John Schlitt of Petra Interview | Christian Rock, Winning Over Crowds, and Finding Jesus

The Babylon Bee

Seth Dillon

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Satire, Faith, News, Babylonbee, Comedy

4.4 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On The Babylon Bee Interview Show, Kyle and Ethan talk to Petra lead vocalist, John Schlitt. They talk about the journey to front man of Petra, almost getting swept out to sea, and his views on the top Christian music artists. John had a long road into becoming the lead vocalist of Petra that dealt with lots of hardship and an engineering job along the way.

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Kyle and Ethan ask John the difficult questions like, which musician is the flakiest. Kyle and Ethan find out what John’s dream team of musicians would be for a super Christian band. John shares stories from playing all over the world. He also shares his secret for getting crowds on his side for shows.

In the Subscriber Portion, Kyle and Ethan find out about Carman from John, who filmed a music video with him. John shares a story with a difficult crowd over in New York. Kyle and Ethan find out about some of the biggest Christian bands and what John thought about them when they started out. Kyle and Ethan end the interview with the ever great 10 questions.

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0:00.0	Real People Real Interviews
0:04.0	I just have to say that I object
0:07.0	Strain you as late to your use of the word Galerius.
0:10.0	Hard-hitting questions.
0:12.0	What do you think about feminism?
0:14.0	Do you like it?
0:15.0	Taking you to the cutting edge of truth.
0:18.0	Yeah, well last Jedi is one of the worst movies ever made
0:21.0	and it was very clear that Ryan Johnson doesn't like Star Wars.
0:25.0	Kyle pulls no punches.
0:27.0	I want to ask how you're able to sleep at night.
0:30.0	He's a brings bone-shattering common sense from the top rope.
0:35.0	If I may, how double dare you?
0:38.0	This is the Babylon B Interview Show.
0:47.0	Hey Calvinists, slash reformed fans of the Babylon B.
0:50.0	Are you ever standing in line and you see an eligible co-ed next to you
0:54.0	or behind you or in front of you or however people stand in lines?
0:57.0	And you're like, hmm, I wonder if that eligible bachelor and or bachelor
1:02.0	at knows that I'm a Calvinist.
1:04.0	Now you can inform them that you're a Calvinist and then maybe God will have ordained a conversation
1:09.0	for you guys to hook up, not in the weird secular way, but in like the, you know,
1:14.0	just normal like hang out way that we used to use it in the early 2000s like 90s.
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