Joe Rogan Experience #1472 - Michael Yo

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   Michael Yeoh. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:01

      Michael Yeoh.

   2. MYMichael Yo0:03

      Yes.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:03

      Back from the brink.

   4. MYMichael Yo0:04

      (sighs) It- it's crazy.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:07

      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.

   6. MYMichael Yo0:14

      Like how bad is not real bad?

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      He didn't get it bad. He-

   8. MYMichael Yo0:16

      Okay.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      He was like a little fatigued.

   10. MYMichael Yo0:19

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:19

       Yeah. So tell-

   12. MYMichael Yo0:20

       It-

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:20

       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, uh, that I know. You got it right after you were on this podcast. You were on this podcast.

   14. MYMichael Yo0:31

       I-

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:31

       You flew to New York.

   16. MYMichael Yo0:32

       Did Gotham for four shows.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:33

       Little rundown.

   18. MYMichael Yo0:35

       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, soon as I got back, and then had three auditions. So I was run down. And that weekend-

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:47

       Were you feeling sick already?

   20. MYMichael Yo0:49

       No. No.

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:49

       Just tired?

   22. MYMichael Yo0:50

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

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:54

       Right.

   24. MYMichael Yo0:54

       You know?

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:54

       The road. The road gets you.

   26. MYMichael Yo0:56

       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.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:04

       Mm-hmm.

   28. MYMichael Yo1:05

       So I was- I was very stressed out. I was traveling a lot. And that was like my third weekend in a row. So it was-

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:10

       You get sleep? Much sleep or no?

   30. MYMichael Yo1:12

       Yeah. I- I get great sleep, but you know, with two kids, like they're both at the age where, you know-
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Oh, yeah. Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      a lot more shit. But when you do those trips, especially... This is one thing that I'm getting out of this quarantine, is, man, I feel so much better when I don't travel.

   2. MYMichael Yo15:09

      Oh, yeah. Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:10

      So much better.

   4. MYMichael Yo15:11

      When I wasn't dying. I, I feel great now. (laughs)

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:15

      (laughs)

   6. MYMichael Yo15:15

      I feel great now. I feel great now. Yeah. Rest is a big thing.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:19

      Psh... It's everything, man.

   8. MYMichael Yo15:20

      It's everything.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:20

      It's everything. And, you know, I'm gonna change my, uh, travel schedule in the future because even this trip, this trip, I wanted to just get in and get the fuck out of Florida and get back home and, uh, and, you know. But then after I did it, I was like, "It would've been wiser if I left at, like, 6:00 PM." Or something like that. Like, just kind of-

   10. MYMichael Yo15:38

       Just kind of chill out.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:38

       Give myself plenty of time to sleep, sleep so I'm fully recovered and then, you know, have some breakfast, then go to the airport, you know, take a 3:00 PM flight or some shit.

   12. MYMichael Yo15:48

       How was it with nobody in there? Did you enjoy the experience?

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:52

       Well, I wanted to do it because I've never done that before and I watched the one card from Brazil. They had, uh, Kevin Lee versus, uh, Charles Oliveira, fought in Brazil. And, uh, I watched it on TV and I was like, "God, that's so strange." Because, like, uh, Gilbert Burns, he, uh, he knocked out Demian Maia, and then he, he yells out, uh, "Poha!" You know, like the... It's something Brazilian said.

   14. MYMichael Yo16:12

       (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan16:12

       And, uh, he yells out, "Poha!" And you hear it, like, echo in this empty arena. And while I was watching, I'm like, "That's so strange. He's screaming and there's no one there. There's no, no audience reaction." I'm like, "Wow." So I, I decided to, like, "I gotta do one." So when Dana White asked me if I wanted to do it, I was like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wanna do one. I definitely wanna do one."

   16. MYMichael Yo16:31

       Do you feel like the fighters were listening to y'all?

   17. JRJoe Rogan16:34

       They 100% were. They, they made adjustments because the things that DC said. So, Cormier, you know, we're all right next to each other.

   18. MYMichael Yo16:39

       So y'all were that r- that close?

   19. JRJoe Rogan16:41

       Oh, yeah. We're right-

   20. MYMichael Yo16:42

       Oh W-

   21. JRJoe Rogan16:42

       We are at the octagon.

   22. MYMichael Yo16:43

       Okay.

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:43

       Okay? We're still at the octagon. We're right in front of the octagon.

   24. MYMichael Yo16:46

       Okay.

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:47

       Like, I can reach up and touch the, the octagon. Um, so when... Well, it's actually a little bit further than we usually are, but still, empty arena.

   26. MYMichael Yo16:56

       Close enough.

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:56

       Like, like where that wall is.

   28. MYMichael Yo16:57

       Oh, okay.

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:58

       That's where the octagon is.

   30. MYMichael Yo16:59

       Uh-huh.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Mm-hmm. Yeah. …

   1. MYMichael Yo30:00

      to stop giving it to me. I'm watching... This is how, this is how... I was a test subject, and I don't mind because I- I'm living, but, uh, hydroxychloroquine, that was big at the time.

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:10

      Mm-hmm. Yeah.

   3. MYMichael Yo30:11

      I'm watching this on the news. Literally the president says, "Try hydroxychloroquine." All the doctors are yes, no, yes, no, yes, no. They come in with it.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:19

      Well-

   5. MYMichael Yo30:20

      They- they go-

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:20

      You're in bed.

   7. MYMichael Yo30:21

      I'm in bed. This is my first day. They come in with it. I'm watching news and they're talking about it. They come in and it's like, "Oh, what are you giving me?" "Oh, hydroxychloroquine." So they give it to me. Then two hours later, they come in and I go, "What are you giving me?" "Oh, the HIV drug." So now they've put two drugs in me, and then they're pumping all kinds of shit in me. I don't even know what they're giving me.

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:39

      So they're trying things.

   9. MYMichael Yo30:40

      They're trying things on me 'cause they don't know.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:42

       (sighs)

   11. MYMichael Yo30:42

       They don't know.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:43

       That's what's so crazy, right? This is not like pneumonia where people have had it for 100 years or 1,000 years.

   13. MYMichael Yo30:49

       They don't know.

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:50

       This is a new thing.

   15. MYMichael Yo30:50

       So a day and a half goes by. I'm in-... probably worse pain. They take me off of hydroxychloroquine. And I go ... This is after, uh, um, like, weeks after I got out of the hospital. I go, "Why'd you take me off?" He goes, "Where your body was at that time, it, it couldn't handle it. It was not a good fit. So we had to take you off." So I must've got worse overnight, and I'm just guessing here, but they must've saw something get worse. My lungs were still filling up with fluid. Um, so they kept me on the HIV drug and whatever else they were giving to me. But it was ... It's like I still have fluid in my lungs. They said it would take 12 weeks-

   16. JRJoe Rogan31:28

       Still?

   17. MYMichael Yo31:29

       I... Yeah. Yeah. They said, and I-

   18. JRJoe Rogan31:31

       How many weeks have you been out now?

   19. MYMichael Yo31:33

       Eight.

   20. JRJoe Rogan31:34

       Wow.

   21. MYMichael Yo31:35

       And I'm so weak. Literally, I just, they just approved ... I am like ... They just approved me to start working out last week. So I did my first Lift Society class online and I could... Like, usually I could do, like, 10 to 15 pull-ups each set. I could do two.

   22. JRJoe Rogan31:52

       Two pull-ups?

   23. MYMichael Yo31:53

       And I'm just weak. Like, I still get winded. Like when I talk a lot, I'll get winded and I'll just have to catch my breath.

   24. JRJoe Rogan32:02

       Wow, like a old man.

   25. MYMichael Yo32:04

       I'm telling you.

   26. JRJoe Rogan32:05

       Wow.

   27. MYMichael Yo32:05

       Like, it, for me, people win it real bad. It's just not, oh, you're over it and you can move on. You gotta build back into it. It's like rebuilding your body-

   28. JRJoe Rogan32:13

       Jesus.

   29. MYMichael Yo32:14

       ... and your mind. You know?

   30. JRJoe Rogan32:15

       Did they, um, recommend anything as far as supplements or any- anything along those lines?
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      liberty, um, I, I feel like you hear all these Republicans that talk about liberty s- ... And, you know, "I believe in liberty and I believe in ..." Well, that's liberty, motherfucker.

   2. MYMichael Yo45:10

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:10

      Motherfucker, l- letting someone do what they wanna do, that's liberty. It's not like gay is a ... It's l- ... This idea that somehow or another it's not a real thing.

   4. MYMichael Yo45:20

      Two things on God and religion.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:22

      Mm-hmm.

   6. MYMichael Yo45:23

      I think religion is looking really bad right now. You know, if you believe, that's great. But it's looking really bad because you're contradicting yourself all over the place.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:30

      Let me stop you right there.

   8. MYMichael Yo45:31

      Uh-oh.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:31

      This is the same as you saying white people. When you say religion is looking really bad, that's the same as saying white people look really bad. It's a giant generalization.

   10. MYMichael Yo45:40

       You're true. Very true, and I take that back. Some religious people-

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:45

       Yes.

   12. MYMichael Yo45:45

       ... are looking very bad right now.

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:46

       But do you know why? 'Cause they're scared.

   14. MYMichael Yo45:49

       But how can you ... Look-

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:51

       How are they looking bad? In what way?

   16. MYMichael Yo45:53

       Well, I'm saying, for instance ... God, I hate to make this political, 'cause I'm not that dude.

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:59

       (laughs)

   18. MYMichael Yo46:00

       I stay away from it, but th-

   19. JRJoe Rogan46:01

       Too late.

   20. MYMichael Yo46:01

       Too late. But Trump, for instance.

   21. JRJoe Rogan46:03

       Okay.

   22. MYMichael Yo46:05

       Let's look at his a- let's look at his past. Let's look at ... There's proof of him lying pretty much every day. So for religious groups to support this man, you're contradicting your whole-

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:17

       Yeah, I think that falls into what we were talking about earlier, this, this political ideology that, like, he is with us. You know, he is against abortion. He is against certain things. But-

   24. MYMichael Yo46:29

       So w-

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:30

       He's actually pro-gay. You know, Donald Trump is ... The, one of the, one of the weird things about Trump is, before he ran for president, he was universally liked. You know, it was the-

   26. MYMichael Yo46:38

       Oh, rappers used to talk about him in their songs all the time.

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:40

       All the time. Well, he was always on talk shows and, you know, he would go on Letterman and shit. And he would even go o- on those talk shows and, like, talk shit about Rosie O'Donnell and people thought it was funny. And now it's h- horrendous. It's like the same things that he, uh, has always done, now when you're in a position of being the president, you're supposed to be a different person.

   28. MYMichael Yo46:57

       But you don't feel there's a contradiction with churches right now?

   29. JRJoe Rogan46:59

       Oh, well, certainly with people that are ... Look, there's a lot-

   30. MYMichael Yo47:04

       Some churches. Excuse me. Let me-
5. 1:00:00 – 1:12:11

   No, uh- …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      see if you can f- Can you find that? I'll send it to you if you don't-

   2. GUGuest1:00:03

      No, uh-

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:04

      I, I certainly have it.

   4. GUGuest1:00:05

      Okay.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:05

      I have it sent.

   6. GUGuest1:00:06

      Yeah. No. The, the only problem I'm seeing here is that the doctor was a doctor in Connecticut, I guess, but-

   7. MYMichael Yo1:00:10

      Was it?

   8. GUGuest1:00:10

      Well, it says, "Middle Georgia doctor found dead." And then former Connecticut, or CT doctor. I'm sorry. So it's not Connecticut. Yeah, sorry. Middle Georgia.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:16

      Uh-

   10. GUGuest1:00:16

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:17

       ... Georgia doctor killed by a pack of wild dogs.

   12. GUGuest1:00:20

       You know, I thought... I saw CT and thought it was somewhere else.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:22

       Okay.

   14. MYMichael Yo1:00:22

       What?

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:22

       It was in... Yeah. Yeah. So this lady, um... It was a lady. It's not the first time. Th- I was confusing this with... There was a man who was killed by wild dogs in Georgia a couple of years ago, um, Dr. Nancy Shaw, who, uh, was a doctor in Connecticut. And 3:00 AM Thursday, they found her body-

   16. MYMichael Yo1:00:47

       Holy sh-

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:48

       Yeah. Um, she was, uh, on the wrong side (laughs) of the road and, um... Fuck. The engine was running, the door was open. They got out of the pat- patrol car to investigate and found a female that was deceased in the ditch. The autopsy confirmed that she died after being attacked by animals. Police confirmed, uh, to the station, which gave the, uh, further details...... police are trying to find the roaming beasts. Interesting that they phrased it that way, but that's The New York Post.

   18. MYMichael Yo1:01:20

       So roaming beasts? So they-

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:01:22

       Dogs. Well, packs of dogs. You know, that-

   20. MYMichael Yo1:01:24

       Wow.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:01:24

       ... that is when you just let dogs loose and they got a f- Have you ever had a feral animal?

   22. MYMichael Yo1:01:29

       Mm-mm.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:01:29

       I had a feral cat once. And, uh, a friend of mine and her boyfriend were living in this, uh, apartment complex and there was, like, this thing where these cats got underneath the building and they had kittens. And so she rescued the kittens and she goes, "Do you want one of these kittens?" 'Cause she knew I had cats. I was like, "Oh my God. Let me, let me see." So I went to her house, these little hissing little fucking balls of fur.

   24. MYMichael Yo1:01:54

       (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:01:54

       And I go, "Okay."

   26. MYMichael Yo1:01:54

       I'm just laughing at the idea of you having a lot of cats.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:57

       Yeah.

   28. MYMichael Yo1:01:57

       That's funny to me. (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:58

       I had three cats. I have two now.

   30. MYMichael Yo1:02:00

       (laughs)

Episode duration: 3:03:05