Smart Gadgets, Corporate Buzzwords, and Why We Make Faith So Complicated | Ep. 69 | Wyatt Matters
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Sunday, February 22, 2026
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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