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 and Dale Hummel.

Now on with the show.

Welcome to Beyond the Ring. This is Dale Hummel without co-star Ryan Rash this week.

I'm still trying to work out if he has been kidnapped by the stalker that's been sending

him roses, or if he's scheduled too heavy on the county fair circuit somewhere across the United

States. I did get word. He will be back next week with unicorns, rainbows, and butterflies.

With that said, I am very fortunate to have two of our former guests jump in this week to discuss various

topics with very little direction.

I do appreciate Matt Clay's and Eric Fugate, willingness to help out with this week

coming in at short notice on our guest list.

You may remember a great episode about drug testing with Mr. Matt Kla's that joined us early in the Beyond the Ring

episodes, and Eric Fugate, more recently covering everything swine. At this moment, we do have Matt

with us, by the way. Eric is having some technical difficulty, so he may jump in midway through.

It's just hard telling with Eric, but we do have you, don't we, Matt? I'm here. And I greatly, greatly appreciate it. We're going to jump

into some current events, and I see a happy face on our screen, Matt.

Eric's there. Mr. Fugate, can you hear us? I can. Welcome to the Booney. I lived an eighth of a mile from one of the bigger, you know, technical places in Illinois.

And I am like two miles or eight miles from the birthplace of the Internet and the supercomputer.

And I can't get a freaking Internet connection.

This makes no shit.

But you are with us.

I gave you the biggest, strongest introduction you ever had.

I seriously doubt that.

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