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.

You will never influence anyone by being like everyone else.

And Dale Hummel.

Dream big, take initiative, and never stop learning.

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 know you're in California. Appreciate you

waking up early, even though Clifton and I were running a little behind. It's fine. I'm just

here for y'all's entertainment about you anyway.

Well, I'm going to, I watched 30 minutes of news in the last week.

I wish I wouldn't have. I have a little bit of a sinking feeling in my gut that we're not in a good position right now.

You've got Putin, Russia basically, sending out a proxy, a former advisor, former president.

I don't even know what is, I couldn't even tell you his name off the top of my head, but basically warning Ukraine allies.

He might as well just say the U.S.

He could throw Europe in there, but he's directing it at us, that they have supersonic

missiles and they can attach nuclear warheads to any of these missiles at any time, probably

already have them there, that capabilities are very far-reaching.

So they throw that out there.

And don't for once believe this isn't Putin.

Nothing is going to come out of Russia's

social media or propaganda without Putin of not only approving it, but it was all him. His fingerprints

are everywhere. He's completely dictating what's coming out of that country regarding foreign policy.

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