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Hey, folks, I'm talking to Ricky's gag.

Seriously, look, he's right here.

Ricky, welcome.

I'm so happy you could be with us in the studio with your mandolin, with or without your mandolin, but even better with your mandolin. I want to talk to you a little about your faith. And you grew up, obviously you said your father would set you up on the pulpit when you were like five.

So you grew up very much in the church.

I did.

Foot-washing Baptist, you know, is what we were, a free will Baptist.

And it was just a beautiful thing to grow up like that, you know.

And, you know, a preacher would get up and says anybody got a word or a

testimony. Well, here the testimonies would start, you know. So wait, the Baptists would think that

somebody could get a word? That sounds more Pentecostal. Well, it wasn't like a word of prophecy.

It was like you got a word to say or do you have something to say or

give your testimony. Okay.

And so these precious

old women of the faith would get up and

talk about their son coming to Jesus

you know and that they'd prayed

for him for years and alcoholic and

God has delivered him and stuff

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