Hey, what's going on America and welcome to the newest episode of the dear America podcast we found some I don't know

hobo on the side of the road today that just decided that he needed to say something about no I'm kidding of course we have John Cooper lead singer of skillet join us yes yes yes yes

John how are you doing buddy how's it going man it's going well it's going good for us but but it's going really weird for you

and and so I want to talk to you firsthand like it's really weird it's one thing to get a firsthand account from somebody that lives in an area that's being affected by these riots everything it's another thing for a not only a friend but another famous person

it's after to do this so man just talk to us about your hometown where you live what's been going on man I mean how how are things a couple days ago how are things now I know me and you talk privately once the National Guard came in just just walk walk us and the audience through what this has been like for you and your family

sure yeah yeah let's say I'll save the I'll save the latest things that have happened the last few days that we chatted about I'll save that because that's a whole nother conversation there we go okay it's pretty good yes yes incredible I would say but yeah it is weird and and for people who don't know first of all Kenosha is it a small town we're about an hour and a half north of Chicago and it's only a hundred thousand people it's quiet

Kenosha you know as I said to the owner interview when I moved here I never heard of the town my wife is from here so I married into a Kenosha and I was like this sleepy little town but it was named

time magazine second best city in America to live and raise a child wow number two and I was like Kenosha and it's a safe town people love each other here I'm from Memphis

yeah and you know Memphis is a pretty rough a lot of racism there's a lot of bad stuff this happened in Memphis when I came to Kenosha I was like oh I'm so happy to be to a place where it's not like

yeah yeah yeah yeah and so the media portraying Kenosha as this place where this it's all changed and now it's hard for racist and all the

violent it's not like that and that's what's kind of frustrating I live I just put out my podcast today I only do it once a week but my podcast came up

today and I took people out of a jog I jogged to the places that got burned down because they're literally a two-minute jog from my house that's

weird is it this stuff is happening you can see it from the road and you just don't know if it's coming into your neighborhood or not and you know the places that you drive by

to get home or you are a job by you go on a bicycle ride with your kids you're right there by these things and I think that you saw

there's listening one of your podcasts I'm trying to remember if you said it or not but to me the best depiction of the whole thing was

the church with the Black Lives Matter sign with the the car park right next to it like all the flames around yeah yeah yeah

it's like that's the best betrayal of 2020 to me yeah the confusion so it's kind of strange so John John and I know like for those of you

who don't know if I may pull my my cool card I would consider me and you pretty good friends here yeah you know me and

John met as you know he he liked the show I of course love skillet music we met we became you know hetero

life mates and then you know and then ever since then what we actually talk pretty regularly on text

message and you you know would send me things about you going to the range and and and learning gun safety and

all this other kind of stuff and I heard you talking about this on Fox News so walk us through what that is like you are a Christian

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