Wednesday, July 9, 2025, thank you for downloading.

This is going to be an unusual edition of the Zabcast and that I'm recording it here in the morning, 11 a.m.

Before today going to a memorial service for my father, who passed away back in May.

I know.

You're saying, how come you didn't mention this?

Look, my dad has been on the podcast before, and I've talked about him on this podcast many

of times with his blackjack playing and talking about how me and my pops are going out

to Delaware to play or we're going to Vegas and whatnot. He's been on the podcast with my

Uncle Johnny, who's here today for the memorial service, talking about growing up and

Schenectady together and how my Uncle Johnny is a crazy glider pilot now.

But I didn't mention it just because I know how wonderful you guys are as listeners and how much you would reach out and have very kind words for me via email and want to, you know,

touch me from afar.

And I don't have the ability to just look at an email that is thoughtful and heartfelt and

go, okay, yeah, yeah, click, delete.

As anyone knows who's probably emailed me, I respond to everybody at least once, including the haters, sometimes

more than once. And so just from a pragmatic standpoint, I'm like, ah, I don't want to deal with

the whole flood of people reaching out to me. And don't take that the wrong way. I'm just

looking at it from a workflow standpoint.

But then I realized, well, shit, I'm so open mind.

I'm so open ended.

I'm so transparent in a lot of the things that I do in my life and my background and the people

around me and my family that I wasn't just going to be able

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