Ep 44 | Jesus Was a Rock Star! | Guest: Skillet
The Graham Allen Show
Graham Allen
4.8 • 9.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Graham and the crew take the podcast on the road to a rock star's tour bus! John Cooper from Skillet joins the show to talk about the music business and speaking out for Christian values in an industry where it's frowned upon. Get the inside scoop on the band and how they make it all work.
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| 0:00.0 | How did the name skillet stick? |
| 0:06.1 | Yeah, what's it true like one of those like just weird let's call ourselves bear naked lady love you know, let's just you know |
| 0:12.9 | Just I mean love yeah, yeah, that'll work. You know |
| 0:18.1 | You know skill is pretty bad, but you got it on the head because it was the 90s |
| 0:30.0 | Yeah |
| 0:43.2 | Hey, what's going on America? I am Graham Allen and we are here on location in Dallas, Texas at the bomb factory and with us |
| 0:52.2 | Is John Cooper from skillet what's going on man? What's up? |
| 0:56.5 | Dude thanks so much for hanging out with us. I love it. This is a super cool episode for me |
| 1:05.7 | Analysts because me and J and J and me |
| 1:12.3 | This is one of those |
| 1:14.1 | You know, you never think that you're gonna be in a position one day |
| 1:18.4 | To hang out with the people that you grew up listening to that that were just you know larger than life |
| 1:25.6 | You know untouchable so to speak and yet here we are and skillet is definitely that kind of band for me |
| 1:32.9 | And I know it is for Alyssa |
| 1:34.9 | Yeah, we grew up and they say never meet your heroes |
| 1:39.2 | Definitely falling in that kid know I was worried you know because you never know what people are actually like but you have exceeded |
| 1:45.2 | Expectations yes, yes |
| 1:46.8 | I'm the one who's going to go down the earth guy. You've got a majestic beard |
| 1:51.1 | But but but real quick real quick. Let's do some business stuff for you |
| 1:55.9 | So you guys are on tour right now because this is your new album tour, right? |
| 2:00.3 | That's right. Yeah, the new record came out about two months ago. Uh-huh called victorious. Yep, and on the road |
| 2:06.2 | I think we I was saying we got about five shows left. Yeah in the state in the states. Yeah, then off to Europe |
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