Episode Transcript: #1044 - C.T. Fletcher

himself. My pleasure, man. I watched your Netflix documentary today. Did you? It's great,

man. It's intense. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. You know, when I first saw

it, I was like, what is this going to be about? But you get into it and you're like, whoa,

there's a lot going on in this documentary. That guy says more than fuck, huh? It's not

just that. It's like they just went deep into your life and into everything. The struggles,

the heart condition, the whole deal, man. It's heavy. It did a pretty good job. Yeah.

So where are you standing now, health-wise? Oh, okay. I fought my way back and just recently

this June had another setback, had another major setback, had a heart attack out of the

blue and I thought I was a goner again, Joe, but I'm still here. So you had a heart attack,

they fixed your heart, they put in an artificial valve and then what happened with the second?

Okay. That lasted for 12 years. I had 05. I had the surgery, open-heart surgery. I actually

passed away or flat-lined three times during that surgery and then this past June, out of

the blue, I'm thinking, well, it's not really out of the blue. I kind of had a few signs,

but I thought I, you know, I didn't think it was that serious. I mean, I had another heart

attack sitting on the couch at home and I thought I was gone for sure, man. Well, what's confusing

to a lot of people is you're obviously this like intense, healthy guy and you're fit and you're

lifting weights and you're looking jacked. Like is it a condition that you were born with,

a genetic condition? It is most definitely hereditary. My mother and all nine of her siblings all

passed away from heart-related problems and my mom had the CHF and lungs and, you know,