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.

Don't come from me unless I send for you. And Dale Hummel. We know today is all about Ryan.

Now on with the show. Welcome to Beyond the Ring. This is Dale Hummel with co-star Ryan Rash.

How you doing? I haven't spoke to you

for a little while here, but there's been a lot of things taking place this weekend. On a positive

note, I've been getting texts and videos of those competing in some virtual shows and feedback

that's been very positive. And I know this is something new and it's a very touchy subject with you. So I'm going to

exclude you a little bit from this. That would be a very wise idea at the point. For those of you

that are unaware, Ryan has been locked in or locked on Gayhill for approximately a week

studying videos in pictures for virtual shows nonstop. And I,'s, it's begun to get to him a little bit.

I have been through over 1,200 videos in the last seven days. That is impressive. I commend you.

I don't think I could sit through that many of them, but there's a lot of young showmen out

there that hopefully appreciate it. And and it's it's giving them something

to do and that's kind of where we're at right now with that there is a little discussion about

underground shows and i have some positive news on that so do i some few of yours than i don't tell you

about mine i don't know that we're going to agree on what's positive. Yeah, we're not, but that's fine.

Okay, mine is, there was a hog show held, and I'm going to talk about it.

It originally was underground, but it's come out on Facebook, and the gentleman in charge is posting about it.

But an underground hog show in the state of Indiana last weekend that was held very successfully.

I believe it started off as an underground show, but word got out. To my knowledge, the mayor and the health department of that town joined in and actually had people there observing the show to make sure it was staying within the guidelines.

And I believe right now in Indiana, it's 25 people or less.

The show was orchestrated by invitation only in order to keep numbers down,

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