#1472 - Michael Yo

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Michael Yo, back from the brink.

Michael Yo (0:06)

It's crazy.

Joe Rogan (0:07)

You are the first guy that I've, well, my friend Sturgill got it, and I talked to him, but he didn't get it real bad.

Michael Yo (0:14)

Like how bad is not real bad?

Joe Rogan (0:16)

He was like a little fatigued.

Michael Yo (0:19)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

So give me the full rundown. For people who don't know what we're talking about, you got Coronavirus, you were one of the first to get it, that I know. You got it right after you were on this podcast. You were on this podcast, you flew to New York.

Michael Yo (0:32)

Did Gotham for four shows.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Little rundown.

Michael Yo (0:34)

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 rundown.

And that weekend...

Joe Rogan (0:47)

Were you feeling sick already? No.

Just tired.

Michael Yo (0:50)

Just tired. Tired. But, I mean, we're always tired, really.

Joe Rogan (0:54)

The road. The road gets you.

Michael Yo (0:56)

And I was moving all the time. And very stressful. You know, 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.

Joe Rogan (1:10)

You can't sleep? Much sleep?

Michael Yo (1:12)

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.

Joe Rogan (1:19)

Do you ever wear a sleep monitoring device or anything that...

Michael Yo (1:24)

I have, but I...

Joe Rogan (1:25)

Like a whoop strap?

Michael Yo (1:26)

No, I've never worn that. But I get eight to nine hours of sleep every night. Like I'm a great sleeper.

Like I sleep through anything. So it wasn't a sleep day. I was just tired, overworked, maybe. But that's Saturday. I didn't feel right. My temperature went up to like 101

Joe Rogan (1:44)

You flew to New York what day?

Michael Yo (1:46)

It was... I performed... I was there Wednesday, which would have been, I'm guessing, it 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 that Monday, went to Vegas Tuesday morning, came back that same day, then...

Joe Rogan (2:11)

What'd you do in Vegas besides heroin?

Michael Yo (2:17)

I was visiting her parents, my wife's parents, with the kids.

Joe Rogan (2:20)

So no party in?

Michael Yo (2:21)

No party. It was drive in and drive out. But that's exhausting. That's 10 hours on the road. And then dealing with two kids in a car. And then the three auditions, and then that Saturday, I didn't feel right. And this is, you gotta remember, when I performed in New York, there was 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 in New York, that's all you heard about. So I was like, let me just be safe and isolate myself.

Joe Rogan (2:53)

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.

Michael Yo (3:09)

Drive back Tuesday night.

Joe Rogan (3:10)

Tuesday, oh, Jesus. So in and out in one day?

Michael Yo (3:13)

In and out in one day. And then Wednesday, Thursday, Friday audition. Then Saturday, I was like, okay, 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. 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 going to 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.

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.