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.

My favorite condiment is sarcasm. I put it on everything.

And Dale Hummel.

Let's go, Brandon.

Now on with the show.

Welcome to Beyond the Ring. This is Dale Hummel, along with co-star, Ryan Rash.

Hello, hello, hello.

Ryan, it's still dark in Montana.

It's very early.

You and your Angus sale nonsense of it all is, it's a lot this week.

I was able to get our manager, Craig Minoy to the airport, and I'm back at the hotel,

and I appreciate you in Clifton jumping on to record this early.

I do have a short story when we were a Montana story, we'll call it.

Driving back from the sale facility to the hotel last night, I'm on my phone, texting, emailing.

I really don't know what I was doing, but Craig proceeds to hit the brakes very abruptly, and I look up, texting, emailing. I really don't know what I was doing, but Craig proceeds to hit the

brakes very abruptly, and I look up, Ryan, and guess what we nearly hit?

I'm hoping it was not a moose. It was not a moose. It was a bear. I cannot tell you if it's a

black bear or a grizzly bear. was a fairly big bear and we were within

inches there was two of them one came out ran across the road that we about hit the other one was smart

enough not to come across because if you would have i think we would have had an issue and i don't

know how that works with rental car insurance but hitting a bear and i'm sure there would have been

complications did it try to eat you It did not try to eat me.

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