Wyatt Matters

This week starts with one of the strangest headlines you'll hear all year: politicians wrangling snakes in a bizarre public spectacle that leaves the crew shaking their heads and asking how we got here.

Then the conversation takes a sharp turn into something much more serious. A respected public figure receives a devastating cancer diagnosis, forcing a difficult conversation about suffering, mortality, fear, and what really matters when life suddenly changes.

From there, Steve tackles a question many people wrestle with but rarely say out loud: Why do we make faith, life, and even prayer more complicated than they need to be? Through humor, personal stories, and biblical insight, the crew explores the difference between performing for people and authentically pursuing God.

When the distractions fall away, and life gets real, what remains? This episode is a reminder that hope, purpose, and peace are often found in the simplest truths.

🎙️ 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/

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This week starts with BB the parakeet, a bird whose owner built a tiny submarine so she could go exploring underwater. Some people loved it. Others screamed animal abuse. The whole debate proves how fast people jump from seeing a clip to judging a person’s heart.

From there, the crew looks at moral grandstanding and public hypocrisy—people who call out others loudly while living with their own contradictions. Whether it’s celebrities, activists, or church people, the pattern is the same: the judge eventually becomes the judged.

Then Steve takes on one of the most quoted and most misunderstood lines of Jesus: “Do not judge.” He makes clear that Jesus was not saying truth no longer matters. He was warning against harsh, prideful, condemning attitudes that turn people into spiritual attack dogs.

🎙️ 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/
Kimberlee Herman – https://www.promisehillpodcast.com/ & https://www.redeemedhopeaz.com/

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In this Best of Wyatt Matters episode, Steve and the crew revisit one of the most relatable human temptations: revenge.

From movie-style threats like “I will find you” to viral real-life payback stories involving zip-tied harmonicas, front yards full of pennies, and revenge plots that get weird fast, the conversation starts funny — because let’s be honest, some revenge stories are painfully entertaining.

But underneath the laughs is a harder truth: revenge may feel satisfying for a moment, but it keeps you emotionally chained to the person who hurt you.

Steve then brings it back to what Jesus teaches about retaliation. Don’t hit back. Don’t escalate. Don’t become the thing you’re angry at. Real strength is not getting even — it’s letting go before bitterness gets a leash around your soul.

🎙️ Episode Co-hosts:
Bruce Templeton – https://www.instagram.com/coltoncross
Maribeth Dodd – https://www.maribethdodd.com/ & https://www.youtube.com/@TheHealthyHustlePodcast
Garrett Shelp – https://www.facebook.com/garrettshelp

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This week’s show opens at 2 a.m. with a phone in one hand, a Cheetos bag in the other, and a brain stuck on the bad-news channel. Steve breaks down doom-scrolling, negativity bias, and why one bad headline can hit harder than ten good things.

Then the crew looks at what happens when fear turns into action. From wild conspiracy spirals and apocalypse prep to mystery drones, UFO panic, and people making life-altering decisions based on worst-case thinking, the episode shows how quickly a “brain worm” can take over.

The teaching cuts through the noise with a better path: name the worry, stop feeding it, and turn your attention back to what is true. Steve walks through Jesus’ words about worry, Isaiah’s reminder that God never grows tired, and Paul’s call to pray, give thanks, and think on what is good.

The episode closes with a clear challenge: your brain may be wired to notice the bad, but it does not have to be ruled by it. With God’s help, worry can get its eviction notice.

🎙️ 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/

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This week’s show starts in one of the most emotionally unstable places on Earth: the parking lot. Steve unpacks the strange territorial instincts people suddenly develop when somebody else wants “their” parking space — even when they were about to leave it anyway.

From there, the crew dives into bizarre headlines, including forklift jewelry heists, donkey getaway vehicles, and another reminder that Florida may actually be its own planet.

Then the conversation shifts toward actor Matthew McConaughey and the growing realization that maturity often comes down to one overlooked skill: learning how to say no. No to distractions. No to unhealthy patterns. No to every opportunity, impulse, and emotional reaction demanding your attention.

The episode closes with a deeper discussion about boundaries, wisdom, and why constantly saying yes to everything can quietly wreck your peace, your priorities, and even your spiritual life.

🎙️ 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/
Maribeth Dodd – https://www.maribethdodd.com/ & https://www.youtube.com/@TheHealthyHustlePodcast
Garrett Shelp – https://www.facebook.com/garrettshelp

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This week kicks off with a story that’s equal parts hilarious and uncomfortable—a pastor turns a simple lunch prayer into a full public spectacle. What should’ve been a quiet moment with God becomes a performance for everyone else. It lands the joke, but exposes a bigger issue: how often faith gets turned into something it was never meant to be.

Then the show pivots into pure absurdity, with a viral trend: people doing owl impressions of celebrities. It’s pointless, ridiculous, and strangely enjoyable. And that’s the point. In a world that feels heavy and chaotic, even something dumb can remind us we’re human.

From there, the conversation zooms out. Life is getting more complicated—technology, communication, even basic tasks. And faith hasn’t escaped that trend. What started simple has been layered with pressure, jargon, and performance.

The episode ends by stripping it all back. Jesus didn’t complicate faith—people did. His message was direct: love God and love people. No performance. No audience. Just something real.

🎙️ 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/
Garrett Shelp – https://www.facebook.com/garrettshelp

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The front half of this show is pure absurdity: Pac-Man perfection, giant twine balls, ear-hair records, plane-eating weirdos, and a pig-chasing robot with zero emotion and no sense of purpose. But that absurdity sets up the real issue: people give their lives to all kinds of things that ultimately can’t carry the weight.

Then Steve turns the conversation toward faith. What happens when someone truly loves Jesus... and what happens when that love gets twisted into obsession, guilt, and fear? Through real stories of scrupulosity, pressure, and weird church baggage, the show makes an important distinction: passionate faith is life-giving, but fearful religion is exhausting.

The takeaway is clear: everybody lives for something. Paul’s one thing was Jesus. If Christ is the only label on your box, then your life has a center that can hold. If not, every other obsession will eventually let you down.

🎙️ 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/
Maribeth Dodd – https://www.maribethdodd.com/ & https://www.youtube.com/@TheHealthyHustlePodcast

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This week’s show opens with three unbelievable real-world scenarios that all start the same way: trapped, alone, and out of options. Astronauts lose all communication on the far side of the moon. A wounded fighter pilot hides in a rock crevice behind enemy lines for 36 hours while being hunted. And a man lies dead behind a sealed stone in a tomb.

Each story looks hopeless… until rescue shows up.

The crew unpacks what these stories reveal about human nature. When things go wrong, we instinctively look for a way out. We build, invent, spend billions, and push technology to its limits trying to solve our biggest problems. But underneath it all is a hard truth: when you’re truly stuck, rescue always has to come from the outside.

Then the show pivots to the deeper meaning behind the rescue story we all recognize but often overlook. From Moses being placed in the cleft of a rock and covered by God, to the empty tomb where the stone was rolled away, the message becomes clear: God doesn’t expect you to save yourself.

🎙️ 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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This week starts with something everyone understands: revenge. From classic movie lines like “I will find you” to viral real-life payback stories, the crew dives into the strange, hilarious, and sometimes genius ways people try to get even.

A guy zip-ties a harmonica under his ex’s car to drive her crazy. Someone dumps 80,000 pennies in a front yard. Another freezes… well, let’s just say things get weird fast. The stories are funny, but they reveal something deeper: revenge feels good in the moment, but it keeps you tied to the very person you’re trying to escape.

Then the show pivots.

Steve breaks down what Jesus actually teaches about retaliation: don’t hit back. Don’t even play the game. Because the moment you stoop to someone else’s level, you become just like them. And worse... You stay stuck.

🎙️ This week’s co-hosts:
Bruce Templeton – https://www.instagram.com/coltoncross
Maribeth Dodd – https://www.maribethdodd.com/ & https://www.youtube.com/@TheHealthyHustlePodcast
Garrett Shelp – https://www.facebook.com/garrettshelp

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This special Easter episode skips the jokes and goes straight at what everyone is feeling but few can explain: something in the world feels off. From nonstop bad news to rising anxiety, people—especially younger generations—are stuck doom-scrolling through a world that feels like it’s coming apart.

But at the same time, something unexpected is happening. People aren’t just drifting—they’re searching. Even skeptics, investigators, and intellectuals are taking a fresh look at the resurrection of Jesus and finding something they can’t easily dismiss.

So the show asks the one question that actually matters: did Jesus really rise from the dead? Because if He didn’t, the entire Christian faith falls apart. But if He did, it changes everything—not just history, but your life right now.

Through eyewitness accounts, the radical transformation of the disciples, and the stories of modern skeptics turned believers, this episode builds a simple but unavoidable conclusion: the resurrection isn’t just a belief—it’s a line in the sand.

The episode closes with a direct challenge: if you feel something pulling you, don’t ignore it. That tension, that curiosity, that quiet nudge—it’s not random. And according to Steve, the time to respond isn’t someday. It’s now.

🎙️ 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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This episode has everything: a flying shoe, a lawyer who bites coworkers, a government AI system that botches Spanish, and a hard look back at the weirdest parts of the COVID years.

But the real message is about integrity.

Steve breaks down Jesus’ simple command: let your yes be yes and your no be no. No games. No filters. No double life. Just truth. The takeaway is blunt: if you keep cutting corners in little things, one day you wake up and realize you’ve become someone you never meant to be.

🎙️ This week’s co-hosts:
John Samples – https://www.jsam.com/ & https://www.youtube.com/jsamtv
Kimberlee Herman – https://www.promisehillpodcast.com/ & https://www.redeemedhopeaz.com/
Garrett Shelp – https://www.facebook.com/garrettshelp

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This week’s show starts with a viral headline: a child shows up at school with a vodka martini in their lunchbox. The crew laughs at the parenting fail but quickly tackles a much bigger issue—kids and smartphones.

With teens averaging seven to nine hours of screen time per day, anxiety and depression are rising fast. Youth leaders describe what happens when phones are taken away for a week—and why kids themselves admit they feel better without them.

Then the show looks at a bizarre sports moment where a half-marathon leader lost the race after following the wrong guide vehicle. That story becomes a powerful metaphor for life: following the wrong leader can derail everything.

The episode ends with a deep look at Isaiah’s encounter with God’s holiness. When Isaiah finally sees the truth about God, he also sees the truth about himself—and it changes everything.

🎙️ This week’s co-hosts:
John Samples – https://www.jsam.com/ & https://www.youtube.com/jsamtv
Kimberlee Herman – https://www.promisehillpodcast.com/ & https://www.redeemedhopeaz.com/
Garrett Shelp – https://www.facebook.com/garrettshelp

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It starts with Richard Goodall, the ordinary-looking janitor who stunned America, then moves to Tom Cruise’s public meltdown and unlikely comeback, and Lindsey Vonn’s painful return to the slopes. Each story asks the same question: what do you do after failure, humiliation, or loss?

Then Steve brings it home with his own story of collapse, grief, rebuilding, and faith. His takeaway is simple but powerful: God often uses deep pain to prepare people for deeper purpose. Broken isn’t the end. 

Sometimes it’s the beginning.

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

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The State of the Union brought fireworks—but not the good kind. From silent protests to visible frustration across the chamber, the night turned into a nationwide conversation about anger in leadership and culture.

But the crew quickly admits something uncomfortable: we all do it.

Whether it’s losing your cool over a slow internet connection, exploding at a small mistake, or snapping at the people closest to you, anger shows up everywhere... from Congress to the kitchen table.

Host Steve Wyatt digs into why anger is so powerful, why it feels justified in the moment, and why it often leaves damage behind long after the moment passes.

The conversation explores the cost of uncontrolled reactions and why learning to slow down, reflect, and respond wisely might be one of the most important life skills we can develop.

If you’ve ever blown up over something small and regretted it later, this episode will hit close to home.

🎙️ This week’s co-hosts:
John Samples – https://www.jsam.com/ & https://www.youtube.com/jsamtv
Bruce Templeton – https://www.instagram.com/coltoncross
Maribeth Dodd – https://www.maribethdodd.com/ & https://www.youtube.com/@TheHealthyHustlePodcast

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From billionaires stepping down after the Epstein file release to a bird literally pecking at a hospital door for help, this episode is peak humanity. The crew also tackles Peppa Pig menu drama, apology word-salad, and the rise of carefully crafted non-confessions.

Is it a real apology… or just reputational damage control?

Then Steve turns the spotlight inward. Why does culture insist wrongdoing is “no big deal” — yet our bodies and minds react like it is? Why does hiding make things worse? Why does confession bring relief?

This episode connects science, conscience, and Scripture in a way that is direct but deeply compassionate. No political spin. No moral grandstanding. Just truth — and hope.

🎙️ 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/
Kimberlee Herman – https://www.promisehillpodcast.com/ & https://www.redeemedhopeaz.com/

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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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Would you trust powdered hippo teeth, crocodile dung, or a tobacco smoke enema to heal your body? Apparently, humans once did—and the Wyatt Matters crew opens this episode with hilarious, jaw-dropping stories of ancient medical “remedies” that prove one thing: we’ve always been desperate for quick fixes.

From there, the conversation jumps to modern faith in technology after San Francisco’s robot taxis froze in place during a blackout and AI evangelists began predicting a future where algorithms dominate words, law, and even religion. Host Steve Wyatt responds with a firm but hopeful truth: Christianity was never built on words alone.

Steve walks listeners through Jesus’ parable of the wise and foolish builders, reminding us that storms are unavoidable—but collapse is optional. AI can process words, but it cannot live truth, embody grace, or transform a soul. Only the Living Christ can do that. The call is simple and urgent: don’t just hear His words... put them into practice.

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This episode proves once again that humans are great at delaying... and terrible at admitting it. From fake cops with sirens to a man who debated himself into winning the lottery, and a driverless car that nearly met a train, these Hot Takes reveal how hesitation and overthinking play out in real life.

Host Steve Wyatt and the team then peel back the humor to expose a deeper issue: procrastination isn’t laziness... It’s fear, perfectionism, and self-protection disguised as wisdom. The conversation tackles doubt, analysis paralysis, and why waiting until everything feels “just right” often keeps us stuck.

Steve closes with a sobering look at spiritual procrastination, reminding listeners that faith isn’t about having every question answered... It’s about responding when truth knocks. Felix waited for a more convenient time. Agrippa was almost persuaded. Neither ever moved. This episode challenges you not to make the same mistake.

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