What's going on? Your dad is up here at the hospital. Okay, as in John Boyle? Yes. He's at Ohio State Western Medical Center. He is not doing too good. So our warden wanted us to reach out to you and give you a call.

So my father died.

And this has brought up a complex web of emotions that I cannot even begin to describe. It's a lot, but let me take

you through it. So let's get into it. Welcome to the Call Your Landry Show, where we explore

healing, creativity, and the real work of building a meaningful life after trauma.

So last Friday at about 4 a.m.

I woke up, you know, I turned my phone off at night.

My phone is buzzing, buzzing, buzzing, buzzing continually.

And, you know, I'm having a dream and it's like 4 a.m. And I wake up and I look at the

phone and there's like probably 30 missed calls. And one was a couple from a cell phone, but the

majority of them were from Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. I kind of scanned through my

text messages a little bit, no message. But I kind of knew, to be honest with you, deep down and sigh, what it was.

Obviously, it had been a very long time since I had seen my father since I made the film a murder in Mansfield.

But I did go back to see him before his parole last July, July 17th, to be accurate.

And I knew, as I talked about in that episode, sitting across from him, I could have been

anybody.

It was very strange, but I knew when I left the prison, I looked at him, when I left the

visiting room, but he was sitting there waiting to be taken back where they searched them and whatever, and they bring them back into the general population again, I looked back and I started crying because I realized that that was probably the last time I'd ever see my father.

And obviously that intuition was right. And this brings again a really complex

web of emotions because, you know, you have somebody who has affected your life so profoundly, right?

My father's destruction and the murder of my mother and me testifying against him and all of those things that come with that. And I don't want to get into all that. I kind of want to take this all in pieces and I want to take you guys through the day. But it's a complex web of emotions, like I said. And for those of you don't know my story, you can research, you can find it.

You can see here on this channel or on this podcast and get a little bit of the backstory.

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