The Eric Metaxas Show - Ricky Skaggs - Part 2

Episode Date: December 20, 2022

Ricky Skaggs was in town for the Getty Christmas Concert and stopped by the studio to talk about his long and legendary music career.

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I want to talk to you a little about your faith. And you grew up, obviously you said your father would set you up on the pulpit when you were like five. So you grew up very much in the church. I did. Foot-wash and 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, a preacher would get up and say, has anybody got a word or a testimony?

Well, 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? Okay. And so these precious old women of the faith would get up

and talk about their son coming to Jesus, you know, and that they'd prayed for him for years, an 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 all. or just going after it, you know, with the Lord and pray and, you know, all at the same time, you know, and that's the way I grew up. So you go up right 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. It doesn't sound like you ever did. No, no, sir. You always believed in Jesus. Yeah. You know. There wasn't even five minutes when you were, you know, on a crack binge or something. This is the place to confess these things, brother.

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 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 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 baptism saves you. Go back. When you went to the altar at 13, so at age 13, you made a profession, you made a profession of faith. But, I mean, I get the impression you believed 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 all his kids. 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, 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, 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, you know, and is he

the bread of life, but he brings it with him when he comes in to have dinner, you know, to say, if you'll open the door to me, I'll come in and sup, you know. And, um, and, and, um, and, So 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 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 time with the Lord, you know, and just have communion. union with him, you know.

Well, you, I guess, you know, again, when we think about country music, it's a very faith-friendly world. Obviously, Johnny Cash was a very serious believer in Jesus and got to, 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 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. No, 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 Central Park, I think it was 1990. And up on the stage, here comes Johnny Cash. And so I think there are 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 or five years ago. And I'm looking for the hippos, can't find the hippos when 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 Christopherson, sitting 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 Christopherson telling his story of being drug, to use your language,

being drug 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 away. But, I mean, people need to know that a lot of these folks that they think, well, so-and-so is a legend, he's like, he knows Jesus. 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.

Yep. Okay. Another dear friend. Yeah. Yep. But, yeah, that was, you know, and I used to host a television show from the Riemann 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 Riemann, 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. 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'm in a song that is so beautiful and moving. When we come back, I'm going to continue my conversation with Ricky Skaggs, and he is going to continue the conversation with me.

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Not some other Ricky Skaggs, because there's hundreds of them out there. Yeah. But you're the musician, right? I can tell by the mandolin that's attached to you. Yep. We were just talking about Chris Christopherson 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 way other way to describe it.

He had a supernatural experience. There's no other way to describe it. Yeah, and it's stayed with him. 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, B.J. 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 say, ring drops, keep following my head. 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 fiveers 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 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, okay, in the field, okay? So you're very, very, very little? Like a year old. Uh-huh. Okay. And the church house is behind me.

Dad's out in the yard, and he's holding me in the churchyard. 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 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 marketplace. Excuse me. That's the whole point of the church, right? We're supposed to get filled up 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 tree been baptized? I mean, everything that is good is of God and points to God. And so they're the 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, must be really hard to be a Christian, keep your Christian principles, and go out into

beer joints and casinos. To work amongst all those devil worshippers, I think that's what they're trying to say. And I say, 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 take it out to where people really need to hear it. You know, you 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, point, 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 is the devil have all the good music, the point is he doesn't. That's right. He doesn't. 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, actually, I always bring up the example of master and the musician, which was an instrumental by Phil Kage, instrumental album. And it's kind of funny because because there are no Christian lyrics, you'd say, well, is Phil Keggi still playing Christian music? It's kind of funny because it makes you realize that those are not God's categories. Those are man's categories. Okay, so you're friends with some friends of mine, we mentioned Chris Reed, who's at Morningstar 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 there are a lot of believers that they're either unaware of that world or they're suspicious or even hostile toward it. Sharon and I got to go to Lagos, Nigeria, on a pastor's conference retreat, and we were kind of

going to, you know, supply the music, you know, when we got there. And so Mehes Chavda was over there, and he was holding services at night after the pastor conferences would be over in the daytime. It was for all these Nigerian pastors that would come and hear teaching by 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 I wanted to go to that conference in Kansas City. some friends of ours had given us a bunch of cassette tapes of 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 I meet Bob and then I meet Rick and it would take me 30 minutes to tell you all the things that happened while Bob. said, well, I want you to go up to the green room up there after we get done, said, I want to pray for you, you know. So he started praying and prophesying, and it was amazing. And then I got to meet Francis Franjapan. I met, you know, James Ryle. I met all these people that were associated with Kansas City Fellowship.

I was about a year and a half ago, Mike Bickle 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. And 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, I remember what they call the church there. I always forget the name of the church there. But anyway, that Mike Bickle has overseen. It's a prayer room that for decades has been 24-7 nonstop praying and worshiping. Bob Jones prophesied that to Mike Bickle, that it would happen.

He prophesied it to Mike Bickle before Mike Bickle even believed in any of this stuff. That's what I find so funny. It's like he prophesied it. And Mike Bickle at the time, young man thinking, this guy's nuts. What do I make of this guy? And Paul Cain 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 telephan handheld televisions right you know had no that's before iPhones or any kind of thing was it was even this is decades yes before the iPhone he just saw a vision of this yes um and um Well, I think we have one minute left in this 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 knew some of these friends of mine and that you're into this stuff. You're still willing to talk to me. The Lord is alive. What? And you were still willing to have me on. And I'm still willing to talk to you.

Yeah. No, but it's just interesting because I, I think that God is at work now, and he's particularly at work in this way right now. 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.

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That's patriotmobile.com slash Eric or call 972 Patriot. 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 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 Super Tramp 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 Christopherson wrote, why me Lord, right? Yeah. And I thought this is the most beautiful song I've ever heard. And then George Jones sings it, and I thought, I didn't think it could be 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 a creative being, and he made us to be creative, you know. Amen. 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 right before I woke up, I heard this song a couple of weeks ago, maybe three weeks ago. So it better use my pick, so I'm more used to playing it, but I like it with my thumb. Now, is that a song that came to you originally? originally that it just kind of drops into your head from someplace?

Yep. That's how I get most of the instrumentals that I do. I don't just sit around. I consider that cheating. I just want you to know, folks. That's cheating. I mean, seriously, what an amazing thing. What a gift.

What an absolute gift that you just, it just comes to you. Because you know, you hear this, that Mozart and others, that just that they hear melodies or Beethoven. And that happens to you. Yeah. When I got a hold of that verse, where King David was singing near my God to thee. No, he wasn't.

I know what you're going to say. He was playing his harp before Saul, and demons would leave Saul, and Saul would be in his right mind. When I heard that, I said, Lord, that was an old covenant experience. We got a better covenant on this end because of you. Now, I want you to see me.

Yes, I want. these songs. I mean, what's King David been doing in heaven all these years? He ain't sitting on his thumbs. He's creating music. And I think those that take it by force, those that take, that's part of the kingdom is on earth as it is in heaven. I mean, these things are in heaven. Why can't we have them here so we can bless people that don't know the Lord? Well, it's amazing that the song you just played, which you said you just kind of heard, you know, out of nowhere. Doesn't it have a spirit to it? Well, the thing about it is it reminds me of almost a revolutionary war era song. It has that, like it could have come from that era.

It's interesting. I wanted to touch on your wife and the whites. Did they not play with T. Bone Burnett in Old Brother Were Art Thou? They did. They were in that movie, Old Brother War Art Thouin. They toured, did a bunch of the tours that they did. Down from the Mountain was the name of the tours. and actually came to Carnegie Hall, you know, here.

I'm just kind of sorry. I missed that one. Yeah, that was a great one. But they're amazing singers, and, you know, we've been married 41 years. Whoa. Yeah. What's the song on there? I don't know if you want to play that one.

I'll fly away. That's a beautiful, beautiful song. It was Keep on the Sunny Side. That's the one that's the old Carter family song here again. Just gleaning from that whole stuff. Isn't that amazing? That is so amazing. And they'd been singing that song for years. And, but that's the one that they want, you know, that the brothers, the Cohen brothers and T-Bone wanted them to do is something that, oh, yeah, we know that.

We've been singing it for 30 years. Is that right? Yeah, so they did. It's just, well, some of that music, I mean, I love gospel bluegrass, and some of the songs, they could just make you cry. I'm trying to think now, which ones do I have on my... We're going to go to a break, and I'll try to remember those songs when we come back. I just feel with bitter tears. Lord, I ain't been home in years.

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You played everywhere with everybody. In 2020, I wanted to get to this. You had quadruple bypass surgery. Yeah. Three just wasn't enough. I had to go for four. So were you going to die? What's going on?

How are you doing right now? I'm doing great. You seem pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. I'm doing really good. I was so thankful to have it done, you know, and get it taken care.

of, yeah. I was just getting real weak, you know, going through the, you know, most of the time we take a bus when we go on the road. But there's sometimes, you know, going to Los Angeles or going somewhere in California, you just kind of got to fly, you know, to get out there. And so going through airports with a mandolin on one shoulder, my shoulder bag on the other, you know, and trying to get from gate to gate, you know, a little shortness of breath there. And so anyway, went and had it checked, which is, you know, amazing that they, once they checked it, they realized that I had a few little blockages.

And then they did a deeper check and realized that they couldn't do it that it had to be surgery. So anyway, but that was great. And I'm thankful the Lord brought me through that. you know he told me he said you know the devil is not going to steal you he is not going to take one second of your life until you've completed everything that i've called you to do you know they appeared to me three times what yeah in in in a vision i saw him three different times wait a minute you see you saved us for our last segment you saw the lord three times in a vision can you share a little more that's just amazing he said i'm here to fight for

you. And when I saw him, I'd seen him other times, you know, in visions and stuff. The first time I saw him was, he was on the, he appeared on the ceiling in Kansas City. Graham Kendrick was up, leading worship. And me and Rick, Joyner, and James Ryle, and Ed McGlassen, there was a vineyard pastor. We were all setting together. And, you know, I just happened to look up. And on the ceiling was the Lord's face. And that scripture, where the Lord inhabits the praises of his people. When the worship would get really intense, his face would get really intense.

Now, were you the only one seeing this? No, Rick saw it, and James Ryle, and Ed saw it. And James, you know, did a picture with an ink pen, drew it out what he saw. And, you know, it's before iPhones. You know, we couldn't like, oh, man, I'll get the Lord. You know, and so anyway. But I keep that in my Bible all the time.

But this time when I saw him, he looked different. He looked so regal. He looked so kingly. This is two years ago. Yeah. He looked so kingly. There was just a look on his face that was he knew exactly who he was. That he was the king of all kings.

He was the host of the heavenly armies of. God. And he was there to let me know, and he said, I am yours and you are mine. And the devil is not going to take one second of your life until you've completed everything I've called you to do. Now, see, I want everybody who's listening to understand, folks, this is not for Ricky Skaggs. This is for every single one of us. The Lord wants to have a relationship with every single one of us. You need to know that, and if you don't, you need to ask him to show you whatever he wants to show you. Give him your life. Because, you know, when I hear things like this, how God, how merciful he is that he wants to encourage you. You're at death's door, and he wants to encourage you. And he

wants to do things like that with every single one of us. That's right. He does. He's no respecter of persons, you know, but I guess he knew that I needed to see him. I needed that, you know, and I did. Lord knows, I was fearful, not fearful that I was going to die, I didn't feel like that, you know, but just him showing up like that, just, man, it was, it was amazing. Well, speaking of amazing, there's a song, everybody knows the lyrics to Amazing Grace. Actually, I had the chutzpah, which is a New York word, when I spoke of the 2012 prayer breakfast, to end it by leading 2,500 people

in singing Amazing Grace Acapella with the president and all the other crazies that were seated up there on the dais. But everybody seems to know that song. Maybe we could sing that a little bit on our way out, or just a... It's just so beautiful. Yes, it is.

Oh, sweet the sound. that saved like me was long but now I see that's awesome who wrote that that is such a beautiful song and there's so many beautiful

well you know they they they always yes I mean but but no John Newton but I'm saying it's never clear to me did he just write the lyrics or do you also write the music or whatever But it's such a, it's one of those songs that it says it all. Yeah.

How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. Until you understand you're a wretch in need of saving. And still you understand that you're broken and you need Jesus to heal you. You're not getting it because you can't, you can't come to him in your strength. No, no. And so that's why that song is so special probably to so many people. But Ricky, we're out of time. Listen, it's just a joy to get this time with you.

I praise God for you. Thank you for sharing your story and for bouncing around the history of music with me. It's just fun and a blessing. And I'm looking forward to seeing you tonight on the stage of Carnegie Hall. Now, people want to find you. You can go to rickie skaggs.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. with you. It's just awesome. Thank you. Love what you do. Welcome back. Albin, because it's Christmas, I keep wanting to throw out Christmas gift ideas. Now, listen, maybe people think it would be self-serving for me to recommend my own books as Christmas

gifts. But believe me, folks, I didn't write the books to make money. I wrote the books because God created me to be a writer and to tell all these stories. I'm very proud of them. You can get most of my books. Well, you can get them anywhere, but you can get them anywhere. get them at my store.com, which is Mike Lindell's website. There's all kinds of wacky products there. But my store.com, you can get my books. You can get a Bonhofer poster, which, by the way, it's glorious, it's beautiful. It really is amazing. So I just want to recommend my books because listen, if I could give them away for free, and sometimes I do, I want to get the word out to people about the heroes I've written about, about, you know, the substance of our faith

being, how rational it is to believe in the God of the Bible. And so I wrote his atheism. So anyway, those are my books. But if you do go to MyStore.com and you decide, well, maybe I don't want to get Eric's book today. There are a zillion other crazy products. Alvin, you and I are like laughing ourselves sick looking at these. They have the tick patrol tick remover. Yeah. You know, who doesn't want a tick remover? Who wants ticks? Let's be honest.

Very few people actually desire ticks. Well, the Tick Patrol tick remover, you can get it at my store.com. Use the code Eric. And I'm not going to tell you about it because it's just too, it's too real. It's too real. But it's, is it tweezers maybe to get rid of the ticks? No, it's, it works. Stop ticks in their tracks.

with the tick patrol tick remover. Freedom four pack removes ticks head and all. A lot of these tick removers, you know, they just give you the semblance of tick removal. This removes the actual entire tick head and all. So, you know, if you're a camper or you're on tick patrol, you know, this is important stuff. But there's all kinds of other stuff.

They've got so many products. They have the breathtaking tongue cleaner. Oh. They also have an amazing temporary tooth replacement. Did you know that? No. Yeah. If you're missing a tooth, it's, this is, you have to go to my store.com, browse around.

Just don't forget to use the code Eric when you buy these things. But it's, it says with amazing temporary tooth, that's the title, with amazing temporary tooth, it's easy to fill that missing tooth with a realistic looking tooth that is comfortable and will give you the confidence to smile again. this is not made up. They're 15 to 20 temporary teeth in every product. I think you have to look into this. All right. Now we need to get serious for a minute. We keep saying this because we believe in it.

If you really want to give a gift that is not goofy or not practical, but that's just beautiful, you can participate in freeing a slave. We are partnering with CSI, and Salverity International. If you go to the link on our website, metaxis talk.com, whatever you give helps free slaves. This is real. We've talked about it on this program. I keep saying I want to encourage everyone, please, to participate.

Whatever you give, your name goes into a hat, and we're going to send eight. We're going to draw eight grand prize winners. So if you just are a kid or you just want to, you know, they want to give $10. We want to put all your names in a hat. Anybody who gives $10,000, I want to have dinner with you or spend the evening with you. I keep throwing that out there. Anybody gives $1,000, which will free for slaves. We want to reward you and thank you in person. When you come to the radio studio, we'd be delighted to have you there. But you have to go to metaxistocococ.com. This is just the greatest Christmas gift, folks. Anything. Any amount you give, metaxistock.com. You'll see the banner right at the top of the page. Please be be generous. This is an amazing, amazing, amazing thing. God bless you.