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.

If you want everyone to like you, don't be a world leader.

Sell ice cream.

And Dale Hummel.

A dream is only a dream until you decide to make it real.

Now on with the show.

Welcome to Beyond the Ring.

This is Dale Hummel, along with co-star,

Ryan Rash. Hello, hello, hello. For our listeners out there, it's a very early morning,

and we know that Ryan is sometimes cranky in the morning. No, I am not cranky in the morning. You just want to talk about everything before we actually record it. And I'm like,

I got the show to go to, sir. There are so many things going on in the world, but we're going to narrow, narrow because Mr. Butterflies and Unicorns wants us to keep current events short.

So we're going to try. I don't even know why you try to appease him because he's never happy. No, he goes on that other podcast anyway.

It's going to be a good day.

We have a topic I think is good.

We have our sponsors that are excited about another episode.

And this one here kind of touches home with one of our sponsors a little bit.

But before we get to that, tell me about Mr. Putin and Ukraine.

Well, like I've been telling you for, I don't know, several months now,

I don't understand why everybody is surprised by this,

because if you will go back and do some research,

Vladimir has stated this at least two other times.

And most recently in July, the speech he gave, they say he put

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