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 can't stop the waves that you can learn to surf.

And Dale Hummel.

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Now on with the show.

Welcome to Beyond the Ring.

This is Dale Hummel, along with co-star Ryan Rash. Hello, hello, hello.

I just don't know where to start, Ryan, after our brief conversation. You think I make this shit up.

This is what comes across my phones. Okay, let's just start with that. I made the comment to Ryan

that Newsom appointed a senator. I said, I think that's all I said.

I said, Newsom appointed a black queer advocate to Phil Diane Feinstein's Senate seat.

And you went insane. Those two adjectives were necessary in describing.

They are not my words. That is the notification from CNN. They did not even have the

lady's name or that she was a female. It was black queer advocate. I saw Fox News and it had the

lady's name. I just cannot remember it. I'm just telling you again. I just say it said nothing.

Do you think queer advocate is in my vocabulary naturally?

I do not know.

I just don't know.

You literally don't even think I'm gay.

No, you're something else.

So yeah, queer advocate just rolls off my tongue all the time.

Okay.

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