Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1472 - Michael Yo
Uploaded: 2020-05-12T19:00:06.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1472 - Michael Yo' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-05-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1472 - Michael Yo' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-05-12. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1472 - Michael Yo

michael yo yes back from the brink it's crazy you are the first guy that well
my friend sturgill
got it and i talked to him but he didn't get it real bad like how bad is not
real bad okay he
was like a little fatigued yeah yeah so tell to give me the full rundown for
people don't know
what we're talking about you got coronavirus you're one of the first to get it
uh that i know
you got it right after you were on this podcast you're on this podcast you flew
to new york did
gotham for four shows little rundown yeah little rundown as soon as i landed i
did wendy williams
on monday and then i flew back and went to vegas for a day as soon as i got
back and then i had
three auditions so i was run down and that weekend were you feeling sick
already no just tired just
tired tired but i mean we're always tired right you know road the road gets you
yeah and and i was i
was moving all the time and very stressful you know you're you're trying to
perform you're trying to
learn lines for an audition so i was very stressed out i was traveling a lot
and that was like my third
weekend in a row so it wasn't sleep much sleep yeah i i get great sleep but you
know with two kids like
they're both at the age where you know you have to have both eyes on them do
you ever um wear a sleep
monitoring device or anything that i have but i a whoop strap no i i've never
worn that but i get eight
to nine hours of sleep every night like i'm a great sleeper okay like i sleep
through anything so it
wasn't a sleep thing i was just i was just tired overworked maybe but saturday
that's saturday i didn't
feel right my temperature went up to like 101 this is you flew to new york what
day uh it was i performed
i was there wednesday which would have been i'm guessing that dates may 4th i
mean yeah march 4th
march 4th i performed the 6th and 7th stayed the 8th did wendy williams on the
9th flew back
um that monday went to vegas tuesday morning came back that same day then what'd
you do in vegas
besides heroin
i would we were you know we i was visiting her parents my wife's parents with
the kids
and then but it was partying no part it was drive in and drive out okay but
that's exhausting that's
10 hours on the road yeah and then dealing with two kids in a car and then the
three auditions and
that saturday i didn't feel right and this is you got to remember when i
performed in new york there's
only 11 deaths and it was like 3 000 cases that's how much this thing has
changed but saturday i didn't
feel right 101 it went i said i should isolate myself because i in new york
that's all you heard about
so i was like let me just be safe and isolate so let's let's break this down so
you leave wednesday
you go to new york you do a couple of different tv things then you do the
weekend at gotham and then
you fly home and then you go to vegas on tuesday and then you drive home on wednesday
drive back
tuesday night tuesday oh jesus yeah so in and out in one day in and out in one
day and then wednesday
thursday friday audition then saturday i was like okay i this is my rest day
and then i woke up and
something just didn't feel right so i was going okay it's probably the road you
know what i'm
stressed road so it's about during the day i hang out i isolate myself but i'm
between 100 and 101.
second day i'm like 101 102 but i'm still like look i'm gonna beat this thing
they say stay at home
because at that time they said if you have symptoms stay at home because they're
taking the more serious
cases right so the sunday sunday came around i kind of went down a little i was
taking aspirin a lot of
aspirin because one doctor at the time said take it every four hours and i was
also taking um aspirin
and something else to bring your temperature down i forgot what it was but oh
um aspirin and what you
said when you started taking ibuprofen that's when it fucked you up that's when
i felt it did so sunday
i started getting this massive headache so that's when i really started popping
the aspirin three every
three hours but aspirin or ibuprofen uh it was ibuprofen that's a big
difference between aspirin and
ibuprofen ibuprofen is a non-steroidal okay well okay i was taking i was taking
advil whatever that is a
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory okay this is what i keep hearing and i don't
know if there's been
substantiated that you shouldn't take um ibuprofen while you have this okay
well whatever reason i
don't know what that is i don't know i don't know if that's been discredited or
is that is that real
i don't know either so i was taking a lot of advil okay a lot of advil and uh
tylenol to bring the
fever down so i got it down on sunday but then i had a massive headache so then
they said well your
temperature's going down this was our doctor friend your temperature's going
down just hit the advil so
i hit the advil monday at noon i couldn't breathe like gasping for air and my
wife had to call 9-1-1
to the house to come get me so i'm gasping for air 9-1-1 shows up they bring me
outside they throw me
on this huge this oxygen machine right away they like what kind of an oxygen uh
not a ventilator no just a
just a normal oxygen machine but they say we got to get oxygen in you okay and
it's almost like a
movie i'm the neighbors are all out ambulance is overlooking me you know the
ambulance is there all
the neighbors are looking i can't breathe my son is in the window this is the
worst my son is in the
window he doesn't know what's going on but he knows it's not good and he's only
three and he's crying
and i'm watching him cry and i can't do anything i can't breathe and literally
when they pick me up
to carry me to the ambulance because they need to get me to the hospital right
away it was the whole
window thing he put his hand up oh oh jesus it it it really hurt me really bad
so i get into the
ambulance and they take me as soon as i get to the hospital the doctor goes you
got corona so they take
the first but did they do a test or did yes the first thing they do is they do
a chest x-ray
and they go you got double pneumonia and corona what's double pneumonia when it's
on in both lungs
okay so double pneumonia and you have corona we believe but we got to test you
so they you know
swabbed me and stuff but they took all the precautions like i had corona i was
the first corona patient at this
hospital this how early it was you know so um they took me to icu uh and the
doctor came in and i go
hey this is escalating real and i'm still can't breathe i go am i going to make
it and he goes we'll
know in two days it's going to go really good or really bad and we'll know in
two days and every nurse
or doctor that came in when they can't tell you if you're going to make it or
not you know they try to
comfort you but they can't really say you're going to make it and it and i was
in the worst pain i've
ever felt in my life too where head i mean just think about the worst migraine
you've ever had times
100 my body was hot and cold it would get so hot my temperature got up to 103.8
and they had to bring
it down and then it would go up to 103.8 again i couldn't move my body was aching
literally the
second night i was there and i and i know this is the wrong thing to think but
if they had a eject button
on life i may have hit it i was in that much pain like that i couldn't even
think clearly it i i can't
put into words how bad it was for me so your head your body everything
everything where you just want
it to be over wow it's either you're going to make it you're like and it was so
bad where you want to
think about your family but i was in so much pain you know i thought about them
but it was i can't make
it this is this is the end and i can't see my family because they already told
me that no one can come
into the hospital and i'm texting my wife lying to her saying hey babe i'm
gonna make it through i'm
gonna make it through where i'm talking to my parents going this may not go
well you know and my parents
the first thing i texted my parents is i'm scared i've never texted them
something like that and they knew
how serious it was and i said look claire's my wife claire is at home with the
two kids i can't let her
worry about this you know she was already stressed out enough she saw enough
you know so i'm in there
and the doctor says that no one can come see you so i'm going if these are the
last two days of my life
i'm going to die alone in this hospital and and it just broke me up so bad that
you know i've taken care
of myself i've done everything i can you know to take care of myself and why am
i lying in this bed
right now you know and it was a thing where when i did think about my wife it
was i will never see my
wife and two kids again you know that that's all that went through my mind is
like i did they put
you on a ventilator no my doctor saved my life my doctor said if we put you on
a ventilator he said
that he says because a nurse brought her up should we put him on a ventilator
and he goes no way if we
put him on a ventilator he's gonna die because his body is gonna say okay this
machine is breathing for
us we don't need to work anymore and your body shuts down if you've heard in
new york 80 percent
of people put on ventilators die and that's why you think i think that's why i
survived i've heard
that i've heard that being speculated by other doctors as well and it's very
controversial because
so many doctors put people on ventilators and the last thing they want to hear
is another doctor saying
you've put someone on a ventilator they'll die well that my doctor said that
straight up in the room in
front of me to the nurses like if we put him on it he's gonna die because his
thing was it just makes
sense why he would because now this machine is going to breathe for him so his
body's not gonna
it's like working out you don't work out a muscle it gets weak right this
machine is doing all your
lifting so why would we want to put them on that unless it's it's just we have
to put them on it
you know but you've heard doctors were putting on people so fast because their
oxygen levels
were so low right they're like this isn't this is not normal so we need to do
something to get
their oxygen level up i think doctors are like everything else right there's
really good ones
then there's ones that aren't as good no it's true with everything else with
everything carpenters
plumbers everything every and everything and it's really i look back i'm still
now i've become very
close to them and the dude saved my life because if i went on a ventilator bro
i don't i may not be
here because that was so on a ventilator they kind of knock you out yeah you're
unconscious literally
that machine is doing all your breathing so what did they give you what kind of
medication did they
give you while you were out well while i'm healthy don't drink don't do drugs i
was the perfect test
subject maybe that's a problem your body's not used to fighting all the time
your body's like well we
know how to recover right this went on the bender listen to this i gave it to
my mom okay so she gets
home she didn't tell me why i was in the hospital she beat it in one day and
she talks to me now oh see
i beat it in one day i have one fever you take eight days in icu you know and
then she tells me oh
it's because you're too healthy you need carbs you need carbs that's hilarious
now she's a doctor
now she's a doctor but i gave it to my mom she beat in one day but well she
probably wasn't run
down no dude run down is the thing man you know look i'm a guy i take a lot of
vitamins i work out
a lot i get in the sauna every day but i just flew back from florida i saw you
to florida and came back
yesterday i felt like dog and just from the flight man just from the and it's
one day so um i scheduled
an iv vitamin drip i had the vitamin drip people come to my house hit me with
glutathione zinc vitamin c
everything and i felt better almost immediately yeah you got to take care of
yourself about to
yeah how i don