throughout this week to get the final eight going. Should be some really good games, as well as the NHL playoffs. I'm so excited that my beloved Flyers, and they're over there on the wall. My Flyers are back in the playoffs after seven years of not getting in. And we pulled the Pittsburgh Penguins the first round. We we played very well against uh the Penguins. I'm gonna tell everybody right now, I don't know all the other matchups because I I couldn't care less. The only one I cared about was the Flyers. And I saw that the Flyers got in, and so I I'm excited about that. I think it's awesome that the Flyers got in after seven years, eight years, they're finally back in, and they had to battle to get back in. Just at the end of February, beginning of March, they were out of the playoffs. They were way out of the playoffs. And then after, matter of fact, it was after the Olympics, they went on a terrific run. And it wasn't just tie games because it's it's different scoring that they that they do. On a tie game, everybody, both teams get one point, and then the winner gets another point. But if you win, you just get the two points outright, and then they they track how many outright wins you have compared to uh overtime wins, so and ties. So all those things add up the points. Uh but they they battled their way back and they had to overtake teams, and then there were teams that they that they weren't supposed to beat, but they beat some of the top teams, like the Columbuses and the Ottawas, uh the Montreals, those teams that have a hundred and something points, total because of the wins, etc. Like I just explained. They went out and they beat those teams. They did what they had to do, baby. And because they did what they had to do, they're at where they're at. So uh I don't know what everybody else, I'm gonna be 100% honest with you. I did not sit down and say I'm gonna prepare uh to see what everybody else is doing in hockey because I only cared about one team. With basketball, I look more into it, and I love hockey. You know I love hockey. Basketball, I look more into it, but with hockey, once the Flyers got in, everybody else was non-existent outside the Pittsburgh Penguins. And if anybody's watching this and you're a Pittsburgh Penguin, we got something coming for you. Philly Town, baby. Yes, I'm in El Paso. I don't want to, but it's Philly Town. The Flyers are coming. The Broad Street bullies are back, they can't play that way anymore. You go to jail if you play the way them gone. There's no you can't there's no Schultz's out there anymore. So you can't play. If you don't know I'm talking about, look him up. All right, he was he was the enforcer. Hockey used to have what they call enforcers, uh, even basketball, the Maurice Lucas's, the Darrell Dawkins, those guys that they they called the the enforcers. So if you acted crazy, if you hit Julius Irvin too hard, you're gonna catch it from Darrell Dawkins. He was the enforcer on the on the Sixers in the 70s. If uh if you went at um uh I forgot his name that quick uh with the trailblazers, but anyway, if you want if you went at him the wrong way, any one of the trailblazers um the wrong way, then you you caught it, you caught it from Maurice Lucas. He didn't he didn't mess around uh with uh Bill Walton. I'm sorry, Bill Walton. If you went at him the the wrong way, Maurice Lucas put them hands on you. And everybody, Wes Unsoll, great player in in Washington, he used to be the Washington Bullets, they weren't the Wizards. They changed the name because bullets exemplify shooting, but the bullets, the name came off of the truck, the train that's fast. There you go. So well people we just they overthought that process years ago. But anyway, the Washington Bullets, uh, West Unsolved. You you you you couldn't you know you couldn't mess with um some of them uh bullets players because West would put the hammer on you. So every team, every team had that, every team had an enforcer, and them jokers would square up. Love the video. Maurice Lucas and Daryl Dawkins putting if they was about to throw hands. Neither one of them big jokers threw a punch, but it sure looked good. This is back in the 70s. So Google people, Google, matter of fact, look it up on YouTube after you finish watching the show. Look it up on YouTube so it'll tell you all about it. So those things, those playoffs, those are coming up. Hockey and basketball, basketball to play in games, then the Final 16 get started, and then hockey, they get started this weekend on their uh on their playoffs um as well. So, and then I want to give uh props to uh Roy McElroy, back-to-back, masters champion. He tried to give it away, but he figured out how to uh finish up, and he did, and he finished up strong, and he found a way to win. So that's much props to him. And uh I I once again, he really he did all he could to lose at one point, but uh he got his uh short game together. They were really concerned about his long game, but he was able to pull it together and and and do some uh really good things with it, and within that, my man won. So uh, but I want to as we get ready to I get ready to finish out on this, we're gonna talk about something that I have been partaking of for 42 years of my life, and it's called WrestleMania. Ha ha, baby! Yeah, WrestleMania 42. I have seen just about every WrestleMania except for one. Well, I I did see it on tape. Yes, it was VHS. So I did see it on VHS, but I have seen every WrestleMania. Uh I was in Korea for one. I came back from Saudi for one. Uh, and I saw it right after I got back. Uh and we would get these pay-per-views. Uh growing up. I didn't always watch them. I saw uh initially, a lot of it we just saw, we would get the um we would get the tape, VHS tape, after they came out. I'd rent it and sit there and I would watch the uh I would watch the um VHS. And so I love WrestleMania. I think it's a great um I think it's a great event. I am disappointed that the the pricing, two things I think they did wrong. First thing is they moved it from New Orleans. You always leave wrestling in a wrestling town. Second thing I think they did wrong is the the cost of the tickets. Just like with the Super Bowl, and I've said this before in the past, they've they've outpriced, if you will, like Dusty said, the common man, if you will, baby. So they're outpricing the common man, the ones who helped build this thing, build this thing up. If you go back to the first Super Bowl, the place was a third empty. And now look at it. But people are paying. Now, what the one thing with the Super Bowl, and I'll get back to WrestleMania. The one thing with the Super Bowl is a lot of corporate tickets are brought up, and then they hand it out, so you get it filled up. WrestleMania is not that way, and then next year's WrestleMania is in Saudi. So I don't know how they're gonna pull that one off. I mean they'll pull it off, but uh we'll see what happens with that one, especially since they like to do it over two nights. But anyway, I'm excited about WrestleMania. I I probably won't see most of it because we're going to uh we'll be with our grandchildren and and folks in San Antonio. Uh my middle my middle granddaughter, um, because now I got three of them. So the one in the middle, uh the feisty one, she has a play, she's an actress, and she and and she plays volleyball and other things. I really loved it when she was doing jujitsu and she was choking people out, but that's just my own mentality. But um, that, and then my uh third grandson, uh this this second to the youngest, Bo, he has a flag football game, so we'll be locked into doing all that, and then I'll be eating way too much uh food. But so we'll be doing that this weekend. So I'll try to catch some of it on the phone, but anyway, I'm just gonna give you my predictions real quick when you see this. So I'm not gonna uh prolong that time. Um, I think the Usos and LA Knight, they're gonna win. Uh I like Fat 2 over Drew McIntyre. Um, even though I don't like it, I think Liv Morgan's gonna beat Stephanie Vacare for the championship. Their promos have been very real. Very real. I it's like almost ultra personal. Anyway, Becky Lynch over AJ Lee. They're gonna take that strap off of her and put it back on Becky. They're gonna put the women's intercontinental championship back on the full timer. Uh, that's my prediction on that one. For the uh tag team championships for the women. It is a it's a fatal four-way tag team match, and I would like to see the champions remain the irresistible force, Naya Jackson, Last Legend. But will it, I I that's what I'm gonna go with. But I can see them putting the belts on Bailey and Lyra Vacara because out of all the ones in there, they're the least ones uh likely to be picked. I can see that happening. Um the sixth match, this is all on Saturday, Saturday. Uh I'm gonna take Gunther over Seth Rollins, and then uh I'm gonna take Cody Rhodes over Randy Orton because I can't stand Pat McAfee. Even no, I like Pat McAfee. I don't see why he was inserted in this match because he didn't need to be. It was a it was already gonna be a great match. Oh, the big one. Night two first match. I think this is right on ESPN itself. Oba Femi versus uh Brock Lesnar. I like to see Oba Femi win, but I can see him having a really strong showing and then Brock Lesnar figure out how to win. But I'm gonna go with Oba. The uh Intercontinental Championship match. Penth is gonna keep the belt. It's a ladder match. Uh Rhea Ripley's gonna beat Jay Cargill. Um I think they need to take the belt off of her and put it on Rhea and let Jay keep developing as a wrestler. Um, so we'll with that one. I really hope Trick Williams beats Sami Zayn. I love Trick Williams. Buddy of mine, nephew. I love me some Trick Williams. Well, when I I call him nephew, but Mike, Trick Williams is the truth. He he's all that. Yeah, he should win that one. Um, yeah, Finn Baylor beat Dominic Mysterio. That's that's too easy. And then CM Punk versus Roman Reigns. Their promos have been ultra personal. I really don't think these guys like each other, but they're doing business. So they they do understand that uh with that. And I do believe Roman Reigns walks out with the championship. Uh if he doesn't, it wouldn't surprise me because it would keep Punk's ring going, but uh it does set up a great chase by Punk to get it back. So those are my predictions for that. For WrestleMania, I think it's gonna be a great card. Uh, and whatever I I can't watch, that's why you got it's on ESPN, and I will be watching it in some way, shape, or form. Now I'm trying to figure out how to watch it during the play. That one I didn't figure out yet. That can be a little contentious, but we'll look into it. We'll look into it. But continue to press forward, continue to walk by faith and not by sight. Um just sourdough. I want to thank for being a sponsor. Oh, it's just sourdough. Uh, my sister, she's doing an awesome job with her business. Uh, outside of the fact that I still haven't got my banana nut bread or peanut butter cookies. Now, she doesn't do peanut butter cookies, so I always mess with her. But the banana nut bread, I don't like chocolate. I don't like as chocolate as I am, I don't like chocolate, so I don't like chocolate chips. So she didn't, so she has to make a special one for me. So I appreciate that, sis. 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