It's been a long long day. I got a lot to say. It feels like I'm carrying a two-ton weight. I go to see my friend. Hello, I'm Monsignor Patrick Winslow. And I am Father Matthew Cout. And we are speaking from the Rooftop. A podcast brought to you by Tan Books, in which we invite you to join our conversation out here in the open air. Where we look out upon the world around us from the rooftop of the church and share with you what we see. Well, hello there. Well, hello. How are you? I'm fine. How are you? Excellent. Doing quite well. Oh, I'm glad to see that. So, you obviously have nothing to talk about. I thought your sentence was incomplete and you're trying to get your mind to work, which is like starting one of those old Ford cars. You know, you have to go outside and crank it up, but that's what he's doing. He's trying a little smoke and sputtering coming out of the ears. I thought it'd be fun to have a little moment of awkward size. What happens when the unique circumstance, when neither you or I have something to say. Oh, we have plenty of seconds. Yeah, it's about two to three seconds. All right, so let's kind of jump into a deeper, at least deeper thought for me. It's reflecting on the glorious mysteries, okay? Okay. So, sometime during Holy Week, I think, or leading up to Holy Week, I was reading, I believe it was Ratzinger, but it may have been another theologian along the same lines, where he was speaking about the impact of the Paschal mystery in our lives and the bringing about of the kingdom of God, and that at the time of our Lord, and all leading, and all history leading up to it with respect to the Jews in the anticipation of a Messiah, that there was a sense of the kingdom being in line with history, that there was the history of the Jewish people, the promises made through Abraham, and then subsequently the other covenants, David, then arriving at the time of Christ, an expectation was that this kingdom would be inaugurated within time, within history, and it was going to be sequential, right, so you move through the past and you arrive to the kingdom in history. And he was making the point how totally unprepared the faithful of that time were to deal with God's plan of revealing a kingdom that was not going to be realized as a period of history, but rather a kingdom that was going to, to, in a certain sense, be realized above history in eternity, and it would be experienced by the faithful in history, but not be a chapter of history. You're following me? I do. It has a historical point, but it transcends that historical point, and then also has an eternal character. Exactly, and that is eternal, and it's toward which, just so you know, the Great Danes are at it again. So Lupo's snoring. Well, he's being put to sleep by you, but he's not up for this. Okay, so I haven't even got to the rosary yet, but just, we're almost at it. We're almost, are we at the end of our time? So, okay, so this whole idea that we're not talking about the Messiah coming and inaugurating a kingdom that would be a chapter, sort of a concluding chapter of history, but rather what is being revealed to us in and through Christ is the ultimate eternal chapter of the kingdom of God that breaks in through his passion, death, and resurrection, and becomes accessible to every moment of history thereafter. Meanwhile, history marches on. And in some sense before. And in some sense before, precisely, because we're dealing with the eternal. Abraham enjoys to see my day. Exactly, exactly. So there is that sense of turning their eyes to the kingdom in a different direction above them, but yet imminently present, right? We talk about the eschatological tension, and we talk about the delay of the Pharisee and all these other terms. Now it's me who needs to translate. Eschatological tension. I'm sure that those are household words you guys banter about at the dinner table. Eschaton just means the end, the end things, the tension between the time that is now and the fulfillment of time. And then the parisia is another fancy term. It is a fancy term, which means the coming of Christ, the second coming is return. So, yes. But the kingdom is now, but not fully present, right? Now, but not yet, right? That sense that even though time marches on and we're in time, the kingdom is present in time, insofar as the kingdom is realized within the lives of the faithful here and now, and is fully realized ultimately in eternity. So praying and reflecting upon, you can correct anything that you might need to be corrected there, but... I'm making a list. I know. It's so hard to speak very plainly without getting into jargon. Yeah, I know. So let me kind of get back to my thought. So reflecting upon the mysteries of the Holy Rosary, in particular, I was reflecting upon the resurrection and the ascension of our Lord, then subsequently the descent of the Holy Spirit. There is that our Lord rises and takes his place at the right hand of the Father and ascends. So the first two glorious mysteries. And then the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. And then I'm seeing a current, right? I'm seeing the Messiah leading to the fullness of the kingdom and taking his place at the right hand of the Father and then sending the Spirit down upon the church. And it's creating this exchange, this access to the fullness of the kingdom here and now in and through the ascension of our Lord and the descent of the Holy Spirit. And then, reflecting upon the blessed Virgin Mary and her assumption into heaven, that she's caught up into that current and following her son, body and soul, into the fullness of the kingdom. And there, as she is receiving her crown as the Queen Mother of our Lord, that that crown, by inference anyway, seems to be a return back to the faithful here below, if you will, in much the same way that you might see in the descent of the Holy Spirit. I mean that analogously, where of course there's some similarity, but obviously a lot of dissimilarity. But the similarity being that her crown, her queen ship, is used to do good for the faithful. That there is that sense of she follows our Lord to the fullness of the kingdom. That kingdom is made accessible and found in unique ways by the descent of the Holy Spirit. The whole sacraments are affected in through that fall onto the Holy Spirit. Then you have the blessed Virgin Mary following upward, but then by virtue of her queen ship imparting as an instrument of grace her benevolence and her motherly care and attention to us below. All right, go ahead, pick apart the necessary theological distinctions that we need to. No, no, I think that the first thing I would say is that we have that passage in the third chapter of John where Christ tells Nicodemus that we have to be born from above. And it's one of those fun Greek words with community one to highlight the fact that Nicodemus is thinking earthly thoughts and our Lord is not. And that gets to that notion of when we build a church, for example, or when we think about heaven, we think about it being up. And this is a Retzinger point in one of his books that says, well, how else do you depict it? Because we're spatial creatures. And so you think about up. And so you have to have something higher than you. But the fact that it's higher or that we worship on mountains or we think about clouds and rainbows and things in the sun and the heavens, etc. So much so that the word in most languages for the heavens is the same, right, is just the sky. That what is depicted in us spatially and what we feel bodily is, in some sense, a metaphor for a higher kind of realm, a higher kind of life, a higher kind of kingdom that has its foothold here in this world, not just in souls, but in a collective matter relative to the church, right? The church is that kingdom so much so that when Christ describes the kingdom, oftentimes in Matthew's gospel, he's talking about it clearly as something here. At the end of when the kingdom comes to its fulfillment, then we will separate these fish from those fish, the sheep from the goats. Right, now we're talking about the second coming. And so we've got this place that the kingdom is here. It's got its foothold here, but it doesn't rain the same way as Christ said to Pilate, right? My kingdom is none of this world. And yet in and through the church, as you say, you have this incredible rain. And as I think rightly so, if Christ, if I understand what you're saying, if Christ gains the victory, he says he's going to send us his spirit. He tells Mary Magdalene, you cannot cling to me in this fashion. I'm not yet ascended to my father. It's better for you if I go because if I go, I will send you the spirit. So somehow his removal from our senses allows us to participate.  But we're still here. And we are still participating in that kingdom. In that kingdom. And so when you go to a church, for example, the reason they're supposed to look like that kingdom is because that's what you're doing there. You're participating in something that's celestial. And so with her assumption and crowning, absolutely, I think that makes perfect sense relative to she who is the spouse of the Holy Spirit, because all of her queamy activity regards the church that's here. Who else is she ruling? Right. And it is not ruling for what other end than our own benefit. Yeah. Yeah. And it just did that sense of current upward and then returning. Yeah. And that our Lady would follow in the same pattern. And just to consider so many graces that she and the divine plan is permitted to intercede on behalf of others and distribute. It's just an extraordinary thing. But it gave me a new appreciation for the coronation, the blessed infringement, the clean chip, because so often it's easy to kind of reflect on that mystery and think, oh, well, she's taking her rightful place in the kingdom of heaven. She got her prize. Right. And that's a sign for us that we're going to get ours as well, in the sense that we follow in that pattern. But it's not. I mean, nothing of her seems to be self-referential. Well, I mean, that's that's clearly the case.  That's one of the things I just marvel at with the enunciation and the visitation mysteries, just to expand this a little bit, is that our Lady can say things that would be absolutely audacious for anyone else to say, but she can only say it because she's she can refer to herself as his work, not as something that she has accomplished. And that's perfectly true. And yet she can rejoice in it and even give praise to him for it.  Right. Hold. Exactly. I think I think we'd get a chuckle out of that. Of course. But she can say to the angel, behold, yeah, look at me. I am the handmaid of the Lord. I just am. That's what he has made me to be. And then furthermore, in the Magnificat, it's it's almost as if she's standing next to Elizabeth, shoulder to shoulder, looking at herself over across the way. Like it's amazing. Look at that. My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God, my Savior, because he has looked with favor on his lowly servant. And from this day, all generations will call me blessed. What a thing to say. Right. But everything because of what he's done. So you say it's not self-referential and nor are her nor is her crowning something. Self-agulation or a prize that she's walking around in this adornment and she's pleased with just the adornment. Right. Right. And yet at the same time, this reciprocal action takes place because I work at a seminary, right? So one of the things that I notice with the men as they discern their vocation, and I think it's kind of a hallmark of any vocation is the moment they develop a real tender and filial devotion for our Lady. You really don't. I've never seen a vocation without it. I've seen guys struggle in the beginning with that kind of thing, but at some point it just sort of clicks in. And it's that sort of chivalrous thing that's so deep in the heart of men that that I want to have a woman that I can offer my life for and to serve. And it takes it out of the realm of just the married state, not that that's not glorious, but it's done in such a particular way and it comes with all the particular difficulties that that has. And so that old idea of a knight who maintains his chastity and gives himself over to the service of a queen, all that stuff is still deeply embedded into the piety of the church. When a young man says, I'm going to take all of my powers, summon them up in a virtue of chastity, and offer them for the service of the church. And that takes deep expression in the desire to crown our Lady. It takes deep expression is added just to do something for. I remember when we were at seminary, we had that beautiful statue that you and I both love. And there was a seminarian who we didn't, how shall I say this? We didn't really get along too well. You and I did not care for this individual too much. There's so many, I can't remember which one. It was a bit of a conflict. Yeah, I can imagine. And it was such an ideological time. It was fractured. There were so many parts. And we're all immature and blah, blah, blah. But the point was is that we didn't ever see any piety in this guy or any breathfulness or anything else. And then we're walking outside one day, and you and I and a couple of our friends, we saw him putting a crown of flowers on our Lady statue. And I remember one of us said, well, that's about all it's going to take probably for him to get into because we could all recognize if he's doing something like there's some kind of seed in him. And so the reason I bring it up is because there is this sort of like she uses her queenship to serve her children as a mother does. That's why Tres says she's more mother than queen. And yet we use her service to bring her back flowers or something, to bring her back something by which we can say, I want to make you beautiful too. I want to clothe you in this beautiful as just as our Lord did. And that's where I kind of my mind went in this decade of the rosary. That's pretty good decade of the rosary. Oh, well, thanks. Which was thinking about the gems of a crown and what they truly are, not necessarily a gemstone, but rather the reflection of the particular graces for which she has been instrumental so that what's truly brilliant and what's truly shining with with with glory and color are the aid and assistance that she's offered to hear we who are here below to think of the times in my life or to think of the times and other people's lives that I'm aware of, where the intercession of the Virgin Mary has been so critical, so profound, and to think that they're a part of her crown, that they're a gem there. And that those are the things that are that are sparkling. Those are the things that make it a crown like no other. You know, you see it in all of its beauty, but to understand truly at its truly at its core at its very center. Yeah, these are these are actually I don't care about diamonds. Yeah, but they sparkle more than that's her gem, you know, a soul that she they're more beautiful than that one of her children. That's a that's a delightful image. Of course, we we do speak about our Lady as the Queen of the Angels and I love that the Easter Vigil. We have that that reading from Baruch. Like I don't read Baruch right all year long. I never think said maybe at a wedding. I rarely yeah, but I just rarely think to open up the scriptures and read. Yeah, no, I don't know how to go to and I love it. I kind of it's just like Lily that I wait until that moment. Easter to hear it again. It's seasonal. I love the way it describes the stars as they're sent out. And and then he calls to them and they come back to him with joy trembling with joy. It says the stars come almost like persons right. He sends them out and they come back and they're trembling with joy and they say odd sumo's right. We are here and shining before his face. I mean, when I first read that, I thought what an interesting way to to depict the stars and I didn't realize at the time this is when I was living in Italy. And so I heard this thing and a time for the first time that I really really struck me. And of course, they say echo chi here we are when they come back before the Lord and didn't just didn't realize at the time how much allegorically metaphorically the stars were considered, of course, the angels God's army. So they're always depicted as the stars in the sky or those those images of the angels in God's God's grand heavenly host. And so when we talk about her as being the queen of the angels oftentimes you think about the stars around her around her head as 12 stars. But it's also it's also the angels right there. They're her children too in some ways. So I wonder how that works because on some level she had she has no labor. You know, angels are in heaven. Right. They behold the face of God. And yet they'd like to serve her. I wonder what that is like. In other words, how does that queenship work go back and forth to the angels? I mean, clearly we do have the image of Gabriel and she is not she's kind of in charge of the scene. Even as a girl, seeing an angel for the first time, she has this incredible command and sort of queenly bearing to her in that scene. And I just sort of wonder my own prayer life and how much the angels must delight. Right. I mean, can you imagine if an angel appears to you even before the angel speaks? I mean, what sort of dumbfounded reaction we would have. Meanwhile, she just stands there and receives the message. Wondering what this greeting might be. Yeah. As if it's the most normal thing in the world. Right. Could you imagine? And yet there is not an ounce of pride in it. Yeah. Just a complete confidence in the Lord or God. So truly, truly, truly extraordinary. And so, and you know, kind of circling back, we could just reflect a little bit on how we do reflect upon the mysteries of the rosary. You know, I think that, you know, here I am, you know, very inartfully throwing in your direction, just these thoughts that I conceal, congeal together in a certain trend line, like a certain symmetry of our Lord resurrecting, ascending and sending the Holy Spirit. The Virgin Mary, obviously assuming, but intertaking her place in heaven that doesn't end that there is a type of sending back by virtue of her acts of grace that constitute the crown. And so, following in that descent of the Holy Spirit, there is her interaction with us here below. But, you know, reflecting on the mysteries of the rosary, sometimes people might just think, well, I have to only imagine the scene as it took place. So, you're thinking about the resurrection, you're thinking about the women went to the tomb, you're thinking about the tomb rolling back, you're thinking about the angel. Yeah, then you find yourself rather having exhausted your cash of images, right? And so, the idea of going further and deeper into those images and starting to bring in some theological reflection, starting to bring in some personal inquiry, personal piety and affection, but also curiosity and taking that time and using that little decade, which goes by so quickly, is a moment to explore in the reflection, but not just something of having to play a movie in your mind where it just gets on a rote loop. I defer to you to comment, because I think I've actually provided unwittingly a demonstration of the convolution that is my mind, but I pray the mystery of the rosary. So, when you pray the mysteries of the rosary, you're doing the same, are you not? I do. I typically take, it depends on where I am and what I'm doing, frankly. If I'm not in a position where I have been praying and I'm, for example, I'm present before the Blessed Sacrament or something that I can actually engage my mind in a better way, then I typically turn the rosary into my moments for intercession. And so, I will take the different mysteries. I'm not always terribly good at intercession. Like, I love meditation. I love Luxury of Divina. I love thinking and talking to God. I just love it. What I don't like doing is thinking about other people during prayer. I'm not very good at petitionary prayer. And yet it's one of the greatest things we can do for someone in acts of charity. And so, I sort of push myself, I have pushed myself as of the last, however much time, to be more responsible in that vein because sometimes you think that you can sort of knock it out by the virtue of the fact that you say the Divine Office because we're priests do for the faithful. We say the office, we pray seven times a day for the faithful. It's fairly short, some of it. But that's kind of our opus day. It's our work of God for the people and we intercede for you. But I like to do it with the rosary too, which for me brings up sort of a quite getaway, even an intercession from my mind spinning off. If I'm in a particular mystery and I'm offering for a particular person or group of persons, it is interesting how the mystery gets looked at differently because of the persons through my prayer. As Scripture does at any time in your life, when things change in your life, then you begin to see new things. The light is different. And I do the same with distraction. I mean, we all know it's like to be distracted. We have things on our mind, things that are weighing on us, or things that are just new and exciting, but they're in our heads and we can't get out of it. Sometimes it's as simple as thinking about what I'm going to cook that evening and for whatever reason it is locked in the floor of my head and setting it aside is a hard thing to do when I have to pray rosary. What not have to, but want to pray rosary. So what I'll do is if I find that these thoughts keep surfacing, then I'll beg the question, in what way can I incorporate that thing into the the inspection of this mystery? So let's say it's something as silly as, you know, how I'm going to alter my Italian meatballs for the evening to my recipe. I might think, well, okay, you know, pick a mystery, the visitation. I might think, okay, well, Elizabeth would have received our lady, they would have had something to eat. Exactly. What would that have been like? What would they have talked about? You know, just kind of, instead of fighting the wave of distraction, ride the wave of distraction and gear it toward the direction of your meditation. And I find that to be helpful and useful. And you see things in different light and it allows you to explore different things. That's true. I was doing that recently with thinking about the resurrection. Obviously, this is the theme in the Easter season and and trying to keep coming back to that. So typically during Advent, I only pray the joyful mysteries of the resurrection. I don't do the different mysteries every day during the seasons. Lent, I only did the sorrowful. Easter, I only did the glorious. And my purpose in doing that is I just trying to drill down into the ones that were in whose season we are. And so I typically will think about the resurrection, I have to say almost like for all five mysteries. I'll mention, you know, the other ones, I'll mention them, but I kind of keep going back. And so sometimes I feel like a short, shrifted one. I know, exactly. I was just thinking about the rosary recently. We pray the rosary at the seminary on some days. And one of the guys in the seminary, he like always adds two or three Hail Marys to the decades. He's not keeping track? Or I think he always thinks he went too fast or he shortchanged something. And so he always adds one. Now we're up to adding two or three. Oh no. So it's funny because you could feel the room. I throw a flag in the chapel. You feel the room. I'm like, wait a minute. We were done with that decade. We're moving on. Right. And it's not because they're against praying. Don't virtue signal here. Do not make this about you. Flag on the field. But I went back to the resurrection. Again, talking about not just replaying the scene, but a lot of things being incorporated into that. And I was thinking about our Lord's eating with the, since you mentioned eating, eating with the apostles. And then my mind went back to Lazarus and thought to myself, what a strange thing.  You raised him to his natural life again. And so after they take the bandages off and the stench is gone, he takes a bath.  At some point, you got to go back and just have a meal because you've got a real body. And that body has to be nourished. So here we are at table. And despite the fact that we have this incredible scene of the anointing of our Lord and Judas with the money bag and the whole thing, what is all this stuff around that? I mean, if you came back from the dead with a natural life, you just have to go back to living the life you live before, which is not what we're looking for. Right. Like if anyone that died that your friends with that you care about, if they came back, on some level, yes, we'd be after the shock and amazement of the whole thing. We would take up our lives again. And you would be just as mean to me then as you are to me now. Once the shock was over. But you just get back into life, right? I'd be more justified. Yeah. Well, I might have, I might have seen some things that might make me better. All right. So before I go, I got a little exercise that maybe we can do this back and forth. All right. I'm going to give you a mystery of the rosary and a distracting thought. And I want you to very quickly tell me how you would, how you would turn it in the direction of the meditation of that mission. All right. Okay. So let's take, well, we've already done a lot of the glorious. So we'll go to the, we'll take the presentation of Jesus in the temple. Laundry. Laundry. You have to do your laundry later. That's easy. Right. So first of all, what in the world did our Lord wear? I mean, he's an infant, right? So, but you don't wear swaddling clothes at that point necessarily. And so the, the, there's our lady for the first time, this is a mother, right? Very first time that she's going to present her child in the temple. And then in her mind, how, how does she perceive that? How do you, how does, how does she subject the norms of perfection, but subject to the norms, consider how shall I dress my child? All right. So, all right, go ahead. How should, how should I dress? How should I dress? And maybe they didn't have any options. Or you get into the least. I'm pretty sure Joseph didn't think about what he was going to wear. The son of God, the virgin mother, Joseph, they're subject to the, the, the, the legal norms of the law. Absolutely. That's a good, that's a fun one. Yeah. All right. All right. So if it were the descent of the Holy Spirit and the distraction is I forgot to respond to those emails, that email that I had to respond to, without getting into the topic of the email, just dealing with emails. Well, I think I would run with the fact that I have to respond. So I'm receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit, you know, in what way would I have to respond to that? Do I have an, I have an obligation to, to receive and to respond accordingly. In what way would I have to forward that message, you know, to kind of go out with the apostate? Not just to get rid of it and get it off your plate. That's right. But half of emails is just, it really is just bad, it's badminton. It is. And, and not, and then the other part of it might be if, if the distracting thought was, don't forget to go do my email, then I might take it in a different direction. And what do we as a Holy Spirit help me remember things? Do the gift of the Holy Spirit, you know, and enable me to, or is, or am I actually putting onto the Holy Spirit that something that is meant to be managed on natural level that isn't really dovetailed with the gifts of the Holy Spirit or that would take? Well, that's a good question. And you guard an angel and all that, because at some point we, when we remember these things, we, we might think about them as points of stress. They don't have to be, right? I mean, if I'm actually in a mode of the spiritual life and, and living life the spirit, it's not something I can't ask him about and say, how should I do this? Should I do this? And what level does this take in my life?  And so it doesn't become this laborious thing. So that was our before we go. We modeled. Wow. How to. I always totally forgot what we were even doing before we go at this point. I just want to keep talking about this. I want to go through all the mysteries now. It's fun. It's a fun, you know what? You can do this in the car with your kids. You can do this in the car. You can. I mean, it's just something that's great to do with prayer.  Don't get wigged out. You don't pay attention to them in the same way you'd pay attention to a rabid barking dog. The more you yell at it, the more you pay attention to it, the more it's going to keep barking. The more you stare at it. Right? But if you take the content of it and draw that thing while leaving. It's like martial arts. Yeah. You take the energy that's coming at you. And you turn it back into the direction that you want. Which one is wish? Which one is the Sumo? That's Sumo. I'm not sure why I thought about that. You're looking at me. I think exactly why you're thinking about it.  We better get going. Oh, all right. So everybody has their homework. When they're praying the rosary, if distractions come their way, then they can give this exercise a shot and see how it works for them. And like I say, also just kind of playing game with the kids in the car. To say, all right, if you had an attraction coming your way and this was a mystery, it's a great way to have a conversation about the faith and to explore and to be curious. Because honestly, these types of conversations that we have, I mean, it's so much driven by intellectual curiosity, spiritual curiosity, search for the truth, trying to understand more. And this is the benefit of being such dunces as we are. Because we're never going to arrive at a place where we're satisfied. There's so much we don't know that, hey, you know, explore. It is a big sport. So if we're way down here at the dunce level of understanding compared to St. Thomas Aquinas, think of how much more we have turf to cover than he does. I've actually just spun it in a way that we're benefiting from our limits. You got to make your weaknesses work. Exactly. Very good. We'll talk to you all soon. God bless you. Ciao. Thanks for listening to this episode of From the Rooftop. For updates about new episodes, special guests, and exclusive deals for From the Rooftop listeners, sign up at rooftoppodcast.com. And remember, for more great ways to deepen your faith, check out all the spiritual resources available at tanbooks.com. And we'll see you again next time, From the Rooftop.


Good morning, well that's very, very loud, wow, good morning, as Ash Khan said, my name is Jim Hefner, I'm the co-owner of Just Float in Pasadena, like you said, we're the world's largest float center, we have 11 tanks, or in our case we have 11 cabins we have there. And what I would like to do is I'm going to share how I got to this point in just three and a half short years since my first float, and now standing before you, this is really kind of a dream come true, so thank you for letting me be here and share my story. So, little vision board here, kind of inspiration, fellow on the left there, Mr. Joe Rogan, can I see a show of hands, how many people first heard about floating through Rogan, or somehow other through Rogan, or at least one of their close friends through Rogan then got you to go do it? Okay, that's kind of what I thought, like maybe 20%. Yeah, just a great advocate for floating, UFC commentator, comedian, and podcaster, and has a float tank in his house, and just been a big advocate for the float industry, he's based down in LA, and about 20% of our new business comes because he referred them, or they heard him talk about it, so. And I'm very grateful to him, because through him is how I heard about floating for the very first time. It was about six years ago, heard him talking about it, talking about it, talking about it, never got a chance to do it, no float centers around me, what a surprise, how to drive an hour one direction to go float in this little lovely float center, and suffice to say that first float was profound. I stepped out of the float tank and was completely convinced that this was something that people needed to have access to. My personal development and sort of transformation along the way since I've been floating, and it's whatever sort of word or superlative you're going to try to come up with to describe floating, profound, and whatever, there's sort of consciousness, sort of connection, source, all these things. It's all of that, but the language really doesn't do it justice, and those of you that, of course, are running this room float sort of knows that, so. But anyway, so my background, how I got here just because I had my first float and I was blown away, I know I'm not the only one that's had that experience. My background, serial entrepreneur, my entire career, entire life for that matter, I was the kid in the neighborhood that was cutting lawns and babysitting and perhaps in high school, slung a bag of weed or two, but that's a separate conversation. Yeah, so over three decades, entrepreneur owned lots of different businesses, created them, beginning to end, ruined a couple of them, some gone sideways, but that's the story of the entrepreneur, of course. My education, both my degrees and business, including I have an MBA, getting into this space, sort of the wellness space or floating, totally new thing for me, not what I was doing before. So a little bit outside the box, but like I said, for my very first float, it was very obvious that this was something people need to have access to, and that's what we set out to do. Also on that day, my wife and I on the right there, as you can see, she's very pregnant. The time I was having my very first float, she was in a joining room, seven months pregnant with our daughter. While she was listening to her own heartbeat and baby's heartbeat sort of in sync with hers, I was in the joining room having this very profound moving thing, got out of the tank, and she was very moved with her experience, slightly different than mine. And on that moment, I mean, as we were driving home, called one of my business partners, Michael Rusko, and said, dude, I found this thing, he of course never heard of it, found this thing, there's a box, there's water, it's dark, oh shit, you go in there, it's so awesome.  And I didn't know what or how, we didn't set out to build the biggest float center, had no idea what that looked like. We sort of, you know, the early stage is kind of this fact-finding thing, we're all over the place.  So it's quite an honor. Thank you. Yeah, it's, you know, it's an honor to be in front of all of you and the, yeah, it was a long, long process. You know, besides the baby up there, as you can see, there's sort of a couple of other sort of action things. I didn't realize till after right about the time we opened, so it took about two and a half years from the time I had my first floats at the time we opened, we manufacture our own tanks now, we went, and you'll see some more of that. But it took me about two years right around the time that we're opening that why did I fall in love with floating so quickly? And I'll be brief, because it's a little bit self-indulgent, but I've been in sort of action or adventure sports my entire life, very attracted to these things. Used to think maybe it was the danger thing, you know, the adrenaline thing. But came to realize after about, you know, sort of two years and a couple hundred floats that the reason I fell in love with it so quickly was that there's very much about the flow state.  But that's why I fell in love with floating, you know, from the very beginning. It felt very familiar to me. I was home. I was home without the activity though. I was home without the danger. It was very accessible. So yeah, just I still so the journey begins. What does it look like? What are we going to do? My my first float top center there float lounge people down Laguna Beach. Two tank float center, the loveliest people that you'll ever meet that run a float center. And to this day, we've modeled everything that we do at Just Float. As far as the customer interaction and how we deal with people, we are we are appreciative of the fact that they are there. We welcome them. We love them. We want to help them with their practice. We are authentic. And they set the model for us on that. And I still think about them all the time. Of course, the float on boys, everybody knows about those guys within a week of my first float, had discovered who they were on the phone, what's going on. Probably three or four weeks later after that, my business partner and I, Mike, we're flying up to Portland, what the hell's going on going to meet these guys? What's their deal? Float away, Colin Ginny. And you'll see Colin's coming on after me. Very, very smart man loves floating knows a lot about building float tanks got to hold him with immediately and trying to pick his brain anybody that knew anything about floating. I wanted to know all about it. I knew I was going to be in it a little bit compulsive, perhaps, but that's me. Kevin and zero gravity. Thanks to him. Awesome. Same thing. Awesome float center down in Austin. Been around floating for a really long time gets it same thing, you know, really focused on the customer experience from the beginning to the end time they walk in the door to the time they leave your responsibility to be awesome at what you do. I know there's lots of probably perspective and new float center operators in here. So stay stay focused on your clients. That's gonna be a recurring thing. Float float float house boys. I'm sure they're here somewhere. You know, thanks to you for the inspiration for going big. Without you, we wouldn't have done it. We certainly did not try to one up you with your nine tanks in Vancouver just happened to be the size building that we got how many tanks we could get in there. That's how we ended up with 11. Nothing more than that. That's it. So thanks to you for the inspiration for doing it because we saw you guys doing it before us and we follow right behind you. So thank you. And the character on the bottom there, Justin Feinstein. Lots of you here to see him. He actually had his first float about the same time as I did. He's based based out of LA. And he and I struck up a fast friendship has I guess similar to me very big picture vision thing loves floating and really wants to push this along. So yeah, Justin has been a very dear friend and colleague since then and we while he was building his center in Tulsa, we were building in Pasadena and along the way we collaborated on just about everything and for that I'm very grateful how we do the soundproofing and how are you going to do your doors and how are you going to do the threshold when you go into your room. All of these details are important and he like me sweated every damn detail and that's why he has an awesome research play. So anyway, so moving into a new space like any good entrepreneur I'm going to evaluate risk. What are my risks? What's happening here? And the water quality was the one thing that struck me immediately as being a big concern. There was no data to support how people were disinfecting float tanks. What's happening here? Besides the disinfection and the client safety concern of risk. There was also the risk of the health regulator coming in and preventing us from opening our business. That was real risk. I was very concerned about that. I spent a lot of time trying to learn and I have zero scientific background, but spent a lot of time trying to learn about water quality and what what we were going to do about it. We hired we went through three different water sort of whatever recreational water consultants to help us understand what was going on. The first two we hired bromine chlorine you have to do it what like and I was just adamant from day one like I can't I can't do it and I can't do it not because what I learned later about the disinfection byproducts that are very dangerous to inhale. But the reason I didn't want to do it early on was just because the odor it was very simple. It can't smell in my float center. It's not going to smell like an indoor pool. I refuse to do that. I'm not going to do it. So of course UV you know UV peroxide was our solution or the thing that everybody would seem to be using the most and certainly with no reported health incidents that seem to make sense. Okay, we're going to go that direction. In that pursuit found Bob Crandall. Bob Crandall he's here somewhere. I'm sure he too has been an awesome mentor and teaching me about water quality. But what Bob's Bob's history and background he back in the 80s pioneered UV peroxide in the use of hot tubs and actually did a lot of research back on it back back then in the 80s and he was successful at getting I don't know like 150 regulators around the country and their jurisdiction to allow UV peroxide in the use of recreational water. So this was the guy and I happened to sort of and I found him. Yeah, it was through 15 people. I finally found him. He was in retirement and up in Sacramento and I you know get him on the phone finally and float tanks the thing and he's like what what what what what is all this I'm like well and so but now Bob's here for you know for a second year and he too has been a really great ally and advocate for the UV peroxide and yeah so for him I'm very grateful as well. Supportable CO2 meter measure CO2 in the atmosphere. A little bit geeky totally not my thing to be geeky or techie at all but a little bit a little bit here. CO2 is a byproduct of your own human respiration. It's not good in high concentrations. Ambient level in this room right now is about 400 parts per million. Put people in small enclosed spaces breathing for hour or longer CO2 levels build up toxic levels this is a problem probably one of the most controversial things I'm going to say all morning. How many of you have had float experiences around the 45 minute mark have had a feeling that it's getting stuffy in there. Holy shit that's what I thought by my whatever fifth float I'm thinking about what's happening in the float tank what's happening in the water what's happening in the air bought a portable CO2 meter and just drop drop it in there what I found from 400 ambient within 45 minutes at 10,000 parts per million within an hour 15,000 parts a million those are near toxic levels. This is not unique to that particular float tank I was in. I it I feel a little uncomfortable delivering this to the you know sort of the industry collectively but this is something we have to do better.  So in my opinion this is a very dirty little secret of the people in this room so if you manufacture float tanks or you're opening a float center please buy one of these learn how to use it understand it the air quality is important we have people in there for long periods of time pay attention to it. Float cabin nothing really to see here as I mentioned we began manufacturing our own tanks. Wind cabin style seem to make the most sense for us. The huge percentage of the clients that come to us are all first-time floaters want to make it very accessible to them step right into it certainly I have floated and everything that looks like this I have absolutely nothing against them but if you're going to buy style tanks like this please keep in mind that will limit the audience that you're going to get. Percentage I won't even speculate but I see this all the time in our center I have people come in they're talking to me about their first float and their first float experience and they see our rooms then we open the door in the cabin and like wow and they're like oh yeah I saw pictures of all those other ones and I couldn't do that there's just no way I hear this all the time and this is not a knock on any of these tanks I love floating all but just be aware if you're going to buy them you're not going to reach as wide as audience as you could. Electronics whatever guys build float tanks you know what these things look like my business partner Mike jumped in with automation engineer consultant that we hired knows way more about the stuff than me all I know is this stuff is magic and the shit works but so this kind of looks like a float center this is our building when we got it you know long long hallway lots of rooms look at some float tanks will fit just fine in there right well kind of not really take it all down our building is actually a big L shape so this is just the front part of our building here but as you can see and if you've already built a float center there's really nothing to see here it's not really that remarkable it's just knocking a bunch of walls down it's just dirty nasty hard work so there now it's all cleaned out shiny again the front part of a building the back part goes to the right there we have four tanks up here in our lounge and break room and reception everything is in the front now anyway so it's all cleaned out we're ready to go and so now we have to put some holes in the floor because that seemed like to make a lot of sense those of you that have built centers or are going to be building centers the showers are very difficult what are you going to do with the drains how are you going to get the water out of the room and down the drain from the shower so I wish you I wish you luck in that I have not figured out the perfect way to do this this is horribly expensive but a great way to do it we have big sloping changing rooms sloping showers and the big trench drain in the middle it's awesome works beautifully well horribly expensive walls going up whatever drywall going on the curvy wall there first group of six float tanks arriving of course they don't come assembled especially when you manufacture them so my partner Mike there 15,000 pounds of salt our first order pretty exciting again that stuff doesn't move itself our families families lots of sacrifice my partner Mike is wife Sarah on the left there my wife Annalisa our daughter Sierra over there everybody here in that picture great deal of sacrifice commitment for them I'm very appreciative especially my dear wife who tolerates my crazy ass ideas all the time and provides my compass for doing the right thing always there we go we're almost ready to go opening and that's what our float center looks like reception area so go there we go okay hallway nothing too remarkable there lounge nothing remarkable just kind of quick run through boys at helm thank you for the awesome software we looked at all the other ones out there you know spa booker and mbo we actually opened with front desk found them horrible unreliable the helm stuff for running a float center absolutely look at it very carefully because it's we found to be a godsend for us okay so I'm gonna have to wrap up and seem getting a little bit lower on time than I expected sorry for the ramblings so challenges for the industry in my my business going forward is things that I see three C's first we have consistency consistency in service delivery make sure your water is perfect make sure your air is perfect make sure you greet your clients warmly and all the time from beginning to end do a great job your business will do much better because of that communication how we talk about floating is a very interesting thing to your clients to the press in your marketing communication it's float therapy it's floatation therapy sensory deprivation isolation tanks please let these words go they're not doing us any favors anymore they really aren't they're far too almost for you know if we want to take this to the mainstream which is certainly my vision is to float everybody I want it that that has to be addressed also rest the acronym rest scientists guys love it I totally get it it's fine it's you know it's clumsy it's clumsy in your marketing it's clumsy to your clients if you are going to use rest sort of get rid of the restricted word and just use reduced that's actually Justin's advice we of course talk and sweat about all of these details competition competition has arrived it's all here it's okay nobody knows what floating is yet news so when float center opens near you don't get worked up call them greet of course I haven't called the float center that just opened her up so I apologize I'm going to talk to you guys later been busy it's inevitable it's going to happen again nobody knows what floating is reach out with them collaborate on what you're going to do collaborate on your communication on your marketing efforts expand the pie don't get worked up in your little the little slice of pie that you've already developed that's not going to help we're not floating enough people yet we're just getting going this is the beginning of all of this think big think long term think float everyone big percentages before I get too far off I just had of course I'm going to totally freestyle and the whole thing and I'm not even looking at my notes I'm sure I left something out but one thing just occurred to me also in the communication I'll be very brief on this things that are very controversial the things also I think should be removed from our our language we use describing this and I apologize for the people I'm going to offend Mr. John Lilly awesome thank you for the invention very beautiful I am incredibly appreciative for the gift that you gave us however far too controversial for us to touch let it go please do yourself to favor so in closing many of our clients are in need of healing not just relaxation floating is not just special it's sacred we are able to be transformed through floating and we might get and we get to share that gift with others the most successful float centers are infused with this idealism from the top down it's become part of their culture focus on your own floating practice and be present love your clients that's why you're there support their well-being and your business success will follow thank you


This 2018 Ford F-250 Crew Cab Short Box Platinum is stock number 12267Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, near New and used heavy duty truck headquarters. This 2018 Ford F-250 Platinum has the 6.2 liter V8 engine. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. Shadow Black is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality, condition, and options of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and want to subscribe to our YouTube channel, in the lower part of the screen, bottom right, is a subscribe button to our YouTube channel. 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What's good y'all? It's your boy Ross back again with another video. So we got to talk about what happened that night of champions Y'all know I got to give my thoughts and opinions on the show Shout out to everyone that was a part of the live stream. You guys were amazing I know Doug wasn't there for the most of it He was you know at his daughter's track meet and then when he was able to show up He had to take care of something important off camera. So that's why he missed the last half of the last match But nevertheless, he would have been there if he could have you know, but he had to take care of some family related things So I appreciate him for even just coming rushing all the way back home Just to try to be a part of the of the show But hey man, you guys were awesome and amazing in the chat and you know, I appreciate y'all just showing up Man, so we got to talk about what happened on this show as you can tell I lost my voice so that usually means That's a good thing. All right, so let's let's go through the list of matches It's not gonna take me long until we get to the last few matches But we're gonna go through I'm gonna talk about what happened You know, you know just what happened in each match and my thoughts and opinions at the match going on And we're gonna go through that and you know try to get this over with not trying to take too much of y'all time All right, so let's start with the world heavyweight championship tournament final Seth Rollins versus AJ Styles Honestly this match. I was hoping it would be a little bit better But it was enjoyable. Nonetheless Both of these guys are amazing in the ring. So to see these guys go back and forth It wasn't a clear decisive win between these guys will a decisive battle It wasn't Seth Rollins was coming, you know had the advantage or AJ had the advantage It kind of seemed even for the most most part one person would get in some great offense and the other person would counter with some great offense I did like the spot where AJ Styles was able to reverse hit a reversal and put Seth Rollins in the pedigree. I thought that was a pretty cool spot I want to say at one moment AJ Seth Rollins dives outside the ring through the ropes to hit AJ But he ends up landing on his knee. They went with a a storyline injury and pretty much AJ was working on Seth's knee trying to incapacitate him or whatnot and It was it was really just Seth trying to counter AJ as much as he possibly could and I really do appreciate that But ultimately I think a lot of us kind of predicted that Seth Rollins was gonna win this match I didn't have a problem with Seth winning it even though Yes, it was kind of predictable, but it you know, it made sense that he's kind of been the workhorse Guy for Monday Night Raw and he's been putting over a lot of people These past few years and honestly had some of the best matches on Monday Night Raw So I'm okay with him winning. They'll be interested to see what feuds he go through has going forward as the new Champ New World Everyway Champ, but the match was serviceable. I was expecting it to be a little bit better Maybe match of the night potentially, but ultimately it wasn't it was still a solid match. It was okay I enjoyed it for what it was and It was a solid opener looking forward to seeing what Seth does as the new World Heavyweight Champion. All right So let's get into Trish Stratus versus Becky Lynch now this match it started off a little bit fast pace They were pretty much brawling, but it definitely slowed down in pace. It was a little sloppy at times There was it was points where they weren't connecting on their moves smoothly in transition So it looked kind of sloppy other than that it was okay It was okay. It's not something that I would go back and watch I think the ending of the match is honestly what makes the match that much better. So There's a spot where we're not even spot is a situation where Trish is looking under the ring You're trying to figure out what she's looking on a ring the ref sees it Becky Lynch goes out there to try to get her from, you know, whatever she's doing under the ring or whatnot and that's when Zoe starts the NXT Caller comes out and hits her with her finishing move the ref doesn't see it because he's arguing with Trish He said would have finished and moved and I keep messing it up is Zee 360 I keep saying zero 360 but is Zee 360 hits her with the finishing move puts her back in the ring and Trish capitalized with the one two three pin and Trish wins with the help of I guess someone she Enlisted to help her in Zoe starts and what was a crazy visual is because she got hit with that brutal looking finishing move Becky Lynch's nose Legitimately was busted open and remind me of when Becky Lynch Ended up getting her nose broke by Nia Jackson You had that infamous shot of her in the crowd with her nose broken looking all badass and that kind of started her Megapush Intentionally it gave me shade to that because now she's looking up the ramp. She's bleeding profusely because of that move and honestly That was a cool visual. I like that. I was originally one of them people that was hoping Becky would win It'd be a one-and-done situation But no it looks like they're gonna continue this and I do see Leader getting involved to help Becky because Becky's in a two-on-one situation So I do think leader will get involved and we'll probably have a tag team match with leader and Becky Lynch versus Trish and In Zoe starts it and this is good to get Zoe starts in a high profile women's few so the crowd can get used to her and and you know is one of those type of things where crowd can get used to her and You know, she can kind of get a little bit more exposure because she's had a few matches on Monday night raw. She didn't really get Too much interaction Honestly But is one of those type of things where hopefully this gives her a little bit more To do and people get more familiar with her So match didn't really too much care for but the ending was great So I definitely enjoyed the ending the Intercontinental Championship match Gunther versus Mustafa Ali I'm gonna call him Mustafa get a life or get a life Ali get a life kid Ali That's what his name is Coin by Brock up to this point in the show stop Ali Gunther. This was very very very good Gunther definitely made Mustafa Ali look like he could actually win this match Shout out to him. He's always good with smaller opponents making you believe they could actually win But we all kind of knew Gunther was gonna get the win here and he didn't have to cheat to do it he did it legitimately clean which I appreciate and Mustafa had a great show him, but we knew he wasn't gonna win but still fun match Gunther is making that Intercontinental Championship look so good, especially with the matches He's been having so great match enjoyable up to the point of at this show This was the best match of the night so far. All right, uh Let's talk about Oscar versus Bianca Belair Um It's not as good as the WrestleMania match, but honestly this match to me Well, it just I don't know it wasn't bad like by any means they were putting on a in ring wise It looked good, but at the same time, I don't know I just I wasn't really as invested as I wanted to be It kind of fell flat the crowd was more so pro Oscar You know, a lot of people were chanting for Oscar and Oscar is gonna kill you and booing rear of Bianca Belair Which was another surprising situation. So I don't know at the beginning of this match I'm thinking at some point they gotta turn Bianca Belair heel, but The way this match ends is not the case So I'm gonna kind of skip to the ending because that's really where most of the exciting stuff happens I want to say So Oscar tried to hit her with the mist in the corner, but she dodged it Oscar tried to hit Bianca Belair with the mist, but she dodged it. So Oscar once again while Bianca and the ref is not looking she goes to the edge of the ring and she sprays the mist so she spins the Mist on her fingers So when Oscar picks I mean when Bianca picks up Oscar for the KOD She wipes it on her eyes And now Bianca can't see kicks kicks Bianca in the back of the skull for the one two three and That's crazy The one two three just like that.  It was if it was a real surreal situation I think people are okay with it. It was kind of a you know, I mean it makes sense because Oscar is a heel I didn't really have a problem with her losing I think her losing at WrestleMania probably would have been the better choice or whatnot But nevertheless, it was I was not expecting that. She's the only person that lost Night of champions like that lost their championship. She's the only person one of the longest reigning Women's champions of all time finally lost to Oscar because Oscar cheated. So The ending was shocking. I don't have a problem with Oscar being the champ as a heel champion The question is what they're gonna do here. I'm sure this feud is not over between Bianca and Oscar And maybe they give Oscar a long lengthy title reign. We will see I don't know how this is gonna play out But I was very surprised by it. So it wasn't a bad thing I was just very surprised that this actually happened the way it happened, but it made sense story line wise and It's gonna be very interesting to see but I am happy that Oscar is finally champ So we'll see what they do with her But I do not think Bianca is going heel anytime soon.  I don't think Bianca needs to win it back, but we'll see how it goes going forward Real Ripley versus Natalia is not much to talk about real Ripley proceeds to give Natalia the beats Natalia barely got any offense in one two three That's it I'm not even mad with that because I honestly I think the Oscar and Bianca. Well, I think the Trish and Trish and Becky Lynch match was a little bit too long I think they could have shortened that up to get to the finish Oscar and Bianca I feel like it was a little bit too long could have shortened that up to get to the finish this one Five minutes one. I was okay with it still not a it wasn't really a match But I don't even know why Natalia was even out there in the first place and she got squashed on her birthday Happy birthday, Natalia. Get a life Like Brock says get a life Natalia now. Happy birthday to you, but yeah There's nothing to talk about that. That's not a match anyone will remember real one as expected squash fashion Okay, cool.  I have seen some people complain on Twitter that it kind of ruined it They're giving Cody this Superman hero like Presence and it's like I Guess you can say that because he was able to fight back But the one thing that they did try to make believable in this whole situation because Cody's basically coming out There's a one-armed individual is that the cast was reinforced with titanium So it essentially my man is out there with the winter soldier treatment. He got the vibranium arm That's pretty much what they went with the cast is so Hard and tough that he can you know, it'll be used potentially as a weapon Michael Cole didn't say that but once he said it was Infused with titanium I was gonna use it as a weapon and that was really the only way you was able to make somewhat believable that Cody could somehow Get some type of offense in I honestly thought he was gonna get killed and murdered tonight, but he didn't he fought back There was a lot of good moments a lot of teasing moments like Cody could get the job done Like it was it was it was it was one once he started using the arm out of it Okay, Cody's trying to fight his way out there. They really made you somewhat believe maybe he can get it done now Well, I gotta take me some water hold on hold on Now here's the crazy thing It went with the the ultimate baby face spot. There was a point where Cody tried to roll Brock up into the same type of role he did at backlash, but it didn't work So he tried it again try to roll them up on the shoulders But then he ended up rolling over too far now Brock is in a situation in a position where he can't He can't get out of it. Cody can't get out of it. So he has to scoot to get to the ropes He's able to get to the ropes just barely they went with the traditional passing out spot They did it twice. He was able to get to the ropes the first time He was able to hit the crossroads Three times on Brock. He wasn't old to me label to keep Brock down Brock hit one of five and then He got him in the same Same, I believe you're the Camorra lock. He got him in the lock again Or whatnot this time he was too far away from the ropes and Cody pretty much passes out from the pain They were gonna have Cody tap out.  Well, he just passes out from the pain Which I kind of expected and then Brock proceeds to have to hold on like he was he just we're gonna let it go Or what not and then he decides to let it go. So this is one of those things where I Actually surprisingly enjoyed the story a little bit more in this match only because I Came in thinking Brock is going to kill him And I was concerned on how bad Cody was gonna get mangled but this time Cody was able to somewhat Use his disadvantage as an advantage.  I get it. I get it But I don't think this was what some people were quoting as a super Cena situation I don't think it's that me personally. I don't feel like it was that because Super Cena would have won This this in my opinion was not a win situation because we knew he wasn't going to win But you didn't want him to go out there and just get completely Completely destroyed so I'm okay with how this played out me personally I'm okay with this and honestly, this was a very fun match And I'm looking forward to seeing I guess what they do with the next match I'm sure they're gonna have one more match I was pitching maybe an I quit match because we know Cody's not gonna want to say I quit and we know Brock Listener. I don't think he's ever said I quit so that would be interesting if they did have their final match That's I quit match. I think that would be cool. Let me know what type of matches Would y'all want them to be or want them to have as their last match And then we get to the main event the tag team championship match between Kevin Owens Sami Zayn versus Roman Reigns and solo and this was easily match of the night. Oh My god Roman Talking his trash per usual Sammy coming out there to like just a great standing ovation the crowd Went good cloud have been pretty lively during the Brock and Cody match in the goon through Mustafa Lee match And a little bit for the Seth Rollins and AJ Styles match, but the crowd really turned it up I mean they really turned it up For this match Kevin Owens say me saying this call was excellent Roman was getting booed out the building. It was great Roman talking his trash Saying he's gonna be new tag champs and we've seen their type of matches Sammy is very good at selling.  Have we is it kind of formulated when Roman Reigns matches involved in the ref getting hit? Yeah, we knew but we knew that was gonna have to be one of the ways to get Jimmy and Jay involved so I Just gotta talk about this cuz we're gonna get straight to the nitty gritty here There was a man when we when we get to the point where the ref gets speared into oblivion, right? He's knocked out at This point Kevin Owens, this was so cool So Sammy tries to hit well Sammy hits Roman with the Superman punch Then Sammy's going for the spear But then he gets hit with the Superman punch and then Kevin Kevin Owens ends up hitting Roman with the spear starts beating the crap out of him takes him out the ring throws him to the ring step He's moving furniture off the table. He gets Roman on the table. Oh Kevin Owens about to send my boy Roman to the gulags. Usos come out of nowhere. Usos are beating up Kevin Owens giving him the beats then The Uso's getting a ring starting to get beaten up Sammy's ain't they go for the stereo kicks and they accidentally kicked solo So Roman comes to he sees the usos out there He sees that they kicked solo Romans pissed he gets in the ring He starts disparate. He he disrespects Jimmy.    We we are the ones You know say he's basically like I'm not taking this from Roman no more. We are the ones We the day ones the usos are not him And he told him I'm doing something you should have did a long time ago They made sure they picked that audio up. I'm Jimmy's telling what him he hit me Uso is telling Jay I'm doing something you should have did a long time ago And he kicked them one more time because the crowd cheering one more time and he kicked them straight in the face right out the ring all it was beautiful and Jay's like trying to figure out what to do and she's like come on bro. Let's go Let's go bro So then walking up the ramp solo gets back in the ring ends up Getting the stunner for his troubles and it ends up eating a haloova kick and then the ref Comes to or I believe it's another ref and for the one two three as Sami Zayn pain solo, Sokoa And that's how it ends and it was great and you see a shot of Roman just in this belief You see a shot of Sami Zayn holding up the titles talking trash to Roman Roman doesn't know what to say or what to do like he's just talking his trash You can't have these these are ours and You see solo. I mean you see the Usos looking down the ramp out Roman. Oh Chef's kiss 10 out of 10 storytelling. This was great This is great This was truly Fantastic, I enjoyed this so damn much And now I'm looking forward to smack smack down because we're gonna have the thousand day celebration But it's gonna be some BS now because now the thousand day celebration is not just gonna be everybody celebrating Roman It's safe to say Jimmy's done Jimmy he's over it and the question is at what point will Jay finally say screw it I'm done with you too Roman. That's what we're waiting on because Jay is still in this like what's going on But Jimmy's over it and I once again, I said this yesterday on my smack down Review of the of the Jimmy Usos segment. I said this yesterday Jimmy was always reluctant in the beginning to join the Usa Join bro or Roman he was reluctant to acknowledge him because he initially thought this this didn't make sense So it's coming full circle that Jimmy is the one to say you should I'm doing something You should have did a long time ago and for him to kind of be over this bloodline situation It's very good. How's come full circle with that? So now we're waiting on Jay to finally align himself. I do think they're probably gonna set up a Roman Reigns solo so Koa versus Jimmy and Jay Uso because Jimmy and Jay that actually didn't we kick solo so solo he may be upset about that He's probably going to be upset about that. So I do think that's what they're going with Roman and solo Versus Jimmy and Jay Uso. I think that's how it's gonna go down I think that's how it's going to go down And maybe at that point maybe solo will come to his senses because There I can see them maybe beating up on them and then Solo comes in the senses because it's like, bro. That's my family I'm not about to do that to them and maybe solo turns on Roman Now that would be good that would be good because now Romans truly gonna be almost by himself pretty much gonna be by himself So we'll see how that plays out, but I do think that's where they're going towards the future But other than that, this was a solid show It could have been better the women's matches unfortunately didn't hit The some of the ending for the matches were pretty dope I think but for the most part they didn't really hit like I was expecting to but overall it was a decent show Like I said on my on the live stream. I gave it a 8 out of 10 The goon third Mustafa Ali match in the Intercontinental Championship match was great Brock Lesnar versus Cody was great The world heavyweight championship tournament final match Seth Rollins and AJ Styles. That was pretty good And the tag team championship match Kevin on Sami Zayn Roman Reigns and solo So called was chef's kids fantastic man. This was Overall a decent show. It was 8 out of 10. I enjoyed it There's a lot of good matches on there. That's worth your time watching if you missed it man So comment down below Let me know what you rate the show on a scale of one to ten. What was your favorite match? What was your least favorite match? And what are you looking forward to going forward on Monday night raw and Friday's Friday night Smackdown this upcoming week But I appreciate all the love and support you guys have shown on our channel Well 250 K now I'm sitting here on the speedy YouTube wrestling champion world. Appreciate y'all kicking me see our next