Great Clips, German Cockroaches, and Marriage

This episode starts with Beau getting a $9.99 Great Clips haircut from a young elderly gentleman named Gary.

Gary has thoughts.

He doesn't like people. He doesn't like kids. He has never been married and doesn't plan on changing that. He does, however, deeply love his nieces and nephews, believes children need to experience funnel cakes, owns approximately an animal kingdom, and has extensive opinions about a corporate merger from 1993.

Naturally, this becomes an episode about Christian marriage.

In this solo episode of Quite Frankly, Beau talks about Great Clips lore, Jan's pumpkins, Gary's philosophy of life, control, purpose apart from Christ, pickleball tournaments nobody knew were tournaments, pizza-based athletic preparation, Life Group fishbowl, another deeply authentic letter from Brett, German cockroach discipleship, marriage as a picture of Christ and the church, biblical submission, sacrificial leadership, restored marriages, King Josiah, and why removing the bad isn't enough if you don't replace it with something better.

Somewhere between funnel cakes, pesticides, charades under a blanket, and Timothy Keller, this episode lands on a simple reminder:

Don't just remove what's broken. Let Christ restore the heart and fill the space.

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