Skillet’s John Cooper On Listening To Christ Over Celebrities
The Babylon Bee
Seth Dillon
4.4 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On The Babylon Bee Interview Show, Kyle and Ethan talk to John Cooper of Skillet. They talk about CCM fame, discovering Petra, and weird band names. John Cooper is the lead singer, bassist, and producer for Skillet. Skillet has become one of the best-selling bands with two Grammy award nominations and has gone platinum twelve times. He has recently written a book titled Awake and Alive to Truth, where he dives into the most asked questions in modern culture.
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Topics Discussed
Journey to CCM fame
Viral Facebook post
Being convicted with faith
Becoming famous young
Celebrity Christians
Growing up without Rock music
MTV and Beat It
Michael W. Smith
Seeing Petra live
Stryper story
Comparing Skillet to other bands
Secret to weird band names
Korn
Googling Skillet
Iron Maiden
Duets
Raising kids with the Skillet voice
Touring with kids
Subscriber Portion
Pyrotechnic story
Props
John Cooper’s gymnastics skills
Band’s feeling entitled
Creed story
Positive lyrics
Almost becoming Bono
Women in the band
10 questions
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:46.0 | Hey everybody Babylon B Interview Show, Kyle. |
| 0:48.0 | Ethan. |
| 0:49.0 | And coming up soon, John Cooper of Skillet. |
| 0:53.0 | Yes, John Cooper of Skillet. |
| 0:57.0 | People have been interviewing John Cooper of Skillet a lot about the |
| 1:01.0 | woke culture and how all the Christians are getting all woke. |
| 1:07.0 | And we kind of did, but we really kind of just got into like rock band. |
| 1:11.0 | We were just fast. |
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