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 mistake my kindness for blindness.

And Dale Hummel.

Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.

Now on with the show.

Welcome to Beyond the Ring.

This is Dale Hummel, along with co-star Ryan Rash.

Hello, hello, hello.

It is a eventful week, Ryan, on the world stage, I should say.

Maybe not so much here in Gabriel, Illinois, but on the world stage.

I'm busy.

I'm just telling you.

You're not involved in the Ukraine of all, of everything.

No, but like, okay, I just have to bring this up again. And I know that, like, I'll get hate mail.

And I don't care because I get it every day. So it doesn't bother me. But, like, I think the president of Ukraine is putting up a valiant effort. All this is very inspiring.

They are making this man out to be like the hero of the century. This man is a corrupt, corrupt individual.

Now, I did a little bit of research on that,

and he ran on the platform of cleaning up the corruption. I do not know that he did, but that was the perception that I was getting. Okay. Well, I don't know that. I don't even know how long he's

been in office. Not long. I respect what he's doing right now.

I agree with that. I said that. But all the other has just been completely erased.

But I'm not sure he was the corrupt one. I think that was his predecessor. I don't know this. I'm speaking off of just very limited knowledge base on that one. Maybe I'm hoping that he

wasn't. How's that? Does that count? That's more like it. But anyway, it's possible. I do those

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