Welcome to Beyond the Ring, a podcast that covers all things in the stock show industry, the informative to the insane starring Ryan Rash.

I won't be remembered as someone who kept their mouth shut.

And Dale Hummel.

No, no comment.

Now on with the show.

Welcome to Beyond the Ring.

This is Dale Hummel with co-star Ryan Rash.

Hello, hello, hello.

Ryan, it's good to hear your voice.

You just heard it like 20 minutes ago.

Yeah, but I just know, this is so much clearer than what we get on a cell phone or anything like that.

Okay.

I'm going to apologize in advance.

My current events this week is a bit limited to the Illinois

State Fair or because of, I should say. But I did see J.B. Pritzker got close enough to get a picture,

not necessarily a selfie. Did not get arrested. Hold on. Stop. So I will start because I don't, I still haven't told my mother this, but

she doesn't do social media. Thank God. So she is going to hear this.

I don't think she has because she hasn't said anything. But anyway, so I am in, I was in Utah

last week judging a fair. And we all know that I don't stay in the towns that the fairs happened because, and people ask me this, and I thought I've explained this, but evidently I haven't.

So they didn't listen, but I will explain why.

I don't stay in the towns that I judge shows by and large, unless it's a very big town or major metropolitan city because of multiple reasons.

Number one, when you go somewhere to eat or you go somewhere to get something to drink, all this time.

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