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Mike Slater (4:27)

Mike Slater filling it for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for the O'Reilly Update message of the day. There's a picture perhaps you've seen. Once you do, you'll never forget it. It's of the church school shooting in Minneapolis. There's emergency crews all in the distance and the photographer's in the middle of the street and there's a mom running towards the school, away from the camera, towards the school. And she has a shoe in each hand and she's running barefoot down the street, just booking it, running as fast as possible to her children. These shoes are slowing me down. I gotta take them off because I gotta go. And every parent will see that picture. They start to think what you would do if you were in that scenario. There was a neighbor who lived about a street away from the school and he was out on his front porch and he would watch terrified parents run to the school, not knowing if their children were killed. And he said he would stay on his porch for a while longer, and he would see relieved parents with their children walking back to their cars. This indescribable sense of relief happened for everyone except for two sets of parents. I want to share something here that at first is difficult, maybe disturbing, but if you keep thinking about it, I think it can change your life in. In many positive ways. It has mine. It's a Latin phrase that goes back many years, thousands of years. Memento mori. It means, remember, you must die now remember. When I first heard this, it sounded like some Ryan Holiday life hack stoic silliness. But Christians embraced this term for a long time. The Puritans as well. On their gravestones, they would have momento mori written on them. If there were any portraits of Puritans, there weren't many, but there was always a skull in the background just to remind the viewer that you must die, that there's an impending death. Always pretty dark. But let me kick it up a notch. Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor, Stoic philosopher, he quoted Epictetus. Epictetus gave this advice. Are you ready for this? This is one of the most disturbing things I've ever heard. So brace yourselves as I share this Epictetus advice was, as you kiss your son good night, whisper to yourself, he may be dead in the morning. Jeez. And I rejected this up front with all the force I could. But then I started thinking about it, and now I do it. And if you do it, it will change the decisions you make in your life. My oldest son. We have four kids. My oldest son is eight. Because he's the firstborn, we expect. So too much. We expect too much out of him. He's 8. But we expect him to act like he's 48. He's just a little guy. And Jack the other day, got a migraine. Like, oh, geez, a migraine. Young to be having a migraine. And then he got one. A couple days ago, he got another one. I was like, oh, man. Like, what's going on? And. And this idea of brain tumor went in my head, like, instantly went in my head. And I'm thinking, oh, man. Like, this is it for Jack. And now I'm riddled with all these regrets, like, what I would have done or should have said or how I should have treated him and the decisions I would have made and the things we would have done instead. If only I knew how much time he really had left. All these thoughts were, in an instant, went to the eye doctor, it turns out he's blind as a bad. He needs glasses. That's probably what was giving him these migraines. So no brain tumor, praise God. But even just this moment of realizing that life is short is an important reminder. Cannot imagine what that mom was thinking when she was running barefoot to the school. But maybe it's really important to take a moment every day and try. How will the decisions you make in your life be different after you do? I'm Mike Slater. More coming up. Mike Slater filling for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for something you might not know. The left has come out with a list of 45 words that you cannot say. Now, this is a little different than the list that these people have put out over the years. This is the same group of people who would have a list of politically incorrect words that you can't say anymore. So you can't say fireman. You have to say firefighter. Someone is not a waitress. That's sexist. They're our server. Not a stewardess, but a flight attendant, Stuff like that. Right now this is a little different spin from this think tank on the left called the Third Way. They have a list of words you can't say. But this is two fellow Democrats who are trying to win office and just generally not be considered a lunatic. So this is advice to their own side. Hey, stop saying these words because everyone thinks you're totally out of your mind when you do words like privilege triggering microaggression, safe space. Those last two, those are the two that started it all, really. That was like the, the, the beginning of peak craziness on college campuses. I'll be careful. The microaggression. I need my safe space with my puppy dog. And we can color together. Body shaming, centering critical theory, postmodernism, subverting norms, systems of oppression, cultural appropriation, radical transparency. Stop saying these words, Democrats, if you don't want people to think you're lunatics anymore. Food insecurity, housing insecurity, birthing person. You know the guy from the CDC who resigned and, and he's making his rounds on, on all the news networks. Guy thinks that men can get pregnant and we're all supposed to be like, oh, how can we survive? How can the CDC go on without this guy who thinks men can get pregnant. Chest feeding, cisgender, dead naming, L, G, B, T, Q I, A plus wow, are we at an era where the Democrats are going to stop using Those words? Even LGBTQIA + Latinx, BIPOC, intersectionality minoritized communities, and one of my favorites, justice involved individuals. Instead of calling someone a felon, you have to call them a justice involved individual. Now, to be clear, they're not saying don't be these things or believe these things. They're just saying stop saying it out loud. Now, of course, this is hilarious, because these are the people who came up with these words. Part of me, of course, doesn't want the left to figure this out, but I'm pretty sure they'll find new ways to alienate normal people. More coming up. I'm Mike Slater. I have a podcast called Politics by Faith. Thank you for letting me fill in these last few days. Great news. Bill will be back tomorrow.