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.

As long as you've got passion, faith, and a work ethic, you can do anything you want in life.

And Dale Hummel.

You are a lying, dog-faced pony soldier.

Now on with the show.

Welcome to Beyond the Ring.

This is Dale Hummel, along with co-star, Ryan Rash.

Hello, hello, hello.

Ryan, we've had more going on this week than usual.

This has been a very, very busy little week.

I'm not going to while.

It has been busy.

It's been good on a personal level from our standpoint. So we had a chance to judge in Florida together. You had a chance to judge at the State Fair of Texas. It's been good, but busy. And then if we go to the political side, it's been a train wreck. Joe Biden is at a whopping 38% approval rating, so it's great. That part is the bright

spot, I would say. It seems like now, which I mean, I don't know how many crises one administration

can have, but like they've got several, but now inflation is the biggest crisis. I was going to talk about that as well.

And amazing.

The good thing about this, let's go rainbows and butterflies here.

So in my mind, inflation's about the only thing that's going to wake up some of these voters.

It seems like Joe ignores Afghanistan, southern border, crime, and the public just ignores it with him.

They just kind of follow suit.

If it doesn't exist in his world, the public, there's a portion of them that just follows suit.

But the two big indicators that I think consumers, they will hit home with them, and that's what you just mentioned, inflation.

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