Cast Your Nets

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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 going on, everybody? This is Bill Smith with God, Politics, and Sports. I'm excited about the opportunity to talk with everybody today. I think it's another great day on this planet. It's another great day in this nation. We may not always agree on everything, but I will say this. Hopefully, you agree with me. We live in the, of course, the United States of America is the greatest nation on the planet. We don't have to like everything. You don't have to agree with everything. But thank God you have the freedom to not agree with things and not to like things without looking over your shoulder, waiting for somebody to kick open your door unnecessarily. Because you may not agree with the things they believe in. So, of course, I'm representing my uh Gulf War uh veterans. So I have my hat on. You see, that's field artillery right there. That's the that's the cross cannons, if you will. 13 Bravo, king of battle, king of battle. Oh, hell, oh hell, artillery! King of battle, follow me. So that was one of the cadens we used to do way back when we started that. See, I came up and went in the military in 1987 in September 1987. So it was at uh Fort Cell, Oklahoma. Bravo 3, 3, 2, 1, best in ATC, trained by the best, we are the best. Drive on, drill sergeant, drive on. Now I remember that from 39 years ago. So I still got that one locked in. You know, you do something over and over again, over again, and just they locked in. So with Drill Sergeant Terry, uh, we had senior drill sergeant Gardner, there was some really good dudes. Uh, drill sergeant Terry was scrapped away. Taught me a lot, really taught me a lot during that time period. So, anyway, um without going through all that all over again, but still the king of battle. I was in uh the Gulf War with uh howitzer battery first and the third ACR, Brave Rifles, Veterans, Blood and Steel, AIA. I still remember that because that was the best of the best uh right then and there, third ACR. So we had a uh great uh uh Lieutenant Colonel Robertson uh was was great. Or it's the Colonel. I think it was Colonel Roberts, I can't remember which one it was, but uh we remember Tiger 6, that was uh our lieutenant colonel, he was also I think Roberts was the uh squadron commander, and he was pretty intense also. You know, he said something to us one time as I get ready to go into this. He said to us, headed in the battle before we jumped off and went into Iraq, he said, you know, I can't promise everybody's coming back, but I know that we will do everything in our effort to make sure. So we really and we end up bringing everybody back, so that that was awesome, but we knew in our mindset. So you see different things over here. I'm pointing out a lot of those pictures are from Saudi. And then one of a subscriber was watching the video. Actually, she came across the video and she was telling me, she said, Who is that baby that's over your shoulder, or over my left shoulder? And I said, That's my oldest daughter, Stacy. And now she's 37 years old, and that was the original picture I had made in Korea. So the out the framework of it, uh, of course, it came apart because over so many years of moving, etc. But that I've always kept. So yeah, that's my that's my uh uh my little princess, the first child of, and she's she's awesome. She's a great mom, great wife, and um a great volleyball team, mom. She'll be running things over there, you know. She'll be running it on my granddaughter's volleyball team. But yeah, that is Stacy. That's Stacy. It was Stacy Olivia Smith, but now Stacy uh Olivia Um Jolliff. How'd I forget her last name? It's like, dude, it's your daughter. You forgot her last name that quick. So that's who that is. So if anybody ever wants to, um if anybody ever wants to uh ask that, that's who that is. So, or anybody ever wants to know, but that's who that is. But once again, welcome to GPS with Bill Smith. Um, the great thing is I want to also to those that are starting to listen on Spotify, Amazon music, and other and different other streaming avenues, I want to welcome you to GPS as well. We're global now, folks. We started off, we started off small, and and God said, you know, don't despise the days of small beginnings. So we're global now. So when we get out, it's it's out around the world now, wherever you're at, whether you're in Africa, Japan, uh uh uh anywhere in Europe. Uh if you're I would say I ran, but I don't know if y'all get the internet yet over there. But uh Iraq around the country. We got picked up in in Oregon and California, two of the more liberal states, and people downloaded. So either they want to hear something different, or they just say, uh, we won't listen to this dude, so we have a reason to argue back. Um, even got some uh folks picked up in uh Texas. So we're great. So I want you also, as you are watching this, also let your friends know. Hey, they can go on um they can you can go on um those different areas as well and download it, download it, download it, download, download GPS with Bill Smith. The first show I I named Holler at Your Papa, and it's a great opportunity. So download it and know that you're getting you're part of something that's growing. We're growing, folks. We're growing. Um, a friend of mine, uh uh Pastor Uh Adrian Munoz, he his thing is it's amazing, and he's always talking about growth and growing, and it just becomes infectious. So I want that to be infectious with it also. We're growing. So, but how was your busy and blessed weekend? What did you do all weekend? What did you do this past weekend? I know when you look at this, it's gonna be past weekend. What did you do all weekend? I'm gonna tell you what we did. We went to San Antonio. My granddaughter had a play. Grandson had a t-ball game and a flag football game. He's five years old. So we went out there and it was cold and windy, and then it rained. Uh, it rained during the no, I'm sorry, during the football game. It was started off warm, then the clouds blew in, and we finished before it started raining. And but then we got to the t-ball game. Uh, we were out there and it drizzled a little bit, then it stopped, but then it got real windy. Uh, and I ended up talking to this guy from Minnesota for like 40 minutes. Some dude just and hopefully he tunes in. Um, hopefully he remembers all that we talked about. I gave him the GPS with Bill Smith on uh YouTube. We talked for 40 minutes, and he's from Minneapolis, and and it was a really good conversation because uh it was just two people, and I don't know what he stands, you know, politically back, et cetera. But all we did was just talk. We talked about how great this nation was, we talked about our children, etc. And it was a great conversation. Um, and did politics come up in it? Yeah, it did. Did we rip each other's head off? No, we just talked like two people who love this country, period. And I don't even know. He could be Democrat, Republican, Liberal. It never even came up in that. We just talked. None of us lost our minds. You know, I'm of course I don't have blue hair, and then you know, he didn't have blue hair or anything like that. But anyway, how was your busy weekend? Because then on that Sunday, oh my wife tore it up. Let me see. She, like one person said, she has a permanent black card. So, not just being married to me, permanent black card. So we had fried catfish, fingers, um, fried tilapia, macaroni and cheese, cabbage, and cornbread. And then my uh my daughter Sarah, she brought some cakes, and then uh we uh, of course, and then my daughter Sarah, she had, I mean Stacy, excuse me, she had bought uh butter pecan ice cream, and I ate almost a whole gallon of it myself. So that's why I had to go to the gym. I didn't go Monday, but I went Tuesday. So I had a blessed, very blessed weekend hanging with hanging with the fam in San Antonio. Uh had, you know, my son-in-laws, they cracked me up. Um my one son-in-law, Bert, he's doing a lot of things business-wise, starting to expand out. Uh, you're gonna hear more and more. You probably already heard him because he does a lot of voiceovers for commercials. And then Darius, but that's that's my sports fan to the core. And uh that son-in-law, we, you know, that's we we talk sports, but he makes me laugh. And um, he was crazy enough to marry Sarah. So he's already good in my book. So, but anyway, this segment of GPS is brought to you by our sponsor, Q Craft Sausage. You can text 706-409-3532, or you can go on the website, go on the internet, QCraft Sausage.square dot site, and that way you can order your sausage right there on the spot, get that sausage back, get it sent to you, tear that stuff up, and have a great time eating that. So, but if with all that being said, I want you to understand one thing with that that God is opening up different avenues and opportunities. You know, in John 21 and 1 through 6, when he when Jesus is telling the disciples to cast your nets, it means not just net, but cast your nets, but in their disobedience, they only put out one net. But even within that, God blessed because in it he didn't put out nets, he put out a net, but even it just casting out that one net, God was able to bless many off of that. But just imagine if he cast out his nets, just think about it. So I want to encourage you that you to have multiple streams, and I know our my bishop and and one of the other elders, and we always talk about having multiple streams of income, um, whether it's a podcast, whether it's writing a book, whether you're starting a small business that can grow into a large business. One of my sisters uh at church, she has two uh hair salons now, and and it and one of them is uh unique crowns. So if you ever get a chance, you're in El Paso, you need your braids and stuff done up right. She don't even know I'm doing this, but unique crowns that that will hook you up. And it's so awesome. A young lady who I was her youth pastor now is going to be doing the nails, uh, et cetera, over there. So get involved, get into doing something, and and people will say, Well, hey, what about this? What about you know, I I was uh people would ask me, Well, what got you into doing a podcast? And it was a matter of either I did it or I never would do it. I would never jump out into it. Um and I had to put myself on the chopping blocks by putting myself real quick. Y'all like the goatee? It's the gray, so I don't look 18. Okay, I the goatee's working. Anyway, I had to put myself out there because I knew if I did not speak a word that I was gonna do something, I wouldn't do it. So here I am right now doing that. So now don't go out without a plan from God. So you should be praying, seeking God, seeking wise counsel. Remember something, we don't go into war without, which what a great segue. I didn't even do that on purpose, but praise God. We don't go into war without counsel, and the Bible even talks about that. Kings do not go out without two things finances and counsel. And the the kings that go for that biblically that went for a wise counsel from their man of God, the prophet, more times than not, they were victorious. But those who just wanted to do things anyway, any way they want to, how they wanted to, they ran into bad situations. So, no for you know, for you know, get busy and doing something, folks. This is your time period. You know, you see you see so many times people say, Well, so many percentage of the of the planet or people have the most money, and then everybody else is here. Well, how about you? And I know I've decided for me in my house, I'm gonna get some of that pie. I'm not just gonna keep sitting there and watching everybody do. I'm gonna go get some. And and young people, you don't have to be a sports star. Young teenagers coming up through early 20s, whatever it might be. You don't have to be a sports star. You don't have to be a music star. You don't have to be uh a movie star, you don't have to be an actor. Now, if that was your goals, then go for it. But trust God in it, and everything you do, do it in a godly manner. All right. Especially you young ladies, they want you to show your chest and everything else out there just to get a role tell them now. You're trusting God, and what you have hidden up underneath that shirt is for your husband. All right, and same thing with you, man. I'm I'm a firm believer in one thing. You can play the role, but the role shouldn't be you. So you go and play that character that might be, especially young young males of all national ethnicities. They may have you playing a gangster or or a gang member or thief, whatever, but that's not who you are. That's just what you're playing. So, and I it happens sometimes. Now, can you play a bad guy without cussing? I think you can, but eh, you know, you gotta make up your decision on that on that one. But anyway, know and trust God in everything you're doing and put things to work. There are some young people out there that can write some terrific books. There are some women in 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s. You've lived so much of life that these young women, a lot of things that you may have gone through, they can avoid having to go through just from you writing a book. And it doesn't have to be long. The two books I wrote, neither one of them were over a hundred and a hundred and something pages, but it just hit right home. And and people have asked me about building a youth sports program and what does it take. And when I tell them, hey, this is what I did, and this is how I did it, I of course I refer them back to uh I refer them back to the book, and they begin to understand, like, hey man, I can really do this thing, or allowing yourself to be mentored. Um, it's important that you allow yourself to be mentored. So so many things. Proverbs 19 and 21, um, and God begins to tell us that many are the plans of a man's heart. But you know what? God's purpose and direction, that that's what's going to take over. So if you're trusting and believing and standing on the word of God, know many things you may have planned, but trust in God within that, even with the many things that you have planned. So seek the godly wisdom and direction. Remember, waiting on the Lord, the people to go, wait on the Lord, wait on the Lord. Now, waiting on the Lord doesn't mean you sit in your behind still in your house watching TV, waiting for a job to drop in. He drained, he rained manna on the children of Israel. He's never done it again. He didn't do it, he's not raining a job. Get up off your butt and go get one. He's not raining the book, sit down and write one. He's not raining the business. Get out there and start it. He's not raining your podcast. Turn off, get use your phone. Remember one thing waiting on the Lord is a verb. You're waiting, you're serving, you're doing something that's making an impact and going to change lives while you're waiting on God and watch God begin to bless you uh within that with the full direction that He wants you to go. So, whatever your plans are, your trust and you're waiting on the Lord. Do not sit by idly, be active in serving God and watch what God begins to do for you. And once again, get get counseling, get godly counseling, sit down and talk to people. If you know someone who is great in finances, don't sit there and you're trying to figure sit down and talk to them. Whatever area that might be in, if you know that you have situations going on financially, um you need to talk to someone that's financial, especially if you can get a biblical perspective on it, which to me is tithing and offering. So tithing. Now, some people are gonna watch this and say, Oh, why you gotta give your money to a church? Well, you give your money to JC Penny, you give your money to uh ATT for your satellite dish and everything else, and they say, well, I don't have satellite. No, you I neither do I, but you get I my money goes to streaming. So all those things that aren't gonna make a great impact on your life, but now you want to go against it when it's something when I say, hey, sew into the ministry, etc. So, and that wasn't even a topic matter, but somebody, somebody, somebody looked at that and what I was saying and said, hey man, why why we gotta talk about that? Well, I mean, it's life. It's life. So, whether it's writing a book, write a song, I you don't have to be able to sing to write a song. There's a lot of songwriters you can't sing, but I tell you this much. Like Dolly Parton said, when she sang uh I'll always love you, she said, I went to the bank. When Whitney Houston sang it, I bought the bank. All you gotta do is write the song. Like Barry Manilow said, some of y'all might know who Barry Manilow is. I write the songs that make the whole world sing. All you gotta do is write the song. Write the song. There are people out there that say that their song's been CC'd when CC Wanus sings it afterwards. They're getting paid. You write a song and you don't have to write it for Cece. But she messed around and recorded. Guess who's getting paid? You. Not just one time, you continuously getting paid. So that's one of those things. But get that wise counsel, get out there, and just like I said before, nobody goes to war. No one should go to war without that wise council. And our country right now is facing many challenges over the last week. We've been facing many challenges, and we're still enduring this over 70 plus days of uh partial government shutdown, which uh I'm I will say this it has become so long that it's not even at the forefront of the news anymore. It has almost become, and this is this is sickening. We basically have grown uh accustomed to it. There is no feeling from it from too many people anymore. And that was a great push for TSA to get paid and other folks to get paid, and the president pressed through to get them. Now, I don't know how long they will keep receiving their checks, but we have been so desensitized to it. Excuse me, my little sinuses were running, etc. So um but I'm healed in the name of Jesus. So I'm telling you what the symptoms were, but I'm I'm healed. We have been so much, so many times, we have been desensitized to this uh this shutdown that it's not even really being talked about. Now you'll see it. I was even watching the news and where it's almost uh talked about, brushed over, everybody points the fingers and then they keep moving. Because now everybody's starting to focus on the midterm elections. And you get your phone calls, whether it's Democrat, Republican, you get your phone call. And speaking of that, real quick, what they did in Virginia, uh, I thought was pretty sick. Um you can't, if you already had something in place from 2020, now you vote on it, and I really believe it's gonna get um, I really believe it's gonna get turned down by either the Virginia Supreme Court or the US Supreme Court. Because uh, and I don't agree with gerrymandering, whether you're in Texas, uh, Indiana, Illinois, Virginia, whatever it might be. If we want to get things right, first thing is get the numbers right. Don't count illegals. Um you know they shouldn't be here anyway. So don't count them as part of our as much as possible. Don't count them as part of the numbers of of our population that goes toward that. That goes towards uh picking for uh Senate seats or or uh house for for that voting areas. And if you already have something in place and it seemed to be working for all these years, don't start jumping around with it. Now, Indiana had the chance to do the same thing that Virginia just did, but it would have made it, we would have squeezed out Democrats immensely. And he said, we already have something. We're gonna say we're gonna be fair, let's keep it fair. The president got on Indiana, but they stood their ground, and I don't have any problem with that. I know Texas is making some adjustments, I don't have any problem, but uh um with it with what Virginia did, that was, and then for people to get up and push that, and I've always said this whatsoever man sows, he shall also reap. I didn't just say that. That's what the word says. And when you want to play games like that, it comes back to bite you. And that's why I've never been a fan of certain things, filibustering and other things that they want to do in the Senate to get certain things pushed through, because when you don't have the numbers, now you're on the opposite side of the fence. And it's like keep it that there's things in place to keep things balanced, and we have to deal with that. But what they do is with a lot of things, is a lot of the American people, and I'm gonna go back to this is what they teach in school. I really believe that. I don't see or hear children that can really tell you about the Fourth Amendment. Everyone could talk about the First Amendment, but what about the other ones? And I still, as I'm 57 going on 58, I'm still picking up on these things. But when I left school in uh Morestown High School, class of 1986, give it up for them Quakers. All right. When I left school and I went to college and I went to Chuan College, it was a junior college at the time, Murphur, North Carolina. One of the best teachers I ever had was my government teacher. But I was prepared for that government class from having a Mr. Tanner and some of my other history teachers that I had when I was in a Mr. Lauren, Coach Lauren. Some of these other I didn't have him directly, but I always got to give Mr. Lauren my heart. Love you, big big man. But because he was a history teacher, but leaving Morristown High School with the history that I knew, when I got to, and and not just, you know, the history, how things were social social, uh socially in society, uh government, those things I knew. So when I got into uh college, I when I sat down and we were going over different things, and and I remember and forgive me, I forget his name, but uh white dude spit the whole clag, you know, always had his dip in. And but he was one of the best government teachers I ever had. And I learned a lot. Uh I learned a whole lot in that in that time period. And I will say I was not the best college student uh because to be a good college student, you gotta be in class, not just physically but mentally. But I never turned away in his class. I loved going to that man's class because it I learned so much. So I learned so much that when I got out of school, even when I went in the military, through college again, those things I learned. And then I was able to take, like, I learned so much of this, and this is what the word of God says, and this is sports-wise, and and how they all tie in. And that's how you got God politics in sports. Look at that. But it all ties in with each other, and I love it. I absolutely love it because they all tie into each other in such a great manner. But I do have one issue really big. No one should be talking about not funding. You don't have to like, and I've said this before, for every congressperson, everybody in the House, Republican or Democrat, everybody in the Senate, Republican or Democrat, you don't have to like the president. And I don't care if the president was is Carter. I know he passed away, but Carter, Reagan, uh Johnson, I'm going back on y'all a little bit. Uh Obama, uh Bama Bama, uh uh Bush, second one, Clinton, uh um uh Biden, uh Trump Trump, whatever. I don't I don't care you like him or not. You never not fund our military, especially in a time of conflict. And you may say, well, I don't agree with what we're doing. That's fine. Make that point and say, hey, I don't agree with this war that we're in right now. I don't agree with it. But these soldiers, airmen, marines, seamen, whoever might be over there, they need the and we call them beans and bullets. They need the food and they need the weaponry to to win. Not to be piecemeal together, but to win. And we only do that with dollars and cents. And we we have to have that. So I'm I'm not I it disappoints me that it would even become a point of conversation of who's gonna who's gonna fund or if we're gonna fund our military during this time period. It shouldn't even be a point of conversation, it should be automatic that this is gonna happen because it needs to happen. And we never once again want to keep our troops without beans and bullets. And we have responsibility for that. And worship all of our military members well, they're family members. We keep them up in prayer as well. Uh, I remember I'll tell you a story real quick. One time, my wife, when I was in in uh Desert Shield, Desert Storm, she said somebody pulled up outside of the apartment we were in at the time, and it was a government vehicle. And she said her heart dropped, and she basically tried to hide. Now, of course, it wasn't because I'm here, but I could just imagine the thought process that was going on in her mind. So we want to keep these folks um up in prayer. Also, keep up our law enforcement members, keep them up in prayer. There are a lot of times they come under assault uh mentally, physically, um, and the time period that they can make mental errors and mistakes that can produce things that we don't want to happen. But um defenders, defenders of the circle, and it's something that we will be seeing getting started locally here in El Paso, which will be uh focus on our law enforcement and military members. And it'll just be a group that will sit down, uh it'll be myself and a former police uh officer, uh Israel Rodriguez, and uh myself, and we'll be sitting down and we will talk with uh law enforcement members, all different branches, military members, past, present, and and eventually we'll have family members in there as well. So please keep your eyes and ears out for that. And even when we start to do that, we will even get that thing to explode outside of El Paso so that people can come in, maybe zoom. We can zoom you in. So we'll work on that process. But we gotta we gotta get these first few uh group sessions in, and then we will start to go from there. So keep an ear out and an eye out uh for that, also, because it's gonna be something great that people can sit. Um from my 30 years in, from Israel's uh time in, it's a time period for us to talk and share with each other. Uh, and you have to be a lot of biblical things going on up in there that we can pray with you for you. Um just some great things that I think and I know needs to happen, especially for our law enforcement, because two things. One, they have to know that we support them, but they also have to know we're accountable. We're accountable. They're accountable to us and we're accountable to them. So that's very important. I'm not trying to tow the fence line and because I I'm down with I'm down with the LEO. That's law enforcement officers. I'm I'm tight with them. All right, but I want to make sure that we that they have that covering as well. So it's a powerful time period. But this next segment coming up with GPS is brought to you by Spartans Youth Football. Spartans Youth Football has been around for 30 years. Spartans Youth Football has some tremendous athletes that have come through in the 30 years. We're looking forward to uh Devin Deal um being picked up this week, whether it's via draft or uh or uh undrafted free agent. Uh he played at TCU. I still think he was their best linebacker, but I'm partisan. So we're looking forward to that. But all the athletes that we've had come come through here. Our cheerleading program is one of the best nationally. And that's not even, I'm not blowing smoke. Uh they just recently came from California winning another championship. Um they are uh they won many times around here in the El Paso area. So one of the best cheerleading squads out there. Our football players uh are some tremendous young men that get out there and play football. We're homegrown, and that's one of the things that I'm a firm believer in. That I don't turn away kids, nor do I chase after anybody else's kids on anybody else's team. I'm a firm you you call up, I want my son to play, bring him out. Because the one that one kid that you might coach up, football-wise, may never be good, but the things that are imparted into them can affect them for the rest of their life. So we do, we have doctors, lawyers, teachers, uh uh business owners, uh, musicians, etc., that came through Spartans Youth Football. So, and now we have our awesome 12U um girls flag football team. And they're all 10-year-olds, all of them are 10, playing against girls, 12 or about to turn 13, and they're competing. But that's a Harvard champion. And with that Harvard champion, Detroit stumbled, started coming out of the blocks uh in their first game, and I was really, really, really, really shocked um with that, with that first loss that they had, but it they just did not seem like they wanted to be there. They almost seemed like, why are we even doing this? But uh they really need to bounce back. Now, I'm not a big fan of the NBA's um, the way the NBA does stuff for their playoffs. I think that the uh I think that there's too much of a gap for these games. I like the every other day format, maybe two days, but some of these guys play on Saturday and they don't play again for, I mean, God knows how long it is. It's like a brand new season um begins to kick off and start. So I'm not a big fan of that. I really prefer that they they play a little more often, but that's that's uh and I think fans would get more into the playoffs if these guys were playing more often instead of uh so far apart um in the different times that they may be playing. But I was really uh I was really shocked with um with their loss to to uh Orlando. I I really that was not to me was not expected in any way, shape, or form. But uh also my Sixers, they got utterly destroyed on Saturday, and then they bounced back and got a big win Monday against the against the Celtics. So that's now I say it's gonna be a five-game series, but that win might shake some things up. Um the uh Knicks losing to Atlanta um and basically I think it's one and one now. So that that was another big one um right then and there. That was a big win for Atlanta. So you you got a lot going on in the in the playoffs uh with that. And of course the Cavs look solid. The Cavs look absolutely solid, but then in Toronto, that's gonna be another good series. It's gonna be a tough series. So I think the East is really gonna be ones to watch. Uh the West is to me is all about OKC. They stay healthy. Um the Nemesis, the Spurs, the Spurs look good, but Wimby went down, and that was a tough hit. That was a tough fall he took. And there's no telling how long before he comes back. So without him, the Trailblazers are knee deep in this series. They showed last night they are knee deep in this series. Uh if Wimby is out. Um the Lakers and the and the uh uh the Rockets, they are well, they just battling. Um that's just the bottom line. It's it's gonna be a the the series um the series is gonna go minimum six to me, even though the Lakers uh are up 2-0. I can see Houston coming back and getting some dubs um back at home. But even though they are down right now uh 2-0, Houston could make that play to push back. And uh Minnesota beating the Nuggets, that that was a that was a shocker too. Uh and so they're they're tied up right now. So a lot of good games, a lot of good series that that will be going on, and I look forward to it. And then, like I said, I don't like the big gaps in between the games. They need to boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Let's get them. Let's let's keep them rolling. It's probably the best of the best. Let's see it. Now, my my flyers, yeah, baby. The flyers are right over there. Well, that's the sixers, but a few over. You can't see it, but a few over where I'm pointing. I got my flyers flag up there. 2-0 up on the Pittsburgh Penguins. I think that's tremendous. Uh, I would like to see them. Hopefully, they can get up and get the 3-0 and then uh finish the series out. A sweep would be nice, um, because then after that, they they they they they're gonna get a tough one. Uh it looks like it may be Ottawa, but it's gonna be a tough one. Whoever they get after this one, it's gonna be a tough one. Um and I love hockey, but I'm gonna keep it 100 with you. The only thing I really follow with hockey uh in the playoffs, uh, most of the time, the only one I'm really following is the uh my beloved um Flyers. But I do know that there's a lot of really good um hockey going on right now as well. And I was watching uh last night, I dozed off in the middle of a game, and it was uh Vegas was Vegas was in the middle of playing, and um trying to remember who they were playing. Uh Vegas was playing the Mammoth, the Mammoth. And the Mammoth won 3-2, so that series tied 1-1. Avalanche is up 2-0 on the Kings. That's the game I fell on fell asleep on. Avalanche is up uh 2-1 on the Kings, and and the Bruins are up, uh Bruins and Sabres are tied uh 1-1, and and the Lightning and Canadians are tied 1-1. So you see all these teams, all these games, man, there's a lot of tight hockey that's going on. So I love it. Uh, real quick, my thoughts on WrestleMania 42. Night one was terrible, night two was great. Should have never put anybody involved with the uh all the matches on match on night one, they were way too short. Uh they had no real structure to them. And they that looked, night one looked like something you would see on Monday or Friday. Uh and even the championship match didn't have to have all that. Night two was way better. Uh, I didn't like the fact that Brock got uh Molly Wap. I had no problem with him losing as part of the what they do. I just wish they would have given him a better uh out on it with the loss, a much tougher uh fight for uh Obi. The championship match was was great. That match was great. Uh my grandson walks around doing the Roman Reigns, uh, you know, uh acknowledge me. So there's a little three-year behind. Here he does that. My son got him doing that. And um he talks about I can wrestle, I can wrestle. So now that's not the wrestling we do, man, but we you can you can check it out. Um my man Trick Williams with his lemon pepper steppers and one of my boys can't stand trick. I think Trick is awesome, and I'm glad he won. I didn't like the women's tag team titles changing hands to uh someone who just came back after eight years and two other ones who are in and out. Uh I I'm a firm believer, and you lead the belts on the ones who are gonna be here all the time, your fresh uh professionals out there, and they should have left it on the infinite force or whatever they call themselves, uh Naya and and um yeah, and her partner. So they should have left it on on them. Jay losing to Rhea, that was a no-brainer. We knew that. Knew Becky was gonna get that belt back. So those are some good matches. Uh those are some good matches overall. So, but I do want to close out on one thing, and I think it's one of the most overanalyzed um weeks of the sporting year. No other sport goes through this process as the NFL draft. No other sport. Baseball, you don't even know they baseball and hockey, you don't even really know they did their draft. Like, oh yeah, they had a draft. Basketball gets a little bit of love. They try to throw something for WNBA. Nobody gets it like the NFL. And I love it. Uh, I know the V, I know Vegas is gonna end up taking Mendoza. I think it's a great pick. That defense loaded up, and they they really, I think they're preparing themselves to for the next few years to be relevant. The Bengals gave up the number 10 pick for a proven commodity in Dexter Lawrence. So they're putting their hope that this defense will stop being a sieve because they realize something. You can have all the receivers in the world. You scored 35 points, but you give up 36. That means you got a lot of L's coming your way. But just looking at some of these mock drafts briefly before we get up out of here. But looking at some of this on these draft picks is mock draft, we got Mendoza going first. I see you know some people think Ohio State is gonna go with a linebacker. I'm sorry, Ohio State linebacker, uh, Overell Reese. A lot of them looking at the Jets to pick him up. Uh, the Jets got a lot of problems. One draft pick is not gonna do it for the Jets. The Jets have a lot of issues, they have a lot of problems, and they have I I think two first-round picks that that can help make a difference. They could be looking at a uh a guard or a tackle um as well. You have if the Giants pick up Jeremiah Love, they're really gonna be tough. Um that's if they that's if they go that way. Cleveland and a receiver, I can I can see that happening. Arizona with uh Texas Tex uh edge rusher, who's a that Bailey's nice. He's a nice player, very nice. So looking at some of these things on these mock drafts, nothing nothing really jumps out uh that's crazy. I think it's gonna be a great draft. I think these these kids, now remember something. There's 32 kids being chosen, and then you do that over six rounds, seven rounds, something of that nature. That's uh, if I'm correct, 200 and something kids that are chosen in the draft. Okay, so and then you take that, I think it's 234 or 44, something of that nature. So then you take that if it's seven rounds, so then you take that, and then you throw in all the undrafted free agents that come in after that. And those numbers they'll tell you percentage that will make a team. And it's not high. So a lot of these kids, their dreams are coming up. Some of them won't fulfill their dreams. But if they take all that they've learned over the years from the top, whether they started at five, fifteen, eighteen, whatever, they take whatever they learn and they apply it to life, they're gonna be some great individuals when it's said and done. Great coaches, great teachers, great law enforcement, great military men, great fathers, great husbands. They can take what they learn and apply it to things in their life and make a difference in the lives of others. And that's important that they begin to understand that. And we begin to teach them that and stay upon them with that. So this mock draft, I'm not the mock draft, this NFL draft coming up, should be a tremendous draft. And I'm just man, if Houston gets a receiver, Houston's probably receiver. Houston's problem is a quarterback. That kid, there's something in between his earlobes, and I'm really praying for him that, man, God, just you gotta, whatever is locking him in mentally, he just lets that go. Because he really, the playoffs, he looked terrible. Uh, so they're all looking, but once again, we already know the number one pick is gonna be Fernando Mendoza. It's consensus going to the Las Vegas Raiders, and hopefully they'll make being a Raider fan once again uh a thrill to be. And it's it's a good time, it's a great time. It's a it's once again one of the most overlized months of the year, but everybody's gonna tune in. I won't tune in. I have football practice with my kids. It's our first day of being in helmet and shoulder pads, so I will not be tuning in at the beginning of the draft. I'll have it on my phone, but I'll be out there coaching up these kids so they can become better players themselves, and that they will dare to dream. Not just to dream about being a football player, but they were they would dare to dream no matter what area they want to be in. And I really stress that to the kids, and I want to stress that to you also. Dare to dream. Dare to dream, dare to dream. Do not allow yourselves just to cast out just one net, cast out many nets, trust God in everything that you're doing, seek wise counsel, and know greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world, so the victory is yours. Go forward, have a great and awesome week. Can't wait to get back with you next week on GPS, God Politics and Sports with Bill Smith. Have a blessed day. Thank you for joining me for God, Politics and Sports. Stay engaged, stay encouraged, and I look forward to speaking to you once again on God Politics and Sport.