Hey everybody, Greg Laurie here. You're listening to the Greg Laurie podcast. And my objective is to

deliver hopefully compelling practical insights and faith, culture, and current events from a Biblical

perspective to find out more about our ministry. Just go to our website harvest.org. So thanks for

joining me for this podcast. Well, Alice, thanks for having me at your place. Here's called the rock,

right? This is the rock. Yeah, we started about 20 years ago.

Yeah. And trying to find a place for kids to go where they could, you know,

an alternative to what's on the street, basically. And I watched a couple of 16-year-old kids do a drug

deal on the corner and I went, how does that kid not know he might be a great guitar player,

or that that other kid might be a drummer? And it just struck me right then. Why don't we open

that? Given that alternative to go there, you know, and it ended up here. That's incredible.

And I know you're impacting a lot of young people here and they come in and they wonder what's

the catch, but you're just doing something for your community. And it's not only that, but it's

all Christian. You know, we're all Christian guys and Lord told us to do it. So we just obeyed.

That's all. So speaking of that, when I told people, I met Alice Cooper. Alice Cooper. What's he

like? I said, he's the nicest guy down to earth. So easy to talk to. And, you know, and they have

kind of the stereotypical image of you because you know, you have a persona, right? You're the

guy that, well, first of all, I mentioned to a young person the other day, I'm going to talk with

Alice Cooper. And they said, didn't he fight? I head off a bat. I said, I think that's Ozzy Ozborn.

I said, I do know there's a story with Alice in a chicken though, but that sort of maybe a little

mythological, right? You know, back then, there was no internet. So everything was word of mouth,

everything was urban legend. And they wanted Alice to be that more than anything. I think they

were looking for a villain. And I was more than happy to be Captain Hook to everybody's Peter Pan.

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