Welcome to Beyond the Ring, a podcast that covers all things in the stock show industry from the informative to the insane, starring Ryan Rash.

You will never make history in your comfort zone.

And Dale Hummel.

The gay has disrupted my comfort zone.

Now on with the show.

Welcome to Beyond the Ring. This is Dale Hummel, alongside co-star Ryan Rash.

Hello, hello, hello, hello. Ryan, did you hear about the new marketing campaign to get tourism back to Chicago?

What? Wait, they think people are going back to Chicago? They're trying to get people back to Chicago.

Mayor Beetlejuice, Lightfoot, has put in place free shopping on Michigan Avenue after 10 p.m.

That's funny.

Dale made a...

It might even work.

See, everybody says you're so negative.

Look at you.

You made a joke.

That's good, Dale.

And I thought you'd be there.

I think we've got Gucci.

We've got all the high-end stores that are on Michigan Avenue.

Well, I didn't see a woman on the Fox News the other day that was explaining to people that she didn't care if people shoplifted a Gucci or a handbag or anything like that as long as that meant they got to eat.

Now, I'm still trying to figure out how stealing leather goods is going to keep them from being hungry.

I think they then sell it at a...

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