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Do not pack your suitcase over the 50-pound limit.

Now on with the show.

Welcome to Beyond the Ring. This is Dale Hummel without co-star Ryan Rash.

The gay is under the weather.

We'll say that maybe he had that battle we talked about last week with his suitcase.

That was a very well-fought battle that did not go well.

Last week he was on with us, I think he was doing better.

And against his doctor's advice, he decided to travel to Oklahoma City.

That does not appear to be something that went well. And I can assure you that he's in a little bit of

pain and would be on here if he could. But right now, it's a little bit of a challenge for him.

I think he'll be back sooner than later,

I should say, for next week's episode. With that said, this is going to be a shortened version.

I've been on the road since Christmas Eve to the Arizona National and then straight to

Oklahoma City for the Cattlemen's Congress. So I've been detached completely from current events, and the good part of that is I have

no idea what Sleepy Joe and the Chameleon have screwed up this week. I hope it's not terrible,

but I'm sure we'll get caught back up on that. Next week when Ryan is back, and I also,

we're going to make it up to you by giving you a beyond the circus

here in the next two weeks to kind of make up for this shortened version that we're

going to have today.

Speaking of that, it's interesting when Ryan was planning on doing the podcast or at least

trying to until just a couple hours ago and he said he just can't make it, I do want to make a comment that when we jump on here each week and sometimes we complain that,

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