THE ALICE COOPER YOU DON’T KNOW: If politics is downstream from culture, then you know where that puts cultural icons like heavy metal/hard rock icon Alice Cooper. Heavy metal isn’t the musical force it was back in the 70s, but Cooper still sells beaucoup albums and his presence can be as startling as it ever was.

But did you know Alice Cooper — former drug/booze/sex addict — is today an articulate follower of Jesus Christ? Regardless of your own views on faith, or heavy metal for that matter, this (lengthy, 30 minute) interview with Pastor Greg Laurie offers an unusually deep, candid and inspiring look at what it was like then backstage and how radically things are different today for Alice Cooper.

Do not miss his account of his bottom — alone with a fifth of whiskey, a huge rock of cocaine and a pistol — and why it proved to be the great turning point in Alice Cooper’s incredible life.

And the fact that Cooper is today a Christian just might also be an indicator of huge cultural and political shifts to come. Feel free to just skip right on through the deluge of Democratic fund-raising appeals, too!