April 1, 2020 • 50 mins
Actor Brad Schmidt lived through an extremely scary coronavirus experience that started with the chills and some common cold symptoms, and quickly devolved into double pneumonia, oxygen treatment, and a harrowing 7-day stay in the hospital. The otherwise healthy actor details the trouble he had getting tested, the doctor's reluctance to admit him to the hospital, and why no one is immune to severity of COVID19. Plus, Lala and Randall share how they've been passing time during the #StayHome order! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hello, gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It's La La Kent with Randall, and we are still quarantine.
We are quarantined af We.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Are quarantinedf you know, it feels like every day that
goes by is more wearing on our souls. It's just tough.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Oh my soul is done dead.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I mean I feel like I look out the window
and it could be a gorgeous day, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Like, fuck this day, it doesn't fucking matter.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
No, And then the press gets on and he's like,
I think we need to extend this until April thirtieth,
which granted, I'm like, great, if that's going to keep
us healthy.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Safe wise, obviously, Yeah, And let me just second that,
like I get it, okay, works to anybody, or thirtieth.
We're saving lives, We're trying to hit our peak, you know,
of the virus, so that we can start going back
to some form of normalcy. But I'm going to tell
you a lat I've never been affected by this. I mean,
I'm sorry, let me rewind that I've never been affected.
(01:16):
Like yeah, it's almost like a bad dream. Every day
you wake up and you want like, you know me,
I'm an optimist, so I wake up and I'm like,
let's attack, let's crush the day.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Let's you know, yeah, I take over the world, right,
you have a lot of energy.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I do, but but it's wearing, and it's emotional, and
it's it's every day I'm fighting with myself, you know,
to try to stay positive and listen to friends and
and and just you know, be optimistic. You know, in
a time that's not easy to be optimistic in.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You know what is so crazy though, Like I'm antisocial.
Everyone knows that, Like this quarantine. It's like I wasn't
socializing with people before this, you know, like it takes
a lot to just get me out of my house. No.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
The only way you get out of the house, by
the way, let's just be clear so people know is
if there's.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
A job, a job yet.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Or for a family member other than that.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And for the gym, which you always go to the gym, right,
So for me, that's where like for me going to
the gym. The reason why I pay for a trainer
is because I will not work out otherwise. I haven't
worked out while we've been quarantined, not that a.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Day, nothing, not even no nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I have a trainer for that reason because I'm held accountable.
I get up, I go to the gym in the morning.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
You're paying, I'm paying.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
That's so it's like that's an incentive.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Of course, you're somebody. If you lose five dollars, you.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Go, I go and say. And so for me, the
workout in the morning is what the driving force of
my day. It's like, once I get that done, it's like,
oh my gosh, I can't wait to go do this,
do that.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, because you know what I notice, And obviously I
took it all for granted, but I mean just life,
you know. Yeah, But I remember I go to the
office at like nine am, right, and then you'd call me.
Always abound between eight and ten, you were like no
one could talk to you. It was like, angry, get
the coffee. I'm going to the gym, the coffee.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Go to the gym.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Don't talk to me until it's finished.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
By eleven thirty, you'd call me with that, Hey, what
are we doing today? Or I'm coming by the office.
We got to do this. And I noticed that, and
now we don't have that kick for you. And also
I don't have that kick at the top of the day,
and I think I'm thinking about everybody, Like lots of
friends of mine I've talked to, they don't have that kit.
There's nowhere to find it. Because all we're hoping is
(03:28):
can we go back to our normal lives? And also
we don't want to die. So these are two things
that I don't think we ever thought we'd have to
face as a as a world, as a as the universe. Right,
It's like, it's not like you I'm trying to put
these in words. It's not like you. You have a
friend who's sick, and you go to the hospital and
(03:48):
you want you pray for them, and you want them
to get better, right, and you go back to your
office and you try to go on with your day.
But everybody's in the same boat. Everybody's hoping that they
stay healthy. And everybody's quarantined to their house, so their
apartment or we're our friend's house. So I just feel
like we're all in this zombie likesf.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That's exactly how I feel.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And I'm going to be I'm going to fill you
guys in on something right now.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I'm a conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh god, I think that this is a way for
the government to gain control of the human race, and
it's gone very badly. And I will well in my
mind it's gone bad for someone very high up. It
could be this is exactly what they were hoping for.
The reason that I conformed is because COVID nineteen is
(04:39):
taking people's lives.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So I do stay in my house.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yes, I do stay in my house because God forbid
I catch it, and even more, God forbid I give
it to someone who's older if I were to have it,
which I do not.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
But I believe.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I'm sorry, something's going on. Something is going on. And
Randall is totally He's like, you're crazy, lot.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I'm sitting I'm sitting two feet from you. I want
to fall out of my chair right now. But law,
here's the thing. You're my partner and I love you.
If you believe this is conspiracy, then I have to
let you believe that. And I've read articles where people
believe that. Here's what I believe. I believe that some
idiot far away I ate some fucking animal that they
(05:23):
shouldn't have been fucking eating. And all the scientists are saying,
and medical specialists that this was like the perfect storm,
like it took the virus into this person in China
and manifested itself perfectly and then was able to mutate
going to other people, and here we are with a
worldwide pandemic. All I'm going to say is this sucks.
(05:43):
I don't give a shit. I've woken up every day,
you know me a lot. See she's smiling now if
you guys can see her. The thing is, she knows
that I'm the biggest optimist and for me and for
me to wake up daily and feel this dark cloud
like everybody's feeling, you know, you're trying to make the
best of it. You really do, but it's not easy.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Randall's mad because he can't go direct his movie.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Randall is like a fucking uh what is that? The
energizer bunny.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, that's good word.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Keep going and going and going.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
That is you.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And so for you, the dark cloud is because you
can't be out and about and socializing and doing this
and do you have sound.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It's like a creative person and it's.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Totally I get that hard for an.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Artist, whether you're a filmmaker or an actor or a
director or anything, it's hard when you don't have an
outlet to be creative. So I mean, the great thing
and I said to you today is let's just get
on our podcast because we like it's something that gets
us to be able to share our feelings and talk
about things.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Well, it makes me again, I am driven, like I'm
not leaving the house unless I'm going to someone else's
house like Katie or Brittany's, or if I'm getting paid
to leave my house.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Otherwise I don't see a reason to leave my house.
I'm like quarantined with or without coronaout.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I can ask a question. I understand that because I've
been with you for four years. Right. The thing that
I want to know that I think that you're not,
that you're missing here is that even though you love
the luxury of just chilling, Let's say, is you had
the option that if I called you and said law
or you call me at work. Here's per For example,
you sometimes once in a while, once a week, say babe,
(07:25):
what are we doing for dinner? Do you want to
go somewhere? Why don't try something different? And I'd be like, okay,
and we got right.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
The option is gone.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
The option's gone, yeah, Or what about this, babe, I
want to get on the plane and go to wherever,
go to go to Miami a week for a couple
of days, and just how about just go get a
massage at the twenty dollars you know, back massage place
right right.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
We can't even go do that as and before this
got super crazy, like before it got real crazy, Okay,
this messuse that Randal and I love was like, yeah,
I can like come over and massage you guys.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I'll just avoid the neck.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Right the head in the face, and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
That's all you.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
The only part I like that was a point a
damn point no.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I mean, And what I'm saying is like the basic
things that like and look as a man, I can
admit I like petticure manicures. We okay, why are you smiling?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Because I can picture you in the chair getting your
manny petty but fresh.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
But the thing is you and I used to like
to go do that. It was like a fun little thing.
It was like a half hour. And the thing is,
we have no options. And the options are you have
to be really creative right now. But on top of that,
you have to keep your spirit up.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And look, my spirit has remained up by playing endless
amounts of rumming cues, and I got a coloring book
and a cran set of one hundred and fifty two,
and Rand's kids pulled one of my crans out of
my coloring box and I was like, oh, hel no,
oh hail no. And then they asked me for a
(08:59):
page of my color. I was like, you know, this
is my coloring book and my crans.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Like, I just want to tell you something, Laala. It
was more than that. People don't understand. You look like
somebody had robbed your last five dollars. Of course, your
arms swooped into those krans like they were the second.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Oh, I wiped one right out of the six year
old tent. I was like, absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
She looked like she had seen a ghost. She I
don't think she knew Lala could move that fast. She
went for the kran. You write the cran you said,
it's my box.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I bought the girls their own pack of ninety six.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Oh you know the number? This is how details you?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Maybe it was sixty four, I can't remember, but it
was a lot. They had their own crans.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
When this airs, will you will you please.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Give Crayola a shout out? Of course, Crayola has kept
me sane in this, But will.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
You also promote your art? Will you show people some
of these colorings, because you haven't left the table in
two weeks?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Two boks No. And the coloring book is the pages
are like police, you know, like Barcelona, Miami, all of
these amazing places. And I just sit there in color
and I'm like, one day, one day I can come
back to you.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
It's it's great. And I watch you. I've seen you
and your mom every single day for two and a
half weeks. Now, this is what the day consists of.
Wake up, Yeah, everybody looks at each other like, oh shit,
we're fucked again. And then and then and then and
then we all say okay, thank God we're healthy. We
do that little prayer yes, and then it goes from
(10:30):
there to coloring yes, follow by moping around again for
a few more hours, follow by television, follow by four
hours of rummy cue is it Rummy cube? Yeah, Rummy
cube Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Speaking of television, the mother effing Tiger King.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Oh oh god, okay, every let me just say this.
Let me just say this.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Everyone.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Everyone on the internet is.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Like, oh MG, this is crazy, ohmg, psychotic. For me,
it made me sick to my stomach that millions upon
millions of dollars were spent on this lawsuit between the
Tiger King and Carol Baskin and all these other fuck
ups that I can't believe our world has people like.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
This, Like it makes me sick. I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I was raised in Utah and I came west to California,
Like we're open minded, we're normal.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Those people.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I'm like, those people exist on our planet, Like, we're fucked.
If there's more people like that, we are fucked. My
whole thing was it went back to the all the
money that was wasted that could have gone to helping
the fucking lions, tigers, bears in captivity, the apes. As
an animal activist, like you know, Blackfish changed.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
My entire life.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yes, when I saw that documentary, it just like transformed everything. Yes,
my new cause, I think is like getting people to
understand what the fuck it means to rehabilitate an animal.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I need to weigh in here. So you promoted this
documentary to me for a long time. For about a
week straight, you kept saying you need to see this,
and I kept seeing online people going crazy over him.
So finally you got me to sit down and I
watched the first episode. I was hooked, hooked. Okay, it
is surreal, it's amazing, and I know that you're going
(12:25):
to get angry because I think it's amazing television. Let's
start there. Yes, the people are fucked up with the
abuse of how they put in these animals. But what
I want to tell you is this this guy, Tiger,
the Tiger King, that's his name, Tiger King.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Joe Exotic, Joe Exotic.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yes, Joe Exotic should have been the biggest country star ever.
He is phenomenal, voice, phenomenal. He should have been in Nashville.
Got rid of the animals and gone off and said.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
You want to know what's so insane is that Joe Exotic.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
To me, was the most likable one.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I like Joe Exotic.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Carol Baskin is up in here, fucking fooling everyone, acting
like she has a sanctuary.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
For about Carol Baskin, She's full of shit. She's full
of shit shit, And.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I'm telling you, Carol, she loves to see everybody.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
She sues everybody for what our opinion.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
It's free speech.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I don't tough shit, tough.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Shit, and I'm in quarantine, so I don't give a shit,
Carol Baskin now, Oh no, yeah, you know what. We're
both going in.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Know what though, miss Joe Exotic.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Joe is that if we come there and rescue.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Joe Exotic is on the other side now he's talking
to Peta.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
He's.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
The most powerful moment in that entire documentary was when
Joe Exotic said, you want to know why they say
animals dyeing cages, It's because their soul dies.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
And right then I was like, you fucking get it right.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
It has nothing to do with the way that you're
loving that animal behind a cage. They don't belong in there.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I agree with you, and I always stand by your cause.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But then we have these fuckers that go out like
the guy that owns Jimmy Johns and he's out fucking
pop being these beautiful animals for sport, you know, like
trophy hunting. Again, these people exist on our planet and
it it's terrifying.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
People don't know your obsession and passion for animal rights.
I mean, when we go to Las Vegas, you will
not stay at certain hotels. We're not gonna mention it.
So don't do that, all.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Right, But you guys know which hotels.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
She just won't stay at hotels where there's any animals
kept in captivity, so no. So basically in Las Vegas
and other places all over the world, we're limited to
about four hotels.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I also do extensive research on zoos, because if you
think I'm walking into a zoo, which I haven't been
to a zoo since I was a kid, but I
really do the fucking work to see if that zoo
really really is doing what they claim to do.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
True, You're true about this stuff at all.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
What I do want to say is some people are
up on the internet and they're like, oh my god,
the people of vander Pump Rules or whatever reality show
like people like this exist.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
You know what, We're fucking gems compared to people.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
That exist who are doing real, fucking dirty shows.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Well, none of you guys are are evil in spirit.
Those those some of these people out there on some
of these documentaries on watch air.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I mean, you know, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Though they're vicious, they're not only vicious, but they're just
uneducated people.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Well, I mean, that's why they make great televisions.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
He's like, what the fuck?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
And then that, and then one of the guys is like,
and my wife's pregnant and he's like showing the nanny.
I'm like, stop creating, stop having babies.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Don't but take a second for one second and say
you were addicted to that documentary. It was high level.
It was one of the most entertainments.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Addicted.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I can't I go to bed dreaming about it.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
You wish there were another ten episodes?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I do.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
But then I read this, Uh, the director or the
producers did a Q and A, and I read about
the process of them filming over five years, and one
of the girls that worked on it was like, you know,
I feel like this has ended.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Like I did my job.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And everything, and I was like, you know what, I
just hope that something great comes out of this, and
people watching the documentary don't focus too much on the
stories of the people and focus on why they made
that documentary, and that was to shed light on big
cats in captivity.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Well, I think everybody saw that, and they also were
exposed Like, for instance, I've never even knew this exists
in the US. So for me, somebody that knows about
a lot a lot about animal rights because of being
with you, I think that even opened my eyes further.
So I think a lot of people are going to
be educated and be sensitives and stuff. I want to
just pivot here to get ready for our guests, okay,
(16:39):
in which I'm really really excited.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Was our guest Rand tell them.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Our guest is an actor who I met because friends
of mine were friends of mine in the industry were concerned,
and friends of this person's names Brad Schmidt, and he
contracted covid okay, and I about ten days ago, I
saw on his story that he had gone into the
(17:05):
hospital and he had written this really lengthy story and
now as a young man in his thirties with no
underlying health issues, and he went to the doctor basically
came down with it, didn't feel good. Went to the doctor,
they couldn't get a test, went home, gave him some medication.
He got worse, worse, to the point where he told
me he thought he was breathing shards of glass. Wow.
And fast forward. Finally his doctor said, on day six,
(17:28):
it was so bad, he said, you need to walk
yourself into the emergency room to get a test. Watch
selse the emergency room. He had double pneumonia in each
of pneumonia each of his lungs. They tested him, they
came back positive, and basically I think he was basically
fighting for his life to get stabilized. And he just
got released yesterday or the day before, and we're going
to have him call in and we're going to I
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really am excited about this because I want people to
know and hear from somebody that's in your age group,
and that's you know, younger than me, but was perfectly
healthy and here was fighting for his life. And I
think that's the seriousness of this virus that we need
to hear about.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
All right, Well, let's get him on the phone and
we will be right back.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
All right, We're back, law. What's up?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
We have a very special guest on the line.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
We do. We have Brad Schmidt. Brad say hello everybody. So, Brad,
you are somebody who I linked up with friends of
mine or friends of yours and through social media about
twelve or fourteen days ago. I had seen that you
contracted COVID. Is that correct? Correct? And the reason I
(18:41):
have you on because I've been texting you daily, you know,
and keeping in touch with you in the hospital and
we've never met. But it went very sweet by the
way you know. It really affected me because you know,
somebody who's forty years old, you have a wife, you
have two young children, a healthy guy, you have no
(19:02):
underlying issues. Correct, true?
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Well, true?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Ye, So I see this, I see your story. I
moved and I start texting you and you tell me
you know, you're in really bad shape at the hospital.
So basically what I want to do is I want
people to understand from somebody who's been through this, how
serious this became, and how somebody who is young and
(19:24):
healthy is affected. Because I was affected by your story.
I was floored, emotional, I was I was sad, I
was you know, I just was freaked the fuck out.
And if I'm freaked the fuck out and you're laying
in a hospital bed where your family can't be with you,
I want you to take us through the journey from
when you first had symptoms and kind of give us
(19:48):
like a diary.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Yeah. I think you know, like most people in the beginning,
that's just progressing. I mean, like I said, you know,
I'm healthy, responsible, and like I'm always washing my hands.
I have no underlying health issues. So like observing this
to the news and hearing stories, it always felt like
something once removed like, Okay, it's going on. It's there,
(20:11):
but it's not going to happen to me. This isn't
something that's going to affect me. And if it does,
it's the flu. Like I'll beat it. It's okay, I'm
not worried about it. It was a Friday, I would
say Fridays. I think it was like Friday the thirteenth.
Ironically about that, wow, yeah, I started to feel, you know,
(20:31):
like a little kind of under the weather. I had
a cold coming on then that evening, I think when
I went to bed, I had kind of the chills,
and I thought to myself, all right, you know what,
I'm a load up and inviting and see, I'm going
to rest. It's going to kind of sleep through the
weekend and sleep it off. And usually I can bounce
back from a cold really quickly. Well, that Monday rolled
around the sixteenth, and brother, I was, I'm gonna say it.
(20:57):
I don't care. I was fucked up.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
That's okay, allowed, after what you've been through, you could
say whatever you.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Want, Okay, good, all right, we'll clear it. But there's
no other way for me to put it. Like you know,
I'm pretty aware, like anybody that's really healthy of like
when my body feels a little bit off, but it's
like something you haven't felt before. I felt that way,
so I called my doctor. They told me to come
in and basically just kind of get a test for
the flu, do a scan of my lungs. And I
(21:24):
knew something was really off and I had this odd
I really like it, like really odd. They call it
a dry cough. I don't know if that's right, but
it's it was almost like a weeze. And I'm like, Okay,
this doesn't feel right. So I go. When I sit down,
my doctor's not there. If you feel like I see
another doctor, a very sweet guy, doctor Jason Waie, and
he's you know, looking at me. Everybody's masked up. Everybody's
(21:46):
a little bit freaked out because COVID is starting to
kind of pop off, and they don't really know like
how to treat you. Meaning you know, I was I
was a baby, you know, like in the early you know, eighties,
but I imagine it was like you know, when you contracted
AIDS at the onset of that disease, people just didn't
know how to treat you. So they put me in
this private room. They had me throwing a mask and
(22:07):
they did a scan of my lungs first.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I actually thought of that the other day. I was
thinking about when the AIDS epidemic first came onto the scene.
What the eighties, you know, look or late seventies, early eighties,
what that looked like. I think people went through a
very similar Just why didn't have the knowledge?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Yeah, yeah, nobody knows, that's the thing. And you don't
want to make it like a one to one obviously,
but I have to tell you, no one knew what
to do. Oh Like, even even when I went into
the hospital, they had a guard kind of slash nurse
just inside the doors. And I'll never forget I walked
in when they were going to knit me. I gave
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the guy my name, and right away he knew who
I was because they were expecting me. Wow, someone was
trying to come into the doors behind me and he
started screaming, what stay out, stay out, stay out. So
I like processed me and I thought, holy fucking shit.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Okay, I have a question, is this is this day too?
Are you on day two now or day three? When
we're when we're at this one.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
So and you see la I'm at day three, okay,
so I'm usually i'm a day three to do a scan.
They see, you've got a very small spot on your lungs,
like basically like an acute bronchitess. I'm like, okay, they
give me a regular food test. The food test comes
back right away. You're negative. So they're like, look, you
do listen to this. You do not meet all the
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symptoms for COVID.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Oh this is what.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
They told me, and I knew. I was like, oh fuck,
they're not going to test me. So they said, listen,
go home. Yeah, they sent me home.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Oh, oh my god.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
And you know what it wasn't It wasn't the doctor's fault, right,
They just said a didn't have the tests or be
they weren't able to get them. So he said, listen,
we'll keep checking in with you, but I can't give
you a test. Go home if your fever gets worse.
Because my fever was at around one hundred consistently. I'm
not too crazy, but I had a fever. Well have
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you come back in.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Did you ask for the test? Because I'm curious at
that point because I know they didn't have the test.
Thing you asked for it, and they said, I did,
you don't meet the criteria.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Well, and it wasn't so black and white. He did
say that. But my understanding was he had to contact
someone at least at this moment, because this is fairly
early on when this started breaking out, he had to
contact someone at the TDC the permission to be able
to get me a test. And I'm thinking, they're fucking
kidding me. Wow, Okay, well what am I going to do? Right? Yeah?
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So I go home. I go home. Okay, cold sweats
are getting worse. Cost starts getting progressively worse, fever starts
going up.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Are we in day four?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Now we're day four, day four, day five, like around
two that that Tuesday, like the seventeenth, thank you, like
Saint Patrick's day exactly.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
And so the fever kept getting progressively worse and each day,
so the sixteen seventeen eighteen, the HOTA you see, I
would call on check in. There's literally nothing they could do.
They would say, doctor Lee is still trying to get
be okay for a test, but we can't get a test.
So now keep in mind, this is like some backstory
we don't really need to get into. But my wife
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is she's doing like a career change. She's in the
middle of the nursing school. Oh right now in Wyoming,
right at the University of Wyoming with she's got my kids,
and so she's getting freaked out too because she's not
here to like take care of me or check in
on me. So finally the eighteenth, so we're day one, two, three, four, five. Now,
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I mean I couldn't even got a bed.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Okay, hold on, hold on, So just so I understand
on day five. On day five, you couldn't, like the
fever was so bad, the shakes everything, you couldn't leave.
Now you can't walk around, I mean, you're that sick. No,
oh my god. Yeah, this is a nightmare.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
To get from my bedroom to the bathroom like an
en suite, which was maybe five yards. I got a
breath that I'd be lightheaded, like literally out of breath.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
At that point I got. At that point I go
to the hospital. There's not even a.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Question, well yeah, and then the question is like, well
do you just sit at the hospital? Do they It's
just there's no clear information.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Scary this story for me right now, and I'm telling you,
I have anxiety filling my body because I can't imagine.
I can't imagine what you're feeling, because it's not like
you could just drive to the hospital and they were
ready like today, you know what I mean, Like two
weeks later, they're obviously handling this differently, But you were
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at the you were at the beginning of this, you know,
So so tell me now what happens five days in.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
So the nurse calls and I mean, I at this
point of hacking, it's just a mess, and I don't
internally freak out much, but I was internally freaking out
because I could feel myself deteriorating. I could feel my
lung getting heavier. And the nurse says, doctor Lee couldn't
couldn't get anyone in the CBC to approve a test, right,
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just get yourself, get in your car, take yourself into
Saint jos in Burbank because they had apparently released like
a couple hundred tests that they were giving there. So
I get in my car, I drive over there, which
was like a chore park. I start walking up and
they kind of have this whole outdoor tenting system kind
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of set up, like it reminded me of that above
et where they had like all the tents set up
and the doctors walking around and have mess suits. So luckily,
like literally, by the grace of God, I was able.
I was like the third one there and it only
took like about an hour and a half and I
was able to get in. I sat down. The doctor
came into the tent, I took one look at me,
and basically he didn't say it, but he was like,
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holy fuck. So he turned around. They got a test
test kit. He came in. It's really long, it's a
swab and they just stick it way in the back
here and it's really uncomfortable. Tested me for the regular flu.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Again.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
That was negative, and he'sas listening to go home, just
lay down, just try to stay high grated, and we're
going to call you within two to three days with
the test resulte.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
So they send you home again, Send me home again.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Oh yeah, and you know partially because while you know
I had a bad temperature, my vitals on the whole
were fairly okay. But one thing that was not good.
And I have to tell you this and anybody that's
listening that is like exercises or runs a lot. When
you're done, like exercising your heart rate. Your your standing
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heart rate's usually pretty low. Mine is usually hovers around
like a fifty to fifty five A MC geek guy,
I was kind of track at my heart rate. There's
basically no activity was in one twenty? What my heart?
What is cranking? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Oh so your heart was an overdrive. I mean it
was an under drive just to just to breathe, just
a function. I just this is this is scary.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
So of retrospect, it makes sense. Why people would, you know,
pre existing conditions or hard conditions or just long issues
in general, you know, or are passing away. So I
go home. I think we're like at day six. Now
a day seven, that's Thursday, that's nineteenth.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
They call.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
The doctor calls and get this. It's a nurse. Excuse me.
She calls and she says Brad Schmidt. I'm like yeah.
She says, hey, you know, you know, nurse so and
so I was at the hospital. We tested you. You
test came back it's positive. I'm like, okay, I'm positive.
So I'm like I'm expecting them to be like I
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come in coming right away right.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Like I would. I would, I would be in the
car on that phone call. I mean, I would there
would even be a conversation. But the one thing I
want to tell people I can tell just from texting
and now talking to you, law I mean you could
tell lot he's a very level headed.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, you're very calm, loll and I would.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Be on a stretch.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
So this is what shots right, helicop you're coming in
picking you up?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah, okay, So you're tested positive and you would think
they would tell you to come in right away.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
So what happens?
Speaker 5 (30:07):
No, they don't. Oh so she says, you're positive, Like,
how do you feel? I'm like, you know, in my
head right and my animal brain of the kind of
fuck do you think I feel?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Right?
Speaker 5 (30:18):
But I said, you know, but honestly right, I'm like,
you're not feeling great. The coughing is getting more persistence.
You said, listen, I'm going to talk to the hospital.
She's within a couple hours. If you're not, if things
are not feeling level off at all, you're not feeling better,
call me. We're going to have to come in. We're
going to admit you. And you know what I'm realizing
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in retrospect is he they didn't know, which is they
just didn't have a lot of information b they were
worried about beds, you know. I mean, if I'm a
guy who has it, even though my cimizens are bad,
and I can beat it on my own by fink quarantines,
as opposed to someone who's going to legitimately die, they
want to save the bed for that person.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
They want for people that need it. But I want
to say something here to people listening. I really believe
that if you've been and now, what day are you on, Brad,
six at this point or five?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Seven? I'm like going to day seven.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
I'm on to day six seven, yes, seven, yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
In my opinion, in my opinion, And Brad, tell me
if you look backwards at this, if you were giving
advice to me and I was on day six or
seven and I couldn't breathe well, and I couldn't get
out of bed and my fever was spiking, wouldn't you
tell me get your ass the emergency room at this point.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Pick your fucking ass up off the floor and get
to the hospital.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Okay, So that's the advice I'm saying. I get I
get what you're saying, and I agree with you. If
you're a healthy young person, you know, three days in
four days in you have a fever one hundred and
you can kind of walk around, then you don't need
to go to the hospital. I guess I'm not giving
advice as a doctor. I'm saying I respect what you're saying,
and I would agree with you personally right law. But
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if you're day six or seven and you shit's bad,
it's time to go to the er and say help me.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
You understand, you know, I've had a couple of friends
reach out to me. You know, actors on both coasts
here and in New York who you know they've been around
groups of people they're feeling sick. And even Randall, you know,
you kind of hit me up and you were talking
to me and saying you weren't feeling great. What were
the two indicators that I would say, don't even hesitate.
If you've had a fever and it's a low grade
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fever like around one hundred and it's not going away,
and you've got the chills and you've got coughs, don't
listen to what anybody tells you. Get up, go to
the hospital, go to your doctor, just sit there until
they test you. That those are the two things that
I would say, especially if you have kids, you have
loved ones that you live with. I don't even wait,
just go so you can leavely know whether you are
and you're not, and then you can know what to
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do next. That's what I've been telling anybody that's been
asking me.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Well, absolutely, And do you think that they may like
just because you're a healthy dude, And you may have
answered this already, I'm just like in a daze with
what you're saying, because I'm going to be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
I'm a conspiracy theorist. I like this.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I think was concocted by somebody. It's affecting people, obviously,
like yourself. Do you think that they sent you away
because they looked at you and they were like, Okay,
he has a better chance then you know, say a
seventy year old who comes in, and we want to
save the beds for those people.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
With all due respect and not to minimize a life
for anybody, but one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yeah, So they basically were they basically were playing. Basically,
they're looking at you saying you're not on your last lung. Yeah,
in their mind, in their mind, go home, you should
be fine. You're gonna get through this. They didn't have
all the tools at that point.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
No, they've they've fought me like tooth and nail to
get tests. I mean a multiple. I mean it was unreal.
And even my doctor and I'm like, they're nable out there.
But my doctor has been a maternity who leads. Finally
got a hold of me when I was in the
hospital and she said, Brad, oh my god, and I was.
She was looking at a chart telling you what was
going on. She said, they should have taken you into
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the hospital and give you a test, like that's the
first time you went in.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Yeah, wow, And this is how people are dying in
my opinion. In addition to underline, but I think people
are going in and they don't think it's that bad,
and they think it's the flu, or the hospital's not
ready to take them, or there's you know, the tests
are taking too long. And thank god this country now
is got finally is it feels like if you need
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a test, you can get it. But I mean, this
is a horrific story. I mean, your story, thank god,
is being told so people can see what has happened
with this healthcare system.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Well, and it's also you know you've shed a lot
of light for me, because I'm somebody who if I
keep if I keep my blinders on, you know, I
think of it as like, I know it's happening.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It's just the flu.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
If I get it, I'll kick it, and you know,
because it's not that, and I think your story will
open a lot of people's eyes and be aware.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Especially honestly, it's why I that's why I posted. It's
why did that post. It's why I have my wife
kind of reposted, you know, because I was kind of
dismissing it a little bit in the beginning. It was there,
but like, yeah, whatever, and I had some good friends
against some you know, working actors and people that I
know that travel a lot, really just kind of poopooing it,
like really just like, eh, that's not a big deal.
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Guess what it fucking is?
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, No, this is no, this is
no joke. And I don't want to say that to
that effect that COVID this is really beyond its waste.
I don't even know how to use the right word.
It is. You know, I was reading an article yesterday,
law and I was reading this article, and you know,
it brought so many tears to my eyes. How people
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are dying alone that you can't you know, that's a
new thing. Now, can you bring your loved ones in
because you're going to contaminate them, et cetera. And are
you prepared to die alone? I think that's another part
of this.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
I'm seeing those stories too. Yeah, and I think let's
cut you off. Sorry, but you know, one of the
most heartbreaking things is like, you know, no one can
see you.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Oh, I can come in. I can't even fathom that
if you take your last breath and you're not even
prepared to die. I mean, you're a young person and
that's how you die. This is a risk. Yeah, this
is the This is the reality of what we're living in.
This is why we're staying at home. This is why
we're trying to beat this. Chris, I'm gonna I'm going
to run to a commercial break, although I wish I
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didn't have to. We're gonna come right back. You're not
going anywhere, and we're going to keep talking about this
because I want to hear the rest of your journey
because it is it is everything that we need to
hear today.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Yes, thank you so much. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
We are back talking all things health and COVID nineteen.
We have our boy Brad Schmidt on the line, who
think God has has beat coronavirus. How you feel and
be thank you so much for being here or being
via phone.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I guess yeah, thanks for so.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
I want to jump into once you got out of
the hospital, what wait real.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Quick, because because you know me, law, I'm in detail.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
You're detail oriented, right, just.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Take us quick as you got once you got into
the hospital. What happened and then and then out of that?
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
I get to the hospital and the biggest oh shit
moment was they're scanning your lungs once a day. I
get to the hospital. They want to take my blood,
they throw menoxygen the first thing what they want to do.
And they're still not like putting me like in a room.
They want to scan my lungs. I do a quick
scan while I'm in the bed. They go away. I'm waiting.
Twenty minutes, thirty minutes, forty minutes, like an hour goes by,
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and then the doctor comes in. He's like, okay, we're
wheeling you up into a room. I've mentioned to you Randall,
I think maybe you have a message. I'm not sure,
but that spot on my lungs that they thought was
in a cute bronchitis on Monday, which was three and
a half days earlier, the COVID. This is what people
need to understand. And I know that this doesn't happen
to every buddy, but it didn't spread throughout both of
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my lungs, both of them.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Yeah, you told me that you had pneumonia in each
of your lungs.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
Correct double ammonia within like three and a half days,
So that that kind of kick start of this day.
And then you know, one of the last things they'll say.
While the doctors were all amazing, I had a promonologist,
infectious disease doctor in a general the one thing that
they were conferring every day and couldn't decide what to
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do and ultimately decided not to give me any kind
of medicine, was how do we treat this? This is
the other thing no one's talking about. People are like, oh,
you know, they're doing anti malaria meds, and then there's
like this and that and vitamin seed rips. They didn't
give me shit primarily, And this this is the truth,
because you know, I get again a young I'm healthy,
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but in my white blood kelts cell count was so
far down. They don't know what the side effects are,
and there are side effects to these things, and there
is no data on a lot of these medications, and
they don't know what's going to happen if they give
it to you, and they're really giving it to people
where it's kind of like a last salvo. It's like
the hell, Mary, give me some meds, give them something
to try to beat it.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Let me, let me ask a questions. When they put
you on the oxygen, did that feel better?
Speaker 5 (39:15):
I mean, maybe it might have helped, you know, help
helped a bit. The I'm gonna screw this up. I'm
not a doctor, but the you know, the oxygen level
of my blood was really low. I guess they say
if it's below like ninety five percent, it's pretty low.
I was below ninety, like around eighty five when I
got in. And the only thing that really freaked me
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out the size and the skin was really I had
to think think about this. One of the things we
don't think about during the day. We never really think
about breathing. You just do it. I didn't think about Okay,
breathe the bread out, breathing, breathed out, breathem, breathed out.
Because I was so restricted and if I was breathing
too deep, it felt like I was, you know, swallowing.
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It was just a crazy thing.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Yea, this is this is the nightmare of nightmares. So
now we're on day seven or eight in the hospital.
What happens? That's the turning point. And and this is
what I want to ask you. Do you feel in
your mind, in your soul that you might die in
this bed.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
I honestly don't know. I mean I don't. I don't
think that I will. I do know in that moment,
I wasn't eating. I had zero appetite for days. I
wasn't eating. It hurt the move I was having trouble breathing.
I mean, I had had one moment. This is that
God is on his trust. I have one moment where
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I had the nurse kind of get up and help me,
kind of like, you know, walk into the bathroom so
I could sit down and go to the bathroom. And
I was in so much pain and sitting on the
toilet and my heart rate was racing because I just
walked to the bathroom. I literally was like, oh my god,
this is this. You know, I don't want to be dramatic,
but if I'm being honest, it's like, fuck, I can't
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can't get worse because if it gets worse, I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
What was going to happen if basically in that moment,
you believe, if if it got worse, you basically could
be looking at death.
Speaker 5 (41:10):
Possibly.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
That's how bad it was for you.
Speaker 5 (41:13):
In that moment. And you know, the doctors, to their credit,
they made the right choice and not you know, giving
me anything. You know, my body started to you know,
started to recover. They were taking blood twice a day,
doing scans every day, and they were you know, encouraged enough.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Okay, how many how many days in the hospital before
they released you? Before you started feeling better? And on
what day overall of this experience did do so?
Speaker 5 (41:41):
I spent almost seven days in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Oh my god, I would freak out.
Speaker 5 (41:46):
I spent a week in the hospital.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
This is the week. I mean, this is the reality
that we're living. And that's the scare.
Speaker 5 (41:50):
You would have told me that anything aside from a
car accident of some kind of terrible wreck was going
to put me in the hospital for a week when
college is fucking crazy.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Yeah, I'm sure, but that's I'm trying to tell people that.
That's what I think we're all trying to figure out here,
is that when they say stay at home, stay safe.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
Please please please please stay at.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Home because this You're the example of all of us
in this age demographic laalas ten years younger, nine years older.
But you know, whether you're twenty five or forty five,
or sixty five or eighty five, this happens and affects
everybody right now and listening to this. So you get
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released and now you're day twelve, I assume, or thirteen
right now. Where are you at today?
Speaker 5 (42:36):
Fourteen fourteen, day fourteen? You know, I'm feeling progressively better. Okay,
today I have moments, I have no energy. I mean,
this is why I was texting you, hey, when you
want to do this, because I'll probably have an interesty shit,
this call, and I'm like, God.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
The day, we are so grateful, we are very grateful
for you to do this.
Speaker 5 (42:56):
This is very important, really important. So I'm in an
airbnb them away from you know everyone, Uh, just kind
of recuperating. I've got a call set up with the
doctor tomorrow. They're going to want to test me a
couple more times to make sure it's gone because reinfection
is also you know, it's a small possibility. And honesty,
I just I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
To see your kids.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
I can't wait see my wife and kids. I haven't
seen them in so long, in a long time.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
So wow, have you have you you haven't seen your
kids in two weeks or your wife?
Speaker 5 (43:25):
Oh, longer than that, it's probably been about four about
four weeks.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (43:29):
Yeah, we FaceTime, thank god, you know we have that technology.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
No, of course, But I mean, but but this is
the thing I'm talking about. This is what I want
people to understand. Not only do you have to go
through this horrible, horrible thing that hopefully you survive, but
you have to do it alone. You you can't see
your family. Your family can't see you. This is probably
one of the worst pandemics you know, we've faced in
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the world. I mean in our lifetime, probably in our lifetime,
in our lifetime for sure, but I also think in
history this go down as one of the worst. And
when when I get mad because I'm sitting in my house,
in my kitchen right now. I need to remind myself
that the sun is shining, that I'm here. And you
know what, even though I'm going to bounce off the
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walls every day all up, at least, at least I'm
at least we're safe and healthy. And I think your
your words. People need to hear you because there's only
one alternative, and that's you know, death, getting sick and
being quarantined alone for a month, or or being healthy
in your house.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Oh yeah, we just conform and listen to what they're
telling us to do.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Till it's safe for all of us. And I and
I do think, uh you know, I think you've been
in a roller coaster. Uh you know, and I got it. Honestly,
I applaud you and and the minute it's safe to
go out, and I mean this with all sincerity, we
are going out for a drink and we are going
to celebrate, you know, and get fucking handed.
Speaker 5 (45:01):
I have to say this. I have to say this,
and I have to have to say this out loud.
I got so many messages in DMS and calls from
people that I know and that I love. But also
just as important is I got messages from people that
I don't even fucking know. It's like it was like
the beauty of like humanity, Like Randall for example. I
know we have like people in common, but we don't
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know each other. You reached out and you were like, listen, man,
get better, like I'm with you, and it really helped.
It really really did. So I really appreciate you reaching out.
I really do you.
Speaker 3 (45:33):
You were I just want to say this, you were
an inspiration in a time. Obviously every week they're getting
better with the testing and and and the support and
all that. But I knew when I saw somebody a
peer of mine, you know, even though we didn't know
each other, but in my peer group, in my industry,
you know, you live seven minutes down the street from me,
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I wanted to reach out and say, hey, you've got somebody.
If you need something, if I can do anything, let
just please have your family call anything I could do.
And I also wanted to just be there to say, hey,
let me know how you're doing, and know that you
can text me if if you know whatever it is,
So it means a lot.
Speaker 5 (46:11):
That pretty amazing, awesome, It was pretty amazing. Yeah, it
was really amazing. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Well, we are so appreciative that you I know that
you're exactly took time and now we want you to
go and rest and we hope that you get to
see your family soon. Thank you so much for taking
our call.
Speaker 5 (46:28):
That's my pleasure.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Time to take a nap, Yes, bro, and keep texting
me daily and let me know that you're you know
how you're doing and anything you need. Like I said,
you're good.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
Man, Randall, thank you, loll I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Thanks, thank you all right.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
Thank you take care.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
Wow, that was intense.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
That that just makes me realize that we are lucky.
And even though we're all confined to our homes and
we're bitching about not being able to leave our homes. Yeah,
listening to his story, I'm gonna take a lap around
the house and be grateful because this shit is real
and it's horrible and people are dying and people are
(47:08):
getting sick. But what doesn't it shock you that somebody
in our business, our industry, close to us is young
and had no underlying issues.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Well, it just goes to show you this, this virus,
it doesn't discriminate against anybody it's like it will affect
you whether you're young, old, middle age, it doesn't matter
healthy not healthy. It just affects us in a different way.
And you know, after hearing, because I needed to hear that.
Speaker 3 (47:35):
Yeah, I know I did.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
For me, this is a fucking joke.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
If I want to leave my house, And keep in mind,
I haven't left my house becauseantined. I've definitely been quarantined
and I've done that for other people's safety because I
know other people are very much like, get the fuck
away from me, and I get it.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
But I think young people in your generation are saying,
and I think it's it's not I think they're just some,
not all young people. But I think a lot of
young people are saying taking the thing of if I
get it, I'm I'll be.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Okay, I'll bet see, And for me, I think of
it the other way, Like for me, I'm not like,
if I get it, I'll be okay.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
I'm thinking, like God forbid, if.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
I leave my house, if I were to have it,
if I gave it to someone who couldn't fight it
off as easily as I could. That is the only
reason why I've stayed quarantined. But I think as we
sign off on this episode, you know, I hope next
week we have a little bit more of a light
hearted episode.
Speaker 3 (48:34):
Yeah, but this way, can I tell you this.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Was very This is what people I think needed to hear.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
But can I tell you this episode like I didn't
have anybody to talk to about COVID because I was petrified.
I want to know things. I want to know what
the experience was like, to be able to educate myself,
to be able to protect you know, our our friends,
our family, my kids. And so I think listening to
him and him texting me and now hearing him, I
(49:00):
think just gives us some real insight that this we
got to be extra careful. We've got to you know,
even though we're quarantine, and we just have to know
that this could affect anybody. And I think young people
when they get you know, arrogant in the sense, you know,
some young people will just be stubborn and say, oh,
I'm fine if I get it. It's like a flu.
(49:20):
It's not like a flu. This is an unknown virus
that attacks everybody differently and kills people. And here is
a young man that just gave us his story, and
it is heartbreaking I'm so glad he's on the road's recovery,
and I promise you we will be more like next week.
But I do think that this probably will be one
of our most important episodes we'll ever do.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
I fully agree with you, so once again, I want
to thank mister brad Schmidt, who you know took our
phone call. And also I want you guys to go
out there, not go out there, stay inside, slay your homes,
and again, please stay healthy and please stay safe.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
We love you all very.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
Much and we will catch you next week for another
episode of Give Them Mala with Randall.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
Be safe, everybody,
Hello, gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It's La La Kent with Randall, and we are still quarantine.
We are quarantined af We.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Are quarantinedf you know, it feels like every day that
goes by is more wearing on our souls. It's just tough.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Oh my soul is done dead.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I mean I feel like I look out the window
and it could be a gorgeous day, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Like, fuck this day, it doesn't fucking matter.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
No, And then the press gets on and he's like,
I think we need to extend this until April thirtieth,
which granted, I'm like, great, if that's going to keep
us healthy.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Safe wise, obviously, Yeah, And let me just second that,
like I get it, okay, works to anybody, or thirtieth.
We're saving lives, We're trying to hit our peak, you know,
of the virus, so that we can start going back
to some form of normalcy. But I'm going to tell
you a lat I've never been affected by this. I mean,
I'm sorry, let me rewind that I've never been affected.
(01:16):
Like yeah, it's almost like a bad dream. Every day
you wake up and you want like, you know me,
I'm an optimist, so I wake up and I'm like,
let's attack, let's crush the day.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Let's you know, yeah, I take over the world, right,
you have a lot of energy.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I do, but but it's wearing, and it's emotional, and
it's it's every day I'm fighting with myself, you know,
to try to stay positive and listen to friends and
and and just you know, be optimistic. You know, in
a time that's not easy to be optimistic in.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You know what is so crazy though, Like I'm antisocial.
Everyone knows that, Like this quarantine. It's like I wasn't
socializing with people before this, you know, like it takes
a lot to just get me out of my house. No.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
The only way you get out of the house, by
the way, let's just be clear so people know is
if there's.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
A job, a job yet.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Or for a family member other than that.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And for the gym, which you always go to the gym, right,
So for me, that's where like for me going to
the gym. The reason why I pay for a trainer
is because I will not work out otherwise. I haven't
worked out while we've been quarantined, not that a.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Day, nothing, not even no nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I have a trainer for that reason because I'm held accountable.
I get up, I go to the gym in the morning.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
You're paying, I'm paying.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
That's so it's like that's an incentive.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Of course, you're somebody. If you lose five dollars, you.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Go, I go and say. And so for me, the
workout in the morning is what the driving force of
my day. It's like, once I get that done, it's like,
oh my gosh, I can't wait to go do this,
do that.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, because you know what I notice, And obviously I
took it all for granted, but I mean just life,
you know. Yeah, But I remember I go to the
office at like nine am, right, and then you'd call me.
Always abound between eight and ten, you were like no
one could talk to you. It was like, angry, get
the coffee. I'm going to the gym, the coffee.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Go to the gym.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Don't talk to me until it's finished.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
By eleven thirty, you'd call me with that, Hey, what
are we doing today? Or I'm coming by the office.
We got to do this. And I noticed that, and
now we don't have that kick for you. And also
I don't have that kick at the top of the day,
and I think I'm thinking about everybody, Like lots of
friends of mine I've talked to, they don't have that kit.
There's nowhere to find it. Because all we're hoping is
(03:28):
can we go back to our normal lives? And also
we don't want to die. So these are two things
that I don't think we ever thought we'd have to
face as a as a world, as a as the universe. Right,
It's like, it's not like you I'm trying to put
these in words. It's not like you. You have a
friend who's sick, and you go to the hospital and
(03:48):
you want you pray for them, and you want them
to get better, right, and you go back to your
office and you try to go on with your day.
But everybody's in the same boat. Everybody's hoping that they
stay healthy. And everybody's quarantined to their house, so their
apartment or we're our friend's house. So I just feel
like we're all in this zombie likesf.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That's exactly how I feel.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And I'm going to be I'm going to fill you
guys in on something right now.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I'm a conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh god, I think that this is a way for
the government to gain control of the human race, and
it's gone very badly. And I will well in my
mind it's gone bad for someone very high up. It
could be this is exactly what they were hoping for.
The reason that I conformed is because COVID nineteen is
(04:39):
taking people's lives.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So I do stay in my house.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yes, I do stay in my house because God forbid
I catch it, and even more, God forbid I give
it to someone who's older if I were to have it,
which I do not.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
But I believe.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I'm sorry, something's going on. Something is going on. And
Randall is totally He's like, you're crazy, lot.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I'm sitting I'm sitting two feet from you. I want
to fall out of my chair right now. But law,
here's the thing. You're my partner and I love you.
If you believe this is conspiracy, then I have to
let you believe that. And I've read articles where people
believe that. Here's what I believe. I believe that some
idiot far away I ate some fucking animal that they
(05:23):
shouldn't have been fucking eating. And all the scientists are saying,
and medical specialists that this was like the perfect storm,
like it took the virus into this person in China
and manifested itself perfectly and then was able to mutate
going to other people, and here we are with a
worldwide pandemic. All I'm going to say is this sucks.
(05:43):
I don't give a shit. I've woken up every day,
you know me a lot. See she's smiling now if
you guys can see her. The thing is, she knows
that I'm the biggest optimist and for me and for
me to wake up daily and feel this dark cloud
like everybody's feeling, you know, you're trying to make the
best of it. You really do, but it's not easy.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Randall's mad because he can't go direct his movie.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Randall is like a fucking uh what is that? The
energizer bunny.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, that's good word.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Keep going and going and going.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
That is you.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And so for you, the dark cloud is because you
can't be out and about and socializing and doing this
and do you have sound.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It's like a creative person and it's.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Totally I get that hard for an.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Artist, whether you're a filmmaker or an actor or a
director or anything, it's hard when you don't have an
outlet to be creative. So I mean, the great thing
and I said to you today is let's just get
on our podcast because we like it's something that gets
us to be able to share our feelings and talk
about things.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Well, it makes me again, I am driven, like I'm
not leaving the house unless I'm going to someone else's
house like Katie or Brittany's, or if I'm getting paid
to leave my house.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Otherwise I don't see a reason to leave my house.
I'm like quarantined with or without coronaout.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I can ask a question. I understand that because I've
been with you for four years. Right. The thing that
I want to know that I think that you're not,
that you're missing here is that even though you love
the luxury of just chilling, Let's say, is you had
the option that if I called you and said law
or you call me at work. Here's per For example,
you sometimes once in a while, once a week, say babe,
(07:25):
what are we doing for dinner? Do you want to
go somewhere? Why don't try something different? And I'd be like, okay,
and we got right.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
The option is gone.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
The option's gone, yeah, Or what about this, babe, I
want to get on the plane and go to wherever,
go to go to Miami a week for a couple
of days, and just how about just go get a
massage at the twenty dollars you know, back massage place
right right.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
We can't even go do that as and before this
got super crazy, like before it got real crazy, Okay,
this messuse that Randal and I love was like, yeah,
I can like come over and massage you guys.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I'll just avoid the neck.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Right the head in the face, and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
That's all you.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
The only part I like that was a point a
damn point no.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I mean, And what I'm saying is like the basic
things that like and look as a man, I can
admit I like petticure manicures. We okay, why are you smiling?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Because I can picture you in the chair getting your
manny petty but fresh.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
But the thing is you and I used to like
to go do that. It was like a fun little thing.
It was like a half hour. And the thing is,
we have no options. And the options are you have
to be really creative right now. But on top of that,
you have to keep your spirit up.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And look, my spirit has remained up by playing endless
amounts of rumming cues, and I got a coloring book
and a cran set of one hundred and fifty two,
and Rand's kids pulled one of my crans out of
my coloring box and I was like, oh, hel no,
oh hail no. And then they asked me for a
(08:59):
page of my color. I was like, you know, this
is my coloring book and my crans.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Like, I just want to tell you something, Laala. It
was more than that. People don't understand. You look like
somebody had robbed your last five dollars. Of course, your
arms swooped into those krans like they were the second.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Oh, I wiped one right out of the six year
old tent. I was like, absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
She looked like she had seen a ghost. She I
don't think she knew Lala could move that fast. She
went for the kran. You write the cran you said,
it's my box.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I bought the girls their own pack of ninety six.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Oh you know the number? This is how details you?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Maybe it was sixty four, I can't remember, but it
was a lot. They had their own crans.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
When this airs, will you will you please.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Give Crayola a shout out? Of course, Crayola has kept
me sane in this, But will.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
You also promote your art? Will you show people some
of these colorings, because you haven't left the table in
two weeks?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Two boks No. And the coloring book is the pages
are like police, you know, like Barcelona, Miami, all of
these amazing places. And I just sit there in color
and I'm like, one day, one day I can come
back to you.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
It's it's great. And I watch you. I've seen you
and your mom every single day for two and a
half weeks. Now, this is what the day consists of.
Wake up, Yeah, everybody looks at each other like, oh shit,
we're fucked again. And then and then and then and
then we all say okay, thank God we're healthy. We
do that little prayer yes, and then it goes from
(10:30):
there to coloring yes, follow by moping around again for
a few more hours, follow by television, follow by four
hours of rummy cue is it Rummy cube? Yeah, Rummy
cube Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Speaking of television, the mother effing Tiger King.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Oh oh god, okay, every let me just say this.
Let me just say this.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Everyone.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Everyone on the internet is.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Like, oh MG, this is crazy, ohmg, psychotic. For me,
it made me sick to my stomach that millions upon
millions of dollars were spent on this lawsuit between the
Tiger King and Carol Baskin and all these other fuck
ups that I can't believe our world has people like.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
This, Like it makes me sick. I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I was raised in Utah and I came west to California,
Like we're open minded, we're normal.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Those people.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I'm like, those people exist on our planet, Like, we're fucked.
If there's more people like that, we are fucked. My
whole thing was it went back to the all the
money that was wasted that could have gone to helping
the fucking lions, tigers, bears in captivity, the apes. As
an animal activist, like you know, Blackfish changed.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
My entire life.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yes, when I saw that documentary, it just like transformed everything. Yes,
my new cause, I think is like getting people to
understand what the fuck it means to rehabilitate an animal.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I need to weigh in here. So you promoted this
documentary to me for a long time. For about a
week straight, you kept saying you need to see this,
and I kept seeing online people going crazy over him.
So finally you got me to sit down and I
watched the first episode. I was hooked, hooked. Okay, it
is surreal, it's amazing, and I know that you're going
(12:25):
to get angry because I think it's amazing television. Let's
start there. Yes, the people are fucked up with the
abuse of how they put in these animals. But what
I want to tell you is this this guy, Tiger,
the Tiger King, that's his name, Tiger King.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Joe Exotic, Joe Exotic.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yes, Joe Exotic should have been the biggest country star ever.
He is phenomenal, voice, phenomenal. He should have been in Nashville.
Got rid of the animals and gone off and said.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
You want to know what's so insane is that Joe Exotic.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
To me, was the most likable one.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I like Joe Exotic.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Carol Baskin is up in here, fucking fooling everyone, acting
like she has a sanctuary.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
For about Carol Baskin, She's full of shit. She's full
of shit shit, And.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I'm telling you, Carol, she loves to see everybody.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
She sues everybody for what our opinion.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
It's free speech.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I don't tough shit, tough.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Shit, and I'm in quarantine, so I don't give a shit,
Carol Baskin now, Oh no, yeah, you know what. We're
both going in.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Know what though, miss Joe Exotic.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Joe is that if we come there and rescue.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Joe Exotic is on the other side now he's talking
to Peta.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
He's.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
The most powerful moment in that entire documentary was when
Joe Exotic said, you want to know why they say
animals dyeing cages, It's because their soul dies.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
And right then I was like, you fucking get it right.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
It has nothing to do with the way that you're
loving that animal behind a cage. They don't belong in there.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I agree with you, and I always stand by your cause.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But then we have these fuckers that go out like
the guy that owns Jimmy Johns and he's out fucking
pop being these beautiful animals for sport, you know, like
trophy hunting. Again, these people exist on our planet and
it it's terrifying.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
People don't know your obsession and passion for animal rights.
I mean, when we go to Las Vegas, you will
not stay at certain hotels. We're not gonna mention it.
So don't do that, all.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Right, But you guys know which hotels.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
She just won't stay at hotels where there's any animals
kept in captivity, so no. So basically in Las Vegas
and other places all over the world, we're limited to
about four hotels.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I also do extensive research on zoos, because if you
think I'm walking into a zoo, which I haven't been
to a zoo since I was a kid, but I
really do the fucking work to see if that zoo
really really is doing what they claim to do.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
True, You're true about this stuff at all.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
What I do want to say is some people are
up on the internet and they're like, oh my god,
the people of vander Pump Rules or whatever reality show
like people like this exist.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
You know what, We're fucking gems compared to people.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
That exist who are doing real, fucking dirty shows.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Well, none of you guys are are evil in spirit.
Those those some of these people out there on some
of these documentaries on watch air.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I mean, you know, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Though they're vicious, they're not only vicious, but they're just
uneducated people.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Well, I mean, that's why they make great televisions.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
He's like, what the fuck?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
And then that, and then one of the guys is like,
and my wife's pregnant and he's like showing the nanny.
I'm like, stop creating, stop having babies.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Don't but take a second for one second and say
you were addicted to that documentary. It was high level.
It was one of the most entertainments.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Addicted.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I can't I go to bed dreaming about it.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
You wish there were another ten episodes?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I do.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
But then I read this, Uh, the director or the
producers did a Q and A, and I read about
the process of them filming over five years, and one
of the girls that worked on it was like, you know,
I feel like this has ended.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Like I did my job.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And everything, and I was like, you know what, I
just hope that something great comes out of this, and
people watching the documentary don't focus too much on the
stories of the people and focus on why they made
that documentary, and that was to shed light on big
cats in captivity.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Well, I think everybody saw that, and they also were
exposed Like, for instance, I've never even knew this exists
in the US. So for me, somebody that knows about
a lot a lot about animal rights because of being
with you, I think that even opened my eyes further.
So I think a lot of people are going to
be educated and be sensitives and stuff. I want to
just pivot here to get ready for our guests, okay,
(16:39):
in which I'm really really excited.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Was our guest Rand tell them.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Our guest is an actor who I met because friends
of mine were friends of mine in the industry were concerned,
and friends of this person's names Brad Schmidt, and he
contracted covid okay, and I about ten days ago, I
saw on his story that he had gone into the
(17:05):
hospital and he had written this really lengthy story and
now as a young man in his thirties with no
underlying health issues, and he went to the doctor basically
came down with it, didn't feel good. Went to the doctor,
they couldn't get a test, went home, gave him some medication.
He got worse, worse, to the point where he told
me he thought he was breathing shards of glass. Wow.
And fast forward. Finally his doctor said, on day six,
(17:28):
it was so bad, he said, you need to walk
yourself into the emergency room to get a test. Watch
selse the emergency room. He had double pneumonia in each
of pneumonia each of his lungs. They tested him, they
came back positive, and basically I think he was basically
fighting for his life to get stabilized. And he just
got released yesterday or the day before, and we're going
to have him call in and we're going to I
(17:49):
really am excited about this because I want people to
know and hear from somebody that's in your age group,
and that's you know, younger than me, but was perfectly
healthy and here was fighting for his life. And I
think that's the seriousness of this virus that we need
to hear about.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
All right, Well, let's get him on the phone and
we will be right back.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
All right, We're back, law. What's up?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
We have a very special guest on the line.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
We do. We have Brad Schmidt. Brad say hello everybody. So, Brad,
you are somebody who I linked up with friends of
mine or friends of yours and through social media about
twelve or fourteen days ago. I had seen that you
contracted COVID. Is that correct? Correct? And the reason I
(18:41):
have you on because I've been texting you daily, you know,
and keeping in touch with you in the hospital and
we've never met. But it went very sweet by the
way you know. It really affected me because you know,
somebody who's forty years old, you have a wife, you
have two young children, a healthy guy, you have no
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underlying issues. Correct, true?
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Well, true?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Ye, So I see this, I see your story. I
moved and I start texting you and you tell me
you know, you're in really bad shape at the hospital.
So basically what I want to do is I want
people to understand from somebody who's been through this, how
serious this became, and how somebody who is young and
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healthy is affected. Because I was affected by your story.
I was floored, emotional, I was I was sad, I
was you know, I just was freaked the fuck out.
And if I'm freaked the fuck out and you're laying
in a hospital bed where your family can't be with you,
I want you to take us through the journey from
when you first had symptoms and kind of give us
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like a diary.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Yeah. I think you know, like most people in the beginning,
that's just progressing. I mean, like I said, you know,
I'm healthy, responsible, and like I'm always washing my hands.
I have no underlying health issues. So like observing this
to the news and hearing stories, it always felt like
something once removed like, Okay, it's going on. It's there,
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but it's not going to happen to me. This isn't
something that's going to affect me. And if it does,
it's the flu. Like I'll beat it. It's okay, I'm
not worried about it. It was a Friday, I would
say Fridays. I think it was like Friday the thirteenth.
Ironically about that, wow, yeah, I started to feel, you know,
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like a little kind of under the weather. I had
a cold coming on then that evening, I think when
I went to bed, I had kind of the chills,
and I thought to myself, all right, you know what,
I'm a load up and inviting and see, I'm going
to rest. It's going to kind of sleep through the
weekend and sleep it off. And usually I can bounce
back from a cold really quickly. Well, that Monday rolled
around the sixteenth, and brother, I was, I'm gonna say it.
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I don't care. I was fucked up.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
That's okay, allowed, after what you've been through, you could
say whatever you.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Want, Okay, good, all right, we'll clear it. But there's
no other way for me to put it. Like you know,
I'm pretty aware, like anybody that's really healthy of like
when my body feels a little bit off, but it's
like something you haven't felt before. I felt that way,
so I called my doctor. They told me to come
in and basically just kind of get a test for
the flu, do a scan of my lungs. And I
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knew something was really off and I had this odd
I really like it, like really odd. They call it
a dry cough. I don't know if that's right, but
it's it was almost like a weeze. And I'm like, Okay,
this doesn't feel right. So I go. When I sit down,
my doctor's not there. If you feel like I see
another doctor, a very sweet guy, doctor Jason Waie, and
he's you know, looking at me. Everybody's masked up. Everybody's
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a little bit freaked out because COVID is starting to
kind of pop off, and they don't really know like
how to treat you. Meaning you know, I was I
was a baby, you know, like in the early you know, eighties,
but I imagine it was like you know, when you contracted
AIDS at the onset of that disease, people just didn't
know how to treat you. So they put me in
this private room. They had me throwing a mask and
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they did a scan of my lungs first.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I actually thought of that the other day. I was
thinking about when the AIDS epidemic first came onto the scene.
What the eighties, you know, look or late seventies, early eighties,
what that looked like. I think people went through a
very similar Just why didn't have the knowledge?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Yeah, yeah, nobody knows, that's the thing. And you don't
want to make it like a one to one obviously,
but I have to tell you, no one knew what
to do. Oh Like, even even when I went into
the hospital, they had a guard kind of slash nurse
just inside the doors. And I'll never forget I walked
in when they were going to knit me. I gave
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the guy my name, and right away he knew who
I was because they were expecting me. Wow, someone was
trying to come into the doors behind me and he
started screaming, what stay out, stay out, stay out. So
I like processed me and I thought, holy fucking shit.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Okay, I have a question, is this is this day too?
Are you on day two now or day three? When
we're when we're at this one.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
So and you see la I'm at day three, okay,
so I'm usually i'm a day three to do a scan.
They see, you've got a very small spot on your lungs,
like basically like an acute bronchitess. I'm like, okay, they
give me a regular food test. The food test comes
back right away. You're negative. So they're like, look, you
do listen to this. You do not meet all the
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symptoms for COVID.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Oh this is what.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
They told me, and I knew. I was like, oh fuck,
they're not going to test me. So they said, listen,
go home. Yeah, they sent me home.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Oh, oh my god.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
And you know what it wasn't It wasn't the doctor's fault, right,
They just said a didn't have the tests or be
they weren't able to get them. So he said, listen,
we'll keep checking in with you, but I can't give
you a test. Go home if your fever gets worse.
Because my fever was at around one hundred consistently. I'm
not too crazy, but I had a fever. Well have
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you come back in.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Did you ask for the test? Because I'm curious at
that point because I know they didn't have the test.
Thing you asked for it, and they said, I did,
you don't meet the criteria.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Well, and it wasn't so black and white. He did
say that. But my understanding was he had to contact
someone at least at this moment, because this is fairly
early on when this started breaking out, he had to
contact someone at the TDC the permission to be able
to get me a test. And I'm thinking, they're fucking
kidding me. Wow, Okay, well what am I going to do? Right? Yeah?
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So I go home. I go home. Okay, cold sweats
are getting worse. Cost starts getting progressively worse, fever starts
going up.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Are we in day four?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Now we're day four, day four, day five, like around
two that that Tuesday, like the seventeenth, thank you, like
Saint Patrick's day exactly.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
And so the fever kept getting progressively worse and each day,
so the sixteen seventeen eighteen, the HOTA you see, I
would call on check in. There's literally nothing they could do.
They would say, doctor Lee is still trying to get
be okay for a test, but we can't get a test.
So now keep in mind, this is like some backstory
we don't really need to get into. But my wife
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is she's doing like a career change. She's in the
middle of the nursing school. Oh right now in Wyoming,
right at the University of Wyoming with she's got my kids,
and so she's getting freaked out too because she's not
here to like take care of me or check in
on me. So finally the eighteenth, so we're day one, two, three, four, five. Now,
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I mean I couldn't even got a bed.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Okay, hold on, hold on, So just so I understand
on day five. On day five, you couldn't, like the
fever was so bad, the shakes everything, you couldn't leave.
Now you can't walk around, I mean, you're that sick. No,
oh my god. Yeah, this is a nightmare.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
To get from my bedroom to the bathroom like an
en suite, which was maybe five yards. I got a
breath that I'd be lightheaded, like literally out of breath.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
At that point I got. At that point I go
to the hospital. There's not even a.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Question, well yeah, and then the question is like, well
do you just sit at the hospital? Do they It's
just there's no clear information.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Scary this story for me right now, and I'm telling you,
I have anxiety filling my body because I can't imagine.
I can't imagine what you're feeling, because it's not like
you could just drive to the hospital and they were
ready like today, you know what I mean, Like two
weeks later, they're obviously handling this differently, But you were
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at the you were at the beginning of this, you know,
So so tell me now what happens five days in.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
So the nurse calls and I mean, I at this
point of hacking, it's just a mess, and I don't
internally freak out much, but I was internally freaking out
because I could feel myself deteriorating. I could feel my
lung getting heavier. And the nurse says, doctor Lee couldn't
couldn't get anyone in the CBC to approve a test, right,
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just get yourself, get in your car, take yourself into
Saint jos in Burbank because they had apparently released like
a couple hundred tests that they were giving there. So
I get in my car, I drive over there, which
was like a chore park. I start walking up and
they kind of have this whole outdoor tenting system kind
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of set up, like it reminded me of that above
et where they had like all the tents set up
and the doctors walking around and have mess suits. So luckily,
like literally, by the grace of God, I was able.
I was like the third one there and it only
took like about an hour and a half and I
was able to get in. I sat down. The doctor
came into the tent, I took one look at me,
and basically he didn't say it, but he was like,
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holy fuck. So he turned around. They got a test
test kit. He came in. It's really long, it's a
swab and they just stick it way in the back
here and it's really uncomfortable. Tested me for the regular flu.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Again.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
That was negative, and he'sas listening to go home, just
lay down, just try to stay high grated, and we're
going to call you within two to three days with
the test resulte.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
So they send you home again, Send me home again.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Oh yeah, and you know partially because while you know
I had a bad temperature, my vitals on the whole
were fairly okay. But one thing that was not good.
And I have to tell you this and anybody that's
listening that is like exercises or runs a lot. When
you're done, like exercising your heart rate. Your your standing
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heart rate's usually pretty low. Mine is usually hovers around
like a fifty to fifty five A MC geek guy,
I was kind of track at my heart rate. There's
basically no activity was in one twenty? What my heart?
What is cranking? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Oh so your heart was an overdrive. I mean it
was an under drive just to just to breathe, just
a function. I just this is this is scary.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
So of retrospect, it makes sense. Why people would, you know,
pre existing conditions or hard conditions or just long issues
in general, you know, or are passing away. So I
go home. I think we're like at day six. Now
a day seven, that's Thursday, that's nineteenth.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
They call.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
The doctor calls and get this. It's a nurse. Excuse me.
She calls and she says Brad Schmidt. I'm like yeah.
She says, hey, you know, you know, nurse so and
so I was at the hospital. We tested you. You
test came back it's positive. I'm like, okay, I'm positive.
So I'm like I'm expecting them to be like I
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come in coming right away right.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Like I would. I would, I would be in the
car on that phone call. I mean, I would there
would even be a conversation. But the one thing I
want to tell people I can tell just from texting
and now talking to you, law I mean you could
tell lot he's a very level headed.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, you're very calm, loll and I would.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Be on a stretch.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
So this is what shots right, helicop you're coming in
picking you up?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah, okay, So you're tested positive and you would think
they would tell you to come in right away.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
So what happens?
Speaker 5 (30:07):
No, they don't. Oh so she says, you're positive, Like,
how do you feel? I'm like, you know, in my
head right and my animal brain of the kind of
fuck do you think I feel?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Right?
Speaker 5 (30:18):
But I said, you know, but honestly right, I'm like,
you're not feeling great. The coughing is getting more persistence.
You said, listen, I'm going to talk to the hospital.
She's within a couple hours. If you're not, if things
are not feeling level off at all, you're not feeling better,
call me. We're going to have to come in. We're
going to admit you. And you know what I'm realizing
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in retrospect is he they didn't know, which is they
just didn't have a lot of information b they were
worried about beds, you know. I mean, if I'm a
guy who has it, even though my cimizens are bad,
and I can beat it on my own by fink quarantines,
as opposed to someone who's going to legitimately die, they
want to save the bed for that person.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
They want for people that need it. But I want
to say something here to people listening. I really believe
that if you've been and now, what day are you on, Brad,
six at this point or five?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Seven? I'm like going to day seven.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
I'm on to day six seven, yes, seven, yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
In my opinion, in my opinion, And Brad, tell me
if you look backwards at this, if you were giving
advice to me and I was on day six or
seven and I couldn't breathe well, and I couldn't get
out of bed and my fever was spiking, wouldn't you
tell me get your ass the emergency room at this point.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Pick your fucking ass up off the floor and get
to the hospital.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Okay, So that's the advice I'm saying. I get I
get what you're saying, and I agree with you. If
you're a healthy young person, you know, three days in
four days in you have a fever one hundred and
you can kind of walk around, then you don't need
to go to the hospital. I guess I'm not giving
advice as a doctor. I'm saying I respect what you're saying,
and I would agree with you personally right law. But
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if you're day six or seven and you shit's bad,
it's time to go to the er and say help me.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
You understand, you know, I've had a couple of friends
reach out to me. You know, actors on both coasts
here and in New York who you know they've been around
groups of people they're feeling sick. And even Randall, you know,
you kind of hit me up and you were talking
to me and saying you weren't feeling great. What were
the two indicators that I would say, don't even hesitate.
If you've had a fever and it's a low grade
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fever like around one hundred and it's not going away,
and you've got the chills and you've got coughs, don't
listen to what anybody tells you. Get up, go to
the hospital, go to your doctor, just sit there until
they test you. That those are the two things that
I would say, especially if you have kids, you have
loved ones that you live with. I don't even wait,
just go so you can leavely know whether you are
and you're not, and then you can know what to
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do next. That's what I've been telling anybody that's been
asking me.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Well, absolutely, And do you think that they may like
just because you're a healthy dude, And you may have
answered this already, I'm just like in a daze with
what you're saying, because I'm going to be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
I'm a conspiracy theorist. I like this.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I think was concocted by somebody. It's affecting people, obviously,
like yourself. Do you think that they sent you away
because they looked at you and they were like, Okay,
he has a better chance then you know, say a
seventy year old who comes in, and we want to
save the beds for those people.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
With all due respect and not to minimize a life
for anybody, but one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yeah, So they basically were they basically were playing. Basically,
they're looking at you saying you're not on your last lung. Yeah,
in their mind, in their mind, go home, you should
be fine. You're gonna get through this. They didn't have
all the tools at that point.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
No, they've they've fought me like tooth and nail to
get tests. I mean a multiple. I mean it was unreal.
And even my doctor and I'm like, they're nable out there.
But my doctor has been a maternity who leads. Finally
got a hold of me when I was in the
hospital and she said, Brad, oh my god, and I was.
She was looking at a chart telling you what was
going on. She said, they should have taken you into
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the hospital and give you a test, like that's the
first time you went in.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Yeah, wow, And this is how people are dying in
my opinion. In addition to underline, but I think people
are going in and they don't think it's that bad,
and they think it's the flu, or the hospital's not
ready to take them, or there's you know, the tests
are taking too long. And thank god this country now
is got finally is it feels like if you need
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a test, you can get it. But I mean, this
is a horrific story. I mean, your story, thank god,
is being told so people can see what has happened
with this healthcare system.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Well, and it's also you know you've shed a lot
of light for me, because I'm somebody who if I
keep if I keep my blinders on, you know, I
think of it as like, I know it's happening.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It's just the flu.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
If I get it, I'll kick it, and you know,
because it's not that, and I think your story will
open a lot of people's eyes and be aware.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Especially honestly, it's why I that's why I posted. It's
why did that post. It's why I have my wife
kind of reposted, you know, because I was kind of
dismissing it a little bit in the beginning. It was there,
but like, yeah, whatever, and I had some good friends
against some you know, working actors and people that I
know that travel a lot, really just kind of poopooing it,
like really just like, eh, that's not a big deal.
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Guess what it fucking is?
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, No, this is no, this is
no joke. And I don't want to say that to
that effect that COVID this is really beyond its waste.
I don't even know how to use the right word.
It is. You know, I was reading an article yesterday,
law and I was reading this article, and you know,
it brought so many tears to my eyes. How people
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are dying alone that you can't you know, that's a
new thing. Now, can you bring your loved ones in
because you're going to contaminate them, et cetera. And are
you prepared to die alone? I think that's another part
of this.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
I'm seeing those stories too. Yeah, and I think let's
cut you off. Sorry, but you know, one of the
most heartbreaking things is like, you know, no one can
see you.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Oh, I can come in. I can't even fathom that
if you take your last breath and you're not even
prepared to die. I mean, you're a young person and
that's how you die. This is a risk. Yeah, this
is the This is the reality of what we're living in.
This is why we're staying at home. This is why
we're trying to beat this. Chris, I'm gonna I'm going
to run to a commercial break, although I wish I
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didn't have to. We're gonna come right back. You're not
going anywhere, and we're going to keep talking about this
because I want to hear the rest of your journey
because it is it is everything that we need to
hear today.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Yes, thank you so much. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
We are back talking all things health and COVID nineteen.
We have our boy Brad Schmidt on the line, who
think God has has beat coronavirus. How you feel and
be thank you so much for being here or being
via phone.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I guess yeah, thanks for so.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
I want to jump into once you got out of
the hospital, what wait real.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Quick, because because you know me, law, I'm in detail.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
You're detail oriented, right, just.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Take us quick as you got once you got into
the hospital. What happened and then and then out of that?
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
I get to the hospital and the biggest oh shit
moment was they're scanning your lungs once a day. I
get to the hospital. They want to take my blood,
they throw menoxygen the first thing what they want to do.
And they're still not like putting me like in a room.
They want to scan my lungs. I do a quick
scan while I'm in the bed. They go away. I'm waiting.
Twenty minutes, thirty minutes, forty minutes, like an hour goes by,
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and then the doctor comes in. He's like, okay, we're
wheeling you up into a room. I've mentioned to you Randall,
I think maybe you have a message. I'm not sure,
but that spot on my lungs that they thought was
in a cute bronchitis on Monday, which was three and
a half days earlier, the COVID. This is what people
need to understand. And I know that this doesn't happen
to every buddy, but it didn't spread throughout both of
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my lungs, both of them.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Yeah, you told me that you had pneumonia in each
of your lungs.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
Correct double ammonia within like three and a half days,
So that that kind of kick start of this day.
And then you know, one of the last things they'll say.
While the doctors were all amazing, I had a promonologist,
infectious disease doctor in a general the one thing that
they were conferring every day and couldn't decide what to
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do and ultimately decided not to give me any kind
of medicine, was how do we treat this? This is
the other thing no one's talking about. People are like, oh,
you know, they're doing anti malaria meds, and then there's
like this and that and vitamin seed rips. They didn't
give me shit primarily, And this this is the truth,
because you know, I get again a young I'm healthy,
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but in my white blood kelts cell count was so
far down. They don't know what the side effects are,
and there are side effects to these things, and there
is no data on a lot of these medications, and
they don't know what's going to happen if they give
it to you, and they're really giving it to people
where it's kind of like a last salvo. It's like
the hell, Mary, give me some meds, give them something
to try to beat it.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Let me, let me ask a questions. When they put
you on the oxygen, did that feel better?
Speaker 5 (39:15):
I mean, maybe it might have helped, you know, help
helped a bit. The I'm gonna screw this up. I'm
not a doctor, but the you know, the oxygen level
of my blood was really low. I guess they say
if it's below like ninety five percent, it's pretty low.
I was below ninety, like around eighty five when I
got in. And the only thing that really freaked me
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out the size and the skin was really I had
to think think about this. One of the things we
don't think about during the day. We never really think
about breathing. You just do it. I didn't think about Okay,
breathe the bread out, breathing, breathed out, breathem, breathed out.
Because I was so restricted and if I was breathing
too deep, it felt like I was, you know, swallowing.
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It was just a crazy thing.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Yea, this is this is the nightmare of nightmares. So
now we're on day seven or eight in the hospital.
What happens? That's the turning point. And and this is
what I want to ask you. Do you feel in
your mind, in your soul that you might die in
this bed.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
I honestly don't know. I mean I don't. I don't
think that I will. I do know in that moment,
I wasn't eating. I had zero appetite for days. I
wasn't eating. It hurt the move I was having trouble breathing.
I mean, I had had one moment. This is that
God is on his trust. I have one moment where
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I had the nurse kind of get up and help me,
kind of like, you know, walk into the bathroom so
I could sit down and go to the bathroom. And
I was in so much pain and sitting on the
toilet and my heart rate was racing because I just
walked to the bathroom. I literally was like, oh my god,
this is this. You know, I don't want to be dramatic,
but if I'm being honest, it's like, fuck, I can't
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can't get worse because if it gets worse, I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
What was going to happen if basically in that moment,
you believe, if if it got worse, you basically could
be looking at death.
Speaker 5 (41:10):
Possibly.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
That's how bad it was for you.
Speaker 5 (41:13):
In that moment. And you know, the doctors, to their credit,
they made the right choice and not you know, giving
me anything. You know, my body started to you know,
started to recover. They were taking blood twice a day,
doing scans every day, and they were you know, encouraged enough.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Okay, how many how many days in the hospital before
they released you? Before you started feeling better? And on
what day overall of this experience did do so?
Speaker 5 (41:41):
I spent almost seven days in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Oh my god, I would freak out.
Speaker 5 (41:46):
I spent a week in the hospital.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
This is the week. I mean, this is the reality
that we're living. And that's the scare.
Speaker 5 (41:50):
You would have told me that anything aside from a
car accident of some kind of terrible wreck was going
to put me in the hospital for a week when
college is fucking crazy.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Yeah, I'm sure, but that's I'm trying to tell people that.
That's what I think we're all trying to figure out here,
is that when they say stay at home, stay safe.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
Please please please please stay at.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Home because this You're the example of all of us
in this age demographic laalas ten years younger, nine years older.
But you know, whether you're twenty five or forty five,
or sixty five or eighty five, this happens and affects
everybody right now and listening to this. So you get
(42:30):
released and now you're day twelve, I assume, or thirteen
right now. Where are you at today?
Speaker 5 (42:36):
Fourteen fourteen, day fourteen? You know, I'm feeling progressively better. Okay,
today I have moments, I have no energy. I mean,
this is why I was texting you, hey, when you
want to do this, because I'll probably have an interesty shit,
this call, and I'm like, God.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
The day, we are so grateful, we are very grateful
for you to do this.
Speaker 5 (42:56):
This is very important, really important. So I'm in an
airbnb them away from you know everyone, Uh, just kind
of recuperating. I've got a call set up with the
doctor tomorrow. They're going to want to test me a
couple more times to make sure it's gone because reinfection
is also you know, it's a small possibility. And honesty,
I just I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
To see your kids.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
I can't wait see my wife and kids. I haven't
seen them in so long, in a long time.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
So wow, have you have you you haven't seen your
kids in two weeks or your wife?
Speaker 5 (43:25):
Oh, longer than that, it's probably been about four about
four weeks.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (43:29):
Yeah, we FaceTime, thank god, you know we have that technology.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
No, of course, But I mean, but but this is
the thing I'm talking about. This is what I want
people to understand. Not only do you have to go
through this horrible, horrible thing that hopefully you survive, but
you have to do it alone. You you can't see
your family. Your family can't see you. This is probably
one of the worst pandemics you know, we've faced in
(43:53):
the world. I mean in our lifetime, probably in our lifetime,
in our lifetime for sure, but I also think in
history this go down as one of the worst. And
when when I get mad because I'm sitting in my house,
in my kitchen right now. I need to remind myself
that the sun is shining, that I'm here. And you
know what, even though I'm going to bounce off the
(44:14):
walls every day all up, at least, at least I'm
at least we're safe and healthy. And I think your
your words. People need to hear you because there's only
one alternative, and that's you know, death, getting sick and
being quarantined alone for a month, or or being healthy
in your house.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Oh yeah, we just conform and listen to what they're
telling us to do.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Till it's safe for all of us. And I and
I do think, uh you know, I think you've been
in a roller coaster. Uh you know, and I got it. Honestly,
I applaud you and and the minute it's safe to
go out, and I mean this with all sincerity, we
are going out for a drink and we are going
to celebrate, you know, and get fucking handed.
Speaker 5 (45:01):
I have to say this. I have to say this,
and I have to have to say this out loud.
I got so many messages in DMS and calls from
people that I know and that I love. But also
just as important is I got messages from people that
I don't even fucking know. It's like it was like
the beauty of like humanity, Like Randall for example. I
know we have like people in common, but we don't
(45:23):
know each other. You reached out and you were like, listen, man,
get better, like I'm with you, and it really helped.
It really really did. So I really appreciate you reaching out.
I really do you.
Speaker 3 (45:33):
You were I just want to say this, you were
an inspiration in a time. Obviously every week they're getting
better with the testing and and and the support and
all that. But I knew when I saw somebody a
peer of mine, you know, even though we didn't know
each other, but in my peer group, in my industry,
you know, you live seven minutes down the street from me,
(45:54):
I wanted to reach out and say, hey, you've got somebody.
If you need something, if I can do anything, let
just please have your family call anything I could do.
And I also wanted to just be there to say, hey,
let me know how you're doing, and know that you
can text me if if you know whatever it is,
So it means a lot.
Speaker 5 (46:11):
That pretty amazing, awesome, It was pretty amazing. Yeah, it
was really amazing. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Well, we are so appreciative that you I know that
you're exactly took time and now we want you to
go and rest and we hope that you get to
see your family soon. Thank you so much for taking
our call.
Speaker 5 (46:28):
That's my pleasure.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Time to take a nap, Yes, bro, and keep texting
me daily and let me know that you're you know
how you're doing and anything you need. Like I said,
you're good.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
Man, Randall, thank you, loll I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Thanks, thank you all right.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
Thank you take care.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
Wow, that was intense.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
That that just makes me realize that we are lucky.
And even though we're all confined to our homes and
we're bitching about not being able to leave our homes. Yeah,
listening to his story, I'm gonna take a lap around
the house and be grateful because this shit is real
and it's horrible and people are dying and people are
(47:08):
getting sick. But what doesn't it shock you that somebody
in our business, our industry, close to us is young
and had no underlying issues.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Well, it just goes to show you this, this virus,
it doesn't discriminate against anybody it's like it will affect
you whether you're young, old, middle age, it doesn't matter
healthy not healthy. It just affects us in a different way.
And you know, after hearing, because I needed to hear that.
Speaker 3 (47:35):
Yeah, I know I did.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
For me, this is a fucking joke.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
If I want to leave my house, And keep in mind,
I haven't left my house becauseantined. I've definitely been quarantined
and I've done that for other people's safety because I
know other people are very much like, get the fuck
away from me, and I get it.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
But I think young people in your generation are saying,
and I think it's it's not I think they're just some,
not all young people. But I think a lot of
young people are saying taking the thing of if I
get it, I'm I'll be.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Okay, I'll bet see, And for me, I think of
it the other way, Like for me, I'm not like,
if I get it, I'll be okay.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
I'm thinking, like God forbid, if.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
I leave my house, if I were to have it,
if I gave it to someone who couldn't fight it
off as easily as I could. That is the only
reason why I've stayed quarantined. But I think as we
sign off on this episode, you know, I hope next
week we have a little bit more of a light
hearted episode.
Speaker 3 (48:34):
Yeah, but this way, can I tell you this.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Was very This is what people I think needed to hear.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
But can I tell you this episode like I didn't
have anybody to talk to about COVID because I was petrified.
I want to know things. I want to know what
the experience was like, to be able to educate myself,
to be able to protect you know, our our friends,
our family, my kids. And so I think listening to
him and him texting me and now hearing him, I
(49:00):
think just gives us some real insight that this we
got to be extra careful. We've got to you know,
even though we're quarantine, and we just have to know
that this could affect anybody. And I think young people
when they get you know, arrogant in the sense, you know,
some young people will just be stubborn and say, oh,
I'm fine if I get it. It's like a flu.
(49:20):
It's not like a flu. This is an unknown virus
that attacks everybody differently and kills people. And here is
a young man that just gave us his story, and
it is heartbreaking I'm so glad he's on the road's recovery,
and I promise you we will be more like next week.
But I do think that this probably will be one
of our most important episodes we'll ever do.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
I fully agree with you, so once again, I want
to thank mister brad Schmidt, who you know took our
phone call. And also I want you guys to go
out there, not go out there, stay inside, slay your homes,
and again, please stay healthy and please stay safe.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
We love you all very.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
Much and we will catch you next week for another
episode of Give Them Mala with Randall.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
Be safe, everybody,
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