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.

When I say I'm delicate, I don't mean like a flower. I mean like a bomb.

And Dale Hummel.

Dream big, act now.

Now on with the show.

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

hello, hello. Ryan, I've been dealing with a virus of some sort on my computer. I reached out

to Clifton earlier. I'm getting pop-ups on the entire right side of my screen. I close them. It takes

me to a Tetris game. There you go. No, I don't. I hope we can get through the recording, but it's, it's not good. It's, it's kind of like the government shutdown. I think the computer is shutting down and it may never reopen. I don't know what to tell you about all that. I also don't know what to tell you about government shutdown because I don't think it's ever going to end. I think they're just going to stay like that.

Have you heard anything recently that may indicate it's over?

Uh-uh.

No.

No.

I've heard very little.

I did not understand the filibuster very well or the nuclear option I keep hearing

about.

Are you familiar with either of those?

I mean, I know what a filibuster is and all that, but I don't know how they're going to use it to make this work.

My understanding, and I could be very wrong, that the Democrats are using the filibuster to block the temporary vote to leave the government open.

I think that's happened 12 times now.

And basically what it does, it delays a process and they have to have 60 votes to overcome that.

However, there is, I believe there's an end in sight.

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