 Welcome to the Barbell Logic podcast. I'm Scott Hambrick. That's Matt Reynolds He he'll in my heart. He'll always be patient number one. It's been a rough. It's been a rough couple weeks So so Matt's been ill everybody, I don't know if he wants to just start talking He went to went to a conference and had been traveling around and been in a bunch of our major airports And it gets home isn't feeling well and Go from there Matt Yeah, I I traveled extensively domestically at the end of February and early March and About five days after that domestic travel. I started to I started running a pretty good fever 101 102 and had really intense chills and Crazy body aches like body aches like I've never felt before like flew like body aches were just everything hurt and And this is really, you know that it wasn't it was certainly on some of the radars But it wasn't really on a radar yet the the coronavirus issue and so I continued to run fever and that was really the the bulk of the symptoms for me was a was just a moderate fever and Chills and and body aches and the body aches kind of stayed all along and the chills and the fever kind of wax and waned a little bit that started on March 5th and By by nine days into it Of course by that time it was on everybody's radar and I was pushing pretty hard to get tested and Well, so we're not the first test the way you texted texted it to me because we weren't talking Because I didn't want to get the Chinese aids through my phone, right? Of course You said that you had called your physician and he had kind of run through a little checklist with you It said yeah, you may have it. We don't know but don't come in unless it takes a turn for the worst. Is that right? That's that's correct. So I had to do I have both concierge medicine and had had worked with my doctor there And he was monitoring things and then also local with one of the local hospital groups they had set up a What is it? What are we doing now? Virtual visit they call it they had set up virtual visits and And so I literally talked to a doctor a lady and she said boy all your symptoms are right in line And by that time I had started to develop the sort of the respiratory cough and it it felt like tightness behind my My breastbone it didn't feel like It didn't feel like bronchitis or like goo in my lungs as much as it just felt like it was hard to take a full Breath in I wasn't really sure to breath yet. I just had developed this dry cough as well How could you tell when you're short of breath? Well Yeah, and I know right and so So anyway, she she said this was this would have been on Like Wednesday of last week. So about the 11th. I was talking to her and then did another call again with her on the on the 12th and Said listen my fever has spiked to 102 and a half The cough is worse. I know that's this is what this is. I I'm sorry, but I just you know, like I'm not I'm not a drama queen here I like I know this is what this is and it's just you know, I gotta figure out I'd like to at least be tested for the flu To see if we can rule that out and she said, you know, yeah, you need to get tested At least for the flu and rule all that stuff out. She said at the time This is back on the 11th. So a week ago. She That there were just no tests and the cdc would basically wouldn't test you unless you were over 60 you're in the icu and so so she wanted me to come into the Urgent care was right next to the to the ER here in the major hospital group And she said just go in and tell them that you have flu like sometimes stuff and I said wait, whoa I said, I've got I'm pretty sure I have this thing. You want me to walk into a busy Urgent care and potentially infect everyone And she said that they will not see you If you even say the words coronavirus if you you have to tell them you have flu like symptoms And so I You know, I was like, look, this is not that's not responsible So I I called the urgent care and said look I'm being referred by my doctor so and so To come in I have flu like symptoms. I've been told I'm not supposed to say the magic words But I I'm worried about coming in there and sitting in the waiting room With all of these people and potentially infecting them And they said thank you so much for calling. Oh, you know what your doctor is calling right now So they coordinated and and they said come on up And I got there and they had completely cleared the waiting room I mean it was like and they said there were you know long waits, of course everything's over just their overbook like crazy So I got there and I mean that waiting room there was not a soul in there I walked in they knew it was me They stuck a mask on my face and they took me back to a private room And that started the uh, they started the testing they poked and prodded me and and did the flu test Which comes back pretty quick and it came back negative. They um, they you know, they tested me for every possible disease That wasn't coveted 19 and they all came back negative. They tested me for sepsis I mean all sorts of random Stuff to to hope that something came came up positive And and late that night out of in a Thursday or friday night They uh, the doctor came in the lady and said You know, I normally this is good news But she said you tested negative for everything For flu and everything so she said we're gonna have to do the the covet 19 tests and she goes I'm pretty sure that's that's what it is. And so for those of you guys that don't know I'm sure some of our listeners have been tested at this point. It is not a pleasant test It is basically like a a long pipe cleaner But not like a soft pipe cleaner like a a metal or plastic Hard pipe cleaner and they stick a they stick one of those pipe cleaners down the back of your throat And swab the back of your throat till you you gag And I mean for a while and that's the best part then then they take another one of these same swabs these long like maybe 6 to 8 inch swabs and stick it down each nostril Until it chokes you in the back of your throat. It's bizarre and they they're twisting it the whole time And so uh, so they do this test and they break off the stick and they put it in the little vial and you're ready to send it off well I thought that was a done deal and they were gonna get tested Well, then then they went into about 24 hours of fighting with the cdc to even get the thing tested And they were like look this guy has tested negative the hospital was great They treated me great, but they said that this the our patient is negative for everything He shows all of the symptoms. He's got he's got They they did an x-ray on my lungs. My lungs had massive amounts of opacities Um, just look like it it looked like a Doppler radar of a midwestern thunderstorm Well to be fair again, we need to see we need to see one from uh, You know late last year because that's that may just be what they look like It could be except I don't smoke or have any reason to have Screwed up lungs, you know, so it's uh, anyway, so they the lungs look bad Um, they actually ended up admitting me into the hospital with double double pneumonia at the time and what is now we know is double viral pneumonia and um And so they came in the next day. They kept me overnight at the hospital came in the next day and said we got bad news um The the cdc isn't working on the weekend. The lab isn't open We're it's very important that the cdc doesn't have they need to let their workers go home and rest too And so the test that we took guess so there's very few tests out there The of the few tests that we have Uh, the one we took yesterday is going to expire before the lab is able to test it So we have to come in and swab the back of your nose and throat and stuff again So so they used two tests on me through one of them in the trash And then sent it off to the cdc and even even then it was a little bit of a fight to get it and so um Monday morning The 16th officially came back as positive for uh, covet 19 So I have it and then um, you know, it was just a myriad of phone calls with The cdc called me over and over again. They actually apologized profusely for the lack of testing and and uh governor's office On the phone give me their number. I need to talk to them. It's crazy, right? Give me their number I need to talk to them. They're come they're completely ineffective Well, and the crazy thing is is that you know now Um, you know, even when this thing comes out tomorrow on thursday, um The the testing has ramped up dramatically finally just in the last few days Which means and the tests so so of course when I test a positive I had to I talked to the cdc a bunch who all did I infect and of course i'm i'm i'm gonna be okay I'm uh, the the pneumonia has been difficult to to say the least. Um, they ended up sending me home after a couple days in the hospital Doped up on antibiotics and uh, both both gave me tons of iv antibiotics and oral antibiotics at home. Um, of course, then they tested my my wife and kids um And on monday, they set up a drive-thru test and they came in drive But but it's a slow test So I I didn't realize there's several different types of these coronavirus tests because of my symptoms because I was admitted in the hospital They gave me the fast test. So I got the results back in like 24 hours But for my wife and kids, it's a three to four day process. So we haven't heard back yet Now they're not they don't show any symptoms. Um, so I think they're okay You know, my my concern is I I exposed a lot of people at my church I didn't uh, I didn't feel very good. I didn't think it was coronavirus at all obviously But I sort of kept my distance that day And uh, didn't shake people's hands and didn't go get coffee or bagels or anything like that and so Um, I trained civil once during that that period. I'm concerned for her obviously And uh, and just my family in general and so it's uh, it's been it's been a difficult Two weeks. It's not um, it's not the worst sickness I've ever had in my life But I tell you what man 14 days is a long time to have a fever And uh, I've never had pneumonia. Um, and so now the shortness of breath is pretty intense Just walking up the stairs or which I you know, of course, I'm in isolation This is the first I mean, I haven't been downstairs. I'm downstairs to record this now But I'm in isolation in the guest room away from my family Um, can't really see them and uh, you know doing have my laptop in the guest room and And they just it's like I'm a prisoner. They come and open up the door and they slide the food into me And uh, yeah, it's as it should be and so um, so that's that's what it is So I'm sure there's gonna be people that are concerned. I'm okay. I'm fine. I'm young and healthy and strong This is why we train right for these sorts of things Well, you're not young. It doesn't mean that Well, I'm young ish. I'm not 60 I'm not 84 not civil that's right 84 and uh and so, um Yeah, I'm I'll I'll be okay. I was never really concerned that I wasn't going to be able to beat this It was more about once I knew that I had it You know kind of going through the the shame and embarrassment of who who have I potentially Put at risk, you know before I had any idea that this is what I had and so So that's it man. Um, I I think looking back Um, I think a lot of I mean we're gonna have a lot of people get it And I'm I may be lucky that I got it so early, you know, they they assigned a a nurse In each shift at the hospital just to me and they wouldn't let the nurse Deal with anybody else and she of course everybody in the hospital Were like in full hazmat suits. It felt like ET remember ET even grown up and it was like I was like ET and there's all these people all these people in like yellow suits and face masks and I mean literally covered head to toe and Looking at me and poking me and prodding me and um, but I bet I got really good. I got really good, uh Service and was taken care of at the hospital But my my worry is and another another few weeks there's There's gonna not be enough hospital beds There's a hospital bed for me and there were people that could take care of me because I was so early Gotta watch yourself out there Matt Reynolds patient number what you're like right after his number right if you told me you had it I heard on the news like Missouri has two patients. Like I know half of those guys. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, I was officially number three. Oh number three And uh, yeah, and it was weird, you know, they did a bunch of press conferences on me Of course, you know, like the health department here did press conference about me and the governor talked about me on his press conference and they had a City council meeting about me and and of course all those were a lot and you could watch them and so super weird You should have gone. They were the council meeting You know, it's bizarre and then of course It's It's lucky that it happens to me because I've done this long enough and been in the public eye long enough that I just Don't care about trolls, but it is amazing the comments that people leave, you know Like on the local NBC affiliate about, you know, who is this person and how to how could they infect everyone? And and is this is this even a real human or is this a conspiracy theory? You know, it actually has it and it's uh, you know, and you just you just have to scan over him But it's uh, it's all right. So Yeah, there you go. I've Matt Reynolds owner barbologic Has a Chinese age victim early uh, uh on virus for me. So Yeah, I'm okay I I feel like I turned a corner the last 48 hours or so For the better the the pneumonia is definitely still is the worst part. Uh, the fever's down around 99 So it's low and now it's um, but 99 is actually kind of high for me I'm one of those guys that in spite of being a radiating ball of heat all the time when I take my temperature It tends to be I'm one of those guys like 97 5 right and so 99 feels like temperature It feels like a fever But it doesn't feel when I went into the hospital and checked in the other day I was at 108 and that was pretty that's hot. That's for me. That's that's uncomfortable and so, um Yeah, man. So we're just we're just trying to hunker down do the best we can, you know, here's what I'll say Isolation for us is not that hard, you know, we we I run an online business from home and I'm incredibly blessed to do so and You know, we get to work with our clients who most of whom have home gyms And if they don't you should get one or start to acquire whatever whatever equipment you can With homeschooler kids and my wife's to stay at home mom We've got probably you know 18 months of food in the house and hundreds of pounds of meat in the deep freezer and So it's just not it's which it's not that difficult for us to to isolate It's been kind of hard being in the in the guest room apart not even be able to see my wife and kids for a week That part sucked, but um, but I'm fine and I'll be fine. And so Um, you know, we're just trying to take things one day at a time like everybody else is I guess and Watch the world unravel. Yeah so Let's look at oil prices We got what went the first you Matt texts me and when he texts me I always hear when I read the text. They're always in matt's voice like bro, bro I got covered That's what I saw on the I'm like Uh, and I was like we got to do a podcast right now I know scott scott text me while I was in the hospital bed Linked up to all this hoses and shit and scott's like can you do a call right now? And let's talk about it. I was like bro. I'm not bro. I'm not good. I'm not in good shape All the texts are in your voice. Bro. I can't do it right now Well, uh, this morning right now here. It's a wednesday the 18th of uh, 2020 march 18th West texas intermediate crude oil Yeah, this is an unrelated thing But not really Is 26 dollars and 95 cents that's that's not unrelated at all to go to covet, right? Well, the Saudis are like flooding the market with oil trying to put the put the hurting on russian oil industry there and But at the same time like demand is incredibly low right because there's no planes flying There's nobody's driving in their car. So Demands low the stock market's down this morning right at about 33 percent so far in the free fall So it's it's basically down a third since it's since it's high since it's high several three four weeks ago Yeah, um The oil thing, you know before this covet stuff I've been seeing this coming by the way Before this covet thing hit Oil was at 33 bucks a barrel. So it was already way way low way too way too low by the way Way too low no no no oil production Company in the united states or exploration company united states can operate with this Yeah, it's bad it's bad for the economy in general to have it that low and now it's dropped another 30 percent uh adjusted for inflation um It was uh, it was like this back around the internet crash 1999 Um, but then prior to that little dip it hadn't been this low since 1973 Inflation adjusted and it's just going to go down down down. I think it's going to go down some more uh insanity and then of course the stock market is uh Getting beat up real bad Well, it's crazy too because it's it's you know, things are just nuts in the In the financial world because like everything's down, right? So stocks are down, but also gold and bonds are down. Bitcoin's down It's you know, so it's weird that the stuff that typically Um are sort of the antagonists of each other When one goes down the other one goes up everything's down. Yeah, it's it's worse than weird It's um impossible Yeah for people to be talking about a pandemic And uh the stock market to be so low and gold in bitcoin to be down Yeah, soon super. Mm-hmm Yeah, that is queer Uh, but we're down about the rate. Yeah, we're down 30 percent from um 30.73 percent from the peak I think we got another 35 points to go 3% I think so I'm buying enjoy that discounted rates. I mean, I realize I'm probably gonna continue to lose money for a while but It's it's not gonna stay there. No, but It's gonna be wild for we're gonna keep we're gonna keep on legging down. I think I'm I'm concerned I'm concerned for sure I'm concerned we've we've had a lot of discussion about how to take care of our clients at barba logic and you know, there's a kind of Certainly, I think we're in a we're lucky because we're online coaching business and a bunch of our clients train at home, which is good Um, but uh, you know, so the first kind of round of of potential issues I see are people who um whose gyms close Which I mean just about every gym in the country is closed at this point if they don't have a place to train Then that becomes difficult. So, you know, we've continued to try to provide support and in value to them by by being able to To lay out home home gym workouts like body weight workouts and things like that to get them through the through this time period Um, you know, I certainly hope we ought to be able to provide value for people there Um, and that that worries me less. I think then Um, the the massive influx of what is going to be Um tremendous amounts of probably of layoffs. Um, I mean, there's no no, yeah I don't know. I don't know if Tulsa's Springfield's on lockdown. So as of last night every restaurant in town is closed Um, you know, everywhere's closed. That's mandated So and you've got all these people who I mean, you and I have talked about it many times who Who are they're so bad with money? They they live paycheck to paycheck and really even day to day And it's amazing the number of businesses that do this, uh, you know restaurants operate on such a low margin That restaurants are selling off their wine stock Yep to make cash and um, which is great. That'll give them a nice little bolster for four days And then they're in trouble and um, so I'm I'm I'm worried about that I'm worried about providing value to our to our customers and how to do that if they're They're laid off and then of course, you know, I think there's a bunch more people are going to get sick And uh, as somebody who's got this and got this viral pneumonia, dude, you cannot I'm not gonna train. I can't train for a while. It's been, you know, I've been sick for two weeks I trained exactly two weeks ago and then started getting and I was fine and then started getting sick and You know, I can't hardly go up the stairs Yeah, short short breath and I start hacking and coughing and And that's gonna be a while and so I'm I'm concerned um, so we're we're hunkering down and doing what we can and And uh, that's all I can do It's tough I Can't help it I've been sick. I've been sick for like, I don't know a month. I think I've had the flu Yeah, the actual flu. Yeah Yeah, and it never really just like laid me out took me out completely, but I've just been miserable and um You kind of social distance pretty much 100 of the time. Yeah, it's a delight for me. You know, this is awesome I just love watching everything. You know, I don't want anybody to get hurt, but I love watching at all It's all a big experiment, you know And uh, you know, extroverts are just a pain in everybody's ass, you know But when times are good and the sun's out they're out like introducing themselves to everybody and screwing and reproducing and all that You're like, well, how do introverts even happen? Well, when the plague comes through they just shelter in place and have a baby boom and all the extroverts are outside Shaking hands with everybody like assholes and then they're dead, right? Right. So Matt's like, yeah, I'll go do that conference. I will do no public speaking anywhere for anybody ever uh, I had a guy I had a guy um a friend Invite me to this great books conference in Toronto. He's like, we'll pay. We'd love to have you. I'm like, no thanks He's like, no, we'll pay. I said, no You don't You don't have enough money Yeah, well, there you go. Yeah, it's so I avoided the Atlanta hearts filled airport and um, did not get the lung the bat flu No, that's good Well, so there you go everybody. Yeah a little catch a little check up. Glad you're doing better And the last time we actually haven't spoken because you couldn't you were just getting these like 10 minute coughing fits Just almost black out So I'm glad I had a pretty good one this morning. I tell you what the shower And and then brush my teeth is tough because it you know, I Kind of gags me to brush my teeth and then it's There's the combination, especially if I shower and then brush my teeth it's like the combination of like the moving around and the steam and It's it's it's difficult. It's difficult. Listen, uh, video yourself brush your teeth and upload that to true coach And I'll I'll let you know I'll give you a form feedback. You're not supposed to gag I'm a little I'm a little vigorous on uh, I've been told I'm a vigorous toothbrusher when you brush your teeth Do you put your left hand on the back of your head? That's what I do Uh, yeah, I've got you know, I've got one of those. I don't know. What are they? What's the what's the real good? You have the sonic care one. Yeah, the sonic care toothbrush Which you know, I think you're just supposed to basically lay that thing on your teeth and it just Yeah, it's like an orbital sander. You just but I just but I But instead I use it like a jackhammer. I turn it on and then jackhammer everything including my tonsils And so, you know, I gotta get the covet out of there reminds you of church camp It doesn't remind me of church camp It's so bad. Well, hey everybody Stay at home use this an opportunity to get back to basics, right? Get your old guitar out You hadn't been playing you've been meaning to work on a little bit and practice guitar play cards to your damn kids You know And then let's all use this let's all use this to change the social order like if you can work for home for two weeks To the boss. You don't need to go back ever. Let me just keep on working from home You know, let's see if we can uh, let's see if we can undo some of this stuff There's a whole lot of debt that's going to get undone Uh, there's jubilee coming whether they're legally or not, right? Hey, there ain't no may be It's just it's just whether it's granted by the government or not Right like if if if uh, I just I looked the other day. You don't have a job and you got debt. You're not paying it It ain't gonna get paid. Yeah, right, you know Uh, and we don't have a debtor's prison anymore. They might reinstitute that but uh, You know, if it doesn't get paid, it doesn't get paid. It's a de facto jubilee. So anyway, I think I'll I hope that the deposit you and I have made in our in our I've thought about this a lot in our what little Social circle niche that we have here Uh, boy, you you know We take some shit from people about our Sort of midwestern value lifestyle of of saving money and having no debt And and money in the bank and homeschooling our kids and staying home I tell you what looks pretty like a pretty good lifestyle right now. It doesn't know it always has a bunch of retards want to you know, just Well, and it's just it's such a basic thing, you know, there's two ways to look at it There's certainly there's the group of people that give a shit about it But I think there's there's a whole bunch of people that have taken some of that advice to heart Clearly, so, you know, hopefully you're sitting there on some you've got money in the bank and and you've got some gold in the safe and you've got food in the freezer And uh, you know, you've learned how to live life without being entirely uh relying on on the outside world for that stuff and so you know and in Release from the tyranny of the paycheck to paycheck thing, you know, we got to I think this is going to point out to people. I think it's going to be like a watershed moment You know, like september 11th is kind of like that. It was you know, sure And I think I think this is going to actually replace it. I think people are going to say well before Reynolds got the china flu and then after Or our kids will talk, you know, I was talking to my brother about it There's there's our kids are going to talk about it like like our great-grandparents talked about the great depression They're going to tell their grandkids what it was like to live through this thing. Uh, I really believe that I mean this is a this is a major event and uh, it's going to be over anytime soon So, ah 10 more months of stock market decline nine to 10 more months of stock market decline. I'm thinking and Well, I hope not So yeah, I realized you're probably right, but I hope you're wrong. Yeah, I hope I'm actually I don't hope I'm wrong I don't care. It needs to get where it's going. Sure September well the internet Well, september 11th was september 11th Sure, and then the the the s.o.p. 500 bottomed out in march after that. Yeah, yeah Bear Stearns and layman brothers went bankrupt in september of 08 The the s.o.p. 500 ended up down 57 points In march seven months after that Right. I think this is this is way worse economically than either of those events And It's going to take a little longer for it to fall out. I've got a I've got a normie friend He's like, oh, you know, if this clears up by summer, it's not, you know, there won't be any trouble with the stock market I'm like, no, you don't understand No, there's it's uh, it's going to keep going down. I think and it takes it takes a number of months for the For the the stock market hit the bottom, but the stock market's the least of it You know, it's all the people that are paycheck to paycheck. They're going to lose their cars and their houses and uh And and who gets sick and everything. So yeah, hey train your you guys are all at home You have no excuse not to train unless you're sick like me Uh, but if you're not sick train train with your wife and kids you know Hope make homemade meals at home like what a great, you know, this this read books And it's not back to basic life back to basics. Yeah, I think it's it's a it's a good I think it's a good opportunity to reset because a reevaluate everything we do Sure. Well, I'm glad you're well. Matt Reynolds. I hope all of our listeners except for the ones that leave me shitty emails do well I hope All the other listeners man. I hope you all stay well and um And let us know let us know what you're doing in the home gym and send your questions to questions at barbell hyphen logic Dot com and we'll answer those on a future show. Thank you all Thanks guys