Hey everybody it's Lyle just a reminder that I am going on tour to do therapy gecko live

in several cities across the United States and I would love to see you there.

I will be interviewing random folks from the audience up on stage and absolutely anything could happen.

It will be very fun, very terrifying, and very geckoey.

You can find the link to get tickets in your city in the episode description.

Okay, let's get into the podcast.

I'll be a back okay. Hello? Hi, is this Lyle?

Uh, yeah, what's going on?

Um, I've been in the hospital the last few days,

hanging out with my dad, because he almost died,

but he's okay now. But that's the only like kind of thing that's got me down right now my life

otherwise is pretty great well how did he almost die?

So my dad's kind of got a potato for a heart. And a few years back, he had a heart attack, and after that his heart stopped.

And he had pneumonia too, and he also smokes like four packs a day and eats like a stick of butter every other day.

Anyways, he's in the hospital for a while. They had to give him a defibrillator,

put even more stents in his heart.

He's got like six stents in his heart. He's got like six stents in his heart.

Along down the line, he keeps smoking. The last few months, he's been struggling getting

around and went into the doctors because his defibrillator kept kicking off he couldn't even sleep anymore because it was like almost by the hour and his heart was at like 15%.

Two-thirds of his heart was dead and his arteries were blocked.

So he went in to do an emergency bypass surgery.

But that had to be delayed because there was so much fluid in his lungs, but they basically rebuilt his heart.

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