Tragedy Is A Reminder

Tragedy can bring out the best in us, and it can also expose a hard truth: we care intensely for a few days, then we drift back to normal. We wrestle with that pattern and ask what it would look like to keep compassion alive after the attention moves on. Using Ephesians 5:15 as our anchor, we talk about living wisely on purpose, not just reacting when life gets scary.

We also reflect on the unity people felt after 9/11 and why that kind of togetherness is so rare to sustain. From long-term disaster relief to ongoing struggles like homelessness and disability advocacy, we talk about the difference between a moment of inspiration and a lifestyle of service. The thread running through it all is consistency: showing up when it is quiet, inconvenient, and not trending.

Then we turn to a modern pressure point: artificial intelligence and isolation. We dig into how AI can be a helpful tool for communication and creativity, but also how it can become a substitute for real people if we are not careful. We close with a practical, faith-forward definition of wisdom that is pure, peace-loving, full of mercy, and sincere, plus how to love people you disagree with while staying true to your convictions.

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Transcript

Calm In New York Intro

SPEAKER_00 0:01

I am the governor of Swag. What that means is I love to teach people to be calm in New York. So enjoy me on my journey. But always be calm in New York. I hope you enjoy this episode. Hello

Tragedy As Reminder Not Fuel

SPEAKER_00 0:33

everybody. We're gonna talk about tragedy, should not be a beast driving pores of talking about a babe. Now, I know God used tra tragedy for his goodness story, but a lot of times I think it's a good reminder, but it should not be a big wake wake-up call like it is so many other years and so many other times. Yeah, tragedy over history be you know a wake gone past and then it then it fades off. Then it fades off. So our goal should be to not let our inspiration behind something fade off. We should use Shadow as a reminder.

Ephesians 5:15 And Consistency

SPEAKER_00 1:34

Let's fire so parent, I have a question.

SPEAKER_02 1:37

And you want to keep you want me to jump in here or you're gonna keep going? Yeah, you jump in. Because you know you're the one I really want to get information from. So we you actually sent me on a verse prior to the call, he sent me on a verse. But you know, I'm gonna mention the verse, but I got a ton of questions for you. That's cool. So I was as we were chatting about it, there's this verse in um it's in Ephesians 5, and it's excuse me, I don't want to put my glasses on. Barrett, it's Ephesians 5 and it's 3 uh 15. Sorry. Ephesians 5, 15. It says, be careful then how you live, not as unwise, but as wise, making the most of every opportunity because the days are evil. And that's that's what you're talking about, right?

SPEAKER_00 2:27

That is what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_02 2:29

So when you say, are you talking about consistency? So rather than me see what just happened and go, okay, now it's gonna, I'm gonna really jump jump into living this way. What I'm hearing you say is be consistent. Is that what you're saying?

SPEAKER_00 2:47

Yeah, but like tragedy is a good motivator, but I feel like like these cycles and the creative change. I feel like we need to be more consistent. You don't need to let these tragedies let file on us again. Now, if you're a new Christian because of this and welcome to the club. But older Christians by now would be would be the way wake up. You know, a lot of people say it's better later than ever, which is true. But I'm making the point as this is why people with disabilities or homelessness or any of these scenarios, whether hurricane, or you know, any of those tragedies, people seem to forget about those tragedies, but like you know, they care about them for like maybe two weeks. By the third week they forget about them because not no nobody wants to talk about, you know, the tragedy that's been taking place. A lot of a lot of these non-profit reliefs that's all they do. Uh some of them don't do that. Some of them stay as long as they long as it takes to get everything go. The point I'm trying to make is why do we why do we see something happen? Why do we care about it for three or four days, four weeks? Four weeks I'll lose the max. Don't quote me on that, but anyway, why do we why do we uh why do we always look at each other, why it's happening? But then people tend to move on. And imagine if people didn't m move on, if they sit around help of their neighbor, I think we would have much bigger impact on the community as well as that would change us and who we are for the better sometimes.

After 9/11 Unity Fades

SPEAKER_02 5:04

So it reminds me of this, and if you will do that, well it reminds me of 9-11 for one thing. I was listening to your talk, and it reminds me of 9-11. Do you remember the day after 9-11? You remember that.

SPEAKER_00 5:16

Well, I was a I was a baby at that time. You know, that was what that was back in 2000, 2001, 2002. Yeah, I was one year old at the time. It reminds me of that story because how many people have you seen talk about 9-11?

SPEAKER_02 5:35

You know, I just dated myself on it. But we don't talk it about as much anymore, but I remember the day after. Yeah, exactly. We came together. We we came together the day after like this. I heard somebody bear it the other day say, What if we all came together like the day we did after 9-11? And I remember how we all did. Now you said, now one thing that you referenced too is we mentioned consistency, and you said, Why does it take like a tragic tragedy to just happen to change things? So let me ask you this. So it says then how you live not as unwise, but as wise. So you're saying always live wise.

SPEAKER_01 6:20

Define it. How does that look?

Living Wisely In An AI Age

SPEAKER_00 6:23

Well, honestly, it that looks being bold, that looks being swiky if I can use that name, and you know, not caring what people think, you know, and it comes down to again, I'm gonna keep bringing this up, but it comes down to not not letting it take over your brain. A lot of people use AI as a friend tool, which is crazy. But most things, but if you talk about AI to your ground, one, I'm still scared of what data they're collecting off you because they might be like, this guy needs, you know, blah blah versus if you can connect with if you connect with people, that to me would be much more what would be much more impactful instead of connecting with the machine. I was listening to uh series like radio the other day, and I was listening to a show to where this guy ended up uh fake marrying this A bot for, you know, friendship instead of bothering his wife, you know, and I'm like, what the what the heck? Like, that's what this world's gonna turn into if we don't stick with each other and if I can, I'm not gonna fly out, say that, you know, say what I'm y'all gonna defeat on the bush, but we had somebody in politics trying to take our freedom of speech away. Like, dude, see what I worry about is mainly the disability community, but also we're not careful, we're gonna be like these other countries that are communists and the world, one person, one bloodline is gonna have the power and then nobody else is gonna get the upper needs. So it's about time that people come back together and work together instead of dividing themselves. And honestly, you know, I hope that if anybody lost anybody that like God you that try to be for good, uh it don't matter if it'd be in politics or in the army, when you lose somebody, you're gonna be right no matter what. Now the difference is is when you want to leave a legacy. You want people that, you know, know what you stand for. Like if I stand for being a Christian, I did my job. If I believe what the Bible truly says, I did my job. Now I'm uh um my perfect now. Sometimes I you know, cuz a lot of times I'm getting up like a country old boy that I am. Not in a white setting, but in a life setting. I do, cause, you know, I'm just enjoying life. Now the trick is not to get twisted on enjoying enjoying life God's way. Because it's easy to go out and party. It's easy to, you know, drink a beer chip for some people. Just like it's easy it's easy for me to while you be in play video games all day. I don't like doing it because I like being around people. And with these AI with these AI programs, I tell you what, that's the one thing I'm worried about. More so than using AI. Are we gonna are we walking into a world of letting computers think for us instead of helping us out? Are we gonna let computers help us out and keep on playing with a big argument and I don't know the big answer?

SPEAKER_02 10:33

The old we say will tell. Is it not what depending on what we use it for? You know, I keep hearing you say the same thing, and that is the interaction you have with others. Yeah, if it helps your interaction, say you're you're writing something and you're you want to make sure it's written well, you're talking about AI, and then you talked about being isolated and stuff. If you're using it to help others, that might be okay. Right? Yeah, but if you're using it to be scam or isolate yourself, then that's probably not okay.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

No. If you're using it for account because you don't want to get one, then honestly it's not. It's not okay. AI is artificial intelligence for a reason. It's funny that one politicians said their fances are good and not bad. Mm-hmm. See, a lot of people they don't want to compromise anymore. Some do, some don't. But some just are bad at it, bad at it, some people are good at it.

SPEAKER_01 11:45

Focusing on God's way. And you know. You did it again.

SPEAKER_02 11:54

Barry, you have a really good way of you have a really good way of communicating. Somebody asked me this morning. I said I was gonna get a chance to talk to you. I said, is he good? Is he good at communicating? I said he's exceptional at communicating. You know what you just led me right back to. You know, I always do this. I go, I so all of a sudden, Barry, I'll go, oh, Barrett, I think I get what you're saying. I mean, you're telling me, you're telling me, but it I'm a little bit slow when it comes to that. But you're talking about God's way and wisdom and how we interact.

Heaven's Wisdom And Loving Others

SPEAKER_02 12:25

And it goes back to this because it says, Don't be unwise, be wise. And here's a verse that says, the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure, peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy, and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness. So, what you've been saying is use these tools in these situations to live more godlike with more wisdom. And this describes how that looks. Is that where you've been leading me? Yeah. I thought so. It took me a while to get there. So, what you're saying is whatever you do, whatever you use, make sure that you use it in a way that he would want you to use it, which is your impact on others. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:15

You know, that goes back to the big old topic. If somebody's doing something that doesn't line up with the Bible, you have to love them anyway. Don't have to love what they're doing, don't have to agree with them. What's part of God's love is loving the person no matter what. Now, you can hate what they're doing and you can do things to support them and not fall into what they're doing, you know, that you don't agree with, but let's go back to like treating people the way you want to be treated, whether whether you agree with them or not.

SPEAKER_02 13:52

It also means at times though that you you can create a distance. You can love them and you can care for them, but you can go, it's best not that I'm hanging with that crowd. Boy, I didn't know we were going to go to this topic. So if you're in a crowd and they're thinking and acting certain ways, it's you can love them from a distance, but it's really best that you keep that you hang with a crowd that thinks that thinks like this, and point of the Bible, right?

SPEAKER_00 14:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 14:21

It's good to do a little bit of both, just don't bow them their traps.

SPEAKER_01 14:25

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

You know what I mean? God ain't now with the sinners, and people are like, what are you doing? What are you doing? You know, and it's funny that the guy ain't there with the sinners because funny that religious people don't connect with people but with normal people that struggle and normal people that have differences like have each other's backs.

SPEAKER_02 14:53

Yeah. That's unfortunate.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

And that's what that's what we're gonna do about next time, hopefully. I don't know what we're gonna talk about next time, but you know, it it all depends on what we gotta lead us.

SPEAKER_01 15:07

There you go.

SPEAKER_00 15:08

That's why I always say lip it's right means be competent who you are and stick to your true values. Whether if I agree agree with you or not, if you say true you are and don't be don't be like this person one way, this person another another way. Because more value comes when you are true to your tragedy should be a reminder. This is why we do what we do. And it shouldn't be a fire starter. God uses this, God uses tragedy

Staying True To Values Closing

SPEAKER_00 15:48

as a pirate starter, and it's our job to keep it burning. Thank you for listening to Paris Regular Podcast. I hope this message today inspires you a little more to be confident in who you are and don't be ashamed of who you are, and always carry that inspire value. Thank you for listening and I hope you email me on this episode. My email is B-E-A-R-E-T-S.com, or you can follow me on my social medias, Facebook and Instagram. Just my remember, it's barely two Ts and two Rs. Not my email. My email has one T and that's the only the only thing that's chip. Thank you and have a great most fabulous swaggy life today.