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.

They told me I couldn't. That's why I did.

And Dale Hummel.

Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.

Now on with the show.

Welcome to Beyond the Ring. This is Dale Hummel, along with co-star Ryan Rash. Hello,

hello, hello. You are in the happy stage at the Miss America of everything.

I am in a great mood. I am in Miss America and it's been wonderful. It's not over, but it's been wonderful so far. And the best

news is the rumor going around the pageant is that it is moving to Dallas, Texas next year.

I will just be in heaven if it is. Like, I mean, nothing against Unconsville, Connecticut, where I've been this past three years.

You explained to me, you're kind of in a compound and you just don't go.

Literally.

Yeah, you just don't go.

Like, it's an hour and a half to anything.

Like, you're in this compound and like they have 40 restaurants and whatever.

But yeah, no.

But like, if it's in Dallas next year, like they say it's going to me, oh, my God, I'm just going to be the happiest little gay child in the history of the world.

So back to the compound that you're in, obviously the contestants are coming through the lobby up and down. Do you run into the contestants?

Well, no, the contestants are all under security. But, I mean, you run the EDs and their parents and stuff like that.

But now, the only time you get to see the contestants are on stage or they have a visitation

each night after prelims where you can spend like 30 minutes talking to your girl.

But I don't do that.

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