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Sometimes you have the privilege of having a guest on the program who really is what we call a legend. And I never would say this if he were here,

because I wouldn't want to embarrass him. But the person that I'm going to interview in a

couple of seconds, some of you know all about him. If you don't, you will very soon. His name is Ricky Skaggs. He is

a legend in the music industry. He has 15 Grammy Awards in 1982, who he's the youngest

member ever at that time to be inducted into the grand old Opry. When he was six years old,

the father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe, picked this six-year-old out and said, would you play for us?

He went on to become a seven-year-old playing with Lester Flat and Earl Scruggs.

There's videotape of it.

In 1971, when he was still extremely young, teenager, went off to play with Ralph Stanley in his band.

By about 1980, country legend Chet Atkins, credited him, my guest,

Ricky's Geggs, with saving country music. Have you heard enough? He has played, performed,

produced with Barry Gibb, Emmy Lou Harris in the 70s, produced Dolly Parton, worked with Bruce Hornsby, and the Amana

radar range. In 2021, the president of the United States gave him the National Medal of

Arts. Again, I wouldn't say this if he was here in the studio, but he is a legend,

and I'm very embarrassed to say, I think he's right here in the studio. I never would have said

this, Ricky, if I knew you were sitting here. Ricky, my new friend, welcome.

It's great to be here, Eric. I was sitting there listening to you make all these nice things, and we could be talking about all kinds of other things.

So anyway, I appreciate it, and you're a man of honor.

I made a lot of this stuff up.

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