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There it is. That's John Cooper of skillet. He's got a brand new album. It's called the Dominion. It's out today

Oh January 14th. What is today? That was last week, right? So I'm just forgetting I just want to give up on January because it's so cold out

I just wanted to be barged where I have tremendous hope

But John Cooper's with me right now is lucky enough to be on his podcast yesterday and

John welcome. Congratulations on the album

Thank you, Brian. It's great to talk with you. Thanks for having me on so tell me about surviving the game. What's what's that song about?

Oh, man, we all feel like we've been surviving the game the last couple of years, right?

I wanted to write not just a song, but an album that felt like the post pandemic rock album of the year

You come out of this saying you're ready to go to the gym lose all that COVID weight

I know everybody out there needs to lose the COVID weight

But also gives you a hope for the future and a tenacity to face whatever's happening in your life this fear pandemic

People that have been sick. We have people that lost their jobs

We have inflation. There's a lot to be you know concerned about right now

But people I think have given up their hope and they've given up their liberty and this is just a celebration of freedom

So dominion. I'm telling you it's the post pandemic rock album of the year go check it out

Yeah, I'm so glad you didn't do what

What we saw Luke Combs still he writes that song called six feet apart and becomes a number one hit

But nobody wants to remember that you're not going to want to hear six feet apart three years from now

You wrote about life afterwards, right?

Absolutely, I'm like let's don't focus on how how difficult this has been let's focus on freedom

Let's focus on choice

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