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.

No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.

And Dale Hummel.

Contrast is always a must.

Now on with the show.

Welcome to Beyond the Ring.

This is Dale Hummel alongside co-star Ryan Rash.

What is up?

Ryan, how was your weekend?

I had a great weekend.

It was so nice to be at an actual show with live animals and live people and live weather, in fact.

It was great. It was fabulous.

And this was your first show since lockdown.

This was my first show since I judged the

Oyee Hogg Show in four hours when they shut it down. Yes, this is my first one. It was in

Alt Colorado and it was called the last minute jackpot show. It was under two tents and Brad

Anderson's backyard and I judged hogs the first day and

lambs and goats second day. I had a great time. Very, very enthusiastic kids and families to be back

in a real live show ring. Sunday, it got a little sketchy there because I think they said

30 miles north of us it was actually

snowing and really high winds with the rain coming in on the tent sideways and everybody was

drenched and we lost the mic and electricity but you know what I made it work and we all still

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