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.

Not sure if I'm going to heaven at this point in my life all I can hope for is the low humidity point of hell.

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.

Hey, Ryan, it's an exciting day here in Illinois, a little cold, a little rainy.

Had a nice trip to the American Royal and wanted to make a few comments about that. And I know

that you and I were just shocked that you want to make comments. I do. I have a very strong opinion

on the fact that Glen Allen Phillips, along with the staff there at the American Royal, were

able to pull this off. The effort that was put in to make that happen. And as an exhibitor,

or the parent of an exhibitor or exhibitors, the only thing that I saw that was different is the

fact that you were asked to wear a mask. I'm not saying that there weren't other things, maybe in the

protocol that I was physically unaware of,

but in terms of just normal show activity, they're asking you to social distance as best you can.

And that is a challenge at a livestock show, obviously.

But they were asking you to wear a mask and reminded you very firmly a few times.

And I think there were exhibitors that were

very put out on that. And Ryan, you remember many times and going back to some to some of your

social media post, I'm a little bit put out that most exhibitors came out and said, hey, we'll

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