What's up everybody? Welcome back to Cooper stuff. We have something very different for Cooper stuff.

And I wanted to do this last week, but I couldn't because we had, you know, the whole modestest, hottest thing came up and it was something we had to talk about.

So I had to push this. But this is very different. I don't spend a lot of time on Cooper stuff talking strictly about politics.

As you know, I don't talk a ton about America, even though I am concerned, and even though I am patriotic and I really love the country.

I'm doing this for a few reasons. Number one, have you noticed in the last few years that just like I've been talking about recently, you find yourself stepping in to stuff you had no idea it was going to start a fire.

Maybe you tweet happy July 4th. And the next thing you know, you've lost friends over it and you didn't even know that was controversial.

And people are accusing you of being in the patriarchy or whatever it is. And you don't even know it was like a thing.

Okay. That's kind of led me to wanting to talk about this. Number two, as you know, the mob is coming after everybody and the thing the mob wants you to do.

They want you just to shut up. Just shut up and stop talking. That's what they want. And if they can get you to stop talking and not choose a side, then they win.

That's the idea. And I hate bullies. So I want to talk about this because of that. The third reason is because of this. I think that there's this middle ground in Christianity.

You could call it Woke Christianity. You could call it the semi woke. I'm going to call it the Christian lives. Okay. The Christian lives that are basically giving cover for this leftist revolution because they always want to be in the middle of this thing.

And I don't think they quite understand what it's going to mean if the leftists actually get the revolution that they want.

I don't think they understand what it's going to mean for the gospel of Christ, for the freedom we have to express our religion the way we want for individual freedom.

Here's my question for them. If America isn't awesome, then where is that's my question. We're going to jump into it on Cooper stuff.

Cooper stuff.

Thanks for joining me with Cooper stuff. I got a sweet special guest today because I needed somebody to come on and talk about this subject with me that knows what they're doing.

My good friend Graham Allen is going to come on and if you don't know Graham, I'm going to let him say who he is because Graham is sort of a political thinker political.

I guess a pendant in a little bit of a way he's written a book. I have it right here. And it's a great book and I don't want to brag.

But it is signed to me personally. I'm kind of a big deal. Graham also has a podcast and he's also the only person I've ever known who is running for Congress.

So say hello to Graham Allen. What's up brother?

Hey, thanks for having me, John. I'm glad to be here. That intro was pretty good. There's not a whole lot of really special things about me.

I'm just a redneck guy who figured out a way to make a living running his mouth. And so you sing for a living and create amazing music.

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