Welcome back to another episode of Confessions of a Crappy Christian.

I am your host and resident Crappy Christian Blake, and every week I get to have the coolest

conversations with incredible people about all the things most Christians are still not

sure we're allowed to talk about.

So if you've been looking for a place to land with all your crap, and for someone to just

be honest about what it looks like to walk through this Christian life, or you've come to

the right place. Pull up a seat, pop in your headphones, and tune out your kids, and come

hang out with me and a guest for the authentic conversations that you have been looking for.

Hey, Jolly, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me, Blake. Appreciate it. So you have an incredible

story, and we're just going to dive right in. We're not going to do the whole beating around

the conversation. I just want to jump in because I think that your story is really incredible

and impactful. So to start telling you a little bit about yourself and your family, and then

I want to hear about your story and the heart behind your book and everything.

Well, thank you. I appreciate you having me on, and yeah, let's just get right into it.

I grew up and still live in Dallas, Texas. My parents were in the nightclub business early on.

My grandfather had a restaurant that was called the Italian Village in the early 40s.

And so when my dad, when he was about 22, 23, my grandfather got remarried and went on vacation,

and while my grandfather was gone on a, I think, a six-week vacation, my dad decided to remodel

the restaurant without his permission. It would be close to spending about $300,000 in today's

dollars. Yeah. That's pretty good. Yeah. So he turned it into a nightclub, and it ended up being the

first nightclub in Texas. And it was, it went bonkers. I mean, day one. And so my grandfather,

when he came back and he said, well, I want to check on the restaurant. My dad picked him up

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