GETTING TO KNOW ME

This is the very first GPS podcast and gives you some insights into who I am. Coming from a small suburban town in NJ and GOD showing his sense of humor by placing me in a desert city. lol. This is GETTING TO KNOW ME!! 

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How much of it take a look at? You get to know me. So I listen to and enjoy this awesome podcast. Getting to know me as we get to know each other. Here we are. We'll talk about food sports and political activities. I look forward to talking to you. Once again, as it says, this is God politics and sports. And I am your host, Bill Smith, and we're going to have a great time with this. We're building, we're bringing three things together that a lot of people say don't necessarily mix. I don't believe in that. I believe all three of them mix with one another in some way, shape, or form. But before we get any deeper into a lot of those things, I'm going to let you know a little bit about me. I'm not real difficult. No, I can be difficult. I'm not real complex. Not hard to figure out. I wear most of the things on my sleeve, most of my emotions. I tell people all the time I'd be a terrible poker player, which it did show out in my days of gambling. Terrible at poker because you can read my face in a heartbeat. I don't try to shuck and jive and I'm not trying to lie to folks. I just keep it 100. And so people want to say, well, what is it about you that's going to be different than a lot of other people? Because I'm common. I'm a common dude. I'm above average. But what I mean by common is I'm not coming in with a big portfolio. I'm not coming in after having all these other kinds of shows and now I'm here. I'm coming in just as a regular person here to talk to you about the things that may be impressing upon you in your mind. Things that may be hitting you at different points and in different ways and in different fashions. And you're saying, well, Ben, where do I get a chance to talk about it? And also, I'm not here to pass judgment because God knows I'm not perfect. And one thing He says is think highly of yourself, but not more highly. So I want to make sure that I'm humble with great humility when I'm speaking to you. And you're speaking to me also. And uh, I like laughing. I think it's important that we laugh. Too many times people get on here, even in serious situations, because when the Bible tells us laughter is a medicine to the body, that means you've got to be able to laugh. Even in those tough situations, you have to be able to laugh. One of the funniest things in my life growing up that's taught me that was the two most important men that I've ever ran into in my life. Well, one I grew into, the other one I came from, or came through. One is my father. And I remember there's some tough times in sports and different different things in life, and he would just laugh. And he wasn't laughing to uh make me feel sad and laughing to put me down. It's just one of those things like, hey, this is not gonna be the hardest thing you ever run into. You know what? Suck it up, dude. And then my bishop, Dr. Michael Brown, there are times I've sat down, I talked to him, and he's starting to laugh, and I'm I'm I'm tears and crying, and he's like, brother, this is man, God's doing something awesome with you. So you keep moving forward with it. And the laughter's not to pull you down, the laughter is to bring you up. So I'm a firm believer, and you've got to be able to laugh. You gotta be able to enjoy things in life. You can't walk around all day uptight. So that's why when we're sitting here talking about God, politics, and sports, I want to hear what you have to say. Now, we may not talk about all three at all. You may come up with a movie. I may come in here one day and say, hey, you know, we're gonna talk about movies because I love movies. I like going to the movies. Now, certain type of movies I I do like to see, uh, and I would go check them out. Uh maybe my queen, Rebecca Smith, who will have her time period when she gets ready for it. She'll have her own little segment called Mama B. And she'll be able to share with you. But I love movies. Sports movies, definitely. War movies, definitely. Uh high espionage, violent movies. I I don't mind violent movies. But I mean, there can be some. I got my little funny side too. Love Pitch Perfect, all three of them. I catch it all the time because I like Greece. All the time. One of my buddies, he just flattered. He's like, man, I don't even know why I talk to you. You like Greece. So that's who I am as a person. What else really goes on with me? I yes, I love. Well, let's go, let's start with the God part. Yes, I'm a born-again believer. I don't necessarily say born-again Christian because that is more than just as a believer, I have a relationship with Christ. It's a relationship. And I just don't want to be labeled a place in a box that you are this. So I make it a point to serve him. And I have fun doing it. I've had ups and downs in my life. He's brought me through them all. And he's laid it and press it upon my heart to step up and do something like this. Which this is not something new. This is not something that just popped up in 2025. This has been a few years down the line that I thought about it and I wrestled with it, and and point blankly, I wasn't obedient with it. I made every uh reason in my mind not to do it. And then at the end of 2020, and it's amazing because all I said to my wife was, you know, I need to do a podcast. And Christmas, all the stuff was there to get this thing started. And this is just a start. We're in my man cave. We're doing this in the man cave. You can see I'm a Phillies, Flyers, Raiders, Sixers fan, and of course, I'm a big fan of number 89, NFL Hall of Famer. Dave Robertson, my uncle, played at Green Bay. Another great man in my life. But as far as back to what I saw about when it came to God, I love reading the word. I love studying the word. I love hearing the word. I love applying the word in my life. I know that there's challenges that come, but also I love sharing it. I love talking to a lot of folks younger than me now, at 57, going ahead towards 58. Younger, older, same age. I love talking about the word of God. I don't debate the word. At any time we're on here, I will not debate the word of God. I can't tell you what to think. I know what I see and what I read, but I won't debate the word. One of the things I find is very that's atrocious is that when you get saints, or even people who aren't born again, that want to debate you and argue when it comes to the word. And there's nowhere in the scriptures that it tells us to debate the word. I can share something with you. If you don't, if you don't agree upon it, then that's it. Noah's not, we'll agree to disagree. Uh-uh. You don't agree with it, I'm not going to. Hey, I hear what you got to say, then we keep it moving. But I stick to the word. And I and I stick to those things that I've been taught over the last 34 years, actually, my whole life. My dad got born again uh when I was 14, I believe. So I really started hearing it, but even going to Sunday school. Because one of the things that my mom impressed upon us was I couldn't go play football if you can't go to Sunday school first. So we used to have Sunday school. I'm sorry, our football games were on Saturday. I'm sorry, Sunday afternoons. Played for Fleetwood and New Jersey. Uh and our games were on Sundays. Even the away games, you had to go to Sunday school first. And after that, you got in the car and you drove to wherever the game was. So I there was a there was a certain uh foundation that was built with that. One of my best Sunday school teachers was my Aunt Braddah. Even to this day, there's things that she says and impart to me. And I've been ministering uh since I was 23. No, before that. Let me see. Since 20, yeah, so I'm about 23. So there's things that still come in and she shares with me. So that part of it, the you know, the God part of God politics is force. That's where you see where I come from with that.

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Now, politics, the political part of it. I am a very conservative person.

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So you would say I lean more right. I do. I lean very much up more right. But it doesn't mean that I think everything that goes on with the right is right. And I'm not afraid to say that, put the correction out there, and let people know what's going on. I'm not afraid that that does not mean I'm jumping ship and going to the left. That's not happening. I can't see as a believer that how I can support a party that supports abortion. Because I'm not against abortion, it's killing. I'm not for that. Uh I don't support those things that the word of God doesn't support. That does not mean that I think everything is right on the right or the Republican side of the House. There are many things that they do and come out with and believe and stand or say that does not line up with the Word of God, nor lines up with all the things that I believe I think is correct. Uh I do I think people have Trump syndrome. Yes, I do, but I think it goes both ways. I think people have it so much, they don't think he can say or do anything wrong, and they have it the other way, no matter what he says it does, the man can walk up here and say, here's the cure for cancer, and then people will get mad and say, nope, you can't take cancer you're taking money out of doctor's pockets for treating cancer. Just silly stuff like that. So, but I keep it 100. If you once we get on here and we start exchanging conversation, you you're sending in things. You're we're online, we're on our YouTube channel, you're sending in things, and we're we're and I'm reading, because I will read your questions, read your responses, and then we'll keep it rolling. I can't change everything about you, but I hope I impress upon you in your mindset and what you're doing. Politics is a dirty business. I do have some aspirations to uh one day get into it, but I really can't right now because I'm in law enforcement federally, so there's rules that come along with that. But it's it's still a good time. It's a good thing to learn, it's a good thing to be about, it's a good thing to teach our children. We live in the greatest country in the world. There ain't too many other places you can go and do or say the things that people say and still go home at night safely, most of the time. Do I think we do I think that there are people, no, I don't think. I know. There are people out there that are paying people to act a fool, and if somebody gets hurt or killed, it presses or pushes out an agenda that is utterly destructive, and the side that it's supposed to be supporting doesn't even realize it's destroying them as well. And it happens, I think, mostly on the left, but I don't see too many things on the buttons. I'm sure there's people out there on the right that do some silly things too. But that's what we're here for. We're here to talk about it. Now, sports. OMG, that's my thing. I tell people all the time. I was conceived during football season. I was born in August, so it had to be football. So I'm a football baby. Uh I was, I knew football plays in the womb. So football's been my my everything as far as in the sports world. After that, it's wrestling, not just the stuff you see on TV, and I love professional wrestling. I'm down with all the I'm an old school NWA, AWA, WWWF. I grew up in the 70s into the 80s. That was my whole thing. And I I still keep I still follow it immensely now. But that's what I love. But I uh my thing was wrestling, schoolastic wrestling. I started wrestling when I was seven, wrestled all the way up into the army, and it made a great impression on my life. Uh so but there's other sports. I love baseball, I love watching hockey. I never got on a pair of ice skates. I really don't want to, but I love watching it. Uh baseball, basketball. The funniest thing is my wife will always tell me, if there's a sport on, you go fire to watch it. And at first I used to get upset about it, but then I realized if there's nothing on, I watch golf. I'll watch tennis. Um course I love the cross. And I can't, there was something on the other day, a couple weeks ago, and I was sitting there watching it, and she's like, babe, are you gonna? It was like three different, it was on ESPN OC. And different stations people were going through that different, and I was watching it, I was locked in. Uh that's how I got into uh uh what's the one you toss the bags? Um yeah, that one. We got into, I don't know why, it just totally slipped my mind because I'm I'm really good at it. So just in that so those are the things that make me up and who I am, and I'm letting you know who I am before we really get started any deeper stuff because I want you to know who you're talking to. I want you to know that this is a real person here, and I'm not I'm not AI. I'm not trying to put on the front, uh, I'm not trying to uh impress anybody with great knowledge. Uh I I do believe I have knowledge. I know I have wisdom because I already asked the word from God, so he says he'll give you wisdom and knowledge deliberately as you ask, and you seek it, and you take your step to it, you speak to it, faith with it. So I believe that. Uh I know, honest don't believe it, I know it. Uh and I'm really trying to remember that game. Cornhole, thank you. I love playing cornhole. I know we jumped around with it, but every every place I go, I'm on a team. My wife and I are the best two in the family at it. People come over to the house to get beat constantly. I went to training in West Virginia, and me and my partner won. I don't know who, I didn't know who the dude was, but we beat everybody else in our class. So when I go, I went so cornhole's my my next thing. But uh, so those are some things about me so you know who you're dealing with. And I'm gonna laugh at you. I already said that. We're gonna laugh. We're gonna laugh, we're gonna clown, we're gonna joke. One thing I think is very important as you as we continue to talk and we go through this, is not only that you know what has made me up, but those things or those people that are around me that help to form and shape my mindset. Uh one of the uh, you know, we we talk about uh professional wrestling, and I would tell you one of my favorite people growing up, of course, was Dusty Rhodes. And he always he always stuck up for the one being bullied or pushed around, and and I would find myself many a time emulating that, getting in a fight because somebody else was being bullied by someone else. I thought that was the thing to do. That's because Big Dust did it. When you gonna get mean, Big Dust. That was that was my thing. Dusty did it, so I'm gonna do it. That wasn't always the smartest thing in the world to do, but that's what my thinking, that was that's how my thinking was. If Dusty Rose is doing it, why can't I do it? Uh oh. I I don't just so many. And so many things, what's wrong with this dude, man? He over there fighting because he saw a professional wrestler rolling around, scripted to do what he got to do. But at that time, I used to think it was ultra real. So, you know who messed up my thing? My dad messed me up one time. He said, Look, they're doing the same arm every single time. And that's when I started thinking, okay, y'all got me on this one. Because I couldn't even, I couldn't even talk it away. So, once again, this is totally unscripted. I didn't write anything down. I was just coming from the heart, coming from the mind. So you know who I am. And to give you a little background, just to myself, I've been married for 37, going on 38 years. I always count a year ahead. I'm a firm believer in one thing. Once I get to 37, people say, how many years you've been married? I said 38. And then on paper, it might say 37, but I'm trusting God for that next year. So I tell him 38. So we press through. So I've been married to my lovely wife for 38 years, 37 on paper, 38 in my mindset. Uh we met on a blind date. Uh, we got engaged shortly after, we got married shortly after that, and we've been together ever since. Uh I have four beautiful children, three the old-fashioned way, and one we picked up off the street when he was 16, and he never left. No, no, he didn't do that. He's gonna see that and say, wow, Pops. No, he was a teenager and he was going through some things, and his mom was still alive, but he got involved in our family, and uh, he's been with us ever since. So he's been with us for 30 years, and that's Israel. Then my oldest daughter is Stacy. I wonder if she'd get mad if I give her age out. Well, I don't know. I don't care what she's gonna do, get mad. I think she's 36. She don't look it, so that that's a good thing. She looks 46. No, she doesn't. No, she doesn't. But uh she she has a beautiful family. Um, her and her husband and uh our three grandchildren live in San Antonio. Uh I have a national qualifying uh volleyball player, granddaughter. Uh JC, she's 15. Uh my other granddaughter uh is uh Callie, she's 11, and she is uh she's a fesbian. Uh she's been in a few plays as well. She sings. And then my big baller down there who loves football, uh Bo, he's five. He's a he's a he's ready to play tackle. So uh first I was against it until he came to the house not too long ago, and he was hitting everything moving. So we gotta look into it. And then uh uh my son-in-law, Bert, uh who's a big-time entrepreneur, has his own books out, one of the best voiceovers that you will hear nationally. You hear him nationally on commercials all the time, so they do a great job. My daughter uh Sarah, she's married to Darius. They've been married for up going on a year, close to a year. And uh Darius, I used to call him a little black licorice because he's black and thin. Like black licorice. But uh the best thing about him is he's a Raider fan, and the worst thing about him is he's a Knicks fan. So, but outside of that, Darius is squared away. And then uh Sarah's the one that I still I'm really trusting and believing God. She hears from God, and she looks into going into law school. Uh now we were, my wife and I, we were set up to to uh finance her college and into law school, uh, etc. But she took a different route. So she's married now. You and your husband pay for it. I'm not. So, but uh they are they are a young couple, and uh I look forward to their family growing as well. And then the baby of the bunch is uh, well, with Israel, I talked about how we met, but his wife's a Redus. She's awesome. They have two sons, uh I, who's with who's married, and he lives in California, and Anthony, who's headed to finishing out his senior year in high school, and then he is headed to college, Six So Francisco College, we'll probably end up playing center, either center or guard. So he's a baller, good football player, but don't tell him I said that because it'll mess up, it'll mess up our relationship. No, I'm just teasing. And the last of the bunch is Trey. He's Trey because my dad's senior, I'm junior, he's the third, and Trey's married to Cashon. And Cashon's dad is one of the elders in our church, so they know the funniest thing is Cashon never didn't even like the dude. But you see how God changes hearts. So they're married, they have their oldest son, who's three, going on three, is Ivy. Why is he Ivy? It's Ivy, like the fourth, because he's the fourth. So he's William Frederick Smith, the fourth. And then our new baby girl, uh Naveya, she was just born and not too long ago, so she's actually just a few days ago, a couple a week or so ago. Uh, and she's the new one. She's the new baby of the bunch. So that's the third granddaughter. So overall, I got seven grandkids, and uh the family keeps growing. But the most important part is we love being around each other. And I think that's so important, man, that we're around each other, we enjoy each other's company, we laugh at each other, we play spades, the kids can be upset, but we stick together. And that's one thing that I really appreciate, especially with my wife, because she's she applied that glue. Now remember something, husband is another word for it's house band. It's the the man that's binding up the house, keeping it all together. But within that, and my responsibilities with that, within that, there's an awesome woman who makes sure that there's glue in that band. And she's done a great job with that. So I would definitely give her all the credit and uh that she that God has done with her in that. So that's just a lot about what makes up with me with my family, et cetera. Now, growing up, I've had some awesome men in my life, some great coaches. Uh, I go all the way back to Little League Wrestling with Ray Jasper, who looked racism in the face when he had, I was the first black kid on Green Tree Wrestling. Uh and it was out of Mount Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Uh, we started, when I started out there, we were practicing at uh used to be Western Union. No, I can't remember the name of the place, I'm sorry. And then it we started going to Lenny P High School. So we were Green Tree Wrestling. And uh then I also played football for Fleetwood. Um so I had some great coaches there, Coach Thompson, um uh uh Coach Griffin, uh my uncle, uh my dad coached. So I had a lot of uh Coach Mosley, who was awesome. I had a lot of great coaches and men that said things that impart things in my life. That was important. And as I get into high school, uh Coach Lauren, but first off, Coach Allen, who which is apropos for this time period, he his nickname to me was Mal, because I would never shut up. So I remember getting the jacket and had Mouth on it, which the next person, uh, Coach Lauren, uh, and and me and his son are still friends to this day. Mrs. Lauren remember buying me my freshman jacket. She saw it sitting up in the in the window of a store, and I looked up the next day, and it was uh either it was Rick or Coach Lauren gave it to me at school, but it had the nickname Mouth on it, because that's what uh Coach Allen would call me. Coach Allen went to Penn State uh and I think he played football at Penn State. And then uh Coach Lauren, he was one of the best coaches I ever had in football. Uh and not just that, but he was also a mentor. And up until well, I think the year before he died, we we stayed in contact. Uh every time I would see Rick, I would go see Coach Lauren, and uh we were able to talk and uh he would still coach me up, share things with me, uh just so many anecdotes and stories that would come about that were so awesome. It was really a blessing. And then also my wrestling coach, Coach Jack Welch. Uh I don't think I don't think I've expressed or fully and rightfully expressed how much I love and appreciated him. Um if I'm correct, I think I was the black wrestler, first black wrestler on Morrestown wrestling. He he didn't make that a never was an issue. Actually it was never a point of conversation. I'm I'm the only one who really brought it up. But after that, other guys started coming in, my best friend Sean, my cousin Mike, uh Johnny Johnson, who I think is the greatest wrestler of all time out of uh Morristown. He didn't win states or anything, but I think he ended up being the greatest wrestler to me, anyway, that ever came out of Morristown. Uh so so many kids and so many kids down the line came from that. So myself and Sean, we were the first black captains uh at Morestown High School, and and you would say, well, Moretown man's in New Jersey, his name Quakers, it's whatever, and it's a little more liberal, but you have some undercover racism. I mean, let's just call it what it is. My Morstonians, you'll get over it. But there's some undercover racism. Um people would say one thing to your face and then act another way behind your back. We knew it, I knew it, I even spoke about it. I talked about it to people, but it happened. But I don't walk around all swelled up about it because it's not a big deal. It didn't affect me then. I'm definitely not gonna let it affect me now. But just going through those years of Mr. Tanner, he never coached me, but um he was uh a great history teacher, so I loved him as a history teacher. Um we uh I remember a Mrs. Marshall. Now this was she used to say, I love your heart. I love your heart. Those things that people say that want you that make you want to teach. Now I'm not a teacher yet, I'm looking into it uh as far as doing my podcast as well as teaching, but I love teaching. So these some of these teachers were so awesome in that and making me want to teach, making me want to be a a part of being a teacher. So that's just some of the things that make that help make me. Now going into college, weren't too many that really impressed me in college. Uh I was too busy uh too busy doing all the wrong stuff. But in the military, people like John Kelly, great impact. Um he was my uh uh one of the best NCOs ever had in my life. And he was a friend as well. I used to love when he was to say, look, when we're at work, we're at work, when we're at home, we're home. I had to learn that over the years, but it but it was a great life lesson. Uh and I saw his order and and his uh how he kept things organized and how he could lead in such a manner that people wanted to follow him, and he was just awesome. So uh John, so we called him smoke at that time. If you everything about our if you know anything about artillery, you you know what that what that is. And then uh there's so many others um coming through. And um, you know, I try to remember all the names, but they don't always all uh come to mind. But but uh you know, there's some great ones, and even in working in uh CBP, some of the I I a government job, you put it like this. There's a lot of politics in government jobs. A lot, a whole lot. So you have to learn how to uh work around those things, especially in law enforcement, especially on the border, especially with customs and border protection. Usually just be U.S. customs, but every four years when there's a new president or or if I say eight years, or somebody says for eight years, I've been in since 1996. So my whole time in the military, I mean, I'm sorry, in customs started with Clinton, I believe. So I went Clinton, Bush, Bush, Obama, Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump. That's a great display, this great change in each one. And each one of those changes an effect on how we did business. And within that, we have some good leaders of Mr. Malaski and some others that we had that good leaders. Uh, some of the leaders I have now, I think, are good leaders. Um, even though I can drive them crazy at times. Uh, we have some good leaders out there. So that's me. That's your first intro. That's my first show today. That's all about me. I want you to know who I am. And I don't want you to ever have to try to guess who this dude is that we're gonna be talking to every week. And just to give you some real quick before I close out uh for tonight, for this, close out this first initial show, just some things I want you to understand. I know I'm looking down at my phone so I get all my facts straight. But some things I want you to know is that we will be having young men and young women on here in the man cave that we'll talk sports with, we'll talk politics with, we'll talk about how God has impressed their life. I just don't want you to hear from me. We're gonna start off that way the first couple times, but then we're gonna bring in other folks. Uh I'm looking for my first guest to be Dr. Michael Brown. We're still negotiating and talking about that as my first guest, because I think it's very important that you hear from a mighty man of God who covers all three GPS: God, politics, and sports. The God and politics part we always agree on. The sports, he's a Lakers fan. He's a Cowboys fan. You know, so we don't always agree on that stuff, but we do agree about how much how important sports are in our lives and how much we enjoy it, and we laugh and joke about those things. But we're gonna have young people in here, young athletes from around the city of El Paso, as we get into contact with them. We're gonna have them on, we're gonna have interviews with high school coaches from different sports, not just football, whether it's track, whether it's wrestling, whether it's baseball, we want to reach out and cover all areas of it. Whether it's uh uh uh I almost said lacrosse, and I do know a lacrosse coach. I know, well, I went to high school with her mom, but she's uh a National College-winning lacrosse coach. So over time, we want to get uh people like that on our on our channel and zoom in on them and and have a good open conversation with them, uh remote conversation uh with them with that. So uh coaches from around the state. There's great coaches in the Dallas area, players in the Dallas area. So everybody gets a chance to see what's going on, not just in Texas, but here coast to coast and border to border. So that's what we're endeavoring to do. So once again, I'm looking at, I'm just gonna put it out there. I'm looking for our first guest to be Dr. Michael Brown. Uh that will be coming up in the next couple weeks. And um we're gonna just keep it rolling and we're gonna have a great time. So I want you to keep tuning in to our YouTube channel and watch this thing grow. And you will get a great, great look at this awesome. I'm just gonna show you around my man cave. There's some more pictures. My daughters, and and that's my wife and me, and my dad. So that way you can see when I say I'm in my man cave, that's me and Sean with wrestling, that's me playing bad football, and that's uh a picture of my wrestling team from 1986, all my different hats and things that we have, so you can see when I say I'm in my man cave, it is the man cave. And so I'm keeping it. This is not a studio, this is just me. So you know you get 100% of me. And once I get to that studio level, I might make the studio look like a man cave. Alright? So there's so many things that we're gonna be doing, and so many things I'm excited about us doing, and I want you to be a part of it and know something. I'm gonna keep it real, I'm gonna keep it 100, and I'm not here to blow any smoke up your tail. But we want to hear from you. And I'm also so excited because as we continue to grow, Mama B is gonna have her time on here. So we'll have a Mama B session, not session, not just me and her going back and forth. I know some of y'all want to see, hear that or see that. That's not happening. But we will have a time period where she can share with you and impart in you and your life because there's there's a lot of young women, as well as young men, but particularly young women, that need to hear how she's made it through and how God has blessed her. And she was an athlete also. So she can definitely cover the sports part because she's an athlete. She raised athletes, she's married to an athlete. All of our children, all of her children were very good athletes in high schools. Trey played in the college. Sarah would have played in the college, but don't get me started on that one. But uh, they're all good athletes. So she knows what she's talking about. Uh she's uh she's a Spurs fan. We don't say comet commanders in our house, we say Redskins. And um she likes the Phillies because I like the Phillies. So she's not so much into the baseball thing, but uh and definitely nothing hockey. She don't know what a puck is. No, we she's been to a Flyers game, so she knows she knows some hockey. But so she'll be able to talk about the same things, but also things in her life. Uh and I'll ask her some questions that she can part uh share with you that can change the lives of young women also. So once again, I want you to stay grounded, stay engaged, and understand something. That wraps up today's episode of GPS God politics and sports.