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Triples (of the Defibrillator) Made It Safe for Bob Odenkirk

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Bob Odenkirk united the nation in solidarity last summer when he suffered a “small heart attack†while filming an episode of Better Call Saul, confirming in the process that he’s pretty much the human equivalent of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Oh, we’re sorry, does he not represent a masterpiece of human creative genius to you?) Odenkirk has since been open and in good spirits about his recovery process, but in a new Howard Stern Show interview on February 28, he revealed that he was a lot closer to meeting the reaper than previously disclosed and credited the quickness of an on-set Better Call Saul crew member for performing CPR that “saved my life.†A defibrillator also had to be used on Odenkirk three times by the show’s health officer because, of course, triples makes it safe and triples is best. “Which is actually a lot, Howard,†he explained. “When the defibrillator doesn’t work once, that’s not good. When it doesn’t work the second time, that is kind of like — forget it. But then they jacked it up a third time, and it got me back to a rhythm.†It worked well for the Barracuda, Roadrunner, and Nova, so why not him?

Triples (of the Defibrillator) Made It Safe for Bob Odenkirk