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.

Fortune favors the bold and the brave.

And Dale Hummel.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Now on with the show.

Welcome to Beyond the Ring.

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

Hello, hello, hello. Ryan, I don't have a lot of current events, so I always fall back onto my China, China, China, but I'm sure you've got some.

No, I don't have any. Illinois State Fair, I do have that, a slight announcement to make.

We spoke about it with Chase and Fuget last week. Chase did get a steak on a stick, far less appealing than he remembered. Fuget landed a fried key lime pie on a stick, said it was amazing. I went back to the traditional pork chop on a stick, which is great, never, never fails whatsoever.

So I don't know about that everything's better on a stick is what Fugett had made a strong point last week.

I can't confirm that by any means.

And I did see that Trump got his passports back.

Yes, he did get his passports return this morning.

I assume they didn't take them thinking he's going to flee the country, but what else,

why else would you load a passport up?

Not one, three.

Yes.

Which I don't understand that part either.

I don't know how, I guess, if you, I have one passport and an expired one.

He had two of them were his last two expired passports, and the one is the one that he got when he became president that doesn't expire.

Got it. I was unaware of that type of passport.

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