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.

I'm nobody's emergency contact because I am the emergency.

And Dale Hummel.

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Welcome to Beyond the Ring. This is Dale Hummel, along with

co-star, Ryan Rash. Hello, hello, hello. Ryan, we are home from State Fair. I know you thought it was so

good that we could stay down there for 10 extra days. Yes, I love it when you stay there for 10 extra days and do nothing.

It is a wonderful experience, all the above, but being away from home that long is a

challenge.

Our youngest daughter, Katie, is Sutton Butler and Chase heads to Kay State this week,

actually tomorrow.

You know what that means, Ryan?

We will have a very large,

empty house. I'm sure you're just crushed. I don't know how this is going to go.

You don't even like your children half the time. You use them as slaves. They provide a lot

of labor and I'm going to miss. That is what you will miss.

It's the slave labor.

No, I will miss it all.

But they're being gone as, I mean, obviously, we just had Katie in the house this last year or two, and that has been good.

But Chase was close enough to home that he would come home on many weekends,

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