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 do not prance. I sashay. I am not a Clydesdale.

And Dale Hummel.

The world is upside down, but we are all still moving forward.

Now on with the show.

Welcome to Beyond the Ring. This is Dale Hummel, along with the world famous Ryan Rash.

Hello, hello, hello.

Ryan, as everybody knows, the world is upside down.

It's easy to go negative, but we're going to start off this episode on a positive note.

Tell me about your weekend.

Well, let's see.

Friday, I flew to Ohio, and I judged a sheep show in

Ohio, and then I flew back and I judged a cattle show in Oklahoma. So it was very eventful.

And you've been judging shows now for two or three weeks, and some of us are just getting

out to our first shows. And I had an amazing weekend.

My daughter, Tara, and I had the opportunity to go up to Wisconsin-Angus State Preview

show to judge that show.

And just being at a livestock event that's semi-normal and getting a chance to be back

in that environment, it feels good.

And when I say semi-normal,

and this was one of the earlier shows for the state of Wisconsin, they had some restrictions,

limited to 50 people in the show ring building at a time. They were showing off the trailers.

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