#104 From Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll to Jesus: A Hippie's Journey, with (my dad!) Chuck Girard
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
4.9 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
My dad has had truly one of the most interesting lives. As a successful studio singer in Los Angeles as a young adult, rubbing elbows with The Beach Boys, to becoming a hippie living in Hawaii, he encountered the gospel of Jesus Christ at a little country church after searching for God through Eastern Mysticism, LSD, and popular philosophies of the '60s.
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| 0:00.0 | All of a sudden it's like, okay, I don't really know what's going on. |
| 0:03.1 | I have this Catholic background, but this sounds good. |
| 0:05.9 | Eastern philosophies, your answer book, Timothy Larry. |
| 0:08.7 | So I started digging into everything, but it was also under the influence of these drugs, |
| 0:12.9 | specifically LSD. |
| 0:31.7 | Welcome to the Alisa Childers Podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | I am so excited to bring you an in-studio guest, which is not typical for me, but we're |
| 0:39.5 | going to hopefully start to do more of these in-studio interviews. |
| 0:43.6 | But I have a very special guest today. |
| 0:45.7 | This is my dad. |
| 0:46.7 | Hi, dad. |
| 0:47.7 | Hi, really? |
| 0:48.7 | What a pleasure. |
| 0:50.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.7 | Well, this is, I wanted to have my dad on, actually, for a while, because he just wrote a book |
| 0:57.2 | that is very good. |
| 0:58.8 | It's called Rock and Roll Preacher. |
| 1:01.0 | And the subtitle is from DoWop to Jesus Rock, a pioneer of contemporary Christian music |
| 1:06.6 | chapter art. |
| 1:09.6 | For those of you who are unfamiliar with my background, I talk about my own experience |
| 1:16.0 | being in the Christian music industry. |
| 1:17.6 | Well, I was raised by a dad who basically pioneered the contemporary Christian music industry |
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