CHRIS ZERZAVY | Life After My Son's Death (Ep. 771)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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In this episode, we welcome Chris Zerzavy to the studio. He is the author of the new book “Margin” which details what his life was like after his young son was killed in a traffic accident. In this interview, we discuss what it was like growing up with Kyle in Lawton, OK, how he has seen his hometown evolve over the almost four decades of living there, the circumstances around his son’s tragic death, why he has yet to forgive his son’s killer, why it is important to have a foxhole of men around you, his message for how we can all “Live Like Jon”, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is undaunted Life a Man's podcast.
0:23.9	I'm your host, Kyle Thompson.
0:25.7	Let's get into it.
0:27.5	Chris Ersby, welcome to the studio.
0:29.0	How are you, man?
0:29.9	Doing good, man.
0:30.5	It's good to be here.
0:31.2	Okay, so the audience, because when we do these sit downs, these in-person sit-downs, we don't do like my normal intro or outro.
0:36.3	So you and I have known each other since, would it have been like seventh grade? Yes, middle school. Junior high is what it's called
0:43.1	then. Yeah, we go, who calls it middle school now? I don't know. They've moved it that way
0:45.8	and can. It's also, when we were in junior high, it was, what was it? It was seventh through ninth. Seven through nine. And then they changed it to where it's like six through eight and then nine through ten is high school. Is that how it still is? That is. That's how it is a cash. So Eisenhower junior high school. Go Vikings. That was us. And then we, I mean, so the thing is is, like, you can have a bunch of friends like in elementary school and middle school and all that but then
1:11.1	when you start like diverging like some kids kind of go the pre-ap api school around some people you know
1:16.5	kind of just do the regular class thing so we had a ton of classes together because once we got to
1:22.9	law in eisenhower high school that we didn't have like we had to we had a lot of AP classes, but there wasn't
1:28.4	like 15 different AP calculus that you could be in. There was like one. And it was like that
1:33.4	was the hour that you had to do it. So yeah, we've known each other for like way too long.
1:37.2	Our schedules were basically the same. Yeah, for a long time. And then, and so you're in, are you in cash or Elgin now? I'm in cash now. You're in cash. Okay. So that's
1:45.1	right. That's a suburb of the great big city of Lotton, Oklahoma, where we're from now. Are you from
1:50.3	Lotton originally? I am. Born and raised in Lotton. Which elementary school would you go to?
1:53.9	Outmore West. Well, first I went to Pondon Park, then Almore West. Okay. So I was, it would have been whatever the school was before it was Pat Henry.
2:01.6	Okay.
2:02.2	So whatever it was called, it was Lincoln, maybe Lincoln Elementary, and then it became
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