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Hey folks, I'm talking to Ricky Skaggs. Seriously, seriously look, he's right here.

Ricky, welcome. I, uh, 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. Um, I want to, I want to talk

you a little bit about your faith and you grew up, uh, obviously you said your, your father, uh,

would, would set you up on the pool pit when you were like five. So you grew up very much in the

church. I did. Um, foot washing Baptist, you know, that's what we were, free will Baptist.

And, um, it was just a beautiful thing to grow up like that, you know, and, uh, you know,

preacher would get up and say, is anybody got a word or a testimony? Well, here, the testimonies

would start, you know, so wait, the Baptist would think that somebody could get a word. That

sounds more peniconstal. Well, it wasn't like a word of prophecy. It was like, you got a word to, uh,

to say, or do you have something to say or give your, give your testimony? Okay. And so,

the precious old women of the faith would get up and talk about their son coming to Jesus, you know,

and, uh, that they prayed for him for years and alcoholic and God has delivered him and

stuff like that, you know, and, uh, just beautiful, beautiful things, you know, and, uh, when,

when, when they prayed, they all prayed together. And boy, and you talk about something that will

run the chills up your back is to hear, you know, 75 people in a little small wooden church, you know,

just praying to God, just, just going after it, you know, some of the old men up at the altar,

just, just going after it, you know, with the Lord and, and praying, you know, all at the same time,

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