From Bluetooth forks and GPS shoes to $1,000 smart toilets that text you hydration updates, this week’s Hot Takes prove one thing: humans have a gift for overcomplicating simple things.e

The crew also takes aim at corporate buzzwords like “synergy,” “pivot,” and “paradigm shift,” exposing how jargon makes people sound smart while saying almost nothing. But then the mirror turns inward.

Host Steve Wyatt draws a bold parallel between boardroom jargon and “Christianese” — the insider language that can make faith feel exclusive, exhausting, and joyless. He unpacks how religious leaders once buried simple truth under thousands of add-on rules, and how modern believers sometimes do the same.

The message is clear: faith was never meant to be a bureaucratic maze. It was meant to be simple, relational, and freeing.

🎙️ This week’s co-hosts:
John Samples – https://www.jsam.com/ & https://www.youtube.com/jsamtv
Todd Bussey – https://www.facebook.com/todd.bussey.71/
Bruce Templeton – https://www.instagram.com/coltoncross

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What do Guinness World Records, Instagram filters, LinkedIn job titles, and Sean “Puff Daddy / P Diddy / Brother Love” Combs all have in common? Labels. And our obsession with them.

This week the crew laughs through ladder-balancing stunts, social media comparison culture, creative job-title inflation, and Diddy’s endless rebrands. From fake filters to fake reinventions, the conversation exposes how often we try to polish the outside while ignoring what’s broken inside.

Then Host Steve Wyatt takes it deeper. While we label people by their failures, God does the opposite. He renames people based on what they can become. From David the shepherd boy to Peter the unstable fisherman, Scripture shows a pattern: what God names, He makes.

If you’ve ever believed the labels stuck to you — broken, failure, too far gone — this episode will reset that narrative. God doesn’t rebrand you. He renews you.

🎙️ This week’s co-hosts:
Todd Bussey – https://www.facebook.com/todd.bussey.71/
Maribeth Dodd – https://www.maribethdodd.com/ & https://www.youtube.com/@TheHealthyHustlePodcast
Kimberlee Herman – https://www.promisehillpodcast.com/ & https://www.redeemedhopeaz.com/

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From breakdancing at the Olympics to Simone Biles stepping away at the peak of her career, this episode opens with humor and culture, but quickly turns personal. The crew explores moments when confidence outruns clarity, labels get stuck, and life suddenly doesn’t make sense.

Host Steve Wyatt connects these stories to a deeper struggle many people carry silently: the belief that if life hurts this much, God must be displeased. Drawing from the raw lows of King David’s life, Steve explains why caves happen, why silence doesn’t mean abandonment, and how wallowing keeps us trapped longer than necessary.

The episode closes with a hopeful challenge: you don’t have to be defined by your worst moment. You can flip the script, renew your resolve, and move forward... even if you’re not healed yet.

🎙️ This week’s co-hosts:
Todd Bussey – https://www.facebook.com/todd.bussey.71/
Bruce Templeton – https://www.instagram.com/coltoncross
Kimberlee Herman – https://www.promisehillpodcast.com/ & https://www.redeemedhopeaz.com/
Garrett Shelp – https://www.facebook.com/garrettshelp

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