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"Folks, this is one of the most important things we talk about on this program. We don't talk about it enough. But the money that you have in pension funds, 401ks, whatever it is, is effectively being controlled by people who are working against you and your values. A lot of us have money in funds that invest in, oh, Target, Amazon, you name it, all kinds of companies that are working dramatically against everything you believe in. So it's time that we wake up, we understand the financial power that we have and pull our money out of these kinds of places, which is why I have as my guest, the founder and CEO of Inspire on the program, Robert Netsley. Robert, we've talked about this before, but the power that we have financially is huge. But the reason things have gone to hell in a handbasket is because most of us don't have a clue that we have this power. We kind of act like it's a separate thing and I go and I vote every two years or something. But every single day, tons of our money is being used against us because of our investments. So before I let you talk, I want to tell people to go to inspireadvisors.com slash Eric, where you can fix this. You can find out what's happening with your money, inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. But Robert Netsley, when did you wake up to this and say, I want to solve this because this is as big as it gets? Well, it was about 12 years ago when I was working at Wells Fargo Investment Services and I got kicked in the rear end by discovery that here I am president of our local pro-life pregnancy center and I own three stocks of companies manufacturing abortion drugs. And the Holy Spirit just convicted me on this issue that here I am fighting to save the lives of these precious unborn and yet I'm making money every time somebody has an abortion. And then you go down the laundry list of all these other issues, LGBT activism and human trafficking, et cetera, et cetera, launched us into what we're doing now. And, you know, by God's grace, millions upon millions of Christians and other conservatives with similar values are waking up to the fact, uncomfortable fact, that in your investment account, you own and are profiting from things that would make your stomach churn. And not only that, but because of the fund companies that you have your money placed in, those fund companies get to vote for the issues that these companies promote, things like we're seeing in the news with Target and others.That's your money at work, but it's at work against you. But it doesn't have to be that way. So that free report and that there's a way to fix it. It's very easy. Just got to be aware and take some simple steps. And we're putting some free work and reports out for listeners here, inspired by just dot com slash Eric, like you mentioned. So people are informed and aware of what they can do to fix this because we don't fix it. You just sit there blindly going along like this can get better. It's going to all get worse. And frankly, it's going to be your fault for not doing anything. You know, we've got to do something about it and, you know, let God have the have the results. We can't just sit here and do nothing because that's how we got here in the first place. We've all got to become activists. We've all got to do. I think a lot of us just thought like, well, I'm just going to go along in my life and I go to church on Sunday and well, folks, there are things you need to do. And if you don't do it, you're responsible for things going to hell in a handbasket. So I want to ask you, please, first of all, this is free, OK, this is this is free. Inspire advisors dot com slash Eric. This is the solution. Every single one of us needs to get our dollars and cents out of these places with a satanic agenda. Inspire advisors dot com slash Eric. When you go there, you will see that this is not going to cost you anything. They're there to help you. And I just wish everyone would do this. I'll say it again. Inspire advisors dot com slash Eric, inspire advisors dot com slash Eric. Robert Netzle. Thank you so much. Thank you. It takes years to build a business that sustains a family and is worth passing on at Sandy Spring Bank. We work closely with clients to provide the financing, cash management and deposit products necessary to grow a business. So your life's work will continue to prosper once it's in someone else's hands. We believe real banking is a conversation. Let's talk about your business. Visit Sandy Spring Bank dot com slash business. Credit products offered by Sandy Spring Bank.
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"And it's so in any event, you've worked with so many of these people. You didn't ever work with Johnny Cash, I don't think. I think I would have looked that up. Well, we knew each other and we lived there in Hendersonville together, and we went to their house quite a few times, you know, for dinners and just fun things. And he'd call me up. Sometimes he'd say, Ricky, I'm in jail. And, you know, and what it was, he would go to the jail in, in Hendersonville and get locked up so that he could make phone calls from there and have people donate to the police department. Are you kidding? Make donations. He said, they'll let me out of here, you know, if you make a donation. I said, okay, John, we'll do it. Holy cow. What a blackmail artist Johnny Cash was. You're going to get the rest of this story. Oh, that's unbelievable. Well, I mean, I would have known that you would have known him. And of course, he married into the first family of country, the Carter family. Yeah, June was amazing. She was, I mean, her story is, most people don't really know her story. I mean, she was a comedian. She was an actress. She was, she was really an extraordinary figure. Yeah, she was a star. I mean, just born a star, you know, you could see it on those old Al Gannaway, Grand Ole Opry shows that were shot in Technicolor. Have you seen those things? They're unbelievable. Oh my gosh, they're, they're incredible. And June would come on as June Carter, as a comedian. But then she had sang with the Carter family when they would come out as well, you know. But you could tell, you could just look at her and say she's got star all over her. She just commands something when she walks out. All eyes and all ears are on her. Well, there's no doubt about it. We're running out of time again. We're going to lock the doors and keep you for a second hour, Ricky. Did they tell you that? Yeah. Yeah, you're in jail. You and brother Johnny were all in jail together. And that's the beauty of it. When we come back, I want to talk to you about your faith journey. Because, you know, a lot of people say they're Christians. And a lot of people, especially in the country world, are Christians of some kind. But you're what I call a hardcore Christian, a fanatic like myself. And I want to talk to you about that. I want to talk to you about a lot of stuff. So when we come back, I get to continue talking to Ricky Skaggs. Ricky, we're grateful for you and for your time. Thanks for being here. Yes, sir. And folks, we'll be right back. Folks, this is one of the most important things we talk about on this program. We don't talk about it enough. But the money that you have in pension funds for one case, whatever it is, is effectively being controlled by people who are working against you and your values. A lot of us have money in funds that invest in, oh, Target, Amazon, you name it. All kinds of companies that are working dramatically against everything you believe in. So it's time that we wake up, we understand the financial power that we have and pull our money out of these kinds of places, which is why I have as my guest, the founder and CEO of Inspire on the program, Robert Netsley. Robert, we've talked about this before, but the power that we have financially is huge. But the reason things have gone to hell in a handbasket is because most of us don't have a clue that we have this power. We kind of act like it's a separate thing. And I go and I vote every two years or something. But every single day, tons of our money is being used against us because of our investments. So before I let you talk, I want to tell people to go to inspireadvisors.com slash Eric, where you can fix this. You can find out what's happening with your money. Inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. But Robert Netsley, when did you wake up to this and say, I want to solve this because this is as big as it gets? Well, it was about 12 years ago when I was working at Wells Fargo Investment Services, and I just got, you know, kicked in the rear end by discovery that I here I am president of our local pro-life pregnancy center and I own three stocks of companies manufacturing abortion drugs. And the Holy Spirit just convicted me on this issue that here I am, you know, fighting to save the lives of these precious unborn. And again, I'm making money every time somebody has an abortion. And then you go down the laundry list of all these other issues, LGBT activism and human trafficking, you know, cetera, cetera, launched us into what we're doing now. And, you know, by God's grace, millions upon millions of Christians and other conservatives with similar values are waking up to the fact, uncomfortable fact, that in your investment account, you own and are profiting from things that would make your stomach churn. And not only that, but because of the fund companies that you have your money placed in, those fund companies get to vote for the issues of these companies, promote things like we're seeing in the news with Target and others. That's your money at work, but it's at work against you. But it doesn't have to be that way. So that free report and that there's a way to fix it. It's very easy. Just got to be aware and take some simple steps. And we're putting some free work and reports out for listeners here. Inspired by just Eric, like you mentioned. So people are informed and aware of what they can do to fix this because we don't fix it. You just sit there blindly going along like this can get it better. It's going to all get worse. And frankly, it's going to be your fault for not doing anything. You know, we've got to do something about it. And, you know, let God have the have the results. We can't just sit here and do nothing because that's how we got here in the first place. We've all got to become activists. We've all got to do. I think a lot of us just thought like, well, I'm just going to go along in my life. And, you know, I go to church on Sunday. And, well, folks, there are things you need to do. And if you don't do it, you're responsible for things going to hell in a handbasket. So I want to ask you, please, first of all, this is free. OK, this is this is free.Inspire advisors dot com slash Eric. This is the solution. Every single one of us needs to get our dollars and cents out of these places with a satanic agenda. Inspire advisors dot com slash Eric. When you go there, you will see that this is not going to cost you anything. They're there to help you. And I just wish everyone would do this. I'll say it again. Inspire advisors dot com slash Eric. Inspire advisors dot com slash Eric. Robert Nestle, thank you so much. Thank you. 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"She better use my pick, so I'm more used to playing it, but I like it with my thumb. Oh, oh, oh, tonight on the stage at Carnegie Hall. Now, people want to find you, you can go to rickyskags.com. I highly recommend it. Ricky, my brother, God bless you. Thank you. Thank you, Eric. It's great to get to know you and have a friendship beginning with you. It's just awesome. Thank you. Love what you do.
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"When I watched the Ken Burns country music series, which was just delightful, delightful education. One thing that actually shocked me, I kept waiting and waiting and waiting for at some point, for there to be some mention made of Glen Campbell. No mention. As if he didn't exist or he was just a, was he too much of a pop star or was there somebody who just said, you know, I won't be in it if he's in it? Or, I mean, it really was so bizarre to me because I thought of course he was extremely popular and, you know, but sometimes purists sneer at what's popular and stuff. I mean, I just don't know if, if you knew how, how he was regarded in that world. You know, I know all of my friends in country music absolutely loved Glen and Glen absolutely loved bluegrass and loved, you know, Stanley brothers, Bill Monroe, flat stars. He loved that stuff, you know, hired one of my, one of my friends, Carl Jackson, a great banjo player hired Carl to play in his band for, you know, for years. So they would do, you know, gone, gone, gone by, you know, by Jim and Jesse, you know, they do those bluegrass songs on stage, you know, actually recorded it and was, had a single out on it, you know? So I'm surprised too, you know, that there was, you know, there was others that, you know, that loved this music and that could have been, you know, very, we would, we would think very important to, to, to me, you know, if you're going to mention Charlie pride and Freddie fender, I'm thinking you're going to get to, you know, like they, they really made a great effort to include all these folks. And I just thought it was, it just was bizarre. Sometimes you just kind of scratch your head and you say, where can I get an answer to why he's not mentioned in there? But again, when we're talking, you know, country, country and Western, it, it, it gets very broad. You know, when you're talking about somebody like Buck Owens, the Bakersfield sound, how do you, you know, it's, it's difficult to kind of pull it all together and say, this is it and this isn't it, or this is outside the line and this is, you know? Yeah. Well, Buck had a sound he didn't want to record in Nashville. He knew, he knew what Nashville sounded like and Buck liked that top end, lots of mid range, not a whole lot of low end bass and that kind of stuff. He, there was just something about the way that, that he recorded his records. Even, you know, at Capitol studios in Los Angeles, you know, he just had a sound. And, and when he went in to record, he wanted to make sure it sounded the way he wanted it to. And it, you know, and I'll tell you who was like the biggest fans was the Beatles, because they were on EMI, you know, in, in England. And as soon as they had, they, they had sent a message to, to Los Angeles, to Capitol there, as soon as Buck Owens records anything, we want to, we want copies over here. We want to listen to it, you know, Ringo especially. Unbelievable. Well, I love the cross-pollination. I mean, it's obvious that Elton John, whom I love, he, you know, connects to all that kind of country music and Bernie Taupin. We're going to be right back. I'm talking to, I believe it's Ricky Skaggs. Well, I'm talking to Ricky Skaggs. Ricky, you're in the studio with me and I see that you have a, it looks to me like a perfectly good condition mandolin. And I don't know if it would be possible for you to, to, to peck out happy birthday to you or, or something like that. But I didn't mean you to take that literally, but of course, Here's a tune I wrote long ago, Ancient Tones. That shows my craziness for the old sounds. Have you ever thought of going professional? I think it's time for you to make the leap. Stop living in the shadows and just, just step out in faith, brother. You got to step out in faith. I've lived in faith for a long time. I watch you, you know, playing that instrument. And I think to myself, you seem more comfortable with it than, than without it practically. Like it's been a part of you for your whole life. And then some practically. We were just talking about all these different characters and the history of country music. You mentioned that the Beatles loved Buck Owens. Now what's interesting to me is there's certain things that it's, it's the American-ness of certain folks like Buck Owens. When you talk, it's obviously you grew up in Kentucky. You know, you don't say took, you say tuck. You don't say sit, you say set. You know, there's something attractive about anybody's roots really. And so there's something about American roots. And when you hear Buck Owens voice, he's, I mean, he has such a great singing voice. You want to hear his voice and there are many, many vocalists like that. You just think, I just want to hear his voice. Cause I love his voice. It sounds like America. And I think he was born in Oklahoma and they was like migrant families that, that moved to California for work, but he carried that that Oklahoma stank with him when he went to California. Yeah. But I mean, look, George Jones is the ultimate example of this, his voice. You just think, why do I want to hear his voice? I don't know why, but I just do. Yeah. The two biggest musician fans in the whole wide world that loved George Jones more than anybody was Keith Richards and Elvis Costello. Who'd, who'd have thunk it? Yeah. Unbelievable. Well, that's what I'm saying. Like, you know, you get this cross pollination with, you know, the Stones and the early Beatles, you know, they're, they're playing American blues, you know, and you think it's just so interesting how that cross pollination, as we keep saying, it keeps happening over and over and over. Well, think about it. There's the Monroe brothers, Bill Monroe and his brother, Charlie, they had this brothers duet. They inspired the Stanley brothers, Stanley brothers inspired the Louvin brothers, the Louvin brothers inspired the Everly brothers. And so the Everly brothers are big inspirations to the Beatles, the Stones, all these English groups, you know? So I just still feel like it had a point of birth somewhere with, with Bill Monroe and, you know, they call him the father of bluegrass music, but, but obviously he got inspired, you know, with, with people around him, you know, but, you know, it's amazing to see how this old music continues to have life, you know? Well, it's, it's extraordinary. And, you know, when I was talking about the voices of some people, when I think of Loretta Lynn, I think there's certain voices that are so American. Yes. And without a doubt, you know, June Carter Cash, there's something, you can't put your finger on it, but it's just beautiful.
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"Folks, welcome back. I'm talking to Ricky Skaggs, the legend, not another Ricky Skaggs, but the Ricky Skaggs, the legend. Ricky, you, the reason you're here in New York, and I thank the Lord for this opportunity is tonight you're going to be at Carnegie Hall playing with my friends, Keith and Kristen Getty. They do an annual Carnegie Hall Christmas concert and you were with them a few years ago. I remember you up there, but I think you were playing your fiddle, were you? No, I was playing mandolin. You were playing mandolin? So that's a trick of my memory. I You live in the Nashville area these days, I assume? I've lived in Hendersonville. It's a little suburb north of Nashville. Yeah, I've lived there since 1980. Yeah, I moved there in 1980. And so I've been living there a long time. And your wife, I've neglected to say, is Sharon White. Sharon White of the Whites. Another Grand Ole Opry members. And well, we'll talk about them in a few minutes and about her. But I so just to go back, so in the 70s, you in a way were a bridge of this traditionalist world with, you know, Flatt and Scruggs and Earl Stanley and Bill Monroe into what was happening in the 70s. And it's interesting because the 70s you do see, you know, whether it's the Eagles or Linda Ronstadt, you're seeing a mixture happening and some of that music being brought into the mainstream into the world, you know, to the pop charts. Yeah, I don't remember. I'm trying to think of others who were in that, but it's interesting, you know, to see whether it's Leonard Skynyrd or Alabama. I mean, they're just different, different things happening in a way. And so you were in the middle of all that, but you were still playing the traditional stuff yourself. Yeah. You know, I wanted to make sure that the mandolin and the banjo and the fiddle weren't mixed so far in the background that you couldn't tell what they were. You know, I wanted and I got to, you know, that was one of the bargaining points. I really didn't have anything to bargain with, except, you know, some demos that I had played for the head of CBS and Nashville at that time. But I just said, because they asked me who produced this stuff and I said, well, I did, you know, and I said, if you like what you hear, I want you to let me continue to produce. Well, I'll have to get, you know, Larry Gatlin's the only artist we have. And I said, well, so there's a precedent set. Okay. So, you know, I really wanted to, and if we don't sell records and we don't get, you know, chart action happening, then I'd be willing to take a co-producer. But I was just, I was not going to let, you know, just for the sake of having a record deal, I was not going to let my hands come off the console. That is interesting. I mean, that's interesting that you, you had that, that you felt that responsibility to the, to those roots and to that kind of music.
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"Folks, I'm talking to Ricky Skaggs and it turns out that he's quite an instrumentalist because there's an instrument right there. Now, Ricky, we're we're talking before the thing, the joy to me of talking to you, because it just brings back when I think of how much music has blessed me to my bones over the years and, you know, various genres. I was talking to you about Supertramp the other day. And, you know, there's so many different kinds of music that God uses, a lot of secular music. But the beauty of it is from him. It's from his throne, whether people realize it or not. And we were talking earlier about the song that Chris Kristofferson wrote, Why Me, Lord? Right. And I thought this is the most beautiful song I've ever heard. And then George Jones sings it. And I thought, yeah, I didn't think it could get kicked up a notch or whatever. But, you know, I don't know that this side of glory, we will ever figure out what it is about music that does something. But to me, it's it's there is no question that we're made in God's image, because when we make music, there is just something ineffable, to use a big word about it. There's something beautiful about it. So I don't know. I thought since you're here and you brought your instrument, maybe you could play something or we could talk about different songs. God is is a creative being and he made us to be creative. You know, everyone has the abilities to create, you know, and so I hear these things. I hear these instrumentals in my head. And right before Bob Jones always used to say, in that place I go of in of a morning where I go in that place, I go into of a morning of a morning. Yeah. And that right before I woke up, I heard this song a couple of weeks ago, maybe three weeks ago.
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"And well, we I think we have one minute left in the segment. I want to make sure it's just interesting because we all know that there are abuses in every direction. And so we have to have wisdom. But at the same time, it's a pity when we miss out on certain things. And so I was glad to hear that you you knew some of these friends of mine and that you're you're into this stuff because they want to talk to me. The Lord is alive. What? And you were still willing to talk to you. Yeah. No, but it's just interesting because I think that God is at work now and he's particularly at work in this in this way right now. And because in some ways the darkness is getting darker and so the light is getting lighter. And, you know, we have to be aware of that. Now, when we come back, will you pick a little bit more on that, Mandolin? Because I was told you knew how to play it. Oh, well, maybe we'll discuss that. Would you buy my lunch? We'll discuss that on the break. And I will I'm going to take up an offering. We'll be right back. That you in the world. Tell me why release factor is so successful at lowering or eliminating pain. I'm often asked that question just the other night I was asked that question. Well, the owners of Relief Factor tell me they believe our bodies were designed to heal. That's right. Designed to heal. And I agree with them. And the doctors who formulated Relief Factor for them selected the four best ingredients. Yes, 100 percent drug free ingredients in each one of them helps your body deal with inflammation. Each of the four ingredients deals with inflammation from a different metabolic pathway. That's the point. So approaching from four different angles may be why so many people find such wonderful relief. If you've got back pain, shoulder, neck, hip, knee or foot pain from exercise or just getting older, you should order the three week quick start discounted to only nineteen ninety five to see if it'll work for you. It has worked for about 70 percent of the half a million people who've tried it and have ordered more on one of them. Go to relief factor dot com or call eight hundred for relief to find out about this offer. Feel the difference. Hey, folks, you know how much I love Mike Lindell. Well, right now, my pillow has a massive closeout sale happening on their all season slippers. Listeners continually make the my slippers the number one selling my pillow product. And I have a feeling you want to stock up right now when you hear the offer. When you use my promo code, Eric, you'll get the all season slippers for twenty five dollars regularly. One hundred and forty nine ninety eight. That's over one hundred and twenty dollars in savings limited to 10 pairs at checkout. These will sell out. Trust me, my slippers have an exclusive four layer design. You won't find any other slipper patented layers make these slippers ultra comfortable and extremely durable. They help relieve stress on your feet and you can wear them anytime, anywhere. They also come in a ton of additional sizes and all new colors. Just go to my pillow dot com, click on the radio podcast square to grab a pair of the all season slippers for twenty five dollars. Limited to 10 pairs at checkout. Enter promo code Eric or call eight hundred nine seven eight three oh five seven eight hundred nine seven eight three oh five seven for this incredible offer. So please order now.
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"Welcome back. I am talking to my new friend, Ricky Skaggs. He's a man of profound faith and insane level talent, and we're just talking. We're not a pickin' and a grinnin'. But maybe later on, you'll be a pickin' and I'll be a grinnin' because I see that you have a mandolin sitting here with us. So we can, we'll just tease that so people stay tuned in here. All right, so listen, you've won 15 Grammy Awards. You've gotten every other kind of award. You've worked with practically everyone. And you're a man of deep faith. I want to talk about that because that's kind of how we met. But I want to keep going on your career here. So you're a young man, very young man, 16 years old, 17 years old, playing with another huge legend, Ralph Stanley. One of the famous Stanley brothers. How did that, yes, how did that go? How many years were you playing with Ralph Stanley? Well, my mom and dad, we had gone to see the Stanley brothers right, the next year after I had played with Bill Monroe. And so we kind of had met Ralph and Carter, and Carter, they let me get up and sing with them, you know, or do a song with them. And so anyway, we kind of knew each other. And so Keith Whitley and I met. Keith was a great, ended up being a really great, short lived, unfortunately, country music artist himself and just has recently this past year gotten inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. But he and I were friends, we like 17 days apart in our age. We met, me and my dad was playing this little place and we met Keith and his brother. They were playing as well. And so I invited Keith over to my house the next weekend. And from that weekend on, you know, we just knew each other, just played music with each other almost every weekend. You know, we'd be out of school and playing together. And so we heard that Ralph Stanley had just hired a new lead singer that sounded just like his brother, Carter, that had passed away a few years before that. So we wanted to go same. Well, it was a little beer joint in West Virginia, right across the river from Louisa, Kentucky, where we where I went to high school. So Dad took us over there. And we, Dad, you know, Dad was one of those that you don't leave home without it. He should have got, you know, money from, you know, was it, what's the card, don't leave home without it? The card? Yeah, the credit card. I don't know nothing about those cards, but I know, I know what you mean. American Express. So anyway, he always had us prepared, you know, just in case somebody asked us to get up and sing. Well, Ralph had made a phone call that his bus had a flat tire and they were going to be late about 35, 40 minutes. So this club owner, beer joint owner. In the musician world, that's on time. Oh, yeah. And he's such a, he was such a good man that he said, well, we don't want 35 minutes of dead air. Right. Yeah, the natives were getting a little restless in that little beer joint. And so they come up to the table and I don't know how they knew that, that we played, you know, cause I'd never been in there before and we'd never played there. But they asked us if we brought, you know, could get up and sing a few songs, you know, and so here again, dad, you know, we go to the car and get the instruments, get up on stage and we start playing and singing and Ralph comes walking in, you know, in the band, I see him going to the dressing room with her, you know, with their instruments and everything. Well, Ralph doesn't go in the dressing room. He sits down on a barstool and just eats up what he's seeing, you know, he's seeing these young kids, you know, 16 years old singing Stanley brother songs, cause that's really the only songs we knew we were singing his songs, you know, and I could see him in the, in my right eye over there and I was like, I don't, and I was singing his part, you know, and it was so embarrassing, you know but anyway, we met, we met that night, you know, and from then on, you know, we, we would try to play with Ralph whenever we were out of school, if they were close enough, we'd drive and go and then finally when we got out of high school, he hired us full time and it was a great place for me to grow, you know, Ralph's music is very mountain, very old time and at a time when a lot of musicians would be wanting to play the newest, greatest, you know, most cutting edge bluegrass, I really wanted to insert myself in, in the, in the dirt, in the, in the ground, in the hills and the hollers, I really wanted to know more, even though I was raised in that, there was something about the way he sang, you know, and the Stanley brothers sang that always just touched me right in my spirit, you know, I just knew that they were singing truth, they were singing songs about heartache, they were singing songs about breakup, they were this is the tension really almost in any art, in any genre, the tension between the roots and then where it's going and how you commercialize it and in the Ken Burns' series on country music in which you're prominently featured, it's interesting because he's constantly talking about that, how you've got the, you know, once it starts making money, people all over it and they got this new kind of sound, what do they call it, the Nashville sound or am I confusing it with the Bakersfield sound and, you know, but there's kind of, they, you get producers producing and of course the tendency is to produce away from those roots. And so there's always that tension and then it becomes a dialectic, let's call it fancy word, right? So when Chet Atkins, you know, says that, you know, you, you save country music, I guess what he's talking about is that, you know, when a movie like Urban Cowboy comes out, there's this big surge in a certain kind of music, but it is pulling it away from those roots and you always, for whatever reason, you love those American, those old roots, which are older than America, of course. Well, you know, that scripture of honoring your fathers, you know, so that your days and mothers, so that your days go well with you and you'll prosper in the land. You know, that always rang true to me in my heart. I just knew that if I honored, and I don't think it means your particular father or mother, I think it's fathers or mothers in the faith. I think it's fathers and mothers that pour into you musically. It's just honoring people that's, that's above you and, and, and, and has lived longer than you have, you know, and there's something that you can get from them that will be beneficial in your life. That's the way I was raised. And so I, I just, I wanted to keep, keep the roots of, of that music alive, yet I added drums, I added steel guitar, I added piano because I'd been with Emmylou Harris for the last couple of years. And I saw that that was, and that's in the seventies. So how did you connect with Emmylou Harris? Well, I met her in Washington, DC when I was working in a band called The Country Gentleman. I was living in Manassas working for Vepco, Virginia electric and power company. And I worked there just to make a rent and a car payment for about six months. I got a raise and then I got a job and I said, see y'all later. I got a real job. So you're like what, 21 years old at this point. Yeah. You're an old man of 21 by now. Yeah. So I had to make a living. So, uh, so Emmylou Harris realizes that she could use, um, an instrumentalist such as yourself in her band. Yeah. And someone, uh, that knew the old stuff. Uh, I met her, uh, one night there was a guy in DC, he was, uh, was a doctor. His name was, uh, John, uh, John Starling. And he, he worked at, uh, at the army hospital there and he, he would, he loved, you know, loved old time music, worked with the seldom seen group there. And, um, so he would invite people like, you know, whoever was playing the cellar door or whatever big club there in, in Georgetown, he would invite people to come to his house and have a pick and or a singing, you know, and so he invited me to come over and said, Linda Ronstadt was going to be there. Um, you know, and that was in the seventies. She was about as hot as, as, uh, any performer could be at that time. I mean, Linda Ronstadt was, was huge and also kind of connecting the pop and the, the roots. Right. And Emmylou knew Linda very well, but I'd never met Emmylou. She came in and just kind of squatted down on her knees in the floor, pulled out an old, you know, Gibson guitar and started singing. And it was like, Oh my God, this angel just walked in, you know, with his voice. And, uh, so me and her and Linda was singing, you know, singing harmony and stuff together on these songs. I knew so many old songs and they wanted me to teach it to them, you know, and, and here I was carrying the Stanley brothers. I was carrying Bill Monroe. I was carrying that old, uh, Louvin brothers, even sound and in my heart and they wanted to know it. Well, there's, it's just beautiful. And I'm glad, uh, I want to talk to you about your, just your whole, uh, story. When we come back, uh, uh, I want, I want to get into your faith story because you're a profound man of Christian faith or a man of profound Christian faith. We're both. And, uh, uh, later on, maybe you'll pick up that instrument and see, uh, you know, if you still have it, you know, that thing that you you've had over the years, that talent we'll be right back. Um, I, uh, I, I think you'll stick around because, uh, look, we'll come talk to you.
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"OK, so you're friends with some friends of mine. We mentioned Chris Reed, who's at Morningstar and and Rick Joyner and Dutch Sheets and people who are in the prophetic and that kind of thing. When did you veer into that world? Because a lot of believers that they're either unaware of that world or they're they're suspicious or even hostile toward it. Sharon and I got to go to Lagos, Nigeria, on a pastors conference retreat. And we were kind of going to, you know, supply the music, you know, when we got there. And and and so Mahesh Chavda was over there and he was he was holding services at night after the pastor conferences would be over in the daytime. It was for all these, you know, Nigerian pastors that would come and and hear teaching by, you know, some American guys, pastors. And anyway, I met Mahesh while we were over there and he told me about a conference that he was going to be going to in Kansas City. And so so I wanted to go to that conference in Kansas City. Some friends of ours had given us, you know, a bunch of cassette tapes of of, you know, a bunch of the Kansas City guys up there. And Bob Jones was one of the people that was up there. So this is the 80s or 90s? It's the 80s, early 80s. And so anyway, we go up there and and I meet Bob and then, you know, I meet Rick. And it would take me 30 minutes to tell you all the things that happened while Bob said, well, we'll want you to go up to the to the green room up there after we get done. So I want to pray for you, you know. So he started praying and prophesying and it was amazing. And then I got to got to meet Francis Frangipane. I met, you know, James Ryle. I met all these people that were associated with with Kansas City Fellowship. I was about a year and a half ago, Mike Bickel invited me and some others there. And it's an amazing thing because we live in a world where most people, even in the church, are unaware of some of the most amazing things that God is doing. So I always feel like it's part of my mission to kind of help get that information out to a larger audience. Because the prayer room alone in Kansas City at Kansas City Fellowship. Right. I remember what they call the church there. I always forget the name of the church there. But anyway, that Mike Bickel has overseen. It's a prayer room that for decades has been 24 seven nonstop praying and worshiping. Bob Jones prophesied that to Mike Bickel that it would happen. He prophesied it to Mike Bickel before Mike Bickel even believed in any of this stuff. That's what I find so funny. It's like he prophesied it and Mike Bickel at the time, young man thinking, this guy's nuts. What do I make of this guy? And Paul Kane and you know, all this crazy. You just say this is crazy stuff, except it's it's real. Yeah. And Bob also said that that people young people would be watching things that would come out of Kansas City Fellowship all over the world. And he saw a little handheld handheld televisions. Right. You know, had no that's before iPhones or any kind of thing was it was even invented decades before the iPhone. He just saw a vision of this. Yes.
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"Welcome back. We're talking to Ricky Skaggs, the musical legend. Not some other Ricky Skaggs because there's hundreds of them out there. But you're the musician, right? I can tell by the mandolin that's attached to you. We were just talking about Chris Christofferson telling the story of how he came to faith and you said your friend, Connie. Smith. Smith took him to church and he had, there's no other way to describe it, he had a supernatural experience. There's no other way to describe it. Yeah, and it stayed with him. He's never, he's never rejected it, you know. A lot of people get so judged by Christian people when they get out in the marketplace, you know, and do things. You know, BJ Thomas is a prime example, you know. He came to know Jesus and, you know, he wanted to do some gospel songs in his show. And people would, you know, stand up and sing raindrops, keep falling on my head, you know, and these other things, you know, that he had out. And, you know, he did a gospel record and, you know, and they just dogged him, you know. And I tell you, I'm sorry, but the church sometimes just butchers people because they want them to come into their world. When the Lord is trying to get us out of the church, into the marketplace where the nine-to-fivers live and where they work and where they need to hear truth, you know. And that's why I do what I do. And that's one of the main reasons I came back to Bluegrass because I knew if I play Bluegrass, it's like gospel music is so accepted in the Bluegrass circles, you know. And I know that we can share from the stage, you know, our faith and we're not going to get, you know, people, you know, throwing rocks at us and, you know, that kind of thing. So it's a great thing. We need to be out of the church. Jesus told me a long time ago, and actually I got a picture I'm going to send to you sometime. I was going to do it before I got up here, but it's a picture of my dad holding me in the church yard, OK, in the field. So you're very, very, very little. Like a year old. OK. And the church house is behind me. Dad's out in the yard and he's holding me in the church yard. And the Lord told me many years ago, said that your ministry would be in the world, but not of it, of the church, but not in it. And at one year old, he gave he gives a witness of my future right there. There I'm in a field, you know, I'm not in the church, I'm in a field. And that doesn't mean that I can't go to church and do go to church. I do. I love the church. But what I love better is taking the church with me when I go out to the marketplace. Excuse me. Excuse me. That's the whole point of the church. Right. We're supposed to we're supposed to get Philip in the church and then take the church, which is to say we are the church out of the church into the whole world. That's right. And yeah, you're singing my song when you say that. Not literally, but it's just such an important idea. And listen, there have always been holier than thou biddies in the male version of the biddies who will criticize someone for, you know, going secular or being secular because they have it's called bad theology. They do not understand anything. You know, it's like saying, well, is that is that tree a Christian tree? Has that treatment baptized? I mean, everything that is good is of God and points to God. And so there are people with really bad theology and most of them are in the church. And a lot of times, you know, when people interview me or something, they'll say, isn't it really hard to be it must be really hard to be a Christian. Keep your Christian principles and go out into into beer joints and casinos to work amongst all those devil worshippers. I think that's what they're trying to say. I said, well, it's no harder than being a pastor. And I said, there's temptations everywhere. So you just got to make up in your mind that you're going to take the gospel out and, you know, and take it out to where people really need to hear it. You know, you can't can't stay isolated in the church because that's where people hide. It's where people, you know, I mean, God bless the church. We need to hear good preaching, but we don't need to hear, you know, a self-help message. Well, people make it sound, people like that make it sound like hearing a song like Ruby Oh, Ruby is, you know, it's not I should be listening only to Christian music. And you think to yourself, what do you mean by that? Anything that is good or true or beautiful points to the source of goodness and truth and beauty. There's no way around that. So to try to say, you know, when Larry Norman said, why does the devil have all the good music? The point is, he doesn't. That's right. He doesn't. That's that's a lie. That is a lie. And so when people say if it's praise and worship, it's Christian music. And if it's not, I actually I always bring up the example of Master and the Musician, which was an instrumental by Phil Kagee, instrumental album. Yeah. And it's kind of funny because because there are no Christian lyrics. You say, well, is Phil Kagee still playing Christian music? It's kind of funny because it makes you realize that those those are not God's categories. Those are man's categories.
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"Another dear friend. Yeah. But yeah, that was, you know, and I used to host a television show from the Ryman for CMT. And with every guest in every show, we would go down on the steps of the stage there and sit and just talk a little bit and bring a guitar or something, have a little guitar pull kind of thing, and just talk about the Ryman, talk about how special it was, you know. And he talks about that story, you know, about him going to Jimmy Snow's church. Look, he's talked about it a few times. I've seen him talk about it a few times. I think he talks about it on the Ken Burns series. And I just thought, this is an amazing story because it leads to a glorious song. I mean, a song that is so beautiful and moving. When we come back, I'm going to continue my conversation with Ricky Skeggs, and he is going to continue the conversation with me. Don't go away. Don't go away. Every day, the parallel economy grows bigger and bigger. It's powered by everyday Americans who are sick and tired of all the woke propaganda being jammed into every product they consume. Big mobile companies are no different. For years, they've been dumping millions into leftist causes, and we had to take it because you needed a cell phone, probably thought there was no alternative. But now there is. Patriot Mobile is America's only Christian conservative wireless provider offering dependable nationwide coverage on all three major networks. So you get the best possible service in your area without the woke politics. Their 100 percent U.S. based customer service team makes switching easy. Keep your phone. Keep your number to just go to Patriot Mobile dot com slash Metaxas. Patriot Mobile dot com slash Metaxas or call 878 Patriot. Get free activation today with the offer code Metaxas. Ask about their coverage guarantee while you're there. Get the same dependable service and take a stand for your values. Make the switch today. Patriot Mobile dot com slash Metaxas or call 878 Patriot. Legacy Precious Metals has a revolutionary new online platform that allows you to invest in real gold and silver online in a few easy steps. You can open an account online. Select your metals of choice and choose to have them stored in a vault or shipped to your door. You'll have access to a dashboard where you can track your portfolio growth in real time. Any time you'll see transparent pricing on each coin and bar. This puts you in complete control of your money. The platform is free to sign up for. Visit Legacy PM investments dot com and open your account and see this new investing platform for yourself. Gold can hedge against inflation and against the volatile stock market. A true diversified portfolio isn't just more stocks and bonds but different asset classes. This new platform allows you to make investments in gold and silver no matter how small or large with a few clicks. Visit Legacy PM investments dot com to get started. You're going to love this free new tool that they've added. Please go check it out today. That's Legacy PM investments dot com.
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"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show with your host, Eric Metaxas. 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. He was the youngest member ever at that time to be inducted into the Grand Ole 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 Flatt 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 Skaggs, with saving country music. Have you heard enough? He has played, performed, produced with Barry Gibb. Emmylou Harris in the 70s produced Dolly Parton, worked with Bruce Hornsby in 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. I just want my audience to know this couldn't be true. So I'll have to live up to the things that you said. When you were six years old, now, you know, you're in your late 60s now. So when you were six years old, which would put us back about 1960, you played with Bill Monroe. That is very hard to comprehend. I know my dad bought me a mandolin when I was five. And so I learned, you know, why do you do that? I had been singing in church with him and mom since I was like three years old. And this is in old Kentucky. In Kentucky, and we would sing songs together at home. And then when we go to church, we'd get up and they would set me, literally set me on the pulpit, and I would sing harmony with mom and dad. They would set you on the pulpit. Yeah. See, up here, we'd say, put you up on the pulpit. But down there, they would set you on the pulpit. That sounds better. That sounds more American. But you, the reason I'm saying this is you obviously at that time already had a gift for harmonizing. You could hear and sing. And so they knew that they needed to encourage you. So your dad at age five gets you a mandolin. And already at age six, Bill Monroe is taking notice of you. Well, mom and dad and I would play at church, like I said. And then dad and I would go to this little local grocery store there in Blaine, Kentucky, and they would set me up on the pop case, you know, that had that. So it wasn't a pulpit. It was the pop case. That's the marketplace version. Right. Yeah. So I was getting I was getting my teeth ready for the marketplace back then. But I would sit and play and sing and people would want to get a Coke. So I'd have to scoot over and they, you know, it was a double door. And look, you were so cute. I saw the video of you I saw with flat and scrubs, which people can look up on YouTube. But I mean, you were so darn cute at age seven. And when he says, what's your name? You say, Ricky Skaggs. It's so cute. It's unbelievably cute. But even cuter is the song you sing. Because for a seven year old to sing a song about a broken heart and a woman who left me is funny. Yeah, I didn't understand those things back then. I just liked the song and the song was Ruby. Are you mad at your man? Ruby. Oh, Ruby. I mean, to hear you mad at your man and the 70 year old singing it while he's playing. And that's what I sung with the Bill Monroe thing. You know, it was a hit. Are you mad at your man? You know, the neighbors in the hood at this little high school for Bill Monroe was playing. And you know, they started shouting out after half hour, Mr. Monroe's set. They started shouting out, let little Ricky Skaggs get up and sing, you know. And my dad didn't plant these people, I promise you, you know. And anyway, I didn't even take a mandolin with me. So the irony of the whole thing is that I had to play this size mandolin. You had to play. I had to play his mandolin. You played Bill Monroe's mandolin when you were six years old? Six years old. And I, you know. Not many people can say that. He took the strap around and, you know, wrapped it around the curl here so that it would fit me. Right. Set it on me. And I said, you know, they said, what do you want to do? And I said, Ruby. And so it was a popular song by the Osborne brothers, Bob and Sonny Osborne. And so away we went, you know, and you know, no mistakes, no, you know, I didn't flip out, didn't faint or anything, fall on the floor, didn't drop his mandolin. Well, you were too young to be self-conscious, probably. Yeah, I didn't know what that was, you know. If you were 11, you would have just freaked out. I probably would have. But he sent me back off stage and then did his big famous Mule Skinner Blues just to rat me, show me up. No, I don't know that for sure. But I just, you know, the crazy thing about that is when I became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, they wanted me to take out of the, they got some, some instruments in a place in the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum called the Precious Jewels. They have Earl Scruggs' banjo. They have Maybelle Carter's famous archtop. What? They still have that? Yeah. They have Bill Monroe's F5 mandolin in the case, so they took it out for me. Do they have Mother Maybelle's tortoiseshell combs? Maybe. I'm just kidding. But I mean, who knew that? Unless you're sitting here, I wouldn't know that they would have these objects. These are like sacred relics. But they let me play that same mandolin that I played when I was six years old. He kept that mandolin all his life. He got it in 1945, found it in a barber shop in Miami, Florida. Of all places, you know, to be in Miami, Florida, walking the streets, just out walking around, and happened to look in a barber shop with thousands of barber shops in Miami, Florida. So Bill Monroe found it in 1945. And went in and bought it for $200. And used it for the 15 years until he met you. Then he lets you play it. He keeps playing it, and today it still exists. Yeah, it does. And was busted up, and still, you know, Gibson put it back together meticulously. But it's amazing. And it just brought back so many memories. It almost closed a door, or closed a season of my life, you know, to play that mandolin at six years old, and then get to play it again, going into the most famous, you know. When did they induct you into the Country Music Hall of Fame? 2018. So they waited way too long. Shame on you. No, it's almost funny to me, because it is, you know, you, listen, if in 1980, Chet Atkins, the legend, you know, credits you with saving country music from the commercialization that it was undergoing because of the urban cowboy fad and John Travolta hiss. But it's just kind of funny to me, because you've been in this world, you know, forever. The idea that you were playing with Ralph Stanley, when you were just a kid, what was it, 1971, so you're like 17, were you still in high school? I mean, you're still in high school. Yeah. Did you graduate? No, I wanted to go to the Stanley School of Music, so I wanted to stay. We started, Keith Whitley and I started when we were 16, and played the summer with Ralph, and then we had to go back to school, and, you know, Ralph wanted us to go get our education, and I thought, man, this is the education I want right here, you know. I think a lot of people understand. Folks, I'm talking, in case you're just tuning in, this is Ricky Skaggs sitting here, we will continue the conversation on all kinds of subjects, don't go away.
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"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show with your host, Eric Metaxas. 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. He was the youngest member ever at that time to be inducted into the Grand Ole 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 Flatt 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 Skaggs, with saving country music. Have you heard enough? He has played, performed, produced with Barry Gibb. Emmylou Harris in the 70s produced Dolly Parton, worked with Bruce Hornsby in 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. I just want my audience to know this couldn't be true. So I'll have to live up to the things that you said. When you were six years old, now, you know, you're in your late 60s now. So when you were six years old, which would put us back about 1960, you played with Bill Monroe. That is very hard to comprehend. I know my dad bought me a mandolin when I was five. And so I learned, you know, why do you do that? I had been singing in church with him and mom since I was like three years old. And this is in old Kentucky. In Kentucky, and we would sing songs together at home. And then when we go to church, we'd get up and they would set me, literally set me on the pulpit, and I would sing harmony with mom and dad. They would set you on the pulpit. Yeah. See, up here, we'd say, put you up on the pulpit. But down there, they would set you on the pulpit. That sounds better. That sounds more American. But you, the reason I'm saying this is you obviously at that time already had a gift for harmonizing. You could hear and sing. And so they knew that they needed to encourage you. So your dad at age five gets you a mandolin. And already at age six, Bill Monroe is taking notice of you. Well, mom and dad and I would play at church, like I said. And then dad and I would go to this little local grocery store there in Blaine, Kentucky, and they would set me up on the pop case, you know, that had that. So it wasn't a pulpit. It was the pop case. That's the marketplace version. Right. Yeah. So I was getting I was getting my teeth ready for the marketplace back then. But I would sit and play and sing and people would want to get a Coke. So I'd have to scoot over and they, you know, it was a double door. And look, you were so cute. I saw the video of you I saw with flat and scrubs, which people can look up on YouTube. But I mean, you were so darn cute at age seven. And when he says, what's your name? You say, Ricky Skaggs. It's so cute. It's unbelievably cute. But even cuter is the song you sing. Because for a seven year old to sing a song about a broken heart and a woman who left me is funny. Yeah, I didn't understand those things back then. I just liked the song and the song was Ruby. Are you mad at your man? Ruby. Oh, Ruby. I mean, to hear you mad at your man and the 70 year old singing it while he's playing. And that's what I sung with the Bill Monroe thing. You know, it was a hit. Are you mad at your man? You know, the neighbors in the hood at this little high school for Bill Monroe was playing. And you know, they started shouting out after half hour, Mr. Monroe's set. They started shouting out, let little Ricky Skaggs get up and sing, you know. And my dad didn't plant these people, I promise you, you know. And anyway, I didn't even take a mandolin with me. So the irony of the whole thing is that I had to play this size mandolin. You had to play. I had to play his mandolin. You played Bill Monroe's mandolin when you were six years old? Six years old. And I, you know. Not many people can say that. He took the strap around and, you know, wrapped it around the curl here so that it would fit me. Right. Set it on me. And I said, you know, they said, what do you want to do? And I said, Ruby. And so it was a popular song by the Osborne brothers, Bob and Sonny Osborne. And so away we went, you know, and you know, no mistakes, no, you know, I didn't flip out, didn't faint or anything, fall on the floor, didn't drop his mandolin. Well, you were too young to be self -conscious, probably. Yeah, I didn't know what that was, you know. If you were 11, you would have just freaked out. I probably would have. But he sent me back off stage and then did his big famous Mule Skinner Blues just to rat me, show me up. No, I don't know that for sure. But I just, you know, the crazy thing about that is when I became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, they wanted me to take out of the, they got some, some instruments in a place in the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum called the Precious Jewels. They have Earl Scruggs' banjo. They have Maybelle Carter's famous archtop. What? They still have that? Yeah. They have Bill Monroe's F5 mandolin in the case, so they took it out for me. Do they have Mother Maybelle's tortoiseshell combs? Maybe. I'm just kidding. But I mean, who knew that? Unless you're sitting here, I wouldn't know that they would have these objects. These are like sacred relics. But they let me play that same mandolin that I played when I was six years old. He kept that mandolin all his life. He got it in 1945, found it in a barber shop in Miami, Florida. Of all places, you know, to be in Miami, Florida, walking the streets, just out walking around, and happened to look in a barber shop with thousands of barber shops in Miami, Florida. So Bill Monroe found it in 1945. And went in and bought it for $200. And used it for the 15 years until he met you. Then he lets you play it. He keeps playing it, and today it still exists. Yeah, it does. And was busted up, and still, you know, Gibson put it back together meticulously. But it's amazing. And it just brought back so many memories. It almost closed a door, or closed a season of my life, you know, to play that mandolin at six years old, and then get to play it again, going into the most famous, you know. When did they induct you into the Country Music Hall of Fame? 2018. So they waited way too long. Shame on you. No, it's almost funny to me, because it is, you know, you, listen, if in 1980, Chet Atkins, the legend, you know, credits you with saving country music from the commercialization that it was undergoing because of the urban cowboy fad and John Travolta hiss. But it's just kind of funny to me, because you've been in this world, you know, forever. The idea that you were playing with Ralph Stanley, when you were just a kid, what was it, 1971, so you're like 17, were you still in high school? I mean, you're still in high school. Yeah. Did you graduate? No, I wanted to go to the Stanley School of Music, so I wanted to stay. We started, Keith Whitley and I started when we were 16, and played the summer with Ralph, and then we had to go back to school, and, you know, Ralph wanted us to go get our education, and I thought, man, this is the education I want right here, you know. I think a lot of people understand. Folks, I'm talking, in case you're just tuning in, this is Ricky Skaggs sitting here, we will continue the conversation on all kinds of subjects, don't go away.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"skaggs" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show with your host, Eric Metaxas. Hey, folks. I'm talking to Ricky Skaggs. 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 bit 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, free will Baptist. And it was just a beautiful thing to grow up like that, you know, and, you know, preacher would get up and say, has 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 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? 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 like that, you know, and just beautiful, beautiful things, you know. And when they prayed, they all prayed together. And boy, 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 going after it. You know, some of the old men up at the altar just going after it, you know, with the Lord and praying, you know, all at the same time, you know, and that's the way I grew up. So you go pray in the middle of this, but, you know, a lot of people talk about, well, I grew up singing in the church, but then they go on to have kind of a secular career that's extra secular. You know, they really move away from those roots. Doesn't sound like you ever did. No, no, sir. You always believed in Jesus. Yeah. You know, there wasn't it wasn't even five minutes when you were, you know, on a crack binge or something. This is the place to confess these things. I realize, you know, I've had experiences with the Lord where, you know, Sharon and I both, you know, when we got married, you know, we both had come from from a divorced background. She didn't have any kids. I did. I had two older children, but we dedicated our lives to the Lord from that moment on when we when we got married. And I had recommitted my faith, you know, to Jesus. And I wasn't baptized when I went to the altar when I was 13 years old. I wasn't baptized after that. And not that baptized baptism saves you. Go back when you went to the altar at 13. So you at age 13. Yeah, you made a profession of faith. But I mean, I get the impression you believe before that, but that for some reason at age 13. Well, I knew that I wasn't saved. I couldn't get to heaven just because of my mom and dad's goodness. You know, God has no grandchildren in heaven. That's right. You know, and so we all come and have our own relationship with Jesus. And I knew I needed that, you know, and I knew that I needed my sins to be forgiven, you know. And but, you know, we got baptized in the Holy Spirit, you know, a few years after after we got married, we knew that there was more. We knew that it was more than just just a Baptist, you know, come to faith that that there was a you know, there was, you know, John the Baptist talked about Jesus would baptize you with water and fire, you know. And and so we always always wondered what that fire was, you know, and that we wanted we wanted, you know, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, you know. And I mean, a lot of people listening don't even know what that is. And I you know, I came to faith around my 25th birthday and I pretty quickly got the whole thing. Yeah. You know, so to me, I was speaking in tongues and believing in the baptism of the Holy Spirit and all of that stuff immediately. But there are a lot of people that they think, well, that's a little odd or that's maybe extra credit Christianity. I'm not into that stuff. Well, it's I say it's the full package, but, you know, Jesus is always the full package. He brings everything with him. You know, he brings the bread and the wine when he comes to dinner. You know, in Revelation, you know, not only is he the wine and is he the bread of life, but he brings it with you with him when you when he comes in to have dinner, you know, to said, if you'll open the door to me, I'll come in and sup, you know. And so he's he's all of that, you know, and we need all of him. You know, we don't just need I don't want to I don't want to have anything hidden from the Lord because you can't you can't hide anything from the Lord. And so, you know, I just I really believe in communion, you know, with the Lord every day, you know. And there's just something about it, you know, that's very, very special. That time just to sit and have have time with the Lord, you know, and just just have communion with him, you know. Well, you I guess, you know, again, when we when we think about country music, it's a very faith friendly world. Obviously, Johnny Cash was a very serious believer in Jesus and God. And one of the things that I hated about the film, the only thing I hated about the film Walk the Line was that it completely left out how he gets pulled out of the hell of drugs and alcohol. It was Jesus. Yes, it was. And it was his wife praying for him and leading him along that and her dad. And, you know, in other words, that's that's the heart of the story, folks. If you want to know how Johnny Cash survived and lived and had a career, it's because of Jesus. And when they leave that out, I think to myself, Hollywood tends to do this. We live in a secular culture that secularizes everything. And you think that's that doesn't make any sense because you can't there is no story without that part of the story. That's right. And of course, you knew him personally, as you said earlier. So you knew this was real. I mean, I heard Billy Graham speak in in Central Park. I think it was 1990. And up on the stage, here comes Johnny Cash. And so I think a lot of people that they forget that a lot of these icons, these American icons love Jesus. And Johnny was one of them. He was. But so many I'm just fascinated by how that runs all through, you know, country music. You can't turn around without bumping into somebody who believes. And there's different, you know, different levels of belief. But I think I told you over the phone the story. I was in the Berlin Zoo in the hippo house in the Berlin Zoo. It's like I'm making this up. And this is about five, four, five years ago. And I'm looking for the hippos, can't find the hippos. And I turn around and there's a guy who thinks he's disguised standing there. But I knew who it was, and it was Chris Kristofferson standing there, this legend of legends or whatever. And anyway, I was honored to meet him. But a few days later, a friend of mine sent me Chris Kristofferson telling his story of being drugged, to use your language, being drugged into a church and having an experience with God that was so profound that he wrote that classic song, Why Me Lord, which George Jones sang about. But I mean, people need to know that a lot of these folks that they think, well, so-and-so's a legend. He knows Jesus. Yeah. Yeah, he did. And my friend Connie Smith took him to church, you know. They had a friendship and she loved his songwriting. And Connie Smith is the one who's married to Marty Stewart.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Ricky Skaggs (Encore Continued)
"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show with your host, Eric Metaxas. Hey, folks. I'm talking to Ricky Skaggs. 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 bit 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, free will Baptist. And was it just a beautiful thing to grow up like that, you know, and, you know, preacher would get up and say, has 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 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? 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 like that, you know, and just beautiful, beautiful things, you know. And when they prayed, they all prayed together. And boy, 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 going after it. You know, some of the old men up at the altar just going after it, you know, with the Lord and praying, you know, all at the same time, you know, and that's the way I grew up. So you go pray in the middle of this, but, you know, a lot of people talk about, well, I grew up singing in the church, but then they go on to have kind of a secular career that's extra secular. You know, they really move away from those roots. Doesn't sound like you ever did. No, no, sir. You always believed in Jesus. Yeah. You know, there wasn't it wasn't even five minutes when you were, you know, on a crack binge or something. This is the place to confess these things. I realize, you know, I've had experiences with the Lord where, you know, Sharon and I both, you know, when we got married, you know, we both had come from from a divorced background. She didn't have any kids. I did. I had two older children, but we dedicated our lives to the Lord from that moment on when we when we got married. And I had recommitted my faith, you know, to Jesus. And I wasn't baptized when I went to the altar when I was 13 years old. I wasn't baptized after that. And not that baptized baptism saves you. Go back when you went to the altar at 13. So you at age 13. Yeah, you made a profession of faith. But I mean, I get the impression you believe before that, but that for some reason at age 13. Well, I knew that I wasn't saved. I couldn't get to heaven just because of my mom and dad's goodness. You know, God has no grandchildren in heaven. That's right. You know, and so we all come and have our own relationship with Jesus. And I knew I needed that, you know, and I knew that I needed my sins to be forgiven, you know. And but, you know, we got baptized in the Holy Spirit, you know, a few years after after we got married, we knew that there was more. We knew that it was more than just just a Baptist, you know, come to faith that that there was a you know, there was, you know, John the Baptist talked about Jesus would baptize you with water and fire, you know. And and so we always always wondered what that fire was, you know, and that we wanted we wanted, you know, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, you know. And I mean, a lot of people listening don't even know what that is. And I you know, I came to faith around my 25th birthday and I pretty quickly got the whole thing. Yeah. You know, so to me, I was speaking in tongues and believing in the baptism of the Holy Spirit and all of that stuff immediately. But there are a lot of people that they think, well, that's a little odd or that's maybe extra credit Christianity. I'm not into that stuff. Well, it's I say it's the full package, but, you know, Jesus is always the full package. He brings everything with him. You know, he brings the bread and the wine when he comes to dinner. You know, in Revelation, you know, not only is he the wine and is he the bread of life, but he brings it with you with him when you when he comes in to have dinner, you know, to said, if you'll open the door to me, I'll come in and sup, you know. And so he's he's all of that, you know, and we need all of him. You know, we don't just need I don't want to I don't want to have anything hidden from the Lord because you can't you can't hide anything from the Lord. And so, you know, I just I really believe in communion, you know, with the Lord every day, you know. And there's just something about it, you know, that's very, very special. That time just to sit and have have time with the Lord, you know, and just just have communion with him, you know. Well, you I guess, you know, again, when we when we think about country music, it's a very faith friendly world. Obviously, Johnny Cash was a very serious believer in Jesus and God. And one of the things that I hated about the film, the only thing I hated about the film Walk the Line was that it completely left out how he gets pulled out of the hell of drugs and alcohol. It was Jesus. Yes, it was. And it was his wife praying for him and leading him along that and her dad. And, you know, in other words, that's that's the heart of the story, folks. If you want to know how Johnny Cash survived and lived and had a career, it's because of Jesus. And when they leave that out, I think to myself, Hollywood tends to do this. We live in a secular culture that secularizes everything. And you think that's that doesn't make any sense because you can't there is no story without that part of the story. That's right. And of course, you knew him personally, as you said earlier. So you knew this was real. I mean, I heard Billy Graham speak in in Central Park. I think it was 1990. And up on the stage, here comes Johnny Cash. And so I think a lot of people that they forget that a lot of these icons, these American icons love Jesus. And Johnny was one of them. He was. But so many I'm just fascinated by how that runs all through, you know, country music. You can't turn around without bumping into somebody who believes. And there's different, you know, different levels of belief. But I think I told you over the phone the story. I was in the Berlin Zoo in the hippo house in the Berlin Zoo. It's like I'm making this up. And this is about five, four, five years ago. And I'm looking for the hippos, can't find the hippos. And I turn around and there's a guy who thinks he's disguised standing there. But I knew who it was, and it was Chris Kristofferson standing there, this legend of legends or whatever. And anyway, I was honored to meet him. But a few days later, a friend of mine sent me Chris Kristofferson telling his story of being drugged, to use your language, being drugged into a church and having an experience with God that was so profound that he wrote that classic song, Why Me Lord, which George Jones sang about. But I mean, people need to know that a lot of these folks that they think, well, so -and -so's a legend. He knows Jesus. Yeah. Yeah, he did. And my friend Connie Smith took him to church, you know. They had a friendship and she loved his songwriting. And Connie Smith is the one who's married to Marty Stewart.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"skaggs" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"The angels Tyler skaggs career was cut short The 27 year old standout pitcher for the Los Angeles angels died from an overdose in a Dallas hotel room in 2019 Following an 8 day trial a jury took only 90 minutes to convict former angels communications director Eric of providing skags with the drugs that led to his death Here's Kay's attorney Reagan win This is a tragedy all the way around You know Eric K is getting ready to do minimum 20 years The federal penitentiary and it goes up from there And Tyler skaggs is gone And I mean it's a tragedy There's no winner Joining me is Harry Nelson of Nelson hardiman author of the United States of opioids Harry Kay is not what we think of as a drug dealer No definitely not He was former communications director of the angels A guy who was very connected to multiple players on the team and even when he wasn't in his formal communication director position anymore he was really kind of a Gopher who was helping players out when they had different needs Certainly not a classic What we think of when we think of a drug dealer Did skaggs die not because he was snorting oxycodone but because the oxycodone was fake there were counterfeit oxycodone pills Correct Basically when air K went out and got pills that he thought were actually codon they were in fact counterfeit fentanyl laced pills that were much much more powerful the dosing was much much higher and much more dangerous and then real life And so he unwittingly gave Tyler's gag I felt that they both mistook because they had the imprint of the M 30 and the right color to look like 30 milligram oxycodone And it's fentanyl that's been responsible or linked to the deaths of prince and Tom Petty is it most connected with overdose deaths Since 2014 the vast majority of the deaths I think that the numbers depends on the region of the country but it's probably three quarters if not higher 80% plus of death since 2014 are from these counterfeit pills which we call sentinel It's actually a whole toxic mix of related synthetic compounds Tell us what the trial revealed about the culture of drug use In the Los Angeles angels Clubhouse There were testimony from multiple players living like Matt Harvey for example that they had been using opioid pain pills for years And it sounded like in most cases these were players who were playing through injuries and they were actually helped for whatever the short term need was It also was clear there was a widespread awareness that K was doing this for lots of players And if these players had problems Tyler skaggs Steph brother testified tried to help Tyler get off of the pills gag's mother testified that he had tried to quit several times And so the thing that came across to me out of this trial was that there were no secrets this was not a surprise Jeff K was not some evil menace He was really embedded into the life of the angels team as was the youth and the chronic need for pain management that these pills serve I want to point out that the angels have said they weren't aware of any employees providing opioids to players or that skaggs was using them Now K was also hooked on opioid pain pills and also tried to kick them Yeah the sad irony of the case is that Jeff K was also a victim the only difference being that he didn't pay with his life as Tyler skaggs did Is there any indication that this is still going on in clubhouses Oh I believe this is still a problem happening throughout baseball and other professional sports about ten 15 years ago we saw the DEA do an intensive audit of multiple professional teams baseball teams the football team And really cracking down on the doctors who at the time back then if we go back to the early 2000s were supplying players And so what happened is we essentially took away the legal supply because the doctors were being accused and were afraid of losing their licenses by making pills easily available and instead it was replaced largely with a secretive network and the only difference was that Jeff K had the misfortune to get counterfeit pills and my sense is that on most teams the illegal trafficking that's going on is with pharmaceutical grade oxycodone and other pills But I personally believe and this is just anecdotal from what I've heard from people associated with various teams and from occasional calls that I get as a lawyer is that this is still very much a problem throughout professional sport So Major League Baseball does have a treatment program policy for for opioid use disorder doesn't it It does The problem is that first is a lot of shame attached to admitting that you have a problem publicly that is a danger to guys who are stressed out they in the sense when the financial lottery by making Major League Baseball and don't necessarily want to put it in jeopardy by admitting they have a problem And the other reality is that these players are under enormous physical stress with a 162 game season in baseball with the intensity in all professional sports with the demands on them and I think there's really a gap actually in medical care to acknowledge that we are asking these guys to play and perform for fans for their teams under enormous stress with a different standard of pain medicine that we have to somehow find a way to spread the needle of keeping them physically safe but acknowledging that they are putting their bodies under a stress that most of us couldn't possibly endure for even the shortest period of time And is there any indication that Major League Baseball is paying attention to that problem You know I've had conversations with folks associated with healthcare in baseball their medical directors I think there's awareness that there's a problem but I don't think that they are anywhere near a solution The positive is that this case was a huge wake up the challenge is that we have in some ways an intractable problem of addressing the physical demands on these players I do think that there is progress being made in reducing the shame and having players coming out and talking about the issue they've had does help the culture and the league and make it easier for other people to step forward But I think we have a long way to go Speaking of coming forward four former teammates of skaggs testified basically that they knew skaggs took opioids admitted to taking drugs themselves and that K had been their supplier You mentioned Matt Harvey He was given immunity to testify so that he can't be prosecuted but if he were to be signed by a team let's say he could immediately be suspended for what he admitted on the stand So is there a built in reason for players not to come forward Yeah Matt Harvey the late career player who I think had to have made a decision that testifying in this case could essentially lead to a suspension and certainly we're going to make him less attractive But he's the guy who has had a great career He was on the cover of Sports Illustrated He was the starting pitcher for an All-Star Game I think he made a decision when he testified that he was prepared that this might be the end of his career Obviously I think players who still have more good years ahead of them We're not and in general are not going to be willing to talk openly in the way that he did The defense was that they were fellow addicts and the agreement was that scad would pay for their drugs and K would handle the transactions And the defense also made an argument that ultimately skaggs death you know the responsibility was with the pitcher himself But none of that seemed to work for the jury Look I think unfortunately the easiest way to understand this story even.
The Drive with Paul Swann
"skaggs" Discussed on The Drive with Paul Swann
"It's absolutely unacceptable and disgraceful behavior and such hateful. Language has no place anywhere in our society. Vanderbilt of course again playing mississippi state tonight game two of the series christina involving communications director for the agency that operates tedium air trade parked in omaha said stadium officials were aware of an altercation or interaction between fans that involve the use of racial slurs. Dos said the person or persons who used offensive language left the stadium. Want security personnel. Were notified. She said she didn't know if the person or persons left on their own or war ejected in doll said officials were talking to event staff together. Additional information and said additional security measures would be in place tonight so everyone would feel safe at. Td ameritrade ballpark so Hopefully that will not occur again You know sometimes in the heat of battle competition things are said that you regret later on and that's just unacceptable but That's very sad when you think about that that kinda ruined inexperience for some parents. Who were there They're they're young men on and certainly the vanderbilt commodores outstanding program and just on the edge winning yet another national title if they can win one more game of course If we go to a game three it would go tomorrow night. That would be the final for sure. Finally family of la angels pitcher tyler. Skaggs has filed a couple of lawsuits against the club and a couple of former employees claiming negligence over his drug related death. Two years ago skaggs will carly filed in fort worth texas in the same county. Were skaggs died sky. Experienced daryl skaggs. Debbie hetman filed in los angeles. Both lawsuits were filed in state courts. Don't specify how much money they're seeking under the state's laws. The deadline to file lawsuits is thursday. The second anniversary of times skaggs death in addition to the angels as an organization. The families suing team. Communications director eric k. Who told authorities that he regularly purchase drugs for skaggs in case former boss. Tim mead the crux of the lawsuit that the angels were negligent in allowing k. A. longtime opioid abuser to have access to players and made failed to properly supervise him. The angels released a statement today saying that the lawsuits are entirely without merit. And the allegations are baseless and irresponsible. And that they would be vigorously defending themselves in courts It's a very sad situation. Scholar tighter skies was twenty seven when he passed away a couple of years ago in his hotel room in south lake texas and it was a very sad situation reminder once again we got pirates baseball..
World Cafe
Bee Gees' Barry Gibb talks going country with ‘Greenfields’
"On paper. Berry give is a superstar. Sorry i should say sir berry give the only surviving member of the bg's he is one of the most successful songwriters of all time. And yes he has also been knighted but in person berry give is exceedingly humble. He's kind and as you'll hear today deeply interested in and excited by making music. Some back story quickly berry was born on the isle of man and moved with his family to australia when he was a boy. That family included his three younger brothers. His bg's bandmates robert morris as well as his youngest andy their journey has been explored in a new. Hbo documentary called the bg's. How can you mend a broken heart. And now barry has released a new album that brings some of the songs he and his brothers wrote together. In a whole new way on greenfields the give brother songbook volume one. Barry performed songs along with folks. Like dolly parton jason. Isabel and brandi carlile today. Very good and the producer of greenfield's dave cobb. Join me to talk about how this album came together. Dave is in nashville and berry joins us from where he now lives in miami to get things rolling. Here's a song that was first released on the bg's nineteen seventy five album. Main course on this new album barry. Performs with miranda lambert and j buchanan this is jive talkin s live discount so misunderstood john. Young you just heard. Jive talkin barry gibbs singing with j buchanan verana lambert a song originally on the nineteen seventy five album main course that version is from berry's new album greenfield's the game brothers. Songbook one today. I am joined by berry. Give and the producer of greenfield's dave cobb and just so everybody knows whose voice is whose though i don't think it'll be that tricky. I'd like to welcome you individually so berry. Welcome to the world cafe. Thank you thank you dave. Welcome to the world cafe. Thank y'all have to be here. It's great to have you both on now on the surface the two of you might seem like an unlikely pairing so get into how this all came together berry. I understand that your son steven had something to do with you. Getting tuned into the dave cobb universe through the music of artists. He's worked with like chris stapleton and jason isabel and. Brandi carlile it. Could you tell us how that happened. Yeah well i mean just outside this room. Stephen came out a darby her. This and on his iphone it was chris stapleton and just blew me away so i thought wow. That's that's for me. You know as right up my street. And and if i'm gonna make anymore record that's the guy i want to work with and i said who is this guy called dave cobb and he's the probably the biggest producer. Ah in the world right now. i should okay. Sounds good to me. Let's find out he's interested in dave. What was it like getting that call. Like what was your reaction when you heard from berry and his people. I'm a massive. Bg's fan and their early records You know top ten albums for me and specifically to be i and it's something that i obsessed on for many many years. I mean that. I record particularly it has got to love somebody on it and holiday and turn of the century and these songs that to me. I love records at sound like. They're you can't imagine humans getting together and making them. They sound like they're made in remarks or something that was one of those records seminole records getting that call and getting to do. Some of these early songs was just more than i ever wish or dream of mine. Well it was an incredible experience. And i thank you for it and i sincerely hope we get to do it again. I promise not to be show nervous. Very i also read. That stephen can convince you that people would want to work with you which blows my mind because you know you're one of the most successful songwriters of all time. Why would you think that you're very kind but nashville is a different world. It's a different world and if you if you're not accepted in nashville then you not accept it. That's all there is to. Nobody explains it. You're just you know. And and at one occasion. I was in nashville and i met ricky skaggs and got a chance to make a do a track with him and it was called soldier. Son and and I was. I just thought you know. This is where i whether other people think showing this year along
The Gravel Ride. A cycling podcast
Announcing The Ridership, a free community and resource for the gravel cyclist
"Random to the show Yeah it's good to be back with you. I'm not really a guest at this point craig. I think i think. I'm i think i'm a regular buddy in co hosts at this stage so you don't have to commute to the show video. Thank you thank you good to you. Good to speak. I guess always is always as an i love that. We're on video. And because i'm in southern california. I'm in shorts and a tee shirt and you're in northern california in the morning wearing a ski hat. Yeah some definitely must say. I can't complain My family's back in boston. I'm not sure what the weather is right. Now but There's a reason why i'm not there for the winters and this is definitely a good place to be so i'll take the cold. Yeah absolutely. I feel like i'm really turning a corner down here into panga with the help of the community i've mapped out several real key important ridge lines and canyons between here and santa monica. And now i'm i'm really Experiencing asunto euphoria. Because i'm starting to kind of make connections between the two and i got lost on a rotten single-track that lead nowhere yesterday but also found. Just this rad single-track connector that i just. It's a point of discovery of new areas. That i really love when you've got the basics down and you can start digging into some of the lesser known trails. Yeah i'm starting to get that similar. Sense of familiarity with my surroundings have been here only for a couple of weeks. And i had done some writing here before but not much information's on it in the Again you know in the santa cruz mountains. Just north of skaggs point and so. I'm doing a lot of writing kinda to the west of there towards the coast backup. Then yesterday. i wrote king's ridge up in Outside of grenville. Unbelievably gorgeous out there. the grasshopper what is it the super sweetwater and the old caz racists go through their train is unreal and we were on the road the whole time so that i know there's a lot of good dirt but The vistas just unbelievable. Yeah and frankly cinema. County roads are often worse than the trails in my ex. Well i was writing six fifty. So i was. I was in good shape but one of our one of the two people i was with we were riding in a socially distant way. Everyone into we'll be talking about that in a moment One of the people we were with only have thirty. Two's and was definitely feeling the extra you impact and so on. So i was glad to be on fat rubber. Yeah exactly and you reference the grasshopper series. I had miguel crawford the founder of that series. He's been doing it for twenty years Which is kind of crazy Twenty one years. Now i guess and you can imagine what the equipment was like back in the day and in our interview he kinda often joked about. You know you just as soon see a mountain bike on the start line as you would proper road bike and everything in between over the years. In fact one of the people i was with at their brakes. Were starting to fail because it's so steep and fast and so on that just The the compounds in their breaks was seemingly anomalous classifying. Or something where they're just losing breaking power at the extremes kind of sketch. I didn't have those problems. Fortunately and i won't name names in terms of who's brake pads. They were either but well. This is great. I mean i feel like these conversations and the discovery process. We're going through in. Our new locations is on point with what i wanted to talk about today. Yep yep Before we jump into that because it will be a jumping off point. Do also want to talk about a listener email and dialogue. I've been having with the member of the community named silas. He brought up something that i've been grappling with someone. New to an area without local friends is just kovic safe riding and obviously did an interview with dave from unpaved about the event they did and all the changes they made to make covid safe but for for all of us on the day to day we've got to think about how to ride as covid safe individuals and is it safe to ride with others and what techniques can we do and what i recommended to silas is since neither you nor i are experts on this is let's let's put in the community forum and let's have a discussion and see how we can provide information to one another and have a dialogue about how individuals are comfortable in terms of writing with others. Today yeah and it's certainly not something that we are qualified to discuss ourselves You know we're not epidemiologists. We are not medical professionals and so on norway claiming that you know we have actually if we have anyone in the community Who has that sort of expertise can point to articles and so on This would be the channel To contribute to the conversation. Because ultimately i think for all of us including the experts that there is a this is like an an ongoing iterative optimization function. We're trying to find the right balance between you know. Mental health comes through social connection and that we are safe from A disease a pandemic that know is i mean. It's not like ebola so it doesn't have that extreme seriousness but it is serious enough especially potentially to other people that we might transmit to where we wanna take precautions. Striking that balances is something. We're all trying to figure out.
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Former Los Angeles Angels Employee Indicted In Tyler Skaggs’ Overdose Death
"Sad postscript to the death of Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs. Here's Keep Peter a federal grand jury in Fort Worth, Texas. Indicted a former Los Angeles Angels employees on drug charges for allegedly providing Skaggs with the drugs that caused is overdose death. Eric Prescott Kay was charged with drug distribution and drug conspiracy and Skaggs overdose death. The charges carry a maximum of of life sentence and 20 years in prison, respectively remain free on his own recognizance. Skaggs 27 was found dead in his suburban Dallas hotel room on July 1st 2019. Before the start of what was supposed to be a four game. Siri's against the Texas Rangers.
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Ex-Angels employee indicted in Tyler Skaggs' fatal overdose
"To the death of Angels pitcher Tyler Sky. A federal grand jury in Fort Worth, Texas. Indicted a former Los Angeles Angels employees on drug charges for allegedly providing Skaggs with the drugs that caused is overdose death. Eric Prescott Kay was charged with drug distribution and drug conspiracy and Skaggs overdose death. The charges carry a maximum of of life sentence and 20 years in prison, respectively. Remain free on his own recognizance. Skaggs 27 was found dead in his suburban Dallas hotel room on July 1st 2019 before the start of what was supposed to be a four game, Siri's against the Texas Rangers. Keith Peters
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Ex-Angels employee charged in overdose death of Tyler Skaggs
"Charges have been filed against a former Los Angeles Angels employee accused of giving drugs to a team member who died ABC Salik Stone It was last summer when 27 year old pitcher Tyler Skaggs died. Natexis Hotel Room before the Angels were set to play. The Rangers had overdosed on fentanyl. Now a former Angels employee has been charged in Texas with distributing fat Nolan connection to Skaggs DEATH Eric K. Had worked in the Angels Media Relations Department. Thousands
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Ex-Angels employee charged in overdose death of Tyler Skaggs
"Conspiracy charges have been filed against a former Los Angeles Angels employee. Accused of giving drugs to a team member who died a BCS Alex Stone. It was last summer when 27 year old pitcher Tyler Skaggs died in a Texas hotel room before the Angels were set to play. The Rangers had overdosed on fentanyl. Now a former Angels employee has been charged in Texas with distributing Fat Nolan connection to Skaggs death. Eric K. Had worked in the Angels Media Relations
Lance McAlister
Ex-Angels employee charged in overdose death of Tyler Skaggs
"Charges filed against a former L. A Angels employee accused of giving drugs to a team member who died. It was last summer when 27 year old pitcher Tyler Skaggs died in a Texas hotel room before the Angels were set to play the Rangers. It overdosed on fentanyl. Now a former Angels employee has been charged in Texas with distributing fentanyl in connection to Skaggs Death. Eric K. Had worked in the Angels Media Relations Department.
Solvable
Deep Background with Noah Feldman
"I want you to hear another show from Pushkin that I think you'll like it's called deep background and it's hosted by Harvard Law. Professor Noah Feldman Minute Noah's been interviewing top. Scientists thinkers and authors to understand the stories behind the news. The episode. You're about to hear is a special one. Because because Noah himself was the newsmaker in the hot seat testifying before Congress. I'll let him pick up the story on deep background. This is a show about understanding the news. And if you like you're about to hear I hope you'll subscribe from Pushkin Industries. This is deep background. The show where we explore the stories behind the stories in the news. I'm Noah Feldman joining us for the first time. Welcome if you've missed any of our earlier episodes which used it'd be behind a paywall. You can now get them for free exactly where you found this one a bit about me. I teach constitutional law at Harvard. I love oh well tailored suit and I had a pretty eventful winter break swear or affirm under penalty perjury and the testimony. You're about to give. It is true and correct to the best of your knowledge information and belief to help you got this past December. I was an expert witness called by the Democrats to testify at the impeachment inquiry and the House of Representatives into president. Donald Trump. To be honest with you it was extremely nerve wracking. My job is to study and to teach the constitution solution from its origins until the present. I'm here today to describe three things. Why the framers of our Constitution included a provision for the impeachment agent of the president? What that provision providing for impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors means and last how it applies to the question before for you and for the American people whether president trump has committed impeachable offenses under the constitution? The other expert witnesses called by the Democrats were Pamela Carlin. A law professor at Stanford when President Trump invited indeed demanded foreign involvement in our upcoming election. He struck at the very heart of what makes makes this a republic to which we pledge allegiance and Michael Gerhardt a law professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel. If what we're talking about is not impeachable the nothing impeachable. I recently got the chance to talk to Michael Gerhardt about that day and all that has happened since I was was unfortunately recovering from a slight cold Michael. Thank you so much for joining me. We've spoken on the phone but we actually haven't seen each other. Since December December four th when we both had the opportunity and maybe dubious honor of testifying at the House. Judiciary Committee's hearing on impeachment impeachment. How you been doing since then it's It's been busy Teaching classes and also trying to be part of the national conversation on a very important subject what I would love for us to do in. This conversation is open up for listeners. Some of the the back story in the back scenes of what we experienced that day. How we prepare for it and also sort of bigger picture consequences Of what's been going on. So maybe the way to start is. I had never done this before before so it was a surprise to me but you had done this before. Twenty years previously When they were a group of professors I think twenty one in total? Who testified about Bill Clinton's impeachment to the House Judiciary Committee and not only were you one of them but you are also the only one who is jointly put forward by the Republicans and the Democrats so take us back if you will twenty years and tell us how that happened you know? Nowadays it's almost inconceivable to imagine there being somebody who is acceptable to both sides on twenty years seems longtime ago. It's GonNa the seem even longer when we Put together what was happening back then. It'll seem completely alien to us. So I had spent a fair bit of my academic career studying and writing about impeachment also testifying and consulting with members of Congress that was all known by the time we got to nineteen ninety eight and there was a special moment for me in one thousand nine hundred eight when Jim Leach Republican David Skaggs Democrat called me up on the phone said. Would you come talk to us in Washington generally if members of Congress want to talk to me about something I think. That's a great honor and I went and they said to me. Well what would like you to do after you talk to us right now. Go speak to the entire House of Representatives. The I didn't know that coming into that moment while And they had ring like they want you to speak to the house right. Then yes right then So I thought well wow this is going to be a good test with another another subject matter And so then we walked over to the House and I had to get special permission to walk onto the floor of the house and then behind closed doors with no staff. No press or anything. I then talked to the entire House of Representatives about impeachment spent about two hours doing it at no no cameras fresno nothing knows nothing just nothing is all. Is there a written record of your. Don't think there's a written record. I think it was also amazing. You had a confidential conversation with four hundred and thirty five people hard to say the biggest lecture of my life or one of the big lectures but it was a tried to designed more conversation and it was a very congenial collegial conversation at the end of a Charles candidate Republican. Bobby Scott a democrat. Who happened to be my representative came up to me and said well? If you ever have a hearing on this would you come and I said well sure I'd be honored honored and then that hearing to which you just alluded Happened a few weeks later where I was then. Brought in by both Republicans and Democrats to testify is one of the experts One of the many experts including Alan Dershowitz On the question of Whether or not President Clinton's alleged misconduct rose to the level of being an impeachable offense. And what did you say When I talked about was basically The law of impeachment. I try to kind of lay out the things we knew that that I thought were clear and then kind of talked about some things that were maybe unsettled and said here's what we know about them here. The arguments on both sides and and kind of walked everybody through that and then got questions but there was no personal attack was always very much. You know in this footnote. You said this but now today you're saying that Fair I can try to answer that. Do they actually give you a chance to to answer it. I'd say that has light of our experience. They asked a question and then they actually let you answer it. It's like you know as you said it. Sounds like the Middle Ages. That's right yeah so when we had our hearing there was is no chance to answer it or at least we were giving maybe a second and then that was about it but yes they would then give me a chance to answer it and they they appear to be listening and it was really more of a conversation Than Twenty years later it would be. It's sort of fascinating on many levels but one of the reasons it's so fascinating is that most people at the time identified the impeachment of Bill Clinton that moment as a high point in partisanship the most partisan moment that people can remember the in the United States in more than a century and I think that was actually a fair assessment in historical terms and now twenty years later. It sounds almost like a model of bipartisan and cordiality and collegiality even if they voted along along party lines let me ask you a question Michael so the reason you yourself in that extraordinary position in the Clinton impeachment is it you were and remain the leading expert law professor on the subject of impeachment your guide to the impeachment and processed book you know has come out and I think three additions now why in the world as a young law professor did you get interested in the impeachment as the topic. It was not a hot topic. You know in the late eighties when you must have started diving into it or the middle ladies and you start diving into it. Why did you choose the subject? Well it's a good question I grew up Jewish Alabama in the nineteen sixties. That that that comes with that. That's a big sentence. We're we're in Alabama a mobile on. Okay got it and so I was my entire childhood. aalto was sort of shaped and defined by the Civil Rights Movement at the tail end of that civil rights movement was of course Watergate so like many people of my generation I I watched Watergate. I was kind of thought it was incredible moment to see Congress sort of investigating the president and eventually the President resigned and that that that stuck with me. That was something that I felt. The civil rights movement and Watergate had in common a respect for the rules law. They had in common the idea that law could bring order to chaos and so that was very appealing to me. I had an interest in the law as a
Morning Edition
Doctors March On Border Patrol, Demanding It Vaccinates Detainees
"Till often you yes last year we left it until after the Asian you your in February now the highlight of all these festivities for the kids happens to be the accompanying ritual of gift giving they have learned that the otherwise ignored wishes in this season can see the light of day so request to meet demands a waste and hints of dropped as the dream of endless possibilities slippers beyblades rocket ship slime all nestled for space in the park cloud star color all deal with them our first October celebration the valley was around the corner I thought it prudent to explain to my sons that even though the Vatican celebrating all festivities we cannot expect to receive gifts for each of them you will be getting one gift for the valley in a few weeks and that's about it don't ask me for a Christmas gift again I emphasized my five year old looked at me and talk for a minute he was probably processing all the dates in his head because his eyes suddenly brightened and the US then can I just have a gift for Russia China with the perspective I'm Sunday I tell you Sonya Charlie a is a writer and author of children's book you can share thoughts on commentary online at KQED dot org slash perspectives support for perspectives comes from Comcast dedicated to serving California communities with access to technology volunteering time providing financial support and connecting people in need to high speed internet and home more at California dot com cast dot com support for NPR comes in T. Rowe price offering a strategic investing approach that examines investment opportunities firsthand institutions advisors employers and individuals choose T. Rowe price T. Rowe price invest with confidence and the George Lucas educational foundation creators of edgy topia an online resource CD educated to improving the learning experience for America students with information and strategies about what works in K. through twelve education learn more and and utopia dot org and the listeners of KQED it's morning edition from NPR news I'm not working and I'm Rachel Martin Major League Baseball has long tested for drug use and players especially performance enhancing drugs now the league is going to test explicitly for opioids the decision comes months after autopsy results reveal the presence of opioids in the body of Los Angeles pitcher Tyler Skaggs this was after he was found dead in a hotel room bill shaken covers the lead for the Los Angeles Times and joins us this morning thanks for being with us good morning so bill just explain exactly what the change is is going to mean for clubs and players so it went Tyler Skaggs passed away and then the autopsy results came out a couple months later the natural question that anybody would ask is is there anything that we could have done in Major League Baseball did not test players at that point for opioids so the commissioner's office and the players union sat down and said well maybe we should do that maybe that might have prevented one death in this case because in American society thirty one thousand people died last year because the fat and all which is one of the two opioids that was founded Tyler Skaggs
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MLB Updates Drug Policy to Include Opioid Testing
"Meanwhile a new drug testing policy as crossed home plate for Major League Baseball is KCRW's Larry Parral reports a deal as would reach between the players union in the league on adding testing for opioids and relaxing marijuana use but with some caveats the deal comes five months after angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died in a hotel room an autopsy revealed he had to opiates in his bloodstream the only times reports the policy would be implemented next season and will be announced today as part of the new rules the players tested positive for opioids they would be subject to treatment but not be suspended up to this point players were not required to be tested unless there was reasonable clause as part of the new policy marijuana use will be allowed in the major and minor league for pain relief no word on how or if that use would be regulated after Skaggs died officials and the union agreed to look at whether it was time to include opioid testing a former player in the major and minor leagues says Skaggs had undergone surgery during his career he says it was likely he was introduced to opioids as a pain killer because of it at least thirty one thousand people die from using the opioid but no last year in the US for KCRW I'm Larry
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Angels reps aware of Skaggs' drug use, DEA told
"Dot com related to the death of angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs from drug use this summer outside the lines ESPN fugit queen reporting the angels director of communications Eric Kaye a full but V. eight he provided Skaggs with oxy code own in Skaggs that abuse that for years K. also gave the DEA names of all the players that were using opiates role on the team the angels have released a statement denying
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Classic Game Remakes
"You can't talk about the goose game yet right. Oh when does this go up tomorrow. tomorrow okay yeah use game. Did you beat it yard. Ty WHO's game of the year come on just be just be gop why they're clearly entitled game of the year what you're going to confuse everybody buddy hoping here about Borland's three and now you're about untitled goose games and it's it's pretty much the only medal your solid game. I've ever played. They explain you don't you don't put a radio to sprinkle it or break it that way. You can sneak past the guy. It's a it's a metal. Is it a stealth. What is it called Stealth Espionage Action Stealth espionage. It's it's their boxes the problem to solve things so speaking of the radio. There's like this radio. You have to sneak past the Gardner Guy Right at the beginning of the game and I it's sitting on so when you pick it up it makes like music and he goes out of con- costs for that and he gets you right yeah and then and then so what I did was he puts it on top of a cooler antidrug the cooler all the way to where it needs to go and Thomas. Okay okay listen. I watched this and it was funny when it happened but this is a boring story wrap it up no no. I didn't really quite often to wait for people to hear this but this amazing off but the radio and Birket I'm just saying there's multiple ways solve this game. Is it game Goosey goosing game. Are you kidding me. Something see something. I'm excited for the sequel uncensored goose game. Yeah Yeah every time he hong to goose to honk for TV is this is it level base. What are you doing things is where it's like. Hey do all this stuff and something you 'cause. We'll open up a new area so you have him his thumb and he like falls from the hammer yeah yeah he goes like hit his his telling the boring story. I'm just jokin those are great before I one acknowledged to honk for. TV was a really good job at Damon. Thank you thank you and mark your story. Was it was okay. We'll so it's like dark. It was a six point. Oh it's like dark souls you do stop dumpling and then it opens up a new area and then it's like a Metro Vania dark souls metal gear salt lead. This Games got law headline goose game of the year druce like all of these other teams. It's entirely not like winter game. Yeah exactly AH that's from two thousand and eleven so we don't talk about borderlands now all right. Let's use game like borderlands three now. There's no blue unless yes you can a sandwich. There's yeah total luke because you drag everything back to the picnic. It's true yeah but you don't have any inventory space. Just like in borderlands game of the year also like so is on Telugu out tomorrow tomorrow. It's the twentieth tomorrow so toward the daily. You're listening to this. It's out it's out and it only takes an hour and a half to be over short. You can beat it almost forty times this weekend. Please should have been longer or is that the right amount of time to be. It's like me when you beat the game. They're still like stuff you you can do but you've ruled. The credits just like control weakness talk about okay. Okay wait to your borderlands point. Yes the inventory sucks. I assume that you can level up from there. You can increase your Marcus's munitions perfect pretty early inventory because you could do that in one and two and whatnot a lot of the systems feel pretty antiquated in a Lotta ways like everybody keeps saying it's just borderlands again and we've been playing more than any of us I think so. I think I'm agreeing with you. You're saying that it's it's a little a bit better. I think it's like lance too but I think it's better in every single way and that makes it better every single way every funnier. Maybe the writing an the map is broken as say broken. Well I just I. It's difficult to see what levels are unlike a different. Oh I thought they did a a better job at that. Because now you can rotate the map yeah I think I think you mean like when you when he said away point. It's really hard to find out where that actually which unlike which Alex should be taken if the if it splits off and your waypoints here and you're like oh I'm going to it and you're like Oh and yet open your mapping. I also the way back around can can we just say if you're playing with another player. The driver should not also be the navigator because you have to stop driving. pull up your mouth figure out which direction you need to stop the car before before yes. This is the person who's in the back on the governor should be the one to look at the matter author map and look at the map all the way you should do exactly yeah if needed. I totally the baggage around this and she she could see my TV and I would just opened my map and I'm like look and she could just see her through the screen cheating totally. That's the whole point. Is that what it was. It's called an in a perfect arc when you're looking at my screwing banking. Look there's a whole gamut of this game called screen cheat or something like that. Where you don't don't see the other person on the map shooter you don't see the other person so you have to screen peak to see where they are to be able to shoot them. Mario Kart Saddle node cheat or do you not it's. It's so that you can see you can line up a shot. What would somebody driving screen so you do. Do Eh for some people it's part of the experience for some people to be back. There is like these elaborate cardboard setups done off the the television like Oh. I've done that like playing halo like putting up the blanket and like one of your friends is under the blankets. That's great what's up with the pets in borderlands. One class has a pet flack nets the class that I chose with because I heard it was good for solo players playing by myself and yet you can sit out. The pets too technical for you and the first pet is a dog. Yeah modest has come a monster dog. It's a scam. You know what's really sad though I think they changed. The deaths down sounds for the skaggs. The sound really really sad yeah exactly. It sounds like a dog river. Your your pet is whatever you pick so you pick the dog. I didn't know how to choice. Let's guilty characters. You can pick what skill you get one point right at the start on the fly to so you picked that what's his name meet meet it she older. I forget his name now. That's the Jabber boy anyways. You could change it on the fly. What's what are the what are the other options as Iraq took a spider and yeah and then there's Iraq grew hanged dinosaur Mosser things. I think I'll stick with the dog was I. There's the flying. It's like a pterodactyl thin. The rack sounds good. Thank you very active but one of them is like a little like Jabber guy and he has a gun jabber and the more Islam inspire not the spider is like a little looks like this Guy Jabber. What do you mean Jabber. Keep saying. This aren't thinking isn't that in anyway. He has a gun and then you can make where he has a shotgun so he's a little pet walks around the shotgun. That's awesome. It's awesome. I'm playing playing as Mara. I don't really like her. She's fine. I'm playing MOS-. She has a robot. Yay Mas is I think the MOS flag actually the community favorites from what I've seen. I've seen the search volume to back that up. It's ask it. It's fun. I'm having a good time but it does feel very samey like it's. It's a little bit like they. They spent seven years. I guess they didn't spend the entire seven years but it's been seventy years. Berlin to if you had told me this was a new expansion for Borland's Orleans to I would have believed you gear gearbox made preschool right yeah so said Eddie. You knew it'd be however many years since I think it's a different team Eamon Australia that made sure if it was like spin offer from another team or not yeah it was. It's their fallen Vegas. It's fun other Games. They're able to reinvent themselves. Listen in new in new sequels in in additions but this just feels like more Portland switch. It's fun yeah. I enjoy it. I love the guns and I love that. I feel like every time I go back to sanctuary to like do all my inventory management. I feel like I'm going back out of the world as a slightly different character. You're always leveling up. You're always getting getting better guns. I've a shotgun right now. Every time I shoot them it just blows them away it so far like the blows them away literally blow them away and then when you reload it becomes a grenade than's flashes and says shoot me as it's going to and then you get another one in the shoot it. It's awesome cool like that. It's it's really fun. I like it a uh-huh Fisher
Bill Handel
Angels pitcher died from mix of alcohol, fentanyl, oxycodone
"A toxicology report released yesterday shows the angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs had fennel oxy coat on and alcohol in his system when he was found dead in his Texas hotel room his family says that was out of character for the pager they also say the south like police department thinks an employee of the Los Angeles angels organization may have been
WBZ Morning News
Medical examiner: Angels pitcher died of accidental overdose
"A medical examiner in Texas rule that angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died from an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol the family says that a team employee is being investigated for his involvement in Skaggs is death Skaggs had the powerful pain killers fentanyl in oxycontin in his system along with
WBZ Morning News
Medical examiner: Angels pitcher died of accidental overdose
"A medical examiner in Texas rule that angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died from an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol the family says that a team employee is being investigated for his involvement in Skaggs is daft Skaggs had the powerful pain killers fentanyl in oxycontin in his system along with
Gary Jeff Walker
Tyler Skaggs: Angels pitcher overdosed on drugs and alcohol
"Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died from an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol found dead in his hotel room in the Dallas area last month where the angels were playing the ranger the autopsy states that the young Los Angeles angels pitcher suffocated after ingesting a mix of alcohol and the opioids oxy code own and Sentinel the death ruled