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.

I no longer identify as a hot mess. I prefer the term spicy mess.

And Dale Hummel.

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

Now on with the show.

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

hello, hello. I am going to let you take us down the current event road today. Well, your boy,

J.D. Vance, killed the Pope. So there you go. I knew that's where you're going. I knew it. I'm

glad I've been absent from the news, even more than ever before, I believe.

I'm just saying, like...

He did not kill the Pope.

Well, basically, the Pope didn't want to meet with Jady Vance.

This is all for the record.

You don't know that?

Yes, this is all on record.

On social media, right?

On a meme. No, this is like real record. On social media, right? On a meme.

No, this is like real.

J.D. goes over there.

The Pope does sit with him, but like he really doesn't converse.

But anyway, and then like six hours later, the Pope dies.

So you tell me.

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